Afterword

Due to the length of this and the increased research and complexity, it has taken a full week to get this put together. It also makes the category sections very long, so I am this time breaking it up into the ten episodes, and putting the Easter Eggs, Links to Canon, Random Clues and Trivia under the subheading of each episode. I'm sure that'll make more sense when you see it. It should certainly make it easier to reread a chapter, should you wish, with all that info on hand and together.

I'm not including character arcs in this one, as most of them are not entirely done yet and it would give away too much of the next series. The general arc of this series is from a feeling of isolation and disparity to one of unity and family. I am including the actors I envisaged playing some of the new characters, though, so I'll start there.


Additional Cast, in order of appearance:

Professor Wilkins: Danny Bruno (Leverage and Grimm fans, especially the latter, may recognise him. He plays Bud.)

Leonardo da Vinci: David McCallum (Ducky in NCIS, and of course, most famously, Illya Kuryakin in The Man from UNCLE.)

Flora McLeod: Annette Crosbie (Born Annette Ross McLeod Crosbie, and no, I didn't know that when I picked her!)

Mhairi (pronounced Marry) McLeod: Kate Dickie (GoT fans may know her better as the slightly cracked Lysa Arryn), although the character was slightly based on an ex-boss of mine.

Seonaidh (pronounced Shona) McLeod: Sophie Kennedy Clarke. Actually based on a young woman of my acquaintance, of exceptional intelligence and individuality, with absolutely no airs or bad attitude and not a single clue how pretty she actually is, who could easily be on the candidate list for Librarians were the Library real. No, not me. I'm old enough to be her mother!

Snake Owner - Not telling!

Grey Man - Tom Noonan

Simmonds - Ben Mansfield


Episode 1: And the Quest for the Thief's Chalice:

Chapter 1:
Easter Eggs:
(Obvious references to Hamlet, Beowulf and Lucrezia Borgia not included)

Jenkins: "I point and laugh at archaeologists" - Doctor Who (10)

Jenkins: "We simple witnesses..." - Reference to a character from the Kate Mosse books "Labyrinth" and "Sepulchre". They are worth reading. Some areas of the stories are very adult, though, so not for you youngsters, yet. Trust me, they'll make more sense with a bit of life experience behind you too.

Jenkins: "But then I was on a quest for an entirely different chalice." - Yep, that would be the Holy Grail.

Random Clues to Stuff:
Jenkins (about the chalice): "I strongly suggest avoiding alcohol, also: it is a poison after all." - Yep, he's talking from experience.

Chapter 2:
Easter Eggs:
Jenkins: "Go steal an archaeology team." - A nod to Leverage's episodic catchphrase "Let's go steal a ..."

Jones' nom de guerre, "Mr Smith" - The Doctor's preferred pseudonym is generally "John Smith".

General thievery of ideas from Time Team, and yes, I really did consider Tony Robinson for Professor Wilkins.

Jenkins: "I remember stories, when I was young, of murderers being forced to carry their victims to the king, or queen, for judgement." - That would be a tale of Lancelot, who, during one of his wanderings, came across a woman whose husband was attempting to beat and kill her. He promised the woman his protection, fought with the husband, and was taking them both with him on his travels when he was distracted and the husband took the opportunity to chop off his wife's head. Lancelot was so enraged that he hung the wife's body over her husband's back, and her head from his neck, and sent him to King Arthur's court to beg mercy of Queen Guinevere.

Jones: "It's a reflex" - I believe Parker, from Leverage, said something similar. Now there's a head-to-head I'd love to see!

'This was his white whale' - reference to Moby Dick. Not one of my favourites, but good for pub quizzes. The first line is "Call me Ishmael", if you're ever asked!

Random Clues to Stuff:
There were always going to be earthquakes in this series, but the coincidental occurrence of the major one in Nepal made me put this in in greater detail, actually sending the Librarians out there to help. There wasn't much else I could do but pray for them, and this is part of my way of doing that. The presence of earthquakes here and later in the series, however, were originally planned simply as one of the signs that foreshadow Ragnarok.

Chapter 3:
Easter Eggs:
Stone: "I'll probably wake up in a hundred years surrounded by thorn bushes!" - Reference to Sleeping Beauty.

Links to Canon:
Cassandra: "Baird's the Princess, remember." - Reference to Baird's metamorphosis during their encounter with the Libris Fabula in "And the Fables of Doom".

Random Clues to Stuff:
Stone makes a reference to the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale. This is a clue to what will happen to Cassandra later when her use of magic knocks her out and she is placed in an upper room in the 'Fairy Tower' at Dunvegan to recover. And yes, it is actually called that!

When Stone tells Cassandra about his conversation with the man in Nepal, who calls him an idiot for not being married to Cassandra, it's also a forerunner of conversations to come.

Chapter 4:
Easter Eggs:
Jenkins (regarding the smell of apples): "It's quite distinct." - One of the many catchphrases in Leverage is Eliot's "It's a very distinctive..." whenever he identifies something nobody else could.

Mary Mallon, who is mentioned while Jenkins is agonising over what to do about Jones' car and dive gear, is also known as Typhoid Mary. She was a famously asymptomatic carrier of the typhoid virus. She never even knew she had it. This was a real case, minus the magical interference, of course.

Links to Canon:
Jones: "Don't do punchy." - I'm sure he's said it more than once, but my headache is currently preventing me remembering exactly when. I think it was en route from the henge to the helicopter in 'and the Crown of King Arthur', and maybe again in 'and the Heart of Darkness'.

Random Clues to Stuff:
The loss of enough of Idunn's apples to make the potion that Ezekiel found with the chalice is in itself a link to Ragnarok, and the first main clue that that was where this was heading.

Jenkins' comment that "certain deities do tend to view the Library as their own personal vault" is a clue to Eve's adventure to find the statue of Pakhet. We're not done with that yet either!

Jenkins had been in Sweden around the same time as Beowulf. That's a story for another time.

The 'magically invoked chemical burn' that Eve gets is a hint that not everything going on in Nepal in the story is solely because of the disaster there in real life.

Chapter 5:
Easter Eggs:
'Time is an illusion. Lunch time doubly so.' - Quote from Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

'Desert-island books' is a reference to the long-running BBC Radio 4 show 'Desert-Island Discs'. Famous people pick five musical pieces they would want to have with them were they to be stranded on a desert island. Personally, I'd rather have a TARDIS. For more on Jenkins choices, see the Trivia section.

Jenkins: "Once upon a time, there was a king named Pelles..." - King Pelles was the father of Elaine, mother of Galahad (i. e. he was Jenkins' grandfather).

Cassandra: "Keep telling yourself that, sweetie." - 'Sweetie' is another Doctor Who reference. Everyone picks up something from watching those DVDs with Jones, but Cassandra had already stolen River's pet name for the Doctor to use for Stone. I have considered the scene in which Stone works out where she got it from. I'm still not sure how he'd react!

Jenkins (regarding the crystal sphere on his desk): "Present from a king." - Reference to Labyrinth, and the crystal sphere Jareth the Goblin King, holds at the start.

Jenkins: "Once I met a beautiful lady in Naples." - That would be Lucrezia Borgia.

Jenkins age is a reference to Malory's "Le Morte D'Arthur", and the dates he gives therein. From them you can work out Galahad's date of birth, more or less.

Links to Canon:
The phrase 'Beware the hero' is a link to the Latin phrase Morgan tells Eve in 'and the Rule of Three'.

The reference to 'mosquito tone' is a link to Cassandra's use of it in 'and the City of Light'.

Episode Trivia:
Gamla Uppsala is home to three tumuli, the oldest in Sweden's history, and two of those have indeed been excavated. A barrow, or tumulus, was erected around the remains of a funeral pyre just as Jenkins describes in chapter 2.

Jones' SCUBA dry suit woes, with the need for ankle weights, is based on my own experience of learning to dive in cold water. If you're short, you really do need a custom-made dry suit.

The gems listed when Jones discovers the dragon's lair in chapter 3 ('Rubies, amber, citrine, emeralds, turquoise, sapphire and amethyst'), in their most common colours, make a rainbow.

There is a running joke in my (polylingual) family that anything said in German, with the right attitude, sounds like swearing. Hence the comment about cursing being easy to recognise in any language, with the possible exception of German, when Jenkins swears in 'a language Ezekiel had never heard before'. The language is in fact Anglo-Saxon, which would have been Jenkins' first language, if I have my dates right.

Maybe one day I'll tell the tale of the bullet Baird removed in the first aid room.

Old viruses are just as scary as new ones. Viable microbes have been discovered under permafrost that are thousands of years old, and the famous 'curses' of the Egyptians were usually just caused by inhaling dormant fungal spores that had been walled in there five thousand or so years ago. In Ezekiel's case, his virus was less scary, as it was only passed on through direct contact with the Thief when she scratched his cheek and drew blood. It could have caused an epidemic, had Jenkins not spotted it so quickly and kept him isolated throughout, but not half as easily as had it been airborne.

The example right at the start of chapter 5 of how time becomes blurred without windows or clocks is taken directly from my own university days as a postgraduate, when they give you your own office to ensconce yourself in. My first office had neither windows nor clocks and was sufficiently far from the lecture theatres that time really would just slip away from me.

Jenkins' 'Desert-island books':
Aristophanes wrote, amongst other things, the comedy "Lysistrata". I own a copy of his three Theban plays in which the Spartans of "Lysistrata" have been given Scottish accents. It's hilarious! I would love to see it performed! Again, not one for the younglings though. Very definitely contains adult humour!

Paul Davies wrote the non-fiction theoretical physics book "How to build a Time Machine". Yes, I do own a copy. No, I haven't read the whole thing, only parts.

Jules Verne's books are famous among sci-fi fans, and their mention here is a link to the mention in The Heart of Magic that Verne was a Librarian, and the episode later in this series where Stone and Cassandra followed his riddles to find the original copy of his book 'Paris in the 21st century'.

I have several books of collected poems, some of which got referenced last time around, some of which I'm in!

Malory wrote the massive work known as "Le Morte D'Arthur", one of the key sources for Arthurian legends. Malory wrote it. Jenkins lived it.

Homer wrote "The Odyssey" and "The Iliad", two versions of the tale of the siege of Troy and of the ten year journey of one of the Greek heroes of that siege, namely Odysseus/Ullyses, to find his way home, by a very circuitous route.


Episode 2: And the Quest for the Pharaoh's Cat:

Chapter 6:
Easter Eggs:
Flynn: "The whole of time and space" - a reference to the TARDIS.

Flynn and Eve's "I love you", "I know" exchange is a Star Wars reference. It's a thing Han and Leia do.

The scene where they are standing on top of the cliff above Deir el Bahri is a reference to the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters. (DEFINITELY worth reading, by all!) It is a favourite viewpoint of the titular character.

Links to Canon:
Flynn: "Every day, we learn something new!" - One of Flynn's catchphrases, from the series and the films, is "There's always something new to learn."

Flynn: "And I just love learning!" - Link to the first film where Flynn is defending his perennial studenthood to a young woman his mother has invited over.

Baird: "Nope!" - Do I even need to explain?

Baird: "that darn time machine" - in the films we learn that H.G. Wells' time machine is in the Library.

Flynn: "Just since the last time we were here" - actually linking to the Heart of Magic episode 'The Book of Thoth', not the canon episode 'and the Loom of Fate'. I know 'The Book of Thoth' is chronologically the earlier of the two, but it is the one where Flynn was in Egypt with Baird, and Jones with them, rather than Baird being in Egypt with the LiT's and Flynn meeting them there.

Chapter 7:
Links to Canon:

The pith helmet is a link to the one Flynn wore at the start of the first film.

Random Clues to Stuff:
Flynn mentions that it is cool for the time of year in Egypt. This is the beginning of a trend marking the start of the three year long winter that precedes Ragnarok.

Chapter 8:
Easter Eggs:
Eve's 'dream' is a reference to the Elizabeth Peters book "Seeing a Large Cat", it is not the first of the Amelia Peabody series, but it is the first one I read.

Chapter 9:
Easter Eggs:
Flynn's multidimensional satchel is a recurring reference to the Luggage from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. I may have already mentioned this last series.

Random Clues to Stuff:
Wilkins tells Ezekiel that the temperature is quite mild for that time of year, at the dig. Ezekiel feels it much colder. A hint that Wilkins is not to be trusted.

Episode Trivia:
Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun.


Episode 3: And the Quest for the Book

Chapter 10:
Easter Eggs:
The mention of the labyrinth at Chartres cathedral is another nod to the book "Labyrinth" by Kate Mosse.

Links to Canon:
I may have made a little dig at how bad Stone's French accent was in City of Light, but I did also supply him with an excuse.

Chapter 11:
Easter Eggs:
Baird: "Oh, he needs me. He doesn't know it, but he needs me." - Lines from the beautiful Nina Simone song "He Needs Me".

Baird: "Sad is good. Apparently it's happy for deep people." - Reference to Doctor Who episode Blink.

Cassandra calls Stone "sweetie" again. Yeah, that's gonna keep happening.

Chapter 12:
Easter Eggs:
Try asking Siri. You get some interesting answers.

The rain in Paris, and Cassandra's blue dress, is their own little Casablanca reference. It comes from Rick's memory of his last day in Paris and his line "The sky was grey, you wore blue."

The description of "the pavement shining up at them like silvered glass" is a Les Mis reference, stealing the line from "On My Own" - "In the rain, the pavement shines like silver."

Links to Canon:
I think the link to City of Light is rather obvious there.

Random Clues to Stuff:
Of course Jenkins knew how many stops there were! He didn't know what the riddles were or where they were, though, only how many.

Chapter 13:
Easter Eggs:
Stone (regarding moss): "It's green and it grows north," - A line shamelessly stolen from Veritas: The Quest.

The discussion about Cassandra being "very, very, very drunk" is a reference to the story "Saffron" on here. It links into this 'verse.

"The occasional Greek myth" is a reference to Eros (cupid) who showed up in The Heart of Magic to give Stone a talking to.

Chapter 14:
Easter Eggs:
Ezekiel uses the term "hinkey", which was stolen from NCIS.

Links to Canon:
Ezekiel's reference to a murderous ghost girl and a dollhouse are reference to their adventure "and the Heart of Darkness".

Random Clues to Stuff:
Flynn's sense of foreboding is linked to Eve hiding something (the details of her visions of Pakhet) from him.

The book the Library throws at Jones when he makes a remark about it not giving clear enough clues is a book on Norse mythology, containing the details on Ragnarok.

Episode Trivia:
Amiens Cathedral does indeed hold a skull purporting to be the head of St. John the Baptist. As far as I could see there were no numbers in his eye sockets though!

You can indeed hire bicycles in Amiens, and there are many things there worth visiting, including the cathedral and, of course the house of Jules Verne.

The best Turkish restaurant I ever ate in was in Rheims (or Reims, but either spelling can be used), and the little pink wafers are a local delicacy. And there is also lots of fantastic architecture from all manner of time periods.

The Riddles, Episode 3:
1: To Chartres Cathedral

His:
"Le temps est venu de chercher mon livre
Qui ne pourrait jamais être lu."

"Où, à quarante ans, je dis une prière pour toi,
Et laissé là pour vous de lire.
"

Translation:
"The time is here to seek my book
That never could be read."

"Where, at forty years, I said a prayer for thee,
And left it there for you to read."

Hers:
"Cherchez-moi d'abord en dessous du Siège de la Sagesse,
Où clochers inégalées transcendent l'air."

"Pour protéger l'avenir, la piste est longue
Et créé seulement pour vous.
"

Translation:
"Seek me first below the Seat of Wisdom,
Where unmatched spires transcend the air."

"To protect the future, the trail is long
And created just for you."

Full:
"Le temps est venu de chercher mon livre
Qui ne pourrait jamais être lu.
Pour protéger l'avenir, la piste est longue
Et créé seulement pour vous.

Cherchez-moi d'abord en dessous du Siège de la Sagesse,
Où clochers inégalées transcendent l'air.
Où, à quarante ans, je dis une prière pour toi,
Et laissé là pour vous de lire.
"

Translation:
"The time is here to seek my book
That never could be read.
To protect the future, the trail is long
And created just for you.

Seek me first below the Seat of Wisdom,
Where unmatched spires transcend the air.
Where, at forty years, I said a prayer for thee,
And left it there for you to read."

2: To Amiens Cathedral
"Sous le regard de celui qui a fait le droit chemin dans le désert, mes paroles vous mènera en avant."

3: To Notre-Dame de Paris
Right eye: 1160-1345
Left eye: 128/387

4: To Rheims (Reims) Cathedral
"Où celui qui a volé le Vase sacré,
Était, comme tous ceux qui le suivit, couronné.
Mes mots, en vue et le son, sonne vrai,
Autour du bord de la jupe de Charlotte."

5: To the Eiffel Tower
"Mi sciis lia naskigloko antau naskigis,
Mi piediris la stratojn de urbo nekonata,
perdita sed ankorau ne vidis.

Kie amantoj renkonti kateni sian vivon
Au riski sian felicon sur ununura demando
Tie vi trovos mian finan vorton."

6: To the House of Jules Verne
"Une ville flottante contient la clé
Où ils vont construire un sanctuaire pour moi
Ci-dessous ses mâts le livre sera
En attente de climats plus chauds de toi
Caché dans la vue pour tout voir
Bibliothécaires: garder en sécurité pour moi."


Episode 4: And the Quest for the Lost Leonardo

Chapter 16:
Easter Eggs:
Stone and his mug of coffee may be a tiny little nod to Leverage episode 1 and the flashback scene where we find out what Eliot does.

Links to Canon:
The sarcasm exchange between Flynn and Ezekiel is a link to the same between Flynn and Eve, when Flynn was on the receiving end of the sarcasm in question.

The Houdini mention is a link to the films.

Chapter 17:
Easter Eggs:
There was no way the Turtles were not going to get a mention in this episode somewhere.

Eve (responding to Jenkins' query on how poorly women view their partners): "Only the sensible ones." - reference to Shakespeare's "As You Like It" and Ganymede's assertion "O, that woman that cannot make her fault her husband's occasion, let her never nurse her child herself or she will breed it like a fool!"

Links to Canon:
Morgan le Fay mention obviously links back to "and the Rule of Three".

Flynn's mention of having been at a few auctions himself is a link back to the start of the third film.

The mentions of the Libris Fabula and Bremen link back to "and the Fables of Doom".

Flynn mentions his photographic memory in "and the Crown of King Arthur" when they first find Cassandra.

We all know where "We pay attention" links to!

Chapter 18:
Easter Eggs:
The decanters marked Yeksihw, Ydnarb and Mur are a nod to Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, in which the head of the Assassin's Guild has a similar set of decanters. Just don't accept a drink from the one labelled Nosiop!

The panic room is, of course, an idea stolen from the film "Panic Room"...

Links to Canon:
Not technically canon, but the case Flynn and Ezekiel discuss is the one that they are investigating at the start of the "Trouble Over Nothing" episode of "The Heart of Magic". It is the same episode where they last all went out for dinner, and Shakespeare's Quill intervened.

The point of that conversation links back to the start of the series and Judson's worries over Flynn spending too much time alone.

The last mystery house they worked on was the one in the canon series, in "and the Heart of Darkness".

Random Clues to Stuff:
The room Stone discovers with the "long desk, easel and covered canvas" belonged to da Vinci. If he'd been a bit nosier, he'd have worked out exactly what, or who, the Library had sent them there to find.

The original cover Jules Verne novels were a hint they were dealing with a person not an artefact.

The da Vinci manuscripts in with the philosophers is another, rather blatant, hint about whom, or whose work, they were dealing with.

Chapter 19:
Easter Eggs:

Flynn: "another fine mess..." - Laurel and Hardy reference.

Ezekiel: "There are only two hackers in the world better than me," - Those would be called Chaos and Alec Hardison... (Yes, that was a pun a little later.)

Ezekiel: "Or there's some other genius computer geek..." - That would be Jack, from The Tribe. In my head, anyway. I've referred to him as such in my Tribe fanfics.

Stone: "Hey, who turned out the lights?" - Big Doctor Who reference.

Ezekiel: "Patience, grasshopper," - It's a phrase that is now so much a part of the pop-culture zeitgeist, even I had to look it up. Apparently it's originally from a 1970's show called "Kung Fu".

Chapter 20:
Easter Eggs:

Da Vinci (to Jenkins): "...my gentle, perfect friend?" - paraphrasing a line from Chaucer's "Knight's Tale" from "The Canterbury Tales": "He was a truly perfect, gentle knight". Galahad was also known as the most perfect knight that ever was or will be.

Episode Trivia:
Answers to Stone's Questions to Ezekiel, Chapter 17

The first artist to use the impressionist style was Claude Monet, along with his friends Renoir, Sisley and Bazille. The style takes its name from one of his paintings, "Impression, Sunrise".

Egg white, or a part of it, known as glair, was used as a binding agent in paints for the detailed illuminations in mediaeval manuscripts. It was one of the most commonly used binding agents up until the 14th century, when it was gradually replaced with gum arabic.

The hollow casting method, or lost wax method, for bronze casting goes back over five thousand years. I doubt even Stone knows who invented that one!

Cubism might be the easy one, and the only one Ezekiel could answer, but it's also one that is argued over. It wasn't just invented by Pablo Picasso. It was indeed also invented by Georges Braque. Although Picasso's 1907 painting "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" shows the beginnings of the cubist style, it was Braque's 1908 piece "Houses at L'Estaque" that first earned the description "cubism".


Episode 5: And the Quest for the Dress

Chapter 21:
Easter Eggs:
Eve's comparison of Flynn to a drunken giraffe may have been another teensy Doctor Who reference.

Eve's comparison of Stone to a guy with a "brain the size of a planet" was definitely a Hitch-hiker's Guide reference!

Flynn (regarding asking Stone to be best man): "...and of course he acquiesced to my request." - Pirates of the Caribbean reference.

Random Clues to Stuff:
Remember that pre-wedding spa day they girls staked during their betting? That would have taken place on April 1st. If you're wondering what happened, go read "April Fools".

Chapter 22:
Easter Eggs:
Jenkins (regarding the girls' giggling fits): "Maids are May when they are maids," - quote from "As You Like It" by William Shakespeare.

The inflating eyes comment is another one knicked from Doctor Who.

Chapter 23:
Links to Canon:

Eve: "my Italian is much better." - Link to "and the Apple of Discord" where she explains Stone's outburst to the Italian police and museum guards.

Chapter 24:
Random Clues to Stuff:

This is where it becomes clear that Trudi is a giant from Jotunheim. Jotunheim is one of the nine worlds of Norse mythology. Also, the girls did not get drawn there by the Library. A hint that there was a recurring Norse theme going on throughout this series, and that it had a bigger part to play than normal cases.

Chapter 25:
Easter Eggs:

The name of the dwarf, Snorri, is a nod to the Snorri Sturluson who wrote the "Prose Edda" of Norse mythology in the 13th century. Despite the temptation to pronounce his name akin to those of Grumpy, Sleepy, Sneezy, et al., he was not actually a dwarf. He certainly seems to have lived an interesting life though!

The promise of Snorri to "bring the stars and moon down from the sky" is a reference to the Meatloaf song "I'd Lie For You (And That's The Truth)" and the line "And if you want the moon I swear I'll bring it down for you".

Rerir, the dragon whom Snorri raised from an egg, is a nod to Hagrid's pet dragon Norbert in Harry Potter.

The mention of items forged in dragon fire is a nod to Game of Thrones.

Random Clues to Stuff:
When Trudi talks about the giant her brother wants her to marry, she says "he will be among the first to lead the rise". The "rise" she is talking about is Ragnarok.

The story Snorri tells of the human smith with elf blood who married a Valkyr is the tale of Völund and Hervor, whom we meet later.

**The entirety of episodes 4 and 5 are an homage to the two Leverage episodes "The Girls' Night Out Job" and "The Boys' Night Out Job".**

Episode Trivia:
All the wedding dresses the girls look at in Bloomingdale's are from the Bloomingdale's website.

The Library's Bets:
"Mr Stone will attempt to punch somebody" - while not overtly written in to the story line, Stone tried to punch one of his captors.

"The Librarians will meet a familiar face" - they met Leonardo da Vinci.

Other bets not mentioned in the story:
"Mr Houdini's books will be of use." - Flynn and Jones were practised enough in Houdini's techniques to free themselves. Stone hadn't quite got the hang of it yet.

"Curiosity will cause trouble." - It was Flynn's curiosity that opened the door to the panic room, but it was the curiosity of both Flynn and Jones that got them stuck in it. They didn't both have to go in.

"Mr Jones will refer to himself at least once as 'awesome'." - He did.

Bets all three agreed on:

"Mr Jones will attempt to steal something." - Following their return to the Library, Colonel Baird subsequently found three snuffboxes, two antique letter openers, seven rings, a silver bracelet, and a gold, diamond and sapphire brooch on the person of Mr Jones.

"Mr Jones and Mr Stone will argue." - Well, of course they will!

"Mr Carsen will fall over." - He may have tripped up the stairs while he and Ezekiel were being captured.


Episode 6: And the Quest for the Ghost

Chapter 26:
Easter Eggs:
I picked Culzean because I love it, not because of the Most Haunted episode. I only found out about that whilst researching the ghosts. It's worth watching on You Tube though, if you're not easily freaked out!

"Ghosties, ghoulies and things that go bump in the night" is a traditional Scottish way of describing ghost stories. I anglified it a bit to fit with the rest of the sentence though.

Stone (in response to Flynn poo-pooing his threat to let Ezekiel help plan the bachelor party): "Bet?" - A line shamelessly stolen from Commander Sam Vimes, Ankh Morpork City Watch, Discworld. I now have an image in my head of a certain Mr Kane playing Commander Vimes. The uniform doesn't suit him.

The newspaper headline "There's Been A Murder" is a reference to Taggart. For those who don't know it, it's a Scottish police-based murder mystery series set in Glasgow famous for the lead character saying that line repeatedly throughout his tenure there, and for usually having half a dozen grisly corpses by the end of the first half! For Taggart himself, think of a shorter, much more Scottish version of Gibbs from NCIS, but less cheerful and much more sarcastic.

Jenkins' dig "which aisle of shelves shall I send him to" is taken from the old joke sign sometimes hung on the back of the newlyweds' car as they leave for honeymoon, along with the tins et cetera. It reads "Aisle Altar Hymn".

I feel no need to explain the Titanic reference. I get a sinking feeling just thinking about it.

Random Clues to Stuff:
Jenkins (regarding Casanova and promises): "Money was another matter entirely." - At some point in his history, money was exchanged between Jenkins and Casanova. How exactly is another story entirely. One that may yet be told.

The two Tennyson books are being borrowed by Jacob and Cassandra. Just in case that wasn't painfully obvious.

Chapter 27:
Links to Canon:
The narrative from Flynn's point of view at the start refers to the trio as "his little LiT's", linking back to "and the Sword in the Stone"

Ezekiel's comment about Cassandra having "form for killing a ghost" links back to "and the Heart of Darkness".

Obvious links to "and the Crown of King Arthur" aside, I have a personal head canon that the painting Jones was stealing in the intro of "and the Rule of Three" was that one.

Chapter 28:
Easter Eggs:
Cassandra: "We were dealing with a demon in Des Moines" - reference to Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.

Lots of Doctor Who references with the fake names here.

The "Vault" is a slight reference to Warehouse 13 and its Escher Vault. It's the same vault here that Ezekiel starts working on after visiting the one in the Serpent Brotherhood's warehouse (another nod to Warehouse 13).

Links to Canon:
Emily Davenport, for anyone who hasn't seen it, was in the second Librarian film. She was Flynn's love interest and has three more degrees than he does.

Eve: "Start with fiancée!" - link to their very first encounter in "and the Crown of King Arthur" and the line "Start with don't!"

Random Clues to Stuff:
The earthquakes Cassandra mentions, in China and New Zealand, are forerunners of Ragnarok.

There are at least two more thieves among the history of past Librarians, according to da Vinci.

Chapter 29:
Easter Eggs:

There are too many artists mentioned directly here to bother listing them!

Links to Canon:
Those ghost goggles Ezekiel is wearing are the ones from "and the City of Light".

Chapter 30:
Links to Canon:

Mention of the Labyrinth from "and the Horns of a Dilemma".

Mention of Cassandra's photographic memory, linking back to when they first found her in "and the Crown of King Arthur".

Chapter 31:
Easter Eggs:
When Ezekiel calls Cassandra "Melinda", he is referring to Melinda Gordon, the title character of the series "Ghost Whisperer".

When Baird calls her "Egon", she is referring to Egon Spengler, one of the Ghostbusters. The geekiest one. When she calls Ezekiel "Venkman" she's referring to another member of the Ghostbusters team, Peter Venkman - the charmer.

Stone's "girl in the fireplace" comment is yet another Doctor Who reference.

Random Clues to Stuff:
We get the first real sign of other players on the hunt for something.

Episode Trivia:
All the great writers Flynn names in Chapter 26 come from my own bookshelf or Kindle.

There are tons of Scottish place names that are constantly being mispronounced by unsuspecting weather people and news readers. Some examples include Culross (Koo-rus), Milngavie (Mul-guy), Kirkudbright (Kir-kood-bree) and Kirkcaldy (Kir-kaw-dee).

All the ghosts mentioned at Culzean Castle are taken from legitimate legends.

There is such a thing as a boat carriage, and it lives at Culzean.

There is a deliberate difference in the speech of Ezekiel and the speech of Cassandra when they are hiding in the tunnels in chapter 30. Ezekiel's lines lack the letter s or indeed any sibilants. Cassandra's do not, with the exception of her last line of the scene "I am talking quietly". The use of sibilants makes a distinctly louder noise, especially when one is whispering.


Episode 7: And the Quest for the Stone

Chapter 33:
Easter Eggs:
The "pyramid in Antarctica" is a reference to the one found by the Veritas: The Quest crew in their second episode.

The link between Ezekiel's Iceland jokes and his calling Eve "Mother" is a reference to the TV advert for the British supermarket chain "Iceland", which has for many years sported the catchphrase "That's why Mum's gone to Iceland".

Ezekiel (regarding UK TV): "Plus they have much more realistic soap operas than the states." - a nod to John Kim's previous role in the Australian soap Neighbours, which I believe is still aired in the UK. I certainly grew up with it, but I remember when Sons and Daughters and The Sullivans was on TV!

Ezekiel (Regarding Baird's opinion of soap operas): "I take exception to that statement!" - as above!

The description of Flora as having "come straight from a moorland in a Scottish Play" is a reference to Shakespeare's witches in Macbeth, a.k.a "The Scottish Play".

Auld creaky is a pun on Auld Reekie, the Scottish nickname for Edinburgh, our capital city.

Random Clues to Stuff:
The volcano waking up in Iceland due to an "unknown trigger" is another link to the tremors caused by the Midgard Serpent awakening before Ragnarok.

Okay, everyone knows by now that Flora and Jenkins have a history. You'll find out more about that next series. You may even find out where he got the name Jenkins. I am really gonna have to write out a timeline for that guy...

Flora (to Eve regarding her plea for helpful knowledge): "I know many things of that ilk, lassie. Not that you'll be needing them for a while though." - Oh yes, that one's coming back to bite them!

Chapter 34:
Easter Eggs:

"Hold Fast" is the motto of Clan MacLeod.

"A spider weaving its web of fate" is a reference to the traditional story that, after failing to beat the English half a dozen times, Bruce retired to a cave, to hide. He was on the verge of giving up the battle entirely when he saw a spider in the corner of the cave, attempting to swing itself across to its web to complete its work. Six times the spider swung across and missed. The seventh time, it succeeded. This inspired Bruce to continue fighting and on the next and seventh attempt, he won.

Mhairi talking more when the three women begin talking about weddings is a little nod to the Scottish song "Mhairi's Wedding". "Step we gaily, on we go. Heel for heel and toe for toe. Arm in arm and row on row. All for Mhairi's wedding." Yes, that's the reason, the only reason, she's called Mhairi.

Jenkins (regarding Flynn's comment on confusing 'Stone' and 'the Stone'): "Worse if you include its original owner," - According to legend, the original owner of the Stone of Destiny was Jacob, from the bible, who used it as his pillow and saw the ladder of angels. Therefore we would have 'Jacob Stone' versus 'Jacob's Stone'. I probably find this more amusing than I should and I have no doubt Messieurs Rogers and Devlin have already thought of it.

Chapter 36:
Easter Eggs:

Jenkins: "A calling that brings a great responsibility, and with that great responsibility comes great power." - A nod to the Spiderman line "With great power comes great responsibility."

The phrase "power of three" was stolen from Charmed.

I trust the Superman and kryptonite references speak for themselves.

Links to Canon:
Morgan le Fay and the app she created, from "and the Rule of Three" are mentioned again.

Chapter 37:
Easter Eggs:

Ezekiel: "...she knows every single episode of Doctor Who. All thirty four series." - reference to "Arrow", where Felicity says pretty much the same thing about Ray.

Flynn: "But this is not the stone we were looking for." - A nod to Star Wars' "These are not the droids you are looking for."

Random Clues to Stuff:
Eve (to Stone and Cassandra): "Please tell me you two don't have some weird bucket list of make-out spots." - They do. Of course they do. They will be visiting a few more of them next series too.

Snake (it was a cobra) Owner baddie (identity yet to be revealed): "What am I saying: I would love to shoot you, Colonel. It would save so much trouble. What I would hate to have to do, really, is explain to my boss why and how you were shot. Especially when they particularly want to attend your wedding." - Well there's a massive clue to someone's identity right there! But did I mean Wilkins, or the evil queen? Muahahahahaaaaa.

The tall, greying man is another unidentified baddie who will return.

"Something in the voice was familiar, Eve thought." - A clue to the identity of the Snake Owner.

"The Serpent Stirs" is referring to the waking of Jormungand, the Midgard Serpent. One of the first signs of Ragnarok.

Episode Trivia:
There is a legend regarding Saint Columba banishing a water monster from Loch Ness. No, really. There is!

There is currently scaffolding up around the great donjon tower of Bothwell Castle. Unfortunately, unlike Stone and Cassandra and the other visitors in the story, real visitors cannot enter the tower while the work is being carried out. It's a shame for anyone visiting just now, as the donjon is awesome in every sense of the word, but repairs were necessary to preserve it.


Episode 8: And the Quest for the Ring

Chapter 38:
Easter Eggs:

The "we are not her boys" exchange between Ezekiel and Stone is taken from Doctor Who, when Rory and The Doctor say the same set of lines in response to a comment of Amy's. Yes, Jones did it deliberately, just to wind Stone up.

Links to Canon:
If you hadn't spotted it already, "vexing" is becoming a favourite word between Flynn and Eve.

The cases Flynn is talking about, in case you haven't read is, are episodes from "The Heart of Magic", not the canon series.

Random Clues to Stuff:
Flynn: "We're off to Norway again." - He's referring to a case that has not yet been told in these stories. It might come up next series.

Chapter 39:
Easter Eggs:
"Edges were important. Things happen at edges." - Reference to a similar sentiment voiced by Granny Weatherwax, of Discworld fame, to trainee witch Tiffany Aching. Or possibly infamy, depending on who you ask...

Random Clues to Stuff:
The Douglas motto, "Never Behind", is actually a clue that Cassandra and Ezekiel stumble across, but don't understand at the time. They do later. It's linked to the Runestone's oracular abilities.

Chapter 40:
Easter Eggs:
Ezekiel: "I asked, and I received." - Biblical reference to the quote "ask and ye shall receive".

Random Clues to Stuff:
Jenkins retort to da Vinci is a hint of why they don't get on. More on that next series.

The "other item" Cassandra asked Jenkins to talk to Flora about was the possibility of finding another magical sword for Flynn, as a wedding gift.

Chapter 41:
Easter Eggs:
Flynn: "The idea had not even begun to speculate [...] about the possibility of crossing my mind." - That line has been completely and shamelessly stolen from Rincewind in "The Colour of Magic" by Sir Terry Pratchett.

Flora: "A sure sign that winter is coming." - Yes, that was a Stark shout out. Another Game of Thrones reference.

Links to Canon:
"Right," [Flynn] breathed, "the other story." - link to "and the Apple of Discord" and Cassandra's line "Right: the other memory" when Stone helps her focus.

Emily: "You don't seriously think I would leave something so precious lying around under the bed or something do you?" - Link to the first Librarian film where Flynn does just that, and the Serpent Brotherhood steal it.

Chapter 43:
Easter Eggs:

Stone (regarding Ezekiel's plans for the heist and his new-found honesty): "What'll we call it? The TARDIS job?" And "Yeah, a regular white knight!" - both are Leverage references.

Cassandra's magical force field, along with the bleeding nose it causes, are nods to "The Fantastic Four" and the abilities of Jessica Alba's character, Susan Storm.

Ezekiel (to Wilkins): "Name like that sounds more like a butler if you ask me." - Reference to Sybil and Sam Vimes' multitalented butler Willikins in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. If ever a league of fictional characters character was going to turn up and help them, it would be him. Or possibly Holmes and Watson.

Jenkins: "allons-y" - Doctor Who reference. Again.

Links to Canon:
Ezekiel: "Enough with the judgy already" - link to the end of "and the Loom of Fate" where Ezekiel complains "It's still a bit judgy in here."

Emily: "Standard climbing gear, just in case we need it." - She says something similar in "Return to King Solomon's Mines" (2nd Librarian film). Ditto the later comment "I had faith".

Da Vinci: "What? It is my diary!" - link to the fact that Flynn, in the third film, revealed that he had tracked down da Vinci's diary and it was in the Library. That the Serpent Brotherhood stole it was not in the canon of the series, but neither was that they didn't.

Episode Trivia:
Malvina was the daughter of the poet Ossian. When her betrothed's messenger brought word to her that her beloved had been slain in the wars, and handed her a sprig of purple heather, her tears turned it white. Her tears thereafter turned every patch of purple heather they fell on white, and she is reputed to have wished that it bring luck to those who find it.

Regarding Flynn's hypothesis on the creation of the rune stone palimpsest in chapter 38: I can do that sentence in one breath, but it does take practise!

Jenkins versus Da Vinci: The Insults Translated (and isn't Italian a wonderful language for arguing in!)
Da Vinci: "Polemico vecchio crociato!" - Argumentative old crusader.

Jenkins: "Cavaliere, non crociato, pittore!" - Knight, not crusader, Painter.

Da Vinci: "Arrogante vecchio pazzo!" - Arrogant old fool.

Da Vinci: "Parla per te," - Speak for yourself.

Da Vinci: "Pazzo ignorante!" - Ignorant fool.

Jenkins: "Ah, cease thy piagnisteo, oræfta!" - "Ah, quit your whining, artist!" (cease thy = stop/quit your (Archaic/Shakespearean English); piagnisteo = whining (Italian); oræfta = artist (Anglo-Saxon/Old English).) I just had to see how many languages or language forms I could get him through in one sentence, hence the French "allons-y" at the end of the next line.


Episode 9: And the Quest for the Sword

Chapter 44:
Easter Eggs:
Ezekiel's case regarding the temple of Vesta (and the really bad joke) - Vesta was the character Lindy Booth played in Supernatural. Vesta is actually the goddess of the hearth, and is called Hestia by the Greeks. She only had one temple because technically every fireplace was a shrine to her. I have no idea if I'm right, but I'm guessing this is why Swan chose to call their matches after her. It's always been how I've remembered which one she is.

I got the idea for Cassandra's magical recharge method from Magic Carpet 2, which is a favourite old computer game of mine that no longer plays on modern PCs (and I do miss it, but I will never miss being bombarded by those giant spiders in level three). In it, the character collects "mana" which is magical power, and spells. As you use the spells, your mana level drops, but the more you use the spell(s), the higher your maximum mana level gets. Once you've used all your mana, you must either wait while it slowly recharges or collect more.

Links to Canon:
Stone (to Baird): "I ain't a soldier," - Link to the end of "and the Horns of a Dilemma", where Baird acknowledges they are not soldiers.

Eve: "Still not calling him Santa." - Unsurprisingly, that would link to the repeated utterance of this line in "and Santa's Midnight Run".

Random Clues to Stuff:
Jenkins (to Baird): "Take werewolves, for instance, or wendigos." - A hint of what Baird will be facing in the finale.

Jenkins' description of Ragnarok is important. Very important.

Chapter 45:
Links to Canon:
Flynn's response to Stone's ranting ("Stone, you're scaring the books, calm down") is a link to the scene in the third film where Flynn has a hissy fit and Judson tells him he's scaring the artefacts.

Baird: "We do not profit from the artefacts, Jones." - Charlene said the same to Flynn when he paid off an auctioneer by using the Philosopher's Stone to turn a throw cushion into solid gold in the third film.

Random Clues to Stuff:
Baird (to Jones): "You took your time." - A hint that he was somewhere else, that she doesn't know about, as well as on the case.

Chapter 46:
Easter Eggs:
The quote Jenkins recites, from the tales of Tuan mac Cairill, is taken from "The Little Book of Celtic Myths and Legends" (see reference list). It was chosen because, as da Vinci points out, the quote could just as easily be applied to Jenkins himself.

The comment about the sword sticking itself in a stone is a link to how the young Galahad got his sword.

Simmonds (to the evil queen): "By you command, my queen." - Battlestar Galactica reference.

Stone waking Cassandra with a kiss is a Sleeping Beauty reference, as is him calling her princess. The fairy-tale force is strong with these two...

Links to Canon:
The "if you want to hide something, hide it in plain sight" sentiment comes from Judson in the first film.

Chapter 46 - 50:
Random Clues to Stuff:
Most of the clues given from here on in pertain to the final reveal in this series and the reasons for it in the next, or simply to other stuff that will be coming up in series three. For these reasons, I'm not going to explain them here. They should become clear next series, if they haven't already. As I heard someone say about another writer I like: Just assume everything's important!

Chapter 47:
Easter Eggs:
Jones: "So this thing can sense a disturbance in the force?" - Star Wars reference.

"The Bride" and the mention of Uma Thurman are references to the film "Kill Bill".

Chapter 48:
Easter Eggs:
Da Vinci mentions Countess Lovelace. He is talking about Ada Lovelace, who was a mathematician widely recognised as the first computer programmer. She worked with Charles Babbage on his Analytical Engine. She was also Lord Byron's only legitimate daughter.

Eve refers to Ezekiel's "spidey senses" - Spiderman reference.

Ezekiel: "Miss me?" - Sherlock reference.

Links to Canon:
Flynn, Jenkins and Baird: "...and it would provide an opportunity..." "To steal new things." - Link to Ezekiel's reasons for agreeing to stay on as a LiT at the end of "and the Sword in the Stone".

Flynn: "Fear and excitement. A popular pair." - Link to Flynn's pairing up of words in the intro to "and the Crown of King Arthur".

Episode Trivia:
Scottish accents vary, and mine varies in itself more than most. I usually start off fairly anglified and polite, then get increasingly broader Scots as I get to know someone. I decided that Seonaidh would let more of her lilt show as she go to know Ezekiel better and used my Scottish folk tales story telling voice, which has a more Hebridean/Highland lilt to it, to read in the character and then convert the dialogue. The differences in the pronunciation of 'you' and 'your' depending on placement are common and link to emphasis and speed of speech.

The Singing Sword of Conaire Mor is blooming difficult to find information on!

Ascalon is the spear of St George. Gram is the sword of Sigurd. Both were used to slay dragons.


Episode 10: And the Quest for the Perfect Day

Chapter 49:
Easter Eggs:
Regarding Jenkins treatment of da Vinci: I believe, for some reason, he sees him somewhat similarly to the way Ten sees Captain Jack Harkness. We'll deal with why later.

Chapter 50:
Links to Canon:
Flynn (regarding loud noises scaring things): "Although hippos..." - link to the second film, where he and his travelling companions find their boat beset by hippos and Flynn decides to try scaring them off with loud noises. Spoiler alert: it doesn't work.

Chapter 51:
Easter Eggs:
Stone: "I know how to use a sword. Pointy end goes into other man, or monster as the case may be." - Mask of Zorro reference, when Antonio Banderas' character says the same thing, minus the monster bit, to Anthony Hopkins.

Links to Canon:
Cassandra's reference to playing Merlin is a reference to "and the Fables of Doom" where the Libris Fabula and its reader turned her into Merlin and she used a fire-like glow to get rid of the wolves. I'm talking the "if it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck" route with that and assuming she could magic up fire.

Chapter 52:
Easter Eggs:
Stone (in response to Cassandra's "I love you"): "Ditto." - A reference to the Patrick Swayze film "Ghost". (Well, I couldn't make them both Star Wars!) And I now have that darn potters wheel scene in my head again! Dammit, I'd just got rid of that!

Ezekiel: "If you two are done playing Tommy and Tuppence..." - Reference to Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, also known as Agatha Christie's "Partners in Crime", a married couple who masqueraded as a private detective and his secretary. Believe me: the lesser known Agatha Christie heroes and heroines are worth reading. They did actually make a series of this though, and I still have a soft spot for James Warwick as Tommy Beresford. And Francesca Annis, as Tuppence, was awesome.

Chapter 53:
Easter Eggs:
Flynn: "I love you with the breath, smiles and tears of all my life." - A line from the Elizabeth Barrett Browning poem "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."

Links to Canon:
The fountain of youth turned up in the third film, with Judson walking through as a boy and transforming back to his usual self. Apparently he was "just testing it".

Episode Trivia:
Beaduleóma means 'a war-gleam sword' in Anglo-Saxon/Old English. Interestingly, if you shift the accent to the e it means something else.

Flowers and their meanings, Chapter 53
Jones: Acacia "Golden Wattle" - floral emblem of Australia. Yellow acacia, which Golden Wattle is, means secret love.

Stone: Cereus - Modest genius.

Jenkins: Monkshood - Knight-errantry

Flynn: Single Pink - Pure Love.

Cassandra's Bouquet: Cornflower - Delicacy; Bridal Rose - Happy Love; Celandine - Joys to come.

Eve's Bouquet: Bridal Rose - Happy Love; Ivy - Marriage; Gorse - Love for all seasons.

Charlene: Zinnia - Thoughts of Absent Friends


Character Deaths:

Technically, the man Stone spoke to in Nepal, but he was predominantly written in as a focus point for all those lost in that tragedy in the real world, so that we might stop for a moment and think of them.

The 'Thief', whom Jones encounters in the dragon's lair.

Five kitchen staff, three gardeners and one head chef.


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Cameo:

Remember those random cathedral enthusiasts in chapter 10? That would be me and my Dad, with my Mum sitting waiting on us.

For anyone still puzzling over my little cameo in Heart of Magic (not that I think there will be many), it was my eight-year-old self that so irritated Jenkins by calling him Merlin, and then ran away and got myself and Cassandra stuck in the embroidered screen.


The Librarians will return in...

Ragnarok