History Literature / TheZombieKnight

-->'''Garovel:''' Don't you remember? When you talk to me in your head, I'll hear you no matter where I am. So don't frown like that. You understand? [[YouAreNotAlone You're never alone, Hector]]. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Not anymore.]]

->''"A dark serial novel about [[TheUndead blood]], [[HeroProtagonist valor]], [[MagicAIsMagicA superpowers]], and... [[ShrinkingViolet crippling social anxiety]]?"''

-->'''Colt:''' AndSomeOtherStuff.

* TheKingdom: Atreya is a monarchy, currently ruled by Queen Helen. It's a rather small country and hasn't been all that important up to this point. It stays out of the waging wars and doesn't allow practices like slavery that are still common in other parts of the world. However, Abolish try to draw Atreya into the war by forcing (or replacing) the King and Queen. At the end of the second Oath, Helen is on the run and Abolish try to torture her husband into obedience. [[spoiler: With the seventh Oath, Abolish has been driven out of Atreya for the time being, Helen has returned into power and the war with the neighboring country has been averted.]]

''[[http://thezombieknight.blogspot.com/ The Zombie Knight Saga]]'' is a {{Dark Fantasy}} {{Web Serial Novel}} written by George M. Frost.

** The end of the third Oath deserves special mention: Hector's wanted for murder, his father is dead, his mother never wants to see him again, most of his friends were killed and the rest are terrified of him, and he has to leave his hometown for good. The fact that the story's major Big Bad so far is dead is relatively minor in comparison.

** [[spoiler: Gohvis full name? Gohvis Elroy.]]

''[[http://thezombieknight.blogspot.com/ The Zombie Knight]]'' is a {{Dark Fantasy}} {{Web Serial Novel}} written by George M. Frost.

-->'''Voreese:''' It's Abolish. Odds are about fifty-fifty that any given member is one of the stupidest motherfuckers on the planet.

The story is an ongoing serial and is being updated at least once a day by about 400 words. To get a feel for its current length, see the Table of Contents [[http://thezombieknight.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_19.html here]].

'''SPOILER WARNING''': Many examples on this page contain major, ''ummarked'' spoilers, particularly for events that happen earlier in the story. Read on at your own risk.

* BreakThemByTalking: Happens during the showdown between Hector and Geoffrey, starting [[http://thezombieknight.blogspot.com/2013/10/page-268.html here.]] Highlights:
--> '''Geoffrey:''' You have always been a difficult person to read, haven't you? Even your father--well, your ''previous'' father--even he never really felt like he understood you. But then, he did not take a very active role in your life, did he? I am honestly curious as to what you thought of him. The whole reason I took his body was because I thought the two of you were close, but according to his memories, that does not seem to be the case. [...]

** The sad thing is that, judging from what we know about Hector's parents, Geoffrey wasn't even lying.

* MagicLibrarian: The Library of Erudition maintains a mystically bound Keeper of the Library who controls access to it. The current Keeper is [[spoiler Gohvis]], who got the position after he resisted the Library's attempts to absorb him and killed the previous Keeper for trying to restrict his reading. ScaryLibrarian indeed.

->''A dark serial novel about [[TheUndead blood]], [[HeroProtagonist valor]], [[MagicAIsMagicA superpowers]], and... [[ShrinkingViolet crippling social anxiety]]?''

* OutOfFocus:

** Colt has been gone for quite a while, presumably spending most of his time with his children and not being bothered by Abolish.
** Damian Rofal was last seen disappearing with Geoffrey's corpse.

** [[spoiler: Stoker. His reaper Nize was killed and he became an insane soulless husk, forcing Hector and Colt to kill him.

* AerithAndBob: Justified to some extent. [[http://thezombieknight.blogspot.com/2013/12/page-393.html See here.]]
-->In order of age, they were Gabriel IV, Nathaniel II, Charles III, David III, Martin V, Luther, and Meriwether.
-->David remembered asking his mother why the two youngest had such different names.
-->"Because mercifully, your grandmother was dead by then, and I no longer had to listen to her."

** Samuel Goffe, Hector's father.
** Most of Hector's friends from school.
** Geoffrey. Being trapped in an iron box and impaled with dozens of soul-empowered iron pillars should kill anything. Probably.
** Stoker. His reaper Nize was killed and he became an insane soulless husk, forcing Hector and Colt to kill him.
** [[spoiler: Nola, Andres and Tessa]]
** [[spoiler: Mariana Elroy]]

* PapaWolf: Probably the driving force behind Colt's every action. He would do ''anything'' to protect his children.

* BadassCreed: The Rainlord motto, mentioned [[http://thezombieknight.blogspot.com/2014/04/page-654.html here]]:
-->'''Zeff:''' But you are an Elroy. A Rainlord. And what do the Rainlords say? What have we always said?
-->'''Marcos:''' ''‘The rain fears not the torch.’''
-->'''Zeff:''' Yes. And what does that mean?
-->'''Marcos:''' It means we don’t run from danger. We destroy it.