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* "Half-Cocked" Jack Shaftoe: [[Action Hero]], [[Crazy Awesome]] [[Lovable Rogue]], and unwilling [[Celibate Hero]] ("Half-Cocked" has more than one meaning...) with a thirst for adventure who lives his life as one [[Indy Ploy]] after another and is an example of [[I Have Many Names]], such as [[I Have Many Names|'Half-Cocked' Jack, 'L'Emmerdeur', the King of the Vagabonds, Ali Zaybak, Quicksilver, Sword of Divine Fire, and Jack the Coiner]]
* Eliza: An ex-slave rescued by Jack who soon discovers a talent for both finance and manipulation. Her brilliance, financial acumen, skill at espionage, penchant for planning and ability to manipulate people (including pretty much the entire French nobility) make her one hell of a [[Guile Hero]].
* Bob Shaftoe: Jack's somewhat more level-headed brother and thus the [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Blue Oni to Jack's Red Oni]]. Spends much of the cycle trying to rescue a [[
'''[[Real Life]] <s>scientists</s>natural philosophers featured heavily in the story:'''
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* [[Unobtanium]] - The Solomonic gold
* [[The Unpronounceable]] - The language of Qwghlm, which employs too many consonants and ''absolutely no vowels at all''.
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* [[The Watson]] - Daniel Waterhouse for Isaac Newton, Gottfreid Leibniz, Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle, Christopher Wren, Christiaan Huygens, Henry Oldenberg, ''et al.''
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] - All of the Puritans, though the ones that get the most focus are Drake Waterhouse and the Bolstroods. The Raskolniks, too, including Yevgeny.
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