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no there isnt. i love deryn too, actually i love them all. this is the best series ever!!!!! this series is my life (well 73% of it) i love this series!!! amazingness!!!!! pure and simple

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no there isnt i love deryn too, actually i love them all these are amazing series i am making the hms leviathan on my minecraft server to the specifications of the manual of aeronautics. best series ever!!!!! this series is my life(well 73% of it) amazigness!!!!!1111

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THIS BOOK IS THE BEST SORT OF SERIES BOOK I HAVE EVER READ IN MY LIFE IT SO GOOD THE THING THAT I DIDN'T GET IT THAT WHEN THE FRENCH AND BRITISH CROUCHED BEHIND HIM HOW DID HE KNOW THAT WAR WAS COMMING

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-[[File:Bovril.jpg|thumb|Bovril, a perspicacious loris.]]{{Quote|To those who listen carefully, the perspicacious loris can be quite helpful.|[[Dr. Nora Barlow]]|''[[Behemoth (novel)|Behemoth]]''}}A '''perspicacious loris''' is a small, monkey-like creature created by [[Dr. Barlow]]. Most of its "life-threads" probably come from the natural types of lorises. [[Zaven]] tells [[Alek]] and [[Deryn]] that "perspicacious" means "shrewd or clever." These creatures bond with the person who is present at their hatching, and are able to give that person advice by pointing out important parts of conversations and faulty reasoning. When a loris is learning a new word, it says it loud and clear.
+[[File:Bovril.jpg|thumb|Bovril, a perspicacious loris.]]{{Quote|To those who listen carefully, the perspicacious loris can be quite helpful.|[[Dr. Nora Barlow]]|''[[Behemoth (novel)|Behemoth]]''}}A '''perspicacious loris''' is a small, monkey-like creature created by [[Dr. Barlow]]. The Manual of Aeronautics says, "In 1910 a small team of boffins lead by Dr. Nora Barlow this characteristic - a tendency to say useful things- an the result was the perspicacious loris." It also tells us that the scientific names of this beastie is ''Nycticelus perscitus''. Most of its "life-threads" probably come from the natural types of lorises. [[Zaven]] tells [[Alek]] and [[Deryn]] that "perspicacious" means "shrewd or clever." These creatures bond with the person who is present at their hatching, and are able to give that person advice by pointing out important parts of conversations and faulty reasoning. When a loris is learning a new word, it says it loud and clear.
 ==In the series==
-Dr. Barlow made several [[eggs]] of these creatures, but most of them were destroyed when the ''[[Leviathan]]'' crashed in the [[Switzerland|Alps]] and the rest were damaged. These eggs were the secret cargo that Dr. Barlow was transporting to the [[Ottoman Empire]]; one of the eggs was to be a gift for the [[Sultan]] to prevent the Ottomans from going to war with [[Great Britain|Britain]] over [[Lord Churchill|Churchill's]] seizing of the ''Osman'' for British purposes, but the egg was crushed. Dr. Barlow has her [[Dr. Barlow's loris|own loris]], and Alek has [[Bovril]]. Bovril helps Alek solve the mystery of Deryn being a girl.
+Dr. Barlow bred six [[eggs]] of these creatures, but most of them were destroyed when the ''[[Leviathan]]'' crashed in the [[Switzerland|Alps]] and the rest were damaged. These eggs were the secret cargo that Dr. Barlow was transporting to the [[Ottoman Empire]]; one of the eggs was to be a gift for the [[Sultan]] to prevent the Ottomans from going to war with [[Great Britain|Britain]] over [[Lord Churchill|Churchill's]] seizing of the ''Osman'' for British purposes, but the egg was crushed by German powers behind the throne. Dr. Barlow has her [[Dr. Barlow's loris|own loris]], and Alek has [[Bovril]]. Bovril helps Alek solve the mystery of Deryn being a girl.
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 [[File:Strafinghawks.jpg|thumb|250px|Strafing hawks destroy [[Clanker]] aeroplanes]]
-'''Strafing hawks''' are a [[Darwinist]] [[fabrication]] used to destroy [[Clanker]] [[aeroplanes]] and airships. They are equiped with nets to use against aeroplanes and talons to use against airships. They are one of the kinds of creatures used on the ''[[Leviathan]]''.
+'''Strafing hawks''' are a [[Darwinist]] [[fabrication]] used to destroy [[Clanker]] [[aeroplanes]] and airships. They are equipped with nets to use against aeroplanes and talons to use against airships. They are one of the kinds of creatures used on the ''[[Leviathan]]'', and are kept in at least one of the nine large cages in the rookery, which is in the gondola.
 ==Use==
-Strafing hawks are used in battle to destroy enemy aeroplanes, infantry, and zepplins. They can be equipped with fabricated, acidic spider-silk or razor talons depending on the situation.
+Strafing hawks are used in battle to destroy enemy aeroplanes, infantry, and zepplins. They can be equipped with fabricated, acidic spider-silk or razor talons depending on the situation; the spider-silk nets are used on aeroplanes, cutting through the metal; the steel talongs are used on zeppelins and other balloon-like craft, ripping the canvas and venting hydrogen. Only one of these weapons may be used in practice.
 ==In the series==

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 ==Summary==
-The novel begins at Konopiště castle, the home of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his family. Fifteen-year-old Alek is in his room late at night, staging a battle with toy soldiers, [[Austria-Hungary]] against [[Britain]] and [[France]]. He is interrupted by two of his tutors, [[Count Volger]] and [[Otto Klopp]], who tell him that it is time for him to practice piloting [[walkers]], namely the [[Cyklop Stormwalker]] waiting outside. Excited, Alek does not question the unusual timing of the lesson until his tutors' insistance on speed and secrecy becomes too suspicious. After Klopp and Volger explain that Alek's father has ordered them to take him away from home, Alek shouts that they are lying and tries to pull the Stormwalker's distress whistle cord. Alek is knocked out with a chemical by Volger and hears Volger tell him that his parents have been murdered just before he blacks out.
+The novel begins at Konopiště castle, the home of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his family. Fifteen-year-old Alek is in his room late at night, staging a battle with toy soldiers, Clanker [[Austria-Hungary]] against Darwinist [[Britain]] and [[France]]. He is interrupted by two of his tutors, [[Count Volger]] and [[Otto Klopp]], who tell him that it is time for him to practice piloting [[walkers]], namely the [[Cyklop Stormwalker]] waiting outside. Excited, Alek does not question the unusual timing of the lesson until his tutors' insistance on speed and secrecy becomes too suspicious. After Klopp and Volger explain that Alek's father has ordered them to take him away from home, Alek shouts that they are lying and tries to pull the Stormwalker's distress whistle cord. Alek is knocked out with a chemical by Volger and hears Volger tell him that his parents have been murdered just before he blacks out.
-The story of the other main character, Deryn, begins in London. Deryn has fallen asleep studying her aeronautics manual. She and her brother, [[Jaspert]], discuss how she will disguise herself as a boy in order to enter the [[Royal Air Service|Air Service]] as a midshipman. Deryn is not worried about her flying skills, because her [[Artemis Sharp|father]] has taught her them years ago. Deryn and Jaspert take a bus to the Air Proving Ground, where Deryn and the other candidates are tested for fear of [[fabrications]] with two [[tigeresques]].They are then given the opportunity to fly attached to a [[Huxley]], and Deryn is the first to do so. When a storm strikes during her flight, Deryn unteathers the Huxley and is left to float freely. She is eventually picked up by the [[Leviathan]].[[File:Leviathan_4_westerfeld.jpg|thumb|[[Deryn]] flying a [[Huxley]]]]
+The story of the other main character, Deryn Sharp, begins in London. Deryn has fallen asleep studying her aeronautics manual. She and her brother, [[Jaspert]], discuss how she will disguise herself as a boy in order to enter the [[Royal Air Service|Air Service]] as a midshipman. Deryn is not worried about her flying skills, because her [[Artemis Sharp|father]] taught her them years ago. Deryn and Jaspert take a bus to the Air Proving Ground, where Deryn and the other candidates are tested for fear of [[fabrications]] with two [[tigeresques]].They are then given the opportunity to fly attached to a [[Huxley]], and Deryn is the first to do so. When a storm strikes during her flight, Deryn untethers the Huxley and is left to float freely. She is eventually picked up by the [[Leviathan]].[[File:Leviathan_4_westerfeld.jpg|thumb|[[Deryn]] flying a [[Huxley]]]]
-Alek wakes up and is meets [[Bauer|Corporal Bauer]]. Volger explains how Franz Ferdinand and [[Sophie Chotek|Princess Sophie]] were poisoned by the [[Germany|Germans]], and that the murders were blamed on Serbia in order to start a war, and the Germans plan to kill Alek as well. He tells Alek that they must flee to [[Switzerland]]. Alek does not believe him until a [[Beowulf|German land dreadnaught]] begins shooting at them. Alek aids the men to escape from the dreadnaught by loading a Spandau machine gun.
+Alek wakes up and meets [[Bauer|Corporal Bauer]]. Volger explains how Franz Ferdinand and [[Sophie Chotek|Princess Sophie]] were poisoned by the [[Germany|Germans]], that the murders were blamed on Serbia in order to start a war, and that athe Germans plan to kill Alek as well. He tells Alek that they must flee to [[Switzerland]]. Alek does not believe him until a [[Beowulf|German land dreadnaught]] begins shooting at them. Alek aids the men to escape from the dreadnaught by loading a Spandau machine gun.
 Over the next two weeks, Alek learns how to do lots of things he has never done before, like washing clothes, cooking, and cleaning the machine guns. He also practices fencing and walker piloting. During a piloting lesson, Alek learns that Volger has hidden twelve gold bars on the Stormwalker that are part of Alek's inheritance from his father.
-Deryn has also learned a lot about the ''Leviathan'' in the last two weeks, which she is now serving on as crew. She has made friends with [[Newkirk]] and enemies with [[Fitzroy]], both fellow middies. When the Leviathan is going to land in London to collect [[Dr. Barlow]], her mysterious cargo, [[Tazza]], and a large trunk, [[Mr. Rigby]] tells the middies that some of them will have to leave the ship to make room for the weight of these items. Fitzroy makes the mistake of using bystanders to hold the airship ropes, and is one of the middies who must leave; Deryn and Newkirk are the only two middies on the Leviathan.
+Deryn has also learned a lot about the ''Leviathan'' in the last two weeks, which she is now serving on as a midshipman (or middy). She has made friends with [[Newkirk]] and enemies with [[Fitzroy]], both fellow middies. When the Leviathan is going to land in London to collect [[Dr. Barlow]], her mysterious cargo, [[Tazza]], and a large trunk, [[Mr. Rigby]] tells the middies that some of them will have to leave the ship to make room for the weight of these items. Fitzroy makes the mistake of using bystanders to hold the airship ropes, and is one of the middies who must leave; Deryn and Newkirk are the only two middies on the Leviathan.
 Alek, Volger,and Klopp go into Lienz, an Austrian town, to buy supplies for the Stormwalker. Alek gives himself away by correcting the mechaniks shopkeeper when the man tries to sell him an inaccurate model of a Mephisto walker. They must flee without getting the parts that they need, and are pursued by local soldiers. Volger sends Alek ahead to get the Stormwalker, but he is shot at by one of the soldiers. Alek manages to unhorse the soldier, but accidentally kills him. With the help of the Stormwalker, Alek and his men are able to defeat the soldiers. However, now that their general location is known, a [[walkers|land frigate]] chases them as they travel to Switzerland. The frigate has a secret weapon which it uses against the Stormwalker: phosphorous flares which will stick to a machine and give away its location so that it can be fired at in the dark. Alek cuts off the flare with an heirloom sword and throws the sword away from the Stormwalker, which causes the frigate to lose the Stormwalker in the dark.

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 '''Zeppelins''' are a kind of airship which has a rigid metal skeleton and fins on one end. They are a [[Clankers|Clanker]] device which is inflated with hydrogen and equipped with engines, and were probably invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, as in real life. [[Deryn]] mentions to [[Alek]] that the metal skeleton of a zeppelin is covered in cow gut, and compares being inside a dead animal in a zeppelin to being inside a live animal on the ''[[Leviathan]]''. Zeppelins are used for reconnaissance and to drop bombs.
-Zeppelins are used by the [[Germany|Germans]] when they chase down Alek in his [[Stormwalker]]. The zeppelins carry anti-walker troops to the ground in an attempt to destoy the Stormwalker. One of the zeppelins explodes when a bullet hits it.
+Zeppelins are used by the [[Germany|Germans]] when they chase down Alek in his [[Stormwalker]]. The zeppelins carry anti-walker troops to the ground in an attempt to destoy the Stormwalker. One of the zeppelins explodes when its hit by mulitple air-gun bullets.
 In ''[[Goliath (novel)|Goliath]]'', the Germans also send zeppelins against the [[Japan]]ese to defend an [[Austria-Hungary|Austrian]] ironclad, but the zeppelins flee after a fight with the ''Leviathan''.

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