History Characters / ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesSpoilerCharacters

* DeathByOriginStory: They did their damnedest to "reform" Oliver from the kind, idealistic boy his mother raised into a typical cynical mage and proper member of the Sherwood dynasty. [[spoiler:This led to Oliver murdering them both after the DeathByChildbirth of the daughter he was forced to sire with Shannon and mastering the Fourth Spellblade.]]

!! Other characters
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-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 8

The ghost of an ancient Parsu {{necromancer}} whose coffin has been kept by the Rivermoore family for generations. She was given to Cyrus to care for by his great-grandfather Douglas.

* RasputinianDeath: Six of the best mages in the world came to kill her, and she fought them for most of the night and was badly wounded when Esmeralda lured her into a tunnel with the promise of a safehouse only to then run stab her through the heart from behind. The conspirators healed her enough to not die immediately, then cast a succession of 128 excruciating pain spells on her, before Esmeralda returned and devoured her soul along with her blood. A remnant of her soul containing most of her memories made its way to Oliver and settled within him.

* MultipleChoiceFuture: [[ExploitedTrope Weaponized]]: she's the earliest known wielder of the Fourth Spellblade, "Angustavia -- the thread that crosses the abyss", in which the wielder sorts through possible near-term futures to select the one with the most desirable outcome.

* RasputinianDeath: She was subjected to 128 kinds of torture, including disembowelment, being burned alive from the inside, washed in acid, and her feet being ground off, fought to escape and was given just enough rope to give her hope, then was ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by Esmeralda, who [[YourSoulIsMine ripped her soul out as she died]].

* BreakingTheCycleOfBadParenting: She went no-contact with her birth family and attended Kimberly under a pseudonym, raising her family separately so they wouldn't have to interact with her {{Gruesome Grandparent}}s, and she and Edgar are shown in flashbacks to have been {{Doting Parent}}s. Unfortunately, [[SadisticChoice she had no choice but to send Edgar and Oliver to live with them for their own safety when she got wind that her former comrades were coming to kill her]], causing Oliver to suffer a horrific TraumaCongaLine.

* {{Expy}}: {{Downplayed}}. She fulfills the narrative role of Lily Potter, as the MissingMom of the main protagonist who died trying to save his life. Also, just as Harry got Lily's eye color, Oliver resembles his father physically but got her eye color. That said, she also has some elements of ''James'' Potter, being reputedly much more TheAce (whereas her husband Edgar was a completely average mage), whereas little is known of Lily Potter's abilities as a witch in Potterverse canon, and her death drives Oliver's SeriesGoal much more directly than Lily's did Harry.

* {{Expy}}: {{Downplayed}}. He's a bit of a mishmash of both James and Lily Potter: he's the DisappearedDad of the main protagonist, and is heavily based on James physically, much like Oliver draws inspiration from Franchise/HarryPotter himself. That said, Chloe died trying to cover ''his'' escape with Oliver rather than the other way around ''a la'' James's vain attempt to delay Voldemort so Lily and Harry could escape, and James Potter was reputedly very much TheAce whereas Edgar was a merely average mage. His personality is also nothing like what we see of James, a thorough JerkJock in the {{flashback}}s we're given (albeit this comes from the subjective point-of-view of Snape), and Edgar survived his wife for several years.

* {{Expy}}: {{Downplayed}}. He's a bit of a mishmash of both James and Lily Potter: he's the DisappearedDad of the main protagonist, and is heavily based on James physically, much like Oliver draws inspiration from Franchise/HarryPotter himself. That said, Chloe died trying to cover ''his'' escape with Oliver rather than the other way around ''a la'' James's vain attempt to delay Voldemort so Lily and Harry could escape, and James Potter was reputedly very much TheAce whereas Edgar was a merely average mage. Also, unlike James, he survived his wife for several years.

* ReallyGetsAround: She was reportedly quite promiscuous as a teenage Kimberly student and was the apex of a BisexualLoveTriangle between Edgar Groves, Theodore [=McFarlane=], and Esmeralda, though she did eventually settle down as half of a BattleCouple with Ed.

* BreakingTheCycleOfBadParenting: She went no-contact with her birth family and attended Kimberly under a pseudonym, raising her family separately so they wouldn't even be the chance of them having to interact with her {{Gruesome Grandparent}}s, and she and Edgar are shown in flashbacks to have been very loving parents. Unfortunately, [[SadisticChoice she had no choice but to send Edgar and Oliver to live with them for their own safety when she got wind that her former comrades were coming to kill her]].

* SuperpowerfulGenetics: Volume 10 explains that her reported incredible natural talents as a mage are at least partly the result of her being a genetic throwback to the extinct [[{{Precursors}} progenitor demihumans]]: the Sherwoods have been engaging in RoyalInbreeding for centuries to keep that bloodline alive, and hit the jackpot with her. [[spoiler:This motivated her grandfather to drug Oliver into raping Shannon in hopes of strengthening the progenitor blood in the main family [[ChildByRape through the resulting child]] (who was ultimately stillborn).]]

!!Chloe "Two-Blade" Halford, nee Sherwood

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!!Chloe "Two-Blade" Halford

* CrusadingWidower: He was a determined but good-natured man when Chloe was alive. Her murder broke him and, with a push from led to him helping formulate the TrainingFromHell that Oliver went through as a tween [[spoiler:in order to be able to perform the [[DeadlyUpgrade soul merge]] with his mother's GhostMemory and gain access to the Fourth Spellblade]].

* OvershadowedByAwesome: Much like Oliver, he was a knowledgeable but fairly ordinary JackOfAllTrades. He was good enough to be a Gnostic Hunter, but completely outclassed by his ActionGirlfriend Chloe and her relatives

* ButNotTooBi: She eventually settled down with the male Edgar Groves, but mentions in one of her {{flashback}}s that she didn't want Esmeralda, an underclassman of hers, to think she didn't have a chance of getting together with her ''just'' because they were both women.

* MySecretPregnancy: Nobody outside of the Sherwood clan and her partner Edgar Groves seems to have been aware of Oliver's birth. Chela even met her once as a young child but hasn't connected the dots to Oliver, nor has her father Theodore, who dated Chloe at Kimberly.

The domestic partner of Chloe Halford, with whom he fell in love while attending Kimberly Magic Academy, and the father of Oliver Horn.

* BattleCouple: He and Chloe served together on a Gnostic Hunter squad before Oliver was born.
* CrusadingWidower: He was a determined but good-natured man when Chloe was alive. Her murder broke him and led to him helping formulate the TrainingFromHell that Oliver went through as a tween [[spoiler:in order to be able to perform the [[DeadlyUpgrade soul merge]] with his mother's GhostMemory and gain access to the Fourth Spellblade]].

* OvershadowedByAwesome: Much like Oliver, he was a knowledgeable but fairly ordinary JackOfAllTrades. He was good enough to be a Gnostic Hunter, but completely outclassed by his ActionGirlfriend Chloe.

Oliver's mother, who is murdered in the prologue to volume 1. One of the greatest Gnostic Hunters of all time, she hoped to change the world to end the Gnostic Wars permanently, and was betrayed and murdered by her own comrades for it.

* Year 3 (1534 GC): LN Volumes 7-11
* Year 4 (1535 GC): LN Volumes 12-13