History Characters / MotherOfLearning

* DisintegratorRay: One of his favorites attack.

* MageMarksman: Picks up firearms when his spells aren't enough to fight enemies. He currently was working on magic bullets and enhancements, but improvements are currently unknown.

* RayGun: One of his favorites attack.

* WeaponOfMassDestruction: He built a bomb that could release wraths, beings made of torments souls. It is a part of his plan to legalize necromancy.

* TheLancer: Although the story is from his point of view, he's best described as [[TheHero Zach's]] Lancer.

* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler:How Zorian deals with Red Robe and Zach's contract with the angels. He creates a highly realistic illusionary world for both, to convince Zach that he's the only person left who remembers the time loop, which frees him from the angels' geas, and forces Red Robe to reveal all the contingencies he had prepared in the event of his death.]]

## * Main/{{Mistaken for gay}}: People mistake him and Zach for a couple because of how close they are.

* Main/{{Mistaken for gay}}: People mistake him and Zach for a couple because of how close they are.

* Main/{{Mistaken for gay}}: People mistake him and Zach for a couple because of how close they are

* NobleDemon: From a certain point of view. He always keeps his word (unless he decides he's been betrayed or cheated first), and Zorian notes that he ''does'' actually have a code of honor. The problem is that his moral system is a thousand years old and from a far, far more brutal era, which makes him seem like a murderous psychopath to most people today. At one point Zorian says tells him that he is famed for his honorable behavior, his great magical skill, and for brutality in warfare; Quatach-Ichl takes all three as a complement.

* FirePurifies: One of his spell make a fire that grow stronger by absorbing the energy of chained souls to destroy more undeads, and finally released them.

* EvilSorcerer: He has no problems to [[YourSoulIsMine capture souls]] and use them as batteries, or to make [[{{Necromancer}} undeads]].

* {{Necromancer}}: Sudomir had countless undeads he made to protect his mansion.

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: He sacrificed many shifters childrens to get their primordial essence.

* LightningBruiser: His skeleton body is made with a near-indestructible black metal, and can display inhuman strength.

* CreateYourOwnHero: Ironically it was him who introduce Zorian in the time loop, and it's mostly thanks to his superior skills and knowledge that Zorian was finally able to escape [[spoiler:the fake world]].

* SoreLoser: He did everything he could to kill as many peoples possible in case he lost.

* TheAce: After years in the time loop, Zorian has become exceptionally skilled [[spoiler:to the point where his contribution to the final battle is greater than Zach's]]. He's still lacking in raw power, but works around it by building advanced magical items with their own power sources.

* CharacterDevelopment: Thanks to the time loop, Zorian realises his flaws, opened his eyes to his sister's situation...

* EveryoneHasStandards: Zorian has shown to be very pragmatic, to the point of doing some pretty dubious things. He has also shown to not be the friendliest towards people. However, he has also shown to hold himself to both a level of social etiquette and has never gone too far with his actions. He has shown to be both merciful and remorseful.

* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:He was forced to steal the body of his original because his own was destroyed during the process of escaping the false world.]]

* InvisibilityWithDrawbacks: Can turn himself invisible with magic. However, he cannot move too quickly or get hurt or the spell boundary will break.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While rather mean and dismissive of people due to often being ignored and compared to his more charismatic brothers, Zorian has moments of kindness and goes out of his way to help people.

* TheLancer: Although the story is from his point of view, he's best described as Zach's Lancer.
* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler:How Zorian deals with Red Robe and Zach's contract. He creates a highly realistic illusionary world for both, to convince Zach that he's the only person left who remembers the time loop, which frees him from the angels' geas, and forces Red Robe to reveal all the contingencies he had prepared in the event of his death.]]

* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Gets many complaints from his parents for having NoSocialSkills, especially comparing to his brothers.

A classmate of Zorian. Zach is another time traveler stuck in the loop along with Zorian.

* BigFancyHouse: Lives in a mansion, though the size compared to the amount of people who live their make it a depressing atmosphere.

* BestFriend: To Zorian.

* TheDitz: He’s far from stupid, he has shown moments where doesn’t think things through. He was especially ditzy pre-time loop.

* FosteringForProfit: [[spoiler:His legal guardian, Tesen Zveri, has stolen nearly everything the Noveda family had.]]

* MagicEnhancement: As a part of the contract he received a blessing that double his mana reserves, and allow him to store and regenerate more mana without hurting his shaping skills.

! Zach and Zorian group

* TheArchmage: A master of many fields of magics. It is implied that Xvim is even better than Zach in quite a few fields of magic.

* KnowsAGuyWhoKnowsAGuy: Alanic has many relations, among Eldemar [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections authorities]], the SaintlyChurch, mercenaries...

* {{Jerkass}}: Both Zorian and Kirielle agree that Daimen is both mean and uncaring to his siblings. He starts slowly growing out of this when they make it clear to him how badly he's failed them.
* TheEmpath: Like Zorian, however since his gift is less developed than his younger brother he didn't suffer the drawbacks.

* AlchemyIsMagic: Kael field of study.

* CantCatchUp: Over the story she goes from Zorian's mentor in the combat arts and the person he goes to when he wants backup to being essentially negligable. In the cases when she's aware of this, she is NOT happy.

* StayInTheKitchen: Her parents try to stop her from taking any risks.[[spoiler: Considering she'd die without Zorian's help, they're not wrong.]]
* StrongButUnskilled: Taiven is a very well trained user of battle magic, but she is still young and has limited experience. As a result, compared to mid to late story Zorian, many of her attacks are straight forward and destructive.

* AlchemyIsMagic: She's the best in this field, she was even able to stop her body from aging. Zach and Zorian relied on her a lot, since there many things only her could do.

* DangerousDeserter: [[spoiler: Since the chances of escaping the time loop were too low, she choosed to accept the [[DealWithTheDevil deal with the Primordial]], and asked him to make her young again, and immortal.]]
* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler: Her original and her fight because they couldn't trust each other.]]

* ImmortalitySeeker: She's afraid of death, that's why she can't use the simulcarum spell.

* WickedWitch: She may be the last.

* IJustWantToBeFree: Because her mother refuse to let her draw, study, and forced her in a ArrangedMarriage.

* ThickerThanWater: [[spoiler:She literally shed her blood to save her little brother, though she doesn't really like him.]]

* BaitAndSwitch: She's from a family known for dark magic and political ambition, has been trained accordingly and likes creepy pets. She's shy, friendly and very helpful.

* TheSocialExpert: She know alot about politics, and politicians.

* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: To Zorian, like her mother she would have preferred him to have more social skills..

* CreateYourOwnHero: Ironically it was him who introduce Zorian in the time loop, and it's mostly thanks to his superior skills and knowledge that Zorian was finally able to escape the fake world.

* SuicideAttack: [[spoiler: In one iteration he realises he was trapped in a time loop, and decide to blow his own soul up to kill Zorian and Zach.]] It only failed because Zorian interrupted the iteration just in time, and it still managed to leave lasting injuries.

* VillainousValor: When he realizes [[spoiler: he's a copy, he doesn't hesitate to detonate his soul in an effort to take out Zorian and Zach]].

* DealWithTheDevil: With [[spoiler:Quatach-Ichl and the Primordial, to leave the time loop.]]

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* BaldOfAwesome: Alanic is a bald and muscular man, appropriate since he's a priest.

* OutnumberedSibling: The youngest child of her family and youngest and the only girl of her parents' children.

* AbusiveParents: Of the emotional variety. They're both obsessed with their social status and therefore only care about their children in terms of what benefit they can get. They treat Zorian as TheUnfavorite because he's not charismatic as his brothers, and Cikan refuses to let her daughter pursue her dreams or indulge in her hobbies.
* FreudianExcuse: Cikan's mother is a witch, so she grew up ostracized and having people spread malicious rumors about her. That's why she's so desperate to climb the social ladder. It's also why she refuses to let Kirielle learn magic, because witches believe that their magic is passed on through the female line, so Cikan doesn't want to give anyone an excuse to treat her daughter the same way she was.

* TheLoad: Actually aspires to leach of Daimen's skills.

[[folder: Ibery Ambercomb]]
A fourth year at the Cyoria Royal Academy. She works as the assistant librarian.

* MagicLibrarian: Serves as an assistant librarian at the academy library.
* LoveMakesYouDumb: Is hopelessly in love with Fortov despite him being dismissive and outright hurting her by pushing her into poisonous plants in the final days of the month.
* StalkerWithACrush: Isn't as innocent in the poisonous plants affair as it first seems.

[[folder: Raynie]]
A classmate of Zach and Zorian at the Cyoria Royal Academy

** He's honorable almost to a fault and will keep any deals he makes unless he's betrayed or cheated first; near the end, he also warns Zorian that his family is in danger from Red Robe, though he admits he has [[PlayingBothSides ulterior motives]] for this.

* TheArchmage: Zorian has no real specialty except for spell formulas and mind magic, which themselves are either ignored or extremely hard to master without naturally occurring ability like Zorian has.

* BewareTheMindReader: Mid magic is considered dangerous and criminal, often listed alongside Necromacy as a dark art. People are extremely cautious around Zorian when they know he's skilled in it, even when they don't know how good he is.

** Lampshaded. He once had a crush on Taiven but due to him being stuck in a time loop for years, his emotions have mellowed, and he only wants to be friends with her. The two of them eventually go on a date, in chapter 72.

* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler:How Zorian deals with Red Robe and Zach's contract.]]

* TheArchmage: Due to spending decades in the time loop, he is one of the most skilled mages in the series, and ''had expertise in just about every type of magic''. At the start of the series, he's already hit the cap on his magical reserves, which is roughly six times as great as Zorian's.

* BargainWithHeaven: He made one with Angels [[TalkingInYourDreams in a dream]]. That's how he got the marker and the blessing that increase his mana reserves.

* FriendlyRivalry: Has one with his fellow time traveler Zorian.

* MasterOfAll: Zach is so skilled in all areas of magic that Zorian considers him skilled, in his own specialities.

* NiceGuy: Zach is a basically decent person in every respect.

* {{Jerkass}}: Both Zorian and Kirielle agree that Daimen is both mean and uncaring to his siblings.

* WouldHurtAChild: In the past, Daimen has tested a variety of his spells on a young Zorian, giving him trauma in the process.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:She literally shed her blood to save her little brother, though she doesn't really like him.]]

* DemBones: As a lich he manifests as an animated skeleton, and [[TheNeedless don't need to eat or breath]].

** He also warns Zorian when Red Robe is targeting his family, though he does have ulterior motives.

** He displays considerable VillainousValor; while some of this is just the result of how hard he is to kill, when he realizes he's a duplicate inside the time loop he doesn't hesitate to detonate his soul in order to benefit his main self outside the loop
** He seems to genuinely believe in his long-term goals and ideology, as shown by his willingness to sacrifice his life for an alt-self; this is contrasted notably with Silverlake, whose alternate selves inevitably betray each other when given the chance.

* MesACrowd: With the simulacrum spell.

* PlayingBothSides: A subtle example; while he seems like part of the BigBadDuumvirate and TheHeavy for much of the story, he avoids binding himself completely to any side and is careful to play potential future enemies off against each other. He completely refuses to [[spoiler:make a DealWithTheDevil with a primordial, regardless of rewards]], and unlike Red Robe, he works to keep his grudge with Zorian from becoming too personal, even warning Zorian when Red Robe tries to target his family. This is a big part of the reason why he ends up as a KarmaHoudini.

* TheStrategist: He's not only the strongest, he also has a keen tactical mind to find the most effective way to deal with any situation, and more experience than anyone.
* SuicideAttack: In one iteration he realises he was trapped in a time loop, and decide to blow his own soul up to kill Zorian and Zach. It only failed because Zorian interrupted the iteration just in time, and it still managed to leave lasting injuries.

* VillainousValor: When he realizes he's a copy, he doesn't hesitate to detonate his soul in an effort to take out Zorian and Zach.

* ClonesArePeopleToo: Our Zorian is technically a copy of the real one create by the power of the Sovereign Gate.

* GrandTheftMe: He was forced to steal the body of his original because his own was destroyed during the process of escaping the false world.

* [[spoiler:LotusEaterMachine: How Zorian deals with Red Robe and Zach's contract.]]

* PragmaticHero: Zorian is extremely driven in his goals and will resort to [[MindRape mind raping]] people if they have information related to the invasion. However, he still feels guilty about this, even if the target was irredeemable. The angels specifically note that he would completely fail their ethical requirements for an agent because of this.

* SuperIntelligence: His mind magic allows him to use several mental enhancements he developped thanks to his simulacrums. For example, in chapter 98, he proves he can visualize in an instant something he wants to make like a computer: ''"spotting a few possible flaws and failure points", "quickly went through a lengthy series of complicated calculations inside his head", "repeated the process several times, gradually refining the design"''. He can also decode a text in an instant as long as he knows the key, maintaining focus over long periods of time, has PhotographicMemory...

* BloodKnight: Gets great pleasure from fighting all sorts of monsters, and[[spoiler: dies quite a few times to an elder dragon.]] He also battles a [[spoiler: hydra blessed with powers from the gods]] for fun.

* FosteringForProfit: His legal guardian, Tesen Zveri, has stolen nearly everything the Noveda family had.

* HeroicSacrifice: She literally shed her blood to save her little brother, though she doesn't really like him.
* NewTransferStudent: She was transfered in their class the year prior the time loop.

* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Her father wanted a son.

* FriendToBugs: She loves spiders and spider like monsters.

* TheArchmage: Silverlake is skilled in a lot of rare and esoteric megic, even dimensionalism and soul magic.

* KnightTemplar: Alanic is not above using violence, and bending the law a bit, to see justice done.

* LivingLieDetector: Like a lot of priest, Alanic can tell if someone is lying or not by looking their souls, however it's not provative for peoples who know soul magic and can control their auras.

* WarriorMonk: Alanic is very upfront about his faith but realist, as he said:

* TheArchmage: Silverlake is skilled in every area of magic, even dimensionalism and soul magic.

* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler: Her original and her fight because they couldn't trust each others.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Like Daimen, Fortov has been a horrible brother to his younger siblings.

* MindManipulation: She's only a beginner in this field tough, and she's not "Open" like Zorian.

* OnlySaneMan: He finds himself in the company of a lot of eccentric people, and tends to fit this role.

* TheAce: He has a lot of skills, and he’s certainly one of the greatest human combat mage in the world.
* AmnesiacHero: Red Robe deleted parts of his memory.

* CombatMedic: He's an expert of medical spells.

* FosteringForProfit: His legal guardian, Tesen Zveri, robbed everything the Noveda family had.

* TheLancer: Zorian’s

* MasterOfAll: Zach is so skilled in all areas of magic that he can match Zorian's strengths and completely demolish his weaknesses.

* OlderThanHeLooks: Mentally he is in his late fourties, but the time loop makes his body around 15-16.

* TheAce: After years in the time loop, Zorian has become exceptionally skilled [[spoiler:to the point where his contribution to the final battle is greter than Zach's]]. He's still lacking in raw power, but works around it by building advanced magical items with their own power sources.

* BewareTheMindReader: Everyone becomes aware of Zorian when they realize how good he is with mind magic. It's justified since you can't progress in this field without practice.

* CelibateHero: Although three girls have willingly gone on romantic dates, he's turned all of them down.