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* EncyclopediaExposita: Each chapter begins thusly. In the mix there are also a few are from real world documents, like Literature/TheBible, ''Literature/TheRaven'', and ''[[Creator/PercyByssheShelley Queen Mab]]''.
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* EncyclopediaExposita: Each chapter begins thusly. In the mix there are also a few are from real world documents, like Literature/TheBible, ''Literature/TheRaven'', and ''[[Creator/PercyByssheShelley Queen Mab]]''.Mab]]'', and [[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/edinburghs-mysterious-miniature-coffins-22371426/ newspaper articles]].
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* AlienGeometries: DoubleSubversion. In the below cited exchange it's a SubvertedTrope, but it's later mentioned that sometimes it's actually kinda true.
-->'''Catherine:''' How far to Gethsemane?\\
-->'''Catherine:''' How far to Gethsemane?\\
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* AlienGeometries: DoubleSubversion. In the below cited exchange it's a SubvertedTrope, but it's later mentioned that sometimes it's actually kinda true.
-->'''Catherine:'''AlienGeometries:
** SubvertedTrope
--->'''Catherine:''' How far to Gethsemane?\\
-->'''Catherine:'''
** SubvertedTrope
--->'''Catherine:''' How far to Gethsemane?\\
** DoubleSubversion
--->'''Coachman:''' Distances don’t work like they do where you were. In Arcadia it’s about the journey, and I thought I’d count yours instead of mine. But you were slow. And should’ve made sure those revelations be true, since fake ones don’t count. They just loop me right round, you know? Gets me real lost.
--->'''Coachman:''' Distances don’t work like they do where you were. In Arcadia it’s about the journey, and I thought I’d count yours instead of mine. But you were slow. And should’ve made sure those revelations be true, since fake ones don’t count. They just loop me right round, you know? Gets me real lost.
-->'''Laon''': The two we met at the market, the ones who said we were like them.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: Very much a DownplayedTrope--Catherine keeps it under wraps, she doesn't say or do anything about it. But as she is narrator, we are privy to her feelings, and she side-eyes the relationships between Laon and just about every woman he crosses paths with.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: Very much a DownplayedTrope--Catherine DownplayedTrope--Cathy keeps it under wraps, she doesn't say or do anything about it. But as she is narrator, we are privy to her feelings, and she side-eyes the relationships between Laon and just about every woman he crosses paths with.
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->''I wanted it to mean more. I wanted it to confirm my wild theories of this being the language of angels, stolen and preserved by the fae. I wanted this to be that sacred first language that God spoke to create the world, that He taught to Adam and that was sundered at Babel.''
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* TheFairFolk: The fae very much fit this model.
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* BetaCouple: Penemue and Kasdaye, who provide the Helstones with a model of [[spoiler:siblings who openly flirt with each other]].
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* LoveConfession
-->'''Laon:''': [[spoiler:Cathy… I adore you, treasure you, desire you. Beyond reason. Beyond hope.]]
-->'''Laon:''': [[spoiler:Cathy… I adore you, treasure you, desire you. Beyond reason. Beyond hope.]]
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-->''Thunder rumbled in the distance, and a red-capped man stood in the centre. He waved at another of the fae and I saw that he had eyes in the middle of his palms and that those eyes were weeping blood.''
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-->'''Mab''': [[spoiler:And if I had not forbidden you to read Roche’s journals, would you have read it? I made it all the sweeter for being forbidden fruit. I made you all the more curious.]]
-->'''Mab''': [[spoiler:And if I had not forbidden you to read Roche’s journals, would you have read it? I made it all the sweeter for being forbidden fruit. I made you all the more curious.]]
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* AlienGeometries: Zigzagged. In the below cited exchange it's a SubvertedTrope, but it's later mentioned that sometimes it's actually kinda true. And it's consistently true with the connection between the human world and Arcadia.
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* AlienGeometries: Zigzagged.DoubleSubversion. In the below cited exchange it's a SubvertedTrope, but it's later mentioned that sometimes it's actually kinda true. And it's consistently true with the connection between the human world and Arcadia.
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* BrotherSisterIncest: [[spoiler:Cathy and Laon have been in love since childhood. Laon had his LoveEpiphany years ago, while Cathy--despite mentioning her feelings for Laon after some fashion frequently--hasn't ''quite'' admitted it to herself yet.]]
* ChildOfTwoWorlds: Changelings are neither fae nor human
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* BrotherSisterIncest: [[spoiler:Cathy and Laon have been in love since childhood. Laon had his LoveEpiphany years ago, while Cathy--despite mentioning her feelings for Laon after some fashion frequently--hasn't ''quite'' admitted it to herself yet.]] [[spoiler:InvokedTrope, in that Mab summoned Cathy to Arcadia deliberately so they'd get together.]]
* ChildOfTwoWorlds: Changelings are neither fae norhumanhuman.
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* LanguageOfMagic: Catherine is into the idea that Enochian is this.
->''I wanted it to mean more. I wanted it to confirm my wild theories of this being the language of angels, stolen and preserved by the fae. I wanted this to be that sacred first language that God spoke to create the world, that He taught to Adam and that was sundered at Babel.''
->''I wanted it to mean more. I wanted it to confirm my wild theories of this being the language of angels, stolen and preserved by the fae. I wanted this to be that sacred first language that God spoke to create the world, that He taught to Adam and that was sundered at Babel.''
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* GeekyAnalogy: Cathy assumes the clock-maker is making a joke based on a biblical reference. He's not, and when she tries to explain it it goes right over his head.
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** Cathy compares herself to Lynette in ''Literature/LeMorteDarthur'': Man A being recruited by Woman B to rescue Woman C, and Woman B is in love with Man A.
--->''I was the only one who knew of the stolen woman that Mab kept somewhere in the castle. There were times I would imagine rescuing her, leading Laon to her like a damsel in ''Le Morte d’Arthur''. I would then remember the story of Sir Gareth of Orkney, known as Beaumains, guided on a quest by Lynette to save her sister Lyonesse. My brother would insist that Lynette was secretly in love with the knight and that the ending was pointlessly tragic.''
** Cathy compares herself to Lynette in ''Literature/LeMorteDarthur'': Man A being recruited by Woman B to rescue Woman C, and Woman B is in love with Man A.
--->''I was the only one who knew of the stolen woman that Mab kept somewhere in the castle. There were times I would imagine rescuing her, leading Laon to her like a damsel in ''Le Morte d’Arthur''. I would then remember the story of Sir Gareth of Orkney, known as Beaumains, guided on a quest by Lynette to save her sister Lyonesse. My brother would insist that Lynette was secretly in love with the knight and that the ending was pointlessly tragic.''
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* BizarreSeasons
-->'''EncyclopediaExposita:''' The Faelands do possess something approximating seasons. As their year progresses, the arc of the pendulum sun grows smaller, but the duration of the oscillation, as with any pendulum, is independent of the arc and thus remains constant. The edges of the Faelands thus have less heat and light, giving them a recognisable winter.
-->'''EncyclopediaExposita:''' The Faelands do possess something approximating seasons. As their year progresses, the arc of the pendulum sun grows smaller, but the duration of the oscillation, as with any pendulum, is independent of the arc and thus remains constant. The edges of the Faelands thus have less heat and light, giving them a recognisable winter.
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* BizarreSeasons
-->'''EncyclopediaExposita:''' The Faelands do possess something approximating seasons. As their year progresses, the arc of the pendulum sun grows smaller, but the duration of the oscillation, as with any pendulum, is independent of the arc and thus remains constant. The edges of the Faelands thus have less heat and light, giving them a recognisable winter.ChildOfTwoWorlds: Changelings are neither fae nor human
-->'''EncyclopediaExposita:''' The Faelands do possess something approximating seasons. As their year progresses, the arc of the pendulum sun grows smaller, but the duration of the oscillation, as with any pendulum, is independent of the arc and thus remains constant. The edges of the Faelands thus have less heat and light, giving them a recognisable winter.
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* OutDamnedSpot: DiscussedTrope
-->''Day and night, I found myself washing my hands over and over. Not so much because I believed them stained with blood, but that I wanted to feel that guilt. I wanted that sweet madness that [[{{Theatre/Macbeth}} Lady Macbeth]] once felt. For all the deed weighed upon me, for all the echoes of it I saw behind my closed eyes, it was not enough.''
-->''Day and night, I found myself washing my hands over and over. Not so much because I believed them stained with blood, but that I wanted to feel that guilt. I wanted that sweet madness that [[{{Theatre/Macbeth}} Lady Macbeth]] once felt. For all the deed weighed upon me, for all the echoes of it I saw behind my closed eyes, it was not enough.''
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* BleedEmAndWeep: [[spoiler:Cathy kills Miss Davenport at her own request]], and is a mess about it.
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* InsideJoke: Cathy and Laon have one about ambergris.
-->''When we were little, we had found a recipe for the most excellent negus that called for grating ambergris over each serving and we had laughed at the sheer extravagance of the idea.''
-->''When we were little, we had found a recipe for the most excellent negus that called for grating ambergris over each serving and we had laughed at the sheer extravagance of the idea.''
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* MasqueradeBall: Mab calls for having one--a winter themed one in the middle of summer.
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* ModestyBedsheet: Cathy wakes up the morning after having sex, and when she sits up in bed and the blanket comes down she suddenly gets embarrassed. Lampshaded:
-->[[spoiler:'''Laon:''' I have seen you naked already. I’ve even dressed you.\\
'''Cathy:''' That’s not the point.\\
'''Laon:''' And I do intend to see you naked again.\\
'''Cathy:''' I intend to let you, but it’s still hardly proper.]]
* MomentKiller: They're doing a HeldGaze when the trumpets for the hunt sound and they have to go.
-->'''Cathy:''' The Pale Queen is summoning us.
* SexForSolace: After [[spoiler:killing Miss Davenport and being told she's a changeling, Cathy and Laon have sex]] about half for solace, half just because they want to.
* ShowerOfAngst: After [[spoiler:killing Miss Davenport]] Cathy takes an angsty bath.
* SpeakOfTheDevil: Don't call Mab by her name. "The Pale Queen" is a satisfactory substitute.
-->[[spoiler:'''Laon:''' I have seen you naked already. I’ve even dressed you.\\
'''Cathy:''' That’s not the point.\\
'''Laon:''' And I do intend to see you naked again.\\
'''Cathy:''' I intend to let you, but it’s still hardly proper.]]
* MomentKiller: They're doing a HeldGaze when the trumpets for the hunt sound and they have to go.
-->'''Cathy:''' The Pale Queen is summoning us.
* SexForSolace: After [[spoiler:killing Miss Davenport and being told she's a changeling, Cathy and Laon have sex]] about half for solace, half just because they want to.
* ShowerOfAngst: After [[spoiler:killing Miss Davenport]] Cathy takes an angsty bath.
* SpeakOfTheDevil: Don't call Mab by her name. "The Pale Queen" is a satisfactory substitute.
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''Under the Pendulum Sun'' is the 2017 debut novel of Jeannette Ng. It was a finalist for the 2018 British Fantasy Award UsefulNotes/BritishFantasyAward for Best Fantasy Novel, and earned Ng the 2018 Best Newcomer award.
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* ApocalypticLog: Reverend Roche's journaljournal. He gets increasingly paranoid and stressed out as the entries go on.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Very much a DownplayedTrope--Catherine keeps it under wraps, she doesn't say or do anything about it. But as she is narrator, we are privy to her feelings, and she side-eyes the relationships between Laon and just about every woman he crosses paths with.
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'''Miss Davenport:''' A ban, though some call it fate. It keeps your brother and those of his blood safe. The Pale Queen has promised him that he and those of his blood would not die in these walls and it protects you because you’re staying within them. They can’t touch you here, no matter how much they want to. So you really shouldn’t go wandering about out there by yourself, Miss Helstone.
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'''Miss Davenport:''' A ban, though some call it fate. It keeps your brother and those of his blood safe. The Pale Queen has promised him that he and those of his blood would not die in these walls and it protects you because you’re staying within them. They can’t touch you here, no matter how much they want to. So you really shouldn’t go wandering about out there by yourself, Miss Helstone.
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* FirstNameBasis: Catherine calls her Miss Davenport but Laon calls her Ariel, and this familiarity bothers Catherine.
* FirstNameBasis: Catherine calls her Miss Davenport but Laon calls her Ariel, and this familiarity bothers Catherine.
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* EncyclopediaExposita: Each chapter begins thusly. A In the mix there are also a few are from real world documents, though, like the Bible, ''Psalms, Paraphrases, Literature/TheBible, ''Literature/TheRaven'', and Hymns, Adapted to the Services of the Church of England'', and ''Literature/TheRaven''.
''Creator/PercyByssheShelley Queen Mab]]''.
* FirstNameBasis: Catherine calls her MissDavenport Davenport, but Laon calls her Ariel, and this Ariel. This familiarity bothers Catherine.
* FirstNameBasis: Catherine calls her Miss
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* EncyclopediaExposita: Each chapter begins thusly. A few are from real world documents, though, like the Bible or Bible, ''Psalms, Paraphrases, and Hymns, Adapted to the Services of the Church of England''.England'', and ''Literature/TheRaven''.
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'''Miss Davenport:''' But, Catherine--\
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* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: Catherine is affronted when Miss Davenport calls her Cathy, despite not acting like her friend.
-->'''Miss Davenport:''' You should try to be still. Please, Cathy.\\
'''Catherine:''' ''[recoils]'' You have no right to address me as such. We are not friends.\\
'''Miss Davenport:''' But, Catherine--\
'''Catherine:''' You tell me nothing. We talk and we talk and yet you forever keep me in ignorance and darkness. You keep saying this castle is built on secrets but we cannot build a friendship on--
-->'''Miss Davenport:''' You should try to be still. Please, Cathy.\\
'''Catherine:''' ''[recoils]'' You have no right to address me as such. We are not friends.\\
'''Miss Davenport:''' But, Catherine--\
'''Catherine:''' You tell me nothing. We talk and we talk and yet you forever keep me in ignorance and darkness. You keep saying this castle is built on secrets but we cannot build a friendship on--
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* ConstantlyCurious: Mr Benjamin constantly asks Catherine questions about theology. Half the time she doesn't know the answers and tells him he should ask Laon when he returns.
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* IWillFindYou: Catherine's quest is to go find Laon.
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In [[UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain Victorian era]], era, Catherine Helstone travels into the heart of the newly discovered lands of the TheFairFolk, in search of her brother Laon, a [[TheMissionary missionary]] who disappeared while trying to convert the fae to Christianity.
* AlternateHistory: The Point of Divergence is that Captain Cook discovered the Faelands.
* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: Gethsemane
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* {{Geas}}:
-->'''Miss Davenport:''' There’s a geas that knows you.\\
'''Catherine:''' A ''geas''?\\
'''Miss Davenport:''' A ban, though some call it fate. It keeps your brother and those of his blood safe. The Pale Queen has promised him that he and those of his blood would not die in these walls and it protects you because you’re staying within them. They can’t touch you here, no matter how much they want to. So you really shouldn’t go wandering about out there by yourself, Miss Helstone.
* TheMissionary: Laon became a priest, but he had the heart of an adventurer. This combination lead him to become a missionary.
* UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain: Set in 1847. In chapter 2, Catherine makes reference to an ivory dress, “wide necked and layered in lace, it reminded me of the etchings of the queen’s wedding dress and the subsequent efforts to imitate it in the seven years since.” That's UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria’s wedding dress, and her wedding was in 1840.
* {{Geas}}:
-->'''Miss Davenport:''' There’s a geas that knows you.\\
'''Catherine:''' A ''geas''?\\
'''Miss Davenport:''' A ban, though some call it fate. It keeps your brother and those of his blood safe. The Pale Queen has promised him that he and those of his blood would not die in these walls and it protects you because you’re staying within them. They can’t touch you here, no matter how much they want to. So you really shouldn’t go wandering about out there by yourself, Miss Helstone.
* TheMissionary: Laon became a priest, but he had the heart of an adventurer. This combination lead him to become a missionary.
* UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain: Set in 1847. In chapter 2, Catherine makes reference to an ivory dress, “wide necked and layered in lace, it reminded me of the etchings of the queen’s wedding dress and the subsequent efforts to imitate it in the seven years since.” That's UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria’s wedding dress, and her wedding was in 1840.
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In [[VictorianLondon the late 1800s]], [[UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain Victorian era]], Catherine Helstone travels into the heart of the newly discovered lands of the TheFairFolk, in search of her brother Laon, a [[TheMissionary missionary]] who disappeared while trying to convert the fae to Christianity.
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* WeirdMoon: The "fish moon".moon"--an AlluringAnglerfish swimming in the sky.
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In [[VictorianLondon the late 19th century, 1800s]], Catherine Helstone travels into the heart of the newly discovered lands of the TheFairFolk, in search of her brother Laon, a [[TheMissionary missionary]] who disappeared while trying to convert the fae to Christianity.
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''Under the Pendulum Sun'' is the 2017 debut novel of Jeannette Ng. It was a finalist for the 2018 British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel, and earned Ng the 2018 Best Newcomer award.
In the late 19th century, Catherine Helstone travels into the heart of the newly discovered lands of the TheFairFolk, in search of her brother Laon, a [[TheMissionary missionary]] who disappeared while trying to convert the fae to Christianity.
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!! Tropes:
* AlienGeometries: Zigzagged. In the below cited exchange it’s a SubvertedTrope, but other times it's played straight (for example, the connection between the Faelands and Earth)
-->'''Catherine:''' How far to Gethsemane?\\
'''Coachman:''' Two revelations and an epiphany? No, there has to be a shortcut… Two painful memories and a daydr--\\
'''Miss Davenport:''' Sixteen miles. It is sixteen miles away. We’ll arrive well before dark. ''[glaring at the coachman]'' He says that for the tourists.
* BizarreSeasons
-->'''EncyclopediaExposita:''' The Faelands do possess something approximating seasons. As their year progresses, the arc of the pendulum sun grows smaller, but the duration of the oscillation, as with any pendulum, is independent of the arc and thus remains constant. The edges of the Faelands thus have less heat and light, giving them a recognisable winter.
*EncyclopediaExposita: Each chapter begins thusly.
*WeirdMoon: The "fish moon".
*WeirdSun: The eponymous "pendulum sun".
''Under the Pendulum Sun'' is the 2017 debut novel of Jeannette Ng. It was a finalist for the 2018 British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel, and earned Ng the 2018 Best Newcomer award.
In the late 19th century, Catherine Helstone travels into the heart of the newly discovered lands of the TheFairFolk, in search of her brother Laon, a [[TheMissionary missionary]] who disappeared while trying to convert the fae to Christianity.
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* AlienGeometries: Zigzagged. In the below cited exchange it’s a SubvertedTrope, but other times it's played straight (for example, the connection between the Faelands and Earth)
-->'''Catherine:''' How far to Gethsemane?\\
'''Coachman:''' Two revelations and an epiphany? No, there has to be a shortcut… Two painful memories and a daydr--\\
'''Miss Davenport:''' Sixteen miles. It is sixteen miles away. We’ll arrive well before dark. ''[glaring at the coachman]'' He says that for the tourists.
* BizarreSeasons
-->'''EncyclopediaExposita:''' The Faelands do possess something approximating seasons. As their year progresses, the arc of the pendulum sun grows smaller, but the duration of the oscillation, as with any pendulum, is independent of the arc and thus remains constant. The edges of the Faelands thus have less heat and light, giving them a recognisable winter.
*EncyclopediaExposita: Each chapter begins thusly.
*WeirdMoon: The "fish moon".
*WeirdSun: The eponymous "pendulum sun".
