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* HumanoidAbomination: Johann is a monster that looks like a tall, lanky human. He only has the drive to kill and his submission and lover for Florian as motivators. He can't be killed, as he will just resurrect soon after, people, with few exceptions, will forget about him as soon as he leaves their sight, [[spoiler:and he may be a kind of magical zombie.]]
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* HumanoidAbomination: Johann is a monster that looks like a tall, lanky human. He only has the drive to kill and his submission and lover love for Florian as motivators. He can't be killed, as he will just resurrect soon after, people, with few exceptions, will forget about him as soon as he leaves their sight, [[spoiler:and he may be a kind of magical zombie.]]
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* QueerRomance: The story is partly about Florian's revenge against those he considers to have wronged him and the town and partly about Johann and his blossoming relationship.
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The city of Elendhaven is a dying coastal city, its waters are black from pollution and corrupted with black magic, the city is still not recovered from a deadly plague that ravaged it, and everyone's business seems to be doing poorly, however, that is not enough for Florian, who has big plans to end the city once and for all, and Johann is in love with his carnage, ready to assist him with whatever he wants.
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''The Monster Of Elendhaven'' is the 2019 Fantasy debut novel of Jennifer Giesbrecht.
The city of Elendhaven sulks on the edge of the ocean. Wracked by plague, abandoned by the South, stripped of industry, and left to die. But not everything dies so easily. A thing without a name stalks the city, a thing shaped like a man, with a dark heart and long pale fingers yearning to wrap around throats. A monster who cannot die. His frail master sends him out on errands, twisting him with magic, crafting a plan too cruel to name, while the monster’s heart grows fonder and colder and more cunning.
These monsters of Elendhaven will have their revenge on everyone who wronged the city, even if they have to burn the world to do it.
The city of Elendhaven sulks on the edge of the ocean. Wracked by plague, abandoned by the South, stripped of industry, and left to die. But not everything dies so easily. A thing without a name stalks the city, a thing shaped like a man, with a dark heart and long pale fingers yearning to wrap around throats. A monster who cannot die. His frail master sends him out on errands, twisting him with magic, crafting a plan too cruel to name, while the monster’s heart grows fonder and colder and more cunning.
These monsters of Elendhaven will have their revenge on everyone who wronged the city, even if they have to burn the world to do it.
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The city of Elendhaven sulks on the edge of the ocean. Wracked by plague, abandoned by the South, stripped of industry, and left to die. But not everything dies so easily. A thing without a name stalks the city, a thing shaped like a man,
These monsters of Elendhaven will have their revenge on everyone who wronged the city, even if they have to burn the world to do it.
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* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Despite being killed, Florian's revenge is set in stone already. His plague has started going around and, thanks to Johann's blood, it might be incurable. The city of Elendhaven is sure to be ravaged, and maybe even all cities nearby.]]
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* HumanoidAbomination: Johann is a monster that looks like a tall, lanky human. He only has the drive to kill and his submission and lover for Florian as motivators. He can't be killed, as he will just resurrect soon after, people, with few exceptions, will forget about him as soon as he leaves their sight, [[spoiler:and he may be a kind of magical zombie.]]
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: A sort of version. Johann might either be a human mutated by the city's pollution of magic, which would make him strange, but mundane, or he may be genuinely a god-sent gift to aid Florian in whatever he needs. Hell, he might even be both.
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* UnholyMatrimony: Johann and Florian are a couple of psychopathic serial killers that plan to ravage the town with a plague and seem to be genuinely in love with each other.
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--> '''Florian:''' We stand alone at the edge of the world, as I stood alone atop the corpses of my family. When you go forth from this city, you will bring the same ruin to your people that you allowed to befall mine. I am Hallandrette's favourite son and I will devour your bones as surely as she does when her unloved children are cast into the ocean.
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* LeanAndMean: Johann is a merciless serial killer and is "tall as a signpost, thin, and conspicuously unnatural". Unluckily for his victims, he's also supernaturally difficult to notice.
* MagicalSensoryEffect: Sorcerers gain VolcanicVeins when they're tapping their powers, which can literally scald and scar them from within if they overuse their magic.
* MagicalSensoryEffect: Sorcerers gain VolcanicVeins when they're tapping their powers, which can literally scald and scar them from within if they overuse their magic.
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* ThePlague: 15 years prior, a plague-ravaged Elendhaven, killing Florien's family, and was only dealt with much later, by doctors sent from outside. [[spoiler:Florian's current plan includes taking revenge for their inaction and for the death of his family by the townspeople by starting a more powerful version of the plague targetting certain people and developed using Johann's blood.]]
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* ThePlague: 15 years prior, a plague-ravaged plague ravaged Elendhaven, killing Florien's family, and was only dealt with much later, by doctors sent from outside. [[spoiler:Florian's current plan includes taking revenge for their inaction and for the death of his family by the townspeople by starting a more powerful version of the plague targetting certain people and developed using Johann's blood.]]
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* VolcanicVeins: Magic literally flows through a sorcerer's veins when they're using magic, giving them an eerie glow.
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* PerceptionFilter: Johann has this as an innate skill. People will forget about him soon after meeting him when he leaves their sight, leaving him free to steal and kill without ever being caught. Florian is the only one that avoids it.
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->''Is this it? The longer fall I was looking for? To know that I was summoned up from the dark ether to do a monster's deeds for Hallandrette's truest son? And when our work is done, I will carry him to the bottom of the sea where we both belong. Deep beneath the silt our bones will turn to salt.''
-->--'''Johann''', about his relationship with Florian.
-->--'''Johann''', about his relationship with Florian.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: Johann looks human, but he is a monster of undefined nature. He can't be killed and he has basically only base instincts for killing and an infatuation and subservience to Florian. [[spoiler:It's implied he might be a boy Florian and his sister killed by accident when they were kids and threw his body on the magic and pollution contaminated water of the town, which would make him more of a human mutant.]]
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* BanOnMagic: A hundred years prior, a mage caused a big catastrophe on the North Pole, causing the world over to turn against magic, Mage Hunters were created to find them and off them to make sure nothing of the sort could happen. Florian tells Johann that even in his family, his grandmother admitted to killing her own son by throwing him off of the window when he showed signs of being a mage.
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* BanOnMagic: A hundred years prior, a mage caused a big catastrophe on the North Pole, causing the world over to turn against magic, Mage Hunters were created to find them and off them to make sure nothing of the sort could happen. Florian tells Johann that even in his family, his grandmother admitted to killing her own son by throwing him off of the window when he showed signs of being a mage.
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* GaslampFantasy: The setting seems to be inspired by Victorian Era Britain, with a dash of the dark, gritty post-industrialization visuals, where the town has been basically destroyed by the industries that use it.
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* GaslampFantasy: The setting seems to be inspired by Victorian Era Britain, with a dash of the dark, gritty post-industrialization visuals, where the town has been basically destroyed by the industries that use it. The setting also has plenty of supernatural elements.
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* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Johann is attracted to Florian as a whole, but his desire for revenge is one aspect he also finds attractive.
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* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Johann is attracted to Florian as a whole, but his desire for revenge is one aspect he also finds attractive. In one case, he even enjoys the pain of Florian using his telekinesis to almost break his arms.
* MindOverMatter: Florian has multiple telekinesis powers and he is quite powerful with them. When Johann gets too handsy, he has even killed him by forcing him to snap his own neck and blasted him away with it.
* MindOverMatter: Florian has multiple telekinesis powers and he is quite powerful with them. When Johann gets too handsy, he has even killed him by forcing him to snap his own neck and blasted him away with it.
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* RedRightHand: Magic causes Florian's veins to burn, so his arms are scarred across his veins.
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* ThePlague: 15 years prior, a plague-ravaged Elendhaven, killing Florien's family, and was only dealt with much later, by doctors sent from outside. [[spoiler:Florian's current plan includes taking revenge for their inaction and for the death of his family by the townspeople by starting a more powerful version of the plague targetting certain people and developed using Johann's blood.]]
* RedRightHand: Magic causes Florian's veins to burn, so his arms are scarred across hisveins.veins and some in his neck.
* RelationshipUpgrade: Johann, teasingly, accuses Florian of being in love with his dead sister, and that being the reason why he doesn't look for another relationship. Florian is so angry that he uses his telekinesis to force Johann to snap his own neck and briefly die. Ironically, this is also the moment their relationship becomes more openly romantic, with Florian kissing Johann when he resurrects and they're fully making out in the next chapter.
* RedRightHand: Magic causes Florian's veins to burn, so his arms are scarred across his
* RelationshipUpgrade: Johann, teasingly, accuses Florian of being in love with his dead sister, and that being the reason why he doesn't look for another relationship. Florian is so angry that he uses his telekinesis to force Johann to snap his own neck and briefly die. Ironically, this is also the moment their relationship becomes more openly romantic, with Florian kissing Johann when he resurrects and they're fully making out in the next chapter.
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* WretchedHive: The city of Elendhaven. It's a grimm place that had been recently ravaged by a plague, destroyed by industries and heavily polluted by dark magic.
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* WretchedHive: The city of Elendhaven. It's a grimm grim place that had been recently ravaged by a plague, destroyed by industries industries, and heavily polluted by dark magic.magic.
* YoureCuteWhenYoureAngry: Johann thinks Florian is cute and pretty when he is angry, which prompts many times where he teases Florian until he snaps.
* YoureCuteWhenYoureAngry: Johann thinks Florian is cute and pretty when he is angry, which prompts many times where he teases Florian until he snaps.
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''The Monster Of Elendhaven'' is the 2019 Fantasy debut novel of Jennifer Giesbrecht.
The city of Elendhaven sulks on the edge of the ocean. Wracked by plague, abandoned by the South, stripped of industry, and left to die. But not everything dies so easily. A thing without a name stalks the city, a thing shaped like a man, with a dark heart and long pale fingers yearning to wrap around throats. A monster who cannot die. His frail master sends him out on errands, twisting him with magic, crafting a plan too cruel to name, while the monster’s heart grows fonder and colder and more cunning.
These monsters of Elendhaven will have their revenge on everyone who wronged the city, even if they have to burn the world to do it.
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* AccompliceByInaction: One of the targets of Florian's revenge. He sees the people of Mittengelt as at fault for what happened to his town and his family. They could have helped at any time but decided to only act when the town's supply of whale oil and other products was compromised and there was a risk that the plague would invade other cities. By then, the situation was awful and [[spoiler:Florian's family had died.]]
* BadassBoast: One of Florian's toast when he [[spoiler:poisons the party guests with a sleeping drug so he can inject them with various strains of the plague.]]
--> '''Florian:''' We stand alone at the edge of the world, as I stood alone atop the corpses of my family. When you go forth from this city, you will bring the same ruin to your people that you allowed to befall mine. I am Hallandrette's favourite son and I will devour your bones as surely as she does when her unloved children are cast into the ocean.
* BanOnMagic: A hundred years prior, a mage caused a big catastrophe on the North Pole, causing the world over to turn against magic, Mage Hunters were created to find them and off them to make sure nothing of the sort could happen. Florian tells Johann that even in his family, his grandmother admitted to killing her own son by throwing him off of the window when he showed signs of being a mage.
* CompellingVoice: One of Florian's skills is to nudge people towards a certain idea. He uses this to keep being hired by industrialists trying to start some project or another in the town, where he can destroy them from inside, and also so he never has to pay for food.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Johann falls for Florian the moment he lays eyes on him, stalking him and being totally loyal to him from that moment onward.
* GaslampFantasy: The setting seems to be inspired by Victorian Era Britain, with a dash of the dark, gritty post-industrialization visuals, where the town has been basically destroyed by the industries that use it.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: The Leickenbloom family was already poor way back in the past. Florian's grandmother had already sold most of the precious stuff they had to keep them afloat, and Florian subsists out of using his CompellingVoice powers to never have to pay for anything and to get jobs as an accountant, which he mostly uses to further his plans of destroying the capitalists in the city. When Johann enters his mansion, it is mostly barren and poorly kept. Florian explains this situation is common with all noble families.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Johann is attracted to Florian as a whole, but his desire for revenge is one aspect he also finds attractive.
* QueerRomance: The story is partly about Florian's revenge against those he considers to have wronged him and the town and partly about Johann and his blossoming relationship.
* RedRightHand: Magic causes Florian's veins to burn, so his arms are scarred across his veins.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: No matter what happens to Johann, his body heals up and he gets back up as if nothing happened. The first time this happened, he actually took a while to get back, but by the current time, he can slit his own throat and it would heal before he died from it.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: For what happened to him and his family, Florian sets off to take revenge on those he believes to be at fault, both the town itself and those that delayed their help until they were possibly at risk.
* SerialKiller: Johann is a creature that kills for no other reason than he feels like it. He kills indiscriminately anyone that comes across his path and he sees as being worth killing.
* StalkerWithACrush: Johann. He immediately falls for Florian when he sees him, and his first action is to spend weeks stalking him, figuring out that he is a sorcerer, and using that as a way to get closer to him, acting as his manservant.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: [[spoiler:During the plague 15 years prior, the Leickenbloom family was sieged inside their house by the people who believed they were harboring a wizard that started the plague. Florian, the only survivor, decided to become exactly that. He's a sorcerer that developed an even more powerful version of the plague to take revenge. As Johann mentions, this means the people that attacked the family were technically right.]]
* WretchedHive: The city of Elendhaven. It's a grimm place that had been recently ravaged by a plague, destroyed by industries and heavily polluted by dark magic.
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''The Monster Of Elendhaven'' is the 2019 Fantasy debut novel of Jennifer Giesbrecht.
The city of Elendhaven sulks on the edge of the ocean. Wracked by plague, abandoned by the South, stripped of industry, and left to die. But not everything dies so easily. A thing without a name stalks the city, a thing shaped like a man, with a dark heart and long pale fingers yearning to wrap around throats. A monster who cannot die. His frail master sends him out on errands, twisting him with magic, crafting a plan too cruel to name, while the monster’s heart grows fonder and colder and more cunning.
These monsters of Elendhaven will have their revenge on everyone who wronged the city, even if they have to burn the world to do it.
!Tropes
* AccompliceByInaction: One of the targets of Florian's revenge. He sees the people of Mittengelt as at fault for what happened to his town and his family. They could have helped at any time but decided to only act when the town's supply of whale oil and other products was compromised and there was a risk that the plague would invade other cities. By then, the situation was awful and [[spoiler:Florian's family had died.]]
* BadassBoast: One of Florian's toast when he [[spoiler:poisons the party guests with a sleeping drug so he can inject them with various strains of the plague.]]
--> '''Florian:''' We stand alone at the edge of the world, as I stood alone atop the corpses of my family. When you go forth from this city, you will bring the same ruin to your people that you allowed to befall mine. I am Hallandrette's favourite son and I will devour your bones as surely as she does when her unloved children are cast into the ocean.
* BanOnMagic: A hundred years prior, a mage caused a big catastrophe on the North Pole, causing the world over to turn against magic, Mage Hunters were created to find them and off them to make sure nothing of the sort could happen. Florian tells Johann that even in his family, his grandmother admitted to killing her own son by throwing him off of the window when he showed signs of being a mage.
* CompellingVoice: One of Florian's skills is to nudge people towards a certain idea. He uses this to keep being hired by industrialists trying to start some project or another in the town, where he can destroy them from inside, and also so he never has to pay for food.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Johann falls for Florian the moment he lays eyes on him, stalking him and being totally loyal to him from that moment onward.
* GaslampFantasy: The setting seems to be inspired by Victorian Era Britain, with a dash of the dark, gritty post-industrialization visuals, where the town has been basically destroyed by the industries that use it.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: The Leickenbloom family was already poor way back in the past. Florian's grandmother had already sold most of the precious stuff they had to keep them afloat, and Florian subsists out of using his CompellingVoice powers to never have to pay for anything and to get jobs as an accountant, which he mostly uses to further his plans of destroying the capitalists in the city. When Johann enters his mansion, it is mostly barren and poorly kept. Florian explains this situation is common with all noble families.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Johann is attracted to Florian as a whole, but his desire for revenge is one aspect he also finds attractive.
* QueerRomance: The story is partly about Florian's revenge against those he considers to have wronged him and the town and partly about Johann and his blossoming relationship.
* RedRightHand: Magic causes Florian's veins to burn, so his arms are scarred across his veins.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: No matter what happens to Johann, his body heals up and he gets back up as if nothing happened. The first time this happened, he actually took a while to get back, but by the current time, he can slit his own throat and it would heal before he died from it.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: For what happened to him and his family, Florian sets off to take revenge on those he believes to be at fault, both the town itself and those that delayed their help until they were possibly at risk.
* SerialKiller: Johann is a creature that kills for no other reason than he feels like it. He kills indiscriminately anyone that comes across his path and he sees as being worth killing.
* StalkerWithACrush: Johann. He immediately falls for Florian when he sees him, and his first action is to spend weeks stalking him, figuring out that he is a sorcerer, and using that as a way to get closer to him, acting as his manservant.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: [[spoiler:During the plague 15 years prior, the Leickenbloom family was sieged inside their house by the people who believed they were harboring a wizard that started the plague. Florian, the only survivor, decided to become exactly that. He's a sorcerer that developed an even more powerful version of the plague to take revenge. As Johann mentions, this means the people that attacked the family were technically right.]]
* WretchedHive: The city of Elendhaven. It's a grimm place that had been recently ravaged by a plague, destroyed by industries and heavily polluted by dark magic.
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