History Characters / InheritanceTrilogy

-->''So there was a girl. What I’ve guessed, and what the history books imply, is that she was unlucky enough to have been sired by a cruel man. He beat both wife and daughter and abused them in other ways. Bright Itempas is called, among other things, the god of justice. Perhaps that was why He responded when she came into His temple, her heart full of unchildlike rage. ''
-->'' “I want him to die,” she said (or so I imagine). “Please, Great Lord, make him die.” ''
-->''He said, “Kill him yourself.” And He gifted her with a knife perfectly suited to her small, weak child’s hands. ''
-->''She took the knife home and used it that very night. The next day, she came back to the Bright Lord, her hands and soul stained red, happy for the first time in her short life. “I will love you forever,” she declared. ''

** BadassLonghair / CulturedBadass: Doesn't come out until Glee is hurt.

** KissingCousins: Or should it be IncestIsRelative? Ahad is more or less a clone of Glee's uncle.

** UnproblematicProstitution

* IWillWaitForYou: This is hinted at the end of book two, but she vehemently denies doing so at the end of book three. Itempas still comes back, though.

!!T’Vril Arameri

!!Lady Shahar Arameri (II)

!!Hado/Ahad

!!Shahar Arameri (I)

!! Shahar Arameri (II)

** CthulhusTux

* CthulhusTux

--> "''But I will not be nothing to you,'' Sieh. And if I must change the universe to have you, then so be it." He smiled again, tight, vicious, beautiful. Terrifying.

!!Godlings

* TheBigGirl: Zhakkarn.

* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: Turns out they don't even like having worshippers that much.
* HorrorHunger: Lil.

* MayFlyDecemberRomance: Madding and Oree.

* RacistGrandma: [[spoiler: Kurue]], who hates mortals [[MadeASlave with reason.]]

* WarGod: Zhakkarn of the Blood.

* Patricide: Attempted.

Our Villain, or one of the closest things we’ll have to one, who spends book two trying to off stupid sexy Nahadoth.

Unmarked spoilers ahead!

!!Sieh

-->''Madding sighed. “Mortal languages don’t have words for this. He… lives true. He is what he is. You’ve heard that saying, haven’t you? It’s more than just words for us.” I had no idea what he was talking about. He saw that in my face and tried again. “Imagine you’re older than this planet, yet you have to act like a child. Could you do it?” ''
-->''Impossible to even imagine. “I… don’t know. I don’t think so.”''
-->''Madding nodded. “Sieh does it. He does it every day, all day; he never stops. That makes him strong.”''

Our Trickster, a lesser deity imprisoned alongside Nahadoth. Sieh is the god of childhood.

!!Enefa

-->''“She killed things all the time, Yeine. She was death as well as life, the twilight along with the dawn. Everyone forgets that.”''

Our Dead Girl, the dead third creation deity. Enefa was the goddess of twilight, life and death, and balance.

* AbusiveParents: To Kahl.
* BrotherSisterIncest
* CloserToEarth
* DarkSecret: Kahl.
* DeadPersonConversation
* GreenEyes
* HotMom
* HotScientist
* IncestIsRelative
* MotherNatureFatherScience: Averted hard. Nahadoth and Itempas are emotional forces of nature, while Enefa is the steel-hearted scientist who creates life and offs imperfect experiments as she sees fit.
* ParentalIncest
* PosthumousCharacter


!!Oree Shoth

-->''"I am, you see, a woman plagued by gods."''

Our Redemption Love Interest, a blind painter with a unique magical talent who finds an undead man in her dumpster.

* BlindSeer
* DecemberDecemberRomance: Mixed with MayflyDecemberRomance. By the time Itempas comes back to her she's well over a hundred even if she doesn't quite look it. This doesn't matter to Itempas, but he does alter his visible form to look substantially older in order to match.
* DisabilitySuperpower: Can see magic.
* DivineDate: With both Madding and Shiny!
* GodWasMyCopilot: Until Madding drops TheReveal about "Shiny." Subsequently, PalsWithJesus.
* InnerMonologue: Book two's viewpoint character.
* InterspeciesRomance: Two of 'em.
* IWillWaitForYou: This is hinted at the end of book two, but she vehemently denies doing so at the end of book three. Itempas still comes back, though.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: One of Itempas’s.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: About the true identity of "Shiny."
* LoveFatherLoveSon: Inverted! Madding dies and she hooks up with his dad!
* MayFlyDecemberRomance: She and Madding break up because of it. It doesn't stop her from having a relationship with Itempas.
* MeaningfulName: Maroneh girls have sorrowful names and boys have vengeful names because Nahadoth sank their homeland.
* MilkyWhiteEyes
* MoralityPet: To Itempas.
* MyGirlIsNotASlut: Oree's narration goes out of its way to let you know that she didn't kiss Madding until the second date.
* RestoredMyFaithInHumanity: For Itempas.
* SaveYourDeity: It's Oree's magic that loosens Nahadoth and Yeine's chains on Itempas's powers long enough for Itempas to beat down Dateh.
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: “The Broken Kingdoms” is a story Oree is telling to Itempas’s daughter, Glee, in the womb.

!!Dateh
Our Villain, or one of the closest things we’ll have to one, who spends book two trying to off stupid sexy Nahadoth.
* AGodAmI
* BloodMagic
* EthnicMagician
* ImAHumanitarian
* KillTheGod
* RageAgainstTheHeavens
* YouAreWhoYouEat

!!Kahl
Our LongLostRelative and BigBad all in one; spends book three gearing up to take his revenge on the parents who abandoned him. And since he's a Godling of Vengeance, that's a very big revenge indeed.

* AntagonisticOffspring: Sees Sieh as ArchnemesisDad and Enefa as the EvilMatriarch.
* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: For a start, Mummy made him forget he even ''sired'' you.
* FreudianExcuse: He ''was'' left alone and abandoned in a void for millenia, after all.
* LukeYouAreMyFather: To Sieh.
* OffingTheOffspring: Ultimately an offee.
* Patricide: Attempted.

!!Godlings

-->''I had not met many godlings at that point, but anyone who dwelled for long in Shadow learned this much: they drew their strength from a particular thing—a concept, a state of being, an emotion. The priests and scriveners called it affinity, though I had never heard any godling use the term. When they encountered their affinity, it drew them like a beacon, and some of them could not quite help responding to it.''

Our Divine Supporting Cast.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith
* TheBigGirl: Zhakkarn.
* BigScrewedUpFamily
* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: Turns out they don't even like having worshippers that much.
* HorrorHunger: Lil.
* TheMafia: In book three.
* MayFlyDecemberRomance: Madding and Oree.
* ParentalIncest: Everywhere!
* RacistGrandma: [[spoiler: Kurue]], who hates mortals [[MadeASlave with reason.]]
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld
* TangledFamilyTree
* WarGod: Zhakkarn of the Blood.


!!Miscellaneous Arameri

-->''“Like our ancestress Shahar, we Arameri are first and foremost the servants of Itempas Skyfather. It is in His name that we have imposed the age of the Bright upon the world. Peace, order, enlightenment. Itempas’s servants do not use, or need, weapons. Tools, though…”''

Our Ruling Clan, which unofficially controls the world from the [[CapitalCity city]] of Sky.
* BigScrewedUpFamily
* BondageIsBad: How do you know Scimina is evil? Because she keeps Nahadoth's human form on a SlaveCollar all the time.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder
* TheClan
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Remath.
* DysfunctionalFamily
* HumansAreBastards
* IncestIsRelative: Everywhere, but most notably... Shahar and Deka's father is also their uncle.
* MadeASlave: The Arameri central family forces distant relatives to serve in Sky.
* PropagandaMachine
* RichBitch: Scimina.
* StealthInsult
* TangledFamilyTree
* Twincest: Relad prefers women who look like his twin sister.
* WickedCultured

!! Shahar (II) and Dekarta Arameri
Our Messianic Twins, who manage to form a friendship with Sieh despite the fact that they're the heirs of the family who tortured him for two thousand years. They both also love him passionately - yes, [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean like that]] - which both creates a OT3 and causes a whole lot of joy and grief.

* BadassBookworm: Deka.
* DecoyProtagonist: Shahar is definitely one of the most important characters in book three, but she plays a relatively minor role in the plot and climax compared to her brother.

* SleepCute: Sieh spies on them...
* TheUnfavorite: Dekarta is this. Or is he?

* ChroniceBackstabbingDisorder

* SomeoneHasToDie: Is planning to [[SuicideMission go out]] saving the world [[TakingYouWithMe from the God Mask and the Maelstrom]], hitting notes of FaceDeathWithDignity and ForgivenessEqualsDeath in the process.

* FetishFuelStationAttendant:

** EstrogenBrigadeBait

* HotDad

* ParentalIncest: With the Enefadeh.

* BerserkButton: ''Don't'' threaten her father, or she will summon a sword of order and come after you. And yes, you ''should'' be scared.

* FetishFuelStationAttendant: Nahadoth is MrFanservice for book one. This is a category where the author's ShojoGenre influences stand out.
** AllGirlsWantBadBoys
** AttractiveBentGender: Leading to EvenTheGirlsWantHer
** BiTheWay
** BlackAndWhiteBeauty
-->"Face like the moon, pale and somehow wavering. I could get the gist of his features, but none of it stuck in my mind beyond an impression of astonishing beauty. His long, long hair wafted around him like black smoke, its tendrils curling and moving of their own volition."
** BlackEyesOfEvil
** BrotherSisterIncest
** ButYourWingsAreBeautiful
** DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu
** EldritchAbomination
** EstrogenBrigadeBait
** EvenTheGuysWantHim
** ExoticEquipment
-->"When heavy, thick warmth pushed into me, I had no idea whether this was a penis or some entirely different phallus that only gods possessed. I suspect the latter, since no mere penis can fill a woman’s body the way he filled mine. Size had nothing to do with it."
** GenderBender
** GoodInBed
** HotGod
** IncestIsRelative
** InterplayOfSexAndViolence
** InterspeciesRomance
** LongHairedPrettyboy
** LustObject
** MadeASlave
** NaughtyTentacles / TentacleRope
** PrehensileHair
** SexGod
** ShapeshiftingLover
** ShapeshiftingSeducer
** TallDarkAndHandsome
** VoluntaryShapeshifting

* InterspeciesRomance: With Shahar in book three.

* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: “The Broken Kingdoms” is a story Oree is telling to Itempas’s baby in the womb.

!!Shahar Arameri

* BeserkButton: ''Don't'' threaten her father, or she will summon a sword of order and come after you. And yes, you ''should'' be scared.

* HasTwoMommies: Most of the godlings are children of the Three. All three of them. Oree spends a hot second thinking how this would work, then gives up.

* ParentalIncest: The Enefadeh with Nahadoth.