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Questions tagged [night-watch-cycle]

Questions about the "Night Watch" hexalogy from Sergei Lukyanenko.

Night Watch is a series of fantasy novels by Russian author Sergei Lukyanenko.

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Will a human become an Other if there are no other Others around?

I'm nearing the end of The Twilight Watch, book 3 of Lukyanenko's Watch series, and the following sentences caught my attention: People can't get by without Others. Put two people on an uninhabited island, and you'll have a human being and an…
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When are the Watch books set?

Simple question: how precisely can we say when the Watch books are set? I seem to remember some talk about the turn of the millenium around the end of book 2 (but haven't got it to hand now, so can't check), but when exactly was the year 2000 in…
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Is there any way to tell who's destined to become an Inquisitor?

If you're a potential Other, it's possible for a sufficiently powerful Other to take a peek at your aura and tell whether you're more likely to become a Light One or a Dark One. Which way you actually turn in the end - Light or Dark - depends on…
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Do both series play at the same time?

Lukyanenko wrote the Night Watch Cycle and a spin--off (School Watch). Do these stories play in different timelines and interaction between those characters is impossible?
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How exactly do you enter the twilight?

As an other it is possible to "pick up your shadow" and enter the twilight. In doing this the first time, you get initiated. Is a more precise description to be found on this procedure?
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How was Anton able to get away with these activities while he was being hunted?

In the book Night Watch, during the second story about Maxim, who ends up becoming an Inquisitor, shortly after the events at the Indian restaurant, Anton Gorodetsky is on the run. He takes the subway, and at the exit, he encounters a Dark…
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