History YMMV / TheEdgeChronicles

** Thaw Daggerslash is a FantasticRacist who's very proud of being a fourthling. It's difficult to separate his ItsAllAboutMe (or at least It's All About Me And My Species) attitude with his contempt for the other races of the Edge. Trouble is, he's never shown to be wrong about this. Thaw muses how, though fourthlings are rare, they hold most of the positions of power in the new worlds of Sanctaphrax and Undertown...and he's right. Almost all Academics, Sky Pirate captains and Leaguesmen are fourthlings while the other species' tend to be portrayed as servants or more menial workers.

** Also never trust a quartermaster or anyone with glasses and a pointy goatee beard.

* AccidentalAesop: Are you the captain of a ship? Yes? Don't have children, you'll be a crap parent.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Does Linius neglect Maris because he feels involving her in his work would be too dangerous, or because she's a girl and he would rather have a boy working as his apprentice? The Edge in general seems to be pretty patriarchal (with the exception of the shryke and the termagant trogs) with women holding very few positions of influence. But Maris also mentions Quint is a few years older than her when she meets him. So it could be Linius would have been agreeable to Maris helping him if she weren't so ''young'' rather than because she's a girl.

** Thaw Daggerslash is a FantasticRacist who's very proud of being a fourthling. It's difficult to separate his ItsAllAboutMe (or atleast It's All About Me And My Species) attitude with his contempt for the other races of the Edge. Trouble is, he's never shown to be wrong about this. Thaw muses how, though fourthlings are rare, they hold most of the positions of power in the new worlds of Sanctaphrax and Undertown...and he's right. Almost all Academics, Sky Pirate captains and Leaguesmen are fourthlings while the other species' tend to be portrayed as servants or more menial workers.

* FanPreferredCouple: Rook ultimately ends up with [[spoiler: Magda]] and Xanth with [[spoiler: Rufus' unnamed mother.]] Most shippers seem to prefer them together, though.

** Then there's [[spoiler: Maugin falling in love with Twig. Which is fine...until you remember that Maugin's body will never mature beyond the appearance of pubescent girl while Twig grows normally. Yeah...]]

* HilariousInHindsight: One member of Twig's crew is a brogtroll who's very big and strong but quite slow witted. His name? [[Franchise/Transformers Grimlock.]]

** Thaw mentions the forthlings are kind of this for the whole Edge; having no especially prominent traits or characteristics like the other sentient species do, but taking centre stage in many positions of power and influence nonetheless.

* ShockingSwerve: The introduction of [[spoiler: stone sickness and the end of the First Age of Flight]] which completely changes the world of the Edge and tends to get a "Holy crap, now what?" reaction from readers. Particularly since it happens in between books and so a fan is thrown into this new Edge with no warning as soon as they start the Rook Saga.

* ShockingSwere: The introduction of [[spoiler: stone sickness and the end of the First Age of Flight]] which completely changes the world of the Edge and tends to get a "Holy crap, now what?" reaction from readers. Particularly since it happens in between books and so a fan is thrown into this new Edge with no warning as soon as they start the Rook Saga.

* FashionVictimVillain: The Leaguesmen with their ridiculous giant hats. Vox's jester hat and giant, red robe that looks like a muumuu.

* {{Narm}}: Occasionally Chris Riddell's illustrations can get a bit too stylized with his love of drawing extremely prominent foreheads and teeth that don't always line up. A few moments that should have been dramatic come off as funny because the character(s) pictured look so over the top in this way.

* IronWoobie: Most of the main characters. Twig in particular suffers more than anyone ever should but still keeps going.