History Characters / ElementalMasters

* IllGirl: She was this while living with her parents in Soddy, due to her Earth Magic developing in a CompanyTown that's being slowly poisoned by the coal mining going on there. Once she goes to stay with her aunt out in the country, she immediately gets better and she eventually learns to shield herself from those kind of places.

* PositiveDiscrimination: A very mild case. When she confronts an Air Master who is inhabiting a body with his twin sister, she assumes that the women was a helpless victim and feels sorry for her. Markos then asks how she knows it wasn't the woman who was the dominant, malignant personality, and she realizes that she doesn't.

* RapunzelHair: Her hair grows quickly, mostly due to her Air magic, and even more so when under stress. She has to cut it periodically, and by the time she leaves home, she has accumulated enough cut-off braids to fill a trunk. This ends up being a Chekhov's Gun as it turns out her hair, filled with Air magic, is very valuable to certain elementals as payment. So valuable, they leave change in the form of a lot of gold.

* CinderellaCircumstances: She is magically bound to the house so her stepmother can treat her as a slave and use her family fortune.

* TheUnfavorite: Despite being an only child, her mother doesn't really care for her, as she never wanted a child in the first place and her love is focused on her husband, and Anna's father would rather have a son/

Two Cherokee (father and son) who live hidden in the same holler where Aunt Ginny and the Holcrofts live. Old Raven has Spirit Magic, while Young Raven has Fire Magic.

* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Has straw-colored hair and is kind without even thinking about it.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality
* RedheadInGreen: Always wears green dresses, some of which resemble the coloring of malachite. (One of her other titles is the Malachite Maid)
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead

!!Billie [[=McDaran=]]

* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Has straw-colored hair and is kind without even thinking about it.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality
* RedheadInGreen: Always wears green dresses, some of which resemble the coloring of malachite. (One of her other titles is the Malachite Maid)
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead

!!Billie McDaran

* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Has straw-colored hair and is kind without even thinking about it.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality
* RedheadInGreen: Always wears green dresses, some of which resemble the coloring of malachite. (One of her other titles is the Malachite Maid)
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead

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* DrFeelgood: Averted, which is why he and Jason had a falling out when he realized that Jason was overusing opiates.

* HealingHands: Earth magic mixed with her normal doctoral degree makes her exceptionally skilled at this. She even manages to cure tuberculosis by sheer force of will.

* MentorShip: In Home from the Sea. Mari ends up falling in love with the Selkie sent to be her magic teacher, instead of the Selkies sent to court her.

* HalfbreedDiscrimination: Her father was a British physician and her mother an Indian from the Brahmin caste, so she gets discriminated against from both sides. More so from the Indian side, as she has English friends and most of her patients care more about her medical skills than her parentage.
* OneHeroHoldTheWeaksauce: Earth Masters normally can't stand to be in London due to the huge amounts of poison and pollution infecting the earth. Maya, whether due to her mother's magic, her sanctuary, her pets, or sheer determination, has no problem.

* BackAlleyDoctor: Dr. Maya Witherspoon fits the "highly trained and well-equipped criminal" version. She’s a fully-qualified doctor and surgeon, with a perfectly respectable clinic. She also volunteers at a clinic in one of the rougher neighborhoods of London, holds late office hours for the convenience of several courtesans/mistresses among her patients, and is willing to provide any female patient with contraception (illegal at the time).

* NiceToTheWaiter: Nigel is stated to treat all his employees in the theater well, paying them fair wages, not overworking them or demanding a share of tips, and regularly putting things in the way of those that need them. This fair treatment leads to his employees being so loyal to him to the point that it's described that "there was not a man or woman in that theater who would not have stood between Master Nigel and a runaway elephant."

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Hermotivation, at least at first. Played sympathetically as a matter of survival, not greed.

* BlowYouAway

!!Lady Cordelia Westron

* FightsLikeaNormal: This is Rosamund's favored tactic against evil wizards. As she explains, they're expecting to defend against magic, and a flying tackle followed by a dagger stab is not something they'll have a ward against.

* LittleRedFightingHood: Rosamund "Red Cloak" von Schwarzvald. A Hunt Master, Action Girl, Magic Knight and walking armory, she's practically The Dreaded to the werewolves (and other monsters) of the German forests, and the hooded cloak she once wore to her grandma's house has since become her trademark.

* PositiveDiscrimination: A very mild case. When she confronts an Air Master who is inhabiting a body with his twin sister, she assumes that the women was a helpless victim and feels sorry for her. Markos then asks how she knows it wasn't the woman who was the dominant, malignant personality, and she realizes that she doesn't.
* MagicKnight: She switches between her considerable Earth Magic and weapons of varying mundaneness in her battles with various monsters and/or rogue wizards.

!!Idwal Drever
* HeManWomanHater: As far as he's concerned, Mari is just there to get pregnant with Selch babies, and the fact that she asks for a choice in husbands rather than just accepting whoever he chooses makes him so angry he declares that there will be no more female Protheros since women are clearly "unmanageable".
* {{Jerkass}}: Repeatedly tries to screw over Mari for daring to negotiate the pact rather than just meekly accepting whoever he forced upon her, and then kidnaps her husband and children just to get back at her. No matter how small the matter, he will be petty and smug about it.

* ArrangedMarriage: Played with. The generations-long pact between the Protheros and the Selch in Home from the Sea makes each Prothero part of an arranged marriage, but after Mari chooses her Selch husband (and it is her choice). Since she has to have a marriage license if she's not going to be treated like a whore by the village, Dafydd Prothero pretends he's forcing Mari into an arranged marriage with a cousin (the Selch fiance) to ensure that she'll be able to keep their cottage after Dafydd eventually dies.

* HateSink

* {{Expy}}: Of Literature/LordPeterWimsey
* MakingASplash
* HeroofAnotherStory: He gets a lot of elements of this in Serpent's Shadow, with his work off-the-page on Maya and Peter's part, and the epilogue consists of a letter from him to his Grandmother. Becomes literally true in Unnatural Issue.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Lord Peter Almsley acts like an Upper-Class Twit most of the time, but is actually anything but. The pose is a useful way to ensure that most of the people he meets will underestimate him.
* UnclePennybags: Lord Peter Almsley, who casually hands Dr. Maya Witherspoon enough money to fund the Fleet charity clinic for a month without a care. Apparently this is one of his hobbies.

* TheFundamentalist

* FlorenceNightingaleEffect:He has enough female patients falling for him during psychotherapy that he routinely uses his magic to make them fall out of love (or infatuation, at least).

* EventheGirlsWantHer: In From a High Tower, Rosamund mentions that she had to deal with another girl who'd "gotten a pash" on her.

* MagicalNativeAmerican: Downplayed in From a High Tower. Medicine Chief (and former U. S. Army Scout) Leading Fox being an Air Master is totally justified by magicians occurring in just about every nationality; however the only other members of Captain Cody's Wild West Show aside from Cody himself (a low-level Fire Mage and longtime friend of Leading Fox) and their current announcer/manager (an Austrian who has relatives in the Brotherhood of the Black Forest) who knows anything about magic are the other Pawnee with the show.

* {{Necromancer}}: One of the deadliest in the series, since he feeds off the evil and death of WW1. Susanne realizes that, had he not been stopped, he'd have turned England into a land of zombies.