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'''''The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel''''' is a series of
''The Alchemyst'', the first book in the series, begins in San Francisco when twins Josh and Sophie Newman discover that the owner of the bookstore where Josh works is the immortal French alchemist, Nicholas Flamel. Flamel and his wife, Perenelle, are the guardians of the Book of Abraham, a collection of the most powerful spells in the world, which they have protected for centuries. When Dr John Dee discovers the Flamels whereabouts, he attacks and snatches the book to help his masters, the Dark Elders, cause [[The End of the World
The series consists of:
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* ''The Enchantress'' (May 2012)
[[Film of the Book|A film version]] has been announced, with [[Harry Potter (
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* [[Action Girl]] - Scathach, Joan, {{spoiler|Aoife of the Shadows}}
* [[Alchemy Is Magic]] - Integral to the plot. Nicholas Flamel is a major player, and the book which contains the secrets of the Stone and Elixir are the driving forces behind the conflict. However, Nicholas's foes aren't interested in the elixir, but in ''other'' secrets hidden in the book.
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* [[Badass Boast]]: Scathach, too many times to count.
** Subverted in ''The Warlock'' when she mentions her common boast of being able to break out of [[The Alcatraz|any prison]]...except possibly the one she is currently in, {{spoiler|the volcano prison on Danu Talis}}.
* [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy]]: So very many historical characters are actually immortals starting with the title character and his wife but other major characters include John Dee, Niccolo Machiavelli, Joan of Arc, William Shakespeare, Billy the Kid, and Virginia Dare.
* [[Blind Seer]] - The Witch of Endor gave up her physical eyes for the power to see possible futures; she is able to see normal things by using magic to see out of mirrors.
* [[Brother-Sister Team]] - Sophie and Josh.
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*** {{spoiler|Subverted-ish in The Enchantress when we find out that Josh and Sophie aren't really related}}
* [[Capital Letters Are Magic]]: the Elders (as well as the Dark Elders), the Next Generation, the Change...
* [[Cast
* [[Character Title]]: The Alchemyst is Nicholas, the Magician is Dee, the Sorceress is Perenelle, the Necromancer is {{spoiler|mainly Josh but also Dee}} and the Warlock is {{spoiler|mainly Niccolo Machiavelli but also Mars Ultor, Billy the Kid, and Aten}}. Whether or not this means the Enchantress is {{spoiler|Sophie}} is yet to be confirmed, though she may be {{spoiler|Virginia Dare}}.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: In the Enchantress {{spoiler|It's mentioned that there is the possibility of bringing someone back to life using and aura, this shows up again several chapters later when both Prometheus and Niten have died and Tsagaglalal can only bring one back}}
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* [[The City of Light]]: The setting of ''The Magician''.
* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: Nicholas and Will{{spoiler|iam Shakespeare}}'s discussion of weapons effective against werewolves in ''The Sorceress.'' Particularly Josh's comments:
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Will: "No, no, we'd need a good olive oil to do that, and olive oil is ineffective against any of the wereclans." }}
* [[Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?]] - Billy The Kid threatening {{spoiler|his master, Quetzalcoatl}} with an axe. Considering the [[No Immortal Inertia|potential]] [[Rapid Aging|consequences]], that took balls.
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** The {{spoiler|Archons}} take this to another level: if the Dark Elders haunt the nightmares of humans, then these guys haunt the Dark Elder's nightmares.
** The Dark Elders are simply a faction of normal Elders united against humanity, and Elders look almost exactly like humans until the Change sets in. That's when they become...things varying from cat-headed people to golden statues to gigantic spiders. {{spoiler|The Archons are (mostly) [[Humanoid Abomination|Humanoid Abominations]], and the Earthlords are only vaguely humanoid and VERY eldritch.}}
* [[
** This is {{spoiler|Marethyu's}} shtick.
* [[Evil Albino]]: Phobos and Deimos, Mars's satyr minions.
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* [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]]
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]
** {{spoiler|Mars, at least until book 5}}.
** In book 3, {{spoiler|Dee's master threatens him with being trapped in a diseased, weakened, aged body for eternity. This comes to partial fruition in the final book.}}.
** {{spoiler|Abraham the Mage. [[And I Must Scream|Dear God,]] [[Taken for Granite|Abraham the Mage...]]}}
* [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire]] - Scathach, though she drinks emotion instead of blood.
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* [[Giant Spider]]: Areop-Enop, the spider Elder.
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]] - Bastet, the Sphinx, and probably a few other Dark Elders. {{spoiler|This is later revealed to be part of The Change.}}
* [[Have You Come to Gloat?]] - Used several times.
* [[Hazardous Water]] - Dee, Virginia and {{spoiler|Josh}} on the boat ride to {{spoiler|Alcatraz}} in "The Warlock."
* [[The Hecate Sisters]] - Used literally when the twins meet Hekate herself.
** In ''The Warlock'', Perenelle explains this to Sophie: {{spoiler|Sophie is the maiden, Perenelle is the matron and Tsagaglalal is the crone}}
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* [[I Was Quite a Looker]]: Coatlicue before her experiments transformed her (Josh is lucky to only see her beautiful form). Ditto for Hel. {{spoiler|Aunt Agnes and the Witch of Endor}} only look old but can take on a younger form if they choose.
* [[Immortality]] - There are immortals who have come about their immortality by various means.
** [[Immortality Inducer]] / [[The Ageless]] - The Elixir of Life has given the Flamels life eternal, though they need to keep taking it regularly or they will rapidly age to death.
* [[Immortality Inducer]]: Elders can bestow immortality on humans who win their favor... and remove it when they lose that favor.
* [[I See Dead People]]: Perenelle can see ghosts.
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* [[Our Monsters Are Different]]: Fitting with the [[All Myths Are True|overarching themes]] [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink|of the series]], there are many different monsters from all varieties of folklore and mythology.
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]] - Well, some of them. The different ones still display some traits of traditional vampire, like not needing to breathe, but they feed off [[Emotion Eater|emotions]] rather than blood. All other vampires feed off emotions [[The Power of Blood|carried in the blood]], but those vampires are considered of the weakest class.
* [[Playing
* [[Psychopomp]] - Possibly Marethyu the hook-handed man. Considering his name means Death in the language of Danu Talis...
* [[Ravens and Crows]] - The Morrigan.
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* [[Resurrection Sickness]] - {{spoiler|Perenelle uses her aura, as well as Sophie's and Tsagaglalal's, to revive Nicholas for one more day... at the cost of one of her remaining two days left.}}
* [[Retcon]]: In the first book Scatty talks about Joan of Arc and implies that she did die. The second book of course reveals that Joan is alive and well, and that Scatty herself personally saved her from death.
* [[Sealed Evil in
* [[Shout
* [[Slow Transformation]]: When Elders reach a certain age, their body begins to change to reflect their true nature.
* [[Spontaneous Human Combustion]]: Occurrences are explained as the result of one over-exerting his/her aura.
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* [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]]: The Codex, the Book of Abraham the Mage.
* [[Translation Convention]]: Though nearly everyone speaks many languages and switches between them at will, all conversations are rendered in English.
* [[The Unpronouncable]]:
** Tsagaglalal.
** Huitzilopochtli, another name for Mars Ultor.
** Coatlicue, the Mother of All the Gods.
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* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]] - {{spoiler|Scatty (suggested), Gilgamesh}}
** Machiavelli says that he will never turn against his master because one day, he would like to grow old and die.
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: In ''The Sorceress'', the Dark Elders become frustrated with Dee's failure to retrieve the Codex, and they mark him as an outlaw.
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