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Herald Trainee Mags and Companion Dallen

• Dark and Troubled Past
• Living Lie Detector: Can sense truth or lies with just his Gift, without resorting to the Truth-Spell.
• Made a Slave: From infancy, pretty much.
• Teen Superspy
• Telepathy: He is the strongest Mindspeaker yet shown in the books.

Healer Trainee Bear

• Arranged Marriage: He went home for the holidays to find himself already betrothed. Borders on the forced marriage version, though this is illegal in Valdemar — his family has no interest in his desires.
• Muggles Do It Better: Born without Healing Hands, Bear studied up on herb-lore and mundane medicine instead, and these skills are a lot better for certain problems than the Gift.
• Why Couldn't You Be Different?: Born totally without a healing gift to a line that had it for generations.

Bardic Trainee Lena

• Magic Music
• "Well Done, Daughter" Girl

Amily

King's Own Herald Nikolas

• Overprotective Dad: Invoked by Nikolas — he tells several Heralds that he's spending time with Mags because Mags is interested in Amily. (Which he is, but it's a convenient cover for what's really going on.)
• Renowned Selective Mentor: To Mags; the only reason none of the other Trainees is jealous is because both Nikolas and Mags are careful to hide the relationship.