History Characters / TheLockedTombTheFirstHouse

* OddLastItemIndex: Anastasia the First is the sole Lyctor to have remained unsainted, her ascension having gone wrong in the final moments, leaving her fate unclear and shrouded in mystery.

* Odd Last Item Index: Anastasia the First is the sole Lyctor to have remained unsainted, her ascension having gone wrong in the final moments, leaving her fate unclear and shrouded in mystery.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Anastasia the First is the sole Lyctor to have remained unsainted, her ascension having gone wrong in the final moments, leaving her fate unclear and shrouded in mystery.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Cytherea's Lyctorhood as presented in ''Gideon the Ninth'' doesn't really line up with Lyctorhood as it's more thoroughly explained in ''Harrow the Ninth'', with Harrow being able to use necromancy on her at a distance, and to kill her by stabbing her through the heart. Justified by her [[DramaPreservingHandicap terminal cancer]] being accelerated by Palamedes in the final chapters and the necessity of leaving her corpse in a [[PossessingADeadBody state where it's able to be possessed by Commander Wake.]]

* SuicideByCop: While she does [[VillainsNeverLie say]] she doesn't ''plan'' on dying, her FaceHeelTurn was motivated in part by the desire to force someone to kill her, and finally bring an end to her long suffering. Her reaction to Harrow ascending and leveling a sword at her is giddy anticipation, and when she's finally mortally wounded, she immediately sighs in relief.

* SingleTargetSexuality: Legendarily unamorous, having not pursued any of the countless affairs that went on aboard the Mithraeum, having only ever been attracted to Pyrrha. It's not until Commander Wake, a likewise extremely dangerous and extremely devoted woman, that he fell in love again.

* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: Her Blood of Eden contacts refer to her as Source Chrysaor. Chrysaor is a figure in Greek Mythology, but going by the legendary weapon theming [=BoE=] use for Lyctors she's probably named for a sword from {{Literature/TheFaerieQueene}}.

* {{Cult}}: His own account of his origin in ''Nona'' casts him as a typical modern cultleader. A man with a god complex who surrounded himself by acolytes, including a loyal inner circle, operating out of a private and secretive compount which was even raided by the police at one point. Unfortunately for everyone, John could actually back up his god complex.

* {{Fratricide}}: Alfred was Augustine's brother, and he had to consume his soul in order to ascend to Lyctorhood. (Going by some of Augustine's comments, it seems Alfred might've forced the issue by killing himself. But as the consumption of a cavalier's soul renders them DeaderThanDead, some exceptions notwithstanding, it counts as a fratricide either way.)

* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: According to the Emperor, he got an almost sexual thrill from hunting down Blood of Eden, and his first sexual relationship in millennia was with their leader.

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: He views him empire as far superior to the Earth that existed before the Resurrection, but the cost of it was not just the genocide of nearly the entire human race, but the deaths of all the planets in the entire Solar Sytem and even the Sun itself. And he lauds the Resurrection as a great act of mercy and compassion, but he himself admits that he only brought back the people he found to be free of sin, which amounted to merely a few million of the 10 billion he killed, all of which he erased the memories of.

* HumanSacrifice: The truth of the Resurrection and the ten billion is that he ate them, as he tried to eat a massive soul of what might be God or something else; the combination of the ten billion and God served to make him God.

--> '''John''': All of them. [...] I'm not really interested in this particular game, Commander.

--> '''John''': "Don't spout bigotry, Commander, I won't kill you for it and it hurts your cause. I have access to any number of cute pictures of necromantic toddlers with their first bone. They don't make for fat-cheeked roly-poly babies, but they've got a certain something, and nobody likes ''toddlers'' juxtaposed with ''cleansed''."
--> '''Wake''': "How many babies died in the bomb, Gaius?"
--> '''John''': "All of them." [...]"I'm not really interested in this particular game, Commander."

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: While Harrow does actually confess opening the Locked Tomb to him, he doesn't believe her--as she only got in because she had Gideon Nav's blood under her fingernails, and at the time she tells him this, neither of them is aware of Gideon Nav lineage.