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* BigBadDuumvirate: After the battle for the Carmine Throne, he and [[spoiler:Charles]] serve as the two primary antagonists of the story.


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* DiscOneFinalBoss: After the battle for the Carmine Throne, Musser seemed set to be one of the major antagonists of the setting through his plans to claim Lordship over most of Ontario and wage war on Kennet. However, after several arcs as the main antagonist, his conquests are suddenly stymied by Charles, and he loses much of his power several arcs later once Durocher turns on him, leaving the Carmine as the true main antagonist.

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* FatalFlaw: Pride, or rather, his ego. He's good at setting things up, but once he has, he refuses to believe that anything could hamper or destroy them. [[spoiler:In Gone Ahead 7.9, when he's confronted with the reality that he's lost, he refuses the option of ceding and losing everything he built, but with a chance of starting again and building something new, and chooses to give himself to the brownies.]]

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* FatalFlaw: Pride, or rather, his ego. He's good at setting things up, but once he has, he refuses to believe that anything could hamper or destroy them. them:
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** The Judges point out in Summer Break that if he hadn't been so proud as to avoid summoning them to arbitrate over his wager with the Trio, they would've sided with him and foresworn the Trio on the spot.
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* DisinheritedChild: After her father Grayson condemns her to a torturous "training camp" in Italy to force her to follow the family practice, a reading he purchases from the Belangers indicates that she'll eventually give in but become an EmptyShell useful for nothing but killing who he tells her to kill and so he allows Verona to pressure him politically into allowing her to leave, forever disinheriting her.


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* MeaningfulRename: In the epilogue, [[spoiler:she takes the surname "Roth," which belonged to her and Verona's mutual boytoy Anselm, killed by Charles in the fighting.]]
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[[center: [-[[Characters/{{Pale}} Index]] | [[Characters/PaleKennetPowers Kennet Powers]] | [[Characters/PaleKennetResidents Kennet Residents]] | '''Blue Heron Institute''' | [[Characters/PaleThunderBay Thunder Bay]] | [[Characters/PaleOtherCharacters Other Characters]]]]-]

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[[center: [-[[Characters/{{Pale}} Index]] | [[Characters/PaleKennetPowers Kennet Powers]] | [[Characters/PaleKennetResidents Kennet Residents]] | '''Blue Heron Institute''' | [[Characters/PaleThunderBay Thunder Bay]] | [[Characters/PaleCarmineFaction Carmine Faction]] | [[Characters/PaleOtherCharacters Other Characters]]]]-]
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: Explicitly calls herself Verona's "platonic life mate" in the epilogue, and is fully prepared to spend the rest of her life with Verona. Verona in turn says that all her life she's wanted cats and [=McCauleigh=] is basically a cat.


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* {{Tykebomb}}: [=McCauleigh=] is fourteen years old and can win fights with grown men, and also has her family's HealingFactor war cry practice to fall back on if she's injured.
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* CommonalityConnection: Initially, [=McCauleigh=] approaches her alliance with Verona as a business relationship; she'd give Verona information, and Verona would use it to hurt her family as much as possible in return. After she meet Verona's dad, however, she recognizes the similarities with her own family and they quickly became friends for real.

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* CommonalityConnection: Initially, [=McCauleigh=] approaches her alliance with Verona as a business relationship; she'd give Verona information, and Verona would use it to hurt her family as much as possible in return. After she meet Verona's dad, however, she recognizes the similarities with her own family and they quickly became friends for real. By the epilogue, she's essentially Verona's closest friend outside of the trio.
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* MasterOfIllusion: Like anyone who focuses on Faerie practice, she is an expert at using glamour for this.

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* MasterOfIllusion: Like anyone who focuses on Faerie practice, she is an expert at using glamour for this.to create illusions.



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* MoralMyopia: She says Lucy has no right to judge her for her actions because she's harboring Nibble and Chloe, who are ghouls, ignoring the fact that they simply want to be left alone and have no desire to hurt people, while her actions serve to cause wider suffering to a wider group of people and others.

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* MoralMyopia: She says Lucy has no right to judge her for her actions because she's harboring Nibble and Chloe, who are ghouls, ignoring the fact that they simply want to be left alone and have no desire to hurt people, while her actions serve to cause wider suffering to a wider group of people and others.Others simply for profit.
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* CruelMercy: [[spoiler:How his third bid for Kennet ends. He is allowed to leave Kennet, with no harm done to him, his familiars, or his implements. But his secrets are revealed to Durocher, who swears to personally dismantle any powerbase he might recoup in the future in revenge for his crimes, and, as Charles gleefully points out, he was evicted before he could get to his car.]]

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* CruelMercy: [[spoiler:How his third bid for Kennet ends. He is allowed to leave Kennet, with no harm done to him, his familiars, or his implements. But his secrets are revealed to Durocher, who swears to personally dismantle any powerbase he might recoup in the future in revenge for his crimes, and, as Charles gleefully points out, he was evicted before he could get to his car.car, leaving him without transport in hostile territory with an angry Durocher on his heels.]]
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* AndThenWhat: She was wholly focused on finding the echo of her cousin and restoring to him. Once she actually does, she's not really sure what to do after that.

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* AndThenWhat: She was wholly focused on finding the echo of her cousin and restoring it to him. Once she actually does, succeeds, she's not really sure what to do with herself after that.

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* MoreThanMeetsTheEye: Lucy notes that she's mousy and frail-looking despite being relatively tall, but she also one of the most dangerous practitioners in Canada and the world due to her control over pre-human divinities.

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* MoreThanMeetsTheEye: Lucy notes that she's mousy and frail-looking despite being relatively tall, but she she's also one of the most dangerous practitioners in Canada and the world due to her control over pre-human divinities.


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* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:He gets trapped with Maricica inside the sealed box for the next 300 years]].

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A pair of sisters who share an affinity for goblins. Liberty is the viewpoint character of 8.a.

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A pair of sisters who share an affinity for goblins.goblins, and former students of Toadswallow. Liberty is the viewpoint character of 8.a.



* CommonalityConnection: Initially, [=McCauleigh=] approached her alliance with Verona as a business relationship; she'd give Verona information, and Verona would use it to hurt her family as much as possible. After she met Verona's dad, however, she recognized the similarities with her own family and they quickly became friends for real.

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* CommonalityConnection: Initially, [=McCauleigh=] approached approaches her alliance with Verona as a business relationship; she'd give Verona information, and Verona would use it to hurt her family as much as possible. possible in return. After she met meet Verona's dad, however, she recognized recognizes the similarities with her own family and they quickly became friends for real.



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A spy and messenger under the employ of Musser who rides an enchanted motorcycle.

Practice: Exact form unknown, but linked to Lost and City practices
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* FlyingDutchman: She did a ritual as a child that detached her from Earth and earthly things, so she's normally never in one place for long and is always on the move.
* HumanTraffickers: Part of her job is ferrying humans and Others. Her very first contract was transporting a man who was fleeing an arranged marriage back to the family he was fleeing from.
* MoralMyopia: She says Lucy has no right to judge her for her actions because she's harboring Nibble and Chloe, who are ghouls, ignoring the fact that they simply want to be left alone and have no desire to hurt people, while her actions serve to cause wider suffering to a wider group of people and others.
* TheNeedless: Due to rituals she's done, Marlen rarely needs to eat or use the bathroom as long as she keeps moving.

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* NotGoodWithPeople: Doesn't have the best social skills, and Zed states in his Interlude that sometimes he could be borderline abusive because of it.



* NotGoodWithPeople: Can be a bit standoffish and guarded when dealing with other people. In her conversation with Avery in Gone Ahead 7.9, it's revealed that her bluntness is mainly a defense mechanism to prevent herself from getting screwed over by other practitioners, or just people in general.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Compared to Bristow, he's far more affable, to the point where the girls are able to initially cut a deal with him... but whenever he's seriously cornered or sufficient benefits are available, he drops the affable act and strikes ''hard'', as Charles and Seth can attest. [[spoiler:And when he's finally defeated, he tries to unleash a Primordial in revenge.]]
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Fans have speculated that he may be autistic- he's bad at dealing with people, can't handle strong emotions, and isn't comfortable when it comes to dealing with unknowns.

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* KnifeNut: One of his stolen Implements is a knife whose cuts grow and roam across the body on their own, with a playful sadism at first but eventually striking lethal points.


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* PsychoKnifeNut: One of his stolen Implements is a knife whose cuts grow and roam across the body on their own, with a playful sadism at first but eventually striking lethal points.

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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:After Gillian is turned into a horror, Chase volunteers to have the horror traits transferred to him.]]



* BigScrewedUpFamily: She comes from one that judges their daughters on how well they can present themselves and how valuable they would be as potential wives.



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* AndThenWhat: She was wholly focused on finding the echo of her cousin and restoring to him. Once she actually does, she's not really sure what to do after that.

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