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1Characters from other tribes, including random non-tribal characters.
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3!Lowland Tribe
4The tribe from Liska and Markree hails from, and the Highland tribe's neighboring and rival one, and the latter are infamous from stealing food and kidnapping people from them, including Liska, which also kickstart the plot of the series.
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6[[folder:Aunt Deronda]]
7!!Deronda
8Liska and Markree's maternal aunt, and her, at the time, one of the last living members of their family. After the deaths of Liska and Markree's parents, she took care of them and she is very happy to see Liska again when she returns years later.
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10* ParentalSubstitute: She is this for both Liska and Markree after their parents died due to sickness.
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13!Red Canyon Tribe
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15* AvengingTheVillain: [[spoiler:Basically, their final raid over the Highland tribe was this in order to avenge Rakon's death]]. It should be also that [[spoiler:[[ThanathosGambit it was likely Rakon's intention on doing this in the first place]]]].
16* {{Expy}}: Their role at the very end of the story is very ''eerily'' similar to one to the [[spoiler:[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Japanese Strategic Self-Defense Force (JSSDF) from "The End of Evangelion"]]]], since they were basically [[spoiler:an army of human-sized enemies which destroy everything dear for the main protagonists (The Highland tribe for Liska, and NERV for Shinji and Asuka, leading them to resort to extreme measures to stop them, even at the cost of their own lives, after they defeated a supposely bigger threat (Rakon for Liska, and the Angels for Shinji and the rest of NERV)]].
17* FinalSolution: In a really unexpected turn of events, [[spoiler:Rakon's loyalist forces tried to exterminate the entire Highland tribe in a surprise attack at night]].
18* WalkingSpoiler: The final 37th issue show us that [[spoiler:the remaining forces loyal to Rakon are the TrueFinalBoss of the story after Rakon was killed by Quiet Bird, and now they are hellbent to destroy the Highland tribe and all its people once for all]].
19[[folder:Rakon]]
20!![[spoiler:Tribe Chief]] Rakon
21[[quoteright:230:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kat_rakon.png]]
22[[caption-width-right:230:Rakon, designed by Shawntae Howard at 2000]]
23[[quoteright:298: Click [[labelnote:here]]:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kat_rakon2022.jpg[[/labelnote]] to see Rakon's updated version done by Shawntae Howard at 2022]]
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25A member from the Red Canyon tribe, Rakon is the closest thing to a recurrent antogonist the comic had. He debuted during the [[TournamentArc tribal games]], when Shaygin, Liska's wife, brought some food to him, but Rakon, thinking that Shaygin was a SexSlave, gave her a ForcedKiss to her, causing Liska to face him directly. Surprised and disgusted to see a warrior woman, Rakon mocked her to no end, causing Liska to take the matters personally against him during the games, culminating with him on [[spoiler:attempting to rape her in his teepee, but she was saved by her brother Markree and Rial before he could laid a finger on her]]. From there onwards, Leahtrah explains that Rakon became Liska's worst enemy she ever had and they faced on battle each other in many moments of their lives. [[spoiler:[[FinalBattle He had the chance of settle the score with Liska once for all when they became older]], when he and his tribe launched a midnight ambush attack at the Highland tribe, but thanks to Liska's spies, she managed to figure his tactics, and after she and his men managed to kill all his war party, except him. Rakon then faced Quiet Bird in a personal DeathDuel, but the formed killed him with a single blow. Unfortunately for the entire Highland tribe, he already considered his own death in his plans, and his remaining faithful warriors launched another, more successful ambush at midnight, managing to score many casualities. Liska had to sacrifice herself in order to drive his goons out from the tribe, while the reinforcements returned to finish with the rest of the invaders]].
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27* AllForNothing: Somewhat: While he managed to [[spoiler:get rid of Liska at the hands of his own men after his death, at the very end the whole Red Canyon tribe was defeated and absorbed by the Highland tribe at issue 36, while his loyalist forces were defeated in the next issue afterwards]].
28* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Assuming either the setting's laws work in the same way as human laws and Native American traditions used to work in the past, many of the stuff Rakon does during the tribal games would likely either gotten him killed or caused a tribal war between the Highland tribe and his own one, since he managed to blatantly break many of the laws of his host tribe, including [[ForcedKiss kissing one of the warrior chief's wives without her permission]], bullying against everyone else without serious consequences, and finally, [[spoiler:''trying to rape one of the warrior chiefs'', in this case, Liska, and evading any serious punishment, other than both Markree and Rial saving Liska at the last second]]. This is handwaved in-universe, however, as Rakon was the son of the Red Canyon tribe's chief and by default, he enjoys inmunity from being punished by his hosts; and there's also the fact the tribal games' rules forbid any kind of personal fighting during the games, even in self-defense.
29* AttemptedRape: He attempted to rape [[spoiler:Liska at the end of ther tribal games, but both Markree and Rial stop him before he could do anything]].
30* BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler:He was the final opponent Liska has to face, when the latter tried to destroy her tribe once for all]].
31* BiggerIsBetterInBed: In his 2022 redesign, Rakon's body is '''not''' the only thing that is notoriously big...
32* BlackSheep: According with the description given by Chief Pownetkee to Liska about Rakon's identity, the Red Canyon people are normally considered peaceful people, but Rakon is the ''exception'' on that rule.[[spoiler: This is subverted like hell in the worst way possible, as they are also as bad as him, especially when they attacked the Highland tribe when their warriors were out to hunt]].
33* BigBad: The closest thing ''Katmandu'' has to a recurrent villain, even if he only appears in just three sub-arcs.
34* CoolOldGuy: [[spoiler:Despite looking the same as he was in his younger times, Rakon was already in his latter 50s-earlier 60s in the final arc, but he was still able to kick ass. Later subverted when Quiet Bird, who was younger than him, finished him with a single blow]].
35* CoveredWithScars: His whole pelt is covered with battle scars and burns from head to toe, being his most striking feature.
36* DecoyAntagonist: Rakon was originally set up as the main antagonist of they story, and, according with Leah, he was originally fated to have a final duel with Liska to settle their score once for all. The final arc, however, offers a twist on this: [[spoiler:While Rakon was planning to to have his final duel with her, Liska utterly refuses, with her adopting son Quiet Bird taking her place instead. Oddly enough, Rakon accepts, [[CurbStompBattle and Quiet Bird finish him off in a single blow]]. The twist came with with the fact that it's heavily implied that Rakon already planned this in advanced, so his remaining surviving followers could both avenge his death and finish with both Liska and her tribe latter on]].
37* EvilCounterpart: He is basically all the opossite of what Liska really was: Racist, mysogynist, a massive jerkass and also heavily implied to be a serial rapist, [[spoiler:to the grade he also tried to do this on Liska]]; Additionally, both characters [[spoiler:became the chiefs of their respective tribes]].
38* EvilPrince: He was the Red Canyon tribe chief's son, and he was rotten to the core. [[spoiler:And he later became the new chief when his father was too old to lead anymore]].
39* {{Expy}}: He looks like Jaren Lobo, a minor character from ''ComicBook/{{Extinctioners}}'', which was created by Shawntae Howard, the artist who did the art of ''Katmandu'' for many issues. In fact, they look almost the same, except that Jaren is a brown-furred wolf, while Rakon is [[InformedSpecies supposely]] a golden-furred feline.
40* FinalBoss: Rakon is the final opponent that Liska face during her final battle at the end of the story, and blatantly stated so by Leah during his debut at the end of the ''The Peacemaker'' sub-arc. [[spoiler:However, this trope is subverted at the end, as he was killed in a rather anti-climatic way by Quiet Bird instead, as Liska wasn't allowed to face him]].
41* GenderedInsult: He insulted Liska by calling her a "she-male", because she was a female warrior, and also because she was bisexual.
42* GroinAttack: Rakon got his family jewels smashed by Shaygin when he [[ForcedKiss force-kissed her]].
43* KilledOffscreen:
44** In the original canon, [[spoiler:we don't see the moment when Quiet Bird killed him, except when the narrator, Master Cheddar, mentioned that the former [[CurbStompBattle didn't had a problem on turning him into mince meat]]]].
45** In the AlternativeContinuity ''Alternative Worlds of Katmandu'', due to the [[SpannerInTheWorks sole existance of Matoo Anzasi, Thea's human husband in that continuity]], it's very likely, considering Matoo's personality and status as one of the Highland tribe's mightiest warriors, given that he is a SuperSoldier, that he killed Rakon off-screen at some point of the story, as he isn't mentioned at any point of the story.
46* KnightOfCerebus: His debut marks the point when the story became more DarkerAndEdgier, to the grade that [[spoiler:he was the final opponent Liska has to defeat in order to both became the chief of the Highland tribe and also to for her own tribe's survival]]. Also, Rakon was the ''only'' antagonist character in the whole story [[spoiler:being able to hurt Liska to the grade to her requiring help from someone else, first from her own younger brother and Rial during the tribal games, and finally, during the FinalBattle against him, when she used her adoptive son Quiet Bird to finish him off for good]].
47* HeroKiller: A rather bizarre version of this trope happens during [[spoiler:the final battle between both Liska and him: Liska managed to kill him first with the help of his adopted son Quiet Bird, who was younger, taller and even stronger than him in his prime time. [[DidntSeeThatComing What she didn't expected]] is that he had more warriors who wanted to exact revenge on him and they managed to kill her in his name, but not before she managed to drive them away from the rest of the tribe]].
48* HeyYou: Rakon never called Liska by her name, only using derogative nicks on her, like "female", "she-male" and similar ones. The only time we see Rakon calling her by her name was [[spoiler:during his VillanousBreakdown after his entire war party was wiped out by Liska and her rifle-armed warriors, being Rakon the only warrior left standing]].
49* InformedSpecies: He is supposed to be a feline hybrid, most likely between a Hoplite lion and another Velite breed, but, at least in the Shawntae Howard version on him, he looks more like a wolf with golden fur rather than a feline (see above the reason why). Averted with other artists, when Rakon is depicted as more lion-like instead.
50* MysteriousPast: Despite being an important character in Liska's life, on the grounds he was her hated enemy, we know next to nothing about his past, outside he was the son of the chief from his tribe and he had an harem back home.
51* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Very likely invoked with his looks and outright stated later on: In the color cover of issue 20, both his hair and his fur has a golden tint, and his buckskin had also both khaki and golden tones, and that without going with the structure of this face, giving him the impression of a stereotypical Nazi officer. What makes his existence quite [[OxymoronicBeing oxymoronical]], however, is the fact he was an lion-cat hybrid, basically the in-universe version of someone of mixed ethnicity, which would quickly disqualify him on the Nazi part in RealLife. And to top it off, [[spoiler:[[FinalSolution he planned to do a full-out mass genocide on the Highland tribe]]]].
52* NippledAndDimed: Bizarrely averted with him in his updated 2022 version, as his new design has nipples, being the only male ''Katmandu'' character who shows them. In this case, this could be justifed, as due to his burns Rakon lacks of his chest fur that covers them.
53* NotAllowedToGrowOld: For some bizarre reason, Rakon doesn't look aged during the last arc despite being around Liska's age and he looks basically the same as he was when Rakon met Liska in their earlier 20s.
54* NotSoHarmlessVillain: At first, Rakon was depicted as [[BarbaricBully a massive racist, mysoginist and homophobic bully]] who just want to humiliate Liska, Shaygin and the whole Highland tribe [[ForTheEvulz for his own sake]]. Then, [[spoiler:he tried to rape Liska at the end of the sub-arc after he lose in the tribal games, and decades later, he tried to kill her and her whole tribe. Ironically enough, he technically succeded in the former, but not in the latter, through this was done post-mortem by his own loyal men]].
55* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Rakon was racist against cats with ''both'' black (Rial) and white (Pyndan) fur, not to mention being [[StayInTheKitchen misogynist]] and also being homophobe, as he named Liska a "she-male", due to her position as a warrior and also because she was bisexual.
56* PretextForWar: The real reason why Rakon [[spoiler:wanted to settle the score with Liska and her tribe was because, just like them, they were searching for a new place to live after their original one, the Red Canyon, were also suffering from a crippling drought. Since the forest where the Highland tribe was the only one with enough resources for sustaining people on miles away, they only way to his tribe to survive was to exterminate the whole Highland tribe once for all]]. Ironically enough, [[spoiler:after he died at issue 36, his whole tribe was absorbed by the Highland tribe, except for a loyalist force bent to avenge Rakon's death]].
57* ScarsAreForever: For unexplained reasons, Rakon has many furless patches across his body and his face, meaning he suffered burns on some moment of his life, making him more scarier than he already was.
58* ThanatosGambit: [[spoiler:Rakon managed to outsmart Liska from beyond the grave by using the rest of his warriors in a final attack against the Highland tribe in order to both avenge his death at the hands of Quiet Bird and also to kill everyone in the Highland tribe, Liska included, in an surprise attack when she and the other warriors were drunk after defeating Rakon]].
59* VagueAge: We don't know a thing about his age; we have to assume he is about Liska's age, more or less about 19-20 years old, when both characters meet each other during the tribal games, since Thea, Liska's first-born daughter, was barely a year old when he debuted and Liska herself was pregnant with both Darmin and Talwin at the time.[[note]]Even if their retroactive birth caused another PlotHole in the story, since the Handbook stated that both twins were born ''four years later'' after Thea's birth.[[/note]]
60* VillainForgotToLevelGrind: Happens to him ''twice'' in the FinalBattle:
61** Rakon didn't expected to [[spoiler:face a bigger, stronger opponent during his final duel against Quiet Bird, since the only opponents he had faced before in his life, besides Liska, was smaller, weaker foes, and he never expected that Liska would refuse to fight against him personally, which ended up dooming him]].
62** Likewise, and for some unexplained reason, and despite having a good relationship with [[spoiler:Indigo Weechai, the man that sold the same shotguns to Liska during his raid at the Highland tribe and being interested in such shotguns, Rakon never sought him to buy the same weapons for his tribe and himself, even if Indigo could had done it in order to get rid of Liska or Rakon just to get a last quick buck from the Natives, while letting wiping themselves out, and avoiding a likely possible retalation against him]].
63* VillainousLegacy: A twist on this: [[spoiler:Both Rakon ''and'' Liska are partly responsible of the way how the planet Katmandu endured two centuries worth of warfare between the two main feline races living in the planet as a result of their feud due to the forcer trying to rape the latter]].
64* VillainousValor: Rakon had many flaws, but being a coward ''wasn't one of them''. He always loved to face his enemies head-on by himself, no matter if the odds were against him at any moment, a feature lampshaded by both Leah and during Rakon's time by anyone else, even his own enemies. [[spoiler:That would be end up being his downfall, as he faced against Quiet Bird during their final duel, and the latter finish him off in a quick fashion]].
65* WorldsStrongestMan: He was one of the strongest warriors of his era, along with Hesta, and he was stronger enough to even fight against the Gomarrin with just a mace and managing to even break one of its legs. [[spoiler: Subverted as Quiet Bird, Liska's adopted son, was even stronger than him and he managed to kill him with [[CurbStompBattle a single blow]]]].
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68!Redhand Tribe
69* TheGambler: According with the story, this was their main feature.
70* NativeAmericanCasino: For all practical effects, they were basically a really bizarre, alien and past-era version of this trope.
71* PunnyName: Redhand Tribe-->Being caught red-handed, as being caught cheating, in this case gambling.
72[[folder:Flint]]
73!!Flint
74[[quoteright:117:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kat_flint.jpg]]
75[floatboxright:
76'''Age:''' 35-36 (when he meet Liska at issue 6), about 40 (issue 25), 50 (issue 10) \
77'''Height:''' Unknown\
78'''Date of Birth''': A.K. 1712\
79'''Race''': Velite (Turkish Angora Cat)]
80A slave trader and also Liska's antagonist of sorts, on the grounds of his job, considering how the latter really hated slavery with a passion, this guy was a pain in Liska's rear for many reasons, as he always wanted to find a way to screw her over, as she tricked him into selling [[spoiler:Rial]] for a loss, a fact her never managed to get over with.
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82* TheCorrupter: During the two first issues of the "Curse of the Blood" sub-arc, Flint manipulated Willoem, another warrior who wanted to marry with Panka, Pyndan's younger sister and was rejected by her in order to marry Gareth instead, to fight Liska, the head warchief and [[spoiler:Panka's mother by kinship]] in a death duel.
83* EnemyMine: Just like anyone else, he joined forces with Liska in order to defeat the Gomarrin in "The Hunt" sub-arc, something that is even lampshaded by both.
84* HateSink: No one liked this guy, due to his job as a slave trader, especially Liska and her tribe, and he didn't tried to hide that he was a disgusting, manipulative douchebag.
85* [[LostHimInACardGame Lost Them in a Card Game]]: Part of the reason why he hated Liska so much was the fact he lost Shaygin and Elishaa on a game of dice, and that without going with the point he also lost [[spoiler:Rial]] when Liska basically scammed him, somewhat, in order to give [[spoiler:him]] back.
86* OlderThanTheyLook: At his last, chronological appearance at issue 10, he was supposed to be ''fifty years old'', but he looks and acts like someone at the same age as Liska, Rial and Pyndan.
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88
89!Burned Tree Tribe
90[[folder:Chief Cor-mac-den]]
91!!Chief Cor-mac-den
92[[quoteright:155:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kat_chief_cor.png]]
93He is the the chief of the Burned Tree tribe, a [[RatMen Mousekin]] tribe which existence, at the time, was completely unknown for the felines inhabitants of the Plains region and for the rest of the planet Katmandu. He appears in the "When Warriors Die" sub-arc when his people was captured and slaved by illegal miners in order to extract minerals in the White River area, causing him to ask help to his feline neighbors, prompting them to help his tribe. After the events of that arc, he became one of the most closest allies of the Highland tribe, and he and his tribe played an important role during the final battle against [[spoiler:Rakon and the Red Canyon tribe]] years later.
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95* BashBrothers: With both Chief Pownetkee and Rial during the battle against the slavers during the events of the "When Warriors Die" sub-arc. In fact, [[spoiler:he avenged Rial's death by killing the culprit with his own knife]].
96* EyePatchOfPower: For some reason, he had a patch in his left eye.
97* NiceMice: While not as nice as Tovar or Chief Pownetkee are, he is a quite nice person and he is always available to help his feline friends when required.
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99[[folder:Tovar]]
100[[/folder]]
101!Siber Sumatra Clan
102A mysterious clan of Mongolian-like Hoplite Sumatran tigers from a distant land, very likely from another, [[{{Wutai}} Asian-like continent]], which are hellbet to plunder and kill anything that stand in their way, being their last target an Ancient Egypt-like country. The clan was ruled by King Rajar, along with his children, Tyjer and Tiara, while the former was exiled and, for mysterious reasons, he ended in the Hoplite Nation, or at least the western part of it, when he was found by Hesta.
103!!Tropes associated with all of them:
104* CatsAreMean: From all canon evil feline characters, excluding Rakon, they are possibly the meanest of them, as they are basically the ''Katmandu'' equivalent of the Mongols, and that without mention they are tigers, to boot.
105* {{Wutai}}: They are notorious for being the only characters hailing from the Far East of the planet Katmandu. While their name implies they could came from their world's equivalent of Indonesia, as they are Sumatran tigers, they are dressed more like the stereotypical depictions of the Mongol people from the times of UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan.
106[[folder:Tyjer]]
107!!Prince Tyjer Siber
108Tyjer is the prince of the Siber Sumatra Clan... or at least, [[FallenPrincess he used to be]], until his father exiled him for [[WouldNotHurtAChild refusing to kill the children of King Lionor]], the ruler of the Egypt-like country his father and the rest of his family invaded in other to conquer it. For reasons not full explained, he is transported from the deserts of that kingdom to the Hoplite lands in the west, when he was found almost dying by Hesta during her time working for Pepper, her trade mentor. As a way to repay her for healing him, Tyjer trained her in military arts, and then, he fell in love with her. Unfortunately for both, Tyjer didn't want to stay with her, since he was an exiled lord without a kingdom, and he couldn't offer anything to her, so he went to separated ways, in order to return to his home and make his father pay for exiling him.
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110* CatsAreMean: Averted. Just like Hesta, he is a quite noble tiger, and his only grudge he holds is just against his father for exiling him. Extra points he is a ''Sumatran'' tiger, a tiger breed notoriously infamous for being one of the most dangerous ones in RealLife.
111* {{Expy}}: If his father is heavily based on UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan, Tyjer is probably based on Mongke Khan, Kublai Khan's elder brother, which, unlike the rest of his family, was a more reasonable conqueror and being more willing to spare those who didn't have to kill, compared with his relatives.
112* [[FallenPrincess Fallen Prince]]: His father exiled him for refusing to kill the children of a rival king, causing him to wander alone in the desert, until he was sent to the Hoplite lands thanks to a mysterious pendant his sister gave to him as a parting gift.
113* FirstLove: With Hesta. Also overlaps with LoveAtFirstSight, but unfortunately for both of them, their relationship didn't last long, as he went in separated ways in order to return to his lands to exact revenge against his family.
114* PerspectiveFlip: His story is basically the same one which was told from Hesta to Liska during the "Beginnings and Endings" sub-arc about him, except from his point of view, and it also explains the reasons why he ended in the Hoplite lands in the west.
115* PunnyName: His name is a pun of ''saber''-tooth ''tiger'', despite being he a Sumatran tiger.
116* WhiteSheep: Compared with the rest of his family, which are nothing more than mass-murdering bastards, he is more noble and prince-like, and outright refusing to kill defenseless people, which caused him to be exiled as a result.
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118
119!The Amazons
120They were a tribe of almost all-female [[spoiler:very primitive saber-tooth tigers]] who many people thought went extinct years ago, but during a mission, both Liska and Hesta found them, and after winning their trust, [[spoiler:they gave their only living son, Quiet Bird, to Liska, as by tribal tradition, normally the weak, male ones were culled out]].
121!!Tropes associated with all of them:
122* DyingRace: The [[spoiler:Amazons Liska and Hesta found]] are the only living members of their race, and they are painfully aware of that fact, and that was one of the reasons they [[spoiler:gave their only child to Liska in order to protect him]].
123* LastOfTheirKind: According with Liska at the final sub-arc, they went extinct years after she met them when she tried again to made contact with them, leaving [[spoiler:Quiet Bird as the last living member of their species]].
124* {{Precursors}}: According with both Hesta and later by Towakota, another clan chief, the Amazons were originally the original dwellers of the planet Katmandu, until a genocidal war waged by other tribes reduced their numbers; to make the matters worse for them, they had a tradition when the weaker, unfit males were executed, leaving only the females, which at the end caused their own extinction.
125* TheSavageIndian: Subverted: They don't act, look or even behave like their Native neighbors and look more like either furry cavewomen or something straight out from ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'' than Natives, enforced by the fact the Native characters are much civilized than them.
126* YouNoTakeCandle: They speak a much different language than the rest of the cast, and while translated to "[[TranslationConvention English]]", theirs is ''even more broken'' than their Native cousins.
127
128[[folder:Quiet Bird]]
129!!Quiet Bird aka Runt
130[[quoteright:139:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kat_quietbird.jpg]]
131 [[caption-width-right:139:Quiet Bird at six years old, designed by Ronzo Murphy]]
132[[quoteright:223:Click [[labelnote:here]]:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kat_quietbird_adult.jpg[[/labelnote]] to see him as an adult, designed by Shawntae Howard]]
133[floatboxright:
134'''Age:''' 6 (at issue 32), about 16 (issue 34), about 18 (final arc)\
135'''Height:''' Unknown\
136'''Date of Birth''': about A.K. 1762\
137'''Race''': Amazon]
138The last surviving member of the [[spoiler:saber-tooth tiger Amazon race]] and [[spoiler:Liska's last child she had by adoption]]. Despite his fiery looks, he was a quite nice, through quiet, guy, who really loved his parents a lot, especially his [[spoiler:step-mother Liska]]. He played an important role during the [[spoiler:final battle against Rakon as an adult, as he was the one who killed him in a single blow during the first battle against his tribe]] and later [[spoiler:when Rakon's remaining warriors assaulted the village, and he carried Liska's final message to her other warriors who were out for hunting at that time in order to carry out a counterattack, and avenge her death]].
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140* {{BFS}}: He wielded a giant knife that was bigger than even most weapons used in the story, [[spoiler:and during the beginning of the final sub-arc, he used it to accidentally kill one of Rakon's spies]]. He also used it to [[spoiler:also kill Rakon with it]].
141* TheBigGuy: As an adult, he was bigger than [[spoiler:not only his parents and everyone else, but also both Hesta and Rakon, managing to kill the latter with just one strike]].
142* BiggerIsBetterInBed: Discussed seriously in the last arc: It turns out that Quiet Bird's legs and arms are not the only things on his body that are '''big''', and the topic is discussed for both [[PlayedForLaughs laughs]] and [[PlayedForDrama seriousness, for obvious and realistic reasons]], by [[spoiler:her step-mother Liska when she discussed the possibilty of him marrying with Dancing Star and the likeness of having sex with her. Considering that Liska herself felt the experience firsthand from Rial, who was also well-endowed, and the fact Quiet Bird is the last surviving member of the Amazon race, she had her reasons on discussing the topic with him]].
143* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:How the battle against Rakon turned out. This is even lampshaded by the narrator]].
144-->[[spoiler:'''Master Cheddar''']]: [[{{Understatement}} It really wasn't much of a fight]].
145* HappilyMarried: With Dancing Star at issue 36.
146* IronicName: He was nicknamed ''Runt'' by his own people because he was "small" for their own standards, but at 6 years old, he was at the same size as Liska, who, at her latter 30s-earlier 40s, was ''also'' small for the standards of her own people. By the time he became an adult, he was taller than ''everyone else''.
147* LastOfItsKind: [[spoiler:The last surviving member of the Amazon race]] by the time he became an adult.
148* NoNameGiven: The name "Runt" was not his real name, but a nickname given by Magda, the leader of the Amazons to him. If he had a real name, it was lost because his biological mother died a year ago and she didn't bothered to teach him to even speak. Since he rarely speak as a child, much less doing any kind of sound, [[spoiler:Patches renamed him as Quiet Bird, because he sounded like one]].
149* ThePigPen: As a result of being neglected by his peers from a very young age, Quiet Bird as a kid not only had never took a bath until [[spoiler:he was adopted by Liska]], but he also had ''fleas'', much for [[spoiler:her personal horror. Also, according with her daughter Linna in the last issue of the sub-arc]] he also wet himself anywhere until he used a loincloth.
150* SpotlightStealingSquad: A rather egregious example: Despite only appearing frequently starting with issue 32, and being [[spoiler:the last son Liska had via adoption, Quiet Bird stoled the spotlight of '''almost''' her remaining living children (excluding Linna), even the older ones like Thea and Mela, which they were promoted to have a bigger role in the story, and in the case of Thea, to have her own adventures in side-stories, causing them to dissapear from the narrative without almost no explanation, other than brief mention of Thea being mentioned at the last sub-arc]]. The fact he was also the person [[spoiler:who killed ''Rakon'' effortlessly, rather than his mother, [[PlotHole despite Leah stated previously he and Liska were fated to face each other alone in a final battle]] didn't help him either]].
151* SummonBiggerFish: Liska brought him to [[spoiler:her final duel against Rakon, since as the tribe chief, she could not face Rakon in personal combat anymore, and Quiet Bird was strong enough to [[CurbStompBattle wipe the floor with him]]]].
152* UncertainDoom: At the very end of the story, we don't know what happened to him and any of his possible descendants after the events from the last issue, since his final fate is never brought out by Leah in the DistantFinale. Considering the way how the [[spoiler:little girl who talked about him referenced him and his race in past tense, there's a very likely possibility that, while he did survived the final battle against Rakon's loyalist forces, since he was the one who warned the rest of the warriors who went hunting at the time, on the other hand there's the possibility that either Dancing Star, his fiancee and later wife, died during the surprise attack against the Highland tribe, he died young later on without having children or simply he was incompatible with her on the ground he was a saber-tooth tiger, basically the ''Katmandu'' version of a caveman, meaning that his entire race died with him, which would explain why there's no more Amazon people in Leah's era]].
153[[/folder]]
154
155!Hoplite Nation/Lands
156As its name says, this is the area from the planet Katmandu when the Hoplites, a feline race based in wild cats like tigers, lions, cougars, etc, lives in, in stark contrast with the Velites, based on domestic cats, from the Plains region.
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158!!Tropes associated with all of them:
159* CultureChopSuey: We don't wee too much about how the Hoplite culture used look like during Liska's era. The few things we see, if we include non-canon stories, about this area is that their culture is a bizarre mix-up between [[AncientGrome Greco-Roman]], Arabic and Native American cultures.
160* PantheraAwesome: Hoplites are based on wild felines like lions, tigers and the like, and almost all of them are much bigger than their smaller Velite cousins, many of them are up to two meters tall ''on average''.
161[[folder:Indigo]]
162!!Indigo Weechai
163[[quoteright:172:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kat_indigo.png]]
164Appears exclusively in "The Hunt" sub-arc. Indigo is a Hoplite lion inventor and explorer from "the land of the setting sun"[[note]]Heavily implied to be either the ''Katmandu'' versions of Europe or Japan.[[/note]] who went to the Plains region in order to warn their inhabitants about the danger of a wandering [[{{Kaiju}} monster]] named "[[RentAZilla Gomarrin]]", which caused that every tribe from the region to bring their best warriors in order to defeat the monster. Indigo was also armed with a matchlock rifle, being the only character during Liska's era armed with a powder-based firearm. [[spoiler:It turns out he manipulated Kress, Liska's former acquaintance from her post-slavery times and a former slave, in order to lure not only the first Gomarrin they killed, but also [[TheresAnother its other mate]], who went into a literal RoaringRampageOfRevenge against both felines and rodents, so he could test his rifle against both beasts. As a result of his actions, he caused a nasty break-up between Liska and Kress, causing the former to retaliate by giving the latter to Indigo, [[TheBadGuyWins something he wanted in first place]]]].
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166* TheBadGuyWins: Well, to call him a "bad guy" would be a very strong word here, but at the end of the day he [[spoiler:manipulated every single Native character of the story, including Liska and even people like Rakon, in order to help him take down both monsters, so he could test his brand-new matchlock rifle on them, at great personal cost for the Plains people, since lots of people died, including a clan leader, and he caused a break-up between Liska and Kress when the latter betrayed the former by helping Indigo on luring both monsters to the Plains region, so all the Natives could help him on his mission. To top it all, taking advantage on Liska's break-up with Kress, he managed to get married with Kress after Liska, in retaliation agaisnt her, decided to give her to Indigo, very likely to avoid making the things worse for everyone else]].
167* ChekhovsGun: An almost literal example happens during [[spoiler:the final battle against Rakon, at least during the first duel against him: Thanks to some spies that analyzed the Red Canyon tribe's movements beforehand, Liska predicted what his tactics would be, ann knowing that Rakon would be a tough opponent to handle herself, she asked Hesta to go to Hoplite lands and brought many of his rifles to the tribe in order to kill all the invading warriors, excluding Rakon, who was defeated and KilledOffscreen by Quiet Bird instead in a CurbStombBattle]].
168* {{Expy}}: He is technically a composite expy of two characters, one being fictious and another being a real-life one: His role in the story is very similar to Dr. Daisuke Serizawa from the [[Film/{{Gojira}} very first Godzilla film]], as both men are inventors with an unusual weapon for their settings (Matchlock rifle and Oxygen Destroyer respectively) and being also the ''Katmandu'' version of [[spoiler:[[UsefulNotes/{{Pocahontas}} John Smith]], since he married with a Native women as a "gift", while the latter went with the foreigner in order to know other countries other than her own]].
169* InSeriesNickname: The Ratkind warriors called him "Old Smokey", after his matchlock rifle.
170* MightyWhitey: In a sense, as he is a foreigner from outside the Plains region and he hails from a much advanced culture, compared with the semi-barbarical setting of the comic, and that without going he is a Hoplite lion with blond hair, and with a ''matchlock rifle'', a weapon completely unknown in that place at Liska's era. To make matters worse, [[spoiler:He manipulated '''every single character''', Liska included, for his own personal gain, while the Natives sustained heavy losses, including the death of a clan leader]].
171* ObliviouslyEvil: It's heavily implied that, while his intentions are good, he was completely unaware of the effects from his own actions had on the Plains' Natives; through some actions, like [[spoiler:causing a wedge betwen Liska and Kress by using the latter to lure the monsters to the Plains]] were possibly intentional.
172[[/folder]]
173[[folder:Radwin]]
174!!Radwin
175[[quoteright:176:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kat_radwin.jpg]]
176Hesta's younger sister. Just like her older sister, Radwin was kicked out from her home along with Hesta after their mother blamed them for not taking care of their step-siblings when Hesta fell down a well and broke her arm, something they first orchestrated to get rid of both sisters. Like her older, she became Pepper's assistant, who took care of them and taught them everything they needed to become fur traders.
177During her older sister's absences, [[spoiler:Radwin fell in love with Pepper, even though he was older than her]], and when her older sister returned from a trip, [[spoiler:she caught the two of them having sex. At first Hesta thought Pepper had raped her, but Radwin quickly clarified that it was all consensual and she wanted to marry him. Later, the two had several children over the years]]. She only appears in the "Beginnings and Endings" sub-arc.
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179* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Overlaps with CoitusInterruptus, since [[spoiler:Hesta caught her having sex with Pepper, their mentor, when the former returned from a long travel]].
180* ParentalAbandonment: Just like her older sister Hesta, she was kicked from her home by her mother thanks to a devious plan created by her step-siblings in order to get rid of both girls so they could all the atention just for them.
181
182[[/folder]]
183!Other Characters
184
185[[folder:Gomarrin]]
186!!Gomarrin
187[[quoteright:143:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kat_gomorrin.png]]
188 [[caption-width-right:143:Any similarity to a certain [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Japanese giant lizard]] who loves [[TheTokyoFireball to wreck havok on its capital city]] is [[BlatantLies just a coincidence]].]]
189A giant T-Rex-like monster wandering the Plains region, killing and destroying anything in its path and the main antagonist of ''The Hunt'' sub-arc. The presence of that monster caused that all the warriors of the region, including the ones from the Highland tribe, to join forces in order to kill it before it could rampage their homes. [[spoiler:The things went south when it turns out [[ThereIsAnother another, more dangerous relative of the first slain Gomorrin]] appeared in order to exact revenge against the Natives]]. At very end of the sub-arc, [[spoiler:it turns out both monsters were lured by Kress by orders of Indigo to the Plains region in order to test his flintlock rifle, at the expense of the lives of many people]].
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191* EyeScream: [[spoiler:The first Gomorrin was defeated this way when Indigo blinded her by shooting in her eyes. Unfortunately for him, the same tactic didn't work for her rampaging, avenging mate, since his skin was much resiliant to anything, including bullets]].
192* {{Expy}}: From both [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} the King of the Monsters itself]], except this one has a horn in its head, and lacks Godzilla's Atomic Breath, or anything supernatural, for that matter, and also Gomora, a recurrent Godzilla-like kaiju from the ''[[Franchise/UltraSeries Ultraman]]'' franchise.
193* FromBadToWorse: After the Natives [[spoiler:managed to kill the first Gomorrin, which turned to be female, her mate went into a literal RoaringRampageOfRevenge over the entire cast, and this one was much ''tougher'' to defeat than the female]].
194* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale:[[spoiler: Inverted, the second, male Gomorrin the Natives face after they killed the female one was much tougher and dangerous than his female mate]].
195* OutsideContextVillain: ''Big time'': Until this point, all the foes Liska and her tribe has faced had being either wild beasts or humanoid-sized enemies (like Willoem, Rakon and [[spoiler:the Amazons]]), which she normally faced them using either diplomacy or brute force. The Gomorrin is the first foe she had to use both her wits and her skill as a warrior in order to defeat [[spoiler:the first Gomorrin and her avenging mate]].
196* RentAZilla: In a comic book that deals mostly with either romance, slice-of-life or tribal warfare, you wouldn't expect Liska and her tribe to face one of these, don't you?
197* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: A very literal example, as [[spoiler:the second Gomorrin does this on the whole cast after they killed his female mate]].
198[[/folder]]
199
200[[folder:Patches]]
201!!Pajalis aka Patches
202[[quoteright:106:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kat_patches.jpg]]
203 [[caption-width-right:106:Patches, as designed by Ursula Husted.]]
204[floatboxright:
205'''Age:''' 18 (at issue 28), about 36 (final arc)\
206'''Height:''' Unknown\
207'''Date of Birth''': A.K. 1749\
208'''Race''': Velite (Mixed)]
209She makes her debut in the "Wicked Ways" sub-arc; Pajalis, also known as Patches by everyone else, including her family, was the younger member of a family of people who roamed in the Highlands with the intention of leeching as much as food as they could from their hosts, taking advantage from their SacredHospitality traditions. While trying to do the same with Liska's Highland tribe, she was captured by Hesta and she became Liska's virtual hostage in order to figure out Patches and her family's intentions. [[spoiler:When her father and her elder sisters kidnapped Thea in order to force Liska to bring back Patches with her, the former decided to marry Patches in order to keep her in the Highland tribe and also to rescue Thea from Patches' family]].
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211* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: As a result of [[spoiler:being Liska's wife, she become the mother of her children by kinship, something that shocked Thea after Liska rescued her, and [[TakeThat Patches scold her afterwards.]] Keep in mind both Patches and Thea were both ''18 years old'' when the former debuted.]]
212* ArrangedMarriage: With [[spoiler:Liska, in order to force Patches' father to let Patches to stay in the tribe]].
213* DependingOnTheArtist: Literally: Unlike with the rest of the cast, Patches, along with Quiet Bird and Dancing Star, are the only characters with no official standarized designs, since they were introduced much later in the story, and by the time she was introduced, [[ArtShift the whole comic was switching artists at almost every issue after Shawntae Howard, the then-official artist until issue #24, left the franchise due to health problems]].
214* {{Expy}}: Design-wise, of Shanda Bruin from ''Shanda the Panda'', except being younger and a feline. This is nodded at issue 33, when the artist gave her bear ears.
215* IChooseToStay: Since Patches [[spoiler:married with Liska, she choose to stay in her tribe rather than continue being her family's personal slave, much for her father and sister's disgust]].
216* InformedSpecies: She is supposed to be a feline like everyone else, but she looks more like a lemur or a raccoon with cat ears instead. This is even worse at issue 33, since the artist gave her bear ears, making her look like a panda with a cat tail.
217* InSeriesNickname: Her real name was Pajalis, but everyone in-universe called her "Patches", due to her black patches of fur in her otherwise white coat.
218* ItsAllMyFault: During the final issue of the "Wicked Ways" sub-arc, Patches cries since [[spoiler:she blames herself for the whole situation when Thea was kidnapped by her family, and Liska, Giles and Hesta where planning to rescue her, even if that meant having to kill Patches' father and her sisters. It took both her and Shaygin to make Liska change her mind on trying to kill her family]].
219* MayDecemberRomance: [[spoiler:Despite being basically forced to marry with Liska, who at that point she was in her later 30s-earlier 40s, while Patches was at most 18, in order to rescue her daughter Thea, she really loved her and Liska reciprocated her love too]].
220* ShrinkingViolet: At least when she was young. In stark contrast with [[spoiler:Shaygin, Elishaa and Wassil, who were more assertive enough to talk with Liska in mostly equal terms, she was, on the other hand, somewhat more shy and withdrawn towards her new [[SheIsTheKing husband]]]], and she was more worried about Liska's safety than Shaygin, which at that point she had already matured enough from her previous crybaby persona from her younger years. She finally shed that image when she grew up later on during the final arc.
221* TheUnfavorite: Her father and her sisters basically used her as a glorified slave in order to get free food for them
222[[/folder]]
223[[folder:Patches' Father]]
224!!Patches' father
225The [[NoNameGiven nameless father]] of Patches; he, along with his daughters, are land roamers trying to leech as much food as they can from their hosts. The things went for worst for them and his other two daughters when [[spoiler:they kidnapped Thea in order to force Liska to bring back Patches to them (see above for more details)]]
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227* DomesticAbuse: He treated Patches as a glorified slave in order to get food for him and his sisters. This is one of the reasons why Patches choose to stay in the Highland tribe and later [[spoiler:to marry with Liska]].
228* FatBastard: It's more than obvious he was the one who eat the most, compared with his daughters.
229* NoNameGiven: For some reason, we never knew his real name, in stark contrast with his daughters, since all of them are named.
230[[/folder]]
231[[folder:Sheel and Kethlyn]]
232!!Sheel and Kethlyn
233Patches' elder sisters, [[BigSisterBully for any value of sisters anyway]]; they, along with their father, are part of their family's schemes on getting food for free [[HoneyTrap by using their charms on all the male warriors of the Highland tribe]] including Pyndan and even Giles, much for the disgust of Thea.
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235* BigSisterBully: They don't care personally about their sister Patches and, just like their father, both girls are using her as their personal slave and also their bait in order to get food for them.
236* HoneyTrap: Both girls flirt with all the male warriors of the tribe, including people with established couples like Pyndan and Giles, causing a outroar in the whole village due to their behavior.
237[[/folder]]
238[[folder:Witch of the Woods]]
239!!The Witch of the Woods
240A Ratkind witch which appears in the sub-arc of the same name; this [[{{Gonk}} really ugly being]] tried to kill Liska when the latter wanted to move her people to the deep woods after the Plains region suffered a drought, forcing the Highland tribe to move there. [[spoiler:After a fierce battle, Liska killed her by stabbing her in her heart with an iron knife [[ChekhovsGun Hesta gave her years ago]]]].
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242* AchillesHeel: [[spoiler:For some unexplained reason, iron-based weapons can kill her, something that Liska found out accidentally when, in a sheer act of despair, she stabbed the witch with an iron knife Hesta gave her years ago]].
243* {{Expy}}:
244** She is basically an anthro, rodent version of [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Gollum]], except being able to use magic, and being even ''more disgusting and disturbing'' than him, on the grounds she was a rat.
245** Also, she is likely an expy from [[spoiler:Tongpu, The Mad Pierrot]] from ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', as both are [[spoiler:[[EvilOldFolks insane, murderous old people]] who want to kill the main protagonists of their stories]], and just like in ''Cowboy Bebop'', [[spoiler:both characters are killed by using knives when all the better alternatives, including long-range attacks and melee, didn't dent them at the slightest, through the witch died more quickly compared with Pierrot, who was incidentally killed by a third party, in that case, crushed by a robot]].
246* FanDisservice: She appears topless before Liska, who wouldn't be so unusual for the standards of the story, if wasn't for the fact her skin, including her breasts, was completely ''decaying''.
247* {{Gonk}}: As if the art style used in her first and last issue she appeared ''wasn't unsettling enough'', she is easily the most disgusting-looking character in the whole story, [[BrainBleach looking like an unholy mix-up between]] [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Master Splinter]] with [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Gollum]].
248[[/folder]]
249[[folder:Klikatat]]
250!!Klikatat
251[[StringyHairedGhostGirl A mysterious dark-haired girl with white fur]] that appears in the deep woods during "The Witch of the Woods" sub-arc while explaining to Liska the names of the animals living inside the titular forest. She seem to had a weird link with the titular witch... [[spoiler:[[MindScrew or maybe not]]]].
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253* AmbiguousSituation: We don't really what exactly happened at the end, but it's heavily implied that [[spoiler:the titular witch was just a henchwoman for her, and the real BigBad was her all the time; it's also implied that the witch was really once a person who entered the forest and was cursed by Klikatat before her death, turning her into monster]].
254* {{Curse}}: The ending of the story heavily implies that [[spoiler:Liska was cursed by Klikatat, and that curse became hereditary, as Thorin also saw her behind Leah at the end of the issue]].
255* {{Expy}}: Very likely from characters based in Japanese horror media popular at the time, like [[Literature/TheRing Sadako Yamamura]], [[Film/JuOn Kayako Saeki]], and [[Anime/HellGirl Ai Enma]], as she shares personalities and similarities with those characters, including the very likely possibility of [[spoiler:either she cursed Liska, or just warning her that her death was approaching her soon. Considering the issue which appeared her was the final issue before the final arc, when Liska finally died]]...
256* NightmareFace: [[spoiler:She does one when she vanished from the forest, but not before warning Liska that her demise is coming close]].
257* MeaningfulName: In-universe, her name in an ancient language means [[spoiler:the sound of the bones rattling, which is quite fitting for someone with a very nightmarish face before dissapearing for good]].
258* StringyHairedGhostGirl: A western, furry version of this trope could be applied to her, as she fits with this.
259[[/folder]]
260[[folder:Kress]]
261!!Kress
262[[quoteright:114:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kat_kress.jpg]]
263
264Kress was a slave girl-turned prostitute appearing during "The Quest for Magic" and "The Hunt" sub-arcs, who worked in a neighboring tribe ruled by Chief Pownetkee's brother when Liska, Pyndan and Rial went to take a rest during the first's vision quest. She is also notable for being the only female outside Liska's harem and immediate family which she had sex with, despite not being married with her. She went to find Liska again during the events of "The Hunt" in order to marry with her. [[spoiler:It turns outs this was a ruse from her, with the help of Indigo, in order to manipulate her, her tribe and the other Native tribes, in order for Indigo to test his new matchlock rifle, and that without going with the fact she helped Indigo to lure the Gomarrin monsters to the Plains region in order to do so. After Liska knew the true, as a retalation she "gave" Kress to Indigo as his wife in order to both saving face within both her tribe and the other Native tribes, especially if they knew Kress' relation with Liska, and also as a revenge. To make the matters worse, it was implied that was Indigo's plan from a beginning. Oddly enough, Kress agreed with her regarding her own "punishment", but that didn't prevented Liska from regreting this later for the rest of her life]].
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266* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Just like Liska, Kress and her fellow slave friends are basically more like between glorified prostitutes or Native American-looking {{Geisha}}s rather than slaves. While we don't know much details about their backstories, outside Kress was MadeASlave by her family in order to pay a debt, they seem to be treated ''much better'' than any other human women in the same circunstances in the same equivalent time period. This was not universal in all Native American tribes, though.
267* {{Expy}}: If Indigo is basically [[spoiler:John Smith]], Kress is basically [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/{{Pocahontas}} as a former slave/prostitute, rather than the daughter of a tribal chief, and also being somewhat more amoral than her human counterpart]].
268* OldFlame: Kress was the only female character who had sex with Liska despite not being married with her, as Chief Pownetkee's brother offered her to our main heroine for one night since Kress was a slave, and after she gained her freedom again, she went to find Liska in order to marry her.
269[[/folder]]
270[[folder: Commander Arn, Vorin and his Men]]
271[[quoteright:260:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kat_raiders.jpg]]
272 [[caption-width-right:260:Commander Arn and Vorin. Not pictured here: The rest of their men.]]
273Arn, Vorin and his men were a group of evil Hoplite raiders who were exiled from the Hoplite lands after commiting many crimes there, and they were wandering across the Plains region in order to find a village to plunder. Unfortunately for them, they chosed the Highland tribe (and Liska) to mess with...
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275* ArcVillain: From the "Woman of Honor" sub-arc.
276* {{Expy}}: Commander Arn is this of the Bandit Boss from ''Film/SevenSamurai'', very likely nodded as one his men wears an eye-patch, just like that character from the film did.
277* LeaveNoSurvivors: Both Liska and Chief Pownetkee killed all the war party by themselves, while the former killed three by her own hand. Arn himself was killed by Liska [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere when trying to escape]], but the latter intercepts him, stabs his arm with a knife and finally, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard she finished him off by loping his arm with his own spear]].
278* RapePillageAndBurn: Their main speciality, until they choose the wrong village to screw with.
279* WouldHitAGirl: They killed [[spoiler:Kayce with a arrow through her heart from afar, and one of them also broke Panka's arm. They also tried to kill Mother Sanna, when Liska appeared and killed the attacker with a spear]].
280[[/folder]]
281[[folder:The Goddess]]
282!!The Goddess
283[[quoteright:299:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kat_goddess.jpg]]
284The [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] monotheistic goddess worshipped in the planet Katmandu. Despite only appearing physically in two story arcs and being mentioned continously by almost everyone else, she plays a big role in the lives of many characters, mainly [[spoiler:Liska and Pyndan]], in a negative way.
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286* AmbiguouslyEvil: Many of her actions done in the comic, in hindsight, could be portrayed as pointlessly mean, and in some cases, outright evil, like:
287** Cursing the entire [[spoiler:Pyndan's family just because one of his ancestors did a selfish act against a child, while it turned out the Goddess herself was impersonating an old woman following that child [[ForTheEvulz in order to lure Pyndan's ancestor]]; the only reason this part falls in the ambiguous part is because the real reason why Pyndan's, and by default, Liska and Leah's families were also affected by the same "curse", was because their families had a nasty case of Rh-incompatibility in their blood, something explained by Leah and WordOfGod in and out-universe respectively]].
288** Liska got even worse, as [[spoiler:as being in the receiving end of Pyndan's "curse" wasn't enough for her, the Goddess gave her a SuicidalSadisticChoice in order for Liska to became a warrior: Becoming either a prostitute, the wife of a deadbeat abusive husband, or becoming a warrior, but dying a painful death in combat alone. Liska chose the warrior's path, which, while being the less suckiest of the three options, still caused lots of pains in her life and, in the large scale of the things, was the catalyst of a even bigger disaster that befall planet Katmandu by causing a 200-year long war between the two feline races that dominate the planet]], and, unlike [[spoiler:Pyndan]], [[UngratefulBitch neither she or any of her ancestors had anything that could had wronged the Goddess in the past, considering how Liska was pretty devoted to her]].
289** Even worse that, according with Towakota in the "Runt" sub-arc, the Amazons, the race of [[spoiler:saber-tooth tigers which Quiet Bird belonged to]] were almost exterminated by the other races living in the planet Katmandu by her orders, since they were considered as demons by her.[[note]]Assuming, of course, they were killed using her name as a convenient excuse, just like in RealLife[[/note]]. The fact the Amazons killed their male, weak heirs didn't help matters either.
290* CrystalDragonJesus: She is basically the Abrahamic {{God}}, except being female, and having many shapes, depending of the species of the person worshipping her.
291* DealWithTheDevil: Inverted: Liska, and very likely anyone who wanted to be a warrior, basically made a deal with the Goddess for her to give them her blessings, at a ''very steep'' price. In [[spoiler:Liska's case, she had to, because [[SuicidalSadisticChoice her other choices are even worse]], and while her desire]] was the least worst of all her choices, it wasn't exactly a nice one either, because, in hindsight [[spoiler:it caused lots of unnecesary pains for her, her mate Rial died, she had to step away from Pyndan, her SecondLove, she had to become a somewhat distant figure for her own children in order to become a good leader, and at the very end of her life, she had to [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice her life in order to protect her family and tribe]]]], [[DarkAndTroubledPast and that without mention]] losing her parents, and being MadeASlave before all this, which makes you wonder how "benevolent" the goddess really is.
292* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: According with WordOfGod, the Goddess can take the shape of any of the species that dwells the planet Katmandu.
293* SuicidalSadisticChoice: And ''holy shit'' HOW for [[spoiler:Liska]]. The Goddess gave her the following choices for life in order to receive her blessings, and all of them are equally bad, not just for her, but also for her loved ones:
294** Living with [[spoiler:Pyndan, whose family was previously cursed by the Goddess, until he died on battle, and becoming a prostitute in order to survive, while she, her children and Mother Sanna were exiled from the tribe]], very likely as result of being a whore.
295** Marrying with [[spoiler:Rial]], and losing her warrior status as a result. The tradeoff? [[spoiler:Rial dies in battle, and having to marry with a very abusive and alcoholic husband afterwards, while her children are starving. Oh, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and Mother Sanna exiled herself in order to protect Liska and her children, dying in the process]]]].[[note]]To top it off, had Liska renounced her warrior status, it would very likely that Rial, who has suffered a giant TraumaCongaLine at the hands of Liska during her VisionQuest, had retaliated against her in the worst way possible, considering how vindictive he was.[[/note]]
296** And the one she ends choosing, while being the LesserOfTwoEvils, in hindsight it was '''much worse''', not just for [[spoiler:Liska]], but also for her entire family, and also for the [[ApocalypseMaiden entire planet Katmandu]]: While [[spoiler:she had a long life, it wasn't exactly a nice one either, since, as already mentioned below, her decision also caused the death of Rial, she almost died due to childbirth, causing her to take the [[VowOfCelibacy black drink]], screwing her relationship with Pyndan beyond repair, and, at the very end of her life, having to perform [[BuryYourGays a very brutal]] HeroicSacrifice in order to save her tribe]]. At least, she ended up being remembered as a legendary heroine for her descendants and the rest of the people of the planet Katmandu. Oh, did we forgot to say [[spoiler:Liska's decision on taking down Rakon using rifles likely sparked a 200-years war between the two main feline races on the planet?]]
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