History Literature / SeasonOfStorms

** It's lampshaded multiple times. Addario Bach insists he's not a typical dwarf, which means Geralt/narrator will take every opportunity to point it out when he does something that's very dwarflike.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Sorel Degerlund wants to remove Geralt's eyes--he needs a sample of a witcher's eyeball cells for his transhuman research, and it has to be gathered from a live specimen. First, he seems quite casually about this, perfectly willing to let Geralt go after that, and even offers to help Geralt regenerate his eyes in a two or three years, when he hopefully perfects the procedure. Then however, he sadistically gloats that he will kill him before he willg et his eyes back.

* AffablyEvil: One of the wizards wants to remove Geralt's eyes--he needs a sample of a witcher's eyeball cells for his transhuman research, and it has to be gathered from a live specimen. However, he is perfectly willing to let Geralt go after that, and even offers to help Geralt regenerate his eyes in a two or three years, when he hopefully perfects the procedure.

** Dandelion is repeatedly referred to by his real name — Julian de Lettenhove, which is actually an anachronism, as canonically ''everyone'' (including Geralt) only learn of his name in Toussaint, quite late into the Saga, while the novel is purportedly set during the short stories time.
* CoolSword: Geralt's get stolen and we get a ridiculously detailed description of them.

** The same with the DepravedBisexual villain of the story — his sexuality only figures here because he [[SituationalSexuality once became the Ortolan's lover]] [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections to advance his career]], and otherwise is just a sick fuck who lovers torturing people [[ForTheEvulz for fun]] and ForScience.
* DistantEpilogue: It involves one of the minor characters from the Saga and, pretty much, is there to play with the minds of fans debating Geralt's post-Saga fate.

* OverlyLongName: Being called Astrid Lyttneyd Ásgeirrfinnbjornsdottir is a good reason not to use your birth name.

** Dandelion is repeatedly referred to by his real name — Julian de Lettenhove, which is actually an anachronism, as canonically ''everyone'' (including Geralt) only learn of his name in Toussaint, quite late into the Saga, while the nover is purportedly set during the short stories time.

* CoolSword: Geralt's get stolen and we get a ridiculously detailed description of them.

** Dandelion complains that Geralt never asks him to repeat a ballad: never says, for example, [[{{Film/Casablanca}} 'Play it again, Dandelion. Play "As Time Goes by"']].

* ShoutOut: Magical doors are protected by a standard password by default, and many careless users never bother to change it. The standard password is [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings "Friend"]], of course.

** It's mentioned that in a two or three years wizards should be able to regenerate lost eyes. It's exactly what Vilgefortz does in Literature/TowerOfTheSwallow and Literature/LadyOfTheLake.

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Apparently Geralt always knew the Somni Sign, but just never used it. Lampshaded in that Geralt pretty much tells so to said minor character in the epilogue.

** FandomNod: Geralt explains to a stand-in for the fans, that there will always be something they don't know about the witchers.

* ContinuityNod: In a backwards way - major events of this story are briefly mentioned in the stories that happen latter in-universe, but of course were written earlier. This involves Lytta Neyd, as well as border dispute between Temeria and Redania.
* At one point someone mentions that the king of Temeria looks for someone to disenchant his daughter...

** {{Homage}}: Illusion-casting vixens are adapted from Victor Pelevin's "The Sacred Book of the Werewolf".

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Lampshaded. The very virst story of the franchise, [[Literature/TheLastWish The Witcher]] is about [[spoiler:a princess turned into a striga by curse]]. When Geralt first hears that story in this book, he dismisses it as a tall tale, saying it's not how the magic works.

* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: Geralt meets a society of magicians working on improvement of mankind. Their results aren't always nice.

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Geralt meets a dwarf, who works in a mine... [[SubvertedTrope as a musician]]. He plays in the mine's marching band. [[DoubleSubversion The songs, on the other hand...]]

* AscendedExtra: Lytta, in a kinda-sorta kind of way. She was mentioned in the Saga as a dead friend of Triss and Yen. The circumstances of her death get a ContinuityNod in the story.

* ContinuityNod: Numerous traditional ones, plus several of a PlotTumor kind - events and characters mentioned as a random one-liners in the previous books play major roles in the story.

* EvilSorcerer: Geralt has to deal with a sorcerer who dabbled in [[TheDarkArts goetia (daemon summoning)]] and lost control over his summons. [[spoiler:Subverted in that it's a ruse, and the wizard is just somewhere between MadScientist and a sick sadist.]]

* ContinuityNod: Numerous traditional ones, plus several of a PlotTumor kind - vents and characters mentioned as a random one-liners in the previous books play major roles in the story.

''Sezon burz'' is the latest entry in TheWitcher saga. A self-contained story, set between ''Splinter of Ice'' and ''The Witcher'', the story details Geralt's adventures in a small kingdom of Kerack, his romance with sorceress Lytta Neyd, experiences with mutants and experimenting wizards, and his search for his two stolen swords.

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Apparently Geralt always knew the Somni Sign, but just never used it.

* NewPowersAsPlotDemands: Apparently Geralt always knew the Somni Sign, but just never used it.