the iron wyrm affair by lilith saintcrow

Sherlock Scan: One of Clare's specialties, especially regarding people.Royal 'We': When monarchs like Queen Victrix speak like this, they're speaking for both themselves and the ruling spirit that inhabits their body.Our Dragons Are Different: Usually referred to as 'wyrms', and have the power to cause areas of timeless irrationality around them.All he's willing to admit is that he killed someone. Clare, meanwhile, starts the series off having lost his mentath registration not that long ago for unknown reasons.A month before the beginning of The Iron Wyrm Affair, Emma nearly had her magic stolen by another sorcerer.Necromancer: A Black sorcerer or sorceress of the Endor, like Emma, is capable of doing things like summoning up a legion of the dead and a Pale Horse to ride on, but only at night.Name and Name: The series takes its title from the last names of its two main characters, Emma Bannon and Archibald Clare.

My Skull Runneth Over: In an inversion, mentaths can screw over their brains if they don't get enough mental stimulation.Jack the Ripoff: The Ripper Affair, as the title implies, involves an alternate-history version of the Ripper murders.Instant Awesome: Just Add Mecha!: The climax of The Iron Wyrm Affair involves a giant spider mecha controlled by an insane mentath attacking Buckingham Palace.Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Every book is titled 'The X Affair'.Gaslamp Fantasy: A steampunk setting where magic happens to mostly edge out technology.Awesomeness by Analysis: Clare can deduce a great deal about a situation from almost anything he sees or hears, except if it's explicitly magical.Altered people who just have replacement limbs are fine, but anything beyond that, such as to the torso, is considered. Artificial Limbs: Referred to as 'Alterations'.And Now for Someone Completely Different: The Damnation Affair takes place in a completely different part of the setting (this world's version of The Wild West instead of Great Britain) and stars a completely different set of characters.

The Collected Adventures of Bannon & Clare (omnibus).

The series begins when, after a series of attacks on registered mentaths and disappearances of unregistered ones, Sorceress Prime Emma Bannon recruits recently unregistered mentath Archibald Clare, and the two try to stop a plot against the entire realm.

Bannon & Clare is a series of four books by Lilith Saintcrow, set in an alternate Victorian Era where sorcerers, mentaths, dragons, gryphons and the like coexist.

The iron wyrm affair by lilith saintcrow