History Characters / GodsAndWarriors

* WickedWastefulness: He uses only new drinking vessels and shatters them after using them exactly once. [[spoiler:This proves to be his undoing in the final book as Issi acquires for Hekabi a potsherd from one of Koronos' shattered vessels so that the wisewoman can it to curse him.]]

[folder:Rensi and Herihor]]

* CreepyMortician: Herihor prefers his mummies over the living since he considers the latter unclean. When Hylas is to be put inside the coffin of a sacred crocodile in order to get him to [[spoiler:Userref's family tomb]], Herihor's [[SkewedPriorities main concern is to prevent Hylas from infecting the embalmed crocodile to the point that he wants to shave Hylas all over and needs to be reminded that keeping the boy alive in the coffin is important]].

'''Herihor''': It's the ''living'' who are unclean! I remove all imperfections. The guts, the worthless brain

[[folder:Issi]]
The younger sister of Hylas. She goes missing when the Crows attack her brother and kill their dog Scram in their campaign to hunt down all Outsiders. Finding her is Hylas' main goal in the series. She is three years younger than Hylas and Pirra.

* DarkChick: She's the only female member of the bad guy team, and she's not a warrior like the others. Beauty and fondness of torture are her weapons.

* WhipItGood: In ''Eye of the Falcon'', one of his weapons is a rawhide whip studded with bronze spikes.

* BadassBaritone: His voice is described to have an undercurrent of power that makes you want to listen and obey, whatever he's speaking smoothly or roughly. [[spoiler:Fitting for a man who was the leading chieftain of all of Akea.]]

* AnimalMotifs: Frogs are her favorite animals. [[spoiler:When she causes trouble to the Crows as the "shadow thief", she uses small clay frogs as her {{Calling Card}}s. Her name actually means frog in the native language of the Marsh Dwellers.]]

* InterclassFriendship: Like Hylas, she was friends Telamon despite the class difference.
* LittleMissBadass: Though younger than Hylas, she's stated to be tough and able to survive in the wild as well. [[spoiler:By the time she's finally introduced, she has gained for herself a reputation as the mysterious "shadow thief" that troubles the Crows without being caught. She helps Hekabi curse the remaining members of the House of Koronos by acquiring personal items from each of them, saves Pirra when Lapithos is set ablaze, and joins in the final fight against Telamon on the stormy Ancestor Peak.]]

* WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler:She admires Telamon, but that turns into hatred when she learns he's a Crow. He's also fond of her until he completes his FaceHeelTurn and stops caring about her. She willingly helps Hekabi curse him and joins the final confrontation with him where she fulfills the oracle by holding the dagger briefly before he takes it back and is killed by the lightning strike that shatters the dagger.]]

* FriendToAllLivingThings: It's mentioned that she's constantly trying to make friends with wild creatures and adored Scram until he died. [[spoiler:She quickly becomes close with Havoc as well.]]

* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She's fairheaded like her brother, and she's a FriendToAllLivingThings.

* TheGhost: She's constantly mentioned and thought back on in every book but it's not until the final book that she becomes UnseenNoMore.

* LittleMissBadass:

The daughter of Yassassara, the High Priestess of Keftiu. She's been confined in the House of the Goddess for her entire life, and her mother intends to offer her as a bride to make allegiances. Refusing to submit to this, she gives herself a crescent scar on her cheek. When that doesn't work, she flees when she's promised to Telamon, and she ends up befriending Hylas as they try to survive together. In ''Eye of the Falcon'', she raises the female falcon Echo as her companion. [[spoiler:At the end of the series, she becomes Hylas' mate.]] She's of the same age as Hylas.

A son of Koronos who holds the chieftaincy over the island of Thalakrea where he greedily forces slaves to mine copper for bronze weapons. After [[spoiler:Thalakrea is destroyed by a volcanic eruption]], he travels with Telamon to Keftiu in search of the dagger.

A son of Koronos and one of the best fighters on the Crows' side. [[spoiler:He becomes the penultimate member of the House of Koronos to die; he meets his demise in the last battle at the hands of Akastos, and his blood is used to sate the ghost of Akastos' brother.]]

A mysterious wanderer whom Hylas runs into throughout the series. He takes turns at being helpful and threatening towards Hylas, but he's still an enemy of the Crows. He says he lost his farm in Mycenae when the Crows took over and has since been on the run from the Angry Ones. [[spoiler:He's actually the true High Chieftain of Mycenae whom the Crows overthrew, and he became the Angry Ones' prey by killing in combat his brother who was manipulated by the Crows to fight him over the woman only Akastos' brother loved.]]

A wisewoman from Thalakrea and a sworn enemy of the Crows who greedily exploit her homeland. After [[spoiler:Thalakrea ends up being destroyed because of the Crows]], she becomes filled with vengeance.

An old woman who leads a village of dye-workers on the northern coast of Keftiu. She comes from Messenia and [[spoiler:was friends with Hylas and Issi's mother]].

* AnimalMotifs: They're nicknamed Crows because Koronos' family is greedy and employs warriors who wear black fluttering cloaks.

* SkunkStripe: She has a white streak in her brown hair on one of her temples. She says she gained it when she first fell into a trance as a teenager and hit her head upon falling.

* InterclassFriendship: The chieftain's son chose to become friends with two Outsiders and often sneaked out of Lapithos to hang out with them.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He gives away signs of chauvinistic views even before his FaceHeelTurn when he tells Pirra that girls are for marriage. He's later infuriated at Alekto and Meritamen for undermining his authority and looks forward to making Pirra beg before him.

* GruesomeGrandparent: Downplayed. Koronos isn't anymore affectionate towards his grandson than he's to everyone else, but he doesn't explicitly mistreat Telamon even though the boy's terrified of him in ''The Burning Shadow''. His only demeaning words to Telamon are said in the final book when the boy arrogantly tries to take the dagger from him.

* OverarchingVillain: He's the only member of the House of Koronos who appears in every single book and clashes with the main heroes the most. He's a reluctant antagonist between the climaxes of the first two books and afterwards becomes a full-fledged antagonist for the rest of the series.

* OverarchingVillain: He's appears as the MookLieutenant in every single book.

* NightAndDayDuo: As the girl with a crescent scar and the sacred creature of Heru -- the falcon-headed god whose domain includes the Moon -- at her side, she's the night to Hylas' day.

* NeverMyFault: He develops a nasty habit of refusing to face responsibility or guilt by claiming that the gods' will is at work and that he's helpless to do anything about it. He's particularly stubborn on insisting to himself that [[spoiler:Alekto's death -- which led to him being hunted by the Angry Ones because he could have tried to save her but chose not to --]] was the will of the gods and not his fault.

* InsecureLoveInterest: She's later in the series afraid that her scar is what prevents Hylas from mating with her until he explains that the problem is not her.

* CharacterTics: He occasionally chews buckthorn leaves to ward the Angry Ones off.

* IAmTheNoun: [[spoiler:One of his last words is the boast that he's the House of Koronos before he and the dagger are finished off by a [[BoltOfDivineRetribution lightning strike]], completing the oracle.]]