Characters of the Norwegian fantasy book series Phenomena.
For both of them:
- All Work vs. All Play: Alk's all work vs. Ilke's all play.
- Ambiguous Gender: they look really alike, if it wasn't for Ilke being a Frost Child she and Alk would look just the same.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: According to Sir Thomas.
- Brother–Sister Team
- Child Mages: Even though Ilke has her frost powers included, Alk does know some fire and light magic. Sha-ra also taught them simple levitation spells to make small objects fly.
- The Chosen Ones: Gyldendal translates the 1st book's title(Profetiens Utvalgte) to Prophecy's Chosen Ones.
- It Sucks to Be the Chosen One: and how!
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: both has this, but Ilke has it more.
- The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: the prophecy book tells nothing of them saving their family.
- They eventually do it anyway.
- But even though they save countless people, they still can't save Sha-ra…
- Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: they have no idea what to do with their lives when they complete their mission.
- Facial Markings: Given to them by their real father, it's the mark of the elf chieftain, elves aren't allowed to have them anymore under the mortok's rule though.
- Friend to All Living Things
- Guys Smash, Girls Shoot
- Hair-Contrast Duo
- Harmful to Minors: they hear an old man getting eaten...
- Happily Adopted: by Sha-ra
- Half-Identical Twins: they would if Ilke wasn't a Frost Child.
- Lampshaded by Khiri. "They look really alike when they sleep".
- Hero with Bad Publicity: Some tribes are more than willing to sell them out to the villains so their towns won't be ruined...
- Just a Kid: it's even really important to the story.
- Icy Blue Eyes / Innocent Blue Eyes
- Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: at least in the beginning. While Ilke likes to fight, is Alk withdrawn and spends most of his time reading.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: They look a lot like Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson on the german cover of book 7 for some reason.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: and how! It's even used for one of their trials..!
- Our Elves Are Different
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: the blue to Ilke's red.
- Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: sibling version
- Sibling Yin-Yang
- Sword and Sorcerer: Alk's sword to Ilke's frost magic.
- Unto Us a Son and Daughter Are Born: in the very 1st chapter.
- Younger Than They Look: on the German covers. They look about 16-18 even on the covers when they're 10 in the book.
Alk
Alk is the main character and the wielder of Kheiko. He's usually calm and responsible.- Anti-Magic: Magic doesn't work at him.
- Badass Bookworm
- Big Brother Instinct: for Ilke even though she's the older twin.
- Childhood Friends: With Jolsah
- Childhood Friend Romance: with Mjam.
- Child Mage: knows some spells.
- Dub Name Change: To Alak in the German translations. Is thankfully still called Alk in the TV-series script according to PhenomenaWriter, still called Alke on the Filmed Imagination page.
- Hearing Voices: Alk hears Kheiko's voice inside his head, he hates it in the beginning.
- Idiot Hair: He has a small one and some artists love to draw attention to it. Makes that he's The Smart Guy of the Two Girls and a Guy group even funnier.
- Interspecies Romance: Mijam, who is not an elf.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: on some of the art.
- Luminescent Blush: He's mentioned to blush often when he talks to girls. Some of fanon sees this as Something Else Also Rises.
- Magic Knight
- Mangst: From the 6th book when Sha-ra dies, it gets worse when Ilke dies.
- Official Couple: with Mijam
- Patient Childhood Love Interest: Mijam's
- Playing with Fire: His main element.
- Princess Classic: Rare Male Example. Can talk to animals, is nice, feminine while not camp, pretty, is a good fighter when needed to but not the best and is saved by his sword, and reffered to by royal titles, even though he doesn't really have earned them yet.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: blue to Ilke, Mlillian, Arol and Jolsah, red to Sha-ra and Kheiko.
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: the sensitive guy to Azur, Arol and Jolsah's manly men personalities.
- Speaks Fluent Animal: Can talk to any kind of animal.
- Suddenly Fluent in Gibberish/Suddenly Bilingual: he can understand any kind of language, even Norwegian, English and even memes, but he wont translate the memes Millian comes with to the others since he thinks it's too hard to explain.
- Took A Level In Jerk Ass: In the end of book 7, he takes Ilke's pendant off. While this is jerkish on it's own, is it sorta understandable due to them being in the coldest place mentioned so far in the story. But what makes it's truly jerkish and out of character is that he takes it on himself (who grew up with long winters and Ilke so he can handle cold better than most), even though his girlfriend Mijam who grew up in a warm desert is there with him, the usual Alk would have given it to Mijam right away.
- Two Girls and a Guy: the guy.
- Unstoppable Rage: after Ilke is killed.
- What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: has no idea what love is when he falls for Mijam.
In the comic:
- Badass Cape: AND
- Badass Longcoat: For whatever reason
- Bare-Fisted Monk: As Kheiko is nowhere to be seen in the artwork.
- Expy: Designvise of Zuko and Luke for whatever reason seemingly.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars
- Handicapped Badass: Has a burn over his his right eye, most likely making him blind on that eye.
Ilke
Ilke is the more curious of the two and easily gets herself in trouble. She often refuses to admit it when she's scared, even when she cries. Being Raised by Dudes without any real mother or big sister figure in her life, is she clearly a Tomboy. On their journey when they meet women she does pick up a few traits from them. Has a huge love for mothers, almost to the point of Les Yay, and really enjoys their scent and tone of voice.She does not have much control of her powers in the beginning, causing her to hurt Alk badly once. But once she can control them does she mainly use them to help rather than to fight. She is the most fighting for Slave Liberation, seeing a slave causes her to free them. She can however be shy around strangers and then Alk has to talk for her. Got an invincibility cloak from the Air Prophets which she's really proud of.
- Action Girl
- Ambiguously Bi: Her Ship Tease with Jolsah is mostly from his side. Yet does it seem that she Likes Older Women by her over-attraction to mothers, and a slightly Pseudo-Romantic Friendship with Millian that sorta resembles Korra and Asami's (before they ended up as the Official Couple), except in that Millian is in love with Azur, and they (Millian and Azur) become a couple, if it'll last is yet to be seen. Hisj has shown some interest in a Wife Husbandry way only to be told by her that she doesn't belong to anyone. And with Norwegian sharing words for both girlfriend and boyfriend, kjæreste (word he used for partner), meaning 'dearest', it does stand as ambiguous.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: can be said for both, and according to Sir Thomas would they be diagnosed with it if they lived on Earth, but Ilke has it more clearly.
- Badass Adorable
- Bare-Fisted Monk: Combined with frost magic.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: Sleeps in class but knows much of the things Alk thought only he caught up.
- Character Development: she grows from being a "fearless" Tomboy who never admits being scared, to a Tomboy with a Girly Streak who speaks more openly about her own feelings, including fear.
- Childhood Friends: With Jolsah and Mijam.
- Consummate Liar: A very mild example of this in the first book. Gets rid of it after some Character Development.
- Dark Blue Hair Pale Blue Skin: Well, at least according to the German covers
- Daugher of the Frost(Frostens Datter)
- Dead Girl On Display: type 1
- Defrosting Ice Queen: subverted
- Deuteragonist
- Freakiness Shame: Implied that she feels this about her being blue and all deep down, but hides it behind a smile.
- Frost Child
- Genki Girl
- Hates Being Alone
- I Love You Because I Can't Control You: according to Word of God this is what she is looking for in an eventual partner. Someone who's as strong as herself. Finding that won't be easy.
- Jeanne d'Archétype: she even dies, if it's final is up to the fans.
- Middle Child Syndrome: She is the older twin but Alk acts older and he's the main protagonist, so he gets more attention both from the story and Sha-ra. And then we got Akai, their little brother who off course gets more attention from their biological parents.]]
- New Powers as the Plot Demands: played with, as she wasn't born as a frost child.
- Power Dyes Your Hair: changed when Hish took her.
- Raised by Dudes
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: the red to Alk's blue.
- Ship Tease: With Jolsah sometimes, but it's mostly one sided from him.
- Interspecies Romance: In that case since he's a mortok.
- Shipper on Deck: apparently ships Alk/Mijam in the 1st, and also ships Millian/Azur, even though she's hinted to be a Yaoi Fangirl that ships Alk/Jolsah in the 7th, which is odd considering that Alk is her brother and Jolsah is her Implied Love Interest... but then again Yaoi Fangirl shipping aren't logical.
- Slave Liberation: A
- The Three Facesof Eve: The Child.
- Tomboy: justified
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She begins becoming a little more feminine when she hangs out with Mijam, and becomes even more feminine when Millian joins them.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth
- Town Girls: The butch.
- Two Girls and a Guy: One of the girls.
- Unresolved Sexual Tension: with Jolsah sometimes, mostly from his side.
- Yaoi Fangirl: hinted, since she pretty much squees when she sees Alk and Jolsah hug.
In the comic:
- Adaptation Dye-Job: She has a case of Power Dyes Your Hair in the books, but she's in or at least looks like she's in her 20s in the comic, and has blonde hair.
- Braids of Action
- Cleavage Window: For whatever reason.
- Expy: Turn her skin peach and her hair brown and you got Leia in some designs, the company making the comic are huge Star Wars fans and it shows a little too well.
- Hollywood Costuming: If you look at the artwork on this page you'll see that the characters' clothes fit the 19th century for not being too old yet not too new. Even Alk's comic self fit that theme. Comic!Ilke however… looks like a blue Human Alien from a sci-fi comic or even the foreigners in Ghost Trick rather than an elf from a fantasy comic.
- Hotter and Sexier
- Ms. Fanservice
Tropes that fit all of them:
- Dark and Troubled Past:
- Sha-ra saw his mother die of an illness at a young age. His father then sent him and his brother away to a wizard who was turning crazy. Sha-ra bacame the favorite of the wizard, his brother got jealous and burned the castle to the ground with their teacher inside. He was then Happily Adopted by the Winter Bears, but it's implied much happened after that, which wasn't necisarily good.
- Arol was going to visit Sha-ra with his brother and father, but on their way they were killed and skinned by the mortoks, happily Sha-ra saved Arol, but he still has Survivor Guilt and Hates Being Alone because of it.
- Azur's is shown in his spin-off. He meets Ezau when he's swimming around and Ezau convinces him to come to a grotto they have been told is dangerous. When he enters Ezau makes sure he can't leave by normal means. Azur then searches for an exit in the dark being more and more frightned. After a long while he finds a omnious mace which Ezau tells him he wants. When he touches it, he can't let it go. When he leaves the Kraken follows him. When he returns to the village he gets banished until he can get rid of the mace as it's can be dangerous to the village. He goes to the surface and he's captured. The mace is forced from his hand and he's made a slave. The ship is destroyed by the kraken and another slave ship collects him and the others. He's freed by Ilke and escapes, his chains are broken by Ezau who has become a terraquz of his own free will. He only comes to a desert, his body dries up and sanity slips, and he's in a desperate state when Alk and Ilke meets him again.
- Millian and her mother was left by their father who was going to protect them from her Evil Uncle. Her father was then killed by him (his own brother). Years later said uncle caught her and her mother. He beat up and abused her mother the same place he boasted about killing her father in. She was found almost dead in her mother's arms, and had King Veha come 1 minute later she probably would've been dead. Because of that she has no problem with killing.
- Intergenerational Friendship: they're all much older than the twins in some way.
Sha-ra
Their adoptive father and a great wizard. Carries Phenomena.- As the Good Book Says...: often referrers to what Phenomena says about things.
- Badass Tropes:
- Badass Bookworm
- Badass Longcoat
- Badass Teacher: Alk & Ilke's.
- Cool Old Guy
- Cain and Abel: The Abel to Mentor's Cain.
- They're more like a Jacob and Esau dynamic actually, more so than Azur and Ezau, with both their father and teacher favoring Sha-ra, and their mother understanding that Mentor isn't that strong so she favors him and takes better care of him.
- Disney Death: quite early in the 1st book.
- Dub Name Change: To Scha-ra in the German translations.
- Dragon Rider: he was the 1st dragon knight!
- Face–Heel Turn: becauce the Phenomena says someone close to the children will betray them, he does it so Jolsah doesn't have to.
- Hates Being Alone
- Incurable Cough of Death: Has a severe illness due to a curse in last act of the 5th book. He dies in the end of it. It's hinted to be something similar to toberculosis due to him coughing up lots of blood and a lack of apetite.
- I Was Quite the Looker: Implied
- Killed Off for Real: in the 6th book.
- Mangst: well hidden. So well hidden so when it gets out, he dies...
- Meaningful Rename: Implied as he said that Alk is free tho change his name when he becomes an adult, not to mention that his name is really different from Mentor's.
- Parental Abandonment: his father left him when his mother died.
- Pointy Ears: he's implied but not outright stated to be an elf, he has pointy ears on the cover◊ of the first book, but not in the board game (pictured) and one can't see them on the 5th cover. One don't get to see Mentor's ears either so it's hard to tell.
- Rape as Backstory: Said in all but with the word itself so kids won't get it.
- Really 413 Years Old
- Survivor Guilt: feels really guilty over outliving his brother, when it turns out that Mentor is Tarkan Sha-ra feels really guilty over having it better than him both now and then.
- Team Dad
- Wizard Classic
- Wizards Live Longer: possibly.
- What Did I Do Last Night?: Got drunk, slept with/was raped by a woman who later became pregnant.
Arol
Arol is one of the princes of the winter lands, where winter bears trive. He, his brother, and his father, the king, was going to visit Aldra. His father and brother was killed and Arol barely managed to escape. As he escaped from the mortoks was he saved by Sha-ra, and the two has stayed close friends with ever since.- Badass Adorable: well, at least by Tear's standards.
- Bare-Fisted Monk: being a bear and all.
- Bears Are Bad News: Averted, he is one of the nicest characters, as long you do not hurt Alk and Ilke, or insult his dead friends.
- Big Brother Mentor: For Alk and Ilke
- Calling a Polar Bear Winterbear
- Still sometimes called a polar bear.
- Civilized Animal: Is a winter bear, and wears clothes.
- Dub Name Change: To Arul in the German translations.
- Expy: of White-Bear-King-Valemon to some extent, being a royal polar bear and all. The TV serieswill use this to save money and elaborates this futher by also making Arol a Shapeshifter.
- Hates Being Alone
- Hates Being Touched: Played for Laughs in a chapter in the 1st book, after he has been hugged a lot.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: fights in the liberation force as his whole tribe promised to do, but doesn't. His uncle who took over when Aroland the others didn't return doesn't even bother to.
- Scary Black Man: acts like one to people he doesn't like. Fridge Brilliance when you learn that polar bears have black skin.
- Survivor Guilt
- Talking Animal
- Warrior Prince: The prince of the Winter Bears
In the TV series:
- Expy: The ability bellow makes at least that power one of Margery Daw's.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Probably to save budget.
Azur
Azur used to be a normal, if not bored, sea man. But was eventually captured. While in the slave tent, is he freed by Ilke. Due to being captured is he no longer allowed to return to the sea so he sets for the desert, where he slowly turns into a terraqus. Later he sees the other terraqusses capturing Alk and Ilke. He gives them the ability to breathe under sand and begs for their lives. After all 3 are safe is he given Ilke's sea bracelet, allowing him to once again turn into a sea man. Joins the twins for their adventure after that.- Aloof Big Brother: he acts like one, especially towards Alk.
- Ascended Extra: Got his own spin-off series telling how he got caught and how he became a terraqus.
- Beta Couple: With Millian, taking attention away from that one hasn't seen neither Mijam nor Harti and Khiri in a long time.
- Big Brother Mentor: For Alk and Ilke
- Body Horror: it's described how his body breaks down...
- Cain and Abel: The Abel to Ezau's Cain.
- Fish People: Moreso before he became a terraqus.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: when he was an Ax-Crazy terraqus.
- Interspecies Romance: with Millian
- Loincloth
- Made a Slave: at his first aperance he's one and in his spin-of we see how he became one.
- Magic Skirt: or whatever he's wearing.
- Missing Mom: she commited suicide when he was kidnapped because she thought he was dead.
- Non-Mammal Mammaries: for some reason he has nipples on the cover of 5th book of his spin-off series, but has none in other drawings.
- Slasher Smile: on cover of the 6th book of his spin-off, having become a terraquz. Resembling a zombie and a big Nightmare Fuel for children.
- Sssssnake Talk: when he was a terracuz.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome:well according to Millian anyway.
- Vague Age: his age is never mentioned, all we know is that he looks like everything from 17-30. So one can't know wherever his relationship with Millian is an May–December Romance or a Mayfly–December Romance.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: never said in the books, but is in his spin-off, which is illustrated.
Millian
A beautiful girl from our world. She was adopted by Sir Thomas who saved her and lived with him ever since.Joins the twins in their journey in book 3. She often uses Norwegian and English words that has no equivalent in Aldrian, which annoys Alk who has to translate. Growing up on Earth with fantasy books, games and movies is she Genre Savvy and surprises often the other characters with facts.
- Affirmative Action Girl: happily, she's epic.
- All Women Love Shoes: Seems like the type.
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She's not very aloof, even though she seems to be in her first appearance.
- Beta Couple: As of book 5 with Azur after many Ship Teases
- Break the Cutie: She's a formidable woman, but one can sometimes see that she's broken.
- Cool Big Sis: For Ilke at times.
- Expy: Tends to look a lot like Nemi in illustrations.
- Gamer Chick: Plays World of Warcraft.
- Hard-Drinking Party Girl: At times
- Happily Adopted: by Sir.Thomas
- Hates Being Alone: Which is also her Fatal Flaw as it almost gets one of her friends killed.
- Heel–Face Turn: Her people, the araknoq, came along with Sherpa to gain control over earth. Millian's parents rebelled and lived with a circus until they where found by her uncle and was tortured and killed in front of Millian who he thought was dead.
- Interspecies Romance: With Azur
- The Lad-ette: At least when she's drunk.
- Last of Her Kind: Hinted, at least in Aldra.
- More than Meets the Eye: Loves clothes and thinks Ilke is weird for not liking them, but in reality she's really strong, has some Spider-Man like powers and has a Dark and Troubled Past.
- Older Than They Look: 249 elf years, due to being an araknoq, which lifecycle is different from elves.
- Parental Abandonment: they where killed...
- Le Parkour
- Raven Hair, Ivory Skin
- Town Girls: The neither.
- Two Girls and a Guy: One of the girls, together with Alk and Ilke from time to time.
King Veha, aka. Sir. Thomas Malory, the Dark Knight
The King of Aldra who wrote the Phenomena.- Big Good
- Benevolent Mage Ruler: Loved by his people and allows his kingdom to be feudal.
- Black Knight: he's the one looking at them from afar.
- The Chessmaster: and how! But still does things happen without him knowing.
- The Chooser of The Ones
- Deal With Sherpa: Sherpa keeps his heart as a deal for not taking Aldra. Although Sherpa uses Tarkan to take Aldra for him while Veha blindly believes that they still got the deal. This is because he is heartless after all, so he's not really good at judging people, even previous enemies...
- The Heartless: as a part of his deal with Sherpa.
- Fanboy: of modern versions of his books.
- The Good King: according to many, kinda like Richard The Lion Heart, reffered to as a good king, loved by all, but spends most of his time outside the country leaving his people alone in suffering.
- Good Is Not Nice
- The Good King: Is called this by this subjects.
- Historical Domain Character
- Historical Hero Upgrade: the real Sir. Thomas Malory was far from a hero according to some sources, he wrote Le Morte d'Arthur while in prision.
- Manipulative Bastard: Manipulates everyone around him instead of doing anything himself. He used Ilke's want for a Family by giving he a family-like title (daughter) because she knows she's different. While Alk doesn't really care, as he doesn't have these problems, and tempts him with royal titles like king and prince instead.
- Older Than They Look
- Physical God: seemingly, but not really.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: expect for not really.
- Walking Spoiler
Kheiko
Alk's Cool Sword- Absurdly Sharp Blade: it's hundreds of years old, and still as sharp.
- Brutal Honesty
- Elemental Weapon: Light elemental.
- Good Hurts Evil
- Good Is Not Nice
- Infinity +1 Sword
- Implausible Fencing Powers: Well Alk does not have them much, even Kheiko says so, but when Kheiko takes over Alk's body...
- Only the Chosen May Wield
- Sword of Plot Advancement
- The Sword That Speaks: But only Alk can hear it, in his head.
- When it first talks and Alk hadn't heard about it so he thinks he's Hearing Voices.
- Unholy Holy Sword: More or less...
Jolsah
Alk and Ilke's Childhood Friend. They met when they where younger when he and his friends unknowingly stole the raft the twins built the year before. He gains some respect for them when Ilke saves one of his friends with her powers, but quickly loses it when he finds out that they're elves. Later after they have set out on their journey does he try to rob Sha-ra's castle, only to be found by Sha-ra himself who came there to get a remedy for Ilke. Sha-ra brought him along to keep him silent, and after a while he befriends the twins even though he acts like a jerk to Ilke. And only wants to go home to his father, the mortok cheftain. Later he realizes that he might have a crush on her, and tries to convince his father to set the elves free due to the friendships that now are dear to him.- Ascended Extra: Got his own spin-off series telling how he decided to free the elves.
- The Bully: Torwards Ilke to seem cool.
- Childhood Friends: with Alk & Ilke.
- Dare to Be Badass
- Death by Childbirth: his mother died while giving birth to him.
- Face–Heel Turn: Subverted. Sha-ra does it instead so he doesn't have to.
- Friendly Enemy: with Lookaher
- Hero of Another Story
- Identical Grandson: Identical Great-great-grandson.
- I Am Not My Father: spends most of his spin-off saying this.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold
- Loincloth: atleast in the spin-offs.
- Missing Mom
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: How he freed the elves is unknown so far.
- Pelts of the Barbarian: Many in his spin-off. Around his calves, waist, a shoulder...
- Proud Warrior Race Guy: comes with being a Mortok.
- Reincarnation: Implied to be the reincarnation of an elf.
- Slave Liberation: [[B as he's the mortok cheftain's son.]]
- Ship Tease: with Ilke
- Interspecies Romance: In that case since she's an elf.
- Sour Outside, Sad Inside
- Tsundere: Towards Ilke pre-character development.
- Unresolved Sexual Tension: with Ilke
- Warrior Prince
- Walking Shirtless Scene: never said in the books, but is in his spin-off, which is illustrated.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: At least in the beginning.
Harti & Khiri
Alk and Ilke's parents. They are slaves of the mortoks. Harti is a strong yet nervous man, while Khiri is braver. Even though they are important to the story are they not in the battle against Sherpa.- Action Mom: just given birth, and then she joins for a long journey so they might survive. Holding both children!
- Beautiful Slave Girl: Khiri is beautiful.
- Born into Slavery
- Happily Married
- Like Father, Like Son: they are really similar to their children. Like Ilke is strong and not hiding what she thinks like Khiri, and Alk is more reserved yet strong like Harti.
- The Three Facesof Eve: The Wife.
- Pregnant Badass: Khiri
The Air Prophets: Zazasar, Naomin & Altaz
- Odd Name Out: Naomin which almost sound korean.
DranAkhos
Phantelom's child, adopted by Alk and Ilke after they saved Phantelom and she wanted them to raise him.- Named After Somebody Famous: Named after the dragon forrest where he hatched.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter
Mijam
Alk and Ilke's friend. She's one year older than them. She's never described in much detail other that she's a girl and lives in the desert. According to the board game has her people dark skin but neither the game provides a picture even though it claims she teaches the player a combat tecnique.- Alk's Muse
- Interspecies Romance: Implied.
- Break the Cutie: After she and her family is taken away, her youngest brother dies, it's implied that some bad things happened, and that things go From Bad to Worse.
- Childhood Friends: With Ilke
- Childhood Friend Romance: Alk and she meets when he's 10, they fell in love back then but becomes a real couple when he's 17.
- Cool Big Sis: According to Ilke and her younger siblings at least.
- Faux Action Girl: The board game has a card which she teaches you a combat technique, but is the only thing she teaches Ilke, is how to dance.
- Hates Being Touched: Played for Drama. She even dislikes being by Alk and her father after being captive for a while and looks away when people try to talk to her, she doesn't even want to talk to Ilke or her mother about it...
- Official Couple: With Alk.
- Patient Childhood Love Interest: Alk's.
- Rape as Backstory: Strongly implied when they meet her again, 6 years later.
- Wild Loves Uptight
- Shrinking Violet: when she meets Alk again. It's scary considdering how outgoing she once was.
- Sins of Our Fathers: she and her family was taken as slaves by the terraquses to work at the recently abandoned mines the elves worked at due to her father and using them as slaves. It's not pretty.
- Town Girls: the femme.
Akai
He's introduced in the very first chapter of the 4th book. An adventurous young elf who escapes from the elf village, much to his parents chagrin. He's used to pain and has many scars. In his escape to be free is he badly hurt sereval times, and even caught by mortoks again. He's actually Harti and Khiri's second son and third child.- Born into Slavery
- Facial Markings: drawn by himself, causing the colour to be dragged out and the not as pretty.
- Harmful to Minors: is whipped again and again in his introduction.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Justified given his orgins. He still is a child at heart though and looks up to his older siblings, even though he's more mature than them both in some aspects.
- Walking Spoiler
Tarkan (Mentor)
The one Phenomena says they are going to defeat on the Gredom Fields. Is matarized negative thoughts. Can transform into a black cloud he use to travel. Can control angry adults, but not children.The crurrent Tarkan is Mentor, Sha-ra's jalous brother who didn't get anything. He also was the one who sat fire on the castle.
- Beard of Sorrow
- Card-Carrying Villain: Pretty much, he's said to be evil, and does evil.
- Cain and Abel: The Cain to Sha-ra's Abel.
- They're more like a Jacob and Esau dynamic actually, more so than Azur and Ezau with both their father and teacher favoring Sha-ra, and their mother understanding that Mentor isn't that strong so she favors him and takes better care of him.
- Dark and Troubled Past
- Dark Is Not Evil: Eventually
- Driven by Envy
- The Evil Prince: the 1st Tarkan
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
- Face–Heel Turn: When he decided to ruin Sha-ra's life.
- Heel–Face Turn: decides to help the chosen children after Sha-ra dies in the 5th book.
- From Nobody to Nightmare
- Freudian Excuse: First his mother dies, then his father leaves him and his brother in the hands of a wizard who is slowly getting insane, his brother is told that he is the next to have said wizard's castle and carry Phenomena while Mentor is not going to have anything...
- Glowing Eyes of Doom
- Green-Eyed Monster
- The Heavy
- The Man Behind the Man: the one causing the mortok chieftain to keep the elves as slaves and staying hateful.
- Manipulative Bastard
- Older Than They Look: Like his brother Sha-ra does he look more like he's in his 50s or 60s compared to their real ages of 413.
- Only Mostly Dead: Mentor's good side hasn't been active for hundreds of years and hasn't been eating for just as long, but is somewhat still alive.
- Parental Abandonment: his father left him when his mother died.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning
- Sha-ra I Am Your Brother
- Tragic Villain
- The Unfavorite
- Walking Spoiler
Sherpa
King of the country in the north.- Card-Carrying Villain: pretty much, and he's proud of it.
- Disc-One Final Boss: As book 7 isn't the end as "the Dark Chronicle" begins.
- Fisher King
- The Emperor: Fits the trope but is refered to as a King, but he's anything but The Good King.
- Grim Up North: yes really, from a Norwegian series even. His country is is never described in much detail other than it's in the north. He might have stolen it.
- Immortality Begins at Twenty: subverted.
- Nightmare Face
- The Man Behind the Man: He's the one controlling Tarkan.
- Older Than They Look: sure he looks old, but not 9653 which is true age is assumed to be.
- Sorcerer King: An evil version.
- Walking Spoiler.
Father Torquemada
Millian's uncle.- Churchgoing Villain
- Historical Domain Character
- Historical Villain Upgrade: He is made worse than the real life Torquemada was.
Ezau
Azur's older brother. Not much can be said about him other that he's a really bad person. He's also more or less responsible for their mother's death by making Azur follow him to Kraken's den. Is killed by Azur in the end.Hisj
The winter spirit who gave Ilke her powers. His name is pronounced Hish. Not much is known about him other that he's power hungry and for some reason wants to fulfill the frost child part of the prophecy very much, even trying to make both kids frost children.- An Ice Person
- Blow You Away
- Chaotic Neutral
- Dub Name Change: Hisch in the German translation and Hish in the Fan Translation.
- Elemental Embodiment: of frost.
- It Amused Me: Why he made Ilke a frost child.
- Kill It with Ice: his normal way of dealing with things.
- Nature Spirit
- Spirit Advisor: is this to Ilke during one of her tests. Taking the place as a voice in her head to show her Alk's responcibility. Ilke is later told that he hadn't needed to do so, but he did it just for self-entertaiment.
- The Unfettered: According to Sha-ra.
- Weather Manipulation: being a winter spirit.
- Wild Card: According to Sha-ra
Amyrst
Tarkan's implied previous wife, being called "Tarkan's Woman" for most of the story.- Complete Immortality: when Tarkan was banished by King Veha he was degraded into a thought, or as some would translate it into, an idea, meanwhile Amyrst was banished to live for all eternity wandering alone and at times taking the shape of an owl.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Looks like it in the artwork, she has Mystical White Hair in the story though.
- Eye Scream: Tectum gushes her eyes out.
- Expy: Of Lilith or even Eve.
- Go Seduce My Archnemesis: Took on herself to seduce Sha-ra away from his mission in order to protect Tarkan. She mainly seems to have acted on her own.
- Mayfly–December Romance: with Sha-ra possibly, even though it was a one-night-stand, the result was Tectum.
- Nightmare Face: her eyes are ripped out!
- Ominous Owl
- Pimped-Out Dress
- Romance Ensues: Admits she fell in love with Sha-ra after sleeping with him. It might have been a case of Love Redeems as she isn't seen anymore after Sha-ra's death. Then again, she might have bled out after Tectum ripped her eyes out.
- Stalker with a Crush: She's the owl who was following them around. Given that she had fallen in love with Sha-ra does she fall into this.
- The Three Facesof Eve: The Seductress. She's even the one who raped Sha-ra.
- Walking Spoiler
- White Hair, Black Heart: Isn't easy to see due to the artwork, but her hair is white.
- Wife Husbandry: gender swapped with Tarkan probably as she bought him to Veha to raise, but he had almost no time for the boy, apparently they got together which was also one of Veha's reasons for banishing them implying Parental Incest.
In the comic:
- Animal Motifs: From Owl to Ram for whatever reason.
- Expy: A woman who's seemingly her is drawn, and looks a lot like a mix of Leia and Lilith.
- Hot as Hell: Looks like an attractive demon, making her even more of an expy of Lilith.
Tectum
A mysterious girl living in the DranAkhos forest.- Child by Rape: Strongly implied, but it was her father who was the victim.
- Creepy Child
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: the "tears" under her eyes are actually scars.
- Sha-ra You Are My Father
- Minor Living Alone: Looks like it.
- Not Allowed to Grow Up: Look bellow for more on that.
- Older Than They Look: looks 6 or 7, but her eyes are the eyes of an adult. It's unknown how old she is, but it's known that she was "made" so to say when Sha-ra was young.
- Really 700 Years Old: About that age.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Justified considdering she grew up in a forest on her own. Or it's more like troubling unadultlike behaviour, as she is actually 100s of years old, but acts and looks like a child. Probably due to the curse on Sha-ra.
- Walking Spoiler
- Wild Child