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* BarefistedMonk: He has training to be one, but most of the time he prefers using his SimpleStaff

* TheGamblingAddict: Gets some heroes into trouble by this when he's [[spoiler: Deugan Redhammer]]

* {{Wrath}}

* Nightmare Fetishist: He is a Kender Nightstalker (A variant Mystic class that deals with undead), so he is always curious about different sorts of undead and spirits.

* [[spoiler: HumanityEnsues]]

* LonesAreFreaks: He is by far the least social evil deity. He mostly keeps to himself and is said to suffer from a madness only deities can have.

* IdiotBall: He was holding it for a while during the Dark Disciple Trilogy when [[spoiler: he was grieving over the "death" of Mina when he sees her "spirit", but he does not even bother to check and see if the "spirit" is real or not. It takes his [[TheBrute brute]] Death Knight subordinate to point out to him that since he is the God of Death, he should be able to tell if Mina's spirit is real or not, once he realizes that Mina's spirit is just an illusion made by two Wizards, he is not amused.]]

* ShockAndAwe

* [[IllBoy Ill Guy]]: He suffers from something that is similar to Tuberculosis, but it is not contagious. It is eventually revealed that Fistandantilus leeching his lifeforce is what is caauing him to be sick.

** The Campaign Guide states that he is LawfulGood and that Paladine is closer to him in character than any of the other Krynn deities.

* {{Retcon}}: He was initially supposed to be the original creator god, then he became a {{Satan}}-analogue, and finally became one of two original creator gods as the embodiement of entropy and destruction.

!!Portios Kanan

!Heroes of the Lance

!Villains

* MagnificentBastard: especially in the Kingpriest books. It's harder to see in the main storyline, because [[EvilVersusEvil Raistlin is better at it]].

! Good Deities

!!Paladine, God of Good Dragons
* [[spoiler: AGodAmI]]: [[spoiler: Inverted.]]
* CrystalDragonJesus
* LawfulGood
* ObfuscatingStupidity: As [[spoiler: Fizban.]]

!!Kiri-Jolith, God of Solidarity
* LawfulGood
* {{Nakama}}: In a way, he can be considered the god of Nakama given that he is considered the god of Solidarity and of uniting together to overcome life's problems.
* WorthyOpponent: How he sees Sargonnas, his EvilCounterpart.

!!Mishakal, Goddess of Healing
* NeutralGood
* TheMedic

!!Majere, God of Discipline
* LawfulGood
* OldMaster

!!Habbakuk, God of Persistence
* NeutralGood

!!Branchala, God of Inspiration
* ChaoticGood
* MagicMusic

!!Solinari, God of Good Magic
* LawfulGood
* XanatosSucker: [[spoiler: To Takhisis in ''Dragons of the Hourglass Mage.'']]

!Neutal Deities

!!Gilean, God of Knowledge
* TrueNeutral
* TheWatcher

!!Reorx, God of Craftsmanship
* TrueNeutral
* UltimateBlacksmith

!!Shinare, Goddess of Commerce
* LawfulNeutral

!!Sirrion, God of Creativity
* ChaoticNeutral
* PlayingWithFire: He is made of it.

!!Chislev, Goddess of Nature
* TrueNeutral

!!Lunitari, Goddess of Neutral Magic
* FieryRedHead
* LawfulNeutral
* MasterOfIllusion: One of the areas of magic that she specializes in is Illusion.
* XanatosSucker: [[spoiler: To Takhisis in ''Dragons of the Hourglass Mage.'']]

!!Zivilyn, God of Wisdom
* OldMaster: While not a martial deity, he favors appearing as an old man. His Clerics are also ranked by age, with the oldest ones being the highest ranking.
* TrueNeutral
* TheWorldTree: One of his titles in fact.

!Evil Deities

!!Takhisis, Goddess of Evil Dragons
* [[spoiler: AGodAmI]]: [[spoiler: Inverted, and then she is killed.]]
* BigBad
* EvilMatriarch
* EvilIsSexy: One of her forms is the Dark Temptress... although atypically for a female god of evil, it's not a form she appears in very often throughout the series, being more inclined to appear as a five-headed dragon.
* {{Expy}}: Of Tiamat, the dragon-goddess of {{Greyhawk}} and "generic" D&D settings.
* GenderBender: Her Dark Warrior form is sometimes described as male, but is female in ''Dragons of Summer Flame''. Of course, since she's a deity she probably doesn't really ''have'' a gender as mortals understand it and just looks like whatever she wants.
* GodOfEvil
* TheChessmaster
* SealedEvilInACan
* TheVamp: In her aspect as the Temptress.

!!Sargonnas, God of Conquest
* BloodKnight
* GodOfEvil: He is the "consort" of Takhisis, and [[spoiler: now that she is dead, the most powerful evil deity.]]
* LawfulEvil
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: The god the the proud warrior race worships.
* WorthyOpponent: How he sees Kiri-Jolith, his GoodCounterpart

!!Chemosh, God of Undead

* AGlassOfChianti
* DracoInLeatherPants: His character design in the Dark Disciple trilogy seems to be made to invoke this trope.
* EvilIsSexy: He can make himself to appear quite handsome when he wants to be.
* {{Expy}}: He is similar to Orcus, the Demon Prince of the Undead in other ''D&D'' settings.
* IdiotBall: He was holding it for a while during the Dark Disciple Trilogy when [[spoiler: he was grieving over the "death" of Mina when he sees her "spirit", but he does not even bother to check and see if the "spirit" is real or not. It takes his [[TheBrute brute]] Death Knight subordinate to point out to him that since he is the God of Death, he should be able to tell if Mina's spirit is real or not, once he realizes that Mina's spirit is just an illusion made by two Wizards, he is not amused.]]
* JerkassWoobie: He got some fans feeling genuinely sorry for him in the Dark Disciple trilogy, but he is still a GodOfEvil who would turn every living soul into an undead creature that serves him if he could.
* NeutralEvil
* PaleSkinnedBrunette: His aspect in the Dark Disciple trilogy.
* TheUndead: What he has dominion over.

!!Hiddukel, God of Corruption
* ChaoticEvil
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: One of his aspects is basically the fantasy version of one.
* DealWithTheDevil: His favored method of corrupting mortals.
* DirtyCoward: He is mentioned to be a coward at heart in one of the DnD sourcebooks.
* {{Greed}}
* {{Satan}}: He is not the head evil deity, but his motif of corrupting mortals through FaustianPacts and he can manifest as the stereotypical(A red guy with horns and a tail) appearance of Satan as one of his Aspects.

!!Morgion, God of Disease
* DealWithTheDevil: He will often come to someone who is dying of an illness and offer to "cure" them. His "cure" allows the person with the illness to continue living, but they can still spread their disease, and they must serve Morgion by spreading as much disease as possible. If they cease to serve Morgion's interests the disease will resume its course and eventually kill the person.
* NeutralEvil
* OmnicidalManiac: Possibly, one of his lines in a book is "I am Morgion...I am the end of all things."

!!Zeboim, Goddess of the Seas
* ChaoticEvil
* KillItWithWater: She is fond of drowning those who displease her.

!!Nuitari, God of BlackMagic
* AffablyEvil: He can act this way when he wants to.
* AmbitionIsEvil: While he is now one of the gods of magic, before he became one he used to represent Ambition
* BlackMagic
* LawfulEvil
* TokenEvilTeammate: Not part of a FiveManBand, but he is close to Solinari and Lunitari, the god and goddess of Good And Neutral magic respectively.
* XanatosSucker: [[spoiler: To Takhisis in ''Dragons of the Hourglass Mage.'']]

!Others

!!Alhana Starbreeze
->'''Race:''' Elf

* DefrostingIceQueen

!!Crysania

->'''Class:''' Cleric
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulGood

* BlueBlood
* DefrostingIceQueen
* DracoInLeatherPants: How she feels about Raistlin. [[spoiler: She's right that he's redeemable, but wrong that he cares about her]].
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Deconstructed
* LoveMartyr
* NotSoDifferent: to Raistlin
* {{Pride}}
* ShinyMidnightBlack
* XanatosSucker

!!Dalamar the Dark
->'''Race:''' Silvanesti elf
->'''Class:''' Wizard
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

* AffablyEvil
* BastardUnderstudy
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder
* DeceptiveDisciple
* VillainProtagonist: He's a self-proclaimed EvilSorcerer, but generally winds up one of the "good guys" in any novel where he's a major character - which accounts for a lot of the BetrayalTropes listed above.

!!Lord Soth
->'''Race:''' Death knight (formerly human)

->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil (formerly LawfulGood)

* EnemyToAllLivingThings
* EnigmaticMinion
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Even Margaret Weis has said she has to use him sparingly in order to resist the temptation to let him take over the story.
* FallenHero: Big time
* ThePunishment
* TheUndead
* UnholyMatrimony: His motivations in Legends come to center increasingly around his ''very'' creepy crush on Kitiara.
* WasOnceAMan

!!Palin Majere

->'''Class:''' Wizard, later Sorcerer
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulGood

* AncestralWeapon: The Staff of Magius, inherited from his uncle Raistlin.
* [[spoiler: BroughtDownToNormal]]: [[spoiler: After the War of Souls, he is given the choice to have his High Sorcery restored to him (He had been practicing Primal Sorcery during the early Fifth Age), but he refuses to use any sort of magic ever again after he realizes that it is not making him happy. He decides to focus on his family instead, and so now he has no magical ability at all.]]
* FingerSnapLighter: One of his spells he developed as a Sorcerer has him snap his fingers to cast it.
* InTheBlood: While he is Raistlin's nephew, not his son, he shows an interest in magic and a somewhat similar personality to Raistlin when he is young. Initially his father Caramon feared that he would end up like Raistlin and tries to discourage him studying magic, but he eventually let him after Dalamar has a talk with him (Caramon).
* PlayingWithFire: During his time as a Sorcerer, he knew the school of Pyromancy.
* SquishyWizard

!!Steel Brightblade
->'''Race:''' Human
->'''Class:''' Fighter
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil

* AntiHero / AntiVillain / VillainProtagonist: He's a Knight of Takhisis, but one of the main protagonists of ''Dragons of Summer Flame'' and ultimately a heroic character. YourMileageMayVary as to just where he falls on the gradient.

!!Usha Majere
->'''Race:''' Human

!!High God
* AboveGoodAndEvil: He does not seem to care what path mortals follow. He has only ever intervened to ensure that Krynn is not destroyed, such as during the All-Saints War when the gods were fighting over what to do with the new star spirits (Mortal souls) they found after the creation of the world.
* {{God}}: He is the highest authority in the setting, and he has only ever spoken on page once in all of the novels. All of the deities are terrified of him.

!!Chaos
* AbusivePrecursor
* BigBad: ''Dragons of Summer Flame''
* ChaoticEvil: obviously
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin
* FateWorseThanDeath: Most [[OmnicidalManiac Omnicidal Maniacs]] just want to end the world- Chaos wants to make it so that the world ''never existed at all''.
* OmnicidalManiac
* {{Retcon}}: He was initially supposed to be the original creator god, then he became a {{Satan}}-analogue, and finally became one of two original creator gods as the embodiement of entropy and destruction.

!!Wizards-In General

!!Primal Sorcerers-In General

!!Clerics-In General

!!Mystics-In General

!Dragons

!!Red

!!Blue

!!Green

!!Black

!!White

!!Gilthas Pathfinder

->'''Class:''' Fighter

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Not so much ''stupidity'' as such but he maintained an image of being indolent, sickly and weak-willed to (successfully) fool his enemies.

* LawfulEvil

* LawfulEvil

* LawfulEvil

* {{Expy}}: Likely unintentional but Toede - at least as he appears in ''Lord Toede'' - is strikingly similar to [[{{Blackadder}} Edmund Blackadder]] complete with a [[TheBaldrick Baldrick]] expy in Groag.
* ImmortalLifeIsCheap - He can be killed, but will keep coming back no matter what. He gets killed multiple times in the novel ''Lord Toede''.

!!Paladine-God of Good Dragons

!!Kiri-Jolith-God of Solidarity

!!Mishakal-Goddess of Healing

!!Majere-God of Discipline

!!Habbakuk-God of Persistence

!!Branchala-God of Inspiration

!!Solinari-God of Good Magic

!!Gilean-God of Knowledge

!!Reorx-God of Craftsmanship

!!Shinare-Goddess of Commerce

!!Sirrion-God of Creativity

!!Chislev-Goddess of Nature

!!Lunitari-Goddess of Neutral Magic

!!Zivilyn-God of Wisdom

!!Takhisis-Goddess of Evil Dragons

!!Sargonnas-God of Conquest

!!Chemosh-God of Undead

!!Hiddukel-God of Corruption

!!Morgion-God of Disease

!!Zeboim-Godess of the Seas

!!Nuitari-God of BlackMagic

* NeutralEvil

* LawfulEvil, formerly LawfulGood

!!Usha

* LawfulGood

* NeutralGood

* BrainlessBeauty: Subverted. When she first appears Laurana comes across as simply an airhead princess Tanis has outgrown; but she proves that she is a lot braver, smarter and tougher than everyone thinks (and this is even ''before'' she TookALevelInBadass).

* ChaoticGood