Septimus Heap: Difference between revisions

* [[Child Soldiers]]: The Young Army in the first book. Septimus (back when he was known as Boy 412) was an Expendable, which, unfortunately, was [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].

* [[City with No Name|Country With No Name]]: The queendom in which the series takes place is never officially named. The closest thing to a name it has is given in ''Syren'', where Septimus sends a letter there and calls it "The Small, Damp Country Across the Sea." The map in the sixth book also calls it that. So maybe, as odd as it sounds, that is its real name.

* [[Cordon Bleugh Chef]]: Zelda. All of her dishes are perfectly edible, if rather odd-sounding. Her haddock-and-banana pie briefly mentioned in ''Flyte'' comes to mind.

* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Though not in the usual sense -- Epheniah Grebe, who can't speak, has a box filled with ''hundreds'' of cards, apparently written to apply to any occasion, including one written just for the off-chance that he somehow meets the Queen ("Greetings, Your Majesty"). When his cards fail him, he resorts to a pen and paper.

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: So the Queen was killed... but what happened to Jenna's biological father? {{spoiler|He's still very much alive, but he's been away for most of her life hunting treasure. They reunite in ''Flyte'', and he attempts to bond with her ([[You're Not My Father|somewhat disasterously]]) in ''Syren''}}.

* [[Damsel in Distress]] / [[Dude in Distress]] / [[Badass in Distress]]: Marcia in ''Magyk'', Jenna in ''Flyte'', Septimus in ''Physik'', Nicko and Snorri in ''Queste''.

** The Custodian Youth -- and especially their Tell-Tale hour -- is very similar to the Hitler Youth groups in Nazi Germany.

** The Heap family seems ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|oddly familiar]]''.

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: ''Are there ever!'' Even the incredibly minor characters have backstories. The recently-released "guidebook" provides information on a lot of them.

* [[Lost Technology]]: ''Syren'' displays quite a bit of it, and it is even called "Beyond ''Magyk''."

* [[Magic A Is Magic A|Magyk A is Magyk A]]: '''Magyk''' has very specific rules that it must follow.

* [[Matter of Life and Death]]: In ''Flyte'', this is thrown around twice.

* [[Reformed but Rejected]]: Simon.

* [[Room 101]]: Dungeon Number One.

** Queen Etheldredda always referring to Jenna as her great-great-great (and then some) granddaughter, which she is, as all Queens and their Princesses are directly related. The author, Angie Sage, actually writes "great-great-great and then some" several times in her stories.

** Wizard Sandwiches and the many, many things they don't believe in.