History Characters / GreenAntarctica

Ancestor to all Tsalal. A fisherman from Australia, Tsa, and two other fishermen sailed too far out to sea and were caught up in the equatorial current that caused them to drift to Antarctica. While the other two did not survive the winter, Tsa lived for ten more years until he encountered five shipwrecked Aboriginals, [[AdamAndEvePlot three of them women.

Ancestor to all Tsalal. A fisherman from Australia, Tsa, and two other fishermen sailed too far out to sea and were caught up in the equatorial current that caused them to drift to Antarctica. While the other two did not survive the winter, Tsa lived for ten more years until [[spoiler: he encountered five shipwrecked Aboriginals, [[AdamAndEvePlot three of them women.]]]]

Inventor of Agriculture in Antarctica. Gyorl and his family are the only survivors of their tribe after it was attacked. Fleeing there attackers they are driven into a resourless land. Facing starvation, he uses his tribe's extensive awareness of plants to cultivate a plant called Kulka root, creating Agriculture.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Kills his son, as he is the least useful of the survivors.

Headman of a Tsalal village. He mortally wounds a small child for the crime of playing with the corpse of a seagull. His role in the story is to exposit on the Tsalal superstition to whiteness.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Considers murder an acceptable consequence for the crime of playing with a dead bird. The other children also delight at the idea of eating and playing with the body of their former playmate. Khotthu finds their actions endearing.
* KnightTemplar: Kills a child because he touched a dead seagull. He considers killing all the children for the crime, but his famous "soft heart" stopped him.

* WouldHarmAChild: Kills a child for exposing himself to whiteness.

First to discover coal in Antarctica. A member of a Tsalal tribe facing starvation and freezing during the winter, he part of a band sent to find firewood. While camped, he throws a rock into the campfire and discovers the properties of coal. He goes on to found what would become the Coal Kingdoms.

* GreenAesop: Played With. Xytok laments that the need for firewood led his tribe to cut down all the trees, which lead to smaller harvests and colder winters. But the erosion of the land due to over foresting is what reveal coal, which leads to a coal age. Not technically an Aesop, as nothing about the Tsalal is moral.

* BambooTechnology: The Calendar Poles are incredibly complex devices for a civilization that hasn't invented writing.
* BestFriend: To Ka-Teth.
* BrokenPedestal: A young Tulu once idolized a Calendar Man for saving his village from a flood. When he grows up, he realizes that the Calendar Man's techniques were embarrassingly primitive.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Tulu thinks nothing of killing slaves, and can't imagine why any of them would have a problem with being [[HumanSacrifice sacrificed to spring floods.]]

* BestFriend: To Tulu.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Ka-Teth is one of the nicer Tsalal we meet. This means he's mildly discomforted by the Yag tradition of killing slaves via drowning to mark the beginning of spring. And even then he's more bothered by the waste.

A Yag Chief who fought in the Water Kings War, which was a conflict between the Water Kings, upriver Yag tribes who had disrupted the flow of the rivers with their dams, and the Calendar Men downriver, whose lives were threatened by the Water King's tampering. Urtulu witnessed the end of Calendar Man culture when a massive surge destroyed the Water King Dams and flooded everything downriver.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: When Urtulu hears about a rival chief killing his slaves to spite his invaders, Urtulu is horrified... at the idea of killing slaves out of season.
* EndOfAnAge: Urtulu witnessed the end of his own age when a massive surge wiped out his civilization.

A Yag Warlord. Post surge the Yag culture transformed from a semi-democratic and relatively pleasant civilization into a number of warring city states run by strongmen. Karsh was the first warlord to unite all the Yag cities and bring an end to the Yag civil war. He was also the one to invent the Yag tradition of [[{{Squick}} Ritual Necrophilia.]]

* BadassBoast:
--> '''Karsh:''' By the time the stars stand opposite their paths, this city will be either of the dead or of those who use them.

* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: The captured warriors of Kth are given a choice, execution, or prove that you're on Karth's side by raping your former queen's corpse.

A Chief of the Tsalal Culture of Zhu. Azaphi's tribe were forced into becoming a sea based culture, as they and other Zhu tribes were driven out of the inland by more developed cultures. The Zhu survived on the edges of their former territory until the Qys, a semi-nomadic tribe, decided to invade their territory. Azaphi's tribe and some others were forced to flee, traveling along the coast of Antarctica, barely warding off starvation.

* CharacterDeath: Azaphi is killed by the people in the forest as they wage an all out attack on the Zhu.
* ColdEquation: Azaphi kills a member of his tribe suffering from a debilitating but short lived illness. They couldn't afford to support her for the few days she needed to survive it.
* FireForgedFriends: The leaders of two other tribes, Khufu and Nyshr, were once Azaphi's worst enemies. Now after everything they've been through, he considers them the closest things he has to friends.

--> "The people in the woods were not the Qys. But they were just as bad. Before they'd come to this shore, his people had sailed past another beach - seeing only burnt out campfires, abandoned boats, torn tents, and many bloodstains. No sign of the people, only drag marks into the woods."

A Chief of the Zhu. Nyshr led the remaining Zhu to what would become their new homeland, Zhudan Lul. By combining the Zhu tribes into one people, Nyshr created what would become the first year round Tsalal society, as well as a terrifying naval power.

* ApeShallNeverKillApe: Nyshr united the Zhu survivors into one nation, believing that tribal infighting was what had allowed the Suffering Path to happen. This allowed the Zhu to share their techniques and technology with each other which allowed them to survive the harsh winter.
* MoralMyopia: Nyshr intends to wipe out the natives of Zhudan Lul, despite being a member of a people who were nearly wiped out by hostile tribes. Possibly justified in that Nyshr didn't condemn the Zhu's enemies or their actions as evil, he just tried to survive.
* StartOfDarkness: The united Zhu go on to wipe out the native people of Zhudan Lul, and then become a terrifying naval power.
--> '''Nyshr''': No more. The Zhu would no longer be their own worst enemies. They would be everyone else’s.

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* WeCanRuleTogether: Shares the women with [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep the Youth,]] as he's GenreSavvy enough to avoid making the mistakes of the Warrior.

* AdamAndEvePlot: He is the ancestor of all Tsalal. Unlike in most uses of this trope, the [[{{Squick}} squicky ]] incest and the lack of genetic diversity of his descendants play major parts in the story.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Considers murder an acceptable consequence for the crime of playing with a dead bird.
** The other children also delight at the idea of eating and playing with the body of their former playmate. Khotthu finds their actions endearing.

--> '''Karsh:''' "By the time the stars stand opposite their paths, this city will be either of the dead or of those who use them"

--> '''Nyshr''' "No more. The Zhu would no longer be their own worst enemies. They would be everyone else’s."

A Yag Warlord. Post surge the Yag culture transformed from a semi-democratic and relatively pleasant civilization into a number of warring city states run by strongmen. Karsh, or [[InconsistentTerminology Krz]], was the first warlord to unite all the Yag cities and bring an end to the Yag civil war. He was also the one to invent the Yag tradition of [[{{Squick}} Necrophilia.]]

A Chief of the Tsalal Culture of Zhu. The Zhu were forced into becoming a sea based culture, as they were driven out of the inland by more developed cultures. The Zhu survived on the edges of their former territory until the Qys, a semi-nomadic tribe, decided to invade their territory.

* ColdEquation: Azaphi kills a member of his tribe suffering from a debilitating but short lived illness. They couldn't afford to support her for the few days she needed to survive it.

First to discover coal in Antarctica. A member of a Tsalal tribe facing starvation and freezing during the winter, he part of a band sent to find firewood. While camped, he throws a rock into the campfire and discovers the properties of coal.

First to discover coal in Antarctica. A member of a Tsalal tribe facing a cold winter.

Ancestor to all Tsalal. A fisherman from Australia, Tsa and two other fishermen sailed too far out to sea and were caught up in the equatorial current and drifted to Antarctica. While the other two did not survive the winter, Tsa lived for ten more years until [[spoiler: he encountered five shipwrecked Aboriginals, [[AdamAndEvePlot three of them women.]]]]

* AdamAndEvePlot: He is the ancestor of all Tsalal. Unlike in most uses of this trope, the [[squick squicky]] incest and the lack of genetic diversity of his descendants play major parts in the story.

Inventor of Agriculture in Antarctica.