History Characters / CodexAlera

* KarmaHoudini: Gets completely off for having been poisoning her husband over the last few deacades. Interestingly, it's actually enforced by Sextus, as he acknowledges that this was actually some karmic rebalancing directed back at him.

* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Some fairly critical details about him are revealed early on, which can make him tricky to talk about without giving plot twists away.

* ActionMom: From an aunt's perspective, she is very protective of her nephew. She once flooded a river to keep him safe. Turns out, though she is his mother.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's one of the nicest people in the world. Can fight a [[PersonOfMassDestruction High Lord]] in a DuelToTheDeath and make him admit defeat by [[WarriorTherapist psychoanalyzing him mid-fight]], absolutely ''destroys'' six monsters that could kill experienced soldiers with water and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates]] both what amounts to a PhysicalGod and her [[TheDragon Dragon]] to put them in a vulnerable position while they ''knew'' she was jerking them around.

* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: Isana is an incredibly powerful watercrafter - one of the strongest in all of Alera. She never really grasped how powerful she was, assuming that her great strength came from familiarity with the Calderon Valley's furies. It isn't until later on that she begins to understand her true strength, and suspects that Septimus passed on many of his furies to her when he died.

* UnhappyMedium: She's as good or better at watercrafting as some of the High Lords, but doesn't share their ability to block out [[TheEmpath emotions]] with metalcrafting. This leaves her curled up in a little ball from emotional overload a couple of times.

* AssholeVictim: She aides in killing Princeps Septimus years ago for dumping her for a commoner, kills many more who are a threat to her power and rise in the ranks, blackmails Isana into being her political puppet as the price to save Tavi and Bernard, betrays every ally she makes when it can secure her more power or insure her own survival, which leads to her becoming the lead human and aide to the Vord when she is found dying from her own failed machinations, then she betrays the Vord Queen in hopes to secure her freedom from the Vord, only to turn back to the Queen when she outclasses the High Lords who Invidia lead in to kill her and offers her a cure to her poisoning so she will no longer need the vord-life-support creature on her chest. The only person to be sadden for her is the Vord Queen who, with Invidia's death, now understands what it is to lose a precious person.
* AwfulWeddedLife: How she and Attis see their marriage. Though they put up a {{Happy Marriage Charade}} in public, the reality is their marriage is loveless and they can't stand each other. Once they end up on opposite sides of the Vord War, they have no reservations about taking up arms against each other.

* DarkLordOnLifeSupport: See below.

* GreaterScopeVillain: Downplayed since there's lots of other extenuating factors involved, but the point still stands that her assassination of Septimus ultimately kicked off the series' entire plot.

** Her near-death at the end of ''Captain's Fury'' came from Fidelias shooting her with a Cane bolt weapon. She gives him that weapon to assassinate either Arnos or Tavi.

* GenreSavvy: He recognizes BelligerentSexualTension when he sees it.

* ExactWords: Tavi proposes to Gaius amnesty for the freed slaves who acted in concert with the Canim using the words, "to those in this region who have broken laws in acting to protect their lives and those of their families due to the Canim invasion and Kalarus' rebellion." This just so happens to include Tavi himself, as he was acting to protect his mother and others when he broke Varg out of prison.
* AFatherToHisMen: Unlike Sextus, Tavi has personally led men into battle, risked his life to save them and cares about them personally. And for this, his men, even Fidelias, come to love him right back. Fidelias lampshades this by thinking if Tavi asked his men to march into a leviathan's mouth, they would do so willingly - because he figures out they would end up going out of the other side and loaded with treasure.

* HeroicBastard: Tavi always assumed he was just the the son of a commoner and some legionnaire having a fling. This isn't correct. His father left with Isana legal proof of their courtship and wedding to prove Tavi wasn't born a bastard.

* ItsPersonal: Kitai gets him to openly admit his inner rage at Fidelias' actions during Second Calderon, and how this rage is blinding him to other matters.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: ''Lots'' of comparisons are made to Septimus, though Tavi is smarter than his dad thanks to a good twenty years of {{Badass Normal}}ity. Both are courageous on the battlefield, a natural leader. Both think about the plight of those who are less fortunate. Both fall for a woman who was considered taboo and scandalous, Isana being a commoner and Kitai isn't even Aleran, and both women would stand up to their loves, challenging them and their choices when they felt they were wrong but never make an argument about it. They also both get sea sick really easily. It's to the point that most of the characters who realize who Tavi really is pre-TheReveal do so because Tavi ends up acting ''exactly'' as Septimus would in the given situation.

* LoadBearingBoss: If she was to have been killed in ''Cursor's Fury'', numerous dangerous wild furies leashed under her command would've been released and would've ravaged the countryside of her province.

* IRejectYourReality: He dismisses ''anything''' that doesn't fit his preconceptions. Reports of a new and extraordinarily dangerous enemy, which has already chewed up a Marat force and a Aleran force, and is possibly on the loose? Just lies. Marat can't be trusted, you know. Canim now have ranged weapons? The Canim are just dogs who couldn't possibly innovate that, and the Canim crossbow you captured isn't sufficient evidence to the contrary. The Canim want to build ships and leave? Nope, the Canim only exist to make Alerans miserable, and giving them any quarter towards achieving this goal will just result in sea-going Canim raiders.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Invidia decides that Fidelias should kill him if he doesn't die during Tavi's Juris Macto against him.

** Her above actions were also present before the Icemen, who are powerful empaths. As they felt her words and emotions, they knew that she truly was there to make peace for them and the Alerans, even at the cost of her own life. Her willingness to die pushed them to agree to a ceasefire with the Alerans so they could fight the Vord and not fear of a surprise attack.

* ActionGirlfriend: Frankly, Kitai's even more comfortable with the prospects of a fight than the trained spy, soldier and military officer she's in a romantic relationship.

* SpiritAdvisor: To the House of Gaius. She usually limits herself to just the ruling First Lord, but because of Tavi's bond with Kitai and him telling Kitai before being told not to, she extends her advise to Kitai.

* ACupAngst: She was always a little peeved that her body looked more like that of a young girl than that of a full-grown woman. This, in fact, made her think that she'd never attract another man.

* HealingHands: Give her enough reason, and she doesn't even need a tub of water to help her. She even becomes one of the best healers in all of Alera, with her even given back the '''eyes''' of a blinded First Aleran ''legionare'' in ''Captain's Fury''.

* LivingLieDetector: [[invoked]] She sees through ''[[MagnificentBastard Gaius Sextus]]'' at one point. To put it into perspective, High Lady Aria ''misses'' the same opening in Gaius' facade.

* NiceGirl: Isana is quite possibly the kindest and most considerate person in all of Alera, being both selfless and altruistic while always looking out for less fortunate than her.

* CasualDangerDialogue: Has some ''very'' funny moments like this. In one instance, hearing a commotion on deck, he opens his door to ask what's going on. When an arrow drives through the door close enough to touch his hand, he just goes, "Oh," and shuts the door. Later in the same book, after he wakes up naked, in a healing tub, staring at what he thought was an enemy about to kill him, his response is, "Oh. Well, I see some things have happened while I was lying down."

* TheSmartGuy: Not quite in Tavi's league – to be fair, the only people who come close are Varg, Sextus, Aquitaine, and Fidelias – but he is very clever.

Gaius Sextus is the ruler of Alera, the most powerful Crafter alive, and essentially [[Literature/HarryPotter Albus Dumbledore]] without the [[ObfuscatingStupidity facade of eccentric senility]]. While often [[MagnificentBastard ruthless]], he is both intelligent and wise and everything he does is for the greater good of Alera. All respect Gaius's abilities, but some (like Isana) think he's lost touch with the common people and is therefore dangerous. Others (like Aquitaine or Kalarus) want to take his throne themselves.

* AntiHero: Pragmatic type. He destroys High Lord Kalarus, the city of Kalare, the valley the city's in, and thousands of Kalarus's innocent subjects... because it ends the war faster as well as saving more lives in the long run.

* ExactWords: When telling Amara and Bernard about Kalarus's plan with the volcano, he says that he will not let Kalare's citizens die at the hands of "that madman" (Lord Kalarus). Notice he never said anything about preventing the volcano from erupting...

* HeroicSacrifice: In ''Princeps Fury'', he sinks Alera Imperia and the surrounding countryside into a massive volcano, destroying a majority of the Vord army and slowing them down enough to let the Alerans regroup.

** Later Amara loathes him even more when in the face of the Vord threat he told Rook he would personally place her daughter anywhere she chose to be safe from the Vord, if she helped spy on them to learn how they are using furycrafting. If not, her current life may not be enough to save them both.

Septimus is the son of Gaius Sextus. He dies fifteen years before the series begins, in battle against the Marat. His death sets off the main conflict of the series by starting a succession crisis. What few people know is that Septimus married Isana in secret and they had a son, Tavi.

* NiceGuy: All scenes of him in the series paint him as a kind, generous, and loyal noble who would've been a perfect ruler of Alera. Admittedly, it's worth noting that there's a pretty clear factor of UnreliableNarrator here since the people often mentioning how great Septimus was are his family members, widow, and

* BigBadDuumvirate: With his wife. Technically, most of her schemes are aimed at getting him the throne, but that's only because as a woman that's the closest she'll ever get to true power. In many ways, Invidia was the BigBad more than he ever was, since she was more actively involved in the plot and unknown to him, was behind the murder of his best friend, Septimus. Attis is, in fact, motivated largely by vengeance on the men he holds responsible for that.

* DeadpanSnarker: He has a dry wit about him. When he sees Invidia burned to a blackened crisp, but still alive, he only comments that he likes her new hair style. He also delivers her their ''divorce papers'' before they begin their DuelToTheDeath.

** In ''Academ's Fury'' Tavi sends Ehren to apprise him and Invidia of the matter with the Vord, by using Aria to get into the house, to help deal with this serious matter. Neither like helping Gaius, but prefer him over the civil war the Vord (and Kalare's own attempt on the throne) want to bring about.
** With Gaius and the Vord. He's the first High Lord to stand with Gaius, and calls out Riva for being an obstructive idiot, because he knows that the priority is for Alera to survive – and at the same time, he can give a boost to his position.

-->'''Aquitaine''': We shared a goal, an occasional bed, and name. Little else.

* {{Irony}}: The woman he marries is the woman who was behind getting Rhodes and Kalarus's attack on Septimus, which was the driving cause for Attis to usurp Gaius.

* TragicBromance: He and Septimus. They were best friends and he is never the same after Septimus's death.

* XanatosSpeedChess: Has plots within plots within plots!

Tends to use watercrafting disguises a lot. In ''Captain's Fury'', she is shot and poisoned by her spy Fidelias. She was saved by the Awakened Vord Queen and put on life support. If the life-support Vord is removed or killed, she will die horribly in a matter of hours.

* BondCreatures: The Marat can do this with any animal and call their Bond Creatures "chala"; they gain not just communication with their animal, but actually begin to gain some of their physical attributes.
* CueTheSun: The Marat hordes hold off attacking Aleran positions like Garrison until the sun rises, timing their first charge to right when the sun comes over the horizon. Apart from the religious symbolism the Marat ascribe to the sun, it will also be shining right in the eyes of the Garrison defenders and hamper their ability to see.
* DueToTheDead: Their tradition of eating the flesh of their enemies to gain their strength may be this for some. When Hashat killed some of Princeps Septimus' ''singulares'' in the battle of First Calderon, she took their possessions and ate their hearts to honor them and take of their strength.

* EyeColorChange: Bonding with a chala makes their eyes become the eye color of the chala.

* GenderIsNoObject: In a sense. Unlike Alera and (arguably) the ranges of Canea, which are both NoWomansLand, the Marat are shown to live in a society where gender isn't viewed with that much importance and strength & honor are seen as the most significant aspects of a person's worth.

* SuperStrength: Marat are significantly stronger than most Alerans, even when they don't have a bond with animals that further enhance that strength. Kitai is able to break apart a chair she is tied to with a couple of violent jerks, and Doroga can lift a massive boulder and throw it as a weapon.

* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: After her and Tavi's struggle against the Wax Forest in ''Furies of Calderon'', she's shown to have gotten over the Wax Spiders' poison in Academ's Fury incredibly fast.

* SarcasticDevotee: Kitai is unflinchingly loyal to Tavi at all times, after they grow closer. This in no way prevents her from snarking at his insecurities and failings, or questioning the sanity of omse of his ideas.

* BloodMagic: Their ritualists' specialty. Incidentally, it only works with the blood of sentient beings.

* GangOfHats: A cultural example. Aside from the FantasticCasteSystem, it's frequently mentioned that the various ranges of the Canim had certain trades that they liked to "specialize" in. For instance, the Narashan Canim are incredible sailors and expert engineers (according to Tavi, the Narashan Canim have forgotten more about sailing than the Alerans have ever learned), while the Shuaran Canim are masters at both siege warfare and mining.
* ItIsDehumanizing: Both the narration and Alerans regularly refer to them as "it," as Alerans often view Canim as little more than beasts. It's not until the ending of ''Cursor's Fury'', when Tavi is among the first Alerans to see a '''female''' Canim that the narration starts using "he" and "she."

* LanguageBarrier: An interesting example runs between them and the Alerans. Sure, they're capable of learning each others' ''verbal'' languages, but among Canim, body language speaks just as loudly, if not moreso. Most Alerans don't realize they have to ensure their posture and body language send the right messages when dealing with Canim. For instance, while to an Aleran a nod is a polite, civil greeting, to a Canim, lowering your chin means you're covering your throat and ready for a fight. Tavi manages to even earn the respect of a Canim by biting his throat - the fact that he couldn't do anything because of his comparatively weak teeth and jaw muscles being irrelevant, as the physical gesture was all it took.
* LightningBruiser: Canim are as strong as earthcrafters, have incredibly high pain tolerance, and can move deceptively fast for their enormous size. Even their untrained civilians can be as dangerous as an Aleran legionnaire or three as a result, and Cane Warriors can tear through entire squads of opponents like a scythe through grain if a Knight isn't present to counter them.

** The Canim's sheer size and the reach of their arms and weapons makes them surprisingly vulnerable to the Alerans when they can get close. A tactic that the First Aleran develops is "shields high, swords low," in which the ''legionares'' raise their shields over their heads, advance in very close, and strike at the Canim's legs with the gladius.
* NaturalWeapons: While they're not stupid enough to go without weaponry, even an unarmed Cane is a formidable challenge thanks to their sharp claws and fangs, superior senses, and SuperStrength.
* NoWomansLand: Implied, with it not being until the Narashan Canim Invasion of the Amaranth Vale in ''Cursor's Fury'' that the first female Cane is seen.

* SuperStrength: An average Cane's strength is many magnitudes greater than that of both the average Aleran and even Marat, to the point where only the Knights Terra when calling upon their earthcrafting for strength are shown to be able to match them. Perhaps the most notable example of this is in ''Captain's Fury'', where after Tavi is only able to make a tiny bend in a heavy iron gate that has been furycrafted into the surrounding stone after calling upon earthcrafting, Varg tears the gate out like the stone around it is made of wet clay and then tosses the gate overhead with only some effort.

* EverybodyKnewAlready: Apparently, Canim have a sense of smell strong enough to identify family relations. This means that he doesn't need to be told who Tavi's mother and grandfather are. In fact, [[YouDidntAsk Varg knew two books before Tavi did]]. This also creates some {{Fridge Brilliance}} when one thinks about the scene where they met – Tavi was bluffing, pretending to be what he ''actually was''.

* TheSpock: Varg loves combat and will engage in it easily but he, like many wiser Cane, can subvert his own violent tendencies with cold logical reasoning. He will take an insult or jibe from Tavi, his respected enemy, when Tavi has a point. This is best seen when Tavi deliberately kept from him the fact about 10,000 of his countrymen are being held by Shuaran Cane to be bled for the war against the Vord. Tavi needs Varg for the mission on hand to save Alerans, Shuran Cane and his own countrymen, not running off to help his people in the short-run. Despite this, Varg is able to work through his rage and understand Tavi's manipulations and reasons. However, it is pointed out to Tavi, had any of his people been hurt or failed to be saved because of this subterfuge, Varg would have embraced his violent tendencies and attacked Tavi.

* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Including with the enemy commander in the middle of a bloody battle. According to Tavi, his game on the skyboard isn't as strong as it could be, and he also initially underestimated Tavi.
* TheStarscream: Actively works against Sarl to betray him and seize power. This is good for the Canim, because Nasaug is exponentially more competent than Sarl. This is bad for the Alerans for the same reason, although it's somewhat negated since Nasuag is also a ReasonableAuthorityFigure and can be negotiated with.

* KeystoneArmy: Get rid of the Queen and you get rid of their threat. This normally wouldn't be too much of a problem since the Queens can reproduce quickly, but of the three non-sterile Queens, the two Calderon Queens are dealt with in ''Academ's Fury'' (along with their mini-queens) and the Awakened Queen can't produce children whenever she wishes because they inevitably try to kill her, and she eventually dies in the last book without any more heirs. Both Canea Queens are sterile, and one gets killed off in ''Princeps' Fury'', meaning that the Vord are now permanently this.

* OutsideGenreFoe: The Vord would come straight out of science fiction -- almost literally, as the Wax Forest is an impact crater from the spaceship that they crash-landed on Carna in according to WordOfGod -- but find themselves overrunning the very high fantasy Alera.

* RogueDrone: An interesting variant. Because Tavi and Kitai first "awoke" the Awakened Vord Queen in ''Furies of Calderon'', the non-Queen Vord treat the two of them as other members of TheHorde and ignore them unless they directly attack them.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Big on this. It actually bites them in the rear with Brencis, since he keeps the secret of making powerful slave collars from the Vord because he knows that he's dead if he's not indispensable. Thus, when Amara kills him, the Vord are out a powerful asset that they can't possibly replace.

[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The leader(s) of the Vord]]. There are a few distinct Queens: The Awakened Queen is the one woken up by Tavi and Kitai; she absorbed some of their blood, mutating her and making her into a nonstandard Queen. The Calderon Queen tries to attack Calderon Valley in ''Academ's Fury''. The three Canea Queens are the ones born in Canea, with one previously killed by the Canim before the events of ''Princeps' Fury''. The Junior Queen is born in Alera during the events of ''First Lord's Fury''. Each of them are terrifying.

* AlasPoorVillain: The death of the Awakened Vord Queen is surprisingly heartbreaking, with her bitterly admitting that the emotional bonds humanity forms with each other makes them superior to the Vord before quietly trying to FaceDeathWithDignity.

* BareHandedBladeBlock: Fast and durable enough to pull this off, though they tend to favor deflecting [[AbsurdlySharpBlade metalcrafter swords]] rather than blocking them outright. At one point in ''Princeps' Fury'', the Awakened Queen blocks a knife thrust from Amara this way, then proceeds to stab the Cursor with her own dagger a moment later.

* BishonenLine: When we first see the Awakened Queen, she's buggy and 'unfinished' looking. When we meet the Calderon Queen, she looks like an Aleran girl with fangs, chitinous skin, and glowing eyes. The Canea Queen looks like a green version of Kitai with some of Tavi's features. The final form of the Awakened Queen looks almost human - except for her BlackEyesOfEvil.

* CreepyChild: The Awakened Queen has extremely creepy childlike aspects to her. As Invidia notes, she's only nine years old. Her 'Doll House' is a steadhold in Vord territory she created to [[EvilCannotComprehendGood try to comprehend good.]] It's just as scary as it sounds.

* TheGhost: The second Canea Queen is never seen.

* PreMortemOneLiner: The Awakened Vord Queen calmly muses aloud that "Individuality is counter-productive" before tearing out Rook's throat once it becomes clear that the former bloodcrow is of no more use to the Vord.

* MasterSwordsman: A gender-inverted case. While still not on the skill of a [[ImplausibleFencingSkills Knights Ferrous]], Amara is an incredibly talented swordswoman, often using her windcrafting to accentuate her attacks.
* MinoredInAsskicking: Cursors are spies and messengers first and foremost, and generally intended to fight only when necessary. Amara still finds herself in many of the battles in the books, and holds her own in just about all of them.

* KnifeNut: At one point someone identifies him as a Cursor based solely on "the number of knives he had hidden on him."

* TheSmartGuy: Not quite in Tavi's league – to be fair, the only people who come close are Varg, Sextus, Aquitaine, and Fidelias – but he is very clever.

* BerserkButton: She ''despises'' Gaius Sextus, viewing him as an incompetent old schemer who let her husband die.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's one of the nicest people in the world. Can fight a [[PersonOfMassDestruction High Lord]] in a DuelToTheDeath and make him admit defeat by [[WarriorTherapist psychoanalyzing him mid-fight]], absolutely ''destroys'' six monsters that could kill experienced soldiers with water and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates]] what amounts as a PhysicalGod and her [[TheDragon Dragon]] to put them in a vulnerable position while they ''knew'' she was jerking them around.

* DistressedDamsel: If there's a situation where she can be kidnapped and/or swoon, she'll be taken full advantage of. Lampshaded:
--> "At some point I would like a few weeks to go by in which I do not faint during a crisis."

* HealingHands: Give her enough reason, and she doesn't even need a tub of water to help her. She also becomes one of the best healers in all of Alera, with her even given back the '''eyes''' of a First Aleran ''legionare'' in ''Captain's Fury''.

-->'''Doroga:''' "If I ever invade Calderon again, it will be in summer."
* LivingLieDetector: She sees through ''[[MagnificentBastard Gaius Sextus]]'' at one point. To put it into perspective, High Lady Aria ''misses'' the same opening in Gaius' facade.

* MakingASplash: Very possibly the most powerful watercrafter in all of Alera, High Lords included.

* TookALevelInBadass: She gets a ''lot'' more powerful after a little swim in the Leviathans' Run. However, it's unclear exactly why that is: maybe she got them from the swim in the ocean in a stressful situation, but then again maybe she had that power all along or Septimus left her some furies of his own when he died and she didn't realize it. In either case, any extraordinary use of her power in her homeland is more normal where she is familiar with the place, and because she's a nobody from the hinterlands, she just assumed she couldn't possibly be that powerful otherwise.

** Her above actions were present before the Icemen, who are powerful empaths. As they felt her words and emotions, they knew that she truly was there to make peace for them and the Alerans, even at the cost of her own life. Her willingness to die pushed them to agree to a ceasefire with the Alerans so they could fight the Vord and not fear of a surprise attack.

Bernard is Tavi's uncle and Isana's brother, possessing the power of earth and woodcrafting. He begins the series as a steadholder (wealthy farmer), but ultimately takes on a noble title as Count of Calderon and passes his steadholt to Isana. He is in love with Amara, and the two are married (at first in secret, but later openly).

** To Amara as well. Now if only she'd stop having doubts every five chapters...

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: He has no idea of Tavi's true parentage for much of the series. He likely learns the truth sometime between the end of ''Cursor's Fury'' after Fade displayed his impressive skills and saved their lives, and Tavi's open declaration.

** Bernard to Frederic, regarding the vord parasite he's captured in a cup.

* HateSink: Basically the main purpose of his existence in the first book is to give readers a villain they could hate wholeheartedly (Atsurak doesn't even interact with the main cast in his brief appearances, Team Fidelias operates on EvilIsCool basis and has some redeeming traits).

* ActionGirl: Serves as a spy and personal agent for Gaius Sextus.

* BlowYouAway: An Air Crafter.

** Her opinion of Gaius drops dramatically after his ShootTheDog moment.

* {{Deuteragonist}}: She has the second-largest POV sections in the novels (Right after Tavi's).

* BadassBookworm: One of the smartest characters in the series, which is saying something given the amount of {{Magnificent Bastard}}s in the series.

* AntiHero: Pragmatic type. He destroys High Lord Kalarus, the city of Kalare, the valley the city's in, and thousands of Kalarus's innocent subjects... because it ends the war faster as well as saving lives in the long run.

* FatalFlaw: While he's a brilliant schemer and manipulator, and a very good judge of human nature (unlike his son), he doesn't have the charm to balance it out that Octavian does.

** He receives this, in his own view, from Caria. He knew she was a naive child who didn't understand the political nature of the game he plays when they wed. He stays married to her for about ten years, and considers her poisoning him and taking that much from his life a fair trade. He doesn't have her punished for her actions.

** Takes advantage of Amara's loyalty to help him [[ShootTheDog destroy Kalarus. She quits on the spot once she learns what he did. For his part, he is sad but accepts it as the price of beating Kalarus.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: [[invoked]] In-universe example: Amara is unwilling to trust him ever again after he manipulates her into helping him get into position to turn one of the Great Furies against Kalarus, destroying the entire province with a volcanic eruption. However, it was that or let Kalarus [[TakingYouWithMe use it to destroy most of Alera's Legions when they finally killed him]].

* AwfulWeddedLife: How both her and Gaius see their marriage. Instead of living out a great romance, she found herself married to a much older man who ignores her.

* OldManMarryingAChild: While not as young as most examples of this trope, she's closer in age to Gaius's grandson than to Gaius himself. He even refers to her as a child a couple of times.

* FatalFlaw: It's noted that he tended to disregard the consequences of protecting the commoners from the nobility, the grudges that would cause and how they would fester, thinking that people would be as forgiving as he was.

* PlotTriggeringDeath: His death sets off the main conflict of the series by causing a succession crisis in Alera.

** He is one of the first nobles to speak out against the slave trade.

Tends to use watercrafting disguises a lot. In ''Captain's Fury'', she is shot and poisoned by her spy Fidelias. She was saved by the Vord Queen and put on life support. If the life-support Vord is removed or killed, she will die horribly in a matter of hours.

* DemotedToDragon: After she joins the Vord Queen.

** Is manipulated into helping Gaius a couple of times, since she can't take over if someone else does first.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Not many, but she dislikes pointless deaths and would rather rule the country through manipulation of the government than all-out war. After siding with the Vord due to desperation, she's shown small signs of regretting her choice.
-->'''Invidia''': I'm willing to make sacrifices in pursuit of a greater goal. That's not the same as [[KickTheDog condoning the rape and murder of entire steadholts.]] [[ForTheEvulz There was no profit to those actions. No purpose.]] [[StupidEvil It's unprofessional. Idiotic.]] And I have difficulty tolerating idiots.
* FauxAffablyEvil: While she'll be polite and make a number of necessary deals in public, even managing to form a bond of sorts with the Vord Queen because of how useful she is, make no mistake--the woman is a ruthless [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Monster/JimButcher monster]].

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Her near-death at the end of ''Captain's Fury'' came from Fidelias shooting her with a Cane bolt weapon. She gives him that weapon to assassinate either Arnos or Tavi.

* RavenHairIvorySkin: Has dark hair and pale skin. She's considered strikingly beautiful.

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Standard for a powerful watercrafter. Her most notable use of it is to disguise herself as a legion laundrywoman in ''Captain's Fury'' to keep an eye on Arnos and Fidelias.
* VillainousFriendship: Develops into a type IV relationship with the Awakened Vord Queen, with the Queen being somewhat depressed by her sudden death and admitting that they had formed something of a bond.

* YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood: Fidelias tries to get her to see she could reveal herself in ''Captain's Fury'', save the trapped legions from the Canim forces, and become a hero of the Realm once more. Instead, Invidia plans to sacrifice the legions and depart with Fidelias, to make sure he is taken care of as well. Later, in ''First Lord's Fury'', Isana ''almost'' convinces her to help her fellow Lords defeat the Vord Queen and save the nation... but she decides to try killing them too to win the day as the last woman standing, and the whole plan blows up in her face.

* TheHedonist: After his dad dies and Kalare collapses under volcanic ash, he spends his time having threesomes and taking drugs.

* BigBrotherInstinct:
** He sometimes took whippings for things Crassus did in order to protect him.
** Tavi notes in ''Captain's Fury'' if Arnos tries removing Crassus by trumped up charges and threatens to kill him, if their father [[PapaWolf didn't beat him to it]], Max would surely call ''Juris Macto'' against Arnos.

* FlatWhat: His reaction to being told the catapult he just destroyed, and promised to help rebuild, was made with no crafting and the new one will be like that.

* HiddenDepths: Despite his goofy demeanor, he often shows a surprisingly clever mind in terms of politics, furycrafting, and insight into one's character. For instance, he bluntly but honestly informs Tavi in ''First Lord's Fury'' that he's a better man than Gaius Sextus ever was, since Tavi wouldn't have simply condemned the civilians of Alera Imperia that couldn't be evacuated in time to death like Sextus did with his HeroicSacrifice. He also read up on advanced furycrafting theory in preparation for Tavi's expedition to Canea so as to make sure he and his friends were CrazyPrepared.

* TheRival: Dorotea sees him as this to Crassus.

* SiblingYinYang: He and Crassus. Max is a fun-loving Boisterous Bruiser. Crassus is quieter and more thoughtful. They become an effective team over the course of the series.

[[folder:Antillus Crassus]]

Max's legitimate half-brother, and their father's heir.

* TheAtoner: For his mother's treachery.

* InTheBlood: Averted. Fidelius observes that he has inherited the best parts of the Kalarus bloodline (patience, intelligence, long-term planning), but not their infamous [[TheCaligula mental instability]].
* OnlySaneMan: Considering his brother is not the most [[BoisterousBruiser far-thinking person]], Ehren is a somewhat cold spy, his boss's plans are all CrazyEnoughToWork, and his boss's [[ActionGirl lover]] does whatever the hell she wants to, Crassus is pretty much forced into this position.

* SiblingYinYang: He and Max. Max is a fun-loving Boisterous Bruiser. Crassus is quieter and more thoughtful. They become an effective team over the course of the series.

* WhatTheHellHero: When he finds out that his mother is alive and Tavi never told him, he doesn't take it well and calls him out on it. By the epilogue, he is still refusing to speak to Tavi, and it's unclear if their friendship will ever be mended

A race of elf like creatures who bond with animals. They are nomadic after their cities were destroyed centuries ago by the Vord.

* AfterTheEnd: They once had an Alera-style civilization with large cities, but they were wiped out by the Vord and left with only a handful of "barbarian" survivors.

* CueTheSun: The main Marat horde holds off attacking Garrison until the sun rises, timing their first charge to right when the sun comes over the horizon. Apart from the religious symbolism the Marat ascribe to the sun, it will also be shining right in the eyes of the Garrison defenders and hamper their ability to see.

* DuelToTheDeath: These are used to settle disputes between the Marat.

** The Marat are almost indistinguishable from humans, with the only physical difference being a higher body temperature. Marat are also mentioned as having very pale skin, all of them have silver-white hair, longer canine teeth and canted eyes.

Kitai is a girl of the humanoid Marat race, and Tavi's frequent partner, foil, and love interest. Tough and athletic, like Tavi she has learned to rely on her wits to beat powerful Crafters. Like all Marat, she has bonded telepathically with a being of another species, but is unique in that her ''[[BondCreatures chala]]'' is sapient (namely, Tavi). As a result, she often feels isolated from both cultures. As Tavi develops his Furycrafting, she becomes able to share it through their bond.

* CerebusCallback: Inverted. She breaks down crying in ''Academ's Fury'' and bitterly notes that she wanted a horse instead of Tavi as her ''chala''. However, as the series goes on and she becomes more comfortable with Tavi and accepts him as essentially her soulmate, her wanting a horse becomes a comedic RunningGag culminating in a particularly hilarious BrickJoke in ''Princeps' Fury''.

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: As Tavi is her bond, just as he becomes capable of First Lord-tier fury-crafting, so does she.

* GreaterNeedThanMine: A variation. After the attack by the Vord Queen to kill their medics, Kitai awakens enough to see a dead Foss, and both Tavi and Crassus dying. Dorotea is also down from her collar. Does she save Tavi first, with her limited energy? No. She uses it to save Dorotea, knowing that the High Lady would have the power to save both Tavi and Crassus and others later in combat.

* [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like Mother Like Daughter]]: According to Doroga, her {{Tsundere}} actions towards a terrified Tavi is exactly how he and her mother first started out.

* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: Doroga is a bit fugly, but still pretty cool. Kitai is often described as being exotically beautiful.

A race of gigantic (seven feet tall is short for them) [[WolfMan humanoid wolves]]. They have access to BloodMagic and live in a series of advanced nation-states called "ranges," though the range of Narash is the only one to have open diplomatic relations with Alera.

* ExpressiveEars: Canim show emotion with their ears, and the tell that a Canim has been Taken is that their ears 'don't look right'.

* FantasticSlur: The Canim often refer to the Alerans as "demons" for their deadly ElementalPowers. Relatedly, if the young Canim rear guard in ''Captain's Fury'' is anything to go by, calling an Aleran "monkey-boy" is also an appropriate insult.
* {{Flight}}: Explicitly stated to be something [[AvertedTrope they cannot achieve with their magic]] (which sometimes trips them up when dealing with Alerans, for whom flight is a rather common power).

* TheNoseKnows: The Canim's sense of smell is incredibly sensitive, to the point where they can tell which of their kind have been Taken by the Vord or not based on scent. Varg was also able to figure out that Tavi was related to both Gaius Sextus and Isana simply based on how his scent were similar to both of them.
* NotSoDifferent: Though the Canim remark on the strangeness and complexity of Aleran culture, Canim culture itself has numerous ''faux pas'' and convoluted loopholes to navigate, which is acknowledged as the books progress.

* CanisMajor: Canim are very large.

* {{Wolfman}}: A nine foot tall Chessmaster {{Wolfman}} at that.

* VillainTeamup: Him and High Lord Kalarus. Together, their combined power and ingenuity almost brought Alera itself to its knees. High Lord Kalarus stationed his armies at key positions scattered around the country, and arranged for them to strike multiple fronts at the exact same time. Their signal? Sarl using his ritual magic to turn the entire country's skies red, filling them with acidic tentacle monsters to stop aerial communication, transport, and preventing Gaius from observing anything that happens in the realm. On Sarl's end, Kalarus' sister is stationed within the one Legion standing between him and the country. He calls a lightning strike down upon all the officers of the Legion while they're having a meeting, planning to leave the sister alive using a gem given to her that makes her immune to his magics. She would take command of the Legion as the sole surviving officer and retreat from the area, allowing Sarl's forces a solid defensible foothold in Alera. The scope of this teamup takes the entire cast by surprise.
* {{Wolfman}}: He is a Cane.

* DragonAscendant: Takes over complete command of the Canim forces after Sarl dies.

* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Including with the enemy commander in the middle of a bloody battle.

* {{Wolfman}}: Like all Canim.

** To clarify for those not quite as familiar with the series, clouds of acid are a common Ritualist combat spell, which has seen ubiquitous use throughout the series. Morak, on the other hand, creates clouds of ''[[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]]''.

* {{Wolfman}}: He is a Cane.

* CuteMonsterGirl: She ''tries'', [[UncannyValley but...]]

* FamousLastWords: The Awakened Vord Queen has this surprisingly poignant statement = "I know how a Vord Queen dies. [[FaceDeathWithDignity I am ready]]."

* AllPowerfulBystander: The most powerful fury to have ever existed, but she never gets directly involved or favors one side over the other in the many conflicts of her world. Though she does favor Gaius' house, she only helps them when they politely ask her and doing so suits her.

* LaserGuidedKarma: In a particularly twisted sense. As she muses below, her DeathOfPersonality is partly justified since she (in the form of natural disasters, disease, and the like) has killed more of humanity than anything else in the history of Carna before the Vord came.

* PainfulTransformation: Araris makes it clear that even with his pain-numbing abilities via metalcrafting, his ChromeChampion transformation is ''highly'' painful (and the Vord Queen at once point takes advantage of his by reducing the temperature of the room to make his metal skin frost over), but when you're fighting the Vord Queen in a last-ditch effort to stop her from destroying all of Alera, [[GodzillaThreshold you'll do it]].

** To Amara. Now if only she'd stop having doubts every five chapters...

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Played with and discussed. ''Furies of Calderon'' introduces him as a [[ObfuscatingStupidity seemingly unsubtle drunkard who needs to be guided by his wife and more capable subordinates down the avenues to take the throne.]] Later books establish that he is a clever and insightful manipulator, skilled in both legion strategy and politics, and disinclined to pointless violence - not that he won't kill people if they get in his way, of course, but he's not cavalier about it. A letter from Attis to Raucus Antillus shows that in his youth, Aquitaine was a much more noble and kinder man, but had developed a burning hatred for the corruption and treachery among the Aleran nobility after Septimus died. This, coupled with his ambition to replace Gaius Sextus for what he felt were his manipulations and deceptions, gradually turned Attis into a ruthless, scheming traitor. Shades of his more noble side start to come back out as the Vord close in on Alera and he rises to help lead the Realm. Isana and Aria suspect that the death of Septimus pushed him into becoming what he hates the most.

A powerful watercrafter who was enslaved as a young girl – a mind-warping slave collar combined with her powerful empathy and the trauma of slavery has driven her mad.

* ActionGirl: She fights side-by side with Tavi.

* SamusIsAGirl: Tavi takes an embarrassingly long time to figure out that Kitai's a girl when he first meets her.

Bodyguard, assassin, or blade-for-hire, Navaris doesn't care – she's in it for money and the reputation as the most dangerous swordswoman alive.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Played with and discussed. ''Furies of Calderon'' introduces him as a [[ObfuscatingStupidity seemingly unsubtle drunkard who needs to be guided by his wife and more capable subordinates down the avenues to take the throne.]] Later books establish that he is a clever and insightful manipulator, skilled in both legion strategy and politics, and disinclined to pointless violence - not that he won't kill people if they get in his way, of course, but he's not cavalier about it. A letter from Attis to Raucus Antillus shows that in his youth, Aquitaine was a much more noble and kinder man, but had developed a burning hatred for the corruption and treachery among the Aleran nobility after Septimus died. This, coupled with his ambition to replace Gaius Sextus for what he felt were his manipulations and deceptions, gradually turned Attis into a ruthless, scheming traitor, exactly like those he hated. Shades of his more noble side start to come back out as the Vord close in on Alera and he rises to help lead the Realm.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Played with and discussed. ''Furies of Calderon'' introduces him as an unsubtle drunkard who needs to be guided by his wife and more capable subordinates down the avenues to take the throne, along with being prone to lethal punishments for failure. Later books establish that he is a clever and insightful manipulator, skilled in both legion strategy and politics, and disinclined to pointless violence - not that he won't kill people if they get in his way, of course, but he's not cavalier about it. A letter from Attis to Raucus Antillus shows that in his youth, Aquitaine was a much more noble and kinder man, but had developed a burning hatred for the corruption and treachery among the Aleran nobility after Septimus died. This, coupled with his ambition to replace Gaius Sextus for what he felt were his manipulations and deceptions, gradually turned Attis into a ruthless, scheming traitor, exactly like those he hated. Shades of his more noble side start to come back out as the Vord close in on Alera and he rises to help lead the Realm.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Played with and discussed. ''Furies of Calderon'' introduces him as an unsubtle drunkard who needs to be guided by his wife and more capable subordinates down the avenues to take the throne, along with being prone to lethal punishments for failure. Later books establish that he is a clever and insightful manipulator, skilled in both legion strategy and politics, and disinclined to pointless violence - not that he won't kill people if they get in his way, of course, but he's not cavalier about it. A letter from Attis to Raucus Antillus shows that in his youth, Aquitaine was a much more noble and kinder man, but had developed a burning hatred for the corruption and treachery among the Aleran nobility after Septimus died. This, coupled with his ambition to replace Gaius Sextus for what he felt were his manipulations and deceptions, gradually turned Attis Aquitaine into a ruthless, scheming, and treacherous traitor, exactly like those he hated. Shades of his more noble side start to come back out as the Vord close in on Alera and he rises to help lead the Realm.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: ''Furies of Calderon'' introduces him as an unsubtle drunkard who needs to be guided by his wife and more capable subordinates down the avenues to take the throne, along with being prone to lethal punishments for failure. Later books establish that he is a clever and insightful manipulator, skilled in both legion strategy and politics, and disinclined to pointless violence (not that he won't kill people if they get in his way, of course, but he's not cavalier about it).

* HumiliationConga: Arnos's KarmaHoudiniWarranty has expired by the climax of ''Captain's Fury''. He discovers that his opponent is the legitimate heir to the throne (and so has the right to challenge him over the horrible things he's done), his champion loses the duel, meaning that he's going to have to face justice, and when he takes a hostage in an attempt to escape, he's shot in the back.

* AFatherToHisMen: He personally attends the funerals of his men who die fighting on the Shieldwall.

* LogicalWeakness: As powerful as their BloodMagic can be, it's limited by the available quantity of blood to be used in their spells. That being said, sufficiently skilled Ritualists like Morak minimize this issue to the point where it's virtually irrelevant.

* ProudWarriorRace: Though their philosophy is that the Warriors exist to serve the Makers, not the other way around.

** Fidelias' betrayal really cut her deeply, as the man wasn't just her pedestal but one for pretty much every cursor.

* GuileHero: Shown to be adept at political maneuvering and coming up with plans on the spot.

* BestHerToBedHer: The Marat, as a culture, have this in terms of their courting rituals. The man must win over the woman he wants in some competition ''of her choosing''. So, if a male of the Wolf tribe seeks to court a lady of the Horse tribe, she can challenge him to a horse race, knowing full well she has the clear advantage and will likely easily win, thus endomg his pursuit of her.

** In ''Academ's Fury'' he, by means of Ehren and Aria, gets the Aquitanes to help protect Gaius and the crown from falling because it would ruin their own plans in the making.

** His Canim nickname, "Tavar", is the name of a wolverine-like predator native to Canea, which even Canim warriors avoid because it fearlessly and ferociously fights to defeat its enemies and protect its territory despite its small size (relative to a Cane). Exactly like Tavi.

* MindlinkMates: With Kitai thanks to her bonding with him. They can sense the other one's presence and general moods. And when he gains furycrafting, she gains it too.

** Tavi's way to stop the Icemen destroying the Shieldwall? Give it to them. With plans to have them lease it back to the Alerans, no less.
** And, say, ''every other thing he does'', leading to hilarious moments that go something like "Oh God, he's doing something crazy... reh. It's Tavi, go with it." Which overlaps nicely with his {{Crazy Awesome}}ness, and the entry for CrazyEnoughToWork above.

* WarriorTherapist: Against Navaris. He attacks her mental problems to make her sloppy in actual combat.

* XanatosGambit: While he is young and not always good at these, he was taught the art of them in his Cursor training. His old master often told him that, "Every problem was an opportunity, from a certain point of view." Take the IdiotBall example, he was able to move things about to avoid summary execution, be in a spot to escape from jail, go on a mission to gain a key ally, and defeat Arnos summarily. None of which would have happened if Arnos hadn't arrested him.

* DistressedDamsel: If there's a situation where she can be kidnapped and/or swoon, she'll take full advantage of it. Lampshaded:

* HealingHands: Give her enough reason, and she doesn't even need a tub of water to help her.

* AwfulWeddedLife: How she sees her marriage. Instead of living out a great romance, she found herself married to a much older man who ignores her.

* MalMariee: "Badly married" Caria is fifty years younger than her husband Gaius Sextus. They have a sexless marriage. Her old husband doesn't treat her well and ignores her, so this trope lacks the jealousy part. In the spirit of the trope, she ends up having an affair with a charismatic and handsome man Attis who is manipulating her. It's revealed she has been poisoning her husband for years.

* BigBad: Subverted. He's built up as this in the first half of the series, but is upstaged in the second by the ''real'' BigBad, the Vord Queen.

* TheChessmaster: One of the best in the series. Though not as good as Ehren or Tavi.

* DeadpanSnarker: He has a dry wit about him. When he sees Indivia burned to a blackened crisp, but still alive, he only comments that he likes her new hair style.

* GracefulLoser: When he realises that Ehren manipulated him into making himself vulnerable, leading to a mortal injury and thereby securing Tavi's position, his only comment is a thoughtful and faintly admiring, "I think the little man assassinated me."

** In the last book he points out that had the heroes not foiled his plans in the first book, the country would have been unified to face the threat instead of delaying so long bickering and backbiting. Even more ironic in that said foiling is [[NiceJobBreakingItHero what woke the Vord up in the first place.]]
** Conversely, if it hadn't been for his plans in the first book, it would have been much less likely that Tavi and Kitai would have been in position to break it in the first place.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Plots within plots within plots!

* VillainousFriendship: Develops into a type IV relationship with the Vord Queen, with the Queen being somewhat depressed by her sudden death and admitting that they had formed something of a bond.

The other main candidate (besides Aquitainus) as the First Lord's successor. The province of Kalare is one of the few where slavery is still rampant, and Kalarus has taken the twisted furycrafting of slave collars and weaponised it.

* EvilIsPetty: The entire Amara & Gaius Sextus subplot of ''Captain's Fury'' only exists to try and mitigate the damage caused by Kalarus' pettiness. For all intents and purposes he'd been defeated in the previous book. He no longer had a chance of actually becoming the First Lord. He was being beaten back by the forces of Alera and eventually his city would fall to a siege and he would be captured. However, Kalarus decided "Screw it!" and enslaved a volcano-dwelling fury to his very life. When the time finally came that armies would besiege his city (which itself would be packed to the brim with refugees), he would die and trigger a massive eruption with the intent of killing as many people as he could along the way. All to give one final middle-finger shaped farewell to Gaius after losing to him.

* HateSink: He's ultimately a perfect example of everything fundamentally '''wrong''' with the corrupt aristocracy of Alera's Citizenry, being an obnoxious, misogynistic, petty, arrogant, xenophobic, and greedy sociopath who only cares about gaining more power for himself at the expense of everyone around him.
* IHaveYourWife: Kidnaps High Lady Placida and the daughter of High Lord Atticus to prevent their armies from actively opposing him, and holds Rook's daughter hostage to ensure her continued good behavior. To add to his malevolence, Rook's daughter is his own granddaughter.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Even more than the other High Lords. To be High Lord of one of the shield cities, you have to be adept at asskicking.

* GoodFeelsGood: The collared Dorotea gives off a deep sense of fulfilment quite unlike the buried misery Isana senses in other collared slaves. Collar or no, Dorotea is finding healing people and experiencing their gratitude and liking very rewarding.

* RageBreakingPoint: When the Vord Queen kills Foss, who saved Dorotea from the blast by pushing her away, she overcomes her slave commands and launches a powerful attack against the Vord Queen, stunning her enough for Tavi to catch up. That said, her collar quickly punishes her for this violation.

* KickTheDog: He has an entire town ordered killed for "conspiring with the enemy" (read: not fighting to the death against an unbeatable opponent that doesn't want to kill you) just so he can get Tavi removed from his post when he inevitably refuses. Then he decides to kill them anyway as an "example" to the other towns.

* SaveTheVillain: When he lays badly injured from a poisoned bolt in his chest, he thinks this is happening when Tavi calls for a healer. Tavi subverts his expectations by saying the healer is for the ''hostage'' he took not him.

%%* YouKilledMyFather: Sextus, apparently, though there's more reasons than that behind his revolutionary actions.

* TheUnsmile: They are instead described within one book as showing his teeth.

* TakeCareOfTheKids: After being enslaved by a discipline collar, her last request to Amara is this, as the one place she felt was safest from the Vord was Calderon Valley.

* TheWorfEffect: Araris alternates between descriptions of his martial prowess and scenes of him getting roundly trounced. For example, when Nevarris nearly guts him in ''Captain's Fury'', or when the Vord stun him by hitting him with a door toward the beginning of ''First Lord's Fury''.

* LadykillerInLove: He is very interested in Cereus Veradis, who won't give him the time of day.

* OnlySaneMan: Considering his brother is not the most [[BoisterousBruiser far-thinking person]], Ehren is a somewhat cold spy, his boss's plans are all CrazyEnoughToWork, and his boss's [[ActionGirl girl]] does whatever the hell she wants to, Crassus is pretty much forced into this position.

* WhatTheHellHero: When he finds out that his mother is alive and Tavi never told him, he doesn't take it well and calls him out on it. By the epilogue, he is still refusing to speak to Tavi.

** The Marat are almost indistinguishable from humans, with the only physical difference being a higher body temperature.
** Marat are also mentioned as being very pale, all of them have silver-white hair, longer canine teeth and canted eyes.

* {{Ambadassador}}: Becomes the Marat's Ambassador to Alera after ''Academ's Fury.''

* MindlinkMates: With Tavi thanks to her bonding with him. They can sense the other one's presence and general moods. And when he gains furycrafting, she gains it too.

* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: Doroga is a bit fugly, but still pretty cool.

* SuperStrength: As a result of his chala being a gargant. Most clearly demonstrated in the first book, where he picks up a coffin-sized boulder and throws it. And even manages to hit his target.

* RogueDrone: An interesting variant. Because Tavi and Kitai first "awoke" the Awakened Vord Queen in ''Furies of Calderon'', the non-Queen Vord

** The Queen that attacks Calderon in ''Academ's Fury'' anticipates where the sick and wounded after battle will be put so she could send in her body-snatching worms and claim more of them.

* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: The Canea Queen looks like a green-skinned, black-eyed cross between Kitai and Tavi's aunt. Unsurprising since Kitai and Tavi's blood is what awoke her. However, the attractiveness is lost due to their alien nature.

* MrExposition: A variant, with her helping inform Tavi of some details related to the Romans who would go on to eventually found Alera.