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The Faceless Ones (Skulduggery Pleasant - book 3)

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Katanas Are Just Better: Tanith's sword is apparently one. Her silhouette in the first book's cover makes it more obvious. Valkyrie gives one to Skulduggery in The Dying of the Light when it seems like he's about to sacrifice himself to stop the Accelerator from overloading. Fortunately, he doesn't - turns out that the willing sacrifice is heavy on the Exact Words. Namely, that the person has to be willingly sacrificed. There's nothing requiring them to be willing to be sacrificed.

Big Bad Friend: In Last Stand of Dead Men, none of the Dead Men were expecting the Big Bad to be one of them. It's exciting, pacy, nicely handled and it's fun. There's nothing worthy about it, and it's all the better for that. And, I might add, it's self-contained. Landy may well revisit these characters – I sincerely hope he does – but it's a pleasingly rounded tale, which is refreshing in these days of endless open-ended books of never-ending series. [44] This section needs to be updated. The reason given is: it should cover more than just the first book. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. ( April 2020)Big Bad: Every book in the series has one. The first nine gradually build up to Darquesse, Valkyrie's true name and Superpowered Evil Side, who becomes more powerful and more uncaring towards human life as the series goes on, before approaching all-consuming compassion from the other side.

In the first book Steph wakes up to Wagner's Ride of the Valkryies at thunderous volume, the day she gains her third name. In fact, in the very next paragraph she is wondering what name to take. Slightly later on somebody makes the statement that 'Trouble follows' in Skulduggery's wake. It's reasonable to guess that this foreshadows Valkyrie's second name, Cain, which is an intentional reference to her being troublesome, and at the point it's said Stephanie is basically just following Skulduggery around. Indeed Skulduggery describes her as "troublesome" very soon afterwards. In Book Four, Skulduggery is revealed to have undergone this at the hands of the Faceless Ones for an entire year. He seems to have come out the other side more or less fine, but it's shown there are some scars... and it unhinged him enough that his subconscious reanimated the armour of Lord Vile.Scenes like Skulduggery using a rhyming incantation to cast a spell on Valkyrie's mirror would be very out of place in the later books, where magic and magical objects are portrayed as innate and needing no activation besides a person willing it - though it does get a nod via the Languages of Magic and Batu's symbol to attract the Faceless Ones into hosts. Magicians Are Wizards: In ''Dead Or Alive, Valkyrie interviews a low level mage called Fernando Marvellious who uses wing magic to levitate objects for a mortal audience.

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