History Characters / TheArtsOfDarkAndLightMankind

* AManIsNotAVirgin: Averted. He has changed the Amorran Church for the better, prevented war with the elves and led his legion through countless miles and a few battles, but he was always a virgin during that time.

* DoubleAgent: He is in the Malkans, posing as a mercenary as part of a quest to [[spoiler: find and rescue Lithriel Everbright]]. During this quest, he will scheme and plan and behave as a normal guard whenever necessary.

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!The Dalarns
[[folder:The Skullbreaker's Clan]]
!!'''Fjotra'''
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Downplayed, but she notes her attraction to both Savondese Princes, who are in all likelihood mid-to-high-functioning sociopaths. She herself understands this is a little messed up.
* AltarDiplomacy: Its not her only tactic, but she is willing to marry Savondese royalty or nobility to help secure her peoples' rescue from the Werewolves.
* FishOutOfWater: She is basically a Viking refugee living within late medieval France.
* HadToBeSharp: Even before the Werewolf invasion the Iles de Loup was a rough place. She has honed abilities and can even provide basic assistance in battle, though in this situation she spends more time dealing with Savondese politics than battle preparations.
* PoliticallyActivePrincess: She is completely dedicated to the salvation of her people from the Werewolves. First she forms a sort of [[LeonineContract desperate alliance]] with the King of Savondir, then joins Savondese high society in trying to jockey for better support. These provide her with military support and a facilitate the wholesale evacuation of the Dalarns into Savondir. Even when [[spoiler: Roheis offers her dubious but somewhat believable news that the Savondese nobles won't uphold their deal, she continues to politically maneuver around the probable lies.]]
* YouNoTakeCandle: While she is a refugee in Savondir asking for military assistance, she had never been there before and as such must learn their language Savondese. She starts out barely comprehensible and finishes the first book with odd grammar and simple vocabulary, but is nonetheless beyond conversational.

!!'''Brynjolf'''
* AuthorityEqualsAssKicking: He is the son of Skuli Skullbreaker and is as good at battle as you would expect him to be.
* FishOutOfWater: He is basically a Viking refugee living within late medieval France and takes longer to adjust than his sister.
* HadToBeSharp: Even before the Werewolf invasion the Iles de Loup was a rough place. He has pretty reasonable combat prowess and even helped foil an assassination attempt at his first party in Savondir.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: He's both a [[WarriorPrince warrior]] and in the current climate, a diplomat. Downplayed though, as he simply is not currently active in battle as he's dealing with politics abroad. Even then, he's not active as his sister in this catastrophe.
* YouNoTakeCandle: His Savondese is rough even in comparison to his sister's, though by the end of the first book he is at least conversational.

* TheManBehindTheMan: Deconstructed. She is deliberately trying to go this route as Amorran politics would not allow a woman direct control. However, she cannot go the puppet route as [[ExtremeDoormat a man who is too easy for her to control]] would be [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome easy for others to control as well]]. In the end, she marries [[spoiler: Sextus Valerius]], who largely agrees with most of her ideas in politics, though notably he ignores requests he doesn't like and he can only accomplish what he can, when he can, how he thinks he can.

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'''''' '''Mankind''' | [[Characters/TheArtsOfDarkAndLightTheElves The Elves]] | [[Characters/TheArtsOfDarkAndLightTheGoblins The Goblins]] | [[Characters/TheArtsOfDarkAndLightOthers Others]] -]]]]]

* TragicVillain: His wisdom and advice helped prevent an all out war between the elves and humans in ‘’Summa Elvetica’’. After [[spoiler:his son Fortex gets executed by his own brother Corvus]] he gradually stops supporting the institutions that made that possible and has [[spoiler: waged a coup with his own legion after the civil war began.]]
* WeCanRuleTogether: Towards the end of ‘’A Throne of Bones’’, he [[spoiler: bests Marcus’ army in battle and offers him and his troops a [[PragmaticVillainy good spot in his army out of necessity]]. His son Sextus thinks its a trap though and [[AmbiguousSituation justifiably so]].]]

* FaceHeelTurn: Downplayed. He was always [[GoodIsNotNice gruff]] and somewhat [[PragmaticHero pragmatic]] in regards to Amorran society. After [[spoiler: his son was executed,]] he gradually starts losing restraint and [[spoiler: wants Corvus’ sons executed in retribution]].

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[[folder:House Severus]]
!!'''Aulus Severus Patronus'''
* AntiVillain: On a personal level, he is sociable and true to his word, though he is pretty stern, especially with his children. His end goal of [[spoiler: a unified republic as one country]] isn't even that strange, nor are most of his tactics until his peaceful tactics get completely turned down. He's still [[spoiler: sponsoring assassinations and coups and kings when his peaceful methods fail.]]
* EvilPlan: Savondir is growing in strength and splendor whereas Amorr is in slow decline. Fearing Savondir, he longs for [[spoiler:Amorr and all of its provinces to join together as one country, instead of one city state, 12 allies 15 conquered provinces with their own identities]]. At first he uses his political powers to convince everyone to do this willingly, but when that falls through due to Corvus and the general will against it, he [[spoiler:goes through with a slow, steady, behind-the-scenes coup to install friendly puppet kings to pull this off.]]
* PragmaticVillainy: He goes the peaceful, diplomatic and standard route first, which is simply raising his plans in the senate and trying to get them passed legally and openly. Its only when they're stopped to popular applause that he tries more murderous, subversive methods.
* YouCannotKillAnIdea: [[spoiler: He gets murdered in broad daylight by a fellow senator. This only makes him a martyr and destroys what little cohesion was left in the Amorran Empire.]]

!!'''Severa'''
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: She develops a crush on a low class gladiator. Her father [[spoiler: engineers his death in the arena]] to stop this.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: She begins the story rebelling against her father, but comes to understand and appreciate him more over the course of the story.
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: After a talk with her father, its clear that she is to be married to someone of good political status. However, Severus agrees to give her some leeway so that she can pick a man she reasonably likes and is attracted to. This results in marrying [[spoiler: Sextus Valerius]], who winds up being both a very good match for her personally and politically.
* StayInTheKitchen: Played with. Amorran society generally gives her this treatment, which causes her to reach out to a female led Utruccan Witch Cult. But as the story progresses, she comes to better terms with her father and is gradually and gently let into his plans where possible. This includes [[AltarDiplomacy marrying for political gain]] to a man who will also listen to her side of politics. [[spoiler: This trend increases as she comes to represent her family more after her father's death.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: Deconstructed. She is deliberately trying to go this route as Amorran politics would not allow a woman direct control. However, she cannot go the puppet route as [[ExtremeDoormat a man who is too easy for her to control]] would be [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome easy for others to control as well]]. In the end, she marries [[spoiler: Sextus Valerius]], who largely agrees with most of her ideas in politics, though notably he ignores requests he doesn't like and he can only accomplish what he can, when he can, how he thinks he can.

* [[EasilyForgiven Easily Forgives]]: Justified given his religious background and youth, but still in a way that is a bit extreme. To date, he has forgiven [[spoiler: Caitlys [[ShootTheHostage raining down daggers on him and his hostage taker]], which would have killed him if he didn't have a special reliquary; he has forgiven the "Michaeline" assassins despite their conspiracy to kill him and plunge the entire continent into war and at least one Amorran centurion who was caught in another conspiracy with Severus.]]

* WorthyOpponent: Played with. [[spoiler: Towards the end of 'A Throne of Bones' he loses an important battle to his uncle Magnus. Magnus sends him a followup letter praising his skills requesting for his surrender, men and to become one of his generals. However, the letter is somewhat passive aggressive and as Aulan points out, there's a pretty reasonable chance that Magnus may just want to kill him.]]

* WeHaveReserves: They show little respect for the lives of entry-level soldiers, many of whom are actually tricked into signing up for the military. This happened to Serranus as well as the protagonist of "A Wardog's Coin."