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* HypercompetentSidekick: He is by far the Sorcerer who got furthest into his goals. He successfully manipulated Hollis into calling off her engagement to Maarken, got his hands on the Star Scroll, and came a hair's breadth away from using Masul to [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill Maarken]] with no evidence that could be traced back to him. The only reason he failed in his goals is through the sheer bad luck of his aunt Pandsala suddenly noticing he shared facial features with his mother Ianthe.
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* HypercompetentSidekick: He is by far the Sorcerer who got furthest into his goals. He successfully manipulated Hollis into calling off her engagement to Maarken, got his hands on the Star Scroll, and came a hair's breadth away from using Masul to [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill Maarken]] with no evidence that could be traced back to him.him while also following Mireva's instructions to get Masul on the throne of Princemarch. The only reason he failed in his goals is through the sheer bad luck of his aunt Pandsala suddenly noticing he shared facial features with his mother Ianthe.
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* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: Rohan and Sioned don't know how to punish Pandsala for [[spoiler:killing off half the continent's royal families in their service.]] They are prevented from having to act by Segev killing Pandsala after she recognizes him as one of Ianthe's sons.
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* PrecociousCrush: Hollis believes his attraction to her is one, but [[[{{Yandere}} it's something else entirely.]]
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* HypercompetentSidekick: He is by far the Sorcerer who got furthest into his goals. He successfully manipulated Hollis into calling off her engagement to Maarken, got his hands on the Star Scroll, and came a hair's breadth away from using Masul to [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill Maarken.]] Maarken]] with no evidence that could be traced back to him. The only reason he failed in his goals is through the sheer bad luck of his aunt Pandsala suddenly noticing he shared facial features with his mother Ianthe.
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* ArchEnemy: He serves as Rohan's [[spoiler:until his death.]]
* ArcVillain: The villain of the first book in the series.
* TheCasanova: He has had a litany of lovers in his past.
* ArcVillain: The villain of the first book in the series.
* TheCasanova: He has had a litany of lovers in his past.
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* GreenEyedMonster: Jealous of Ianthe and later of Sioned, though she learns to deal with it later in life.
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* GreenEyedMonster: Jealous She is jealous of Ianthe and later of Sioned, though she learns to deal with it later in life.
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* SilkHidingSteelSilkHidingSteel: Pandsala is outwardly a picture perfect regent. [[spoiler:She is also a serial killer who led to the deaths of nearly all the rest of the royal families in order to unite the entire continent under Pol's command.]]
* AwfulWeddedLife: Her and her husband have long fallen out of love with each other and both openly take other lovers.
* DaddysGirl: She somehow believes Rolestra always loved and cared for her despite the man disowning her at birth and attempting to have her killed.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: For all her flaws she genuinely loves her son and he loves her back, protecting her against his father Halinan.
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* AccidentalMurder: He accidentally kills [[spoiler:Kleve]] by [[spoiler:cutting off one of Kleve's fingers while he was trying to Sunrun, tearing apart his soul with the knife's iron.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: He is incredibly arrogant in all ways. Part of his attitude is why Kiele agrees to sponsor him, since his personality was so close to Rolestra's despite never having met the man that it convinced her Masul ''was'' likely Rolestra's son.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Played with. Masul is so like Rolestra in personality Kiele considers it very likely Masul is in fact his son.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Played with. Masul is so like Rolestra in personality Kiele considers it very likely Masul is in fact his son.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Incredibly arrogant in all ways. Part of his attitude is why Kiele agrees to sponsor him, since his personality was so close to Rolestra's that it convinced her Masul ''was'' likely Rolestra's son.
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* AbusiveParents: He alternates between abusive and neglectful towards his offspring depending on how it suits him.
* ArchEnemy: He considers Rohan to be one after Rohan refuses to give Chiana a dowry to marry him (after Sioned tried to arrange the marriage, thinking the two would drive each other mad). Rohan considers him more of an annoyance than a true threat.
* ArchEnemy: He considers Rohan to be one after Rohan refuses to give Chiana a dowry to marry him (after Sioned tried to arrange the marriage, thinking the two would drive each other mad). Rohan considers him more of an annoyance than a true threat.
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* AbusiveParents: He alternates between abusive and neglectful [[ParentalNeglect neglectful]] towards his offspring depending on how it suits him.
* ArchEnemy: He considers Rohan to be one after Rohan refuses to give Chiana a dowry to marry him (after Sioned tried to arrange the marriage, thinking the two would drive each other mad). Rohan considers him more of [[UnknownRival anannoyance annoyance]] than a true threat.
* ArchEnemy: He considers Rohan to be one after Rohan refuses to give Chiana a dowry to marry him (after Sioned tried to arrange the marriage, thinking the two would drive each other mad). Rohan considers him more of [[UnknownRival an
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* GreenEyedMonster: He's intensely jealous of Hollis's fiancé.
* LoveRedeems: Subverted. Segev's love for Hollis, no matter how toxic, is humanizing and convinces him to try to usurp Mireva, but he never gets the chance as [[spoiler:Pandsala recognizes her sister's traits in him and unmasks him, leading to Hollis killing him.]]
* LoveRedeems: Subverted. Segev's love for Hollis, no matter how toxic, is humanizing and convinces him to try to usurp Mireva, but he never gets the chance as [[spoiler:Pandsala recognizes her sister's traits in him and unmasks him, leading to Hollis killing him.]]
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* GreenEyedMonster: He's intensely jealous of Hollis's fiancé.
fiancé Maarken.
* LikesOlderWomen: [[spoiler:He falls for Hollis, a woman several years older than him.]]
* LoveRedeems: Subverted. Segev's love for Hollis, no matter how toxic, is humanizing and convinces him to try to usurpMireva, Mireva so he won't have to dispose of her, but he never gets the chance as [[spoiler:Pandsala recognizes her sister's traits in him and unmasks him, leading to Hollis killing him.]]
* LikesOlderWomen: [[spoiler:He falls for Hollis, a woman several years older than him.]]
* LoveRedeems: Subverted. Segev's love for Hollis, no matter how toxic, is humanizing and convinces him to try to usurp
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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Pol rejects her [[spoiler:when she disguises herself as Meiglan because she acts arrogantly and haughty, not understanding that Pol was attracted to Meiglan's shy kindness and seeing those traits as flaws.]]
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* GreenEyedMonster: He's intensely jealous of Hollis's fiance.fiancé.
* LoveRedeems: Subverted. Segev's love for Hollis, no matter how toxic, is humanizing and convinces him to try to usurp Mireva, but he never gets the chance as [[spoiler:Pandsala recognizes her sister's traits in him and unmasks him, leading to Hollis killing him.]]
* LoveRedeems: Subverted. Segev's love for Hollis, no matter how toxic, is humanizing and convinces him to try to usurp Mireva, but he never gets the chance as [[spoiler:Pandsala recognizes her sister's traits in him and unmasks him, leading to Hollis killing him.]]
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Averted. Segev intended on disposing of whatever Sunrunner he manipulated once they were no longer useful to him, but grew genuinely fond of Hollis and decides to [[spoiler:get her fiancé killed and usurp Mireva with the Star Scroll's spells.]]
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* FatalFlaw: Pride. Pride motivates nearly all of Pol's actions and directly causes him to enter a great deal of conflict with both Rohan and [[spoiler:Andry]] in ''Dragon Star''.
* FatalFlaw: Pride. Pride motivates nearly all of Pol's actions and directly causes him to enter a great deal of conflict with both Rohan and [[spoiler:Andry]] in ''Dragon Star''.
* MuggleBornOfMages: Subverted. While she initially appears to lack the ability to Sunrun, [[spoiler:she awakens her latent Sunrunner abilities in ''Dragon Star'', requiring her to be taught some Sunrunning to communicate after she suffers a stroke and loses control of her body.]]
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* IronLadyIronLady: Andrade is a mean, no-nonsense manipulator.
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* FantasticRacism: [[spoiler: Leads a genocide against the Sorcerers, thinking they're too dangerous to be left alive.]]
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* AntiVillain: In the ''Dragon Star'' series. While he murders several people, he is primarily motivated by paranoia of Sorcerers attempting to overthrow the world's monarchies or enslave the populace as they did in years past. Given that an [[spoiler:invading force of formerly oppressed people sails from across the sea intending to finish all the Sorcerers off and begins a massacre of the continent, his search for weaponry and ways to do battle against foes ends up being highly useful.]]
* FantasticRacism:[[spoiler: Leads [[spoiler:Leads a genocide against the Sorcerers, thinking they're too dangerous to be left alive.]]]] That being said, he allows [[spoiler:Sorcerers]] who are loyal to him to live and hold high rankings in his inner circle.
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* PlayingWithFire: Like other Sunrunners, often summons fire.
* ReallyGetsAround: [[spoiler:During the time skip between books 3 and 4 he has many children with other Sunrunners, though it's less about the sexual relationships and more about fostering a "pure" bloodline.]]
* ReallyGetsAround: [[spoiler:During the time skip between books 3 and 4 he has many children with other Sunrunners, though it's less about the sexual relationships and more about fostering a "pure" bloodline.]]
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* ProperlyParanoid: Andry has a deep-rooted hatred of Sorcerers [[spoiler:and kills off many of them, believing them to be too dangerous to be left alive.]] We later learn that [[spoiler:not only did the Sorcerers enslave other continents in the past, but they had to be stopped by Sunrunners from doing the same.]] Given that many of them were plotting to [[spoiler:control Rolestra through his wife Lallante]] and then tried to install Ianthe's children on the throne of Princemarch, it's not entirely unreasonable for Andry to be suspicious of their intentions.
* PlayingWithFire: Like other Sunrunners, he often summons fire.
* ReallyGetsAround: [[spoiler:During the time skip between books 3 and 4 he has many children with other Sunrunners, though it's less about the sexual relationships and more about fostering a "pure" Sunrunner bloodline.]]
* PlayingWithFire: Like other Sunrunners, he often summons fire.
* ReallyGetsAround: [[spoiler:During the time skip between books 3 and 4 he has many children with other Sunrunners, though it's less about the sexual relationships and more about fostering a "pure" Sunrunner bloodline.]]
* HasAType: Redheads. His current mistress Palila had auburn hair and he tries to abduct and rape Sioned, a redhead.
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* BedTrick: [[spoiler: Gets herself pregnant with Rohan's child by pretending to be Sioned while he's being mind raped.]]
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* BedTrick: [[spoiler: Gets [[spoiler:She gets herself pregnant with Rohan's child by pretending to be Sioned while he's being mind raped.drugged and cannot consent.]]
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* DidntSeeThatComing: Her plans only fail because she underestimated how far Sioned would go to have Rohan's son- EVen if it means killing someone and stealing their child to do so.
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* DidntSeeThatComing: Her plans only fail because she underestimated how far Sioned would go to have Rohan's son- EVen [[spoiler:Even if it means meant killing someone and stealing their child to do so.]]
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* VillainousPrincess: She is a Princess of Princemarch and an evil woman.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: She instructs her staff to be as rude to Chiana as she can get away with and sides against her with Masul in the question of Chiana's parentage. Given Chiana's horrid personality she doesn't gain much sympathy.
* LadyMacbeth: She generally does quite a bit of the ruling of Waes, since her husband has no interest in doing so.
* LadyMacbeth: She generally does quite a bit of the ruling of Waes, since her husband has no interest in doing so.
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* LadyMacbeth: She generally does quite a bit of the ruling of Waes, since her husband has no interest in doing so.
* LovingAShadow: She is obsessed with her father, nevermind that they never met and he tried to kill her as a baby and disowned her.
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* AmbiguousSituation: His parentage. [[spoiler:There is a commoner who is an IdenticalStranger to Rolestra who tried to extort money from Kiele claiming to be Masul's true father, but he could have easily been lying since he was KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade. Masul is killed before the matter is fully resolved, removing the need for it to be resolved.]]
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* AmbiguousSituation: His parentage. [[spoiler:There is a commoner who is an IdenticalStranger to Rolestra who tried to extort money from Kiele claiming to be Masul's true father, but he could have easily been lying since he had no proof of his claim and was KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade. [[HeKnowsTooMuch killed before being questioned.]] Masul is killed before the matter is fully resolved, removing the need for it to be resolved.]]
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* SmugSnakeSmugSnake: He's a smug {{Jerkass}} who rarely achieves anything of note for all his arrogance.
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* MistreatmentInductedBetrayal: Rather than using her position as Pol's wife to benefit her highly abusive father, Meiglan fully commits herself to Pol and The Desert.
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* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: She undergoes a great deal of character development in the second book series, having to force herself to go from being a ShrinkingViolet into an IronLady. This process isn't without a great deal of anguish and self-doubt.
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* FalseFriend: To Hollis. He nearly succeeds in breaking up her engagement while presenting himself as a genuine friend to her.
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* PoisonousFriend: To Hollis. He nearly succeeds in breaking up her engagement while presenting himself as a genuine friend to her.
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: Downplayed. She was always a powerful lady of Waes, but Pandsala [[spoiler:didn't consider her important or intelligent enough to prioritize killing off before she became a serious threat to Rohan's rule. Pandsala curses herself for not having gotten around to offing her sooner.]]
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: She instructs her staff to be as rude to Chiana as she can get away with and sides against her with Masul in the question of Chiana's parentage. Given Chiana's horrid personality she doesn't gain much sympathy.
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* BrotherSisterIncest: Jokingly suggests it to Kiele when he meets her.
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* AmbiguousSituation: His parentage. [[spoiler:There is a commoner who is an IdenticalStranger to Rolestra who tried to extort money from Kiele claiming to be Masul's true father, but he could have easily been lying since he was KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade. Masul is killed before the matter is fully resolved, removing the need for it to be resolved.]]
* ArcVillain: The main villain of the second book [[spoiler:and dead at the end of it.]]
* BrotherSisterIncest:Jokingly He jokingly suggests it to Kiele when he meets her.
* ArcVillain: The main villain of the second book [[spoiler:and dead at the end of it.]]
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* EntitledToHaveYou: Just like Rolestra, he believes he can seduce any woman, even one who is likely his half-sister.
* IdenticalGrandson: He is nearly identical looking to Rolestra.
* LikesOlderWomen: He flirts with Kiele, a woman more than a decade his senior.
* LikesOlderWomen: He flirts with Kiele, a woman more than a decade his senior.
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* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Played with. Masul resembles ''neither'' of his supposed parents and is Rolestra's spitting image, leading to rumours that he was SwitchedAtBirth with Chiana.
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* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Played with. Masul resembles ''neither'' of his supposed parents and is Rolestra's spitting image, leading to rumours that he was SwitchedAtBirth with Chiana.Chiana, who resembles Palila but not Rolestra.
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* DarkSkinnedRedhead: Darker skinned than either of his brothers and, well, a redhead.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: She did her best as regent of Princemarch to govern fairly and does everything for Pol's sake. [[spoiler:Including wiping out half the world's royal families in case they ever decided to turn against Pol.]]
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He is nearly dethroned as the High Prince in the second book specifically because of his insistence on having the other Princes adhere to legal code- One of the Princes genuinely believes that the law means Masul's claim to Princemarch's throne should be honoured if there is any chance that he is genuinely Rolestra's son. Rohan is both dismayed and proud by this turn of events.
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* PetTheDog: She decides to prominently sponsor an up and coming lace merchant in the second book out of kindness.
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* HeroicRROD: Dies She dies after overextending her power to try to prove Masul's parentage. parentage.
* HoistByHerOwnPetard: Marrying Sioned to Rohan causes her to lose a great deal of her influence over the Desert as Sioned sees how dangerous Andrade can be and deliberately goes against her wishes.
* HoistByHerOwnPetard: Marrying Sioned to Rohan causes her to lose a great deal of her influence over the Desert as Sioned sees how dangerous Andrade can be and deliberately goes against her wishes.
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* ManipulativeBitch: At her worst she falls into this.
* ScrewDestiny: Her initial destiny was to be married to Roelstra. She fought tooth and nail against it and was able to fight fate at the cost of making Roelstra her enemy.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She intended to give her family an advantage over Roelstra's, but ended up causing a war and selective breeding practices among royalty for Sunrunner children.
'''Lord Andry'''
* ScrewDestiny: Her initial destiny was to be married to Roelstra. She fought tooth and nail against it and was able to fight fate at the cost of making Roelstra her enemy.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She intended to give her family an advantage over Roelstra's, but ended up causing a war and selective breeding practices among royalty for Sunrunner children.
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* ManipulativeBitch: At her worst she falls into this.
this, as she has absolutely no qualms about manipulating people into doing what she wants despite their wishes.
* ScrewDestiny: Her initial destiny was to be married to Roelstra. She fought tooth and nail against it and was able to fight fate at the cost of making Roelstra her and her family's enemy.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She intended to give her family an advantage overRoelstra's, Roelstra's by introducing magic into their bloodline, but ended up causing a war and selective breeding practices among royalty for Sunrunner children.
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* ScrewDestiny: Her initial destiny was to be married to Roelstra. She fought tooth and nail against it and was able to fight fate at the cost of making Roelstra her and her family's enemy.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She intended to give her family an advantage over
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* ForTheEvulz: He deliberately manipulates the other princes into fighting each other because it both keeps his kingdom strong and amuses him.
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* FiftyGambitPileup: She makes gambits all around, and usually they work. [[spoiler: Until Sioned kills her.]]
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* FiftyGambitPileup: GambitPileup: She makes gambits all around, and usually they work. [[spoiler: Until Sioned kills her.]]
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* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: [[spoiler: She knows Pandsala will ally with Palila against her after they make a deal to ruin Palila and betrays her schemes to her father.]]
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* OutGambitted: [[spoiler: Outgambitted She is outgambitted in her scheme to replace Palila's child with a boy.]]
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* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Due to the gambit pileup that occurred on her birth night, Chiana's parentage is held in contention- While she physically resembles Palila, she looks nothing like Rolestra, while Masul is his spitting image.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler: Tortures [[spoiler:Tortures and accidentally kills Kleve, a Sunrunner who discovered him with Kiele.]]
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Played with. Masul resembles ''neither'' of his supposed parents and is Rolestra's spitting image, leading to rumours that he was SwitchedAtBirth with Chiana.
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* MoralityPet: While she was alive, Rolestra was significantly less of a jerkass. With her death, he fully plunged back into being an evil monster.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Pol is characterized by being more impulsive and rash than his father Rohan, which often causes him to act like a jerk. However, he has a good heart underneath it all.
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* WomanScorned: Rohan refusing her advances caused her to consider him her bitter enemy.
* WomanScorned: Rohan refusing her advances caused her to consider him her bitter enemy.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: She goes from being considered one of the most feeble-minded and weak of Rolestra's children to the last one left alive and a powerful Sorceress.
* NeverMessWithGranny: When she takes her level in badass she is one of the oldest living characters left.
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* LadyMacbeth: Generally does quite a bit of the ruling ofWaes.Waes, since her husband has no interest in doing so.
* LadyMacbeth: Generally does quite a bit of the ruling of
* EntitledBastard: She believes she's entitled to a throne simply because she's Rolestra's child- Nevermind that he disowned her at birth and was going to ''kill'' her for failing to be a son.
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* AbusiveParents: He alternates between abusive and neglectful towards his offspring depending on how it suits him.
* ArchEnemy: He considers Rohan to be one after Rohan refuses to give Chiana a dowry to marry him (after Sioned tried to arrange the marriage, thinking the two would drive each other mad). Rohan considers him more of an annoyance than a true threat.
* ArchEnemy: He considers Rohan to be one after Rohan refuses to give Chiana a dowry to marry him (after Sioned tried to arrange the marriage, thinking the two would drive each other mad). Rohan considers him more of an annoyance than a true threat.
* OfficialCouple: She marries Pol, becoming the High Princess.
* ShrinkingViolet: She's heavily shy and introverted.
* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: She undergoes a great deal of character development in the second book series, having to force herself to go from being a ShrinkingViolet into an IronLady. This process isn't without a great deal of anguish and self-doubt.
* ShrinkingViolet: She's heavily shy and introverted.
* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: She undergoes a great deal of character development in the second book series, having to force herself to go from being a ShrinkingViolet into an IronLady. This process isn't without a great deal of anguish and self-doubt.
* BastardBastard: All of Ianthe's sons qualify. Turns out being raised by Mireva does not make someone a good person.
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* FantasticRacism: [[spoiler: Leads a genocide against the Sorcerers, thinking they're too dangerous to be left alive.]]
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: [[spoiler: After his SecondLove is killed he begins to suffer severe SanitySlippage.]]
* PlayingWithFire: Like other Sunrunners, often summons fire.
* SanitySlippage: Throughout the second series, he devolves further and further as the continent is attacked.
* UnrequitedLoveIsForever: Never truly gets over Alasen.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He wants peace for the continent and to work together with his family, but [[spoiler: him and Pol both have pride issues that don't allow them to work together.]]
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: [[spoiler: After his SecondLove is killed he begins to suffer severe SanitySlippage.]]
* PlayingWithFire: Like other Sunrunners, often summons fire.
* SanitySlippage: Throughout the second series, he devolves further and further as the continent is attacked.
* UnrequitedLoveIsForever: Never truly gets over Alasen.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He wants peace for the continent and to work together with his family, but [[spoiler: him and Pol both have pride issues that don't allow them to work together.]]
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* ScrewDestiny: Her initial destiny was to be married to Rolestra. Roelstra. She fought tooth and nail against it and was able to fight fate at the cost of making Rolestra Roelstra her enemy.
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* {{Determinator}}: Works magic despite being imprisoned with steel, which shreds a magic user's soul, and being in heavy withdrawal.
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A list of characters appearing in ''Literature/DragonPrince'' and ''Literature/DragonStar''.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Even Melanie Rawn had trouble remembering them all.
[[folder:The Desert]]
High Prince Rohan
* MindRape: [[spoiler: By Ianthe.]]
* MoralEventHorizon: In-Universe, he sees his as raping Ianthe [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale (even if the event was consensual)]].
High Princess Sioned
* FieryRedhead
* TheHighQueen
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: She eventually becomes the High Princess, after all.
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Struggles with her conflicting duties as a Sunrunner and a princess. She eventually chooses to ignore her Sunrunner vows and simply be a princess.
Prince Pol
Rohan [[spoiler: and Ianthe's]] son. Inherits both Princemarch and the Desert.
* HeroicBastard: He turned out pretty well, all things considered.
Princess Meiglan
See Other Royalty.
Lady Tobin
Rohan's sister and Lord Chaynal's spouse.
* BloodKnight: She loves fighting and conquering.
* HairTriggerTemper: She's very easy to set off.
Lord Chaynal
A HorseMaster and Tobin's husband.
* TheStrategist
Lady Andrade
The head of all Sunrunners and Rohan's aunt. She marries Rohan to Sioned to try to give her family a magical advantage over the other princes and kickstarts a movement to give birth to princes with magic rather than keeping magic and royal lines separate.
* HeroicRROD: Dies after overextending her power to try to prove Masul's parentage.
* TheIronLady
* ManipulativeBitch: At her worst she falls into this.
* ScrewDestiny: Her initial destiny was to be married to Rolestra. She fought tooth and nail against it and was able to fight fate at the cost of making Rolestra her enemy.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She intended to give her family an advantage over Rolestra's, but ended up causing a war and selective breeding practices among royalty for Sunrunner children.
Lord Andry
One of Tobin and Chay's sons and a powerful Sunrunner. [[spoiler: He inherits Andrade's position when she dies.]]
* AngstySurvivingTwin: [[spoiler: After Sorin is killed by a Sorcerer.]]
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[[folder:Princemarch]]
High Prince Rolestra
* EvilPrince: He enjoys power for power's sake, and plays the various princes against each other for his own gain and amusement, among other things.
* HeirClubForMen: Even with all his mistresses, he's been unable to have a male child. [[spoiler: Until Masul, possibly.]]
* TheHighKing: The High Prince until his death.
* ReallyGetsAround: He's had fourteen children and several mistresses.
Princess Ianthe
* BedSwitch: [[spoiler: Gets herself pregnant with Rohan's child by pretending to be Sioned while he's being mind raped.]]
* ColdBloodedTorture: When she captures Sioned, she keeps her in a room without light (a FateWorseThanDeath for Sunrunners) and gets her guards to rape her. She also [[MindRape mind rapes]] Rohan into sleeping with her.
* EvilBlonde
* FairestOfThemAll: She is obsessed with maintaining her appearance at all times.
* FiftyGambitPileup: She makes gambits all around, and usually they work. [[spoiler: Until Sioned kills her.]]
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen
* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: [[spoiler: She knows Pandsala will ally with Palila against her after they make a deal to ruin Palila and betrays her schemes to her father.]]
* TeachHimAnger: Rolestra exiled her for a while and rubbed her failures in her face to teach her hatred and make her more useful.
Ruval
See Sorcerers.
Marron
See Sorcerers.
Segev
See Sorcerers.
[[spoiler: Pol]]
See The Desert.
Princess Pandsala
Rolestra's second daughter. She is exiled from Princemarch after trying to derail Ianthe's plot to ruin Palila and is discovered to have Sunrunner powers. After Rolestra's death, she is made Princess-Regent of Princemarch until Pol is old enough to rule.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: She's suffered from being under Ianthe's shadow her whole life, and loses Rohan to Sioned.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: PlayedWith. She rules over her people fairly, [[spoiler: but dedicated fifteen years of her life to wiping out all her sisters and any other royal family unrelated to the Desert.]]
* GoneHorriblyRight: Rohan makes her Princess-Regent to try to cement her loyalty to his family. [[spoiler: It works too well.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: Jealous of Ianthe and later of Sioned, though she learns to deal with it later in life.
* HairTriggerTemper: One of her few flaws is her anger can easily override her intelligence.
* OutGambitted: [[spoiler: Outgambitted in her scheme to replace Palila's child with a boy.]]
* PaleSkinnedBrunette
* SilkHidingSteel
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler: Ruins all of Segev's plans simply by suddenly recognizing his resemblance to Ianthe.]]
* {{Yandere}}: For Rohan [[spoiler: and Pol, due to his passing resemblance to her making her project her fantasies of being Rohan's wife onto him.]]
Princess Naydra
* ModestRoyalty: She has none of the power-hunger most of her family possesses.
* TookALevelInBadass: By the second series, after being taught how to use her powers.
Lady Kiele
Lady of Waes and one of Rolestra's daughters.
* BastardBastard: The manipulative daughter of one of Rolestra's mistresses.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen
* LadyMacbeth: Generally does quite a bit of the ruling of Waes.
* InsistentTerminology: None of her servants are ever to call Chiana "Princess" for any reason.
Lady Chiana
Rolestra's fourteenth daughter, and the reason for Palila's death. Rolestra named her after the old word for 'treachery', after finding out about his daughter and mistress's scheme to replace her with a boy baby. She was possibly switched at birth with Masul.
* BastardBastard: She's a real bitch.
* GreenEyedMonster: She is jealous of anyone with power and seeks to take it for herself.
* LadyMacbeth: By ''Sunrunner's Fire'', she is the Lady Macbeth to Halinan of Meadowlord.
* MindControl: [[spoiler: Marron puts her under mind control for the majority of the third book.]]
* SwitchedAtBirth: Possibly with Masul. [[spoiler: He is killed before the matter is resolved.]]
* SpoiledBrat: In ''Dragon Prince''.
* UngratefulBitch: She would have died if Andrade had not taken her in, but she ends up seeing Rohan's family as enemies.
Masul
Rolestra's possible son, SwitchedAtBirth with Chiana in the FiftyGambitPileup on the day of his birth.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Jokingly suggests it to Kiele when he meets her.
* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler: Tortures and accidentally kills Kleve, Sunrunner who discovered him with Kiele.]]
* DudeWheresMyRespect: His goal is to be recognized as the prince he thinks he is at any cost.
* GreenEyedMonster: A big part of his arrogance is due to this.
* {{Jerkass}}: Incredibly arrogant in all ways. Part of his attitude is why Kiele agrees to sponsor him.
* SwitchedAtBirth: Possibly with Chiana. [[spoiler: He is killed before the matter is resolved.]]
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Mostly to Rolestra, though some of his traits are similar to Palila's.
Princess Lallante
Rolestra's wife, and mother of four of his children.
* DefectorFromDecadence: She was really [[spoiler: a pure-blooded Sorceress who used her marriage with Rolestra to escape her controlling peers. Ianthe, Pandsala, and Naydra inherited her powers.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: She's long dead by the time of the series.
Lady Palila
* GreenEyedMonster: She sees every and any woman as competition for Rolestra, not without cause.
* DisproportionateRetribution: She's burned alive for failing to provide Rolestra with a son.
* ItsAllAboutMe: She's incredibly vain and selfish.
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[[folder:Other Royalty]]
Prince Miyon of Cunaxa
*{{Jerkass}}: He sees himself as superior to everyone and doesn't hesitate to show it.
* SmugSnake
* ZeroPercentApprovalGambit: He's deliberately a jerkass to his child, Meiglan, to make Pol feel sympathy for her. [[spoiler: It works, but it also makes Meiglan refuse to help him.]]
Lady Meiglan
One of Miyon's many illegitimate children, she is part of the Cunaxan diplomatic party to the Desert.
* HeroicBastard: Despite being used as a HoneyTrap, Meiglan is a kind but timid girl.
* HoneyTrap: Intended to be one for Pol. [[spoiler: It succeeds, but she uses him to escape her father rather than to help him.]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Miyon is deliberately cruel to her to appeal to Pol's sense of honour and pity. [[spoiler: It works, though Meiglan really is that timid and shy.]]
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[[folder:Sorcerers]]
* RedRightHand: Sorcerers will not get seasick on water, while Sunrunners do.
Mireva
A sorceress determined to dethrone Lady Andrade and Rohan and become queen of all the kingdoms.
* BigBad: After Rolestra dies, she takes over this role.
* RedRightHand: Her eyes usually stay the same colour when she shapeshifts.
* ShapeshiftingSeducer: Tries to seduce Pol disguised as Meiglan.
* VainSorceress: She often uses spells to conceal her true age and appearance.
Ruval
Ianthe's oldest son, and Rolestra's heir presumptive until his assumed death.
* BastardBastard
* TheDragon: To Mireva.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: He's trampled to death by the very dragon he tried to control.]]
* MindControl: Tries it on a ''dragon''. [[spoiler: It almost works, but Pol frees it.]]
Marron
Ianthe's second son.
* BastardBastard
* DarkSkinnedRedhead: Darker skinned than either of his brothers and, well, a redhead.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: He's bitter over Ruval getting most of Mireva's attention and seeks to usurp him.
* EvilRedhead
* FieryRedhead: Has a temper.
* GreenEyedMonster: He's very jealous of Ruval.
* MindControl: One of his powers.
Segev
Ianthe's third son.
* BastardBastard
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Hollis is able to kill him because of the power augmentation the Drannath he addicted her to gave her.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: He does an excellent job as the mole and would have succeeded in all his goals [[spoiler: had Pandsala not recognized him at the last second.]]
* TheMole: Sent to infiltrate the Sunrunners and steal back the Star Scroll on Sorceries.
* PoisonousFriend: To Hollis.
* TheStarscream: Intends to usurp Mireva with the knowledge in the Star Scroll. He dies before he can put this plan into action.
* Yandere: For Hollis.
[[/folder]]
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Even Melanie Rawn had trouble remembering them all.
[[folder:The Desert]]
High Prince Rohan
* MindRape: [[spoiler: By Ianthe.]]
* MoralEventHorizon: In-Universe, he sees his as raping Ianthe [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale (even if the event was consensual)]].
High Princess Sioned
* FieryRedhead
* TheHighQueen
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: She eventually becomes the High Princess, after all.
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Struggles with her conflicting duties as a Sunrunner and a princess. She eventually chooses to ignore her Sunrunner vows and simply be a princess.
Prince Pol
Rohan [[spoiler: and Ianthe's]] son. Inherits both Princemarch and the Desert.
* HeroicBastard: He turned out pretty well, all things considered.
Princess Meiglan
See Other Royalty.
Lady Tobin
Rohan's sister and Lord Chaynal's spouse.
* BloodKnight: She loves fighting and conquering.
* HairTriggerTemper: She's very easy to set off.
Lord Chaynal
A HorseMaster and Tobin's husband.
* TheStrategist
Lady Andrade
The head of all Sunrunners and Rohan's aunt. She marries Rohan to Sioned to try to give her family a magical advantage over the other princes and kickstarts a movement to give birth to princes with magic rather than keeping magic and royal lines separate.
* HeroicRROD: Dies after overextending her power to try to prove Masul's parentage.
* TheIronLady
* ManipulativeBitch: At her worst she falls into this.
* ScrewDestiny: Her initial destiny was to be married to Rolestra. She fought tooth and nail against it and was able to fight fate at the cost of making Rolestra her enemy.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She intended to give her family an advantage over Rolestra's, but ended up causing a war and selective breeding practices among royalty for Sunrunner children.
Lord Andry
One of Tobin and Chay's sons and a powerful Sunrunner. [[spoiler: He inherits Andrade's position when she dies.]]
* AngstySurvivingTwin: [[spoiler: After Sorin is killed by a Sorcerer.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Princemarch]]
High Prince Rolestra
* EvilPrince: He enjoys power for power's sake, and plays the various princes against each other for his own gain and amusement, among other things.
* HeirClubForMen: Even with all his mistresses, he's been unable to have a male child. [[spoiler: Until Masul, possibly.]]
* TheHighKing: The High Prince until his death.
* ReallyGetsAround: He's had fourteen children and several mistresses.
Princess Ianthe
* BedSwitch: [[spoiler: Gets herself pregnant with Rohan's child by pretending to be Sioned while he's being mind raped.]]
* ColdBloodedTorture: When she captures Sioned, she keeps her in a room without light (a FateWorseThanDeath for Sunrunners) and gets her guards to rape her. She also [[MindRape mind rapes]] Rohan into sleeping with her.
* EvilBlonde
* FairestOfThemAll: She is obsessed with maintaining her appearance at all times.
* FiftyGambitPileup: She makes gambits all around, and usually they work. [[spoiler: Until Sioned kills her.]]
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen
* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: [[spoiler: She knows Pandsala will ally with Palila against her after they make a deal to ruin Palila and betrays her schemes to her father.]]
* TeachHimAnger: Rolestra exiled her for a while and rubbed her failures in her face to teach her hatred and make her more useful.
Ruval
See Sorcerers.
Marron
See Sorcerers.
Segev
See Sorcerers.
[[spoiler: Pol]]
See The Desert.
Princess Pandsala
Rolestra's second daughter. She is exiled from Princemarch after trying to derail Ianthe's plot to ruin Palila and is discovered to have Sunrunner powers. After Rolestra's death, she is made Princess-Regent of Princemarch until Pol is old enough to rule.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: She's suffered from being under Ianthe's shadow her whole life, and loses Rohan to Sioned.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: PlayedWith. She rules over her people fairly, [[spoiler: but dedicated fifteen years of her life to wiping out all her sisters and any other royal family unrelated to the Desert.]]
* GoneHorriblyRight: Rohan makes her Princess-Regent to try to cement her loyalty to his family. [[spoiler: It works too well.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: Jealous of Ianthe and later of Sioned, though she learns to deal with it later in life.
* HairTriggerTemper: One of her few flaws is her anger can easily override her intelligence.
* OutGambitted: [[spoiler: Outgambitted in her scheme to replace Palila's child with a boy.]]
* PaleSkinnedBrunette
* SilkHidingSteel
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler: Ruins all of Segev's plans simply by suddenly recognizing his resemblance to Ianthe.]]
* {{Yandere}}: For Rohan [[spoiler: and Pol, due to his passing resemblance to her making her project her fantasies of being Rohan's wife onto him.]]
Princess Naydra
* ModestRoyalty: She has none of the power-hunger most of her family possesses.
* TookALevelInBadass: By the second series, after being taught how to use her powers.
Lady Kiele
Lady of Waes and one of Rolestra's daughters.
* BastardBastard: The manipulative daughter of one of Rolestra's mistresses.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen
* LadyMacbeth: Generally does quite a bit of the ruling of Waes.
* InsistentTerminology: None of her servants are ever to call Chiana "Princess" for any reason.
Lady Chiana
Rolestra's fourteenth daughter, and the reason for Palila's death. Rolestra named her after the old word for 'treachery', after finding out about his daughter and mistress's scheme to replace her with a boy baby. She was possibly switched at birth with Masul.
* BastardBastard: She's a real bitch.
* GreenEyedMonster: She is jealous of anyone with power and seeks to take it for herself.
* LadyMacbeth: By ''Sunrunner's Fire'', she is the Lady Macbeth to Halinan of Meadowlord.
* MindControl: [[spoiler: Marron puts her under mind control for the majority of the third book.]]
* SwitchedAtBirth: Possibly with Masul. [[spoiler: He is killed before the matter is resolved.]]
* SpoiledBrat: In ''Dragon Prince''.
* UngratefulBitch: She would have died if Andrade had not taken her in, but she ends up seeing Rohan's family as enemies.
Masul
Rolestra's possible son, SwitchedAtBirth with Chiana in the FiftyGambitPileup on the day of his birth.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Jokingly suggests it to Kiele when he meets her.
* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler: Tortures and accidentally kills Kleve, Sunrunner who discovered him with Kiele.]]
* DudeWheresMyRespect: His goal is to be recognized as the prince he thinks he is at any cost.
* GreenEyedMonster: A big part of his arrogance is due to this.
* {{Jerkass}}: Incredibly arrogant in all ways. Part of his attitude is why Kiele agrees to sponsor him.
* SwitchedAtBirth: Possibly with Chiana. [[spoiler: He is killed before the matter is resolved.]]
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Mostly to Rolestra, though some of his traits are similar to Palila's.
Princess Lallante
Rolestra's wife, and mother of four of his children.
* DefectorFromDecadence: She was really [[spoiler: a pure-blooded Sorceress who used her marriage with Rolestra to escape her controlling peers. Ianthe, Pandsala, and Naydra inherited her powers.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: She's long dead by the time of the series.
Lady Palila
* GreenEyedMonster: She sees every and any woman as competition for Rolestra, not without cause.
* DisproportionateRetribution: She's burned alive for failing to provide Rolestra with a son.
* ItsAllAboutMe: She's incredibly vain and selfish.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Other Royalty]]
Prince Miyon of Cunaxa
*{{Jerkass}}: He sees himself as superior to everyone and doesn't hesitate to show it.
* SmugSnake
* ZeroPercentApprovalGambit: He's deliberately a jerkass to his child, Meiglan, to make Pol feel sympathy for her. [[spoiler: It works, but it also makes Meiglan refuse to help him.]]
Lady Meiglan
One of Miyon's many illegitimate children, she is part of the Cunaxan diplomatic party to the Desert.
* HeroicBastard: Despite being used as a HoneyTrap, Meiglan is a kind but timid girl.
* HoneyTrap: Intended to be one for Pol. [[spoiler: It succeeds, but she uses him to escape her father rather than to help him.]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Miyon is deliberately cruel to her to appeal to Pol's sense of honour and pity. [[spoiler: It works, though Meiglan really is that timid and shy.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sorcerers]]
* RedRightHand: Sorcerers will not get seasick on water, while Sunrunners do.
Mireva
A sorceress determined to dethrone Lady Andrade and Rohan and become queen of all the kingdoms.
* BigBad: After Rolestra dies, she takes over this role.
* RedRightHand: Her eyes usually stay the same colour when she shapeshifts.
* ShapeshiftingSeducer: Tries to seduce Pol disguised as Meiglan.
* VainSorceress: She often uses spells to conceal her true age and appearance.
Ruval
Ianthe's oldest son, and Rolestra's heir presumptive until his assumed death.
* BastardBastard
* TheDragon: To Mireva.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: He's trampled to death by the very dragon he tried to control.]]
* MindControl: Tries it on a ''dragon''. [[spoiler: It almost works, but Pol frees it.]]
Marron
Ianthe's second son.
* BastardBastard
* DarkSkinnedRedhead: Darker skinned than either of his brothers and, well, a redhead.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: He's bitter over Ruval getting most of Mireva's attention and seeks to usurp him.
* EvilRedhead
* FieryRedhead: Has a temper.
* GreenEyedMonster: He's very jealous of Ruval.
* MindControl: One of his powers.
Segev
Ianthe's third son.
* BastardBastard
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Hollis is able to kill him because of the power augmentation the Drannath he addicted her to gave her.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: He does an excellent job as the mole and would have succeeded in all his goals [[spoiler: had Pandsala not recognized him at the last second.]]
* TheMole: Sent to infiltrate the Sunrunners and steal back the Star Scroll on Sorceries.
* PoisonousFriend: To Hollis.
* TheStarscream: Intends to usurp Mireva with the knowledge in the Star Scroll. He dies before he can put this plan into action.
* Yandere: For Hollis.
[[/folder]]
