History Characters / ChroniclesOfTheKencyrathArdeth

* IncestIsRelative: All Highborn used to inbreed to produce powerful Shanir. After the Fall, the others all stopped, but the Ardeth kept the old tradition.
-->'''Timmon''': I may have older half-brothers, you see, but my parents were half-siblings, which counts for a lot in our house.

* SchoolgirlLesbians: Though Adiraina is a very old woman now, she and Kinzi were this back in the day--their sister-kinship was forged as young girls in the Womens' Halls. Adiraina remembers this time in their lives very fondly.

* BlindSeer ([[Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible Varient]]): Adiraina doesn't need see the future, but she sees bloodlines. She lost her sight as a teenager when she developed the blood-sight. By obtaining blood samples, she determines that Jame and Torisen are full twins despite their different ages.

* {{Derailing Love Interest|s}} ({{Subverted|Trope}}): This trope is played in a couple different ways. All the way through ''To Ride a Rathorn'', Timmon is hits on Jame very hard, and is clearly much more into her than she's into him. He's also very plainly flawed from the beginning. In ''Bound in Blood'', he gets a little… weirder about it, and it all culminates in an EntitledToHaveYou AttemptedRape scene… or what appears to be one. It's actually something rather different, and its brilliantly subverted both in-universe and out, using the expectation of {{Derailing Love Interest|s}} to make it believable until the truth is revealed. As a love interest, Timmon was actually derailed a ways back, when Jame kisses Torisen. Over the course of the next few books, he and Jame stay friends and Timmon continues to develop as a character, and though he ''is'' flawed, he's never written off as a flat-out jerkass.

* BlindSeer ([[TropesAreFlexible Varient]]): Adiraina doesn't need see the future, but she sees bloodlines. She lost her sight as a teenager when she developed the blood-sight. By obtaining blood samples, she determines that Jame and Torisen are full twins despite their different ages.

* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: A names--Adric, Adiraina, Aden… Names beginning with the same letter as their house's name--{{Alliterative Name}}s--are very common among Kencyr Highborn.

* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: A names--Adric, Adiraina, Aden… Names beginning with the same letter as their house's name are very common among Kencyr Highborn.

* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: A names--Adric, Adiraina, Aden… Names beginning with the same letter as the house's name is very common among Kencyr Highborn.

-->'''Timmon''': I may have older half-brothers, you see, but my parents were half-siblings, which counts for a lot in our house. Are you shocked? ''[grins]'' In the Knorth, don't twins often mate?

* TheMentor[=/=]TheSvengali: To Torisen. Adric is TheMentor at his best and TheSvengali at his worst, and most of the time he's somewhere realistically in between. He takes the 15-year-old boy in and raises and trains him to take his rightful place when he comes of age at 27. Of course, he expects favors in return. Torisen owes Adric so much, but he really resents him too, yet he still loves him…
* MysticalWhiteHair: He's old enough now that his hair would be white no matter what, but he was born with the white hair of many powerful Shanir.

* TheMatchmaker: The most obsessed of the Matriarchs about arranging pairings for Jame and Torisen (with eligible Ardeth, naturally).

* SchoolgirlLesbians: Though Adiraina is a very old woman now, she and Kinzi were this back in the day--their sister-kinship was forged as young girls in the Womens' Halls. Adiraina remembers this time very fondly.

* {{Abusive Parent}}s: To Drie, his bastard son

* BrotherSisterIncest: With his half-sister, Distan. The Ardeth are the only ones who still inbreed, because they're the only ones who still like Shanir.

* DidNotDieThatWay: Torisen lies to Adric about how his son died, so protect Adric's good opinion if of both Torisen and Pereden

* {{The Unfavourite}}: An interesting example. Torisen absolutely believes that Pereden is Adric's [[ParentalFavoritism favorite son]]. ''Pereden'' absolutely believes that ''Torisen'', in being {{Like a Son|to Me}} to Adric, has stolen his father's love, and is the favorite.

* BrotherSisterIncest: She was her half-brother's consort. The Ardeth are the only ones who still inbreed, because they're the only ones who still like Shanir.

-->''Beyond his natural charm, Timmon possessed a Shanir power that she didn't fully understand. Probably he didn't either. He had certainly never felt the need to take responsibility for it, any more than his father Pereden had before him.''
* {{Derailing Love Interest|s}} ({{Subverted|Trope}}): This trope is played in a couple games of ways. All the way through ''To Ride a Rathorn'', Timmon is hits on Jame hard, and is clearly much more into her than she is in him. He's also very plainly flawed from the beginning. In ''Bound in Blood'', he gets a little… weirder about it, and it all culminates in an EntitledToHaveYou AttemptedRape scene… or what appears to be one. It's actually something rather different, and its brilliantly subverted both in-universe and out, using the expectation of {{Derailing Love Interest|s}} to make it believable until the truth is revealed. As a love interest, Timmon was actually derailed a ways back, when Jame kisses Torisen. In the next few books, he and Jame stay friends, Timmon continues to develop as a character, and, though he ''is'' flawed, he's never written off as a flat-out jerkass.

* PrincelingRivalry: Timmon is Adric's favorite grandson, by virtue of being Pereden's son, because Pereden was the favorite too. Dari fervently wants to be the lordan. Timmon says Dari can ''have'' the lordship for all he cares in ''To Ride a Rathorn'' (though as he trains as a randon, he gets less lazy, so that may no longer be the same)
-->'''Timmon''': [L]ordship sounds too much like hard work. Let cousin Dari have it if he wants it.

* MurderTheHypotenuse: Narsa thinks there's a BettyAndVeronica love triangle going on, with Jame as the exotic, mysterious, unattainable Veronica, who distracts Timmon from her, the unexceptional Betty who actually loves him. That's really ''not'' what's going on, but Narsa believes it is, and in her desperation she tries to kill Jame.

* BlindSeer (([[TropesAreFlexible Varient]]): Adiraina doesn't need see the future, but she sees bloodlines. She lost her sight as a teenager when she developed the blood-sight. By obtaining blood samples, she determines that Jame and Torisen are full twins despite their different ages.

* WhatTheHellHero: He gives Torisen a DisappointedInYou moment after Torisen won't bind Kindrie.

* BlindSeer: Of bloodlines, specifically. She lost her sight as a teenager when she developed the blood-sight. By obtaining blood samples, she determines that Jame and Torisen are full twins despite their different ages.

* {{Nepotism}}:

-->'''Timmon''': I may have older half-brothers, you see, but my parents were half-siblings, which counts for a lot in our house. Are you shocked? ''[grins]'' In the Knorth, don't twins often mate?\\
'''Jame''': Not since Gerridon and Jamethiel Dream-weaver.

* OperationJealousy: He gets with Narsa largely in an attempt to make Jame jealous. Much to Jame's annoyance, it actually kind of works and she ''is'' kind of jealous--though not jealous enough to do anything about it, and she's a annoyed at Timmon for pulling it, too. And Narsa '' thoroughly'' {{Deconstructe|dTrope}}s the trope by the time they're done.

* SchoolgirlLesbians: Though Adiraina is a very old woman now, she and Kinzi were this back in the day--their sister-kinship was forged as young girls in the Womens' Halls.

!!!This is listing of Ardeth Kencyr in the series ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath''.

This is listing of Ardeth Kencyr in the series ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath''.

--->''The Ardeth were an arrogant lot, proud of their subtle lord who in his one hundred and fifty odd years had brought his house through so many disasters that even the scrollsmen of Mount Alban had lost count.''

* NobleMaleRoguishMale ({{Subverted|Trope}}): Timmon and Gorbel. At first glance, friendly, fine-featured Timmon looks like the Noble Male, and surly, burly Gorbel looks like the Roguish Male. But as you get to know them, Timmon turns out BrilliantButLazy, and Gorbel to be hardworking and driven. Timmon's also kind of a slut, while Gorbel never shows interest in anyone. So in the end, even though Timmon is a good diplomat and Gorbel is a good hunter, they're both more complex than the simple NobleMaleRoguishMale dichotomy.

* MurderTheHypotenuse: Narsa thinks there's a BettyAndVeronica love triangle going on, with Jame as the exotic, mysterious, unattainable Veronica, who distracts Timmon from her, the unassuming Betty who actually loves him. That's really ''not'' what's going on, but Narsa believes it is, and in her desperation, she is driven to trying to kill Jame.