History Characters / Dragaera

!!'''Vlad Taltos'''

!!'''Cawti'''

!!'''Noish-pa'''

!!'''Loiosh'''

!!'''Verra, the Demon Goddess'''

!!'''Kragar'''

!!'''Kiera the Thief'''

!!'''Morrolan e'Drien'''

!!'''Aliera e'Kieron'''

!!'''Sethra Lavode'''

!!'''Lady Teldra'''

!!'''Telnan AKA Zugaron'''

!! '''Devera'''

!!'''Khaavren'''

!!'''Aerich Temma, [[spoiler:Duke of Arylle]]'''

* StarcrossedLovers: [[spoiler:Tazendra]] loves him, though considering how ingrained his sense of propriety is, he likely never even considered returning it.

!!'''Pel, a.k.a. the Duke of Galstan'''

!!'''Tazendra, Baroness of Daavya'''

!!'''Empress Zerika IV'''

!!'''Mario Greymist'''

!!'''Paarfi of Roundwood'''

!The Seventeen Houses
!!Phoenix

!!Dragon

!!Lyorn

!!Tiassa

!!Hawk

!!Dzur

!!Issola

!!Tsalmoth

!!Vallista

!!Jhereg

!!Iorich

!!Chreotha

!!Yendi

!!Orca

!!Teckla

!!Jhegaala

!!Athyra

* TheMessiah: Sort of. The key to Teldra's charm is that it isn't an act -- she really, genuinely likes almost everybody. That doesn't stop her from being just as ruthless as any of Vlad's other friends when she decides it's appropriate, however.

* BadassAbnormal

* AntiHero: Of the [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes Type 4 or 5]] variety. Vlad has a definite cruel and selfish side to his character, but is loyal to his friends and generally makes the world slightly better by the end of each novel.

* ChaoticNeutral: Teldra (a priestess, in addition to her other jobs) describes Verra as the embodiment of capriciousness.

* EvilIsCool: He seems to believe this, happily self-identifying as evil.

* HairOfGold

* HairOfGold

* EyesOfGold

* EyesOfGold

* {{Casanova}}: Moreso in his youth.

A (very rudimentary) character sheet for Steven Brust's ''{{Dragaera}}'' series.

* CareerKillers

* FantasticRacism: It's defined his whole life, being a despised human in a majority-Dragaeran society.

* UnderCoverAsLovers: Kiera jokingly suggests this to Vlad as a cover story.

* BerserkButton: Insult his honor, or the memory of his uncle [[TheEvilPrince Adron]], and he will slice you to ribbons. (Although if you're lucky you won't be ''permanently'' dead.)

* HonorBeforeReason: He was willing to start a second Dragon-Jhereg War rather than give up a guest in his house.
* IGaveMyWord: No one dies in Castle Black. Permanently, that is.

* OminousFloatingCastle: Floating castles are out of fashion now, but he built one just to show off.

* [[spoiler: BrotherSisterIncest]]: Played with and discussed in ''Tiassa''. [[spoiler: There are countless generations between present-day Aliera and Kieron, but since she has her original memories, and since Kieron is apparently the only one she's ever considered worthy of having a child with...]]

* PretendPrejudice: As Vlad puts it, "Morrolan, who doesn't hate Easterners as much as you'd expect, and Aliera, who doesn't hate ''me'' as much as you'd expect."

* StarcrossedLovers: With [[spoiler:Tazendra]].

* StarcrossedLovers: [[spoiler:In her last moments of life, she confessed to her love for Aerich, which she couldn't pursue because they belonged to different Houses]].

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Grey is the color of death in Dragaeran culture, which makes "Mario Greymist" a ''much'' scarier name than it sounds like to humans.

* DeadlyDecadentCourt: How most Phoenix reigns end up, with the exception of Zerika I (the first empress) and Zerika IV (the first post-Interregnum empress). As Zerika IV explains, the key is knowing to abdicate before decadence sets in.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: The Mario of the ''Khaavren Romances'' is pretty much a typical swashbuckler hero who [[HitmanWithAHeart happens to kill people for a living]] and has a similarly idealized romance with Aliera. However, a more sinister characterization is suggested in one of Paarfi's introductions that he was basically Adron's go-to-guy for killing political rivals and was involved in causing the Jhereg-Dragon War. When Mario turns up in the Vlad series, he's pleasant enough, but hardly a dashing hero type.

* MemeticBadass: Mario is unquestionably the greatest assassin alive, and he's the go-to example when someone wants to describe the best of the best.

* BottleFairy

* XanatosGambit: You can never tell if you're caught in a Yendi's scheme. The house is named after a poisonous serpent that bites people without them noticing until they suddenly die several minutes later.

TheHero in the Khaavren Romances and an {{Expy}} of D'Artagnan of ''TheThreeMusketeers''. By the time of the Vlad books, he has become the head of several good-ish SecretPolice / StateSec organizations. He's a Tiassa, meaning his specialties are creativity, resourcefulness, and insight.

* [[spoiler:InLoveWithTheMark: Well, she only fell for Vlad after she'd killed him and had his friends kill her in revenge. ([[IGotBetter They got better]], obviously.)]]

Historians and record-keepers, strongly associated with tradition and honor. They're usually automatically treated with respect because of this.
* BadassBookworm: the Lyorn warriors.

** Clever Dzur often have GeniusDitz tendencies -- they seem just as ditzy as the rest most of the time, but are also capable of penetrating insights.

* ProudWarriorRaceGuy

* ManipulativeBastard / GuileHero, depending on the Yendi in question.

* JerkAss: They are often rather unpleasant both personally and in terms of activities. There's even a scene in ''Iorich'' where Vlad bonds with Dragearans of diverse classes and Houses over a shared hatred of the Orca. Not to mention that while Vlad usually learns a lesson about the complexity of a House's traits, the [[SpoofAesop lesson]] he learns in ''Orca'' is that he hates Orca even more than he did previously.

* TheDitz: Dzur tend to come across as stupid to most non-Dzur. This is not entirely true -- it's not that they don't understand impossible odds, they understand just fine ''and they like it that way''.
** Clever Dzur often have GeniusDitz tendencies -- their way of thinking seems straightforward to the point of simplicity to others, but they're capable of penetrating insights.

* BoisterousBruiser
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: And the worse the situation, the better.

* TheMessiah: Issola get along with ''everyone''.

A ruthlessly commercial House, Orca will do almost ''anything'' for money, and have a reputation as brutal thugs. Due to their focus on trade, they're often sailors, as befits their House animal.

* {{Chickification}}: Voluntarily, after she decided killing people for money is probably a bad thing.

* SlapSlapKiss: One of the most extreme versions of this ever, [[spoiler:as she actually killed Vlad (shortly before his friends killed her in revenge)]] before they fell in love. ([[IGotBetter They got better]], obviously.)

* SlapSlapKiss: Barlen is Verra's lover and her enemy.

* DarkIsNotEvil / BadPowersGoodPeople: Sort of. Telnan thinks of himself as evil and takes pride in it, but he's basically a friendly and decent guy who wears all black and carries a massive EvilWeapon that wants to kill ''everyone''.

A little girl who has appeared in most of the books. She has a strange power to turn up at different times and places. [[spoiler: Aliera's daughter, who appearantly hasn't been born yet.]]

* LawfulGood

* LawfulGood

* LawfulGood

* Determinator

** While they're pretty much all female, Left Hand Jhereg are generally not cute enough to qualify as [[BlackMagicianGirl Black Magician Girls]] and not classy enough to qualify as [[LadyOfBlackMagic Ladies of Black Magic]].

* CunningLinguist
* [[spoiler:DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: As befits her House, she struck without warning and managed to wound a Jenoine before she went down.]]

* BewareTheNiceOnes: An issola is a beautiful white heron-like bird. But, as Vlad points out, it's also a predator, and when it hunts it'll strike so fast you never even see it move. And then it'll go right back to standing there, looking lovely and graceful. It's particularly notable that the bird strikes by ''bowing''.

* RebelliousSpirit: Flouts the stuffy rules the other gods follow.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: We don't know the details, though, save for the fact that vampirism is not TheVirus.