History Characters / ChroniclesOfTheKencyrathPerimalDarkling

* FiveBadBand:

* WifeHusbandry ({{Exaggerated|Trope}}): Not only did he take Jame in at age seven, bringing her up and training her so he could make her his replacement consort and immortality conduit, but he actually ''arranged her contraception and birth'' in the first place.

** VillainousIncest ({{Subverted|Trope}}): When you first hear about Gerridon and Jamethiel, it sounds like pretty standard VillainousIncest--they're the most infamous people in the entire history of the Kencyrath, after all. But as the story goes on, you find out twincest was culturally sanctioned in their time, and very traditional, and--while it's fallen out of popularity somewhat--incest still isn't shocking or unheard of. And by the time Jane and Tori are starting to get twincestuous too, it's ''definitely'' been subverted.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The changers are never described as vampires but follow a lot of vampire tropes. They are created by sex, it seems, by coupling with vile, corrupted creatures of Perimal Darkling, the crawling, infectious chaos. The Darkling influence in them gives them long life, and the ability to shape-shift, both to mimic other humans and to take on a bat-like flying form. They become dependent on blood for energy, and have superhuman speed and toughness. They shun sunlight to a degree but can endure it, but fire is fatal to them, since their corrupted blood is intensely flammable.

## TheDragon[=/=]TheBrute: Keral, Gerridon's AxCrazy pet

** VillainousIncest ({{Subverted|Trope}}): When you first hear about Gerridon and Jamethiel, it sounds like pretty standard VillainousIncest--they're the most infamous people in the entire history of the Kencyrath, after all. But as the story goes on, you find out twincest was culturally sanctioned in their time, and very traditional, and while it's fallen out of popularity somewhat, incest still isn't shocking or unheard of. And by the time Jane and Tori are starting to get twincestuous too, it's ''definitely'' been subverted.

* [[spoiler:MissingMom: To Jame and Torisen]]

* TheOphelia ({{Downplayed|Trope}}): Not ''crazy'', per say, but by the time we meet her, Jamethiel isn't all there in the head, but she ''is'' ethereal, beautiful, and dangerous. And like many cases of this trope, she's a dancer, and a WomanInWhite.

* AxCrazy[=/=]TheBrute

## EvilGenius: Tirandys, master of the Senethar

* SiblingTeam ({{Exaggerated|Trope}}): They're a group of full siblings, half-siblings, and half-siblings' half-siblings. When Gerridon fell, he enlisted his twin sister Jamethiel--though she didn't know what she was getting into. Their half-brother Tirandys elected to follow Gerridon, out of a combination of brotherly loyalty and being in love with Jamethiel. Keral, Tirandys's half-brother on the other side--who wasn't directly related to Gerridon and Jamethiel--followed Tirandys's example.

* DealWithTheDevil

* MerlinAndNimue ({{Implied|Trope}} and ultimately {{Subverted|Trope}}): He and Jame have shades of this. They've mentor and student in the Senethar (semi-magic) and have a serious age gap. They're not romantically involved, though when Jame returns to the Master's House, he kisses her on the lips. The betrayal part never quite comes, hence the subversion, but there are several moments when it seems like it might: In ''Dark of the Moon'', [[spoiler:Tirandys tries to poison Jame, and then later to kill her brother. But both times, he does it because he believes it's the best thing he can do at that point, and it isn't truly a betrayal to Jame.]]

* MerlinAndNimue ({{Subverted|Trope}}): He and Jame have shades of this. They've mentor and student in the Senethar (semi-magic) and have a serious age gap. They're not romantically involved, though when Jame returns to the Master's House, he kisses her on the lips. The betrayal part never quite comes, hence the subversion, but there are several moments when it seems like it might: In ''Dark of the Moon'', [[spoiler:Tirandys tries to poison Jame, and then later to kill her brother. But both times, he does it because he believes it's the best thing he can do at that point, and it isn't truly a betrayal to Jame.]]

* LongDeadBadass: Tirandys was isn't actually a case, because he appears (and dies) in fairly in the series. In-universe, though, he is considered one: Master of the Senthar, 3,000 years dead.

* MerlinAndNimue ({{Subverted|Trope}}): He and Jame have shades of this. They've mentor and student in magic, and with a serious age gap. They're not romantically involved, though when Jame returns to the Master's House, he kisses her on the lips. The betrayal part never quite comes, hense the subversion but there are several moments when it seems like it might: In ''Dark of the Moon'', [[spoiler:Tirandys tries to poison Jame, and then later to kill her brother. But both times, he does it because he believes it's the best thing he can do at that point, and it isn't truly a betrayal to Jame.]]
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Tirandys decided to do his duty and follow his brother Gerridon into damnation despite the evil Gerridon did, because his reading of the Kencyr code of honor said it was the only choice. He regrets this later, and works from within to bring his master down within the letter of obedience.

* BedTrick: He slept with Rawneth by pretending to be Greshan.

* TheOphelia ({{Downplayed|Trope}}): Not ''crazy'', per say, but by the time we meet her, Jamethiel isn't all there in the head, but she ''is'' ethereal, beautiful, and dangerous.

** VillainousIncest ({{Subverted|Trope}}): When you first hear about Gerridon and Jamethiel, it sounds like pretty standard VillainousIncest--they're the most infamous people in the entire history of the Kencyrath, after all. But as the story goes on, you find out twincest was culturally sanctioned in their time, and very traditional, and while it's fallen out of popularity somewhat, incest still isn't shocking or unheard of. And by the time Jane and Tori are starting to get twincestuous too, it's definitely been subverted.

[[folder:Haunts]]
* FirePurifies[=/=]KillItWithFire: Fire is one of the few reliable ways to kill corrupted beings like Haunts and Changers, and usually the most practical.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Haunts, dead reanimated by Perimal Darkling, are pretty standard zombies: dying unburned in the Haunted Lands turns you into one, as does being bitten if the infection kills you. Singer Ashe, however, becomes a haunt through an infected bite and carries on as if nothing happened, although with insight into the world of the dead. And then we get a zombie ''salmon…''
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[[folder:Changers in general]]
* TheCorruption: What becoming a Changer involves.
* FirePurifies[=/=]KillItWithFire: Fire is one of the few reliable ways to kill corrupted beings like Haunts and Changers, and usually the most practical.
-->'''Tirandys''': Fire will kill me, if it kindles my blood. We changers scorned death, and now each one of us is his own pyre, waiting for the first spark.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The changers are never described as vampires but follow a lot of vampire tropes. They are created by sex, it seems, by coupling with vile, corrupted creatures of Perimal Darkling, the crawling, infectious chaos. The Darkling influence in them gives them long life, and the ability to shape-shift, both to mimic other humans and to take on a bat-like flying form. They become dependent on blood for energy, and have superhuman speed and toughness. They shun sunlight to a degree but can endure it, but fire is fatal to them, since their corrupted blood is intensely flammable.
--->'''Immalai''': The Mistress reaped souls to keep Gerridon of Knorth young; but you have gained your "immortality" by coupling with the foulest shadows that creep in the farthest rooms of the Master's House, across the thresholds of a hundred fallen worlds. Now you crawl back to them whenever lust or severe injury drives you and find renewal in their arms.
* RubberMan[=/=]VoluntaryShapeshifting: Stretching oneself appears to be the first thing a Changer finds that they can do. The Changers can shift their forms at will, and can take on the appearance of a specific human, especially if they drink their blood or otherwise ingest the substance of the target.
* TheStarscream: Several of the Changers make it clear they ''don't like Gerridon at all'', for a variety of reasons. Most that are like this have the very logical fear he'll try to consume them to prolong his immortality after his supply of mortal souls runs out, and try to overthrow him traditionally. Tirandys is a somewhat more complex one, as he isn't ''openly'' treacherous and is acting from his [[NobleDemon sense of honor]]. Ironically, it's this same sense of honor that makes Gerridon trust him more than any of the others--the Master seems to know that his underling has no love for him, but also knows he'll never go against a direct order.
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* Chiaroscuro: Jamethiel [[WomanInWhite wears a white dress]], in contrast with Gerridon, who [[EvilWearsBlack wears black]]. This symbolizes her innocence and his guilt.

--->''Under their eyes, two figures revolved around each other, the one in black only visible when it eclipsed the one clad in white. They appeared to be… dancing.''

* BrotherSisterIncest ({{Downplayed|Trope}}): He followed Gerridon partly for love of his half-sister Jamethiel. But it seems he was never more than a UnrequitedTragicMaiden, in that regard.
and nothing came of it.
* LongDeadBadass: Tirandys was isn't actually a case, because he appears (and dies) in fairly in the series. In-universe, though, he is considered one: Master of the Senthar, 3,000 years dead.

** It's a case of VillainousIncest {{Subverted|Trope}}. When you first hear about Gerridon and Jamethiel, it sounds like pretty standard VillainousIncest--they're the most infamous people in the entire history of the Kencyrath, after all. But as the story goes on, you find out twincest was culturally sanctioned in their time, and very traditional. And while it's fallen out of popularity somewhat, incest still isn't shocking or unheard of.

* LoveMakesYouEvil: It's said that his love for his half-sister Jamethiel was part of the reason he followed Gerridon. But it seems he was never more than a UnrequitedTragicMaiden, in that regard.
** BrotherSisterIncest ({{Downplayed|Trope}}): She was his half-sister, and nothing came of it.

* MerlinAndNimue ({{Subverted|Trope}}): He and Jame have shades of this. They've mentor and student in magic, and with a serious age gap. They're not romantically involved, though when Jame returns to the Master's House, he kisses her on the lips. The betrayal part never quite comes, hense the subversion but there are several moments when it seems like it: In ''Dark of the Moon'', [[spoiler:Tirandys tries to poison Jame, and then later to kill her brother. But both times, he does it because he believes it's the best thing he can do at that point, and it isn't truly a betrayal to Jame.]]
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Tirandys decided to do his duty and follow his brother, Gerridon, into damnation despite the evil Gerridon did, because his reading of the Kencyr code of honor said it was the only choice. He regrets this later, and works from within to bring his master down within the letter of obedience.
-->''Tirandys was torn between loyalty to the then-Lord Randir--a third or bone cousin--and Gerridon Highlord, his blood-kin half-brother. Blood told. When Gerridon fell, Tirandys felt honor-bound to follow, even though he knew it would lead to his own damnation.''

** BigBad: Gerridon, Highlord who sold his people to their most ancient of enemies in exchange for immortality for himself
** DarkChick: Jamethiel, who Tirandys fell for love of
** TheDragon[=/=]TheBrute: Keral, Gerridon's AxCrazy pet
** EvilGenius: Tirandys, master of the Senethar
** SixthRangerTraitor: Bender, the other brother who joined not by choice, but because Gerridon's holding his soul hostage, and has since fought to bring him down

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: The two of them got much nicer immortality than the changers. They're 3,000 years old, but Jamethiel looks like a fairly young woman. We haven't seen Gerridon's face yet, but he presumably still looks young too, as Immalai explained. Gerridon stayed young by consuming the reaped souls, and Jamethiel may have gotten the effects of that too because the souls were all filtered through her.

* MissingMom: [[spoiler:To Jame and Torisen]]

* TheOphelia ({{Downplayed|Trope}}): Not ''crazy'', really. But by the time we meet her, Jamethiel isn't all there in the head, but she ''is'' ethereal, beautiful, and dangerous.

* ThemeTwinNaming: Tirandys and Terribend have alliterating names

* ThemeTwinNaming: Tirandys and Terribend have alliterating names
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!Haunts
[[folder:Haunts in general]]
* FirePurifies[=/=]KillItWithFire: Fire is one of the few reliable ways to kill corrupted beings like Haunts and Changers, and usually the most practical.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Haunts, dead reanimated by Perimal Darkling, are pretty standard zombies: dying unburned in the Haunted Lands turns you into one, as does being bitten if the infection kills you. Singer Ashe, however, becomes a haunt through an infected bite and carries on as if nothing happened, although with insight into the world of the dead. And then we get a zombie ''salmon…''

!the Haunted Lands

!!the Master's House

* MerlinAndNimue ({{Downplayed|Trope}}): He and Jame have shades of this. They've mentor and student in magic, and with a serious age gap. In ''Dark of the Moon'', [[spoiler:Tirandys tries to poison Jame, but he does it because he believes it's the best thing he can do at that point, and it's as much a MercyKill as anything else, so it doesn't really count as betrayal]]. And they're not romantically involved, though when Jame returns to the Master's House, he kisses her on the lips.

** BigBad: Gerridon

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[-This is listing of characters in
the Perimal Darkling in the series ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath''.-]

!!!This is listing of characters in the Perimal Darkling in the series ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath''.

This is listing of characters in the Perimal Darkling in the series ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath''.

* MissedTheCall: In a way; they could've been the Tyr-ridan, if they had had a third. Without a third, they were incredibly unbalanced, and the Fall ensued.