History Characters / TheLockedTombSixth

* ContraltoOfDanger: Gideon's narration notes that she has a deep voice for a woman, and she's definitely one of the most dangerous cavaliers at Canaan House.

* HasTwoDaddies: A brief aside in ''The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex'' mentions she has two fathers who work in the Achives.

* GenderNeutralWriting: Paul is referred to as they/them, though its as much a reflection of the fact that they're one person from two souls, with Paul using both "we" and "I" in the hours after their birth, as it is that their gender identity is left undiscussed.

* SuperStrength: Paul is noted to be far stronger than Camilla's body has any right to be, and they easily roll away barriers to the Tomb and easily carry Crux, a massive man in full armor.

* IAmNotLeftHanded: While she's tremendously skilled with her rapier and knife, her [[WeaponOfChoice primary weapons]] are actually dual shortswords, which she only fights with when she truly needs to do so.

* {{Determinator}}: Most people dismiss as impossible his method of tethering himself to the Riverbank and holding on with sheer bloody-mindedness for months on end, given a revenant would eventually lose focus. Palamedes and Camilla know first hand just how much of a problem that kind of focus can be.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Although he has a long and complicated history with Dulcinea, he is never rude to Gideon, despite Dulcinea's obvious interest in her, and his obvious interest in Dulcinea. He tells Cam that he is only happy to see Dulcinea with someone who can make her laugh.

* MeaningfulName: Palamedes was one of the Greek heroes of the Trojan War, and an archtypal example of a GeniusBruiser. Muir notes he was almost named after the far better known Diomedes, who features prominently in ''Literature/TheIlliad'' being favored by Athena and going on to other notable events after the Trojan war, but ultimately she changed it for the joke Gideon makes about his name.

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The cavalier primary to Palamedes, and Warden’s Hand of the Library. The first person narrator of ''The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex''.

-> "But there are more worlds than this. Come with us. We are the love that is perfected by death--but even death will be no more; death can also die."
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* MeaningfulName: Palamedes was one of the Greek heroes of the Trojan War, and an archtypal example of a GeniusBruiser. Muir's notes he was almost named after the far better known Diomedes, who features prominently in ''Literature/TheIlliad'' being favored by Athena and going on to other notable events after the Trojan war, but ultimately she changed it for the joke Gideon makes about his name.

* TheChainsOfCommanding: His role as the Warden of the Sixth butts up against the violent and unstable political realities of non-Empire planets after he convinces the Sixth to defect from the Empire, while also wanting to take responsibility for the remaining Cohort members driven mad by Number Seven, and the 9 million residents and refugees of the planet; trying to balance and care for everyone in that equation is something he and Camilla refuse to give up on, even as Pyrrha calls it hopelessly idealistic.

* MeaningfulName: Palamedes was one of the Greek heroes of the Trojan War, and an archtypal example of a GeniusBruiser. Muir's notes he was almost named after the far better known Diomedes, who features more prominently in ''The Aenid'', being favored by Athena and going on to other notable events after the Trojan war, but ultimately she changed it for the joke Gideon makes about his name.

* MeaningfulName: Camilla is the name of a female warrior from ''Literature/TheAeneid'', and was picked to match the syllable sound in Pal''am''edes' name.

* EarlyBirdCameo: A proto-version of Paul appears early on when Nona recounts a flashback to an incident where she and Camilla were ambushed by Merv Wing Edenites, causing both Palamedes, causing Camilla-and-Palamedes to both be present at the same time. Nona recognizes them as someone new, like she does Paul later, but the process [[HeroicRROD nearly kills Camilla]] with resulting thanergy shock.
* EyeColorChange: As a fused soul, they have an entirely different type of eye than other Lyctors in the series, with Camilla's irises and Palamedes' eye color replacing the pupil.
* GenderNeutralWriting: Paul is referred to with they/them pronouns, though its as much a reflection of the fact that they're one person from two souls, with Paul using both "we" and "I" in the hours after their birth, as it is that their gender identity is left undiscussed.
* MeaningfulRename: As they formed a complete Lyctoral fusion, the resulting person is neither Palamedes Sextus nor Camilla Hect; they adopt the name Paul, and politely rejects attempts to add anything else. [[BrickJoke Kiriona still interjects to find a new way to make their name an innuendo.]]

* MergerOfSouls: Palamedes' conception of a true Lyctorhood is what he deems "a Grand Lysis": a complete fusion of two souls, a literal end point of "One flesh, one end." The Sixth ultimately choose to complete their bond, to transport Nona through the River, to open the Tomb, to save Camilla's life, and as a grand act of undying love. Paul is the resulting person, not Palamedes or Camilla, but someone new; Paul has both of their memories and can think like either of them if they wish, but chooses deliberately to go forward as as a new person.

* {{Foil}}: Harrow's primary counterpart. Like Harrow, he became the head of his House at a young age, and is one of the few necromancers able to match her in both [[InsufferableGenius genius and smugness]], but unlike Harrow, he's a well adjusted and compassionate person. Their specialties also parallel one another, with Palamedes being a spirit magician [[TheMedic who studied medicine]] while Harrow is classic [[DemBones bone adept]]. Most blatantly, they both also fell in [[SingleTargetSexuality all consuming]] [[LoveAtFirstSight love]] with someone unattainable when they were young and would use that devotion to drive them forward for years. Or, as Gideon puts it: "You're both into old dead chicks."

* ResurrectionGambit: He planned for his death, preparing to make himself a revenant. His suicide had a secondary effect of preserving him in a bubble inside the River, to be recovered by Camilla later. TheStinger of ''Harrow the Ninth'' reveals he independently perfected the Lyctorhood process, and is now a true Lyctor alongside Camilla.

* ColorCodedEyes: Her eyes are a dark brown-grey to emphasize her being lowkey yet highly intelligent. They're often compared to frost-covered soil. In ''Nona the Ninth'', as Palamedes achieves a partial Lyctorhood with her, her natural eye color becomes his original one; combined with her general demeanor falls into IcyGrayEyes.

* CrazyPrepared: She carries a lot of equipment around at all times just in case Palamedes might undertake an impromptu investigation or be called on for medical knowledge, ranging from practical things such as water and a torch to measuring tapes and medical equipment. She even considers carrying around a full microscope at one point.

* TheStoic: She rarely emotes, even compared to the stoicism of most cavaliers. When she does it's usually resigned exasperation with the antics of those around her, or small signs of affection for those she cares about; even her agony at Palamedes' ([[Resurrection Gambit temporary]]) is kept tightly restrained. ''The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex'' indicates she was like this even as a teenager, though she and Pal do end that story [[NotSoStoic doubled over in laughter]] at the aforementioned doctor's name.
** NotSoStoic: Bursts into fierce and violent tears in the final moments of her life as Palamedes says his goodbyes to her when they prepare to complete their Lyctoral fusion, out of sheer relief and love.

* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Downplayed and ultimately subverted She has known Palamedes since they were both young, and has watched him pine helplessly over Dulcinea for all those years, but the love between them is no less real and valuable, and the two of them ultimately complete their Lyctoral bond in a rushed and informal ceremony [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything evocative of a wedding]].

* TheMedic: Naturally, as gestalt of two people who were both medically trained, Paul is as well; serving as both doctor and assistant at the same time, with the benefit of [[HealingHands Lyctoral healing]].

* SuperStrength: Paul is noted to be far stronger than Camilla's body has any right to be, and they easily roll away barriers to the Tomb and easily carry Crux, a massive man in full armor,

* EmbarassingNickname: Crown tries to use "Millie" for her, which she hates ferociously. Crown is able to use this to confirm her suspicions that she's managed to resurrect Palamedes when he [[SpottingTheThread fails to react to it like Camilla should]].

* AttackAttackAttack: Her fighting style is compared by Gideon to a grease fire: leaving a lot of openings but moving quickly with no-holds barred, with the goal of winning a fight as quickly as possible. The combination makes her a ferocious fighting, but means she carries the risk of being bested by someone with greater technical skill or winning but getting hurt in the process.

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The Master Warden of the Sixth, Palamedes Sextus, the greatest necromancer of his generation, cannot accept Lyctorhood as the Lyctors of old knew it, as Ianthe Tridentarius committed it, as Harrowhark Nonagesimus had it thrust upon her: an act of sacrifice too simple and too cruel to be the end point of a necromancer and his cavalier. Throughout the series he comes to a different view, that true Lyctorhood is a mutual sacrifice and rebirth, a MergerOfSouls he deems a Grand Lysis. He and Camilla love each other too much to accept anything less.

In order to bring Nona home and at long last unlock the Tomb, to save Camilla's life, and to perfect their love, Palamedes and Camilla opt to do the best and truest and kindest thing that they can do, and perform their Grand Lysis, dying in the process to create Paul.

* AttackAttackAttack: Her fighting style is compared by Gideon to a grease fire: leaving a lot of openings but moving quickly with no-holds barred, with the goal of winning a fight as quickly as possible. The combination makes her one of the best fighters at Canaan House, but means she carries risk of getting hurt in the process or being bested by someone with greater technical skill.

* ClingyJealousGirl: Even through her stoicism, she suggests having a low opinion of Dulcinea, who Palamedes is in love with, while it's heavily implied that she has feelings for Palamedes herself. Ends up downplayed, as when she finally explains their relationship, she admits to being resigned and confused about their long courtship, and is mostly upset that Dulcinea hurt Palamedes by rejecting his marriage proposal rather than actually hating her as a rival. In ''The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex'' she's introduced reading a letter Dulcie sent them both, calling Camilla and Palamedes her "pals"--it's possible some of her low opinion comes from the two of them finally meeting "Dulcie" in person only to be treated like strangers by Cytherea in disguise.
* ColorCodedEyes: Her eyes are a dark brown-grey to emphasize her being lowkey yet highly intelligent. They're often compared to frost-covered soil. After Palamedes perfects the Lyctoral process with her, her natural eye color becomes his original one; combined with her general demeanor falls into IcyGrayEyes.

* EyeColorChange: Her dark brown-grey eyes are replaced with Palamedes' grey eyes in TheStinger of ''Harrow the Ninth'', revealing she found a way to become a true Lyctor with Palamedes.

** NotSoStoic: Bursts into fierce and violent tears when Palamedes says his goodbyes to her when they prepare to complete their Lyctoral fusion, out of sheer relief and love.

* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: She has known Palamedes since they were both young, and has watched him pine helplessly over Dulcinea for all these years.
* WhenSheSmiles: Only very rarely smiles, but her fierce and brief smiles lighten her face considerably, and make her look quite a bit like Palamedes.

* GenderNeutralWriting: Paul is referred to with they/them pronouns, though its as much a reflection of the fact that they're one person from two souls as it is that their gender identity is left undiscussed.
* MeaningfulRename: As they formed a complete Lyctoral fusion, the resulting person is neither Palamedes Sextus nor Camilla Hect; they adopt the name Paul, and politely rejects attempts to make portmanteaus of their prior names. [[BrickJoke Kiriona still interjects to find a new way to make their name an innuendo.]]
* MergerOfSouls: Palamedes conception of a true Lyctorhood is what he deemed "Grand Lysis", a complete fusion of two souls, a literal end point of "One flesh, one end." Paul is the result of the Sixth performing this.
* ThatManIsDead: They are Palamedes-and-Camilla, but both Camilla and Palamedes are dead. Nona instantly recognizes Paul as Camilla once recognized her, as someone new, and when comforting Nona, Paul is careful to refer to them in the past tense.

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!!! In ''Gideon the Ninth''

* ChekhovsSkill: Palamedes spends much of his time at Canaan House picking up thanergetic traces with his psychometry and commenting on them. His psychometry ends up being how Cytherea's true identity is revealed, after he accidentally touches a message she'd written.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: The last time he's seen in life, he gives Gideon an honest smile, and he's obscured from sight while he confronts "Dulcinea" before committing a HeroicSuicide.
* FinalSpeech: Doubling as a ShutUpHannibal speech to Cytherea while enacting his HeroicSuicide.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[ActionBomb Detonates his thanergy reserves]] in an attempt to kill Cytherea. It doesn't initially work, but is critical to slowing her down enough that the others can finish her off.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Although he has a long and complicated history with Dulcinea, he is never rude to Gideon, despite Dulcinea's obvious interest in her, and his obvious interest in Dulcinea. He tells Cam that he is only happy to see Dulcinea with someone who can make her laugh.
* NotEnoughToBury: He died by detonating his thanergy reserves all at once, and when Harrow encounters his coffin in ''Harrow the Ninth'', all she notes in the coffin is shards of bone and ash, barely anything like a corpse. When Camilla returns with a fragment of his skull, Gideon's narration inside Harrow observes how utterly painstaking it must have been to identify and glue together slivers of bone no larger than fingernail clippings.
* PrecociousCrush: When he was eight, he began trading letters with a 15-year-old Dulcinea and fell in love with her, though he knew he was too young for her at the time. He's never really gotten over it either, although he mostly just wants Dulcinea to be happy.
* SingleTargetSexuality: He's loved Dulcinea ever since he was a child, and she's the primary reason he drove himself to become the Master Warden at such a young age, even if he recognized she never truly reciprocated.
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!!! In ''Harrow the Ninth''
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* AfterlifeAntechamber: As part of his ResurrectionGambit, he created a bubble anchored to the Riverbank that preserves him from properly entering it, and spent eight months clinging to his remains while extremely bored.
* {{Determinator}}: Most people dismiss as impossible his method of tethering himself to the Riverbank and holding on with sheer bloody-mindedness for months on end, given a revenant would eventually lose focus. Palamedes and Camilla know first hand just how much of a problem that kind of focus can be.
* YearInsideHourOutside: He's stunned when Harrow tells him that he's been dead for eight months, having believed it would only take her a week at most to contact him.
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!!! In ''Nona the Ninth''
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* TheChainsOfCommanding: His role as the Warden of the Sixth butts up against the violent and unstable political realities of non-Empire planets after he convinces the Sixth to defect from the Empire, while also wanting to take responsibility for the remaining Cohort members driven mad by Number Seven, and the 9 million residents and refugees of the planet; trying to balance and care for everyone in that equation is something he and Camilla refuse to give up on, even as Pyrrha calls it hopelessly idealistic.
* FictionalDisability: His presence in ''Nona'' is sharply limited by the proximity of Number Seven, only being able to surface inside Camilla for a few minutes at a time without going mad or causing her body pain. Although difficult to deal with, Palamedes refuses to compromise on the time limit for risk of hurting Camilla.
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[[folder:Camilla]]
!!Camilla Hect
!!! CAVALIER PRIMARY TO THE HEIR, WARDEN'S HAND OF THE LIBRARY
The cavalier primary to Palamedes, and Warden’s Hand of the Library. The first person narrator of ''The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex''.
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!!! In ''Gideon the Ninth''
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* ClingyJealousGirl: Even through her stoicism, she suggests having a low opinion of Dulcinea, who Palamedes is in love with, while it's heavily implied that she has feelings for Palamedes herself. Ends up downplayed, as when she finally explains their relationship, she admits to being resigned and confused about their long courtship, and is mostly upset that Dulcinea hurt Palamedes by rejecting his marriage proposal rather than actually hating her as a rival. In ''The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex'' she's introduced reading a letter Dulcie sent them both, calling Camilla and Palamedes her "pals"--it's possible some of her low opinion comes from the two of them finally meeting "Dulcie" in person only to be treated like strangers by Cytherea in disguise.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: While she's tremendously skilled with her rapier and knife, her [[WeaponOfChoice primary weapons]] are actually dual shortswords, which she only fights with when she truly needs to do so.
* UncertainDoom: She's seen alive and badly wounded before Gideon's suicide, but Harrow's narration loses track of her, and the Emperor’s forces find no trace of her at Canaan House, alive or dead. ''Harrow the Ninth'' reveals that she survived, and is a member of Blood of Eden.
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!!! In ''Harrow the Ninth''
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* PutOnABus: She appears only briefly in ''Harrow the Ninth'', appearing before Harrow midway through the book before reappearing in TheStinger.
* ThousandYardStare: Her reaction to Palamedes' death is muted by her drive to fulfill his ResurrectionGambit, but it's clear that the fear of failure and pain of losing the Warden deeply affects her during the events of ''Harrow'' and ''As Yet Unsent'':
--> Camilla Hect was a closed object, with locks and snaps; she had an expression like the rock before the Tomb, inexorable, giving nothing away. But her eyes--her eyes were dark as the grit mixed with the soil, neither grey nor brown but both. They were the eyes of a winter season without any promise of spring. In comparing the eyes to the face, you saw a zipped-up agony.
--> And she said, with that same, dull, blank, diamond-hard pain: "The Cohort took the rest of him away. And I don't know where they have put him."
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!!! In ''Nona the Ninth''
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* CoolBigSis: Effectively serves as a mother or older sister figure to Nona, being the stern member of her family compared to the more indulgent Pyrrha and the teacherly Palamedes; Nona even directly describes her as "the person who takes care of her". What keeps her from being the TeamMom is that she doesn't have the same relationship with Pyrrha, who treats her more as a rebellious and idealistic teenager a few years too late, or Palamedes, who she still serves as cavalier to.
* NotSoStoic: Bursts into fierce and violent tears when Palamedes says his goodbyes to her when they prepare to complete their lyctoral fusion, out of sheer relief and love.
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* MeaningfulRename: As they formed a complete Lyctoral fusion, the resulting person is neither Palamedes Sextus nor Camilla Hect; they adopt the name Paul, and politely rejects attempts to make portmanteaus of their prior names. Kiriona still interjects to find a new way to make their name an innuendo.

'''''NOTE''''': Due to the large amount of reveals regarding the Sixth, this page contains '''unmarked spoilers''' for all works in the series.

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* MeaningfulRename: As they formed a complete Lyctoral fusion, the resulting person is neither Palamedes Sextus nor Camilla Hect; they adopt the name Paul, and politely rejects attempts to make portmanteaus of their prior names. Kiriona still interjects to find a new way to make their name an innuendo.