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Characters for David James Armsby's Sauria. For tropes that apply to prehistoric species as a whole, click here.
Kindred of The Tusk
Taurox
"I... can play their game."
Voiced by: David James Armsby
Chieftain of the Kindred of the Tusk, he gets himself imprisoned by the Bluesong on purpose to avenge his slain Carnotaurus companion.- Anti-Hero: He's ruthless and brutal, but ultimately opposing the oppressive rule of the Bluesong as they invade Sauria, as well as seeking to avenge those he lost.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: With the Kindred of the Tusk being a proud warrior race, it's no surprise that Taurox, one of their strongest members, is also their leader. While there are seven war chiefs, Taurox is the most infamous.
- Baritone of Strength: He has a deep, growling voice and is a powerful warrior.
- Blood Knight: He's a born warrior and takes to the gladiatorial combat the Bluesong Chancellor orders him to engage in quite well.
- Interspecies Friendship: His bond with his Carnotaurus was less a master and pet and more like a pair of brothers. This is part of why he seeks revenge against the Bluesong for killing him.
- Lizard Folk: One of the most reptilian-looking members of the cast.
- Long-Lived: Not even the other Kindred know how old he is, but he is at least 200 years old.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: Like all members of the Kindred of the Tusk, he's a Saurian resembling a mix between a large theropod, a lizard and a crocodilian.
- Play-Along Prisoner: The Bluesong capture him and force him into gladiator combat with their best warriors. He allows this, happily slaughtering all of the Bluesong's best fighters and severely crippling their army in the process. He further demonstrates this to the warrior who came to free him by tearing open the door to his cell with his bare hands, confirming once and for all that he could escape anytime he wants and that this is merely a ploy against the Bluesong.
- Proud Warrior Race Guy: The Kindred of the Tusk overall are this, but Taurox, being the chieftain, is the proudest and strongest.
- Red Is Heroic: Well, anti-heroic anyway; he, like all members of the Kindred of the Tusk, has a primarily red and orange color scheme and he's the protagonist of his segment. Doubles as Red Is Violent, due to his status as a Blood Knight.
- Smarter Than You Look: Taurox is mostly a brawler, but don't be fooled — there's a cunning brain beneath all that brawn.
The Bluesong
The Chancellor
The enigmatic leader of the Bluesong. With Taurox (seemingly) giving himself up as her prisoner, she throws him into gladiatorial combat with her best warriors.
- Arch-Enemy: To Taurox, with the two being leaders of the most clearly opposed factions in Sauria.
- Big Bad: As the leader of the Bluesong, the Chancellor is the overarching villain of the whole series.
- Bird People: Like all Bluesong, she's a Saurian resembling a humanoid bird mixed with an ornithomimosaur.
- Evil Chancellor: A variant where the Chancellor is the direct leader of their faction as opposed to merely influencing the real leader from the shadows.
- Faux Affably Evil: She comes off as this with what little screentime she has, remaining cordial with Taurox even as she's ordering him to be thrown to his death in the arena.
- Feathered Fiend: She's a feathered Saurian who acts as the series' main villain.
- God Save Us from the Queen!: She leads the Bluesong in their crusade to colonize all of Sauria.
- Honor Before Reason: A villainous version driven more by pride than true honor. She could just let Taurox starve in his cell, but she feels the need to prove the superiority of the Bluesong, so she keeps him fed and strong while battling each of her warriors. Taurox even calls her "an honorable fool".
- Mix-and-Match Critters: While the Saurians who make up the Bluesong are all birdlike saurians with features of dromaeosaurs and ornithomimosaurs, the Chancellor also has a set of large antlers incorporated into her design.
- No Name Given: Thus far, she's only known as "the Chancellor", or alternatively, "the Bluesong Chancellor".
- Nonstandard Character Design: As another mirror to Taurox, she looks notably older and more primitive than her fellow Bluesong, with overgrown antlers, more wrinkles, a paler beak, and pale white eyes.
- Quizzical Tilt: One of her first responses to meeting Taurox in his cell is to tilt her head in a curious manner.
- Smug Snake: She was presumably banking on Taurox being killed when she ordered for him to be thrown into combat with her best warriors. Said warriors have all since been slaughtered by Taurox.
- The Smurfette Principle: So far, the only major female character we've seen in the series.
- The Voiceless: She's silent through the entirety of her first appearance.
- We Have Reserves: Implicitly has no qualms with sending her best warriors to be slaughtered by Taurox since she has plenty of spares. Taurox's words on the matter imply that this will soon backfire on her.
Captain Ornithisara
A half-blind Bluesong officer, he is responsible for killing the Bull. He will have a bigger role in the upcoming Episode 3.
- The Cameo: He's briefly seen in "Winter Weathered", leading a patrol through the northern lands in search of Arctic Saurians.
- Mook Lieutenant: For the Bluesong, and the only character to appear in all three shorts.
- Small Role, Big Impact: In "Blood for Blood", he's barely seen and not even named, but he's the one who kills the Bull and sets Taurox on his path to revenge.
- Uniformity Exception: Unlike the Chancellor, his base design is identical to other Bluesong generals. The distinguishing factor is his missing left antler and blinded left eye.
The Fell
Unaffiliated characters
Helionyx
"Forgive me, Maia... For this needed sin."
An Arctic Saurian living as a nomadic hunter in the harsh winter wilderness of Sauria. After losing his son, he finds himself in a dilemma between trying to forgive the nature he has respected all his life or giving up to revenge.- The Atoner: He decides to raise the sabertooth cub he left orphaned to pay for the sin of having killed his mother for revenge.
- Crisis of Faith: He's a follower of the Great Maia, but losing his family has shaken his faith in her and the helix of life and death she represents. Killing the Smilodon brings him no peace, but raising her cub does, reaffirming the faith he lost.
- Driven to Suicide: His grief from his son's death slowly consumes him until he loses all feeling and stops eating, and he decides to head out to the mountain and let himself be killed. Things take a turn when the sabertooth turns out to be the same one that killed his son, he kills it in revenge, and takes custody of her cub in atonement. Having another living being to care for restores his desire to live.
- Heroic Neutral: While he's content living in the winter lands alone only hunting for his survival and avoids the conflict of the Kindred of the Tusk and the Bluesong Empire, the making-of from 'Winter Weathered" mentions he will fight those coming to disturb the nature where he lives, revealing that the two dead Solisaurians seen briefly in the episode were killed by Helionyx after they tried to poach mammoths for their campaigns.
- Last of His Kind: His father, partner, and son have all died, leaving him the last of his clan. And with Arctic Saurians living as far apart as they are, he might never see another of his kind again. The loneliness and grief nearly drives him to suicide.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: While still clearly a dinosaur-like creature, he has more mammalian traits than the other Saurians, such as his eyebrows, beard and curling, goatlike horns.
- My God, What Have I Done?: He breaks down in horror when he realizes that his desire for vengeance drove him to kill the Smilodon that ate his son, forsaking his usual respect for Sauria's wildlife in the process. He breaks down further when he realizes the Smilodon was a mother too and he just left a defenseless cub orphaned, which is what makes him take the decision to raise it in place of his mother.
- Outliving One's Offspring: He's recently lost his son and his grief drives his actions through the short.
- Revenge Before Reason: He spent weeks and months he should have spent preparing for the winter trying to find the beast that killed his son, to no avail. After discovering the sabertooth cat found in the ruins is the beast who killed his son, his desire of revenge takes the better of him and ends up killing the feline in a fit of rage rather than for his daily needs like he usually does. When the realization hits him, he's left horrified.
- Team Switzerland: As seen in the second episode, Helionyx wants nothing to do with the war of the Kindred of the Tusk and the Bluesong Empire, which is why he decides to keep living in the lands of winter as a solitary hunter rather than moving somewhere else where he could be dragged into conflict with both factions.
