History Characters / Cursed2020

->'''Portrayed by:''' Polly Walker

* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: [[spoiler: Merlin is afraid that his daughter, Nimue, will be killed by those who seek the Sword of Power or that the Sword will corrupt as it did to him, exacerbated by the fact she's all he has left of Lenore and Lenore's dying wish was for Merlin to help Nimue]].

* PoisonousFriend: She has hints of becoming one to Nimue. She wants to protect the Fey and is loyal to Nimue, but Morgana's ideas around this increasingly revolve around encouraging Nimue to go for violent solutions and use the Sword's power to crush their enemies. Nimue and Arthur are both uncomfortable with this, only wanting to use violence as a last resort.

* AdultFear: [[spoiler: Merlin is afraid that his daughter, Nimue, will be killed by those who seek the Sword of Power or that the Sword will corrupt as it did to him, exacerbated by the fact she's all he has left of Lenore and Lenore's dying wish was for Merlin to help Nimue]].

* BadassBeard: He's a Viking raider with a big silver beard.

!!The Weeping Monk
->'''Portrayed by:''' Daniel Sharman

* RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: Traditionally Arthur and Morgana are maternal half-siblings. Here they appear to be full siblings, or at least share the same father.

* {{Hypocrite}}: He thinks pagans are sinful but willingly works with Cumber to exterminate the Fey and [[spoiler:supports his claim to the throne]], even though Cumber openly worships the Norse gods and couldn't care less about the Catholic Church. [[spoiler: He also "adopted" and raised a Fey child to be one of his most formidable killers despite seeing Fey as AlwaysChaoticEvil who are meant to be killed on sight.]]

->'''Portrayed by:''' Shalom Brune-Franklin

* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler:His final words are "My Pym", after she tells him her real name]].

->'''Portrayed by:''' Bella Dayne

* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: Morgana is usually Arthur’s maternal half-sister, fathered by Igraine’s first husband Gorlois. Here, she and Arthur have the same father, a knight named Tor.

->'''Portrayed by:''' Peter Mullan

* ChildOfForbiddenLove: [[spoiler:She's revealed to be this. She was born due to her parents' affair. Her father was despised for supposedly betraying his people (so associating with him was tabooed); her mother was [[YourCheatingHeart engaged to someone else]]]].

* TheDragon: He's Father Carden's right-hand man; when he's not at his side he's leading missions on Carden's orders,and the protagonists have to fight him before facing Carden.

* HateSink: He's a manipulative, genocidal templar who is waging a campaign of genocide to an entire race of people who did nothing to him or his people under the assumption that they have it coming. He is just as oppressive to his own kind (Christian humans), willing to terrorize the entirety of a nunnery the Red Paladins are occupying. Merlin even implies that he doesn't do any of it because he actually believes in its holiness ([[BelievingTheirOwnLies or at least, not at first]]), but because he saw an opportunity to move up in society using fear and superstition as a tool.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He thinks pagans are sinful but willingly works with Cumber to exterminate the Fey and [[spoiler:supports his claim to the throne]], even though Cumber openly worships the Norse gods and couldn't care less about the Catholic Church. [[spoiler: He also "adopted" and raised a Fey child to be one of his most formidable killer despite seeing Fey as AlwaysChaoticEvil and are meant to be killed on sight.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: He thinks pagans are sinful but willingly works with Cumber to exterminate the Fey and [[spoiler:supports his claim to the throne]], even though Cumber openly worships the Norse gods and couldn't care less about the Catholic Church.

The head nun of Yvoire Abbey.

* ParentalSubstitute: She serves as this to Morgana, as both her parents died and she was sent to the convent as a child. Morgana clearly cares for her [[spoiler: and is devastated when the Red Paladins kill her]].

!!Yvoire Abbey
[[folder:Iris]]
!!Sister Iris
->'''Portrayed by:''' Emily Coates

A troubled young nun who aspires to join the Red Paladins.

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: By the end of the first season, Iris has gotten everything she wanted; she has (seemingly) killed the Wolf-Blood Witch and earned praise and recognition from the Holy Father himself for her actions. Although she doesn't get to be a Paladin, she gets something even better when she's initiated into the [[EliteMooks Trinity Guard]], who are far more elite than the Paladins]].
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Iris says that according to the nuns who took her in, her father strangled her mother to death shortly after Iris was born, out of anger [[WantedASonInstead she wasn't a boy]].
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: She's pale and dark-haired, with an unsettling demeanor and a violent streak.
* LockedIntoStrangeness: [[spoiler: After nearly being struck by the lightning conjured by Merlin, Iris is left with a scar on side of her face and white streaks in her hair]].
* SanitySlippage: Iris was far from being the poster child of sound mental health to start with, but by the end of the season she's become even ''more'' unstable; at one point she's seen arguing with herself in a [[RoomFullOfCrazy room painted with bloody crosses]], and even [[SelfHarm holds her arm over a candle]] as she's psyching herself up to kill Nimue.
* TeensAreMonsters: She's implied to be a young teen and is a fanatical supporter of the Red Paladins. She eventually [[spoiler:burns down her abbey, killing many of the nuns, to "cleanse" it of sin]] and sets out to join the Paladins.

[[folder:Celia]]
!!Sister Celia
->'''Portrayed by:''' Sophie Harkness

A nun who is in a romantic relationship with Morgana.

* AmbiguousSituation: It's unclear if [[spoiler: Morgana is actually communicating with Celia's ghost, or if she's just an illusion conjured by the Cailleach]].
* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler: She's killed off in the same episode she was introduced, although her ghost continues to show up on behalf of the Cailleach, who teaches Morgana magic]].
* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler: She becomes this to Morgana; Morgana's grief and guilt over Celia's death makes her vulnerable to the Cailleach's manipulations; the Cailleach uses Celia's specter to plant into Morgana the prospect of her becoming the most powerful sorceress in the land]].
* NiceGirl: She's depicted as a sweet, gentle girl who always thinks the best of everybody.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Her entire character revolves around her relationship with Morgana.

[[folder:Abbess Nora]]
!!Abbess Nora
->'''Portrayed by:''' Caroline Lee Johnson

The head nun of Yvoire Abbey.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler: She shelters Nimue and when the Paladins find out, they torture her and drag her off to a presumably grisly fate, seeing her actions as a grave sin]].
* ParentalSubstitute: She serves as this to Morgana, as both her parents died and she was sent to the convent as a child. Morgana clearly cares for her [[spoiler: and is devastated when the Red Paladins kill her]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She allows Nimue to shelter in the abbey, no questions asked, despite suspecting she's a Fey refugee. When Father Carden questions whether they have been any new arrivals at the convent, she [[BlatantLies lies to his face]] that there's "no one she can think of".
* SternNun: She's quite strict and serious, though she's a genuinely caring person beneath this.
* TraumaticHaircut: [[spoiler: To punish and humiliate her for aiding the Fey, the Paladins shave her hair off so brutally her scalp is bloody]].