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== Ista ==
== Ista ==


* [[Blessed With Suck]]: Sainthood ain't all it's cracked up to be...
* [[Blessed with Suck]]: Sainthood ain't all it's cracked up to be...
* [[Broken Bird]]: ...as a matter of fact, it [[Heroic BSOD|drove her mad]] the first time around.
* [[Broken Bird]]: ...as a matter of fact, it [[Heroic BSOD|drove her mad]] the first time around.
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Adultery, betrayal, treason, murder, madness...she's got it all.
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Adultery, betrayal, treason, murder, madness...she's got it all.
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* [[The Berserker]]: When his spirit-wolf takes over, he becomes insatiably blood-thirsty.
* [[The Berserker]]: When his spirit-wolf takes over, he becomes insatiably blood-thirsty.
* [[Cursed With Awesome]]: Ingrey's "defilement" gives him superhuman strength, a [[Compelling Voice]] and a [[Troubled but Cute|dangerous, angsty air]].
* [[Cursed with Awesome]]: Ingrey's "defilement" gives him superhuman strength, a [[Compelling Voice]] and a [[Troubled but Cute|dangerous, angsty air]].
* [[The Fettered]]: In more ways than two. Ingrey is constrained by his honor code and his oath of service, which in the course of the novel begins to conflict with his equally ironclad sense of chivalry. His wolf adds yet a third dimension--he must keep its wild tendencies "bound" by a vaguely spiritual mental discipline.
* [[The Fettered]]: In more ways than two. Ingrey is constrained by his honor code and his oath of service, which in the course of the novel begins to conflict with his equally ironclad sense of chivalry. His wolf adds yet a third dimension--he must keep its wild tendencies "bound" by a vaguely spiritual mental discipline.
* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]
* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]
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== Ijada kin Badgerbank ==
== Ijada kin Badgerbank ==


* [[Cursed With Awesome]]: Ijada's spirit animal.
* [[Cursed with Awesome]]: Ijada's spirit animal.
* [[Hot Amazon]]: At least Ingrey thinks so.
* [[Hot Amazon]]: At least Ingrey thinks so.
* [[The Ingenue]]: Though she's highly intelligent and practical-minded, Ijada had lived a sheltered, provincial life.
* [[The Ingenue]]: Though she's highly intelligent and practical-minded, Ijada had lived a sheltered, provincial life.
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== Wencel kin Horseriver ==
== Wencel kin Horseriver ==


* [[Blessed With Suck]]: Congrats! You can [[Charm Person|bespell people around you]], control animals, and have powers to thwart the gods themselves...what could go wrong? Well, the way you did it was to {{spoiler|involuntarily [[Body Snatcher|steal the bodies]] of your descendents and lock them in a [[And I Must Scream|sensory-deprived]] mental prison}}.
* [[Blessed with Suck]]: Congrats! You can [[Charm Person|bespell people around you]], control animals, and have powers to thwart the gods themselves...what could go wrong? Well, the way you did it was to {{spoiler|involuntarily [[Body Snatcher|steal the bodies]] of your descendents and lock them in a [[And I Must Scream|sensory-deprived]] mental prison}}.
* [[Blue Blood]]: Ijada and Ingrey are nobility, but Wencel outranks them quite a bit, as an Earl.
* [[Blue Blood]]: Ijada and Ingrey are nobility, but Wencel outranks them quite a bit, as an Earl.
* {{spoiler|[[Really 700 Years Old]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Really 700 Years Old]]}}
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* [[Zero-Percent Approval Rating]]: Even Ingrey's silver-tongued employer can't come up with anything nice to say at his funeral, having to settle for something vague about "young lives cut short."
* [[Zero-Percent Approval Rating]]: Even Ingrey's silver-tongued employer can't come up with anything nice to say at his funeral, having to settle for something vague about "young lives cut short."
* [[Dead Guy On Display]]: For various reasons, but mainly as a member of the royal family, his death must be universally confirmed because of its effect on the order of succession.
* [[Dead Guy on Display]]: For various reasons, but mainly as a member of the royal family, his death must be universally confirmed because of its effect on the order of succession.


== Jokol Skullsplitter ==
== Jokol Skullsplitter ==