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* WithUsOrAgainstUs: To him the line between faithful and others is basically the line between humans and sub-humans. He is shown to be kind and compassionate to his co-religionists, and even undertook dangerous trips to the Jewel Mountains to buy some of them out of slavery. The rest, however? "Wretched heathens" who can "rot away in filth" for all he cares.
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** Uloiho, the ChildhoodFriend in question, is himself an example, being a weak, hunchbacked son of a middle-class artisan, and, on the outside, not a match for a Mafia Prince. Turned out, his GenreSavvy father specifically encouraged this to improve his son's character. In the end it worked, helping not only Luta, his son, but Uloiho as well, who went to became [[GeniusCripple a world-famous jeweller and goldsmith]].
* PiratesWhoDontDoAnything: To keep the whole charade going for two centuries, the Sonmors had to actually ''rein in'' the criminal activity significantly. While there are still pick-pocketing aplenty, card sharps inhabit every sailor tavern and ''all'' prostitutes and inn bouncers in the city are in Sonmor's pocket, you probably won't find even [[DrugsAreBad a grain of Grey Dust]] in the whole area, and you can even safely wlk alone by night — if you keep to a central well-lit streets, of course.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The current Sonmors — both the semi-retired father and his up-and-rising son — are basically this. Being shrewd and practical men, they basically ''regulate'' crime, keeping it at a [[NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters socially acceptable levels]] and eradicating the [[TheSociopath truly dangerous ones]], as they are [[PracticalVillainy bad for business]].
* PiratesWhoDontDoAnything: To keep the whole charade going for two centuries, the Sonmors had to actually ''rein in'' the criminal activity significantly. While there are still pick-pocketing aplenty, card sharps inhabit every sailor tavern and ''all'' prostitutes and inn bouncers in the city are in Sonmor's pocket, you probably won't find even [[DrugsAreBad a grain of Grey Dust]] in the whole area, and you can even safely wlk alone by night — if you keep to a central well-lit streets, of course.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The current Sonmors — both the semi-retired father and his up-and-rising son — are basically this. Being shrewd and practical men, they basically ''regulate'' crime, keeping it at a [[NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters socially acceptable levels]] and eradicating the [[TheSociopath truly dangerous ones]], as they are [[PracticalVillainy bad for business]].
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** Uloiho, the ChildhoodFriend in question, is himself an example, being a weak, hunchbacked son of a middle-class artisan, and, on the outside, not a match for a Mafia Prince. Turned out, his Kei-Sonmor's GenreSavvy father specifically encouraged this to improve his son's character. In the end it worked, helping not only Luta, his son, but Uloiho as well, who went to became [[GeniusCripple a world-famous jeweller and goldsmith]].
* PiratesWhoDontDoAnything: To keep the whole charade going for two centuries, the Sonmors had to actually ''rein in'' the criminal activity significantly. While there are still pick-pocketing aplenty, card sharps inhabit every sailor tavern and ''all'' prostitutes and inn bouncers in the city are in Sonmor's pocket, you probably won't find even [[DrugsAreBad a grain of Grey Dust]] in the whole area, and you can even safelywlk walk alone by night — if you keep to a central well-lit streets, of course.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The current Sonmors — both the semi-retired father and his up-and-rising son — are basically this. Being shrewd and practical men, they basically ''regulate'' crime, keeping it at a [[NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters socially acceptable levels]] and eradicating the [[TheSociopath truly dangerous ones]], as they are[[PracticalVillainy [[PragmaticVillainy bad for business]].
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Involuntarily enforced on Wolfhound and Eurych in Tin-Vilena. When they were swindled by a dishonest merchant there,[[note]]Who, basically, {{Rules Lawyer}}ed himself out of paying the deposit for the mules they've rented elsewhere on the road and returned to him, saying that the quipu that served as a proof was forged.[[/note]] the money were returned to them on the very next day (together with a merchant who couldn't stop his excuses) by the couple of a scary-looking dudes, who then left with the quote: "The friends of Sonmor are our friends".
* PiratesWhoDontDoAnything: To keep the whole charade going for two centuries, the Sonmors had to actually ''rein in'' the criminal activity significantly. While there are still pick-pocketing aplenty, card sharps inhabit every sailor tavern and ''all'' prostitutes and inn bouncers in the city are in Sonmor's pocket, you probably won't find even [[DrugsAreBad a grain of Grey Dust]] in the whole area, and you can even safely
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The current Sonmors — both the semi-retired father and his up-and-rising son — are basically this. Being shrewd and practical men, they basically ''regulate'' crime, keeping it at a [[NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters socially acceptable levels]] and eradicating the [[TheSociopath truly dangerous ones]], as they are
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Involuntarily enforced on Wolfhound and Eurych in Tin-Vilena. When they were swindled by a dishonest merchant there,[[note]]Who, basically, {{Rules Lawyer}}ed himself out of paying the deposit for the mules they've rented elsewhere on the road and returned to him, saying that the quipu that served as a proof was forged.[[/note]] the money were returned to them on the very next day (together with a merchant who couldn't stop his excuses) by the couple of a scary-looking dudes, who then left with the quote: "The friends of Sonmor are our friends".
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* BookEnds: The series chronologcally starts with a kind priest wandering into the Grey Hounds village in a dead of winter, and after being nursed to health decides to write down Venns' myths and legends. [[spoiler: It ends with another priest similarly wandering into another village, only this priest now being Honomer.]]
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* BookEnds: The series chronologcally starts with a kind Twins' priest wandering into the Grey Hounds village in a the dead of winter, and after being nursed to health decides to write down Venns' myths and legends. [[spoiler: It ends with another priest similarly wandering into another village, only this priest now being Honomer.]]
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* HumiliationConga: Honomer in Tin-Vilena, when [[spoiler: the Twins [[DivineIntervention decided to took the matters into their own hands]]]]. First the great icon of the Twins in the main city temple miraculously rotted through in just a couple of days (after just slowly fading for years), then it just plainly ''refused'' to be removed, showing its ruined state for everyone, until the replacement was carved by the master artisan miraculously healed due to praying to the Mother (whose cult is officially suppressed and discouraged by the Hyerarchs as semi-pagan) at the equally discouraged unofficial prayer spot -- all this happened on a Honomer's watch and exactly when he hoped to raise his standing in the Church. Then Honomer decided to visit the miraculously revealed image of the Mother at Haran-Kiir (mentioned in the second book) and is plainly ''refused'' entry through the usually easy mountain pass. Finally, he gets lost in a well-known place, and is forced to wander, subsisting on raw rabbits and roots for a month, [[spoiler:until he has a mystical episode and decides to start WalkingTheEarth]].
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* HumiliationConga: Honomer in Tin-Vilena, when [[spoiler: the Twins [[DivineIntervention decided to took the matters into their own hands]]]]. First the great icon of the Twins in the main city temple miraculously rotted through in just a couple of days (after just slowly fading for years), then it just plainly ''refused'' to be removed, showing its ruined state for everyone, until the replacement was carved by the master artisan miraculously healed from blindness due to praying to the Mother (whose cult is officially suppressed and discouraged by the Hyerarchs as semi-pagan) at the equally discouraged unofficial prayer spot -- all this happened on a Honomer's watch and exactly when he hoped to raise his standing in the Church. Then Honomer decided to visit the miraculously revealed image of the Mother at Haran-Kiir (mentioned in the second book) and is plainly ''refused'' entry through the usually easy mountain pass. Finally, he gets lost in a well-known place, and is forced to wander, subsisting on raw rabbits and roots for a month, [[spoiler:until he has a mystical episode and decides to start WalkingTheEarth]].
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* HornyVikings: As of late installments, Vinitar is a textbook ''saekonungr''.
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* NaiveNewcomer: It seems that the Earth he came from is a utopian post-war society, which makes him ill-prepared for dealing with the much grittier and more wicked world he arrives to.
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* NaiveNewcomer: It seems that the [[spoiler:the Earth he came from from]] is a utopian post-war society, which makes him ill-prepared for dealing with the much grittier and more wicked world he arrives to.
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!!Vinitarius The Maneater
A Segvan chieftain forced off his ancestral island by the encroaching ices, who settled close to the Grey Hounds clan village where Wolfhound (well, just Pup then) lived. Being an avaricious and jealous man, and a habitual robber baron (while most Island Segvans has renounced [[{{Pirate}} their piratical pursuits]], becoming honest sellswords and plucky ocean traders, Vinitarius sticks to the good old ways), Vinitarius felt that his new lands will look even better without those pesky Venns around, and one fateful night attacked their village, massacring everyone except the young Wolfhound.
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* HiredGuns: Well, sellswords rather. After he broke up with his father, he and his men made a living hiring themselves out to various lords needing a well-kept mercenary company.
* HonorBeforeReason: Vinitar would've very much rather be friends with Wolfhound, but his honor commands him into the blood feud, because Wolfhound killed the Maneater without a duel.
* ParentalAbandonment: His mother died when he was a child, and his father ''hated'' him with a passion. He ended up being raised by [[NeverMessWithGranny his grandmother]] and his father's men, after he impressed them with his strength of character (yeas, even as a kid). They then mostly ended up defecting to him from his father.
* TheUnfavorite: He is the son of a wife Vinitarius didn't particularly like anyway, and being too much alike her, not to mention "weak and sissy", how the Maneater had put it, he was often mocked by his father and his lickspitties.
* WarriorPrince: Most of his father's entourage defected to him anyway, and even if he doesn't really have a land now, he's still a noble with his own merry company.
* WorthyOpponent: He and Wolfhound hold nothing but a healthy respect to each other and are only at odd because the [[HonorBeforeReason honor binds them]] into a [[CycleOfRevenge Blood Feud]].
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!!Vinitarius The Maneater
A Segvan chieftain forced off his ancestral island by the encroaching ices, who settled close to the Grey Hounds clan village where Wolfhound (well, just Pup then) lived. Being an avaricious and jealous man, and a habitual robber baron (while most Island Segvans has renounced [[{{Pirate}} their piratical pursuits]], becoming honest sellswords and plucky ocean traders, Vinitarius sticks to the good old ways), Vinitarius felt that his new lands will look even better without those pesky Venns around, and one fateful night attacked their village, massacring everyone except the young Wolfhound.
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* HonorBeforeReason: Vinitar would've very much rather be friends with Wolfhound, but his honor commands him into the blood feud, because Wolfhound killed the Maneater without a duel.
* ParentalAbandonment: His mother died when he was a child, and his father ''hated'' him with a passion. He ended up being raised by [[NeverMessWithGranny his grandmother]] and his father's men, after he impressed them with his strength of character (yeas, even as a kid). They then mostly ended up defecting to him from his father.
* TheUnfavorite: He is the son of a wife Vinitarius didn't particularly like anyway, and being too much alike her, not to mention "weak and sissy", how the Maneater had put it, he was often mocked by his father and his lickspitties.
* WarriorPrince: Most of his father's entourage defected to him anyway, and even if he doesn't really have a land now, he's still a noble with his own merry company.
* WorthyOpponent: He and Wolfhound hold nothing but a healthy respect to each other and are only at odd because the [[HonorBeforeReason honor binds them]] into a [[CycleOfRevenge Blood Feud]].
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!!Vinitarius The Maneater
A Segvan chieftain forced off his ancestral island by the encroaching ices, who settled close to the Grey Hounds clan village where Wolfhound (well, just Pup then) lived. Being an avaricious and jealous man, and a habitual robber baron (while most Island Segvans has renounced [[{{Pirate}} their piratical pursuits]], becoming honest sellswords and plucky ocean traders, Vinitarius sticks to the good old ways), Vinitarius felt that his new lands will look even better without those pesky Venns around, and one fateful night attacked their village, massacring everyone except the young Wolfhound.
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!!Vinitarius The Maneater
A Segvan chieftain forced off his ancestral island by the encroaching ices, who settled close to the Grey Hounds clan village where Wolfhound (well, just Pup then) lived. Being an avaricious and jealous man, and a habitual robber baron (while most Island Segvans has renounced [[{{Pirate}} their piratical pursuits]], becoming honest sellswords and plucky ocean traders, Vinitarius sticks to the good old ways), Vinitarius felt that his new lands will look even better without those pesky Venns around, and one fateful night attacked their village, massacring everyone except the young Wolfhound.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Honomer isn't a bad man, really, but his ambitions pretty much consumed him completely, until [[BreakTheHaughty he was brough down and shown the error of his ways]] [[spoiler: by the miracles of the Twins and their Mother]], leaving him a better man afterwards.
* BookEnds: The series chronologcally starts with a kind priest wandering into the Grey Hounds village in a dead of winter, and after being nursed to health decides to write down Venns' myths and legends. [[spoiler: It ends with another priest similarly wandering into another village, only this priest now being Honomer.]]
* BreakTheHaughty: It basically took [[spoiler: [[DivineIntervention the Twins themselves]]]] to take him down a peg, but in the end it ''was'' pretty effective.
* ChurchMilitant: His faith always was pretty easy on the violence matter, and Honomer himself is a follower of the Senior, who was a warrior in his corporeal life.
* CrystalDragonJesus: The Twins church is basically Christianity in a pretty thin disguise, in social position if not in the doctrine (which more resembles Zoroastrianism or Mithraism, if anything).
* HumiliationConga: Honomer in Tin-Vilena, when [[spoiler: the Twins [[DivineIntervention decided to took the matters into their own hands]]]]. First the great icon of the Twins in the main city temple miraculously rotted through in just a couple of days (after just slowly fading for years), then it just plainly ''refused'' to be removed, showing its ruined state for everyone, until the replacement was carved by the master artisan miraculously healed due to praying to the Mother (whose cult is officially suppressed and discouraged by the Hyerarchs as semi-pagan) at the equally discouraged unofficial prayer spot -- all this happened on a Honomer's watch and exactly when he hoped to raise his standing in the Church. Then Honomer decided to visit the miraculously revealed image of the Mother at Haran-Kiir (mentioned in the second book) and is plainly ''refused'' entry through the usually easy mountain pass. Finally, he gets lost in a well-known place, and is forced to wander, subsisting on raw rabbits and roots for a month, [[spoiler:until he has a mystical episode and decides to start WalkingTheEarth]].
* TheFundamentalist: He's of a more radical, by-the-book pesuasion regarding the doctrinal points of faith.
* ItsAllAboutMe: The main problem that doesn't let Honomer to be the true champion of faith. He's just too self-centered for that. [[spoiler:It is implied that when he ''does'' get thrown down a peg, he eventually becomes ''a saint''.]]
* KnightTemplar: Honomer often takes a [[TheFundamentalist radical]] stance towards the doctrine, and is very haughty and classist in general.
* ReligionOfEvil: Subverted and deconstructed exactly on his example. It's easy to brand the Twins faith this if we only give it a brief glance through Honomer's actions, but then we'd see brother Nikila, other noble and kind priests, [[spoiler:the Mother [[WalkingtheEarth and her wanderings]]]], all the good that they had done... And even Honomer himself isn't evil in his heart, just [[AmbitionIsEvil too blinded by his own passions]].
* SinisterMinister: Of a second, fire-and-brimstone type. There is actually little foundation to suggest that his faith espoused ''exactly'' this views, but he was known for his fiery sermons.
* TheUnfettered: ''Nothing'' stops Honomer in his quest of bringing more glory to the Twins (and himself).
* WalkingTheEarth: After he finally reins his ambition in.
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!!Vinitarius The Maneater
A Segvan chieftain forced off his ancestral island by the encroaching ices, who settled close to the Grey Hounds clan village where Wolfhound (well, just Pup then) lived. Being an avaricious and jealous man, and a habitual robber baron (while most Island Segvans has renounced [[{{Pirate}} their piratical pursuits]], becoming honest sellswords and plucky ocean traders, Vinitarius sticks to the good old ways), Vinitarius felt that his new lands will look even better without those pesky Venns around, and one fateful night attacked their village, massacring everyone except the young Wolfhound.
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* BookEnds: The series chronologcally starts with a kind priest wandering into the Grey Hounds village in a dead of winter, and after being nursed to health decides to write down Venns' myths and legends. [[spoiler: It ends with another priest similarly wandering into another village, only this priest now being Honomer.]]
* BreakTheHaughty: It basically took [[spoiler: [[DivineIntervention the Twins themselves]]]] to take him down a peg, but in the end it ''was'' pretty effective.
* ChurchMilitant: His faith always was pretty easy on the violence matter, and Honomer himself is a follower of the Senior, who was a warrior in his corporeal life.
* CrystalDragonJesus: The Twins church is basically Christianity in a pretty thin disguise, in social position if not in the doctrine (which more resembles Zoroastrianism or Mithraism, if anything).
* HumiliationConga: Honomer in Tin-Vilena, when [[spoiler: the Twins [[DivineIntervention decided to took the matters into their own hands]]]]. First the great icon of the Twins in the main city temple miraculously rotted through in just a couple of days (after just slowly fading for years), then it just plainly ''refused'' to be removed, showing its ruined state for everyone, until the replacement was carved by the master artisan miraculously healed due to praying to the Mother (whose cult is officially suppressed and discouraged by the Hyerarchs as semi-pagan) at the equally discouraged unofficial prayer spot -- all this happened on a Honomer's watch and exactly when he hoped to raise his standing in the Church. Then Honomer decided to visit the miraculously revealed image of the Mother at Haran-Kiir (mentioned in the second book) and is plainly ''refused'' entry through the usually easy mountain pass. Finally, he gets lost in a well-known place, and is forced to wander, subsisting on raw rabbits and roots for a month, [[spoiler:until he has a mystical episode and decides to start WalkingTheEarth]].
* TheFundamentalist: He's of a more radical, by-the-book pesuasion regarding the doctrinal points of faith.
* ItsAllAboutMe: The main problem that doesn't let Honomer to be the true champion of faith. He's just too self-centered for that. [[spoiler:It is implied that when he ''does'' get thrown down a peg, he eventually becomes ''a saint''.]]
* KnightTemplar: Honomer often takes a [[TheFundamentalist radical]] stance towards the doctrine, and is very haughty and classist in general.
* ReligionOfEvil: Subverted and deconstructed exactly on his example. It's easy to brand the Twins faith this if we only give it a brief glance through Honomer's actions, but then we'd see brother Nikila, other noble and kind priests, [[spoiler:the Mother [[WalkingtheEarth and her wanderings]]]], all the good that they had done... And even Honomer himself isn't evil in his heart, just [[AmbitionIsEvil too blinded by his own passions]].
* SinisterMinister: Of a second, fire-and-brimstone type. There is actually little foundation to suggest that his faith espoused ''exactly'' this views, but he was known for his fiery sermons.
* TheUnfettered: ''Nothing'' stops Honomer in his quest of bringing more glory to the Twins (and himself).
* WalkingTheEarth: After he finally reins his ambition in.
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!!Vinitarius The Maneater
A Segvan chieftain forced off his ancestral island by the encroaching ices, who settled close to the Grey Hounds clan village where Wolfhound (well, just Pup then) lived. Being an avaricious and jealous man, and a habitual robber baron (while most Island Segvans has renounced [[{{Pirate}} their piratical pursuits]], becoming honest sellswords and plucky ocean traders, Vinitarius sticks to the good old ways), Vinitarius felt that his new lands will look even better without those pesky Venns around, and one fateful night attacked their village, massacring everyone except the young Wolfhound.
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* MayDecemberRomance: His second wife, [[LadyOfWar Ertan]], is about 20 years younger.
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* LegacyCharacter: The official legend still maintains that it's still the same Sonmor as two hundred years ago.
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* TheManTheyCouldntHang: One of the legends of the original Sonmor says that during his execution the noose got torn, and he escaped. Thus one of the ''more posh'' ''posher'' streets in Condar is called the Torn Rope street.
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** Uloiho, the ChildhoodFriend in question, is himself an example, being a weak, hunchbacked son of a middle-class artisan, and, on the outside, not a match for a Mafia Prince. Turned out, his GenreSavvy father specifically encouraged this to improve his son's character. In the end it worked, helping not only Luta, his son, but Uloiho as well, who went to became [[GeniusCripple a world-famous jeweller and goldsmith]].
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[[spoiler: A spacer from Earth stranded on this planed after his starship hit a NegativeSpaceWedgie close to it.]] Knowledgeable beyound belief and [[TelepathicSpacemen imbued with powerful]] PsychicPowers, but overly trusting, he'd once offered his help with building a castle for a seemingly benign chieftan Vinitarius, aka The Maneater. Vinitarius quickly realised the [[FantasticNuke true potential]] of the gunpowder Tilorn used for demolishing rocks, and, after the scientist refused to reveal its secret, threw him into the dungeon, from which he was rescued by Wolfhound. The plot of the second book was started by TheQuest to reach [[spoiler: his lifeboat with its SubspaceAnsible]], which he has to leave on one of Segvan Islands after the circumstances forced him to get out of there as soon as possible.
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[[spoiler: A spacer from Earth stranded on this planed planet after his starship hit a NegativeSpaceWedgie close to it.]] Knowledgeable beyound belief and [[TelepathicSpacemen imbued with powerful]] PsychicPowers, but overly trusting, he'd once offered his help with building a castle for a seemingly benign chieftan Vinitarius, aka The Maneater. Vinitarius quickly realised the [[FantasticNuke true potential]] of the gunpowder Tilorn used for demolishing rocks, and, after the scientist refused to reveal its secret, threw him into the dungeon, from which he was rescued by Wolfhound. The plot of the second book was started by TheQuest to reach [[spoiler: his lifeboat with its SubspaceAnsible]], which he has to leave on one of Segvan Islands after the circumstances forced him to get out of there as soon as possible.
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* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: After he avengers his clan.
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* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: After he avengers his clan. clan.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Wolfhound starts without any supernatural abilities, except, maybe, a very good night-vision. By the fourth book, he's got powerful [[{{Empath}} tele-empathy]], some other psionics, including weak pyrokinesis, and [[spoiler:VoluntaryShapeshifting]]. All this comes from a combination of him being the ChosenOne of the Hound, his ancestor animal, and from mastering the kan-keero martial art.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Wolfhound starts without any supernatural abilities, except, maybe, a very good night-vision. By the fourth book, he's got powerful [[{{Empath}} tele-empathy]], some other psionics, including weak pyrokinesis, and [[spoiler:VoluntaryShapeshifting]]. All this comes from a combination of him being the ChosenOne of the Hound, his ancestor animal, and from mastering the kan-keero martial art.
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* BadassBookworm: Eurych starts with some battle psionics, and by the second book learns some martial arts, which really helps him in a pickle.
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* AndroclesLion: Well, bat. Wolfhound saved his whelps from being squashed by some mining equipments in Jewel Mountains, and he's been loyal to him ever since.
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* CluelessChickMagnet: Let's see — he gets at least ''three'' girls[[note]]And maybe four, if we count [[RescueRomance Niilith]], though she soon switches her attentions to Tilorn.[[/note]] openly crushing on him in the first book alone, [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys despite]] [[FaceOfAThug his looks and reputation]]: [[PrecociousCrush Little Doe]], [[AllAmazonsWantHercules Ertan]] and [[RescueRomance Elen]]. He doesn't really give that much thought, though, not in the small part because [[ChasteHero he considers himself]] [[ToyShip engaged to Litte Doe]], though he eventually grows into her for real.
The Narlak city of Condar, being a [[NotSoSafeHarbor large trade haven]], always was [[WretchedHive a hotbed of crime]], but after one notable incident during a major war 200 years ago, it came forth as a seat of the [[TheDon main crime lord]] of the whole nation, whose descendants bore [[LegacyCharacter the same name and the title]] of the Night Conis ever since.
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* TheDon: Of the largest criminal network in their world, even branching "across the pond", so to say.
* LegacyCharacter: The official legend still maintains that it's still the same Sonmor as two hundred years ago.
* TheMafia[=/=]TheYakuza: Sonmor's gangs try to maintain the same image of suave sophisticates and [[NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters protectors of the underdogs]] as their prototypes. Sometimes they even succeed.
* TheManTheyCouldntHang: One of the legends of the original Sonmor says that during his execution the noose got torn, and he escaped. Thus one of the ''more posh'' streets in Condar is called the Torn Rope street.
* NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters: Manages to stay at this level, keeping his men as acceptable and socially responsible figures, with an image of [[JustLikeRobinHood friendly protectors of the weak and being safe with a common man]].
* OddFriendship: Kei-Sonmor (the heir) befriended both Wolfhound and Eurych on their journey, and as Wolfhound managed to do him a favor, saving the pregnant wife of his ChildhoodFriend from a Death Cult assassin, he extended his protection on them for his whole empire.
* PiratesWhoDontDoAnything: To keep the whole charade going for two centuries, the Sonmors had to actually ''rein in'' the criminal activity significantly. While there are still pick-pocketing aplenty, card sharps inhabit every sailor tavern and ''all'' prostitutes and inn bouncers in the city are in Sonmor's pocket, you probably won't find even [[DrugsAreBad a grain of Grey Dust]] in the whole area, and you can even safely wlk alone by night — if you keep to a central well-lit streets, of course.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The current Sonmors — both the semi-retired father and his up-and-rising son — are basically this. Being shrewd and practical men, they basically ''regulate'' crime, keeping it at a [[NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters socially acceptable levels]] and eradicating the [[TheSociopath truly dangerous ones]], as they are [[PracticalVillainy bad for business]].
* LegacyCharacter: The official legend still maintains that it's still the same Sonmor as two hundred years ago.
* TheMafia[=/=]TheYakuza: Sonmor's gangs try to maintain the same image of suave sophisticates and [[NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters protectors of the underdogs]] as their prototypes. Sometimes they even succeed.
* TheManTheyCouldntHang: One of the legends of the original Sonmor says that during his execution the noose got torn, and he escaped. Thus one of the ''more posh'' streets in Condar is called the Torn Rope street.
* NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters: Manages to stay at this level, keeping his men as acceptable and socially responsible figures, with an image of [[JustLikeRobinHood friendly protectors of the weak and being safe with a common man]].
* OddFriendship: Kei-Sonmor (the heir) befriended both Wolfhound and Eurych on their journey, and as Wolfhound managed to do him a favor, saving the pregnant wife of his ChildhoodFriend from a Death Cult assassin, he extended his protection on them for his whole empire.
* PiratesWhoDontDoAnything: To keep the whole charade going for two centuries, the Sonmors had to actually ''rein in'' the criminal activity significantly. While there are still pick-pocketing aplenty, card sharps inhabit every sailor tavern and ''all'' prostitutes and inn bouncers in the city are in Sonmor's pocket, you probably won't find even [[DrugsAreBad a grain of Grey Dust]] in the whole area, and you can even safely wlk alone by night — if you keep to a central well-lit streets, of course.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The current Sonmors — both the semi-retired father and his up-and-rising son — are basically this. Being shrewd and practical men, they basically ''regulate'' crime, keeping it at a [[NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters socially acceptable levels]] and eradicating the [[TheSociopath truly dangerous ones]], as they are [[PracticalVillainy bad for business]].
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* FunctionalAddict: Hooked on the drug/PsychoSerum Gray Dust, but falls depper and deeper into an addiction as the story goes.
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* FaceOfAThug: Look like a total cutthroat, which only adds to his sour outlook on life.
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* FaceOfAThug: Look Looks like a total cutthroat, which only adds to his sour outlook on life.
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Sour cream.
!!Gluzd Nesmeyanovich
King of a Solvenn nation with his capital in Galirad. [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure A just and noble ruler]] and the [[WarriorPrince gallant warrior]], he's a significant character in the first book and is often mentioned afterwards. He is well loved by his people, and while he is understandably suspicios of Wolfhound when they meet, he stil tries to do the right thing.
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* AllAmazonsWantHercules: He's a famous warlord himself, and ''both'' his wives were the equally well-known [[LadyOfWar warrior maidens]]. In fact, his second one [[LastMinuteHookup settled on him]] after crushing on Wolfhound for most of the book
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: As befitting to the Medieval ruler.
* DotingParent: Towards his daughter Elen, who reminds him of her mother, [[LadyOfWar who died in battle]] some years ago.
* MeaningfulName: "Gluzd" is an Old Slavic for "reason", and [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure he's exactly that]].
* {{Patronymic}}: Nesmeyanovich means "the son of Nesmeyan", or "the Unsmiling".
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: From all what is said and seen of him. He's suspicious of Wolfhound, true, but it only adds to his reasonable character, as who wouldn't be suspicious of a semi-foreign cutthroat returning from a disastrous trip with the accusations of treason towards the old-known and trusted reative?
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Not only is he very involved in daily goings of his kingdom, but he also beieves into leading from the frontlines, and often engages in diplomacy presonally, being his own envoy. In fact, he is out of Galirad for most of the book because he's on a diplomatic trip.
* WarriorPrince: A strict believer in leading from the front, and quite successful at that.
King of a Solvenn nation with his capital in Galirad. [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure A just and noble ruler]] and the [[WarriorPrince gallant warrior]], he's a significant character in the first book and is often mentioned afterwards. He is well loved by his people, and while he is understandably suspicios of Wolfhound when they meet, he stil tries to do the right thing.
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* AllAmazonsWantHercules: He's a famous warlord himself, and ''both'' his wives were the equally well-known [[LadyOfWar warrior maidens]]. In fact, his second one [[LastMinuteHookup settled on him]] after crushing on Wolfhound for most of the book
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: As befitting to the Medieval ruler.
* DotingParent: Towards his daughter Elen, who reminds him of her mother, [[LadyOfWar who died in battle]] some years ago.
* MeaningfulName: "Gluzd" is an Old Slavic for "reason", and [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure he's exactly that]].
* {{Patronymic}}: Nesmeyanovich means "the son of Nesmeyan", or "the Unsmiling".
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: From all what is said and seen of him. He's suspicious of Wolfhound, true, but it only adds to his reasonable character, as who wouldn't be suspicious of a semi-foreign cutthroat returning from a disastrous trip with the accusations of treason towards the old-known and trusted reative?
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Not only is he very involved in daily goings of his kingdom, but he also beieves into leading from the frontlines, and often engages in diplomacy presonally, being his own envoy. In fact, he is out of Galirad for most of the book because he's on a diplomatic trip.
* WarriorPrince: A strict believer in leading from the front, and quite successful at that.
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* GenocideBackfire: After the Pup killed one of the attackers, the brother of said attacker tried to sic hounds on him, but they [[((Beastmaster}} refused to tear him to shreads]]. Vinitarius saw this as a good omen and spared the kid, selling him to slavery instead. Boy, did he turned out wrong!
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* GenocideBackfire: After the Pup killed one of the attackers, the brother of said attacker tried to sic hounds on him, but they [[((Beastmaster}} [[{{Beastmaster}} refused to tear him to shreads]]. Vinitarius saw this as a good omen and spared the kid, selling him to slavery instead. Boy, did he turned out wrong!
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* {{Pirate}}: A reputation for most Island Segvans, actually, whose barren islands bear very little, so they turn towards the life of a timhighwaymen. OTOH most other island chieftains seem to find other ways of feeding their men, either by settling on the shore, or taking up a trade, but Vinitarius sticks to the old ways, apparently [[ForTheEvulz out of pure amusement]].
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* {{Pirate}}: A reputation for most Island Segvans, actually, whose barren islands bear very little, so they turn towards the life of a timhighwaymen.mairitime highwaymen. OTOH most other island chieftains seem to find other ways of feeding their men, either by settling on the shore, or taking up a trade, but Vinitarius sticks to the old ways, apparently [[ForTheEvulz out of pure amusement]].
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* TrialByCombat: Is challenged to one by Wolfhound, [[BadassCripple despite the latter having just started to recover from the injuries received during the trip and nursing a broken arm]]. Gets killed [[KarmicDeath by his own sword]].
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* TrialByCombat: Is challenged to one by Wolfhound, [[BadassCripple [[HandicappedBadass despite the latter having just started to recover from the injuries received during the trip and nursing a broken arm]]. Gets killed [[KarmicDeath by his own sword]].
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* GenocideBackfire: After the Pup killed one of the attackers, the brother of said attacker tried to sic hounds on him, but they [[((Beastmaster}} refused to tear him to shreads]]. Vinitarius saw this as a good omen and spared the kid, selling him to slavery instead. Boy, did he turned out wrong!
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* WrongGenreSavy: After the Pup killed one of the attackers, the brother of said attacker tried to sic hounds on him, but they [[((Beastmaster}} refused to tear him to shreads]]. Vinitarius saw this as a good omen and spared the boy, selling him to slavery instead. Boy, was he wrong about that!
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A Segvan chieftain forced off his ancestral island by the encroaching ices, who settled close to the Grey Hounds clan village where Wolfhound (well, just Pup then) lived. Being an avaricious and jealous man, and a habitual robber baron (while most Island Segvans has renounced [[{{Pirate}} their piratical pursuits, becoming an honest sellswords and plucky ocean traders, Vinitarius sticks to the good old ways), Vinitarius felt that his new lands will look even better without those pesky Venns around, and one fateful night attacked their village, massacring everyone except the young Wolfhound, [[ItAmusedMe whose ferocity has amused him]].
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A Segvan chieftain forced off his ancestral island by the encroaching ices, who settled close to the Grey Hounds clan village where Wolfhound (well, just Pup then) lived. Being an avaricious and jealous man, and a habitual robber baron (while most Island Segvans has renounced [[{{Pirate}} their piratical pursuits, pursuits]], becoming an honest sellswords and plucky ocean traders, Vinitarius sticks to the good old ways), Vinitarius felt that his new lands will look even better without those pesky Venns around, and one fateful night attacked their village, massacring everyone except the young Wolfhound, [[ItAmusedMe whose ferocity has amused him]].Wolfhound.
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* ItAmusedMe: Why he spared Pup's life at the time — he was [[InLoveWithYourCarnage impressed by the boy's ferocity]], and felt that it's a waste to kill such a good fighter.
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* WrongGenreSavy: After the Pup killed one of the attackers, the brother of said attacker tried to sic hounds on him, but they [[((Beastmaster}} refused to tear him to shreads]]. Vinitarius saw this as a good omen and spared the boy, selling him to slavery instead. Boy, was he wrong about that!
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* TrialByCombat: Insists on having one with Wolfhound, [[KickTheDog despite knowing that the latter just started to recover]] from the injuries received during the trip. Gets killed for his arrogance. [[KarmicDeath By his own sword]].
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* TrialByCombat: Insists on having Is challenged to one with by Wolfhound, [[KickTheDog [[BadassCripple despite knowing that the latter having just started to recover]] recover from the injuries received during the trip. trip and nursing a broken arm]]. Gets killed for his arrogance. [[KarmicDeath By by his own sword]].
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* {{Pirate}}: A reputation for most Island Segvans, actually, whose barren islands bear very little, so they turn towards the life of a marine highwaymen. OTOH most other island chieftains seem to find other ways of feeding their men, either by settling on the shore, or taking up a trade, but Vinitarius sticks to the old wys, apparently [[ForTheEvulz out of pure amusement]].
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* {{Pirate}}: A reputation for most Island Segvans, actually, whose barren islands bear very little, so they turn towards the life of a marine highwaymen. timhighwaymen. OTOH most other island chieftains seem to find other ways of feeding their men, either by settling on the shore, or taking up a trade, but Vinitarius sticks to the old wys, ways, apparently [[ForTheEvulz out of pure amusement]].
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* IAmAHumanitarian: He once partake of a killed enemy's flesh in a heat of battle, earning him the nickname.
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* IAmAHumanitarian: He once partake [[NeverLiveItDown once]] partook of a killed enemy's flesh in a heat of battle, earning him the nickname.
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* MeaningfulName: Despite the incident that caused his nickname being more of NeverLiveItDown, the name itself turned out quite appropriate -- he's indeed a cruel and insidious warlord, a robber and an aspiring conqueror.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: His nickname turned out surprisingly accurate.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: His nickname turned out surprisingly accurate.
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* IAmHumanitarian: He once partake of a killed enemy's flesh in a heat of battle, earning him the nickname.
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* IAmHumanitarian: IAmAHumanitarian: He once partake of a killed enemy's flesh in a heat of battle, earning him the nickname.
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* SelfServingMemory: Wolfhound muses that Luchezar might've actually convinced himself that [[spoiler:it was Wolfhound and not him who sold Helen out]]. Gray Dust can do that to people.
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* NeverMyFault: Tries to shift the blame for the outcome of a disastrous travel on Wolfhound, when both returns to Galirad and are summoned to report to the king.
* SelfServingMemory: Wolfhound muses that Luchezar might've actually convinced himself that [[spoiler:it was Wolfhound and not him who sold Helen out]]. Gray Dust can do that topeople.people.
* TrialByCombat: Insists on having one with Wolfhound, [[KickTheDog despite knowing that the latter just started to recover]] from the injuries received during the trip. Gets killed for his arrogance. [[KarmicDeath By his own sword]].
* SelfServingMemory: Wolfhound muses that Luchezar might've actually convinced himself that [[spoiler:it was Wolfhound and not him who sold Helen out]]. Gray Dust can do that to
* TrialByCombat: Insists on having one with Wolfhound, [[KickTheDog despite knowing that the latter just started to recover]] from the injuries received during the trip. Gets killed for his arrogance. [[KarmicDeath By his own sword]].
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Wolfhound's mentor and a kind of mother figure, an elderly priestess of an Eastern love goddess Kan, she brings to the world a message of love and forgiveness at the knees of the Great Mother. But as the world is hardly as kind and forgiving as the Kan's priestesses' teachings, they get another of their goddess blessing: a martial art that allows even the women, the weak, the elderly, etc to protect themselves easily the ''kan-kiro'', of which she's the undisputed grand-master. Her travels with Wolfhound are described in the prequel novel ''Peace on the Road''.
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Wolfhound's mentor and a kind of mother figure, an elderly priestess of an Eastern love goddess Kan, she brings to the world a message of love and forgiveness at the knees of the Great Mother. But as the world is hardly as kind and forgiving as the Kan's priestesses' teachings, they get another of their goddess blessing: a martial art that allows even the women, the weak, and the elderly, etc elderly to protect themselves easily -- the ''kan-kiro'', of which she's the undisputed grand-master. Her travels with Wolfhound are described in the prequel novel ''Peace on the Road''.
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** She's basically a saint herself, [[spoiler: if not more -- in the finale she's been shown walking on with [[NeverMessWithGranny Angran]] and Mother of the Twins, and all three ''[[PowerFloats didn't touch the ground]]''...]]
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** She's basically a saint herself, [[spoiler: if not more -- in the finale she's been shown [[WalkingTheEarth walking on on]] with [[NeverMessWithGranny Angran]] and [[PhysicalGod Mother of the Twins, Twins]], and all three ''[[PowerFloats didn't touch the ground]]''...]]
* WalkingTheEarth: Kan's priestesses carry her words all around the world.
* WalkingTheEarth: Kan's priestesses carry her words all around the world.
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!!Zhadoba
The leader of a large gang of brigands that preys on merchant caravans, and the former owner (through graverobbing) of Wolfhound's sword Sunflame. Later someone hires him and his gang to assassinate Princess Helen on her way to her groom.
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* IAmHumanitarian: He once partake of a killed enemy's flesh in a heat of battle, earning him the nickname.
* ItAmusedMe: Why he spared Pup's life at the time — he was [[InLoveWithYourCarnage impressed by the boy's ferocity]], and felt that it's a waste to kill such a good fighter.
* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: He's actually named exactly the same as his son — Vinitar — but insist on changing it to the [[AncientGrome more Arrantish]] way out of vanity.
* {{Jerkass}}: To everyone, including his own son, which leads to them quikly becoming estranged, until Vinitar leaves with the most of his father's original band, fed up with the Maneater's character.
* {{Pirate}}: A reputation for most Island Segvans, actually, whose barren islands bear very little, so they turn towards the life of a marine highwaymen. OTOH most other island chieftains seem to find other ways of feeding their men, either by settling on the shore, or taking up a trade, but Vinitarius sticks to the old wys, apparently [[ForTheEvulz out of pure amusement]].
* VillainousValor: What gets him and his men going, despite their reputation.
!!Zhadoba
The leader of a large gang of brigands that preys on merchant caravans, and the former owner (through graverobbing) of Wolfhound's sword Sunflame. Later someone hires him and his gang to assassinate Princess Elen on her way to her groom.
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* MalevolentMaskedMen: leads an entire gang of them
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* MalevolentMaskedMen: leads Leads an entire gang of them
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A relative to the Galiradian princess Helen, a haughty and arrogant nobleman who instantly develops a mutual dislike with Wolfhound. It gets worse when both are tasked with escorting and protecting Helen on her dangerous trip. Before long Wolfhound begins to suspect that Luchezar has ulterior motives.
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A relative to the Galiradian princess Helen, Elen, a haughty and arrogant nobleman who instantly develops a mutual dislike with Wolfhound. It gets worse when both are tasked with escorting and protecting Helen Elen on her dangerous trip. Before long Wolfhound begins to suspect that Luchezar has ulterior motives.
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* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler:It was apparently him who hired the thugs to hunt down and kill Helen, all to have his own sister wed to Vinitar.]]
* FunctionalAddict: Hooked on the drug/PsychoSerum Gray Dust.
* InsistentTerminology: he's actually a forty-second cousin to Helen, but is always calling her "sister". She doesn't reciprocate.
* FunctionalAddict: Hooked on the drug/PsychoSerum Gray Dust.
* InsistentTerminology: he's actually a forty-second cousin to Helen, but is always calling her "sister". She doesn't reciprocate.
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* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler:It was apparently him who hired the thugs to hunt down and kill Helen, Elen, all to have his own sister wed to Vinitar.]]
* FunctionalAddict: Hooked on the drug/PsychoSerum GrayDust.
Dust, but falls depper and deeper into an addiction as the story goes.
* InsistentTerminology:he's He's actually a forty-second cousin to Helen, Elen, but is always calling her "sister". She doesn't reciprocate.
* FunctionalAddict: Hooked on the drug/PsychoSerum Gray
* InsistentTerminology:
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* SelfServingMemory: Wolfhound muses that Luchezar might've actually convinced himself that [[spoiler:it was Wolfhound and not him who sold Helen out]]. Gray Dust can do that to people.
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* SelfServingMemory: Wolfhound muses that Luchezar might've actually convinced himself that [[spoiler:it was Wolfhound and not him who sold Helen out]]. Gray Dust can do that to people.
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* Jerkass
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* SelfServingMemory: Wolfhound muses that Luchezar might've actually convinced himself that [[spoiler:it was Wolfhound and not him who sold Helen out]]. Gray Dust can do that topeople.
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[[spoiler: A spacer from Earth stranded on this planed after his starship hit a NegativeSpaceWedgie close to it.]] Knowledgeable beyound belief and [[TelepathicSpacemen imbued with powerful]] PsychicPowers, but overly trusting, he'd once offered his help with building a castle for a seemingly benign chieftan Vinitarius, aka The Maneater. Vinitarius quickly realised the [[FantasticNuke true potential]] of the gunpowder Tilorn used for demolishing rocks, and, after the scinetist refused to reveal its secret, threw him into the dungeon, from which he was rescued by Wolfhound. The plot of the second book was started by TheQuest to reach [[spoiler: his lifeboat with its SubspaceAnsible]], which he has to leave on one of Segvan Islands after the circumstances forced him to get out of there as soon as possible.
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[[spoiler: A spacer from Earth stranded on this planed after his starship hit a NegativeSpaceWedgie close to it.]] Knowledgeable beyound belief and [[TelepathicSpacemen imbued with powerful]] PsychicPowers, but overly trusting, he'd once offered his help with building a castle for a seemingly benign chieftan Vinitarius, aka The Maneater. Vinitarius quickly realised the [[FantasticNuke true potential]] of the gunpowder Tilorn used for demolishing rocks, and, after the scinetist scientist refused to reveal its secret, threw him into the dungeon, from which he was rescued by Wolfhound. The plot of the second book was started by TheQuest to reach [[spoiler: his lifeboat with its SubspaceAnsible]], which he has to leave on one of Segvan Islands after the circumstances forced him to get out of there as soon as possible.
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The leader of a large gang of brigands that preys on merchant caravans, and the former owner (though (through graverobbing) of Wolfhound's sword Sunflame. Later someone hires him and his gang to assassinate Princess Helen on her way to her groom.
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A relative to the Galiradian princess Helen, a haughty and arrogant nobleman who instantly develops a mutual dislike with Wolfhound. It get s worse when both are tasked with escorting and protecting Helen on her dangerous trip. Before long Wolfhound begins to suspect that Luchezar has ulterior motives.
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A relative to the Galiradian princess Helen, a haughty and arrogant nobleman who instantly develops a mutual dislike with Wolfhound. It get s gets worse when both are tasked with escorting and protecting Helen on her dangerous trip. Before long Wolfhound begins to suspect that Luchezar has ulterior motives.
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* FunctionalAddict
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* FunctionalAddictFunctionalAddict: Hooked on the drug/PsychoSerum Gray Dust.
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[[spoiler: A spacer from Earth stranded on this planed after his starship hit a NegativeSpaceWedgie close to it.]] Knowledgeable beyound belief and [[TelepathicSpacemen imbued with powerful]] PsychicPowers, but overly trusting, he'd once offered his help with building a castle for a seemingly bening chieftan Vinitarius, aka The Maneater. Vinitarius quickly realised the [[FantasticNuke true potential]] of the gunpowder Tilorn used for demolishing rocks, and, after the scinetist refused to reveal its secret, threw him into the dungeon, from which he was rescued by Wolfhound. The plot of the second book was started by TheQuest to reach [[spoiler: his lifeboat with its SubspaceAnsible]], which he has to leave on one of Segvan Islands after the circumstances forced him to get out of there as soon as possible.
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[[spoiler: A spacer from Earth stranded on this planed after his starship hit a NegativeSpaceWedgie close to it.]] Knowledgeable beyound belief and [[TelepathicSpacemen imbued with powerful]] PsychicPowers, but overly trusting, he'd once offered his help with building a castle for a seemingly bening benign chieftan Vinitarius, aka The Maneater. Vinitarius quickly realised the [[FantasticNuke true potential]] of the gunpowder Tilorn used for demolishing rocks, and, after the scinetist refused to reveal its secret, threw him into the dungeon, from which he was rescued by Wolfhound. The plot of the second book was started by TheQuest to reach [[spoiler: his lifeboat with its SubspaceAnsible]], which he has to leave on one of Segvan Islands after the circumstances forced him to get out of there as soon as possible.
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** Deconstructed with the gunpowder - he planned to use it purely for peacefull purposes, at construction works, but it ends up in the hand of less than virtuous people and, unsurpisingly, used for conquest and slaughter of innocent.
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** Deconstructed with the gunpowder - he planned to use it purely for peacefull purposes, at construction works, but it ends up in the hand of less than virtuous people and, unsurpisingly, used for conquest and slaughter of innocent.innocents.
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A relative to the Galiradian princess Helen, a haughty and arrogant nobleman who right away gets at odds with Wolfhound. Their animosity exacebrates when both are tasked with escorting and protecting Helen on her dangerous trip. Before long Wolfhound begins to suspect that Luchezar has ulterior motives.
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A relative to the Galiradian princess Helen, a haughty and arrogant nobleman who right away gets at odds instantly develops a mutual dislike with Wolfhound. Their animosity exacebrates It get s worse when both are tasked with escorting and protecting Helen on her dangerous trip. Before long Wolfhound begins to suspect that Luchezar has ulterior motives.
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[[spoiler: A spacer from Earth stranded on this planed after his starship hit a NegativeSpaceWedgie close to it.]] Knowledgeable beyound belief and [[TelepathicSpacemen imbued with powerful]] PsychicPowers, he gets captured by The Maneater and forced first to build an impregnable fortress for him, and then to invent a gunpowder for his soldiers. After he refused, The Maneater has thrown him into the dungeon, from which he was rescued by Wolfhound. The plot of the second book was started by TheQuest to reach [[spoiler: his lifeboat with its SubspaceAnsible]], which he has to leave on one of Segvan Islands after the circumstances forced him to get out of there as soon as possible.
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[[spoiler: A spacer from Earth stranded on this planed after his starship hit a NegativeSpaceWedgie close to it.]] Knowledgeable beyound belief and [[TelepathicSpacemen imbued with powerful]] PsychicPowers, he gets captured by but overly trusting, he'd once offered his help with building a castle for a seemingly bening chieftan Vinitarius, aka The Maneater and forced first to build an impregnable fortress for him, and then to invent a Maneater. Vinitarius quickly realised the [[FantasticNuke true potential]] of the gunpowder Tilorn used for his soldiers. After he refused, The Maneater has thrown demolishing rocks, and, after the scinetist refused to reveal its secret, threw him into the dungeon, from which he was rescued by Wolfhound. The plot of the second book was started by TheQuest to reach [[spoiler: his lifeboat with its SubspaceAnsible]], which he has to leave on one of Segvan Islands after the circumstances forced him to get out of there as soon as possible.
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* GivingRadioToTheRomans: He teaches Galirad artisans a lot of technologies quite advanced for their Early Medieval tech level, like galvanizing the steel for rust protection, optics for magnifying glasses and microscopes and better glassworking in general.
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* GenreBlind: He showed the effect of gunpowder to a warlord and didn't realise until almost too late, that he'd want to use it for war.
* GivingRadioToTheRomans: He teaches Galirad artisans a lot of technologies quite advanced for their Early Medieval tech level, like galvanizing the steel for rust protection, optics for magnifying glasses and microscopes and better glassworking ingeneral.general.
** Deconstructed with the gunpowder - he planned to use it purely for peacefull purposes, at construction works, but it ends up in the hand of less than virtuous people and, unsurpisingly, used for conquest and slaughter of innocent.
* GivingRadioToTheRomans: He teaches Galirad artisans a lot of technologies quite advanced for their Early Medieval tech level, like galvanizing the steel for rust protection, optics for magnifying glasses and microscopes and better glassworking in
** Deconstructed with the gunpowder - he planned to use it purely for peacefull purposes, at construction works, but it ends up in the hand of less than virtuous people and, unsurpisingly, used for conquest and slaughter of innocent.
* NaiveNewcomer: It seems that the Earth he came from is a utopian post-war society, which makes him ill-prepared for dealing with the much grittier and more wicked world he arrives to.
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* TheFaceless: Both he and his men wear masks during raids. Nobody knows what he looks like.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: leads an entire gang of them
!!Luchezar
A relative to the Galiradian princess Helen, a haughty and arrogant nobleman who right away gets at odds with Wolfhound. Their animosity exacebrates when both are tasked with escorting and protecting Helen on her dangerous trip. Before long Wolfhound begins to suspect that Luchezar has ulterior motives.
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* AristocratsAreEvil
* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler:It was apparently him who hired the thugs to hunt down and kill Helen, all to have his own sister wed to Vinitar.]]
* FunctionalAddict
* InsistentTerminology: he's actually a forty-second cousin to Helen, but is always calling her "sister". She doesn't reciprocate.
* ItsAllAboutMe
* Jerkass
* SelfServingMemory: Wolfhound muses that Luchezar might've actually convinced himself that [[spoiler:it was Wolfhound and not him who sold Helen out]]. Gray Dust can do that to people.
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* BlondGuysAreEvil: Thoroughly averted. Hi might be not the ''[[DeadpanSnarker nicest]]'' character, but he's certainly one of the kindest.
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Vinitarius' former slave, a 15-year-old Saccarem girl introduced as a Maneater's bedmate for the night during his unfortunate encounter with Wolfhound, and rescued by him along with Tilorn. She was a student of the famous scholar and physician, and while she herself quickly gets DemotedToExtra together with Tilorn ([[PairTheSpares whose girlfriend she eventually becomes]]), her master (or his memory) remains important even in the later parts of the series.
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Vinitarius' former slave, a 15-year-old Saccarem girl introduced as a Maneater's bedmate for the night during his unfortunate encounter with Wolfhound, and rescued by him along with Tilorn. She was a student of the famous scholar and physician, and while she herself quickly gets DemotedToExtra together with Tilorn ([[PairTheSpares whose girlfriend she eventually becomes]]), her master (or his memory) remains and her past remain important even in the later parts of the series.
* AbusiveParents: Subverted. She had perfectly nice and loving parents — until they died. It is [[EvilUncle her guardian]] who turned abusive, largely so that he hadn't give her the required part of inheritance.
* ArrangedMarriage: As a way to get her out of her abusive home, her neighbor and mentor, Zelhat of Melsina, [[LoopholeAbuse tried to buy her hand]], but failed.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[TheOjou A daughter of wealthy merchant]], she has lost both her parents to an epidemic as a kid, and [[EvilUncle her uncle]], who inherited their property, treated her no better than the common slave. The famous scholar, Zelhat of Melsina, who lived near them and [[TheObiWan taught her various subjects]], tried to buy her out as a wife, if only to get her free from an abusive household, but couldn't rise the money before her bastard on an uncle has sold her away. After which she ended in a Maneater's castle.
* FosteringForProfit: Technically, by the law she stood to inherit at least a half of her father's wealth at her marriage, if fostered by her uncle, who'd then get the other half, already quite a sum, but the man didn't want to share, and tried the old "out of heart, out of mind" gambit.
* HealingHands: Learned it from Tilorn, but as he noted, women are inherently more talented at that, because unlike men, who spend their own life force on that, women can tap into some much greater source.
* InnocentBlueEyes
* TheMedic: She's a healer both in traditional and supernatural ways.
* ThePollyanna: Despite all the shit she had to deal with in her life, Niilith remains kind and cheerful.
* PrincessInRags: Due to Saccarem laws, [[NoWomansLand which are quite unkind to women]], and the [[EvilUncle rotten heart of her uncle]].
* RavenHairIvorySkin
* ArrangedMarriage: As a way to get her out of her abusive home, her neighbor and mentor, Zelhat of Melsina, [[LoopholeAbuse tried to buy her hand]], but failed.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[TheOjou A daughter of wealthy merchant]], she has lost both her parents to an epidemic as a kid, and [[EvilUncle her uncle]], who inherited their property, treated her no better than the common slave. The famous scholar, Zelhat of Melsina, who lived near them and [[TheObiWan taught her various subjects]], tried to buy her out as a wife, if only to get her free from an abusive household, but couldn't rise the money before her bastard on an uncle has sold her away. After which she ended in a Maneater's castle.
* FosteringForProfit: Technically, by the law she stood to inherit at least a half of her father's wealth at her marriage, if fostered by her uncle, who'd then get the other half, already quite a sum, but the man didn't want to share, and tried the old "out of heart, out of mind" gambit.
* HealingHands: Learned it from Tilorn, but as he noted, women are inherently more talented at that, because unlike men, who spend their own life force on that, women can tap into some much greater source.
* InnocentBlueEyes
* TheMedic: She's a healer both in traditional and supernatural ways.
* ThePollyanna: Despite all the shit she had to deal with in her life, Niilith remains kind and cheerful.
* PrincessInRags: Due to Saccarem laws, [[NoWomansLand which are quite unkind to women]], and the [[EvilUncle rotten heart of her uncle]].
* RavenHairIvorySkin
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Wolfhound's mentor and a kind of mother figure, an elderly priestess of an Eastern love goddess Kan, she brings to the world a message of love and forgiveness at the knees of the Great Mother. But as the world is hardly as kind and forgiving as the Kan's priestesses' teachings, they get another of their goddess blessing: a martial art that allows even the women, the weak, the elderly, etc to protect themselves easily the ''kan-kiro'', of which she's the undisputed grand-master. Her travels with Wolfhound are described in the prequel novel ''Peace on the Road''.
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* BlandNameProduct: Kan-kiro is pretty unabashedly an Aikido with a serial number filed off.
* GuileHero: Her very behavior is based on the same equilibristic principles as her martial art.
* MagicalAsian: Has some noticeable {{Far East}}ern vibe to her, and tries to "take the kid out of it" -- though [[TheDeterminator without much success]].
* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: She's a tiny old woman, but surprizingly strong for her size.
* TheMedic: Another one, and she's among the greatest in the world. Also is a great field surgeon, if the circumstances call for that.
* TeamMom: Naturally for a priestess of a motherly goddess.
* NeverMessWithGranny: Though you probably ''wouldn't want'', even if intended so originally.
* NobleProfession: As borth [[GoodShepherd the priestess]] and TheMedic.
* OldMaster: Quite surprisingly.
* SaintlyChurch: Kan's cult is ''never'' ever told about in any word except [[AuthorAppeal absolutely adorational]].
** She's basically a saint herself, [[spoiler: if not more -- in the finale she's been shown walking on with [[NeverMessWithGranny Angran]] and Mother of the Twins, and all three ''[[PowerFloats didn't touch the ground]]''...]]
* GuileHero: Her very behavior is based on the same equilibristic principles as her martial art.
* MagicalAsian: Has some noticeable {{Far East}}ern vibe to her, and tries to "take the kid out of it" -- though [[TheDeterminator without much success]].
* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: She's a tiny old woman, but surprizingly strong for her size.
* TheMedic: Another one, and she's among the greatest in the world. Also is a great field surgeon, if the circumstances call for that.
* TeamMom: Naturally for a priestess of a motherly goddess.
* NeverMessWithGranny: Though you probably ''wouldn't want'', even if intended so originally.
* NobleProfession: As borth [[GoodShepherd the priestess]] and TheMedic.
* OldMaster: Quite surprisingly.
* SaintlyChurch: Kan's cult is ''never'' ever told about in any word except [[AuthorAppeal absolutely adorational]].
** She's basically a saint herself, [[spoiler: if not more -- in the finale she's been shown walking on with [[NeverMessWithGranny Angran]] and Mother of the Twins, and all three ''[[PowerFloats didn't touch the ground]]''...]]
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* WouldntHitAGirl: Coming from a matriarchal society, Wolfhound holds women in great respect, and about the only woman he ever applied violence to was a former slave driver he didn't consider ''[[WhatMeasureIsAMook a human]]''.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: Averted as strongly as with Eurych, though he's a platinum blond, and was originally mistaken for an old man by Wolfhound.
* GivingRadioToTheRomans: He teaches Galirad artisans a lot of technologies quite advanced for their Early Medieval tech level, like galvanizing the steel for rust protection, optics for magnifying glasses and microscopes and better glassworking in general.
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* YoungerThanTheyLook: Originally mistaken for an old man by Wolfhound, due to his silver hair, long unkempt beard and general grime of the dungeon. In fact he's in his thirties.
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Vinitarius' former slave, a 15-year-old Saccarem girl introduced as a Maneater's bedmate for the night during his unfortunate encounter with Wolfhound, and rescued by him along with Tilorn. She was a student of the famous scholar and physician, and while she herself quickly gets DemotedToExtra together with Tilorn ([[PairTheSpares whose girlfriend she eventually becomes]]), her master (or his memory) remains important even in the later parts of the series.
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This is a character list for ''Literature/TheWolfhound'' series. Spoilers {{Spoiler}}s abound, so proceed with caution.
caution. A chief one is that [[spoiler: ''everyone'' except a single supporting character from Earth are HumanAliens, as the action takes place on a different planet]].
* TheBlacksmith: A son and apprentice of a village one, he's never completed his education, but acquired enough of the skill to get by somewhat.
* ChasteHero: Because he truly considers himself engaged to Little Doe, even though it was just a PrecociousCrush (initially).
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* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Wolfhound is constitutionally incapable of passing any injustice. Even though he would bash himself endlessly for involving himself and close to him into even more problems.
* FaceOfAThug: Well, he ''does'' look like a total cutthroat.
* FaceOfAThug: Well, he ''does'' look like a total cutthroat.
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* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Wolfhound is constitutionally incapable of [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight passing any injustice.injustice]]. Even though he would bash himself endlessly for involving himself and close to him into even more problems.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: After he avengers his clan.
* FaceOfAThug:Well, he ''does'' look Look like a total cutthroat.cutthroat, which only adds to his sour outlook on life.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: After he avengers his clan.
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* LeanAndMean: Wolfhound is tall, but he's as wiry as a whip, and if you get at him, you're into a world of hurt.
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* KnightInTheSourArmor: He's seen enough to not have any illusions about people, but still
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* KnightInTheSourArmor: KnightInSourArmor: He's seen enough to not have any illusions about people, but still
* LeanAndMean: Wolfhound is tall, but he's wiry as a whip, and if you get at him, you're into a world of hurt.
* NeverLearnedToRead: Until he was 25, as the Jewel Mountains aren't really a beacon of education, and he had other problems later.
* NoNameGiven: Because he ''hasn't''.
* {{Omniglot}}: He picked up a lot of languages in the mines.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Wolfhound" isn't his real name, because he [[NoNameGiven hasn't one in the first place]]. His village was attacked exactly at the night he should've been given one, and "Wolfhound" is just a nickname he got in the mines after he killed a driver named Wolf in a duel.
* ProperlyParanoid: You'd be after you've got chewed up by the fates so much.
* NoNameGiven: Because he ''hasn't''.
* {{Omniglot}}: He picked up a lot of languages in the mines.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Wolfhound" isn't his real name, because he [[NoNameGiven hasn't one in the first place]]. His village was attacked exactly at the night he should've been given one, and "Wolfhound" is just a nickname he got in the mines after he killed a driver named Wolf in a duel.
* ProperlyParanoid: You'd be after you've got chewed up by the fates so much.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: What fuels his ChronicHeroSyndrome — he's absolutely unable to let any injustice be.
* SoWhatDoWeDoNow: Once his {{revenge}} is completed, he's basically [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife nothing to do with his life]].
* SoWhatDoWeDoNow: Once his {{revenge}} is completed, he's basically [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife nothing to do with his life]].
* SapientPet: Not to the utavegu's level, but he is indeed borderline sentient.
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A young scholar from the ancient and advanced land of Arrantiad, who makes himself at odd with the [[SinisterMinister influential Twins priest]] and gets essentially kidnapped by his posse to be dragged before the crowd as an example of "[[ScienceIsBad empty learning]]". Gets saved by Wolfhound, and soon becomes his HeterosexualLifePartner — [[VitriolicBestBuds snarking all the time]].
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A young scholar from the [[AncientGrome ancient and advanced land of Arrantiad, Arrantiad]], who makes himself at odd with the [[SinisterMinister influential Twins priest]] and gets essentially kidnapped by his posse to be dragged before the crowd as an example of "[[ScienceIsBad empty learning]]". Gets saved by Wolfhound, and soon becomes his HeterosexualLifePartner — [[VitriolicBestBuds snarking all the time]].
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* AncientGrome: Arrantiad's FantasyCounterpartCulture.
* BashBrothers: With Wolfhound by the end of the second novel.
* {{Bishounen}}: A classic blond blue-eyed example.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: Thoroughly averted. Hi might be not the ''[[DeadpanSnarker nicest]]'' character, but he's certainly one of the kindest.
* DeadpanSnarker: Sometimes Eurych just oozes with sarcasm.
* DistressedDude: For most of the first two novels.
* GentlemanAndAScholar: While he is not of a noble birth, his family is of a long history and a good standing.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Only a bit sarcastic.
* InsufferableGenius: He might be quite haughty, but he ''is'' a one of the top scholars of the time.
* TheMedic: As a one of his pursuits, and quite a successful at that, thanks to apprenticeship under Tilorn.
* TookALevelInBadass: After a period of traveling alone, where he couldn't rely on Wolfhound.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Wolfhound, whom he ''always'' calls "My dear barbarian…"
* BashBrothers: With Wolfhound by the end of the second novel.
* {{Bishounen}}: A classic blond blue-eyed example.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: Thoroughly averted. Hi might be not the ''[[DeadpanSnarker nicest]]'' character, but he's certainly one of the kindest.
* DeadpanSnarker: Sometimes Eurych just oozes with sarcasm.
* DistressedDude: For most of the first two novels.
* GentlemanAndAScholar: While he is not of a noble birth, his family is of a long history and a good standing.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Only a bit sarcastic.
* InsufferableGenius: He might be quite haughty, but he ''is'' a one of the top scholars of the time.
* TheMedic: As a one of his pursuits, and quite a successful at that, thanks to apprenticeship under Tilorn.
* TookALevelInBadass: After a period of traveling alone, where he couldn't rely on Wolfhound.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Wolfhound, whom he ''always'' calls "My dear barbarian…"
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[[spoiler: A spacer from Earth stranded on this planed after his starship hit a NegativeSpaceWedgie close to it.]] Knowledgeable beyound belief and [[TelepathicSpacemen imbued with powerful]] PsychicPowers, he gets captured by The Maneater and forced first to build an impregnable fortress for him, and then to invent a gunpowder for his soldiers. After he refused, The Maneater has thrown him into the dungeon, from which he was rescued by Wolfhound. The plot of the second book was started by TheQuest to reach [[spoiler: his lifeboat with its SubspaceAnsible]], which he has to leave on one of Segvan Islands after the circumstances forced him to get out of there as soon as possible.
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* DemotedToExtra: Quite fast. By the third book he's hardly mentioned anymore, and his eventual fate is touched only in spinoffs.
* DistressedDude: In the first chapter of the story.
* TheEngineer: Builds an impregnable castle for the Maneater.
* HealingHands: Can heal by applying his life force.
* TheMedic: Just by the fact that he's [[spoiler: an Earthling and knows infinitely more about the origins of diseases]], he gets to be a better physicians than most of other in the series, even disregarding his HealingHands.
* PsychicPowers: It's unclear whether he gets them here, or [[spoiler: anyone on Earth have got them at the time]].
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* DemotedToExtra: Quite fast. By the third book he's hardly mentioned anymore, and his eventual fate is touched only in spinoffs.
* DistressedDude: In the first chapter of the story.
* TheEngineer: Builds an impregnable castle for the Maneater.
* HealingHands: Can heal by applying his life force.
* TheMedic: Just by the fact that he's [[spoiler: an Earthling and knows infinitely more about the origins of diseases]], he gets to be a better physicians than most of other in the series, even disregarding his HealingHands.
* PsychicPowers: It's unclear whether he gets them here, or [[spoiler: anyone on Earth have got them at the time]].
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!!Wolfhound
The series protagonist, a warrior from the northern tribe of Venns, he was [[MadeASlave sold as a slave]] to the [[EldritchLocation hellish mines]] after his [[TheClan clan]] was exterminated by the jealous neighbors, but was able to break free to take out his vengeance on the wrongdoers. All this happens [[HowWeGotHere in the first chapter of the first book in the series]], which makes the series essentially a one big SoWhatDoWeDoNow moment for him.
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* {{Badass}}: Due to his [[PrisonsAreGymnasiums past in the mines]] (which simply kills the weak) and arguably the [[OldMaster best teachers]] available, he's one of the deadliest persons in the world.
* BashBrothers: With Eurych by the end of the first book.
* BookDumb: Not by his choice, really, but he never has a chance to learn of a book wisdom, and is actually illiterate until the second novel ([[NeverLearnedToRead that is, until he's 25]]). This by no way means that he's not ''dangerously'' smart.
* ChildhoodMarriagePromise: Well it wasn't ''his'' childhood, anyway[[note]]He was already 23 at the time[[/note]], but a Little Doe's one.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Wolfhound is constitutionally incapable of passing any injustice. Even though he would bash himself endlessly for involving himself and close to him into even more problems.
* FaceOfAThug: Well, he ''does'' look like a total cutthroat.
* [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting Involuntary]] / VoluntaryShapeshifting: [[spoiler: He can, apparently, turn into a dog somehow. First, he has no control of that ability but later learns to use it consciously, signifying his position to reestablish his clan later.]]
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: From a mine silicosis, which is mostly healed by the time of the books, but it tends to surface when he's in distress.
* LeanAndMean: Wolfhound is tall, but he's as wiry as a whip, and if you get at him, you're into a world of hurt.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Being a mine slave most of one's youth doesn't exactly teach one a lot of social skills, so he's a lot more outwardly rude than he actually is.
* KnightInTheSourArmor: He's seen enough to not have any illusions about people, but still
* TheLastOfHisKind: He's the last living member of his Grey Hounds Clan.
* MayDecemberRomance: It is not that Wolfhound is old, [[YoungerThantheyLook he's not]], it's just that Little Doe [[PrecociousCrush was just 11]] when they've first met.
* ReluctantWarrior: A son of a [[TheBlacksmith village blacksmith]], and a legendary master at that, his true dream was to wield a hammer, not a sword.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Eurych, as they constantly snark at each other, but [[HeterosexualLifePartners are otherwise inseparable]].
* YoungerThanTheyLook: By the end of the series he's just thirty, his greying hair and dozens of scars notwithstanding.
!!(Earthbound) Bat
Wolfhound's longtime pet, whom he acquires while still in the mines and who follows him everywhere. In the first book his wing was torn by the slavedriver's whip, but Tilorn heals him early into the book, so he quickly looses the "earthbound" part of his name. Fast, nimble, smart to the point of the near sentience and armed with a diamond-sharp claws, he's a Wolfhound's steadfast companion and [[ActionPet makes himself pretty useful in the fights too]].
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* ActionPet: Once he got his wing healed and loses his fear of flight, he gets increasingly useful in the fights, both as recon and by clawing at the Wolfhound's opponents.
* ShoulderPet: Ever since his earthbound phase, he makes his home on the Wolfhound's shoulder.
!!Eurych
A young scholar from the ancient and advanced land of Arrantiad, who makes himself at odd with the [[SinisterMinister influential Twins priest]] and gets essentially kidnapped by his posse to be dragged before the crowd as an example of "[[ScienceIsBad empty learning]]". Gets saved by Wolfhound, and soon becomes his HeterosexualLifePartner — [[VitriolicBestBuds snarking all the time]].
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!!Wolfhound
The series protagonist, a warrior from the northern tribe of Venns, he was [[MadeASlave sold as a slave]] to the [[EldritchLocation hellish mines]] after his [[TheClan clan]] was exterminated by the jealous neighbors, but was able to break free to take out his vengeance on the wrongdoers. All this happens [[HowWeGotHere in the first chapter of the first book in the series]], which makes the series essentially a one big SoWhatDoWeDoNow moment for him.
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* {{Badass}}: Due to his [[PrisonsAreGymnasiums past in the mines]] (which simply kills the weak) and arguably the [[OldMaster best teachers]] available, he's one of the deadliest persons in the world.
* BashBrothers: With Eurych by the end of the first book.
* BookDumb: Not by his choice, really, but he never has a chance to learn of a book wisdom, and is actually illiterate until the second novel ([[NeverLearnedToRead that is, until he's 25]]). This by no way means that he's not ''dangerously'' smart.
* ChildhoodMarriagePromise: Well it wasn't ''his'' childhood, anyway[[note]]He was already 23 at the time[[/note]], but a Little Doe's one.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Wolfhound is constitutionally incapable of passing any injustice. Even though he would bash himself endlessly for involving himself and close to him into even more problems.
* FaceOfAThug: Well, he ''does'' look like a total cutthroat.
* [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting Involuntary]] / VoluntaryShapeshifting: [[spoiler: He can, apparently, turn into a dog somehow. First, he has no control of that ability but later learns to use it consciously, signifying his position to reestablish his clan later.]]
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: From a mine silicosis, which is mostly healed by the time of the books, but it tends to surface when he's in distress.
* LeanAndMean: Wolfhound is tall, but he's as wiry as a whip, and if you get at him, you're into a world of hurt.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Being a mine slave most of one's youth doesn't exactly teach one a lot of social skills, so he's a lot more outwardly rude than he actually is.
* KnightInTheSourArmor: He's seen enough to not have any illusions about people, but still
* TheLastOfHisKind: He's the last living member of his Grey Hounds Clan.
* MayDecemberRomance: It is not that Wolfhound is old, [[YoungerThantheyLook he's not]], it's just that Little Doe [[PrecociousCrush was just 11]] when they've first met.
* ReluctantWarrior: A son of a [[TheBlacksmith village blacksmith]], and a legendary master at that, his true dream was to wield a hammer, not a sword.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Eurych, as they constantly snark at each other, but [[HeterosexualLifePartners are otherwise inseparable]].
* YoungerThanTheyLook: By the end of the series he's just thirty, his greying hair and dozens of scars notwithstanding.
!!(Earthbound) Bat
Wolfhound's longtime pet, whom he acquires while still in the mines and who follows him everywhere. In the first book his wing was torn by the slavedriver's whip, but Tilorn heals him early into the book, so he quickly looses the "earthbound" part of his name. Fast, nimble, smart to the point of the near sentience and armed with a diamond-sharp claws, he's a Wolfhound's steadfast companion and [[ActionPet makes himself pretty useful in the fights too]].
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* ActionPet: Once he got his wing healed and loses his fear of flight, he gets increasingly useful in the fights, both as recon and by clawing at the Wolfhound's opponents.
* ShoulderPet: Ever since his earthbound phase, he makes his home on the Wolfhound's shoulder.
!!Eurych
A young scholar from the ancient and advanced land of Arrantiad, who makes himself at odd with the [[SinisterMinister influential Twins priest]] and gets essentially kidnapped by his posse to be dragged before the crowd as an example of "[[ScienceIsBad empty learning]]". Gets saved by Wolfhound, and soon becomes his HeterosexualLifePartner — [[VitriolicBestBuds snarking all the time]].
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!!Tilorn
!!Niilith
!!Mother Kendarat
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