History Characters / CodexAlera

* [[spoiler:GoodFeelsGood]]
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor

* ConsummateLiar: As he said to [[LivingLieDetector Odiana]]: "Yes. No. I am seventeen years old. The sky is green. My real name is Gundred."

* LivingLieDetector: She sees through ''[[MagnificentBastard Gaius]]'' at one point.

* MeaningfulName Two! meaningful names [[spoiler: Gaius Octavian meaning both the son of Septimus and is the proper name of EmperorAugustus]]

** This is the man who [spoiler: made ships out of ''icebergs'' and attached runners to ships to make them work over ice]].

* TheAragorn: Almost every book involves him saving people's asses while Tavi gets to the bottom of things.

* BlowYouAway: An [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Air Bend]]- Um. Crafter.

-> At some point I would like a few weeks to go by in which I do not faint during a crisis.

* MagnificentBastard: He's a stylish Chessmaster with oodles of personal charisma- [[spoiler: but he's not as Magnificent as Sextus.]]

* CrazyAwesome: I mean, good lord. He stops in the middle of a battle to sit in front of the gates and play chess with the enemy commander.

* StoicWoobie: Araris seems to get injured a lot, and that's not even counting his [[FailureKnight motivations]] behind his alternate, ObfuscatingStupidity persona. But he really doesn't show his emotions to anyone but Isana, and that's after some serious empathic prodding.
** [[spoiler:Even as Fade, he can't catch a break; he tends to get picked on a lot, despite the fact that he seems to be pretty helpful around the house. Even Bernard is pretty curt with him.]]

* MagnificentBastard

** Since he's a combination of Chessmaster and Manipulative Bastard, doesn't that really just make him a MagnificentBastard?

* [[spoiler:AlasPoorVillain]]

* CompensatingForSomething: Lady Placida mentions he had a little problem bedding women back at the academy. Either he was impotent or he just was bastard.
* CompleteMonster

* MoralEventHorizon: ''Pole-vaults'' over it and keeps running. No [[CrossesTheLineTwice second crossing]].

* EvilIsSexy: When the person who you've kidnapped and are about to rape notices how handsome you are, I believe you fufill this trope.
** The mind control collar helped.

* MoralEventHorizon: His father's brainwashing technique was already NightmareFuel, but Brencis just ''had'' to use it to [[spoiler:create willing slaves for the Vord...]]

* TheWoobie: She gains a ''lot'' of sympathy points once we find out her motivation and past.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel

* AlasPoorVillain

* EvilIsSexy: Considering she looks like a [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe green]] Kitai.
** YourMileageMayVary: She's ''almost'' this trope, but with just enough insectile features to throw her headfirst into the UncannyValley.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: ''Yeeesh''.

* UncannyValley: Her attempts to act human don't exactly work out.

* [=~The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter~=]: Doroga is a bit fugly, but still pretty cool.

* [=~You Didn't Ask~=]: When Tavi goes to explain that [[spoiler:Isana is actually his mother]], Varg's response is basically, "Yes, I know. I can smell it." He then goes on to mention that [[spoiler:he knew Tavi was the First Lord's grandson since he'd first met him]]; he just figured he shouldn't say anything, because who knew what those crazy Alerans were thinking and maybe it was normal.

* [[spoiler:AreYouMyMummy]]

!Magnus

* TheChessmaster: Metaphorically as well as literally.

* TheCaligula: Equally, one can't deny that this guy is a few ''legionares'' short of an army, IfYouKnowWhatIMean...

* TheSwordmaster: Widely renowned as the single greatest swordsman in Alera.

** Gets even better: This may, in fact, be a house-name granted to him for services, as Valiar is a house-name granted for being valiant. One person jokes that Valiar could be in House Faithful...
*** It isn't. The house-name for the House of the Faithful is Fidelar.

* LightningBruiser: Swords barely scratch her, she's as fast as a Windcrafter and as strong as an Earthcrafter.

Probably the greatest and most powerful fury in existence, and effectively the incarnation of the entire country. She's taken a fondness to the house of Gaius, acting as a SpiritAdvisor to them and causing effects on a massive scale when they ask and it suits her. However, she will not directly aid one side over another; using her power effectively relies on setting up situations where some outside influence helps your side more than the other.

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

Son of Lord Kalerus and classmate of Tavi's at the Academy - where he was a vicous bully. Hasn't improved since.

* {{Pettanko}}: Tavi [[SamusIsAGirl thought she was male when they first met]]. Of course, they were both barely pubescent at that point; she [[SheIsAllGrownUp gradually fills out]].

* {{Pettanko}}: 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 a[[spoiler: nother]] man.