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Iron rot is an explicit effect of the setting. It has no relation to real world chemistry. Artistic license is for inaccuracies that are overlooked for the sake of the story. This isn't inaccurate to the setting, but a part of it.
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* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: [[FantasyGunControl Guns aren't used]] in the setting (at least, not commonly) because iron and steel that aren't protected by copper rapidly rust and decay due to some property of the atmosphere. Right idea, wrong metal. Unlike zinc, which ''is'' widely used to keep iron from corroding, copper will make iron rust ''faster'' in a corrosive environment, unless the copper layer is too thick for the corroding agent (usually, but not always, oxygen) to get to the iron underneath. The guns that do exist in the setting are just not heavy enough to be covered with such a thick layer of copper, and - while they ''are'' prohibitively expensive - the expensiveness is due to the rapid rusting (they need to be replaced very often), not to the costly anticorrosive treatments.
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* PerilousMarriageProposal: [[spoiler:With the [[{{Kaiju}} mistmaw]] devouring Olympian citizens by the hundreds as it sweeps over the packed, panicked sky dock, and Benedict seeing no escape for him or the injured, wheelchair-bound Bridget, he chooses that moment to take a knee and pop the question. She accepts.]]
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* NationalWeapon: In contrast to the usual scarcity of blackpowder weaponry, the Pikers make ample use of rifles, cannons, and pistols. They lack the facilities or finances to produce or acquire weapons-grade crystals en masse, and thus rely on non-etheric options. In-setting, this contributes to their image as feisty, slightly backwards provincials.
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that's basic chemistry and "fantasy setting" has nothing to do with it
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* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: [[FantasyGunControl Guns aren't used]] in the setting (at least, not commonly) because iron and steel that aren't protected by copper rapidly rust and decay due to some property of the atmosphere. Right idea, wrong metal. Unlike zinc, which ''is'' widely used to keep iron from corroding, copper will make iron rust ''faster'' in a corrosive environment, unless the copper layer is too thick for the corroding agent (usually, but not always, oxygen) to get to the iron underneath. The guns that do exist in the setting are just not heavy enough to be covered with such a thick layer of copper, and - while they ''are'' prohibitively expensive - the expensiveness is due to the rapid rusting (they need to be replaced very often), not to the costly anticorrosive treatments.
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* FeudalFuture: The spires at the time of the story are governed by monarchies analogous to Britian, France, and other countries of the historical [[WoodenShipsAndIronMen age of sail]] - with magical airships taking the place of sailing ships. In the first book, it is not stated that this is a post-apocalyptic future Earth, but that becomes obvious in the second book with the map and the names of the additional spires.
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* BarehandedBladeBlock: It's noted that when up against a man wielding a light dueling blade, it is possible to deflect an attack by slapping the blade with a gloved hand and escape without serious injury. Try that when the other man is wielding a heavy cutlass meant for fighting in boarding actions, and you will lose fingers.
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* BarehandedBladeBlock: It's noted that when up against a man wielding a light dueling blade, it is possible to deflect an attack by slapping the blade with a gloved hand and escape without serious injury. Try that when the other man is wielding a heavy cutlass meant for fighting in boarding actions, and you will lose fingers.fingers, [[spoiler: and not even stop the blade from delivering a fatal injury to your neck]].
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* SerialKiller: It is quite obvious that Valesco's duelling is simply the legal pretext, and part of the ritual, for him to murder people for his own pleasure. The term "serial killer" is never used, (presumably because the world's understanding of psychology doesn't extend that far, and/or the small and densely-clustered population means murderers tend to get caught before their sequence of victims gets very long) but between the man's blatant sadistic narcissism, the look in his eyes that Grimm identifies as a "need" to kill the way other people need wine, and the ritualised way he provokes his hopelessly outmatched victim into a duel, taunts them, hurts them, asks for a three minute respite to draw out their suffering, and then goes straight for the heart, it will be very clear to the reader that Valesco should be counted as one.
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** The duel between Valesco and [[spoiler: Captain Grimm]] is fought with both of them shirtless. Valesco is seen fighting a duel earlier in the book, and it's pretty clear that the female onlooker is impressed by his physique, even while being disgusted by the man's cruelty.
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* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: [[spoiler: According to the Archangel's exposition at the end of ''The Olympian Affair'', when the Tyranima came for humanity we managed to badly injure it... but the fighting left Earth a DeathWorld where humanity can only survive within the protection of the spires]].
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* RestrainingBolt: Disabling an Etherealist requires identifying how they fill their "mind holes"[[note]]The parts of their brains not working properly due to ether exposure cause them to have a compulsion. If they cannot fulfill that compulsion, they simply cannot function[[/note]] and working against it. Folly is completely unable to interact with people or act at all if she doesn't have a weakened lumin crystal to speak to, and Ferus has to collect random, esoteric objects and keep them close: if they are removed by someone else, he experiences crippling physical pain. [[spoiler:Cavendish's weakness is politeness: as long as someone is being polite, she ''cannot'' do anything untoward to them. This makes her grind her teeth in frustration when Grimm carefully and consistently follows proper etiquette in her presence: she would very much like to kill him, but is completely unable to do so.]]
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* RestrainingBolt: Disabling an Etherealist requires identifying how they fill their "mind holes"[[note]]The parts of their brains not working properly due to ether exposure cause them to have a compulsion. If they cannot fulfill that compulsion, they simply cannot function[[/note]] and working against it. Folly is completely unable to interact with people or act at all if she doesn't have a weakened lumin crystal to speak to, and Ferus has to collect random, esoteric objects and keep them close: if they are removed by someone else, he experiences crippling physical pain. [[spoiler:Cavendish's weakness is politeness: formal courtesy: as long as someone is being polite, courteous, she ''cannot'' do anything untoward to them. This makes her grind her teeth in frustration when Grimm carefully and consistently follows proper etiquette in her presence: she would very much like to kill him, but is completely unable to do so.]]
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* PassiveAggressiveKombat: During ''The Olympian Affair'' Abigail is invited to the Spectral Tea, an important social event where the ladies of different nations meet, mingle, and oh-so-politely search for ways to insert a verbal knife between each other's ribs.
* {{Precursors}}: The Builders of the Spires. Although to the reader they're obviously a high-tech culture who built the Spires as survival shelters, to the contemporary inhabitants they are mythic and incomprehensible beings of unsurpassed knowledge and power.
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* {{Precursors}}: The Builders of the Spires. Although to the reader they're obviously a high-tech culture who built the Spires as survival shelters, to the contemporary inhabitants they are mythic and incomprehensible beings of unsurpassed knowledge and power.
* ShipperOnDeck: Rowl and Gwen (and it's hinted, Captain Grimm as well) pick up on the chemistry between Bridget and Benedict. According to their natures, Rowl considers that Benedict ''might'' make an adequate mate for his human once he's been trained up a bit. Gwen has already considered Bridget's virtues as a wife for Benedict, approved of the idea, and has already swiftly and happily plotted out how to get her mother (head of the House) to approve said marriage. Keep in mind, the couple in question had not even ''held hands yet''.
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* ShipperOnDeck: Rowl and Gwen (and it's hinted, Captain Grimm as well) pick up on the chemistry between Bridget and Benedict. According to their natures, Rowl considers that Benedict ''might'' make an adequate mate for his human once he's been trained up a bit. Gwen has already considered Bridget's virtues as a wife for Benedict, approved of the idea, and has already swiftly and happily plotted out how to get her mother (head of the House) to approve said marriage. Keep in mind, the couple in question had not even ''held hands yet''.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Folly when speaking to anybody but Master Ferus or her pet crystals. [[spoiler:She can talk to Grimm on ''Predator'', since she can address him and the ship at the same time: it's a LivingShip and they're linked.]]
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* ThirdPersonPerson: Folly when speaking to anybody but Master Ferus or her pet crystals. [[spoiler:She can talk to Grimm on ''Predator'', since she can address him and the ship at the same time: it's a LivingShip and they're linked.]]
