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Which brings us up to 2000. For no apparent reason, all the magic monsters come back to Earth. The Golden Ones are prepared to lead humanity into its glorious future as a race of divine star-gods (or to drug us and rape our corpses. They tend to be, you know, down for whatever). The Fomorians activate the Wish-Hex, which locks out the Golden Ones and leaves the Fomorians free to drug us and rape our corpses.
The only people who can save the day are the Brothers and Sisters of Dragons, a [[Five
You can't bring back the gods and demons of [[Celtic Mythology]] without a few side-effects, though. Cue rolling blackouts, alien abductions, lycanthropes, spooky visitations, psychopathic goblins... oh, and a guy called [[Omnicidal Maniac|Balor]], aka the End of Existence.
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A few years later, [[After the End]], a second lot of Brothers and Sisters are called upon to fight the Lament-Brood, a gang of nihilistic shapeshifters who suck all the confidence out of their opponents, who happen to be backed up by an army of zombified gods. Teaming up with the remains of the British government, the Lament-Brood commission a device which taps into the newfound magic's inherent ability to rewrite reality, to turn the world into, well, [[Real Life]] (circa 2006, anyway). No zombie gods, no sadistic higher beings, no impending magical apocalypse... but on the other hand, no radical growth, no magic powers and no wonderful toys.
But salvation is at hand, in the form of Jack 'Church' Churchill, an archeologist/writer from London, who thanks to the wonders of [[Timey
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* [[Anyone Can Die]]: And {{spoiler|quite a few heroes do. Veitch}} even manages it four times, the final one wiping him from Existence. {{spoiler|Mallory and Caitlin}} also bite the dust after their [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
* [[Axe Crazy]]: The Morrigan. And then some.
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* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: The Puck tends to play this role quite a lot, but most obviously at the beginning of the final book in the sequence aboard the {{spoiler|Last Train}}
* [[Corrupt Church]]: the remains of the Catholic Church went that way for a bit [[After the End]], but considering that most of their belief structure was revealed as either wrong or not entirely accurate, they were lucky to still be around...
* [[Five
** [[The Hero]]: Jack "Church" Churchill
** [[The Lancer]]: Laura [[Du Santiago]]
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* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: Exactly what Jack Churchill fears: He doesn't want to become {{spoiler|The Libertarian}}
* [[Idiot Hero]]: Church displays this for parts of the first book, such as picking up a black rose from the creepy ghost of his dead girlfriend and not becoming suspicious...
* [[Impossibly Cool Weapon]]: The Balor Claw. It's a clawed gauntlet. That [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|kills gods]]. In a [[One Hit KO|single hit]].
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Brutally subverted, especially in "The Queen of Sinister." Although it's established fairly early on that {{spoiler|Liam}} will die, everyone keeps building {{spoiler|Carlton}} up as the innocent who could help turn the tide against the plague. Then {{spoiler|Matt cuts his throat}}.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Church's observation in "The Burning Man" of: "You've got to be kidding me. Kung fu foxes?" Don't worry: it's [[Better Than It Sounds]].
* [[Mystical Plague]]: This occurs in ''The Queen of Sinister''. A mystical plague that kills human life essence itself (basically 100% fatal, and dissolves its victims flesh leaving them just a load of pus inside a bag of skin and since it comes from the otherworld there is no known vector, source, or cure for the disease) is the chosen tool for this book. Too bad for it that two of the early victims were the son and husband of a woman that is an unknowing mystical champion of humanity, and the plague which was supposed to destroy her wakes that mystical potential. [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]].
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: The Dragons in these stories are literally the blood of reality. Pure Energy. They are even called Fabulous Beasts.
* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: {{spoiler|Jack (the younger one, not Church)}} as he has a destructive Wish Hex inside him.
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* [[Right Through the Wall]]: Played for laughs, when Veitch is disturbed by the noise coming from Church's room.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Mallory after {{spoiler|Sophie is killed and wiped from Existence}}
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: well, more Screw The Rules I Have Magic Powers, but the sentiment stands.
* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]]: Hal and Hunter, respectively. Shavi and Veitch also share a close friendship, not that Veitch would admit it easily.
* [[The World Is Not Ready]]: The government thinks that the public is not ready for the news that psychopathic shapeshifters and telepathic elementals are hunting each other through the rapidly-
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