Eddie has to deal with a pack of them early in The Man With the Golden Torc. Either way, they leech the vitality out of normal cars until they malfunction or are sufficiently weakened from metal fatigue, then force the drivers off the road, usually in the early hours of the morning so they won't be noticed, and devour the driver and any passengers (the hoods conceal their mouths, which are full of churning steel teeth). Supposedly they're either from another dimension, where cars evolved to replace humans, or are ancient predators native to Earth who learned to look like cars so they can prey on humans without being noticed. Automated Automobiles: The CARnivores, which Eddie's narration describes as "sentient, meat-eating cars with attitude" the first time they appear.Eddie finally calls him out for being all talk and kills him. Played with in that he doesn't actually stop doing the thing he's trying to atone for and is still a total monster 90% of the time. The reason he's so willing to help Eddie (apart from because Molly asks) is that he wants to make up for the fact he chose to become a vicious serial killer in exchange for immortality. Previously, she'd dueled Sarah herself for the right to defy family strictures and wed her second cousin Arthur. Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Martha Drood dueled three of her own sisters to claim her late mother Sarah's status as Matriarch.Other than those times, the golden torc is indestructible as long as it is on. Armor Is Useless: Averted except in three instances in the first book, when the strange matter arrow pierced the golden armor, when Eddie figures out how to merge it with the armor of his opponent near the end, and when dealing with Torc Cutter.In Casino Infernale, the Crow Lee Inheritance - a key booby-trapped to open a portal to a black hole, which sucks in everything in reach including the person who activates it.Moxton's Mistake - A self-driven suit of Drood armor that killed its own inventor and despises humanity. The Deplorable End - a box with a Big Red Button that, when pressed, destroys the entire universe it's in.The Merlin Glass - can be used to teleport and contact any Drood from the past and future.The user's thoughts and wishes becomes other peoples thoughts and wishes. Dominator - A laurel wreath made from silver.It can cut through any thing, neat as you like. Dissector - the ultimate scalpel created by Baron Von Frankenstein.Break it and you unleash the Fimbulwinter: an eternal winter that covers the world.
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