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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Downplayed; he definitely intended and was aware of the spying on Berk, hiring Mildew, smuggling dragon eggs, etc. But he's also indirectly responsible for [[spoiler:the rise of the Free Nests and their enslavement of humans]], since they only decide to do that after meeting a dragon who escaped Mildew's captivity in Iceland.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Downplayed; VillainousLegacy: The epigraph for Chapter 119 mentions that the legacy Mac Bethad left behind is a negative one with his machinations surviving him. [[spoiler:He may be dead, but he definitely intended and planted the seeds for future conflicts]]. By having Mildew enthrall dragons, Mac Bethad caused [[spoiler:many Thengills to start banding together to attack humans]] while the epigraph mentions that the conflicts that led to the Norse Reformation was aware of the spying on Berk, hiring Mildew, smuggling dragon eggs, etc. But he's also partially his fault. He's also indirectly responsible for [[spoiler:the rise of the Free Nests and their enslavement of humans]], [[spoiler:King Henry's attack on Stoick]], since they only decide he sent plans for Hiccup's anti-dragon weapons to do that after meeting a dragon who escaped Mildew's captivity in Iceland.all the royals of Europe.
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* AngstySurvivingTwin: He survives During Sigurd's trip south to the Pecheneg raid on Roman Empire, the portage convoy, trade caravan he's part of gets attacked by raiders. Thanks to him and Hookfang, his brother does not.people mostly get through unscathed, but Ondott gets killed because he didn't see the horse-archers coming, due to Hookfang blocking the line of sight. Kormak, blames Sigurd for his loss, not seeming to care or even be able to acknowledge that things would have been worse if not for Sigurd.
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a.k.a. Gobber the Belch, head smith of Berk, DOB 990. [[spoiler:Concubine of Jonna and Reidun.]]
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* FantasticNamingConvention: The Hooligan Tribe have a unique tradition of giving their children absurd or otherwise unconventional names out of a belief this protects them from real or imagined dangers.
* FamedInStory: Hiccup has a saga, The Hero of Berk. He finds it humiliating. Berk also became renowned, due to their wealth and military might from their dragons, to the point that various powers are trying to either emulate them, ally with them, or destroy them.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Hiccup in spades. He still hasn't gotten used to the transition from being an awkward skinny viking who wouldn't kill a dragon to being the Hero of Berk. He is embarrassed when, in Chapter 2, he is called upon to hear and approve a saga written about him. In Chapter 51 he even tells his father he feels like a fake hero.
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Marshal of Berk, husband of Serena. Clan-Heir to Clan Jorgenson.
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Wife of Spitelout Jorgenson, sister of Stoick Haddock, mother of Snotlout, Snitwit, and Snotpout. DOB 1003.
* ManipulativeBastard: He's able to to play Taskill and Mac Bethad like a lyra, telling them exactly what they expect to hear -- lies and character assassination of Stoick and the Hooligans.
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* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler:Attempts this during his duel with Hiccup. The fight is from Dagur's perspective and we see that he deliberately offers Hiccup several opportunities to strike him down and despite having several chances to make a killing strike against Hiccup refuses to take them. This is because Dagur sees this as his last chance to die with some honor and go to Valhalla rather than face damnation after being tortured to death by Savage. It's averted since Hiccup sees through what he's trying to do and refuses to let him run away from the consequences of what he's done and instead grants him CruelMercy.]]
* UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler:He gets shot through the eye attempting to stab Stoick in the back.]]
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: When she's captured by the Hooligans, she admits who she is, but pretends she was as much Henry's prisoner as his other victims, when in reality she [[spoiler:was the one to suggest raping Hawiz in the first place]].
* KarmaHoudini: In the aftermath of the Second Battle of the Seine, she manages to slip away before the Hooligans discover she's not as innocent as she claims. Then she manages to escape Paris in case the Hooligans attack it next.
* MaliciousSlander: After [[spoiler:Sir Henry's defeat]], Joan goes to Paris and tells King Henry a very biased account of what happened. He's all too willing to believe the worst about Berk.
* UnholyMatrimony: Henry the Sinister and his wife Joan are both evil, with her even being the one to suggest [[spoiler:Henry rape Hawiz to get a bastard heir to Brittany]]. She [[PlayingTheVictimCard pretends to be a victim of his]] to escape from the Hooligans after [[spoiler:Henry is defeated]].
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* FatherIDontWantToFight: Inverted. Maor is intrigued when Sephardic Jews from Al-Andalus visit Berk, since Jews are allowed to freely carry weapons there, unlike in Christian Europe. When Berk fights against Henry the Sinister, Maor and some other young Jewish men ask Astrid to let them become warriors.
* TeenRebellion: Maor comes from a ProudScholarRace, and rebels against his father by buying a sword and learning to be a warrior. Though his "rebellion" doesn't stop once he grows up, as one epigraph shows he becomes Commander of the First Shieldbearers in 1065.
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Protagonist; daughter of Thicknut, wife of Magnus, DOB Aug 1025.
!!!Ruffnut Thicknutsdóttir Fairhair
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* AChildShallLeadThem: His father's death caused him to become chief at only 17 years old. He feels constrained by his responsibilities and not ready to be a leader.
* ManlyGay: He's bisexual with a preference for men, and also a strong, manly man.
* MarryThemAll: He joins the existing relationship of [[spoiler:Jyette and Heike]], and for legal reasons, takes them both as his concubines.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: He's related to the Hooligans through the Ingerman clan; Dror ben Ezra was his great-grandfather.
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!!!Ruffnut Thicknutsdóttir Fairhair
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* ManlyGay: He's bisexual with a preference for men, and also a strong, manly man.
* MarryThemAll: He joins the existing relationship of [[spoiler:Jyette and Heike]], and for legal reasons, takes them both as his concubines.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: He's related to the Hooligans through the Ingerman clan; Dror ben Ezra was his great-grandfather.
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!!!Ruffnut Thicknutsdóttir Fairhair
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* RegentForLife: Einar Thambarskelfir's plan is to be Magnus' regent forever, to the point of finding Magnus as a [[HiddenBackupPrince exile in Kyiv]] and installing him on the Norwegian throne... and getting rid of his rivals.
* TheGoodKing: Magnus proves to live up to his name, following Stoick's example and ruling Norway with a fair and just hand, with the wellbeing of his people as his first priority. When he becomes king of England and Denmark too, he cancels that year's taxes, since Harthacnut's warfare bled the realm dry. This, and his [[spoiler:policy of religious tolerance]], make him very popular among the people.
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* ManipulativeBastard: Manages to cojole Wulfhild and trick Magnus into being complict in changing the ceremony between Hiccup and Wulfhild to make her his wife rather than his concubine. While he claims he did this to save Wulfhild's soul and prevent her from living in sin, the political implications of this move and how it could impact Hiccup's already established marriage to Astrid given Christianity forbids polygamy makes it clear he did it to fulfil his own agenda.
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* ManipulativeBastard: Manages to cojole cajole Wulfhild and trick Magnus into being complict in changing the ceremony between Hiccup and Wulfhild to make her his wife rather than his concubine. While he claims he did this to save Wulfhild's soul and prevent her from living in sin, the political implications of this move and how it could impact Hiccup's already established marriage to Astrid given Christianity forbids polygamy makes it clear he did it to fulfil his own agenda.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Ygnvarr is a genuinely friendly and kind-hearted man. However, those who are needlessly cruel or abusive to innocent people learn quickly that he can be downright ''terrifying''.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Ygnvarr is a genuinely friendly and kind-hearted man. However, those who are needlessly cruel or abusive to innocent people learn quickly that he can be downright ''terrifying''. Watch out when he stops being merry.
* RealMenLoveJesus: Yngvarr is a devout Christian, and actually lives up to Christian ideals much more than many clergy we see, most notably Father Henriksson.
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* CadreOfForeignBodyguards: The Varangians, again. Being Norsemen, they come from an honor-based culture and have no pre-existing loyalties in the Empire, making them loyal to the Emperor only.
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* SonsOfSlaves: Nearly everyone in the tribe has at least some slave ancestry, with Stoick himself being the son of an Alban freedwoman.
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* SonsOfSlaves: Nearly everyone in The Hooligan tribe are a largely made up either of former thralls or the descendants of former thralls, Stoick's mother (Hiccup's paternal grandmother) being one example. Constant dragon attacks caused one of the previous chiefs to declare that any thrall willing to pick up a weapon and defend the tribe has at least some slave ancestry, with Stoick himself being against dragon attacks win their freedom, eventually leading to the son tribe itself adopting a cultural hatred of thralldom as a practice, an Alban freedwoman.especially unusual opinion to have given the area and time period. Any thrall that finds themselves on Berk (or any Berk vassal-cities like Vedrarfjord) are instantly given freedom and bed-rights according to their laws.
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* TheClan: There were five major clans on Berk at the start of the story, being Haddock, Hofferson, Jorgenson, Thorston and Ingerman. After [[spoiler: Harthacnut was deposed, four new clans are formed, one of which is Joms]]. [[spoiler:Berk later gains a lot more clans by annexing their allied Bog Burglar and Meathead tribes and even more when the Jorgenson clan splits after being unable to choose a new heir after Spitelout's death.]]
* EveryoneIsBi: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Concubinage is accepted in Viking society, and there are several instances of polygamous marriages featuring same-sex partners. Astrid's great-grandfather, the Hofferson clan-head, has one wife and two concubines (although everyone refers to them as his three wives), and it is explicitly stated at one point that all three of the women have been intimate with each other over the course of their ''very'' long marriage, with the two concubines sleeping together most nights.
* ExoticExtendedMarriage: Berk and the future North Sea Empire allows polyamory. One epigraph notes that the record for the largest legally wed group is nine.
* HornyVikings: Berk in all its horned helm glory. [[EverythingExceptMostThings Except they no longer raid, no longer practice the jarl-carl-thrall system, and there's quite a bit of Scots/Irish/Anglo blood in the mix as well.]] Most other Scandinavians have dropped Thor's hammer for Christ's cross, but not the Berkians. They're ''dragon'' horns, by the way. Some (mainly in the Jorgenson clan) want to use their new dragons to conduct raids. Under Stoick and Hiccup's more even-handed leadership, they start to shift away from this as the story goes on. Their horned helmets are a holdover from the Dragon War, when they would put dragon horns on their helmets both for intimidation and to keep dragons from easily biting their heads off.
* IAmXSonOfY: Due to naming conventions in the era, patronymics are fairly typical. Formal Hooligan names have a personal name, patronymic, and clan (and position), with Hiccup's full formal name being Hiccup 'Horrendous' Stoicksson clanheir Haddock of the Hooligans.
* OutcastRefuge: Berk has [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil hated slavery]] for generations, giving freedom to any thrall who managed to make it to their territory. Before the end of the Dragon War they would sometimes go on raids to "steal" thralls and free them, inducting them into the tribe if they wished, and a large percentage of them have thrall ancestry. They extend their emancipation policy to all their territories, and thralls from all over Eire start fleeing to the cities under Berk's control. They also declare that Jews have an open invitation to settle in their lands, in recognition of their oppressed status in much of Europe, and because generations ago a Jew helped the Hooligan Tribe by teaching them all to read and write.
* RiteOfPassageNameChange: It is common for members of the Hooligan Tribe to change their names once they reach adulthood, since parents would often give their children horrible names for superstitious reasons. The notable example given here being Snotlout Spiteloutsson clan Jorgenson taking the name "Sigurd Trondsson" after leaving to join the Varangian Guard. He also officially changes it when [[spoiler:he becomes a Christian]].
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: The Hooligans, due to having outlawed thralldom over a century earlier, and [[SonsOfSlaves with nearly everyone in the tribe being either a freed slave or descended from freed slaves]], have a particular dislike of the institution of chattel slavery, [[spoiler:to the point that 'Sigurd' immediately orders that all slaves in his new territories be freed once he learns of their existence despite the potential challenges this will present to running his territories]]. Implied to be a major part of ''why'' the Berkians were willing to take in the dragons at the end of HTTYD 1, as being freed slaves of the Green Death allowed Berks to understand and bond with the dragons on an emphathetic level.
* SonsOfSlaves: Nearly everyone in the tribe has at least some slave ancestry, with Stoick himself being the son of an Alban freedwoman.
* TangledFamilyTree: Being a small tribe of only a few hundred people, most of the Hooligans are related by blood, adoption, or marriage to each other, and the (incomplete) [[https://athingofvikings.fandom.com/wiki/File:A_Thing_of_Vikings_Family_Tree.png family tree on the wiki]] is extremely tangled. See also the epigraph for [[Recap/AThingOfVikingsChapter122ThePoliticsOfDesire Chapter 122]], which mentions the complications involving same-sex and [[{{Polyamory}} polyamorous]] relationships.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: The Hooligan Tribe's tradition of giving their kids silly names tends to give outsiders pause. The most notable example is that more than one person is stunned or at least surprised that the Hero that tamed dragons is named ''Hiccup''. One of Mac Bethad's spies even mourns the fact that Hiccup is the ''third'' person of his line with that name. The main exceptions are the Hoffersons, who feel themselves too skilled to need such protections. It's also noted that the practice has been waning for a while.
* TheClan: There were five major clans on Berk at the start of the story, being Haddock, Hofferson, Jorgenson, Thorston and Ingerman. After [[spoiler: Harthacnut was deposed, four new clans are formed, one of which is Joms]]. [[spoiler:Berk later gains a lot more clans by annexing their allied Bog Burglar and Meathead tribes and even more when the Jorgenson clan splits after being unable to choose a new heir after Spitelout's death.]]
* EveryoneIsBi: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Concubinage is accepted in Viking society, and there are several instances of polygamous marriages featuring same-sex partners. Astrid's great-grandfather, the Hofferson clan-head, has one wife and two concubines (although everyone refers to them as his three wives), and it is explicitly stated at one point that all three of the women have been intimate with each other over the course of their ''very'' long marriage, with the two concubines sleeping together most nights.
* ExoticExtendedMarriage: Berk and the future North Sea Empire allows polyamory. One epigraph notes that the record for the largest legally wed group is nine.
* HornyVikings: Berk in all its horned helm glory. [[EverythingExceptMostThings Except they no longer raid, no longer practice the jarl-carl-thrall system, and there's quite a bit of Scots/Irish/Anglo blood in the mix as well.]] Most other Scandinavians have dropped Thor's hammer for Christ's cross, but not the Berkians. They're ''dragon'' horns, by the way. Some (mainly in the Jorgenson clan) want to use their new dragons to conduct raids. Under Stoick and Hiccup's more even-handed leadership, they start to shift away from this as the story goes on. Their horned helmets are a holdover from the Dragon War, when they would put dragon horns on their helmets both for intimidation and to keep dragons from easily biting their heads off.
* IAmXSonOfY: Due to naming conventions in the era, patronymics are fairly typical. Formal Hooligan names have a personal name, patronymic, and clan (and position), with Hiccup's full formal name being Hiccup 'Horrendous' Stoicksson clanheir Haddock of the Hooligans.
* OutcastRefuge: Berk has [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil hated slavery]] for generations, giving freedom to any thrall who managed to make it to their territory. Before the end of the Dragon War they would sometimes go on raids to "steal" thralls and free them, inducting them into the tribe if they wished, and a large percentage of them have thrall ancestry. They extend their emancipation policy to all their territories, and thralls from all over Eire start fleeing to the cities under Berk's control. They also declare that Jews have an open invitation to settle in their lands, in recognition of their oppressed status in much of Europe, and because generations ago a Jew helped the Hooligan Tribe by teaching them all to read and write.
* RiteOfPassageNameChange: It is common for members of the Hooligan Tribe to change their names once they reach adulthood, since parents would often give their children horrible names for superstitious reasons. The notable example given here being Snotlout Spiteloutsson clan Jorgenson taking the name "Sigurd Trondsson" after leaving to join the Varangian Guard. He also officially changes it when [[spoiler:he becomes a Christian]].
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: The Hooligans, due to having outlawed thralldom over a century earlier, and [[SonsOfSlaves with nearly everyone in the tribe being either a freed slave or descended from freed slaves]], have a particular dislike of the institution of chattel slavery, [[spoiler:to the point that 'Sigurd' immediately orders that all slaves in his new territories be freed once he learns of their existence despite the potential challenges this will present to running his territories]]. Implied to be a major part of ''why'' the Berkians were willing to take in the dragons at the end of HTTYD 1, as being freed slaves of the Green Death allowed Berks to understand and bond with the dragons on an emphathetic level.
* SonsOfSlaves: Nearly everyone in the tribe has at least some slave ancestry, with Stoick himself being the son of an Alban freedwoman.
* TangledFamilyTree: Being a small tribe of only a few hundred people, most of the Hooligans are related by blood, adoption, or marriage to each other, and the (incomplete) [[https://athingofvikings.fandom.com/wiki/File:A_Thing_of_Vikings_Family_Tree.png family tree on the wiki]] is extremely tangled. See also the epigraph for [[Recap/AThingOfVikingsChapter122ThePoliticsOfDesire Chapter 122]], which mentions the complications involving same-sex and [[{{Polyamory}} polyamorous]] relationships.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: The Hooligan Tribe's tradition of giving their kids silly names tends to give outsiders pause. The most notable example is that more than one person is stunned or at least surprised that the Hero that tamed dragons is named ''Hiccup''. One of Mac Bethad's spies even mourns the fact that Hiccup is the ''third'' person of his line with that name. The main exceptions are the Hoffersons, who feel themselves too skilled to need such protections. It's also noted that the practice has been waning for a while.
* UltimateBlacksmith: Hiccup is one of the greatest smiths of the era and of all time, being capable of such feats as making a prosthetic tail-fin for Toothless and forging a flaming sword.
-->'''Stoick:''' One of these days, a bunch of dwarves are going to tunnel up into the Broodery down there and say that they need help reforging Gleipnir, and ask if they can borrow Hiccup.
-->'''Stoick:''' One of these days, a bunch of dwarves are going to tunnel up into the Broodery down there and say that they need help reforging Gleipnir, and ask if they can borrow Hiccup.
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* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler:After they're told how Wulfhild was coerced into making wedding vows to Hiccup after he married Astrid, Hiccup and Astrid forgive Wulfhild, although it's implied that it was a good thing Wulfhild was out of the room when they were told, as Astrid apparently nearly attacked Magnus]].
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* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler:After After they're told how Wulfhild was [[spoiler:was coerced into making wedding vows to Hiccup after he married Astrid, Astrid]], Hiccup and Astrid forgive Wulfhild, although it's implied that it was a good thing Wulfhild was out of the room when they were told, as Astrid apparently nearly attacked Magnus]].Magnus.
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* WhatsUpKingDude: Stoick resists being called king because to him, a king is unapproachable while a chief is. The original members of the Hooligan tribe are all used to being casual with him since it was a habit from before they tamed dragons, but not the new members, so Stoick is doing his best to invoke this trope with the new citizens by going with the census team and meeting as many people as he could.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: King Mac Bethad and his court think that they're in a ''Series/GameOfThrones''-style [[DarkerAndEdgier grimdark]] setting of [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder musical backstabbing]] and DisproportionateRetribution, not realizing that [[TheGoodKingdom Hiccup and Berk are much more idealistic than that]]. To be fair though, they weren't previously wrong, and their beliefs and actions have served them well in helping them survive before. The issue is that with Hiccup and Berk entering the political landscape, the genre shifted and they haven't realised it.
--> '''ATOV''' from the comment section: And on top of that, Macbeth has reasons to be paranoid. The Big Name in terms of Viking lords that Macbeth would be the most intimately familiar with? King Cnut. And to give just one example out of the many, many, many things that he did... In the 1020s, he's ruling from London, but he also controls Denmark, who are getting uncomfortable with an absentee king. So when Harthacnut is six years old, he appoints Harthacnut as his regent-king over Denmark. But a six-year-old is not really capable of being a king, right? So he turns to Ulf, his brother-in-law, the husband of his sister (Sweyn's father, btw), and says, "You can be his regent." So Ulf goes with his nephew to rule over Denmark and he fucks up. Olaf (Magnus and Wulf's father) and Anund Jacob (Olaf's brother-in-law) decide to raid Denmark while Cnut isn't looking, and Ulf uses the crisis to have the freemen of Denmark elect Harthacnut as King – ''without acknowledging Cnut's overlordship.'' So by appealing to the people anxious about Cnut being absent, he made a powerplay, because, as Regent, that would give him more power and authority. Cnut quickly found out, came to Denmark, demanded his son and brother-in-law's submission and got it. On Christmas Eve, he was playing King's Fist with Ulf, and then they started arguing with each other, and at Christmas morning mass, in the Church, Cnut had Ulf assassinated. And that is the pattern of behavior Macbeth knows of and ''expects'' from Norse kings.
--> '''ATOV''' from the comment section: And on top of that, Macbeth has reasons to be paranoid. The Big Name in terms of Viking lords that Macbeth would be the most intimately familiar with? King Cnut. And to give just one example out of the many, many, many things that he did... In the 1020s, he's ruling from London, but he also controls Denmark, who are getting uncomfortable with an absentee king. So when Harthacnut is six years old, he appoints Harthacnut as his regent-king over Denmark. But a six-year-old is not really capable of being a king, right? So he turns to Ulf, his brother-in-law, the husband of his sister (Sweyn's father, btw), and says, "You can be his regent." So Ulf goes with his nephew to rule over Denmark and he fucks up. Olaf (Magnus and Wulf's father) and Anund Jacob (Olaf's brother-in-law) decide to raid Denmark while Cnut isn't looking, and Ulf uses the crisis to have the freemen of Denmark elect Harthacnut as King – ''without acknowledging Cnut's overlordship.'' So by appealing to the people anxious about Cnut being absent, he made a powerplay, because, as Regent, that would give him more power and authority. Cnut quickly found out, came to Denmark, demanded his son and brother-in-law's submission and got it. On Christmas Eve, he was playing King's Fist with Ulf, and then they started arguing with each other, and at Christmas morning mass, in the Church, Cnut had Ulf assassinated. And that is the pattern of behavior Macbeth knows of and ''expects'' from Norse kings.
* RichesToRags: Alvin and Delilah went from being petty royalty and ruling their own city with an extensive spy-network far beyond it, to being on the run and reduced to getting by on the goodwill of others, goodwill that lasts only as long as they're more useful alive than dead.
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!!!Eochaid mac Niall
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* StupidEvil: Eochaid [[spoiler:sends a poisoner to Berk's Thawfest Festival]] after he and his men were kicked out for violating SacredHospitality. There was literally nothing he had to gain for it and yet he did it anyway out of spite. After Berk discovers he was the culprit, [[spoiler:his own vassals turned on him for doing something so obviously stupid as to provoke Berk when the military power disparity was ''huge''.]]
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%%!!!Dovid ben Eliezer
%%Rabbi from Rouen who goes to Berk to investigate their offer to immigrate, and ends up becoming the de facto Chief Rabbi of Berk. Father of Esther, Maor, and Bracha.
!!!Esther bat Rivkah
A Jewish widow from Rouen who moves to Berk and becomes Duke William's tutor and Stoick's aide. Daughter of Dovid and Rivkah
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%%!!!Dovid ben Eliezer
%%Rabbi from Rouen who goes to Berk to investigate their offer to immigrate, and ends up becoming the de facto Chief Rabbi of Berk. Father of Esther, Maor, and Bracha.
!!!Esther bat Rivkah
A Jewish widow from Rouen who moves to Berk and becomes Duke William's tutor and Stoick's aide. Daughter of Dovid and Rivkah
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%%!!!Dovid ben Eliezer
%%Rabbi from Rouen who goes to Berk to investigate their offer to immigrate, and ends up becoming the de facto Chief Rabbi of Berk. Father of Esther, Maor, and Bracha.
!!!Esther bat Rivkah
!!!Fearless
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* ConfirmedBachelor: She had one brief marriage, and it was enough to convince her that it wasn't something she ever wanted to do again. Her father's inability to understand her aromantic asexuality isn't helped by the time period not really having the words to explain it.
* MeaningfulName: Her namesake from the Literature/BookOfEsther also gained the ear of her people's ruler, though in that case it was by marriage, and by the time she becomes his tutor she's no longer William's subject. WordOfGod is that this was intentional.
%%!!!Maor ben Dovid
%%!!!Bracha bat Rivkah
%%!!!Rivkah bat Hadassah
%%A Jewish woman from Caen, her brother Dan was briefly married to Esther before he died.
%%!!!Nittai ben Bethuel Ha-Levi
* ConfirmedBachelor: She had one brief marriage, and it was enough to convince her that it wasn't something she ever wanted to do again. Her father's inability to understand her aromantic asexuality isn't helped by the time period not really having the words to explain it.
* MeaningfulName: Her namesake from the Literature/BookOfEsther also gained the ear of her people's ruler, though in that case it was by marriage, and by the time she becomes his tutor she's no longer William's subject. WordOfGod is that this was intentional.
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* AdultAdoptee: [[spoiler:After HeroicSacrifice: Fearless sacrifices herself [[spoiler:to set off a volcanic eruption that kills the Screaming Death that was once her father tries to push nest-lord, the subsequent eruption also killing Mildew and his Whispering Death]].
* DueToTheDead: After Fearless gives herinto a marriage she doesn't want, she renounces life to stop [[spoiler:the Screaming Death that was once her family nest-lord]], Hiccup makes sure to tell the rest of Berk about her sacrifice. Even the Christian priest sets up a monument for her, musing that, regardless of whether or not dragons have souls, he wants God to know that they appreciate her sacrifice. Later, Óengus, a silversmith, asks for some scales from Toothless to complete various pendants he's making [[spoiler:in the style of a Night Fury]] to further honour [[spoiler:Fearless's sacrifice]]. By Chapter 139, Hiccup has completed a runestone commemorating Fearless's memory, with Toothless the first person to see the completed stone.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Fearless [[spoiler:sacrifices herself to set off a volcanic eruption that kills the Screaming Death andStoick formally adopts her into clan Haddock.]]
* ConfirmedBachelor: She had one brief marriage,takes out Mildew and it was Mold as mere collateral damage]].
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Fearless only spends enoughto convince her that it wasn't something she ever wanted to do again. Her father's inability to understand her aromantic asexuality isn't helped by the time period not really having the words to explain it.
* MeaningfulName: Her namesake from the Literature/BookOfEsther also gained the ear of her people's ruler, though in that case it was by marriage, and by the time she becomes his tutor she's no longer William's subject. WordOfGod is that this was intentional.
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%%!!!Bracha bat Rivkah
%%!!!Rivkah bat Hadassah
%%A Jewish woman from Caen,with her brother Dan was briefly married to Esther receive a name and be given the offer of leading her nest back to Berk before [[spoiler:she gives her life to save the others from the Screaming Death]].
!!!Screaming Death/Screaming White
The nest-lord of the Grimsvotn nest in Iceland.
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* KillAllHumans: The Screaming Death wishes to kill all humans when dragons from his nest are getting captured, but is talked down from following through. [[spoiler: When Fearless comes back to their nest with humans, hedied.
%%!!!Nittai ben Bethuel Ha-Levidecides enough is enough and immediately goes on a rampage to kill all humans and the dragons who side with them]].
* LargeAndInCharge: As in most dragon nests, the nest-lord is the largest and strongest dragon.
* DueToTheDead: After Fearless gives her
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Fearless [[spoiler:sacrifices herself to set off a volcanic eruption that kills the Screaming Death and
* ConfirmedBachelor: She had one brief marriage,
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Fearless only spends enough
* MeaningfulName: Her namesake from the Literature/BookOfEsther also gained the ear of her people's ruler, though in that case it was by marriage, and by the time she becomes his tutor she's no longer William's subject. WordOfGod is that this was intentional.
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%%!!!Bracha bat Rivkah
%%!!!Rivkah bat Hadassah
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!!!Screaming Death/Screaming White
The nest-lord of the Grimsvotn nest in Iceland.
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* KillAllHumans: The Screaming Death wishes to kill all humans when dragons from his nest are getting captured, but is talked down from following through. [[spoiler: When Fearless comes back to their nest with humans, he
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!!!Ruffnut Thicknutsdóttir Fairhair
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Protagonist; daughter of Thicknut, wife of Magnus, DOB Aug 1025.
!!!Ruffnut Thicknutsdóttir Fairhair
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Protagonist;
!!!Dror ben Ezra
* FamousAncestor: One of the most respected ancestors of the present story Hooligan Tribe is Dror ben Ezra, a Jewish man who had been kidnapped into slavery for his literacy a century before and ended up rescued by Berk. He's held in high esteem by modern Hooligans, especially the clan he married into, with his daughter now being the clanhead, as he was responsible for teaching them how to read and write which allowed the Hooligans to save their culture and way of
* PosthumousCharacter: Dror has been dead for over 50 years by the time the story starts. The only scenes we've seen him in are flashbacks from Gothi's POV.
%%!!!Dovid ben Eliezer
%%Rabbi from Rouen who goes to Berk to investigate their offer to immigrate, and ends up becoming the de facto Chief Rabbi of
!!!Esther bat Rivkah
A Jewish widow from Rouen who moves to Berk and becomes Duke William's tutor and Stoick's aide. Daughter of Dovid and Rivkah
* AdultAdoptee: [[spoiler:After her father tries to push her into a marriage she doesn't want, she renounces her family and Stoick formally adopts her into clan Haddock.]]
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Esther looks like a young Music/OfraHaza.
* ConfirmedBachelor: She had one brief marriage, and it was enough to convince her that it wasn't something she ever wanted to do again. Her father's inability to understand her aromantic asexuality isn't helped by the time period not really having the words to explain it.
* MeaningfulName: Her namesake from the Literature/BookOfEsther also gained the ear of her people's ruler, though in that case it was by marriage, and by the time she becomes his tutor she's no longer William's subject. WordOfGod is that this was intentional.
%%!!!Maor ben Dovid
%%!!!Bracha bat Rivkah
%%!!!Rivkah bat Hadassah
%%A Jewish woman from Caen, her brother Dan was briefly married to Esther before he died.
%%!!!Nittai ben Bethuel Ha-Levi
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!!!Ruffnut Thicknutsdóttir Fairhair
[[quoteright:500:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ruffnut_ananda_samsara.png]]
Protagonist; daughter of Thicknut, wife of Magnus, DOB Aug 1025.
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* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Esther looks like a young Music/OfraHaza.
* ConfirmedBachelor: She had one brief marriage, and it was enough to convince her that it wasn't something she ever wanted to do again. Her father's inability to understand her aromantic asexuality isn't helped by the time period not really having the words to explain it.
* MeaningfulName: Her namesake from the Literature/BookOfEsther also gained the ear of her people's ruler, though in that case it was by marriage, and by the time she becomes his tutor she's no longer William's subject. WordOfGod is that this was intentional.
%%!!!Maor ben Dovid
%%!!!Bracha bat Rivkah
%%!!!Rivkah bat Hadassah
%%A Jewish woman from Caen, her brother Dan was briefly married to Esther before he died.
%%!!!Nittai ben Bethuel Ha-Levi
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Norway]]
!!!Ruffnut Thicknutsdóttir Fairhair
[[quoteright:500:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ruffnut_ananda_samsara.png]]
Protagonist; daughter of Thicknut, wife of Magnus, DOB Aug 1025.
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* MeaningfulRename: Snotlout attempts to use his new name of Sigurd Trondsson to move beyond his past mistakes, but [[spoiler:feels as though he has failed in this when he learns of Hiccup's progress in Chapter 78]].
* NormalFishInATinyPond: A unique inversion. Among his peers, Snotlout is not the best fighter (Astrid), the best dragon racer (Hiccup), or the wisest (the guy giving the wisdom test is Ruff and Tuff's uncle who taught them everything they know), as seen during the Holmgang held when he challenges Hiccup. At his best, he's DumbMuscle, and at worst he's a BoisterousWeakling who can only get by because of his dragon. Even Hookfang fits this trope, as he is only one of the many thousands of dragons on Berk. Once Snotlout leaves and takes the name Sigurd Trondsson, however, he soon proves to be a fierce warrior, and as the Byzantine Empire's first DragonRider, he subsequently becomes the founder of his own dragon corps in Constantinople. He can read and write, he can sew, he can tame dragons, and being in a place where he is forced to confront the consequences of his actions forces him to try and think things through.
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* StupidEvil: Just like in RealLife, Emperor Michael V was so stupidly incompetent as a ruler that it's a wonder the Byzantines didn't collapse during his rule when he constantly and actively made decisions that were so obviously detrimental to both his own and the Byzantine's long-term prospects.
*** The most narratively prevalent were his actions regarding Sigurd and the empire's Dragon Training:
### He demands that Sigurd give Hookfang to him and when that was resisted because the precedent would undermine the Varangian Guard's reliability, tries to have Sigurd killed and kidnap Hookfang anyway, never mind that this would result in the Byzantines losing their ''only'' dragon-training expert.
### After the Dragon-Hunting expedition returns with the captive dragons, he takes responsibility for their training away from Sigurd, completely ignoring the fact that Sigurd is still the only one the Byzantines have available who can actually tame the dragons.
### After the training is complete, Michael sends Sigurd on UriahGambit after UriahGambit, hoping he would die for his earlier defiance of him, even though again, ''this would cause him and the Byzantines to lose their best dragon expert''.
*** He ''also'' banished his stepmother Zoe to prevent her from being a threat to his rule due to her popularity, never mind that his association with her is the only reason he's an Emperor in the first place, and since she was, you know, ''more popular than he was'', that provoked her supporters to riot. Harald could only call Michael "half-brained" and "quarter-wit" after hearing about it.
*** The most narratively prevalent were his actions regarding Sigurd and the empire's Dragon Training:
### He demands that Sigurd give Hookfang to him and when that was resisted because the precedent would undermine the Varangian Guard's reliability, tries to have Sigurd killed and kidnap Hookfang anyway, never mind that this would result in the Byzantines losing their ''only'' dragon-training expert.
### After the Dragon-Hunting expedition returns with the captive dragons, he takes responsibility for their training away from Sigurd, completely ignoring the fact that Sigurd is still the only one the Byzantines have available who can actually tame the dragons.
### After the training is complete, Michael sends Sigurd on UriahGambit after UriahGambit, hoping he would die for his earlier defiance of him, even though again, ''this would cause him and the Byzantines to lose their best dragon expert''.
*** He ''also'' banished his stepmother Zoe to prevent her from being a threat to his rule due to her popularity, never mind that his association with her is the only reason he's an Emperor in the first place, and since she was, you know, ''more popular than he was'', that provoked her supporters to riot. Harald could only call Michael "half-brained" and "quarter-wit" after hearing about it.
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!!!Sir Henry "the Sinister" of Brittany
Eldest son of the Duke
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!!!Sir Henry "the Sinister" of Brittany
Eldest son of the Duke of Brittany.
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* ConfirmedBachelor: She had one brief marriage, and it was enough to convince her that it wasn't something she ever wanted to do again. Her father's inability to understand her aromantic asexuality isn't helped by the time period not really having the words to explain it.
* MeaningfulName: Her namesake from the Literature/BookOfEsther also gained the ear of her people's ruler, though in that case it was by marriage, and by the time she becomes his tutor she's no longer William's subject. WordOfGod is that this was intentional.
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!!!Sir Henry "the Sinister" of Brittany
Eldest son of the Duke of Brittany.
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!!!Ruffnut Thicknutsdóttir Fairhair
[[quoteright:500:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ruffnut_ananda_samsara.png]]
Protagonist; daughter of Thicknut, wife of Magnus, DOB Aug 1025.
!!!Ruffnut Thicknutsdóttir Fairhair
[[quoteright:500:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ruffnut_ananda_samsara.png]]
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%%!!!Dovid ben Eliezer
%%Rabbi from Rouen who goes to Berk to investigate their offer to immigrate, and ends up becoming the de facto Chief Rabbi of
!!!Esther bat Rivkah
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* ConfirmedBachelor: She had one brief marriage, and it was enough to convince her that it wasn't something she ever wanted to do again. Her father's inability to understand her aromantic asexuality isn't helped by the time period not really having the words to explain it.
* MeaningfulName: Her namesake from the Literature/BookOfEsther also gained the ear of her people's ruler, though in that case it was by marriage, and by the time she becomes his tutor she's no longer William's subject. WordOfGod is that this was intentional.
%%!!!Maor ben Dovid
%%!!!Bracha bat Rivkah
%%!!!Rivkah bat Hadassah
%%A Jewish woman from Caen, her brother Dan was briefly married to Esther before he died.
%%!!!Nittai ben Bethuel Ha-Levi
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[[folder:Norway]]
!!!Ruffnut Thicknutsdóttir Fairhair
[[quoteright:500:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ruffnut_ananda_samsara.png]]
Protagonist; daughter of Thicknut, wife of Magnus, DOB Aug 1025.
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* ConfirmedBachelor: She had one brief marriage, and it was enough to convince her that it wasn't something she ever wanted to do again. Her father's inability to understand her aromantic asexuality isn't helped by the time period not really having the words to explain it.
* MeaningfulName: Her namesake from the Literature/BookOfEsther also gained the ear of her people's ruler, though in that case it was by marriage, and by the time she becomes his tutor she's no longer William's subject. WordOfGod is that this was intentional.
%%!!!Maor ben Dovid
%%!!!Bracha bat Rivkah
%%!!!Rivkah bat Hadassah
%%A Jewish woman from Caen, her brother Dan was briefly married to Esther before he died.
%%!!!Nittai ben Bethuel Ha-Levi
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Norway]]
!!!Ruffnut Thicknutsdóttir Fairhair
[[quoteright:500:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ruffnut_ananda_samsara.png]]
Protagonist; daughter of Thicknut, wife of Magnus, DOB Aug 1025.
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* NeverGetsFat: Gunnar is mentioned several times as being a BigEater, but he never gains any weight, leading his friends to joke that he must have a hollow leg to store it all. Justified, since being a viking mercenary means he's active almost all the time.
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* HeelFaceTurn: After [[spoiler:Father Henriksson]]'s conspiracy is revealed, Einar becomes much more loyal to Magnus, partially because he was the one who hired the guy in the first place. Plus, he recognizes that even though he doesn't have as much control anymore, what's good for Berk, Norway, and Magnus is good for himself.
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* ControlFreak: has a controlling streak as a result of the fire that nearly killed him and wiped out the rest of his clan, and while he may not be as obstinate about it as Clodgall, he does tend to meddle in the affairs of clanmembers
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* ControlFreak: has Has a controlling streak as a result of the fire that nearly killed him and wiped out the rest of his clan, and while he may not be as obstinate about it as Clodgall, he does tend to meddle in the affairs of clanmembersclanmembers.
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* Controlfreak: Rules his Clan like a petty tyrant rules over his fief. [[spoiler: it got so bad that his petty tyranny is one of the main reasons the clan splits.]]
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* Controlfreak: Rules his Clan like a petty tyrant rules over his fief. [[spoiler: it got so bad that his petty tyranny is one of the main reasons the clan splits.]]
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* AdaptationalIntelligence:Tuffnut gets a similar treatment to Ruffnut's (described above), becoming an {{Omniglot}} herald and diplomat who travels the world.
%%!!!Hsiao Feng
%%A fellow East Asian who becomes Drago's chief strategist.
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* TrappedInVillainy: Valka is horrified by the Free Nests deciding to enslave humans, but recognizes that if she tried to escape, they'd just kill her, while if she stays as "head slave", she can communicate between humans and dragons, hopefully preventing deaths due to misunderstandings.
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* EveryScarHasAStory: He has a horrible burn on one of his arms from the fire that killed most of Clan Hofferson decades ago [[spoiler:and that Mildew started]].
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%%Wife of Spitelout Jorgenson, sister of Stoick Haddock, DOB 1003.
%%!!!Snitwit Spiteloutsdoittor
%%Wife of Spitelout Jorgenson, sister of Stoick Haddock, DOB 1003.
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%%Wife
Wife of Spitelout Jorgenson, sister of Stoick Haddock, DOB
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* GoodParents: She's kind and loving, but also disciplines her children fairly when they mess up.
* StartMyOwn: After Clodgall forbids her from [[spoiler:going to the Roman Empire to be with her son]], she [[spoiler:starts her own clan, which sets off a wave of Jorgensons doing the same thing]].
%%!!!Snitwit
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!!!Ruffnut Thicknutsdoittor Thicknutsdóttir Fairhair
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%%!!!Lena HoarksdoittorHoarksdóttir
%%!!Clan Joms
%%!!!Jonna Asgersdóttir
%%!!!Reidun Hemmingsdóttir
%%!!!Jonna Asgersdóttir
%%!!!Reidun Hemmingsdóttir
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* HisOwnWorstEnemy: His worst problems during the story are self-inflicted. [[spoiler:Due to a combination of excessive paranoia, greed, ambition, stupidity, and especially insecurity regarding how weak he actually is compared to other aristocrats including his own vassals, he launches an ambush on Stoick in ignorance of the fact he came in genuine peace and was planning to give a generous peace offering that, if not solved his problems, at least would have helped him a lot. Instead, as a direct result of the ambush, his kingdom irreversibly splinters with several of his vassals breaking from him while his own reputation is forever tarnished by the ambush he perpetrated]].
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* HisOwnWorstEnemy: His worst problems during the story are self-inflicted. [[spoiler:Due to a combination of excessive paranoia, greed, ambition, stupidity, and especially insecurity regarding how weak he actually is compared to other aristocrats including his own vassals, he launches an ambush on Stoick in ignorance of the fact he came in genuine peace and was planning to give a generous peace offering that, if not solved solving his problems, at least would have helped him a lot. Instead, as a direct result of the ambush, his kingdom irreversibly splinters with several of his vassals breaking from him while his own reputation is forever tarnished by the ambush he perpetrated]].
%%!!!Joan of Brittany
%%Sir Henry's wife.
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!!!Ruffnut Thicknutsdoittor Thicknutsdóttir Fairhair
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!!!Gudmund Hallvarsson/[[spoiler:Heidrun Hallvarsdoittor]]
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!!!Gudmund Hallvarsson/[[spoiler:Heidrun Hallvarsdoittor]]Hallvarsdóttir]]
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* EvilRegent: Einar Thambarskelfir seized power over Norway by having himself appointed regent and tries to keep Magnus dependent on him (although [[spoiler:he does save Ruffnut's life when a deranged priest tried to baptize and then kill her]]).
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* AbandonmentInducedAnimosity: Drago and the rest of the Pechenegs thought he died in the attack on Bianjing, but [[spoiler:he survived, and once he found out Drago took his father's place, he agrees to help the Chinese fight against him]].
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Compared to Emperor Michael, she's strict but fair, though she also has a conservative Christian morality.
