History Literature / CraftSequence

* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Most of the gods were born through belief. Thus there are multiple creation myth for different cultures.

* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Most of the gods were born through belief. Thus there are multiple creation myth of different cultures and its all simultaneously true.

* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Most of the gods are born through belief. Thus there are multiple creation myth of different cultures and its all simultaneously true.

** The Quechal city Dresediel Lex is the Mexica/Aztec/Los Angeles with draughts and a booming movie industry.

* ''Necromancer'': Necromancy is the only form of magic available to humans in this world.

* Necromancer: Necromancy is the only form of magic available to humans in this world.

** Quechal is the Mexica/Aztec/Los Angeles with draughts and a booming movie industry.

** Telomere appears to be Italy. Temoc referenced a telomere legend in which the [[TheAeneid founder of an empire carried his father on his back]]. The empire was formed next to the Ebon sea.

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Quechal is the Mexica/Aztec and Kavekana is Hawaii.

* LovecraftLight: Some gods are frightening, incomprehensible creatures with a taste for human souls, but can be contained with the help of a good contract. The Iskari are ruled by [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos squid-headed gods]] and close contact with them can be [[MindRape bad for one's brain]]. However, the Iskari seem to be one of the most prosperous and well-functioning societies in the setting.

* OurLichesAreDifferent: The Undying Kings. Some of them are literal Lich Kings ([[UnisexTropes and queens and other]]). Some of them are Lich [=CEOs=] or Lich Chancellors. They play the core tropes of lichdom pretty close, being fleshless sorcerous skeletons. The first major twist is that they don't come about through some dark ritual-- "lich"dom (they're NotUsingTheZedWord) is just a natural part of a Craftsperson's lifecycle. The second is that there's nothing inherantly evil about it-- though the culture around the Craft has a wide Nietzchian streak that doesn't serve very well as an ethical foundation, so a lot of them are non-inherantly evil anyway.

* OddJobGods: Provides a few examples, like the goddesses that sits around heckling poker games in Literature/TwoSerpentsRise. Since the Gods in this world are their own sort of living thing that grow and change with time, this is ideally a sort of "summer job" for a young god on their way to a more impressive deific career.

* OddJobGods: Provides a few examples, like the goddess that sits around heckling a poker game at the beginning of Literature/TwoSerpentsRise. Since the Gods in this world are their own sort of living thing that grow and change with time, this is ideally a sort of "summer job" for a young god on their way to a more impressive deific career.

* MagicallyBindingContract: The Craft and PracticalTheology are both powerfully rooted in these, to the extent that "powerful magic requires as much lawyerly skill as sorcerous ability" can be called a key conceit of the series.

* OurLichesAreDifferent: The Undying Kings. Some of them are literal Lich Kings ([[UnisexTropes and queens and other]]). Some of them are Lich [=CEOs=] or Lich Chancellors. They play the core tropes of lichdom pretty close, being fleshless sorcerous skeletons. The one major twist is that they don't come about through some dark ritual-- "lich"dom (they're NotUsingTheZedWord) is just a natural part of a Craftsperson's lifecycle.

* ThematicSeries: As mentioned above, the series shares a world and the broad strokes of its history, but it follows different people through unrelated events, far enough apart geographically that the culture is pretty different too.

The series is marked by characters who take an eminently practical attitude to some very freaky stuff-- [[GodIsDead dead gods]] prompt intense legal wrangles, [[LichKing lich-kings]] run a surprisingly reasonable form of government, and implacable [[HiveMind hive-minded]] things [[TheBlank with no faces]] are damn fine cops.

* LichKing: The Undying Kings. Some of them are literal Kings ([[UnisexTropes and queens and other]]). Some of them are Lich [=CEOs=] or Lich Chancellors. They play this trope pretty close, being fleshless sorcerous skeletons. The one major twist is that they don't come about through some dark ritual-- "lich"dom (they're NotUsingTheZedWord) is just a natural part of a Craftsperson's lifecycle.

* LichKing: The Undying Kings. Some of them are literal Kings ([[UnisexTropes and queens and other]]). Some of them are Lich [=CEOs=] or Lich Chancellors. They play this trope pretty close, being fleshless sorcerous skeletons. The one major twist is that they don't come about through some dark ritual-- "lich"dom (they're NotUsingTheZedWord) is just a natural part of a Craftsperson's lifecycle.

* LichKing: The Undying Kings. Some of them are literal Kings ([[UnisexTropes and queens and other]]). Some of them are Lich CEOs or Lich Chancellors. They play this trope pretty close, being fleshless sorcerous skeletons. The one major twist is that they don't come about through some dark ritual-- "lich"dom (they're NotUsingTheZedWord) is just a natural part of a Craftsperson's lifecycle.

* Literature/FullFathomFive