History Characters / TheWheelOfTimeTheWhitecloaks

* WorthyOpponent: Morgase thinks of him as this [[spoiler:after her abdication]].

* EveryoneHasStandards: Bornhald is a KnightTemplar just like the rest of the Whitecloaks, but he finds the [[WouldHurtAChild methods]] [[KillEmAll of]] [[ColdBloodedTorture the]] [[TortureTechnician Questioners]] to be utterly appalling.

* OfferingAnotherInYourStead: Shaidar Haran tells him that, for as long as he fails to kill TheChosenOne, [[AndYourLittleDogToo his family]] will die one at a time, [[YouHaveFailedMe saving him for last]]. The next time his masters contact him, he immediately starts blubbering that he has more relatives.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: In his first scene, Carridan is attending a meeting with several other disguised Darkfriends, and when he notices one has the colorful garb of a Tuatha'an, he feels revolted that a "tinker" is among their numbers.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: In his first scene, Carridan is attending a meeting with several other disguised Darkfriends, and when he notices one has the colorful garb of a Tuatha'an, he feels revolted that a "tinker" is among their numbers.

* AntiMagicalFaction: A standard belief among Whitecloaks is that [[WorldSundering the Breaking]] was caused by [[WitchSpecies channelers]] in general using the One Power, which they believe to be in the category of "TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow". It is more or less unheard of to have a Whitecloak willingly work alongside an Aes Sedai as a result, though only [[ExaltedTorturer the Questioners]] really are willing to root out even female channelers when they pop up. They do not believe MagicIsEvil, but that people simply should not be allowed the power to use the present BackgroundMagicField.

* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: The general philosophy of the Children regarding [[WitchSpecies Aes Sedai]] is that they are Darkfriends because dabbling in the One Power led to the [[WorldSundering Breaking of the World]] and the War of Power. Their hatred for male channelers goes without saying as well. [[spoiler:This way of thinking goes away when Galad forces them to accept and work alongside Aes Sedai for the coming Last Battle.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Not him, but everyone else about the Hand of the Light. Even other Whitecloaks call then Questioners and dislike their methods. Also, his hatred of [[WitchSpecies Aes Sedai]] makes most Whitecloaks look ''tame''.

* AntiMagicalFaction: A standard belief among Whitecloaks is that [[WorldSundering the Breaking]] was caused by [[WitchSpecies channelers]] in general using [[TheForce the One Power]], which they believe to be in the category of "TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow". It is more or less unheard of to have a Whitecloak willingly work alongside an Aes Sedai as a result, though only [[ExaltedTorturer the Questioners]] really are willing to root out even female channelers when they pop up. They do not believe MagicIsEvil, but that people simply should not be allowed the power to use the present BackgroundMagicField.

* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: The general philosophy of the Children regarding [[WitchSpecies Aes Sedai]] is that they are Darkfriends because dabbling in [[TheForce the One Power]] led to the [[WorldSundering Breaking of the World]] and the War of Power. Their hatred for male channelers goes without saying as well. [[spoiler:This way of thinking goes away when Galad forces them to accept and work alongside Aes Sedai for the coming Last Battle.]]

* ReplacementScrappy: [[invoked]]In-universe. Niall may have had his failings, but everyone seems to compare him favorably to Valda.

* DuelToTheDeath: Takes part in one of these with [[spoiler:Galad. Valda loses]].

* DirtyCoward: Carridan was obviously never a particularly nice person, as a Darkfriend and a particularly ruthless Whitecloak, but he firmly cements himself as irredeemable by not only showing no sympathy for his family as they are murdered by Myrddraal as a punishment for him failing to find and kill Rand, but actively encouraging Liandrin to kill the remaining members of his family as a way to save his own hide.

* AntiMagicalFaction: Has regretfully evolved into this over the centuries, though not overtly. A standard belief among Whitecloaks is that [[WorldSundering the Breaking]] was caused by [[WitchSpecies channelers]] in general using [[TheForce the One Power]], which they believe to be in the category of "TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow". It is more or less unheard of to have a Whitecloak willingly work alongside an Aes Sedai as a result, though only [[ExaltedTorturer the Questioners]] really are willing to root out even female channelers when they pop up. They do not believe MagicIsEvil, but that people simply should not be allowed the power to use the present BackgroundMagicField.

* SinsOfOurFathers: According to the Children, "[t]he sins of the mother are visited to the fifth generation and the sins father to the tenth."

* TheCorruptible: Although [[LightIsNotGood he wasn't exactly helpful in the first place]], Niall became much more paranoid and volatile after being [[ParanoiaFuel influenced by]] [[InUniverse the taint of Mashadar]] in Padan Fain.

* VillainTeamUp[=/=]EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Made an alliance with the Seanchan shortly before his death.]]

* TheAlcoholic: He takes to drinking heavily as the crushing difficulty of juggling his responsibilities as a Whitecloack while taking orders from the Shadow and the Forsaken weigh down on him.

* ConflictingLoyalty: [[AvertedTrope Averted.]] Carridan is given conflicting orders by Sammael, who wants him to search for a cache of ''angreal'' in Ebou Dar, and Ishamael, who wants him to hunt down the ta'veren. However, Ishamael's Compulsion overrides Carridan's mind and he makes no effort to follow Sammael's orders after the Compulsion's latent orders are activated by encountering Mat.

* ConflictingLoyalty: [[AvertedTrope Averted.]] Carridan is given conflicting orders by Sammael, who wants him to search for a cache of *angreal in Ebou Dar, and Ishamael, who wants him to hunt down the ta'veren. However, Ishamael's Compulsion overrides Carridan's mind and he makes no effort to follow Sammael's orders after the Compulsion's latent orders are activated by encountering Mat.

* MoralEventHorizon: Carridan was obviously never a particularly nice person, as a Darkfriend and a particularly ruthless Whitecloak, but he firmly cements himself as irredeemable by not only showing no sympathy for his family as they are murdered by Myrddraal as a punishment for him failing to find and kill Rand, but actively encouraging Liandrin to kill the remaining members of his family as a way to save his own hide.

* ConflictingLoyalty: [[AvertedTrope Averted.]] Carridan is given conflicting orders by Sammael, who wants him to search for a cache of *angreal in Ebou Dar, and Ishamael, who wants him to hunt down the ta'veren. However, Ishamael's Compulsion overrides Carridan's mind and he makes no effort to follow Sammael's orders after the Compulsion is activated by encountering Mat.