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* BloodbathVillainOrigin: Hekat kills Abajai and Yagji with a divine curse as they had revealed her as a runaway slave to the warlord. Ironically, no actual blood is shed, and she even chooses to forgo slitting their throats to use the curse.
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* BloodbathVillainOrigin: Hekat kills Abajai and Yagji with a divine curse as they had revealed her as a runaway slave to the warlord.Raklion. Ironically, no actual blood is shed, and she even chooses to forgo slitting their throats to use the curse.
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* EvilVirtues: Hekat is a psychotically bloodthirsty woman, but her religious devotion, ambition, cunning, and [[{{Determinator}} sheer determination]] to fulfill her goals make her a compelling VillainProtagonist.
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* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Zigzagged. Hekat was intended to be sold as a concubine because of her beauty. She realizes she'll be sold again if she tries to run away with a beautiful face and [[TarnishingTheirOwnBeauty cuts her face open to make herself uglier,]] claiming a WickedStepmother did it to her to hide her true past. This doesn't stop Raklion from noticing it, however, and ultimately her beauty propels her to becoming the Empress of Mijak.
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* WickedStepmother: Discussed as part of her false backstory. She pretends her father remarried a woman who became jealous of her and cut open her face, then [[ParentalAbandonment kicked her out of her home.]]
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* PapaWolf: To Zandakar. [[spoiler:After Hekat banishes Zandakar in a rage, he smuggles him out of Mijak to save his life.]]
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Even before Hekat came into his life Raklion dreamed of uniting Mijak under his rule, though he thought he was being tested by the gods and rejected his ambitions until Hekat learned of them.
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* HeirClubForMen: Raklion is obsessed with fathering a son to inherit his province.
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* UnwittingPawn: Hekat's. He allows her ambition to guide him and conquers Mijak for her, setting up the events of the following books.
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* DefiantToTheEnd: He refuses to bow to Hekat until the very end, facing his impending death with dignity on the battlefield.
* {{Determinator}}: Even after being exiled, then imprisoned, he manages to lead a rebellion against Hekat, knowing he has very little chance against her army and magic but deciding it's the right thing to do anyways.
* {{Determinator}}: Even after being exiled, then imprisoned, he manages to lead a rebellion against Hekat, knowing he has very little chance against her army and magic but deciding it's the right thing to do anyways.
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* KickTheMoralityPet: After [[spoiler:conceiving Zandakar with Vortka, she rids him of the ability to bear children out of paranoia that he would one day father a rival to Zandakar.]] She later realizes how awful what she's done is after [[spoiler:the god commands her to sleep with Nagarak as a result.]]
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* KickTheMoralityPet: KickTheMoralityPet:
** After [[spoiler:conceiving Zandakar with Vortka, she rids him of the ability to bear children out of paranoia that he would one day father a rival to Zandakar.]] She later realizes how awful what she's done is after [[spoiler:the god commands her to sleep with Nagarak as a result.]]]]
** She crosses the moral event horizon completely by [[spoiler:murdering Zandakar's wife and unborn child by gutting her.]] This firmly sets Hekat as irredeemable.
** After [[spoiler:conceiving Zandakar with Vortka, she rids him of the ability to bear children out of paranoia that he would one day father a rival to Zandakar.]] She later realizes how awful what she's done is after [[spoiler:the god commands her to sleep with Nagarak as a result.
** She crosses the moral event horizon completely by [[spoiler:murdering Zandakar's wife and unborn child by gutting her.]] This firmly sets Hekat as irredeemable.
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* TheAntichrist: She is chosen by Mijak's god to unite Mijak into a singular destructive force.
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* TheAntichrist: She While not strictly the devil's child, she is chosen by Mijak's god to unite Mijak into a singular destructive force.force hellbent on bringing the whole world to its knees.
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* DarkActionGirl[=/=]LittleMissBadassCannotSpitItOut: She never confesses to [[spoiler:loving Vortka, though it's obvious by her behavior late in her life that she fell in love with him. She is distraught by his death moments before hers.]]
* DarkActionGirl: She becomes trained as a warrior and takes [[PsychoKnifeNut a special liking to bladecraft.]]
* DealWithTheDevil: After running away from Abajai and carving her face open, Hekat fell into a fever where she swore UndyingLoyalty to any god that would save her life. The god that answered? A GodOfEvil, setting her on the path to become Empress of Mijak.
* DarkActionGirl: She becomes trained as a warrior and takes [[PsychoKnifeNut a special liking to bladecraft.]]
* DealWithTheDevil: After running away from Abajai and carving her face open, Hekat fell into a fever where she swore UndyingLoyalty to any god that would save her life. The god that answered? A GodOfEvil, setting her on the path to become Empress of Mijak.
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* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Hekat isn't really a case of EvenEvilHasLovedOnes. She loves Vortka, and she loves her son Zandakar, and that's pretty much it. She loves Zandakar in an obsessive, possessive way, and she can be very cruel even to him. So that's not terribly humanizing. Vortka and Zandakar's love for ''her'', however, is more humanizing. They both know she's pretty screwed up, but they care about her despite that.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: There are exactly two people she cares for; Zandakar and [[spoiler:Vortka.]] That does not mean she will not act awfully to either one, but she is capable of PetTheDog moments for both.
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved:Hekat isn't really a case of EvenEvilHasLovedOnes. She loves Vortka, and she loves her son Zandakar, and that's pretty much it. She loves Zandakar in an obsessive, possessive way, and she can be very cruel even to him. So that's not terribly humanizing. Vortka and Zandakar's love for ''her'', however, is more humanizing.her humanizes her greatly. They both know she's pretty screwed up, but they care about her despite that.
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved:
* IHaveNoSon: [[spoiler:She rejects Zandakar after he tries to marry a wife from another country, proclaiming him as dead. This bites her in the ass later when Zandakar was smuggled out of Mijak and ended up enslaved thousands of miles away.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Dmitrak murders her.]] Given how she treated [[spoiler:him]] it was completely deserved.
* KickTheMoralityPet: After [[spoiler:conceiving Zandakar with Vortka, she rids him of the ability to bear children out of paranoia that he would one day father a rival to Zandakar.]] She later realizes how awful what she's done is after [[spoiler:the god commands her to sleep with Nagarak as a result.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Dmitrak murders her.]] Given how she treated [[spoiler:him]] it was completely deserved.
* KickTheMoralityPet: After [[spoiler:conceiving Zandakar with Vortka, she rids him of the ability to bear children out of paranoia that he would one day father a rival to Zandakar.]] She later realizes how awful what she's done is after [[spoiler:the god commands her to sleep with Nagarak as a result.]]
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* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Raklion is unable to have a healthy biological child. After a nasty miscarriage of her true child by Raklion, Hekat goes and has her two sired by other men, and she just pretends they're Raklion's. Hekat goes to Vortka to get pregnant with Zandakar, but then magically makes Vortka infertile after that. When Hekat decides she needs a SpareToTheThrone, she waits for her god to tell her who should sire her next baby, and much to her horror, that's Nagarak.
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* LittleMissBadass: She's only 13 when she starts learning how to fight in Raklion's army.
* LoveAtFirstSight: As soon as she sees her baby Zandakar she falls deep in motherly love for him, making Zandakar one of the ''very'' few people she feels affection for.
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Raklionis [[spoiler:is unable to have a healthy biological child. After a nasty miscarriage of her true child by Raklion, Hekat goes and has her two sired by other men, and she just pretends they're Raklion's. Hekat goes to Vortka to get pregnant with Zandakar, but then magically makes Vortka infertile after that. When Hekat decides she needs a SpareToTheThrone, she waits for her god to tell her who should sire her next baby, and much to her horror, that's Nagarak.]]
* LoveAtFirstSight: As soon as she sees her baby Zandakar she falls deep in motherly love for him, making Zandakar one of the ''very'' few people she feels affection for.
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* MotherMakesYouKingMotherMakesYouKing: Hekat holds the throne for Zandakar, killing or exiling any other pretenders.
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* ScarsAreForever: She deliberately carved open her face so she would be considered too ugly to be enslaved as a concubine. While she was still seen as beautiful years later, the scars remain part of her, [[spoiler:especially after she tears them open again when exiling her beloved son Zandakar.]]
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* VillainProtagonist
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* ScarsAreForever: PsychoKnifeNut: Her weapon of choice is a pair of long knives and she takes special delight in killing with them.
* ScarsAreForever:
** She deliberately carved open her face so she would be considered too ugly to be enslaved as a concubine. While shewas is still seen as beautiful under them years later, the scars remain part of her, [[spoiler:especially after she tears them open again when exiling her beloved son Zandakar.]]
** Dmitrak's birth leaves Hekat with horrible pain and wounds that never properly heal.
*VillainProtagonistTroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: ''Everything'' she does at an early age due to her upbringing and horrific backstory.
* VillainProtagonist: Of the novel ''Empress''.
* ScarsAreForever:
** She deliberately carved open her face so she would be considered too ugly to be enslaved as a concubine. While she
** Dmitrak's birth leaves Hekat with horrible pain and wounds that never properly heal.
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* VillainProtagonist: Of the novel ''Empress''.
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: [[spoiler:While overall he plays a minor role in the story,]] he brings Hekat out of her village into wider Mijak and influences her general distrust of everyone around her.
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: [[spoiler:While overall he plays a minor role in the story,]] he brings Hekat out of her village into wider Mijak and influences her general distrust of everyone around her. He also gets Vortka chosen to be a Godspeaker.
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* TheChosenOne: He's chosen by Mijak's god to become a Godspeaker rather than a slave.
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* TheChosenOne: He's chosen by Mijak's god to become a Godspeaker rather than a slave. [[spoiler:It's later implied he was chosen by the good God of the rest of the world to conceive Zandakar and FlingALightIntoTheFuture decades later in the form of someone who could wield the demons' power against them.]]
* LoveMartyr: He knows what Hekat is evil and too far gone to redeem, but remains by her side unfalteringly out of UndyingLoyalty.
* MoralityPet: Zigzagged. He is one of the few people whom Hekat shows kindness and loyalty to, but she is not above kicking him out of paranoia and he ultimately fails to curb her evil.
* LoveMartyr: He knows what Hekat is evil and too far gone to redeem, but remains by her side unfalteringly out of UndyingLoyalty.
* MoralityPet: Zigzagged. He is one of the few people whom Hekat shows kindness and loyalty to, but she is not above kicking him out of paranoia and he ultimately fails to curb her evil.
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* UndyingLoyalty: To Hekat, even as she sinks into further and further evil.
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* EvillerThanThou: He's [[spoiler:killed by Hekat's more powerful magic.]]
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* BrokenAce: While he starts as TheParagon of Mijak, he becomes more and more troubled with the senseless violence and death he witnesses. After [[spoiler:Hekat murders his wife and unborn child, he spirals into broken acehood for the entirety of the second book.]]
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* RedOniBlueOni: The contemplative Blue oni to Dmitrak's fiery fearsome Red oni.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: With [[spoiler:Rhian. The two love each other, but ultimately cannot marry as Zandakar has to return to rule Mijak and Rhian must remain in Ethrea.]]
* WillTheyOrWontThey: With [[spoiler:Rhian. The two love each other, but ultimately cannot marry as Zandakar has to return to rule Mijak and Rhian must remain in Ethrea.]]
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* PowerDyesYourHair: His hair turns red when he inherits the Hammer.
* RedOniBlueOni: The fiery fearsome Red oni to Zandakar's contemplative Blue oni.
* TheUnfavorite: Because of the trauma of his conception and birth, Hekat utterly despises him.
* RedOniBlueOni: The fiery fearsome Red oni to Zandakar's contemplative Blue oni.
* TheUnfavorite: Because of the trauma of his conception and birth, Hekat utterly despises him.
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* BloodbathVillainOrigin: Hekat kills Abajai and Yagji with a divine-like curse as they had revealed her as a runaway slave to the warlord. Ironically, no actual blood is shed, and she even chooses to forgo slitting their throats to use the curse.
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* TheAntichrist: She is chosen by Mijak's god to unite Mijak into a singular destructive force.
* BloodMagic: She channels the god's power through spilling blood.
* BloodbathVillainOrigin: Hekat kills Abajai and Yagji with adivine-like divine curse as they had revealed her as a runaway slave to the warlord. Ironically, no actual blood is shed, and she even chooses to forgo slitting their throats to use the curse.
* BloodMagic: She channels the god's power through spilling blood.
* BloodbathVillainOrigin: Hekat kills Abajai and Yagji with a
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* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Hekat isn't really a case of EvenEvilHasLovedOnes. She's somewhat fond of Vortka, and she loves her son Zandakar, and that's pretty much it. She loves Zandakar in an obsessive, possessive way, and she can be very cruel even to him. So that's not terribly humanizing. Vortka and Zandakar's love for ''her'', however, is more humanizing. They both know she's pretty screwed up, but they care about her despite that.
* FilleFatale: It's not clear exactly how old Hekat is when he starts lusting after her. She's 12 when she's sold, and after the long journey from the north, her time being trained at Abajai's house, and her time in the barracks, it's probably been a few years. But she's still young enough Hanochek refers to her as a "child."
* FreudianExcuse: Her childhood was horrifically abusive and the trader that she thought had rescued her by purchasing her as a slave and proceeding to treat her with exceptional kindness was really just trying to amp up her value for when he sold her as a concubine. It's not really that surprising she becomes psychotically vicious in trying to climb as high in power as she can so she can at last be "safe".
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen
* LadyMacbeth: To Raklion sometimes
* FilleFatale: It's not clear exactly how old Hekat is when he starts lusting after her. She's 12 when she's sold, and after the long journey from the north, her time being trained at Abajai's house, and her time in the barracks, it's probably been a few years. But she's still young enough Hanochek refers to her as a "child."
* FreudianExcuse: Her childhood was horrifically abusive and the trader that she thought had rescued her by purchasing her as a slave and proceeding to treat her with exceptional kindness was really just trying to amp up her value for when he sold her as a concubine. It's not really that surprising she becomes psychotically vicious in trying to climb as high in power as she can so she can at last be "safe".
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen
* LadyMacbeth: To Raklion sometimes
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* EnfantTerrible: Even as a child she was feral, biting anyone who approached her. Justified, as she was left to roam around her village and didn't even have a name.
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Hekat isn't really a case of EvenEvilHasLovedOnes.She's somewhat fond of She loves Vortka, and she loves her son Zandakar, and that's pretty much it. She loves Zandakar in an obsessive, possessive way, and she can be very cruel even to him. So that's not terribly humanizing. Vortka and Zandakar's love for ''her'', however, is more humanizing. They both know she's pretty screwed up, but they care about her despite that.
* EvilSorceress: She is capable of great magic as the chosen of Mijak's god.
* FilleFatale:It's not clear exactly how old Hekat is when he starts lusting after her. She's 12 merely 14 when she's sold, and after the long journey from the north, Raklion takes Hekat as his mistress (at her time being trained at Abajai's house, and her time in the barracks, it's probably been a few years. But she's still young enough Hanochek refers to her as a "child."
insistence).
* FreudianExcuse: Her childhood was horrifically abusive and the trader that she thought had rescued her by purchasing her as a slave and proceeding to treat her with exceptional kindness was really just trying to amp up her value for when he sold her as a concubine. Furthermore, a GodOfEvil grants her the power to improve her quality of life. It's not really that surprising she becomes psychotically vicious in trying to climb as high in power as she can so she can at last be "safe".
*GodSaveUsFromTheQueen
GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: As the Empress of Mijak she is relentlessly bloodthirsty and cruel, and is very much a BadBoss even to her own troops.
* LadyMacbeth: ToRaklion sometimesRaklion, who for all his faults was significantly less vicious of a man before Hekat came into his life.
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Hekat isn't really a case of EvenEvilHasLovedOnes.
* EvilSorceress: She is capable of great magic as the chosen of Mijak's god.
* FilleFatale:
* FreudianExcuse: Her childhood was horrifically abusive and the trader that she thought had rescued her by purchasing her as a slave and proceeding to treat her with exceptional kindness was really just trying to amp up her value for when he sold her as a concubine. Furthermore, a GodOfEvil grants her the power to improve her quality of life. It's not really that surprising she becomes psychotically vicious in trying to climb as high in power as she can so she can at last be "safe".
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* LadyMacbeth: To
* ScarsAreForever: She deliberately carved open her face so she would be considered too ugly to be enslaved as a concubine. While she was still seen as beautiful years later, the scars remain part of her, [[spoiler:especially after she tears them open again when exiling her beloved son Zandakar.]]
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Abajai is the first person who Hekat ''ever'' cares about, because he's the first person to ''ever'' treat her with kindness. She adores him for this.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Subverted. Abajai is the first person who Hekat ''ever'' cares about, because he's the first person to ''ever'' treat her with kindness. She adores adored him for this.this [[spoiler:until she learns he means to mark and sell her as a slave.]] This betrayal shakes her to the core and [[spoiler:makes Hekat vow never to trust anyone again.]]
* SmallRoleBigImpact: [[spoiler:While overall he plays a minor role in the story,]] he brings Hekat out of her village into wider Mijak and influences her general distrust of everyone around her.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: [[spoiler:While overall he plays a minor role in the story,]] he brings Hekat out of her village into wider Mijak and influences her general distrust of everyone around her.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Hekat shows him slight kindness when he's one of Abajai's slaves.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Hekat shows him slight kindness when he's one of Abajai's slaves.slaves, earning her his loyalty.
* TheChosenOne: He's chosen by Mijak's god to become a Godspeaker rather than a slave.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Of the Godspeakers and of Mijak as a whole. He's overall not fond of the BloodMagic and sacrifices he must perform. His continued presence in Hekat's life is one of the few things that serves to show she is not completely evil to the core. Deconstructed, as even though his heart is good he's completely unable to rein Hekat in.
* TheChosenOne: He's chosen by Mijak's god to become a Godspeaker rather than a slave.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Of the Godspeakers and of Mijak as a whole. He's overall not fond of the BloodMagic and sacrifices he must perform. His continued presence in Hekat's life is one of the few things that serves to show she is not completely evil to the core. Deconstructed, as even though his heart is good he's completely unable to rein Hekat in.
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* {{Ephebophile}}: It's not clear exactly how old Hekat is when he starts lusting after her. She's 12 when she's sold, and after the long journey from the north, her time being trained at Abajai's house, and her time in the barracks, it's probably been a few years. But she's still young enough Hanochek refers to her as a "child."
* FriendVersusLover: Hanochek vs Hekat. It's a simmering background problem for a long time, which comes to a head after Zandakar gets hurt. Raklion--very, very reluctantly--sides with Hekat. But in the end, with his LastWords, he says he wishes he hadn't.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Raklion and Hanochek
* FriendVersusLover: Hanochek vs Hekat. It's a simmering background problem for a long time, which comes to a head after Zandakar gets hurt. Raklion--very, very reluctantly--sides with Hekat. But in the end, with his LastWords, he says he wishes he hadn't.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Raklion and Hanochek
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* {{Ephebophile}}: It's not clear exactly how old Hekat is only 12 when he starts lusting after Raklion first sees her and lusts for her. She's 12 14 by the time they get together. A case of DeliberateValuesDissonance, as his unnamed wife given to him by another warlord is of similar age when she's sold, and after the long journey from the north, her time being trained at Abajai's house, and her time in the barracks, it's probably been a few years. But she's still young enough Hanochek refers they are married to her as a "child."
one another.
* FriendVersusLover: Hanochek vs Hekat. It's a simmering background problem for a long time, which comes to a head after Zandakar gets hurt.Raklion--very, very reluctantly--sides Raklion sides with Hekat.Hekat when she twists Hanochek's words to make it seem as though Hanochek was badmouthing her to their son. But in the end, with his LastWords, he says he wishes he hadn't.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Raklion andHanochekHanochek.
* FriendVersusLover: Hanochek vs Hekat. It's a simmering background problem for a long time, which comes to a head after Zandakar gets hurt.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Raklion and
* OldManMarryingAChild: He's in his late forties when he marries his unnamed wife, then in his fifties when he makes Hekat his mistress.
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* HeroAntagonistHeroAntagonist: He stands opposed to Hekat and is vastly more heroic, trying to turn Raklion from Hekat's radical changes.
* MoralityChain: He serves as one to Raklion, serving as his voice of reason restraining his ambition and worst impulses. Hence why he is so wary of Hekat, and why she's constantly trying to get rid of him.
* MoralityChain: He serves as one to Raklion, serving as his voice of reason restraining his ambition and worst impulses. Hence why he is so wary of Hekat, and why she's constantly trying to get rid of him.
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* OutWithABang: A sort of RapeByProxy, where Hekat has sex with Nagarak at the god's order. Neither of them want to. And it kills Nagarak... although not right away. He lives a few more days, and is really weak, then dies.
* OutWithABang: A sort of RapeByProxy, where Hekat has sex with Nagarak at the god's order. Neither of them want to. And it kills Nagarak... although not right away. He lives a few more days, and is really weak, then dies.
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* AntiVillain
AmbitionIsEvil: He is at first convinced to go along with Hekat's suggestions because her plans would place him above all the other Godspeakers in the land.
* EvilSorceror: He is a cruel Jerkass of a man and a very powerful practitioner of BloodMagic.
* EvilVsEvil: He opposes Hekat, but not out of hatred of her beliefs, but rather out of fear she will replace him.
* OutWithABang: A sort of RapeByProxy, where Hekat has sex with Nagarak at the god's order. Neither of them want to. And it kills Nagarak...although Although not right away. He away; he lives a few more days, and days in a feverous delirium before he dies.
* SinisterMinister: As the head of a ReligionOfEvil practicing BloodMagic this isreally weak, then dies.a given.
* EvilSorceror: He is a cruel Jerkass of a man and a very powerful practitioner of BloodMagic.
* EvilVsEvil: He opposes Hekat, but not out of hatred of her beliefs, but rather out of fear she will replace him.
* OutWithABang: A sort of RapeByProxy, where Hekat has sex with Nagarak at the god's order. Neither of them want to. And it kills Nagarak...
* SinisterMinister: As the head of a ReligionOfEvil practicing BloodMagic this is
* AntiAntiChrist: He was meant to be the chosen one of Mijak's god to conquer the world, but he rejects this fate after falling in love with a woman from one of the nations he conquered.
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* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Raklion is unable to have a healthy biological child. Hekat went to Vortka to get pregnant with Zandakar, but then magically made Vortka infertile after that. After Hekat decides she needs a SpareToTheThrone, she waits for her god to tell her who should sire her next baby. Much to Hekat's horror, that's Nagarak.
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* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Raklion is unable to have a healthy biological child. Hekat went to Vortka to get pregnant with Zandakar, but then magically made Vortka infertile after that. to prevent him from siring competition to Zandakar. After the god tells Hekat decides she needs must have a SpareToTheThrone, she waits for her god must find another to tell her who should sire her next baby. have a child with. Much to Hekat's horror, that's the god chooses Nagarak.
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* MeaningfulRename: Previously TheNameless, she names herself for the first time when she's sold to Abajai. It's based on the phrase "hell-cat," which he called her, but she stumbles over the words when she says it, turning it into Hekat. It doubles as a MeaningfulName for that reason.
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* MeaningfulRename: Previously TheNameless, nameless, she names herself for the first time when she's sold to Abajai. It's based on the phrase "hell-cat," which he called her, but she stumbles over the words when she says it, turning it into Hekat. It doubles as a MeaningfulName for that reason.
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* TheNameless: NeverGivenAName: Girls were not named in her village.
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* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Hekat isn't really a case of EvenEvilHasLovedOnes. She's somewhat fond of Vortka, and she loves her son Zandakar, and that's pretty much it. She loves Zandakar in an obsessive, possessive way, and she can be very cruel even to him. So that's not terribly humanizing. Vortka and Zandakar's love for ''her'', however, is more humanizing. They both know she's pretty screwed up, but they care about her despite that.
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* LadyMacbeth: To Raklion sometimes
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* MotherMakesYouKing
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Hekat shows him slight kindness when he's one of Abajai's slaves.
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* FilleFatale: It's not clear exactly how old Hekat is when he starts lusting after her. She's 12 when she's sold, and after the long journey from the north, her time being trained at Abajai's house, and her time in the barracks, it's probably been a few years. But she's still young enough Hanochek refers to her as a "child."
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->''"[Mijaki] is the tongue of our people. We are Mijaki. Mijaki. This land is Mijak, gift of the god."''
-->-- '''Abajai'''
* {{Conlang}}: ''Sadsa'' is camel's milk. Knife dancers forms are ''hotas''. Zandakar calls his mother ''Yuma''.
* TheEmpire
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: According to Miller, Mijak is supposed to be like the Hittites.
* KnifeNut: Mijaki warriors fight with "snakeblades," which are more or less long daggers.
* ThePowerOfBlood: Mijak's religious ritual involves so much sacrificial blood, including swallowing it hot and taking [[BloodBath baths]] in it.
* ReligionOfEvil
-->-- '''Abajai'''
* {{Conlang}}: ''Sadsa'' is camel's milk. Knife dancers forms are ''hotas''. Zandakar calls his mother ''Yuma''.
* TheEmpire
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: According to Miller, Mijak is supposed to be like the Hittites.
* KnifeNut: Mijaki warriors fight with "snakeblades," which are more or less long daggers.
* ThePowerOfBlood: Mijak's religious ritual involves so much sacrificial blood, including swallowing it hot and taking [[BloodBath baths]] in it.
* ReligionOfEvil
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-->-- '''Abajai'''
* {{Conlang}}: ''Sadsa'' is camel's milk. Knife dancers forms are ''hotas''. Zandakar calls his mother ''Yuma''.
* TheEmpire
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: According to Miller, Mijak is supposed to be like the Hittites.
* KnifeNut: Mijaki warriors fight with "snakeblades," which are more or less long daggers.
* ThePowerOfBlood: Mijak's religious ritual involves so much sacrificial blood, including swallowing it hot and taking [[BloodBath baths]] in it.
* ReligionOfEvil
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! Ethrean
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* {{Conlang}}: ''Sadsa'' is camel's milk. Knife dancers forms are ''hotas''. Zandakar calls his mother ''Yuma''.
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!! Hekat
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!! Abajai
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!! Raklion
Warlord of Et-Raklion.
Warlord of Et-Raklion.
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!! Hanochek
Raklion's warleader.
Raklion's warleader.
* HeroAntagonist
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!! Nagarak
Raklion's high godspeaker.
Raklion's high godspeaker.
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Raklion's high godspeaker.
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!! Zandakar
Hekat's elder son.
Hekat's elder son.
* PowerDyesYourHair: Zandakar's hair turns blue when he uses the hammer the first time.
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!! Dmitrak
Hekat's younger son, secret by Nagarak.
* AffectionateNickname: His brother calls him Dimmi. Also an EmbarrassingNickname, as he hates being called that.
Hekat's younger son, secret by Nagarak.
* AffectionateNickname: His brother calls him Dimmi. Also an EmbarrassingNickname, as he hates being called that.
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Hekat's younger son, secret by Nagarak.
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* BloodbathVillainOrigin: Hekat kills the two slavers who bought her with a divine-like curse as they had revealed her as a runaway slave to the warlord, and if the godspeakers heard, she would be nailed to a cross, disemboweled and left to die. Ironically, no actual blood is shed, and she even choses to forgo slitting their throats to use the curse.
* DarkActionGirl
* DarkActionGirl
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!! Hekat
* BloodbathVillainOrigin: Hekat killsthe two slavers who bought her Abajai and Yagji with a divine-like curse as they had revealed her as a runaway slave to the warlord, and if the godspeakers heard, she would be nailed to a cross, disemboweled and left to die. warlord. Ironically, no actual blood is shed, and she even choses chooses to forgo slitting their throats to use the curse.
*DarkActionGirlDarkActionGirl[=/=]LittleMissBadass
* BloodbathVillainOrigin: Hekat kills
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* LittleMissBadass:MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Raklion is unable to have a healthy biological child. After a nasty miscarriage of her true child by Raklion, Hekat goes and has her two sired by other men, and she just pretends they're Raklion's. Hekat goes to Vortka to get pregnant with Zandakar, but then magically makes Vortka infertile after that. When Hekat decides she needs a SpareToTheThrone, she waits for her god to tell her who should sire her next baby, and much to her horror, that's Nagarak.
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!! Vortka
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!! Raklion
Warlord of Et-Raklion.
Warlord of Et-Raklion.
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* {{Ephebophile}}: It's not clear exactly how old Hekat is when he starts lusting after her. She's 12 when she's sold, and after the long journey from the north, her time being trained at Abajai's house, and her time in the barracks, it's probably been a few years. But she's still young enough Hanochek refers to her as a "child."
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!! Hanochek
Raklion's warleader.
Raklion's warleader.
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!! Nagarak
Raklion's high godspeaker.
Raklion's high godspeaker.
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!! Zandakar
Hekat's elder son.
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Raklion is unable to have a healthy biological child. So Hekat goes to Vortka to get pregnant.
Hekat's elder son.
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Raklion is unable to have a healthy biological child. So Hekat goes to Vortka to get pregnant.
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!! Dmitrak
Hekat's younger son, secret by Nagarak.
* AffectionateNickname: His brother calls him Dimmi. Also an EmbarrassingNickname, as he hates being called that.
Hekat's younger son, secret by Nagarak.
* AffectionateNickname: His brother calls him Dimmi. Also an EmbarrassingNickname, as he hates being called that.
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* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Raklion is unable to have a healthy biological child. Hekat went to Vortka to get pregnant with Zandakar, but then magically made Vortka infertile after that. After Hekat decides she needs a SpareToTheThrone, she waits for her god to tell her who should sire her next baby. Much to Hekat's horror, that's Nagarak.
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[[folder:Mijak]]
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* {{Conlang}}: ''Sadsa'' is camel's milkmilk. Knife dancers forms are ''hotas''.
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* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen
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* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: Dmitrak's birth and Raklion's death. There's also some implied BalancingDeathsBooks going on. Hekat is about to suffer DeathByChildbirth, then Vortka uses magic to heal her. Their magic healing crystals don't ''usually'' require BalancingDeathsBooks, but this is a ''really'' severe thing to heal, and after it's used Raklion is suddenly dying.
* FriendVersusLover: Hanochek vs Hekat. It's a simmering background problem for a long time, which comes to a head after Zandakar gets hurt. Raklion--very, very reluctantly--sides with Hekat. But in the end, with his LastWords, he says he wishes he hadn't.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Raklion and Hanochek
* LastWords: It's a strange sort of DyingDeclarationOfLove, mixed with PlatonicDeclarationOfLove, and also LoveConfessor. Raklion's FriendVersusLover conflict is a large issue for him.
-->'''Raklion''': I wish I had not banished Hano.
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[[folder:Hanochek]]
* AffectionateNickname: Hano.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Raklion and Hanochek
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[[folder:Nagarak]]
* OutWithABang: A sort of RapeByProxy, where Hekat has sex with Nagarak at the god's order. Neither of them want to. And it kills Nagarak... although not right away. He lives a few more days, and is really weak, then dies.
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[[folder:Zandakar]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dmitrak]]
* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: Dmitrak's birth and Raklion's death. There's also some implied BalancingDeathsBooks going on. Hekat is about to suffer DeathByChildbirth, then Vortka uses magic to heal her. Their magic healing crystals don't ''usually'' require BalancingDeathsBooks, but this is a ''really'' severe thing to heal, and after it's used Raklion is suddenly dying.
* DeadGuyJunior: Raklion names him after his brother Dmitrak, who died.
-->'''Raklion''': His name--is Dmitrak. I name him for my brother--who was to be--warlord.
* FreudianExcuse: Dmitrak is a sort of ChildByRape via RapeByProxy. His mother Hekat already hates him as a fetus because of that. Then, she very nearly dies when he's born, and to save them both there's a surgery. The surgery works, but afterwords, even after she heals, Hekat has some chronic pain. Those two things together lead to Hekat hating her younger son, which in turn screws Dmitrak up.
[[/folder]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Raklion]]
* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: Dmitrak's birth and Raklion's death. There's also some implied BalancingDeathsBooks going on. Hekat is about to suffer DeathByChildbirth, then Vortka uses magic to heal her. Their magic healing crystals don't ''usually'' require BalancingDeathsBooks, but this is a ''really'' severe thing to heal, and after it's used Raklion is suddenly dying.
* FriendVersusLover: Hanochek vs Hekat. It's a simmering background problem for a long time, which comes to a head after Zandakar gets hurt. Raklion--very, very reluctantly--sides with Hekat. But in the end, with his LastWords, he says he wishes he hadn't.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Raklion and Hanochek
* LastWords: It's a strange sort of DyingDeclarationOfLove, mixed with PlatonicDeclarationOfLove, and also LoveConfessor. Raklion's FriendVersusLover conflict is a large issue for him.
-->'''Raklion''': I wish I had not banished Hano.
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[[folder:Hanochek]]
* AffectionateNickname: Hano.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Raklion and Hanochek
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nagarak]]
* OutWithABang: A sort of RapeByProxy, where Hekat has sex with Nagarak at the god's order. Neither of them want to. And it kills Nagarak... although not right away. He lives a few more days, and is really weak, then dies.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Zandakar]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dmitrak]]
* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: Dmitrak's birth and Raklion's death. There's also some implied BalancingDeathsBooks going on. Hekat is about to suffer DeathByChildbirth, then Vortka uses magic to heal her. Their magic healing crystals don't ''usually'' require BalancingDeathsBooks, but this is a ''really'' severe thing to heal, and after it's used Raklion is suddenly dying.
* DeadGuyJunior: Raklion names him after his brother Dmitrak, who died.
-->'''Raklion''': His name--is Dmitrak. I name him for my brother--who was to be--warlord.
* FreudianExcuse: Dmitrak is a sort of ChildByRape via RapeByProxy. His mother Hekat already hates him as a fetus because of that. Then, she very nearly dies when he's born, and to save them both there's a surgery. The surgery works, but afterwords, even after she heals, Hekat has some chronic pain. Those two things together lead to Hekat hating her younger son, which in turn screws Dmitrak up.
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!!Yagji of Et-Raklion
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!!Yagji of Et-Raklion
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Hekat adores him because she's the first person to treat her with kindness.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Abajai is the first person who Hekat adores him ''ever'' cares about, because she's he's the first person to ''ever'' treat her with kindness.kindness. She adores him for this.
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-->'''Abajai''': Do you have a name?\\
'''Hekat''': He--kat. Me. Name. Hekat.\\
'''Abajai''': As good a name as any, and better than most.
'''Hekat''': He--kat. Me. Name. Hekat.\\
'''Abajai''': As good a name as any, and better than most.
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* {{Conlang}}: ''Sadsa'' is camel's milk,
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* {{Conlang}}: ''Sadsa'' is camel's milk,
milk
* TheEmpire
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: According to Miller, Mijak is supposed to be like the Hittites.
* KnifeNut: Mijaki warriors fight with "snakeblades," which are more or less long daggers.
* ThePowerOfBlood: Mijak's religious ritual involves so much sacrificial blood, including swallowing it hot and taking [[BloodBath baths]] in it.
* ReligionOfEvil
* TheEmpire
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: According to Miller, Mijak is supposed to be like the Hittites.
* KnifeNut: Mijaki warriors fight with "snakeblades," which are more or less long daggers.
* ThePowerOfBlood: Mijak's religious ritual involves so much sacrificial blood, including swallowing it hot and taking [[BloodBath baths]] in it.
* ReligionOfEvil
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* DarkActionGirl
* FreudianExcuse: Her childhood was horrifically abusive and the trader that she thought had rescued her by purchasing her as a slave and proceeding to treat her with exceptional kindness was really just trying to amp up her value for when he sold her as a concubine. It's not really that surprising she becomes psychotically vicious in trying to climb as high in power as she can so she can at last be "safe".
* LittleMissBadass:
* FreudianExcuse: Her childhood was horrifically abusive and the trader that she thought had rescued her by purchasing her as a slave and proceeding to treat her with exceptional kindness was really just trying to amp up her value for when he sold her as a concubine. It's not really that surprising she becomes psychotically vicious in trying to climb as high in power as she can so she can at last be "safe".
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[[folder:Mijak]]
->''"[Mijaki] is the tongue of our people. We are Mijaki. Mijaki. This land is Mijak, gift of the god."''
-->-- '''Abajai'''
*Conlang: ''Sadsa'' is camel's milk,
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!!Hekat of Et-Raklion
*MeaningfulRename: Previously TheNameless, she names herself for the first time when she's sold to Abajai. It's based on the phrase "hell-cat," which he called her, but she stumbles over the words when she says it, turning it into Hekat. It doubles as a MeaningfulName for that reason.
*MundaneLuxury: She is enchanted by the robe Abajai gives her when he first buys her. Honey and baths are also a big deal.
*TheNameless: Girls were not named in her village.
*NoSocialSkills {{Exaggerated|Trope}} or WildChild {{Downplayed|Trope}}: She is so neglected and abused as a child that when the story opens she's about 12 and she doesn't even speak her own language fluently.
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[[folder:Abajai]]
!!Abajai of Et-Raklion
*BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Hekat adores him because she's the first person to treat her with kindness.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Yagji]]
!!Yagji of Et-Raklion
[[/folder]]
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[[folder:Mijak]]
->''"[Mijaki] is the tongue of our people. We are Mijaki. Mijaki. This land is Mijak, gift of the god."''
-->-- '''Abajai'''
*Conlang: ''Sadsa'' is camel's milk,
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Hekat]]
!!Hekat of Et-Raklion
*MeaningfulRename: Previously TheNameless, she names herself for the first time when she's sold to Abajai. It's based on the phrase "hell-cat," which he called her, but she stumbles over the words when she says it, turning it into Hekat. It doubles as a MeaningfulName for that reason.
*MundaneLuxury: She is enchanted by the robe Abajai gives her when he first buys her. Honey and baths are also a big deal.
*TheNameless: Girls were not named in her village.
*NoSocialSkills {{Exaggerated|Trope}} or WildChild {{Downplayed|Trope}}: She is so neglected and abused as a child that when the story opens she's about 12 and she doesn't even speak her own language fluently.
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[[folder:Abajai]]
!!Abajai of Et-Raklion
*BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Hekat adores him because she's the first person to treat her with kindness.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Yagji]]
!!Yagji of Et-Raklion
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