History Characters / BetrayalAtKrondor

* OneDegreeOfSeparation: He never meets his former magic tutor, Patrus, in the game.

* MagicStaff[=/=]MartialArtsStaff: His WeaponOfChoice, for both physical combat and spellcasting.

* SimpleStaff: His WeaponOfChoice, for both physical combat and spellcasting.

** Makala used Gorath's attempt to warn Prince Arutha about Delekhan's plans as a way to sow further chaos. Since [[TheMole he had the confidence of Krondor's court]], Makala was able to learn about the Bas-Tyra regiment at Romney and arrange their murder through Delekhan while pining the blame on Gorath.

* BadassBeard: allegedly because of being half-human, most probably because it [[RuleOfCool looks cool]].

* BadassMustache: As befits a suave nobleman womaniser.
* BadassNormal

* IdenticalStranger: To Seigneur James, which has caused James some mishaps of MistakenIdentity. [[spoiler: Later novels by Raymond E. Feist reveal Lysle to actually be James' [[LongLostRelative long-lost older brother]] and their father to be the Upright Man, the leader of the Mockers.]]

** SpannerInTheWorks: ...Mitchel learned about Navon du Sandau's [[MementoMacGuffin enchanted spyglass]] and lured him to the Prank's Stone to steal it. Navon somehow learned about the theft and decided to use Mitchel as a [[TheScapegoat scapegoat]] for the murder of the Bas-Tyra regiment at Romney as punishment. The spyglass became an important clue in uncovering Navon's true identity.

A member of the Mockers, a ThievesGuild based in Krondor, from Kesh assigned to investigate the activities of the Crawler, the leader of rival gang whose goal is to supplant the Mockers, and learn their identity.

!Main Characters

!Villains

** Makala used Gorath's attempt to warn Prince Arutha about Delekhan's plans as a way to sow further chaos. Since he had the confidence of Krondor's court, Makala was able to learn about the detachment at Romney and arrange their murder through Delekhan while pining the blame on Gorath.

* VillainRespect: When James uncovers his true identity and motives, Neville/Navon is genuinely impressed and congratulates him.

* VillainousLegacy: Despite his death, the moredhel continue to hold him in high esteem. A decade later, Delekhan and Makala spread false rumors of Murmandamus' imprisonment at Sethanon in order to motivate the moredhel into uniting once again and taking revenge upon the Kingdom.

A legendary moredhel warlord who once united the moredhel clans of the Northlands under his banner. About ten years before the events of ''Betrayal'' begin, a [[SnakePeople Pantathian]] priest took his identity and manipulated the moredhel into a war with the Kingdom of the Isles in order to find the Lifestone beneath Sethanon and release the spirit of Alma-Lodka, the [[{{Precursors}} Valheru]] creator of the Pantathians, from it.

* VillainousLegacy: Despite his death, the moredhel continue to hold him in high esteem. Delekhan and Makala spread false rumors of Murmandamus' imprisonment at Sethanon in order to motivate the moredhel into uniting once again and taking revenge upon the Kingdom.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: He is killed in a magical duel by Pug and Owyn after he learned about the [[ArtifactOfDoom Lifestone]] and voiced his intention to report his findings to the Assembly.

A charismatic young merchant residing in the town of Kenting Rush. In truth, he is Neville Corvalis, Count Geoffrey Corvalis' long-estranged bastard son, Ugyne's half-brother and the leader of the Nighthawks.

The leader of the Nations of the North, an alliance of moredhel clans, and a general who once fought under Murmandamus' command.

* UnwittingPawn: He is this to the Mastermind, who wanted to use the moredhel armies to distract the Kingdom from their plans.

[[folder:The Mastermind (SPOILERS!)]]

!!Warlord Moraeulf

[[folder:Navon du Sandau (SPOILERS!)]]

!!Pug of Crydee / Pug conDoin / Milamber

Once a poor orphan living in Crydee, now the most powerful magician on both Midkemia and Kelewan, and a trained Tsurani Great One. Pug is also an adopted member of the royal family and has a loyal friend in Warleader Tomas of Elvandar.

!Heroes

[[folder:The Mastermind (SPOILERS!)]]

!!Makala

A Tsurani Great One of the Assembly of Magicians, a MagicalSociety on the world of Kelewan, and an acquaintance of Pug.

[[folder:Delekhan]]

!!Delekhan

The leader of the Nations of the North, an alliance of moredhel clans, and a general who once fought under Murmandamus' command.

* BadBoss: He doesn't hesitate to kill those [[YouHaveFailedMe who fail him]] or refuse to obey him.
* BigBadWannabe: As the leader of the moredhels, he's one of the greatest threats to the Kingdom of the Isles, but he's ultimately a pawn in the greater scheme of things.
* ChekhovsGun: He wears a black helmet shaped like a dragon. It wasn't until much later that Pug realized that this meant ''someone'' had been exploring the ruins of Sethanon, since Murmandamus, who died there, was the last one to wear such a helmet.
* TheDreaded: Allies and enemies alike fear this man, whose brutality knows no bounds.
* EvilOverlord: In the frozen lands north of the Kingdom, he rules from the fortress-city of Sar-Sargoth with armies of moredhel, goblins, hags and giants awaiting his command. Delekhan also pays the Nighthawks to commit subterfuge within the Kingdom, be it espionage or murder.
* GloriousLeader: He united many of the moredhel clans by spreading rumors of Murmandamus' imprisonment at Sethanon and promising to conquer their hated human neighbors to the south.
* TheUnfought: He is never fought during the game [[spoiler:and dies when Pug and Owyn kill him, along with Gorath, to prevent the Valheru spirits from escaping the [[ArtifactOfDoom Lifestone]]]].
* UnwittingPawn: He is this to the Mastermind, who wanted to use the moredhel armies to distract the Kingdom from their plans.

[[folder:Navon du Sandau (SPOILERS!)]]

!!Navon du Sandau / Neville Corvalis

A merchant residing in the town of Kenting Rush. In truth, he is Neville Corvalis, Count Geoffrey Corvalis' long-estranged son and the leader of the Nighthawks.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even though he planned to claim the Corvalis family fortune by marrying Ugyne as Navon, Neville had no intention of committing BrotherSisterIncest and planned to have Ugyne [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident die tragically on their wedding night]].
* LimaSyndrome: After he survived the collapse of the Cavall Run wine cellar, Neville was taken captive and held for ransom by the Nighthawks. Knowing that his father wouldn't pay such a ransom, Neville convinced his kidnappers to spare his life by pretending to have special powers using a [[MementoMacGuffin magical spyglass]], a Corvalis family heirloom. By making himself useful to the Nighthawks, Neville/Navon eventually became their leader.
* ProfessionalKiller: He leads the Nighthawks, the Kingdom's Guild of Assassins, and Delekhan is one of his clients.
* VillainRespect: When James uncovers his true identity and motives, Neville/Navon is genuinely impressed and congratulates him.
* WhosYourDaddy: His mother was Countess Corvalis, the Count's late wife, while his true father was a commoner. When Count Corvalis learned about this, he arranged for Neville to [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident die in the collapse of the wine cellar under the keep at Cavall Run]]. In the game's novelization, Neville's father was Sandau, an architect infamous his constant drunkenness and the one responsible for constructing the Cavall Run wine cellar.
* WickedCultured: He is a skilled chess player, having invented the move Sandau's Retreat, which he can teach Locklear for a match against Ivan Skaald.

[[folder:Moraeulf]]

!!Warlord Moraeulf

Delekhan's son and second-in-command.

* DragonAscendant: It lasts only a moment before...
* EyeScream: ...he is killed when Narab stabs him in the eye [[KlingonPromotion in a bid to claim leadership over the moredhel clans]].
* HatesTheirParent: He claims that he'd slit Delekhan's throat [[EvenEvilHasStandards were it not for the fact that he's his father]].
* OverlordJr: He acts as his father's [[TheDragon second-in-command]] and [[FrontlineGeneral field commander]].
* PragmaticVillainy: He is more practical and considerate in military matters than his father, who he considers to be too hungry for conquest. At the end of the story, after watching Delekhan and Murmandamus supposedly die at Sethanon, [[YouAreInCommandNow his first command]] is to order his army to retreat back to the Northlands, seeing no point for further loss of life.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Having never met the heroes, he gives them vital clues for their missions.

[[folder:Narab]]

!!Narab

A moredhel chieftain, Nago's brother and one of Delekhan's allies.

* CoDragons: He is one of several lieutenants under Delekhan's command, along with Moraeulf, Liallan and his brother Nago.
* DragonAscendant: By the end of the story, most of the moredhel leadership is dead and Narab becomes a major leader of the moredhels with Liallan, Delekhan's widow, as his only rival. It might be considered a case of PyrrhicVictory because, even centuries after the events of ''Betrayal'', both Narab and Liallan are still fighting for dominance over the moredhel clans.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: He reconsiders his loyalty after his lord punches him in the face for capturing Gorath and bringing him back to Sar-Sargoth for execution, supposedly because he derailed a secret scheme. From that moment on, Narab quietly waits in the shadows for opportunities while occasionally helping things along in his favor, such as [[ForWantOfANail magically opening the door of Owyn's cell]].
* TheUnfought: Despite capturing Gorath and Owyn during a cutscene, he is never fought during the game.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nago]]

!!Nago

A moredhel chieftain, a sorcerer, Narab's brother and one of Delekhan's allies.
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* CoDragons: He is one of several lieutenants under Delekhan's command, along with Moraeulf, Liallan and his brother Narab.
* EthnicMagician: He is the most powerful magician among the moredhel.
* ExpositionBeam: He has the rare ability, known as mind speech or dream sending, to magically communicate with others across great distances. It also causes SleepDeprivation to nearby magicians as a side effect, since the transmitted thoughts invade their dreams.
* TheHandler: Having infiltrated the Kingdom, he coordinates spies from a barn near Sarth while using his [[ExpositionBeam dream sendings]] to communicate with Delekhan.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: he has one in Caern.

A Great One (Tsurani magician) of the Assembly of Magicians, a MagicalSociety on the world of Kelewan, and an acquaintance of Pug.

* TheChessmaster: He manipulated every major event throughout the game's story for one purpose: to gain access to the Lifestone located deep beneath the ruins of Sethanon.

** To ensure that Pug couldn't interfere with his plans, Makala kidnapped Gamina and imprisoned her on a [[YourMagicsNoGoodHere world without manna]], knowing that Pug would [[DeusExitMachina immediately attempt to rescue her and trap himself there]].
* HeKnowsTooMuch: He is killed by Pug and Owyn after he learned about the [[ArtifactOfDoom Lifestone]] and voiced his intention to report his findings to the Assembly.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: His ultimate goal was to learn about the secret of Sethanon, which Pug keeps mysteriously silent on. When Makala learned that this secret was the Lifestone, he wanted to inform the Assembly and find a way to destroy it permanently. In the game's novelization, he instead wanted to [[AdaptationalVillainy claim the Lifestone as a weapon for the Tsuranuanni Empire]].

The leader of the Nations of the North, an alliance of moredhel (dark elves) clans, and a general who once fought under Murmandamus' command.

* EvilOverlord: In the frozen lands north of the Kingdom, he rules from the fortress-city of Sar-Sargoth with armies of moredhel, goblins, hags and giants awaiting his command.

* TheUnfought: He is never fought during the game [[spoiler:and dies when Pug and Owyn kill him, along with Gorath, to prevent the Valheru spirits from escaping the Lifestone]].

A merchant residing in the town of Kenting Rush. In truth, he is Neville Corvalis, Count Geoffrey Corvalis' long-estranged son, Ugyne's brother, and the leader of the Nighthawks.

* LimaSyndrome: After he survived the collapse of the Cavall Run wine cellar, Neville was taken captive by the Nighthawks. He convinced them to spare his life by using a [[MementoMacGuffin Corvalis family heirloom]], a magical spyglass, to aid the assassins. As a result, Neville/Navon eventually became their leader.

* WhosYourDaddy: His mother was the Countess Corvalis, Count Corvalis' late wife, while his true father was a commoner. When Count Corvalis learned of this, he arranged for Neville to [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident die in the collapse of the wine cellar under the keep at Cavall Run]]. In the game's novelization, Neville's father was Sandau, an architect infamous his constant drunkenness and the one responsible for constructing the Cavall Run wine cellar.

Delekhan's son and lieutenant.

* HatesTheirParent:
* OverlordJr:
* PragmaticVillainy:

* DragonAscendant:
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal:
* TheUnfought:

* GlassCannon

* SquishyWizard

The leader of the Nations of the North, an alliance of moredhel clans, and a general who once fought under Murmandamus' command.

* BigBadWannabe: As the EvilOverlord of the moredhels and their allies, he's one of the greatest threats to the Kingdom, but he's ultimately a pawn in the greater scheme of things.

* BigBadWannabe: As the leader of the recently-unified moredhels, he's one of the greatest threats to the Kingdom, but he's ultimately a pawn in the greater scheme of things.

A merchant residing in the town of Kenting Rush. Secretly, he is Neville Corvalis, Count Geoffrey Corvalis' son and Ugyne's brother, and the leader of the Nighthawks.

* WhosYourDaddy: His mother was the Countess Corvalis, Count Corvalis' late wife, while his true father was a commoner. When Count Corvalis learned of this, he arranged for Neville to [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident die in the collapse of the wine cellar under the keep at Cavall Run]]. In the game's novelization, Neville's father was Sandau, the same architect infamous for constructing the same wine cellar.

* BigBadWannabe: As the leader of the moredhels, he's one of the Kingdom's greatest known enemies, but he's ultimately a pawn in the greater scheme of things.

A merchant residing in the town of Kenting Rush. Secretly, he is Neville Corvalis, the Count Geoffrey Corvalis' son and Ugyne's brother, and the leader of the Nighthawks.

* WhosYourDaddy: His mother was the Countess Corvalis, Count Corvalis' late wife, while his true father was a commoner. In the game's novelization, this commoner was Sandau, the same architect infamous for constructing the flimsy wine cellar at the Cavall Run keep that supposedly killed Neville himself.

!Protagonists

* SquishyWizard, GlassCannon

* OddFriendship: with Gorath

* CanonImmigrant: as of the {{Novelization}} ''Krondor: The Betrayal''.

* TheBigGuy
* TheChainsOfCommanding: He did his best to keep the moredhel from charging foolishly into another war. As a result, his tribe is nearly wiped out, and his wife, who considers his decisions to be those of a coward, wants to have nothing more to do with him, and seems to blame him for allowing their tribe's fall from glory. Those he used to command view him as a traitor for choosing to cooperate with humans. At the time the story takes place, he is withdrawn, [[TheStoic humourless and impassive]].
* TheComicallySerious: Occasionally.
* TheDeterminator: He flinches at nothing in his quest to save his people from destruction. Examples include surrendering himself as a messenger to the humans his people have waged bloody war against for centuries, with his own kind branding him traitor and no reason to expect anything better than torture and execution at the hands of those he seeks help from. Or going to [[spoiler:Elvandar, the home of the ''eledhel'', when even travelling there causes him physical agony. Or letting himself be teleported blindly to the location of the most powerful magician on two worlds currently ''in need of a rescue''. Or insisting that the mages may need his help in the final battle, even prompting Pug to [[LampshadeHanging point out]] that he has "already given too much to this quest". Determinator to the end.]]
* TheExile: due to being considered politically dangerous by his enemies, and a traitor by almost everyone else.
* TheQuietOne
* TheStoic
* TheSpock: Very much. He reasoned that another war would devastate the moredhel race as a whole and leave them crippled even if they won, which is why he opposed Delekhan's war efforts from the start, despite his entire clan getting slaughtered as a result. Later on, if you try to go back to Cavall Keep in Chapter VI, Owyn mentions that he's worried that [[spoiler:the moredhel party that ambushed them earlier might have gone past and killed everyone there]], and that he'd like to check to make sure they're safe. Gorath makes the case that his peace of mind is nowhere as important as actually making sure that Delekhan's armies are stopped, otherwise his family WILL be in danger for certain.
* TheWisePrince: a darker and edgier version, but Gorath is distinguished through caring about the welfare of ''all'' his people, not just the ones who answer to him, and wishes to make them into "more than savages".

!!Locklear

''"...What value in all Murmandamus' speeches did we gain but to learn that we are weak? What spirit did we discover in defeat except that we corrupt from within? The time has come to blunt our blades and look to our own, to put down the monsters that we have become."''

''"If you EVER put us through that again, I will invent a cantrip whose sole purpose is to cause you to fall desperately in love with a warthog -- may the two of you live happily ever after!"''

!! Squire James, aka Jimmy the Hand

''"Hear that, Locky? The moredhel ''approves''. It ''must'' be a good idea. Let's get moving before I regain my common sense."''

''"...And if it weren't bad enough I had to chase you, you made me get rocks in my best shoes! I'm blistered! Know how mad I get when my feet hurt? I get river bottom mud sucking badger whacked mad... [...] Go 'way. I'm busy right now agitatin' this here moredhel..."''

A... quirky old man who, after the success of Pug's magic academy of Stardock, finds himself a bit short on students and things to do, and turns to working on the moredhel invasion problem. Spry for his old age, and very down to earth. Also, you probably shouldn't make him mad...

!!Pug of Stardock

* SquishyWizard, GlassCannon

* BadassMustache: as befits a suave nobleman womaniser.

* UnderratedAndOverleveled: While Owyn's fighting-related stats are lower then his allies at the start of the game they are surprisingly close considering he has no combat training at all and is teamed up with two [[OverratedAndUnderleveled supposedly]] master, even near legendary, swordsman.
** StatisticallySpeaking Owyn's defense rating gives him a slightly lower then 50% chance of blocking attacks from either of his allies at the beginning of the game. Expert swordsman struggle to even touch the untrained kid with a stick.