Island in The Sea of Time/YMMV


 * Complete Monster: Hong and Walker.
 * And Helmut Mittler, who is an Alternate History version of Heinrich Himmler.
 * Funny Aneurysm Moment: When the characters discuss what might have happened to the world "uptime," anyone who has read the Emberverse novels knows just how wrong they are--the forces behind the Event also led to the Change, a re-writing of the laws of physics that led to the death of untold millions.
 * They do realize that many very nasty things could've happened as side-effects of the Event though. Dwelling on them was extremely unhealthy however, and as a result a set of unwritten taboos on discussing the Event gradually developed.