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'''Warning: Spoilers below.'''
!!Main Characters

[[folder:Torak]]
Torak is the protagonist of the series. He lives with his father in seclusion until a bear possessed by a demon kills his father. He meets Wolf and discovers that he can actually communicate with him, resulting in Wolf becoming Torak's "pack brother" and guide. During the quest to kill the demon bear, Torak learns that he's the prophesied Listener whose destiny is to take down the creators of the bear, the Soul Eaters. It is revealed in ''Spirit Walker'' that he is also a spirit walker, a creature whose spirits can leave his body and take over other bodies. He and Renn are initially enemies when they meet in the first book. However, they become friends, in later books best friends, and in the last few books they become more than friends. When the series begins, he is twelve years old, and by the end of ''Ghost Hunter'', he is nearly sixteen.
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* AnimalEyeSpy: The spirit walking power allows him to do this.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:He falls to his death in ''Ghost Hunter'', but Wolf guides his spirit back to his body.]]
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Being a spirit walker, he's a BodySnatcher. He's still a good guy and does his best not to hurt anyone.
%%* BelligerentSexualTension: With Renn.
%%* BerserkButton:
* BlessedWithSuck: Spirit walking sounds awful.
%%* CharacterDevelopment
* TheChosenOne: He is in ''Wolf Brother'' the Listener who is prophesied to end the demon bear's threat over the Forest. In ''Oath Breaker'', it is revealed that [[spoiler:the World Spirit decreed that [[SinsOfOurFathers he must fight to undo the evil of the Soul Eaters which his father had helped to create]].]].
%%* DoomMagnet
* ColorCodedEyes: His gray eyes resemble those of a wolf, characterizing him as highly competent and responsible in the ChosenOne role.
* TheExile: He's made an outcast in ''Outcast'' for [[spoiler:having the Soul Eaters' symbol that was forcefully tattooed on him in the previous book]]. He manages to return to the clans at the end of the book by [[spoiler:vanquishing Seshru and one of the Fire Opal pieces at the same time]].
* EyeColourChange: After spirit-walking in trees in ''Oath Breaker'', he gains tiny green flecks in his eyes. He loses them after the Thunderstar destroys much of the Forest, and regains them following the Rite that brings the First Tree back.
* FatalFlaw: It's when he gets impatient that he neglects to listen to others and acts without thinking things through. For example, his desire to have his revenge on Thiazzi in ''Oath Breaker'' leads him to [[spoiler:leave Renn behind and inadvertently let her end up in the Oak Mage's clutches]], and in ''Wolfbane'', his desperation to end [[spoiler:Naiginn's]] threat once and for all leads him to risk becoming [[spoiler:outcasted again]].
* GoodScarsEvilScars: In ''Skin Taker'', [[spoiler:Naiginn]] slits his cheek, leaving a visible scar there.
%%* ImHavingSoulPains
* IronicName: Paver believed that Torak didn't mean anything, so she found it spooky to learn from an Inuit that it means in Greenlandic "perfect" -- something our protagonist most definitely isn't.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He doesn't have people skills in the beginning of the series and tends to rub people the wrong way with his impulsivity and hotheadedness, but he's still noble-minded and protective of those he loves.
* LastOfHisKind: According to Durrain, [[spoiler:all humans used to be spirit walkers, but Torak is the last one to ever exist]].
* MarkOfShame: [[spoiler:When he's exiled by the clans in ''Outcast'', he gains on his forehead a black circle so that everyone will know he's to be killed on sight. After this conviction is revoked, Fin-Kedinn divides the circle into four differently colored sections -- green for the Forest, blue for the Sea, white for the Far North, and red for the Mountains -- to make Torak belong to all the clans.]]
* TheOathBreaker: In ''[[TitleDrop Oath Breaker]]'', Torak vows through his three souls to kill Thiazzi as revenge for [[spoiler:Bale's murder]]. During the climax, he breaks his oath so that Thiazzi would let Renn go. While doing that is instrumental in [[spoiler:allowing Bale to rest in peace]], it's revealed in the next book that it possibly weakened the connection between Torak's three souls and made it easier for Eostra to make him a [[FateWorseThanDeath Lost One]].
%%* ParentalAbandonment
* PowerTrio: With Renn and Wolf.
* RaisedByWolves: When he was a baby, he was given to a female wolf be taken care of until his father could take care of him by himself.
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: His father taught him tracking so well that he's the best tracker of the Forest. Fin-Kedinn states that Torak inherited this gift from his mother, and his father taught him to use it so that he'd be attentive of the surrounding Forest and wouldn't make the same mistakes Fa did in not listening to others.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Wolves, ravens and bears! Oh my!
* TheStateless: [[spoiler:It's revealed in ''Outcast'' that he's not truly a member of the Wolf Clan or any other clan. His mother declared him clanless because (as it turns out in ''Oath Breaker'') the World Spirit didn't want any clan to grow more powerful than the others by having a spirit walker on their side. After Torak is accepted back by the clans, Fin-Kedinn alters his outcast tattoo so that it has the colors of the Forest, Sea, Ice and Mountain clans to mark him as a member of all the clans.]]
* SympathyForTheDevil: Torak hates most of the Soul Eaters, but he pities Nef after learning that she tried to commit suicide after her son's death and was saved by Fa. Before freeing the sacrifices, he tries to make her see the error of her ways, and after [[spoiler:she sacrifices herself]], he cries for her.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: In ''Outcast'', he grows into this.
* TheTeetotaler: ''Viper's Daughter'' states that he avoids intoxicating drinks because they grow the risk of making his souls wander.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: With Bale and Renn in ''Outcast''.
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[[folder:Renn]]
Renn is Torak's best friend, and later becomes his mate (Stone Age word for lover/girlfriend/wife). She has a very strong sense of justice and right and wrong. Like Torak, she has a very short temper, but unlike him, she is extremely rational and thinks before she acts. She is very tough, and purposely prickly, as she lost her parents at a young age. She can be very secretive. She is the best archer in the Raven Clan, and she is a very talented Mage, although she hates to use Magecraft. She is Fin-Kedinn's niece and his favorite person in the Clan. At the start of the series, she is twelve, and by the end of ''Ghost Hunter'', she is nearly sixteen.
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%%* ActionGirl
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: The rest of the Raven Clan generally avoid her because of her strange eyes and dreams that come true. They only tolerate her because she is Fin-Kedinn's niece, and Fin-Kedinn is the clan's leader.
* AlphaBitch: Only in the first half of ''Wolf Brother''.
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Torak. Also to a much, much lesser degree, with Bale, but only in ''Outcast''.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: Inverted. Renn's eyes are dark almost to the point of blackness, leading to most of her clan being wary of her. She's still a heroic soul.
* CainAndAbel: Her jerkish big brother Hord eventually disowns and strikes her in ''Wolf Brother'', but he perishes before their relationship can get any more sour. [[spoiler:However, the BigBad of the last three books, Renn's estranged half-brother Naiginn, has every intention of killing her once he realizes he can free himself from Seshru's charm without Renn's help.]]
%%* CharacterDevelopment
%%* DefrostingIceQueen
%%* DreamingOfThingsToCome
* DoomMagnet: Not to herself, but to the people she cares about. Dyrati straight out says her to be this in ''Outcast''.
* FieryRedhead: Spirits help you if you get on this redheaded heroine's bad side.
* FriendlessBackground: Torak and Wolf are the first real friends she has made.
%%* FreudianExcuse
* InsufferableGenius: In ''Wolf Brother'' and ''Soul Eater'', especially.
* MasterArcher: She's probably the best archer in the Forest.
* {{Nephewism}}: Her mother [[spoiler:is evil and on the run]], and her father died when she was seven years old, so her uncle Fin-Kedinn took her under his wing.
%%* OneOfTheBoys
%%* ParentalAbandonment
* PowerTattoo: In ''Soul Eater'', she gets lightning-bolt tattoos on her arms to protect herself from demons, especially when doing Magecraft.
* PowerTrio: With Torak and Wolf.
%%* RealWomenDontWearDresses
%%* RebelliousSpirit
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Renn goes more than once against the wishes of Fin-Kedinn and Saeunn in order to help Torak out, especially in ''Outcast'' when Torak is an outcast who cannot be helped by anyone who doesn't want to be outcasted as well.
%%* TheStoic
%%* SiblingRivalry: With her arrogant older brother Hord.
%%* SugarAndIcePersonality
%%* {{Tsundere}}
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: With Torak and Bale in ''Outcast''.
%%* UnkemptBeauty
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: She is strongly averse to going to an ice river in ''Wolf Brother'' because her father died while traveling on one.
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[[folder:Wolf]]
Torak finds Wolf when he is a cub and has lost his family to a flood. Torak realizes that he can communicate with Wolf, and Wolf becomes his "pack-brother". Wolf eventually finds a mate, Darkfur, and has cubs with her. Wolf initially dislikes Renn, and does not warm up to her until the second or third book. After that, he likes her nearly as much as he likes Torak, even calling her "pack-sister" while talking to Torak. Wolf is very loyal and does not leave his friends behind.
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* CanineCompanion: This wolf is Torak's guide and faithful pack-brother.
%%* CharacterDevelopment
* ADogNamedDog: A wolf named Wolf. Torak was recently orphaned when he named him and presumably wasn't in a good state of mind to come up with something more imaginative.
* NobleWolf: A pack oriented wolf. He is loyal to his pack (wolf or otherwise), mate, children, and friends.
* NonHumanSidekick: A wolf for Torak, a human.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Of his and Darkfur's first three cubs, only Pebble is alive. Click dies out of sickness one moon before ''Ghost Hunter'', while Shadow is killed by Eostra's eagle owl. In ''Skin Taker'', two more of their cubs, Blackpaw and Tug, are killed when the Thunderstar strikes.
* PapaWolf: In ''Oath Breaker'', he literally becomes this after mating with Darkfur. And he's just as protective of his cubs just as much as he's protective of his friends.
* PowerTrio: With Torak and Renn.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Lingonberries which Renn regularly feeds him.
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[[folder:Fin-Kedinn]]
Fin-Kedinn is the Leader of the Raven Clan. He was the older brother of Renn's father, and [[{{Nephewism}} took care of Renn after her father died]]. In fact, he made her bow and taught her to shoot. He is initially wary of Torak but lets him live with the Raven Clan and gradually warms up to him. He was once best friends with Torak's father. He eventually becomes Torak's foster-father, which is a great honor.
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* BadassNormal: In a story mainly about Mages, he has no powers at all. This does not make him any less awesome.
* CoolOldGuy: Possibly subverted. He is by the start of the series nearly forty summers old, but he's described as getting old in later books. However, people died younger 6000 years ago, so Fin-Kedinn could be considered old.
* DeathGlare: He has piercing blue eyes which he can use to silence just about anyone with just one look.
* DoomMagnet: Pretty much everyone he loves dies and/or somehow gets tangled with the Soul Eaters. [[spoiler:His friends Fa and Tenris and sister-in-law Seshru join the Soul Eaters and die; his brother as well as his nephew Hord are killed in an avalanche; his friend Oslak is killed by Tenris' plague; the woman he loves dies in childbirth, and his entire clan suffers from an unnatural plague two times. Narrander is about the only friend he has who ''doesn't'' die, [[GoMadFromTheRevelation not that that's any comfort]]]].
* FieryRedHead: Zig-zagged. He's redheaded like his niece and nephew, and he was described to have a fiery temper when he was younger. He has nerves of steel nowadays, but when he gets angry, beware.
* TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest: He used to have a crush on [[spoiler:Torak's mom]]. He handles it pretty well, but never fully gets over it. It ruined the promising relationship he had with a woman from the Wolf Clan.
* HandicappedBadass: His leg is injured by the demon bear, forcing him to walk with a staff for the rest of the series. That doesn't make him any less intimidating or resolute.
* IcyBlueEyes: The stoical chieftain has hard blue eyes.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: [[spoiler:Averted for the majorty of the series despite some close calls, but then played straight in the GrandFinale to finish off Naiginn once and for all, which leads to Dark being chosen as the new Raven Leader.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:He denied shelter from Torak's parents out of anger and jealousy, and never saw them again. He confesses that he possibly caused the death of Torak's mother this way.]]
* PapaWolf: Towards his niece. He also grows protective of Torak. In ''Outcast'', he's sad that Torak is banished, but goes along with it. At the book's end, however, when the clans are about to kill Torak while wrongfully blaming him for [[spoiler:the flood]], Fin-Kedinn suddenly takes Torak as his foster-son and says that if the clansmen want to kill Torak, they have to kill him first.
* ParentalSubstitute: He has taken care of Renn and Hord since their father's death. He also becomes one to Torak to the point that he fosters him in ''Outcast''. Dark also admits in ''Skin Taker'' that he wishes Fin-Kedinn were his father.
* SecretKeeper: It's revealed in ''Ghost Hunter'' that he knew [[spoiler:the Walker is the Soul Eater Narrander who supposedly died in the Great Fire]], but he had sworn to keep this a secret.
%%* SugarAndIcePersonality
* TheStoic: The Raven Leader doesn't easily show emotion or reveal his thoughts.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: With Torak's parents years before the events of the series.
* UnbalancedByRivalsKid: It takes him a ''really'' long time to warm up to Torak, insofar as he ever does.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Torak's father was his best friend until the Soul Eaters came along. Same thing with [[spoiler:Tenris]]. He also refers to the Walker as an old friend, but their current relationship can hardly be called friendship.
* WoundThatWillNotHeal: The demon bear scars his left thigh during the first book, forcing him to walk with a staff for the rest of the series. By the time of the final books, the scar has kept getting more painful despite Renn and Dark's efforts, and the Walker assesses that Fin-Kedinn's marrow is being eaten and he will be rendered unable to walk. [[spoiler:After Fin-Kedinn dies, Torak sees through Wolf's eyes his spirit [[HealthyInHeaven walking without the scar paining him anymore]].]]
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[[folder:SPOILER CHARACTER]]
[[WMG:Naiginn]]
Naiginn is a young hunter from the Narwal Clan, the son of their Mage Marupai, and the best hunter of the Far North. In ''Viper's Daughter'', he meets Renn and becomes her guide in her quest to seek a solution to her strange secret desire to kill Torak. He is one year younger than either of them. He's eventually revealed to be in reality the son of Seshru and Tenris who was used by the former as a vessel to an ice demon immediately after birth, making him a grown-up tokoroth as well as Renn's half-brother and Torak's cousin. Wanting to be released from the spell that hides his demonic nature but also binds him, he tricks Renn into thinking she's subconsciously trying to hurt Torak so that he can capture her and force her to break the spell that can be undone only by Seshru's kin in the ice cave on the Island at the Edge of the World where he was born. After that fails, he makes his way into the Deep Forest, and after the Thunderstar strikes in ''Skin Taker'', he unites several surviving clans as the "Chosen Ones" who make him their leader. After he's thwarted again, he hunts down Wolf in ''Wolfbane'' in order to eat his souls under the belief this will release him from his mortal body.
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* AxCrazy: Though he's able to hide it when he wants to, he's a bloodthirsty monster who'd devour every living creature's souls if he could.
* BigBad: He's the antagonist of the three last books which take place after the demise of the Soul Eaters.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He's first portrayed to be more friendly than the rest of the prideful and misogynistic Narwal Clan, but it's all lies.
* CainAndAbel: Though [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou it is in his interests to keep his half-sister Renn alive]], there is no doubt in her mind that [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he'll kill her once she has freed him of Seshru's charm]]. Once he discovers another way to do that, all bets are off.
* CarryABigStick: In ''Skin Taker'', he uses a club studded with bear teeth.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist:
** The Soul Eaters were mages, but Naiginn can't do Magecraft, so Renn is able to use his lack of knowledge regarding the subject against him. Instead, he's first and foremost a hunter like Torak. He's only one year younger than Torak and Renn, whereas the Soul Eaters were much older than them. He's also more of a one-dimensional villain who has no other motives than destroying everything in his path, while the Soul Eaters were more rounded villains.
** The bear from the first book was possessed by a demon like Naiginn, but while the bear was a rampaging beast and open about its demonic nature, Naiginn's demon nature is hidden by a spell, and he has the cunningness to appear friendly.
* DemonicPossession: Naiginn is actually an ice demon trapped inside a human body, which Seshru birthed only to use her own infant as the demon's vessel.
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: His stepfather Marupai loves him fiercely, and [[spoiler:dies trying to save him at the Island at the Edge of the World]].
* EvilAllAlong: He appears friendly and helpful at first, but he's revealed to be monstrous half-way of ''Viper's Daughter''.
* EvilCounterpart: He's the demon-offspring Seshru tried to create out of Naiginn's half-sister Renn but failed thanks to Saeunn. And like his cousin Torak who's the best tracker of the Forest, Naiginn is the best hunter of the Far North. As Torak grows desperate to protect Wolf from Naiginn in ''Wolfbane'', he's warned not to take up his cousin's ruthlessness.
* EvilPlan:
** In ''Viper's Daughter'', his goal is to take Renn to the Island at the Edge of the World and force her to undo the masking spell Seshru cast on him so that he can feed on the souls of the living.
** His ultimate goal in ''Wolfbane'' is to finally break Seshru's charm by hunting down Wolf and eating his brains.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: He's unusually handsome for an inhabitant of the Far North. He inherited his good looks from Seshru and Tenris who were both attractive Soul Eaters, and since he's a demon in human skin, this trope is played quite literally.
* FacialHorror: He gets burns on his face at the end of ''Viper's Daughter''.
* FlatCharacter: His only motivation is to be free to destroy all life. By contrast, the Soul Eaters were more rounded villains who [[KnightTemplar believed themselves to be right with their villainous actions]]. Justified because like the rest of the demons, Naiginn lacks a sense of right and wrong as well as all other feelings than hatred towards all living things and hunger to destroy.
* {{Gaslighting}}: He causes various accidents that lead to Renn believing she's subconsciously trying to hurt Torak, prompting her to begin her journey to the Far North and find a solution to this problem.
* GenerationXerox: Like his birthfather Tenris, Naiginn is a member of a proud clan that lives in a close connection to the Sea and has a marine mammal as their totem, gets a part of his face burned, is a skilled manipulator, gets a position as a trusted religious figure, and tries to take Torak's power for himself by eating his body part.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: In ''Viper's Daughter'', he gets a part of his face burned, and he starts acting even more vile in his later appearances.
* IcyBlueEyes: He has light-blue eyes that reflect his nature as an ice demon as well as Seshru and Tenris' son.
%%* ImAHumanitarian:
* LoveIsAWeakness: He despises love because he views it as an exploitable weakness.
* ManipulativeBastard: He has his parents' manipulative skills. In ''Viper's Daughter'', he gaslights Renn into leaving alone to the Far North, and in ''Skin Taker'', he manipulates several Deep Forest clans into turning on their leaders and mages, uniting as Chosen Ones, and making him their Great Leader who keeps them safe from the nonexistent Skin-Takers.
* MasterPoisoner: Like his parents, he's skilled at using poisons and drugs.
* MightMakesRight: His thoughts reveal that he views Fin-Kedinn as a weakling for leading the Raven Clan through persuasion instead of force.
* MuggleBornOfMages: Despite being the son of two Soul Eaters and the stepson of the Narwal Mage, Naiginn cannot do Magecraft himself. That's why he needs Renn to undo their mother's charm.
* {{Narcissist}}: This handsome young hunter is overly vain and believes behind his fake niceness himself to be stronger and smarter than everyone else. He refuses to admit making mistakes, and after he gets scarred by Torak, he seeks to have revenge by scarring Torak in return. He inherited his vanity from Seshru, though it is also a part of his demonic nature to regard all living things to be inferior to himself.
-->'''Naiginn''': There's nothing ''wrong'' with me, I'm more perfect than you'll ever grasp!
* NeatFreak: He takes much longer than Torak to clean his clothes out of respect for the Sea Mother. When Renn purposefully gets herself smeared with bird droppings, Naiginn is furious because of the stench and spends ages cleaning his clothes of a slight dropping spatter.
* NeverFoundTheBody: In ''Viper's Daughter'', he's last seen staggering through volcanic smoke before he's apparently destroyed by a mammoth's spirit. However, as a dream version of Seshru points out to Renn, the heroes never actually saw his death or body. Against everyone's expectations, he returns in ''Skin Taker''.
* PickyEater: He prefers [[PrefersRawMeat eating his food raw]] or rotten, particularly the brains, tongues and eyes, and he doesn't like green food. In ''Skin Taker'', he has started [[BrainFood eating the brains]] of living creatures because that weakens the spell binding him.
* PoisonedWeapons: He uses arrows and a harpoon poisoned with wolfbane.
* {{Sadist}}: He revels in being feared. In ''Skin Taker'', he plans to subject Torak to ColdBloodedTorture and pauses when Torak faints out because he doesn't find it satisfying to mutilate a prisoner who can't experience the painful process. In the climax of ''Wolfbane'', he plans to let Torak, who's [[spoiler:rendered immobile by wolfbane]], watch him kill Wolf.
* SmugSnake: Like his mother, he's clever and manipulative as well as vain and arrogant.
* SoulEating: Like all demons, he desires to feast on the souls of the living, but thanks to Seshru's charm, he has to settle for the shreds of souls clinging to the eyes, tongues and brains of dead creatures. By the time of ''Skin Taker'', he has discovered that by eating the brains of still living creatures, he can feast on souls and weaken the charm.
* TheUnblinking: One of the first oddities Torak notes about Naiginn is that the latter rarely blinks.
* WalkingSpoiler: Hardly anything can be told about him without revealing his demonic nature and relation to the heroes.
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!!Soul Eaters

[[folder:Tropes that apply to all of them]]
A group of mages from different clans and the primary antagonists of the series. They were formed by seven mages thirteen years before the start of the series and were originally known as the Healers. At first they helped the clans by curing the sick and driving away evil spirits. However, the majority of them were corrupted by their ambitions, and now they aspire to rule the Forest and other areas presented in the series. Torak's father fought against them and forced them to go into hiding. Following his death, Torak's quest to destroy the demon bear expands into his destiny to destroy the bear's creators, the Soul Eaters.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Their desire to control everything and everyone is a threat to the balance of life.
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: The Soul Eaters don't follow the rules of [[ThankYourPrey properly respecting the prey]]. In ''Spirit Walker'' and ''Soul Eater'', they kill predators to acquire certain body parts and leave the rest to rot. The Crippled Wanderer traps an elemental in a bear's body, and in ''Ghost Hunter'', Eostra has corrupted a pack of dogs into her bloodthirsty minions. Thiazzi in particular enjoys torturing Wolf and the other caught predators in ''Soul Eater'' and slowly killing others with fire in ''Oath Breaker''. The only one who has reserves in animal cruelty is Nef [[spoiler:who also pulls a HeelFaceTurn]].
* DevilsPitchfork: They adopted as their symbol the three-pronged fork, a healer's tool used to snare souls of sick people. They each have it tattooed on their chests, and the fork is remembered as a symbol of great evil. The clan laws state that merely having the tattoo is enough a reason to get exiled from the clans, as is done to [[spoiler:Torak]] in ''Outcast''.
* TheDreaded: Though they've been undercover for over a decade, their legacy hasn't been forgotten. The clan laws decree that those who want to join them or merely have their symbol tattooed on their skin are to be exiled.
* EvilSorcerer: They are talented mages who use their gifts for evil purposes.
* HorsemenOfTheApocalypse: Four particular Soul Eaters who each have a book in which they function as the main antagonist can be compared to the Four Horsemen by their personal attributes and the plots of the books.
** The Crippled Wanderer [[spoiler:(Tenris)]] is '''Pestilence''' (an alternative interpretation of '''Conquest'''); the sickness he created and had his tokoroths spread is the driving plot point of ''Spirit Walker''. In addition to that, the demon bear he created runs rampage across the Forest and grows more powerful in ''Wolf Brother''. (If the bear hadn't been killed before the zenith of the Great Auroch's red eye, it would have become invincible.) [[spoiler:Tenris has also won the complete trust of the Sea clans over the years, making him the real authority figure of the Seal Islands.]]
** Thiazzi is '''War'''; not only he's the strongest man of the Forest and the most violent Soul Eater, but in ''Oath Breaker'', he drives the Deep Forest clans into warring among each other, [[spoiler:and then he unites both sides and nearly leads them into an open war against the Open Forest clans]].
** Seshru is '''Famine'''; in ''Outcast'' she causes Lake Axehead to gradually dry and grow sick with deformed and inedible fish [[spoiler:(only the latter act is her doing)]], which are the main food source of the Otter Clan. She also stirs a metaphorical famine in Torak by making him [[spoiler:lose his skills and knowledge through soul-sickness]].
** Eostra is '''Death'''; she has always been obsessed with the secrets of the dead and even resembles a corpse. In her youth, she resurrected a boy, and in ''Ghost Hunter'', she summons the spirits of [[spoiler:the deceased Soul Eaters]].
* KnightTemplar: Paver states that the Soul Eaters believe they're doing the right thing, not evil.
* MarkOfTheBeast: Every Soul Eater has tattooed on their chest a trident that represents the tool they use to snare stray souls. Even cutting it out will not remove the magic, as [[spoiler:Torak]] finds out in ''Outcast''; neutralizing the tattoo's magic requires a very specific ritual.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Several of them claim that they know what the World Spirit wants and are trying to set things right by oppressing the clans under their guidance. No one is fooled by this self-serving self-righteousness. Nef is the only one who is a genuine WellIntentionedExtremist.
* NounVerber: Even if you don't actually eat souls, the title is pretty intimidating.
-->'''Thiazzi''': Soul-Eaters, they call us.\\
'''Nef''': A foolish name.\\
'''Seshru''': But useful, if it keeps them in fear.
* ReligionOfEvil: They aspire to unite the clans and put an end to their different rituals and customs, claiming them to anger the World Spirit.
-->'''Torak''': …the clans rule themselves.\\
'''Nef''': Much good it does them. Have you never asked yourself why the World Spirit is so fickle, so unpredictable? Why does it send the prey at some times, but not others? Why does it kill one child with sickness, but spare another? Because the clans don't live as they should!\\
'''Thiazzi''': They have different ways of sacrificing, of sending their Dead on the Journey. This displeases the World Spirit.\\
'''Nef''': There's no ''order'' to it.\\
'''Thiazzi''': ''We'' know the true way. We will show them.
* ResignationsNotAccepted:
** [[spoiler:Torak's father]] and [[spoiler:Narrander]] were not allowed to resign following the Healers' corruption, mostly because [[spoiler:Narrander]] was blackmailed. Attempts to destroy the organization and fake the characters' deaths were made, with varying levels of success.
** In ''Ghost Hunter'', not even literally dying can get the characters who want out out.
* TakeOverTheWorld: Their collective goal is to oppress all the clans under their rule. To that end, they attempt to use demons and keep the clans in line through fear.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: In ''Soul Eater'', Nef collaborates with Thiazzi and Seshru, but she has some minor clashes with them both due to Thiazzi's sadistic tendencies and Seshru's contemptuousness. Averted between Thiazzi and Seshru who seem to [[VillainousFriendship get along reasonably well together]], but their relationship becomes more strained due to [[spoiler:them being incompletely protected from the influence of the demons they released but are unable to control without the Fire Opal]]. As for Eostra, the three aforementioned Soul Eaters follow her will out of fear.
* WouldHurtAChild: They practice the dark art of creating tokoroths, demonic underlings that are created by trapping demons inside the bodies of very young children.
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[[folder:The Crippled Wanderer/[[spoiler:Tenris]]]]
The first named Soul Eater. He started the first book's plot by creating the demon bear in order to destroy Torak's father.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: It's revealed that since he was a child, he has always wanted power to dominate others more than anything else.
* AnimalMotifs: [[spoiler:He's a dark comparison to the cute-looking predator seal; Tenris is outwardly friendly and charismatic, but at his heart he's ruthless and power-hungry.]]
* ArcVillain: The one responsible for the events of the first two books.
* BecomingTheMask: At the end, it's speculated that [[spoiler: while it was a pose to get Torak to trust him, he did genuinely come to care for his nephew on some level, with the Seal Clan leader remarking that probably not even he knew whether his fondness was genuine]].
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: He [[spoiler:killed Bale's little brother while casually experimenting with the "disease", which he didn't even know how he was going to use yet]].
* CainAndAbel: He's the older brother of [[spoiler:Torak's father]] by two years. [[spoiler:He kills his younger brother indirectly by creating the demon bear which does the dirty work.]]
* ColorCodedEyes: Grey, which is symbolic of his LackOfEmpathy and [[FamilyEyeResemblance his kinship]] to [[spoiler:Torak's father and Torak]].
* CompellingVoice: [[spoiler:Tenris' voice is described to be magnificent like the Sea; smooth-flowing and low-pitched, yet with an undertow of great power. It amplifies his charisma and makes other characters compelled to trust him.]]
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:He's first presented as the Seal Mage who's friendly towards Torak and agrees to help him create a cure to the plague, but he turns out to be a Soul Eater as well as the creator of the plague and the demon bear.]]
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: He can't digest the idea that the gift of being a spirit walker has been given to a boy who doesn't even want it.
* EvilCounterpart: Both to Torak's father [[spoiler:(his younger brother)]] and Fin-Kedinn (his childhood friend). Like the former, he was devoted to Magecraft in his childhood, but while Torak's father wanted to learn about the world and help people with his talents, [[spoiler:Tenris]] has always wanted power to dominate others. These opposing motives were their reasons for [[spoiler:joining the Healers (the future Soul Eaters)]]. Both are also skilled in remaining beneath notice and covering their tracks. Like Fin-Kedinn, [[spoiler:Tenris is a highly influential man in his clan and the region they live in, even though they're scarred/injured. While Tenris plays nice with Torak, the boy considers him to be a more friendly and less distant version of Fin-Kedinn, but he's ultimately proven to be much more heartless and dishonorable. Both of them have lost a brother, but while Fin-Kedinn takes care of his brother's children Renn and Hord, Tenris tries to kill for power his nephew Torak whom Fin-Kedinn eventually adopts]].
* EvilCripple: He's said to have been crippled in an accident that happened during a hunting trip. [[spoiler:It's subverted because while he's horribly scarred, [[ObfuscatingDisability he only pretended to be crippled]] in order to make it easier to infiltrate the Red Deer Clan.]]
* EvilIsNotAToy: By using a Fire Opal fragment, he was able to conjure from the Otherworld an elemental, the strongest type of demons, and trap it inside a bear's body. However, he could not control the freshly created monstrosity. Seshru comments later on how foolish [[spoiler:Tenris]] was to create something too powerful to control.
-->'''Seshru''': The mistake others made in the past was to overreach themselves. Our brother who is lost summoned an elemental and trapped it in a great bear. Of course he couldn't control it. It was a magnificent madness.
* EvilUncle: He's revealed to be [[spoiler:the brother of Torak's father. This makes his act of betraying Torak all the more terrible blow for the boy]].
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: [[spoiler:The unburnt part of Tenris' face is handsome.]]
* FaceRevealingTurn: [[spoiler:His first meeting with Torak has him keeping his head turned and revealing the burned side of his face a moment later. However, this happens long before Tenris reveals his true nature to the boy.]]
* FacialHorror: [[spoiler:The left side of his face is covered with burns he received from the Great Fire.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's highly charismatic and well-spoken, yet ruthless and power-hungry to the point of [[spoiler:trying to kill his own nephew for power]].
* GreaterScopeVillain: Though he doesn't appear in ''Wolf Brother'', his act of creating the demon bear is the reason the plot of the first book (and the entire series) begins.
* ImAHumanitarian: He tries to [[spoiler:eat Torak's heart [[CannibalismSuperpower in order to gain]] his spirit walker powers]].
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:He's [[ExitPursuedByABear killed by a killer whale]] for killing its offspring.]]
* LargeHam: Towards the end of ''Spirit Walker''. Before that, he keeps a low profile.
* ManipulativeBastard: He manipulated [[spoiler:Hord]] to help him in the creation of the demon bear, and he has the trust of [[spoiler:his entire clan]]. He also manages to make [[spoiler:Torak]] trust him completely.
* MasterPoisoner: He created the sickness that tears the victim's souls apart, driving them to madness and eventual death. He spreads this in ''Spirit Walker'' by [[spoiler:poisoning juniper berries]]. According to himself, there isn't much what he wouldn't know about poisons.
* MrExposition: [[spoiler:After being told about Torak's strange experiences with spirit walking, Tenris is the one who reveals to Torak and the reader that the boy is a spirit walker.]]
* TheMole: [[spoiler:He pretends to be interested in helping Torak find a cure for the disease he created.]]
* {{Plaguemaster}}: He's responsible for the plague that kicks off the plot of ''Spirit Walker''.
* ScarsAreForever: [[spoiler:The entire left side of his body (at least his face, torso and arm) have suffered serious burns from the Great Fire.]]
* SiblingMurder: [[spoiler:He gets his brother, Torak's father, killed through the demon bear he created.]]
* TheSociopath: He's a highly charismatic manipulator capable of feigning affection, but he's actually so cold he doesn't care about the humans and animals he gets killed or hurt, nor about the emotional pain he leaves in his wake. Not even his own [[spoiler:brother and nephew]] are safe from him. He desires power and control before anything else and was like that even in his youth.
* StarterVillain: The main villain of the first two books. It's not until after his death we get introduced to the other Soul Eaters.
* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler:In ''Spirit Walker'', he acts like a kindly mentor figure to Torak (who even compares him to Fin-Kedinn) whom he pretends to help make a cure for the disease Tenris himself is responsible for.]]
* TwoFaced: [[spoiler:His face's right side is handsome in a sharp-boned way, but the entire left side of his head (excluding his mouth) is hairless and mottled pink due to the burns received from the Great Fire.]]
* VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler:When Tenris puts Torak to work with the Seal boys he doesn't like, he tells the irritated boy that he should care about earning the trust of his kin, which Torak admits to be ture. After all, they couldn't otherwise work together to retrieve the faux cure ingredient.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler:He's the well-respected Mage of the Seal Clan, and none of them have any idea of his membership to the Soul Eaters or that the plague that killed four of them was his creation.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: He doesn't appear until the second book, and it's not until the climax that he's revealed to have been [[spoiler:Tenris]] all along.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: He used to be a great friend of Fin-Kedinn until he failed to become the mage of his clan. He then left and never saw Fin-Kedinn again even after joining the Healers.
* AWolfInSheepsClothing: A Soul Eater in the disguise of [[spoiler:a helpful Seal Clan Mage]].
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[[folder:Nef]]
Nef is the Bat Mage with bowlegs and swift wits. She makes her only major appearance in ''Soul Eater'', where she helps Thiazzi, Seshru and Eostra with their new attempt to gain power. She's the most awkward and out of place among the antagonistic Soul Eaters and the least malevolent of them. Many years before, her son died, and she tried to kill herself, but Torak's father saved her.
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* AffablyEvil: Nef is a bit gruff and does atrocities as a Soul Eater, but she doesn't revel in needless sadism, treats her pet bat affectionately, gives Torak some helpful advice, and [[spoiler:repays her debt to a dead man by giving up her own life]].
* AntiVillain: A mix of the [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains Woobie Anti-Villain and Well-Intentioned Anti-Villain]] types. While she helps the other Soul Eaters sacrifice predators (which is forbidden by the clans' laws) in order to take control over demons and brings in a White Fox boy (whom Torak impersonates) [[spoiler:to [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice him]] as well]], she doesn't like needless cruelty and Thiazzi's sadism. She believes that the World Spirit lets some prosper and others die early (like her own son) because the clans don't live like they should and that the Soul Eaters can unite all the clans for their own good. She's also sorry for being unable to repay Torak's father for preventing her suicide [[spoiler:until at the end of ''Soul Eater'']].
* BatOutOfHell: Subverted. She's a member of the Bat Clan, and she has a living bat as a totem. However, Nef is the least evil Soul Eater presented in the series [[spoiler:(when you discount Torak's father and the Walker)]], and her bat isn't malicious in the slightest. It even takes a liking to Torak.
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: She says that everything the Soul Eaters do is ultimately for the greater good, but Torak and Wolf sense her insecurities. At one point, she looks at her bloody hands and mutters to herself that she must remain strong, as if trying to retain her resolve.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To [[spoiler:Tenris. Tenris acts as a friendly ally towards Torak for most of ''Spirit Walker'' [[EvilAllAlong until he reveals himself to be utterly ruthless]] and responsible for the death Torak's father. Nef is presented as an antagonist right from the start (with Torak deceiving her by impersonating the White Fox boy the Soul Eaters intend to sacrifice), but she shows herself to have a kinder side than her allies. Tenris craves power at the expense of others, but Nef [[WellIntentionedExtremist wants to subjugate all the clans for the good of all]]. Tenris acts with just his tokoroths at his beck and call, while Nef shares the main antagonist role of ''Soul Eater'' with the remaining Soul Eaters (though she's the one who gets the most amount of attention). Tenris suffers a KarmicDeath when he tries to kill his nephew Torak for power shortly after revealing himself to be responsible for the death of Torak's father, but Nef ends up sacrificing her own life to repay Torak's father for saving her life]].
* DeathEqualsRedemption: [[spoiler:When Renn is about to jump in a crevasse to destroy the first Fire Opal fragment, Nef takes it from her and performs the sacrifice herself in order to repay her debt to Torak's father.]]
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Somewhat inverted because Nef jumps into the crevasse with the Fire Opal fragment entirely of her own accord as her final act of redemption.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She's truly fond of her bat, and she would have followed her deceased son to afterlife if not for Torak's father. [[spoiler:Before she sacrifices herself, she sets her bat free so that it won't die with her.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: She hates it when Thiazzi bullies the captured animals and Torak for no other reason than sadism.
* EvilCripple: Subverted. Her legs are bowed so badly that she rocks while she walks. However, she's an AntiVillain, and she moves swiftly despite her legs.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:She destroys one of the three pieces of the Fire Opal at the cost of her own life.]]
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: While Torak is impersonating the White Fox boy brought in as an acolyte, Nef orders him to kill a young owl as a sacrifice while claiming it to be the first test on his way to become a Soul Eater. For the sake of maintaining his disguise, Torak obeys.
* InformedAbility: Her special ability is said to be great intelligence and thoughts that fly faster than bats, but they are never really demonstrated.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Compared to the other Soul Eaters in ''Soul Eater'' at least. She's pretty much all that keeps the sacrifices (and Torak) alive, with Thiazzi and Seshru around trying to outham each other.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Nef had a son just two years older than Torak. He starved when the prey was gone from the Bat Clan's lands. She would have committed suicide if not for Torak's father.
* PointyEars: She has pointy ears that remind Torak of a bat. A later book reveals that her clanmates cut the tip of their ears in order to appear like their totem.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: While the other Soul Eaters are just plain power-hungry for all their attempts to justify themselves, Nef believes sincerely that the Soul Eaters can unite the clans and put an end to all unfair things like untimely deaths of children.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Among the Soul Eaters who were corrupted[[note]]all the others but the Walker and Torak's father[[/note]], Nef is easily the least malevolent and the most sympathetic. [[WellIntentionedExtremist She performs ruthless acts in the name of what she believes to be the greater good]] instead of just for the sake of power. Unlike the others, she never indulges in pointless cruelty, and she [[spoiler:ends up dying in a redeeming way]].
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[[folder:Seshru]]
Seshru the Viper Mage is a beautiful woman who's as venomous as her totem, though it is suggested that she changed her name and clan when she joined the Healers. She serves as the main antagonist of ''Outcast''.
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* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:She impregnated herself with Renn just to create her own tokoroth by putting a demon inside her infant. While she failed thanks to Saeunn, ''Viper's Daughter'' reveals that she afterwards had Naiginn and managed to do to him what she failed to do to Renn. As soon as she discovers her kinship with Renn in ''Outcast'', she forces Torak to spirit walk in a viper with the order to bite Renn.]]
* AnimalMotifs: She's described to be in everything like a snake, especially in the traditional [[SnakesAreSinister vile]] and [[SnakesAreSexy sexy]] characterizations, though apparently she isn't actually a born Viper. The way she torments Torak from afar during ''Outcast'' resembles the way a viper injects its venom into its prey and returns to finish the job when the time is right. She has also changed her name and clan like a snake sheds its skin and creates a new one.
* ArchEnemy: To Renn. Renn holds a personal enmity towards Seshru because [[spoiler:the latter birthed her just to create her own tokoroth as well as shattered the heart of Renn's father who ended up dying in search of Seshru. It is because of Seshru's legacy that Renn hates her gift in Magecraft and refuses to practise it. Even after Seshru dies, Renn fights to prove to herself that she's nothing like her mother, especially in ''Viper's Daughter'' in which she gains a new nemesis in the form of her demon-possessed half-brother Naiginn, a creation of their shared mother]].
* ArcVillain: The main antagonist of the fourth book.
* TheBaroness: Cultivates an intimidating and all-powerful visage? Check. Unafraid to ruthlessly exploit her attractiveness to her own ends? Check. Sadistic and lacking in compassion towards anyone? Check. Attracted to power? Check.
* ConsummateLiar: Regular lying is for her as easy as is expected from a stereotypicaly portrayed snake. She's willing to deny her crimes and take credit for the actions of someone else, like when [[spoiler:she claims to be responsible for the drowning of Lake Axehead]].
* CreepyBlueEyes: She has dark blue eyes that radiate her devious nature.
* DeadPersonConversation: [[spoiler:She appears twice in Renn's dreams during ''Viper's Daughter'' to mock her daughter about how she's turning out to be like her late mother and tell her that the legacy of the Soul Eaters isn't over yet.]]
* {{Determinator}}: In ''Viper's Daughter'', Renn notes that the Viper Mage never, ever gives up.
* DreamWeaver: There is a reason why most of [[spoiler:Renn's]] powers come from her dreams.
* EvilCounterpart: To Renn. Both are clever and secretive like [[BirdVsSerpent their respective clan totems]], gifted in Magecraft, the only women Torak feels attraction towards, and willing to lie and go against the clans' laws to reach their goals. The difference is that Renn does that [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight to help her friends]] and not for selfish reasons like Seshru. [[spoiler:Like the evil mother, like the good daughter.]]
* EvilIsHammy: She's rivaled only by Thiazzi in her love of EvilGloating.
* EvilMatriarch: It's revealed in ''Outcast'' that she's [[spoiler:Renn's]] mother.
* FemmeFatale: Beautiful as a forest maiden and utterly self-serving. She is able to stun Torak and Bale with her beauty more than once, even though they know perfectly well she's evil.
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: [[spoiler:When Torak threatens to destroy the second Fire Opal fragment, Seshru reveals her knife and lunges forward, only to be shot by Bale. She presented herself unarmed and appealed to Bale's reluctance to hurt an unarmed woman earlier. It took the sight of her attacking Torak with a knife for Bale to throw his hesitations aside.]]
* IfIWantedYouDead: When she has Torak at her mercy at Lake Axehead's healing spring, she states that she could have taken his spirit walker powers by eating his heart while he was unconscious, but she wants to make him use his power in her name instead.
* IsThatWhatHeToldYou: [[spoiler:Renn had been told by Saeunn that Seshru gave birth to her only to use her as a sacrifice. When Seshru learns this, she tells Renn that her intention was not to kill her infant, but to make her a tokoroth, which is [[FateWorseThanDeath considerably worse]].]]
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* LukeIAmYourFather: Double {{gender flipped}}, and averted because [[spoiler:Renn already knew that Seshru was her mother. Seshru and Torak didn't find out until ''Outcast'']] and, oh boy, there was hell to pay.
* ManipulativeBitch: She loves using mind games to get her way. Most notably, ''Viper's Daughter'' shows that [[spoiler:Marupai is thoroughly convinced by her false stories of her having come from the sun and Naiginn being their "child of the sun"]].
* MasterPoisoner: Her special ability is extensive knowledge about herbs and potions. During ''Soul Eater'', she uses this skill to help capture a polar bear by drugging it. In ''Outcast'', she poisons crowberries that Torak eats, rendering him unconscious and following his resuscitation, mostly paralyzed yet aware of everything happening around him and able to communicate with Seshru.
* {{Narcissist}}: She's highly vain and regards herself to be superior to everyone else.
* NotSoDifferentRemark:
** She tries this card on Torak in ''Outcast''; they both are outcasts and so powerful that the clans hunt them out of fear. When Torak denies this by saying that Seshru has broken the clans' laws, she notes that he has done the same by stealing Fin-Kedinn's axe.
** After Seshru learns that [[spoiler:Renn is her daughter]], she loves to rub this trope in Renn's face. When Renn has to resort to lying or use Magecraft, it makes her fear she's too similar to Seshru. ''Viper's Daughter'' in particular has her finding from herself too many parallels to Seshru.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: It's hinted that Seshru isn't the name she was born with, something unthinkable to the other characters as someone's name makes up part of their soul.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler:She lives longer than her son Hord by a year and a half.]]
* PragmaticVillainy:
** In ''Outcast'', she [[VillainousMedicalCare cures Torak's festering wound]] after she has caught him since she has decided that [[spoiler:the wound where the cut Soul Eater tattoo was has served its purpose]].
** She comments in ''Soul Eater'' that creating the demon bear was madness, though not because of all the deaths it caused, but because the demon was too strong to be controlled. [[spoiler:When she created Naiginn, she made sure to put on him a charm in order to keep his demonic nature in check until the time was right.]]
* RavenHairIvorySkin: She's an evil version of this trope with her pale skin and black hair.
* ReallyGetsAround: She seduced [[spoiler: Renn and Hord's father]] and Marupai the Narwal Mage, and in ''Viper's Daughter'' it's revealed she'd had relations with [[spoiler:Tenris]].
* SmugSnake: She's cunning, but she overlooks things in her arrogance. That's fitting since she calls herself the Viper Mage.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: In ''Outcast'', she spies on Torak [[spoiler:during his period as an outcast]] and uses her spells in order to break his will.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Though not noticeable at first, she has a subtle resemblance to [[spoiler:her daughter Renn]]. They both have a pale skin and high cheekbones, and their hair curls the same way. When Torak learns of their connection, he's astonished he hadn't noticed the family resemblance before.
* TheVamp: She will ruthlessly exploit her beauty to get what she wants. [[spoiler:She seduced Fin-Kedinn's brother -- whom she left earlier to join the Healers -- in order to have a baby, and then she broke his heart by leaving him again. Then she charmed Marupai and tricked him to raise her demon-possessed son Naiginn for her while claiming him to be his son.]]
* VillainousLegacy: [[spoiler:She's dead by the time of the last three books, but their overall plot is driven by her demon-son Naiginn trying to free himself of the restraining spell which Seshru cast on him. Renn also finds herself uncomfortably similar to her mother in leaving Torak behind and lying to advance on her quest in ''Viper's Daughter'', and Seshru herself appearing in her dreams to [[NotSoDifferentRemark gloat how similar they are]].]]
* YouWouldntShootMe: When she catches Torak with Renn and Bale at the empty wolf den, she taunts that neither Renn or Bale would attack her when she's unarmed.
-->'''Seshru''': The wolves are gone. I sent them all away.\\
'''Renn''': Don't listen to her.\\
'''Seshru''': Why, what harm can I do? It's three against one, and I have no weapons. No weapons, not even a knife. Not even a knife.\\
''[Seshru continues gloating until Renn raises her bow while Torak and Bale tell her not to shoot]''\\
'''Seshru''': Oh, she won't shoot! She can't. Can you, Renn? ''[Renn lowers her bow]'' I knew she wouldn't. ''[turns to Bale]'' To kill a weaponless woman… who could do such a thing? Could you? ''[Bale drops his axe]'' I didn't think so. That would be the mark of a weak man, and you're not weak. You're a Seal Clan hunter. You're strong.
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[[folder:Thiazzi]]
Thiazzi the Oak Mage is the strongest man of the Forest and the most violent and sadistic of all the Soul Eaters. In ''Soul Eater'', Wolf bites a few fingers off of his left hand. He's the main antagonist of ''Oath Breaker'', in which he causes a war among the Deep Forest Clans.
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* ArcVillain: The main antagonist of the fifth book.
* AxCrazy: He has no qualms about resorting to violence and killing, either to further his goals or out of sheer enjoyment.
* BarbarianLonghair: According to Paver, Thiazzi has grown a long hair because he believes that it holds part of his strength.
* BigBadWannabe: When he and Eostra are the last remaining Soul Eaters, Thiazzi tries to take over the Forest by himself in ''Oath Breaker'' and doesn't give the last Fire Opal piece to Eostra. Though he is a very real threat, he ends up being vanquished when he loses the Fire Opal to Eostra's eagle owl. [[spoiler:He's summoned in ''Ghost Hunter'' by Eostra as her mindless ghost-slave like the other deceased Soul Eaters.]]
* BlasphemousBoast: Makes in ''Oath Breaker'' one which he flat out uses to compare himself to the World Spirit.
-->''"I am the truth and the Way. I am master of fire. I am ruler of the Forest!"''
* TheBrute: Subverted. As the biggest, strongest, and the most openly sadistic member of the Soul Eaters, Thiazzi seems like a textbook example. In his first appearance in ''Soul Eater'', he acts as the group's muscle while Nef and Seshru display more moments of brilliance. However, ''Oath Breaker'' proves that Thiazzi is capable of acting as a [[GeniusBruiser highly cunning]] BigBad of his own right, and he has his ambitions to rule the Forest alone.
* CharacterTics: He has a habit of chewing spruce resin.
* TheChessmaster: By using disguises and manipulating events, Thiazzi drives the Deep Forest clans to war among each other before [[spoiler:uniting them against the Open Forest clans]] in ''Oath Breaker''.
* ColorCodedEyes: His cruel eyes are leaf-green to mark him as a member of the Oak Clan that used to live in the Deep Forest. They also fit his sadistic yet cunning personality.
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:The Oak Mage, the last living member of his clan, ends up dying by falling from the top of the Great Oak.]]
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:He's ignited while he's on the top branch of the Great Oak and loses his balance.]]
* EvilSoundsDeep: The evil and big Oak Mage has a sonorous voice.
* {{Fingore}}: Wolf bites off two fingers from Thiazzi's left hand in ''Soul Eater''.
* GeniusBruiser: Not only is Thiazzi the strongest man of the Forest. He's also a cunning and manipulative mage, which makes him all the more dangerous. In ''Oath Breaker'', he's able to remain one step ahead of the heroes until the climax.
* HandStomp: Thiazzi sends [[spoiler:Bale]] to his death this way.
* HeroKiller: Thiazzi becomes this in ''Oath Breaker'', in which his first act is to murder [[spoiler:Bale]], one of the most stand-up characters of the series.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: His downfall is tied to him [[spoiler:keeping the last Fire Opal fragment to himself and leaving Eostra out of his plans]]. During his final confrontation with Torak, [[spoiler:Eostra's eagle owl steals the Opal from Thiazzi, resulting in him losing protection against fire and catching fire]].
* HorrifyingTheHorror: Thiazzi is the strongest man of the Forest and an extremely sadistic and violent psychopath, yet even he is afraid of Eostra.
* ICanRuleAlone: When he finds the last Fire Opal piece in ''Oath Breaker'', he tries to take control over the Forest himself instead of giving the Opal to Eostra. This backfires horribly as [[spoiler:Eostra's eagle owl takes the Opal from him at the worst possible time]].
* IHaveYourWife: In the climax of ''Oath Breaker'', Thiazzi [[spoiler:captures Renn and takes her to the sacred grove so that Torak will come to face him there. When Torak arrives, Thiazzi offers to let Renn go if Torak surrenders, but when Torak completely disarms himself and breaks his oath to avenge Bale, Thiazzi reveals he was only bluffing]].
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:He dies by being set on fire, resulting in him falling from the top branch of the Great Oak. This serves as the appropriate rebate for his actions of killing predators by burning them and murdering Bale by throwing him off the Crag.]]
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* LastOfHisKind: He's the last living member of the Oak Clan, with the others having died out of sickness.
* LightningBruiser: Not only is Thiazzi the strongest man of the Forest, but he's also [[FasterThanTheyLook deceptively fast for a man of his size]].
* ManipulativeBastard: He proves himself to be this in ''Oath Breaker'' when he [[spoiler:orates the Deep Forest clans -- who are by nature fundamentalists who don't easily trust outsiders -- to unite against the Open Forest clans]].
* MasterOfDisguise: He skillfully hides his true identity when he wears the mask and attire of the new Forest Horse Mage. [[spoiler:His disguise of the elderly, secluded, and reasonable Auroch Mage fools Renn until he reveals himself.]]
* MeaningfulName: Named for the giant Thjazi in Myth/NorseMythology, and [[spoiler:like his namesake, he falls to his death after being set aflame]].
* TheOneGuy: When the Soul Eaters band together in ''Soul Eater'', Thiazzi is the only male around, what with [[spoiler:Tenris and Torak's father being dead and Narrander pretending to be dead and hiding as the Walker]].
* PlayingBothSides: [[spoiler:He murders the mages of the Forest Horse Clan and the Auroch Clan, and takes their places, first to wage discord between the Deep Forest clans, and then to unite them against the Open Forest clans.]]
* {{Sadist}}: He enjoys bullying and hurting animals and people who can't fight back.
* SmugSnake: Thiazzi is a very powerful and competent schemer, but his arrogance ends up being his undoing.
* TheSociopath: He is very narcissistic and self-serving as well as even more sadistic and violent than any other Soul Eater.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Torak thinks that if not for his sadistic tendencies, Thiazzi could pass as any hunter in the Forest.
* WorldsStrongestMan: He's the strongest human represented in the series and is called as the strongest man of the Forest. Whatever his strength is a case of a CharlesAtlasSuperpower or magical enhancement is never revealed.
* WouldHarmASenior: [[spoiler:He murders the elderly Auroch Mage [[KillAndReplace to steal his identity]].]]
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[[folder:Eostra]]
Eostra the Eagle Owl Mage is the head Soul Eater whom even the other Soul Eaters fear. She has an obsession with death and raising the dead. She serves as the main antagonist of ''Ghost Hunter''.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: She's heavily implied to be undead, with how corpse-like the little of what we see of her body is, and how she reeks of a corpse.
* AnimalMotifs: [[OminousOwl Eagle Owl]]. She wears a wooden mask resembling the owl's face and a cloak made of feathers. Also, her eyes look orange like with an eagle owl. At one point in ''Ghost Hunter'', Torak compares Eostra to a spider that is weaving a web across the Forest and can sense even the tiniest vibration of the web. (Literature/SherlockHolmes makes [[ShoutOut a similar comparison to Professor Moriarty]].)
* ArchEnemy: [[spoiler:When the Walker was still Narrander, Eostra took his son Narik hostage to prevent him from quitting the Soul Eaters before Narik, whom Eostra had bound and hidden from his father, died in the Great Fire, resulting in Narrander losing his sanity. The only time the Walker becomes involved in the fight against the Soul Eaters is when he shows up to kill Eostra in order to avenge Narik.]]
* BigBad: She's the Soul Eaters' leader and the last one to be faced. [[spoiler:Had she not been stopped, the spirits of the deceased Soul Eaters would have remained in the mortal realm to serve her, rendering the heroes' struggles against them down the toilet.]]
* TheChessmaster: In ''Ghost Hunter'', she meticulously influences events so that Torak will come to her alone when the time is right.
* CreepyMonotone: She is completely emotionless, short of her lust for power, and apparently talks like this.
* DevilsPitchfork: In ''Ghost Hunter'', she wields a three-forked spear, the symbol of the Soul Eaters. She uses it to snare souls and eat them.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Eostra dies by falling into a chasm created by the Hidden People who are summoned by the Walker.]]
* TheDreaded: Even more so than any other Soul Eater. Even all the other Soul Eaters fear Eostra.
* EvilCounterpart: To the Walker. Both are outwardly cadaverous, [[ThirdPersonPerson refer to themselves in the third person]], and display mental illness. However, Eostra has none of the noble qualities the Walker has under his threatening demeanor. [[spoiler:Both are powerful mages, with Eostra being a {{necromancer}} and the Walker having a connection with [[TheFairFolk the Hidden People]]. By the end of the series, the two of them are all that's left of the seven Soul Eaters until the Walker kills Eostra.]]
* EvilerThanThou: The Walker states that Eostra is the cruellest of the cruel. The very fact that all the other Soul Eaters, even [[{{Sadist}} Thiazzi]], are afraid of her is a clear indicator of this. When Thiazzi attempts to take over the Forest alone in ''Oath Breaker'' and keeps the last Fire Opal piece to himself, he ends up being [[spoiler:burned alive when Eostra's eagle owl takes the Opal from him, and in ''Ghost Hunter'', she summons his and the rest of the deceased Soul Eaters' spirits as her mindless minions]].
* EvilSoundsRaspy: Her emotionless voice is described to resemble the rattle of dry bones.
* TheFaceless: She always wears her eagle owl mask.
* FemmeFatalons: Her nails are hooked like with her clan totem, and they're bluish like with a corpse.
* GenocideFromTheInside: As soon as Eostra became her clan's mage, she carried out a forbidden rite by bringing to life a ten-year-old Eagle Owl boy who had died in a rockfall. All the other Eagle Owls died out of sickness soon after, making Eostra responsible for her clan's demise.
* GreaterScopeVillain: The Soul Eaters' leader appears only in ''Soul Eater'' and ''Ghost Hunter'' and is an active BigBad in them alone, but her influence over the other Soul Eaters is still felt, especially in ''Oath Breaker'' where Thiazzi's attempt to play the BigBad ends with [[spoiler:Eostra's eagle owl sealing his fate by taking the last Fire Opal piece from him and delivering it to her]].
* ILoveTheDead: The vision Renn has of a younger Eostra resurrecting a corpse certainly has shades of this.
* ImmortalitySeeker: She intends to steal Torak's spirit walker abilities and use them [[BornAgainImmortality to exist forever by spirit walking from one body to another over and over again]].
* IronicName: The Germanic [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ēostre Eostre]] was a goddess of spring and light… so nothing like the character who shares her name.
%%* KnightOfCerebus: If this particular Soul Eater is feared even by all the other Soul Eaters, you know you're in deep waters.
* LackOfEmpathy: Torak's spirit walk into Eostra reveals that the Eagle Owl Mage views tokoroths and her dogs not as possessed children and corrupted animals, but as tools she can dispose of once they've served their purpose. As for Torak, he is merely the husk of the power she craves.
* LastOfHerKind: She's the last living member of the Eagle Owl Clan. All of her clanmates were wiped out by sickness after she carried out a forbidden rite and resurrected a dead boy.
* LeanAndMean: The scary Eagle Owl Mage is tall and thin.
* {{Necromancer}}: In her youth, she resurrected a recently killed boy from her clan, and in ''Ghost Hunter'', she summons the spirits of [[spoiler:the deceased Soul Eaters]].
* NoNonsenseNemesis: She carries out her plans with deadly focus and efficiency, and unlike most of the other main antagonists, she holds little to no interest in wasting time gloating.
* OurLichesAreDifferent: She is a corpselike mage and a {{necromancer}} who desires immortality.
* TheQuietOne: She's the most reserved of the Soul Eaters.
* SoulEating: Eostra is the only member of the Soul Eaters who is confirmed to be actually able to eat souls. She plans to steal Torak's spirit walker power by eating his world-soul (for that's where his power lies) and spit out his name-soul and clan-soul, making him a Lost One.
-->'''Krukoslik''': They say she walks with a three-pronged spear for snaring souls. They say that if you hear her cry, you're lost. That cry rips the souls from your marrow. With her spear she snares them. She ''devours'' them. Eostra truly is an eater of souls.
* TheSociopath: Completely devoid of emotion and willing to manipulate and use anyone or anything in her obsessive desire to achieve immortality.
* ThirdPersonPerson: She mostly refers to herself this way in ''Ghost Hunter''.
* UndeathlyPallor: The bare skin of Eostra's hands has the grainy density of granite and the pale green sheen of rotting meat. Her nails are also tinged with blue like with a corpse.
* WhiteMaskOfDoom: She's never shown without her pale-colored mask to the point that she's known as "the Masked One".
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!!Other Characters

[[folder:Introduced in ''Wolf Brother'']]

[[WMG:Torak's Father]]
Torak's father is a hunter from the Wolf Clan who raised his son in isolation for twelve years until he's mauled by the demon bear and dies in the first chapter of the first book. It is revealed that the bear was sent specifically to hunt him down by the Soul Eaters. This is because he created a huge fire known as the Great Fire to destroy them, but he only managed to force them to go hiding for thirteen years.
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* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:He raised his son in seclusion and trained him in order to prepare him for destroying the evil he had helped create.]]
* BrokenPedestal: He's this to the entire Wolf Clan because [[spoiler:he, the best Mage they ever had, joined the Soul Eaters]], even though [[spoiler:Fa turned on the Soul Eaters and tried to destroy them]]. The entire clan has chosen to bear a mark of shame and become more reclusive than ever before because of this. In ''Outcast'', they attempt to kill the outcasted Torak to cleanse themselves of the shame they believe Fa to have brought upon them.
* CainAndAbel: He is [[spoiler:the younger brother of the Soul Eater Tenris by two years. The demon bear that kills him was created by his brother for that purpose]].
* ColorCodedEyes: Like his son, he has grey eyes that resemble those of a wolf. They symbolize both his strength of will and the "ideas above people"/greater good mentality that he used to hold as his FatalFlaw until rejecting it.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Of the "criminal with remorse" ilk, hence TheAtoner above. A major part of the plot is Torak finding out this past.
* DyingAsYourself: His [[spoiler:BrainwashedAndCrazy ghost]] gets a moment of recognition upon being [[spoiler:released from Eostra's control and disappearing again]].
* FatalFlaw: His former friend Fin-Kedinn reveals that Torak's father was convinced of his own infallibility and paid no heed to the advice of others. It led him to realize the Soul Eaters' corruption too late [[spoiler:while being one of them]]. He trained Torak to pay attention to the knowledge the Forest has to offer so that he wouldn't repeat his father's mistakes.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: [[spoiler:He was initially convinced of the Healers' apparently noble intentions even though his mate and Fin-Kedinn warned him not to join them. By the time he realized the truth, he was already too immersed with them.]]
* PlotTriggeringDeath: His death at the claws of the demon bear in the first book is what sets Torak on the journey to find a way to destroy the bear and leads him to meeting his friends and facing the Soul Eaters in the following books.
* PosthumousCharacter: Despite dying immediately in the first chapter of the first book, he remains an important character throughout the series.
* ScarsAreForever: There is an old scar on his chest which makes it difficult for Torak to draw the Death Mark on it. He received this by [[spoiler:cutting off the tattoo that marked him as a Soul Eater]].
* UnnamedParent: Torak refers to him just as Fa. It's justified since five summers must pass before a deceased person's name can be spoken, for otherwise the deceased person cannot rest peacefully.
* TheUnreveal: We never find out his name [[JustifiedTrope since clan traditions dictate that five summers must pass before the name of the person who died can be spoken]]. [[spoiler:Even when Eostra says his name while summoning his spirit in ''Ghost Hunter'', it's not revealed by the narration.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: He can't really be discussed much beyond "fathered Torak" without revealing [[spoiler:he was a Soul Eater]].
* WeUsedToBeFriends: He was the best friend of Fin-Kedinn until all the stuff with the Soul Eaters started. The woman whom Fin-Kedinn loved choosing Torak's father instead of him was also a factor.

[[WMG:Saeunn]]
Saeunn is the impossibly old Raven Clan Mage. Her age is never actually stated, and considering that it's the Stone Age, perhaps she isn't really that old at all by modern standards (though she may be). She forces Renn to learn Magecraft, though the two of them have a fierce dislike for each other.
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* BecauseDestinySaysSo: It's her only argument to things. She claims for example in ''Outcast'' that she supported [[spoiler:Torak's exile]] because it's a part of [[spoiler:the boy's]] destiny.
* CrypticConversation: She's prone to providing these.
%%* CynicalMentor:
* GoodIsNotNice: No one particularly likes Saeunn due to her callous attitude, but she still helps the heroes in their quest to destroy the Soul Eaters. She also [[spoiler:rescued Renn before Seshru could create a tokoroth out of the newborn]].
%%* MadOracle
* MentorArchetype: She tries to teach Renn Magecraft, but the girl doesn't want to learn it and comes to ask advice from Saeunn only when she has no other choice.

[[WMG:Hord]]
Hord is Renn's older brother. He is around nineteen or twenty. He tries to be the best at everything. He has an immense dislike for his sister, just like most of the Raven Clan.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:He's killed along with the demon bear by the avalanche the World Spirit sends.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: Granted, he was always an antagonistic jerk towards Torak, but after Torak has gained Fin-Kedinn's support in delivering the Nanuak to the World Spirit with Wolf, Hord chases after them and tries to kill them just to deliver the Nanuak himself.
* FieryRedhead: Redheaded like his sister and uncle, but much less levelheaded than them.
%%* FreudianExcuse
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Hord is arrogant, but Torak notes that he appears to be desperate to be the best, yet fears of always being the second rate.
* ItsAllMyFault: He yells this during his VillainousBreakdown as an explanation to why he thinks ''he'' must deliver the Nanuak.
* {{Jerkass}}: Oh yeah. Before Torak defeats Hord in a duel, the young man shows unwarranted contempt at the younger boy and afterwards fully supports that interpretation of the prophecy which implies [[HumanSacrifice Torak must be sacrificed]]. He also pays no heed to Dyrati's obvious admiration of him and claims to have shed no tears for his sister's possible death after she "disgraced him" by releasing Torak.
* KickTheDog: When he catches Torak and Renn after all the hardships they've endured, he takes possession of the Nanuak pieces they've found and makes Torak his prisoner again. He also punches his sister in the face and disowns her when she calls him out.
%%* LargeHam
* RapidFireNailBiting: A non-comedic example; when the bear's being discussed, Hord gnaws his fingernails. By the end of the book, he has bitten them off.
* SanitySlippage: When Hord's shown again near the ending of ''Wolf Brother'', he has become a shadow of his former self due to his gnawing guilt over helping in the creation of the demon bear. This, combined with being denied the task of bringing the Nanuak to the Mountain of the World Spirit, culminates in him chasing after Torak and trying to kill him.
%%* SiblingRivalry: With Renn.
* UnwittingPawn: He was manipulated by the Crippled Wanderer to catch a bear cub which the Soul Eater used as the vessel of an elemental.
* VillainousBreakdown: His SanitySlippage leads him to chase after Torak and Wolf to the Mountain of the World Spirit and try to kill them so that he can deliver the Nanuak.
* WouldHitAGirl: He punches his own sister in the face.
* WouldHurtAChild: He's fully supports the idea of sacrificing a twelve-year-old boy and tries to kill him with an axe.

[[WMG:The Walker[[spoiler:/Narrander]]]]
An old Otter Clan outcast who appears a few times throughout the books, each time as a complete madman who keeps as pets little animals he names Narik.
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* AgonyOfTheFeet: In his second appearance, he has had to cut off all his toes (at least from one foot) when they got seriously frostbitten.
* AnimalMotifs: Otter, like his clan. Very subtle {{foreshadowing}}, as it throws him in with the other characters to get strong AnimalMotifs.
* BigDamnHeroes: He ended up [[spoiler:killing Eostra in ''Ghost Hunter'']] just as she was about to [[spoiler:literally destroy Torak and take his powers]].
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:He is the seventh Soul Eater whom everyone thought died in the Great Fire.]]
* CloudCuckoolander: His ramblings are hard to get a grip on. When Wolf first sees him, the Walker's chaotic thoughts confuse him.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Despite the fact that almost nothing he says makes much sense, his advice usually pans out in the end.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Admittedly, he's got a dark and troubled present too. Having [[spoiler:once been a reluctant Soul Eater, having his kid die, and being ostracized by his clan]] sure didn't help.
* ExposedToTheElements: He's always scarcely clothed even in winter.
* ExtremeOmnivore: He's shown snacking things what most people wouldn't want to eat, like a louse from his beard or a raw wing of a rotting dove corpse. However, even he finds the taste of frostbitten toes too horrible.
* EyeScream: One of his eye sockets is empty. He says that a flint hit his head and caused his eye to pop out. [[spoiler:He actually lost his eye during the Great Fire.]]
* FakingTheDead: Until ''Ghost Hunter'', everyone, excluding [[spoiler:Fin-Kedinn and Torak's father]], believed [[spoiler:Narrander]] to have perished in [[spoiler:the Great Fire]].
* ForcedIntoEvil: [[spoiler:As the Healers were becoming corrupted, Narrander attempted to leave them soon after joining them. He was forced to stay when Eostra took his son Narik hostage. This situation ended only when Narik died.]]
* GoodCounterpart: To Eostra. Both are outwardly cadaverous, [[ThirdPersonPerson refer to themselves in the third person]] and display mental illness. However, Eostra is without doubt evil and dangerous to everyone. The Walker, on the other hand, comes off as threatening, but he's ultimately harmless as long as he's left alone and helps out those who help him out. The Walker treats affectionately the little animals he keeps as pets, while Eostra views the animals she has corrupted into bloodthirsty minions merely as tools. [[spoiler:Both are powerful Mages, with Eostra being a {{necromancer}} and the Walker having a connection with [[TheFairFolk the Hidden People]]. By the end of the series, the two of them are all that's left of the seven Soul Eaters until the Walker kills Eostra.]]
* GrumpyOldMan: He's constantly irritated because of his madness.
* HandicappedBadass: This one-eyed, toeless and insane old man has been able to live all on his own in the Forest since [[spoiler:the Great Fire]]. He also [[spoiler:retains enough power from his days as the Otter Mage to summon the Hidden People of the Mountain of Ghosts to destroy Eostra]].
* HeCleansUpNicely: [[spoiler:When he shows up at Fin-Kedinn's funeral, he looks more dignified than usual because he's painted his ruined face with mourning marks, made effort to clean his rags, and tamed his hair and beard.]]
* TheHermit: Even after Fin-Kedinn offers him a chance to live peacefully among the clans, the Walker refuses.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's grumpy, unfriendly and at times threatening, but he aids Torak and Renn after they help him out in two occasions, and [[spoiler:he shows up to aid them in the final battle against Eostra]]. He's also pretty affectionate towards the various little animals he takes as pets and names Narik. Though he doesn't show much respect towards his old friend Fin-Kedinn, he [[spoiler:shows up at the latter's funeral to sing the Death Chant]].
* MeaningfulName: Assuming a PIE root, [[spoiler:Narrander]] could be rendered as "corpse-man", from root ''naw'' (corpse). The same root could be applied to Narik, whose name is also very similar to Narvi/Nari, son of Loki.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: When Torak suffers from soul-sickness in ''Outcast'', he finds himself resembling the Walker while looking at his reflection. The Walker himself invokes this in ''Ghost Hunter'' with Torak; the Walker says he can sense on the boy's souls the marks caused by spirit walking into various creatures. The old man says that like him, Torak must always wander and not settle down because of his experiences.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that the cause of the Walker's madness is the death of his son Narik.]]
* PapaWolf: He [[spoiler:avenges his son's death by burying Eostra under the Mountain of Ghosts, a revenge that he hasn't had the chance to carry out since the Great Fire]].
* ThePigPen: One of the signs of his madness is his complete lack of anything resembling personal hygiene.
* PreInsanityReveal: It is a major spoiler in the sixth book that the old insane hermit was not only a Mage but also one of the [[spoiler:two uncorrupted Soul Eaters]].
* ShellShockedVeteran: He implies that his traumatic experiences that resulted in his madness are the reason why he doesn't take up Fin-Kedinn's offer to live the rest of his life peacefully among the clans.
-->'''The Walker''': ''[to Torak]'' The wolf boy's troubled, eh? Bits of souls sticking to his spirit? The Great Wanderer, the Forest, the Masked One? He's like the Walker, yes, he got too close, so he has to keep moving!
* ThirdPersonPerson: He always refers to himself this way. He does this with others as well most of the time.
* WildHair: This madman living alone in wilderness has very long and tangled hair and beard.

[[WMG:Krukoslik]]
The Leader of the Mountain Hare Clan. He briefly appears near the ending of ''Wolf Brother'' to give Torak tips on how to travel to the Mountain of the World Spirit. He reappears in ''Ghost Hunter'' when Torak, Renn and Wolf are on their way to confront Eostra.
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* MrExposition: In ''Ghost Hunter'', he reveals Eostra's backstory and what she has been doing in the area around the Mountain of Ghosts.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Introduced in ''Spirit Walker'']]

[[WMG:Bale]]
Bale is a boy from the Seal Clan. Torak's paternal grandmother was from the Seal Clan, meaning that he and Bale are kinsmen. Bale and Torak are initially wary of each other, but they become friends. He had a little brother who was killed three summers before ''Spirit Walker'' by the sickness that was created by [[spoiler:Tenris]]. He returns in ''Outcast'' to aid Renn in helping Torak who's made an outcast. When he is first introduced, he is fifteen, and by ''Oath Breaker'', he is nearly seventeen.
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* BerserkButton: Don't do damage to his boat. Just… don't do it.
* DeathOfTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler:Thiazzi throws him off a cliff in ''Oath Breaker'' shortly after he has told Torak of his intention to ask Renn to be his mate.]]
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:He plays a fairly large role in both ''Spirit Walker'' and ''Outcast'', only to get tossed off a cliff in the opening chapters of ''Oath Breaker''.]]
* FriendlyRivalry: He and Torak are initially quite hostile towards each other, but it eventually mellows out into this.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In reality, he's probably the nicest person in the series (except when Torak first meets him), but sometimes he does qualify as this.
%%* NiceGuy
%%* TheRival
%%* RomanticFalseLead
* RomanticRunnerUp: Averted as Renn never had feelings for him.
* StayInTheKitchen: He initially has this attitude towards Renn in ''Outcast''. It's somewhat justified, as it is the Stone Age. Still, it makes Renn mad as hell.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: With Torak and Renn in ''Outcast''.
%%* UnrequitedLove: For Renn.

[[WMG:Asrif and Detlan]]
Bale's friends from the Seal Clan. They're about the same age as he. They help Bale capture Torak and bring him to the Seal Island to punish him for offending the Sea Mother.
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* NiceMeanAndInBetween: They form this dynamic with Bale. Detlan is the Nice due to him being the least spiteful and the most willing to explain to Torak how things work at the Sea. Asrif is the Mean for being the most impish, while Bale is In-Between for being more fair than Asrif though not as ready as Detlan to help Torak until later on.

[[WMG:Islinn]]
The leader of the Seal Clan who is very old. He knew Torak's paternal grandmother who was also a Seal.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: He had a son who was one of the victims of the sickness that struck the Seal Clan three years before ''Spirit Walker''.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Introduced in ''Soul Eater'']]

[[WMG:Eostra's eagle owl]]
Eostra's pet that does her bidding.
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* TheDragon: Eostra has the other Soul Eaters as well as in ''Ghost Hunter'' tokoroths and a pack of corrupted dogs to do her bidding, but the eagle owl is her most prominent minion.
* FeatheredFiend: This bird is unnaturally malevolent. She is not possessed by a demon, so it's unknown what Eostra has done to her.
* OminousOwl: Eagle owls are considered to be omens of bad luck in the ''COAD'' universe, and that wouldn't be less true with the one that directly serves the most terrifying Soul Eater.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: She's in ''Soul Eater'' and ''Oath Breaker'' a fairly minor character, but she changes the course of the latter book's climax by [[spoiler:stealing the last Fire Opal piece from Thiazzi]]. This leads to [[spoiler:the Oak Mage's KarmicDeath]] and serves as buildup for the events of ''Ghost Hunter''.
* WouldHurtAChild: She tries to attack Renn (a thirteen-year-old girl at the time) in ''Soul Eater''. In ''Ghost Hunter'', she kills Wolf and Darkfur's cub Shadow and captures the other cub Pebble.

[[WMG:Nef's bat]]
Nef's pet bat which she allows to reside on her shoulder.
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* BatOutOfHell: Subverted. Despite being the pet of a villain, she's a normal bat that does nothing villainous and even takes a liking to Torak.
* MoralityPet: Her mistress cares for her very much. Torak lampshades it by wondering how Nef can caress her clan-creature even though she stains her spirit with sin. [[spoiler:Before sacrificing herself, she makes sure to release the bat so that she won't die with her.]]
* ParrotPetPosition: She rests on Nef's shoulder where she'd keep the fur of her totem.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Introduced in ''Outcast'']]

[[WMG:Aki]]
Aki is the Boar Clan Leader's son and a few years older than Torak. In ''Outcast'', he discovers Torak's Soul Eater tattoo, resulting in Torak's outcasting. Aki spends Torak's time in exile by attempting to hunt him down. They later become allies after Torak saves his life.
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* ButtMonkey: It's mentioned in ''Wolf Brother'', long before he's introduced, that he has lost a few toes to frostbite. In ''Outcast'', he gets hot pine-pitch poured all over himself, breaks his arm, and almost dies twice. In ''Ghost Hunter'', he is driven mad by Eostra's sickness, and in ''Skin Taker'', [[spoiler:killed and rendered a ghost by the Thunderstar]].
* CallingTheOldManOut: At the end of ''Outcast'', he stands up to his father when he intends to kill Torak. It's mentioned afterwards that this act has given Aki new self-respect.
* HeelFaceTurn: After Torak saves him from [[spoiler:drowning]], he sides with Renn, Bale and Fin-Kedinn in defending Torak against the murderous clans.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: He has a lot of similarities with Hord. They're both rash young men who are related to their clans' leaders and try to hide their self-esteem issues with an arrogant demeanor. They're both hostile towards Torak and attempt to kill him. However, while Hord goes off the deep end and [[spoiler:dies while trying to kill Torak]], Aki sees the error of his ways and lives.
* WellDoneSonGuy: His reason for trying to hunt down Torak isn't so much hatred as the fear of failing to fulfill his oath to kill him which he gave to his harsh father.

[[WMG:Rip and Rek]]
When Renn uses Magecraft to summon help for Torak who is suffering from soul-sickness, he ends up taking care of two young raven siblings, a task that helps him recover. He names the male raven Rip and the female Rek. They afterwards take part in Torak, Renn and Wolf's subsequent adventures.
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* CleverCrows: They tend to notice things that others miss. It is Rip who first realizes that [[spoiler:the second Fire Opal piece is hidden in the hilt of the knife that belonged to Torak's father]]. In ''Viper's Daughter'', they also realize that [[spoiler:Naiginn is a demon]] before Renn and Torak do.
* DarkIsNotEvil: These black birds are mischievous but very heroic.
* GoodCounterpart: To Eostra's eagle owl. Rip and Rek are avian sidekicks to the heroes, while Eostra has her eagle owl as her main minion. After the eagle owl kills Wolf and Darkfur's cub Shadow and captures Pebble, Rip and Rek are the ones who save Pebble from the owl and take care of him until he reunites with his mother.
* NonHumanSidekick: They share this role with Wolf in regards to Torak and Renn.
* SiblingTeam: They shared the same nest in their first appearance, and they're rarely seen apart from each other. [[spoiler:The very ending of the series subverts this with the revelation that they're not siblings after all since they've mated and had three chicks.]]

[[WMG:Darkfur]]
A black-furred female wolf from the pack Wolf lives with between ''Wolf Brother'' and ''Spirit Walker''. She becomes so attached to Wolf that she leaves the pack to be with him in ''Oath Breaker'' and becomes his mate.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: Darkfur is a black-furred NobleWolf.
%%* {{Determinator}}:
* DisneyDeath: While trying to protect her cubs from Eostra's eagle owl, she falls in a river and is assumed dead by everyone. Renn later finds her barely alive at the Gorge of the Hidden People.
* MamaBear: She tries to protect her cubs from Eostra's eagle owl, and after her DisneyDeath, she travels all the way to the Mountain of Ghosts to find her mate and their last living cub.
* NobleWolf: She's very devoted to Wolf and their cubs as well as understanding of his unusual bond with Torak. In fact, when Wolf is torn apart by his realization that his pack-brother isn't a wolf, Darkfur snaps him out of his indecisiveness when Torak needs his help.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Of her and Wolf's first three cubs, only Pebble is alive. Click dies out of sickness one moon before ''Ghost Hunter'', while Shadow is killed by Eostra's eagle owl. In ''Skin Taker'', two more of their cubs, Blackpaw and Tug, are killed when the Thunderstar strikes.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Introduced in ''Oath Breaker'']]

[[WMG:Durrain]]
The Mage and Leader of the Red Deer Clan, the birthclan of Torak's mother.
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* ActualPacifist: She and the rest of her clan refuse to fight at all, even though the rest of the Deep Forest is at war.
* DefrostingIceQueen: In her first appearance, she's lofty, treats Torak and Renn as if they were just ignorant children, and refuses to consider they might be right about Thiazzi being in the Deep Forest. After they stop Thiazzi and his plans, she becomes more friendly and humble.
* MsExposition: It's she who finally reveals the reason behind [[spoiler:why the World Spirit made Torak a spirit walker, how his mother died, and why she declared her son clanless]].
* TellMeAboutMyMother: Torak asks her to tell him about his mother. Durrain refuses to tell anything until later when Torak is no longer dwelling on revenge.

[[WMG:The Chosen One]]
An unnamed woman from the Red Deer Clan who calls herself the Chosen One. She's an insane pyromaniac who secretly works for Thiazzi.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:When Torak is at the mercy of the Deep Forest clans who intend to kill him, the Chosen One secretly aids Renn in rescuing him by drugging the guards. She does this because she thinks they have no right to kill Torak who she thinks is blessed for being able to survive the forest fire she tried to offer him to.]]
* TheFundamentalist: She hates everyone but Thiazzi because she thinks no one else but him treats fire with proper respect or kindles a flame correctly. [[spoiler:She tries to offer Torak to the forest fire she ignites, but after he survives, she believes that the fire letting him live makes him blessed, so she secretly helps him escape from the Deep Forest clans, and after she's caught, she submits to whatever punishment Torak gives her.]]
* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler:After Thiazzi is killed, the Chosen One is caught, and Torak is given the honor of deciding her fate. She's happy with whatever decision he makes because she regards him blessed for surviving the forest fire.]]
* MyBloodRunsHot: Her skin is hot as ash.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Her real name is never revealed.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler:The lightning strike that turned her insane killed her unborn child.]]
* {{Pyromaniac}}: She [[FanaticalFire worships fire and wishes to be one with it]].
* ThirdPersonPerson: She mostly refers to herself in the third person.

[[WMG:Pebble]]
One of the first three cubs of Wolf and Darkfur.
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* SoleSurvivor: He's the only member of Wolf and Darkfur's first litter to be alive. His brother Click dies of a sickness one moon before ''Ghost Hunter'', while Shadow is killed by Eostra's eagle owl. He has gained more siblings by the time of ''Viper's Daughter'', but they too are killed when the Thunderstar strikes.

[[WMG:Gaup]]
A man from the Salmon Clan who enters the Deep Forest in search of his four-year-old daughter who has been captured by Thiazzi.
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* AnArmAndALeg: His hand is cut off by the Auroch Clan as penalty for supposedly abducting their children.
* PapaWolf: After his attempt to find his daughter in the Deep Forest leads to him being dismembered and kicked out by the Auroch Clan, he rushes to rally his clan and make the Deep Forest clans return his daughter.

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[[folder:Introduced in ''Ghost Hunter'']]

[[WMG:Dark]]
Dark is an albino boy who lives in the Mountain of Ghosts with only a white raven called Ark for company. He was abandoned by the Swan Clan when he was younger, both due to his albinism and his ability to see ghosts. After befriending Torak, Renn and Wolf, he aids them against Eostra. He afterwards stays with the Raven Clan. He's of the same age as Torak and Renn.
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* AllTheOtherReindeer:
** He was born to the Swan Clan, but he was feared [[AlbinosAreFreaks due to his albinism]] and ability to see ghosts. His only consolation was his protective mother, and when she died when he was eight, he was abandoned.
** Subverted with the Raven Clan. They are initially wary of him, but he gains their respect immediately upon seeing his white raven Ark.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: In the eight book, he surprises everyone with the anger meeting his father Realvi, who left him to die in the Mountains, stirs up in him.
* ColorCodedEyes: His light gray eyes bring to Torak's mind a sky that rains snow, and they fit well with his gift in Magecraft.
%% * ISeeDeadPeople
* ManChild: Downplayed in ''Ghost Hunter''; despite being fifteen years old like Torak and Renn, Dark's thoughts and words are somewhat slow, especially when compared to the sharp, intelligent way Torak and Renn think and speak. This is justified, because he didn't have any human contact between the ages of eight and fifteen.
* MirrorCharacter: Upon introduction, he is more or less like Torak was at the beginning of the series. Torak lived his first twelve years with only his father for company, had visited only one clan meeting, and was ignorant of a lot of things when he first met the Ravens. Since the age of eight, Dark has lived in the Mountain of Ghosts, with only Ark and ghosts for company, and he bombards Torak with questions about things he doesn't know about.
* NiceGuy: He is ignorant and naive, but generally well-meaning. He initially wants to keep Torak with himself since he's the first human he has met in seven years, yet he readily helps him, Renn and Wolf in the final fight against Eostra.
* NoSocialSkills: He's about Torak and Renn's age, but due to being isolated from all human contact since the age of eight, his attempts to converse with Torak and Renn are awkward.
* SufferTheSlings: His weapon is a sling, and he aims with even more accuracy than Renn does with her bow.

[[WMG:Ark]]
A white female raven. She has been Dark's faithful companion after he rescued her from crows that were picking on her.
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* NonHumanSidekick: For Dark who shares her white coloring.
* ParrotPetPosition: She often perches on Dark's shoulder.

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[[folder:Introduced in ''Viper's Daughter'']]

[[WMG:Shamik]]
A girl from the Ptarmigan Clan who was sold to the Narwals due to her withered arm at the age of five. When she first appears, she's about ten years old and serves the former Narwal Mage Marupai. Torak meets her while he's searching for Renn in the Far North. When the heroic trio returns to the Forest, they take Shamik with them to live with the Ravens.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Upon Shamik's first appearance, Torak stops Orvo from striking her just because she didn't get out of his way fast enough. She afterwards goes to great lengths to help him out.
* BirdsOfAFeather: She quickly becomes Dark's friend, for they both were cast out by their bird-themed birth-clan at an early age due to being different and had to learn how to survive in a cold environment, but after befriending and helping Torak, Renn and Wolf, they found their place among the Ravens.
* DemotedToExtra: She's a supporting character in ''Viper's Daughter'', then a minor character in ''Skin Taker'', and she's mentioned exactly once in ''Wolfbane''.
* HandicappedBadass: Despite being a little girl with a withered arm, she's tough and determined, and she knows how to survive in the Far North.
* HiddenDepths: This gaunt and silent little girl whom the Narwals treat as their slave proves herself to be of great assistance to the heroes in the harsh environment of the Far North, and unlike most of the Narwals, she can speak Southern language. She also doesn't share the Narwals' misconception that wolves are disguised demons.
%%* NotUsedToFreedom:
* PintSizedPowerhouse: She's surprisingly strong for a ten-year-old little girl.
* SlaveLiberation: She's considered to be the Narwal Clan's property, but after Marupai's death, she's "given" to Torak who immediately makes her a free person.

[[WMG:Orvo]]
A young man from the Narwal Clan and the Boat Leader's nephew.
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* WouldHitAGirl: He is about to strike Shamik for not getting out of his way quickly enough, only for Torak to stop him.

[[WMG:Marupai]]
The former Mage of the Narwal Clan and Naiginn's stepfather. He was the only one of his clan who managed to find the Island at the Edge of the World. Seshru seduced him following the Great Fire and made him take her to the Island where she gave birth to Naiginn. He is unaware that Naiginn is possessed by a demon and not his biological son.
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* BlindedByTheSun: After Seshru left Marupai, he blinded himself by staring for too long at the sun where she lied to have come from.
* PapaWolf: He's fiercely protective of Naiginn and leads Torak to the Island at the Edge of the World in an effort to save his stepson.

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[[folder:Introduced in ''Skin Taker'']]

[[WMG:Realvi]]
Dark's father from the Swan Clan. Immediately after Dark's mother died, Realvi abandoned his albino son to the High Mountains when Dark was eight summers old. They re-encounter after the Thunderstar strikes. At first he appears to be wanting to reconcile with Dark, but he turns out to be a spy of the Chosen Ones sent to find out if Torak and Renn are among the survivors.
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* AbusiveParents: He [[GroinAttack knees his adolescent son in the groin]].
* ArchnemesisDad: Dark doesn't want anything to do with Realvi who left him to die in the Mountains. Then they have a violent confrontation when Dark catches Realvi stealing food stored by the surviving clans.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: At first he acts like he seeks forgiveness from his son, but it's just a cover.
* IHaveNoSon: When Dark discovers Realvi's true colors, Realvi says the only thing he regrets is that he didn't kill Dark immediately upon birth.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:After Naiginn's true nature is exposed to the Chosen Ones, Realvi vanishes to never appear again.]]
* ParentalBetrayal: The day after Dark's protective mother died, Realvi took his eight-year-old son to the Gorge of the Hidden People, with Dark thinking he was going to get his clan-tattoos. He was left there by Realvi who never came back. When they meet again years later, Realvi acts like he wants to reconnect with his son, only for Dark to discover him to be spying for [[spoiler:Naiginn]] and stealing food from the survivors of the Thunderstar.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Though not pale like his son, Realvi has Dark's hollow cheeks and prominent jaw.

[[WMG:Iakim]]
A Bat Clan hunter who becomes one of the Chosen Ones.
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* OnlySaneMan: He's not as ferverntly taken in by the lies [[spoiler:Naiginn]] sprouts to the Chosen Ones as many of the others are.
* PointyEars: Like his clanmates, he has cut the tip of his ears to look more like a bat.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: [[spoiler:He eventually releases Renn so that she can perform the Rite and bring the First Tree back.]]

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[[folder:Introduced in ''Wolfbane'']]

[[WMG:Kujai]]
A young man from the Sea-eagle Clan who befriends Dark while helping the heroes in their efforts to save Wolf from Naiginn and put an end to the demon once and for all.
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%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold

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[[folder:Other characters]]

[[WMG:Torak's mother]]
Torak's mother from the Red Deer Clan who died shortly after giving birth to him. The medicine horn she made is the only thing Torak has of her.
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* ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: Fin-Kedinn says that unlike [[spoiler:Torak's father]], Torak's mother always saw through the ruse of the Soul Eaters' noble intentions while they still called themselves the Healers.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:When she learned that her son would have to make up for his father's sins, she begged the World Spirit to help Torak. The Spirit made Torak a spirit walker on two conditions; the mother had to declare her son clanless and die herself.]]
* TheLostLenore: Both to Fin-Kedinn and Torak's father. The latter never told Torak much about her because he always became very sad thinking about her. Fin-Kedinn in turn [[spoiler:holds himself partially responsible for her death because he refused to help her and her mate out of jealousy following the Great Fire]]. He ends up fostering her son for her sake.
* NatureLover: Fin-Kedinn describes her as a woman who knew and loved the Forest like nobody else, and it loved her in return.
* PosthumousCharacter: She's been dead for Torak's entire life, but she still turns out to be a crucial character concerning Fin-Kedinn's [[UnbalancedByRivalsKid attitude towards Torak]] as well as [[spoiler:Torak's status as a clanless spirit walker]].
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Torak's gift at tracking came from her, and his father taught him to use it.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: With Torak's father and Fin-Kedinn. The latter she loved like a brother and the former as a mate.
* UnnamedParent: Her name is never revealed even though it would be allowed to be spoken because it's more than five years since her death.

[[WMG:Renn's father]]
Fin-Kedinn's older brother from the Raven Clan as well as Renn and Hord's father. He was killed by a snowfall on the ice river beyond Lake Axehead when Renn was seven years old.
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* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: The way Renn speaks fondly of him shows that he was the only one in the Raven Clan besides Fin-Kedinn who loved her. [[spoiler:He certainly was a better parent than Seshru by a long shot.]]
* LoveMakesYouDumb: [[spoiler:Even though Seshru dumped him twice, he was unable to forget her and ended up dying on the ice river while searching for her.]]
* UnnamedParent: He shares this status with Torak's parents.

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