Line #3 Characters/TheFionavarTapestry


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3	'''WARNING:''' SPOILERS. If we used the spoiler tag on this page, it would look like swiss cheese, so read at your own risk.
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7	[[folder:The Five]]
8	Five friends from Canada, sent to Fionavar to celebrate the crowning of a new monarch. However, not everything is as it seems, and these five are dragged into something greater than they could have realized.
9
10	%%!The Five as a Whole
11	%%* HiddenDepths: All five of these characters have new sides that are eventually seen. %%how?
12
13	!Kevin Laine
14
15	* TheAce: At least for much of the first book until the second...
16	* BrokenAce: ...where he learns that he can't fight and begins to doubt himself, especially in face of others' powers.
17	* TheHeart: Actually seems to keep the group together before the adventure starts in "The Summer Tree."
18	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Returns to Gwen Ystrat and sacrifices himself to Dana to stop the snow. Unlike Paul, he doesn't recover.]]
19	* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Tries really hard to be this to Paul in the first book.
20	* ReallyGetsAround: There are quite a few women who he spends a night with. [[spoiler: Including Earth-Goddess herself.]]
21
22	!Kimberly Ford
23
24	* GondorCallsForAid: Basically what [[MacGuffin Baelreath, the War Stone]], has her do, even at cost of the other party's innocence or sense of self. [[spoiler: She's finally fed up with this and disobeys it. It shuts down completely afterwards.]]
25	* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Forms this with [[spoiler:Dave]] in the end.
26	* LockedIntoStrangeness: Her hair turns white after [[spoiler: Ysanne sacrifices her soul for her.]]
27	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Shows regret for a numerous things she's done to help Fionavar.
28	* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: She has some mild magical powers at the beginning of the first book, which results in her dreaming about the mountain in which Rakoth Maugrim is imprisoned.
29	%%* TheSmartGuy:
30
31	!Paul Schafer/Pwyll [[spoiler: Twiceborn]]
32
33	%%* ArchEnemy: [[spoiler: Galadan]]
34	* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: He dies and is reborn as "Pwyll Twiceborn".]]
35	* BelligerentSexualTension: With Jaelle. [[spoiler: Eventually it's consummated.]]
36	* BigBrotherMentor: Tries to fill this role for Darien, doesn't go so well.
37	* DeadpanSnarker: Very very deadpan. And usually only with people he feels very comfortable with. Interestingly, he seems to internalize alot of his snarking, as can be seen from the flashback sequence in his last night [[spoiler: on The Summer Tree.]]
38	* DeathSeeker: He blames himself for Rachel's death and thus he welcomes Ailell's offer to [[spoiler: hang on The Summer Tree]] without much deliberation.
39	%%* TheDeterminator
40	%%* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler: Galadan is his.]]
41	%%* FaceDeathWithDignity
42	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: He hangs himself on The Summer Tree in order to bring rain and end the drought. He gets better.]]
43	%%* HeroicWillpower
44	* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler: The only one out of Five to stay in Fionavar.]]
45	* LastMinuteHookup: [[spoiler: He almost leaves without admitting he loves Jaelle.]]
46	* OppositesAttract: Paul is [[spoiler: the living incarnation of the All-Father]], and Jaelle the head priestess of the Mother-Goddess.
47	** This is subverted personality-wise however, as they're both [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice Queens]] with [[DeadpanSnarker mocking senses of humour]] and [[TheFettered strong senses of responsibility.]] The main difference is he's the [[TheStoic stoic]], SugarAndIcePersonality type of ice queen where Jaelle is more of an aggressive, fiery TsunDere.
48	%%* NervesOfSteel
49	* {{Pride}}: A primary character trait, unusual in that it's portrayed as a strength rather than a flaw.
50	* RuleOfSymbolism: Paul is pretty obviously supposed to be an analogue to [[Myth/NorseMythology Odin.]]
51	* SmartPeoplePlayChess: He almost beats Ailell at ta'bael, Fionavar's version of chess, which is the reason the king likes him so much.
52	* TheStoic: So much that people find him unsettling and withdrawn. [[spoiler: It's initially related to his trauma from losing his fiancee; later, it's an aspect of his status as the Twiceborn, the servant of Mornir.]]
53	%%* StoicWoobie
54	%%* SugarAndIcePersonality: Of course, pretty much all the people who have seen his sweet side are dead by the end of book two...
55	* TroubledButCute: He has a brief fling with a tavern girl in Book One, and while he leaves her in tears when she realizes he took no joy in the encounter at all, she remembers him fondly enough that she immediately tries for a repeat performance when she sees him again in Book Two. [[spoiler: Tragically, she makes the mistake of getting between him and a very dangerous secondary villain in the act, and saves Paul's life at the cost of her own.]]
56	* TookALevelInBadass: After he spends [[spoiler: three days and nights on The Summer Tree]], he gets much more powerful. Admittedly, he's still not much of a fighter, but by then he can [[spoiler: command and bind gods and talk down ''Galadan'' of all people.]]
57	* WhenHeSmiles: Subverted, when he smiles its usually described as crooked or mocking and is often in reaction to something tragically ironic happening.
58
59	!Jennifer Lowell/[[spoiler: Guinevere]]
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61	* BreakTheCutie: Literally, after [[spoiler: she is captured by Maugrim]], although luckily [[spoiler: Kim is able to rescue her before her sense of self is totally destroyed.]]
62	* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Maugrim can take any form, but [[RedRightHand he can't hide his missing hand]]. [[spoiler: After he's finished raping her in the forms of men she loves, she disdainfully tells him "every one of them had two hands". This makes him so angry he decides she needs to be tortured more instead of just killing her, which means Kim is able to rescue her and she lives to have a happy ending and give birth to Darien, Maugrim's undoing.]] Nice one, Jen.
63	* EarnYourHappyEnding: Kay puts her through hell and back, but she eventually [[spoiler: leaves together with Arthur and Lancelot to Avalon]].
64	* TheLoad: Though she has an understandable reason for being this way. [[spoiler: Then she starts to play the role of Guinevere.]]
65	* MeaningfulName: Jennifer is [[spoiler: the Anglicized form of Guinevere, who she happens to be.]]
66	* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler: She is captured by Rakoth Maugrim, who rapes her simply because he wants to break her.]] She doesn't get out of her {{Heroic BSOD}} until after [[spoiler: Darien]] is born.
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68	!Dave Martyniuk
69
70	* AbusiveParents: His dad was pretty tough on him.
71	* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Had a thing for Liane but it didn't go far. He did get to [[spoiler: bang a goddess and have a child with her]] as his consolation prize however...
72	%%* BadassNormal: He's just big, strong and has a knack for an axe.
73	%%* BashBrothers: With Torc and Levon.
74	%%* TheBerserker: Easy to bring him out of it though.
75	%%* BigBrotherMentor: To Tabor but briefly.
76	%%* TheBigGuy
77	%%* CoolOldGuy: Becomes one in Ysabel.
78	%%* HotBlooded
79	* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Though Kevin becomes his friend at times he will get on his nerves.
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81	[[/folder]]
82
83	[[folder:Brennin]]
84
85	!Ailell dan Art
86	* TheHighKing
87	* [[SmartPeoplePlayChess Smart People Play Ta'bael]]
88	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: The drought that his kingdom suffers from is attributed to the fact that he didn't do [[HeroicSacrifice something]], and didn't let his son do it in his stead.
89
90	!Aileron
91
92	* JerkAss: Can be gruff but he's kind of got his hands full fighting Rakoth. It's that anything that doesn't directly involve the war with Maugrim barely receives any of his attention.
93	** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: As a result, he mellows out in the epilogue, [[spoiler: once the war's won.]]
94	* MercyKill: [[spoiler: Gives one to Diarmuid since the latter doesn't want to die by an urgach's sword.]]
95	* OneManArmy: Early on in the story, he and Kim are ambushed by about 15 svart alfar. None gets to live and Aileron comes out of the fight unscathed.
96	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: He makes it a point to go and fight Rakoth's forces right there, right now.
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98	!Diarmuid
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100	* BatmanGambit: Pulls off one in order to convince Shalhassan's army not to attack the kingdom.
101	* TheCasanova
102	* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Has long luscious locks and is firmly on the side of good.
103	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Accepts Uathach's challenge before the rest of the lot decide who should do so, despite knowing he has little chance of victory. This allows Arthur, Lancelot and Jen a Happy Ending.]]
104	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Beyond directly assisting the party, he [[spoiler: bests Uathach in their duel.]]
105
106	!Ysanne
107
108	%%* CoolOldLady:
109	* SacrificialLion: After getting to know her for most of Book 1, [[spoiler: she sacrifices her soul to grant Kim her power and understanding of the world.]]
110
111	!Loren Silvercloak
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113	* BadassBookWorm: He's a mage but he can use magic... and is good with a sword.
114	** BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler: Though Matt comes back to life, their link is severed and thus, Loren loses his ability to cast spells.]]
115	* CoolOldGuy: It's mentioned that even without Matt he can still sword fight quite well.
116	* MayDecemberRomance: [[spoiler:During the holiday in Ystrat he and Kim have sex.]] True she was an adult but he's at least 50, YMMV on if it's squicky.
117	** The whole incident is something of a BigLippedAlligatorMoment, given that there's no signs of previous attraction and it never comes up again. One wonders if it was inserted to throw off questions about [[HoYay Loren and Matt's relationship]].
118	%%* TheSmartGuy:
119
120	!Matt Sören
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122	%%* CoolOldGuy:
123	%%* EyepatchOfPower:
124	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Loren takes too much of his life force - on Matt's request - to overpower Metran and dies as a result. He gets better.]]
125	* IncrediblyLamePun: He says one or two 'eye' jokes. Kim tells him she could forgive anything he did, but never his puns.
126	%%* TheQuietOne:
127	%%* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething:
128
129	!Metran
130
131	* EvilChancellor: Actually a double subversion. Everyone is led to believe that Gorlaes is a cliched evil chancellor, turns out there is an evil chancellor... but it's Metran.
132	* ObfuscatingInsanity: Fakes being old and senile to get close to Ailell.
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134	!Jaelle
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136	* BelligerentSexualTension: it's subtle, but it's there with Paul. [[spoiler: And then it's confirmed.]]
137	%%* BloodMagic
138	%%* DefrostingTheIceQueen
139	%%* DoesNotLikeMen:
140	%%* FieryRedHead:
141	* LastMinuteHookup: [[spoiler: With Paul.]]
142	* OddCouple: Gradually warms up to Kim, even awkwardly embracing her when they re-met in the third book at Ysanne's cabin.
143	* OppositesAttract: [[spoiler: She and Paul are both the physical representations of the Mother-Goddess and All-Father Archetypes, so of course they are going to.]] Also the whole SugarAndIcePersonality[=/=]{{Tsundere}} thing.
144	* SlapSlapKiss: Though it takes all the way back to [[spoiler: the end of Book 3]] for a kiss to happen.
145	%%* {{Tsundere}}
146
147	!Finn
148
149	* AChildShallLeadThem: [[spoiler: Owein's Wild Hunt cannot proceed without a child.]]
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151	!Darien
152	%%* ChekhovsGunman
153	* ChildByRape: [[spoiler:Born explicitly because Maugrim did not expect to conceive a child, which means that, logically, Darien's birth goes against his plans.]]
154	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Kills himself on the magical dagger Rakoth's holding, which, because of the dagger's enchantments, [[TakingYouWithMe causes his death]].]]
155	%%* IJustWantToBeLoved
156	* OwlBeDamned: Takes the form of an owl, and in his confusion for most of the story he's up to no good.
157	* RedEyesTakeWarning: His eyes flash red whenever he gets angered.
158	%%* VoluntaryShapeshifting
159	* WarringNatures: Between that coming from his mother's, and that of his father's. [[spoiler: He eventually chooses the former.]]
160	* WildCard: The heroes ultimately leave it to him to decide where he wants to belong. [[spoiler: He chooses the good side after symphatizing with The Dark for so long.]]
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162	[[/folder]]
163
164	[[folder:Diarmund's Band]]
165
166	!Tegid
167	* {{Acrofatic}}: Pretty quick for a fat man but his agility needs work.
168	* BoisterousBruiser: Of all the Boisterous Bruisers in this series, he stands head and shoulder above them all.
169	* LargeHam: He has a flair for the dramatic, and loves to sing drinking songs.
170	* StoutStrength: Fat but quite strong, enough to not only lift Diarmuid on a piggyback but to act as his "mount" during a mock battle.
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172	!Coll
173
174	%%* TheStoic
175	%%* StraightGay: It's implied he's in love with Diarmuid.
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177	[[/folder]]
178
179	[[folder:The Dalrei]]
180
181	!Ivor Dan Banor
182
183	%%* CoolOldGuy
184	%%* PapaWolf
185	* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Or rather sensitive guy to his stoic wife.
186
187	!Torc
188
189	* LonersAreFreaks: Not the most popular man in the tribe.
190	* TheQuietOne
191	* TheStoic
192
193	!Leith
194	%%* TheStoic
195
196	!Levon Dan Ivor
197	%%* TheAce
198
199	!Liane Dan Ivor
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201	!Tabor Dan Ivor
202
203	!Gereint
204	* BigEater: The tribe's hunters occasionally catch an additional animal just for him.
205	* CoolOldGuy: He's a pretty nice guy, all things considered. He often jokes around with Liane.
206	* DirtyOldMan: He likes to joke how, back in his day, girls would be obliged to lie with a shaman like him.
207	* EyelessFace: All he has is a pair of empty sockets.
208	%%* TheSmartGuy:
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210	[[/folder]]
211
212	[[folder:Cathal]]
213
214	!Shalhassan
215	* TheEmperor: He is presented with this kind of image, but he is staunchly on the side of Light. Once the war with Maugrim starts for good, his bad side is downplayed.
216	* KickTheDog: The first time he's in a scene he has a slave gladiator murdered because the guy didn't bow deep enough, probably because the guy had been injured in a fight.
217	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Partially... he tended to love making great quotes and promptly did the opposite, however he was ready to fight in the war.
218	* TheStoic: He never smiles.
219
220	!Sharra
221	* ActionGirl: She sneaks out of Cathal, goes all the way to Paras Derval and takes a shot [[spoiler: at assassinating Diarmuid]]. That takes some skill to pull off.
222	* SlapSlapKiss: [[spoiler:A near-lethal version with Diarmuid.]]
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224	[[/folder]]
225
226	[[folder:Lios Alfar]]
227
228	!Na-Brendel
229	%%* BeautyEqualsGoodness
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231	[[/folder]]
232
233	[[folder:The Dark]]
234
235	!Rakoth Maugrim
236	%%* BigBad
237	* EvilLaugh: Prone to these, and quite often.
238	* FatalFlaw: His blinding hatred of all things Light and the temper that goes with it tend to ruin his plans or cause him other problems; he picks up the VillainBall most when he's angry about something.
239	* GodOfEvil: Sort of. He kinda is, but also isn't subject to the exact same rules as the rest of gods in Fionavar, see below.
240	* HumanoidAbomination: For starters, he's from outside the Tapestry and lacks a face. Consider that literally everything has a place on the Tapestry.
241	* {{Satan}}: "Sathain". Given that his influence is felt throughout all the worlds in the Tapestry, this is a rather secure association to make.
242	* VillainBall: He is likely aware of his WeaksauceWeakness, so [[spoiler: leaving Jennifer alive after raping her]] was sure to backfire. Granted, he did leave her in hands of a subordinate and he ''couldn't'' anticipate [[spoiler: Baelreath whisking The Five back to Earth]], but still.
243	* WeaksauceWeakness: [[spoiler: Having a child puts him on the Tapestry and makes him killable, which makes Darien so dangerous to him.]]
244
245	!Galadan, the Wolflord
246	* AntiVillain: Seems to be an attempt to invoke a type II, but his FreudianExcuse is so ridiculously flimsy that it doesn't really work.
247	* TheDragon
248	** DragonWithAnAgenda: He wishes to completely destroy the universe rather than have Rakoth rule what's left of it. Rakoth himself is entirely aware of this and finds it mildly amusing.
249	* {{Expy}}: In his ''[[Literature/TheSilmarillion Silmarillion]]'' days [[Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium Sauron]] was known as Thu the Wolflord.
250	%%* EvilCounterpart: To Paul.
251	* FreudianExcuse: The reason he wants to completely destroy existence is because the woman he loved rejected him.
252	%%* OmnicidalManiac
253	%%* SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum
254	%%* VoluntaryShapeshifting
255	* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Turned rather genocidal towards mortals after one stole his girlfriend - but when said mortal wound up getting her killed, he went crazy and decided that the only way to end his pain was to destroy the universe. The only time in the trilogy he shows genuine emotion is when he finds some of the heroes apparently "desecrating" his shrine to her, [[spoiler:and at the very end, when the heroes spare him and he realizes that there is some good in the world - and in himself.]]
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257	!Avaia, the Black Swan
258	* FeatheredFiend
259
260	!Fordaeatha of Ruk
261	* EvilIsDeathlyCold
262	* OutOfFocus: She has a single scene in Book 2 and then vanishes from the plot completely, only briefly mentioned as a caretaker of [[spoiler: Rakoth's Dragon.]]
263
264	!Uathach
265	* TheBrute
266	* InexplicablyAwesome: It's said Rakoth did ''something'' to him to make him bigger, stronger, smarter and wordier than other urgachs. Nobody ever gets to know what that is.
267	* ThrowingDownTheGauntlet: [[spoiler: And Diarmuid responds.]]
268
269	!Kaen
270	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: A mad artist using his rhetorical skill to take over an entire people. Genocide is a result. Hmm...
271	* MadArtist: He isn't even obviously evil (that goes to his brother), but so obsessed with artifice he's willing to side with Rakoth just so he can find an ancient magical artifact. He doesn't even keep it afterwards.
272	* MoreThanMindControl: He's such a masterful speaker that he manages to pull the Dwarves to the side of Darkness.
273
274	!Blod
275	* TheBrute: A position shared with Uathach, given they both lead two different armies.
276	* CombatPragmatist: Throws a dagger at [[spoiler: Matt]] once he ensures that he can go scot free if he kills him. This being high fantasy, it doesn't work out for him.
277
278	[[/folder]]
279
280	[[folder:The Gods and Heroes of Legend]]
281
282	!King Arthur
283
284	* BackFromTheDead: For punishment of his heinous crimes, he must constantly be re-awoken and die in battle.
285	* EarnYourHappyEnding: He probably has to work the hardest to do this.
286	* ForegoneConclusion: In-universe, he knows he will never be able to make it to the final battle of any war because of his punishment. [[spoiler: Then he makes it to the final battle of this war ''and'' gets a happy ending.]]
287	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Averted.]] It looks like he will die in the battle against Uathach. [[spoiler: However, Diarmund takes his place in this fight and dies instead. He survives the battle the following day as well]]
288	* WouldHurtAChild: He is known as the "childslayer" for his killing of many children.
289
290	!Lancelot
291
292	* BackFromTheDead
293	* MasterSwordsman: It's Lancelot, duh, the best knight of Arthur's court. And boy, does he back up his reputation.
294	* KnightInShiningArmor: It's Lancelot, duh. All that he asked for after [[spoiler:defeating a huge, many-armed, burning, shapeshifting, regenerating earth elemental]] was to never speak of this fight again, since he did it after asking a bystander for some minor help.
295
296	!Revor
297
298	* SignatureMove: "Revor's Kill", which involves facing down a stampeding swift of eltor (a native Fionavar animal much like deer or antelope) and killing the lead eltor with a single thrown knife at precisely the point where its body will collapse at your feet, thus causing the rest of the swift to split apart from the fallen buck and race harmlessly past you on either side.
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300	[[/folder]]
301
302	[[folder:Other Characters]]
303
304	!Imraith-Nimphais
305	* ActionGirl: As much as it can be said about a female spirit-slash-winged unicorn.
306	* HeroicSacrifice: She dies taking out [[spoiler: Rakoth's dragon]], and if she didn't, the war would have been lost.
307	* WingedUnicorn
308
309	!Faebur
310
311	* HeelFaceTurn: Was originally a mountain bandit, though the death of their leader and Kim's explanation had him join her instead.
312	* LastOfHisKind: [[spoiler: Last of Eridu, to be exact.]]
313
314	!Ruana
315	* ActualPacifist: He and the rest of Paraiko refuse to engage in ''any'' sort of violence, period. Not even Baelreath can convince them otherwise, though [[spoiler: it can convince them to leave Khath Meigol and purify Eridu.]]
316	* BigDamnHeroes: Shows up at the end of the final battle to [[spoiler: bind Owein and The Wild Hunt once more.]]
317	* GentleGiant: Quite literally, considering what Paraiko are.
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