History Characters / TheDarkHunters

* NoSocialSkills: Does not play well with others 99.9% of the time. Possibly a case of NotGoodWithPeople, because he ''is'' shown being kind in other ways, like when he lets a family of martins live in his woodstove even though he knows that leaving them there means he (obviously) can't light the stove and keep himself warm, in subzero Alaska. And later when his cabin explodes, his goes out of his way to save the martins so they survive. He's also shown getting food and water for Sasha in his wolf form, before he knows Sasha is a Were-Hunter rather than just Astrid's half-wolf guard dog.

(The Dark-Hunter universe has {{Loads and Loads Of Characters}} so be aware that this page is quite long. And still under construction, so in the future it will be longer still.)

* OneTrueLove: Soteria Kafieri (Tory). He loves her with all his heart and soul ans she is literally the only person he will allow at his back. They end up HappilyMarried with BabiesEverAfter, though of course Ash doesn't retire from being leader of the Dark-Hunters and continues "wrangling" them.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Examples abound, but the most notable instance (and the one Ash himself regrets the most) is not telling Nick that Simi is his daughter. Because of his own paranoia and desire to keep Simi safe and secluded from the world, he did not tell ''his best friend'', who happened to be something of a charmer, that the smokin' hot Goth babe was his precious adoptive daughter. Nick, while definitely something of a Cajun {{Casanova}}, would never have touched Simi had he know she was Ash's daughter. This leads to Ash overreacting when he finds out they slept together: he literally blasts Nick through a wall, and accidentally (with his innate spoken-word-as-fate abilities) curses Nick to kill himself...except Nick wouldn't kill himself in normal circumstances, so circumstances had to change so that he would. Namely, his mother Cherise (the most important person in Nick's life and also someone Ash cared for), and his someday-wife are both killed by Daimons. It's when Nick finds his mother's body that he blows his brains out with a gun; only Artemis's intervention and offer to turn him into a Dark-Hunter ''prevents his soul from being dragged to Hell'' because he is a Catholic who committed suicide. Way to go, Ash. All you had to do was say hands off. Probably also a case of NiceJobBreakingItHero.

* FriendToAllChildren: Is really great with kids, as seen in ''Acheron'' where he and some of the others get together to play and ref a kid's basketball game; they also link up with one of the kids in particular to play MarioKart.

* {{Badass}}: Is indisputably this. Also a case of AsskickingEqualsAuthority perhaps, because while technically he is Noir's slave, he's also Noir's enforcer and pretty much everyone in Azmodea (other than Noir and Azura) are terrified of Seth when he's on-duty. It's strongly implied that even Noir is a little bit fearful of Seth, because he goes to tremendous lengths to keep Seth's god-powers drained and unusable, for fear of what Seth would do to ''him'' if they ever faced off on equal terms.

* BadAss: Jared is a Sephiroth. Sephirii hunt and kill Malachai demons. Even more impressive when you realize that it is recommended to take a massive army with you if you ever want to capture one Malachai. He fought against ''armies'' of them.

* {{Badass}}: Is definitely this. Whenever Savitar shows up, he's either kicking someone's ass or threatening to kick someone's ass.

* MagicalBarefooter: She is a GranolaGirl with genuine magical abilities (like seeing auras). The WordOfGod [http://www.sherrilynkenyon.com/character/sunshine-2/ states] that she has a preference for going barefoot.

* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: Pretty much ditched Seth in the human realm which resulted in Seth being sold into slavery and tortured by Noir and Azura for centuries...but the catch here is that Set's original reason for not claiming Seth was that he was trying to ''protect'' Noir from getting to him. His plan failed spectacularly and Seth spent the vast majority of his life hating his father, but as of ''Styxx'' they seem to be working things out.

* DealwiththeDevil: His current schtick. He needs to broker deals with demons in order to maintain his strength so that his enslavement to Azura doesn't kill him. It's worth noting that he does take these deals very seriously and will ''not'' be happy if someone reneges on him or does something that inadvertently breaks another of his deals. And while he can grant the asker just about anything, most demons view him as an absolute last resort because he scares the crap out of everyone.

* Super-PoweredAlterEgo: Jaden himself views his Verlyn side as this, even referring to that part of himself as ''the'' Verlyn. He remarks that as Verlyn he almost completely lacks compassion, viewing the balance of good and evil as the only thing that matters. Jaden seems to be not particularly fond of this side of himself, since he made several decisions as Verlyn that seem to trouble him (he at one point notes that as Verlyn he doesn't even have compassion for ''his own sons'', which might explain some of his harsher actions against them). In ''Invision'', he at one point even comments that he mistrusts Xev and Caleb not so much for their demon blood, but more for the fact that they're ''his'' sons, and that he knows what a terrible beast the Verlyn is.

* IDidWhatIHadtoDo: Seems to have this attitude in ''Instinct'', regarding the manipulation of Jared so that he fathered Cherise, which led to Nick, the Malachai, having Sephirii blood in him. Xevikan in particular is disgusted by her actions, saying that she's no better than any of the other gods with the way she treats people as chess pieces (his wrath is, of course, even more understandable once you learn that Jared is his son).

* WhatTheHellHero?: Gets one from Nick (and Xev) in ''Instinct'' when the group learns that she, as Cam, orchestrated Cherise's birth and relationship with Adarian, and therefore Nick's very existence. Since Nick always viewed Menyara as one of the few people who loved him and his mother unconditionally, he took it as a very sharp betrayal, since it means that Mennie is more or less responsible to all the crap that both Nick and his mother have ever gone through. In ''Invision'', it's shown that he still hasn't quite gotten over it, but manages to put his anger aside when Menyara is in danger.

* BadAss: Jared is a Sephiroth. Sephirii hunt and kill Malachai demons. Even more impressive when you realize that it is recommended to take a massive army with you if you ever want to capture one Malachai. He fought against armies of them.

* LadyofWar: Is a very vicious goddess when crossed, and a very powerful warrior. Also extremely beautiful and regal. Luckily for the world, she's trapped in the Atlantean hell realm and can't get out unless Acheron either goes down there to release her or dies.

* WhattheHell,Hero?: Gets one from Nick (and Xev) in ''Instinct'' when the group learns that she, as Cam, orchestrated Cherise's birth and relationship with Adarian, and therefore Nick's very existence. Since Nick always viewed Menyara as one of the few people who loved him and his mother unconditionally, he took it as a very sharp betrayal, since it means that Mennie is more or less responsible to all the crap that both Nick and his mother have ever gone through. In ''Invision'', it's shown that he still hasn't quite gotten over it, but manages to put his anger aside when Menyara is in danger.

One of the missing Gods of Light, Verlyn is the earth’s protector. Without him…It’s not a good day to be human. If we find no one else, we must find Verlyn.

There's not much to be said about Verlyn for sure at the moment, but there is a lot of fan speculation that he has some sort of connection to Jaden; the most prevailing theory seems to be that Jaden and Verlyn are one and the same but suffering from some sort of split personality/identity issue that has to do with Noir enslaving him/them. The Verlyn we see in ''The Guardian'' is large, muscular, and bald with tattoos, and has one green eye and one brown. (The heterochromia is a notable characteristic in that Jaden's eyes are exactly the same, just with the coloring reversed; his left eye is the color of Verlyn's right eye, and vice versa).
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A recurring character throughout the series. It was recently confirmed in the CoN book ''Invision'' that he is in fact Verlyn. Sort of.

!!Verlyn
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A recurring character through the series, his largest role so far is in ''The Guardian'', but he is mentioned numerous times throughout both the Dark-Hunter books and the Chronicles of Nick series.

!!Jaden

A recurring character throughout the series.

Jaden is bloodthirsty to say the least. He’s also a rabid survivor who takes nothing from anyone. Actually that’s not true, he takes whatever he wants. He’s crossed paths a time or two with Ash and Savitar and it has never been pretty. Not a Chthonian, he refuses to answer any questions about himself. He vanishes for centuries at a time, but when he’s on earth, things always go bad. No one knows the extent of his powers or his weakness. But one thing no one can miss are the strange claw marks on his neck. Or the fact that he moves even faster than the gallu.