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* {{Padding}}: Sometimes the history sections, especially the long essay on airship flaps, can drag.
* QuirkyWork: an urban fantasy series masquerading as a history.
* QuirkyWork: an urban fantasy series masquerading as a history.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: the overall narrative roughly echoes ''{{Moonchild}} by'' Creator/AleisterCrowley, with Crowley, Yeats, and Samuel Mathers appearing as minor background characters (undisguised this time). Also, there are structural elements borrowed from Literature/TheLordOfTheRings, including nine heroes gathering for a quest, a DividedForPublication trilogy structure, and a framing device position itself as a "true history."
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: probably the hardest part of reading the book is that it deliberately seems to obscure major plot points in a virtual gish-gallop of events and asides.
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: probably the hardest part of reading the book is that it deliberately seems to obscure major plot points in a virtual gish-gallop of events and asides.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: the overall narrative roughly echoes ''{{Moonchild}} by'' Creator/AleisterCrowley, with Crowley, Yeats, and Samuel Mathers appearing as minor background characters (undisguised this time). Also, there are structural elements borrowed from Literature/TheLordOfTheRings, including nine heroes gathering for a quest, a DividedForPublication trilogy structure, and a framing device position itself as a "true history."
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: probably the hardest part of reading the book is that it deliberately seems to obscure major plot points in a virtual gish-gallop of events and asides."
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: probably the hardest part of reading the book is that it deliberately seems to obscure major plot points in a virtual gish-gallop of events and asides.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: many point-of-view characters seem to be either mentally ill, neurodivergeant, or physically odd, though the psychiatric and medical science of the 1910s leaves it vague.
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* DiagnosedByTheAudience: Many point-of-view characters seem to be either mentally ill, neurodivergent, or physically odd, though the psychiatric and medical science of the 1910s leaves it vague.
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* SlowPacedBeginning: The actual war doesn't even kick in until a fourth of the way through the novel, while the main narrative only comes together in the last quarter.
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* AluminiumChristmasTrees: perhaps the creepiest moments occur when you look up some of the events noted in the book and find out that they actually happened.
* AmbiguousDisorder: many point-of-view characters seem to be either mentally ill, neurodivergeant, or physically odd, though the psychiatric and medical science of the 1910s leaves it vague.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: the “Brief Incident in Cuba,” recounting the tale of some sort of growing white blob thing.
* CreepyAwesome: Celeste and Tom Noun are rather creepy, but among the most fascinating characters in the tale. [[spoiler: also Tarrare, for a given value of awesome]].
* GeniusBonus: WGWD rewards a knowledge of both the First World War and the occult.
* JerkassWoobie: many of the characters portray hints of cruelty, casual bigotry, and murderous intent, but it's pretty clear that they're breaking down from the horrors of war.
* RealismInducedHorror: The most unsettling events of the story arise from AluminiumChristmasTrees and the very real horrors of war.
*TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: probably the hardest part of reading the book is that it deliberately seems to obscure major plot points in a virtual gish-gallop of events and asides.
* AmbiguousDisorder: many point-of-view characters seem to be either mentally ill, neurodivergeant, or physically odd, though the psychiatric and medical science of the 1910s leaves it vague.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: the “Brief Incident in Cuba,” recounting the tale of some sort of growing white blob thing.
* CreepyAwesome: Celeste and Tom Noun are rather creepy, but among the most fascinating characters in the tale. [[spoiler: also Tarrare, for a given value of awesome]].
* GeniusBonus: WGWD rewards a knowledge of both the First World War and the occult.
* JerkassWoobie: many of the characters portray hints of cruelty, casual bigotry, and murderous intent, but it's pretty clear that they're breaking down from the horrors of war.
* RealismInducedHorror: The most unsettling events of the story arise from AluminiumChristmasTrees and the very real horrors of war.
*TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: probably the hardest part of reading the book is that it deliberately seems to obscure major plot points in a virtual gish-gallop of events and asides.
