History Characters / ThePrioryOfTheOrangeTree

-->''I was too fortunate. All my life, the great Kwiriki was too good to me. Every day, I have waited for his favor to disappear. When the outsider came, I knew it was time.''

* ActionSurvivor: He gets many wry remarks (including his own self-deprecating ones) about how useless courtiers are, and his only ''real'' practical skill is horseback riding. Even his skill at hunting is only partly useful; royal sport hunting doesn't include actual butchery, and his first attempts in the Spindles leave him nauseous and shaking. He still plunges into many physically challenging situations nonetheless to help his friends and his country.

* BlueBlood: Heir apparent to the province of the Leas and the estate of Goldenbirch.
* HonorBeforeReason: Given several opportunities to choose the safer path, Loth insists on doing the right thing no matter how dangerous.

* SuicideMission: Willingly infects himself with the Draconic Plague in order to escape Yscalin, knowing there’s a high chance he will die before he can complete his mission.

* AssholeVictim: Niclays doesn't always deserve his fates but it can be hard to feel sorry for him considering how his selfish actions have made life harder for everyone else.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Sees his exile as this; the terms were that no one who called themselves Inys' friend could shelter him, forcing him to the other side of the world. Sabran later admits it was excessive.
* ForScience: Wants to create an elixir of immortality. Not so he can drink it, but to prove that he can make it. He's willing to do a lot of unethical things, too, since he doesn't have a lot left except that.

* TraumaCongaLine: He's a broken old man exiled after his lover's death caused him to fail a queen and keeps finding, to his surprise, that he still has something to lose. His safety in exile is threatened when he's forced to shelter Sulyard. Then he makes a friend of the brutal pirate empress' translator, so both their lives are constantly under threat. His hand gets cut off. And finally, when he decides to selflessly dedicate himself [[spoiler:to helping Truyde, he soon finds out that she's already dead]]. Of course, most of things that happen to him are a result of his own actions, but he is still pitiable when they crash down on his head.

* AintTooProudToBeg: He begs Harlowe for a place on the crew once the ship sights Yscalin, although he does it in part to get ''Loth'' to consider it.

* SpannerInTheWorks: She spent a lot of time recently killing assassins against Sabran. Then she works out that they were sent from the inside, and that they were actually meant to ''scare'' Sabran, not kill her. [[spoiler:She thinks that it was Combe trying to "encourage" Sabran to produce an heir, but later realizes it was Igrain Crest's plans she messed up.]]

%%* DeadpanSnarker: Especially with Sabran.

* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: The sole ruler of Inys, Sabran is never anything less than composed in public. Only her [[LadyInWaiting Ladies-in-Waiting]] get so see the person beneath the crown.

* AintToProudToBeg: He begs Harlowe for a place on the crew once the ship sights Yscalin, although he does it in part to get ''Loth'' to consider it.

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