History Characters / Kage

* GoodIsNotNice: She's prideful and willing to employ underhanded tactics to ensure the survival of Castwell's Peak and her daughter, like pretending to be loyal to Phobos or get Elyon to help them with mind games.

Amelia's mother.

* AmbitionIsEvil: She wants to shore up her family's influence and seeks to gain access to the old crystal mines in the Mogriffs' mountain.

* GoodIsNotNice: She's proud and willing to employ underhanded tactics to ensure the survival of Castwell's Peak and her daughter, like pretending to be loyal to Phobos or manipulating Elyon into helping them.

** Though he's not considered a strategist like Raythor, he proves himself capable of engaging in cunning warfare when he's put in charge of assaulting Cavigor in the sequel. Not only he's wise enough not to immediately take over the subterranean prison that's harder to defend than besiege, but he deals such a devastating surprise attack on Vathek's greater relief force that he forces them to be trapped in the prison themselves. [[spoiler:He soon successfully takes over the prison by having the Razor Khan open the gates for the main army while a reserve force enter through a SecretUndergroundTunnel at the same time.]]

* SanitySlippage: Much of the Snowpoint arc is basically a prolonged VillainousBreakdown for her, as setbacks and the stress of [[spoiler:lying to her friends about the true renegade nature of her mission]] wears down at her sanity until she's eventually reduced to a raving maniac. Several characters end up wondering though if she was actually [[MaskOfSanity hiding the true extend of her madness]] all the time so that she'd be allowed to partake in the skirmishes against the Mogriffs.

* TookALevelInJerkass: She becomes increasingly unreasonable with her friends until the failure of [[spoiler:her renegade mission (of which she blames them)]] turns her utterly contemptuous of them to the point that she [[spoiler:tries to kill Caroline for trying to stop her from killing Maya]].

* TheUnfettered: Deconstructed. [[spoiler:To achieve her revenge, she will attempt to commit genocide on a whole race, renounce her loyalty to Elyon and desert her army when they won't siege Snowpoint anymore, drag even her closest friends into danger through deception, throw them under the bus once she considers them to be a hindrance or is unable to make them obey her anymore, [[TheFarmerAndTheViper throw her enemies' mercy in their faces]], risk even her own mother to a war with another world, or push herself forward without caring if it'll cost her her own life. All her sacrifices only lead to her being imprisoned, crippled and [[VillainousBSOD emotionally broken]].]]

* KnightTemplar: She [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist considers herself a righteous crusader who'll finally put an end to the Mogriffs' threat over innocent people, but even her closest friends can see that she's really driven by revenge more than anything]]. Anyone failing to see things her way and enable her obsessive quest, like [[spoiler:Elyon, her military superiors and fellow nobles in the Sky Hunters]], is a weakling too spineless to do what's needed by her book, and she refuses to listen to the Mogriffs' justifications that Metalbeak killed her grandfather for being a brutal Mogriff killer and that the attempts to take their ancestral lands by force is a large part of the reason for their hostility.

* SanitySlippage: Much of the Snowpoint arc is basically a prolonged VillainousBreakdown for her, as setbacks and the stress of [[spoiler: lying to her friends about the true renegade nature of her mission]] wears down at her sanity until she's eventually reduced to a raving maniac. Several characters end up wondering though if she was actually [[MaskOfSanity hiding the true extend of her madness]] all the time so that she'd be allowed to partake in the skirmishes against the Mogriffs.

* MoralityPet: Amelia of all people regards Caroline as a close friend and softens her lofty demeanor only with her.

* FriendToAllLivingThings: She's shown to be an animal-lover to the point that she doesn't want Alan to hunt for food the elk mother and fawn she spots or any Snowpuffs. Her father remarks that she has a knack for getting attached to animals as he tries to think of how he's going to tell her that he was forced to put down her favorite tundra goat.

* MamaBear: Philip states that in order to rescue or avenge her daughter, Idina would rally the entire north against Jade and Phobos.

* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Like her daughter, Aspen is an attractive and arrogant lady with long dark hair.

* OldSoldier: He's fifty years old and has been a warrior for three decades.

* ArchEnemy: The Mogriffs, especially Metalbeak who, since [[HarmfulToMinors first seeing the Nest Butcher in action as a hatchling]], dedicated himself to becoming a strong leader in preparation of making the man pay for all the Mogriffs he killed to the point of choosing to shapeshift into him in order to not let himself forget this goal. Though he finally killed Jesekiel after three decades of waiting, the Butcher still haunts his people in the form of [[YouKilledMyFather his granddaughter whom Metalbeak left filled with vengeance]], with Metalbeak eventually [[CreateYourOwnVillain admitting his responsibility over it]].

* FemmeFatale: She's quickly established to be ambitious and willing to use

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!!Jesekiel Bexley
Vera Bexley's late maternal grandfather who served under two queens before Weira as a soldier hunting down Mogriffs. After he retired and Phobos took over, he was killed by the Mogriff alpha Metalbeak as retribution for all the Mogriffs he had killed. His death set Vera on her path of revenge against the Mogriffs and Metalbeak in particular -- a revenge she's determined to achieve after ten years of waiting.

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!!Jesekiel Bexley
Vera Bexley's late grandfather who served under two queens before Weira as a soldier hunting down Mogriffs. After he retired and Phobos took over, he was killed by the Mogriff alpha Metalbeak as retribution for all the Mogriffs he had killed. His death set Vera on her path of revenge against the Mogriffs and Metalbeak in particular -- a revenge she's determined to achieve after ten years of waiting.

* FatalFlaw: She just can't admit defeat in her hotheadedness and stubbornness, and it's her DetrimentalDetermination that ends up costing her [[spoiler:her fellow nobles' friendship]].

* SanitySlippage: Much of the Snowpoint arc is basically a prolonged VillainousBreakdown for her, as setbacks and the stress of [[spoiler: lying to her friends about the true renegade nature of her mission]] wears down at her sanity until she's eventually reduced to a raving maniac.

* TheUnfettered: Deconstructed. [[spoiler:To achieve her revenge, she will attempt to commit genocide on a whole race, renounce her loyalty to Elyon and desert her army when they won't siege Snowpoint anymore, drag even her closest friends into danger through deception, throw them under the bus once she considers them to be a hindrance or is unable to make them obey her anymore, or push herself forward without caring if it'll cost her her own life. All her sacrifices only lead to her being imprisoned and emotionally unstable.]]

* FriendToAllLivingThings: She's shown to be an animal-lover to the point that she doesn't want Alan to hunt for food the elk mother and fawn she spots or any Snowpuffs.

* EvilIsSexy: Jade -- who has never been much into admiring boys -- thinks that Phobos would look handsome in the eyes of many girls from her school. [[invoked]]

* EvilCounterpart: The Warden of Cavigor is a dark reflection of Vathek had the head jailer of the Infinite City not given up his BlackAndWhiteMorality viewpoint and realized [[HeWhoFightsMonsters the dangers of treating any of Phobos' supporters (real and alleged) the same as him]].

* FantasticRacism: She utterly sees the Mogriffs as monsters that deserve total extinction and refuses to consider any evidence to the contrary.

* HerOwnWorstEnemy: Her DetrimentalDetermination in regards to her [[RevengeBeforeReason desire for revenge for her grandfather]] causes her to trick her supposed friends into deserting and going on a virtual suicide mission to try and kill Metalbeak rather than retreat, which ends up [[spoiler:getting herself and her companions captured and giving Phobos's side valuable political leverage, and ruining her friendships with them once the truth comes out.]]

* TheLeader: She's of the headstrong variety as the unofficial leader of the Sky Hunters. She's also acknowledged by Caroline to have charismatic traits

* TheLeader: She's of the Headstrong variety as the unofficial leader of the Sky Hunters.

* TheUnfettered: Deconstructed. [[spoiler:To achieve her revenge, she will attempt to commit genocide on a whole race, renounce her loyalty to Elyon and desert her army when they won't siege Snowpoint anymore, deceive her closest friends, throw them under the bus once she considers them to be a hindrance or is unable to make them obey her anymore, or push herself forward without caring if it'll cost her her own life. All her sacrifices only lead to her being imprisoned, emotionally unstable and [[NeverMyFault unable to admit she brought it on herself]].]]

* CowardlyLion: A ShrinkingViolet who still takes part in the Sky Hunters' dangerous assignments.

* AntiVillain: A [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains Villain in Name Only]] in ''Kage'' where she's been forced to take the villain role to survive. By the time of ''Shadows over Meridian'', she has become a Noble Anti-Villain.

* ArchEnemy: To the Mogriffs, especially Metalbeak who, since [[HarmfulToMinors first seeing the Nest Butcher in action as a hatchling]], dedicated himself to becoming a strong leader in preparation of making the man pay for all the Mogriffs he killed to the point of choosing to shapeshift into him in order to not let himself forget this goal. Though he finally killed Jesekiel after three decades of waiting, the Butcher still haunts his people in the form of [[YouKilledMyFather his granddaughter whom Metalbeak left filled with vengeance]], with Metalbeak eventually [[CreateYourOwnVillain admitting his responsibility over it]].

* FantasticRacism: Like his granddaughter, he firmly believed the Mogriffs to be monsters from which innocents must be protected by any means necessary.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Though he openly shows hostility towards the heroes he blames for his comrades and captain's deaths, Elyon admits he has every right to be angry at Caleb's abandonment of them and disillusioned with her record as a queen. His ArmorPiercingQuestion about her ignorance regarding Meridian also motivates her to do her homework about her kingdom so that she can live up to her promises of doing better.

* LoyalToThePosition: He follows the established chain of command in the northern army and respects Vera's leader position over the Sky Hunters even though he agrees with Amelia that Vera's personal enmity towards the Mogriffs makes her too volatile to be an effective leader.

* ThenLetMeBeEvil: {{ZigZagged|Trope}} a bit by the time of ''Shadows over Meridian''. After having been unjustly treated as a monstrous underling of Phobos by the heroes, forced to join the Knights of Vengeance for survival, and failing in her attempts to return home, Jade has finally snapped, accepted her SuperPoweredEvilSide through a SplitPersonalityMerge, taken up the mantle of the Queen of the Shadowkhan and officially allied herself with Phobos to get some payback for all the mistreatment she has suffered. However, she makes it clear that Raythor is the only reason she's helping Phobos at all, and she intends to make the prince a VillainWithGoodPublicity through PragmaticVillainy instead of simply crushing all resistance with her Shadowkhan armies. Returning to her home universe remains as her main goal.

* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: She's named after a great Mogriff hero who led the defense of the Stone Nest centuries ago when the Queens of Meridian ordered them to be forced out and was one of those who [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificed their lives to give their children time to escape]].

* FriendlyNeighborhoodSpider: When compared to their fellow spider changeling Miranda, Sofia and Maya are friendly people who've been driven to Phobos' side by racist people and would just want to live in peace.

* SilkHidingSteel: Lampshaded with Sofia; after she proves herself to be willing to assert herself to soldiers to ensure her patients' well-being, Caroline asks if healers aren't supposed to be patient and gentle. Sofia answers that while it is so, tough love is sometimes required when dealing with more hardheaded patients.

* BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon: Played with. He fights with an ax, but he tries to act professionally despite his anger at the rebels' disrespectful attitude, smells a rat about the story of Jade being Phobos' creation when he fights the Shadowkhan, and tries to prevent Caleb from impulsively focusing all the defenders' efforts in protecting Elyon by stating that she can defend herself with her powers and the castle's defenses must not be abandoned.

* TheLeader: She's the unofficial leader of the Sky Hunters, and is of the Headstrong variety.

* RaisedByGrandparents: Downplayed; before her grandfather was killed, she was much closer to him than to her own father and learned from him practically everything she knows today.

* ShadowArchetype: After seeing how willing Vera is to ruin her own life to have her revenge, Jade starts wondering if she could end up the same if she allowed her own desire for revenge dictate her every action.

* ThePollyanna: Described as a ray of sunshine, she's always trying to keep smiling and uphold everyone's spirits. Her friends realize how much their ordeals have been [[BreakTheCutie pushing her to her limits]] when she [[AintTooProudToBeg tearfully surrenders to Jade in the hope of getting Alan the medical treatment he needs]].
* ShipperOnDeck: When Tyrian asks romantic advice from her team in the middle of a fight, Tinsley is the only one giving the madman sincere suggestions. After he's taken out, she wishes his affair with Rosetta will work out and remarks how romantic it is that even war can't stop people from finding love.

* ClosestThingWeGot: Though 35 years old, he's relatively young to command an army the size of the northern army. Though he likes to think his militaristic dedication and aptitude for warfare enabled that, he knows the major reason to be the rebels' lack of people properly qualified (in other words, having both a formal military training and experience) for the task.

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Vera Bexley's late grandfather who served as a soldier under two queens before Weira. After he retired and Phobos took over, he was hunted down by the Mogriff alpha Metalbeak and killed as retribution for all the Mogriffs he had killed as a soldier. His death set Vera on her path of revenge against the Mogriffs and Metalbeak in particular -- a revenge she's determined to achieve after ten years of waiting.

* {{Hypocrite}}: He killed innocent Mogriff hatchlings and eggs without mercy, yet he asked Vera to be spared by saying she's just a child who hasn't done anything to the Mogriffs. The hypocrisy didn't go unnoticed by the Mogriffs.

* KnightTemplar: Like his granddaughter, he firmly believed the Mogriffs to be monsters from which innocents must be protected by any means necessary. However, he took his conviction to needlessly brutal levels by killing hatchlings and eggs before their mothers before killing them as well.
* PapaWolf: Metalbeak's implied threat on his family angered Jesekiel.

%%* HerOwnWorstEnemy

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Whatever his faults, he greatly loved his granddaughter to the point that he [[AintTooProudToBeg threw away his dignity, begged Metalbeak to kill him in exchange for sparing her]] and used his last words to try to reassure her.
* KarmicDeath

* PosthumousCharacter: In a living character's YouKilledMyFather motive.

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