History Characters / SecondApocalypseCharactersIntroducedInTheAspectEmperorTrilogy

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: The White-Luck Warrior has no overt magical or supernatural abilities. It's merely that whatever he needs to happen will happen. He's basically BornLucky taken UpToEleven.

* {{Bishounen}}: Is described as being "perfect" and flawlessly beautiful.

* AdultFear: What Achamian tells her about the Judging Eye [[spoiler:(all women with it give birth to stillborn children)]] takes on new meaning after she finds out [[spoiler:she is pregnant]]. In ''The Unholy Consult'', [[spoiler:she gives birth, and one of her twins is indeed stillborn]].

* InTheBlood: Like his siblings, a lot of Kelmomas' "peculiarities" are due to his blood.

* AGodAmI: Thinks about reaching Godhood as the greatest achievement. As the series continues he thinks of himself more and more as a vessel of Ajokli. [[spoiler:In fact, he was (destined to become) the No-God the whole time.]]

* AGodAmI: Thinks about reaching Godhead as the greatest achievement. As the series continues he thinks of himself more and more as a vessel of Ajokli. [[spoiler:In fact, he was (destined to become) the No-God the whole time.]]

* InformedAttractiveness: She's said to be stunningly attractive, acting as a "lodestone to men's eyes" when she attends war meetings.

* NotBloodSiblings: See BrotherSisterIncest above.

* TeleportSpam: Averted. Serwa is not as powerful as Kellhus. Serwa can use ''one'' Transposition Cant and then she needs to rest for a few hours in order to recover her strength to do another. During the journey to Ishterebinth, she was said to be able to perform two Transposition Cants every day (very rarely three).

* [[BigBrotherInstinct Big Sister Instinct]]: Towards her brothers Kelmomas and Samarmas. Sadly, it's entirely misplaced.

* [[CallingTheOldManOut Calling The Old Woman Out]]: Mimara spends a lot of time ''loathing'' her mother for selling her and refuses to allow Esmenet to reconnect with her. [[spoiler:She eventually forgives her after the two reunite in ''The Unholy Consult''.]]

* TheNameless: Koringhus apparently never gave him a name, as he is only ever referred to as "the Boy".

* KilledOfForReal: [[spoiler:In ''The White-Luck Warrior'', after freeing himself from his chains, he tries to strangle his uncle Maithanet, but is killed by him instead.]]

* [[BigBrotherInstinct BigSisterInstinct]]: Towards her brothers Kelmomas and Samarmas. Sadly, it's entirely misplaced.

* [[CallingTheOldManOut CallingTheOldWomanOut]]: Mimara spends a lot of time ''loathing'' her mother for selling her and refuses to allow Esmenet to reconnect with her. [[spoiler:She eventually forgives her after the two reunite in ''The Unholy Consult''.]]

* BackUpTwin: Prenatal variant. The Judging Eye only manifests in pregnant women and that child will be stillborn. [[spoiler:She has twins, and only one of them is stillborn.]]

* [[CallingTheOldWomanOut CallingTheOldManOut]]: Mimara spends a lot of time ''loathing'' her mother for selling her and refuses to allow Esmenet to reconnect with her. [[spoiler:She eventually forgives her after the two reunite in ''The Unholy Consult''.]]

* BigBrotherInstinct: Despite his attempted aloofness, he reacts with howling rage when Harapior and his deputies escort Serwa out of the Thresholds, demanding that they take him instead.

* BackUpTwin: Prenatal variant. The Judging Eye only manifests in pregnant women and that child will be stillborn. [[spoiler:She has twins, and only one of them is stillborn]].
* BreakTheCutie: She's already been broken...and then [[LivingLieDetector Inrilatas]]

* CallingTheOldManOut: Old woman out in this case, but Mimara spends a lot of time ''loathing'' her mother for selling her and refuses to allow Esmenet to reconnect with her.

* TheGhost: Is mentioned but doesn't appear in the first trilogy.
* HolyHalo: When Mimara looks with the Judging Eye at her own reflection in a pool of water she is adorned with a silver halo. This is distinct from Kellhus whose haloes (viewed without the Judging Eye) are always described as ''golden''.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: In one particular case, Mimara insists to Achamian that Kelmomas is nothing like his siblings or father and is just a normal, sweet boy.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: More like sex-slave with a heart of gold but the trope still fits.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Treated her mother like garbage during her time on the Andiamine Heights. Though having resentment for being sold in slavery by your own mother is a pretty good FreudianExcuse. Mimara later on regrets how harsh she was with Esmenet.

* MessianicArchetype: Her Christ-like ''passion'' occurs when Galian is about to rape her, and after gazing upon him with the Judging Eye forgives him for his sinfulness. [[spoiler:This happens again during her dialectic with Koringhus—whom she had insisted that Achamian kill because all Dûnyain are unforgivably evil—where after seeing his soul with the Judging Eye she forgives him for his inherent sinfulness]].
* NotQuiteDead: So, remember Esmenet keeps talking about her dearly departed daughter? She lies about it to cover up the extreme guilt she feels for selling Mimara into slavery.

* ParentalIncest: Achamian and Mimara have sex once, soon after their first meeting. Mimara is fairly convinced that he's her father, but he's pretty convinced that he's not, but still treats her as such. Both immediately regret the event.

* RapeAsDrama: It happened to Mimara as a young child, and continued up to her early twenties until Esmenet found her and took her out of the brothel. At the end of book five, [[spoiler: she gets raped again by Galian.]]

Prince of the distant northern city-state of Sakarpus, which lies in the way of the Great Ordeal; after his city is defeated, Sorweel is taken along as a hostage by Kellhus.

* TheChosenOne: Is anointed by Yatwer to kill the Aspect-Emperor—supposedly.

* ConflictingLoyalty: Sorweel's heart is divided along many paths: the memory of his beloved parents and the people of Sakarpus; the demands of the Goddess, Yatwer; and the fact that Kellhus may actually be the messiah of humanity, and the former parties (his father and a Goddess) may be completely wrong. During the course of ''The Great Ordeal'', he befriends the Nonmen and eventually loses his faith in Yatwer.

* PuppetKing: Kellhus and his Believer-Kings ''want'' Sorweel to become a Zaudunyani convert to rule Sakarpus. Sorweel is conflicted to say the least.
* TheQuisling: Sorweel fears he will be perceived as a traitor to his people for acquiescing to the Zaudunyani. Sorweel doesn't have much of a choice though.

* StalkerWithACrush: He develops an infatuated fixation towards [[spoiler: Kellhus' daughter Serwa, after seeing her have incestuous sex]].
* TranslatorMicrobes: An interesting example is employed in ''The Great Ordeal''. [[spoiler: In order to speak with the Nonmen in Ishterebinth, Sorweel is imprisoned in the "Amiolas", a sorcerous helmet that is implanted with the soul of a Nonman. The merging of his soul with the Amiolas means that he can speak Ihrimsu and understand all the Nonmen characters]].

* BigBrotherInstinct: Despite his Dûnyain heritage, Kayûtas gets visibly angry when Serwa suggests [[spoiler:attacking Skuthula the Black in her current condition]]. He even goes so far as to order Saccarees to subdue Serwa if she does anything impulsive.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Moënghus.

* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: His mother Esmenet is heartbroken by her perfect son's total inability to love.

* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler:His fate in Ishterebinth for most of ''The Great Ordeal'']].

* IncestIsRelative: Not actually related to Serwa by blood, but their sex is treated like this.
* InformedAbility: He is described as an imposing badass for two books, but we don't actually see him fight. Moënghus spends all of ''The Great Ordeal'' imprisoned and being tortured, then [[spoiler:getting utterly cowed by his true father Cnaiur]].
* InsistentTerminology: It is blasphemy and sacrilege to question the parentage of the Anasûrimbor. Sorweel mentions how obvious it is that Moënghus isn't Kellhus's biological son, but everyone insists that he is a "true-born son of the Anasûrimbor."
* NervesOfSteel: Moënghus willing goes with the Kidruhil pickets to the very edges of the Horde. Not a job for the fainthearted.

* OvershadowedByAwesome: Moënghus may be pretty tough by ordinary standards, but being raised around Dunyain, and later [[spoiler:falling in with his true father's Scylvendi tribe]], he's always regarded as useless.

* WarriorPrince: Comports himself like an imposing and badass prince, even though we never actually see him fighting.

Esmenet's and Kellhus' first daughter, who serves as an adviser to the imperial throne.

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: In ''The Great Ordeal'', Theliopa gets crushed beneath falling debris during an earthquake. Her brother, Kelmomas, crushes her skull afterward just to make sure she is dead.]]

* NoSocialSkills: Esmenet remarks that Theliopa's awkwardness becomes rather comic at times.
* NotSoStoic: [[spoiler:Being taunted by Kelmomas about her nickname]].
* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler:She went through ''something'' traumatic at the hands of Inrilatas. Being teased about it is the only thing that causes her real emotional distress]].

Esmenet's second daughter with Kellhus. She is Grandmistress of the Swayali Sisterhood. Fights in the Great Ordeal with both magic and her physical abilities.

* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler:Is a victim of this in Ishterebinth. But being part Dûnyain means that Serwa is incredibly resilient to torture and turns the tables on her captors most of the time]].

* FemmeFatale: Serwa certainly appears as one in Sorweel's eyes.
* FullFrontalAssault: [[spoiler:Serwa tanks a full shot from the Sun Lance. She survives, but all her clothing is burned away. She spends the second half of the Battle of Golgotterath completely naked]].
* HotWitch: She's literally a witch, and is flawlessly beautiful.
* IncestIsRelative: Moënghus isn't really her brother (they are not blood relatives, nor were they raised together), although her sexual relationship with him is treated as incest.

* TeleportSpam: Averted. Serwa is not as powerful as Kellhus. Serwa can use ''one'' Transposition Cant and then she needs to take a nap in order to recover her strength to do another.

* YoungAndInCharge: At the age of 17, she's the Grandmistress of the Swayali and, upon her return to the Great Ordeal, the Exalt-Magus.

Esmenet's son with Kellhus. He is the most obvious example of Dûnyain breeding when it goes terribly wrong. He inherited his father's superhuman intellect, but not his mental fortitude. Consequently, he went completely insane as a child.

* GlassCannon: [[spoiler:He has a Dûnyain's speed and strength, but not their toughness. Maithanet quips that he has "his mother's bones."]]
* HannibalLecture: He does this whenever someone comes to talk to him. When Kelmomas comes to negotiate a plan, Inrilates can't help himself from trying to peel back the layers of Kelmomas' mind.

* TheSociopath: Played with. Inrilatas is an intensely emotional and empathic person so he can't really be pathologized as sociopathic. But his actions and character fit the criteria of this trope.
* TheUnfettered: Says that all humans strive to be godly, and that to be godly one must act without constraint. So in Inrilatas's mind, doing whatever he wants to anyone and everything is the purest form of piety.

Esmenet's youngest and most beloved son with Kellhus, twin brother of the mentally-handicapped Samarmas, and a gifted young boy who isn't quite what he seems to be...

* AngstySurvivingTwin: Inverted in this case. Kelmomas is happy that his brother is dead.

* TheChessmaster: Kelmomas, while still a child, [[spoiler: orchestrates a civil war between Esmenet and the Thousand Temples, by getting Inrilatas killed by Maithanet.]]

* TheChosenOne: Kelmomas is [[spoiler:the Anasûrimbor prophesied to be the No-God. This is why the 100 cannot see him]].
* EnfantTerrible: Killing his own twin brother is just the beginning.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Anasûrimbor Kelmomas is introduced pretending to play like a normal child near his mother, but secretly torturing a beetle and feeling kinship with a statue of Ajokli, god of deceit. This reveals Kelmomas as a secret EnfantTerrible and establishes his link to Ajokli.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Kelmomas's driving impulse is to secure his mother's love and to love her in return. It's implied that the only thing keeping Kel from acting more like Inrilatas is that he doesn't want to break his mother's heart with his ruthlessness, so acts the innocent child.

* AGodAmI: Thinks about reaching Godhead as the greatest achievement. As the series continues he thinks of himself more and more as a vessel of Ajokli. [[spoiler:In fact, he's the No-God the whole time]].

* ItsAllAboutMe: Kills his siblings and starts a civil war just so his mother will only have him to love.

* MeaningfulName: Is probably named after his ancient ancestor, Anasûrimbor Celmomas, the last High King of Kûniüri.

* TheResenter: Kelmomas resents ''anyone'' who his mother has any affection for; Kelmomas wants Esmenet's love all for himself. The individuals Kel resents include: Mimara, Theliopa, Biaxi Sankas, and his twin, Samarmas.
* SplitPersonality: Kelmomas and his twin Samarmas shared minds when they were born, and spent all their time staring into each other's eyes. When they finally were separated, Samarmas was reduced to a mentally handicapped EmptyShell because his higher faculties were left in Kelmomas' mind. This left Kelmomas with a SplitPersonality, and Samarmas' thoughts usually express themselves as a voice inside Kelmomas' head.
* {{Sssssnaketalk}}: The voice in Kelmomas' head sometimes talks like this.
* TomatoInTheMirror: Kel becomes [[spoiler:the No-God. Because of the fatalistic nature of the universe, in a sense he has ''always'' been the No-God, hence he foils both White-Luck Warriors. Kelmomas has always been invisible to the Gods]].

Samarmas is a Prince-Imperial, youngest son of Esmenet and Kellhus. He is unique among Kellhus's children in that he did not inherit any of his father's Dûnyain traits.

* CainAndAbel: He and Kelmomas, Samarmas is the Abel.

* RailingKill: Is a victim of this at the hands of his brother.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Seems to be this for House Anasûrimbor. Subverted if [[spoiler:the voice in Kelmomas's head really is his brother's higher cognitive functions, then Samarmas is just as manipulative and evil as his twin brother]].
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Is killed by his brother about one third into ''The Judging Eye''.

* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:Believes he is becoming one with God when he commits suicide]]. We can only guess at the truth.

* ChekhovsGun: He gathered one hundred stones to kill birds and used ninety-nine. The Survivor gives the hundredth stone to his son. [[spoiler:He uses it to save himself from the skin-spy]].
* CoveredWithScars: His body is described as a horror of scar tissue from years battling sranc.
* {{Determinator}}: As implied by his nickname, "The Survivor," he fought sranc until there were none left to fight.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:After being sounded by the Judging Eye and contemplating the Zero-God, his only response is to kill himself]].

* MasterSwordsman: As a Dûnyain he had extremely rigorous training with a sword. Being the only adult Dûnyain to survive the Siege of Ishuäl speaks to his tremendous martial abilities.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His real name, Koringhus, is only said once. He refers to himself as "The Survivor." His son refers to him as "The Survivor."

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Appears for three chapters in ''The Great Ordeal''. [[spoiler:He figures out of the truth of the Absolute and the failure of the Dûnyain]].
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Commits suicide in the ''The Great Ordeal'']].

A young Dûnyain boy and Kellhus's grandson.

* FragileSpeedster: Can outrun hardened Scylvendi warriors and can ''almost'' outrun a skin-spy. He definitely doesn't have the physical strength to fight them head-on though.
* TheNameless: He was apparently too young to name, as he is only ever referred to as "the Boy." However, he is apparently an Anasûrimbor.
* SoleSurvivor: After the death of his father, he is the last of the Dûnyain who survived the Siege.

Grandmaster of the Mandate and an Exalt-Magus of the Great Ordeal.

* ChekhovsSkill: It's repeated several times that Saccarees is the only normal human Gnostic sorcerer that has the capabilities to perform Metagnostic Cants. He was under the personal tutelage of Kellhus for several months. [[spoiler:It's speculated that Saccarees proximity to Kayûtas and Serwa at the conclusion of ''The Unholy Consult'' means that he was able to teleport his Lord-and-Prophet's children to safety before the No-God and the Sranc Horde massacred the rest of the Great Ordeal]].

This is a list of characters in R. Scott Bakker's ''The Second Apocalypse'' that appear in the second trilogy, ''The Aspect-Emperor''. For the main character page, [[Characters/SecondApocalypse see here]].

In Inrithism, the White-Luck Warrior is the man who walks the perfect line of action and happenstance that can see any outcome come to pass. In the second trilogy, a White-Luck Warrior has been anointed to kill the Aspect-Emperor and his progeny.

* FieldPromotion: [[spoiler:After Proyas's disgrace and death sentence, Kayûtas is promoted to Exalt-General of the Great Ordeal]].

* InSeriesNickname: Proyas and Serwa call him "Kayû".

* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: It is unclear if she survives ''the Unholy Consult'', but things do not look good for her when we last see her.]]

* OlderThanTheyLook: From the way she's described (being constantly referred to as a "girl", for instance) and perceived by other characters, one would think she's in her early 20s or so. However, according to [[AllThereIntheManual the date of birth given in the appendix]] at the end of ''The Thousandfold Thought'', she's 37 during the second trilogy.

Esmenet's second daughter with Kellhus. She is Grandmistress of the Swayali Sisterhood.

* ActionGirl: Fights in the Great Ordeal with both magic and her physical abilities.

* BadassPrincess: Serwa is both a Princess-Imperial and the most powerful witch in all the Three Seas.

Esmenet's oldest daughter and sold into slavery as a child to avoid starvation.

* TheGhost: Is mentioned, but doesn't appear in the first trilogy.

* ParentalIncest: Achamian and Mimara have sex once, soon after first meeting. Mimara is fairly convinced that he's her father, but he's pretty convinced that he's not, but still treats her as such. Both immediately regret the event.

* ChekhovsGunman: It's repeated several times that Saccarees is the only normal human Gnostic sorcerer that has the capabilities to perform Metagnostic Cants. He was under the personal tutelage of Kellhus for several months. [[spoiler:It's speculated that Saccarees proximity to Kayûtas and Serwa at the conclusion of ''The Unholy Consult'' means that he was able to teleport his Lord-and-Prophet's children to safety before the No-God and the Sranc Horde massacred the rest of the Great Ordeal]].

* TheChosenOne: Kelmomas is anointed by Ajokli—maybe.

* AGodAmI: Thinks about reaching Godhead as the greatest achievement. As the series continues he thinks of himself more and more as a vessel of Ajokli.

* GenerationXerox: Is very similar to his real father, Cnaiür.

* InformedAbility: He is described as an imposing badass for two books, but we don't actually see him fight. Moënghus spends all of ''The Great Ordeal'' imprisoned and being tortured.

* ActionGirl: Fights in the First Battle of the Horde.

* HotWitch: Sorweel certainly thinks so.

* YoungAndInCharge: As Esmenet's third-born child, she's no older than seventeen, but she's also the Grandmistress of the Swayali.

Grandmaster of the Mandate and Exalt-Magus of the Great Ordeal.

* PowersViaPossession: [[spoiler:After seeing Aurang on the Erengaw plains it appears that Saccarees is possessed by Seswatha]].

* SupportingLeader: He leads the most important contingent of the Great Ordeal. In fact, he might be the third-most powerful sorcerer in Eärwa after Serwa and Kellhus himself. However, he gets very little attention in the narrative thrown his way, with only one fleeting section from his POV.

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:His final POV section gives off the impression of profound metaphysical discomfort]].

* OhCrap: [[spoiler:When Kellhus teleports into Fanayal's camp, Malowebi responds with appropriate dread]].

* BackUpTwin: Prenatal variant. The Judging Eye only manifests in pregnant women and that child will be stillborn. [[spoiler:Koringhus reveals that Mimara is carrying twins, so she could potentially have a stillborn and a living child]].

* EatenAlive: [[spoiler:By ''Proyas'' no less. Sibawûl and the rest of the Scalded are eaten the famished Ordeal]].

* StalkerWithACrush: He develops an infatuated fixation towards [[spoiler: Kellhus' daughter Serwa, after seeing her have incestuous sex.]]

* RankUp: An odd version. For two thousand years the Mandate hasn't had a Grandmaster. Seswatha created the Quorum so that a collective would make sure the Mandate would remain focused on fighting the Consult, rather than a singular leader who may have perverted the mission of the Mandate. With the coming of Kellhus, the Consult revealed and the Second Apocalypse imminent, the democratic function of the Quorum is obsolete and it was dissolved in favor of a singular Grandmaster. We don't know if Saccarees is the ''first'' Grandmaster, but he is one of a small number to hold the new position in the past two decades.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After the First Battle of the Horde and the destruction of the Scions, Sorweel is promoted to serve on Kayûtas's personal command staff. Eskeles doesn't reappear in the narrative after Sorweel's reassignment, he also doesn't appear in ''The Great Ordeal''.

* UncertainDoom: Zsoronga remains with the Great Ordeal when Sorweel leaves for Ishterebinth. Zsoronga is never mentioned once in ''The Great Ordeal'' and it is not known if he is still alive at the end of the book.

* BigBrotherInstinct: Despite his Dûnyain heritage, Kayûtas gets visibly angry when Serwa suggests [[spoiler:attacking Skuthula the Black in her current condition]]. He even goes so far as to order to Saccarees to subdue Serwa if she does anything impulsive.

* FullFrontalAssault: [[spoiler:Serwa tanks a full shot from the Sun Lance. She survives, but all her clothing is burned away. She spends the second half of the Battle at Golgotterath completely naked]].