Medallion/Characters

All the things you ever wanted to know about characters from Medallion.

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Andreya Orifax


The heroine. Ruler of her people, but horribly scarred by the loss of her innocence at a young age.
 * Age-Appropriate Angst - When she was younger, she lost everyone in her immediate family. She still feels terrified of being abandoned.
 * Berserk Button - Calling her "Andreya", "Your Majesty", or any other honorific. Also, insulting her family or (God help you) Anshi.
 * Chaste Hero - Not by her own decision, but because all the guys are scared of her strength.
 * The Chosen One - Her people consider her this, as she's descended directly from their greatest leader who established the matriarchal monarchy.
 * Dreya, on the other hand, considers herself The Unchosen One.
 * Mini-Dress of Power - It reaches to her knees, but in a culture where long skirts are the norm for royalty it's as mini as you can get.
 * Real Women Never Wear Dresses - Averted since the majority of the book has her in a dress.
 * Rebellious Queen - At least until the midpoint of the story. Thankfully she has Melane to help her out.
 * Royal Blood - Well, she's a queen.
 * Sibling Team - With Anshi.
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
 * The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask. She was never trained to deal with grief brought on by the deaths of her loved ones, so she refuses to trust anyone..
 * Be All My Sins Remembered
 * The Chains of Commanding
 * Establishing Character Moment: her first conversation with Melane, when she refuses to take her advisor's advice and says she'll ignore what her subjects think and do what she wants.
 * Fatal Flaw: Dreya's very, very bad at ignoring insults and taunts.
 * Humble Pie
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Anshi's blue. She's the one who's always off to save someone.

Tamox


The person Dreya meets while above ground. To tell you more would spoil the story.
 * Badass Transplant - His abilities come from
 * Butt Monkey - Everything happens to him, and half the time it's not his fault.
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass - In a literal sense. Meaning he doesn't know when he'll be the moron and when he'll be the... you know.
 * The Fool - He always gets in trouble
 * Loser Protagonist
 * Phlebotinum Rebel - Against Kespa, his creator. He was supposed to be the perfect soldier.
 * The Pollyanna - Compared to the others, he's a bastion of sunshine.
 * I Will Protect Her - Said to Keplan about his daughter Saela
 * Humble Hero

Cassy


A Quirlwing juvenile who originally acts as a guide but sticks around for the adventure.
 * Apologetic Attacker -
 * Badass
 * Beware the Nice Ones - She's the least likely to attempt to kill you. But she can wipe your mind clean of all brain activity.
 * Telepath - Capable of Mind Manipulation, taking a Journey to The Center of The Mind, and Mind Probe.
 * Conversely able to get Mind Raped by anyone powerful enough to sense her.
 * Mix-and-Match Critters
 * Mystical Waif - As close as you can get while being a winged squirrel cat.
 * Strange Girl - Her position in the group.

Anshi Hitaro
Dreya's blood sister and best friend.


 * Action Girl.
 * Beauty Is Never Tarnished - Averted hard..
 * Nearly becomes a Broken Bird as a result
 * BFS - Her broadsword's pretty fantastic.
 * Cultured Warrior - Due to her service in the Guard
 * The General's Daughter - Her father's the CO of Dreya's army.
 * Girl in A Box - Or a tiny cell, to be more accurate.
 * Hair of Gold - Along with her mother
 * Lamarck Was Right - If her father's any evidence.
 * Sibling Team - With Dreya.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Dreya's red, even limiting her killing sprees when she's injured
 * Samus Is a Girl - A short story details her rescue of the Xarn, and to many she's the first elf they've ever seen. So when she singlehandedly takes out five Myrl and they only see her from the back, it's a shock when her true gender is revealed.

Saela

 * Actual Pacifist - Until she.
 * Break the Cutie - After the.
 * Faux Action Girl
 * The Plucky Girl -.

Sirold

 * Cultured Badass: He keeps the most argumentative court in the country in line. And he will kill you if you strike first.
 * Heroic Neutral: All he really wants is to rule his people in peace. It takes Dreya's involvement to convince him to fight.
 * Kuudere
 * Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner: "Freedom? I don't call this freedom. I call it practical emancipation." Cue his one-handed fight out of a ring of Myrl.
 * Reluctant Warrior: He genuinely wants to avoid bloodshed, especially seeing as how his people are already facing extinction.
 * Supporting Leader - He's basically responsible for the organization of his army and keeps Kespa from overrunning the forest while Dreya's dealing with her Nakama.

Kieral

 * Blood Spattered Innocents
 * The Chick
 * Daddy's Girl
 * Damsel Scrappy - In one of the short stories, she falls down a well and stops an entire party of refugees
 * Hidden Depths - She loves to dance.
 * Lady of Adventure - Becomes one at the end passing the throne on to a relative and sets out to seek her fortunes.
 * Princess Classic
 * Took a Level In Badass - Then quickly suffered Badass Decay after an inconvenient injury.

Keplan

 * Non-Action Guy - Pretty much paralyzed by his family troubles.
 * Overprotective Dad - To Saela
 * The Charmer, at least in his own mind.
 * Prince Charming Wannabe

Kespa



 * Ambition Is Evil - How she got to be the villain of the piece.
 * Big Bad of the whole story
 * Combat Stilettos - Subverted. She wears high heels... at home, to announce her arrival to her servants. She's got a pair of combat boots for practical use.
 * Evil Redhead
 * God Save Us From the Queen - Usurped the throne.
 * Hot Chick With a Sword - Dreya's pretty, but Kespa's downright smoldering.
 * Lady in Red - Her favorite color.
 * Nigh Invulnerability - Granted by the (almost) all-powerful Medallion
 * Flaw Exploitation - She uses Dreya's obsession with revenge against all wrongs to distract her.
 * There Are No Therapists - Justified, as Ilverin civilization hasn't yet developed psychotherapy. Though many characters would benefit from it...

Krysty Anaril

 * Axe Crazy
 * Dark Action Girl: Compared to Dreya's heroine.
 * Mysterious Woman: Though that changes quickly.
 * Mysterious Woman: Though that changes quickly.

Aora Kahn

 * Emotionless Girl: Until her backstory is revealed.
 * Girl With Psycho Weapon: She forged it herself.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: with girly girl Valeria
 * Loners Are Freaks, at least according to the population of Tralnrt.
 * All of the Other Reindeer
 * Never Live It Down

Melane Elantur

 * Angst? What Angst? - She lost her best friend Mayara to Kespa. The loss is never mentioned, probably because she's busy caring for said friend's daughter.
 * Badass Bookworm - She was caretaker of the elven library, making her the most educated of any of the cast. She declines to join in the final battle, but she has scars from the Myrl War
 * Girl Friday - To Dreya's Crusoe.

Mayara Orifax



 * Action Mom - She fought in the Myrl War on the front lines with a baby daughter at home.
 * The High Queen - Until her  death.
 * Never Got to Say Goodbye
 * Ridiculously Successful Future Self - In Becoming Emerald, Mayara is portrayed as a clumsy, forgetful, somewhat out-there girl who struggles with her undeveloped psychic powers. Fast forward two centuries, and she's queen.
 * Girl In The Mirror
 * Unwilling Suspension
 * Missing Mom
 * Parents in Distress
 * Mama Bear: The woman will do anything required of her to save her daughter.
 * Or her husband, for that matter.
 * Almighty Mom
 * Fainting Seer
 * The Fatalist
 * Dreaming of Things to Come
 * You Can't Fight Fate
 * Seer

Darys Orifax

 * The Charmer
 * Manly Men Can Hunt - According to Word of God, before he became king he hunted wildcats. Elf-eating wildcats.
 * Scarily Competent Tracker
 * Hot Consort to his wife Mayara

Treyn Hitaro

 * Hair of Gold - Looks like a cross between Godiva Hair, Wild Hair and Messy Hair
 * Hysterical Woman - Occurs when she realizes
 * The Ophelia - Partially. She was mentally fragile, but wasn't truly ill.

Aril Hitaro

 * Back-to-Back Badasses - With his daughter, Anshi.
 * Badass Cape - He wears one. And he's awesome.
 * Badass Long Hair - Easily the longest hair of any male character in the series. It's even as long (or longer than) Dreya's!
 * Papa Wolf - Do. NOT. Touch. His. Daughter.

Valeria

 * Alpha Bitch - To Dreya
 * Bratty Teenage Daughter - Of the Orifax family (though not related to Dreya).
 * The Fashionista
 * Socialite - She's actually the only one shown with a large circle of friends.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl - the girly one to Aora's tomboy