Dorian Hawkmoon
- The Chosen One: It does at least suck somewhat less for this aspect of the Eternal Champion.
- Cosmic Plaything: Dorian gets a bit fed up with artifact hunting by The Sword of the Dawn.
- Heroic BSoD: He starts out having been defeated and taken prisoner by Granbretan.
- Determinator: Told you he got better.
Count Brass
- Heroic Neutral: It doesn't last even halfway through the first book.
- Neutral No Longer
- Royals Who Actually Do Something
Bowgentle
- Martial Pacifist: He would be a Warrior Poet but he's more poet than warrior.
- Meaningful Name
- The Medic
Yisselda
- Action Girl: Takes up arms alongside her father and husband in The Runestaff. While pregnant yet!
- Brainwashed and Crazy: During The Mad God's Amulet.
Oladahn
- Half-Human Hybrid: Half giant— oddly enough, this makes him shorter than most men (and very furry).
- Non-Human Sidekick
Baron Meliadus
- The Big Bad Wolf: His mask definitely evokes this.
- The Dragon: As the highest-ranking commander of Granbretan's military, he serves as this to King-Emperor Huon.
- Faux Affably Evil: He can be a very polite and cultured man, but it's all on the surface. Inside, he's everything bad about Granbretan cranked up.
- The Heavy: He's Hawkmoon's most personal and recurring enemy across the novels, and ends up replacing Huon as the Big Bad at the end.
- If I Can't Have You…: Yisselda's refusal leads to Revenge Before Reason.
- It's Personal with the Dragon: He's a much more direct and personal threat to all of the protagonists than Huon is.
- Malevolent Masked Men: As the head of the Order of the Wolf, he always wears a wolf mask in public.
- Revenge Before Reason: To the point of regicide.
- The Sociopath: Even by the low standards of Granbretan, he's noteworthy for his naked ambition and utter Lack of Empathy.
- The Starscream: Eventually becomes this to Huon. He's successful.
- Villainous Breakdown: He becomes rather progressively unhinged as the goes on.
- Wicked Cultured: At first.
Huillam d'Averc
- Agent Peacock / The Dandy
- The Casanova: He does quite a good job on Flana (see below) and in turn becomes...
- Deadpan Snarker
- Defector from Decadence, though for purely self-serving reasons. A little different in that he is not a Granbretanian born, but a Frenchman who threw his lot in with them even before they took his nation.
- Incurable Cough of Death: Subverted since it's not what kills him— he's just a hypochondriac.
- Wild Card
The Knight in Jet and Gold
- Enigmatic Empowering Entity: Though he doesn't so much give Dorian items of power as points him to where to find them.
- The Faceless
- Knight Errant: Duh.
Flana Mikosevaar
- The Hedonist: Until her...
- Sex–Face Turn
- Unexpected Successor: Meliadus (her ex-husband) thinks if he sets her up as Queen-Emperor, he can set things right (and, coincidentally, rule through her). It doesn't work.
King-Emperor Huon
- Age Without Youth: His throne-globe keeps him alive but hasn't stopped him from withering into a fetus-like creature.
- Big Bad: As the King-Emperor of Granbretan, he's the ultimate antagonist of the series. At least until Meliadus overthrows him.
- Dark Lord on Life Support: He can't leave his throne-globe, which is the only thing keeping him alive after so long.
- Dirty Old Man: He's no longer capable of having sex himself, but apparently will sometimes order his court to throw orgies just so he can watch.
- Evil Old Folks: Emphasis on the old - he's at least two thousand.
- Evil Overlord: Well, he is the tyrannical ruler of an expansionist nation bent on world domination. It goes with the territory.
- Fatal Flaw: His pride, which leads him to believe that no Granbretanian could ever consider turning against him. Meliadus proves him wrong.
- God-Emperor: His Granbretanian subjects revere him as something near divine, even swearing by his name.
- Immortality Inducer: His throne-globe has preserved his life far beyond a normal human span.
- Non-Action Big Bad: Thanks to being a Dark Lord on Life Support, he's physically helpless without his subjects and machines.
- Orcus on His Throne: By necessity rather than choice, as he's literally incapable of moving from said throne without dying.
- Really 700 Years Old: He's two thousand and counting.
- Vocal Dissonance: Despite his withered appearance, he has a very melodious, youthful-sounding voice. Apparently it was stolen from some unfortunate and somehow transferred to him.
