The Night Angel Trilogy/Characters

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This is the character sheet for Brent Weeks' The Night Angel Trilogy.

Azoth/Kylar Stern

Durzo Blint

Logan Gyre

Gwinvere 'Momma K' Kirena

Doll Girl/Elene Cromwyll

Jarl

Ulyssandra

Viridiana 'Vi' Sovari

Dorian Ursuul

  • A God Am I: When he embraces the vir and becomes Godking Wanhope. He really is thought of as a god. Also, when he wields Curoch and Iules and COMES OUT ALIVE! Dorian is as close to a godlike character in the trilogy that we see.
  • Badass
  • Better as Friends: Dorian and Jenine.
  • The Corruption: The vir. Its one of many reasons he doesn't use it, preffering to rely on his Talent and other gifts. Its far more corrupting than he thought and is using it too much is probably the main factor behind his Face Heel Turn.
  • Earn Your Happy Ending
  • Either/Or Prophecy
  • Faith Heel Turn: He'd been doing bad things up to this point already as God-King Wanhope, most notably murdering every single one of his brothers (young kids included, and even forcing pregnant concubines to have abortions) but he justified it by hoping and praying that God was on his side and that now all potential rivals (who would have been puppets of the Vurdmeisters) he could finally get round to being a good, reforming leader. But learning that Jenine's husband was alive immediately before his wedding pushed him off the deep end and he decided he couldn't take any more, forsook God, and started truly thinking of himself as a God-King.
  • Heel Realization
  • God King
  • Love Hurts: Dorian loves Jenine so much, but loses her to Logan in the end.
  • Mad Oracle: Parts of the trilogy, this IS Dorian. But at the end he really does become mad. Maybe. He smiles at Vi when she realizes he implanted Kylar and Elene's child in Jenine. He might not be so mad as people think.
  • Names to Run Away From Really Fast
  • Necessarily Evil: What Dorian first thinks of him becoming Godking Wanhope. He then realizes that he has to do despicable things to keep the people in line, and to save his wife, Jenine. Towards the end of it, though, between his behaviour and the vir and his returning madness that the vir is making worse, he becomes indifferent to Jenine's fate and starts thinking about ow he "deserved" to be God-King, and it takes Solon to make Dorian realize that he'd started to forget the "necessarily" part and was becoming a full-blown villain.
  • Nightmare Fuel: Some of the things Dorian does as Godking Wanhope. Raising krul, raping young girls, murdering unborn children...
  • One-Winged Angel: Dorian's confrontation with the aethlings in the Citadel hall. Wow. I fell in love with Dorian then and there.
  • Three Amigos: With Solon and Feir.
  • Training from Hell: While being groomed as the Godking's heir in his childhood/teens, Dorian had to flay a woman alive and kill his mother, along with a host of other horrific behaviour. But what sickens Dorian the most is that, being a child and not knowing any different, he used to actually enjoy it and didn't think he was doing anything wrong.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: He feels he has to act like a true God-King (ie. The Caligula) in the present to put the fear of...well, God...into his subjects since the culture of Khalidor is so corrupt that all of them would interpret kindness as weakness and try to kill him and Jenine. His plan is to gradually introduce more and more reforms and eventually cut the insanity out of is kingdom for good, in other words for the Greater Good. However, by the end he sees that the Greater Good had become an excuse and he was becoming just as depraved as his father was for the sake of an imaginary future.
  • With Great Power Comes Great Insanity
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