History Characters / IronGold

* [[Characters/RedRisingSolarRepublic The Solar Republic]]: Dancer O'Faran, Britannia ag Kreig, Publius cu Caraval, Theodora, Wulfgar, Orion Aquarii, Pellus, Oro Sculpturus, Zan, Cadus Harnassus, Felix au Daan, Aengus of Lagalos, Dagan of Lagalos, Fel, Cassius Bellona, Pytha xe Vega, Matteo Sun, Mickey, Regulus Sun, Lyria of Lagalos, Ava of Lagalos, Liam of Lagalos, Tiran of Lagalos, Kobachi, Maeve, Brea
** [[Characters/RedRisingDarrowsFamily Darrow's Family]]: Darrow O'Lykos, Virginia Augustus, Pax Augustus, Deanna O'Lykos, Leanna O'Lykos, Kieran O'Lykos, Dio O'Lykos, Rhonna O'Lykos
** [[Characters/RedRisingHouseBarca House Barca]]: Fitchner Barca, Sevro Barca, Victra Barca, Electra Barca, Calypso Barca, Ulysses Barca
** [[Characters/RedRisingHouseTelemanus House Telemanus]]: Kavax Telemanus, Niobe Telemanus, Daxo Telemanus, Thraxa Telemanus, Xana Telemanus
** [[Characters/RedRisingHowlers The Howlers]]: Clown, Pebble, Screwface, Milia au Trachus, Holiday Nakamura, Min-Min, Colloway Char, Alexandar Arcos

* [[Characters/RedRisingRimDominion The Rim Dominion]]: Helios au Lux, Athena, Aurae, Cheon
** [[Characters/RedRisingHouseRaa House Raa]]: Gaia au Raa, Romulus au Raa, Dido au Raa, Aeneas au Raa, Diomedes au Raa, Marius au Raa, Seraphina au Raa, Thalia au Raa
* [[Characters/RedRisingTheSociety The Society]]: Kalindora au San, Scorpio au Votum, Cicero au Votum, Horatia au Votum, Asmodeus au Carthii, Valeria au Carthii, Apollonius au Valii-Rath, Seneca au Cern, Glirastes,Rhone ti Flavinius, Exeter
** [[Characters/RedRisingHouseLune House Lune]]: Anastasia au Lune, Brutus au Arcos, Lysander au Lune
** [[Characters/RedRisingHouseGrimmus House Grimmus]]: Magnus au Grimmus, Atalantia au Grimmus, Ajax au Grimmus
** [[Characters/RedRisingHouseBellona House Bellona]]: Julia au Bellona
** [[Characters/RedRisingHouseAugustus House Augustus]]: The Abomination
*** [[Characters/RedRisingBoneriders The Boneriders]]: Lilath au Faran, Tharsus au Valii-Rath
** [[Characters/RedRisingGorgons The Gorgons]]: Atlas au Raa, Xenophon, Vagnar Hefga, Xanthus
* [[Characters/RedRisingObsidians The Obsidians]]: Sefi Volarus, Volga Fjorgen, Osgard, Valdir, Freihild, Skarde, Sigurd, Ascomanni
* [[Characters/RedRisingCriminalsAndTerrorists Criminals and Terrorists]]: The Duke of Hands, Gorgo, Tongueless, Ephraim ti Horn, Cyra si Lamensis, Dano Sunshine, Figment, Harmony, Duncan, Cormac O'Vadros

** [[Characters/RedRisingDarrowOfLykos Darrow of Lykos]]
** [[Characters/RedRisingDarrowsFamily Darrow's Family]]: Virginia Augustus, Pax Augustus, Deanna O'Lykos, Leanna O'Lykos, Kieran O'Lykos, Dio O'Lykos, Rhonna O'Lykos

* [[Characters/RedRisingCriminalsAndTerrorists Criminals and Terrorists]]: The Duke of Hands, Gorgo, Tongueless, Ephraim ti Horn, Cyra si Lamensis, Dano Sunshine, Figment, Harmony, Duncan, Cormac O'Vadros

All character tropes should go on the ''Literature/RedRising'' [[Characters/RedRising character pages]]. The characters in ''Literature/IronGold'' are listed below with the character page that they are currently on.

All character tropes should go on the ''Literature/RedRising'' character pages. The characters in ''Literature/IronGold'' are listed below with the character page that they are currently on.

Since the ''Literature/IronGold'' trilogy is a SequelSeries to the ''Literature/RedRising'' trilogy, spoilers for the previous series will be unmarked. All tropes for characters originating in previous ''Red Rising'' books still apply unless noted otherwise.

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! Solar Republic
[[folder: As a whole ]]
After toppling the Hierarchy at the end of the original series, Darrow and Mustang have reorganized what's left of the Society into a Republic, creating a new, fairer civilization on Earth, Mars, and Luna.

* FictionalPoliticalParty: Aside from having ten senators for each Color, The two largest political parties are the Optimates, led by Mustang, who favor a central government strong enough to keep order. On the other side of the spectrum is Vox Populi, a socialist party led by Dancer and made up predominantly of lowColor senators who want to avoid having history repeat itself by limiting the Golds' power and influence. Copper and Obsidian are each treated as their own independent parties.
* GenreBlind: When the Ash Lord sends emissaries to Luna with an offer of peace negotiations, Darrow is one of the only ones who sees the olive branch for the ploy that it is.
* ObstructiveBureaucracy: Darrow is beginning to see the senate as this. While Mustang doesn't share his level of pessimissim, she does comment on the increasing gridlock caused by the two main political parties.
* TheRepublic: With its territory consiting of Earth, Mars, and their respective moons.
* TheRemnant: [[spoiler: By the end of ''Dark Age'', Earth has been retaken by the Society, and Luna is under the control of the Boneriders via their puppets in the Vox Populi. Only Mars and its moons remain free]].
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!! Military
[[folder: Darrow O'Lykos]]
TheHero of the original ''Red Rising'' novels and one of the four POV characters of the SequelSeries. Ten years after overthrowing Octavia au Lune and breaking the tyrannical regime which opressed his people, Darrow now serves as [=ArchImperator=] of the new Solar Republic as he leads its fleet in an endless war against the Gold loyalists of the core.
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* TheChainsOfCommanding: After an entire trilogy of he and his wife operating phenomenally as a team, he now has to keep her out of the loop whenever he's going to do something borderline illegal behind her back because she'll be impeached if the Senate suspects she knew.
* FourStarBadass: Being [=ArchImperator=] of the Republic fleet makes him this.
* FrontlineGeneral: He still leads from the front lines as he always does.
* HappilyMarried: He and Mustang officially tied the knot sometime during the timeskip.
* ParentsAsPeople: He loves his wife and son, and wants nothing more than to be with them, but he feels compelled to spend his days at war because he sees it as his personal responsibility to bring down the Ash Lord.
* RulingCouple: A variation. Mustang is the one in charge of the government, but Darrow is the one in command of the military.
* ShellShockedVeteran: There's signs that he's suffering from PTSD after more than a decade of endless warfare.
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[[folder: Sevro au Barca]]
Darrow's [[TheLancer right-hand-man]] in the original trilogy. In the decade since then, he continues to serve under Darrow as an Imperator in the republic fleet.
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* ActionDad: He and Victra have three daughters.
* FourStarBadass: He's an Imperator, which is the ''Red Rising''-verse equivalent of an admiral.
* TheLancer: He still plays this role to Darrow.
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[[folder: Clown]]
One of the original Howlers
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* HappilyMarried: To Pebble
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[[folder: Pebble]]
One of the original Howlers
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* HappilyMarried: To Clown
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[[folder: Min-Min]]
One of the new Howlers recruited during the TimeSkip
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* SexGoddess: She claims to have bedded Obsidians.
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[[folder: Horatius au Savag/Screwface]]
One of the original Howlers from the first series
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* AscendedExtra: Not only does he get more focus compared to every prior appearance, but ''Dark Age'' finally gives the audience his real name.
* TheMole: During the TimeSkip he was sent undercover to infiltrate Atalantia's legions.
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[[folder: Rhonna O'Lykos]]
Darrow's oldest niece. While she originally enlisted in the Republic's Legions, Darrow makes her one of his lancers at her father's request.
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* ActionGirl: Trained to pilot mechs.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Snaps at her father and uncle for giving her non-combat positions despite the fact that she spent three years training to pilot HumongousMecha.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Ever since she joined the military, she's been trying to prove that she deserved to be there and wasn't just getting ahead because she's the Reaper's niece. As such, she resents the fact that her dad convinced Darrow to give her positions that keep her away from the action.
* {{Nepotism}}: She keeps trying to prove that she didn't get her job because of this trope, but Darrow's efforts to appease her father and keep her safe just make it look like it anyway.
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[[folder: Kavax au Telemanus]]
Patriarch of the Telemanus family
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* CareerEndingInjury: [[spoiler: The wounds he suffered during the abduction of Electra and Pax force him to retire from active duty and leave him limping with a cane]].
* LifeDebt: Agrees to Lyria's request to bring her and her nephew to Luna with him after she saves his life.
* OutOfFocus: As a consequence of the new trilogy having multiple narrators, many of Darrow's supporting cast from the original trilogy have reduced roles in ''Iron Gold''.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Exploits bureaucratic loopholes to help Lyria and her nephew bypass the Republic's strict immigration laws and leave Mars.
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[[folder: Thraxa au Telemanus]]
The oldest daughter of the Telemanus family.
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* ActionGirl: She's a Telemanus. This is a given.
* ArtificialLimbs: She has a mechanical arm.
* DropTheHammer: Her primary weapon.
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[[folder: Alexandar au Arcos]]
The oldest grandson of Lorn au Arcos
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* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: Lysander shoots him in the head]].
%%* GlorySeeker
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Killed by Lysander at the climax of ''Dark Age'']].
%%* ShipTease: With Rhonna
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[[folder: Colloway xe Char]]
A famous pilot in the Solar Republic fleet.
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* AcePilot
* TheMerch: He's so famous that in-universe merch is made based on him.
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[[folder: Holiday Ti Nakamura]]
One of Darrow's subordinates in ''Morning Star'', now an officer in the Republic military.
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* ActionGirl: Comes with the territory of being a Gray and a former Son of Ares agent, but she doesn't really get a chance to fight this time around.
* ArtificialLimbs: Both of her legs are prosthetic from the thighs down.
* ElectronicEyes: Has one of these in addition to her two prosthetic legs.
* RetiredBadass: Took a step back from the front lines to serve as Virginia's chief bodyguard and head of security.

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[[folder: Cadus Harnassus]]
One of the Imperators of the Republic fleet, he and Orion lead the Free Legions on Mercury.
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* CommanderContrarian: Repeatedly questions and criticizes Darrow's decisions during their campaign in ''Dark Age''.
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: [[spoiler: When Republic forces are being overrun at Heliopolis and making their last stand, he tells Darrow this]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
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[[folder: Felix au Daan]]
Darrow's bodyguard on Mercury.
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* RedShirt
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[[folder: Zan]]
The commander of Luna's defense fleet, appointed to acting ArchImperator of the Republic navy after [[spoiler: Darrow becomes a fugitive]].
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* LesCollaberateurs: [[spoiler: Participates in Caraval's coup against Virginia]].
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[[folder: Valdir the Unshorn]]
An Obsidian warlord and Sefi's royal concubine. Sefi recalled him from the front lines after the Iron Rain on Mercury in ''Iron Gold'' and he now serves at her side.
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!! Government
[[folder: Virginia au Augustus/Mustang]]
Darrow's wife and Sovereign of the Solar Republic. While Darrow commands the Republic's military, she is the one who runs the new government.
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* AscendedExtra: In ''Iron Gold'', she only had a few appearances toward the beginning and end of the book. ''Dark Age'' makes her a POV character.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: Because of her marriage to Darrow, she can never speak a word in his defense, knowing that any attempt to defend his less legal actions will be dismissed as un-objective.
* HappilyMarried: Despite the secrets their jobs force them to keep from each other, she and Darrow are still married after ten years.
* RulingCouple: Sort of. She's the only one with a government position, but Darrow is still technically her right hand man as [=ArchImperator=].
* SlaveToPR: Now that she's Sovereign, she has to be careful what she says and does in public, or else she runs the risk of being impeached.
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[[folder: Dancer O'Faran]]
The second in command of the Sons of Ares from the original series. After becoming disillusioned with the endless bloodshed that has followed the fall of Octavia au Lune, Dancer went into politics and became a senator, where he now leads the Vox Populi party.
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* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: Subverted. [[spoiler: he ''thinks'' this is happening when Mustang and Sevro confront him with video footage of another man, believing that because of Reds' conditioned homophobia they plan to blackmail him. In reality, they're confronting him because his paramour is the Duke of Hands]].
* RetiredBadass: Retired from war and went into politics.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Suffers from PTSD after years of war.
* TookALevelInJerkass: While Dancer does have a few good arguments, he is no longer the ReasonableAuthorityFigure he was in the original trilogy.
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[[folder: Publius cu Caraval]]
The most prominent Copper senator. While he does support Darrow's views on the war against the Ash Lord, he has a tendency to play both sides of the political aisle.
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* PlayingBothSides: Mustang and Darrow suspect him of this. [[spoiler: The truth is even worse]].
* TheMole: [[spoiler: He was the one leaking information to the Syndicate]].
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: was completely unaware that he was working for the Boneriders, and by extension, the Society]].
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[[folder: Daxo au Telemanus]]
Kavax's oldest son. During the TimeSkip, he's become a senator for Gold.
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* BigBrotherMentor: He was this to Mustang after Claudius died.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler: Lilath decapitates him during Caraval's coup]].
* RetiredBadass: After the events of Morning Star, he retired from the front lines of the war and went into politics.
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[[folder: Wulfgar]]
The Republic's [=ArchWarden=] and head of the Senate's security forces.
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* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: Darrow accidentally kills him while resisting arrest]].
* AscendedExtra: He was a nameless background character in the original trilogy, but now gets a name and a more prominent role.
* ChekhovsGunman: He originally appeared in ''Golden Son'' as a nameless Obsidian who Darrow gave a razor to during the Lion's Rain. Now he gets a name and some backstory.
* LargeAndInCharge: He's an Obsidian and head of the Senate's security force, so this is a given.
* RetiredBadass: He's still in a position where he'll potentially have to fight, but he's no longer on the front lines of the war.
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[[folder: Theodora]]
Originally Darrow's stewardess while he infiltrated Gold society during the original series before taking command of the Rising's intelligence network in the final book. Now, under the Solar Republic, she serves as Mustang's spymaster
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* CrazyPrepared: Despite Mustang's orders, she kept a litter of [[LivingLieDetector Oracles]] alive on the off chance that a situation ever crossed the GodzillaThreshold to sufficiently justify their use.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: After Caraval's coup ousts Virginia from power, his KangarooCourt puts her to death]].
* OutOfFocus: As a consequence of the new trilogy having multiple narrators, many of Darrow's supporting cast from the original trilogy have reduced roles in ''Iron Gold''.
* NeverMessWithGranny: Fully prepared to [[spoiler: interrogate Lyria with an [[LivingLieDetector Oracle]] when Pax and Electra are kidnapped]].
* UndyingLoyalty: Towards Darrow and his family. [[spoiler: She helped him break into Deepgrave, after all]].
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!! Civilians
[[folder: Victra au Barca]]
Sevro's wife and one of Darrow's lieutenants from the original series. Having taken control of her family's shipping business from her sister in ''Morning Star'', she and Quicksilver are now the most prominent business-people in the republic.
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* ActionMom: She's had three kids since the original trilogy, and is pregnant with her fourth.
* FireForgedFriends: [[spoiler: She, Lyria, and Volga bond while fleeing the Red Hand through the Martian wilderness]].
* HonestCorporateExecutive: Despite frequent complaints about the Vox Populi's demands, she still believes that unions are key to fair labor.
* MamaBear: [[spoiler: If you kidnap or are in any way involved with allowing harm to befall one of her children, she will do everything in her power to hunt you down, pregnancy be damned]].
* MaternityCrisis: Goes into labor after [[spoiler: her flagship is destroyed and she's being hunted by the Red Hand through the Martian wilderness]].
* PregnantBadass: Being eight months pregnant with her fourth child does not slow her down when [[spoiler: hunting those she believes responsible for abducting Electra]].
* RetiredBadass: Unlike her husband, she stepped back from the war to focus on her family's shipping company. [[spoiler: Her daughter's abduction brings her back guns blazing]].
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[[folder: Niobe au Telemanus]]
Kavax's wife and mother of Daxo and Thraxa.
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* ActionGirl: She's retired, but she has her moments when her husband is injured.
* CheckhovsGunman: Mentioned during the original trilogy, but never by name.
* HumanNotepad: And she has the tribal tatoos of whichever unspecified pacific island cultures are in her genes all over her body
* LethalChef: According to her daughter.
* RetiredBadass: She's willing to come out of retirement and kick some ass when [[spoiler: her husband is wounded]] in ''Iron Gold''.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: She's downright murderous when [[spoiler: Kavax is injured by Ephraim's team]].
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[[folder: Pax]]
Darrow and Mustang's son
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* ChildOfTwoWorlds: Despite being physically Gold like his mother, he desperately wants to know more about his father's culture.
* DeadGuyJunior: Named for fan-favorite character Pax au Telemanus from the original trilogy.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Resents the fact that his father is away fighting the Ash Lord so often.
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[[folder: Electra au Barca]]
The oldest of Sevro and Victra's three daughters
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* GenerationXerox: Less then ten years old and she's already on course to grow up every bit as badass as her parents.
* LittleMissBadass: She has't had a chance to be in a fight yet outside of sparring matches, but judging by her commentary [[spoiler: during Ephraim's rescue of her and Pax]], she will definitely be this is she's ever in a fight.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: When [[spoiler: Ephraim needs her help to take down the guards holding her and Pax prisoner]], she asks whether she should use an incapacitating strike or limit herself to flesh wounds.
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[[folder: Deanna O'Lykos]]
Darrow's mother
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* TheBeard: Implied to be this in ''Dark Age''. [[spoiler: The Dramatis Personae refers to her as Dancer's wife, but they don't act like they're married, they live in separate houses, and ''Dark Age'' later reveals that Dancer is gay]].
* SurvivorsGuilt: feels guilty for the fact that thanks to her son she gets to live the kind of luxury and quality medical care that the people she grew up with did not.
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[[folder: Lyria O'Lagalos]]
One of the four main characters of the ''[[SequelSeries Iron Gold]]'' trilogy. She and her family have been living in refugee camps ever since her mining colony of Lagalos was liberated following the end of ''Morning Star''.
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* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: While Darrow was motivated by a cause, Lyria is just trying to keep herself and her family alive.
* TheCynic: Wants to believe in the ideals of the Rising, but is cynical due to the harsh conditions in the refugee camps.
* FireForgedFriends: [[spoiler: With Victra and Volga in ''Dark Age'']].
* ParentalSubstitute: Both ways. [[spoiler: She's left to raise her blind nephew alone after the rest of their family is massacred in an attack by the Red Hand]], and [[spoiler: Kavax becomes a pseudo-father figure when he brings her to Luna]].
* SheCleansUpNicely: Wears a tux when the accompanies the Telemanuses to Quicksilver's birthday party.
* WarRefugees: She and her family have been living in a refugee camp ever since the events of ''Morning Star''.
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[[folder: Ozgard]]
A shaman for the Obsidians and one of Sefi's advisers.
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[[folder: Freihild]]
A Skuggi warrior for the Obsidians
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* DeadGuyOnDisplay: [[spoiler: She's killed by Volsung Fa and her corpse is hung from the ceiling of the Valkyrie's old throne room]].
%%* KilledOffscreen
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[[folder: Gudkind]]
A Skuggi warrior for the Obsidians
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[[folder: Xenophon]]
A White who serves as Sefi's chief adviser in the creation of Alltribe.
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* TheMole: [[spoiler: In reality he's a deep cover Gorgon Agent working on behalf of Atlas au Raa]].
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! Society Remnant
[[folder: As a whole]]
After the Rising conquered Luna at the end of ''Morning Star'', the Ash Lord and the remaining loyalists retreated to Mercury and Venus, where they have spent the last decade launching attacks against the nascent Republic with the intention of reclaiming the planets that they've lost and re-establishing the hierarchy.
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* TheEmpire: Like [[Franchise/StarWars the First Order]], the Society Remnant seeks to recreate their fallen empire, while also displaying the characteristics of one, although the only territories they control at the start of ''Iron Gold'' are Mercury and Venus.
* FantasticCasteSystem: They continue the Society's color-coded hierarchy.
* GoldColoredSuperiority: One of the two factions in the universe that still believes in the superiority of Gold over other Colors.
* TheRemnant: They're made up of die-hard loyalists to the original Hierarchy of Color.
* UndyingLoyalty: To the Hierarchy.
* VestigialEmpire: Of an empire that once spanned every celestial body in Earth's solar system, the remaining loyalists only control the two innermost planets. [[spoiler: And as of ''Iron Gold'', they only hold a single planet]].
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[[folder: Magnus au Grimmus/TheAshLord]]
The former [=ArchImperator=] of the Society, the Ash Lord now leads the remaining Gold loyalists, and has spent the last decade warring against the Solar Republic to reclaim Luna
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* AscendedExtra: Had one speaking appearance in the original trilogy, but he has a more prominent role in ''Iron Gold''.
* BigBad: Fills this role in ''Iron Gold''. [[spoiler: And then it turns out that he's dying from poison, and his daughter has taken over the reigns of the Society]].
* TheDreaded: Even beyond his destruction of Rhea prior to the original novel, previews for ''Iron Gold'' indicates that he has backed up his repuation with genocidal attacks against Martian cities during the last ten years of war.
* TheUnfought: [[spoiler: Despite being in nominal command of the Society Remnant, Darrow never fights him personally. Or at least, any fights between them happened during the TimeSkip]].
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[[folder: Atalantia au Grimmus]]
The Ash Lord's last remaining daughter and the sole surviving Fury.
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* AscendedExtra: Only ever appeared as a nameless cameo at the gala in ''Golden Son''. Now she finally gets a name and a larger role in the plot.
* ChekhovsGunman: Of the three Furies, she's the only one never mentioned by name in the original trilogy. Now she's taken on a prominent role in the war between the Society and the Republic.
* [[CreepyUncle Creepy Aunt]]: [[spoiler: Explicitly groomed her nephew and has been having sex with him for several years by the time they're both are introduced]].
* TheDragon: To her father. [[spoiler: Subverted when it's revealed that her father was poisoned by Apollonius au Valii-Rath three years before ''Iron Gold'', and all of the actions attributed to the Ash Lord since then have in fact been her doing, making her this trope in name only, while serving as de-facto BigBad]].
* DragonAscendant: [[spoiler: She took over for her dying father after he was poisoned during the TimeSkip and has been leading the war against the Republic in his place for three years]].
* ItsAllAboutMe: Atalantia is a massive egomaniac who is obsessed with her own beauty and glory. By the way she talks about the Society, it’s clear that she views it and all its cruelties as a monument to her own glory and splendor.
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: Her father is merely the figurehead of the Society, and she's been running the Remnant for the last three years while he slowly dies of poison]].
* VillainousIncest: [[spoiler: She’s having sex with Ajax, her own nephew, and Atlas au Raa mentions that she’s been grooming him for years.]]
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[[folder: Julia au Bellona]]
Mother of Darrow's friend Cassius and the only surviving member of House Bellona other than her son.
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* AscendedExtra: Only appeared once in the original trilogy, but appears to play a more prominent role in the new series.
* AssInAmbassador: On account of being a die-hard supporter of the oppressive regime that Republic replaced, and the fact that she still holds a grudge against Darrow for the death of Cassius' twin, Julian.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Only has a handful of appearances in three novels, but manages to cause significant internal shifts in two different factions:
** Revealing that Darrow had kept the Society's emissaries a secret from the Senate destroys his credibility and gives the Vox Populi the momentum needed to strip him of his rank and order his arrest.
** Pledging her forces to House Lune in ''Dark Age'' exacerbates the tension between Lysander, Atalantia, and Ajax and pushes the Society Remnant to the brink of an EnemyCivilWar.
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[[folder: Apollonious au Valii-Rath]]
The older brother of Tactus and Tharsus. He was captured by the Solar Republic during the TimeSkip after a failed assassination attempt against Mustang.
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* AxCrazy: Orders [[spoiler: The Ash Lord's cronies]] cut up and fed to the crabs in Venus' oceans upon [[spoiler: returning home from Deepgrave]]. [[spoiler: Blinds the warden of Deepgrave on his way out]].
* BoxedCrook: [[spoiler: The Howlers liberate him from prison in order to use his rivalry with the Carthii family and the Ash Lord to destabilize the Gold loyalists on Venus]].
* ChekhovsGunman: Prior to ''Iron Gold'', Tharsus was the only one of Tactus' brothers to be named and appear in person.
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler: Darrow breaks him out of Deepgrave so that the Howlers can use his credentials to get onto Venus and assassinate the Ash Lord]].
* FauxAffablyEvil: Puts on a veneer of culture, but he's a complete psychopath underneath.
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[[folder: Tharsus au Valii-Rath]]
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[[folder: Atlas au Raa]]
The Fear Knight of the Society Remnant and a close friend of Lysander's father. Shortly after the death of Lysander's parents, he was sent to the Kuiper belt to combat the Ascomanni as a means of keeping him out of the way.
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* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler: Serves as the main antagonist for the majority of ''Light Bringer''. His death in the climax serves as Lysander's final transition from to BigBad.]]
* TheDreaded: Feared by many, even on his own side.
* TheHeavy: [[spoiler: In ''Light Bringer''. He is acting under Atalantia's orders but she [[OrcusOnHisThrone is not directly involved]] and leaves him to direct much of the villains schemes.]]
* ReassignedToAntarctica: Why he never showed up in the original trilogy.
* TortureTechnician: His primary role in the Society Remnant's war against the Republic.
* VillainousFriendship: [[spoiler: With Volsung Fa, who he describes as being like a brother to him.]]
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[[folder: Ajax au [[spoiler: Grimmus]]]]
[[spoiler: The only son of Aja au Grimmus and Atlas au Raa the current Storm Knight]].
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* BloodKnight: He loves battle and violence with all his heart, and takes great pleasure in exterminating Rising soldiers on Mercury.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Ajax barely manages to put on a veneer of sophistication. He treats Lysander like an old friend when they first re-unite on the Annihilo, but his HairTriggerTemper kicks in the instant he learns about his alliance with Cassius. Not to mention the fact that he leaves Lysander to die on Mercury because of a childhood grudge.
* RememberTheNewGuy: No mention is made in any prior books to [[spoiler: Aja having a son]].
* VillainousIncest: He's screwing his aunt.
* YouKilledMyFather: He especially despises Darrow for murdering his mother Aja back on Luna ten years ago, and is especially looking forward to killing him in return.
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[[folder: Kalindora au San]]
The maternal aunt of Alexandar au Arcos and the new Love Knight of the Society Remnant. She and Atalantia were close friends with Lysander's mother [[spoiler: and are responsible for her death]].
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* DeathbedConfession: [[spoiler: when dying from poison, she admits to Lysander that she and Atalantia were responsible for his parents' deaths]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Asmodeus au Carthii]]
Head of House Carthii, the ruling family of Venus.
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* ChekhovsGunman: Name-dropped in ''Iron Gold'' before appearing personally in ''Dark Age''.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Cicero au Votum]]
The heir to House Votum, the ruling family of Mercury. He serves in the Society Remnant's Scorpion Legions.
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[[/folder]]
[[folder: Rhone ti Flavinius]]
The former second officer of Legio XIII Dracones under Aja au Grimmus.
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%%* HappinessInSlavery
* UndyingLoyalty: To Lysander and the last of House Lune.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Seneca au Cern]]
Ajax's second in command.
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* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: A Centurion in Ajax's Iron Leopards.
* KilledOffForReal: Killed by Lysander after a failed assassination attempt.
[[/folder]]
! Rim Dominion
[[folder: In General]]
After gaining their independence from the Core in ''Morning Star'', the Golds of the Gas Giants went dark, spending the next decade quietly waiting and rebuilding while the Core descends into chaos.
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* PragmaticVillainy: They maintain the FantasticCasteSystem of the Society, but they do so without the greed or excessive cruelty of the Golds in the Core.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Romulus au Raa]]
The Sovereign of the Rim.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: While the rest of his people clamor for war against the Republic, he's fully aware that it's a fight they will lose, and does what he can to prevent it.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Dido au Raa]]
Romulus' wife. Despite her husband's desire to avoid a conflict, she clamors for war against the Solar Republic.
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* EvilMatriarch: The dramatic version. She will gladly send her children, nieces, and nephews to their deaths if it means they can kill Cassius.
* WarHawk: In contrast with her more pragmatic husband, Dido continues to sound a rallying cry for war against the Republic.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Seraphina au Raa]]
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* ChekhovsGunman: She appeared as a child in ''Morning Star'' when Darrow came to meet with her father.
* GenerationXerox: She and her mother are both war hawks.
* HalfTheWomanSheUsedToBe: [[spoiler: Cut him half by a Republic railgun in the opening battle of ''Dark Age'']].
* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler: Dies while insulting Lysander in ''Dark Age'']].
* WarHawk: Like her mother, she is eager for war against the Republic.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Marius au Raa]]
Romulus' son, and a Quaestor for the Rim.
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[[/folder]]
[[folder: Diomedes au Raa]]
The Rim's new Storm Knight and Romulus' son.
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* AffablyEvil: Despite his manners and his ideals, he still participates in a system that upholds slavery and subjugation as a good thing.
%%* EvenEvilHasStandards:
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Gaia au Raa]]
Romulus' mother
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* ObfuscatingInsanity: She acts senile so that everyone around her will think she's crazy.
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Completely detests Dido.
* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: How she keeps up the act.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Pandora]]
Leader of the Kryptea, the Moon Lords' elite intelligence agency, and a veteran of the First Moon Lords' Rebellion that ended forty years before the original trilogy.
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* TheDreaded: Considering she's survived ''two'' Moon Lords' Rebellions, Lysander is stunned to learn she's still alive.
* LivingLegend: Although only a handful are aware of the "living" part.
* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: She was believed to have perished in the original Moon Lords' Rebellion, so Lysnader is quite shocked to meet her alive in the flesh more than half a century after her alleged death.
* StateSec: Leader of the Rim's secret police.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Helios au Lux]]
The co-consul of the Rim Dominion who rules alongside [[spoiler: Dido following Romulus' death]].
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[[/folder]]
! Criminals
[[folder: Ephraim ti Horn]]
Trigg's husband and one of the four POV characters of ''Iron Gold''.
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* AndShowItToYou: [[spoiler: Dies at the end of ''Dark Age'' when Volsung Fa rips his heart out and eats it]].
* BoxedCrook: [[spoiler: After Mustang and Holiday discover his complicity in the abduction of Pax and Electra, they immediately conscript him to help rescue the kids instead]].
* ChekhovsGunman: Mentioned multiple times throughout ''Morning Star'', and finally appears as a main character in ''Iron Gold''.
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Darrow is rebel leader only attracted to women. Ephraim is a gay man working as a mercenary.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: [[spoiler: In ''Dark Age'', he has no idea what to do with his future now that his days as a freelancer on Luna are over. As he works to help train the Obsidian Skuggi to prepare for Sefi's acquisition of Cimmeria, he starts to find a purpose again in helping the Obsidians build a new home for themselves]].
* FunctionalAddict: Frequently uses a new drug that mutes his emotions to dull the pain of losing Trigg.
* GentlemanThief: What he's become since leaving the Sons of Ares.
* HappilyMarried: To the late Trigg ti Nakamura.
* InsistentTerminology: Refers to Trigg as his husband, despite the fact that they weren't married yet at the time of Trigg's death in ''Morning Star'', because he feels that calling Trigg his fiance cheapens the relationship they had together.
* TheLostLenore: His husband Trigg was killed in the opening chapters of ''Morning Star''.
* ParentalSubstitute: [[spoiler: despite their harsh parting in ''Iron Gold'', Volga still considers him her father figure]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Volga Fjorgen]]
An Obsidian from Earth, and a member of Ephraim's gang.
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* BruiserWithASoftCenter: Her dream is to open up a sanctuary for carved animals that have been abandoned.
* EmotionalBruiser: Unlike her co-workers, she doesn't make any effort to hide her emotions.
* EscapedFromTheLab: Was bred in a laboratory on Earth before being freed and immigrating to Luna.
* FireForgedFriends: [[spoiler: With Lyria and Victra in ''Dark Age'']].
* ProperlyParanoid: Despite her innocence, she accompanies Ephraim to [[spoiler: deliver Pax and Electra to the Syndicate]] armed with six knives and an acid gun.
* SecretLegacy: [[spoiler: The laboratory she was born in was a breeding farm owned by the Grimmus family, and one half of the genetic material used to create her comes from fan-favorite character ''Ragnar Volarus'']].
* WouldNotHurtAChild: [[spoiler: Expresses concern when the team drops off Pax and Electra at the Syndicate's safe-house and she fears the children will be harmed]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Dano]]
A young Red working as part of Trigg's heist team.
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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: He's killed by Kavax when the heist team arrives to abduct Electra and Pax]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Cyra si Lamensis]]
A Green who works as the hacker for Trigg's group.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: The Syndicate drop her off the side of an under-construction skyscraper for betraying Ephraim's trust]].
* {{Hackette}}: She's the hacker in their little band of thieves.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: After they drop off the kids]].
* TheMole: [[spoiler: She'd been spilling Ephraim's secrets to the Syndicate all along]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder: The Duke of Hands]]
One of the main enforcers of The Syndicate.
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* TheDragon: As one of the Dukes of the Syndicate, he fills this role to his queen.
* FantasticRacism: Hates Golds with a violent passion.
* FauxAffablyEvil: His affable behavior is only an act.
%%* UncertainDoom
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: Repeatedly slaps Pax to get a reaction out of him after the boy is abducted by Ephraim]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder: The Syndicate Queen ('''SPOILERS''')]]
Leader of the Syndicate. Not even her most trusted lieutenants know her true identity.[[spoiler: Later revealed to be Liliath au Faran]].
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* BigBadEnsemble: Thought she doesn't appear in-person, she's the one who ordered Ephraim's heist in ''Iron Gold''. Finally appears in ''Dark Age'' where she reveals her true identity.
* TheDreaded: Even her own underlings are terrified of her. [[spoiler: And given her true identity, ''they should be'']].
* FakingTheDead: How she keeps her identity a secret. [[spoiler: No one suspects a Bonerider whose ship was destroyed a decade ago to be running a criminal empire]].
* TheGhost: Her only appearance is a single transmission to Ephraim at the end of ''Iron Gold'', but she's the one who masterminded Ephraim's heist.
* HiddenVillain: Not even her own underlings know her real identity.
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: Her real identity was assumed dead when her ship was destroyed, but Lilath au Faran is still alive and kicking more than a decade after her supposed death in ''Morning Star'']].
* UndyingLoyalty: Her dukes are unfailingly loyal to her. [[spoiler: And she has undying loyalty towards ''her'' master]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Harmony]]
Dancer's former lietuenant who broke away from the Sons of Ares. Her RenegadeSplinterFaction has morphed into a terrorist organization called the Red Hand, who travel the surface of Mars killing every Gamma Red they can find.
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Kicked into a nest of adult Pitvipers, who burrow inside her to lay their eggs]].
* HateSink: Far and away the most vile and unsympathetic antagonist faced in ''Dark Age.''
* TheBusCameBack: Hasn't been seen in person since ''Golden Son''.
* TookALevelInJerkAss: Even more so than her previous appearance.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Figment]]
The Brown who [[spoiler: abducted Lyria on behalf of Victra at the end of ''Iron Gold'']], and one of Ephraim's main rivals in the criminal underworld.
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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Dies from her wounds during the evacuation of the Pandora]].
* PuppeteerParasite: [[spoiler: It’s implied that the ''real'' Figment is the cybernetic implant implanted in the mercenary’s body, which may have been partially controlling her, and was also the source of her bio-engineered abilities. When it latches onto Lyria after its original host dies, it addresses ''her'' as the new Figment.]]
[[/folder]]
! Others
[[folder: Lysander au Lune]]
Ocatvia's grandson and one of the four POV characters of the new trilogy.
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* AscendedExtra: Only had two scenes in the original trilogy, but becomes one of the main characters of the SequelSeries
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Lysander is a rich kid who lost everything, in contrast to Darrow, a slave who rose up to lead the rebellion.
* KickTheMoralityPet: [[spoiler: Punctuates his complete turn to villainy by murdering Cassius and betraying Pytha.]]
* NobleDemon: Lysander does sincerely believe in Golds as shepherds of humanity so while he does view himself as superior to low colors, he also doesn't go out of his way to be cruel to them.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Previews for [[SequelSeries Iron Gold]] indicate that Cassius sees him as one for Julian.
* VillainProtagonist: His decision to join the Moon Lords in their impending war against the Republic sets him up as this. [[spoiler: Even more so in ''Dark Age'' when he openly fights alongside the Society forces on Mercury against the Republic]].
* WalkingTheEarth: He and Cassius have been doing this ever since the end of ''Morning Star''.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Cassius au Bellona]]
An old friend and former rival of Darrow's from the original trilogy. At the end of ''Morning Star'', he left Luna with Lysander to protect the boy from headhunters looking to end his bloodline. Now they wander the solar system looking for derelict ships to salvage or pirate attacks to thwart.
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* BigBrotherMentor: Tries to be one to Lysander, and even invokes it as part of their cover story.
* DeathFakedForYou: [[spoiler: After sustaining serious wounds in back-to-back honor duels against Dido au Raa's heirs, Diomedes carries him away for medical attention, but later tells Lysander that he died from his wounds and that his body had been desecrated by Belerophon's men in revenge. A few months later he arrives Mercury to help Darrow and the surviving Free Legions evacuate when Lysander and the Ash Legions overrun the Republic stronghold at Heliopolis]].
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: After the fall of the Society in ''Morning Star'', he's been wandering space beyond Mars' orbit, protecting cargo ships from pirates as he tried to find a purpose.
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: After his wounds were treated by Diomedes' men, he was secluded under house arrest in a private estate on Europe, to be released when the war ended. He broke out, and stole his ship back to escape, barely managing to limp back to Mars and warn the Republic that the Rim was coming]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Pytha]]
The pilot of Cassius and Lysander's ship, the Archimedes.
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%%* AcePilot
* OldRetainer: [[spoiler: She used to serve in the Bellona family's fleet before the Rising]].
* ParentalSubstitute: Basically the closest thing Lysander has to a mother.
* SatelliteCharacter: Only really shows up periodically in Lysander's chapter.
%%* ServileSnarker
* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler: Sticks around with Lysander in ''Dark Age'' even in the rigidly pro-hierarchy Core and Rim because she still cares about the kid and wants to make sure they stick together. This is broken when he kills Cassius, who she also felt this to]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Volsung Fa]]
The mythical king of the Ascomanni. [[spoiler: He arrives on Mars to challenge Sefi's title as Queen of the Obsidians]].
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* AndShowItToYou: [[spoiler: How he kills Ephraim]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: He does have a genuine affection for his granddaughter Lyria.]]
* FountainOfYouth: [[spoiler: He's one of the only Obsidians known to have ever used Golds' age rejuvination therapy drugs]].
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: Eats Sefi's heart after he kills her. The same with Ephraim]].
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: He's the father of Vagnar, the father of Ragnar and Sefi]].
* OffingTheOffspring: When he [[spoiler: kills Sefi]].
* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler: The reason that his claims of being Ragnar and Sefi's father are treated with skepticism by many are because of this, as he's over eighty years old but looks decades younger]].
* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler: To Atlas au Raa, having served with him since Atlas' banishment to the Kuiper belt during the original trilogy. He also refuses to betray Atlas, even while begging for his life.]].
* VocalDissonance: [[spoiler: He initially seems to have a deep baritone like Ragnar did. This is revealed to be a fabrication of a voice changing device. His actual voice is surprisingly gentle and posh.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Glirastes]]
An Organge architect and inventor living on Mercury. He defected to the Republic on the condition that Darrow keep civilian casualties to a minimum by launching an Iron Rain.
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* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: [[spoiler: First he supported the Society. Then he defected to the Republic. Then when he believed that Darrow broke his promises, he turns back to the Society once he finds out Lysander is still alive]].
* IntergenerationalFriendship: [[spoiler: With Lysander au Lune]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder: The Abomination ('''SPOILER CHARACTER''')]]
When Mustang's brother Adrius was killed in ''Morning Star'', he left his trusted lieutenant Lilath with instructions to find the Master Carver Zanzibar on Earth and clone him. After Lilath successfully ousts Mustang from power and places her puppet Caraval in command of the interim government of Luna, The Jackal arrives on Luna as Emperor.
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* CloningGambit: [[spoiler: How he came to exist in the first place]].
* CloningBlues: [[spoiler: Displays hints of this in his private conversations with Mustang]].
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: The Syndicate Queen is his lieutenant, Lilath]].
* WalkingSpoiler: His existence spoils the identity of the Syndicate Queen, and one cannot discuss his role in the story without revealing what happens to Mustang and the Republic.
[[/folder]]

An Obsidian from Earth, and a member of Trigg's gang.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Only had one scene in two novels, but manages to cause significant internal shifts in two different factions:

** Pledging her forces to House Lune in ''Dark Age'' exacerbates the tension between Lysander, Atalantia, and Ajax and pushing the Society Remnant to the brink of an EnemyCivilWar.

* PragmaticVillainy: They maintain the FantasticCasteSystem of the Society, but they do so without the greed and excessiveness of the Golds in the Core.

%%zce* HalfTheWomanSheUsedToBe

* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler: Sticks around with Lysander in ''Dark Age'' even in the rigidly pro-hierarchy Core and Rim because she still cares about the kid and wants to make sure they stick together]].

* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler: To Atlas au Raa, having served with him since Atlas' banishment to the Kuiper belt during the original trilogy]].

* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: Claims to be Vagnar, the father of Ragnar and Sefi]].

* TheEmpire: Like [[Franchise/StarWars the First Order]], the Society Remnant seeks to recreate their fallen empire, while also displaying the characteristics of one, although the only territories they control at the start of ''Iron Gold'' are Mercury and Venus. [[spoiler: And the trilogy kicks off with them losing Mercury]].

* Chekhov's Gunman: Prior to ''Iron Gold'', Tharsus was the only one of Tactus' brothers to be named and appear in person.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: Ever since she joined the military, she's been trying to prove that she deserved to be there and wasn't just getting ahead because she's the Reaper's niece. As such, she resents the fact that her OverprotectiveDad convinced Darrow to give her positions that keep her away from the action.

* VillainousIncest: [[spoiler: Groomed and eventually slept with her nephew]].

%%* JerkAss

* YouKilledMyFather: Wants revenge against his mother's killers.

* DarkSkinnedBlonde: She's a Gold with Pacific Islander ancestry.

* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Despite not appearing in person, she's implicitly this on account of being a Gold and the Ash Lord's daughter.

* KnifeNut: Keeps six knives on her person when in meetings with the Syndicate.

* [[spoiler: TheRemnant]]: [[spoiler: By the end of ''Dark Age'', Earth has been retaken by the Society, and Luna is under the control of the Boneriders via their puppets in the Vox Populi. Only Mars and its moons remain free]].

* [[spoiler: LesCollaberateurs]]: [[spoiler: Participates in Caraval's coup against Virginia]].

* [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Violently Protective Wife]]: She's downright murderous when [[spoiler: Kavax is injured by Ephraim's team]].

* [[spoiler: TheMole]]: [[spoiler: In reality he's a deep cover Gorgon Agent working on behalf of Atlas au Raa]].

* [[spoiler: HalfTheManHeUsedToBe]]

* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal]]: [[spoiler: He's killed by Kavax when the heist team arrives to abduct Electra and Pax]].

* BadassBeard: His goatee.
* BadassMustache: He has one of these as well.

* InTheBlood: A reversed case. Darrow notes that many of Tactus' negative traits were influenced by Apollonius.