History Characters / TheWheelOfTime

* EyesOfGold: A consequence of being a Wolfbrother

* TheObiWan: To Perrin

!'''Mazrim Taim'''
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A "False Dragon", Taim once declared himself the Dragon Reborn as a publicity stunt. Obviously, he's not, but that didn't stop the chaos. Unlike most False Dragons, Taim can actually channel (and very strongly too), and escaped soon after he was captured by Aes Sedai (which is more than can be said for Logain Ablar). He unexpectedly shows up in Book 6 (though he had been TheGhost since Book 2) and is placed in command of Rand's personal WizardingSchool, "The Black Tower," where male channelers train to become ''Asha'man'' and fight in The Last Battle. [[TheStarscream Taim's agenda is not Rand's]].

* CombatPragmatist: "''Asha'man'': '''''[[LudicrousGibs kill]]'''''."
* DarkMessiah: The most powerful and dangerous False Dragon who ever lived.
* DevilInPlainSight: He's a boundlessly ambitious military commander who's been channeling for a decade with no sign of madness, who resents the Dragon, and whose subordinates ''avoid speaking his name, preferring instead to refer to him by a vaguely ominous-sounding word in the Old Tongue''. Logain seems to be the only person to see any danger signs in this.
* ManipulativeBastard
* PuttingOnTheReich: Assigns titles blatantly stolen from the Germans. His own title - ''M'Hael'' - means leader; however his use of it as an unqualified title actually translates to "leader of everything".
* TheResenter
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Taim is introduced in the same book as Demandred, only a few chapters after Demandred gets an important task from the Dark One. When he and Rand come face to face for the first time, Lews Therin starts screaming about killing the Forsaken in Rand's head. At the end of the book, after Taim plays an integral part in the climax, Demandred is lauded for the success of his plan by the Dark One. Despite the obvious hints, Robert Jordan confirmed that Taim is not Demandred in disguise.]] Despite this, he is still likely one of the Forsaken, as at one point he refers to Asha'man being "severed", which is a term for stilling used in the Age of Legends.
** Interestingly, since as we enter the last book, [[spoiler: all the other male Forsaken are dead]], if he is not Demandred the only Forsaken he ''could'' be is [[spoiler: Moridin / Ishamael himself]], which puts an interesting perspective on a few things. Unless something else is going on.
* TheStarscream

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* RefusalOfTheCall: He tried; oh boy did he try. The downside of being ''ta'veren'' is that the Pattern will drag you kicking and screaming to your destiny.

* TheyDo: finally, as of Book 13.

* {{Chickification}}: When presented with her LoveInterest ([[spoiler:Gareth Bryne]]).

* BreakTheHaughty: Has experienced this at the hands of the Shaido Aiel.

* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: Holy. Shit.

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler: Stops himself just in time at the end of ''The Gathering Storm,'' holding enough power to crack the world like an egg and then deciding not to do it.]]

* ChangelingFantasy

* TheChosenOne: Who chose him? Everyone! He's The Dragon Reborn for the Westlands and Seachan Empire; he's He Who Comes With The Dawn for the Aiel; he's The Coramoor for the Sea Folk...
** Hell even the wolves have a name for him: Shadowkiller

* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: boy howdy.

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler: Stops himself just in time at the end of ''The Gathering Storm'']]

** MessianicArchetype: Thus far, [[spoiler:He has acquired two heron brands on his palms (which look very much like red wounds), a spike through his foot, been stabbed through his chest (well, twice, but still) and wears a crown of "swords" which look very much like thorns. Did we mention that his "blood on the rocks of Shayol Ghul" will be the only thing that can buy mankind's salvation from the Dark One? And don't you just love the fact thet he didn't become "whole" until he climbed a mountain? While doubting himself? And in extreme pain?]]

* [[spoiler:PastLifeMemories: As Lews Therin Telamon]]

* PersonOfMassDestruction: All channelrs are to a degree, but Rand stands out at times.

* RedHeadedHero

* RefusalOfTheCall: Not that the Pattern lets him.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: When Rand hears a rumour that one of the Forsaken killed [[spoiler: Elayne's mother,]] he does not take it well.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Progressively as the books go on, as per his SanitySlippage [[DrivenToMadness via]] ''saidin'''s taint, due to him wanting to become "harder" to face Tarmon Gaidon. It gets to the point where he openly tells people that he doesn't "want their help", he rather "needs to use them". [[spoiler:It comes to a head in ''The Gathering Storm''.]]

* TranquilFury: In ''The Gathering Storm'', [[spoiler:after killing Semirhage, Rand spends the rest of the book in this. The rest of the characters find it ''incredibly disturbing''.]]

* WindsOfDestinyChange: ''Ta'veren'' cause probability to go all out of whack. ContrivedCoincidence is literally an explicit power for them, and HeadsTailsEdge is pretty normal as well.

* ButtMonkey: His "luck" has more to do with random events favoring him when he desperately needs it than with being fortunate or happy. If you were to hear described everything that happens to him in the series without luck being mentioned, you wouldn't think he was lucky at all. Click on footnote for details, but '''WARNING: unmarked spoilers''' in footnote[[hottip:*:Almost as soon as the adventure starts, he catches a HatePlague that nearly kills him on 4 seperate occasions before he's finally cured of it. Risks his life to save 3 young female channelers who use the One Power to treat him like crap when he resuces them. Gets hanged and left for dead (possibly even dies) before Rand resuscitates him. Gets saddled with a lot of unwanted memories of battles that cause him to become the general of his own army when it's the last thing in the world he wants. Has to kill in self-defense a woman he's slept with when she tries to kill him. Has to look after 2 of the 3 same female channelers from last time, and ends up getting raped by a queen for it. Others in-universe think this is very funny. Gets caught in the middle of an invasion that leaves him seriously injured and spending more "quality time" with his rapist. Is stalked by an invincible killer. Gets accidentally married. Loses an eye. And, in general, since this is a WorldOfBadass, his own BadAss qualities are usually unnoticed and unappreciated by his fellow main characters.]]

* TheCharmer: To a T.

** In the first book he shouts Manetheren's war cry

* TrueLoveIsExceptional: {{Lampshaded}} in one book. His destined love is a noble, can learn to channel, and is boyishly slim. His usual type is the exact opposite of that.

** WeCanRuleTogether: She makes this offer to Rand.

* KissingCousins: [[spoiler: Rand is Elayne's very distant cousin.]]

** [[spoiler: [[EyepatchOfPower Light of the world]]: book 13. [[spoiler: Rather than winning a battle or sacrificing others, he allows the Eelfinn to rip out his eye, permanently removing half the "light" of the world and dooming half of his vision to eternal darkness]].

* [[spoiler:MindlinkMates: Becomes engaged to and bonded to Egwene in ''Towers of Midnight''.

The Lord Captain Commander of the Whitecloaks by the time the story begins. Niall is renowned as one of the Five Great Captains, with few enemies defeating him once and none twice. Niall believes Rand to be another False Dragon and his every move is calculated to both bring him down and expand the influence of the Whitecloaks.

* OldMaster

* [[spoiler: UnwantedRescue: Siuan, Gareth and Gawyn rescuing her from the White Tower and thus potentially ruining her efforts to overthrow Elaida peacefully.]]
* WhackAMole / WitchHunt: One of the misadventures Egwene gets into at WizardingSchool. Promptly leading to ''another'' misadventure where one of said Moles gets her captured by the Seanchan. (Again, IdiotBall moment.)

* ChurchMilitant: Joins the Whitecloaks. [[spoiler: Eventually becoming their Lord Captain Commander.]]

* MasterSwordsman: Extremely skilled with a sword but gains this title officially (as well as the trademark Heron-mark sword of a Blademaster) when he duals and kills [[spoiler: Eamon Valda]].

** BeneathNotice: {{Invoked}}. Grey Men are typically written into the narration as an UnusuallyUninterestingSight, inviting ''The Reader'' to overlook them. {{Double Take}}s can follow, both InUniverse and out.
** PerceptionFilter: They're next to impossible to see coming; they don't even trip the SpiderSense radar that channelers get with creatures of the Shadow. The only ways to survive a Grey Man attack are to get lucky (have their initial attempt miss or fail somehow, which reveals their presence), be ''very'' quick (they become a lot easier to notice right before they strike, because the "OH GOD HE HAS A KNIFE" mental response overrides their powers), or to have some other way of detecting them (Perrin, for example, can smell them coming).

** AndYourLittleDogToo: Threatens everyone Mat cares about when he confronts him eventually, specifying [[spoiler:[[TagalongKid Olver]], [[CoolOldGuy Noal, Thom]], and [[ArrangedMarriage Tuon]].]]

** BlondeGuysAreEvil: This one is, anyway.

* '''Gholam'''

-->'''Gholam''': How? ''How!''

* BeneathNotice: {{Invoked}}. Grey Men are typically written into the narration as an UnusuallyUninterestingSight, inviting ''The Reader'' to overlook them. {{Double Take}}s can follow, both InUniverse and out.
* PerceptionFilter: They're next to impossible to see coming; they don't even trip the SpiderSense radar that channelers get with creatures of the Shadow. The only ways to survive a Grey Man attack are to get lucky (have their initial attempt miss or fail somehow, which reveals their presence), be ''very'' quick (they become a lot easier to notice right before they strike, because the "OH GOD HE HAS A KNIFE" mental response overrides their powers), or to have some other way of detecting them (Perrin, for example, can smell them coming).
* NonIndicativeName: Yes, women can become Grey Men.

A famous philosopher and writer in the Age Of Legends and one of Lews closest friends. He is the most powerful of the Forsaken and their leader. Incredibly intelligent he has profound insight into the nature of the Wheel of Time and the struggle between the Dark One and the Dragon. He is unique among the Forsaken as being the only member of the group who didn't join for the promise of power or immortality, but because his logic concluded that the Dark One must inevitably win against the Dragon, and therefore the only path was to join him and rule for a time. All of the other Forsaken believe him to be insane, though some of Ishamael's statements which are taken to be mad are in fact simply esoteric beyond what the other Forsaken are capable of understanding (he brief talk on Chaos Theory at one of their meetings while burning a rat alive).

He was only partially sealed in Shaylo Ghoul and has been manipulating and influencing the Pattern for eons by the time of the main series. He is responsible for both the Trolloc Wars and the fall of Arthur Hawking.

** TheDreaded: The Forsaken are this in general, but for millenia men thought he was The Dark One himself thanks to misinterpreting his title Ba'alzamon (that, and he thinks he is too). Though even without it, knowing he's the most powerful of the Forsaken and is equal to The Dragon tends to be sufficient.

Formerly known as Ishar Morrad Chuain, he was a famous biologist, but his lack of ethics got his licesne revoked so he turned to the Shadow for more....''creative freedom''. He created most the Shadowspawn that still terrorize the world an Age latter.

* '''Asmodean / Jasin Natael / Joar Addam Nessosin:'''

A famed musician and composure of the Age Of Legends and the least violent of all the Forsaken. He is neither a schemer nor a general, and the only reason he turned to The Shadow was so that he could gain immortality and have enough time to learn every song ever written. However he ''is'' still a ruthless jerk, and [[MoralEventHorizon stilled his own mother]] among other terrible crimes. He favors Lanfear as an ally and is the weakest of the Male Forsaken (still bounds ahead of most men in the current age). [[spoiler: His death is one of the single most famous mysteries in the series, fans arguing for years over who it was.]]

The ''anti-Mat'', he was a historian in the Age Of Legends famous for his study of primitive and extinct cultures, but is better remembered as a gambling, womanizing, jack ass. He had major anger management issues that eventually lead him to the Shadow in order to dodge a RestrainingBolt against using the power for Violence. He ran an intelligence network unmatched by any of the other Chosen except for Moghedien. His most remembered evil deed was raising and organizing breeding camps for humans to be fed to the Trolloc armies. [[spoiler: He is resurrected in a female body part way into the series]].

A general of the Shadow, and Master Swordsmen. He was one of Lews's closest friends before jealously lead him to turn to the Shadow. [[spoiler: The First Forsaken to ''actually'' be killed off]]

"Almost" would be the word to describe Barid Bel Medar's life. Born a day after Lews Therin Telamon, he is almost as handsome, close to Lews Therin in power, and almost as skilled. If not for Lews Therin, he would have been the most acclaimed man of his age. But in the War Demandred discovered something he was far better at: war. If not Sealing of Shia'tan, The Shadow would have triumphed in the war beneath his command. Since being released...he has been doing ''something''. We just don't know what it is. Thirteen books in and we are still no closer to knowing his identity then we where in The Eye Of The World. All we know is he has armies, and their big.

One of the Shadow's most dangerous and competent servants. Graendal was born Kamarile Maradim Nindar and she was a famous psychologist for nearly four hundred years, able to heal mental afflictions even use of the One Power could not cure. She was also a distinct ascetic, living an unadorned life free of physical and mental pleasures. Of course, she also placed these same impossible standards on the rest of the world and felt that anyone that couldn't hold to them was morally inferior. Eventually she snapped from the realization the world would never live up to her expectations, and was general not a good place. She did a completely moral 180, creating the alter ego of "Graendal" that was the pure opposite of everything Nindar had been: lusty, indulgent, selfish, and vain.

She has a better understanding of the human mind then any living person, and is an expert at [[MindRape Compulsion]], capable of reducing even iron willed badasses into groveling slaves with ease. According to Lews it is impossible to out think her. She, Semirhage, and Ishmael are the only Forsaken that came to the Shadow without being influenced by it.

Lews's ex-girlfriend, and the most powerful woman to ever channel. Ever. She became obsessed with winning him back by any means necessary, and one such experiment (meant to earn her glory that was sure would bring Lews back to her, despite him being married) is what originally freed the Dark One. She's skilled at scheming, lying, and manipulating to get what she wants, and she only wants one thing: Lews Therin back, even eons latter. The Dark One does not truly trust her because of this, but she is kept around because there is ''no one'' that knows him better.

She is also the only Forsaken to stand trial in front of the Hall Of Servants for her crimes, where she proudly declared herself to be a servant of the Shadow and then blasted her way free.

"The Shadow Aymrlin" she is a teacher, organizer, and researcher from the Age Of Legends. She [[EvilIsPetty got turned down for a field study and was regulated to a educator's role]], so she turned to the Shadow. As far as Forsaken go, she's pretty o.k. for a person ,though she still [[MoralEventHorizon conditioned legions of children into a army of little monsters that where capable of murder]]. She is among the most dangerous because of her refusal to scheme and plot against and with the other Forsaken (though she does from a non-aggression pact with a Semirhage and Demandred) and instead focuses on the "down and dirty" aspects of winning this war. [[spoiler: Up until her death she is the most successful of all the Forsaken in doing this, causing a schism in the White Tower that nearly destroyed it and murdering countless Aes Sedai]].

A diplomat and megalomaniac, his specality was pushing regions into non-violent surrender to The Shadow.

* '''Sammael / Lord Brend / Tel Janin Aellinsar:'''

One of the Chief generals for the Shadow, he was friends with Lews Therin Telamon, although it is not certain how deep this friendship ran; more likely he considered himself a rival to Lews Therin. He turned to the Shadow realtively late in the game, but still won major victories for them. He was scared in battle by Lews, a scar he refused to let he healed, swearing he would do so only after killing him.

Batshit crazy and evil to the core, Semirhage required no corrupting. A world renown healer in the Age Of Legends, she was the TokenEvilTeammate for The Light until The Hall Of Servants found out that she was torturing her patients as "payment" for Healing (as she felt they where unworthy of being saved). They gave her an ultimatum take a RestrainingBolt against her "pleasures" or be Severed from the One Power forever.. She said FuckThisImOutOfHere and joined the Shadow, where she became one of their most valued assets.

She is ''the'' most feared of all the Forsaken, and even her fellows are more then a but scared of her. Prisoners have commited suicide rather then be tortured by her.

** TheDreaded: During the War of Power, captives often commited suicide- even by ''biting their own wrists''- when they learnt they were being taken to her, to the point her minions had to take special precautions against it for all prisoners. At one point she was captured, but she freaked out the guards so much that they actually ''smuggled her out and set her free''. She was an incredibly sadistic torturer and MadScientist, who enjoyed discovering new ways to make people suffer, and she has turned the SadisticChoice into an art form. Her rep survived down to the Third Age.

** GoodPowersBadPeople: She was a world-renowned healer, possibly the best in the world, back in the Age of Wonders, but also a sadist even before she joined the DarkSide. This makes her ''really'' good at...

** TheSociopath: As mused by Graendal, she is one of the few Forsaken to have had no StartOfDarkness- she joined The Shadow because the good guys fired her for being a TokenEvilTeammate. Mostly because she was already an infamous...
** TortureTechnician, at one point (post-Age of Legends) killing a man by ''over-stimulating his pleasure centers''. She also succed in keeping a man alive four hours after replacing all the blood in his body with tar.
** TokenMinority: We don't really know what Ishamael and Baalthamel originally looked like, but Semirhage is the only black Forsaken that we know of.

*** In the first book, Rand gets the impression that they feel hatred for every living thing; near the end, we are told that both Myrddraal Padan Fain was assigned to (as well as the Trollocs) treated him like absolute dirt and verbally and physically abused him, and one forced him to sleep in a cooking cauldron every night to remind him of what will happen if he fails (ie. Trolloc food). Sounds less like TheStoic than The Eternally Malevolvent. Its also clear that they can feel fear; for instance, theof Mashadar and Shadar Logoth.

"The Spider" Moghedien was oringally an investment advisor known Lilen Moiral, often looked down on even when she was part of the The Light, she cultivated a massive network of spies and assasins for the Shadow, using an image as a meek and little woman to lead many agents of the Light to their deaths. She escaped after being revealed as a tratior and killing thousands to engineer a distraction. She favors moving and striking "softly from the Shadows". She is a master of the World Of Dreams, making up for her lack-luster strength in the One Power.

* TheUnfunny: According to his family. "I do have a sense of humor, Gawyn. You only think I do not because I do not care to mock people".

* MasterSwordsman: You technically become a "blademaster" if you kill one in combat,[[spoiler: which Rand does at the end of Book 2, but there was some luck involved; later, he actually earns the title.]]

* [[spoiler:FateWorseThanDeath: is impeached as Amyrlin. And stilled.]]

* ButtMonkey: His "luck" has more to do with random events favoring him when he desperately needs it than with being fortunate or happy. If you were to hear described everything that happens to him in the series without luck being mentioned, you wouldn't think he was lucky at all. Click on footnote for details, but '''WARNING: unmarked spoilers''' in footnote[[hottip *:Almost as soon as the adventure starts, he catches a HatePlague that nearly kills him on 4 seperate occasions before he's finally cured of it. Risks his life to save 3 young female channelers who use the One Power to treat him like crap when he resuces them. Gets hanged and left for dead (possibly even dies) before Rand resuscitates him. Gets saddled with a lot of unwanted memories of battles that cause him to become the general of his own army when it's the last thing in the world he wants. Has to kill in self-defense a woman he's slept with when she tries to kill him. Has to look after 2 of the 3 same female channelers from last time, and ends up getting raped by a queen for it. Others in-universe think this is very funny. Gets caught in the middle of an invasion that leaves him seriously injured and spending more "quality time" with his rapist. Is stalked by an invincible killer. Gets accidentally married. Loses an eye. And, in general, since this is a WorldOfBadass, his own BadAss qualities are usually unnoticed and unappreciated by his fellow main characters.]]

* ButtMonkey: His "luck" has more to do with random events favoring him when he desperately needs it than with being fortunate or happy. If you were to hear described everything that happens to him in the series without luck being mentioned, you wouldn't think he was lucky at all. Click on footnote for details, but '''WARNING: unmarked spoilers''' in footnote.[[hottip * :Almost as soon as the adventure starts, he catches a HatePlague that nearly kills him on 4 seperate occasions before he's finally cured of it. Risks his life to save [[UngratefulBastard 3 young female channelers who use the One Power to treat him like crap when he resuces them.]] Gets hanged and left for dead (possibly even dies) before Rand resuscitates him. Gets saddled with a lot of unwanted memories of battles that cause him to become the general of his own army when it's the last thing in the world he wants. Has to kill in self-defense a woman he's slept with when she tries to kill him. Has to look after 2 of the 3 same [[UngratefulBastard female channelers]] from last time, and ends up getting raped by a queen for it. [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale Others in-universe think this is very funny.]] Gets caught in the middle of an invasion that leaves him seriously injured and spending more "quality time" with his rapist. Is stalked by an invincible killer. Gets [[AccidentalMarriage accidentally married.]] Loses an eye. And, in general, since this is a WorldOfBadass, his own BadAss qualities are usually unnoticed and unappreciated by his fellow main characters.]]

* ButtMonkey: His "luck" has more to do with random events favoring him when he desperately needs it than with being fortunate or happy. If you were to hear described everything that happens to him in the series without luck being mentioned, you wouldn't think he was lucky at all. Click on footnote for details, but '''WARNING: unmarked spoilers''' in footnote.[[hottip *:Almost as soon as the adventure starts, he catches a HatePlague that nearly kills him on 4 seperate occasions before he's finally cured of it. Risks his life to save [[UngratefulBastard 3 young female channelers who use the One Power to treat him like crap when he resuces them.]] Gets hanged and left for dead (possibly even dies) before Rand resuscitates him. Gets saddled with a lot of unwanted memories of battles that cause him to become the general of his own army when it's the last thing in the world he wants. Has to kill in self-defense a woman he's slept with when she tries to kill him. Has to look after 2 of the 3 same [[UngratefulBastard female channelers]] from last time, and ends up getting raped by a queen for it. [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale Others in-universe think this is very funny.]] Gets caught in the middle of an invasion that leaves him seriously injured and spending more "quality time" with his rapist. Is stalked by an invincible killer. Gets [[AccidentalMarriage accidentally married.]] Loses an eye. And, in general, since this is a WorldOfBadass, his own BadAss qualities are usually unnoticed and unappreciated by his fellow main characters.]]

* ButtMonkey: His "luck" has more to do with random events favoring him when he desperately needs it than with being fortunate or happy. If you were to hear described everything that happens to him in the series without luck being mentioned, you wouldn't think he was lucky at all.

** Not to mention a character named [[NorseMythology Thor]] who can call down thunder from the sky and is associated with destruction, storms, fertility ''and'' the protection of mankind and is basically a PhysicalGod by the thirteenth book.

** [[spoiler:TookALevelInKindness: As of ''Towers of Midnight'', his epiphany on Dragonmount results in this.

* {{Badass}}: By the latest book, [[spoiler: Rand is the single most powerful being in the world. He is the strongest channeler, arguably the most skilled channeler as well- along with controlling roughly half the continent the story takes place on. Add to this the fact that he cleansed the Taint from ''saidin'' (giving the Light its only true victory in 3,000 years) and carried enough power to ''unmake reality itself''.]]

* {{Determinator}}: Suffers from ''6'' separate wounds that will never heal and give him constant pain. Two of these were made by [[ArtifactOfDoom very nasty things]] and are literally competing with other for the opportunity to kill him- oh, and did we mention that anytime he overexerts himself they tear open and he nearly bleeds out? [[ItGotWorse Then he lost a hand.]] Beyond this, there is the massive psychological trauma of discovering what he is and what he must do to succeed. Rand's reaction to all this? [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Push harder]].

** [[spoiler: Subverted as of Towers of Midnight.]]

* [[spoiler: PastLifeMemories: As Lews Therin Telamon]]

** [[spoiler: And he becomes even more powerful after coming down from Dragonmount in Towers of Midnight. The aforementioned OneManArmy entry has him splitting his flows thousands of times, so much that the Asha'man with him couldn't count them all. Rand was completely unaided when doing this, by any channeling bond or angreal/sa'angreal.]]

** Not to mention a character named [[NorseMythology Thor]] who can call down thunder from the sky and is associated with destruction, storms, fertility ''and'' the protection of mankind and is basically a PhysicalGod by this time in the books.

** To wit: almost as soon as the adventure starts, catches a HatePlague that nearly kills him on 4 seperate occasions before he's finally cured of it. Risks his life to save [[UngratefulBastard 3 young female channelers who use the One Power to treat him like crap when he resuces them.]] [[spoiler:Gets hanged and left for dead (possibly even dies) before Rand resuscitates him. Gets saddled with a lot of unwanted memories of battles that cause him to become the general of his own army when it's the last thing in the world he wants.]] Has to kill in self-defense a woman he's slept with when she tries to kill him. Has to look after 2 of the 3 same [[UngratefulBastard female channelers]] from last time, and ends up getting raped by a queen for it. [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale Others in-universe think this is very funny.]] Gets caught in the middle of an invasion that leaves him seriously injured and spending more "quality time" with his rapist. Is stalked by an invincible killer. Gets [[AccidentalMarriage accidentally married.]] [[spoiler:Loses an eye.]] And, in general, since this is a WorldOfBadass, his own BadAss qualities are usually unnoticed and unappreciated by his fellow main characters.