Pyramids: Difference between revisions

* [[Time Abyss]]: {{spoiler|Dios. 7,000 years old at the beginning of the novel... and at the end of the book he [[Stable Time Loop|is looped back to the beginning of the kingdom.]]}}

* [[Trojan Horse]]: The original is parodied - both Ephebe and Tsort's armies have read their history and nowadays fight battles just by building a dozen wooden horses, placing them on opposite sides of the battlefield, and waiting for the enemy to blink first and grab one.

** Both sides rationalize that if the enemy is dumb enough to try this tactic they are dumb enough to fall for it. Comes up again in ''Eric'', where it turns out the real original was an elaborate distraction for the commandos coming in the back gate while the defenders prepared to wipe out the team in the (empty) horse.

* [[War Elephants]]: According to Pteppic, they're useless, since all they do is trample on their own troops when they inevitably panic. The military responds to this by breeding bigger elephants.