History Characters / TheSaxonStories

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!House of Bebbanburg and Household

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[[folder: Steapa Snotor]]

[[folder: Odda the Elder]]

[[folder: Odda the Younger]]

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!!Other Characters

* MagnificentBastard: Occasionally in later books, when he starts using his head more than his sword. One of the best examples relates to the matter of the throne of Mercia after Aethelred, Uhtred's cousin and Lord of Mercia, dies. Uhtred has one of the strongest claims to the throne of Mercia, through his mother. Despite having no real interest in the throne, he tells Lord Aethelhelm the Elder (the most powerful Lord in Wessex, father of King Edward of Wessex's second wife, while Uhtred has Edward's twins, Aethelstan and Eadgyth, by his brief first marriage as his wards) that he'll support the claim of Aethelhelm's grandson, Alfweard, to the throne of Wessex over that of his ward Aethelstan, while he is King of Mercia. Aethelhelm, seeking to remove a powerful opponent, supports his claim and Uhtred becomes King of Mercia. Then, about five minutes later, he abdicates in favour of Aethelflaed, who is Aethelred's widow, Uhtred's lover, and Edward's older sister - and a supporter of her eldest nephew, Aethelstan, who now has a powerful kingdom behind him. Aethelhelm's flat response to being OutGambitted sums it up.
--> You bastard.

* UsefulNotes/AngloSaxons: By blood. He vacillates between the Saxons and the Danes for a while, before eventually settling on the Saxons by ''Sword Song''.

* BadassGrandpa: He is at least sixty-seven by "Sword of Kings."

** DomesticAbuse also seems to set him off. In ''War of the Wolf'', it's noted that he generally punishes his men if they beat their wives, in part because of how he saw his father treat his stepmother.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Uhtred is infuriated by Aethelred's abuse of Aethelflaed and later terrifies him into not raising a hand to her again.

** He's sometimes noted in his younger days as having become more Danish than the Danes.

* HatesEveryoneEqually: As both a young and an old man, he hates just about everyone. In between, he mellows out.

* TheLastDJ: Uhtred's "career" as it were is constantly stalled out due to his being a pagan.

* OddFriendship : With Fathers Pyrlig, Willibald, and Beocca, for various different reasons - all priests of a religion that he hates.

* NiceGuy: He's one of the friendliest characters in the series, enough to make even Uhtred at his grumpiest like him.

* BadassGrandpa: He is sixty-one by the time of "The Flame Bearer."

* ReliableTraitor: For the first few books, due to being caught between the Danes - who he loves, including his adopted family - and his oath to Alfred, with the general pattern being that he'll join up with the Danes until someone reminds him of his oath. The last vestiges of this die out in ''Sword Song''.

* TheAngloSaxons: By blood. He vacillates between the Saxons and the Danes for a while, before eventually settling on the Saxons by ''Sword Song''.

* AngloSaxons: By blood. He vacillates between the Saxons and the Danes for a while, before eventually settling on the Saxons by ''Sword Song''.

* ReallyGetsAround: He ends up with a ''lot'' of girlfriends over the years, never mind visits to the brothel in early books. However, with the exception of the thoroughly unhappy ArrangedMarriage with Mildrith, he's always entirely faithful to his girlfriend of the time.

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Aethelred, Lord of Mercia is his coustin, and he briefly takes the title after Aethelred dies... then cedes it to Aetheflaed. Guthred, the King of Northumbria, was his brother-in-law, and his later son-in-law is a later successor to that title.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: It's noted by more than one character (including Uhtred himself) that he's slowly turning out much like his father, something underlined by his son's narration, in which his descriptions of his father mirror Uhtred's own of ''his'' father.

Formerly: Uhtred Uhtredsson.

Uhtred's second son by Gisela.

* GoodParents: Zig-Zagged. Even Uhtred at his most cantankerous notes how gentle and playful he is with his children, and how fond he is of them - which actually raises him in Uhtred's estimation somewhat. However, by modern standards, his refusal to intervene in Aethelred's DomesticAbuse of Aethelflaed would firmly disqualify him - even if he was pretty certain that Uhtred, who angrily brought it to his attention, was going to do something violent about it.

* AngloSaxon: By blood. He vacillates between the Saxons and the Danes for a while, before eventually settling on the Saxons by ''Sword Song''.

** DomesticAbuse also seems to set him off.

* MagnificentBastard: Occasionally in later books, when he starts using his head more than his sword.

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Aethelred, Lord of Mercia is his cousin, and he briefly takes the title after Aethelred dies... then cedes it to Aetheflaed. Guthred, the King of Northumbria, was his brother-in-law, and his later son-in-law is a later successor to that title.

Uhtred's only daughter.

* TheHighQueen: Set to become this.

Uhtred's second son by Gisela

* GenerationXerox: Going by his POV section and his appearances in his father's sections, he's basically evolved into a young version of his father - albeit a less brash one.

King of the West Saxons and effective leader of the Saxons as a whole.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: While he's a devout Christian and an outwardly mild-mannered man, he is revealed to be exceptionally dangerous - for instance, he's just about the only man in Britain who can actually control [[WildCard Uhtred.]]

* IronLady: In later life, scaring the living daylights out of most people who aren't Uhtred.

Bastard son of Alfred by a serving girl.

* HeroicBastard: Alfred's bastard son, and entirely loyal to him and to his legitimate siblings, who he gets on with very well.
* TookALevelInBadass: He takes many, starting out as an unwilling novice monk, and fairly useless soldier, who Uhtred only puts up with because he wants to annoy Alfred, before becoming one of Uhtred's most trusted men.

!! Finan the Agile

* BadassGrandpa: He is sixty-one by the time of "The Burning Land."

* ActionDad: Becomes one by Mildrith at the end of The Last Kingdom, and then again by Gisela between ''Lords of the North'' and ''Sword Song.''
* AngloSaxons: By blood. He vacillates between the Saxons and the Danes for a while, before eventually settling on the Saxons by ''Sword Song''.

* BornInTheWrongCentury: He would have been right at home with his pagan ancestors invading Britain.

* EveryoneHasStandards): Uhtred is infuriated by Æthelred's abuse of Æthelflaed and later terrifies him into not raising a hand to her again.

* TheFettered: Uhtred takes oaths very seriously; the oath he swore to Alfred early on in the series is essentially the only thing that has kept him from running off to the Danes a long time ago.

* GenerationXerox: It's remarked at points that he's turned out much the same way as his father, something underlined by his son's POV section.
* GlorySeeker: Possibly what angers Uhtred the most in ''The Pale Horseman'' is that Alfred refuses to give him the glory for killing Ubba - mostly because someone else claimed it first (though it is hinted that Alfred knew what happened).
* HappilyAdopted: By Ragnar and his family.

* HeroicComedicSociopath: He's a hero, and usually the one with both sarcastic commentary and the one to advise Alfred or his successor to straight up murder somebody. It gets to the point where, during ''The Pale Horseman'', Alfred's immediate reaction to Uhtred being cheerful is to assume that he's just killed somebody.
* HiddenDepths: He has more than a passing knowledge of Christian scripture, even if he hates it.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's not a nice person, and gets even less so after the love of his life dies, but he is a good person at heart.

* MadeASlave : In ''Lords of the North''. Cue RoaringRampageOfRevenge.

* OddFriendship : With Fathers Pyrlig, Willibald, and Beocca - all priests of a religion that he hates.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething): Aethelred, Lord of Mercia is his cousin, and he briefly takes the title after Aethelred dies... then cedes it to Aetheflaed. Guthred, the King of Northumbria, was his brother-in-law.
* ServileSnarker : To Alfred

* {{WildCard}}: To the point where in ''The Burning Land'', one of Ragnar the Younger's reasons for why the Danes could beat Wessex was because Uhtred was not there.

* TheUnFavourite: At first as a result of his being a soft, quiet child when Uhtred wants a brash warrior in the making, then later as a result of converting to Christianity, then finally as a result of becoming a Priest.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: While he's a devout Christian and an outwardly mild-mannered man, he is revealed to be exceptionally dangerous - for instance, he's just about the only man in Britain who can actually control [[{{WildCard}} Uhtred.]]
* TheChessMaster: When narrating ''The Last Kingdom'', Uhtred notes when Alfred gives him a fine suit of armour, an attractive heiress, and getting him to swear an oath of loyalty that this wasn't any sign that he really liked/valued Uhtred (who was at that point a brash, if talented warrior and landless noble), but merely a way of tying Uhtred to him, for his potential value in the future (and in the case of the heiress, Mildrith, to saddle someone with a massive debt to the church).
* ManipulativeBastard: How he controls Uhtred - specifically, he knows Uhtred's buttons (his HonourBeforeReason tendencies, primarily), and precisely how to press them to get the desired result.
* OddFriendship: A devoutly Christian, mild-mannered WisePrince and a brash, openly pagan BloodKnight. Not two people you'd think would get on. Yet he and Uhtred develop one, first during ''The Pale Horseman'' when Alfred is a King on the run and relies heavily on Uhtred to survive, leading to a far greater informality in their dynamic, and later when Uhtred's mellowed out somewhat and Alfred has stopped seeing him as an attack dog to be unleashed at appropriate moments.
* ReallyGetsAround: Before he got married, he was famous for getting in the underwear of just about every woman nearby. Even after his marriage, Uhtred notes that he's still fond of beautiful women.

* BadassGrandpa: Presumably Uhtred has grown into one by time of writing.

* InfantImmortality: Averted, ''hard''. He dies choking on a pebble by a river, at roughly the same time as a magical ritual heals Edward the Aetheling.

* HeroicComedicSociopath: He's a hero, and usually the one with both sarcastic commentary and the one to advise Alfred or his successor to straight up murder somebody.

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* ActionDad: Becomes one by Mildrith at the end of The Last Kingdom, and then again by Gisela inbetween Lords of the North and Sword Song.
* Anglo-Saxons: By blood.
* Anti-Hero:
* ArrangedMarriage:To Mildrith in the Last Kingdom
* BadassGrandpa: Presumably Uhtred has grown into one by time of writing
* BarbarianHero:

* BeenThereShapedHistory:
* BerserkButton: Oath-breaking. And insulting Gisela after her passing.
* BloodKnight):Very much enjoys battling.
* BookDumb): Didn't learnt to read until he was an adult.
* BornInTheWrongCentury): Would have been right at home with his pagan ancestors invading Britain.
* CoolSword): Serpent-Breath and Wasp-Sting.
* DeadpanSnarker):
* DeathSeeker):Downplayed. While Uhtred doesn't go out of his way to try to get himself killed, he frequently mentions his desire to die with a sword in his hand, and thus ascend to Valhalla.
* EveryoneHasStandards):Uhtred is infuriated by Æthelred's abuse of Æthelflaed and later terrifies him into not raising a hand to her.
* FamedIn-story): Becomes this
* TheFatalist):
* TheFettered):Uhtred takes oaths very seriously; the oath he swore to Alfred early on in the series is essentially the only thing that has kept him from running off to the Danes a long time ago.
* ForeignCultureFetish): Despite his limited knowledge of them, Uhtred expresses great admiration of the Romans.
* GlorySeeker): Possibly what angers Uhtred the most in The Pale Horseman is that Alfred refuses to give him the glory for killing Ubba.
* HappilyAdopted): By Ragnar and his family.
* HatesEveryoneEqually):
* HeroicComedicSociopath):
* HiddenDepths):
* {Jerkass}
* KickTheSonOfABitch):

* MadeASlave : In the Lords of the North.
* {McNinja} : Attempts to be a shadow-walker in his youth.

* OddFriendship : With Fathers Pyrlig, Willibald, and Beocca.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething): Aethelred, Lord of Mercia is his cousin. Guthred, the King of Northumbria, was his brother-in-law.

* UnreliableNarrator:
* {WildCard}: To the point where in The Burning Land, one of Ragnar the Younger's reasons for why the Danes could beat Wessex was because Uhtred was not there.

Uhtred's second son by Gisela

!House of Bebbangburg and Household

[[Uhtred]]

* {WildCard}: To the point where in The Burning Land, one of Ragnar the Younger's reasons for why the Danes could beat Wessex was because Uhtred was not there.

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[Uhtred]

* (ActionDad): Becomes one by Mildrith at the end of The Last Kingdom, and then again by Gisela inbetween Lords of the North and Sword Song.
* (Anglo-Saxens): By blood.
* (Anti-Hero):
* (ArrangedMarriage):To Mildrith in the Last Kingdom
* (BadassGrandpa): Presumably Uhtred has grown into one by time of writing
* (BarbarianHero):
* (BarbarianLonghair): Makes a point of keeping his blonde hair long.
* (BeenThereShapedHistory):
* (BerserkButton): Oath-breaking. And insulting Gisela after her passing.
* (BloodKnight):Very much enjoys battling.
* (BookDumb): Didn't learnt to read until he was an adult.
* (BornInTheWrongCentury): Would have been right at home with his pagan ancestors invading Britain.
* (CoolSword): Serpent-Breath and Wasp-Sting.
* (DeadpanSnarker):
* (DeathSeeker):Downplayed. While Uhtred doesn't go out of his way to try to get himself killed, he frequently mentions his desire to die with a sword in his hand, and thus ascend to Valhalla.
* (EveryoneHasStandards):Uhtred is infuriated by Æthelred's abuse of Æthelflaed and later terrifies him into not raising a hand to her.
* (FamedIn-Story): Becomes this
* (TheFatalist):
* (TheFettered):Uhtred takes oaths very seriously; the oath he swore to Alfred early on in the series is essentially the only thing that has kept him from running off to the Danes a long time ago.
* (ForeignCultureFetish): Despite his limited knowledge of them, Uhtred expresses great admiration of the Romans.
* (GlorySeeker): Possibly what angers Uhtred the most in The Pale Horseman is that Alfred refuses to give him the glory for killing Ubba.
* (HappilyAdopted): By Ragnar and his family.
* (HatesEveryoneEqually):
* (HeroicComedicSociopath):
* (HiddenDepths):

* (KickTheSonOfABitch):
* (TheLastDJ): Uhtred's "career" as it were is constantly stalled out due to his being a pagan.
* (LoveAtFirstSight): With Gisela. "I saw her, and I was stricken."
* (MadeASlave): In the Lords of the North.
* {McNinja}: Attempts to be a shadow-walker in his youth.
* (MeaningfulRename): Was originally named Osbert. Then his elder brother died.
* (OddFriendship): With Fathers Pyrlig, Willibald, and Beocca.
* (RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething): Aethelred, Lord of Mercia is his cousin. Guthred, the King of Northumbria, was his brother-in-law.
* (ServileSnarker): To Alfred
* (UnreliableNarrator):
* (WildCard): To the point where in The Burning Land, one of Ragnar the Younger's reasons for why the Danes could beat Wessex was because Uhtred
was not there.