!!Princess Meredith (AKA Merry Gentry, Meredith [=NicEssus=])

* ActionGirl: She has killed people in duels and in her own words, she can put her fist through a car door.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Merry's power is to turn people into inside-out balls of flesh. Her other one is to cause spontaneous bleeding.
* TheChosenOne: The Goddess has chosen Merry as her vessel to bring life back to faerie.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Technically a mix of human, Sidhe and Brownie
%%* OfferedTheCrown
* RoyalBlood: She is the Queen's niece and third in line for the throne.

!!Doyle (AKA "The Darkness")

* AmbiguouslyGay: He and Frost are ''very'' close, to the point where Doyle gave up the Crown of Faerie to bring Frost back to life.
* BodyguardCrush: First on Queen Andais, later for Merry.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Baron Sweet Tongue. It doesn't mean what you think it means.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Half-Sidhe.
%%* OfferedTheCrown
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: As the Captain of the Queen's guard, he is officially the biggest badass in Faerie.

!!Frost (AKA "Killing Frost")

* AmbiguouslyGay: He and Doyle are ''very'' close.
%%* DefrostingIceQueen: No pun intended.
%%* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname
%%* TheStoic

!!Rhys

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Rhys hides immense and frightening power behind a jokester facade.
%%* EyepatchOfPower
* LightIsNotGood: Gorgeous exterior. Death god.
%%* TheOlderImmortal
%%* ScarsAreForever
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After his father was killed by a human, he wiped their entire race from history, down to the last baby.
* ReadTheFinePrint: Lost his eye because he agreed to sex with a goblin. He didn't know he could set a SafeWord beforehand.

!! Galen

* ImplausibleHairColor: Green.
* HenpeckedHusband: Not married to Merry, technically, but even he realizes how easily she can walk all over him.
* NiceGuy: Especially for an eons-old warrior.

!! Sholto (AKA "King of Nightmares", "King of the Sluagh", "Creature")

* DefrostingIceQueen: He comes a long way from the awkward young king in the first book.
* TheGoodKing: To the sluagh. Ironically, a hell of a lot better ruler than Andais or Taranis.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Half-sidhe, half-nightflyer, actually.
%%* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething
%%* SurprisinglySuddenDeath

!!Queen Andais

* AxCrazy: She got her start as a goddess of battle, and can become overwhelmed with bloodlust.
* BlowYouAway[=/=]CastingAShadow: She's called "The Queen of Air and Darkness" for a reason.
* CardCarryingVillain: Andais seems to relish her role as Evil Queen, and furthermore believes it's representative of what the Unseelie Court is and should be.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Andais has repeatedly shown herself willing to sacrifice her own happiness for the good of the Sidhe. She loves her son beyond reason, but she almost lost her shit when she found out Cel commandeered her dead brother's guard as his harem. When she realizes she is infertile, she decides to abdicate in favor of whichever of her heirs can create a child first, knowing that she has no right to hang on to the throne in a FisherKing situation.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Yeah, she's still a sadistic tyrant, though.
* YaoiFangirl: In lieu of having her guard have sex with her, she sometimes orders them to have sex with each other, and watches while they do it.

!!Prince Cel

%%* AxCrazy: Just like mommy...
%%* TheCaligula
%%* EvilPrince
%%* MommasBoy
%%* RoyalBrat
* VillainousCrush: He has a really squicky obsession with Merry.

!!King Taranis

* EvilUncle: After his MoralEventHorizon.
%%* FisherKing
* LightEmUp[=/=]MasterOfIllusion: Just as Andais is The Queen of Air and Darkness, he is The Lord of Light and Illusion.
* LightIsNotGood: He's all that is bright and shining and beautiful. And he's the BigBad.
* MeaningfulName: Taranis = "tyrannis"/"tyrant". Even ''Andais'' is a better ruler than he is.
%%* VillainWithGoodPublicity

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