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* CharacterDevelopment: Although the relevant stories are published in reverse chronological order, by ''Two Serpents Rise'' his BloodKnight tendencies have receded somewhat and he's become more responsible towards the city. In ''Last First Snow'', he ultimately rejects Elayne Kevarian's attempts to find a peaceful settlement in favor of slaughtering the protestors; by ''Two Serpents Rise'', having lived for years with the aftermath of the Skittersill Rising, he's willing to give Caleb Altemoc a chance to find a better solution, even investing a massive number of souls in him on nothing but his reassurance.
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* BigGood: Of ''Two Serpents Rise'' as a whole; while he's a CreepyGood and has several personal flaws, his ultimate goal is to keep the city running and its citizens alive, without returning to the human sacrifice of past eras.
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Built his political and economic power on the foundation of his status as a master Craftsman and military leader.
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* DemBones: He’s made the transition to full undeath and become a skeleton. In ''Deathless: City's Thirst'', which is the earliest piece in the timeline so far, he's still alive and fleshy.
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[[folder:Tara]]
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->'''Appearances''': Literature/ThreePartsDead, Literature/FourRoadsCross
A talented Craftswoman who graduated from the Hidden Schools early after burning down her professor's MindControl laboratory. Tara is given a probationary job by Elayne Kevarian in Alt Columb as her assistant. She later is hired full time by the Church of Kos Everburning as their in-house Craftsman.
A talented Craftswoman who graduated from the Hidden Schools early after burning down her professor's MindControl laboratory. Tara is given a probationary job by Elayne Kevarian in Alt Columb as her assistant. She later is hired full time by the Church of Kos Everburning as their in-house Craftsman.
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* AmbiguouslyBi - Tara shows attraction to Shale, a male gargoyle, but also has a number of scenes admiring Cat. She also had an extremely close relationship with Daphne during their time in school.
* BlackMagicianGirl - Despite professing to be all about courts and contracts, Tara spends most of her time working (mainly necromantic) Craft on the offensive, and quite impressively so, and has enough power and talent to still be relevant despite having been thrown out of the Hidden Schools while fighting her professors. As the youngest of the people tasked with investigating Kos's case, she's got a forceful personality and can act foolishly but isn't above admitting that she's still got a lot to learn.
* FaceStealer - Tara steals Shale's face during their first meeting and sneaks it past the Blacksuits so she can question him about Judge Cabot's death. Unlike a lot of examples, Tara does put it back eventually, although not before questioning Shale by placing it on a mannikin.
* ItsPersonal - Anything to do with Alexander Denovo. Denovo used Tara, as well as her friend and roommate Daphne, in his experiments involving compulsion. Tara's mile high graduation from the Hidden Schools was because she burned down his lab, and his reappearance during the Kos incident pisses her off.
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* BlackMagicianGirl - Despite professing to be all about courts and contracts, Tara spends
* DefectorFromDecadence: Tara left Kelethres, Albrecht, and Ao after recognizing that the
* {{Determinator}}
--> ''She came from a podunk farm town near the Badlands and
--> -- '''Madeline Ramp''', describing Tara
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When we first meet Tara, she’s severely injured and stranded in a wasteland after being ejected from the Hidden Schools. She drains the life from an oasis to heal herself, kills a buzzard for food, and begins a grueling, days-long walking journey towards her hometown. This shows us that
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* ItsPersonal: Anything to do with Alexander Denovo. Denovo used Tara, as well as her friend and roommate Daphne, in his experiments involving compulsion. Tara's mile high graduation from the Hidden Schools was because she burned down his lab, and
* NayTheist: In ''Three Parts Dead'', Tara regards gods as little more than magical parasites. In later books, she becomes more tolerant of gods and comes to count some of them as clients, business partners, and even friends, but she’s still very uncomfortable with the idea of actually worshiping them.
* NervesOfSteel: Tara is unfazed (at least outwardly) by blood and guts, angry mobs, or angry ''gods''. The only thing that throws her
* PragmaticHero
* PowerTattoo: During her training at the Hidden Schools, Tara had magical glyphs imprinted on her skin, allowing her to summon a spectral knife and granting her basic protections.
* SmallTownBoredom: Tara suffered from this while growing up in the rural town of Edgemont. Part of why she chose to become a Craftswoman was simply that she knew it would be very different from anything Edgemont had to offer.
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!!Monk Technician Abelard
->'''Appearances''': Literature/ThreePartsDead, Literature/FourRoadsCross
A minor priest in the Church of Kos Everburning. When Kos is murdered, he was standing vigil. Abelard wants to be a dutiful technician, but quickly finds himself wrapped in the political aspects of priesthood.
!!Monk Technician Abelard
->'''Appearances''': Literature/ThreePartsDead, Literature/FourRoadsCross
A minor priest in the Church of Kos Everburning. When Kos is murdered, he was standing vigil. Abelard wants to be a dutiful technician, but quickly finds himself wrapped in the political aspects of priesthood.
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->'''Appearances''': Literature/ThreePartsDead, Literature/FourRoadsCross
!!Elayne Kevarian
A
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* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking - Abelard is a chainsmoker, but also a good guy. It's also brought up that while Kos is alive, his priests don't suffer from the nastier side effects. Abelard visits a doctor during ''Three Parts Dead'' who tells him to give it up, but he refuses.
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* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking - Abelard is a chainsmoker, but also a good guy. It's also brought up that while Kos is alive, his priests don't suffer from
* FamedInStory: Elayne is well-known in Craft circles, although the average non-Crafty person on the street is unlikely to have heard of her.
* IronLady
* TheMentor: To Tara, most directly in ''Three Parts
* NayTheist: Like most Craftspeople.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Due to
* TheStoic: Elayne maintains a cool, unshakably professional demeanor at almost all times.
--> ''There was no one in the room to see the momentary slouch of Elayne’s shoulders, the bow of her head. No one saw her set the scroll down and lean against the desk. Of the four million souls in the artificially brilliant city below her window, not one saw her bend.''
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!!Catherine Elle
->'''Appearances''': Literature/ThreePartsDead, Literature/FullFathomFive, Literature/FourRoadsCross
!!Catherine Elle
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!!Catherine Elle
->'''Appearances''': Literature/ThreePartsDead, Literature/FullFathomFive, Literature/FourRoadsCross
!!Abelard
A priest of Kos who works as a technician among the sacred machinery that powers Alt Coulumb.
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* AudienceSurrogate: In ''Three Parts Dead'', Abelard’s ignorance about matters of Craft prompts Tara to explain things she’d otherwise take for granted, which serves as a means of exposition for the audience.
* GodBeforeDogma: In contrast with Gustave’s [[TheFundamentalist Fundamentalist]] attitude, Abelard believes that the church should be willing to adapt its teachings and practices in recognition of their god as a living, dynamic being. He makes a powerful speech to this effect in ''Four Roads Cross''.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Abelard is a [[CigaretteOfAnxiety stressed-out]] chain-smoking good guy. Smoking is a tradition for priests of the fire god Kos, and while he was alive he protected them from its ill effects. Abelard visits a doctor during ''Three Parts Dead'' who tells him to give it up, but he refuses.
* GodBeforeDogma: In contrast with Gustave’s [[TheFundamentalist Fundamentalist]] attitude, Abelard believes that the church should be willing to adapt its teachings and practices in recognition of their god as a living, dynamic being. He makes a powerful speech to this effect in ''Four Roads Cross''.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Abelard is a [[CigaretteOfAnxiety stressed-out]] chain-smoking good guy. Smoking is a tradition for priests of the fire god Kos, and while he was alive he protected them from its ill effects. Abelard visits a doctor during ''Three Parts Dead'' who tells him to give it up, but he refuses.
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!!Caleb Altemoc
->'''Appearances''': Literature/TwoSerpentsRise, Literature/LastFirstSnow, Literature/FourRoadsCross
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->'''Appearances''': Literature/TwoSerpentsRise, Literature/LastFirstSnow, Literature/FourRoadsCross
!!Catherine “Cat” Elle
A member of Alt Coulumb’s police force and a childhood friend of Abelard’s.
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* ActionGirl: In or out of her armor, Cat is a capable hand-to-hand fighter.
* FunctionalAddict: Cat’s addiction doesn’t interfere with her professional life because what she’s addicted to ''is'' part of her job: the experience of being subsumed into Justice’s hive mind. When she’s off-duty, Cat resorts to riskier alternatives like alcohol and [[FantasticDrug vampire bites]].
* RecoveredAddict: After Seril returns to replace Justice, Cat tries to overcome her need for mind-altering experiences and develop a healthy relationship with the goddess.
* FunctionalAddict: Cat’s addiction doesn’t interfere with her professional life because what she’s addicted to ''is'' part of her job: the experience of being subsumed into Justice’s hive mind. When she’s off-duty, Cat resorts to riskier alternatives like alcohol and [[FantasticDrug vampire bites]].
* RecoveredAddict: After Seril returns to replace Justice, Cat tries to overcome her need for mind-altering experiences and develop a healthy relationship with the goddess.
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[[folder:Temoc]]
!!Temoc Almotil
->'''Appearances''': Literature/TwoSerpentsRise, Literature/LastFirstSnow
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->'''Appearances''': Literature/TwoSerpentsRise, Literature/LastFirstSnow
!!Captain Raz Pelham
A vampire who captains a small mercenary ship.
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!!Kai Pohala
->'''Appearances''': Literature/FullFathomFive, Literature/RuinOfAngels
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->'''Appearances''': Literature/FullFathomFive, Literature/RuinOfAngels
!!Shale
One of the Guardians of Seril.
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!!Jalai'iz "Izza"
->'''Appearances''': Literature/FullFathomFive, Literature/RuinOfAngels
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->'''Appearances''': Literature/FullFathomFive, Literature/RuinOfAngels
!!Aev
The leader of the surviving Guardians of Seril.
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!!Kos Everburning
A god of fire and technology who is worshipped by the citizens of Alt Coulumb. Kos appears in ''Three Parts Dead'' and ''Four Roads Cross''.
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* GodCouple: With Seril.
* PhysicalGod: Like most gods in the setting, Kos is an active and tangible presence in the world. His will powers the infrastructure of Alt Coulumb and he communicates with his worshippers through prayers and visions.
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[[folder:Seril]]
!!Seril Undying
A goddess of nighttime and justice, once revered as Kos’ counterpart, who was nearly killed in the God Wars.
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* GodCouple: With Kos.
* GodInHumanForm: With her tiny handful of worshippers, Seril’s divine powers are very limited and her consciousness is more like a human’s than most gods.
* PhysicalGod: Seril’s power is diminished due to her injuries in the God Wars, but she still has a presence her followers can interact with.
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[[folder:Alexander Denovo]]
!!Alexander Denovo
A powerful and conniving Craftsman who teaches at the Hidden Schools and has history in Alt Coulumb.
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* EvilTeacher: Used his position as a professor at the Hidden Schools to test his hive-mind theories on students.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Denovo can be an engaging and witty speaker when he wants to be, if only because being able to get and hold people’s attention makes it easier to mind-control them. He maintains a casual, conversational tone even when discussing his intention to become a god and torment the souls of his enemies.
* GodhoodSeeker: What does Denovo want? Lots of things. For starters, he’s ''not a god yet''.
* TheManBehindTheMan: He manipulated Gustave into undermining Kos’ power
* ManipulativeBastard
* NayTheist: He thinks he could do the job better.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Like Elayne, his aging has been altered by his use of Craft.
* SimpleCountryLawyer: According to Tara, he likes to put on this persona to make people trust or underestimate him.
* SmugSnake
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[[folder:Cardinal Gustave]]
!!Cardinal Gustave
The head priest of the Church of Kos.
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* BrokenPedestal: Abelard looked up to him until he learned that the Cardinal had committed murder and gone against Kos’ wishes to prevent Seril’s return.
* TheFundamentalist: Gustave is so committed to maintaining Kos as the solitary, supreme god of Alt Coulumb that when it turns out that ''Kos himself'' doesn’t share his vision, Gustave concludes that the god has gone mad.
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[[folder:Caleb Altemoc]]
!!Caleb Altemoc
The son of a notorious outlaw priest. Formerly a risk manager at Red King Consolidated, Caleb left the Concern to establish the nonprofit Two Serpents Group.
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* ActionSurvivor: Caleb is a guy with a desk job, not a trained warrior or sorcerer.
* LoveMakesYouDumb: Caleb’s infatuation with Mal leads him to make a number of unwise decisions.
* NayTheist: Blames the gods for the barbarity of human sacrifice and for the corruption of his father.
* PowerTattoo: Caleb unwillingly received the magic-channeling scarification of an Eagle Knight when he was a child. He doesn’t have the Applied Theology training of an Eagle Knight, but his scars allow him to interact with magical structures in a way that most people can’t.
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[[folder:Teo Batan]]
!!Teotihual “Teo” Batan
A colleague and close friend of Caleb’s.
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* AffluentAscetic: Teo lives a comfortable middle-class life, but she eschews the lavish lifestyle her family’s wealth could provide.
* {{Foil}}: To Caleb in ''Two Serpents Rise''. Teo’s practical-minded nature contrasts with and underlines Caleb’s romantic, sometimes impulsive character.
* NayTheist: Teo dislikes religion and embraces the new world.
* NonIdleRich: Teo’s father is one of the richest landowners in Dresediel Lex. She finds the life of idle luxury and high-society politicking her family lives insufferably boring, so she chooses to work for a living and support herself using only her own earnings.
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[[folder:Temoc Almotil]]
!!Temoc Almotil
Last priest of the old Quechal gods, rebel against Red King Consolidated, and Caleb’s estranged father.
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* AffablyEvil: Terrorist he may be, but Temoc genuinely cares about his people and his son.
* ChurchMilitant: Temoc is an Eagle Knight, one of the old Quechal religion’s order of warrior-priests.
* CynicismCatalyst: Even after the God Wars, Temoc believed that peaceful coexistence between Craftspeople and the religious was possible and worked to help his people adapt to the new world. The Chakal Square massacre crushed his hopes and convinced him that the new order could only be violently overthrown.
* FamedInStory: Temoc is a notorious figure in Dresediel Lex, feared and hated by supporters of the King in Red and revered by True Quechal believers.
* LastOfHisKind: Temoc is the only practicing priest of the Quechal gods left after the Wars.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Temoc is eighty years old or more, but he remains in peak physical condition due to the gods’ blessing and looks middle-aged.
* ParentalBetrayal: Temoc cooperates with Caleb and Teo to get into the Sansilva pyramid, then betrays them by trying to sacrifice Teo without considering any other methods of stopping the Serpents.
* ParentsAsPeople: In ''Last First Snow'', Temoc struggles to balance his role as a priest and protest leader with his responsibilities to his family. Eventually he chooses (although perhaps he feels he has no choice) to leave his family and give his life to the cause. He tries to leave Caleb with some protection by giving him the Eagle Knight scars, but Caleb and Mina regard this as a further betrayal rather than the benevolent act Temoc intended.
* PowerTattoo: Actually scarification, but Temoc channels magical power through the mythic symbols inscribed on his body. Receiving these markings was a standard initiation ritual for Eagle Knights.
* TheRemnant: The Quechal gods and their adherents were decisively defeated in the God Wars decades ago, but Temoc still fights in their name.
* TheStoic: Temoc is serious, blunt, and nearly unflappable.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: However dark his worldview and methods have become over the years, Temoc has always tried to do what he believes is best for his people.
* WouldntHitAGirl: Temoc hits Teo during a brief, confused struggle, then apologizes to her and explains that he normally considers hitting women to be dishonorable. Teo sarcastically thanks him for his “condescending, sexist apology”. He doesn’t have any hesitation about trying to ''kill'' her later, but Temoc considers human sacrifice to be in a different category than ordinary interpersonal violence.
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[[folder:The King in Red]]
!!Kopil, the King in Red
A Craftsman who led the rebellion against the Quechal Gods. Now, through his company Red King Consolidated, he rules Dresediel Lex in their stead.
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* BloodKnight: Kopil loves fighting, finding it more satisfying and straightforward than dealing with the kinds of issues he faces as leader of a city-state. He has an unfortunate tendency to interpret complex sociopolitical problems in black-and-white, all-or-nothing terms so that he can justify solving them through force. He has become a little more self-aware about this in the years since the Skittersill Rising.
* TheChainsOfCommanding:
--> '''Kopil:''' RKC is a part of me, literally and figuratively. I built this Concern, and I have become a gear moving at its heart - a larger gear than many, but a gear nonetheless. When I sleep I see in my dreams the beast to which I have given birth. Thousands of miles of tunnel and pipe. Millions of people drink of us and live. Billions more spread throughout this mad world draw strength from Dresediel Lex… So much depends on us. On me. Even at a time like this.
--> '''Caleb:''' That must be stressful.
--> '''Kopil:''' It’s no more than I asked for - than any of us asked for. There is one thing you must understand about destroying gods, boy.
--> '''Caleb:''' Only one?
--> '''Kopil:''' You must be ready to take their place.
* DemBones: He’s made the transition to full undeath and become a skeleton.
* TheDreaded: Thanks to his enormous magical power, his reputation as a ruthless fighter in the God Wars, and his harsh rule in the following years, practically everyone he encounters is at least somewhat fearful of him. He generally enjoys this, although it can get a little lonely.
* FamedInStory: As the ruler of a powerful city-state and head of a major global Concern, Kopil is one of the most prominent people in the world.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Claims credit for the creation of the Crack in the World, a fissure in reality that rendered miles of land around it barren.
* PersonWithTheClothing: His nom de guerre, “The King in Red”.
* TragicBigot: Kopil hates gods and religious people because his lover was sacrificed years ago.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Killed gods and their followers to build a society free of human sacrifice and violently repressed the Skittersill Rising to defend it.
* WithUsOrAgainstUs: One of Kopil’s biggest character flaws is his tendency to see everything in these terms. He thinks as if he’s still fighting for survival in the God Wars, and heaven help you if he decides you’re his enemy.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds
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[[folder:Malina Kekapania]]
!!Malina “Mal” Kekapania
A cliff runner and Craftswoman who comes under suspicion of poisoning the Bright Mirror reservoir.
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Subverted. Caleb wants Mal to play this role in his life, but she has her own agenda.
* PlayingHardToGet: Subverted. Caleb interprets Mal's secretive behavior and sporadic communication early in the book as this, but she's actually trying to keep him at a distance so he won't interfere with her plans.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Wants to tear down Dresediel Lex in order to make room for a better society.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The anger that drives Mal's scheming arises from her parents being killed in a horrifying fashion for opposing Kopil's regime and her homeland being subjected, as she sees it, to occupation by corrupt outside powers
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[[folder:Kal Alaxic]]
!!Kal Alaxic
A former priest who leads the Heartstone concern and studies the Twin Serpents.
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* TheRemnant: One of the last surviving priests of the Quechal gods, and a party to Mal’s scheme to upend the new order.
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[[folder:Sam]]
!!Sam
Teo’s girlfriend, an artist with Old World ancestry.
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!Characters introduced in ''Full Fathom Five''
[[folder:Kai Pohala]]
!!Kai Pohala
A priestess of the Kavekanese order who builds and maintains idols.
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* Determinator
* TheDutifulSon: Not so much duty to the family as duty to the larger community, but Kai stayed in her ancestral home of Kavekana and joined the island’s somewhat morally compromised essential industry of idol-making while her sister Ley left to more directly confront the world’s ills. Both sisters have complicated feelings about this.
* TransTribulations: Transgender people are accepted in Kavekanese society, but Kai sometimes worries that clients from other parts of the world will take issue with her identity. In the climax of ''Full Fathom Five'', her past experience of maintaining her sense of identity in the face of gender dysphoria helps her resist brainwashing.
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[[folder:Izza]]
!!Jalai’Iz aka Izza
A refugee from the Northern Gleb who leads an underground religion among street children in Kavekana.
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* HarmfulToMinors: Izza had a harsh childhood as a refugee and considers herself to have stopped being a child long before she reached physical maturity.
--> ''They’d been kids together, or whatever you were when you were eight and bleeding, smeared with filth in some fucking Camlaander Peace Station where Knights gathered in quest of something that wasn’t Empire but sure as all hells wasn’t Peace, in a place you barely knew to call the Northern Gleb in the middle of something the newspapers were careful not to call a war, clutching a person your age who seemed nearly as fucked as you. That wasn’t being a kid, not the way the mainlander birthday cards meant, and after you’d been that you could never be a kid again, not really, not a birthday-card kid.''
* KnightInSourArmor: Izza spends most of ''Full Fathom Five'' telling herself to ignore people in need out of self-protection and then proceeding to help them anyway while grumbling at herself. In later books, she’s become more self-aware about her tendency towards this and seems at peace with it.
--> ''She didn't have any illusions about what the world did to people who tried what she was trying. But she might as well build with passion and enjoy the building while it lasted. What other choice did she have? Shivering in some godsforsaken corner while the world tore itself to shreds anyway?''
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: In ''Ruin Of Angels'', Izza comes to Agdel Lex only to help her friend Kai and initially doesn’t want to get involved in the larger scheme to save Alikand. Eventually she changes her mind.
* StopWorshippingMe: In ''Ruin Of Angels'', she’s lonely and stressed because her fellow street kids now revere her as a prophet instead of treating her like a friend.
* StreetUrchin: After losing her family in the Glebland wars and escaping an Iskari BoardingSchoolOfHorrors, Izza spent most of her adolescent years fending for herself on the streets of Kavekana.
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[[folder:Jace]]
!!Jason “Jace” Kol
The head of the Kavekanese priesthood.
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* ApologeticAttacker: Repeatedly apologizes to Kai when he condemns her to Penitence.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He kills the emergent gods in the pool because he sees them as a threat to the idol business and thus to Kavekana’s independence.
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[[folder:Mara]]
!!Mara Ceyla
A priestess of the Kavekanese order and friend of Kai’s.
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[[folder:Claude]]
!!Claude
Kai’s ex-boyfriend, a former criminal who survived serving time inside a Penitent.
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mako]]
!!Mako
An old man who hangs around bars and poetry clubs.
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* GodInHumanForm: He was trapped in a human body after narrowly surviving a battle in the God Wars.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Edmund Margot]]
!!Edmund Margot
An Iskari poet living on Kavekana.
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[[folder:The Blue Lady]]
!!The Blue Lady
A goddess worshipped by street kids on Kavekana.
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!Characters introduced in ''Last First Snow''
[[folder:Tan Batac]]
!!Tan Batac
A wealthy landowner who wants to redevelop the Skittersill. Strongly implied to be Teo’s father.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* KarmaHoudini: He encourages the Chakal Square massacre to facilitate a real estate development opportunity. The deal falls through, but he faces no other consequences for his callousness.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Chel Paxil]]
!!Chel Paxil
A dock worker who becomes a leader among the Chakal Square protesters.
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[[folder:Mina]]
!!Mina
Temoc’s wife and Caleb’s mother, an anthropologist who studies the desert-dwelling peoples beyond the borders of Dresediel Lex.
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* MamaBear: Mina rejects Temoc completely after he harms Caleb and risks her life to get Caleb medical assistance.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Major]]
!!The Major
A mysterious armored figure who leads a militant faction within the Chakal Square protest movement.
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* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: The Major presents as a man throughout the book and is revealed to have breasts at the end. It’s not made explicit whether the Major is a trans man or a cis woman who [[SweetPollyOliver pretends to be a man]] in order to be recognized as a warrior by Quechal traditionalists.
* NoNameGiven
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[[folder:The Kemals]]
!!Kapania and Bill Kemal
Malina Kekapania’s parents, who prepare and distribute food for the Chakal Square protesters.
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* ForegoneConclusion: Readers who have read ''Two Serpents Rise'' and recognize Kapania’s name will know that she and Bill aren’t going to survive the uprising.
[[/folder]]
!Characters introduced in ''Four Roads Cross''
[[folder:Gavriel Jones]]
!!Gavriel Jones
A journalist working in Alt Coulumb.
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* CynicismCatalyst: She reported on the protests in Chakal Square and witnessed the slaughter that eventually took place there. This convinced her that defying those in power is always futile.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Matt Adorne]]
!!Matt Adorne
A man who sells eggs at the farmer’s market in Alt Coulumb.
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:Corbin Rafferty]]
!!Corbin Rafferty
A man who sells meat at the farmer’s market in Alt Coulumb.
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* AbusiveParents
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Rafferty Girls]]
!!The Rafferty Girls
Corbin Rafferty’s three daughters.
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[[folder:Madeline Ramp]]
!!Madeline Ramp
A senior Craftswoman who brings suit against Kos and Seril.
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* AboveGoodAndEvil: Madeline’s perspective on morality:
-->''I bet [Tara] even thinks she's doing the right thing, in that wonderfully abstract language young people use, as if there were a 'right thing' independent of context, interest, or timing.''
* FamedInStory: She defended the city of Alt Selene against an unbound demon, an achievement which earned her acclaim in Craft circles.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Daphne Mains]]
!!Daphne Mains
A former friend and classmate of Tara’s who serves as Ramp’s assistant.
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* BrokenBird: The trauma of being controlled by Denovo and the overwhelming workload to which he subjected her drove her into a period of illness from which she only recovered with Ramp’s questionable “help”.
* {{Foil}}: To Tara. She’s a member of Tara’s class at the Hidden Schools and a fellow survivor of Denovo’s abuse who now works as a junior assistant in a major Craft firm, assisting Madeline Ramp much like Tara once assisted Elayne. She represents the life Tara left behind and brings Tara’s own uncertainties about her future to the forefront.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dr. Hasim & the Temple of All Gods]]
!!Dr. Hasim & the Temple of All Gods
An organization that provides aid to refugees, both human and divine, in the Northern Gleb.
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[[/folder]]
!Characters introduced in ''Ruin of Angels''
[[folder:Ley Pohala]]
!!Ley Pohala
Kai’s younger sister, an artist and businesswoman.
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* MustMakeAmends: She inadvertently gave the Iskari Rectification Authority the tool they needed to eradicate the last traces of Alikand. Her overriding goal in Ruin Of Angels is to stop them before they can actually use it.
* StepfordSnarker
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Zeddig]]
!!Hala’Zeddig
Ley’s former girlfriend, a descendant of an Alikander noble family who leads a team of delvers to recover her city’s lost heritage.
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:Raymet]]
!!Haaz’Raymet
An Alikander scholar and part of Zeddig’s delving team.
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* BadassBookworm
* BaldWomen
* CasualKink: One of the people Raymet kicks out of her house in order to meet with the delving team is a person wearing a collar, who Zeddig infers was in a dominant/submissive relationship with Raymet herself. This aspect of her personal life is never brought up again in the book.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Gal]]
!!Gal
A disgraced Camlaander Knight and part of Zeddig’s delving team.
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* DeathSeeker: After [[ToBeLawfulOrGood choosing goodness over law]] and defying orders during a mission, Gal was ordered by her Queen to seek out an honorable death rather than subject her family to the disgrace of her being executed for treason.
* TheFettered
* HonorBeforeReason: Refuses to break out of prison, even when she and Raymet are tortured, because the Rectifiers who arrested her are legitimate authorities and captured her after a fair fight, so escaping would be dishonorable.
* ThePaladin
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Lt. Bescond]]
!!Lt. Evangeline Bescond
A member of the Iskari Rectification Authority who investigates Ley and Zeddig’s illegal activities.
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* KnightTemplar: She wants to maintain order in the city and keep reality stable… no matter who she has to torture or how many recalcitrant Talbeg citizens she has to condemn to the abyss.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Isaak]]
!!Isaak Bonventure
A childhood friend of Izza’s who works as a mercenary in Agdel Lex.
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* GeniusBruiser: Isaak is a huge, magically-enhanced mercenary and a great chess player.
* ReligiousBruiser
--> ''Whatever Isaak's theology, he loved the Lady with the simple faith of a man who spent most of his days beating people up for money.''
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Althea Vane]]
!!Alethea Vane
Ley’s former business partner, whom she apparently killed.
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:Eberhardt Jax]]
!!Eberhardt Jax
A wealthy businessman with an interest in space exploration.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Max Gladstone has acknowledged that Jax, a wealthy entrepreneur with an interest in space exploration, is somewhat based on Elon Musk.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Vogel]]
!!Vogel
A crime boss from whom Zeddig borrows money for her delving expeditions.
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* LoanShark: Uses nasty SympatheticMagic to coerce people into paying their debts.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Aman]]
!!Hala’Aman
Zeddig’s grandmother and the head of the Hala family.
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:Fontaine]]
!!Gaavi Fontaine
An Iskari banker who helps Kai look for investment opportunities.
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[[/folder]]
!Characters introduced in ''Choice of the Deathless''
[[folder:Cass]]
!!Cassowary “Cass” Chen
An idealistic young Craftswoman and colleague of the protagonist. One of the potential love interests.
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ashleigh]]
!!Ashleigh Wakefield
A Craftsperson with an upper-class background and the protagonist’s rival from the Hidden Schools. One of the potential love interests.
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* AmbiguousGender: Ash’s gender is determined by the protagonist’s sexual orientation. If the player chooses to play a bisexual character or not to specify a sexual orientation, Ash’s gender is random. When Ash appears in Four Roads Cross, Gladstone carefully avoids using any gendered pronouns so as not to contradict any player’s experience or assign Ash a canonical gender.
* BelligerentSexualTension: With the protagonist, if the player pursues Ash as a love interest.
* DeadpanSnarker
* DemonicPossession: Becomes a victim of it during the Craft conference.
* NonIdleRich: Ash is a hard-working Craftsperson from an extremely wealthy family.
* PrivilegedRival: To the protagonist, although depending on what backstory options you choose the protagonist may be equally privileged.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Vega]]
!!Halcyon Vega y Alatriste
A senior colleague of the protagonist. One of the potential love interests.
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ngabe]]
!!Pat Ngabe
A colleague and potential friend of the protagonist.
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* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: He scoffs at Cass’ focus on “giving back”, although it’s not so much out of cynicism as pragmatism. After a childhood spent in poverty and chaos, his first priority is attaining comfort and security for himself and the people he loves. He regards “giving back” to anyone outside that circle as a luxury, not a moral imperative.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Senior Partners]]
!!Golan Varkath, Angelica Nebuchadnezzar, & Damien Stone
The founders and owners of the Craft firm where the protagonist works.
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* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: In one possible dialogue branch, Varkath says “I have been three times a father, and once a mother”. This suggests that he’s transgender or genderfluid; the details are never fully explained.
* DemBones: Like many older Craftsmen, Varkath is a skeleton.
* CoolMask: In a somewhat creepy variant, Varkath wears a leather mask painted with a young man’s face over his skull. In one possible dialogue branch, Wakefield mentions a rumor that it’s made of ''angel hide''.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:R’ok]]
!!R’ok
A young demon whom the protagonist represents in a pro bono case.
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:K’lint]]
!!K’lint
R’ok’s father, a leader in demonic society.
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ajaia]]
!!Ajaia
A nature goddess with a following in Southern Kath.
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* AFoolForAClient: Ajaia wants to represent herself in the Court of Craft; the protagonist can convince her to seek their firm’s services instead.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:John Smith]]
!!John Smith
An executive at Transdimensional Thaumaturgics, a Concern that manages contracts between humans and demons.
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* BigBad: For the game.
[[/folder]]
!Characters introduced in ''Deathless: City’s Thirst''
[[folder:Jess]]
!!Jess Komenim
Doc Koxol’s ward and farmhand. One of the potential love interests.
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* AmbiguousGender: Jess’s gender is determined by the protagonist’s sexual orientation. If the player chooses to play a bisexual character or not to specify a sexual orientation, Jess’s gender is random.
* FleshGolem: [[spoiler:A Craftswoman built Jess from the remains of people killed in battle to assist her during the God Wars.]]
* MuggleMageRomance: With the protagonist if the player chooses that route. [[spoiler:While not exactly a baseline human,]] Jess is not a practitioner of the Craft.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Verity]]
!!Verity Chen
A Craftswoman employed by Red King Consolidated. One of the potential love interests.
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* OfficeRomance: If she and the protagonist become a couple.
* PragmaticHero: Verity is a firm believer in TheNeedsOfTheMany. If the protagonist chooses to sacrifice the water contract in order to rescue her from the Scorpionkind at the beginning of the game, she will get angry with you for putting your personal feelings about her ahead of your duty to the city. [[spoiler: At the end of the game, if the protagonist chooses to turn against RKC, Verity’s pragmatism and loyalty may make her your enemy.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Caspar Jones]]
!!Caspar Jones
A journalist from the ''Dresediel Lex Times''. One of the potential love interests.
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* IntrepidReporter: It takes guts to sneak into the King in Red’s estate with a forged invitation, but Jones’ll do it to get a story.
* MuggleMageRomance: He’s not a Craftsman, and the protagonist can romance him.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mezatchul]]
!!Alana Mezatchul
The head of water pipeline development at RKC.
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* BigBad: In one possible ending.
* LadyOfBlackMagic: She’s a powerful Craftswoman with a cool, sultry demeanor.
* PowerPerversionPotential: If the protagonist hooks up with Mezatchul, she puts the Craft to inventive use in the bedroom.
* SleepingWithTheBoss: Although you can’t have a romantic relationship with Mezatchul, you can have a one-night stand with her at Corehive.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She believes that cities are where humanity’s best social and economic opportunities lie and that agricultural labor should be performed by zombies and machines for maximum efficiency. In her mind, driving the Centervale farmers off their land is necessary to facilitate progress.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ostrakov]]
!!Damon Ostrakov
The head of security at RKC.
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* BigBad: In one possible ending.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: In contrast to Mezatchul’s WellIntentionedExtremist position, Ostrakov’s motive for his role in the pipeline conspiracy (when it’s his conspiracy) is purely profit-driven.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Doc]]
!!Doc Koxol
A farmer and community leader on the outskirts of Dresediel Lex.
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* DrivenToSuicide: In the mystery of the body in the bathtub, Doc kills himself to escape Bahuemac’s blackmail and prevent the farmer’s coalition from being discredited.
* MysteriousPast: He served in the God Wars, but we don’t know which side he was on. He has a lot of wealth from an unknown source, but he chooses to live a simple life as a farmer. [[spoiler:Bahuemac threatens to publicly denounce him as a former priest and officiant of human sacrifice]], but it’s never made clear if these claims are true.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bahuemac]]
!!Cal Bahuemac
A businessman from Dresediel Lex who’s interested in land development.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Scorpionkind]]
!!The Scorpionkind
A species of insect-like people who live in the desert near Dresediel Lex.
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[[/folder]]
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!!Catherine Elle
->'''Appearances''': Literature/ThreePartsDead, Literature/FullFathomFive, Literature/FourRoadsCross
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!!Caleb Altemoc
->'''Appearances''': Literature/TwoSerpentsRise, Literature/LastFirstSnow, Literature/FourRoadsCross
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!!Temoc Almotil
->'''Appearances''': Literature/TwoSerpentsRise, Literature/LastFirstSnow
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!!Kai Pohala
->'''Appearances''': Literature/FullFathomFive, Literature/TheRuinOfAngels
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!!Jalai'iz "Izza"
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!!Catherine Elle
->'''Appearances''': Literature/ThreePartsDead, Literature/FullFathomFive, Literature/FourRoadsCross
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!!Caleb Altemoc
->'''Appearances''': Literature/TwoSerpentsRise, Literature/LastFirstSnow, Literature/FourRoadsCross
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!!Temoc Almotil
->'''Appearances''': Literature/TwoSerpentsRise, Literature/LastFirstSnow
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!!Kai Pohala
->'''Appearances''': Literature/FullFathomFive, Literature/TheRuinOfAngels
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!!Jalai'iz "Izza"
->'''Appearances''': Literature/FullFathomFive, Literature/TheRuinOfAngels
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!!Monk Technician Abelard
->'''Appearances''': Literature/ThreePartsDead, Literature/FourRoadsCross
A minor priest in the Church of Kos Everburning. When Kos is murdered, he was standing vigil. Abelard wants to be a dutiful technician, but quickly finds himself wrapped in the political aspects of priesthood.
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* GodWasMyCopilot - Or [[spoiler:cigarette flame]] as it were.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking - Abelard is a chainsmoker, but also a good guy. It's also brought up that while Kos is alive, his priests don't suffer from the nastier side effects. Abelard visits a doctor during ''Three Parts Dead'' who tells him to give it up, but he refuses.
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!!Monk Technician Abelard
->'''Appearances''': Literature/ThreePartsDead, Literature/FourRoadsCross
A minor priest in the Church of Kos Everburning. When Kos is murdered, he was standing vigil. Abelard wants to be a dutiful technician, but quickly finds himself wrapped in the political aspects of priesthood.
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* GodWasMyCopilot - Or [[spoiler:cigarette flame]] as it were.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking - Abelard is a chainsmoker, but also a good guy. It's also brought up that while Kos is alive, his priests don't suffer from the nastier side effects. Abelard visits a doctor during ''Three Parts Dead'' who tells him to give it up, but he refuses.
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[[folder:Tara]]
!!Tara Abernathy
->'''Appearances''': Literature/ThreePartsDead, Literature/FourRoadsCross
A talented Craftswoman who graduated from the Hidden Schools early after burning down her professor's MindControl laboratory. Tara is given a probationary job by Elayne Kevarian in Alt Columb as her assistant. She later is hired full time by the Church of Kos Everburning as their in-house Craftsman.
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* AmbiguouslyBi - Tara shows attraction to Shale, a male gargoyle, but also has a number of scenes admiring Cat. She also had an extremely close relationship with Daphne during their time in school.
* BlackMagicianGirl - Despite professing to be all about courts and contracts, Tara spends most of her time working (mainly necromantic) Craft on the offensive, and quite impressively so, and has enough power and talent to still be relevant despite having been thrown out of the Hidden Schools while fighting her professors. As the youngest of the people tasked with investigating Kos's case, she's got a forceful personality and can act foolishly but isn't above admitting that she's still got a lot to learn.
* FaceStealer - Tara steals Shale's face during their first meeting and sneaks it past the Blacksuits so she can question him about Judge Cabot's death. Unlike a lot of examples, Tara does put it back eventually, although not before questioning Shale by placing it on a mannikin.
* ItsPersonal - Anything to do with Alexander Denovo. Denovo used Tara, as well as her friend and roommate Daphne, in his experiments involving compulsion. Tara's mile high graduation from the Hidden Schools was because she burned down his lab, and his reappearance during the Kos incident pisses her off.
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!Main Characters
[[folder:Tara]]
!!Tara Abernathy
->'''Appearances''': Literature/ThreePartsDead, Literature/FourRoadsCross
A talented Craftswoman who graduated from the Hidden Schools early after burning down her professor's MindControl laboratory. Tara is given a probationary job by Elayne Kevarian in Alt Columb as her assistant. She later is hired full time by the Church of Kos Everburning as their in-house Craftsman.
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* AmbiguouslyBi - Tara shows attraction to Shale, a male gargoyle, but also has a number of scenes admiring Cat. She also had an extremely close relationship with Daphne during their time in school.
* BlackMagicianGirl - Despite professing to be all about courts and contracts, Tara spends most of her time working (mainly necromantic) Craft on the offensive, and quite impressively so, and has enough power and talent to still be relevant despite having been thrown out of the Hidden Schools while fighting her professors. As the youngest of the people tasked with investigating Kos's case, she's got a forceful personality and can act foolishly but isn't above admitting that she's still got a lot to learn.
* FaceStealer - Tara steals Shale's face during their first meeting and sneaks it past the Blacksuits so she can question him about Judge Cabot's death. Unlike a lot of examples, Tara does put it back eventually, although not before questioning Shale by placing it on a mannikin.
* ItsPersonal - Anything to do with Alexander Denovo. Denovo used Tara, as well as her friend and roommate Daphne, in his experiments involving compulsion. Tara's mile high graduation from the Hidden Schools was because she burned down his lab, and his reappearance during the Kos incident pisses her off.
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