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* Irony: He somewhat resents his mother Aughra for turning a bling eye toward the Gelflings in favor of studying the stars, yet it was because he himself was born from an organic meteorite given form by Aughra that she became interested in looking beyond Thra to study the universe in the first place.
** He also distrust and even despises the urSkeks because they are aliens to Thra but he is no more a native then they are considering his origins as being from the stars himself

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Miki Iveria, Patrick Monckton, Sue Wheatherby and Barry Dennen (1982)

* IdenticalGrandson: He apparently bears enough of a resemblance to his grandfather that Aughra mistakes him for such when she wakes.

[[folder:Aughra's Assistant]]
!!Aughra's Assistant

* WalkingSpoiler: In the Series, at least. Borders on ItWasHisSled with the 80's movie. Averted in the Comics.

* BishonenLine: They are far more humanoid-looking in contrast to the more animalistic Mystics and Skeksis. [[InvertedTrope Though they're actually an inversion of the usual procedure of a monstrous being becoming handsome, as the Urskeks, who were the original form split into the less humanoid like Mystics and Skeksis; with the finale of the film reuniting the two halves to their original state.]]

* WeaponOfChoice: A spoon.

* SimpleStaff: Carries a staff of wood.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: Raunip hates the urSkeks because they are alien and not native to Thra. Aughra reveals that Raunip is not a "true" son of Thra either, having been born from an organic meteorite Aughra melded into Raunip. This revelation leads him to becoming TheAtoner.

* BizarreAlienPsychology: Implied. urSkek society is highly collectivistic, which to greatly simplify things meaning that the Community is considered more important than the individual, and individuals value collective unity more than individuality. That's not the bizarre part, since 90% of Earth cultures have been that way. The bizzare part comes later. Anyway, their society is ''so'' Collectivistic that any deviant behavior is considered Heretical, the appropriate punishment for which being banishment ([[RealityIsUnrealistic still not out of the ordinary compared to Earth's collectivistic cultures]]). According to them, "Mastering One's darker self" is what it means to be an urSkek (probably mere hyperbole, like when philosophers ask what it means to be human), to the point that when the particular urSkeks we meet in the franchise tried to monkey around with their world's Crystal (which to be fair could reasonably warrant banishment ''regardless'' of how collectivistic your society is), they were banished and only allowed to return once they had, indeed, mastered their darker selves. The bizarre alien psychology part is that, considering they had to devise a magical purification process that would only work when the suns aligned, AND that the entire thing was screwed up for ''everyone'' just by ''one'' of them getting a bit nostalgic, "mastering one's darker self" probably isn't as simple for an ursSkek as just working through their emotions and learning restraint or humility.

* BenevolentAlienInvasion: [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]]. They did uplift the gelflings from roughly hunter-gather-level technology to mideval-level, but they also bribed Thra's MotherNature GeniusLoci into abandoning her children, since the urSkeks coveted Thra's crystal. Then when they spilt into the urRu and Skeksis, their urRu halves basically wandered off to become amish hermits for the next thousand trine, with the Skeksis halves remaining in charge. From there, the Skeksis' rule starts out benevolent, then gradually slides through BreadAndCircuses, and then in the series we see it finally achieve the state of full-blown despotism that its in during the movie.

Aughra, Keeper of Secrets is the very essence of the world of Thra itself. An old hermit with a gorilla-like face who lives in a brain-shaped observatory atop a mountain, Aughra is wise and experienced enough to know the joy of the world before the takeover by the Skeksis.

* GeniusLoci: of Thra itself.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Her entire reaction in Age of Resistance. After her thousand years slumber of searching through the stars, she comes back to a Thra that is dying because she gave the Crystal over to the Skeksis who abused her gift. She begins to blame herself for the Darkening all the damage it's causing to the creatures living in Thra.

* LifeOfTheParty: They love to throw a party, drink and and dance.