History Characters / RealmOfTheElderlings

The main protagonist of ''The Farseer Trilogy'' and ''The Tawny Man Trilogy''. Fitz is the bastard son of Prince Chivalry Farseer. He was brought to Buckkeep, its court, and intrigues at a young age. As a bastard, he found plenty of enemies; the most dangerous of them being Prince Regal, half-brother to Prince Chivalry. Also because of his status as a bastard, he finds himself in service to the King in the only real way a bastard can be: as an assassin.

* TheAce: Adept with multiple magics, capable with sword and ax, skilled assassin and diplomat, a man who was walked the length and breadth of multiple continents almost single-handedly destroying kingdom-level threats... if that was all you knew about Fitz, you'd accuse him of being a Mary Sue.

* BuriedAlive: Technically, although he wasn't in his body when it happened.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] with Molly, as Kettle points out towards the end of ''Asassin's Quest'', that they're more in love with who they ''were'' than who they are, since they knew each other as children and so are reminded of their more carefree, younger days, and advises Fitz to let Molly go so that the memories can remained happy ones. He resists this at first but comes to see she's right.

** He also tends to blow his top whenever he feels badly wronged or one of his loved ones has and goes on a vengeful rampage that ruins any other carefully-laid plans. Chade rips into this in the third book of the ''Farseer Trilogy'' by pointing out how stupid of it was to just straight-up murder Selene and Justin, especially since he chased Justin down and killed him in front of the entire Royal Court.

** Then again with the Fool]in ''Fool's Fate'', this time so he could [[spoiler:bring The Fool back to life.]]

* OlderThanTheyLook: In the ''The Fitz and The Fool'' series dues to the skill. He's nearly sixty, but is still in his thirties, physically, as a result of the Skill-healing from ''Golden Fool'' still affecting his body.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: In the ''Tawny Man'' series, his grim demeanor and generally battered features add a good ten or twenty years to his real age. The ''Fitz and the Fool'' trilogy reveals that the desperate skill healing that saved his life when sword-stabbed through the liver gave him a HealingFactor that makes him look like he's in his mid-30s even into his late 60s. Some servants even comment on it, calling him a GoldDigger for being married to Molly, who shows her true age.

* BadAssBookworm: Fitz cover as an amateur/apprentice scribe, in which he gains the respect of several nobles in the course of his [[ProfessionalKiller real work]]. [[spoiler:The third book also reveals that he has become an amateur historian and scholar, possibly the only reliable one at the time.]]

** The "Tom" part of his new name is a [[RealNameAsAnAlias memento of his past life]]: he thought his father's legal wife and widow just gave him that name on a whim, but it's actually the name she had been planning to give her son had she given birth to one and since then symbolised the bond between them.

* ParentalHypocrisy: His complicated relationship with Dutiful nonwithstanding, Fitz is very critical and harsh on Dutiful when he is sent to retrieve the prince in ''Fool's Errand'', harshly berating him for abandoning his duty when his people need him and accusing him of whining about the unfairness of it all, which is exactly how he behaved in the ''Farseer Trilogy'' when King Shrewd refused to allow him to leave Buck to marry Molly and he got into a huge argument with both Burrich and Chade over how they were dictating his whole life.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: Like most of the Farseers. One of the reasons they recognise him.

* BadAssBookworm: Since he spends most of his time alone, he takes all that time to read and study ancient scrolls and books. Doesn't stop him from being a badass [[spoiler:especially when he comes out of hiding and declares a personal war on Regal.]]

The King of the Six Duchies at the start of the series, and Fitz's grandfather. He assigns Fitz to Chade, making him the one responsible for Fitz's transformation into an assassin. A cunning ruler who lives up to his name, Shrewd takes many efforts to perserve the Six Duchies throughout the Red Ship wars.

* ManipulativeBastard: Shrewd is not one to justify his actions to his subordinates. He will blantantly use people to accomplish his goals, specifically Fitz, sometimes being upfront about it, sometimes not.

* TragicHero: For all his efforts to perserve the Six Duchies, [[spoiler:ultimately he fails to stop them from being devastated, [[TragicMistake thanks to forgiving his son Regal]]. He ultimately dies unable to do anything, lamenting what his efforts did to Fitz, not even being able to reach out to his faithful son, Verity, one last time.]]
* TragicMistake: [[spoiler:Trusting Regal to get better. Shrewd thought that Regal's intial power grabs were simply youthful impulses he would grow out of. What Shrewd doesn't realize is that Regal is a monster who would ''never'' stop his quest for power, and whose rule over the Six Duchies is an absolute disaster, not to mention Regal outright abandons the coastal duchies to get ravaged by the Red Ships. Unfortunately the realization comes as Shrewd is on his death bed, and Regal has entrenched himself too much to stop his rise to the throne.]]

* TheExile: Self-imposed for many reasons. First for political reasons, to avoid destabilizing the realm witha bastard son and a barren wife. Second for Patience's sake, out of fear that she wouldn't be able to handle the stress of remaining at court in the wake of Fitz's emergence. Finally for Fitz's sake, to protect him from being used as a tool against Chivalry.

* BigBad: Technically part of a BigBadEnsemble with the Red Ships, [[spoiler:but he's the one where ItsPersonal and the Ships would have been less of a threat were it not for his machinations and willingness to commit murder and treason against his own family and kingdom, sabotaging the war effort for his own ambition.]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing: He's known for being nice and funny in the court which makes him more popular than his brother.
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: His penultimate fate.

* CainAndAbel: The Cain to Verity and Chivalry's Abel's.

* TheEvilPrince

* HateSink: Big time. He's a massive jerk, a self centered coward, a bully and a racist yet Fitz can't openly be against him because he's still Shrewd's son.
* ItsAllAboutMe: With the exceptions of his mother and half-brother, everyone else can go piss up a rope as far as Regal's concerned.

* KarmaHoudini: Subverted; it looks like he's going to be this [[spoiler: before suffering CruelAndUnusualDeath.]]
* MindRape: [[spoiler:Fitz finally blasts him with one in the ending of Assassin's Quest, leaving him imprinted with a slavish loyalty to the ''rightful'' Farseer line-Kettricken and her unborn son. It doesn't last long before LaserGuidedKarma catches up to him once and for all.]]

* SelfMadeOrphan: Responsible for King Shrewd's death. If Fitz had the common decency to [[spoiler:stay dead,]] he'd probably be a Self Made Only Child as well.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: The only reason he gets away with anything is that Fitz can't prove anything and the people are easily duped by him, mostly because he serves as a rich and flamboyant contrast to the moody and serious Verity (though Verity has a [[WarIsHell very good reason to be moody and serious]]). Essentially, Regal encourages them to forget about the war, which is how he gets to be so popular.
* WouldHurtAChild: Tried to kill Fitz [[spoiler: and later his baby daughter.]]

[[folder:Chivalry Farseer]]

!!Chivalry Farseer
King Shrewd's first son and Fitz's dad. He was King-in-Waiting before Verity but decides to abdicate and remove himself from the court after Fitz is revealed to be his bastard son.

!! Characters introduced in the Farseer Trilogy

[[folder:Burrich]]

!!Burrich
Stablemaster of Buckkeep, and Fitz's first father figure. He first served under Prince Chivalry, but he was retired from his service after he saved the prince from a boar attack; it crippled his leg instead. He starts the trilogy still recovering from the injury, as well as the injury of being left behind when Prince Chivalry abdicated from the throne and left Buckkeep.

* AbusiveParents: Well not a parent, but as Fitz's main caretaker. In his youth Fitz hated and was afraid of Burrich, and only began to think of him differently after Burrich beat Galen half to death for beating Fitz. He got the idea because one of the first things Burrich did was find him beginning to Bind with one of the hound puppies; Burrich took the pup from Fitz, and Fitz had thought he killed it. [[spoiler:He actually gave it to Kettricken's brother and Fitz found out a decade and a half later.]]
* TheAlcoholic: Seems to get drunk more often later in his life. [[spoiler:He cleans up when he begins living with and protecting Molly, who has a hatred of alcoholism after her abusive childhood.]]
* BlessedWithSuck: Some time in the past, Chivalry ''somehow'' used The Skill to cause Burrich to be completely immune to any and all effects of The Skill, good or bad. In the end, [[spoiler:it ends up killing him when he's mortally wounded and Fitz ''could have'' saved his life if it weren't for the complete Skill immunity.]]
* BrokenBird: Burrich's gruff exterior goes along with an even gruffer past. Being taken into slavery, losing his family, [[spoiler:losing Lady Patience to Chivalry]], then being KickedUpstairs to stable master after [[{{HeroicSacrifice}} taking a hit for Chivalry]] and injuring his knee are just the start of it. Having to take care of the king's Royal Bastard is just icing on the cake.
* DeathOfTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler:His death is what makes it possible for Molly and Fitz to end up together.]]
** Awkwardly, it works the other way around, too--[[spoiler: Molly and Burrich got together only because Burrich believed Fitz really had died, and Burrich finding out differently is what set him out on the quest that eventually killed him.]]
* HandicappedBadass: His lame leg hasn't diminished most of his badass-itude, either.
* ImportantHaircut: When Chivalry dies, he shaves his head and even his eyebrows. Six Duchies tradition is for people to cut some piece of their hair as an offering for the dead, but it's shown that Burrich's shaving is normally excessive for someone of Chivalry's standing.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's famous for his black temper and surly demeanor; that doesn't stop him from being kind to animals and protective of Fitz.
* LoveTriangle: The loser [[spoiler:in one with Chivalry for Patience.]] Later in a role reversal, he's the winner: [[spoiler:in the love triangle between him, Molly, and Fitz.]]
* FriendToAllLivingThings: He tries to deny it [[spoiler: but he's this because of his Wit.]]
* MayDecemberRomance: [[spoiler:With Molly; Burrich is at least ten years older than her.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: To Fitz who he does much of the early raising for. [[spoiler:Seemed like he was going to be this for Nettle, but given she was raised believing he was her father and they didn't tell her about Fitz it's not quite this trope.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: He calls out Molly for her mistreatment of [[spoiler: Nettle]], telling her she's acting just like her father and confusing "discipline" with "punishment", especially given that she's too young to know what she's doing.

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[[folder:Chade Fallstar]]

!!Chade Fallstar
The royal assassin before Fitz, and his beloved mentor. Chade is an old, clever, and pock-scarred man who lives in an isolated and hidden room up in Buckkeep.
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[[folder:Molly Chandler]]

!!Molly Chandler
Fitz's childhood friend; although back then, she was known as Molly Nosebleed thanks to the beatings her father always gave her. When she and Fitz meet again, she's become a proud young woman who's taken control of her father's ailing candleshop.

* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: [[spoiler: Marries Burrich thinking Fitz was dead, though Burrich claims that she'd have probably wound up choosing Fitz anyway if Fitz had returned after all.]]
* AbusiveParents: Her father. Who also doubles as AlcoholicParent. She herself starts showing symptoms of this with her own child, at least until getting a very pointed scolding from Burrich.
* BettyAndVeronica: She's the Betty to Starling's Veronica.
* FirstGirlWins: [[spoiler:Even if she did fall in love with someone else first.]]
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: When pregnant, she asked Burrich to seek an abortive plant but the latter convinced her to keep the baby.
* ItsAllAboutMe: She's quite selfish when it comes to Fitz, as she doesn't seem able to understand he has a life and loyalty outside of her and constantly gets angry with him for not spending enough time with her.
* MamaBear: However, it takes a while for her to get used to it and become this trope.
* OfficialCouple: With Fitz [[spoiler: but then later with Burrich, years after they think he's dead. Then Fitz again, ''more'' years later.]]
* SelectiveObliviousness: Despite Fitz repeatedly telling her that the reason he doesn't want to make their relationship public is because of his precarious position in court and she could end up hurt in retribution, Molly refuses to believe him - even when she is nearly assaulted by two armed men on horseback for being "the bastard's whore".
* ShesAllGrownUp: Fitz's reaction when he sees her in a dress.
* {{Tomboy}}: When she was younger.

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[[folder:Chivalry Farseer]]

!!Chivalry Farseer
King Shrewd's first son and Fitz's dad. He was King-in-Waiting before Verity but decides to abdicate and remove himself from the court after Fitz is revealed to be his bastard son.
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[[folder:Verity Farseer]]

!!Verity Farseer
A prince of the Farseer line, second son to King Shrewd, and Fitz's uncle. He becomes King-in-Waiting after Chivalry abdicates from the throne, and only very reluctantly.

[[folder:Regal Farseer]]

!!Regal Farseer
->'''a.k.a Regal the Pretender'''

Another prince of the Farseer line, the third son to King Shrewd, and half-brother to Chivalry and Verity. His mother is Queen Desire, Shrewd's second wife, who comes from a highborn family from an inland duchy. He inherited his mother's scorn for his older brothers, who he considers lower in rank to himself since their mother came from a lower nobility. He has even more scorn and hatred for Fitz, who, as a bastard, comes from an even ''lower'' mother.

[[folder:Galen]]

!!Galen
Buckkeep's Skillmaster. He is responsible for training potential Skill users and molding them into servants of the crown. One of Regal's lackeys, he works to usurp the throne for his master. He loathes Fitz with a passion and makes no secret of it, deliberately sabotaging Fitz's ability to use the Skill and even trying to get him killed on more than one occasion.

[[folder:The Coterie]]

!!The Coterie

* AscendedExtra: Will is introduced in the first Farseer book as a nondescript member of the coterie. The follow-up books promote him to the role of NumberTwo to the BigBad and Fitz's nemesis.

* AvengingTheVillain: [[spoiler: They're as loyal to the memory of Galen as much as they are to Regal and are determined to avenge their deceased master by killing Fitz.]]
* BlueBlood: Unlike the rest of the coterie, August is a cousin of the ruling Farseer family and carries himself with the airs of a high-brow aristocrat.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Galen has Skill-Imprinted (i.e. hypnotized) them into being his and Regal's slaves.
* TheDreaded: After giving Fitz some nasty MindRape he becomes terrified of them - Serene and Will in particular - for a good portion of the trilogy that takes him a while to get over.
* DwindlingParty: The coterie starts off with six members, August, Serene, Justin, Will, Burl, and Carrod. The group becomes smaller and smaller with each book:
** [[spoiler: By the end of ''Assassin's Apprentice'', August suffers a Skill blast courtesy of Verity that burns the Skill from his body, making him useless to Regal. Afterward, August opts to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leave the royal court and retire to the country.]]]]
** [[spoiler: By the end of ''Royal Assassin'', Serene and Justin, having assassinated King Shrewd, fall victim to Fitz's RoaringRampageOfRevenge, with Serene getting a SlashedThroat and Justin making a feeble attempt to flee before Fitz tackles him to the ground and stabs him to death.]]
** [[spoiler: By the end of the final Farsser book, ''Assassin's Quest'', the final three coterie members meet their end in the land where the stone dragons dwell. Carrod is Skilled to death by Verity. Burl is mauled to death by Nighteyes. Finally, Will gets his leg ripped off by a dragon and bleeds to death.]]

* FaceHeelTurn: Most of the coterie who managed to stick with it, but especially Serene, who was a rather nice girl before Galen's training broke her mind. Doubles as BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil.
* FatBastard: Fitz notes how Burl has used his new position to enjoy the finer things in life, really letting himself go due to excessive eating.
* GenerationXerox: After Galen's death, Serene takes his place as teacher of the Skill. Fitz is astonished at how similar she has become to Galen in both attitude and appearance, even taking on behavior and dress that remove her femininity.
* TheHeavy: They do most of the legwork for [[BigBad Regal]].
* HiddenDepths: Occasionally, it's hinted that there is still some trace of humanity within the coterie members. Justin and Serene show a hint of remorse when Fitz calls them out. Later, Burl takes a moment to reminisce with Fitz after capturing him.
* HumbleBeginnings: Each of the coterie members except for August were commoners before being accepted into Prince Regal's inner circle.
* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: Not that it isn't personal with the BigBad too. That said, Fitz does dwell on his personal feud with the coterie, particularly [[ArchEnemy Will]], and seems to regard them as the biggest threat that he has to face.

* MouthOfSauron: [[spoiler: Will gradually becomes this to Regal over time. By the third book, Regal regularly uses Will as his living mouthpiece, issuing orders to his soldiers and the rest of the coterie through Will. By their final clash, Fitz uses the Skill to glimpse inside Will's mind and is shocked by how Regal has eroded Will into little more than a meat puppet.]]

* ThoseTwoGuys: Serene and Justin are rarely seen without each other.
* TokenGoodTeamate: August. Although he bullies Fitz like other members of the royal court, he's shown to have his bright spots. He complies, albeit reluctantly, with Fitz's request to contact King Shrewd whereas any of the other coterie members would have told Fitz to get bent. Later, August is spared from being poisoned along with Regal's other servants [[HeKnowsTooMuch who knew about the plot]], implying that he was deemed to have too many scruples to be privy to such plans. What's more, August acts more snobbish and standoffish as opposed to the blatantly crazed and sadistic behavior exhibited by the rest of the coterie, implying that he was spared from being [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Skill-Imprinted]], likely due to his status as a relative of the royal family.
* UndyingLoyalty: They are fanatically devoted to their master, Galen, and consequently ''his'' master, Prince Regal.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: They were just a group of regular teenagers before Galen turned them into a group of AxCrazy thugs loyal to both him and Regal.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Discussed. In Royal Assasin, Fitz attempts to reach out to Serene, bringing up their time learning to read and write together when they were children. [[ShutUpKirk Serene responds by spitting at his feet.]]

[[folder:Kettricken]]

!!Kettricken
Daughter of King Eyod of the Mountain Kingdom. She enters into an arranged marriage with Verity to seal an alliance between the two nations.

* BoyishShortHair: After hearing of [[spoiler: Verity's]] apparent death, she cuts off her long blonde hair in mourning and it only skims her shoulders by the end of ''Assassin's Quest.''
* TheHighQueen: became one after the timeskip, with Chade's help.
* LittleSisterInstinct: She loves her older brother, Prince Rurisk and tries to kill Fitz when she believes he's there to kill her brother.
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Not at first, but it doesn't take long once they start to actually get to know each other.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Though it takes her a while to achieve this since she has to labor against the Six Duchies expectation of proper behavior from a Queen.
* ShipTease: There are lots of small hints across the books that she is attracted to Fitz, but she never confesses or acts on it. [[spoiler:She does drop, as a last goodbye in the final trilogy, the tidbit that she'd known for a long time that Dutiful was secretly Fitz's blood son even though she agreed with Fitz's belief that Verity was the father in every way that mattered.]]
* StayInTheKitchen: She comes from a culture where women, even royals, share in combat and heavy manual labor, even more so than in the Six Duchies. She resents bring cooped up in a tower making tapestries (considered a winter activity) when she could be , at he very least, stitching sails for the fleet of ships being built. Partially Justified in that both her and her unborn child are targets for assassination and Fitz is doing his darnedest to protect them and the stability of the whole kingdom.
* TookALevelInJerkass: When Fitz meets up with her in the third Farseer book, she is incredibly cold toward him, even engaging in a KickTheDog moment by forcing Fitz to recount the ColdBloodedTorture that he suffered at Regal's hands. Somewhat justified when one considers what a horrible time she's had since the last time she and Fitz saw each other (see Trauma Conga Line). She remains distant during their journey to find Verity. Thankfully, she becomes a DefrostingIceQueen and renews her friendship with Fitz.
* ToughLeaderFacade: Particulary evident in [[spoiler:''The Tawny Man'' trilogy, where she keeps her public facade calm and collected while she privately confides in Fitz and Chade how afraid she is about Dutiful's disappearance.]]
* TraumaCongaLine: What Kettricken has gone through during the time between books two and three of the Farseer trilogy. To put it simply, ''she's had an awful year'':
** She's been forced to flee for her life, away from her new home at Buckkeep.
** She's had to travel across the kingdom to find safe refuge, all the while being hunted by Regal.
** She's suffered a miscarriage and has lost the child that she and Verity were going to have, largely due to the stress of her current situation.
** Her husband is missing and is presumed dead.
** She's been subjected to a brutal smear campaign courtesy of Regal.
** Regal's army is sitting on her homeland's doorstep and is threatening to invade.
** By the time Fitz finally meets up with her in book 3, she's noticeably (and understandably) withdrawn.

[[folder:Lady Patience]]

!!Lady Patience
More or less Fitz's adoptive mother, and Chivalry's widow. She's small, willowy, and scatterbrained, constantly flitting between interests and hobbies. Lives in Withywoods on Chivalry's estate until later, when she comes to Buckkeep largely to watch over Fitz; while she's hurt by Fitz's existence, particularly in that she herself is most likely barren, she also loves him as the son she never was able to bear and is one of the few figures in Fitz's life to have only his well-being at heart.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: [[spoiler:At the start of the third book as the unofficial Lady of Buckkeep.]]
* CloudCuckooLander: She's known to be weird.
* GeniusDitz / DitzyGenius: She's either one or the other, but she's definitely more capable than many people realize.
* GoodStepmother: She really loves Fitz and believes him to be the son that she should have had.
* GreenThumb: She's almost obsessed with tending to her plants and bonds with Kettricken over gardening, which is a godsend to the lonely Queen.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: As the Lady of Buckkeep, she maintains the traditional seat of Farseer power, rallies the people of the Duchy, and generally kicks ass.
* HeterosexualLifePartner: She's never seen without her NinjaMaid, Lacey.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: She might know more about whats going on than she lets on. [[spoiler: When Fitz "dies", she begs Regal to let her bury him but before he's buried she takes care of his wounds. She admits later that she knew that he wasn't dead. She also takes control of Buckkeep after Regal abandons it.]]
* TragicKeepsake: A ruby necklace Chivalry gave her. She's forced to sell it in the third book, though eventually she does manages to get it returned to her.

[[folder:Starling Birdsong]]

!!Starling Birdsong
A wandering minstrel Fitz encounters during his travels in ''Assassin's Quest.'' She picks up on his true identity and resolves to follow in his path, seeking to make a song out of his story so great as to buy her a place of security even into her old age.

* BabiesEverAfter: She was supposedly sterile, but she got pregnant by her husband.
* BettyAndVeronica: She's the Veronica to Molly's Betty.
* {{Fingore}}: She has two of her fingers broken by Burl, both for lying about Fitz's identity and to punish Fitz for his defiance. Given minstrels are usually left unharmed and her fingers are essential to her livelihood, Starling is horrified at such a punishment.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted. After her rape, she takes herbs to abort. They failed the first time, and taking a bigger dose the second time, against the herbalist's advice, is what left her (almost) completely infertile.
* FriendsWithBenefits: With Fitz. Not uncommon among the minstrel folk, at least by reputation.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Starling puts her goal of becoming a bard who will witness an incredible event she can make a song of above the feelings and goals of everyone else, including [[spoiler: selling out Fitz's daughter to Kettricken and Chade to put on the Farseer throne just so she can accompany Kettricken and Fitz to look for Verity and try to use the voyage to become famous, although according to her she didn't realise it was meant to be secret.]] She's also very jealous of the Fool's close friendship with Fitz and becomes very indignant whenever Fitz knows something she doesn't.
** It's eventually elaborated that this attitude comes from [[spoiler:the keep she lived in getting raided and destroyed by Red Ship Raiders, with her getting raped in the process, which taught her how easily things can fall apart. Therefore she is paranoid of ending up alone and abadoned, with nothing to support her, and she wants to prevent that via becoming famous through her songs, which will also get her enough money to always be able to live well.]]
* MeaningfulName: Of course, though it seems that minstrels frequently choose their names with this in mind.
* TheBard: Her eventual goal. As a wandering minstrel her life is destined to become harsher as her beauty, voice, and health eventually begin to wane, and so she seeks a position as a permanent court-bard to avoid that fate.
* UnrequitedLove: Was in love with Fitz, but he only ever had eyes for Molly... [[spoiler:and was too emotionally crippled after Assassin's Quest to form that kind of attachment, anyway.]]

[[folder:Kettle]]

!!Kettle
A mysterious old woman Fitz encounters in his travels. She takes an immediate, and unusual, interest in him, and often seems to be more than she appears to be.

* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:She murdered her own sister, and as a result broke apart the coterie they were in, harming the power of Farseer throne. Her primary goal by the time of the story is to find a way to make up for her mistake.]]
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:Murdered her own sister over a man, especially notable given that the two did love each other.]]
* DePower: [[spoiler:Got her Skill burned out of her for her crime, using her own guilt to do it, and still can't use it centuries later, mostly because Kettle keeps adding to that guilt. Fitz, the Fool, and Nighteyes together are eventually able to restore Kettle's power, via convincing her to forgive herself.]]
* TheExile: [[spoiler:Thanks to murdering her sister, who was also a member of Kettle's coterie, the rest of the coterie burned out Kettle's skill and cast her out.]]
* Really700YearsOld: [[spoiler:Thanks to the lingering effects of her VainSorceress days, she's at least some 200 years old at the start of ''Assassin's Quest''.]]
* FamilyThemeNaming: [[spoiler:Her orginal name was Kestrel and her sister's name was Gull.]]
* SiblingTriangle: In Kettle's past she had shared affections for a man, [[spoiler:the leader of their coterie, Stachion]], alongside her sister [[spoiler:and fellow coterie member Gull eventually leading to Kettle murdering her sister when she found Gull and Stanchion sleeping together.]]
* VainSorceress: [[spoiler:When she was younger she turned the Skill in on herself to try and extend her lifespan to perserve her youth and beauty. While both have faded by the time of the story, she is still alive centuries later.]]

!! Characters introduced in the Liveship Traders Trilogy

[[folder:Althea Vestrit]]

!!Althea Vestrit

* BreakTheHaughty: While she's a skilled sailor and a far more suitable heir to her father than Kyle, she doesn't know as much as she thinks she does, and it's only after about a book and a half of humbling experiences that she's really ready to lead a crew.
* DaddysGirl: She was indisputably her father's favourite.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: She realizes too late that she can't ask a captain to provide a reference for her when she's been fooling him for months into thinking she's someone else.
* FatalFlaw: Pride. Althea isn't an ill-intentioned person but she is quite spoiled by her father and tends to want everything her way. It takes some BreakTheHaughty for her to admit she didn't have the necessary experience to be captain of a Liveship, she ends up abandoning ''Vivacia'' to Kyle because she cannot swallow her pride and take orders from him, and her proud personality means that she tends to interpret Brashen's protectiveness of her as patronising (which she isn't entirely incorrect about) and will stubbornly refuse to address the issue that bothers her. She also could have saved her family from their dire financial situation if she'd agreed to marry Grag Tanira, but she refused him on the grounds that she wasn't in love with him and that he expected her to give up sailing upon becoming his wife, which was understandable but lead to Malta ending up in an ArrangedMarriage with Reyne instead.
* TheGentlemanOrTheScoundrel: She's briefly in this LoveTriangle with Grag Tanira and Brashen Trell, the gentleman and scoundrel, respectively. She does like Grag, but only as a friend, and spends much of the trilogy pining over Brashen.
* HalfIdenticalTwins: A twist, in that her near-twin is not her brother but her nephew.
* MistakenForGay: At one point Malta insinuates that the people of Bingtown have started spreading rumours that Althea is in love with Amber, on the basis that she's always seen in Amber's company after she returns from her long voyage, dresses like a man and turned down Grag Tanira's marriage proposal even though everyone agrees that Grag is an excellent catch and Althea has no good reason to refuse him. Ironically, Amber is one of the only people who calls Althea out on her SlapSlapKiss with Brashen and [[spoiler: might actually be a man herself, since Amber is the Fool.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Storming off ''Vivacia'' after her father's funeral means that she misses out on a crucial window to bond properly to ''Vivacia'' because she cannot stand the idea of being subordinate to Kyle. This ends up being a huge part of why ''Vivacia'' is so easily manipulated [[spoiler: and why Althea doesn't get the liveship at the end of the trilogy - even though ''Vivacia'' loves her, ultimately Wintrow has a bond with her that is too deep for either of them to ever ignore and Althea was parted from ''Vivacia'' for nearly the entire story.]]
* SlapSlapKiss: With Brashen, an old crewmember of her father's.
* SweetPollyOliver: She has to pose as a boy named "Athel" to be hired on most ships.
* {{Tomboy}}: To the distress of her mother and older sister, as sailing has become a completely male profession.
* TheUnfavorite: Considers herself to be such when Ephron leaves ''Vivacia'' to her SmugSnake of a brother-in-law, though Keffria bitterly notes that Ephron spoiled and indulged Althea despite her tearaway behaviour, while the obedient, dutiful Keffria was overlooked by her more dynamic sister.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: She's very vocal about how much she dislikes how bratty her niece is and dismisses her as a spoiled child, completely failing to notice that she and Malta are actually ''very'' similar and Keffria implies Althea was just as bad at Malta's age.

[[folder:Brashen Trell]]

!!Brashen Trell

* FunctionalAddict: He's a habitual cindin user in the first book, but he gradually kicks the habit.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He's appalled when a fourteen-year-old Malta attempts to flirt with him and tells her she should be ashamed of herself. Bit rich coming from a guy kicked out of his own family for his delinquent behaviour.
* SelfMadeMan: Although he was born to a wealthy family, they kick him out for his prodigal ways and he takes to the sea. Under Ephron's tutelage he's built a reputation as an excellent sailor.
* StayInTheKitchen: Brashen may consider himself to be more worldly-wise than much of Bingtown, but he still has some of their ingrained values and he keeps trying to keep Althea out of the more dangerous work, which causes numerous clashes between the two of them. Brashen does have practical reasons to be concerned, as he points out that even if she's posing as a man, Althea simply isn't as physically strong as the other sailors and her cover could get blown if they notice, but Althea being a woman and one he's in love with is also a strong factor.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: With Althea. [[spoiler:[[RelationshipUpgrade They do when he becomes Paragon's captain and she his first mate.]]]]

[[folder:Wintrow Haven]]

!!Wintrow Haven

* AbusiveParents: Kyle Haven is not a model father. First he goes from merely being dismissive of Wintrow to verbally and emotionally abusing him, before finally allowing a slaver to brand his son's face when he runs away and throwing him belowdeck with the rest of them.
* BadassPreacher: Develops into this as the books wear on.
* BreakTheCutie: The entire first book does this to him and it's not even the end of his troubles.
* ContemplateOurNavels: He does this a lot, as he's a priest, and he and ''Vivacia'' tend to get in a lot of discussions over it.
* TheDragalong: Wintrow was happy in the monastery and is basically forced upon ''Vivacia'' because of his blood ties to the ship.
* HalfIdenticalTwins: Looks remarkably like Althea.
* MySisterIsOffLimits: He is noted to be looking rather disapproving when watching Malta dancing with Reyne in the final book, even though Malta has been in an ArrangedMarriage to Reyne for a considerable amount of time at that point and Malta and Wintrow barely know each other.
* StupidGood: Starts out as this. He learns a lesson about it at the hands of some very unfriendly guards.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Kennit, though not at first. Intially, Wintrow just tries to ingratiate himself to Kennit out of self-preservation, but over time his desire to stay on Kennit's good side morphs into genuine (albeit twisted) loyalty. Even after [[spoiler: Althea's rape]] forces Wintrow to accept that Kennit is an awful person, he can't fully renounce his emotional attachment to the man and even [[spoiler: Althea]] acknowledges that Kennit was more a father to Wintrow than Kyle ever was.
* WellDoneSonGuy: He was never actually one, but when he needs his finger amputated he decides to pretend he was one to see how Kyle takes it. Kyle didn't.

[[folder:Malta Vestrit]]

!!Malta Vestrit

* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: She's very disappointed when Cerwin Trell doesn't try to kiss her even when he's supposedly trying to win her hand, which makes Malta disregard Cerwin as "just a boy" and turn her attentions to Reyn.
* BrainyBrunette: It's hard to notice at first thanks to her spoiled demeanour, but Malta is very cunning, especially for her age, to the point her grandmother Ronica finds it quite unsettling.
* BreakTheHaughty: Her father leaves early in the first book and the family is gradually stripped of its wealth, reputation, embroiled in a political conspiracy, she gets a nasty scar on her face and then stuck in a flooding underground city with [[RoyalBrat the Satrap]] and is forced to rescue him and herself before she can reunite with her family. As a result she's much less spoiled, immature and much sharper and a little nicer, though she's still as headstrong and sharp-tongued as ever.
* CharacterDevelopment: Possibly has the ''most'' development of the entire trilogy, going from a spoiled, bratty child to a cunning teenager to a politically savvy, excellent Trader who ends up saving both her family and home in the third book.
* ComingOfAgeStory: The trilogy is hers, detailing her going from a pre-teen into a young woman.
* DaddysGirl: Just like Althea, her father spoils her rotten and prefers her to her siblings, though in Malta's case her father indulged her worst impulses, instead of Ephron nurturing Althea's free spirit.
* JerkassHasAPoint: When Ronica and Keffria scold Malta for her behaviour, Malta retorts that they keep treating her like a child and refusing to explain matters to her but expect her to know and understand the consequences of everything as an adult would. Even they have to admit that they can't keep her sheltered forever and their financial situation requires Malta to grow up and learn the ways of a Trader fast in order to make a good match.
** When Althea tries to exclude Malta from conversations on the basis she's a child and angrily tells Malta to stop embarrassing herself, Malta retorts that Althea is the one causing embarrassment to herself and her family with her antics.
* SpoiledBrat: She is one initially but grows out of it, though she does retain a headstrong streak and appreciation for jewels.
* TheTease: She enjoys pitting the affections of Cerwin and Reyn against one another and briefly flirts with Brashen and later the Satrap too.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Malta is rather vain and obsessed with courting and romance, but she's also very headstrong, determined and quite a spitfire, traits Reyn finds ''very'' attractive.
* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Malta loves honey - she puts honey in her tea and hides her prized honeydrops in her room.

[[folder:Kennit]]

!!Kennit

* AmbiguouslyGay: Despite Kennit regularly bedding Etta (and making a huge point to take her "as a woman"), he never shows any real emotional attachment to her and merely keeps her around for convenience, since Etta basically worships him, and because having a beautiful woman doting on him makes his crewmembers envious and in awe of him. On the other hand, he thinks of Wintrow in downright poetic language at times, muses on Wintrow's beauty and Wintrow is seemingly the ''only'' person (besides possibly his mother) that Kennit dislikes the thought of physically or emotionally harming, though granted that may be because Wintrow is soul-bonded to Kennit through ''Vivacia'' and views Wintrow as an extension of himself. When he [[spoiler: rapes Althea]], he repeatedly notes how much she resembles Wintrow and rationalises that what he's doing isn't wrong because it's between a man and a woman, whereas [[spoiler: his rape by Igrot]] was wrong. He also uses similar language of "courting" with Sorcor that he uses with Etta and the former is just as slavishly devoted to him as the latter.
* BornLucky: Kennet has learned to always trust in his luck; even when things don't go his way, he ends up being able to exploit his misfortune. This is why he is viewed as a hero by everyone around him, despite not even trying to hide that he is a monster -- everything he does gets twisted in the eyes of onlookers into an act of benevolence or wisdom.
** At the end of ''Ship of Magic'', [[spoiler:his leg gets infected after a battle against a sea serpent. He is secretly deeply resentful of Winston for amputating it, but it cements his status as a hero in the eyes of his crew, who believe he threw himself in harm's way on purpose.]]
** The first time he goes after a slave transport, it's because it's easy pickings. When he disgustedly orders his crew to wash the filthy freed slaves, they interpret it as an act of goodwill, which ruins his original plan to just kill them and take the ship.
* CameBackWrong: It's revealed in the third book that [[spoiler: Kennit actually ''died'' on Paragon twice, both by Igrot's hands, but Paragon loved him so much and couldn't bear to be parted from him that he healed Kennit both times.]]
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: He does seem to still care about his mother, even if he does leave her on an island for months at a time because being around her brings back painful memories.
* GoodLuckCharm: A tiny wizardwood carving of his face.
* HeyYou: He tends to refer to Etta as "the woman", he usually only calls her by her name when he wants something from her.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He views other people entirely in terms of how useful (or not) they are to him.
* ManipulativeBastard: Constantly manipulates everyone and anyone around him, Etta and Paragon being the most painful examples.
* LackOfEmpathy: His POV shows a noticeable sense of detachment from other human beings.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: One of the reasons why he's a VillainWithGoodPublicity is that he keeps inadvertently helping the people he's trying to exploit, and in the end [[spoiler: by stealing ''Vivacia'' and forging a kingdom for his own aggrandizement, then conveniently dying so that someone nobler than him ends up in charge of both, he changes the entire known world for the better.]]
* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:He put the trauma from his sexual abuse into ''Paragon'' as he grew up.]] This had the unfortunate side-effect of turning him into a sociopath.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler:He rapes Althea near the end of the story]], cementing that he's beyond redemption.
* SlaveToPR: Carefully and methodically cultivates his public image to the point of obsession. He's quite willing to murder everyone who he suspects has knowledge that would shatter said image.
* TheSociopath: Kennit ticks almost all of the boxes - superficially charming, a grandiose sense of self-worth, LackofEmpathy, views everyone around him as how they can best benefit him, etc.
* TragicVillain: When push comes to shove, Kennit is not a good person. He also happens to not be entirely... whole, through a series of events that are nothing short of a major TraumaCongaLine of abusive awful that was definitely ''not'' entirely of his own making, at a time when he was far too young to cope. [[spoiler: Paragon and he made the mistake of trying to remove his pain in a bid to save him, but they wound up making a right hash of who each were, which bits belonged where and how you put a person, let alone a divided set of merged dragon-mixed-with-human-memories-around-a-premature-Liveship-construct, together in something resembling health. All major personality aspects of this horrific merger were too inexperienced/ confused to have a hope of getting it right.]] And, the result was some very messed-up personalities; primarily, but not exclusively, what wound up in Kennit's head.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Before Igrot got ahold of him, Kennit was apparently a happy child.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: People start to think of him as hero when he makes attacking slave ships (and freeing or recruiting their human cargo) his primary strategy.
* VillainousValour: Despite putting himself and his survival as his paramount priority, he does not shy from personally engaging in combat and being quite proficient in it.
* WickedCultured: Connoisseur of fine poetry and quite the dandy about his appearance. Enjoys philosophical debates with Wintrow.

[[folder:Jek]]
!!Jek

* ActionGirl: Holds her own in combat.
* AmazonianBeauty: Generally wears a leather jerkin and bands to show off her biceps. The Bingtowners and Jamaillans are shocked by this since in both their cultures women StayInTheKitchen. Sailors line up for the chance to armwrestle her - although she loses Wintrow suspects she's throwing them.
* EthicalSlut: Happily promiscuous, and she doesn't hide her appetites either.

!!Characters introduced in the Tawny Man Trilogy

[[folder:Dutiful]]

!!Dutiful
Son of Kettricken and Verity, although Verity was wearing Fitz's body at the time, making him Fitz's blood son. Raised much in the Mountain tradition by his mother.

* BondCreatures: Like Fitz he is Witted and spends much of ''The Tawny Man'' looking for an animal to bond with, much to Fitz's consternation (he believes he is too young for such a commitment). There are several references to a dog in ''Fitz and the Fool'', including at least one that describes it as his "wit-hound", suggesting that he eventually finds what he is looking for.
* TheDutifulSon: Has a few bumps on the way, but is very much this at heart.
* MeaningfulName: As with many of the royal Farseers, Dutiful both subverts and lives up to his name. When we first encounter him he has absconded from court; but spends the rest of the trilogy as TheDutifulSon, doing everything his mother and Chade want him to out of a sincere desire to help his people. Of course it helps that his is a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage, at least from his point of view.
* DemotedToExtra: In ''Fitz and the Fool'', in terms of his impact on the plot, though it's made clear that he has important problems of his own and is thus perhaps more the HeroOfAnotherStory.
* SorcerorKing: Like most Royal Farseers he is a powerful user of the Skill. He also has the Wit.

[[folder:Laurel]]

!!Laurel
Queen Kettricken's huntswoman, and an ally to Fitz during the events of ''Fool's Errand.'' Her unique position leaves her well-placed to be trusted by both the Queen and the Old Blood, and she serves as one of the main ambassadors in the effort to end the persecution of the Old Blood. [[spoiler:Eventually takes Chade Fallstar as a lover and dies giving birth to his son sometime before the ''Fitz and the Fool'' books begin.]]

* DemotedToExtra: Is one of the central characters in ''Fool's Errand'' but then gets sent off to be the HeroOfAnotherStory in ''Golden Fool'' and barely appears after that.
* HonorableMarriageProposal: [[spoiler: Chade offers one when he finds out that Laurel is pregnant. She declines, knowing him well enough to know she'd never be able to truly love him.]]
* MuggleBornOfMages: Her family is Old Blood, but Laurel herself did not inherit the hereditary Wit magic and was ostracized from their community for it.

[[folder:Prilkop]]

!!Prilkop
A White Prophet from several generations ago, now known as the Black Man who haunts the island on which the dragon Icefyre is entombed. His skin, once albino like the Fool's, has long since gone fully to coal-black as he lived out his cycle as the White Prophet and saw his visions become reality.

* Really700YearsOld: He's actually over a thousand years old.

[[folder:Thick]]

!!Thick
A young man living among the servants of Buckkeep. Born to a mother living among nomadic folk who, it's implied, was rather old, Thick bears physical deformities and mental disability, giving him a very childish and immature attitude and perspective. However, he's also phenomenally gifted with the Skill, perhaps making him the strongest user of that magic seen in the book.
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* IdiotSavant: Most people assume he is a moron (hence his name), but Fitz immediately realizes he is a very strong (if completely untrained) user of the Skill. As he becomes more powerful, Fitz is frequently intimidated at the least at the thought of what Thick seems able to do, particularly once Thick notes that replicating the persistent memory-fogging encountered in Withywoods wouldn't be that hard now that he'd seen it done. Heck, he's so damn gifted in the very difficult area of reconstructive healing that he knocks the propaganda idiots like Galen spouted for generations about how the use of the Skill was a refined talent fit only to be trained and used by those graced with great intelligence and at least ''some'' noble blood right out the window.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Is very good at making people forget their interactions with him, and is later the first to realize that the oddness and missing memories of the people of Withywoods was caused by an incredibly powerful Skill-suggestion printed on their minds.
* TheLoad: Subverted. At first his PowerIncontinence makes him far more of a hindrance than an asset, but he ends up being the only Skill user strong enough to [[spoiler: rescue Fitz and Nettle from inside Icefyre's mind]], which he does seemingly effortlessly.

!!Characters introduced in the Rain Wild Chronicles

[[folder:Thymara]]

!!Thymara

* AbusiveParents: Thymara’s mother resents her for being alive and marked by the Rain Wilds, and resents her father for rescuing her when the midwife left her outside to die. The abuse is mostly mental, although Thymara recalls an incident where she nearly fell to her death, and isn't sure whether she lost her balance or her mother pushed her.
* LonelyTogether: With Tats, in the beginning - as he's one of the Tattooed, and she's heavily Marked, neither of them are accepted by the Rain Wilders.
* ScaledUp: Becomes scaled and even grows wings as she becomes an Elderling.
* WingedHumanoid: Since Dragons can shape their Elderlings in their own image, Sintara decides to make Thymara [[spoiler:the first ever winged elderling.]] It's agonizingly uncomfortable for Thymara, [[spoiler:until she manages to find an enchanted bed in Kelsingra that magically adjusts itself to accomodate her wings.]]

[[folder:Rapskal]]

!!Rapskal

* DragonRider: His dragon is the only dragon who will allow her keeper to ride her on a day-to-day basis.
* EntitledToHaveYou: Acts this way with Thymara once he begins absorbing Tellator's memories in Kelsingra, [[spoiler: especially as Tellator starts to take him over and he starts losing the ability to tell the difference between Thymara and Tellator's lover Amarinda.]]
* FearlessFool: He comes off as this quite a bit.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: During the fourth book he starts becoming one of these because he [[spoiler:absorbed so many of Tellator's memories he mentally became Tellator.]]
* {{Keet}}: Especially before he starts taking on Elderling traits. Tats compares him to a darter lizard.
* ScaledUp: As with all Elderlings, he takes on dragon traits as his bond with Heeby deepens.

[[folder:The Dragons]]

!!The Dragons

!!Characters introduced in the Fitz and the Fool Trilogy

** DragonInChief: It is implied in ''Assassin's Apprentice'' and more or less confirmed in the follow-up Farseer books that Galen was the true brains behind Regal's ascent to the throne.
** DragonWithAnAgenda: Fitz suspects that Galen's long-term goal was to set Regal up as a PuppetKing with himself as the ManBehindTheMan.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: [[spoiler: He is described as having been very close to Queen Desire, being one of her "favorites". Unsurprising, considering that he was her son.]]
* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler: To Fitz. Both are the bastard children of members of the nobility who were brought to the capital to be raised as loyal servants of the crown. But whereas Fitz matured into a fine young man with a strong moral code and genuine loyalty towards his friends, Galen is an unscrupulous opportunist who will do anything to gain power for himself and his likeminded allies.]]

A mysterious old woman Fitz encounters in his travels. She takes an immediate, and unusual, interest in him, and often seems to be more than she appears to be. [[spoiler:She's actually the last surviving member of a centuries-past coterie of Skill users, wandering the earth in penance after she murdered her sister in a quarrel over a man and broke their coterie apart.]]

* TheExile: [[spoiler:For killing her twin sister.]]
* Really700YearsOld: [[spoiler:She's at least some 200 years old at the start of ''Assassin's Quest''.]]
* FamilyThemeNaming: [[spoiler: Kestrel and Gull.]]
* SiblingTriangle: Kettle was part of one in her past [[spoiler:which lead to her exile and the death of her twin sister.]]

[[folder: Fitz]]

[[folder: Burrich]]

* AbusiveParents: Well not a parent, but as Fitz's main caretaker. In his youth Fitz hated and was afraid of Burrich, and only began to think of him differently after Burrich beat Galen half to death for beating Fitz. He got the idea because one of the first things Galen did was find him beginning to Bind with one of the hound puppies; Burrich took the pup from Fitz, and Fitz had thought he killed it. [[spoiler:He actually gave it to Kettricken's brother and Fitz found out a decade and a half later.]]

[[folder: Chade Fallstar]]

[[folder: The Fool]]

[[folder: Molly Chandler]]

[[folder: Chivalry Farseer]]

[[folder: Verity Farseer]]

* TheSociopath

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: August. Although he bullies Fitz like other members of the royal court, he's shown to have his bright spots. He complies, albeit reluctantly, with Fitz's request to contact King Shrewd whereas any of the other coterie members would have told Fitz to get bent. Later, August is spared from being poisoned along with Regal's other servants [[HeKnowsTooMuch who knew about the plot]], implying that he was deemed to have [[TokenGoodTeammate too many scruples to be privy to such plans]]. What's more, August acts more snobbish and standoffish as opposed to the blatantly crazed and sadistic behavior exhibited by the rest of the coterie, implying that he was spared from being [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Skill-Imprinted]], likely due to his status as a relative of the royal family.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Starling puts her goal of becoming a bard who will witness an incredible event she can make a song of above the feelings and goals of everyone else, including [[spoiler: selling out Fitz's daughter to Kettricken and Chade to put on the Farseer throne just so she can accompany Kettricken and Fitz to look for Verity and try to use the voyage to become famous.]] She's also very jealous of the Fool's close friendship with Fitz and becomes very indignant whenever Fitz knows something she doesn't.

[[folder: Kettle]]

[[folder: Althea Vestrit]]

[[folder: Brashen Trell]]

[[folder: Thymara]]

* StockholmSyndrome: At first Wintrow just tries to ingratiate himself to Kennit out of self-preservation, but over time his desire to stay on Kennit's good side morphs into genuine (albeit twisted) loyalty. Even after [[spoiler: Althea's rape]] forces Wintrow to accept that Kennit is an awful person, he can't fully renounce his emotional attachment to the man and even [[spoiler: Althea]] acknowledges that Kennit was more a father to Wintrow than Kyle ever was.

* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: [[spoiler:Biologically a girl, they grew up believing themselves to be a boy for their own protection. When informed otherwise, Chade helps them establish two personas which they switch between depending on the situation, called Spark when dressed as a girl and Ash when dressed as a boy, thus possibly genderfluid.