Urthquake the Tough
The unhinged Badger Lord for the Long Patrol battalion who believes all vermin should be killed in order for there to be peace in the world.
- Anti-Hero: A very dark one at that. Urthquake has killed hundreds of vermin and even murdered some in cold-blood while they were defenseless. He believes the ends justify the means, and rarely ever questions his actions.
- Jerkass: Is coldly detached, rude, blunt, impatient at times, and narrow-minded when it comes to his viewpoints on vermin.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: However, whenever he has a moment to breathe, he drops his guard and shows a more sensitive, calm side, such as when he's in Tearmann.
- Lightning Bruiser: Like all badgers, he's a tall, burly beast, but he still manages to move very fast despite his size.
- Not So Stoic: While he's usually calm, whenever he suffers from the Bloodwrath or gets annoyed in general, he tends to get angry very quickly.
- Sanity Slippage: Starts sinking in during Book II, after he's almost killed by one of his own troops and his paranoia continues to grow. Being out in combat for so long has also severely damaged his mentality.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: In Book II, he's much more unpleasant to be around, as he's constantly snapping or berating his troops over picayune reasons.
Sergeant Honward
- Despair Event Horizon: Is rendered catatonic after Angus brutally murder Tike in front of him.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He can be rude at times and argues with Tike, but he still truly cares about him.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Tike's blue.
- Take Me Instead: When Angus makes Tike and Hon chose who he should kill, Hon chooses to sacrifice his own life to let Tike live. Too bad Angus changes his mind seconds later.
Corporal Tike Bonson
- Black-and-White Morality: Unlike a majority of the other characters, he sees everything as either good or evil, which leads to several conflicts considering what everyone in the battalion has done.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Honward's red.
- Sacrificial Lion: Is killed by Angus several chapters into Book II.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: He's a young, optimistic, brave, and caring individual in the Long Patrol. He's also one of the few characters in the whole series who is incorruptible, which is why Angus kills him over Hon.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: Despite being exposed to war and the dozens of anti-heroes within the Long Patrol, Tike always remains hopeful and believes he's fighting for justice.
Lieutenant Hollis "Stink Mouth" Brennly
- Beware the Nice Ones: He's normally a nice hare, but he won't hesitate to raise his sword and slay other beasts if he or others are threatened.
- The Medic: He's the battalion's primary medic.
- Nice Guy: One of the few hares who's always jolly and kind to everyone he talks to.
- You Need a Breath Mint: He reveals in chapter 17 that everyone calls him Stink Mouth due to his foul breath, since he eats so many pellets.
Lieutenant Harstow Yendoll MacKrun
- Groin Attack: Before Angus kills him, he stabs him twice in the groin and nearly cuts off one of his testicles in the process.
- Mauve Shirt: He's a minor background character who only has a few lines in each chapter he appears in.
- Nice Guy: He's pleasant to be around. Even after he's pelted with a clump of mud by a young otter, he responds by playfully flinging mud back at him, as opposed to yelling about how his uniform was ruined.
Corporal Ozgin
- Groin Attack: She's stabbed in the vagina by Angus.
- Jerkass: A foul-mouthed, hot-headed, overall impolite hare.
- Mauve Shirt: She gets more screen-time from chapter 17 onwards, but then she's brutally killed by Angus before she's fully fleshed out.
- Rape as Backstory: She was raped by her captain sometime before the story began, which turned her into The Cynic.
- Rasputinian Death: She's stabbed multiple times in the torso, stabbed in the anus, stabbed in the groin, has a paw sliced off, and is finally finished with a slashed throat.
- Slashed Throat: How Angus finishes her off.
Captain Becker
- Big Eater: Like most hares in the series. Becker tends to steal food from his fellow soldiers as well.
- Nice Guy: Like Hollis, he's a very kind beast, albeit he does veer towards being Mirth to Power at times.
- Ship Tease: With Lillen, after they start bonding more and have a few intimate scenes together.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Saron. They're always at each other's throats, yet they had each other's backs; Becker himself described their relationship as brother and sister.
Captain Saronso "Saron"
- Action Girl: Like most of the female soldiers in the Long Patrol.
- Mauve Shirt: One of the more notable side characters of Book I.
- Sacrificial Lamb: She's the first recurring character to be killed off in the Long Patrol's storyline, and her death had a long-last effect on Becker.
- Slashed Throat: She's killed during the Battle of Blackheart's Fortress when Blackheart's Dragon cuts her throat open.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Becker. They always argue and even fight each other, but when it comes to battles, they always protect one another.
Jenner and Menner
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: Both of them are abruptly killed during the Battle of Blackheart's Fortress in chapter 8. Not a single beast mourned either of them.
- Red Shirt: They're borderline Flat Characters with little backstory, and they both perish in the second chapter they appear in.
- Those Two Guys: They're never seen apart from each other. It's implied they were either brothers or had been friends since they were leverets.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: They're introduced in chapter 7 and killed off very quickly in chapter 8. The only thing we knew about either of them is they loved to climb mountains, and Menner used to be a slave.
Sergeant Stanno Langrove
- A Day in the Limelight: Chapter 9 is told entirely from his perspective as he and the rest of the Long Patrol recover from the Battle of Blackheart's Fortress.
- Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration: Played for Drama. He masturbates in chapter 20 while everyone else is having sex because he's frustrated that he's been away from his wife for so long.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: He cannot stand fighting alongside his older brother, but knows that he's a soldier just like everyone else and should be treated as such.
Lieutenant Morson Langrove
- Big Brother Bully: Constantly fights with his younger brother Stanno and repeatedly talks down to him.
- Hated by All: Almost no one likes him, not even his own siblings.
- Jerkass: One of the biggest ones in Urthquake's battalion.
- Smug Snake: He always speaks to everyone in a condescending tone and acts like one of the toughest hares in the unit. Yet he's just as vulnerable as everyone else and pretends to act tough even when he knows he's scared. He also doesn't dare talk back to Urthquake, even though he does so with everyone else.
- Ungrateful Bastard: He refuses to thank Tike for saving his life. The best he could do was tell him that he's got "some balls after all."
- What the Hell, Hero?: Several characters chew him out over coldly murdering Danik, Tegast's young brother. Even Urthquake says it was a cowardly thing to do.
Lieutenant Frenquil Langrove
- Action Girl
- Character Development: Sets in shortly after the massacre in Tearmann, where she starts questioning herself and why other beasts resort to pointless violence and bloodshed.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She can be just as rude and crass as Morson, but she truly does care about her brothers and everyone else in the unit.
- Took a Level in Kindness: At the beginning of Book I, she's as much of a Jerkass as Morson. By the end of the same book, she'd lightened up considerably and is much more tolerable to be around.
Lakler McSliverson
- Fan Disservice: Given how disgusting he is, his brief sex scene with a hedgehog in chapter 20 is anything but pleasant.
- Nice Guy: Poor hygiene aside, he's actually a very kind, optimistic hare.
- The Pig-Pen: He's a very smelly hare who never bathes or changes his clothes.
- Stepford Smiler: He spends most of his time always looking on the brighter things in life, despite everything he struggles with in the unit. But he finally cracks when he has to dig Elonv's grave, and starts sobbing after previously acting nonchalant over his death.
- Uncleanliness Is Next to Ungodliness: Averted. Lakler is one of the nastiest hares in the story, but he's also one of the kindest hares, and not as corrupted as other members of the Long Patrol.
- You Need a Breath Mint: Naturally, due to how unhygienic he is. Ashlyn even gives him mint leaves for obvious reasons, despite knowing he hates them.
