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Line 1: {{work}} ''[[The Icemark Chronicles]]'' is a little-known trilogy of books by equally little-known British writer Stuart Hill. The trilogy takes place in a world so full of [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture\|counterpart cultures]] that it may as well be a straight-out parallel world. Most of the action takes place in the Icemark, a 'tiny kingdom' in the north, and the Icesheets even further north. The Icemark is British/Norse in feel. The main antagonists are the Polypontian Empire: basically Romans with better technology. There are also the Desert People, who are Muslim Arabs, the Lusu people who seem to be based on the Zulu, and the Venettians (from Venezzia) and Hellenes(Greeks). The books are, in order: Line 12: There is no further Sequel Hook though a prequel called 'Redrought' will be released. {{tropelist}} ~~=== Tropes include: ===~~ * [[Action Girl]] - Thirrin in the first book. She then matures into [[Lady of War]] and [[Action Mom]], and this role is taken by her daughter Cressida. * [[Action Mom]] - Thirrin. In the second and third books, anyway. Line 28: * [[A Child Shall Lead Them]] - Thirrin in the first book, and {{spoiler\|Titus in the third.}} ** Also Charlemagne in the second book. * [[Combat Byby Champion]] - In Cry of the Icemark, a general on the villains' side challenges the heroes' queen to single combat to decide the war between their lands. The deal is that if he wins, she surrenders Icemark, and if she wins, he leaves. Though Thirrin realizes and notes that this would only keep them away until a new general comes along, they do battle anyway. * [[Conflicting Loyalty]] - The Vampires (fighting for a country that they have a 1000 year history of mutal hatred with, not to mention defeated them when they last attempted to invade), The Polypontians (Joining The Nation That Destoyed Their Empire), The Hypolitan (fighting People From Their Homeland) & Medea * [[Creepy Child]] - Medea Line 36: * [[Devil but No God]] - Cronus * [[Disney Villain Death]] - Hundreds of Polypontian Soldiers {{spoiler\|and vampires}} fall to their deaths from the Sky Navy in ''Blade Of Fire''. * [[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him]]: {{spoiler\|Olememnon's}} death in ''Last Battle of the Icemark'' is completely off-screen, and Pious merely tells Tharaman-Thar and Krisafitsa-Tharina that he is dead. That's it. * [[Duel to ~~The~~the Death]]: Bellorum and His Vampiric Majesty, on a sky ship no less. {{spoiler\|Bellorum wins by calling up musketeers armed with special shot (so many in fact that it could well count as a [[Wall of Weapons]] trope too), but that's OK because he gets his ass handed to him later in the book, the cheating scum.}} * [[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette]] - Medea * [[Emotionless Girl]] - Medea * [[The Empire]] - The Polypontian empire. * [[Everything's Better ~~With~~with Dinosaurs]] - The Icemark Chronicles's third book has the enemy Basilea use 'Tri-Horns' as cavalry. Three guesses as to what they are. * [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]] - Many. The Icemark (Britain/Scandinavia), the Polypontian Empire (Romans), the Desert People (Crusade-era Muslim Arabs), the Lusu (Zulu?), Venezzia (Venice, and its associated trading republic)... * [[Gondor Calls for Aid]]: Happens in almost every book, getting even more fantastical as the series goes on. Line 75: * [[The Undead]] - There are pretty typical zombies that show up every now and then. * [[Unexplained Recovery]] - Played straight by Oskan in the first book. * [[Unto Us a Son ~~And~~and Daughter Are Born]] - {{spoiler\|Lucretia and Belisarius}} ** Slightly inverted as they were designed that way (for want of a better word) as part of a deliberate [[Babies Ever After]]. * [[Vampire Monarch]]: All the vampires are ruled over by two ancient vampires known only as Their Vampiric Majesties. Line 88: [[Category:Adventure Literature]] [[Category:The Icemark Chronicles]] [[Category:Literature of the 2000s]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Icemark Chronicles, The}} [[Category:Literature]]