History Characters / MotherOfLearning

* TheAce: After years in the time loop, Zorian has become exceptionally dependable to the point where he did what even Zach couldn’t. He's still lacking in raw power, but works around it by building advanced magical items with their own power sources.

* StayInTheKitchen: Her parents refuse to let her take any risk.
* StrongButUnskilled: Taiven is a very skilled user of battle magic, but she lacks experience compared to Zorian and Zach. As a result, many of her attacks are straight forward and destructive.

* 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.

* 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, but he managed to durably injured them.

* KarmaHoudini: While the invasion is thwarted and he loses his incredibly valuable crown, Quatach-Ichl gets off far lighter than the other two main villains and even gets part of what he wanted out of the attack (a war between Ulquaan Ibasa and Eldemar, which destroys his political opponents hopes for rapprochement.)

* IGaveMyWord: As he said: ''"I'm an honorable lich, only ruthless to my enemies, and I pride myself on my fair and honest dealing with others"''. In the story he always keep his words, until someone try to betray him, and Zach and Zorian take advantage of it.

** He may be leading an invasion intended to kill tens or hundreds of thousands of people, but he has a clear foreign policy am in doing so; he doesn't approve of Red Robe's plans for mass slaughter and chaos.

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* AffablyEvil: Jovial, charming, polite, reasonable, and a mass murderer.

* BlingOfWar: His usual apparence, the one he use to intimidate peoples, is a black skeleton, wreathed in [[SicklyGreenGlow sickly green light]], and GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath. He wears a gold-decorated armor, a scepter and a crown full of purple gemstones.

* KarmaHoudini: While the invasion is thwarted and he loses his incredibly valuable crown, Quatach-Ichl gets off far lighter than the other two main villains and even gets part of what he wanted out of the attack (a war between Ulquaan Ibasa and Eldemar.)

* GoodParents: For her daughter Kana.

* ThemeNaming: Araneas seem to choose their names according to their personalities. From Mind Like Fire:

* HonorBeforeReason: As he said: ''"I'm an honorable lich, only ruthless to my enemies, and I pride myself on my fair and honest dealing with others"''. In the story he [[IGaveMyWord always keep his words]], until someone try to betray him, and Zach and Zorian take advantage of it.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Since he was hiding his identity, his true name is Jornak Dokochin.

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

* AmbitionIsEvil: He was a simple lawyer who had his birthright stolen, and now he wants to be King, no matter the means.

* SuccessionCrisis: Like Zach and Veyers his inheritance was stolen with the complicity of the authorities.

** 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, who alternate selves inevitably betray each other when given the chance.
* {{Glamour}}: When he needs, he takes the appearence of an elegant man with expensive-looking suit.

* PlayingBothSides: A subtle example; while he seems like part of the BigBadDuumvirate and TheHeavy for much of the story, he's always careful to stop ''just'' before doing anything that would irrevocably commit him to one course of action. 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.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He may be leading an invasion intended to kill tens or hundreds of thousands of people, but he has a clear foreign policy am in doing so; he doesn't approve of Red Robe's plans for mass slaughter and chaos.

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

* TheParanoiac: She doesn't trust anyone, except her raven maybe.

* EvilVirtues: He checks a lot of them, if not all, except love maybe.
* {{Glamour}}: When he needs, he takes the apparence of an elegant man with expensive-looking suit.

* 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.

* IKnowAGuy: Alanic has many relations, among Eldemar authorities, the SaintlyChurch, mercenaries...

* ClonesArePeopleToo: Zorian is technically a clone of the real one, and he was forced to stole the body of his original because his own was destroyed during the process of escaping the Sovereign Gate.