History Characters / KatmanduOtherTribes

* NativeAmericanCasino: For all practical effects, they were basically a really bizarre, alien and past-time version of this trope.

* NativeAmericanCasino: For all practical effects, they werre basically a really bizarre, alien and past-time version of this trope.

[[folder:Flint]]
!!Flint
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'''Age:''' 35-36 (when he meet Liska at issue 6), about 40 (issue 25), 50 (issue 10) \\

'''Date of Birth''': A.K. 1712\\
'''Race''': Velite (Turkish Angora Cat)]
A slave trader and also Liska's antagonist of sorts, on the grounds of his job, considering how the latter really hated slavery with a passion, this guy was a pain in Liska's rear for many reasons, as he always wanted to find a way to screw her over, as she tricked him into selling [[spoiler:Rial]] for a loss, a fact her never managed to get over with.

* TheCorrupter: During the two first issues of the "Curse of the Blood" sub-arc, Flint manipulated Willoem, another warrior who wanted to marry with Panka, Pyndan's younger sister and was rejected by her in order to marry Gareth instead, to fight Liska, the head warchief and [[spoiler:Panka's mother by kinship]] in a death duel.
* EnemyMine: Just like anyone else, he joined forces with Liska in order to defeat the Gomorrin in "The Hunt" sub-arc, something that is even lampshaded by both.
* HateSink: No one liked this guy, due to his job as a slave trader, especially Liska and her tribe, and he didn't tried to hide that he was a disgusting, manipulative douchebag.
* OlderThanTheyLook: At his last, chronological appearance at issue 10, he was supposed to be ''fifty years old'', but he looks and acts like someone at the same age as Liska, Rial and Pyndan.
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[[folder:Patches]]
!!Pajalis aka Patches
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[[caption-width-right:106:Patches, as designed by Ursula Husted.]]
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'''Age:''' 18 (at issue 28), about 36 (final arc)\\
'''Height:''' Unknown\\
'''Date of Birth''': A.K. 1749\\
'''Race''': Velite (Siamese)]
She makes her debut in the "Wicked Ways" sub-arc; Pajalis, also known as Patches by everyone else, including her family, was the younger member of a family of people who roamed in the Highlands with the intention of leeching as much as food as they could from their hosts, taking advantage from their SacredHospitality traditions. While trying to do the same with Liska's Highland tribe, she was captured by Hesta and she became Liska's virtual hostage in order to figure out Patches and her family's intentions. [[spoiler:When her father and her elder sisters kidnapped Thea in order to force Liska to bring back Patches with her, the former decided to marry Patches in order to keep her in the Highland tribe and also to rescue Thea from Patches' family]].

* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: As a result of [[spoiler:being Liska's wife, she become the mother of her children by kinship, something that shocked Thea after Liska rescued her, and [[TakeThat Patches scold her afterwards.]] Keep in mind both Patches and Thea were both ''18 years old'' when the former debuted.]]
* ArrangedMarriage: With [[spoiler:Liska, in order to force Patches' father to let Patches to stay in the tribe]].
* DependingOnTheArtist: Literally: Unlike with the rest of the cast, Patches, along with Quiet Bird and Dancing Star, are the only characters with no official standarized designs, since they were introduced much later in the story, and by the time she was introduced, [[ArtShift the whole comic was switching artists at almost every issue after Shawntae Howard, the then-official artist until issue #24, left the franchise due to health problems]].
* {{Expy}}: Design-wise, of Shanda Bruin from ''Shanda the Panda'', except being younger and a feline. This is nodded at issue 33, when the artist gave her bear ears.
* IChooseToStay: Since Patches [[spoiler:married with Liska, she choose to stay in her tribe rather than continue being her family's personal slave, much for her father and sister's disgust]].
* InformedSpecies: She is supposed to be a feline like everyone else, but she looks more like a lemur or a raccoon with cat ears instead. This is even worse at issue 33, since the artist gave her bear ears, making her look like a panda with a cat tail.
* InSeriesNickname: Her real name was Pajalis, but everyone in-universe called her "Patches", due to her black patches of fur in her otherwise white coat.
* ItsAllMyFault: During the final issue of the "Wicked Ways" sub-arc, Patches cries since [[spoiler:she blames herself for the whole situation when Thea was kidnapped by her family, and Liska, Giles and Hesta where planning to rescue her, even if that meant having to kill Patches' father and her sisters. It took both her and Shaygin to make Liska change her mind on trying to kill her family]].
* MayDecemberRomance: [[spoiler:Despite being basically forced to marry with Liska, who at that point she was in her later 30s-earlier 40s, while Patches was at most 18, in order to rescue her daughter Thea, she really loved her and Liska reciprocated her love too]].
* ShrinkingViolet: At least when she was young. In stark contrast with [[spoiler:Shaygin, Elishaa and Wassil, who were more assertive enough to talk with Liska in mostly equal terms, she was, on the other hand, somewhat more shy and withdrawn towards her new [[SheIsTheKing husband]]]], and she was more worried about Liska's safety than Shaygin, which at that point she had already matured enough from her previous crybaby persona from her younger years. She finally shed that image when she grew up later on during the final arc.
* TheUnfavorite: Her father and her sisters basically used her as a glorified slave in order to get free food for them

[[folder:Patches' Father]]
!!Patches' father
The [[NoNameGiven nameless father]] of Patches; he, along with his daughters, are land roamers trying to leech as much food as they can from their hosts. The things went for worst for them and his other two daughters when [[spoiler:they kidnapped Thea in order to force Liska to bring back Patches to them (see above for more details)]]

* DomesticAbuse: He treated Patches as a glorified slave in order to get food for him and his sisters. This is one of the reasons why Patches choose to stay in the Highland tribe and later [[spoiler:to marry with Liska]].
* FatBastard: It's more than obvious he was the one who eat the most, compared with his daughters.
* NoNameGiven: For some reason, we never knew his real name, in stark contrast with his daughters, since all of them are named.

[[folder:Sheel and Kethlyn]]
!!Sheel and Kethlyn
Patches' elder sisters, [[BigSisterBully for any value of sisters anyway]]; they, along with their father, are part of their family's schemes on getting food for free [[HoneyTrap by using their charms on all the male warriors of the Highland tribe]] including Pyndan and even Giles, much for the disgust of Thea.

* BigSisterBully: They don't care personally about their sister Patches and, just like their father, both girls are using her as their personal slave and also their bait in order to get food for them.
* HoneyTrap: Both girls flirt with all the male warriors of the tribe, including people with established couples like Pyndan and Giles, causing a outroar in the whole village due to their behavior.

[[folder:Witch of the Woods]]
!!The Witch of the Woods
A Ratkind witch which appears in the sub-arc of the same name; this [[{{Gonk}} really ugly being]] tried to kill Liska when the latter wanted to move her people to the deep woods after the Plains region suffered a drought, forcing the Highland tribe to move there. [[spoiler:After a fierce battle, Liska killed her by stabbing her in her heart with an iron knife [[ChekhovsGun Hesta gave her years ago]]]].

* AchillesHeel: [[spoiler:For some unexplained reason, iron-based weapons can kill her, something that Liska found out accidentally when, in a sheer act of despair, she stabbed the witch with an iron knife Hesta gave her years ago]].
* {{Expy}}: She is basically an anthro, rodent version of [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Gollum]], except being able to use magic, and being even ''more disgusting and disturbing'' than him, on the grounds she was a rat.
* FanDisservice: She appears topless before Liska, who wouldn't be so unusual for the standards of the story, if wasn't for the fact her skin, including her breasts, was completely ''decaying''.
* {{Gonk}}: As if the art style used in her first and last issue she appeared ''wasn't unsettling enough'', she is easily the most disgusting-looking character in the whole story, [[BrainBleach looking like an unholy mix-up between]] [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Master Splinter]] with [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Gollum]].
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[[folder:Klikatat]]
!!Klikatat
[[StringyHairedGhostGirl A mysterious dark-haired girl with white fur]] that appears in the deep woods during "The Witch of the Woods" sub-arc while explaining to Liska the names of the animals living inside the titular forest. She seem to had a weird link with the titular witch...[[spoiler:[[MindScrew or maybe not]]]].
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* FinalSolution: In an really unexpected turn of events, [[spoiler:Rakon's loyalist forces tried to exterminate the entire Highland tribe in a surprise attack at night]].
* WalkingSpoiler: The final 37th issue show us that [[spoiler:the remaining forces loyal to Rakon are the TrueFinalBoss of the story after Rakon was killed by Quiet Bird, and now they are hellbent to destroy the Highland tribe and all its people one for all]].

[[caption-width-right:139:Quiet Bird at six years old, designed by Roz Murphy]]

'''Date of Birth''': Unknown\\

** Marrying with [[spoiler:Rial]], and losing her warrior status as a result. The tradeoff? [[spoiler:Rial dies in battle, and having to marry with a very abusive and alcoholic husband afterwards, while her children are starving. Oh, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and Mother Sanna exiled herself in order to protect Liska and her children, dying in the process]]]].[[note]]To top it off, had Liska renounced her warrior status, it would very likely that Rial, who has suffered a giant TraumaCongaLine at the hands of Liska during her VisionQuest, it's was very likely that he could had retaliated against her in the worst way possible, considering how vindictive he was.[[/note]]

** Marrying with [[spoiler:Rial]], and losing her warrior status as a result. The tradeoff? [[spoiler:Rial dies in battle, and having to marry with a very abusive and alcoholic husband afterwards, while her children are starving. Oh, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and Mother Sanna exiled herself in order to protect Liska and her children, dying in the process]]]].

[[caption-width-right:139:Quiet Bird at six years old.]]
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!Other Characters

* KillThemAll: Both Liska and Chief Pownetkee killed all the war party by themselves, while the former killed three by her own hand. Arn himself was killed by Liska [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere when trying to escape]], but the latter intercepts him, stabs his arm with a knife and finally, she finished him off by loping his arm with his own pile bunker.

** And the one she ends choosing, while being the LesserOfTwoEvils, in hindsight it was '''much worse''', not just for [[spoiler:Liska]], but also for her entire family, and also for the [[ApocalypseMaiden entire planet Katmandu]]: While [[spoiler:she had a long life, it wasn't exactly a nice one either, since, as already mentioned below, her decision also caused the death of Rial, she almost died due to childbirth, causing her to take the [[VowOfCelibacy black drink]], screwing her relationship with Pyndan beyond repair, and, at the very end of her life, having to perform [[BuryYourGays a very brutal]] HeroicSacrifice in order to save her tribe]]. At least, she ended up being remembered as a legendary heroine for her descendants and the rest of the people of the planet Katmandu.

* KillThemAll: Both Liska and Chief Pownetkee killed all the war party by themselves, while the former killed three by her own hand.

* AmbiguouslyEvil:
** Many of her actions done in the comic, in hindsight, could be portrayed as pointlessly mean, and in some cases, outright evil, like [[spoiler:cursing the entire Pyndan's family just because one of his ancestors did a selfish act against a child, while it turned out the Goddess herself was impersonating an old woman following that child [[ForTheEvulz in order to lure Pyndan's ancestor]]; the only reason this part falls in the ambiguous part is because the real reason why Pyndan's, and by default, Liska and Leah's families were also affected by the same "curse", was because their families had a nasty case of Rh-incompatibility in their blood, something explained by Leah and WordOfGod in and out-universe respectively]].

* DealWithTheDevil: Inverted: Liska, and very likely anyone who wanted to be a warrior, basically made a deal with the Goddess for her to give them her blessings, at a ''very steep'' price. In Liska's case, she had to, because [[SuicidalSadisticChoice her other choices are even worse]], and while her desire was the least worst of all her choices, it wasn't exactly a nice one either, because, in hindsight [[spoiler:it caused lots of unnecesary pains for her, her mate Rial died, she had to step away from Pyndan, her SecondLove, she had to become a somewhat distant figure for her own children in order to become a good leader, and at the very end of her life, she had to [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice her life in order to protect her family and tribe]]]], [[DarkAndTroubledPast and that without mention]] losing her parents, and being MadeASlave before all this, which makes you wonder how "benevolent" the goddess really is.

* {{Expy}}: She is basically an anthro, rodent version of [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Gollum]], except being able to use magic, and being even ''more disgusting and disturbing'' than him, on the ground she is a rat.

* {{Gonk}}: As if the art style used in her first and last issue she appeared ''wasn't unsettling enough'', she is easily the most disgusting-looking character in the whole story, looking like an unholy mix-up between [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Master Splinter]] with [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Gollum]].

[[folder:The Goddess]]
!!The Goddess
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The [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] monotheistic goddess worshipped in the planet Katmandu. Despite only appearing physically in two story arcs and being mentioned continously by almost everyone else, she plays a big role in the lives of many characters, mainly [[spoiler:Liska and Pyndan]], in a negative way.

* HeyYou: Rakon never called Liska by her name, only using derogative nicks on her, like "female", "she-male" and similar ones. The only time we see Rakon calling her by her name was [[spoiler:during his VillanousBreakdown after his entire war party was wiped out by Liska and his rifle-armed warriors, being Rakon the only warrior left standing]].