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* BetterToDieThanToBeKilled: The hapless Jagonese "exiled" by the insane First Speaker opt to throw themselves ''and their children'' into Hermetica City's electrified defensive wall rather than be mangled by the approaching ursks.
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* {{Transflormation}}: A rather [[HumanResources grim]] form serves as a food source in ''The Court of the Air.'' Omar's estrangement from Shadisa began when he stopped her from helping a runaway girl avoid capture; said girl was turned into a water-tapped cactus by womb mages as punishment for fleeing her ArrangedMarriage.
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* {{Transflormation}}: A rather [[HumanResources grim]] form serves as a food source in ''The Court of the Air.'' Omar's estrangement from Shadisa began when he stopped her from helping a runaway girl avoid capture; said girl was turned into a water-tapped cactus by womb Womb mages in Cassarabia use this as a punishment for crimes ranging from a girl fleeing her ArrangedMarriage.an ArrangedMarriage to treachery; the latter is why the Caliph Eternal's decorative "orchard" has no actual trees in it, just this trope's victims.
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* RemoteBody: A small fraction of steammen are "slipthinkers", able to project their consciousness into expendable drones called "mu-bodies". King Steam and Aliquot Coppertracks each have this ability.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Mu-bodies - non-sentient drones manipulated by steamman slipthinkers - occasionally develop sentience spontaneously, [[spoiler: as does the ''Iron Partridge'']].
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* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Mu-bodies - non-sentient drones manipulated by steamman slipthinkers - occasionally develop sentience spontaneously, [[spoiler: as does the ''Iron Partridge'']]. Coss Shaftcrank is one such "''mutable''".
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Mu-bodies - non-sentient drones manipulated by steamman slipthinkers - occasionally develop sentience spontaneously, [[spoiler: as does the ''Iron Partridge'']].
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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: A convicted bank robber, a crackpot steamman, a sociopathic secret policewoman, a botched SuperSoldier, a manic-depressive commander, a crew of convicts and border tribesmen, Jared Black (of course), and an experimental tortoise of an airship that malfunctions in mid-battle? Sounds about right to save Jackals from Cassarabia's new air fleet....
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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: A convicted bank robber, a crackpot steamman, a sociopathic an embittered secret policewoman, a botched SuperSoldier, a manic-depressive commander, a crew of convicts and border tribesmen, Jared Black (of course), and an experimental tortoise of an airship that malfunctions in mid-battle? Sounds about right to save Jackals from Cassarabia's new air fleet....
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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: A convicted bank robber, a crackpot steamman, a sociopathic secret policewoman, a botched SuperSoldier, a manic-depressive commander, a crew of convicts and border tribesmen, Jared Black (of course), and an experimental tortoise of an airship that malfunctions in mid-battle? Sounds about right to save Jackals from Cassarabia's new air fleet....
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* MilesGloriosus: Omar from ''Jack Cloudie'' can barely speak a word ''without'' bragging, although the narrative reveals how much of this conduct is insecure self-justification.
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* FantasticDrug: Shine, an anabolic steroid used by Catosian warrior-women and by a Court agent in book one. Magnesium mixed into the coke that fuels their boiler-hearts can drug steammen reprobates into happy delirium.
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* TooImportantToWalk: The Baroness of the House of Ush. The caliph of Cassarabia, too.
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* SuperSoldier: Captain of marines Henry Tempest was ''supposed'' to be one of these, but the experimental SuperSerum used to enlarge and strengthen him also made him dependent for survival on alternately dosing himself with two elixers: one that pumps up his aggression and one that tranquilizes him.
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* RememberTheNewGuy: Hannah from ''Fire Sea'' is introduced as the daughter of Amelia's companion who'd died early in ''Beyond the Waves''. There's no hint in the former that he'd had a family, not even when Amelia receives his dying words.
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* UnableToSupportAWife: Jethro, after ejection from the Circlist church. [[spoiler: Although the fact that he hears the abandoned gods of Jackals talking to him may have had more to do with his estrangement from Alice Gray than a loss of income.]]
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* NightmarishFactory: The transaction-engine facility on Jago is a safety-inspector's nightmare, saturated by mutation-inducing energies and full of constricting pipes, clanging mechanisms, and savage, barely-tamed ab-locks toiling under human workers' inexpert control.
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* AnachronismStew: Aside from the Steampunk elements, Jackelian history gives us the likes of the Black-Oil Horde (think "Mongols driving Mad Max-style war vehicles") and suits of old Royalist plate armor with gas mask filters in the helmets. Had Tzlayloc prevailed in book one, he'd intended to rig up ''steam-driven obsidian knives'' for industrial-scale HumanSacrifice.
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* MorphWeapon: The knife left to Oliver by his father, a onetime secret agent, changes shape as Oliver wills it and endows the young man with the skill to wield it, whatever its form.
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* MorphWeapon: The knife left to Oliver by his father, a onetime secret agent, changes shape as Oliver wills it and endows the young man with the skill to wield it, whatever its form. Billy Snow's cane conceals another example of this trope. One of the Bandits of the Marsh wields a spear that collapses into a knuckle-duster.
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* MatryoshkaObject: The Joshua Egg from ''Fire Sea'' is a virtual example: a layered mathematical puzzle in which Hannah's mother encrypted a series of documents about the Conquests' research.
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* MonsterShapedMountain: The Great Face on Kaliban.
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* RapidHealer: Slats have a weak variant of this, as their blood clots so quickly that anything less than a penetrating wound to a vital organ isn't going to keep them down for long.
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* BloodBath: Prince Doublemetal lounges in a bath of ''oil'' that the siltempters share among themselves.
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* UrsineAliens: Inhabitants of the nation of Pericur, they're actually ''called'' "ursines".
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* ThirdEye: Lashlites have one that allows their seers to see into the future. Unusually, it's located on the back of the neck rather than the forehead.
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* TheWorfEffect: Happens to [[spoiler: the Court of the Air, the Catosian Free States]] ''and'' the steamman army in ''Iron Moon'', to show how badly outclassed the local nations' defenses and technology are.
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* FoodChainOfEvil: Inverted as a Food ''Symbiosis'' Of Evil for the Kal or human chattel devoured by the Army of Shadows: the Masters feed on the life force, then the vampiric Kal drain the blood, and finally the slats chow down on the flesh.
