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** Julius once mentions UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition right there with the Holocaust in numbers of deaths. Needlessly to say, this is an insane exaggeration even by the standards of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Legend_of_the_Spanish_Inquisition Black Legend]] told over the years about their supposed brutality. Actually, the Spanish branch was the least bloodthirsty of all Christian inquisitions (also including their Protestant counterparts) and it's estimated today that of all its trials and judges, only less than 1500 ended in executions, a trial-conviction ratio actually lower than any secular justice system's at the time.
** The book claims that when the Mesoamerican indigenous saw UsefulNotes/HernanCortez was a white bearded men, just like Quetzalcoatl, they laid down their weapons and were conquered despite their numerical advantage. In reality, the popular belief that Cortés and his men were mistaken by gods was a very posterior legend, disproven by Spanish and indigenous sources alike, and it also goes hopefully without saying that the UsefulNotes/SpanishConquestOfTheAztecEmpire was not done through "Indians laying down his weapons." The point about numeric advantage is especially funny, because in real life, Cortés could only conquer the Aztecs because he was backed by massive armies of other indigenous states, like Tlaxcaltecs, Otomis and Texcocans, who at the end of the conflict outnumbered the Aztecs themselves.
** The text follows by claiming that the Spanish priests ordered the indigenous converted to Christianity under the threat of being burned alive if they refused. Such things never happened in real life, among other things because paganism was not even a crime punishable by death for the Spaniards of the time; only a Christian who voluntarily deviated from the Catholic dogma, that is, ''heresy'', would ever risk to be officially punished by the Church, and as said above, death was the least common sentence for them. The Christianization of the Mesoamerican tribes was slower than it is usually believed, due precisely to the fact that there was no unified, ironhanded policy of conversion; some of the worst excesses at this point would be ironically committed by the first indigenous converts themselves, like the chieftain Hernando Ixtlilxóchitl, who did force his entire kingdom to convert in his eagerness to solidify his alliance to the Spaniards.
** It's also poignant that the text claims all the Aztecs shamans were burned alive by the Spanish priests. Aside from it being untrue, as explained above, there were cases of cadres of native priests that ended up becoming Catholic staff themselves.
** The book claims that when the Mesoamerican indigenous saw UsefulNotes/HernanCortez was a white bearded men, just like Quetzalcoatl, they laid down their weapons and were conquered despite their numerical advantage. In reality, the popular belief that Cortés and his men were mistaken by gods was a very posterior legend, disproven by Spanish and indigenous sources alike, and it also goes hopefully without saying that the UsefulNotes/SpanishConquestOfTheAztecEmpire was not done through "Indians laying down his weapons." The point about numeric advantage is especially funny, because in real life, Cortés could only conquer the Aztecs because he was backed by massive armies of other indigenous states, like Tlaxcaltecs, Otomis and Texcocans, who at the end of the conflict outnumbered the Aztecs themselves.
** The text follows by claiming that the Spanish priests ordered the indigenous converted to Christianity under the threat of being burned alive if they refused. Such things never happened in real life, among other things because paganism was not even a crime punishable by death for the Spaniards of the time; only a Christian who voluntarily deviated from the Catholic dogma, that is, ''heresy'', would ever risk to be officially punished by the Church, and as said above, death was the least common sentence for them. The Christianization of the Mesoamerican tribes was slower than it is usually believed, due precisely to the fact that there was no unified, ironhanded policy of conversion; some of the worst excesses at this point would be ironically committed by the first indigenous converts themselves, like the chieftain Hernando Ixtlilxóchitl, who did force his entire kingdom to convert in his eagerness to solidify his alliance to the Spaniards.
** It's also poignant that the text claims all the Aztecs shamans were burned alive by the Spanish priests. Aside from it being untrue, as explained above, there were cases of cadres of native priests that ended up becoming Catholic staff themselves.
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** Julius once mentions UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition right there with the Holocaust in numbers of deaths. Needlessly to say, this is an insane exaggeration even by the standards of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Legend_of_the_Spanish_Inquisition Black Legend]] told over the years about their supposed brutality. Actually, the Spanish branch was the least bloodthirsty of all Christian inquisitions (also including their Protestant counterparts) and it's estimated today that of all its trials and judges, only less than 1500 ended in executions, a trial-conviction ratio actually lower than any secular or religious justice system's at the time.
** The book claims that when the Mesoamerican indigenous saw UsefulNotes/HernanCortez was a white bearded men, just like Quetzalcoatl, they laid down their weapons and were conquered despite their numerical advantage. In reality, the popular belief that Cortés and his men were mistaken by gods was a very posterior legend, disproven by Spanish and indigenous sources alike, and it also goes hopefully without saying that the UsefulNotes/SpanishConquestOfTheAztecEmpire was not done through "Indians laying downhis their weapons." The point about numeric advantage is especially funny, because in real life, Cortés could only conquer the Aztecs because he was backed by massive armies of other indigenous states, like Tlaxcaltecs, Otomis and Texcocans, who at the end of the conflict outnumbered the Aztecs themselves.
** The textfollows by claiming claims that the Spanish priests ordered converted the indigenous converted to Christianity under the threat of being burned burning alive if they refused. Such things never happened in real life, In reality, those practices were considered barbaric and criminal by the Catholic Church itself, among other things because paganism was not even a crime punishable by death for the Spaniards of the time; only death. Only a Christian who voluntarily deviated from the Catholic dogma, that is, ''heresy'', a ''heretic'', would ever risk to be officially punished by the Church, punished, and as said above, death was the least common sentence for them. Furthermore, natives were established to be uneligible to be accused of heresy by the Spanish Inquisition, on the basis that Christianity was not rooted enough on their lands to make them responsible. The Christianization of the Mesoamerican tribes was slower than it is usually believed, due precisely to the fact that there was no unified, ironhanded policy of conversion; some conversion (preachers often complained about this and accused each other of not working hard enough). Some of the worst excesses at this point would be ironically committed by the first indigenous converts themselves, like the chieftain Hernando Ixtlilxóchitl, who did force his entire kingdom to convert in his eagerness to solidify his alliance to the Spaniards.
** It's also poignant that the text claims all the Aztecs shamans were burned alive by the Spanish priests. Aside from it beinguntrue, as untrue for the reasons explained above, there were cases of cadres of native priests that ended up becoming Catholic staff themselves.
** The book claims that when the Mesoamerican indigenous saw UsefulNotes/HernanCortez was a white bearded men, just like Quetzalcoatl, they laid down their weapons and were conquered despite their numerical advantage. In reality, the popular belief that Cortés and his men were mistaken by gods was a very posterior legend, disproven by Spanish and indigenous sources alike, and it also goes hopefully without saying that the UsefulNotes/SpanishConquestOfTheAztecEmpire was not done through "Indians laying down
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** The novel repeats the previous' popular belief about UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition, but it adds that it played a big role in the Christianization of the American natives and the demonization of their pagan religions, with plenty of witch-burning included. In real life, aside from being literally barred from judging natives, the Spanish Inquisition actually had little to no interest on evangelizing activities in America did not have evangelization among its functions (which was done by other religious orders) and didn't even believe in the existence of witchcraft or Satanism (very few witches were ever burned by them in continental Spain, and possibly none of them in the New World). Inqusitorial Inquisitorial presence in America was mostly meant to make sure than practicing Jews, Muslims or Protestants didn't leak there among the Spaniards during the conquest, something that was more of a formality than a real concern anyway.
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** Julius once mentions UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition right there with the Holocaust in numbers of deaths. Needlessly to say, this is an insane exaggeration even by the standards of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Legend_of_the_Spanish_Inquisition Black Legend]] told over the years about their supposed brutality. Actually, the Spanish branch was the least bloodthirsty of all Christian inquisitions (also including Protestant persecutors) and it's estimated today that of all its trials and judges, only less than 1500 ended in executions, a trial-conviction ratio actually lower than any secular justice system's at the time.
** The book claims that when the Mesoamerican indigenous saw UsefulNotes/HernanCortez was a white bearded men, just like Quetzalcoatl, they laid down their weapons and were conquered despite their numerical advantage. In reality, the popular belief that Cortés and his men were mistaken by gods was a very posterior legend, disproven by Spanish and indigenous sources alike, and it also goes hopefully without saying that the UsefulNotes/SpanishConquestOfMexico was not done through "Indians laying down his weapons." The point about numeric advantage is especially funny, because in real life, Cortés could only conquer the Aztecs because he was backed by massive armies of other indigenous states, like Tlaxcaltecs, Otomis and Texcocans, who at the end of the conflict outnumbered the Aztecs themselves.
** The book claims that when the Mesoamerican indigenous saw UsefulNotes/HernanCortez was a white bearded men, just like Quetzalcoatl, they laid down their weapons and were conquered despite their numerical advantage. In reality, the popular belief that Cortés and his men were mistaken by gods was a very posterior legend, disproven by Spanish and indigenous sources alike, and it also goes hopefully without saying that the UsefulNotes/SpanishConquestOfMexico was not done through "Indians laying down his weapons." The point about numeric advantage is especially funny, because in real life, Cortés could only conquer the Aztecs because he was backed by massive armies of other indigenous states, like Tlaxcaltecs, Otomis and Texcocans, who at the end of the conflict outnumbered the Aztecs themselves.
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** Julius once mentions UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition right there with the Holocaust in numbers of deaths. Needlessly to say, this is an insane exaggeration even by the standards of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Legend_of_the_Spanish_Inquisition Black Legend]] told over the years about their supposed brutality. Actually, the Spanish branch was the least bloodthirsty of all Christian inquisitions (also including their Protestant persecutors) counterparts) and it's estimated today that of all its trials and judges, only less than 1500 ended in executions, a trial-conviction ratio actually lower than any secular justice system's at the time.
** The book claims that when the Mesoamerican indigenous saw UsefulNotes/HernanCortez was a white bearded men, just like Quetzalcoatl, they laid down their weapons and were conquered despite their numerical advantage. In reality, the popular belief that Cortés and his men were mistaken by gods was a very posterior legend, disproven by Spanish and indigenous sources alike, and it also goes hopefully without saying that theUsefulNotes/SpanishConquestOfMexico UsefulNotes/SpanishConquestOfTheAztecEmpire was not done through "Indians laying down his weapons." The point about numeric advantage is especially funny, because in real life, Cortés could only conquer the Aztecs because he was backed by massive armies of other indigenous states, like Tlaxcaltecs, Otomis and Texcocans, who at the end of the conflict outnumbered the Aztecs themselves.
** The book claims that when the Mesoamerican indigenous saw UsefulNotes/HernanCortez was a white bearded men, just like Quetzalcoatl, they laid down their weapons and were conquered despite their numerical advantage. In reality, the popular belief that Cortés and his men were mistaken by gods was a very posterior legend, disproven by Spanish and indigenous sources alike, and it also goes hopefully without saying that the
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Julius once mentions UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition right there with the Holocaust in numbers of deaths. Needlessly to say, this is a gross exaggeration even by the standards of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Legend_of_the_Spanish_Inquisition Black Legend]] told over the years about their supposed brutality. Actually, the Spanish branch was the ''least'' bloodthirsty of all Christian inquisitions (also including Protestant persecutors) and it is estimated today that of all its trials and judges, only less than 1500 ended in executions, a trial-conviction ratio actually lower than any secular justice system's at the time.
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** Julius once mentions UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition right there with the Holocaust in numbers of deaths. Needlessly to say, this isa gross an insane exaggeration even by the standards of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Legend_of_the_Spanish_Inquisition Black Legend]] told over the years about their supposed brutality. Actually, the Spanish branch was the ''least'' least bloodthirsty of all Christian inquisitions (also including Protestant persecutors) and it is it's estimated today that of all its trials and judges, only less than 1500 ended in executions, a trial-conviction ratio actually lower than any secular justice system's at the time.time.
** The book claims that when the Mesoamerican indigenous saw UsefulNotes/HernanCortez was a white bearded men, just like Quetzalcoatl, they laid down their weapons and were conquered despite their numerical advantage. In reality, the popular belief that Cortés and his men were mistaken by gods was a very posterior legend, disproven by Spanish and indigenous sources alike, and it also goes hopefully without saying that the UsefulNotes/SpanishConquestOfMexico was not done through "Indians laying down his weapons." The point about numeric advantage is especially funny, because in real life, Cortés could only conquer the Aztecs because he was backed by massive armies of other indigenous states, like Tlaxcaltecs, Otomis and Texcocans, who at the end of the conflict outnumbered the Aztecs themselves.
** The text follows by claiming that the Spanish priests ordered the indigenous converted to Christianity under the threat of being burned alive if they refused. Such things never happened in real life, among other things because paganism was not even a crime punishable by death for the Spaniards of the time; only a Christian who voluntarily deviated from the Catholic dogma, that is, ''heresy'', would ever risk to be officially punished by the Church, and as said above, death was the least common sentence for them. The Christianization of the Mesoamerican tribes was slower than it is usually believed, due precisely to the fact that there was no unified, ironhanded policy of conversion; some of the worst excesses at this point would be ironically committed by the first indigenous converts themselves, like the chieftain Hernando Ixtlilxóchitl, who did force his entire kingdom to convert in his eagerness to solidify his alliance to the Spaniards.
** It's also poignant that the text claims all the Aztecs shamans were burned alive by the Spanish priests. Aside from it being untrue, as explained above, there were cases of cadres of native priests that ended up becoming Catholic staff themselves.
** Julius once mentions UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition right there with the Holocaust in numbers of deaths. Needlessly to say, this is
** The book claims that when the Mesoamerican indigenous saw UsefulNotes/HernanCortez was a white bearded men, just like Quetzalcoatl, they laid down their weapons and were conquered despite their numerical advantage. In reality, the popular belief that Cortés and his men were mistaken by gods was a very posterior legend, disproven by Spanish and indigenous sources alike, and it also goes hopefully without saying that the UsefulNotes/SpanishConquestOfMexico was not done through "Indians laying down his weapons." The point about numeric advantage is especially funny, because in real life, Cortés could only conquer the Aztecs because he was backed by massive armies of other indigenous states, like Tlaxcaltecs, Otomis and Texcocans, who at the end of the conflict outnumbered the Aztecs themselves.
** The text follows by claiming that the Spanish priests ordered the indigenous converted to Christianity under the threat of being burned alive if they refused. Such things never happened in real life, among other things because paganism was not even a crime punishable by death for the Spaniards of the time; only a Christian who voluntarily deviated from the Catholic dogma, that is, ''heresy'', would ever risk to be officially punished by the Church, and as said above, death was the least common sentence for them. The Christianization of the Mesoamerican tribes was slower than it is usually believed, due precisely to the fact that there was no unified, ironhanded policy of conversion; some of the worst excesses at this point would be ironically committed by the first indigenous converts themselves, like the chieftain Hernando Ixtlilxóchitl, who did force his entire kingdom to convert in his eagerness to solidify his alliance to the Spaniards.
** It's also poignant that the text claims all the Aztecs shamans were burned alive by the Spanish priests. Aside from it being untrue, as explained above, there were cases of cadres of native priests that ended up becoming Catholic staff themselves.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The novel repeats the previous' popular belief about UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition, but it adds that it played a big role in the Christianization of the American natives and the demonization of their pagan religions, with plenty of witch-burning included. In real life, Spanish Inquisition actually had little to no interest on evangelizing activities in America (which was done by other religious orders) and didn't even believe in the existence of witchcraft or Satanism (very few witches were ever burned by them in continental Spain, and none of them in the New World). Inqusitorial presence in America was mostly meant to make sure than practicing Jews, Muslims or Protestants didn't leak there during the conquest, something that was more of a formality than a real concern anyway.
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** As in the previous novel, the narrator wrongly claims that UsefulNotes/HernanCortez was mistaken by a god by the Aztecs, and it also adds some other wrong facts. It claims that Montezuma sent emissaries to Cortés to bring him to Tenochtitlan, when in real life he tried to ''impede'' him from coming to the city, knowing it meant danger for his reign, and it was needed a lot of pressure for Cortés to obtain permission. It also claims that Cortés feigned friendship before attacking them in Tenochtitlan, which is, again, nonsense; Cortés had no reason to start a war for what he could achieve diplomatically, and the war only exploded, much to Cortés' chagrin, because of political mismanagements and the Massacre of the Templo Mayor, which was even caused ''against'' Cortés' orders by one of his lieutenants.
** The novel repeats the previous' popular belief about UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition, but it adds that it played a big role in the Christianization of the American natives and the demonization of their pagan religions, with plenty of witch-burning included. In real life, Spanish Inquisition actually had little to no interest on evangelizing activities in America (which was done by other religious orders) and didn't even believe in the existence of witchcraft or Satanism (very few witches were ever burned by them in continental Spain, and none of them in the New World). Inqusitorial presence in America was mostly meant to make sure than practicing Jews, Muslims or Protestants didn't leak there during the conquest, something that was more of a formality than a real concernanyway.anyway.
* ArtisticLicenseReligion: The novel claims that Mesoamerican religion did not have a concept of good of evil, basically because it lacked a Devil-like figure. This is odd, not only because it is blatantly untrue (as well as quite of a mental gymnastic, antropologically speaking), but also because the very Mayan mythological background of this trilogy should refute such claim, as it has the Xibalba lords as evil villains.
** As in the previous novel, the narrator wrongly claims that UsefulNotes/HernanCortez was mistaken by a god by the Aztecs, and it also adds some other wrong facts. It claims that Montezuma sent emissaries to Cortés to bring him to Tenochtitlan, when in real life he tried to ''impede'' him from coming to the city, knowing it meant danger for his reign, and it was needed a lot of pressure for Cortés to obtain permission. It also claims that Cortés feigned friendship before attacking them in Tenochtitlan, which is, again, nonsense; Cortés had no reason to start a war for what he could achieve diplomatically, and the war only exploded, much to Cortés' chagrin, because of political mismanagements and the Massacre of the Templo Mayor, which was even caused ''against'' Cortés' orders by one of his lieutenants.
** The novel repeats the previous' popular belief about UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition, but it adds that it played a big role in the Christianization of the American natives and the demonization of their pagan religions, with plenty of witch-burning included. In real life, Spanish Inquisition actually had little to no interest on evangelizing activities in America (which was done by other religious orders) and didn't even believe in the existence of witchcraft or Satanism (very few witches were ever burned by them in continental Spain, and none of them in the New World). Inqusitorial presence in America was mostly meant to make sure than practicing Jews, Muslims or Protestants didn't leak there during the conquest, something that was more of a formality than a real concern
* ArtisticLicenseReligion: The novel claims that Mesoamerican religion did not have a concept of good of evil, basically because it lacked a Devil-like figure. This is odd, not only because it is blatantly untrue (as well as quite of a mental gymnastic, antropologically speaking), but also because the very Mayan mythological background of this trilogy should refute such claim, as it has the Xibalba lords as evil villains.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: As a 13 yeard old, Jake is told by Mick that Lilith will turn into an evil seductress and will have a pure Hunahpu son in the future. Jake is smart enough to go into hiding from Lilith when her turn to darkness is complete. However, he goes to her and not vice versa when she finds him, thus making her basically get into his pants, giving as a result the situation that her son is his. Also, if Mick was that afraid Jacob could become the father of Devlin (as if it were to change something in his battle, given that there were officially other male Hunahpus in the world, including Manny, who could have fathered a son with her to recreate the loop, and Jacob would still fighting his soulmate in that case), Jacob could have just got a vasectomy in order not to impregnate Lilith if she ever got
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* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: It seems Orion's Belt has a Earth-like planet named Xibalba.
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* AntiHero: The members of the Guardian openly let the Tezcatlipoca ship's plans happen so the Hunahpu who defeated it could then return the favor by going to save the Nephilim in Xibalba.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Julius once mentions UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition right there with the Holocaust in numbers of deaths. Needlessly to say, this is a gross exaggeration of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Legend_of_the_Spanish_Inquisition Black Legend]] told over the years about their supposed brutality. Actually, the Spanish branch was the ''least'' bloodthirsty of all Christian inquisitions (also including Protestant persecutors) and it is estimated today that of all its trials and judges, only less than 2000 ended in executions, a trial-conviction ratio not much higher than any secular justice system's at the time.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Julius once mentions UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition right there with the Holocaust in numbers of deaths. Needlessly to say, this is a gross exaggeration even by the standards of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Legend_of_the_Spanish_Inquisition Black Legend]] told over the years about their supposed brutality. Actually, the Spanish branch was the ''least'' bloodthirsty of all Christian inquisitions (also including Protestant persecutors) and it is estimated today that of all its trials and judges, only less than 2000 1500 ended in executions, a trial-conviction ratio not much higher actually lower than any secular justice system's at the time.
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** The Guardian claims the Nephilim were enslaved by TheLegionsOfHell in Xibalba, and that a supposed God of Death is leading them. This comes up when Mick has to kill the two Lords of Xibaba before their god comes out, but otherwise he is basically TheGhost.
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** The Guardian claims that the Nephilim were enslaved by TheLegionsOfHell in Xibalba, and that a supposed God of Death is leading them. This comes up when Mick has to kill the two Lords of Xibaba before their god comes out, but otherwise he is basically TheGhost.
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* TheGreatFlood: Apparently happened as a consequence of the melting of a glaciation 115.000 years ago, and it took 2000 years for it to melt completely. It was then when the Guardian came to Earth.
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* NothingIsScarier: We never see personally the evil spirits from Xibalba that possessed the Nephilim. In his vision, Mick only sees a strange grey matter appearing in the sea and a sort of psychic influence that attacks them. However, it is implied the baddies ''have'' human form, as a figure clad in a black cowl that doesn't seem to be a possessed Nephilim appears to control the Tezcatlipoca. Later, when [[spoiler:Mick kills the two Lords of Xibalba]], they seem to reveal themselves to be red-skinned humanoids with snake eyes, or at least it to be their appearance after the disruption of their glamour.
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* NothingIsScarier: We never see personally the evil spirits from Xibalba that possessed the Nephilim. In his vision, Mick only sees a strange grey matter appearing in the sea and a sort of psychic influence that attacks them. However, it is implied the baddies ''have'' human form, as a figure clad in a black cowl that doesn't seem to be a possessed Nephilim appears to control the Tezcatlipoca. Later, when [[spoiler:Mick kills the two Lords of Xibalba]], they seem to reveal themselves to be as red-skinned humanoids with snake eyes, or at least it to be this is their appearance after the disruption of their glamour.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Despite all having taken part in an alien prophecy incident that almost destroyed the world in 2012, Dominique and the government staff assigned to the Gabriel family are now inexplicably unwilling to believe that the prophecy simply didn't end there and it is up to the twins to save Mick. They even seem to have forgotten that Mick's schizophrenia was faked by Pierre Borgia to get him jailed in a BedlamHouse, because they come to believe that Jacob has inherited it and is making all of this up (granted, it is revealed the Hunahpu gene ''has'' some tendency to schizophrenia, but they at the time didn't know it, and Jacob is not the case nonetheless).
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Despite all having taken part in an alien prophecy incident that almost destroyed the world in 2012, Dominique and the government staff assigned to the Gabriel family are now inexplicably unwilling to believe that the prophecy simply didn't end there and it is up to the twins to save Mick. They even seem to have forgotten that Mick's schizophrenia was faked by Pierre Borgia to get him jailed in a BedlamHouse, because they come to believe that Jacob has inherited it and is making all of this up (granted, it is later revealed the Hunahpu gene ''has'' some tendency to schizophrenia, but they at the time didn't know it, and Jacob is not the case nonetheless).
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* BlatantLies: At one point, Dominique claims she has accepted that Mick abandoned her and died. However, she is keeping the same reclusive widow lifestyle, and just before that moment was even watching a VR recreation of Mick.
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* BlatantLies: At one point, Dominique claims she has accepted that Mick abandoned her and died. However, she is keeping the same reclusive widow lifestyle, and just before that moment she was even watching a VR recreation of Mick.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The novel repeats the previous' popular belief about UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition, but it also adds that it played a big role in the Christianization of the American natives and the demonization of their pagan religions. This is another popular belief, as the Spanish Inquisition actually had little to no interest on evangelizing activities and didn't even believe in the existence of witchcraft or Satanism. Their presence in America was mostly to make sure than practicing Jews, Muslims or Protestants didn't leak there during the conquest, something that was more of a formality than a real concern anyway.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The novel repeats the previous' popular belief about UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition, but it also adds that it played a big role in the Christianization of the American natives and the demonization of their pagan religions. This is another popular belief, as the religions, with plenty of witch-burning included. In real life, Spanish Inquisition actually had little to no interest on evangelizing activities in America (this was done by other religious orders) and didn't even believe in the existence of witchcraft or Satanism. Their Satanism (very few witches were ever burned by them in continental Spain, and none of them in the New World). Inqusitorial presence in America was mostly meant to make sure than practicing Jews, Muslims or Protestants didn't leak there during the conquest, something that was more of a formality than a real concern anyway.
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** In the second book, Jake broke up with Lilith by himself after deciding she was becoming a distraction for him; it was right after that Mick told him she would become the Abomination. In ''Phobos'', Manny tells her he did it ''because'' their father warned him. (This point could be justified as it being a second-hand account, as Manny might actually not know the exact story beyond the general lines.)
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Benjamin Merchant disappears after Lilith turns to the good side and his existence is never acknowledged again.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Benjamin Merchant disappears after Lilith turns to the good side and his existence is never acknowledged again.again.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: The cave which Lilith visits to perform her Satanic ritual happens to be a special place tainted by the dark energy of the crashed Tezcatlipoca ship, allowing her to absorb this energy. As her guide, Alejandro Rafelo, is presumably a figment of her schizophrenic imagination, it is not revealed how she knew the cave was the right place for the ritual. [[spoiler:At least until the next book reveals Alejandro was actually Seven Macaw.]]
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* EasyEvangelism: Most of New Eden is turned from Judeo-Christian people into literal Satanists in a surprisingly short amount of time.
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* EasyEvangelism: Most of New Eden is turned from Judeo-Christian people into literal Satanists in a surprisingly short amount of time.
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** In ''Phobos'', it is claimed here Dominique didn't want sedatives while giving birth to the twins in order not to harm them (a bit of ArtisticLicenseMedicine, by the way). Actually, she desperately asked for sedatives and only ended up without them because the hospital was badly managed. This is weird because the birth scene in the new timeline shows it in this very book.
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** In ''Phobos'', it is claimed here Dominique didn't want sedatives while giving birth to the twins in order not to harm them (a bit of ArtisticLicenseMedicine, by the way). Actually, she desperately asked for sedatives and only ended up without them because the hospital was badly managed. This is weird because the birth scene in the new timeline shows it again in this very book.
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** Kurtz's character changes totally from the second to the third book: in ''Resurrection'', he is a highly capable, GenreSavvy bodyguard, while in ''Phobos'' is a IdiotBall-loaded, comically lubric loon. Some of this is handwaved as having been injected with an aphrodisiac substance off-screen, but this new personality lasts the entire book, much longer than any drug should last.
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** Kurtz's character changes totally from the second to the third book: in ''Resurrection'', he is a highly capable, GenreSavvy bodyguard, while in ''Phobos'' is a IdiotBall-loaded, comically lubric loon. Some of this is handwaved as having been injected with an aphrodisiac substance off-screen, but this new personality lasts the entire book, much longer than the effects of any drug should last.drug.
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* AbsurdlyCoolCity: The city of the Nephilim, which is shown in a vision and described as having lots of beautiful gardens and shining FuturisticPyramid buildings.
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* AbsurdlyCoolCity: The city of the Nephilim, which is shown to Mick in a vision and described as having lots of beautiful gardens and shining FuturisticPyramid buildings.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Julius once mentions UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition right there with the Holocaust in numbers of deaths. Needlessly to say, this is a gross exaggeration of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Legend_of_the_Spanish_Inquisition Black Legend]] told over the years about their supposed brutality. Actually, the Spanish branch was the ''least'' bloodthirsty of all Christian inquisitions (also including Protestant persecutors) and it is estimated today that of all its trials and judges, only less than 2000 ended in executions, a trial-conviction ratio not higher than any secular justice system's at the time.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Julius once mentions UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition right there with the Holocaust in numbers of deaths. Needlessly to say, this is a gross exaggeration of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Legend_of_the_Spanish_Inquisition Black Legend]] told over the years about their supposed brutality. Actually, the Spanish branch was the ''least'' bloodthirsty of all Christian inquisitions (also including Protestant persecutors) and it is estimated today that of all its trials and judges, only less than 2000 ended in executions, a trial-conviction ratio not much higher than any secular justice system's at the time.
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** The Guardian claims the Nephilim were enslaved by TheLegionsOfHell in Xibalba, and that a supposed God of Death is leading them. This comes up when Mick has the kill the two Lords of Xibaba before their god comes out, but otherwise he is basically TheGhost.
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** The Guardian claims the Nephilim were enslaved by TheLegionsOfHell in Xibalba, and that a supposed God of Death is leading them. This comes up when Mick has the to kill the two Lords of Xibaba before their god comes out, but otherwise he is basically TheGhost.
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* HeroicSacrifice: US president Mark Maller, having just lost his family, shoots himself in the head to show to his Russian and Chinese homologues he has no hidden agenda. It finally convinces them to stop the ballistic missiles.
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* HeroicSacrifice: US president Mark Maller, having just lost his family, shoots himself in the head to show to his Russian and Chinese homologues that he has no hidden agenda. It finally convinces them to stop the ballistic missiles.
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* MindOverMatter: The Nephilim had those powers, or at least the evil spirits from Xibalba possessing them had, as Mick's vision shows her levitating and telekinetically building the ship while brainwashed.
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* MindOverMatter: The Nephilim had those powers, or at least the evil spirits from Xibalba possessing them had, had them, as Mick's vision shows her levitating and telekinetically building the ship while brainwashed.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Apparently, the Tezcatlipoca ship was actually traveling to ''Venus'', because the dark spirits were adapted to a carbon dioxide atmosphere. It only crashed in Earth because the Guardian gunned it down mid travel. The spirits later decided they could try it in Earth by terraforming it with explosive drones and a chemical spill, though.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Apparently, the Tezcatlipoca ship was actually traveling to ''Venus'', because the dark spirits were adapted to a carbon dioxide atmosphere. It only crashed in Earth because the Guardian gunned it down mid travel. The spirits later decided they could try it in Earth by terraforming it with explosive drones and a chemical spill, though.
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* TheProfessor: Marvin Teperman, the Canadian exobiologist, is shown to be rather impressionable yet very enthusiastic about his field. Julius is a deconstruction of this trope given his strained relationship with Michael.
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* TheProfessor: TheProfessor:
** Marvin Teperman, the Canadian exobiologist, is shown to berather a bit impressionable yet very enthusiastic about his field. field.
** Julius is a deconstruction of this trope given his strained relationship with Michael.
** Marvin Teperman, the Canadian exobiologist, is shown to be
** Julius is a deconstruction of this trope given his strained relationship with Michael.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Michael says it to the Guardian, as they reveal they let the 2012 prophecy happen in order to have a chance than their chosen hero would return the favor and go to their own world to save them.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Michael says it to the Guardian, as they reveal they let the 2012 prophecy happen in order to have a chance than their chosen hero would return the favor and go to their own world to save them.its possessed inhabitants.
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** In Alejandro Rafelo's family history, it is revealed his ascendant Gregor became a Cathar out of horror about what he witnessed fighting along with Gilles de Rais. Unfortunately, his ascetic beliefs alienated his son Andre away from him. Andre would end up joining Gilles and becoming a Satanist with him.
* ActionMom: Dominique becomes one over the course of the book. The very prologue has her training in a quite traditional kendo dojo.
* ActionMom: Dominique becomes one over the course of the book. The very prologue has her training in a quite traditional kendo dojo.
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** In Alejandro Rafelo's family history, it is revealed his ascendant Gregor became a Cathar [[UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}} Cathar]] out of horror about what he witnessed his experiences fighting along with Gilles de Rais. Unfortunately, his ascetic beliefs alienated his son Andre away from him. Andre would end up joining Gilles and becoming a Satanist with him.
* ActionMom: Dominique becomes one over the course of the book. The very prologue has her training in a quitetraditional hardcore kendo dojo.
* ActionMom: Dominique becomes one over the course of the book. The very prologue has her training in a quite
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* AlienSky: The sky of Xibalba is red and has two moons, a regular one and a potato-shaped one, [[spoiler:the regular being our Moon and the other being a transhuman transport.]] The dimensional Xibalba also has a red sky, as it is actually a volcanic cave ceiling.
* AmbiguousSituation: According to Mick, [[spoiler:Lilith, Devlin and the Nephilim are all dead without knowing it and are basically classical poltergeists trapped by their past negative emotions. However, he claims Lilith and Devlin were the two Lords of Xibalba, so they died by his own hand. How did the Nephilim die it is not clarified.]]
* AmbiguousSituation: According to Mick, [[spoiler:Lilith, Devlin and the Nephilim are all dead without knowing it and are basically classical poltergeists trapped by their past negative emotions. However, he claims Lilith and Devlin were the two Lords of Xibalba, so they died by his own hand. How did the Nephilim die it is not clarified.]]
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* AlienSky: The sky of Xibalba is red and has two moons, a regular one and a potato-shaped one, [[spoiler:the regular being our Moon and the other being a wrecked transhuman transport.]] The dimensional Xibalba also has a red sky, as it is actually a volcanic cave ceiling.
* AmbiguousSituation: According to Mick, [[spoiler:Lilith, Devlin and the Nephilim are all dead without knowing it and are basically classical poltergeists trapped by their past negative emotions. However, he claims Lilith and Devlin were the two Lords of Xibalba, so they died by his own hand. How did the rest of the Nephilim die it is not clarified.]]
* AmbiguousSituation: According to Mick, [[spoiler:Lilith, Devlin and the Nephilim are all dead without knowing it and are basically classical poltergeists trapped by their past negative emotions. However, he claims Lilith and Devlin were the two Lords of Xibalba, so they died by his own hand. How did the rest of the Nephilim die it is not clarified.]]
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* AntiHero: [[spoiler:Again, the Guardian, who make everybody belief Xibalba is a planet in the constellation of Orion when it is actually the Earth in the future and, despite their promise not to abandon Michael, they have openly done so in order to focus in the Nephilim. However, they are still working to save all of them.]]
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Despite all having taken part in an alien prophecy incident that almost destroyed the world in 2012, Dominique and the government staff assigned to the Gabriel family are inexplicably unwilling to believe that the prophecy simply didn't end there and now is it up to the twins to save Mick. They even seem to have forgotten that Mick's schizophrenia was faked by Pierre Borgia to get him jailed in a BedlamHouse, because they come to believe that Jacob has inherited it and is making all of this up (granted, it is revealed the Hunahpu gene ''has'' some tendency to schizophrenia, but Jacob is not the case).
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Despite all having taken part in an alien prophecy incident that almost destroyed the world in 2012, Dominique and the government staff assigned to the Gabriel family are inexplicably unwilling to believe that the prophecy simply didn't end there and now is it up to the twins to save Mick. They even seem to have forgotten that Mick's schizophrenia was faked by Pierre Borgia to get him jailed in a BedlamHouse, because they come to believe that Jacob has inherited it and is making all of this up (granted, it is revealed the Hunahpu gene ''has'' some tendency to schizophrenia, but Jacob is not the case).
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* AntiHero: [[spoiler:Again, the Guardian, who make makes everybody belief believe Xibalba is a planet in the constellation of Orion when it is actually the Earth in the future and, despite their promise not to abandon Michael, they have openly done so in order to focus in the Nephilim. However, they are still working to save all of them.]]
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Despite all having taken part in an alien prophecy incident that almost destroyed the world in 2012, Dominique and the government staff assigned to the Gabriel family are now inexplicably unwilling to believe that the prophecy simply didn't end there andnow it is it up to the twins to save Mick. They even seem to have forgotten that Mick's schizophrenia was faked by Pierre Borgia to get him jailed in a BedlamHouse, because they come to believe that Jacob has inherited it and is making all of this up (granted, it is revealed the Hunahpu gene ''has'' some tendency to schizophrenia, but they at the time didn't know it, and Jacob is not the case).case nonetheless).
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Despite all having taken part in an alien prophecy incident that almost destroyed the world in 2012, Dominique and the government staff assigned to the Gabriel family are now inexplicably unwilling to believe that the prophecy simply didn't end there and
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The novel repeats the previous' popular belief about UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition, but it also adds that it played a big role in Christianizing the American natives and demonizing their pagan religions. This is another popular belief, as the Spanish Inquisition actually had little to no interest on evangelizing activities and didn't even believe in the existence of witchcraft or Satanism. Their presence in America was mostly to make sure than practicing Jews, Muslims or Protestants didn't leak there during the conquest, somewhat that was more of a formality than a real religious concern.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: The original Xibalban transhuman divided into two factions, one who wanted to do this and another who thought of it as either blasphemous or dangerous. The Tezcatlipocas were whales mutated in order to serve as mystic portals for them to reach this plane (or at least for their souls to reach it, given that they left their bodies behind). Later, Lilith and Devlin attempt the same.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: The original Xibalban transhuman divided into two factions, one who wanted to do this and another who thought of it as either blasphemous or dangerous. The Tezcatlipocas were whales mutated in order to serve as mystic portals for them to reach this plane (or at least for their souls to reach it, given that they left their bodies behind). Later, Lilith and Devlin attempt the same.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The novel repeats the previous' popular belief about UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition, but it also adds that it played a big role in Christianizing the Christianization of the American natives and demonizing the demonization of their pagan religions. This is another popular belief, as the Spanish Inquisition actually had little to no interest on evangelizing activities and didn't even believe in the existence of witchcraft or Satanism. Their presence in America was mostly to make sure than practicing Jews, Muslims or Protestants didn't leak there during the conquest, somewhat something that was more of a formality than a real religious concern.
concern anyway.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: The original Xibalbantranshuman transhumans divided into two factions, one who wanted to do achieve this trope and another who thought of it as either blasphemous or dangerous. The Tezcatlipocas were whales mutated in order to serve as mystic portals for them to reach this plane (or at least for their souls to reach it, given that they left their bodies behind). Later, Lilith and Devlin attempt the same.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: The original Xibalban
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* BigCreepyCrawlies: There are large ones in Xibalba. Before that, Elías and Ocelo threaten Magiersky with making him swallow a big, venomous centipede (which is actually harmless and edible).
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* BigCreepyCrawlies: There are large ones in Xibalba. Before that, Elías and Ocelo threaten Magiersky with making him swallow a big, venomous centipede (which is actually harmless and even edible).
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* CoolShades: Hunahpu characters use them to hide their azure eyes. Merchant also happens to wear pink-colored ones, although they are described to be more creepy than cool.
* CorruptChurch: Since the events of the previous book, Alabama millonaire Peter Mabus has founded a religious political party and become a televangelist. A stereotypically fundamentalist, dishonest and corrupt one, in fact.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Lilith, abused and raped by her adoptive grandfather Quenton, as well as her mother Madelina qualifies as well, as she was (guess what) abused and raped by her adoptive father Quenton.
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Lilith, Devlin and the transhumans in Xibalba, which really doesn't exist]].
* CorruptChurch: Since the events of the previous book, Alabama millonaire Peter Mabus has founded a religious political party and become a televangelist. A stereotypically fundamentalist, dishonest and corrupt one, in fact.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Lilith, abused and raped by her adoptive grandfather Quenton, as well as her mother Madelina qualifies as well, as she was (guess what) abused and raped by her adoptive father Quenton.
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Lilith, Devlin and the transhumans in Xibalba, which really doesn't exist]].
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* CoolShades: Hunahpu characters use them to hide their azure eyes. Merchant also happens to wear pink-colored ones, although they are described to be more creepy ridiculous than cool.
* CorruptChurch: Since the events of the previous book, Alabama millonaire Peter Mabus has founded a religious political party and become a televangelist. A stereotypicallyfundamentalist, fundamentalistic, dishonest and corrupt one, in fact.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Lilith, abused and raped by her adoptive grandfatherQuenton, as well as her Quenton. Her mother Madelina qualifies as well, as she was (guess what) abused and raped by her adoptive father Quenton.
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Lilith, Devlin and the transhumans in Xibalba, whichreally doesn't exist]].exist in the physical plane]].
* CorruptChurch: Since the events of the previous book, Alabama millonaire Peter Mabus has founded a religious political party and become a televangelist. A stereotypically
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Lilith, abused and raped by her adoptive grandfather
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Lilith, Devlin and the transhumans in Xibalba, which
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* DeathWorld: The planet Xibalba is nasty, being a carbon dioxide-choked volcanic planet with BigCreepyCrawlies. However, the hidden, dimensional Xibalba created by Devlin and Lilith is even worse, being a Hell-like cave populated by tortured mutants.
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* DeathWorld: The planet Xibalba is nasty, being a carbon dioxide-choked volcanic planet with BigCreepyCrawlies. However, the hidden, dimensional Xibalba created by Devlin and Lilith is even worse, being a as it is Hell-like cave populated by tortured mutants.
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* DemotedToExtra: Pierre Borgia and Joe Randolph. The former appears only to try to shoot Chaney in revenge (and is killed by Dominique for the trouble) and the latter only to introduce Adashek.
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* DemotedToExtra: Pierre Borgia and Joe Randolph. The former appears only to try to shoot Chaney in revenge (and is killed by Dominique for the trouble) troubles) and the latter only to introduce Adashek.
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* DevilButNoGod: Inverted. In an interpretation that echoes the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yetzer_hara yetzer hara]]'' from Jewish philosophy, it is stated that God does exists and loves everybody, while the Devil doesn't and is just a human illusion born of their natural inclination to evil.
* DiabolusExNihilo: [[spoiler:The Guardian time-travels to 2032, with Michael and Dominique recovering, in order to stop the Yellowstone Caldera from blowing up. But nope, they travel to a completely different time and place due to a disturbance, and their ship promptly explodes by some other accident, killing all of them and leaving Mick and Dominique stranded in stasis around Mars.]]
* DiabolusExNihilo: [[spoiler:The Guardian time-travels to 2032, with Michael and Dominique recovering, in order to stop the Yellowstone Caldera from blowing up. But nope, they travel to a completely different time and place due to a disturbance, and their ship promptly explodes by some other accident, killing all of them and leaving Mick and Dominique stranded in stasis around Mars.]]
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* DevilButNoGod: Inverted. In an interpretation that echoes the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yetzer_hara yetzer hara]]'' from Jewish philosophy, it is stated that God does exists exist and loves everybody, while the Devil doesn't and is just a human illusion born of their our natural inclination to evil.
* DiabolusExNihilo: [[spoiler:The Guardian time-travels to 2032, with Michael and Dominique recovering, in order to stop the Yellowstone Caldera from blowing up. But nope, theytravel to end up in a completely different time and place due to a disturbance, and their ship promptly explodes by some other unspecified accident, killing all of them and leaving Mick and Dominique stranded in stasis around Mars.]]
* DiabolusExNihilo: [[spoiler:The Guardian time-travels to 2032, with Michael and Dominique recovering, in order to stop the Yellowstone Caldera from blowing up. But nope, they
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** Lilith becomes interested in developing space travel, which will literally save mankind, only because she heard a speech by Chaney talking about space exploration when she was a child.
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** Lilith becomes interested in developing space travel, which will literally save mankind, only because she heard happened to hear a speech by Chaney talking about space exploration when she was a child.
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* FullFrontalAssault: Both Devlin and Lilith in Xibalba. The latter one is introduced to the Nephilim fully naked to show his new genetic features, and apparently stills streaking during the final battle, and the former firstly wears robes and gowns, but she discards them in order to fight in the nude.
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* FullFrontalAssault: Both Devlin and Lilith in Xibalba. The latter one is introduced to the Nephilim fully naked to show his new genetic features, and apparently stills keeps streaking during the final battle, and while the former firstly wears robes and gowns, but she discards them in order to fight in the nude.
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* HandyFeet: Transhuman Devlin restrains Dominique with his clawed toenails in Xibalba, in a way similar to a vulture's claws.
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* HandyFeet: Transhuman In Xibalba, transhuman Devlin restrains Dominique with his clawed toenails in Xibalba, toenails, in a way similar to a vulture's claws.
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* LightningCanDoAnything: Evelyin Strongin got her mediumnic powers after stepping on an electric cable in a post-hurricane zone.
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* LightningCanDoAnything: Evelyin Evelyn Strongin got her mediumnic powers after stepping on an electric cable in a post-hurricane zone.
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* ThenLetMeBeEvil: In the novel's universe, the Spanish Inquisition drove the Mesoamerican population to Satanism due to their constant labelling of their pagan beliefs as a Devil-worshipping.
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* ThenLetMeBeEvil: In the novel's universe, the Spanish Inquisition drove the Mesoamerican population to Satanism due to their constant labelling of their pagan beliefs as a Devil-worshipping.
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: Lilith use this method to catch Jacob off guard in Xibalba, and Devlin to catch Dominique.
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Yes, Mick and Dominique saved the world from a nuclear war and an alien terraforming in 2012, but it is revealed the Yellowstone Caldera will blow up around 2037 and will cause a new glaciation in the planet. This time it is not up to the Hunahpus to stop it, but the Guardians, who travel to the past in order to impede it. [[spoiler:Only that they end up traveling to the wrong time and planet, and die all of them when their ship explodes.]]
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Yes, Mick and Dominique saved the world from a nuclear war and an alien terraforming in 2012, but it is revealed the Yellowstone Caldera will blow up around 2037 and will cause a new glaciation in the planet. This time it is not up to the Hunahpus to stop it, but the Guardians, who travel to the past in order to impede it. [[spoiler:Only that they end up traveling to the wrong time and planet, and die all of them when their ship explodes.]]
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: Lilith use this method to catch Jacob off guard in Xibalba, and as well as Devlin to catch Dominique.
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Yes, Mick and Dominique saved the world from a nuclear war and an alien terraforming in 2012, but it is revealed the Yellowstone Caldera will blow up around 2037 andwill cause a new glaciation in the planet. This time it is not up to the Hunahpus to stop it, but the Guardians, who travel to the past in order to impede it. [[spoiler:Only that they end up traveling to the wrong time and planet, and die all of them when their ship explodes.]]
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Yes, Mick and Dominique saved the world from a nuclear war and an alien terraforming in 2012, but it is revealed the Yellowstone Caldera will blow up around 2037 and
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* AdvancedAncientHumans: Balam and the 320 Mayans that got thrown to the wormhole ended up founding a settlement in the post-Yellowstone world that, after 1000 years and with the help of his Hunahpu powers, became a seafaring civilization.
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* AdvancedAncientHumans: Balam and the 320 Mayans that got thrown to the wormhole ended up founding a settlement in the post-Yellowstone world that, after 1000 years and with the help of his (their?) Hunahpu powers, became a seafaring civilization.
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** Lilith claims the purification of her soul reached her through time days after Jake and Dominique left the Earth. However, the prologue of ''Phobos'' shows her clearly being evil 13 whole years after that event, which is never clearly explained.
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** Lilith claims the purification of her soul reached her through time days after Jake and Dominique left the Earth. However, the prologue of ''Phobos'' shows her clearly being evil 13 whole years after that event, which something that is never clearly explained.
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:The story ends with Eve Mohr and a time-traveling Julian Agler-Gabriel being in a cruise accidentally transported to an ancient Mars and being attacked by previously unknown Martians.]]
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: According to this, Jesus was not the son of God, but a student of mystic Rabbi Akiva. The first part is consistent with Jewish eschatology, but the second is not.
* AscendedExtra: In the previous books, Joe Randolph was a Texan millonaire that mentores Borgia. In this, he is actually an ex-CIA agent who is somehow in charge of the Area 51. Borgia himself is also ascended to main villain by revealing he is [[spoiler:a reincarnation of Seven Macaw]].
* CosmicRetcon: In this story there are a new cataclism previously unheard of (the Large Hadron Collider strangelet), a new role played by aliens ([[spoiler:actually time-traveling original transhumans]]) and a cycle of reincarnations (which reveals a completely new GreaterScopeVillain that vaguely contradicts the plots of ''Domain'' and ''Resurrection''), and it is claimed in this timeline the time travel of the Guardian and the Tezcatlipoca ship will not happen (which doesn't has much sense). None of this is easy to fit in the previous plots without a heavy dose of retcons, but it is all handwaved as a consequence of Manny not traveling to Xibalba.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: According to this, Jesus was not the son of God, but a student of mystic Rabbi Akiva. The first part is consistent with Jewish eschatology, but the second is not.
* AscendedExtra: In the previous books, Joe Randolph was a Texan millonaire that mentores Borgia. In this, he is actually an ex-CIA agent who is somehow in charge of the Area 51. Borgia himself is also ascended to main villain by revealing he is [[spoiler:a reincarnation of Seven Macaw]].
* CosmicRetcon: In this story there are a new cataclism previously unheard of (the Large Hadron Collider strangelet), a new role played by aliens ([[spoiler:actually time-traveling original transhumans]]) and a cycle of reincarnations (which reveals a completely new GreaterScopeVillain that vaguely contradicts the plots of ''Domain'' and ''Resurrection''), and it is claimed in this timeline the time travel of the Guardian and the Tezcatlipoca ship will not happen (which doesn't has much sense). None of this is easy to fit in the previous plots without a heavy dose of retcons, but it is all handwaved as a consequence of Manny not traveling to Xibalba.
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:The story ends with Eve Mohr and a time-traveling Julian Agler-Gabriel being in a cruise accidentally transported to an ancient Mars and being attacked by previously unknown Martians.]]
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: According to this, Jesus was not the son of God, but a student of mystic Rabbi Akiva. The first part is consistent with Jewish eschatology, but the second is not.
* AscendedExtra: In the previous books, Joe Randolph was a Texan millonaire that mentores mentors Borgia. In this, this one, he is revealed to be actually an ex-CIA agent who is somehow in charge of the Area 51. Borgia himself is also ascended to main villain by revealing he is [[spoiler:a reincarnation of Seven Macaw]].
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: According to this, Jesus was not the son of God, but a student of mystic Rabbi Akiva.
* CosmicRetcon: In this story there are a new cataclism previously unheard of (the Large Hadron Collider strangelet), a new role played by aliens ([[spoiler:actually time-traveling original transhumans]]) and a cycle of reincarnations (which reveals a completely new GreaterScopeVillain that vaguely contradicts the plots of ''Domain'' and ''Resurrection''), and it is claimed in this timeline the time travel of the Guardian and the Tezcatlipoca ship will not happen (which doesn't has much sense). None of thisis easy to can fit in the previous plots without a heavy dose of retcons, but it is all handwaved as a consequence of Manny not traveling to Xibalba.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: According to this, Jesus was not the son of God, but a student of mystic Rabbi Akiva.
* CosmicRetcon: In this story there are a new cataclism previously unheard of (the Large Hadron Collider strangelet), a new role played by aliens ([[spoiler:actually time-traveling original transhumans]]) and a cycle of reincarnations (which reveals a completely new GreaterScopeVillain that vaguely contradicts the plots of ''Domain'' and ''Resurrection''), and it is claimed in this timeline the time travel of the Guardian and the Tezcatlipoca ship will not happen (which doesn't has much sense). None of this
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* BodyHorror: In Manny's visions, Michael and Dominique are shown as giants bizarrely fused with a giant, flying sephirot.
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* BodyHorror: In Manny's visions, Michael and Dominique are shown as giants bizarrely fused with a giant, huge, flying sephirot.
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* DepravedHomosexual: Merchant, as always. This time, he jokingly confesses United States president Heather Stuart (a lesbian) his Catholic priest molested him, and is interested on whether she suffered the same. Stuart denies to be an example of the trope, although she is certainly a slimey villain.
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* DepravedHomosexual: Merchant, as always. This time, he jokingly confesses United States president Heather Stuart (a lesbian) his Catholic priest molested him, and is interested on knowing whether she suffered the same. Stuart denies to be an example of the trope, although she is certainly a slimey villain.
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* DoingInTheWizard: Partially. Lilith's seduction powers are later explained to be based in pheromones (and good ol' hotness, duh), but the rest of Hunahpu abilities remain as actual PsychicPowers.
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* DoingInTheWizard: Partially. Lilith's seduction powers are later explained to be based in pheromones (and good ol' hotness, duh), hotness), but the rest of Hunahpu abilities remain as actual PsychicPowers.
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* TheGreys: Many of the aliens captured by MAJESTIC-12 (not all, as others as HumanAliens), which are actually original transhumans.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Julian Agler-Gabriel, who is son to Sophie and grandson to Manny.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Julian Agler-Gabriel, who is son to Sophie and grandson to Manny.
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* TheGreys: Many of the aliens captured by MAJESTIC-12 (not all, as others as are HumanAliens), which are actually original transhumans.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Julian Agler-Gabriel, who is Sophie's sonto Sophie and grandson to Manny.Manny's grandson.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Julian Agler-Gabriel, who is Sophie's son
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* NeverMessWithGranny: Chicauah is 100 years old, yet she can kill a mercenary with just a dagger.
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* NeverMessWithGranny: Chicauah is 100 years old, yet she can kill a professional mercenary with just a dagger.
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** In the previous book, Julius claimed to a Christian turned agnostic, while in ''Phobos'', he converted to Jewish Kabbalah thanks to Maria. Also, what he was going to reveal in the conference that ended his life was the existence of the 2012 prophecy, while this time it also included the existence of aliens held in Nevada. None of this can be attributed to the new timeline, given that his scenes set before the time travel of Sam already show him as a Kabbalist and aware of the aliens.
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** In the previous book, Julius claimed to be a Christian turned agnostic, while in ''Phobos'', he converted to Jewish Kabbalah thanks to Maria. Also, what he was going to reveal in the conference that ended his life was the existence of the 2012 prophecy, while this time it also included the existence of aliens held in Nevada. None of this can be attributed to the new timeline, given that his scenes set before the time travel of Sam already show him as a Kabbalist and aware of the aliens.alien stuff.
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** In ''Resurrection'', Lilith becomes interested in space exploration due to hearing a speech about the topic by Chaney as a child. In this book, it is because she started having visions about the end of the Earth when she was 17.
** Lilith also claims in ''Phobos'' that her soul was retroactively purified just after Jake and Dominique left Earth in the Balam. This is strange, as this very book shows her as still clearly evil fourteen whole years after that point. If anything, the moment in which she turns good appears to be immediately after those fourteen years, not in the instant the Balam traveled to the future as she claims.
** Lilith also claims in ''Phobos'' that her soul was retroactively purified just after Jake and Dominique left Earth in the Balam. This is strange, as this very book shows her as still clearly evil fourteen whole years after that point. If anything, the moment in which she turns good appears to be immediately after those fourteen years, not in the instant the Balam traveled to the future as she claims.
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** In ''Resurrection'', Lilith becomes interested in space exploration due to hearing having heard a speech about the topic by Chaney as a child. In this book, it is because she started having visions about the end of the Earth when she was 17.
** Lilith also claims in ''Phobos'' that her soul was retroactively purified just after Jake and Dominique left Earth in the Balam.This is strange, as However, this very book shows her as still clearly evil fourteen whole years after that point. If anything, the moment in which she turns good appears to be immediately after those fourteen years, not in the instant the Balam traveled to the future as she claims.
** Lilith also claims in ''Phobos'' that her soul was retroactively purified just after Jake and Dominique left Earth in the Balam.
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** In the second book, Devlin was described as olive skinned, with dark curly hair and "iridiscent" but otherwise regular eyes. However, ''Phobos'' describes as having straight [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white hair]] and bizarre, red-scleraed black eyes.
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** In the second book, Devlin was described as olive skinned, with dark curly hair and "iridiscent" but otherwise regular eyes. However, ''Phobos'' describes him as having straight [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white hair]] and bizarre, red-scleraed black eyes.
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** Kurtz's character changes totally from the second to the third book: in ''Resurrection'', he is a highly capable, GenreSavvy bodyguard, while in ''Phobos'' is a IdiotBall-loaded, comically lubric loon. Some of this is handwaved as having been injected with an aphrodisiac substance off-screen, but this new personality lasts the entire book.
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** Kurtz's character changes totally from the second to the third book: in ''Resurrection'', he is a highly capable, GenreSavvy bodyguard, while in ''Phobos'' is a IdiotBall-loaded, comically lubric loon. Some of this is handwaved as having been injected with an aphrodisiac substance off-screen, but this new personality lasts the entire book.book, much longer than any drug should last.
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* TranshumanAliens: The grey aliens held captive in Area 51 turn to be the original transhumans from the future, specifically the ancient Mayans leaded by Chilam Balam through the wormhole created in the past by the present CERN.
* TheVamp: Lilith again, although she turns into a HeroicSeductress after the prologue. Arlene, the female agent that seduces Kurtz, is another example, as it is Adelina Botello, who lures Michael into a fake marriage.
* TheVamp: Lilith again, although she turns into a HeroicSeductress after the prologue. Arlene, the female agent that seduces Kurtz, is another example, as it is Adelina Botello, who lures Michael into a fake marriage.
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* TranshumanAliens: The grey aliens held captive in Area 51 turn to be the original transhumans from the future, specifically the ancient Mayans leaded led by Chilam Balam through the wormhole created in the past by the present CERN.
*TheVamp: TheVamp:
** Lilith again, although she turns into a HeroicSeductress after theprologue. prologue.
** Arlene, the female agent that seduces Kurtz, is anotherexample, as it is example.
** Adelina Botello, who lures Michael into a fake marriage.
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** Lilith again, although she turns into a HeroicSeductress after the
** Arlene, the female agent that seduces Kurtz, is another
** Adelina Botello, who lures Michael into a fake marriage.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The characters once put UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition right there with the Holocaust in numbers. Needlessly to say, this is a popular belief turned UpToEleven.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The characters Julius once put mentions UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition right there with the Holocaust in numbers. numbers of deaths. Needlessly to say, this is a popular belief turned UpToEleven.gross exaggeration of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Legend_of_the_Spanish_Inquisition Black Legend]] told over the years about their supposed brutality. Actually, the Spanish branch was the ''least'' bloodthirsty of all Christian inquisitions (also including Protestant persecutors) and it is estimated today that of all its trials and judges, only less than 2000 ended in executions, a trial-conviction ratio not higher than any secular justice system's at the time.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The novel repeats the previous' popular belief about UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition, but it also adds that it played a big role in Christianizing the American natives and demonizing their pagan religions. This is another popular belief, as the Spanish Inquisition actually had little to no interest on evangelizing activities and didn't even believe in the existence of witchcraft or Satanism. Their presence in America was mostly to make sure than practicing Jews, Muslims or Protestants didn't leak there during the conquest, somewhat that was more of a formality than a real religious concern.
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* DevilButNoGod: Inverted. In an interpretation that echoes Jewish philosophy and particularly the ''yetzer hara'', it is stated that God does exists and loves everybody, while the Devil doesn't and is just a human illusion born of their natural evil.
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* DevilButNoGod: Inverted. In an interpretation that echoes the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yetzer_hara yetzer hara]]'' from Jewish philosophy and particularly the ''yetzer hara'', philosophy, it is stated that God does exists and loves everybody, while the Devil doesn't and is just a human illusion born of their natural inclination to evil.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: There is a certain theme in the novel about characters who claim to represent good, only for them to alienate their supposed loved ones by hurting them in some form or another despite all their virtue, which eventually leads those loved ones to embrace evil (or egotism, or mere jerkassery) as a consequence of this perceived hypocrisy. Gregor Rafael did it to his son Andre, the Spanish Inquisition to the ancient Mayans, Quenton and Jake to Lilith, Dominique and Jake to Manny... It eventually reaches theological fields when it becomes about Yahweh and Lucifer.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: There is a certain theme in the novel about characters who claim to represent good, only for them to alienate their supposed loved ones by hurting them in some form or another despite all their virtue, which eventually leads those loved ones to embrace evil (or egotism, or mere jerkassery) as a consequence of this perceived hypocrisy. Gregor Rafael did it to his son Andre, the fictitious Spanish Inquisition to the ancient Mayans, Quenton and Jake to Lilith, Dominique and Jake to Manny... It eventually reaches theological fields when it becomes about Yahweh and Lucifer.
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* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Yes, Mick and Dominique saved the world from a nuclear war and an alien terraforming in 2012, but it is revealed the Yellowstone Caldera will blow up around 2037 and will cause a new glaciation in the planet. This time it is not up to the Hunahpus to stop it, but the Guardians, who travel to the past in order to impede it. [[spoiler:Only that they end up traveling to the wrong time and planet and die all of them when their ship explodes.]]
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* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Yes, Mick and Dominique saved the world from a nuclear war and an alien terraforming in 2012, but it is revealed the Yellowstone Caldera will blow up around 2037 and will cause a new glaciation in the planet. This time it is not up to the Hunahpus to stop it, but the Guardians, who travel to the past in order to impede it. [[spoiler:Only that they end up traveling to the wrong time and planet planet, and die all of them when their ship explodes.]]
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* {{Retcon}}:
** In the previous book, it was shown Julius was somewhat of a Christian turned agnostic. This time, he converted to Jewish Kabbalah thanks to Maria. Also, what he was going to reveal in the conference that ended his life was the existence of the 2012 prophecy, while this time it was the existence of aliens held in Nevada.
** The wormholes, both in the past and the future, are now revealed to be a work of the LHC, despite ''Resurrection'' had stated they were harnessed natural occurrences.
** In the previous book, it was shown Julius was somewhat of a Christian turned agnostic. This time, he converted to Jewish Kabbalah thanks to Maria. Also, what he was going to reveal in the conference that ended his life was the existence of the 2012 prophecy, while this time it was the existence of aliens held in Nevada.
** The wormholes, both in the past and the future, are now revealed to be a work of the LHC, despite ''Resurrection'' had stated they were harnessed natural occurrences.
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* {{Retcon}}:
{{Retcon}}[=/=]SeriesContinuityError:
** In the previous book,it was shown Julius was somewhat of claimed to a Christian turned agnostic. This time, agnostic, while in ''Phobos'', he converted to Jewish Kabbalah thanks to Maria. Also, what he was going to reveal in the conference that ended his life was the existence of the 2012 prophecy, while this time it was also included the existence of aliens held in Nevada.
Nevada. None of this can be attributed to the new timeline, given that his scenes set before the time travel of Sam already show him as a Kabbalist and aware of the aliens.
** In ''Domain'', Teperman reveals he decided to study exobiology after a speech given by Julius in college. They don't seem to have this relationship in ''Phobos'', as he never mentions it despite he is put to work for a long time with Julius himself.
** The wormholes, both in the past and the future, are now revealed to be awork side effect of the LHC, despite ''Resurrection'' had stated they were harnessed natural occurrences.occurrences.
** Mount Weather was destroyed by a Russian hidden nuke in 2012, as portrayed in ''Domain''. However, it is there to be destroyed again in this book, again in the same timeline. The first destruction showed the entire mountain crumbling due to the effect of the nuke, so rebuilding it would have been probably near to impossible, if not worthy of some mention in the text.
** In the previous book,
** In ''Domain'', Teperman reveals he decided to study exobiology after a speech given by Julius in college. They don't seem to have this relationship in ''Phobos'', as he never mentions it despite he is put to work for a long time with Julius himself.
** The wormholes, both in the past and the future, are now revealed to be a
** Mount Weather was destroyed by a Russian hidden nuke in 2012, as portrayed in ''Domain''. However, it is there to be destroyed again in this book, again in the same timeline. The first destruction showed the entire mountain crumbling due to the effect of the nuke, so rebuilding it would have been probably near to impossible, if not worthy of some mention in the text.
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** In this book it is claimed here Dominique didn't want sedatives while giving birth to the twins in order not to harm them. Actually, she desperately asked for sedatives and only ended up without them because the hospital was badly managed. This is weird because the birth scene in the new timeline shows it in this very book.
** In the second book, Devlin was described as olive skinned, with dark curly hair and "iridiscent" eyes. However, ''Phobos'', he is described as having straight [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white hair]] and bizarre, red-scleraed black eyes.
** Alejandro Rafelo was described as having a white eye in ''Phobos''. This time, he is described having a strabismic white eye.
** In the second book, Devlin was described as olive skinned, with dark curly hair and "iridiscent" eyes. However, ''Phobos'', he is described as having straight [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white hair]] and bizarre, red-scleraed black eyes.
** Alejandro Rafelo was described as having a white eye in ''Phobos''. This time, he is described having a strabismic white eye.
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** Lilith also claims in ''Phobos'' that her soul was retroactively purified just after Jake and Dominique left Earth in the Balam. This is strange, as this very book shows her as still clearly evil fourteen whole years after that point. If anything, the moment in which she turns good appears to be immediately after those fourteen years, not in the instant the Balam traveled to the future as she claims.
** Inthis book ''Phobos'', it is claimed here Dominique didn't want sedatives while giving birth to the twins in order not to harm them.them (a bit of ArtisticLicenseMedicine, by the way). Actually, she desperately asked for sedatives and only ended up without them because the hospital was badly managed. This is weird because the birth scene in the new timeline shows it in this very book.
** In the second book, Devlin was described as olive skinned, with dark curly hair and "iridiscent" but otherwise regular eyes. However,''Phobos'', he is described ''Phobos'' describes as having straight [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white hair]] and bizarre, red-scleraed black eyes.
** Alejandro Rafelo was described as having a white eye in ''Phobos''. This time, he is described having astrabismic white ''strabismic'' eye.
** In
** In the second book, Devlin was described as olive skinned, with dark curly hair and "iridiscent" but otherwise regular eyes. However,
** Alejandro Rafelo was described as having a white eye in ''Phobos''. This time, he is described having a
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* SeriesContinuityError: Mount Weather was destroyed by a Russian hidden nuke in 2012, as portrayed in ''Domain''. However, it is there to be destroyed again in this book in the same timeline.
* SeriesContinuityError: Mount Weather was destroyed by a Russian hidden nuke in 2012, as portrayed in ''Domain''. However, it is there to be destroyed again in this book in the same timeline.
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* AmbiguousSituation: According to Mick, [[spoiler:Lilith, Devlin and the Nephilim are all dead without knowing it and are basically classical poltergeists trapped by their past negative emotions. However, he claims Lilith and Devlin were the two Lords of Xibalba, so they died by his own hand. How did the Nephilim die it is not clarified.]]
* AdvancedAncientHumans: Balam and the 320 Mayans that got thrown to the wormhole ended up founding a settlement in the post-Yellowstone world that, after 1000 years and with the help of his Hunahpu powers, became a seafaring civilization.
* AllMythsAreTrue: Relatively, though less than in the previous book. There is black magic aside from the Hunahpu stuff, but this time it is revealed that Jewish Kabbalah is right and this world is the Malkuth of the Sephirot.
* AmazonChaser: Borgia might have been a racist (although a nuanced one), but he only likes dominant women.
* AmbiguousSituation:
** Lilith claims the purification of her soul reached her through time days after Jake and Dominique left the Earth. However, the prologue of ''Phobos'' shows her clearly being evil 13 whole years after that event, which is never clearly explained.
** Chicauah claims Alejandro was meant to be her soulmate before [[spoiler:Seven Macaw]] possessed him, but the latter claims it was Alejandro himself who summoned him. There are hints of both versions through the story.
** Is Adelina related to the Hunahpu lineage, considering she shares the surname Botello with Chicauah's mother?
* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:The story ends with Eve Mohr and a time-traveling Julian Agler-Gabriel being in a cruise accidentally transported to an ancient Mars and being attacked by previously unknown Martians.]]
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: According to this, Jesus was not the son of God, but a student of mystic Rabbi Akiva. The first part is consistent with Jewish eschatology, but the second is not.
* AscendedExtra: In the previous books, Joe Randolph was a Texan millonaire that mentores Borgia. In this, he is actually an ex-CIA agent who is somehow in charge of the Area 51. Borgia himself is also ascended to main villain by revealing he is [[spoiler:a reincarnation of Seven Macaw]].
* CosmicRetcon: In this story there are a new cataclism previously unheard of (the Large Hadron Collider strangelet), a new role played by aliens ([[spoiler:actually time-traveling original transhumans]]) and a cycle of reincarnations (which reveals a completely new GreaterScopeVillain that vaguely contradicts the plots of ''Domain'' and ''Resurrection''), and it is claimed in this timeline the time travel of the Guardian and the Tezcatlipoca ship will not happen (which doesn't has much sense). None of this is easy to fit in the previous plots without a heavy dose of retcons, but it is all handwaved as a consequence of Manny not traveling to Xibalba.
* AllMythsAreTrue: Relatively, though less than in the previous book. There is black magic aside from the Hunahpu stuff, but this time it is revealed that Jewish Kabbalah is right and this world is the Malkuth of the Sephirot.
* AmazonChaser: Borgia might have been a racist (although a nuanced one), but he only likes dominant women.
* AmbiguousSituation:
** Lilith claims the purification of her soul reached her through time days after Jake and Dominique left the Earth. However, the prologue of ''Phobos'' shows her clearly being evil 13 whole years after that event, which is never clearly explained.
** Chicauah claims Alejandro was meant to be her soulmate before [[spoiler:Seven Macaw]] possessed him, but the latter claims it was Alejandro himself who summoned him. There are hints of both versions through the story.
** Is Adelina related to the Hunahpu lineage, considering she shares the surname Botello with Chicauah's mother?
* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:The story ends with Eve Mohr and a time-traveling Julian Agler-Gabriel being in a cruise accidentally transported to an ancient Mars and being attacked by previously unknown Martians.]]
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: According to this, Jesus was not the son of God, but a student of mystic Rabbi Akiva. The first part is consistent with Jewish eschatology, but the second is not.
* AscendedExtra: In the previous books, Joe Randolph was a Texan millonaire that mentores Borgia. In this, he is actually an ex-CIA agent who is somehow in charge of the Area 51. Borgia himself is also ascended to main villain by revealing he is [[spoiler:a reincarnation of Seven Macaw]].
* CosmicRetcon: In this story there are a new cataclism previously unheard of (the Large Hadron Collider strangelet), a new role played by aliens ([[spoiler:actually time-traveling original transhumans]]) and a cycle of reincarnations (which reveals a completely new GreaterScopeVillain that vaguely contradicts the plots of ''Domain'' and ''Resurrection''), and it is claimed in this timeline the time travel of the Guardian and the Tezcatlipoca ship will not happen (which doesn't has much sense). None of this is easy to fit in the previous plots without a heavy dose of retcons, but it is all handwaved as a consequence of Manny not traveling to Xibalba.
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* BreakThemByTalking: [[spoiler:At the end, Chilam Balam defeats Seven Macaw by talking him out of his mind]].
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* BodyHorror: In Manny's visions, Michael and Dominique are shown as giants bizarrely fused with a giant, flying sephirot.
* BreakThemByTalking: [[spoiler:At the end, Chilam Balam defeats Seven Macaw by talking him out of hismind]].mind.]]
* ChildByRape: [[spoiler:Dominique.]]
* DepravedHomosexual: Merchant, as always. This time, he jokingly confesses United States president Heather Stuart (a lesbian) his Catholic priest molested him, and is interested on whether she suffered the same. Stuart denies to be an example of the trope, although she is certainly a slimey villain.
* BreakThemByTalking: [[spoiler:At the end, Chilam Balam defeats Seven Macaw by talking him out of his
* ChildByRape: [[spoiler:Dominique.]]
* DepravedHomosexual: Merchant, as always. This time, he jokingly confesses United States president Heather Stuart (a lesbian) his Catholic priest molested him, and is interested on whether she suffered the same. Stuart denies to be an example of the trope, although she is certainly a slimey villain.
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* EyeColourChange: Happens to Laura when her Hunahpu genes are activated.
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* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: President Andrew Hiles speculates that the Yellowstone Caldera was a punishment by God because mankind was not church-going enough. His scientific consultant curtly points out that not being church-going enough is not big deal compared to causing wars, crime and famine.
* EyeColourChange: Happens to Laura when her Hunahpu genes are activated. Manny and Mick also switch between black and blue eyes depending of whether the plot needs them with or without much of her powers.
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Mick and Dominique were frozen in Phobos without chance to escape or die, requiring Manny to free them. Possibly subverted because it is implied they were in control of the ship and could have destroyed it to die, only that they chose to keep it active knowing that Manny would need its antimatter engine to shut off the strangelet in the future.]]
* TheGreys: Many of the aliens captured by MAJESTIC-12 (not all, as others as HumanAliens), which are actually original transhumans.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Julian Agler-Gabriel, who is son to Sophie and grandson to Manny.
* EyeColourChange: Happens to Laura when her Hunahpu genes are activated. Manny and Mick also switch between black and blue eyes depending of whether the plot needs them with or without much of her powers.
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Mick and Dominique were frozen in Phobos without chance to escape or die, requiring Manny to free them. Possibly subverted because it is implied they were in control of the ship and could have destroyed it to die, only that they chose to keep it active knowing that Manny would need its antimatter engine to shut off the strangelet in the future.]]
* TheGreys: Many of the aliens captured by MAJESTIC-12 (not all, as others as HumanAliens), which are actually original transhumans.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Julian Agler-Gabriel, who is son to Sophie and grandson to Manny.
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* {{Reincarnation}}: A key theme.
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* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Dominique is revealed to be Alejandro Rafelo's daughter, as her mother Chicauah seduced him and got pregnant without him knowing it.]]
* NeverMessWithGranny: Chicauah is 100 years old, yet she can kill a mercenary with just a dagger.
* OffWithHisHead: Balam was beheaded by Seven Macaw after the latter sacrificed his lover.
* PsychicPowers: In this installment, telepathy can be learned, and both Julius and Teperman do it.
* {{Reincarnation}}: A keytheme.theme, introduced in this installment.
* RememberTheNewGuy: It is revealed Maria and Evelyn had a third sister, Laura. All the characters are familiar with her despite she never appeared in the previous books.
* NeverMessWithGranny: Chicauah is 100 years old, yet she can kill a mercenary with just a dagger.
* OffWithHisHead: Balam was beheaded by Seven Macaw after the latter sacrificed his lover.
* PsychicPowers: In this installment, telepathy can be learned, and both Julius and Teperman do it.
* {{Reincarnation}}: A key
* RememberTheNewGuy: It is revealed Maria and Evelyn had a third sister, Laura. All the characters are familiar with her despite she never appeared in the previous books.
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** It is claimed here Dominique didn't want sedatives while giving birth to the twins in order not to harm them. Actually, she desperately asked for sedatives and only ended up without them because the hospital was badly managed.
** In the second book, Devlin was described as olive skinned, with dark curly hair and "iridiscent" eyes. However, in the ''Phobos'', he is described as having straight [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white hair]] and bizarre, red-scleraed black eyes.
** Kurtz's character changes totally from the second to the third book: in ''Resurrection'', he is a highly capable, GenreSavvy bodyguard, while in ''Phobos'' is a IdiotBall-loaded, comically lubric loon. Some of this is handwaved as having been injected with an aphrodisiac substance off-screen, but his new personality lasts the entire book.
** In ''Domain'', Teperman reveals he decided to study exobiology after a speech given by Julius in college. They don't seem to have this relationship in ''Phobos''.
* TranshumanAliens: The grey aliens held captive in Area 51 turn to be transhumans from the future, specifically the ancient Mayans leaded by Chilam Balam through the wormhole created in the past by the present CERN.
** In the second book, Devlin was described as olive skinned, with dark curly hair and "iridiscent" eyes. However, in the ''Phobos'', he is described as having straight [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white hair]] and bizarre, red-scleraed black eyes.
** Kurtz's character changes totally from the second to the third book: in ''Resurrection'', he is a highly capable, GenreSavvy bodyguard, while in ''Phobos'' is a IdiotBall-loaded, comically lubric loon. Some of this is handwaved as having been injected with an aphrodisiac substance off-screen, but his new personality lasts the entire book.
** In ''Domain'', Teperman reveals he decided to study exobiology after a speech given by Julius in college. They don't seem to have this relationship in ''Phobos''.
* TranshumanAliens: The grey aliens held captive in Area 51 turn to be transhumans from the future, specifically the ancient Mayans leaded by Chilam Balam through the wormhole created in the past by the present CERN.
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** It In the previous book, it was shown Julius was somewhat of a Christian turned agnostic. This time, he converted to Jewish Kabbalah thanks to Maria. Also, what he was going to reveal in the conference that ended his life was the existence of the 2012 prophecy, while this time it was the existence of aliens held in Nevada.
** The wormholes, both in the past and the future, are now revealed to be a work of the LHC, despite ''Resurrection'' had stated they were harnessed natural occurrences.
** In ''Resurrection'', Lilith becomes interested in space exploration due to hearing a speech about the topic by Chaney as a child. In this book, it is because she started having visions about the end of the Earth when she was 17.
** In this book it is claimed here Dominique didn't want sedatives while giving birth to the twins in order not to harm them. Actually, she desperately asked for sedatives and only ended up without them because the hospital was badlymanaged.
managed. This is weird because the birth scene in the new timeline shows it in this very book.
** In the second book, Devlin was described as olive skinned, with dark curly hair and "iridiscent" eyes. However,in the ''Phobos'', he is described as having straight [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white hair]] and bizarre, red-scleraed black eyes.
** Alejandro Rafelo was described as having a white eye in ''Phobos''. This time, he is described having a strabismic white eye.
** Kurtz's character changes totally from the second to the third book: in ''Resurrection'', he is a highly capable, GenreSavvy bodyguard, while in ''Phobos'' is a IdiotBall-loaded, comically lubric loon. Some of this is handwaved as having been injected with an aphrodisiac substance off-screen, buthis this new personality lasts the entire book.
** In ''Domain'', Teperman reveals he decided to study exobiology after a speech given by Julius in college. They don't seem to have this relationship in''Phobos''.
''Phobos'', as he never mentions it despite he is put to work for a long time with Julius himself.
* StalkerWithATestTube: Alejandro started working for the Los Lenones cartel in order to find Hunahpu women he could inseminate. Ironically, he begot one and traded her away without ever knowing it.
* TranshumanAliens: The grey aliens held captive in Area 51 turn to be the original transhumans from the future, specifically the ancient Mayans leaded by Chilam Balam through the wormhole created in the past by the presentCERN.CERN.
* TheVamp: Lilith again, although she turns into a HeroicSeductress after the prologue. Arlene, the female agent that seduces Kurtz, is another example, as it is Adelina Botello, who lures Michael into a fake marriage.
** The wormholes, both in the past and the future, are now revealed to be a work of the LHC, despite ''Resurrection'' had stated they were harnessed natural occurrences.
** In ''Resurrection'', Lilith becomes interested in space exploration due to hearing a speech about the topic by Chaney as a child. In this book, it is because she started having visions about the end of the Earth when she was 17.
** In this book it is claimed here Dominique didn't want sedatives while giving birth to the twins in order not to harm them. Actually, she desperately asked for sedatives and only ended up without them because the hospital was badly
** In the second book, Devlin was described as olive skinned, with dark curly hair and "iridiscent" eyes. However,
** Alejandro Rafelo was described as having a white eye in ''Phobos''. This time, he is described having a strabismic white eye.
** Kurtz's character changes totally from the second to the third book: in ''Resurrection'', he is a highly capable, GenreSavvy bodyguard, while in ''Phobos'' is a IdiotBall-loaded, comically lubric loon. Some of this is handwaved as having been injected with an aphrodisiac substance off-screen, but
** In ''Domain'', Teperman reveals he decided to study exobiology after a speech given by Julius in college. They don't seem to have this relationship in
* StalkerWithATestTube: Alejandro started working for the Los Lenones cartel in order to find Hunahpu women he could inseminate. Ironically, he begot one and traded her away without ever knowing it.
* TranshumanAliens: The grey aliens held captive in Area 51 turn to be the original transhumans from the future, specifically the ancient Mayans leaded by Chilam Balam through the wormhole created in the past by the present
* TheVamp: Lilith again, although she turns into a HeroicSeductress after the prologue. Arlene, the female agent that seduces Kurtz, is another example, as it is Adelina Botello, who lures Michael into a fake marriage.
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* BiggerBad:
** The Guardian claims the Nephilim were enslaved by TheLegionsOfHell in Xibalba, and that a supposed God of Death is leading them. This comes up when Mick has the kill the two Lords of Xibaba before their god comes out, but otherwise he is basically TheGhost.
** It is implied that Borgia's mentors, millonaires Joe Randolph and Peter Mabus, have been behind his political career for a long time.
** The Guardian claims the Nephilim were enslaved by TheLegionsOfHell in Xibalba, and that a supposed God of Death is leading them. This comes up when Mick has the kill the two Lords of Xibaba before their god comes out, but otherwise he is basically TheGhost.
** It is implied that Borgia's mentors, millonaires Joe Randolph and Peter Mabus, have been behind his political career for a long time.
* GreaterScopeVillain:
** The Guardian claims the Nephilim were enslaved by TheLegionsOfHell in Xibalba, and that a supposed God of Death is leading them. This comes up when Mick has the kill the two Lords of Xibaba before their god comes out, but otherwise he is basically TheGhost.
** It is implied that Borgia's mentors, millonaires Joe Randolph and Peter Mabus, have been behind his political career for a long time.
** The Guardian claims the Nephilim were enslaved by TheLegionsOfHell in Xibalba, and that a supposed God of Death is leading them. This comes up when Mick has the kill the two Lords of Xibaba before their god comes out, but otherwise he is basically TheGhost.
** It is implied that Borgia's mentors, millonaires Joe Randolph and Peter Mabus, have been behind his political career for a long time.
* AbusiveParents:
** Virgil Robinson, Lilith's father. He tried to kill her as a baby, and many years later, after she has grown into a beautiful millonaire (and he has revealed to the reader he is still a douchebag), is willing to incestuously sleep with her in exchange for maintenance.
** In Alejandro Rafelo's family history, it is revealed his ascendant Gregor became a Cathar out of horror about what he witnessed fighting along with Gilles de Rais. Unfortunately, his ascetic beliefs alienated his son Andre away from him. Andre would end up joining Gilles and becoming a Satanist with him.
** Virgil Robinson, Lilith's father. He tried to kill her as a baby, and many years later, after she has grown into a beautiful millonaire (and he has revealed to the reader he is still a douchebag), is willing to incestuously sleep with her in exchange for maintenance.
** In Alejandro Rafelo's family history, it is revealed his ascendant Gregor became a Cathar out of horror about what he witnessed fighting along with Gilles de Rais. Unfortunately, his ascetic beliefs alienated his son Andre away from him. Andre would end up joining Gilles and becoming a Satanist with him.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Despite all having taken part in an alien prophecy incident that almost destroyed the world in 2012, Dominique and the government staff assigned to the Gabriel family are inexplicably unwilling to believe that the prophecy simply didn't end there and now is it up to the twins to save Mick. They even seem to have forgotten that Mick's schizophrenia was faked by Pierre Borgia to get him jailed in a BedlamHouse, because they come to believe that Jacob has inherited it and is making all of this up.
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* AlienSky: The sky of Xibalba is red and has two moons, a regular one and a potato-shaped one, [[spoiler:the regular being our Moon and the other being a transhuman transport.]] The dimensional Xibalba also has a red sky, as it is actually a volcanic cave ceiling.
* AncientConspiracy: A presumable one behind the Bible, as it contains a code detailing the Hunahpu prophecy.
* AntiHero: [[spoiler:Again, the Guardian, who make everybody belief Xibalba is a planet in the constellation of Orion when it is actually the Earth in the future and, despite their promise not to abandon Michael, they have openly done so in order to focus in the Nephilim. However, they are still working to save all of them.]]
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Despite all having taken part in an alien prophecy incident that almost destroyed the world in 2012, Dominique and the government staff assigned to the Gabriel family are inexplicably unwilling to believe that the prophecy simply didn't end there and now is it up to the twins to save Mick. They even seem to have forgotten that Mick's schizophrenia was faked by Pierre Borgia to get him jailed in a BedlamHouse, because they come to believe that Jacob has inherited it and is making all of thisup.up (granted, it is revealed the Hunahpu gene ''has'' some tendency to schizophrenia, but Jacob is not the case).
* AncientConspiracy: A presumable one behind the Bible, as it contains a code detailing the Hunahpu prophecy.
* AntiHero: [[spoiler:Again, the Guardian, who make everybody belief Xibalba is a planet in the constellation of Orion when it is actually the Earth in the future and, despite their promise not to abandon Michael, they have openly done so in order to focus in the Nephilim. However, they are still working to save all of them.]]
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Despite all having taken part in an alien prophecy incident that almost destroyed the world in 2012, Dominique and the government staff assigned to the Gabriel family are inexplicably unwilling to believe that the prophecy simply didn't end there and now is it up to the twins to save Mick. They even seem to have forgotten that Mick's schizophrenia was faked by Pierre Borgia to get him jailed in a BedlamHouse, because they come to believe that Jacob has inherited it and is making all of this
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: The original Xibalban transhuman divided into two factions, one who wanted to do this and another who thought of it as either blasphemous or dangerous. The Tezcatlipocas were whales mutated in order to serve as mystic portals for them to reach this plane (or at least for their souls to reach it, given that they left their bodies behind). Later, Lilith and Devlin attempt the same.
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* CainAndAbel: Jake and Manny, lampshaded in-universe. Who is who is difficult to tell, although the "official" version given later in ''Phobos'' is that Jake is Abel and Manny is Cain.
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* CainAndAbel: Jake and Manny, lampshaded in-universe. Who is who is difficult to tell, although the "official" version given later in ''Phobos'' is that Dominique believes Jake is Abel and Manny is Cain.Cain.
* CharmPerson: Lilith, by virtue of being a superhuman seductress. Even a heavy metal musician who is now the US president (ItMakesSenseInContext) blushes when she enters the room.
* CharmPerson: Lilith, by virtue of being a superhuman seductress. Even a heavy metal musician who is now the US president (ItMakesSenseInContext) blushes when she enters the room.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Lilith, abused and raped by her adoptive grandfather Quenton, as well as her mother Madelina qualifies as well, as she was (guess what) abused and raped by her adoptive father Quenton.
* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Devlin tries to use Mick' and Jake's energy in Xibalba, along with a nearby supernova's, to create a real life version of Lucifer.
* DiabolusExNihilo: [[spoiler:The Guardian time-travels to 2032, with Michael and Dominique recovering, in order to stop the Yellowstone Caldera from blowing up. But nope, they travel to a completely different time and place due to a disturbance, and their ship promptly explodes by some other accident, killing all of them and leaving Mick and Dominique stranded in stasis around Mars.]]
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Dominique, Manny, Lilith, and Lauren are shown to enjoy being barefoot.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Dominique, Manny, Lilith, and Lauren are shown to enjoy being barefoot.EasyEvangelism: Most of New Eden is turned from Judeo-Christian people into literal Satanists in a surprisingly short amount of time.
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* FloatingContinent: The New Eden.
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* FloatingContinent: The There is a literal one the size of Texas floating over Xibalba, the New Eden.Eden, built by the original transhumans.
* ForWantOfANail:
** Lilith becomes interested in developing space travel, which will literally save mankind, only because she heard a speech by Chaney talking about space exploration when she was a child.
** Later, it is thanks to a random wormhole that her 12 space shuttles travel to Xibalba [[spoiler:also known as future Earth]] instead of Mars, which allows for the Guardian to be born in New Eden, again saving mankind.
* ForWantOfANail:
** Lilith becomes interested in developing space travel, which will literally save mankind, only because she heard a speech by Chaney talking about space exploration when she was a child.
** Later, it is thanks to a random wormhole that her 12 space shuttles travel to Xibalba [[spoiler:also known as future Earth]] instead of Mars, which allows for the Guardian to be born in New Eden, again saving mankind.
* GodIsEvil: Thoroughly discussed, with multiple character wondering why does the Christian/Jewish God allow evil to happen in the world.
* GoneHorriblyRight: After Lilith stops Quenton from raping her, he tells her the Jewish story of Lilith and accuses her of being her reincarnation, presumably in order to get her to seduce him so he has sex with her nonetheless. This causes her schizophrenia to create an elaborate scenario in which her uncle Alejandro tells her yup, she is the original Lilith, and now has all her power and evil. As a consequence, she seduces him as he wished, but only in order to kill him.
* GreaterScopeVillain: A weird variation where Alejandro Rafelo is presumably dead, yet Lilith hallucinates with a version of him (after discovering him in some old newspapers) who teaches her how to become the Abomination.
* GreaterScopeVillain: A weird variation where Alejandro Rafelo is presumably dead, yet Lilith hallucinates with a version of him (after discovering him in some old newspapers) who teaches her how to become the Abomination.
* {{Hypocrite}}: There is a certain theme in the novel about characters who claim to represent good, only for them to alienate their supposed loved ones by hurting them in some form or another despite all their virtue, which eventually leads those loved ones to embrace evil (or egotism, or mere jerkassery) as a consequence of this perceived hypocrisy. Gregor Rafael did it to his son Andre, the Spanish Inquisition to the ancient Mayans, Quenton and Jake to Lilith, Dominique and Jake to Manny... It eventually reaches theological fields when it becomes about Yahweh and Lucifer.
* ImaginaryFriend: As a children, Lilith has one named Brandy. As a teenager, she has an imaginary evil mentor based on her knowledge of Satanist lore and her relative Alejandro Rafelo.
* TheNoseKnows: Apparently due to her Hunahpu senses, Lilith is able to perceive the ovulating period of another woman by the smell.
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* PsychicPowers:
** It's revealed the real life Stargate Project was continuned under the new name of Trinity in this universe. Jacob is almost recruited for it due to his Hunahpu powers.
** The transhumans develop {{Telepathy}} as part of their new brains.
** It's revealed the real life Stargate Project was continuned under the new name of Trinity in this universe. Jacob is almost recruited for it due to his Hunahpu powers.
** The transhumans develop {{Telepathy}} as part of their new brains.
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* PsychicPowers:
** It's revealed the real life Stargate ProjectOddlySmallOrganization: Played with. The original Guardian was continuned under the new name composed of Trinity 24 members, plus 13 that were murdered when they escaped Lilith and Devlin's clutches in this universe. Jacob is almost recruited for it due to his Hunahpu powers.
** The transhumans develop {{Telepathy}} as partNew Eden. Around 114 years later, there are hundreds of their new brains.them.
** It's revealed the real life Stargate Project
** The transhumans develop {{Telepathy}} as part
* PedophilePriest: Quenton Morehead, the Baptist priest, rapes both of his underage adoptees.
* PlotHole: Bill Raby is supposed to become Osiris after the Guardian travels to Earth in the Balam, but a flashback with Mick has him shooting himself in the head much earlier out of grief for the loss of his lover. Given that Michael's bond to him got cut in that instant, it is implied that he certainly died.
* TheProfessor: Dr. David Morh, Nobel laureate and [[spoiler:future Kukulcan.]]
* PsychicPowers:
** It's revealed the real life Stargate Project was continuned under the new name of Trinity in this universe. Jacob is almost recruited for it due to his Hunahpu powers.
** The transhumans develop {{Telepathy}} as part of their new brains.
* PlotHole: Bill Raby is supposed to become Osiris after the Guardian travels to Earth in the Balam, but a flashback with Mick has him shooting himself in the head much earlier out of grief for the loss of his lover. Given that Michael's bond to him got cut in that instant, it is implied that he certainly died.
* TheProfessor: Dr. David Morh, Nobel laureate and [[spoiler:future Kukulcan.]]
* PsychicPowers:
** It's revealed the real life Stargate Project was continuned under the new name of Trinity in this universe. Jacob is almost recruited for it due to his Hunahpu powers.
** The transhumans develop {{Telepathy}} as part of their new brains.
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* RedSkyTakeWarning: The sky of Xibalba, the resident DeathWorld. In the planet, it is because its atmosphere is red; in its dimensional form, because the sky is a cave ceiling.
* SatanIsGood: Lilith believes so, citing existentialist and humanistic arguments to ilustrate how Yahweh is a hypocrite tyrant that tortures mankind while Lucifer offers freedom, knowledge, power and self-improvement.
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* StableTimeLoop: Except that it stops being stable due to Manny.
* StalkerWithATestTube: After turning evil, Lilith is instructed to get Jacob's seed in order to produce a pure Hunahpu offspring. She is succesful, and she gives birth to Devlin.
* StalkerWithATestTube: After turning evil, Lilith is instructed to get Jacob's seed in order to produce a pure Hunahpu offspring. She is succesful, and she gives birth to Devlin.
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* StableTimeLoop: Except [[spoiler:Except that Manny unravels it stops being stable due to Manny.
at the end.]]
*StalkerWithATestTube: StalkerWithATestTube:
** After turning evil, Lilith is instructed to get Jacob's seed in order to produce a pure Hunahpu offspring. She is succesful, and she gives birth toDevlin.Devlin.
** In the past, Alejandro Rafelo sought to marry Cecilia to his own nephew Miguel (as he was too old) in order to mix both Hunahpu lineages, Alejandro being from Quetzalcoatl and Cecilia (descendant from Moctezuma, by the way) being from Kukulcan. He then used black magic to give hereditary schizophrenia to her daughter Madelina.
*
** After turning evil, Lilith is instructed to get Jacob's seed in order to produce a pure Hunahpu offspring. She is succesful, and she gives birth to
** In the past, Alejandro Rafelo sought to marry Cecilia to his own nephew Miguel (as he was too old) in order to mix both Hunahpu lineages, Alejandro being from Quetzalcoatl and Cecilia (descendant from Moctezuma, by the way) being from Kukulcan. He then used black magic to give hereditary schizophrenia to her daughter Madelina.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: In the novel's universe, the Spanish Inquisition drove the Mesoamerican population to Satanism due to their constant labelling of their pagan beliefs as a Devil-worshipping.
* TongueTrauma: T'quan, a Tezcatlipoca cultist from Michael's past, had a ritually forked tongue.
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* WingedHumanoid: Devlin gains wings in the future thanks to genetic manipulation.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Lilith use this method to catch Jacob off guard in Xibalba.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Lilith use this method to catch Jacob off guard in Xibalba.
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* VampiricDraining: Lilith and Devlin are sucking Mick's light in the future to feed the Nephilim, though only whenever they want.
* WingedHumanoid: Devlin gains wings in the future thanks to his Hunahpu blood, which gives him geneticmanipulation.
manipulation power when mixed with transhuman DNA.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Lilith use this method to catch Jacob off guard inXibalba.Xibalba, and Devlin to catch Dominique.
* WingedHumanoid: Devlin gains wings in the future thanks to his Hunahpu blood, which gives him genetic
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Lilith use this method to catch Jacob off guard in
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Lilith while in her fancy house.
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* AncientAstronauts: Kukulcan, Osiris and many other culture heroes in history were members of the Guardian come in the Balam ship.
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* AncientAstronauts: Kukulcan, Osiris Quetzal, Viracocha, Osiris, Merlin and many other culture heroes in history Vishnu were members of the Guardian come in the Balam ship.
* AntiHero: The members of the Guardian openly let the Tezcatlipoca ship's plans happen so the Hunahpu who defeated it could then return the favor by going to save the Nephilim in Xibalba.
* TheGreatFlood: Apparently happened as a consequence of the melting of a glaciation 115.000 years ago, and it took 2000 years for it to melt completely. It was then when the Guardian came to Earth.
* GreyGoo: A possibly literal and certainly similar example happens with the strange grey substance that appears in Xibalba's sea and invades the planet.
* HatePlague: According to the Guardian, the two Lords of Xibalba inside the Tezcatlipoca ship have been telepathically influencing humanity for worse through millenia.
* HeroicSacrifice: US president Mark Maller, having just lost his family, shoots himself in the head to show to his Russian and Chinese homologues he has no hidden agenda. It finally convinces them to stop the ballistic missiles.
* GreyGoo: A possibly literal and certainly similar example happens with the strange grey substance that appears in Xibalba's sea and invades the planet.
* HatePlague: According to the Guardian, the two Lords of Xibalba inside the Tezcatlipoca ship have been telepathically influencing humanity for worse through millenia.
* HeroicSacrifice: US president Mark Maller, having just lost his family, shoots himself in the head to show to his Russian and Chinese homologues he has no hidden agenda. It finally convinces them to stop the ballistic missiles.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Apparently, the Tezcatlipoca ship was actually traveling to ''Venus'', because the dark spirits were adapted to a carbon dioxide atmosphere. It only crashed in Earth because the Guardian gunned it down mid travel. The spirits later decided they could try it in Earth, though.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Apparently, the Tezcatlipoca ship was actually traveling to ''Venus'', because the dark spirits were adapted to a carbon dioxide atmosphere. It only crashed in Earth because the Guardian gunned it down mid travel. The spirits later decided they could try it in Earth, Earth by terraforming it with explosive drones and a chemical spill, though.
* SubspaceAnsible: A mysterious radio signal from deep space (actually coming from Xibalba) activates the Tezcatlipoca ship. It is not clarified if it comes from present or past Xibalba through some wormhole.
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* YouHaveToBelieveMe: A surrogate example. In Michael's background, his father got his conference sabotaged by Borgia when he was going to reveal the 2012 prophecy he had discovered, and Mick then solidifed the impression that they were a family of nutjobs by assaulting Borgia and gouging his eye.
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* ActionMom: Dominique becomes one.
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* AbsurdlyCoolCity: The floating continent of Xibalba, which has a lot of beautiful gardens and shining silicon skycrappers under domes.
* ActionMom: Dominique becomesone.one over the course of the book. The very prologue has her training in a quite traditional kendo dojo.
* AlienSea: Xibalba's seas and lakes are silver-colored.
* ActionMom: Dominique becomes
* AlienSea: Xibalba's seas and lakes are silver-colored.
* ArtificialGravity: The members of the Guardian helped to build the pyramids and Stonhenge by using staves, sceptres and wands that were actually anti-gravitatory tools.
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* BigBadDuumvirate: Lilith and Devlin trade the BigBad and TheDragon roles.
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* BigBadDuumvirate: Lilith and Devlin trade Devlin, with any of them being the BigBad and the other being TheDragon roles.depending on the moment.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: There are large ones in Xibalba. Before that, Elías and Ocelo threaten Magiersky with making him swallow a big, venomous centipede (which is actually harmless and edible).
* BlatantLies: At one point, Dominique claims she has accepted that Mick abandoned her and died. However, she is keeping the same reclusive widow lifestyle, and just before that moment was even watching a VR recreation of Mick.
* BrainsAndBrawn: Salt and Pepper. The former is a little ex-CIA Caucasian with a lot of lethal gadgets, while the latter is a huge ex-Green Beret AngryBlackMan with a lot of black belts.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: There are large ones in Xibalba. Before that, Elías and Ocelo threaten Magiersky with making him swallow a big, venomous centipede (which is actually harmless and edible).
* BlatantLies: At one point, Dominique claims she has accepted that Mick abandoned her and died. However, she is keeping the same reclusive widow lifestyle, and just before that moment was even watching a VR recreation of Mick.
* BrainsAndBrawn: Salt and Pepper. The former is a little ex-CIA Caucasian with a lot of lethal gadgets, while the latter is a huge ex-Green Beret AngryBlackMan with a lot of black belts.
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* CoolShades: Hunahpu characters use them to hide their azure eyes.
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* CoolShades: Hunahpu characters use them to hide their azure eyes. Merchant also happens to wear pink-colored ones, although they are described to be more creepy than cool.
* CorruptChurch: Since the events of the previous book, Alabama millonaire Peter Mabus has founded a religious political party and become a televangelist. A stereotypically fundamentalist, dishonest and corrupt one, in fact.
* CorruptChurch: Since the events of the previous book, Alabama millonaire Peter Mabus has founded a religious political party and become a televangelist. A stereotypically fundamentalist, dishonest and corrupt one, in fact.
* DeathWorld: The planet Xibalba is nasty, being a carbon dioxide-choked volcanic planet with BigCreepyCrawlies. However, the hidden, dimensional Xibalba created by Devlin and Lilith is even worse, being a Hell-like cave populated by tortured mutants.
* DemotedToExtra: Pierre Borgia and Joe Randolph. The former appears only to try to shoot Chaney in revenge (and is killed by Dominique for the trouble) and the latter only to introduce Adashek.
* DepravedHomosexual: Benjamin Merchant, the only homosexual in the story, is a greedy, gun-toting henchman who often flirts with other male characters.
* DevilButNoGod: Inverted. In an interpretation that echoes Jewish philosophy and particularly the ''yetzer hara'', it is stated that God does exists and loves everybody, while the Devil doesn't and is just a human illusion born of their natural evil.
* DemotedToExtra: Pierre Borgia and Joe Randolph. The former appears only to try to shoot Chaney in revenge (and is killed by Dominique for the trouble) and the latter only to introduce Adashek.
* DepravedHomosexual: Benjamin Merchant, the only homosexual in the story, is a greedy, gun-toting henchman who often flirts with other male characters.
* DevilButNoGod: Inverted. In an interpretation that echoes Jewish philosophy and particularly the ''yetzer hara'', it is stated that God does exists and loves everybody, while the Devil doesn't and is just a human illusion born of their natural evil.
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* EyeColourChange: Manny gains the Hunahpu azure eyes without being born with them.
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* EyeColourChange: Manny gains the Hunahpu azure eyes at the end of the story without being born with them.them. Evelyn also apparently got blue eyes when she got her mediumnic powers.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Literally speaking, Merchant is once said to have a cherub-like face, although it is also said he is a fat, wizened middle aged man. In a more straight example, Lilith is very beautiful yet very psycho.
* FatBastard: Peter Mabus and Benjamin Merchant are both described as fat.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Literally speaking, Merchant is once said to have a cherub-like face, although it is also said he is a fat, wizened middle aged man. In a more straight example, Lilith is very beautiful yet very psycho.
* FatBastard: Peter Mabus and Benjamin Merchant are both described as fat.
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* {{God}}: Zig-zagged. His existence is both affirmated and negated in different instances (oddly enough, by the same character).
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* {{God}}: Zig-zagged. His existence GoodCounterpart: Kurtz and Beck are this to Solomon Adashek. They are all professional killers, but Salt and Pepper are nice guys working for the Gabriel family, while Adashek is a disturbed pederast who works for Randolph and Mabus. Kurtz himself is the most similar, as both affirmated he and negated Adashek are described as petite, middle-aged guys who don't look like assassins.
* GreyGoo: A variation. Grey dust covers the mutants indifferent instances (oddly enough, Xibalba, and it is said to be definitely supernatural and malign.
* TheGreys: The bodies left behind by thesame character).posthumans are rather similar to those.
* GunNut: Merchant is a National Rifle Association activist and always carries a concealed gun in his ankle, although this never becomes a plot point.
* HeroicSeductress: Dominique plays up her charms in order to trap an incredibly dense (and horny) US soldier, Magiersky, who works for Mabus.
* GreyGoo: A variation. Grey dust covers the mutants in
* TheGreys: The bodies left behind by the
* GunNut: Merchant is a National Rifle Association activist and always carries a concealed gun in his ankle, although this never becomes a plot point.
* HeroicSeductress: Dominique plays up her charms in order to trap an incredibly dense (and horny) US soldier, Magiersky, who works for Mabus.
* HistoryRepeats: Apparently, just like the first Hun-Hunahpu failed and died in Xibalba, there were an earlier pair of Twin Heroes who were also defeated.
* LightningCanDoAnything: Evelyin Strongin got her mediumnic powers after stepping on an electric cable in a post-hurricane zone.
* MinorMajorCharacter: Jack Mclelland of Majestic-12 is hinted to be an important character with a lot of influence in the government, but he is dropped shortly after his only appearance.
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* NoSocialSkills: Samuel Agler/Manny is rather awkward at times as a consequence of his upbringing, which is called on him. Oddly enough, the even less socialized Jake is shown to have more social skills than him.
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* NoSocialSkills: Samuel Agler/Manny is rather awkward at times as a consequence of his upbringing, which is called on him. Oddly enough, the even less socialized Jake is shown to have more social ''emotional'' skills than him.him.
* PsychicPowers:
** It's revealed the real life Stargate Project was continuned under the new name of Trinity in this universe. Jacob is almost recruited for it due to his Hunahpu powers.
** The transhumans develop {{Telepathy}} as part of their new brains.
* PsychicPowers:
** It's revealed the real life Stargate Project was continuned under the new name of Trinity in this universe. Jacob is almost recruited for it due to his Hunahpu powers.
** The transhumans develop {{Telepathy}} as part of their new brains.
* PlantPerson: A large, mucous white tree in front of a lake appears repeatedly in Xibalba's Hell. It is revealed to be the refuge of Michael, who has fused with it in order to protect himself from Lilith. At the same time, it acts as a seal as well, as Dominique has to stab it in order to free Mick.
* RedBaron: "Salt" for Mitchell Kurtz and "Pepper" for Ryan Beck.
* RedBaron: "Salt" for Mitchell Kurtz and "Pepper" for Ryan Beck.
* RedSkyTakeWarning: The sky of Xibalba, the resident DeathWorld. In the planet, it is because its atmosphere is red; in its dimensional form, because the sky is a cave ceiling.
* SpoiledBrat: Lucien Mabus is an almost pathetical example. He can be seen smoking with 12 years and later becomes a decadent playboy bored of his lifestyle.
* SpookySeance: Evelyn performs one with Dominique to contact with Michael's mother and Evelyn's sister Maria.
* SpookySeance: Evelyn performs one with Dominique to contact with Michael's mother and Evelyn's sister Maria.
* TheStoner: Merchant is constantly smoking pot, and also takes cocaine, even after conventional drugs are replaced by artificial pleasure.
* StrugglingSingleMother: Dominique, especially given that her kids are angsty superhumans. She also laments to be raising them without a father figure.
* ThoseTwoGuys: The aptly named Salt and Pepper are most commonly seen together.
* StrugglingSingleMother: Dominique, especially given that her kids are angsty superhumans. She also laments to be raising them without a father figure.
* ThoseTwoGuys: The aptly named Salt and Pepper are most commonly seen together.
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* TheVamp: Lilith is the queen of this trope, thanks in no small part to be a Hunahpu female, which grants her the [[MostCommonSuperpower adequate]] [[TheCharmer powers]].
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* TheVamp: TheVamp:
** Lilith is the queen of this trope, thanks in no small part to be a Hunahpu female, which grants her the [[MostCommonSuperpower adequate]] [[TheCharmerpowers]].powers]].
** TV host named Dianne Tanner is also shown to have sex with many of her interviewed sportsmen thanks to some aphrodisiac perfume.
** Lilith is the queen of this trope, thanks in no small part to be a Hunahpu female, which grants her the [[MostCommonSuperpower adequate]] [[TheCharmer
** TV host named Dianne Tanner is also shown to have sex with many of her interviewed sportsmen thanks to some aphrodisiac perfume.
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* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Yes, Mick and Dominique saved the world from a nuclear war and an alien terraforming in 2012, but it is revealed the Yellowstone Caldera will blow up around 2037 and will cause a new glaciation in the planet. This time it is not up to the Hunahpus to stop it, but the Guardians, who travel to the past in order to impede it. [[spoiler:Only that they end up traveling to the wrong time and planet and die all of them when their ship explodes.]]
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** In the second book, Devlin was described as olive skinned, with dark curly hair and common eyes (though, interestingly, their color is never mentioned, so we don't really know if he shares the trademark Hunahpu azure or any other variation). However, in the ''Phobos'', he is described as having straight [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white hair]] and bizarre, red-scleraed black eyes.
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** It is claimed here Dominique didn't want sedatives while giving birth to the twins in order not to harm them. Actually, she desperately asked for sedatives and only ended up without them because the hospital was badly managed.
** In the second book, Devlin was described as olive skinned, with dark curly hair andcommon eyes (though, interestingly, their color is never mentioned, so we don't really know if he shares the trademark Hunahpu azure or any other variation)."iridiscent" eyes. However, in the ''Phobos'', he is described as having straight [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white hair]] and bizarre, red-scleraed black eyes.
** In the second book, Devlin was described as olive skinned, with dark curly hair and
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!!'''This series contains examples of:'''
* ActionMom: Dominique becomes one in the sequel.
* ActionMom: Dominique becomes one in the sequel.
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* AbsurdlyCoolCity: The city of the Nephilim, which is shown in a vision and described as having lots of beautiful gardens and shining FuturisticPyramid buildings.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: The Xibalba spirits are implied to be either native demons or Earthly entities that were banished from our planet.
* AncientAstronauts: Kukulcan, Osiris and many other culture heroes in history were members of the Guardian come in the Balam ship.
* AncientConspiracy: Elías Forma and Ocelo, the Gabriel family's friends from Yucatan, are said to be part of Sh'tol, an ancient secret society that fought against the conquistadores.
* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: It seems Orion's Belt has a Earth-like planet named Xibalba.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The characters once put UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition right there with the Holocaust in numbers. Needlessly to say, this is a popular belief turned UpToEleven.
* BaldOfEvil: Borgia is described to be almost bald.
* BigBad: The intelligence residing in the Tezcatlipoca ship is one, while Secretary of State Pierre Borgia plays the same role in the human side.
* BiggerBad:
** The Guardian claims the Nephilim were enslaved by TheLegionsOfHell in Xibalba, and that a supposed God of Death is leading them. This comes up when Mick has the kill the two Lords of Xibaba before their god comes out, but otherwise he is basically TheGhost.
** It is implied that Borgia's mentors, millonaires Joe Randolph and Peter Mabus, have been behind his political career for a long time.
* DragonsAreDemonic: In Michael's vision, the Tezcatlipoca seems to come out of the same whirlpool that caused the corruption of the Nephilim city, implying it comes from the same dark dimension as its lords.
* HistoryRepeats: The legend of Hun-Hunahpu really happened, and he was the first Hunahpu hero sent by the Guardian, only that he was deceived and lost the battle.
* HumanAliens: The Nephilim look like humans, only with very big heads.
* LoveTriangle: Julius Gabriel and Pierre Borgia were both in love with Maria Rosen, Borgia's fiancee. Later it turns out that she was actually in love with ''Julius'' and they elope.
* MayanDoomsday: The basic premise of the series.
* MindOverMatter: The Nephilim had those powers, or at least the evil spirits from Xibalba possessing them had, as Mick's vision shows her levitating and telekinetically building the ship while brainwashed.
* MoonBase: The Guardian had one in Xibalba's moon, from where the Balam took off to chase the Tezcatlipoca ship.
* NeutralFemale: A romantic example. In their background, Julius confessed his love to Maria out of desperation shortly before she married Borgia. She then surprisingly revealed she reciprocated all along, only that she was literally praying for him to confess to her instead of taking any action herself.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Apparently, the Tezcatlipoca ship was actually traveling to ''Venus'', because the dark spirits were adapted to a carbon dioxide atmosphere. It only crashed in Earth because the Guardian gunned it down mid travel. The spirits later decided they could try it in Earth, though.
* NothingIsScarier: We never see personally the evil spirits from Xibalba that possessed the Nephilim. In his vision, Mick only sees a strange grey matter appearing in the sea and a sort of psychic influence that attacks them. However, it is implied the baddies ''have'' human form, as a figure clad in a black cowl that doesn't seem to be a possessed Nephilim appears to control the Tezcatlipoca. Later, when [[spoiler:Mick kills the two Lords of Xibalba]], they seem to reveal themselves to be red-skinned humanoids with snake eyes, or at least it to be their appearance after the disruption of their glamour.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: The Tezcatlipoca is a sort of cyborg mutated snake.
* PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs: The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was in fact a spaceship containing a Tezcatlipoca sent by the lords of Xibalba in order to create a dimensional door which lets them return to the earth.
* PleasurePlanet: Xibalba looked like one, with its silver seas and lush, green continents. However, it turned to be a trap, as it was inhabited by evil fourth-dimensional entities who wanted to escape.
* TheProfessor: Marvin Teperman, the Canadian exobiologist, is shown to be rather impressionable yet very enthusiastic about his field. Julius is a deconstruction of this trope given his strained relationship with Michael.
* PyrrhicVictory: The two Lords of Xibalba won a first battle by killing the first Hunahpu, but the Guardian seized their sarcophagus ship and left them stranded in the Earth, forcing them to take refuge in the Tezcatlipoca ship.
* LaResistance: The Guardian are this to the spirits who took over Xibalba.
* WhatTheHellHero: Michael says it to the Guardian, as they reveal they let the 2012 prophecy happen in order to have a chance than their chosen hero would return the favor and go to their own world to save them.
!!''Resurrection'' contains examples of:
* ActionMom: Dominique becomes
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Despite all having taken part in an alien prophecy incident that almost destroyed the
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* BigBadDuumvirate: Lilith and Devlin trade the BigBad and TheDragon roles in ''Resurrection''.
* BiggerBad: [[spoiler:Seven Macaw]], who is revealed in the third book to have been all the time the mastermind behind Lilith and Devlin.
* BloodMagic: Chicahua and the ancient Mayans practice it.
* BreakThemByTalking: [[spoiler:At the end, Chilam Balam defeats Seven Macaw by talking him out of his head]].
* CainAndAbel: Jake and Manny, lampshaded in-universe. Who is who is difficult to tell, although the "official" version given is that Jake is Abel and Manny is Cain.
* BiggerBad: [[spoiler:Seven Macaw]], who is revealed in the third book to have been all the time the mastermind behind Lilith and Devlin.
* BloodMagic: Chicahua and the ancient Mayans practice it.
* BreakThemByTalking: [[spoiler:At the end, Chilam Balam defeats Seven Macaw by talking him out of his head]].
* CainAndAbel: Jake and Manny, lampshaded in-universe. Who is who is difficult to tell, although the "official" version given is that Jake is Abel and Manny is Cain.
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* BigBadDuumvirate: Lilith and Devlin trade the BigBad and TheDragon roles in ''Resurrection''.
* BiggerBad: [[spoiler:Seven Macaw]], who is revealed in the third book to have been all the time the mastermind behind Lilith and Devlin.
* BloodMagic: Chicahua and the ancient Mayans practice it.
* BreakThemByTalking: [[spoiler:At the end, Chilam Balam defeats Seven Macaw by talking him out of his head]].
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* CainAndAbel: Jake and Manny, lampshaded in-universe. Who is who is difficult to tell, although the "official" version given later in ''Phobos'' is that Jake is Abel and Manny is Cain.
* BiggerBad: [[spoiler:Seven Macaw]], who is revealed in the third book to have been all the time the mastermind behind Lilith and Devlin.
* BloodMagic: Chicahua and the ancient Mayans practice it.
* BreakThemByTalking: [[spoiler:At the end, Chilam Balam defeats Seven Macaw by talking him out of his head]].
* CainAndAbel: Jake and Manny, lampshaded in-universe. Who is who is difficult to tell, although the "official" version given later in ''Phobos'' is that Jake is Abel and Manny is Cain.
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* {{Determinator}}: Samuel Agler [[spoiler:aka Immanuel Gabriel]] in ''Phobos''.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Almost everybody in the main cast. Dominique, Manny, Lilith, Laura, Lauren and others are shown to enjoy being barefoot.
* DoingInTheWizard: Partially. Lilith's seduction powers are later explained to be based in pheromones (and good ol' hotness, duh), but the rest of Hunahpu abilities remain as actual PsychicPowers.
* FullFrontalAssault: Both Devlin and Lilith in Xibalba. The latter one is introduced to the Nephilim fully naked to show his new genetic features, and apparently stills streaking during the final battle, and the former firstly wears robes and gowns, but she discards them in order to fight in the nude.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Almost everybody in the main cast. Dominique, Manny, Lilith, Laura, Lauren and others are shown to enjoy being barefoot.
* DoingInTheWizard: Partially. Lilith's seduction powers are later explained to be based in pheromones (and good ol' hotness, duh), but the rest of Hunahpu abilities remain as actual PsychicPowers.
* FullFrontalAssault: Both Devlin and Lilith in Xibalba. The latter one is introduced to the Nephilim fully naked to show his new genetic features, and apparently stills streaking during the final battle, and the former firstly wears robes and gowns, but she discards them in order to fight in the nude.
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* DoingInTheWizard: Partially. Lilith's seduction powers are later explained to be based in pheromones (and good ol' hotness, duh), but the rest of Hunahpu abilities remain as actual PsychicPowers.
* FullFrontalAssault: Both Devlin and Lilith in Xibalba. The latter one is introduced to the Nephilim fully naked to show his new genetic features, and apparently stills streaking during the final battle, and the former firstly wears robes and gowns, but she discards them in order to fight in the nude.
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* EyeColourChange: Manny and later Laura gain the Hunahpu azure eyes without being born with them.
* {{Fanservice}}: Well, it's a Steve Alten work.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Michael Gabriel is said to have to endure this after ''Domain''.
* {{Fanservice}}: Well, it's a Steve Alten work.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Michael Gabriel is said to have to endure this after ''Domain''.
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* EyeColourChange: Manny and later Laura gain gains the Hunahpu azure eyes without being born with them.
* {{Fanservice}}: Well, it's a Steve Alten work.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Michael Gabriel is said to have to endure this after ''Domain''.this.
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* FreudianExcuse: More or less everybody in the books has one.
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* FreudianExcuse: More or less everybody in the books cast has one.one.
* FullFrontalAssault: Both Devlin and Lilith in Xibalba. The latter one is introduced to the Nephilim fully naked to show his new genetic features, and apparently stills streaking during the final battle, and the former firstly wears robes and gowns, but she discards them in order to fight in the nude.
* FullFrontalAssault: Both Devlin and Lilith in Xibalba. The latter one is introduced to the Nephilim fully naked to show his new genetic features, and apparently stills streaking during the final battle, and the former firstly wears robes and gowns, but she discards them in order to fight in the nude.
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* HeelFaceTurn: Lilith in ''Phobos''.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Jake and later Manny/Chilam Balam, both in Xibalba.]]
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Manny.
* MayanDoomsday: The basic premise of the series.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Jake and later Manny/Chilam Balam, both in Xibalba.]]
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Manny.
* MayanDoomsday: The basic premise of the series.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Jake and later Manny/Chilam Balam, both in Xibalba.]]
* MayanDoomsday: The basic premise of
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* PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs: The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was in fact a spaceship containing a Tezcatlipoca sent by Lilith and Deviln in order to create a dimensional door which lets them return to the earth.
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* {{Reincarnation}}: A key theme.
* {{Retcon}}: A lot of retcons happen between the books. Some of them are clearly meant to adapt the story to a bigger universe, but others have no discernible reason, and almost seem out of SeriesContinuityError.
** In the second book, Devlin is described as olive skinned, with dark curly hair and common eyes (though, interestingly, their color is never mentioned, so we don't really know if he shares the trademark Hunahpu azure or has any other variant). However, in the third one, he is described as having straight [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white hair]] and bizarre, red-scleraed black eyes.
** Kurtz's character changes totally from the second to the third book: in ''Resurrection'', he is a highly capable, GenreSavvy bodyguard, while in ''Phobos'' is a IdiotBall-loaded, comically lubric loon. Some of this is handwaved as having been injected with an aphrodisiac substance off-screen, but his new personality lasts the entire book.
* StableTimeLoop
* {{Retcon}}: A lot of retcons happen between the books. Some of them are clearly meant to adapt the story to a bigger universe, but others have no discernible reason, and almost seem out of SeriesContinuityError.
** In the second book, Devlin is described as olive skinned, with dark curly hair and common eyes (though, interestingly, their color is never mentioned, so we don't really know if he shares the trademark Hunahpu azure or has any other variant). However, in the third one, he is described as having straight [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white hair]] and bizarre, red-scleraed black eyes.
** Kurtz's character changes totally from the second to the third book: in ''Resurrection'', he is a highly capable, GenreSavvy bodyguard, while in ''Phobos'' is a IdiotBall-loaded, comically lubric loon. Some of this is handwaved as having been injected with an aphrodisiac substance off-screen, but his new personality lasts the entire book.
* StableTimeLoop
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* {{Reincarnation}}: A key theme.
* {{Retcon}}: A lot of retcons happen between the books. Some of them are clearly meantReusedCharacterDesign: Xibalba's guardian demon is said to adapt the story to a bigger universe, but others have no discernible reason, an anvil-shaped head and almost seem out of SeriesContinuityError.
** Inlong arms, just like the second book, Devlin is described as olive skinned, with dark curly hair and common eyes (though, interestingly, their color is never mentioned, so we don't really know if he shares the trademark Hunahpu azure or has any other variant). However, in the third one, he is described as having straight [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white hair]] and bizarre, red-scleraed black eyes.
** Kurtz's character changes totallyNephilim drones from the second to the third book: in ''Resurrection'', he is a highly capable, GenreSavvy bodyguard, while in ''Phobos'' is a IdiotBall-loaded, comically lubric loon. Some of this is handwaved as having been injected with an aphrodisiac substance off-screen, but his new personality lasts the entire previous book.
*StableTimeLoopStableTimeLoop: Except that it stops being stable due to Manny.
* {{Retcon}}: A lot of retcons happen between the books. Some of them are clearly meant
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** Kurtz's character changes totally
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* TranshumanAliens: The grey aliens held captive in Area 51 turn to be transhumans from the future, specifically the ancient Mayans leaded by Chilam Balam through the wormhole created in the past by the present CERN.
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* TheVamp: Lilith is the queen of this trope, thanks in no small part to be a Hunahpu female, which grants her [[MostCommonSuperpower adequate]] [[TheCharmer powers]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In ''Phobos'', Benjamin Merchant disappears after Lilith turns to the good side, and his existence is never acknowledged again.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In ''Phobos'', Benjamin Merchant disappears after Lilith turns to the good side, and his existence is never acknowledged again.
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* TheVamp: Lilith is the queen of this trope, thanks in no small part to be a Hunahpu female, which grants her the [[MostCommonSuperpower adequate]] [[TheCharmer powers]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In ''Phobos'', Benjamin Merchant disappears after Lilith turns to the good side, and his existence is never acknowledged again.powers]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In ''Phobos'', Benjamin Merchant disappears after Lilith turns to the good side, and his existence is never acknowledged again.
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: Lilith use this method to catch Jacob off guard in Xibalba.
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: Lilith use this method to catch Jacob off guard in Xibalba.Xibalba.
!!''Phobos'' contains examples of:
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:Seven Macaw]], who is revealed in the third book to have been all the time the mastermind behind Lilith and Devlin.
* BloodMagic: Chicahua and the ancient Mayans practice it.
* BreakThemByTalking: [[spoiler:At the end, Chilam Balam defeats Seven Macaw by talking him out of his mind]].
* {{Determinator}}: Samuel Agler [[spoiler:aka Immanuel Gabriel]] has to go through a ton of things, including amnesia, in order to save the world.
* DoingInTheWizard: Partially. Lilith's seduction powers are later explained to be based in pheromones (and good ol' hotness, duh), but the rest of Hunahpu abilities remain as actual PsychicPowers.
* EyeColourChange: Happens to Laura when her Hunahpu genes are activated.
* HighHeelFaceTurn: Lilith, as Jake purified her soul in the last book. Of course, she is the only villain to turn good.
* {{Reincarnation}}: A key theme.
* {{Retcon}}:
** In the second book, Devlin was described as olive skinned, with dark curly hair and common eyes (though, interestingly, their color is never mentioned, so we don't really know if he shares the trademark Hunahpu azure or any other variation). However, in the ''Phobos'', he is described as having straight [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white hair]] and bizarre, red-scleraed black eyes.
** Kurtz's character changes totally from the second to the third book: in ''Resurrection'', he is a highly capable, GenreSavvy bodyguard, while in ''Phobos'' is a IdiotBall-loaded, comically lubric loon. Some of this is handwaved as having been injected with an aphrodisiac substance off-screen, but his new personality lasts the entire book.
** In ''Domain'', Teperman reveals he decided to study exobiology after a speech given by Julius in college. They don't seem to have this relationship in ''Phobos''.
* TranshumanAliens: The grey aliens held captive in Area 51 turn to be transhumans from the future, specifically the ancient Mayans leaded by Chilam Balam through the wormhole created in the past by the present CERN.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Benjamin Merchant disappears after Lilith turns to the good side and his existence is never acknowledged again.
!!''Phobos'' contains examples of:
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:Seven Macaw]], who is revealed in the third book to have been all the time the mastermind behind Lilith and Devlin.
* BloodMagic: Chicahua and the ancient Mayans practice it.
* BreakThemByTalking: [[spoiler:At the end, Chilam Balam defeats Seven Macaw by talking him out of his mind]].
* {{Determinator}}: Samuel Agler [[spoiler:aka Immanuel Gabriel]] has to go through a ton of things, including amnesia, in order to save the world.
* DoingInTheWizard: Partially. Lilith's seduction powers are later explained to be based in pheromones (and good ol' hotness, duh), but the rest of Hunahpu abilities remain as actual PsychicPowers.
* EyeColourChange: Happens to Laura when her Hunahpu genes are activated.
* HighHeelFaceTurn: Lilith, as Jake purified her soul in the last book. Of course, she is the only villain to turn good.
* {{Reincarnation}}: A key theme.
* {{Retcon}}:
** In the second book, Devlin was described as olive skinned, with dark curly hair and common eyes (though, interestingly, their color is never mentioned, so we don't really know if he shares the trademark Hunahpu azure or any other variation). However, in the ''Phobos'', he is described as having straight [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white hair]] and bizarre, red-scleraed black eyes.
** Kurtz's character changes totally from the second to the third book: in ''Resurrection'', he is a highly capable, GenreSavvy bodyguard, while in ''Phobos'' is a IdiotBall-loaded, comically lubric loon. Some of this is handwaved as having been injected with an aphrodisiac substance off-screen, but his new personality lasts the entire book.
** In ''Domain'', Teperman reveals he decided to study exobiology after a speech given by Julius in college. They don't seem to have this relationship in ''Phobos''.
* TranshumanAliens: The grey aliens held captive in Area 51 turn to be transhumans from the future, specifically the ancient Mayans leaded by Chilam Balam through the wormhole created in the past by the present CERN.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Benjamin Merchant disappears after Lilith turns to the good side and his existence is never acknowledged again.
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There are currently three entries in the series, plus one more which is promised but not yet announced.
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There are currently three entries in the series, plus one more which is promised but not yet announced.
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* ''Phobos'', also titled ''Phobos: Mayan Fear'' (2011
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* ''Phobos'', also titled ''Phobos: Mayan Fear'' (2011
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* ''Mayan Testament: Collapse'' (title given on author's site in December 2018)
* ''Mayan Testament: Collapse'' (title given on author's site in December 2018)
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The '''Domain trilogy''' is a ScienceFantasy book series penned by American author Creator/SteveAlten.
Archaeologist Julius Gabriel devoted his life to studying the Mayan calendar, a 2500-year-old enigma that predicts the end of humanity. But when Julius dies before solving the prophecy, only one person can save the human race from annihilation: Julius’s son Mick, a patient in a mental hospital.
Archaeologist Julius Gabriel devoted his life to studying the Mayan calendar, a 2500-year-old enigma that predicts the end of humanity. But when Julius dies before solving the prophecy, only one person can save the human race from annihilation: Julius’s son Mick, a patient in a mental hospital.
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The '''Domain trilogy''' ''Domain'' trilogy is a ScienceFantasy book series penned by American author Creator/SteveAlten.
Archaeologist Julius Gabriel devoted his life to studying the Mayan calendar, a 2500-year-old enigma that [[MayanDoomsday predicts the end ofhumanity.humanity]]. But when Julius dies before solving the prophecy, only one person can save the human race from annihilation: Julius’s son Mick, a patient in a mental hospital.
Archaeologist Julius Gabriel devoted his life to studying the Mayan calendar, a 2500-year-old enigma that [[MayanDoomsday predicts the end of
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* MayanDoomsday: The basic premise of the series.
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* {{Reincarnation}}: A key theme.
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* StableTimeLoop
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Almost everybody in the main cast. Dominique, Manny, Jake, Lilith, Laura and others are shown to enjoy being barefoot.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Almost everybody in the main cast. Dominique, Manny, Jake, Lilith, Laura Laura, Lauren and others are shown to enjoy being barefoot.
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** In the second book, Devlin is described as olive skinned, with dark curly hair and normal eyes (though, interestingly, their color is never mentioned, so we don't really know if he shares the trademark Hunahpu azure or has any other variant). However, in the third one, he is described as [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white-haired]] and endowed with bizarre, red-scleraed black eyes.
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** In the second book, Devlin is described as olive skinned, with dark curly hair and normal common eyes (though, interestingly, their color is never mentioned, so we don't really know if he shares the trademark Hunahpu azure or has any other variant). However, in the third one, he is described as having straight [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white-haired]] white hair]] and endowed with bizarre, red-scleraed black eyes.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Almost everybody in the main cast. Lilith, Manny and Laura are shown to enjoy being barefoot.
* DoingInTheWizard: Partially. Lilith's seduction powers are later explained to be based in pheromones (and hotness, duh), but the rest of Hunahpu abilities remain as actual PsychicPowers.
* FullFrontalAssault: Both Devlin and Lilith in Xibalba. The latter not only due to their mutant features, but also to their depravity.
* DoingInTheWizard: Partially. Lilith's seduction powers are later explained to be based in pheromones (and hotness, duh), but the rest of Hunahpu abilities remain as actual PsychicPowers.
* FullFrontalAssault: Both Devlin and Lilith in Xibalba. The latter not only due to their mutant features, but also to their depravity.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Almost everybody in the main cast. Dominique, Manny, Jake, Lilith, Manny and Laura and others are shown to enjoy being barefoot.
* DoingInTheWizard: Partially. Lilith's seduction powers are later explained to be based in pheromones (and good ol' hotness, duh), but the rest of Hunahpu abilities remain as actual PsychicPowers.
* FullFrontalAssault: Both Devlin and Lilith in Xibalba. The latternot only due one is introduced to their mutant the Nephilim fully naked to show his new genetic features, and apparently stills streaking during the final battle, and the former firstly wears robes and gowns, but also she discards them in order to their depravity.fight in the nude.
* DoingInTheWizard: Partially. Lilith's seduction powers are later explained to be based in pheromones (and good ol' hotness, duh), but the rest of Hunahpu abilities remain as actual PsychicPowers.
* FullFrontalAssault: Both Devlin and Lilith in Xibalba. The latter
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* NoSocialSkills: Samuel Agler/Manny is rather awkward at times as a consequence of his upbringing, which is called on him. Bizarrely enough, the even less socialized Jake is shown to have more social skills than him.
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* NoSocialSkills: Samuel Agler/Manny is rather awkward at times as a consequence of his upbringing, which is called on him. Bizarrely Oddly enough, the even less socialized Jake is shown to have more social skills than him.
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* {{Retcon}}: A lot of retcons happen between the books. Some of them are clearly meant to adapt the story to a bigger universe, but others have no discernible reason, and almost seem out of ContinuityError.
** In the second book, Devlin is described as dark-haired, olive-skinned and with normal eyes (though, interestingly, their color is not mentioned, so we don't know if he has the trademark Hunahpu azure or any other variant), but in the third one, he is [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white-haired]] and has bizarre black and red eyes.
** In the second book, Devlin is described as dark-haired, olive-skinned and with normal eyes (though, interestingly, their color is not mentioned, so we don't know if he has the trademark Hunahpu azure or any other variant), but in the third one, he is [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white-haired]] and has bizarre black and red eyes.
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* {{Retcon}}: A lot of retcons happen between the books. Some of them are clearly meant to adapt the story to a bigger universe, but others have no discernible reason, and almost seem out of ContinuityError.
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** In the second book, Devlin is described asdark-haired, olive-skinned and olive skinned, with dark curly hair and normal eyes (though, interestingly, their color is not never mentioned, so we don't really know if he has shares the trademark Hunahpu azure or has any other variant), but variant). However, in the third one, he is described as [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white-haired]] and has bizarre endowed with bizarre, red-scleraed black and red eyes.
** In the second book, Devlin is described as
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* StalkerWithATestTube: After turning evil, Lilith tries to get Jacob's seed in order to produce a pure Hunahpu offspring. She is succesful.
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* StalkerWithATestTube: After turning evil, Lilith tries is instructed to get Jacob's seed in order to produce a pure Hunahpu offspring. She is succesful.succesful, and she gives birth to Devlin.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In ''Phobos'', Benjamin Merchant disappears after Lilith turns to the good side and is never mentioned or acknowledged again.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In ''Phobos'', Benjamin Merchant disappears after Lilith turns to the good side side, and his existence is never mentioned or acknowledged again.
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* BadassFamily: The Gabriel family, or more widely, the entire Hunahpu lineage.
* BigBadDuumvirate: Lilith and Devlin trade the BigBad and TheDragon roles.
* BigBadDuumvirate: Lilith and Devlin trade the BigBad and TheDragon roles.
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* BadassFamily: The Gabriel family, or more widely, widely the entire Hunahpu lineage.
lineage, which was created to be such.
* BigBadDuumvirate: Lilith and Devlin trade the BigBad and TheDragonroles.roles in ''Resurrection''.
* BigBadDuumvirate: Lilith and Devlin trade the BigBad and TheDragon
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* CainAndAbel: Jacob and Manny, lampshaded in-universe. Who is who is difficult to tell, although the "official" version given is that Jacob is Abel and Manny is Cain.
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* CainAndAbel: Jacob Jake and Manny, lampshaded in-universe. Who is who is difficult to tell, although the "official" version given is that Jacob Jake is Abel and Manny is Cain.
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* DeadlyTrainingArea: Jacob's training facility.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: When Jacob kills Devlin's guardian demon.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: When Jacob kills Devlin's guardian demon.
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* DeadlyTrainingArea: Jacob's Jake's training facility.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: WhenJacob Jake kills Devlin's guardian demon.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: When
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Many. Lilith, Manny and Laura are shown to enjoy being barefoot.
* DoingInTheWizard: Partially. Lilith's seduction powers are later explained to be based in pheromones (and hotness, duh), but the rest of Hunahpu abilities remain as real PsychicPowers.
* FullFrontalAssault: Both Devlin and Lilith in Xibalba, not only due to their mutant features, but also to their depravity.
* DoingInTheWizard: Partially. Lilith's seduction powers are later explained to be based in pheromones (and hotness, duh), but the rest of Hunahpu abilities remain as real PsychicPowers.
* FullFrontalAssault: Both Devlin and Lilith in Xibalba, not only due to their mutant features, but also to their depravity.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Many.Almost everybody in the main cast. Lilith, Manny and Laura are shown to enjoy being barefoot.
* DoingInTheWizard: Partially. Lilith's seduction powers are later explained to be based in pheromones (and hotness, duh), but the rest of Hunahpu abilities remain asreal actual PsychicPowers.
* FullFrontalAssault: Both Devlin and Lilith inXibalba, Xibalba. The latter not only due to their mutant features, but also to their depravity.
* DoingInTheWizard: Partially. Lilith's seduction powers are later explained to be based in pheromones (and hotness, duh), but the rest of Hunahpu abilities remain as
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* FreudianExcuse: More or less everybody in the books have one.
* {{God}}: Discussed. His existence is both affirmated and negated (oddly enough, by the same character) in different instances.
* HandyFeet: Transhuman Devlin restrains Dominique with his toes in Xibalba, in a way similar to a vulture's claws.
* {{God}}: Discussed. His existence is both affirmated and negated (oddly enough, by the same character) in different instances.
* HandyFeet: Transhuman Devlin restrains Dominique with his toes in Xibalba, in a way similar to a vulture's claws.
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* FreudianExcuse: More or less everybody in the books have has one.
* {{God}}:Discussed. Zig-zagged. His existence is both affirmated and negated in different instances (oddly enough, by the same character) in different instances.
character).
* HandyFeet: Transhuman Devlin restrains Dominique with histoes clawed toenails in Xibalba, in a way similar to a vulture's claws.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Jacob and later Manny/Chilam Balam, both in Xibalba.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Jacob [[spoiler:Jake and later Manny/Chilam Balam, both in Xibalba.]]
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* RedOniBlueOni: Respectively, Manny and Jacob.
* {{Retcon}}:
** Some between the books. At first they were to adapt the story to a bigger universe, but then they came for no discernible reason. Devlin is described as dark-haired and olive-skinned in the second book, but then comes the third ones and establishes him as [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white-haired]] and with bizarre eyes.
** Kurtz's character changes totally from the second to the third book: in ''Resurrection'', he is a highly capable, GenreSavvy bodyguard, while in ''Phobos'' is a IdiotBall-loaded, comically lubric loon.
* {{Retcon}}:
** Some between the books. At first they were to adapt the story to a bigger universe, but then they came for no discernible reason. Devlin is described as dark-haired and olive-skinned in the second book, but then comes the third ones and establishes him as [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white-haired]] and with bizarre eyes.
** Kurtz's character changes totally from the second to the third book: in ''Resurrection'', he is a highly capable, GenreSavvy bodyguard, while in ''Phobos'' is a IdiotBall-loaded, comically lubric loon.
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* RedOniBlueOni: Respectively, Manny and Jacob.
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** In the second book, Devlin is described asdark-haired and dark-haired, olive-skinned in and with normal eyes (though, interestingly, their color is not mentioned, so we don't know if he has the second book, trademark Hunahpu azure or any other variant), but then comes in the third ones and establishes him as one, he is [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white-haired]] and with has bizarre black and red eyes.
** Kurtz's character changes totally from the second to the third book: in ''Resurrection'', he is a highly capable, GenreSavvy bodyguard, while in ''Phobos'' is a IdiotBall-loaded, comically lubric loon. Some of this is handwaved as having been injected with an aphrodisiac substance off-screen, but his new personality lasts the entire book.
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** In the second book, Devlin is described as
** Kurtz's character changes totally from the second to the third book: in ''Resurrection'', he is a highly capable, GenreSavvy bodyguard, while in ''Phobos'' is a IdiotBall-loaded, comically lubric loon. Some of this is handwaved as having been injected with an aphrodisiac substance off-screen, but his new personality lasts the entire book.
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* TheVamp: Lilith is the queen of this trope, thanks in no small part to be a Hunahpu female, which grants her the adequate powers.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In ''Phobos'', Benjamin Merchant disappears after Lilith turns face.
* WingedHumanoid: Devlin gains wings in the future.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In ''Phobos'', Benjamin Merchant disappears after Lilith turns face.
* WingedHumanoid: Devlin gains wings in the future.
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* TheVamp: Lilith is the queen of this trope, thanks in no small part to be a Hunahpu female, which grants her the adequate powers.
[[MostCommonSuperpower adequate]] [[TheCharmer powers]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In ''Phobos'', Benjamin Merchant disappears after Lilith turnsface.
to the good side and is never mentioned or acknowledged again.
* WingedHumanoid: Devlin gains wings in thefuture.future thanks to genetic manipulation.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In ''Phobos'', Benjamin Merchant disappears after Lilith turns
* WingedHumanoid: Devlin gains wings in the
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* CoolShades: Hunahpu characters use them to hide their azure eyes.
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* DoingInTheWizard: Partially. Lilith's seduction powers are later explained as pheromone-based, but the rest of Hunahpu abilities remain as really PsychicPowers.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Many. Lilith, Manny and Laura are shown to enjoy being barefoot.
* DoingInTheWizard: Partially. Lilith's seduction powers are later explainedas pheromone-based, to be based in pheromones (and hotness, duh), but the rest of Hunahpu abilities remain as really PsychicPowers.real PsychicPowers.
* FullFrontalAssault: Both Devlin and Lilith in Xibalba, not only due to their mutant features, but also to their depravity.
* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex
* DoingInTheWizard: Partially. Lilith's seduction powers are later explained
* FullFrontalAssault: Both Devlin and Lilith in Xibalba, not only due to their mutant features, but also to their depravity.
* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex
* HandyFeet: Transhuman Devlin restrains Dominique with his toes in Xibalba, in a way similar to a vulture's claws.
* NoSocialSkills: Samuel Agler/Manny is rather awkward at times as a consequence of his upbringing, which is called on him. Bizarrely enough, the even less socialized Jake is shown to have more social skills than him.
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** Some between the books. At first they were to adapt the story to a bigger universe, but then they came for no discernible reason. Devlin turns from dark-haired, is described as dark-haired and olive-skinned in the second book to a PrettyBoy with MysticalWhiteHair book, but then comes the third ones and establishes him as [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white-haired]] and with bizarre eyes in the third.eyes.
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* StalkerWithATestTube: After turning evil, Lilith tries to get Jacob's seed in order to produce a pure Hunahpu offspring.
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* StalkerWithATestTube: After turning evil, Lilith tries to get Jacob's seed in order to produce a pure Hunahpu offspring. She is succesful.
* UrineTrouble: Devlin makes a point after his turn into an "achangel" in the future, when he (completely naked and showing off his new wings) urinates over his worshippers out of transhuman scorn.
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: Lilith use this method to trap Jacob in Xibalba.
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* WingedHumanoid: Devlin gains wings in the future.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Lilith use this method totrap catch Jacob off guard in Xibalba.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Lilith use this method to
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** Devlin turns from dark-haired, olive-skinned in the second book to WhiteHairedPrettyBoy with bizarre eyes in the third.
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* DoingInTheWizard: Partially. Lilith's seduction powers are later explained as pheromone-based, but the rest of Hunahpu abilities remain as really PsychicPowers.
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* RedOniBlueOni: Respectively, Manny and Jacob.
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The '''Domain trilogy''' is a ScienceFiction/ScienceFantasy/whatever book series penned by American author Creator/SteveAlten.
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The '''Domain trilogy''' is a ScienceFiction/ScienceFantasy/whatever book series penned by American author Creator/SteveAlten.
Archaeologist Julius Gabriel devoted his life to studying the Mayan calendar, a 2500-year-old enigma that predicts the end of humanity. But when Julius dies before solving the prophecy, only one person can save the human race from annihilation: Julius’s son Mick, a patient in a mental hospital.
Meanwhile, on the fall equinox, a serpent's shadow appears on the northern balustrade of the Kukulcan Pyramid, just as it has done for a thousand years. But this time, a rare galactic alignment occurs, and a space transmission reaches Earth.
It is the beginning of the end and a trilogy full of serious MindScrew, time travels and awesomeness.
There are currently three entries in the series, plus one more which is promised but not yet announced.
* ''Domain'' (2001)
* ''Resurrection'' (2004)
* ''Phobos'', also titled ''Phobos: Mayan Fear'' (2011
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* ActionMom: Dominique becomes one in the sequel.
* BadassFamily: The Gabriel family, or more widely, the entire Hunahpu lineage.
* BigBadDuumvirate: Lilith and Devlin trade the BigBad and TheDragon roles.
* BiggerBad: [[spoiler:Seven Macaw]], who is revealed in the third book to have been all the time the mastermind behind Lilith and Devlin.
* BloodMagic: Chicahua and the ancient Mayans practice it.
* BreakThemByTalking: [[spoiler:At the end, Chilam Balam defeats Seven Macaw by talking him out of his head]].
* CainAndAbel: Jacob and Manny, lampshaded in-universe. Who is who is difficult to tell, although the "official" version given is that Jacob is Abel and Manny is Cain.
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Lilith, Devlin and the transhumans in Xibalba, which really doesn't exist]].
* DeadlyTrainingArea: Jacob's training facility.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: When Jacob kills Devlin's guardian demon.
* {{Determinator}}: Samuel Agler [[spoiler:aka Immanuel Gabriel]] in ''Phobos''.
* EyeColourChange: Manny and later Laura gain the Hunahpu azure eyes without being born with them.
* {{Fanservice}}: Well, it's a Steve Alten work.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Michael Gabriel is said to have to endure this after ''Domain''.
* FloatingContinent: The New Eden.
* FreudianExcuse: More or less everybody in the books have one.
* {{God}}: Discussed. His existence is both affirmated and negated (oddly enough, by the same character) in different instances.
* HeelFaceTurn: Lilith in ''Phobos''.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Jacob and later Manny/Chilam Balam, both in Xibalba.]]
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Manny.
* MindScrew: The entire time travel thing.
* MsFanservice: Lilith, of course.
* OrpheanRescue: The Mayan Twins's mission is rescuing Michael Gabriel.
* PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs: The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was in fact a spaceship containing a Tezcatlipoca sent by Lilith and Deviln in order to create a dimensional door which lets them return to the earth.
* {{Retcon}}: Some between the books. At first they were to adapt the story to a bigger universe, but then they came for no discernible reason.
** Devlin turns from dark-haired, olive-skinned in the second book to WhiteHairedPrettyBoy with bizarre eyes in the third.
** Kurtz's character changes totally from the second to the third book: in ''Resurrection'', he is a highly capable, GenreSavvy bodyguard, while in ''Phobos'' is a IdiotBall-loaded, comically lubric loon.
* StalkerWithATestTube: After turning evil, Lilith tries to get Jacob's seed in order to produce a pure Hunahpu offspring.
* StayInTheKitchen: What the Guardian thinks about Dominique, though she averts it at the end.
* TranshumanAliens: The grey aliens held captive in Area 51 turn to be transhumans from the future, specifically the ancient Mayans leaded by Chilam Balam through the wormhole created in the past by the present CERN.
* TheVamp: Lilith is the queen of this trope, thanks in no small part to be a Hunahpu female.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In ''Phobos'', Benjamin Merchant disappears after Lilith turns face.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Lilith use this method to trap Jacob in Xibalba.
Archaeologist Julius Gabriel devoted his life to studying the Mayan calendar, a 2500-year-old enigma that predicts the end of humanity. But when Julius dies before solving the prophecy, only one person can save the human race from annihilation: Julius’s son Mick, a patient in a mental hospital.
Meanwhile, on the fall equinox, a serpent's shadow appears on the northern balustrade of the Kukulcan Pyramid, just as it has done for a thousand years. But this time, a rare galactic alignment occurs, and a space transmission reaches Earth.
It is the beginning of the end and a trilogy full of serious MindScrew, time travels and awesomeness.
There are currently three entries in the series, plus one more which is promised but not yet announced.
* ''Domain'' (2001)
* ''Resurrection'' (2004)
* ''Phobos'', also titled ''Phobos: Mayan Fear'' (2011
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!!'''This series contains examples of:'''
* ActionMom: Dominique becomes one in the sequel.
* BadassFamily: The Gabriel family, or more widely, the entire Hunahpu lineage.
* BigBadDuumvirate: Lilith and Devlin trade the BigBad and TheDragon roles.
* BiggerBad: [[spoiler:Seven Macaw]], who is revealed in the third book to have been all the time the mastermind behind Lilith and Devlin.
* BloodMagic: Chicahua and the ancient Mayans practice it.
* BreakThemByTalking: [[spoiler:At the end, Chilam Balam defeats Seven Macaw by talking him out of his head]].
* CainAndAbel: Jacob and Manny, lampshaded in-universe. Who is who is difficult to tell, although the "official" version given is that Jacob is Abel and Manny is Cain.
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Lilith, Devlin and the transhumans in Xibalba, which really doesn't exist]].
* DeadlyTrainingArea: Jacob's training facility.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: When Jacob kills Devlin's guardian demon.
* {{Determinator}}: Samuel Agler [[spoiler:aka Immanuel Gabriel]] in ''Phobos''.
* EyeColourChange: Manny and later Laura gain the Hunahpu azure eyes without being born with them.
* {{Fanservice}}: Well, it's a Steve Alten work.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Michael Gabriel is said to have to endure this after ''Domain''.
* FloatingContinent: The New Eden.
* FreudianExcuse: More or less everybody in the books have one.
* {{God}}: Discussed. His existence is both affirmated and negated (oddly enough, by the same character) in different instances.
* HeelFaceTurn: Lilith in ''Phobos''.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Jacob and later Manny/Chilam Balam, both in Xibalba.]]
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Manny.
* MindScrew: The entire time travel thing.
* MsFanservice: Lilith, of course.
* OrpheanRescue: The Mayan Twins's mission is rescuing Michael Gabriel.
* PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs: The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was in fact a spaceship containing a Tezcatlipoca sent by Lilith and Deviln in order to create a dimensional door which lets them return to the earth.
* {{Retcon}}: Some between the books. At first they were to adapt the story to a bigger universe, but then they came for no discernible reason.
** Devlin turns from dark-haired, olive-skinned in the second book to WhiteHairedPrettyBoy with bizarre eyes in the third.
** Kurtz's character changes totally from the second to the third book: in ''Resurrection'', he is a highly capable, GenreSavvy bodyguard, while in ''Phobos'' is a IdiotBall-loaded, comically lubric loon.
* StalkerWithATestTube: After turning evil, Lilith tries to get Jacob's seed in order to produce a pure Hunahpu offspring.
* StayInTheKitchen: What the Guardian thinks about Dominique, though she averts it at the end.
* TranshumanAliens: The grey aliens held captive in Area 51 turn to be transhumans from the future, specifically the ancient Mayans leaded by Chilam Balam through the wormhole created in the past by the present CERN.
* TheVamp: Lilith is the queen of this trope, thanks in no small part to be a Hunahpu female.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In ''Phobos'', Benjamin Merchant disappears after Lilith turns face.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Lilith use this method to trap Jacob in Xibalba.
