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* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Poor Commodore Black gets dragged into every single story, willingly or not. By ''Deep of the Dark'', he's openly Lampshading how he keeps getting dragged into these messes.
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* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Poor Commodore Black gets dragged into every single story, willingly or not. By ''Deep of the Dark'', he's openly Lampshading how he keeps getting dragged coerced into these messes.
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* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Poor Commodore Black gets dragged into every single story, willingly or not. By ''Deep of the Dark'', he's openly Lampshading how he keeps getting dragged into these messes.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Although some of the "equalized" survived the first book, none of the later novels mentions what became of them or whether their UnwillingRoboticization could be reversed.
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* NayTheist: The Circlist church advocates logic and reason, teaching that there are no divine powers ''worthy'' of worship, no matter what those so-called "gods" may have to say about it.
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* BlueBlood: Jackals breeds its royalty like animals. The most blue blooded gets their arms amputated and displayed as a figurehead which the citizens of Jackals can abuse.
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* HumanSubspecies: Craynarbians and graspers are offshoots of humanity, adapted for survival in (respectively) the HungryJungle of Liongeli and underground caverns that offered shelter from an ice age.
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* HumanSubspecies: Craynarbians and graspers are offshoots of humanity, adapted for survival in (respectively) the HungryJungle of Liongeli and underground caverns that offered shelter from an ice age. Gill-necks are an ocean-adapted variant that pre-dated the Ice Age by thousands of years.
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* PlanetLooters: The Army of Shadows in ''Iron Moon'' and the sea-bishops in ''Deep of the Dark''.
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* YourTomcatIsPregnant: Unexpectedly done with [[spoiler: Lord Starhome, a ''spaceship''. To be fair, the steammen who found salvaged her after the crash call one another "he" by default, and had no cause to suspect a fellow MechanicalLifeform could give birth.]]
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* YourTomcatIsPregnant: Unexpectedly done with [[spoiler: Lord Starhome, a ''spaceship''. To be fair, the steammen who found who'd salvaged her after the crash call one another "he" by default, and had no cause to suspect a fellow MechanicalLifeform could give birth.]]
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* YourTomcatIsPregnant: Unexpectedly done with [[spoiler: Lord Starhome, a ''spaceship''. To be fair, the steammen who found salvaged her after the crash call one another "he" by default, and had no cause to suspect a fellow MechanicalLifeform could give birth.]]
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* ExpendableClone: The Eternal Caliph's reign is perpetuated by a combination of life-extension elixer and this trope. When his life-prolonging drug can no longer sustain him, he has seven clones of himself raised and educated in secrecy. The one who scores highest on a series of tests is implanted with his memories and becomes the new caliph; the other six are strangled.
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* PrincessInRags: Purity Black is a royal kept in squalor by the Jackelians.
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* PrincessInRags: Purity Black Drake is a royal kept in squalor by the Jackelians.Jackelian authorities.
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* FetusTerrible: Womb mages in Cassarabia invoke this trope upon female slaves, as forced surrogates for their artificial life forms.
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** Even ''steammen'' are occasionally subjected to this, when their original parts are replaced with, or scavenged and incorporated into, non-steamman components which they consider a contamination.
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** Even ''steammen'' are occasionally subjected to this, when their original parts are replaced with, or scavenged and incorporated into, non-steamman components.
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** Even ''steammen'' are occasionally subjected to this, when their original parts are replaced with, or scavenged and incorporated into, non-steamman components.
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* UnwillingRobotocization: "Equalizing" in the first book.
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* UnwillingRobotocization: "Equalizing" in the first book.
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* CityOfCanals: Hermetica City on Jago. Unusual in that some of the canals are ''boiling'', Jago being geothermally active and its cities, a former refuge for human civilization during the Ice Age.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: An England where the EnglishCivilWar resulted in a crushing of the king and the church is avowedly disbelieving in any gods; a France where the FrenchRevolution went on and on and many more.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: An England where the EnglishCivilWar UsefulNotes/EnglishCivilWar resulted in a crushing of the king and the church is avowedly disbelieving in any gods; a France where the FrenchRevolution went on and on and many more.
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* TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed: It says a lot about the series that the ''least'' dire menace in the first three books only threatens the near-total annihilation of ''sentient'' life on Jackals' Earth.
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* TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed: It says a lot about the series that the ''least'' dire menace BigBad in the first three books only threatens the near-total annihilation of ''sentient'' life on Jackals' Earth.
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* CallARabbitASmeerp: Played straight ''and'' played with. Some expressions are logical parallelism ("Carlist" for "Marxist", "atmospheric" for "pneumatic"), but others use phrases which have entirely different ''slang'' meanings than one might expect ("flash mob" = gangsters, "cardsharp" = punch-card computer programmer). Subverted with [[spoiler: Old Three-Eye the kilasaurus max: a term which ''sounds'' like she's a tyrannosaur under a Smeerpish name, right up until she starts bellowing ''coherent words''.]]
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* CallARabbitASmeerp: Played straight ''and'' played with. Some expressions are logical parallelism ("Carlist" for "Marxist", "atmospheric" for "pneumatic"), but others use phrases which have entirely different ''slang'' meanings than one might expect ("flash mob" = gangsters, "cardsharp" = punch-card computer programmer). Subverted with [[spoiler: Old Three-Eye the kilasaurus max: a term which ''sounds'' like she's a tyrannosaur under a Smeerpish name, right up until she starts bellowing ''coherent words''.''words'' and is revealed to have a BellyMouth.]]
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* ItCanThink: When Old Three-Eye starts bellowing ''coherent words'' as she hunts Amelia's companions down. Also, when the bestial-seeming slats start using guns.
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* CallARabbitASmeerp: Played straight ''and'' played with. Some expressions are logical parallelism ("Carlist" for "Marxist", "atmospheric" for "pneumatic"), but others use phrases which have entirely different ''slang'' meanings than one might expect ("flash mob" = gangsters, "cardsharp" = punch-card computer programmer). Subverted with [[spoiler: Old Three-Eye the kilasaurus max: a term which ''sounds'' like an alternate name for a tyrannosaurus, right up until she starts bellowing ''coherent words''.]]
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* CallARabbitASmeerp: Played straight ''and'' played with. Some expressions are logical parallelism ("Carlist" for "Marxist", "atmospheric" for "pneumatic"), but others use phrases which have entirely different ''slang'' meanings than one might expect ("flash mob" = gangsters, "cardsharp" = punch-card computer programmer). Subverted with [[spoiler: Old Three-Eye the kilasaurus max: a term which ''sounds'' like an alternate name for she's a tyrannosaurus, tyrannosaur under a Smeerpish name, right up until she starts bellowing ''coherent words''.]]
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* CallARabbitASmeerp: Played straight ''and'' played with. Some expressions are logical parallelism ("Carlist" for "Marxist", "atmospheric" for "pneumatic"), but others use phrases which have entirely different ''slang'' meanings than one might expect ("flash mob" = gangsters, "cardsharp" = punch-card computer programmer). Subverted with [[spoiler: Old Three-Eye the kilasaurus max: a term which ''sounds'' like an alternate name for a tyrannosaurus, right up until she starts bellowing ''coherent words''.]]
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* TheWorfEffect: Happens to [[spoiler: the Court of the Air]] ''and'' the steamman army in ''Iron Moon'', to show how badly outclassed the local nations' defenses and technology are.
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* HumanSubspecies: Craynarbians and graspers are offshoots of humanity, adapted for survival in (respectively) the DeadlyJungle of Liongeli and underground caverns that offered shelter from an ice age.
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* HiveMind: The greenmesh of Liongeli.
* HumanSubspecies: Craynarbians and graspers are offshoots of humanity, adapted for survival in (respectively) theDeadlyJungle HungryJungle of Liongeli and underground caverns that offered shelter from an ice age.
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* TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed: It says a lot about the series that the ''least'' dire menace in the first three books only threatens the near-total annihilation of ''sentient'' life on Jackals' Earth.
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* FloatingContinent: When Camlantis returns to it's home dimension it floats in the sky.
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* FloatingContinent: When Camlantis returns to it's its home dimension it floats in the sky. Smaller-scale floating islets arise as a result of leyline discharges (floatquakes) that rip chunks of landscape out of the ground in (super)natural disasters.
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The ''Jackelian Series'' is a series of ScienceFantasy novels written by English author Creator/StephenHunt. The Series is comprised of ''The Court Of The Air'', ''The Kingdom Beyond the Waves'', ''The Rise of the Iron Moon'', ''Secrets of the Fire Sea'', ''Jack Cloudie'' and ''From the Deep of the Dark''. All the novels are set in the same universe, but with a rotating cast of characters in each book.
The novels are set in and around the Kingdom of Jackals, a steampunk [[TheKingdom Kingdom]] with shades of Victorian Britain and Gilded-Age America. An economic and military powerhouse, Jackals is beset on all sides by enemies within and without. To protect Jackals, the founders of the Jackelian Parliament created the Court of the Air, an elite spy organization so secret that few who hear of it actually believe it exists. Despite their best efforts, threats to Jackals and even the world loom large.
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* AdventurerArchaeologist: Amelia Harsh
* AmazonBrigade: The Catosian City States have all women armies.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Molly Templar, Amelia Harsh, Purity Drake, Hannah Conquest to name just a few.
* BlueBlood: Jackals breeds its royalty like animals. The most blue blooded gets their arms amputated and displayed as a figurehead which the citizens of Jackals can abuse.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Used to manipulate Steammen in ''The Court of the Air''
* CrystalDragonJesus
* DeathSeeker: Boxiron has shades of this at times due to his Frankenstein's Monster like history
* DreamingOfTimesGoneBy
* EmpathicWeapon: Several. Notably in the Court of the Air, a legendary Steaman weapon is shown to be sentient, and it seems that the others are as well.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: An England where the EnglishCivilWar resulted in a crushing of the king and the church is avowedly disbelieving in any gods; a France where the FrenchRevolution went on and on and many more.
* FloatingContinent: When Camlantis returns to it's home dimension it floats in the sky.
* GambitPileup: The Secrets of the Fire Sea turns out to be based on one.
* GeneticMemory
* KingInTheMountain: Invoked in an allusion
* TheMagnificent
* {{Mayincatec}}: The Chimecan Empire had distinct meso-american touches, most evidently in their Aztec like human sacrifices.
* MeaningfulRename
* MechanicalLifeforms: The Steammen were apparently created in the distant distant past as robotic servants, but are now fully sentient living beings, and have their own free state and government.
* PowderKegCrowd: The king is displayed for abuse to disarm it.
* PrincessInRags: Purity Black is a royal kept in squalor by the Jackelians.
* RoyalBlood: A very bad thing to have in the parliamentarian Kingdom of Jackals; royals are deliberately bred and kept around to be abused and vilified.
* SkyPirate: Airships are only allowed to be used by the RAN, any private citizen who tries to fly one is labeled a Science Pirate and an enemy of Jackals.
* TalkingWeapon: Lord Wireburn
* TenMinuteRetirement: Jared Black. He just never gets to settle down even though he really wants to.
* {{Transflormation}}: A rather [[HumanResources grim]] form serves as a food source in ''The Court of the Air.''
* UnableToSupportAWife: Jethro, after ejection from the Circlist church.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: a lot of major villains start out this way, but go careening off the slippery slope towards the end. It doesn't help that their ideas of utopia are often different from others peoples.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Abraham Quest sincerely cares about the plight of the world. That's why he decides to put it out of it's misery and rebuild the world in his image.
* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: Jackals defends itself with the Royal Aeronautic Navy, or RAN.
The novels are set in and around the Kingdom of Jackals, a steampunk [[TheKingdom Kingdom]] with shades of Victorian Britain and Gilded-Age America. An economic and military powerhouse, Jackals is beset on all sides by enemies within and without. To protect Jackals, the founders of the Jackelian Parliament created the Court of the Air, an elite spy organization so secret that few who hear of it actually believe it exists. Despite their best efforts, threats to Jackals and even the world loom large.
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* AdventurerArchaeologist: Amelia Harsh
* AmazonBrigade: The Catosian City States have all women armies.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Molly Templar, Amelia Harsh, Purity Drake, Hannah Conquest to name just a few.
* BlueBlood: Jackals breeds its royalty like animals. The most blue blooded gets their arms amputated and displayed as a figurehead which the citizens of Jackals can abuse.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Used to manipulate Steammen in ''The Court of the Air''
* CrystalDragonJesus
* DeathSeeker: Boxiron has shades of this at times due to his Frankenstein's Monster like history
* DreamingOfTimesGoneBy
* EmpathicWeapon: Several. Notably in the Court of the Air, a legendary Steaman weapon is shown to be sentient, and it seems that the others are as well.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: An England where the EnglishCivilWar resulted in a crushing of the king and the church is avowedly disbelieving in any gods; a France where the FrenchRevolution went on and on and many more.
* FloatingContinent: When Camlantis returns to it's home dimension it floats in the sky.
* GambitPileup: The Secrets of the Fire Sea turns out to be based on one.
* GeneticMemory
* KingInTheMountain: Invoked in an allusion
* TheMagnificent
* {{Mayincatec}}: The Chimecan Empire had distinct meso-american touches, most evidently in their Aztec like human sacrifices.
* MeaningfulRename
* MechanicalLifeforms: The Steammen were apparently created in the distant distant past as robotic servants, but are now fully sentient living beings, and have their own free state and government.
* PowderKegCrowd: The king is displayed for abuse to disarm it.
* PrincessInRags: Purity Black is a royal kept in squalor by the Jackelians.
* RoyalBlood: A very bad thing to have in the parliamentarian Kingdom of Jackals; royals are deliberately bred and kept around to be abused and vilified.
* SkyPirate: Airships are only allowed to be used by the RAN, any private citizen who tries to fly one is labeled a Science Pirate and an enemy of Jackals.
* TalkingWeapon: Lord Wireburn
* TenMinuteRetirement: Jared Black. He just never gets to settle down even though he really wants to.
* {{Transflormation}}: A rather [[HumanResources grim]] form serves as a food source in ''The Court of the Air.''
* UnableToSupportAWife: Jethro, after ejection from the Circlist church.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: a lot of major villains start out this way, but go careening off the slippery slope towards the end. It doesn't help that their ideas of utopia are often different from others peoples.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Abraham Quest sincerely cares about the plight of the world. That's why he decides to put it out of it's misery and rebuild the world in his image.
* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: Jackals defends itself with the Royal Aeronautic Navy, or RAN.
