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* IronWoobie: Considering how much conflict and personal insecurity issues Lirael has to struggle though and how it's evident she still bears the weight of the self-depreciation of her upbringing, Lirael may be one of these.

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* IronWoobie: Considering how much conflict and personal insecurity issues Lirael has to struggle though and how through, it's evident she still bears the weight of the self-depreciation of her upbringing, Lirael may be one of these.upbringing. Nevertheless, once she finds her calling, she proves a capable heroine.
* {{Moe}}: Sabriel, in her teenage incarnation. Her very sympathetic circumstances after reading the prologue [[EstablishingCharacterMoment showing how capable her father is]], you know she's in for, and indeed faces, many horrible things along the way. Her somewhat withdrawn personality, combined with the school setting and her evident popularity among her briefly-seen friends all paint an endearing impression.

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Ensemble Darkhorse is for minor characters. Moggest is a major supporting character in nearly every book.


* EnsembleDarkhorse: Mogget, part-time [[EldritchAbomination completely harmless]] [[SealedEvilInACan feline]], part-time adorably snarky MagnificentBastard.
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* BaseBreakingCharacter: Clariel. Some people love her as one of the few examples of an {{Asexual}} character in literature and find her realistically flawed and her StartOfDarkness plausible. Other readers find her flaws unsympathetic and frustrating to read. It doesn't help that she's very different from Sabriel and Lirael.

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* BaseBreakingCharacter: Clariel. Some people love her as one of the few examples of an {{Asexual}} asexual character in literature and find her realistically flawed and her StartOfDarkness plausible. Other readers find her flaws unsympathetic and frustrating to read. It doesn't help that she's very different from Sabriel and Lirael.
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* CompleteMonster: After Kerrigor aka [[spoiler:Prince Rogirek]] became one of the [[OurLichesAreDifferent Greater Dead]], he tricked his half-brother into [[spoiler: helping him murder their mother and their sisters]] in order for Kerrigor to use their blood to shatter the Charter Stones protecting the kingdom from the dead. Defeated and driven deep into death, Kerrigor's actions nevertheless destroyed The Old Kingdom, allowing all manner of TheUndead free access to the world over the next several hundred years, while he waited for the chance to break free. Kidnapping the infant Sabriel, Kerrigor took her deep into death as part of a plot to blackmail her father, The Abhorsen, into freeing him. Years later, he traps The Abhorsen himself in Death and breaks free into the world of the living. He then tries to capture Sabriel and his revived half-brother as part of a plan to shatter the remaining Charter Stones. When this fails after The Abhorsen's [[spoiler:heroic sacrifice]], Kerrigor re-emerges from Death and leads a massive army of undead across the wall and into a girl's school, killing soldiers and students alike, before devouring Sabriel's FriendlyEnemy, Mogget, alive and finally forcing Sabriel herself into [[spoiler:a mutual kill]]. Obsessed with power and staying alive no matter what the cost to others, Kerrigor is the worst that the realm of the Dead has to offer.

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* CompleteMonster: After Kerrigor Kerrigor, aka [[spoiler:Prince Rogirek]] Rogirek]], became one of the [[OurLichesAreDifferent Greater Dead]], he tricked his half-brother into [[spoiler: helping him murder their mother and their sisters]] in order for Kerrigor to use their blood to shatter the Charter Stones protecting the kingdom from the dead. Defeated and driven deep into death, Kerrigor's actions nevertheless destroyed The Old Kingdom, allowing all manner of TheUndead free access to the world over the next several hundred years, while he waited for the chance to break free. Kidnapping the infant Sabriel, Kerrigor took her deep into death as part of a plot to blackmail her father, The Abhorsen, into freeing him. Years later, he traps The Abhorsen himself in Death and breaks free into the world of the living. He then tries to capture Sabriel and his revived half-brother as part of a plan to shatter the remaining Charter Stones. When this fails after The Abhorsen's [[spoiler:heroic sacrifice]], Kerrigor re-emerges from Death and leads a massive army of undead across the wall and into a girl's school, killing soldiers and students alike, before devouring Sabriel's FriendlyEnemy, Mogget, alive and finally forcing Sabriel herself into [[spoiler:a mutual kill]]. Obsessed with power and staying alive no matter what the cost to others, Kerrigor is the worst that the realm of the Dead has to offer.

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