History Characters / HeraldsOfValdemarMageWindsAndMageStorms

* LastNameBasis: Rarely goes by "Mornelithe", though it's how he refers to himself in ''Winds of Change''. Typically other characters call him Falconsbane. In the three books in which he's most prominent, the main characters are in Hawkbrother lands, and "Falconsbane" is a greater and more understood epithet than the Kaled'a'in "Mornelithe", but in Ancar's case it appears to be a percieved LastNameBasis.

** His views on Changechildren might have worsened after [[spoiler: being captured by Mornelithe Falconsbane, a Changechild, who then [[EatTheDog fed Starblade's bird Perry]] to Nyara.]]

* EatTheDog: Starblade remembers Nyara as a skinny, almost human figure with wild unfocused eyes and his bondbird's feathers in her mouth - she ate the falcon after her father killed it.

* RidiculouslyAverageGuy: Look at the other tropes describing Tremaine. Tremaine is about as boring, practical and unremarkable as a ruler could be. Yet through good sense, proper planning and attention to detail, he's an incredibly effective ruler.

* GenderBender: Ma'ar's spell only targets a descent of Ma'ar and doesn't make any other distinctions. [[spoiler: The founding Valdamarans fought an incarnation of Ma'ar who had possessed a girl named Cloudfall.]]

* ScienceCannotComprehendPhlebotinum: Firesong views magic as an intuitive art and disdains attempts to analyze magic. This bites him harm come the mage storms where the only way understand the unprecedented phenomenon is scientific analysis. He grows out of it by "Gryphon in Light" where he has a much more analytical approach to another unprecedented magical phenomenon.

* EyeDentityGiveaway: In his first incarnation by the time he's showed up at the end of ''The Black Gryphon'' he has changed his entire appearance, but Urtho notes that his eyes are the same.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: He allowed Nyara to escape his fortress and make contact with the Tayledras so she could get information, and thought she would be his loyal agent. Instead she tells them everything she knows, allowing Darkwind to kill Starblade's false bondbird and free him. A free Starblade can't contribute much to the Tayledras efforts beyond more information, but he ''stops'' using his considerable influence to hinder them, making a prize that was just about Falconsbane's for the taking difficult again.

* OrcusOnHisThrone: Many of his incarnations sit back well away from the action and send apprentices, minions, or creatures to trouble the heroes, sometimes launching long-distance magical attacks. He did this as Ma'ar, conducting military strategy, [[MakerOfMonsters making monsters]] like the makaar, and doing whatever else far from the front lines. As [[Literature/LastHeraldMageTrilogy Leareth]] his reach extended hundreds of miles but he didn't start approaching Valdemar himself until he'd spent twenty years picking off Herald-Mages. He does roam about in person as Falconsbane in ''Winds of Fate'', but he spends his entire time in ''Winds of Change'' holed up in his fortress, and in ''Winds of Fury'' he's held captive by Ancar and stays put until he's lured out.

* RoyalBrat: Her nurse, Hulda, deliberately raises her as a spoiled, self-centered brat until Talia intervenes. It takes her a very long time to shake this reputation. Later, Darkwind still finds her quite arrogant.

* GenderRestrictedGear: Only women can use Need. It comes as quite a surprise to everyone when Firesong is able to make use of her power, explained as Firesong being [[InTouchWithHisFeminineSide "balanced" between masculine and feminine]]. Kethry, surprised when Need protects a different androgynous Hawkbrother, speculates that sometimes the sword can't tell and decides to play it safe, but Need herself while awake admits she's had a few male bearers, usually gay ones.

* AuthorAvatar: Becomes this for Mercedes Lackey. In Kelvern's Tale, Firesong is growing older and FeelingHisAge reflecting Mercedes Lackey herself (who is in her 70s when Gryphon in Light came out)

* FeelingHisAge: Despite his supernaturally youthful appearance by Gryphon in Light, Firesong is feeling his age. He's more careful about his actions and comforts that were indulgences in his youth are now necessary to accommodate for the aches and pains of old age.