Characters from other tribes, including random non-tribal characters.
Lowland Tribe
The tribe from Liska and Markree hails from, and the Highland tribe's neighboring and rival one, and the latter are infamous from stealing food and kidnapping people from them, including Liska, which also kickstart the plot of the series. Aunt Deronda
Deronda
Liska and Markree's maternal aunt, and her, at the time, one of the last living members of their family. After the deaths of Liska and Markree's parents, she took care of them and she is very happy to see Liska again when she returns years later.- Parental Substitute: She is this for both Liska and Markree after their parents died due to sickness.
Red Canyon Tribe
- Avenging the Villain: Basically, their final raid over the Highland tribe was this in order to avenge Rakon's death. It should be also that it was likely Rakon's intention on doing this in the first place.
- Expy: Their role at the very end of the story is very eerily similar to one to the Japanese Strategic Self-Defense Force (JSSDF) from "The End of Evangelion", since they were basically an army of human-sized enemies which destroy everything dear for the main protagonists (The Highland tribe for Liska, and NERV for Shinji and Asuka, leading them to resort to extreme measures to stop them, even at the cost of their own lives, after they defeated a supposely bigger threat (Rakon for Liska, and the Angels for Shinji and the rest of NERV).
- Final Solution: In a really unexpected turn of events, Rakon's loyalist forces tried to exterminate the entire Highland tribe in a surprise attack at night.
- Walking Spoiler: The final 37th issue show us that the remaining forces loyal to Rakon are the True Final Boss of the story after Rakon was killed by Quiet Bird, and now they are hellbent to destroy the Highland tribe and all its people once for all.
Rakon
Tribe Chief Rakon
Rakon, designed by Shawntae Howard at 2000
Click here to see Rakon's updated version done by Shawntae Howard at 2022
A member from the Red Canyon tribe, Rakon is the closest thing to a recurrent antogonist the comic had. He debuted during the tribal games, when Shaygin, Liska's wife, brought some food to him, but Rakon, thinking that Shaygin was a Sex Slave, gave her a Forced Kiss to her, causing Liska to face him directly. Surprised and disgusted to see a warrior woman, Rakon mocked her to no end, causing Liska to take the matters personally against him during the games, culminating with him on attempting to rape her in his teepee, but she was saved by her brother Markree and Rial before he could laid a finger on her. From there onwards, Leahtrah explains that Rakon became Liska's worst enemy she ever had and they faced on battle each other in many moments of their lives. He had the chance of settle the score with Liska once for all when they became older, when he and his tribe launched a midnight ambush attack at the Highland tribe, but thanks to Liska's spies, she managed to figure his tactics, and after she and his men managed to kill all his war party, except him. Rakon then faced Quiet Bird in a personal Death Duel, but the formed killed him with a single blow. Unfortunately for the entire Highland tribe, he already considered his own death in his plans, and his remaining faithful warriors launched another, more successful ambush at midnight, managing to score many casualities. Liska had to sacrifice herself in order to drive his goons out from the tribe, while the reinforcements returned to finish with the rest of the invaders.
- All for Nothing: Somewhat: While he managed to get rid of Liska at the hands of his own men after his death, at the very end the whole Red Canyon tribe was defeated and absorbed by the Highland tribe at issue 36, while his loyalist forces were defeated in the next issue afterwards.
- Artistic License – Law: Assuming either the setting's laws work in the same way as human laws and Native American traditions used to work in the past, many of the stuff Rakon does during the tribal games would likely either gotten him killed or caused a tribal war between the Highland tribe and his own one, since he managed to blatantly break many of the laws of his host tribe, including kissing one of the warrior chief's wives without her permission, bullying against everyone else without serious consequences, and finally, trying to rape one of the warrior chiefs, in this case, Liska, and evading any serious punishment, other than both Markree and Rial saving Liska at the last second. This is handwaved in-universe, however, as Rakon was the son of the Red Canyon tribe's chief and by default, he enjoys inmunity from being punished by his hosts; and there's also the fact the tribal games' rules forbid any kind of personal fighting during the games, even in self-defense.
- Attempted Rape: He attempted to rape Liska at the end of ther tribal games, but both Markree and Rial stop him before he could do anything.
- Back for the Finale: He was the final opponent Liska has to face, when the latter tried to destroy her tribe once for all.
- Bigger Is Better in Bed: In his 2022 redesign, Rakon's body is not the only thing that is notoriously big...
- Black Sheep: According with the description given by Chief Pownetkee to Liska about Rakon's identity, the Red Canyon people are normally considered peaceful people, but Rakon is the exception on that rule. This is subverted like hell in the worst way possible, as they are also as bad as him, especially when they attacked the Highland tribe when their warriors were out to hunt.
- Big Bad: The closest thing Katmandu has to a recurrent villain, even if he only appears in just three sub-arcs.
- Cool Old Guy: Despite looking the same as he was in his younger times, Rakon was already in his latter 50s-earlier 60s in the final arc, but he was still able to kick ass. Later subverted when Quiet Bird, who was younger than him, finished him with a single blow.
- Covered with Scars: His whole pelt is covered with battle scars and burns from head to toe, being his most striking feature.
- Decoy Antagonist: Rakon was originally set up as the main antagonist of they story, and, according with Leah, he was originally fated to have a final duel with Liska to settle their score once for all. The final arc, however, offers a twist on this: While Rakon was planning to to have his final duel with her, Liska utterly refuses, with her adopting son Quiet Bird taking her place instead. Oddly enough, Rakon accepts, and Quiet Bird finish him off in a single blow. The twist came with with the fact that it's heavily implied that Rakon already planned this in advanced, so his remaining surviving followers could both avenge his death and finish with both Liska and her tribe latter on.
- Evil Counterpart: He is basically all the opossite of what Liska really was: Racist, mysogynist, a massive jerkass and also heavily implied to be a serial rapist, to the grade he also tried to do this on Liska; Additionally, both characters became the chiefs of their respective tribes.
- Evil Prince: He was the Red Canyon tribe chief's son, and he was rotten to the core. And he later became the new chief when his father was too old to lead anymore.
- Expy: He looks like Jaren Lobo, a minor character from Extinctioners, which was created by Shawntae Howard, the artist who did the art of Katmandu for many issues. In fact, they look almost the same, except that Jaren is a brown-furred wolf, while Rakon is supposely a golden-furred feline.
- Final Boss: Rakon is the final opponent that Liska face during her final battle at the end of the story, and blatantly stated so by Leah during his debut at the end of the The Peacemaker sub-arc. However, this trope is subverted at the end, as he was killed in a rather anti-climatic way by Quiet Bird instead, as Liska wasn't allowed to face him.
- Gendered Insult: He insulted Liska by calling her a "she-male", because she was a female warrior, and also because she was bisexual.
- Groin Attack: Rakon got his family jewels smashed by Shaygin when he force-kissed her.
- Killed Offscreen:
- In the original canon, we don't see the moment when Quiet Bird killed him, except when the narrator, Master Cheddar, mentioned that the former didn't had a problem on turning him into mince meat.
- In the Alternative Continuity Alternative Worlds of Katmandu, due to the sole existance of Matoo Anzasi, Thea's human husband in that continuity, it's very likely, considering Matoo's personality and status as one of the Highland tribe's mightiest warriors, given that he is a Super-Soldier, that he killed Rakon off-screen at some point of the story, as he isn't mentioned at any point of the story.
- Knight of Cerebus: His debut marks the point when the story became more Darker and Edgier, to the grade that he was the final opponent Liska has to defeat in order to both became the chief of the Highland tribe and also to for her own tribe's survival. Also, Rakon was the only antagonist character in the whole story being able to hurt Liska to the grade to her requiring help from someone else, first from her own younger brother and Rial during the tribal games, and finally, during the Final Battle against him, when she used her adoptive son Quiet Bird to finish him off for good.
- Hero Killer: A rather bizarre version of this trope happens during the final battle between both Liska and him: Liska managed to kill him first with the help of his adopted son Quiet Bird, who was younger, taller and even stronger than him in his prime time. What she didn't expected is that he had more warriors who wanted to exact revenge on him and they managed to kill her in his name, but not before she managed to drive them away from the rest of the tribe.
- Hey, You!: Rakon never called Liska by her name, only using derogative nicks on her, like "female", "she-male" and similar ones. The only time we see Rakon calling her by her name was during his Villanous Breakdown after his entire war party was wiped out by Liska and her rifle-armed warriors, being Rakon the only warrior left standing.
- Informed Species: He is supposed to be a feline hybrid, most likely between a Hoplite lion and another Velite breed, but, at least in the Shawntae Howard version on him, he looks more like a wolf with golden fur rather than a feline (see above the reason why). Averted with other artists, when Rakon is depicted as more lion-like instead.
- Mysterious Past: Despite being an important character in Liska's life, on the grounds he was her hated enemy, we know next to nothing about his past, outside he was the son of the chief from his tribe and he had an harem back home.
- A Nazi by Any Other Name: Very likely invoked with his looks and outright stated later on: In the color cover of issue 20, both his hair and his fur has a golden tint, and his buckskin had also both khaki and golden tones, and that without going with the structure of this face, giving him the impression of a stereotypical Nazi officer. What makes his existence quite oxymoronical, however, is the fact he was an lion-cat hybrid, basically the in-universe version of someone of mixed ethnicity, which would quickly disqualify him on the Nazi part in Real Life. And to top it off, he planned to do a full-out mass genocide on the Highland tribe.
- Nipple and Dimed: Bizarrely averted with him in his updated 2022 version, as his new design has nipples, being the only male Katmandu character who shows them. In this case, this could be justifed, as due to his burns Rakon lacks of his chest fur that covers them.
- Not Allowed to Grow Old: For some bizarre reason, Rakon doesn't look aged during the last arc despite being around Liska's age and he looks basically the same as he was when Rakon met Liska in their earlier 20s.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: At first, Rakon was depicted as a massive racist, mysoginist and homophobic bully who just want to humiliate Liska, Shaygin and the whole Highland tribe for his own sake. Then, he tried to rape Liska at the end of the sub-arc after he lose in the tribal games, and decades later, he tried to kill her and her whole tribe. Ironically enough, he technically succeded in the former, but not in the latter, through this was done post-mortem by his own loyal men.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Rakon was racist against cats with both black (Rial) and white (Pyndan) fur, not to mention being misogynist and also being homophobe, as he named Liska a "she-male", due to her position as a warrior and also because she was bisexual.
- Pretext for War: The real reason why Rakon wanted to settle the score with Liska and her tribe was because, just like them, they were searching for a new place to live after their original one, the Red Canyon, were also suffering from a crippling drought. Since the forest where the Highland tribe was the only one with enough resources for sustaining people on miles away, they only way to his tribe to survive was to exterminate the whole Highland tribe once for all. Ironically enough, after he died at issue 36, his whole tribe was absorbed by the Highland tribe, except for a loyalist force bent to avenge Rakon's death.
- Scars Are Forever: For unexplained reasons, Rakon has many furless patches across his body and his face, meaning he suffered burns on some moment of his life, making him more scarier than he already was.
- Thanatos Gambit: Rakon managed to outsmart Liska from beyond the grave by using the rest of his warriors in a final attack against the Highland tribe in order to both avenge his death at the hands of Quiet Bird and also to kill everyone in the Highland tribe, Liska included, in an surprise attack when she and the other warriors were drunk after defeating Rakon.
- Vague Age: We don't know a thing about his age; we have to assume he is about Liska's age, more or less about 19-20 years old, when both characters meet each other during the tribal games, since Thea, Liska's first-born daughter, was barely a year old when he debuted and Liska herself was pregnant with both Darmin and Talwin at the time.note
- Villain Forgot to Level Grind: Happens to him twice in the Final Battle:
- Rakon didn't expected to face a bigger, stronger opponent during his final duel against Quiet Bird, since the only opponents he had faced before in his life, besides Liska, was smaller, weaker foes, and he never expected that Liska would refuse to fight against him personally, which ended up dooming him.
- Likewise, and for some unexplained reason, and despite having a good relationship with Indigo Weechai, the man that sold the same shotguns to Liska during his raid at the Highland tribe and being interested in such shotguns, Rakon never sought him to buy the same weapons for his tribe and himself, even if Indigo could had done it in order to get rid of Liska or Rakon just to get a last quick buck from the Natives, while letting wiping themselves out, and avoiding a likely possible retalation against him.
- Villainous Valor: Rakon had many flaws, but being a coward wasn't one of them. He always loved to face his enemies head-on by himself, no matter if the odds were against him at any moment, a feature lampshaded by both Leah and during Rakon's time by anyone else, even his own enemies. That would be end up being his downfall, as he faced against Quiet Bird during their final duel, and the latter finish him off in a quick fashion.
- World's Strongest Man: He was one of the strongest warriors of his era, along with Hesta, and he was stronger enough to even fight against the Gomarrin with just a mace and managing to even break one of its legs. Subverted as Quiet Bird, Liska's adopted son, was even stronger than him and he managed to kill him with a single blow.
Redhand Tribe
- The Gambler: According with the story, this was their main feature.
- Native American Casino: For all practical effects, they were basically a really bizarre, alien and past-era version of this trope.
- Punny Name: Redhand Tribe—>Being caught red-handed, as being caught cheating, in this case gambling.
Flint
Flint
Age: 35-36 (when he meet Liska at issue 6), about 40 (issue 25), 50 (issue 10)
Height: Unknown
Date of Birth: A.K. 1712
Race: Velite (Turkish Angora Cat)
A slave trader and also Liska's antagonist of sorts, on the grounds of his job, considering how the latter really hated slavery with a passion, this guy was a pain in Liska's rear for many reasons, as he always wanted to find a way to screw her over, as she tricked him into selling Rial for a loss, a fact her never managed to get over with.Height: Unknown
Date of Birth: A.K. 1712
Race: Velite (Turkish Angora Cat)
- The Corrupter: During the two first issues of the "Curse of the Blood" sub-arc, Flint manipulated Willoem, another warrior who wanted to marry with Panka, Pyndan's younger sister and was rejected by her in order to marry Gareth instead, to fight Liska, the head warchief and Panka's mother by kinship in a death duel.
- Enemy Mine: Just like anyone else, he joined forces with Liska in order to defeat the Gomarrin in "The Hunt" sub-arc, something that is even lampshaded by both.
- Hate Sink: No one liked this guy, due to his job as a slave trader, especially Liska and her tribe, and he didn't tried to hide that he was a disgusting, manipulative douchebag.
- Lost Them in a Card Game: Part of the reason why he hated Liska so much was the fact he lost Shaygin and Elishaa on a game of dice, and that without going with the point he also lost Rial when Liska basically scammed him, somewhat, in order to give him back.
- Older Than They Look: At his last, chronological appearance at issue 10, he was supposed to be fifty years old, but he looks and acts like someone at the same age as Liska, Rial and Pyndan.
Burned Tree Tribe
Chief Cor-mac-den
Chief Cor-mac-den
- Bash Brothers: With both Chief Pownetkee and Rial during the battle against the slavers during the events of the "When Warriors Die" sub-arc. In fact, he avenged Rial's death by killing the culprit with his own knife.
- Eye Patch Of Power: For some reason, he had a patch in his left eye.
- Nice Mice: While not as nice as Tovar or Chief Pownetkee are, he is a quite nice person and he is always available to help his feline friends when required.
Tovar
Siber Sumatra Clan
A mysterious clan of Mongolian-like Hoplite Sumatran tigers from a distant land, very likely from another, Asian-like continent, which are hellbet to plunder and kill anything that stand in their way, being their last target an Ancient Egypt-like country. The clan was ruled by King Rajar, along with his children, Tyjer and Tiara, while the former was exiled and, for mysterious reasons, he ended in the Hoplite Nation, or at least the western part of it, when he was found by Hesta.Tropes associated with all of them:
- Cats Are Mean: From all canon evil feline characters, excluding Rakon, they are possibly the meanest of them, as they are basically the Katmandu equivalent of the Mongols, and that without mention they are tigers, to boot.
- Wutai: They are notorious for being the only characters hailing from the Far East of the planet Katmandu. While their name implies they could came from their world's equivalent of Indonesia, as they are Sumatran tigers, they are dressed more like the stereotypical depictions of the Mongol people from the times of Genghis Khan.
Tyjer
Prince Tyjer Siber
Tyjer is the prince of the Siber Sumatra Clan... or at least, he used to be, until his father exiled him for refusing to kill the children of King Lionor, the ruler of the Egypt-like country his father and the rest of his family invaded in other to conquer it. For reasons not full explained, he is transported from the deserts of that kingdom to the Hoplite lands in the west, when he was found almost dying by Hesta during her time working for Pepper, her trade mentor. As a way to repay her for healing him, Tyjer trained her in military arts, and then, he fell in love with her. Unfortunately for both, Tyjer didn't want to stay with her, since he was an exiled lord without a kingdom, and he couldn't offer anything to her, so he went to separated ways, in order to return to his home and make his father pay for exiling him.- Cats Are Mean: Averted. Just like Hesta, he is a quite noble tiger, and his only grudge he holds is just against his father for exiling him. Extra points he is a Sumatran tiger, a tiger breed notoriously infamous for being one of the most dangerous ones in Real Life.
- Expy: If his father is heavily based on Genghis Khan, Tyjer is probably based on Mongke Khan, Kublai Khan's elder brother, which, unlike the rest of his family, was a more reasonable conqueror and being more willing to spare those who didn't have to kill, compared with his relatives.
- Fallen Prince: His father exiled him for refusing to kill the children of a rival king, causing him to wander alone in the desert, until he was sent to the Hoplite lands thanks to a mysterious pendant his sister gave to him as a parting gift.
- First Love: With Hesta. Also overlaps with Love at First Sight, but unfortunately for both of them, their relationship didn't last long, as he went in separated ways in order to return to his lands to exact revenge against his family.
- Perspective Flip: His story is basically the same one which was told from Hesta to Liska during the "Beginnings and Endings" sub-arc about him, except from his point of view, and it also explains the reasons why he ended in the Hoplite lands in the west.
- Punny Name: His name is a pun of saber-tooth tiger, despite being he a Sumatran tiger.
- White Sheep: Compared with the rest of his family, which are nothing more than mass-murdering bastards, he is more noble and prince-like, and outright refusing to kill defenseless people, which caused him to be exiled as a result.
The Amazons
They were a tribe of almost all-female very primitive saber-tooth tigers who many people thought went extinct years ago, but during a mission, both Liska and Hesta found them, and after winning their trust, they gave their only living son, Quiet Bird, to Liska, as by tribal tradition, normally the weak, male ones were culled out.Tropes associated with all of them:
- Dying Race: The Amazons Liska and Hesta found are the only living members of their race, and they are painfully aware of that fact, and that was one of the reasons they gave their only child to Liska in order to protect him.
- Last of Their Kind: According with Liska at the final sub-arc, they went extinct years after she met them when she tried again to made contact with them, leaving Quiet Bird as the last living member of their species.
- Precursors: According with both Hesta and later by Towakota, another clan chief, the Amazons were originally the original dwellers of the planet Katmandu, until a genocidal war waged by other tribes reduced their numbers; to make the matters worse for them, they had a tradition when the weaker, unfit males were executed, leaving only the females, which at the end caused their own extinction.
- The Savage Indian: Subverted: They don't act, look or even behave like their Native neighbors and look more like either furry cavewomen or something straight out from Conan the Barbarian than Natives, enforced by the fact the Native characters are much civilized than them.
- You No Take Candle: They speak a much different language than the rest of the cast, and while translated to "English", theirs is even more broken than their Native cousins.
Quiet Bird
Quiet Bird aka Runt
Quiet Bird at six years old, designed by Ronzo Murphy
Click here to see him as an adult, designed by Shawntae Howard
Age: 6 (at issue 32), about 16 (issue 34), about 18 (final arc)
Height: Unknown
Date of Birth: about A.K. 1762
Race: Amazon
The last surviving member of the saber-tooth tiger Amazon race and Liska's last child she had by adoption. Despite his fiery looks, he was a quite nice, through quiet, guy, who really loved his parents a lot, especially his step-mother Liska. He played an important role during the final battle against Rakon as an adult, as he was the one who killed him in a single blow during the first battle against his tribe and later when Rakon's remaining warriors assaulted the village, and he carried Liska's final message to her other warriors who were out for hunting at that time in order to carry out a counterattack, and avenge her death.Height: Unknown
Date of Birth: about A.K. 1762
Race: Amazon
- BFS: He wielded a giant knife that was bigger than even most weapons used in the story, and during the beginning of the final sub-arc, he used it to accidentally kill one of Rakon's spies. He also used it to also kill Rakon with it.
- The Big Guy: As an adult, he was bigger than not only his parents and everyone else, but also both Hesta and Rakon, managing to kill the latter with just one strike.
- Bigger Is Better in Bed: Discussed seriously in the last arc: It turns out that Quiet Bird's legs and arms are not the only things on his body that are big, and the topic is discussed for both laughs and seriousness, for obvious and realistic reasons, by her step-mother Liska when she discussed the possibilty of him marrying with Dancing Star and the likeness of having sex with her. Considering that Liska herself felt the experience firsthand from Rial, who was also well-endowed, and the fact Quiet Bird is the last surviving member of the Amazon race, she had her reasons on discussing the topic with him.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: How the battle against Rakon turned out. This is even lampshaded by the narrator.Master Cheddar: It really wasn't much of a fight.
- Happily Married: With Dancing Star at issue 36.
- Ironic Name: He was nicknamed Runt by his own people because he was "small" for their own standards, but at 6 years old, he was at the same size as Liska, who, at her latter 30s-earlier 40s, was also small for the standards of her own people. By the time he became an adult, he was taller than everyone else.
- Last of Its Kind: The last surviving member of the Amazon race by the time he became an adult.
- No Name Given: The name "Runt" was not his real name, but a nickname given by Magda, the leader of the Amazons to him. If he had a real name, it was lost because his biological mother died a year ago and she didn't bothered to teach him to even speak. Since he rarely speak as a child, much less doing any kind of sound, Patches renamed him as Quiet Bird, because he sounded like one.
- The Pig-Pen: As a result of being neglected by his peers from a very young age, Quiet Bird as a kid not only had never took a bath until he was adopted by Liska, but he also had fleas, much for her personal horror. Also, according with her daughter Linna in the last issue of the sub-arc he also wet himself anywhere until he used a loincloth.
- Spotlight-Stealing Squad: A rather egregious example: Despite only appearing frequently starting with issue 32, and being the last son Liska had via adoption, Quiet Bird stoled the spotlight of almost her remaining living children (excluding Linna), even the older ones like Thea and Mela, which they were promoted to have a bigger role in the story, and in the case of Thea, to have her own adventures in side-stories, causing them to dissapear from the narrative without almost no explanation, other than brief mention of Thea being mentioned at the last sub-arc. The fact he was also the person who killed Rakon effortlessly, rather than his mother, despite Leah stated previously he and Liska were fated to face each other alone in a final battle didn't help him either.
- Summon Bigger Fish: Liska brought him to her final duel against Rakon, since as the tribe chief, she could not face Rakon in personal combat anymore, and Quiet Bird was strong enough to wipe the floor with him.
- Uncertain Doom: At the very end of the story, we don't know what happened to him and any of his possible descendants after the events from the last issue, since his final fate is never brought out by Leah in the Distant Finale. Considering the way how the little girl who talked about him referenced him and his race in past tense, there's a very likely possibility that, while he did survived the final battle against Rakon's loyalist forces, since he was the one who warned the rest of the warriors who went hunting at the time, on the other hand there's the possibility that either Dancing Star, his fiancee and later wife, died during the surprise attack against the Highland tribe, he died young later on without having children or simply he was incompatible with her on the ground he was a saber-tooth tiger, basically the Katmandu version of a caveman, meaning that his entire race died with him, which would explain why there's no more Amazon people in Leah's era.
Hoplite Nation/Lands
As its name says, this is the area from the planet Katmandu when the Hoplites, a feline race based in wild cats like tigers, lions, cougars, etc, lives in, in stark contrast with the Velites, based on domestic cats, from the Plains region.Tropes associated with all of them:
- Culture Chop Suey: We don't wee too much about how the Hoplite culture used look like during Liska's era. The few things we see, if we include non-canon stories, about this area is that their culture is a bizarre mix-up between Greco-Roman, Arabic and Native American cultures.
- Panthera Awesome: Hoplites are based on wild felines like lions, tigers and the like, and almost all of them are much bigger than their smaller Velite cousins, many of them are up to two meters tall on average.
Indigo
Indigo Weechai
- The Bad Guy Wins: Well, to call him a "bad guy" would be a very strong word here, but at the end of the day he manipulated every single Native character of the story, including Liska and even people like Rakon, in order to help him take down both monsters, so he could test his brand-new matchlock rifle on them, at great personal cost for the Plains people, since lots of people died, including a clan leader, and he caused a break-up between Liska and Kress when the latter betrayed the former by helping Indigo on luring both monsters to the Plains region, so all the Natives could help him on his mission. To top it all, taking advantage on Liska's break-up with Kress, he managed to get married with Kress after Liska, in retaliation agaisnt her, decided to give her to Indigo, very likely to avoid making the things worse for everyone else.
- Chekhov's Gun: An almost literal example happens during the final battle against Rakon, at least during the first duel against him: Thanks to some spies that analyzed the Red Canyon tribe's movements beforehand, Liska predicted what his tactics would be, ann knowing that Rakon would be a tough opponent to handle herself, she asked Hesta to go to Hoplite lands and brought many of his rifles to the tribe in order to kill all the invading warriors, excluding Rakon, who was defeated and Killed Offscreen by Quiet Bird instead in a Curb Stomb Battle.
- Expy: He is technically a composite expy of two characters, one being fictious and another being a real-life one: His role in the story is very similar to Dr. Daisuke Serizawa from the very first Godzilla film, as both men are inventors with an unusual weapon for their settings (Matchlock rifle and Oxygen Destroyer respectively) and being also the Katmandu version of John Smith, since he married with a Native women as a "gift", while the latter went with the foreigner in order to know other countries other than her own.
- In-Series Nickname: The Ratkind warriors called him "Old Smokey", after his matchlock rifle.
- Mighty Whitey: In a sense, as he is a foreigner from outside the Plains region and he hails from a much advanced culture, compared with the semi-barbarical setting of the comic, and that without going he is a Hoplite lion with blond hair, and with a matchlock rifle, a weapon completely unknown in that place at Liska's era. To make matters worse, He manipulated every single character, Liska included, for his own personal gain, while the Natives sustained heavy losses, including the death of a clan leader.
- Obliviously Evil: It's heavily implied that, while his intentions are good, he was completely unaware of the effects from his own actions had on the Plains' Natives; through some actions, like causing a wedge betwen Liska and Kress by using the latter to lure the monsters to the Plains were possibly intentional.
Radwin
Radwin
- Caught with Your Pants Down: Overlaps with Coitus Interruptus, since Hesta caught her having sex with Pepper, their mentor, when the former returned from a long travel.
- Parental Abandonment: Just like her older sister Hesta, she was kicked from her home by her mother thanks to a devious plan created by her step-siblings in order to get rid of both girls so they could all the atention just for them.
Other Characters
Gomarrin
Gomarrin
Any similarity to a certain Japanese giant lizard who loves to wreck havok on its capital city is just a coincidence.
A giant T-Rex-like monster wandering the Plains region, killing and destroying anything in its path and the main antagonist of The Hunt sub-arc. The presence of that monster caused that all the warriors of the region, including the ones from the Highland tribe, to join forces in order to kill it before it could rampage their homes. The things went south when it turns out another, more dangerous relative of the first slain Gomorrin appeared in order to exact revenge against the Natives. At very end of the sub-arc, it turns out both monsters were lured by Kress by orders of Indigo to the Plains region in order to test his flintlock rifle, at the expense of the lives of many people.- Eye Scream: The first Gomorrin was defeated this way when Indigo blinded her by shooting in her eyes. Unfortunately for him, the same tactic didn't work for her rampaging, avenging mate, since his skin was much resiliant to anything, including bullets.
- Expy: From both the King of the Monsters itself, except this one has a horn in its head, and lacks Godzilla's Atomic Breath, or anything supernatural, for that matter, and also Gomora, a recurrent Godzilla-like kaiju from the Ultraman franchise.
- From Bad to Worse: After the Natives managed to kill the first Gomorrin, which turned to be female, her mate went into a literal Roaring Rampage of Revenge over the entire cast, and this one was much tougher to defeat than the female.
- More Deadly Than the Male: Inverted, the second, male Gomorrin the Natives face after they killed the female one was much tougher and dangerous than his female mate.
- Outside-Context Villain: Big time: Until this point, all the foes Liska and her tribe has faced had being either wild beasts or humanoid-sized enemies (like Willoem, Rakon and the Amazons), which she normally faced them using either diplomacy or brute force. The Gomorrin is the first foe she had to use both her wits and her skill as a warrior in order to defeat the first Gomorrin and her avenging mate.
- Rent-a-Zilla: In a comic book that deals mostly with either romance, slice-of-life or tribal warfare, you wouldn't expect Liska and her tribe to face one of these, don't you?
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: A very literal example, as the second Gomorrin does this on the whole cast after they killed his female mate.
Patches
Pajalis aka Patches
Patches, as designed by Ursula Husted.
Age: 18 (at issue 28), about 36 (final arc)
Height: Unknown
Date of Birth: A.K. 1749
Race: Velite (Mixed)
She makes her debut in the "Wicked Ways" sub-arc; Pajalis, also known as Patches by everyone else, including her family, was the younger member of a family of people who roamed in the Highlands with the intention of leeching as much as food as they could from their hosts, taking advantage from their Sacred Hospitality traditions. While trying to do the same with Liska's Highland tribe, she was captured by Hesta and she became Liska's virtual hostage in order to figure out Patches and her family's intentions. When her father and her elder sisters kidnapped Thea in order to force Liska to bring back Patches with her, the former decided to marry Patches in order to keep her in the Highland tribe and also to rescue Thea from Patches' family.Height: Unknown
Date of Birth: A.K. 1749
Race: Velite (Mixed)
- Absurdly Youthful Mother: As a result of being Liska's wife, she become the mother of her children by kinship, something that shocked Thea after Liska rescued her, and Patches scold her afterwards. Keep in mind both Patches and Thea were both 18 years old when the former debuted.
- Arranged Marriage: With Liska, in order to force Patches' father to let Patches to stay in the tribe.
- Depending on the Artist: Literally: Unlike with the rest of the cast, Patches, along with Quiet Bird and Dancing Star, are the only characters with no official standarized designs, since they were introduced much later in the story, and by the time she was introduced, the whole comic was switching artists at almost every issue after Shawntae Howard, the then-official artist until issue #24, left the franchise due to health problems.
- Expy: Design-wise, of Shanda Bruin from Shanda the Panda, except being younger and a feline. This is nodded at issue 33, when the artist gave her bear ears.
- I Choose to Stay: Since Patches married with Liska, she choose to stay in her tribe rather than continue being her family's personal slave, much for her father and sister's disgust.
- Informed Species: She is supposed to be a feline like everyone else, but she looks more like a lemur or a raccoon with cat ears instead. This is even worse at issue 33, since the artist gave her bear ears, making her look like a panda with a cat tail.
- In-Series Nickname: Her real name was Pajalis, but everyone in-universe called her "Patches", due to her black patches of fur in her otherwise white coat.
- It's All My Fault: During the final issue of the "Wicked Ways" sub-arc, Patches cries since she blames herself for the whole situation when Thea was kidnapped by her family, and Liska, Giles and Hesta where planning to rescue her, even if that meant having to kill Patches' father and her sisters. It took both her and Shaygin to make Liska change her mind on trying to kill her family.
- May–December Romance: Despite being basically forced to marry with Liska, who at that point she was in her later 30s-earlier 40s, while Patches was at most 18, in order to rescue her daughter Thea, she really loved her and Liska reciprocated her love too.
- Shrinking Violet: At least when she was young. In stark contrast with Shaygin, Elishaa and Wassil, who were more assertive enough to talk with Liska in mostly equal terms, she was, on the other hand, somewhat more shy and withdrawn towards her new husband, and she was more worried about Liska's safety than Shaygin, which at that point she had already matured enough from her previous crybaby persona from her younger years. She finally shed that image when she grew up later on during the final arc.
- The Unfavorite: Her father and her sisters basically used her as a glorified slave in order to get free food for them
Patches' Father
Patches' father
The nameless father of Patches; he, along with his daughters, are land roamers trying to leech as much food as they can from their hosts. The things went for worst for them and his other two daughters when they kidnapped Thea in order to force Liska to bring back Patches to them (see above for more details)- Domestic Abuse: He treated Patches as a glorified slave in order to get food for him and his sisters. This is one of the reasons why Patches choose to stay in the Highland tribe and later to marry with Liska.
- Fat Bastard: It's more than obvious he was the one who eat the most, compared with his daughters.
- No Name Given: For some reason, we never knew his real name, in stark contrast with his daughters, since all of them are named.
Sheel and Kethlyn
Sheel and Kethlyn
Patches' elder sisters, for any value of sisters anyway; they, along with their father, are part of their family's schemes on getting food for free by using their charms on all the male warriors of the Highland tribe including Pyndan and even Giles, much for the disgust of Thea.- Big Sister Bully: They don't care personally about their sister Patches and, just like their father, both girls are using her as their personal slave and also their bait in order to get food for them.
- Honey Trap: Both girls flirt with all the male warriors of the tribe, including people with established couples like Pyndan and Giles, causing a outroar in the whole village due to their behavior.
Witch of the Woods
The Witch of the Woods
A Ratkind witch which appears in the sub-arc of the same name; this really ugly being tried to kill Liska when the latter wanted to move her people to the deep woods after the Plains region suffered a drought, forcing the Highland tribe to move there. After a fierce battle, Liska killed her by stabbing her in her heart with an iron knife Hesta gave her years ago.- Achilles' Heel: For some unexplained reason, iron-based weapons can kill her, something that Liska found out accidentally when, in a sheer act of despair, she stabbed the witch with an iron knife Hesta gave her years ago.
- Expy:
- She is basically an anthro, rodent version of Gollum, except being able to use magic, and being even more disgusting and disturbing than him, on the grounds she was a rat.
- Also, she is likely an expy from Tongpu, The Mad Pierrot from Cowboy Bebop, as both are insane, murderous old people who want to kill the main protagonists of their stories, and just like in Cowboy Bebop, both characters are killed by using knives when all the better alternatives, including long-range attacks and melee, didn't dent them at the slightest, through the witch died more quickly compared with Pierrot, who was incidentally killed by a third party, in that case, crushed by a robot.
- Fan Disservice: She appears topless before Liska, who wouldn't be so unusual for the standards of the story, if wasn't for the fact her skin, including her breasts, was completely decaying.
- Gonk: As if the art style used in her first and last issue she appeared wasn't unsettling enough, she is easily the most disgusting-looking character in the whole story, looking like an unholy mix-up between Master Splinter with Gollum.
Klikatat
Klikatat
A mysterious dark-haired girl with white fur that appears in the deep woods during "The Witch of the Woods" sub-arc while explaining to Liska the names of the animals living inside the titular forest. She seem to had a weird link with the titular witch... or maybe not.- Ambiguous Situation: We don't really what exactly happened at the end, but it's heavily implied that the titular witch was just a henchwoman for her, and the real Big Bad was her all the time; it's also implied that the witch was really once a person who entered the forest and was cursed by Klikatat before her death, turning her into monster.
- Curse: The ending of the story heavily implies that Liska was cursed by Klikatat, and that curse became hereditary, as Thorin also saw her behind Leah at the end of the issue.
- Expy: Very likely from characters based in Japanese horror media popular at the time, like Sadako Yamamura, Kayako Saeki, and Ai Enma, as she shares personalities and similarities with those characters, including the very likely possibility of either she cursed Liska, or just warning her that her death was approaching her soon. Considering the issue which appeared her was the final issue before the final arc, when Liska finally died...
- Nightmare Face: She does one when she vanished from the forest, but not before warning Liska that her demise is coming close.
- Meaningful Name: In-universe, her name in an ancient language means the sound of the bones rattling, which is quite fitting for someone with a very nightmarish face before dissapearing for good.
- Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: A western, furry version of this trope could be applied to her, as she fits with this.
Kress
Kress
Kress was a slave girl-turned prostitute appearing during "The Quest for Magic" and "The Hunt" sub-arcs, who worked in a neighboring tribe ruled by Chief Pownetkee's brother when Liska, Pyndan and Rial went to take a rest during the first's vision quest. She is also notable for being the only female outside Liska's harem and immediate family which she had sex with, despite not being married with her. She went to find Liska again during the events of "The Hunt" in order to marry with her. It turns outs this was a ruse from her, with the help of Indigo, in order to manipulate her, her tribe and the other Native tribes, in order for Indigo to test his new matchlock rifle, and that without going with the fact she helped Indigo to lure the Gomarrin monsters to the Plains region in order to do so. After Liska knew the true, as a retalation she "gave" Kress to Indigo as his wife in order to both saving face within both her tribe and the other Native tribes, especially if they knew Kress' relation with Liska, and also as a revenge. To make the matters worse, it was implied that was Indigo's plan from a beginning. Oddly enough, Kress agreed with her regarding her own "punishment", but that didn't prevented Liska from regreting this later for the rest of her life.
- Artistic License – History: Just like Liska, Kress and her fellow slave friends are basically more like between glorified prostitutes or Native American-looking Geishas rather than slaves. While we don't know much details about their backstories, outside Kress was Made a Slave by her family in order to pay a debt, they seem to be treated much better than any other human women in the same circunstances in the same equivalent time period. This was not universal in all Native American tribes, though.
- Expy: If Indigo is basically John Smith, Kress is basically Pocahontas as a former slave/prostitute, rather than the daughter of a tribal chief, and also being somewhat more amoral than her human counterpart.
- Old Flame: Kress was the only female character who had sex with Liska despite not being married with her, as Chief Pownetkee's brother offered her to our main heroine for one night since Kress was a slave, and after she gained her freedom again, she went to find Liska in order to marry her.
Commander Arn, Vorin and his Men
Commander Arn and Vorin. Not pictured here: The rest of their men.
Arn, Vorin and his men were a group of evil Hoplite raiders who were exiled from the Hoplite lands after commiting many crimes there, and they were wandering across the Plains region in order to find a village to plunder. Unfortunately for them, they chosed the Highland tribe (and Liska) to mess with...- Arc Villain: From the "Woman of Honor" sub-arc.
- Expy: Commander Arn is this of the Bandit Boss from Seven Samurai, very likely nodded as one his men wears an eye-patch, just like that character from the film did.
- Leave No Survivors: Both Liska and Chief Pownetkee killed all the war party by themselves, while the former killed three by her own hand. Arn himself was killed by Liska when trying to escape, but the latter intercepts him, stabs his arm with a knife and finally, she finished him off by loping his arm with his own spear.
- Rape, Pillage, and Burn: Their main speciality, until they choose the wrong village to screw with.
- Would Hit a Girl: They killed Kayce with a arrow through her heart from afar, and one of them also broke Panka's arm. They also tried to kill Mother Sanna, when Liska appeared and killed the attacker with a spear.
The Goddess
The Goddess
- Ambiguously Evil: Many of her actions done in the comic, in hindsight, could be portrayed as pointlessly mean, and in some cases, outright evil, like:
- Cursing the entire Pyndan's family just because one of his ancestors did a selfish act against a child, while it turned out the Goddess herself was impersonating an old woman following that child in order to lure Pyndan's ancestor; the only reason this part falls in the ambiguous part is because the real reason why Pyndan's, and by default, Liska and Leah's families were also affected by the same "curse", was because their families had a nasty case of Rh-incompatibility in their blood, something explained by Leah and
Word of God in and out-universe respectively. - Liska got even worse, as as being in the receiving end of Pyndan's "curse" wasn't enough for her, the Goddess gave her a Suicidal Sadistic Choice in order for Liska to became a warrior: Becoming either a prostitute, the wife of a deadbeat abusive husband, or becoming a warrior, but dying a painful death in combat alone. Liska chose the warrior's path, which, while being the less suckiest of the three options, still caused lots of pains in her life and, in the large scale of the things, was the catalyst of a even bigger disaster that befall planet Katmandu by causing a 200-year long war between the two feline races that dominate the planet, and, unlike Pyndan, neither she or any of her ancestors had anything that could had wronged the Goddess in the past, considering how Liska was pretty devoted to her.
- Even worse that, according with Towakota in the "Runt" sub-arc, the Amazons, the race of saber-tooth tigers which Quiet Bird belonged to were almost exterminated by the other races living in the planet Katmandu by her orders, since they were considered as demons by her.note . The fact the Amazons killed their male, weak heirs didn't help matters either.
- Cursing the entire Pyndan's family just because one of his ancestors did a selfish act against a child, while it turned out the Goddess herself was impersonating an old woman following that child in order to lure Pyndan's ancestor; the only reason this part falls in the ambiguous part is because the real reason why Pyndan's, and by default, Liska and Leah's families were also affected by the same "curse", was because their families had a nasty case of Rh-incompatibility in their blood, something explained by Leah and
- Crystal Dragon Jesus: She is basically the Abrahamic God, except being female, and having many shapes, depending of the species of the person worshipping her.
- Deal with the Devil: Inverted: Liska, and very likely anyone who wanted to be a warrior, basically made a deal with the Goddess for her to give them her blessings, at a very steep price. In Liska's case, she had to, because her other choices are even worse, and while her desire was the least worst of all her choices, it wasn't exactly a nice one either, because, in hindsight it caused lots of unnecesary pains for her, her mate Rial died, she had to step away from Pyndan, her Second Love, she had to become a somewhat distant figure for her own children in order to become a good leader, and at the very end of her life, she had to sacrifice her life in order to protect her family and tribe, and that without mention losing her parents, and being Made a Slave before all this, which makes you wonder how "benevolent" the goddess really is.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: According with Word of God, the Goddess can take the shape of any of the species that dwells the planet Katmandu.
- Suicidal Sadistic Choice: And holy shit HOW for Liska. The Goddess gave her the following choices for life in order to receive her blessings, and all of them are equally bad, not just for her, but also for her loved ones:
- Living with Pyndan, whose family was previously cursed by the Goddess, until he died on battle, and becoming a prostitute in order to survive, while she, her children and Mother Sanna were exiled from the tribe, very likely as result of being a whore.
- Marrying with Rial, and losing her warrior status as a result. The tradeoff? Rial dies in battle, and having to marry with a very abusive and alcoholic husband afterwards, while her children are starving. Oh, and Mother Sanna exiled herself in order to protect Liska and her children, dying in the process.note
- And the one she ends choosing, while being the Lesser of Two Evils, in hindsight it was much worse, not just for Liska, but also for her entire family, and also for the entire planet Katmandu: While she had a long life, it wasn't exactly a nice one either, since, as already mentioned below, her decision also caused the death of Rial, she almost died due to childbirth, causing her to take the black drink, screwing her relationship with Pyndan beyond repair, and, at the very end of her life, having to perform a very brutal Heroic Sacrifice in order to save her tribe. At least, she ended up being remembered as a legendary heroine for her descendants and the rest of the people of the planet Katmandu. Oh, did we forgot to say Liska's decision on taking down Rakon using rifles likely sparked a 200-years war between the two main feline races on the planet?
