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** Wutra's Worm -- [[Sand Worm|A gargantuan worm]] with a lifespan as long as the Great Year. Goes through several drastic metamorphises as the Great Seasons pass; at one point, a Worm will actually split into two smaller worms with wings, which then take to the sky.

* [[Bolivian Army Cliffhanger]]: The first book ends as {{spoiler|the village/city-state where the majority of the plot takes place is about to be wiped out by an invading army of Phagors.}} The reader is [[Left Hanging]], since the second book begins in a completely seperate country, with new characters. Made even worse as the reader soon finds out {{spoiler|that it's over 300 years later, and nothing about the events of the first book are even really known other than an off-handed comment about some "fire" there years ago.}}

** Further confused by the obviously-alien-looking creatures and fauna of Hellliconia that exist alongside the more recognizable ones (with unique obviously-alien names to boot).

* [[Dumb Is Good]]: In the first novel, the major philosophy of Aoz Roon, leader of human village where the plot takes place. He discourages too much learning, since he doesn't want to have any "idle mouths" to feed (i.e. teachers, philoshopers, etc)