History Characters / IronGold

* [[spoilers: KilledOffForReal]]: [[spoiler: After Caraval's coup ousts Virginia from power, his KangarooCourt puts her to death]].

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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: He's Mustang's primary political opposition.

[[folder: Deanna of Lykos]]

[[folder: Dancer]]

* 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]].

[[folder: Lyria of Lagalos]]

An Obsidian warlord and Sefi's royal concubine. [[spoiler: Sefi recalled him from the front lines after the Iron Rain on Mercury in ''Iron Gold'' and he now serves at her side during ''Dark Age'' as they prepare to create AllTribe]].

* [[spoiler: YourCheatingHeart]]: [[spoiler: He's having an affair with the spirit warrior Freihild because he belives that Sefi has grown cold and distant.

[[folder: Darrow]]

[[folder: Rhonna]]

Leader of the Syndicate. Not even her most trusted lieutenants know her true identity.[[spoiler: Later revealed to be Liliath au Faran,

[[spoiler: 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]].

* CloneGambit: [[spoiler: How he came back in the first place]].

[spoiler: 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]].

* [[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]].

* [[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]].

[[spoiler: Volsung Fa]]

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* UncertainDoom: Is severely injured when [[spoiler: Ephriam abducts Electra and Pax]]. He's quickly rushed into surgery, but by the end of the book it's still uncertain if he'll pull through.

!! 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.

* PlayingBothSides

* HonestCorporateExecutive

* DarkSkinnedBlonde: She's of Pacific Islander ancestry.

[[folder: Lyria of 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''.

! 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.

* 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]].
* 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]].

[[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

* 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.
* [[spoiler: 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]].

[[folder: Atalantia au Grimmus]]
The Ash Lord's last remaining daughter and the sole surviving Fury.

* 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.
* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Despite not appearing in person, she's implicitly this on account of being a Gold and the Ash Lord's daughter.
* TheDragon: To her father. [[spoiler: Subverted when it's revealed that her father was poisoned by Appolonius 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]].
* TheGhost: Despite frequent mentions, she doesn't appear in person during the course of ''Iron Gold''.
* [[spoiler: [[TheManBehindTheMan The Woman Behind The Man]]]]: [[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]].

[[folder: Julia au Bellona]]
Mother of Darrow's friend Cassius and the only surviving member of House Bellona other than her son.

* 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 grude against Darrow for the death of Cassius' twin, Julian.

[[folder: Appolonious 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.

* 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]].
* [[spoiler: 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]].
* Chekhov's Gunman: Priot to ''Iron Gold'', Tharsus was the only one of Tactus' brothers to be named and appear in person.
* [[spoiler: 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.
* InTheBlood: A reversed case. Darrow notes that many of Tactus' negative traits were influenced by Appolonius.

[[folder: Tharsus au Valii-Rath]]

[[folder: Atlas au Raa]]
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[[folder: Ajax au [[spoiler: Grimmus]]]]
[[spoiler: The only son of Aja au Grimmus and the current Storm Knight]].

* RememberTheNewGuy: No mention is made in any prior books to [[spoiler: Aja having a son]]. \

! 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.

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

[[folder: Romulus au Raa]]
The Sovereign of the Rim.

* 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: 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: Seraphina au Raa]]

* 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.
* WarHawk: Like her mother, she is eager for war against the Republic.

[[folder: Marius au Raa]]
Romulus' son, and a Quaestor for the Rim.

[[folder: Diomedes au Raa]]
The Rim's new Storm Knight and Romulus' son.

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[[folder: Gaia au Raa]]
Romulus' mother

* 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.
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[[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.

! Criminals
[[folder: Ephraim ti Horn]]
Trigg's husband and one of the four POV characters of ''Iron Gold''.

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

[[folder: Volga Fjorgen]]
An Obsidian from Earth, and a member of Trigg's gang.

* 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.
* KnifeNut: Keeps six knives on her person when in meetings with the Syndicate.
* ProperlyParanoid: Despite her innocence, she accompanies Ephriam to [[spoiler: deliver Pax and Electra to the Syndicate]] armed with six knives and an acid gun.
* [[spoiler: 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: Dano]]
A young Red working as part of Trigg's heist team.

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

[[folder: Cyra si Lamensis]]
A Green who works as the hacker for Trigg's group.

* [[spoiler: DisneyVillainDeath]]: [[spoiler: The Syndicate drop her off the side of an under-construction skyscraper for betraying Ephriam's trust]].
* {{Hackette}}: She's the hacker in their little band of thieves.
* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal]]: [[spoiler: After they drop off the kids]].
* [[spoiler: TheMole]]: [[spoiler: She'd been spilling Ephriam's secrets to the Syndicate all along]].

[[folder: The Duke of Hands]]
One of the main enforcers of The Syndicate.

* 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 Ephriam]].

[[folder: The Syndicate Queen]]
Leader of the Syndicate

* BigBadEnsemble
* TheDreaded: Even her own underlings are terrified of her.
* TheGhost: Her only appearance is a single transmission to Ephriam at the end of ''Iron Gold''.
* HiddenVillain

! Others
[[folder: Lysander au Lune]]
Ocatvia's grandson and one of the four POV characters of the new trilogy.

* 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.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Previews for [[SequelSeries Iron Gold]] indicate that Cassius sees him as one for Julian.
* [[spoiler: VillainProtagonist]]: [[spoiler: His decision to join the Moon Lords in their impending war against the Republic sets him up as this]].
* WalkingTheEarth: He and Cassius have been doing this ever since the end of ''Morning Star''.

[[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.

* BigBrotherMentor: Tries to be one to Lysander, and even invokes it as part of their cover story.
* 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.
* [[spoiler: KilledOffscreen]]: [[spoiler: He succumbs to the injuries he sustanined in back-to-back honor duels against Dido au Raa's heirs. He's carried away for medical attention, and Lysander is told a few chapters later that he died from his wounds]].
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[[folder: Pytha]]
The pilot of Cassius and Lysander's ship, the Archimedes.

[[foldier: Atlas au Raa]]

! 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 and excessiveness of the Golds in the Core.

[[folder: Romulus au Raa]]
The Sovereign of the Rim.

* 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: Dido au Raa]]
Romulus' wife. Despite her husband's desire to avoid a conflict, she clamors for war against the Solar Republic.

* 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: Seraphina au Raa]]

* 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.
* WarHawk: Like her mother, she is eager for war against the Republic.

[[folder: Marius au Raa]]
Romulus' son, and a Quaestor for the Rim.

[[folder: Diomedes au Raa]]
The Rim's new Storm Knight and Romulus' son.

[[/folder]]
[[folder: Gaia au Raa]]
Romulus' mother

* 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: 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.

* EmmotionalBruiser: Unlike her co-workers, she doesn't make any effort to hide her emotions.

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

* [[spoiler: 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 TimSkip]].

* HappilyMarried: Despite the secrets their jobs force them to keep from each other, they're still married after ten years.

* [[spoiler: AccidentalMurder]]: [[spoiler: Darrow accidentally kills him while resisting arrest]].

* RetiredBadass: He's still in a position where he'll potentially have to fight, but he's no longer on the front lines.

* NeverMessWithGranny: Fully prepared to [[spoiler: interrogate Lyria with an Oracle when Pax and Electra are kidnapped]].

* ActionMom: She's had three kids since the original trilogy.
* HonestCorporateExecutive

* RetiredBadass: She's willing to come out of retirement and kick some ass when her husband is wounded in ''Iron Gold''.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Wife, technically, but she's downright murderous when [[spoiler: Kavax is injured by Ephriam's team]].

* ChildOfTwoWorlds: Despite being physically Gold like his mother, he also wants to know more about his father's culture.

! Criminals
[[folder: Ephraim ti Horn]]
Trigg's husband and one of the four POV characters of ''Iron Gold''.

* FictionalPoliticalParty: 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.

* ArtificialLimbs: She has a mechanical arm

* ParentalSubstitute: [[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]].
** [[spoiler: Kavax also becomes a pseudo-father figure when he brings her to Luna]].

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 Republix with the intention of reclaiming the planets that they've lost and restablishing the hiearchy.

* TheEmpire: Like Star Wars' 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]].

* UndyingLoyalty: To the FantasticCasteSystem of the original trilogy
* VestigialEmpire: Of an empire that once spanned every celestial body in Earth's solar system, the remaining loyalists only control the two innermost planets.

* TheDreaded: Even beyond his destruction of Rhea prior to the original novel, previews for ''Iron Gold'' indicates that he backs up his repuation with genocidal attacks against Martian cities during the last ten years of war.
* [[spoiler: TheUnfought]]: [[spoiler: Once again, despite being in nominal command of the Society Remnant, Darrow never fights him personally]].

* AssInAmbassador: On account of being a die hard supporter of the oppressive regime that Republic replaced, and the fact that she still holds a grude against Darrow for the death of Cassius' twin, Julian.

* ScrewPolitenessImASenior

* InsistentTerminology: Refers to Trigg as his husband, despite the fact that they hadn't gotten married at the time of Trigg's death in ''Morning Star'', because he fells that calling Trigg his fiance cheapens the relationship they had together.

* BruiserWithASoftCenter: Her dream is to open up a sancutary for carved animals that have been abandoned.

* ProperlyParanoid: Despite her innocence, she accompanies Ephriam to [[spoiler: deliver Pax and Electra to the Syndicate]] armed with six knives and an acid shooter.
* [[spoiler: WouldNotHurtAChild]]: [[spoiler: Expresses concern when the team drops off Pax and Electra at the Syndicate's safehouse and she fears the children will be harmed]].

! Others
[[folder: Lysander au Lune]]
Ocatvia's grandson and one of the four POV characters of the new trilogy.

* GenreBlind: When the Ash Lord sends emmissaries 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.

Sevro's wife and one of Darrow's lieutenants from the original series. Having taken control of the family's shipping business from her sister in ''Morning Star'', she and Quicksilver are now the most prominent businesspeople in the republic.

* TookALevelInJerkass: While Dancer does have a few good points, he is no longer the ReasonableAuthorityFigure he was in the original trilogy.

* PragmaticVillainy

* ChildOfTwoWorlds: Despite being physically Gold, like his mother, he also wants to know more about his father's culture.

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

[[folder: Romulus au Raa]]
The Sovereign of the Rim.

[[folder: Dido au Raa]]
Romulus' wife. Despite her husband's desire to avoid a conflict, she clamors for war against the Solar Republic.

* WarHawk: In contrast with her more pragmatic husband, Dido continues to sound a rallying cry for war against the Republic.

[[folder: Seraphina au Raa]]

* ChekhovsGunman: She appeared as a child in ''Morning Star'' when Darrow came to meet with her father.

[[folder: Marius au Raa]]
Romulus' son, and a Quaestor for the Rim.

Darrow's [[TheLancer right-hand-man]] in the original trilogy. In the decade sence then, he continues to serve under Darrow as an Imperator in the republic fleet.

* ActionGirl

* 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 neice. As such, she resents the fact that her OverprotectiveDad convinced Darrow to give her positions that keep her away from the action.

* ActionGirl

* ParentalSubstitute: [[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.]]

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