YMMV / The Baroque Cycle

• Epileptic Trees: Tons of them involving the Solomonic Gold and the true nature of Enoch the Red.
• Fridge Brilliance:
  • Cryptonomicon's Rudy von Hacklheber, brilliant mathematician and cryptographer, turns out to be descended not from Lothar von Hacklheber, alchemist banker, but from brilliant French mathematician and cryptographer Bonaventure Rossignol, as well as the brilliant Eliza De La Zeur.
  • It seems at first glance that Daniel, an atheist Natural Philosopher and courtier, is quite unlike his anti-Royal Puritan father, Drake. But, in being a major player in the change from Royalty to the new System of the World, he turns out to be his father's son.