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!!Tropes For all

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* DarkIsNotEvil: Heck, one of the illustrations features her leading an army of creepy undead.
* {{Familiar}}: A [[CunningLikeAFox fox]]

* AnAxeToGrind: [[DualWielding Two of them, in fact]].

* WarriorPoet: Began as a poet, picked up the warrior part later.
* WeaponOfChoice: Twin handaxes, [[NamedWeapons Hagrum’s Keel and Limbrender.]]

Jirelle may have been born and raised on a ship, and she might call the Shackles her homeland, but she never considered herself a pirate, even if only to distance herself from the darkest part of her childhood: her mother. Jirelle seeks the funds to someday finance a ship and crew of her own. She plans not to become a pirate — for a life of plunder and cruelty holds no appeal for the daring swashbuckler — but to finish the job she started on the eve of her thirteenth birthday when she escaped her mother's crew. Jirelle knows she can't do this on her own, though. So she seeks true and able allies, knowing that only with bravery and trust will the ''Bloodcrow's'' days be numbered.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Destroying her Pirate mother and her ship only resulted in unleashing a Banshee-helmed Ghost Ship on the world.
* SelfMadeOrphan: To be fair, her mother planned worse for her.

* DeadGuyJr: Adowyn named Leryn after her father, who had died six months before they met.

There’s always a need for a skilled hunter, someone who can track down a threat and put an end to it. And when a quarry is particularly dangerous or elusive, there’s only one hunter the people seek: Adowyn.

* CaptainErsatz: Redhead with a bow, family troubles involving cursed bears. [[WesternAnimation/{{Brave}} Sounds a little familiar]]

* RedheadInGreen: A good portion of her armor is green
* ParentalAbandonment: Father died in the woods; mother and sister left, thinking her dead too.
* TragicKeepsake: Her father’s longbow.

* BaldOfAwesome: As a Shoanti, it comes with the territory

* FeatheredFiend: Well, he's not evil, but Padrig is unfailingly loyal to Balazar and will ''MESS YOU UP'' if he's in danger. See also, [[BigDamnHeroes his origin story]].
* FieryRedhead: Until the chain of events that led to him becoming a summoner, [[MysticalWhiteHair at which point it turned white]].

* UnusualEyebrows: Which look like feathers.

* GenderBlenderName: Her stage name; bulls are always male, yet ''Kess the Bull'' is a woman.

-->"What's the difference between a dwarf and a bucket of otyugh puke?" - "THE BUCKET!"
-->"What do you call a dwarf with twenty arrows in his gut?" - "A good start."
-->"Why do dwarves make their wedding cakes out of goblin dung?" - "To keep the flies off the bride."

* BlessedWithSuck: Like all oracles, Alahazra is blessed with considerable magical power, but at considerable cost - in her case, her eyesight. On a personal level, her powers got her exiled from her homeland and alienated her from her family.

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** GladiatorRevolt: A one-man version; when he decided to leave his tribe, he severed limbs as well as ties.

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Quinn is a genial, gentlemanly sort, quick with a joke and able to fit easily into both high society and low. His well-honed analytical mind is capable of astounding feats of logic and deduction, and he's fond of sharpening it still further with alchemical extracts learned from his parents and his own personal studies. Roaming the nations of the Inner Sea, he constantly keeps an ear out for allegations of unjust accusations or abuses of power. When he finds one, he investigates the case himself, using a lifetime of association with law enforcement agents and detective agencies like The Sleepless to help him ferret out the truth.

* BadassLongcoat

* CulturedBadass

* GogglesDoNothing
* SwordCane
* TookALevelInBadass

* DualWielding

* MysteriousAdvisor: A

** SymbioticPossession

* CoolOldLady
* ISeeDeadPeople: In a twist – Estra conned people as a false spiritualist, gave it up, then 'actually' started contacting the dead.
* LivingMemory: It is hinted that Estra’s phantom may not precisely be Honaire, but a manifestation of her guilt.

* BadAssBookWorm

* EldritchAbomination: The Thorn Priest.

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A former slave in a minor Chelish noble house, Meligaster used his mental powers to dominate the masters who had treated him so cruelly. He didn’t stop there, though—he tyrannized the household’s other halfling slaves. It was only when Meligaster’s brother, the cheerful bard named Lem, found him that the slaves broke their psychic bonds and prompted a Hellknight investigation at the house. Meligaster fled and began an adventuring career in which he always seeks the easy route to wealth and the finer rewards of success.

* CainAndAbel: With Lem; Meligaster is the Cain.

* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Or halfling, as the case may be.
* MindControl

* BadAssBookWorm

* PowerFloats

* AdorablyPrecociousChild
* LittleMissBadass

* PsychicChildren

* ArtShift: His physique is noticeably more muscular in the art for ''Ultimate Intrigue'' than in ''Flight of the Red Raven'' and ''Requiem for the Red Raven''.
** There's a simple reason for the shift - the iconic vigilante wasn't originally going to be the Red Raven, but an entirely original character instead. Upon seeing character visual designer Wayne Reynolds' concept sketches, Paizo head honcho Erik Mona suggested the vigilante could be the Red Raven. The design was altered to fit the theme, but it's still rather different from the previous one.

* ColorCharacter

-->“How can I delude myself? The Red Raven was supposed to end tyranny, yet here I am the worst tyrant of them all.”

* [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver Red And Black and Morally Ambiguous All Over]]
* TheCowl

* HornsOfVillainy

* {{Dhampyr}}

* {{Necromancer}}

* ConsummateLiar: Described as a natural liar.
* DropTheHammer: Wields a warhammer.

* ChainPain[=/=]EpicFlail: Uses Zon-Kuthon's sacred weapon, the spiked chain, as her primary weapon.

* MindRape: Zelhara's preferred torture method - she believes physical pain is too holy and blissful for non-believers.

* TheSociopath: Has more or less considered herself the superior tool of the church since her teenage years. Killed her one friend as part of a test and felt no remorse - and actually mocked him after death for succumbing so easily.

* ActionGirl
** LadyOfWar

* DrivenToSuicide[=/=]InterruptedSuicide: Tried to burn herself on Acemi's pyre, but was stopped by Acemi's allies.

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe
* ThePaladin

* SmiteEvil

* AffablyEvil
* AntiHero

** HearingVoices when imprisoned that promised him power, being a WhiteHairBlackHeart, and worshiping Asmodeus, archdemon of contracts and deals... There seems to be a bit of [[{{Manga/Berserk}} Griffith]] in there as well.

* IcyBlueEyes
* KillItWithFire: A subtle case - Seltyiel is usually shown or described using fire magic in combat.
* MagicKnight
* MrFanservice
* MysticalWhiteHair

* TroubledButCute

* WhiteHairBlackHeart

* DarkSkinnedBlond

* [[HotWitch Hot Sorceress]]

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Take a good long look at her clothing. Or lack thereof.
** Goes even further as an Archmage in ''Mythic Adventures''; she's basically down to just a loincloth and a narrow tube-top now.

* BadassNormal
* BoisterousBruiser
* ButtMonkey: Check out the art in the books, especially those prefacing each chapter. If he's in it, chances are something bad has happened, is happening, or is about to happen to him. Like getting caught in one of Damiel's ice bombs.
** Fan theory holds that this is a BrickJoke: One of ''[[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons D&D 3rd Edition]]'''s iconic fighters, a male human named Regdar, was [[ExecutiveMeddling commissioned specifically for the sake of appealing to the average RPG player (despite the fact that D&D already had an iconic fighter at the time)]]. In response, 3rd Edition's writers and artists ''loved'' portraying Regdar in all kinds of awful situations. So just as ''Pathfinder'' is the spiritual successor to ''D&D 3.5'', Valeros is the reincarnation of Regdar.
* ChivalrousPervert: Valeros loves the ladies, but would never dream of pressing the issue once he's been rejected, and goes out of his way to protect the girls he's on a team with.
** Not that this will stop him from being an ass [[http://paizo.com/image/content/LegacyOfFire/PZO9021-TakingItEasy.jpg every once in a while, of course.]]
* TheCynic

* HeroicBuild

* MrFanservice

* TallDarkAndHandsome

* BlackKnight

* KickTheDog: Or more accurately, the adorable little piglet, as seen in ''Advanced Class Guide''.

* SadisticChoice: In one illustration in ''Pathfinder Unchained'', he's implied to have set an orphanage on fire and forced Seelah to choose between saving the children or fighting him.
** Mind you, he's showing her this choice via ''road signs'' (while hiding behind a ''tree'' no less), so there may be a little {{Troll}} in him too.
* SlasherSmile: ... yeah.

* HateSink: The fans really, ''really'' don't like this guy. The Iconic Magus, who is the official TokenEvilTeammate, is better regarded than this guy!
** Merisiel rates him as the least attractive male iconic based solely on his personality (he's actually a fairly handsome man). In contrast, despite Lirt being actively ''evil'', she considers him the most attractive. Turns out Alain's personality is just ''that'' insufferable.

* FieryRedhead: Until the chain of events that led to him becoming a summoner...
** MysticalWhiteHair[=/=]PowerDyesYourHair: ...at which point, it turned white.
* RobeAndWizardHat

* SummonMagic
* TrueCompanions: He and Padrig.

* {{Alchemy}}

* DrugsAreBad

* MadDoctor
* MadScientist
* MasterPoisoner

* BrokenBird

* FemmeFatalons
* HotWitch
* ImpossiblyLowNeckline
* MysticalWhiteHair

* OfCorsetsSexy

* ZettaiRyouiki: Grade B

* ActionGirl

* DoorstopBaby: Adopted by the church.
* TheDrifter[=/=]KnightErrant

* SeekerArchetype
* SmiteEvil

* {{Samurai}}

* BadassLongcoat
* BoyishShortHair: Cut to avoid getting it caught in her weapons.
** Her appearance in ''Mythic Origins'' has her hair grown out and fluffed up. Actually one of the complaints with the book was that her Mythic version appeared more like a Steampunk pinup girl rather than the badass gunslinger she first appeared as.
* CleavageWindow
* GunsAkimbo

* TheGunslinger
* SchizoTech: She comes from Alkenstar, a city-state in a wasteland where magic doesn't work all that well, which is why she relies on guns. This makes her stand out in the outside world.
** To say nothing of what she picks up in ''Iron Gods'' and the ''Technology Guide''.
* SpyCatsuit[=/=]LatexSpacesuit: Wears one on the cover of the ''Technology Guide''.
* SpiritedYoungLady

* ActionGirl
* {{Asexuality}}: Reiko is stated to be Asexual by her character designer.

* {{Ninja}}

* ActionGirl
* ArcherArchetype

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Originally, Leryn's name was Lykir, but was quickly changed to his current name.

* BarbarianHero

* ShockAndAwe: Crowe's Bloodline is Elemental(Air), although his history makes it sound more like Stormborn.
* [[UnstoppableRage Unstoppable Bloodrage]]
* WalkingShirtlessScene

* AdventurerArchaeologist

* AnAxeToGrind: [[DualWielding Two of them, in fact.]]

* ActionGirl
* EvilMatriarch: Has one.

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She was raised to be Lady Kessilandrie Anicia Vlastos, but the thousands of cheering fans that fill the arena's seats when she fights shout her preferred name — Kess the Bull.

* BareYourMidriff
* BoxingBattler
* BrutalHonesty

* SpiritedCompetitor
* [[TomboyPrincess Tomboy Noble]]: Much to her family's dismay.

* BadassBeard: He's a Dwarf, it comes with the territory.
* BigDamnHeroes: Subverted. Harsk tries to be this, but he only arrives after his brother's entire party has been completely slaughtered.

* WeaponOfChoice: Heavy crossbow.

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* [[CoolHorse Cool Mount]]: As a Hierophant, she is shown riding Droogami.
* CloudCuckooLander: A mild version. Lini occasionally provides strange comments during battle.
* LoyalAnimalCompanion: Droogami, the snow leopard.
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* PantheraAwesome: Droogami, especially in combat.

* UnusualEyebrows: Apparently part of being a gnome. They look like blades of grass.

* ActionGirl
* AesopAmnesia: Repeatedly steals from people she probably shouldn't. As Valeros asks her, "Merisiel, do you notice certain patterns in your life?"

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* ArtShift: His physique is noticably more muscular in the art for ''Ultimate Intrigue'' than in ''Flight of the Red Raven'' and ''Requiem for the Red Raven''.

* SpikesOfVillainy: His armor is has a lot, and his shield is ''covered'' in spikes.

* TheHunter: As an inquisitor of the goddess of death living in [[{{Uberwald}} Ustalav]], she's a very busy woman.

* TheHunter: He's trained to hunt down enemies of Sarenrae who the Cult of the Dawnflower has deemed irredeemable.

Losing her family at a young age, Kyra (pronounced Ky-rah) was taken in by the priests of Sarenrae. She now travels the country, spreading her goddesses faith, and doing her utmost to save lives.

** Taken UpToEleven when WebVideo/CriticalRole did a ''Pathfinder'' one-shot where iconic [=PCs=] were the final boss encounter. [[spoiler: Valeros was the first one attacked, set on fire by said attack, and the first one killed and decapitated.]]

* BrokenStreak: For the first time in ''Pathfinder'' history, there are Iconics that are a non-core race. Emil Kovkorin is a Tiefling, Nyctessa is a Dhampir and Urgraz is a Duergar.

* BadassGay: Volume 5 of the Pathfinder comic and WordOfGod has confirmed that Merisiel and Kyra are in a relationship.

* ClearTheirName: His father was accused of heresy. The charges were dropped, but his reputation was ruined. Ezren went through all the records trying to clear his father's name...and instead found irrefutable proof of his guilt.

* NayTheist: Ezren doesn't worship the gods, but that doesn't mean he doesn't believe they exist, he just has... philosophical differences with them.
* {{Omniglot}}: In his stat block in the NPC Codex, Ezren is listed as being [[UpToEleven fluent in]] ''[[UpToEleven twenty]]'' [[UpToEleven languages]].

* WizardClassic: Staff? Check. Wizard Robes? Check. Long white hair and beard? Check. Casts Spells like a wizard? Check. Yep, Ezren's a WizardClassic

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Mostly averted. Harsk has the traditional dwarf beard and gruff nature, but bucks tradition by specializing in the crossbow and prefers the wilderness of the surface world to the mines of his kinsmin. He also shuns alcohol in favor of tea as it keeps his senses sharp.

* WeaponOfChoice: Scimitar (her goddess's sacred weapon).

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* [[{{YouGottaHaveBlueHair}} You Gotta Have Green Hair]]: Which also looks like grass.

* LoveableSexManiac: While Merisiel may be more well-known for it, there's been several references to Valeros also having a habit of it. Crystal Frasier in the discussion about Shardra also heavily implies as such:
-->'''Crystal Frasier''': Shardra's appearance and figure are 100% home-grown, with no magic required. Any more specific information about her body is reserved for her, Kolo, and whoever she may spend a night with. And Valeros. Because one way or another, Valeros knows what's going on in everyone's pants.

* {{Fanservice}}: Her clothing is effectively a bikini with a loincloth added around the waist once the cloak and hat are removed.

* WalkingSwimsuitScene: See Fanservice.

** Mind you, he's showing her this choice via ''road signs'', so there may be a little {{Troll}} in him too.

** Merisiel rates him as the least attractive male iconic based solely on his personality(he's actually a fairly handsome man). In contrast, despite Lirt being actively ''evil'', she considers him the most attractive. Turns out Alain's personality is just ''that'' insufferable.

* MysticalWhiteHair[=/=]PowerDyesYourHair: ...at which point, it turned white.

* EvilutionaryBiologist

* HuskyRusskie: In a charity stream, Imrijka is played by Paizo developer Crystal Frasier with an exaggerated Russian accent.

Shieldmarshal Dahmok's greatest failing was teaching his middle daughter to read. After the loss of their mother, a lively but capricious elven explorer who viewed ten years and three children as a "fling," he had hoped to rear homebody children. Even with their halfblood status stretching the years he spent with his treasured children, the old marshal shuddered at the knowledge that one was already slipping away.

While older Suzeressa took to the practical household arts and younger Milliceene pursued a love of natural sciences, middle-born Lirianne lost herself for hours at a time in tales of shining knights, devious fairies, and mighty dragons -- all subjects absent from her homeland of Alkenstar. Raised among bricks, smoke, and bureaucracy, the young half-elf dreamed of the life of adventure and fantasy promised by the collection of fairy tales left by her absent mother and her own ever-growing library of penny dreadfuls. Naturally, she aspired to follow in her father's footsteps and become a shieldmarshal, protecting Alkenstar from the hostile giants and hideous mutations of the Mana Wastes. Preferring to keep his little girl safe at home, Dahmok calmly explained she could never become a shieldmarshal, running with the first excuse he could come up with -- that her beloved long hair would become entangled in firearm mechanisms. To his surprise, he awoke the next morning to discover Lirianne grinning like a fool, with her long tresses roughly chopped, eagerly packed and ready to follow him to work.

For twenty years, the little half-elf pushed herself to meet ever more insane requirements laid down by her aging father. Schoolmates nicknamed her "the Phantom" as she vanished often to practice her quick draw or memorize technical volumes. Tutors and governesses thought her adle-brained as she sat staring, redrawing engineer's schematics in her mind rather than follow her lessons. Even before she was old enough to entertain her first romance, she had mastered the construction and firing of a rifle, and could reckon complex trajectories by eye alone.

An old man and long since retired by the time his daughter reached womanhood, Dahmok could no longer forbid her entry into the shieldmarshals. But the old patriot's influence lived on in his successors, and to honor his service they assigned Lirianne to a quiet domestic position, safeguarding farming settlements along the secure Alkenstar-Martel road. Ten years of her life passed rounding up drunks and mediating water rights, eating away at her passion for adventure in ways her father's disapproval never could. Her childhood dreams eventually forgotten, Lirianne's steely eyes dulled with the tarnish of a thousand mundane details.

It was kismet when a storm of wild magic blew off the Spellscar Desert, past Alkenstar, and into her jurisdiction. The rampant arcane energy, fallout from centuries of wizard warfare, warped space and time around it. The magical swells lashed out, reshaping hillsides, boiling sand into glass, and calling forth bizarre creatures from the dawn of history. The only marshal at hand, Lirianne leapt into service. As townsfolk huddled in their cellars and buildings crumbled into twisted forms of misbegotten wood and bone, a bolt of green lightning lashed out, striking the half-elf even as she confronted the storm's abominations.

Lirianne awoke soaking and half-drowned on distant shores. The bizarre country was flush with thick forests and green hills�plant life like she'd never seen. Wandering inland, she soon encountered a lumber caravan beset by malicious fey. In a heartbeat, a childhood's worth of stories welled up inside her, and she rushed into battle with a passion long since forgotten. The grateful caravan loaded her with all the supplies and information she could manage, confirming that her inexplicable odyssey had deposited her cleanly in the midst of those same shining knights, devious fairies, and mighty dragons who had occupied so much of her youth.

Now a wanderer in the strange land of Avistan, Lirianne struggles to balance her resurgence of childhood wonder and adult dedication to justice, all while confronting her long-ignored elven blood. While thoughts of family and the familiar industrial life of Alkenstar occasionally tug at her roaming heart, sights remain unseen and people remain unsaved, and Lirianne will be damned if she'll fail in either.

Situated on the western coast of Minkai, Reiko’s home town of White Wave was a quiet fishing village, little more than a collection of shacks and cabins clinging to a steep cliff face overlooking the harbor. Crushed under oppressive humidity in the summer, the air thick with clouds of stinging flies and gnats, and subject to dangerous storms in the winter, White Wave had little to offer any lord, and thus little was demanded of it.

* {{Transsexual}}: WordOfGod confirms that Reiko is genderfluid(presenting as female).

* BadassFamily: He's a member of one; his mother is a barbarian chieftain badass enough to roam the Hold of Belkzen on her own, and she has several other children.

* InterspeciesRomance: With Kyra, a Keleshite human. Merisiel also experienced a temporary romance with a Phondari, a Black Martian, in ''ComicBook/PathfinderWorldscape''.

->'''Class:''' Barbarian

%% HappinessInSlavery: Averted, unlike the rest of his family.

* GamePlayAndStoryIntegration: The ''Inner Sea Magic'' splatbook introduced the tattoo magic subsystem and the tattooed sorcerer archetype specifically to reflect Seoni's lore-established powers. All stats given for her are of the vanilla Sorceress, however.

* {{Badass}}
** BadassNormal