History Characters / MemorySorrowAndThorn

* HalfBreedAngst: Despises her mother's "mortal weakness"

!'''Pratiki'''

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Some of his conversations with Viyeki seem to indicate that he isn't fully satisfied with how ''Hikede'ya'' society is run, and is worried about the future. He also values Viyeki's input even though the Order of Builders isn't afford the same respect as the Order of Song (essentially mages) and the Order of Sacrifice (warriors).

* MadeaSlave: To the Norns.

* ThatOldTimePrescription: One of his primary goals in life is to publish ''Sovran Remedies of the Wranna Healers'', a compendium of healing recipes and techniques passed down by his people. The prequel novel ''Brothers of the Wind'' reveals that the healers of the Wran are the real deal as, aside from Hakatri's mother Amerasu's use of [[MagicByAnyOtherName the Art]], the healer Hakatri and Pamon Kes discovered in the Wran was the only person who could give Hakatri any kind of actual relief from the burns caused by Hidohebhi's blood. Unfortunately, both Amerasu's magic and the Wranna herbs only work temporarily.

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Is brought back from death by sorcery on Utuk'ku's order at the end of ''Empire of Grass'' in a ceremony at Naglimund. Considering the fact that the first thing he does upon his resurrection is unleash a terrible scream of anguish that knocks the surrounding host of Norns to their knees and kills a number of birds that were flying overhead, the implication is that he CameBackWrong.]]

Son of Brindalles of Metessa, nephew of Baron Seriddan. A child of around ten years in the time of the Storm King's War. Later Lord Chancellor of the Hayholt under the reign of [[spoiler:High King Simon and High Queen Miriamele.]]

A giant (Hunë), oldest of his kind.

!'''Jarnulf, the White Hand'''

A former Norn slave who was trained by the sword-master Denabi sey-Xoxa - not because Denabi liked Jarnulf, but because he wanted to proof to himself that he was great enough a teacher that he could even teach a dog his skills. After fleeing Nakkiga, Jarnulf set out for revenge, killing Norns wherever he happened upon them and hoping to find a way to assassinate Utuk'ku.

* ArtifactOfDoom: Her Sithi Mirror. She screwed herself up with it royally - [[spoiler: and very likely Prince Josua as well, who's been missing since then.]]

* ConfirmedBachelor: Or rather 'Bachelorette'. She did not want to marry as there was no one that fulfilled her expectations. [[spoiler: Enter: Prince Josua.]]

* DespairEventHorizon [[spoiler: Has hers when she realizes she can't have Josua, leading to her using the Sithi Mirror and then [[FireMeansChaos setting her own home ablaze]].]]

[[spoiler: At the end of the Storm King War he fakes his own death and joins the League of the Scroll. At the timeline of "The King of Osten Ard" he's been missing for twenty years with Pasevalles claiming that he murdered him.]]

[[spoiler: At the end of the Storm King War he fakes his own death and joins the League of the Scroll. At the timeline of "The King of Osten Ard" he's been missing for twenty years.]]

* ImpliedLoveInterest: Bordering Ho Yay. Some of the bodily reactions of Deornoth to things Josua does or says read a bit like those of Simon and Miriamele - who are in fact in love with each other...

* NeverMyFault: Played with during ''Brothers of the Wind''. Ineluki actually ''does'' accept personal culpability for the Hidohebhi fiasco and getting his brother seriously injured. Ineluki nonethless still transfers some of that guilt onto the 'cowardly' Hernsmen who fled Hidohebhi (which will bloom into his hatred of mortals).

* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:He does not simply wish to kill Simon and Miriamele in his quest for revenge, but wants them to slowly lose everything they love to see them suffer again and again and again...]

* DespairEventHorizon [[spoiler: Has hers when she realizes she can't have Josua]], leading to her using the Sithi Mirror and then [[FireMeansChaos setting her own home ablaze]].

!'''Samojeji'''

---> Josua: "When I see the world as it has been presented to me, I feel only a deep loneliness. (…) One can be lonely in the highest and best of company."
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: '''Discussed''' by Josua in "To Green Angel Tower": Deornoth, Strangyeard and Sangfugol will not stop the Prince from riding into battle with his men, because they must know that loyalty goes both ways.

---> Josua: "Tall man, it is you who talks too much."

---> Josua: "Now you are king no longer! I will take the crown from you. I will take it, I swear!"

* ImpliedLoveInterest: Bordering HoYay. Some of the bodily reactions of Deornoth to things Josua does or says read a bit like those of Simon and Miriamele for the respective other - who are in fact in love with each other …
---> "There was a sudden power in the prince’s voice that sent a thrill up Deornoth’s back."

---> "I know for certain that to force anything more from that man would be cruel beyond belief, not just to him."

* AmbiguouslyBi: The sequel book "Witchwood Crown" hints at this.

* ButtMonkey: '''Averted'''. You think as TheBard he'd fulfill this purpose? He doesn't. Sangfugol is a smart, kind guy, trying to not be TheLoad and apart from some little teasing especially by Duke Isgrimnur those around him actually like him and his music.
* CrisisCatchAndCarry: On their several-days-long flight from the Norns, Sangfugol is struck by an arrow. He can't walk for a lengthly time thus the others carry him. NoOneGetsLeftBehind!

* DisproportionateRetribution: '''Played With'''. Prince Josua telling him that if he sang "Women from Nabban" one more time, he'd have Sangfugol’s head off.

* TheLoad: '''Subverted'''. He is neither a fighter nor among the group of thinkers that slowly unravel the secrets of the Three Swords. However, he is GenreSavvy enough to know his place, not be in the way and help in any way he can.

* RoyalBrat: She knows what she wants and she gets it … usually.

---> "Ah, Baron, soon you'll find yourself down in the pit with the rest of us. I could have wished you better."

* WellIntentionedExtremist: He is on a killing spree and would gladly rid the world from every single Norn.

* AloofBigBrother: He doesn't care much about his little brother, nor does he think much of him.

* DidntSeeThatComing: [[spoiler:Camaris being alive… ok, no one did.]]

* HappyEndingOverride: [[spoiler:(as per the sequel series »The Last King of Osten Ard«) For Seriddan’s family the final victory proofs to be a bitter one. Brindalles is killed, Seriddan succumbs to his wounds days later, and the rest of the Metessan house quickly falls into ruin.]]
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Understandably after everything that happened the day Prince Josua showed up.
* IsThisAJoke? The whole "big evil swords and Camaris returning from the grave"-business is taking Seriddan so badly, that he has this reaction several times.

* OutGambitted: Seriddan confronts Josua in midst of his full court about his plans, trying to make Josua admit treason. He did not see coming what was about to hit him but owns up to it by fair play.

Younger brother of Baron Seriddan of Metessa, father of Pasevalle. A well-read, studious and quiet person.
* EmergencyImpersonation: [[spoiler:When Josua vanishes Brindalles comes in as a last minute stand in to make their enemies and troops believe, their Prince was still with them.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: Brindalles is aware that he is not the best of fighters but when there is need for someone [[spoiler:looking remotely as Josua and able to wield his sword with his left hand, he steps in - much to the dismay and worry of his brother. And it gets Brindalles killed.]]
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Together with Isorn killed by the Norns or Pryrates in Green Angel Tower.]]

Son of Brindalles of Metessa, nephew of Baron Seriddan. A child of around ten years in the time of the Storm King War. Later Lord Chancellor of the Hayholt under the reign of [[spoiler:High King Simon and High Queen Miriamele.]]

* DivideAndConquer: [[spoiler: He wants the Dragonbone Chair, thus tries to weaken the rule of Simon and Miriamele.]]
* [[spoiler: EvilChancellor:]] Basically his job description in "The Last King of Osten Ard".
* [[spoiler: EvilOrphan: He wants to end the rule of Simon and Miriamele, but not by only killing them - that would be to gentle.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:He does not simply wish to kill Simon and Miriamele in his quest for revenge, but wants them to slowly lose everything they love to see them suffer again and again and again …]]
* OrphansOrdeal: His life after the death of his father and uncle was no easy one.

----> "My head reaches Olveris’ neck, and since there is nothing of much use above that point, he and I are as good as even."

* TheQuietOne: So much that he happens to startle people if for once he talks.

A girl of twelve years and the niece of Dallo Ingadaris, she is married to Lord Drusis [[spoiler:, who is murdered quickly after. She seeks revenge by the tradition of the Nabbanai people and when her uncle does not support her in this, she has him killed. Despite her age, she is slowly becoming the Powerhouse of Nabban, threatening even Miriamele.]]

* ThatOldTimePrescription: One of his primary goals in life is to publish ''Sovran Remedies of the Wranna Healers'', a compendium of healing recipes and techniques passed down by his people. The prequel novel ''Brothers of the Wind'' reveals that the healers of the Wran are the real deal as, aside from his mother Amerasu's use of [[MagicByAnyOtherName the Art]], the healer Hakatri and Pamon Kes discovered in the Wran was the only person who could give Hakatri any kind of actual relief from the burns caused by Hidohebhi's blood. Unfortunately, both Amerasu's magic and the Wranna herbs only worked temporarily.

* {{Yandere}}: Hard to tell if she'd actually pull it off, but Vorzheva threatenes Josua more than once that she will kill him (, any other woman he might love,) and then herself.

* GruesomeGrandparent: To Derra and Deornoth

As the daughter of a Baron, she inherited a lot of money and used it for her studies. After the Storm King War she became a member of the League of the Scroll. She interested herself very much in divination and eventually purchased a dangerous toy to advance her research.

* FalseSoulmate: [[spoiler:Believes Josua is hers. He differs.]]

* TheILoveYouStigma: She made an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove to [[spoiler:Josua]] when they had an argument. He tells her gently but firmly that [[IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship he is her friend and colleague]]. Nothing more.

* MarriedToTheJob: Already in her youth she was more into books than men, even though she had many suitors. But she did not want to marry to not lose her freedom to study at her own discretion.
* {{Retgone}}: [[spoiler:Her house burned down, the plague raged through the city and she was believed dead. In fact she had lost her memory and only regained it years later. Then she decided to stay in hiding and was only found by the severe efforts of Father Etan over twenty years later.]]

One of the youngest Sithi, Jiriki nevertheless has a place of distinction as a descendant of Amerasu and her secret envoy with the humans. On one such trip, he becomes trapped in a woodsman's net and is about to be killed when Simon stumbles onto the scene and rescues him. Fleeing, Jiriki fires his White Arrow toward Simon, which is symbolic of the life-debt he now owes the young human. Despite his relative youth, Jiriki plays a major role in the conflict, as his understanding of and rapport with mortals leads him to drive his people to abandon their isolation and go on the offensive against the Storm King's forces.

The eldest living Sithi and matriarch of the House of Year-Dancing, second in age only to Utuk'ku of the Norns, Amerasu is named "Ship-Born" because of her birth during the Sithi's voyage to Osten Ard from their lost homeland. As age confers wisdom and power, she is also second only to Utuk'ku in her mastery of the Art and of the Dream Road. She nearly manages to reveal the EvilPlan to the gathered folk of Jao-é-Tinukai'i, but [[spoiler:is silenced by Utuk'ku and killed by her huntsman]].

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Is brought back from death by sorcery on Utuk'ku's order at the end of ''Empire of Grass'' in a ceremony at Naglimund. Considering the fact that the first thing he does upon his resurrection is unleash a terrible scream of anguish that knocks the surrounding host of Norns to their knees and kills a number of birds that were flying overhead, the implication is that he has CameBackWrong.]]
* CulturalRebel: Is actually concerned with the fates and well-being of mortals unlike the vast majority of ''Zida'ya'' and ''Hikede'ya''. Choosing Pamon Kes, a ''Tinukede'ya'', as his Armiger, also caused some eyebrows to be raised among his peers.

* NiceGuy: What truly cements Hakatri as this trope is, [[spoiler: after their plan to slay the dragon Hidohebhi goes awry and Hakatri is horrifically injured in the process of killing the terrible Great Worm, he is able to briefly fight through the pain of the burns from the dragon blood and tell Ineluki to let go of his hatred of mortals, as "anger breeds anger".]]

* BattleButler: An Armiger is expected wait on their master in everyday life and to protect them in battle. Kes is no slouch in combat, but since his master has the near-immortal vigor and agility of the ''Zida'ya'', it works out to BodyguardingABadass.

[[spoiler: The daugther of Prince Josua and Vorzheva. After her father disappeared and she was taken to her grandfather Fikolmij, she ran away, staying alive finding work here and there, then living with an order of women in the north for a while before she was made a slave of the Norns and taken to Nakkiga. There the Viyeki fell in love with her and she had a half-blood daughter with him: Nezeru.]]

* MadeaSlave: To the Norns
* TheRunaway: Ran away from her abusive Grandfather, and from various abusive employers. [[spoiler: At the end of the Witchwood Crown she runs away from Viyeki's estate to prevent Viyeki's wife Khimabu from killing her.]]

[[spoiler: The son of Prince Josua and Vorzheva. After his father disappeared, him and his mother and sister were abducted by Thrithing-men and brought to Fikolmij, who sent his grandson away - threatening that he would kill him if he ever showed up again. Twenty years later he does, nonetheless, now named Unver and quickly rising to be the master of all the Thithings.]]

* BigBad: The main antagonist of the trilogy behind all the world's woes. His hatred and pain has turned him into a being that threatens the very existence of the planet.

* KnightTemplar: With respect to mortals. He has no sympathy for them and wishes them all utterly destroyed. ''Brothers of the Wind'' details the primary incident that lead him to feel contempt for mortals: many of the Hernsmen assisting Ineluki and Hakatri with their plan to slay the Great Worm Hidohebhi panic and flee when they see the massive dragon charging over the hill as their prince, luring in the dragon, is thrown from the saddle and injured when the horse he's riding steps into a hole.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Norn society is centered entirely around their queen, who is the Norns' political, cultural and religious leader and considered infallible. One's status and chances of advancement are completely dependent on one's favor with the queen and her family as well as one's compliance with the rules, which results in an abundance of spies (called "whisperers") and a constant risk to be deemed recalcitrant, which carries extremely harsh penalties. Essentially, life in Nakkiga is like a mixture of a religious sect and a highly authoritarian political system such as that of North Korea.

* WouldntHurtaChild: She spares the life of a child even though she knows the kid will alert its village to the approach of Nezeru and her comrades.

* TheBaroness: The wife to Viyeki and daughter of an old family, she's envious and not too reluctant to use force or scheme to get it.

A relative of Utuk'ku, who is a seer and seems to having some designs of his own. Called "The Dreamer".

!'''Samoeji'''

* HalfHumanHybrid: A half-breed between a Norn and a human.

* NumberTwo: To Makho

* HotBlooded: If he had his say, Nezeru would be dead, but his loyality to Makho is staying his hand.

* MeaningfulAppearance: Josua’s appearance and demeanor are constantly compared to that of saints, marmor statues or ancient philosophers.

* MaliciousMisnaming: not too malicious but Duke Isgrimnur likes to call him "Zong-vogol".

* PostVictoryCollapse: after disposing of Utvart. Hell, just give the man some rest!

* SurvivorGuilt: He lost his hand trying to safe his brother's wife Hylissa but would have preferred to have given his life.

* WarriorPrince: Josua insists to join his men in battle and does so frequently, not only once bringing in TheCavalry for the rescue.

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!'''Viyeki'''

Magister of the builders. He has a wife, Khimabu, and an official mistress, Tzoja. His daughter is Nezeru.

!'''Nezeru'''

* WouldntHurtaChild:

* TheBaroness

!'''Nonao'''

!'''Suno'ku'''

!''Luk'Kaya'''

!''Muyare sey-Iyora'''

* HalfHumanHybrid

* TheStoic

* HotBlooded

!'''General Kikiti'''

!'''Commander Juni'ata'''
* AnArmandaLeg

!'''Sir Astrian'''