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* OneMillionBC: Despite being pretty accurate for its day, the book starts featuring humans at one point, which moves it into this trope.

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* OneMillionBC: Despite being pretty accurate for its day, the book starts featuring humans at one point, which moves it into this trope.[[spoiler: Apart from humans being present from the devonian age until today, earth's history works out like in reality (aside from ScienceMarches On).



* [[spoiler:AfterTheEnd: The last three chapters]]



* AnachronismStew: Stielauge meets a human in chapter 10, despite the story taking place in the devonian age.

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* AnachronismStew: Stielauge meets a human in chapter 10, despite the story taking place in the devonian age.[[spoiler: Humanity actually survives until the modern age, where history pretty much works out like it really did ([[ScienceMarchesOn as far as the author was concerned]])]]
* AncientRome: Roman intruders to the Eifel are briefly mentioned in the epilogue.



** [[spoiler: And when the second moon crashes on earth, another class 4 happens, and this time it borders on class 5]]

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** [[spoiler: And when the second moon crashes on earth, another class 4 happens, and this time it borders on class 5]]5.]]



** And then there's the whole humans in the devonian age thing.
** Also, the first humans being described as blond while blond hair has only evolved much later.

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** And then there's the whole humans in since the devonian age thing.
** Also, the first humans being described as blond while blond hair has only evolved much later. This is most likely a case of HumansAreWhite.



* CreatorProvincialism: While most of the story takes place all over the world in the devonian age, the epilogue in the modern age takes place in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eifel Eifel]], where the author lived.



** [[spoiler: And later to the second one.]]

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** [[spoiler: And later to the second one.]][[spoiler: And three others before today.]]



* DinosaursAreDragons: At some point between Stielauge's death and the modern day, humanity has to deal with dragons. The timespan implies that they are dinosaurs. There's also a picture of one of those dragons which looks like a Slurpasaur and is surrounded by Pterosaurs.



* DistantFinale:[[spoiler: The last two chapters tell the story of humanity from the catastrophe that killed off Stielauge until today and how the author found the fossil.]]



* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Of course there is a dinosaur ([[DinosaursAreDragons which is called a dragon]]) when they briefly gloss over the time between Stielauge's death and today.



* TheGreatFlood: Happens after the moon is created. Another one happens near the end of the book, and this time it's specifically mentioned that god created it to wipe out humanity except for Noah and his family.
** [[spoiler: Another even bigger flood happens near the end of the book when the moon is destroyed.]]

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* TheGreatFlood: Happens after the moon is created. Another one happens near the end of the book, and this time it's specifically mentioned that god created it to wipe out humanity except for Noah and his family.
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** [[spoiler: Another even bigger flood happens near the end of the book when the moon is destroyed. In one of the bible quotes it's specifically mentioned that god created it to wipe out humanity except for Noah and his family. However, this is later proven wrong since the only human surivors are shown to be the nameless and his wife and he is then given the name Manu.]]



* LocalReference: Stielauge is based on a specificl trilobite fossil the author found near his home[[spoiler:, and the epilogue tells a brief version of the place's human history including the finding of the fossil.]]



* MostWritersAreHuman:[[spoiler: The writer wouldn't have to include humans in the devonian age or an epilogue where humans find Stielauge's fossil for the story, so it seems to be due to this trope.]]



* TheNameless: The humans. It's implied that they are Adam and Eve[[spoiler: before god calls the male Manu near the end of the book.]]



* NoNameGiven: The humans, but it's implied that they are Adam and Eve.



* OurGiantsAreBigger: It's mentioned that between the age of dinosaurs and the modern age, humanity had to deal with giants.



* PteroSoarer: The "dragon" is surrounded by pterosaurs in the picture. Due to ScienceMarchesOn, they fit this trope.



** The dragon, which is obviously a dinosaur, looks nothing like modern depictions of dinosaurs.



* {{Slurpasaur}}: The "dragon" looks like this



* WeirdMoon: It's actually the second moon.

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* WeirdMoon: It's actually the second moon.[[spoiler: And there are at least three more to come befor the modern age.]]

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* AlwaysABiggerFish: Stielauge meets various creatures, most of them are bigger than anything he's met before. The biggest is Kokk, the placoderm, and even he is dwarfed by the ray. [[spoiler:Even the ray meets his end through the WorfEffect.]]



** [[spoiler: And when the moon crashes on earth, another class 4 happens.]]

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** [[spoiler: And when the second moon crashes on earth, another class 4 happens.]]happens, and this time it borders on class 5]]



** [[spoiler:Third, in accord with the Welteislehre, the moon is made out of ice and only its core is made of stone and metal.]]



* ColorFailure: When the starfishes die in the great flood, their color fades (except for the black ones).



* DealWithTheDevil: The ray is accused of making a DealWithTheDevil to get his electric powers.
* [[spoiler:ADeathInTheLimelight: The ray first appears in ]]chapter 14[[spoiler:, after Stielauge's death, is the protagonist of this chapter and then dies like all the other animals.]]



** [[spoiler: And later to the second one.]]



* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: Stielauge and the ray do this at different times in the book due to being hurled out of the water by a storm.



**[[spoiler: Another even bigger flood happens near the end of the book when the moon is destroyed.]]



* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: The ray is described as a dragon twice.



* KilledOffScreen: [[spoiler: After Stielauge's fight with Kokk, we see Stielauge succumb to his injuries. Later it's revealed that Kokk died even before Stielauge from his own injuries.]]



* NamesToRunAwayFrom/KNames: Kokk, the placoderm, manages to have a name which is 75% K and he's the most powerful monster in the book.

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* NamesToRunAwayFrom/KNames: Kokk, the placoderm, manages to have a name which is 75% K and he's the most powerful monster in the book.Stielauge meets.


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* [[PsychoElectricEel Psycho Electric Ray]]: The ray is stated to use electricity to kill its pray, in addition to being the biggest animal in the sea.


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* ShockAndAwe: The ray uses electricity to hunt.


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** In chapter 14, the ray's power and superiority to all other marine life is described for several pages, only for him to die in TheGreatFlood
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* [[spoiler:When he finally dies, it's stated that Stielauge fought until the end, just as he had to fight for his whole life.]]

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* ** [[spoiler:When he finally dies, it's stated that Stielauge fought until the end, just as he had to fight for his whole life.]]
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**[[spoiler: The ice age later in the book is a class 0 on a pretty big scale.]]
**[[spoiler: And when the moon crashes on earth, another class 4 happens.]]
* ApocalypseWow: Every major cataclysm is described in detail.


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* ColonyDrop: Happens with the moon. [[spoiler: Twice!]]


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* HordeOfAlienLocusts: The black trilobites in chapter 1.

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** In chapter seven it is mentioned that GibberishOfLove doesn't need intelligence anyway, so trilobites might as well be able to do it.

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** In chapter seven it is mentioned [[HandWave handwaved]] that GibberishOfLove doesn't need intelligence anyway, so trilobites might as well be able to do it.


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* HandWave: The explanation why trilobites without brains (Stielauge and his love interest) are able to talk to each other: GibberishOfLove doesn't need intelligence, anyway.
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* AnachronismStew: Stielauge meets a human in chapter 10, despite the story taking place in the cambrian age or earlier.

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* AnachronismStew: Stielauge meets a human in chapter 10, despite the story taking place in the cambrian age or earlier.devonian age.



** And then there's the whole humans in the cambrian age thing.

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** And then there's the whole humans in the cambrian devonian age thing.



* BiblicalMotifs: While the book describes evolution and several processes happening in ancient earth, it likens them to the first days of creation according to the bible. In the end of chapter four, god creates humans, which is taken from the bible word for word.

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* BiblicalMotifs: While the book describes evolution and several processes happening in ancient earth, it likens them to the first days of creation according to the bible. In the end of chapter four, god creates humans, some chapters, there are even bible quotes which is taken from are part of the bible word for word.story.



* MouseWorld: Due to trilobites and most other animals back in the cambrian age being much smaller than humans, the 0.5m long Panzerkrebs and several other normal-sized invertebrates appear as giant monsters.

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* MouseWorld: Due to trilobites and most other animals back in the cambrian devonian age being much smaller than humans, the 0.5m long Panzerkrebs and several other normal-sized invertebrates appear as giant monsters.
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** His marriage ends in a similar way after fighting Kokk.
* NubileSavage: The first humans are depicted naked in the pictures.
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** Later, he manages to badly hurt and even partly blind the even bigger Kokk.
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* SpoilerTitle: Chapter 13 is called "Und so starb Stielauge" (And that's how Stielauge died)
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* [[spoiler:When he finally dies, it's stated that Stielauge fought until the end, just as he had to fight for his whole life.]]


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* DoomedByCanon: Stielauge lives in the devonian age, so it's only natural that he doesn't survive until today unless he's immortal.


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* [[spoiler:DyingAlone: The title character dies alone in the great disaster near the end of the book, far away from his wife.]]


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* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: [[spoiler:Stielauge involuntarily does this by fossilizing after his death.]]
* ForegoneConclusion: We see Stielauge's fossil in the beginning of the book.[[spoiler: Later, he dies and the fossilization process is described.]]


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* [[spoiler:TheHeroDies]]
* HeroicSacrifice: Stielauge saves his wife from Kokk and actually manages the fight him off, but in the next chapter, he dies from his injuries.


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* SpikesOfVillainy: Averted. While Stielauge is black and has three long spikes, he's the hero of the book.


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* SwallowedWhole: Kokk swallows Stielauge, but that's exactly what Stielauge had in mind.


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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Both of Stielauges love interests disappear from the story when he fights some kind of giant animal for them and we never hear about their fates.

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* [[spoiler:AnyoneCanDie: At first it seems like Stielauge has PlotArmor, as he survives lots of troubles against all odds, but then he finally succumbs to his injuries after fighting Kokk.]]



** Atlantis' existence in this book is based on a hypothesis by Austrian geologist Eduard Suess, who erroneously believed that in the Paleozoic there were two large continents in the Northern Hemisphere: "Atlantis", North America connected to Europe by a peninsula (=Greenland and Iceland); and "Angara-land", eastern Asia, named after the Angara River in Siberia. Angaraland also gets sometimes mentioned in the book, but it doesn't have a mythical counterpart like Atlantis.
** Another famous sunken continent, Lemuria, is mentioned as being located at the other side of the world.



* TheGreatFlood: Happens after the moon is created.

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* TheGreatFlood: Happens after the moon is created. Another one happens near the end of the book, and this time it's specifically mentioned that god created it to wipe out humanity except for Noah and his family.


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* NoahsStoryArc: The trope namer is mentioned near the end of the book.
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* NamesToRunAwayFrom/KNames: Kokk, the placoderm, manages to have a name which is 75% K and he's the most powerful monster in the book.
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* UniversalUniverseTime: Averted. When the moon comes closer to earth, the months become shorter and, due to the moon's gravity slowing earth's rotation, the days get longer.

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* AlienSky: Over the second half of the book, the moon gets bigger and bigger[[spoiler: or rather closer to earth]]



* DavidVersusGoliath: Stielauge vs Krummhorn

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* DavidVersusGoliath: Stielauge vs KrummhornKrummhorn, and later the even bigger Kokk.



* EyeScream: Stielauge blinds Kokk by impaling his optic nerve from within.



* GoForTheEye: Stielauge impales Kokks optic nerve from within.



* KillItThroughItsStomach: This is how Stielauge defeats Kokk.



* TheLostLenore: It's not clear if she's dead, but Stielauge's wife definitely disappears after his fight with Kokk.



* MixAndMatchCritters: Kokk is described as "Panzerfish", which means he is a placoderm, but he also has elements of lobe-finned fishes as well.



* PapaWolf: Stielauge attacks the much bigger Kokk when he threatens his wife and eggs.



** The book also features a wide array of marine life, extinct and extant, including brachiopods, various trilobite species, sea cucumbers, crinoids, annelids, polychaetes, nematodes, lycopodiopsida etc.

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** The book also features a wide array of marine life, extinct and extant, including brachiopods, various trilobite species, sea cucumbers, crinoids, annelids, polychaetes, nematodes, lycopodiopsida lycopodiopsida, placodermi etc.


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* ThreateningShark: Kokk is not a shark but a placoderm, but he nonetheless plays this trope straight.
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Misaimed Fandom: Himmler praises book for promoting national-socialist values when the book actually has an anti-Nazi message. Not Misaimed Fandom: Himmler likes book about trilobites, the author of which rejects Nazism and has a Jewish wife. As trilobites are not inherently political, it is not evident that Himmler "misunderstood" the book.


* MisaimedFandom: While the author hated the Nazi government and even had a Jewish wife, Heinrich Himmler was a fan of the book, most likely because it regarded the Welteislehre as true.

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* OneMillionBC: Despite being pretty accurate for its day, the book starts featuring humans at one point, which moves it into this trope.



* OneMillionBC: Despite being pretty accurate for its day, the book starts featuring humans at one point, which moves it into this trope.

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* ScaryScorpions: The creature Stielauge encounters in the desert looks a bit like a scorpion, but is only called "Kerfe", an old German word for insects.
* SceneryGorn: Every time when a major cataclysm destroys life on earth, for example in chapter two and four, it is described in every detail.
* SceneryPorn: The SceneryGorn in chapter four is interrupted by detailed descriptions of how plants conquered dry land and made it green.



* ScaryScorpions: The creature Stielauge encounters in the desert looks a bit like a scorpion, but is only called "Kerfe", an old German word for insects.
* SceneryGorn: Every time when a major cataclysm destroys life on earth, for example in chapter two and four, it is described in every detail.
* SceneryPorn: The SceneryGorn in chapter four is interrupted by detailed descriptions of how plants conquered dry land and made it green.
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* MisaimedFandom: While the author hated the Nazi government and even had a Jewish wife, Heinrich Himmler was a fan of the book, most likely because it regarded the Welteislehre as true.


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* PurpleProse: The whole book is written in a very flowery way with many details.


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** The book makes frequent allusion to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welteislehre Welteislehre]] that was very popular in Germany back when it came out, but is now regareded as completely wrong.


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* WriteWhatYouKnow: Author Batti Dohm was a geologist and paleontologist, so it's only natural for him to write about trilobites.

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* MyOwnPrivateIDo: Stielauge and his love interest decide to marry in secret.

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* MyOwnPrivateIDo: Stielauge and his love interest decide to marry in secret. They never do it since they loose each other.
** Later, when he meets the trilobite who would eventually (that means, this very night) become his wife, they marry in her cave with no guests present.
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* Determinator: Stielauge when he runs towards his new wife in chapter 11. He doesn't even stop to eat.
** All the animals when they flee from the ice age. They just swim and walk away from the cold, only stopping when they die or reach warmer waters.


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* FourthDateMarriage: More like first date marriage. Stielauge and his wive marry immediately.


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** Later, when he meets his wife, we see a picture of them, with him being remarkabley darker.


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* QuestForSex: While the book definitely isn't a QuestForSex, when Stielauge runs to reach his future wife, it's noted that everything he did up until now was to build up this moment.


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* SecondLove: Stielauge ends up marrying the female trilobite he meets in chapter 11, long after his first love.


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* SexIsGood: When Stielauge and his wife finally mate, it's treated as something that god himself approves of.


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* StarfishLanguage: The trilobites communicate by touching each others antennas and vibrating them.
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Europe is not the only part of the world where blond hair occurs, neither in the past nor today.


** Also, the first humans being described as blond while blond hair has only evolved much later and only in Europeans.

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** Also, the first humans being described as blond while blond hair has only evolved much later and only in Europeans.
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* MisplacedWildlife: Stielauge meets the first human in Atlantis. While the first humans really appeared in Africa (and hundreds of millions of years later than in the book), Atlantis is really seen as the origin of humanity by Atlantis-fanatics.
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* IntriguedByHumanity: Stielauge and other animals are absolutely stunned by the beautiful voice of the humans, even before it's revealed that the voice belongs to a human.


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* NoNameGiven: The humans, but it's implied that they are Adam and Eve.
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* AnachronismStew: Stielauge meets a human in chapter 10, despite the story taking place in the cambrian age or earlier.


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** And then there's the whole humans in the cambrian age thing.


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* BeachKiss: The humans do this in chapter 10.


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* TheBigDamnKiss: Despite being not even named, the humans share one in chapter 10.


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* HumansAreCthulhu: When Stielauge meets a human, it's described in detail as something bigger than a mountain and really terrible.
* HumansThroughAlienEyes: There is a pretty detailed description of the human from Stielauge's point of view, and it's strange and terrible.


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* KissOfDistraction: Though not intentional, the female human distracts the male with a kiss long enough for Stielauge to flee.


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** When Stielauge later meets a human, it picks him up with one hand and tries to eat him.


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* OneMillionBC: Despite being pretty accurate for its day, the book starts featuring humans at one point, which moves it into this trope.

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** Trilobites did not have stalked eyes like Stielauge does.



* MeaningfulName: Stielauge is German for stalked eye. While real trilobites did not have those, in this book they have.

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* MeaningfulName: Stielauge is German for stalked eye. While real trilobites did not have those, in this book they have.His genus, ''Cyphaspis'', really had stalked eyes.



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* {{Atlantis}}: Atlantis is repeatedly mentioned as being located west of Gondwana.

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* {{Atlantis}}: Atlantis is repeatedly mentioned as being located a tropical island to the west of Gondwana.Gondwana, Stielauge's birthplace and his destination when he flees from the ice age.



* MamaBear: When all animals flee from the ice age, those who are mothers are the only ones that still aggressively defend themselves and their offspring.



** The book also features a wide array of marine life, extinct and extant, including brachiopods, various trilobite species, sea cucumbers, crinoids, annelids, polychaetes, nematodes etc.

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* TheSnackIsMoreInteresting: When Stielauge gets chased by a horseshoe crab and finds a pile of delicious animals, he quickly forgets that he's fleeing and only has eyes for the food.
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** Like the horseshoe crab, the millipede in chapter eight is almost half a meter long, but Stielauge never finds out if it's even alive.


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* BrainFreeze: When Stielauge tries to eat hail because he mistakes it for some sort of jellyfish.
* CatchYourDeathOfCold: Stielauge's illness is a sign of the impending ice age.


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* DeliciousDistraction: Stielauge when he meets the horseshoe crab on land


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* FirstSnow: In chapter eight, Stielauge sees and feels his first hail.


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* GluttonyMontage: Everytime Stielauge finds a place with lots of food, it's described in detail while he eats.


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* GrimUpNorth: While "Nordland" is a warm place at first, it's the first land to be hit by the ice age.


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* IAteWhat: Stielauge mistakes hail for a jellyfish-like creature and tries to eat it, only to get a nearly fatal BrainFreeze.


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* KillItWithIce: Done by the ice age in chapter eight to a lot of animals.


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* TheOldNorthWind: The iceberg is treated this way.


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* SnowMeansDeath: The result of the ice age in chapter eight.


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* TemporaryBulkChange: In chapter eight, Stielauge finds himself near the southern shore of the northern continent, where there is lots of food. He eats until he's fat, which later helps him survive the ice age.
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* WomenAreDelicate: Stielauge's love interest.

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