Line #17 Literature/TheWorldOfM


1	''The World of M'' is an UrbanFantasy novel by Stevie Barry. It’s the fourth book in ''Literature/TheMUniverse.'' [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/worldofmtvtropes.jpg]]
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5	The War of M was seemingly won, but at a terrible cost. With millions dead, and the Northern Hemisphere a wasteland, rebuilding will take decades.
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7	What most people don't know is that the war isn’t over. Thorvald might be dead, but the [[EldritchAbomination creature]] that created him remains alive and well..and it’s determined to cross the gap between the Void and Earth. Earth, however, is not the only dimension it threatens, and humanity has gained itself some rather strange allies. [[CoolAirship Airships]] from another world bring plenty of backup(and with them, hope), while ancient [[PhysicalGod gods]] [[AwakeningTheSleepingGiant wake]] out of millennia-long naps.
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12	!!This novel provides examples of:
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14	* AlienBlood: The Angel and its minions bleed black.
15	* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: All the ancient [[PhysicalGod gods]] wake up to join the fight against the Angel.
16	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Ratiri's always been capable of holding his own in a fight, but hand him a sword and point him at the Angel's minions, and he's fucking terrifying.
17	* BigBadassBattleSequence: The battle against the Angel stretches over multiple chapters.
18	* BigDamnHeroes: The airships are seen as these by the people they aid on the ground; their turning up helps turn the tide of the battle.
19	* CavalryOfTheDead: Aelis and her people and, in an odd way, [[spoiler:the Memories. They turn up en masse at the battle in the Arctic.]]
20	* ChildSoldiers: Technically, all the crew on the ''O.S. Life Boat'' become child soldiers during this battle, though they do so from within the relative safety of an airship.
21	* CoolAirship: A lot of them, all from the Other. Being magical in nature, they look like flying tall ships, but have some surprisingly advanced weaponry.
22	* DontFearTheReaper: [[spoiler:Lorna]] finds Azarael surprisingly comforting at the moment of [[spoiler:her]] death.
23	%%* EldritchAbomination: The Angel, a.k.a. Ambriel.
24	%%* EvilIsDeathlyCold: There's a reason the Void opens into the Arctic.
25	* FromNobodyToNightmare: From the Angel’s perspective, Sharley is this. Sharley was born a HalfHumanHybrid, turned into a deity when her body died, and worked her way up to being a full-on RealityWarper.
26	* GreaterScopeVillain: Ambriel, also known as the Angel: the one who gave Thorvald his plague and his immortality, which in turn set off the Obliteration and the War a thousand years later.
27	* GreenThumb: All the green thumbs, including Pat, are extremely useful for the communities the ships aid.
28	* HandicappedBadass: Poor Lorna might have had her leg and her shoulder healed, but nothing can be done about her eye or the Memory-wounds on her back. Jary tells her that while the eye will hopefully improve with time, she'll never have proper vision from it again. This doesn't stop her taking part in the big battle in the North Pole.
29	* HealingHands: Jary, being the Other’s resident deity of Life, has these. [[spoiler:Ratiri still does as well, thanks to Kali, though the ability is taken from him after the battle.]]
30	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Von Rached, of all people. Lorna is doomed to die (she has something she needs to do in the afterlife), but he can resurrect her if he dies himself.]] Helps that he actually ''wants'' to die, though he makes sure he does it in a suitably appropriate way for someone with his ego.
31	* HumansAreGood: TheMigration and Thorvald's war basically shattered society, yet in most places people have tried to do their best to maintain peace. This is helped quite a bit by the airships and their supplies.
32	* HumanoidAbomination: Sharley is an odd case in that while yes, she’s an abomination, she’s not an evil one. The Memories are a much straighter example.
33	* MassOhCrap: ''Everyone'' has this reaction when the [[TheDreaded Memories]] turn up. The [[HumanoidAbomination Memories]] exude a malice so powerful that even the deities are creeped out by them.
34	* NowWhat: A problem for a whole lot of the survivors of the War, and even more so for the humans who survived the battle against the Angel.
35	* OnlySaneMan: Azarael certainly ''feels'' like he is. A lot of his fellow deities regard him more like a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] [[TheEeyore Eeyore]], given how pessimistic he naturally is.
36	* OrpheanRescue: [[spoiler:Von Rached's whole intent behind his death.]] Though unlike Orpheus, he means to succeed.
37	* RealityWarper: Sharley eventually becomes master of this in a big, big way.
38	* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Von Rached, whose last act is an OrpheanRescue of Lorna.]] She really does not know what to do with that emotionally.
39	* ResurrectionSickness: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]], but [[spoiler:Lorna]] has some definite issues when she comes back from the dead, starting with memory problems. She takes to writing things down.
40	* SanitySlippage: Both Sharley and Lorna undergo this, to varying degrees. [[spoiler:Lorna died and [[ResurrectionSickness came back]], while Sharley exercised her RealityWarper power for the first time.]]
41	* SnarkToSnarkCombat: The bulk of Jary and Azarael's communication.
42	* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverKill: Let's see, we've got: the strongest Gifted on the planet; the old gods who've slept for over a thousand years; all three deities from the Other, one of whom is ''Death'' (and their support staff); an army of two million zombies, and oh yeah, the ''Memories'', and they're all set against the Angel and its minions.
43	* TimeMaster: Sharley slowly becomes this over the course of the story.
44	* UndeadChild: Children, actually. An entire army of [[OurZombiesAreDifferent child-zombies]] from the Other.

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