Line #126 Characters/TheHeroes


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2	'''The Union'''\
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4	'''The North'''\
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9	Characters introduced or appearing prominently in Joe Abercrombie's ''The Heroes'', a standalone sequel to ''Literature/TheFirstLaw'' trilogy.
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14	!Curnden Craw
15	Leader of a crew of Named Men, known to all as a real straight edge.
16	%%%* AFatherToHisMen
17	* CatchPhrase: "Those are the times."
18	%%%* NotQuiteTheRightThing: How he views his SadisticChoice.
19	* OldSoldier: He's getting old and the years are catching up to him, but he's still a good fighter.
20	* SadisticChoice: Faced with one when [[spoiler:his old friend and former chief's son Calder attempts to turn him against his new chief.]]
21	* UndyingLoyalty: Famed for stellar loyalty.
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23	!Prince Calder
24	Bethod's ''younger'' son, a charmer and schemer among the straightforward warriors of the North. Introduced in ''Literature/TheFirstLaw''.
25	* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: With his wife Sef, and occasionally comes through in interactions with his older brother [[TheBrute Scale]]. In the end, [[spoiler:played straight as he gives Scale rulership of the North.]]
26	* BlueOniRedOni: With Scale. Calder's blue.
27	* TheCasanova: His love for his wife is enough to make him swear off other women. Well, almost enough.
28	* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: By the end of ''The Heroes''.]]
29	* CurbStompBattle [[spoiler:Dow doesn't even break a sweat against him.]]
30	* DirtyCoward: By his own admission.
31	* GuileHero: A rare example among the Northmen, although "Hero" is a pretty generous term for anyone given the setting. Calder's well known for trying to think or talk his way out of a problem rather than fight his way out.
32	--> Black Dow: I got no shortage of men can kick a door down. I can use a couple who’ll think to try the handle once in a while.
33	* HotGuyUglyWife: Not ''ugly'' per se, but Sef's most mentioned physical trait is her pig nose.
34	* ManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Ends up as this to Scale.]]
35	* ManipulativeBastard: Dead set on reclaiming his father's throne from Black Dow.
36	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Doesn't start with one, since he's never earned it. [[spoiler:Then after he defeats Black Dow in the circle (with a little help), people start calling him Black Calder.]]
37	* NonActionGuy: He's completely useless in a fight.
38	* RageBreakingPoint: After [[spoiler:Scale's apparent death]], Calder's response is uncharacteristically hot-headed.
39	* ShutUpHannibal / ShutUpKirk: Depending on your perspective, delivers a pretty awesome one to [[spoiler:Black Dow, so much so that many of the people there to watch Dow butcher him start laughing.]]
40	* SmugSmiler: Wears his smirk like armor.
41	* SmugSnake: Zig-zagged throughout ''The Heroes''. He repeatedly schemes himself into a corner and wriggles out in unexpected ways, until [[spoiler:Bayaz finally traps him. And then he escapes ''that'' through brotherly love.]]]
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43	!Bremer dan Gorst
44	King Jezal's disgraced former bodyguard, now a special observer on the war from the Closed Council of the Union. Introduced in Literature/TheFirstLaw.
45	* AscendedExtra: Had a minor role in the original trilogy before being promoted to a main character in ''The Heroes''.
46	* TheAtoner: Tries to redeem himself in battle after failing to protect his king in ''Best Served Cold''.
47	* BloodKnight: After his fall from grace, fighting is the only thing that makes him feel alive.
48	* TheBigGuy: His role in the Union's army.
49	* CannotSpitItOut: Has been in love with Finree for years. [[spoiler:When he finally does tell her, it goes disastrously.]]
50	* DudeWheresMyRespect: Bremer is a bit of a laughing stock due to his piping voice and his disgraceful exit from the King's service, but he's very intelligent and the best warrior the Union has. He silently rages about the lack of respect and appreciation he gets.
51	* TheEeyore: While his sour attitude initially seems like a natural reaction to the miserable state of both his life and the war, near the end [[spoiler: he receives the royal forgiveness and reinstating into his previous position as royal bodyguard that he's spent the whole novel yearning for and working towards, and is happy for all of five minutes - after which he promptly finds new reasons to pity himself.]]
52	* GreenEyedMonster: His unrequited love for Finree has turned him into this, to the point where he [[spoiler: attempts to murder the already wounded Harod dan Brock.]]
53	* LightningBruiser: Bremer is a hulk of a man and able to fight with amazing speed as well.
54	* MasterSwordsman: Bremer is the best fighter the Union has, not that he gets much respect for it.
55	* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Subverted, he's got nothing but contempt for Jezal. Ironically, Jezal is deeply loyal to Bremer.
56	* NeverMyFault: Insists that he was wrongfully blamed for the disaster at Cardotti's House of Leisure in ''Best Served Cold''. [[spoiler: In fact, he was drunk out of his mind and whoring around when Jezal needed him, and Finree's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to him reveals that it wasn't the first time. However, in the short story ''Wrong Place, Wrong Time'' from the collection ''Sharp Ends'', it's revealed that, rather than being passed out drunk and whoring, Gorst was sobbing on a prostitute's lap as she soothed him, showing that Gorst had been dealing with depression for quite some time before ''The Heroes''. Once he heard the chaos break out, he immediately rushed to find the king, barreling into Shivers who promptly headbutts him, sending Gorst sprawling down the stairs.]]
57	* VocalDissonance: His high, child-like voice notably clashes with his brutish appearance, to his eternal shame.
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59	!Finree dan Brock
60	A Union noblewoman with ambitious plans.
61	* DamselOutOfDistress: She [[spoiler:negotiates her own release and that of a number of other prisoners from [[AxeCrazy Black Dow.]]]]
62	* DeadpanSnarker
63	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's opinionated and has a sharp tongue, but she's a good, charitable person at heart.
64	* ManipulativeBitch
65	* SurroundedByIdiots: Having been raised by a talented military officer, she's quick to notice all the failings of the officers around her.
66	* YouJustHadToSayIt: Despite her intelligence and charm, Finree can't stop herself from sassing some people when it's not socially appropriate.
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68	!Corporal Tunny
69	Standard-bearer of the First, a veteran Union soldier.
70	* CowardlyLion: [[spoiler: Subverted. He's suicidally brave when his adrenaline's going, and spends the battle trying to repress it.]]
71	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He acts cynical towards the rookies under his care and charges them for anything he can, but he also does his best to keep them alive.
72	* OldSoldier: While not ''that'' old, he's a long-time veteran and is much older than his immediate underlings.
73	* RedshirtArmy: He's in one.
74	* TheScrounger: His specialty is finding things and selling them to his subordinates, keeping them reliant on him for everything.
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76	!Beck
77	A Northern lad of seventeen, whose father was a famous champion.
78	* DirtyCoward: Deconstructed. Beck abandons his comrades and hides during a battle, but it's part of the deconstruction of warfare. Who ''would'' want to participate in such an atrocious waste of human life?
79	* DramaticIrony: [[spoiler:Beck becomes a Named Man, doing so by hiding in a pile of corpses and getting covered in blood, so that his comrades believe he'd fought through hell to survive.]]
80	* {{Jerkass}}: Well, he ''is'' seventeen.
81	** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Of course, throughout the novel there are obvious signs that Beck cares, and that much of his jerkish behaviour is overcompensating. [[spoiler:And while a good part of his aversion to war is (arguably sensible) cowardice, much more of it has to do with the fact that he's just not a killer, and after his first taste of battle, he doesn't want to be.]]
82	* MommasBoy: He was raised by his mother, but abandons her and his siblings to become a man. When the realities of being a warrior dawn on him, he starts thinking a lot about his mother. [[spoiler:He returns to her in the end.]]
83	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Kills a comrade after spending most of a battle hiding. When the northman veterans give him a name, he tries to correct them, but he's too exhausted and traumatized to do so. At the end of the novel, he confesses this to Craw hoping to be punished, and when Craw simply says he's seen and heard stories like that dozens of times, he only feels worse.]]
84	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:At the end of the battle, having seen enough of his father's lifestyle.]]
85	* SmallNameBigEgo: His ''father'' was Shama Heartless.
86	* TookALevelInKindness: One of the ''very'' few in the First Law Universe. [[spoiler:He goes from being a selfish, vain, jerkass of a teenager who dreams of being a butcher on the battlefield to a humble, caring man content to live the rest of his life on a farm and forget about the war.]]
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92	!Wonderful
93	Craw's second-in-command.
94	* ActionGirl: Something of a rarity among Northerners, who lean more towards StayInTheKitchen.
95	* CombatPragmatist
96	* DeadpanSnarker
97	* HappilyMarried: Has a husband and kids back at home, whom she visits between jobs. [[spoiler:They were either killed or packed up and left years ago, and she couldn't bear to tell anyone.]]
98	* TheLadette
99	* TheLancer: To Craw. [[spoiler:Later to Dow, when she takes command of his Carls.]]
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101	!Whirrun of Bligh
102	A hero from a valley in the far north of the North, and a member of Craw's dozen.
103	* {{BFS}}: The Father of Swords, an impossibly large two-hander.
104	* BunnyEarsLawyer: People put up with his gonzo personality because he's such a good fighter.
105	* BoisterousBruiser: He's usually chipper, even during war, partly because he [[ForeseeingMyDeath knows when and how he'll die]].
106	* CharacterDevelopment: In "The Fool Jobs," a story concerning Craw's crew several years before ''The Heroes'', Whirrun is new to the band, so he's detached from his comrades and rather reticent. By the time of ''The Heroes'', he's an old hand with the group won't shut up about whatever is on his mind.
107	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Acts like a weird goofball most of the time.
108	* FamedInStory: Other Northmen spend the time between battles talking about his ridiculous list of accomplishments.
109	* ForeseeingMyDeath: He has no fear because the witch Shoglig told him to the day and manner of his death. He often gloats that today is not the day of his prophesied death, so he is sure to overcome his enemies. [[spoiler:Subverted when he's mortally wounded by a random spear. As he lay dying, he's not too happy to realize that Shoglig had no idea what she'd been talking about all along]].
110	* ImplausibleFencingPowers: Whirrun can somehow use the impractically large Father of Swords to deadly effect. Bremer dan Gorst has never seen such swordsmanship.
111	* MasterSwordsman: His swordsmanship skills are legendary. [[spoiler: Gorst, a MasterSwordsman himself, regards him as a WorthyOpponent when they meet on the battlefield.]]
112	* NonIndicativeName: He's never even been to Bligh. That's just the northernmost place that anyone locally has ever heard of, so he's assumed to be from around there.
113	* WalkingShirtlessScene: Has less clothes on every time he fights. [[spoiler: This ultimately gets him killed.]]
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115	!Scale
116	Bethod's older son and one of Black Dow's five War Chiefs. Introduced in Literature/TheFirstLaw.
117	* AwesomeButImpractical: he wears a horned helmet into battle. [[spoiler: in their fight, Gorst grabs a hold of one of the horns and hammers its impracticality into Scale's head.Literally.]]
118	* BigBrotherInstinct: In spite of having nothing in common with his witty, wimpy half-brother Calder, he loves him and protects him from his own sharp tongue.
119	* BigBrotherMentor: Tries to be this to Calder, but Calder's twice as smart as he is. His presence does dissuade people from just killing Calder, though.
120	* TheBrute: Not a bad guy, really, but only understands solving things through violence.
121	* DualWielding: Sword and mace combo.
122	* DumbMuscle: Played so very straight.
123	* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Loses his hand and is captured by the Union, but Bayaz returns him to Calder at the end.]]
124	* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Calder's blue.
125	* PuppetKing: [[spoiler:Implied to end up as this, with Calder directing his every move.]]
126	* YouShallNotPass: Does this at the old bridge. [[spoiler:It doesn't work.]]
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128	!The War Chiefs
129	Black Dow's five generals, all leaders in their own right with a claim to the North. Consists of [[DumbMuscle Scale]] (see above), [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Glama Golden]], [[TheStoic Cairm Ironhead]], [[CoolOldGuy Caul Reachey]], and [[YesMan Brodd Tenways.]]
130	* {{Gonk}}: Brodd Tenways, "ugly as incest."
131	* QuirkyMinibossSquad: for Dow.
132	* TheRival: Golden & Ironhead.
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134	!Stranger-Come-Knocking
135	A towering savage who brings his Northmen to Dow's cause.
136	* BloodKnight: Specifically joins Dow's army because he wants a good fight. He repeatedly asks about fighting his own allies, like Whirrun or Dow himself.
137	* TheDreaded: One of the most feared men in the North these days.
138	* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: After he captures Finree dan Brock, he makes it perfectly clear he intends to rape and impregnate her, being impressed with her boldness and wanting to have "civilized" children. Luckily, Finree gets to go free. Unluckily, her friend doesn't.
139	* KilledOffscreen: He died in the Circle against Stour Nightfall before the events of ''A Little Hatred''.
140	* LargeAndInCharge: He's a veritable giant and is chieftain of the region beyond the Cinna.
141	* TheMole: He's revealed to be [[spoiler:working for Bayaz]] at the end of ''The Heroes''.
142	* YouHaveFailedMe: He kills one of his men for trying to defile Finree, but only because he wants her for himself.
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