The Icemark Chronicles: Difference between revisions

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* [[A Child Shall Lead Them]] - Thirrin in the first book, and {{spoiler|Titus in the third.}}

** Also Charlemagne in the second book.

* [[Combat By 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.

* [[Combat by 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

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* [[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 On 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.

* [[Dropped a Bridge on 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~~ 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.}}

* [[Duel to 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~~ Dinosaurs]] - The Icemark Chronicles's third book has the enemy Basilea use 'Tri-Horns' as cavalry. Three guesses as to what they are.

* [[Everything's Better 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.

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* [[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~~ Daughter Are Born]] - {{spoiler|Lucretia and Belisarius}}

* [[Unto Us a Son 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.