History Literature / Wraeththu

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AfterTheEnd, human society has completely broken down. Without national governments, communities have become small, localized, and increasingly xenophobic. A problem that is only made worse by [[VaguenessIsComing a threat]] known as the Wraeththu. Everyone knows that they [[TheFairFolk will steal your sons]] and [[KillEmAll kill you and your family]].

%%* TheLostWoods: Take [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aokigahara Aokigahara]], surround it in a fence of (more) evil, and you've got Gebaddon.

%%* YaoiGuys: What they look like to humans (and possibly the reader).

* AfterTheEnd

* AntiHero: Calanthe
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: Thiede does this but then comes back.]]

* TheBeautifulElite: The Gelaming.
* {{Bishonen}}
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: [[spoiler: Attempted on Terzian and later Cal by the Gelaming.]]
* TheChessmaster: Thiede.
* ChildByRape: [[spoiler: Flick and Ulaume's son Aleeme gets one of these after he is raped by Ponclast.]]
* CreepyChild: Especially Darquiel, although some of the characters find all Wraeththu children creepy.

* DeusSexMachina: "Grissecon."
* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Swift is shielded from the unsavory activities of his father, Terzian, and is undoubtably raised to be a good person, [[spoiler: however, Terzian is still angry when Swift turns on him.]]

* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: They "set" the transformation via sex.
* FemmeFatale: Ulaume says that when he lived with the Kakkahar tribe he was a FemmeFatale. Could also describe Cobweb.
* FreeLoveFuture
* HellholePrison: Good thing it's inescapable, or else all those guys you abandoned in there to learn their lesson/go insane/have a ton of kids might come back to cause trouble in a later book.
* {{Hermaphrodite}}
* KissingCousins: [[spoiler: Loki and Geburael. Loki is actually Geburael's uncle, but because they are the same age, Geburael prefers to think of them as cousins.]]

* TheLostWoods: Take [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aokigahara Aokigahara]], surround it in a fence of (more) evil, and you've got Gebaddon.
* LoveDodecahedron: Normally revolves around Cal.
* LoveIsAWeakness: This seems to the philosophy of whole Wraeththu tribes, including the Gelaming, who see themselves as better than human because they don't give in the weakness of love. Seel Griselming strongly believes that love is a weakness, [[spoiler: but he later falls in love with Swift.]]

* ManipulativeBastard: Thiede again.

* MisterSeahorse: Their [[WordOfGod reproductive cycle]] almost ''literally'' resembles that of seahorses.
* MotherOfAThousandYoung: [[spoiler: Ponclast essentially becomes this when he lives in Gebaddon and births many children.]]
* MugglePower
* OneGenderRace: The Wraeththu appear male—and, in some cases, start out male—but are hermaphroditic. [[spoiler:Later, we're introduced to the Kamagrian, a similar species that appears female.]]

* RagsToRoyalty: [[spoiler: Pellaz.]]

* SexSlave: Panthera.
* SuperiorSpecies: Taken far enough to arguably reek of MarySue.
* VillainousIncest: [[spoiler: Ponclast.]]
* TheVirus: They change young men via blood.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Swift tries very hard to make Terzian proud of him, but Terzian pretty much regards emotion as being weak.

* YaoiGuys: What they look like to humans (and possibly the reader).

''Wraeththu'' is a post-apocalyptic series by Creator/StormConstantine. It was the author's first work and is probably the most widely known and most popular of her works. The series consists of six novels, the first trilogy written in the 1980s. Storm revisited the series in the early 2000s, revising the first trilogy [[WordOfGod expressing embarrassment over her early writing]], and writing a second sequel trilogy that also explained and expanded upon some of the unanswered questions of the first trilogy.

* PurpleEyes: Cal. Also, Tyson.

''Wraeththu'' is a post-apocalyptic series by StormConstantine. It was the author's first work and is probably the most widely known and most popular of her works. The series consists of six novels, the first trilogy written in the 1980s. Storm revisited the series in the early 2000s, revising the first trilogy [[WordOfGod expressing embarrassment over her early writing]], and writing a second sequel trilogy that also explained and expanded upon some of the unanswered questions of the first trilogy.

* MasterRace. The Wraeththu. As [http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/14/14347.phtml Darren McLennan put it]: ''"That reminds me very much of Literature/TheDraka...They had the same 'We are superior, they are the old breed, and we will crush them' thing going, along with the wanton cruelty and complete lack of scruples. (And an author who basically handed them an I Win button.) So do the Wraeththu."''

* MasterRace. The Wraeththu. As Jason Sartin put it: ''"That reminds me very much of Literature/TheDraka...They had the same 'We are superior, they are the old breed, and we will crush them' thing going, along with the wanton cruelty and complete lack of scruples. (And an author who basically handed them an I Win button.) So do the Wraeththu."''

** Male humans are transformed into Wraeththu, by contact with the substance in a sex/magic ritual [[spoiler: if they survive.]]

* MasterRace. The Wraeththu. As Jason Sartin put it: ''"That reminds me very much of the [[TheDraka Draka]]...They had the same 'We are superior, they are the old breed, and we will crush them' thing going, along with the wanton cruelty and complete lack of scruples. (And an author who basically handed them an I Win button.) So do the Wraeththu."''

Pellaz is the son of Mexican sharecropper, living with his parents and his five brothers and sisters on a plantation. His life is changed forever when a beautiful stranger named Cal rides through the area in need of a place to stay. Cal quickly seduces Pellaz and takes him away to a Wraeththu free-town called Saltrock. And it all only gets stranger from there.

* TheBabyTrap: Played with. Pellaz impregnates Caeru without Caeru's knowledge, then Caeru later turns up with the child. Pellaz has the gall to feel trapped anyway.

* WellDoneSonGuy: Abrimel and Swift in particular seek the approval of their fathers.

* AdaptationDecay: The tabletop RPG adaptation ''Wraeththu: From Enchantment to Fulfillment'' is famed for its dreadful portrayal of the setting and terrible rules.

Pellaz is the son of Mexican sharecropper, living with his parents and his five brothers and sisters on a plantation. His life is changed forever when a beautiful stranger named Cal rides through the area in need of a place to stay. Cal quickly seduces Pellaz and takes him away to a Wraeththu-free town called Saltrock. And it all only gets stranger from there.

Pellaz is the son of Mexican sharecropper, living with his parents and his five brothers and sisters on a plantation. His life is changed forever when a beautiful stranger named Cal rides through the area in need of a place to stay. Cal quickly seduces Pellaz and takes him away to a Wraeththu free town called Saltrock. And it all only gets stranger from there.

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* YaoiGuys: What they look like to humans (and possibly the reader).

* KissingCousins: [[spoiler: Loki and Geburael. Geburael is actually Loki's uncle, but because they are the same age, Geburael prefers to think of them as cousins.]]

''Wraeththu'' is a post-apocalyptic series by StormConstantine. It was the author's first work and is probably the most widely known and most popular of her work. The series consists of six novels, the first trilogy written in the 1980s. Storm revisited the series in the early 2000s, revising the first trilogy [[WordOfGod expressing embarrassment over her early writing]], and writing a second sequel trilogy that also explained and expanded upon some of the unanswered questions of the first trilogy.

* TheLostWoods: Take [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aokigahara Aokigahara]], surround it in a fence of (more) evil, and you've got [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Gebaddon]].