Tortall Universe/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Parental Substitute]] - Myles looked after her during her training years and they become close friends. He would eventually [[Happily Adopted|adopt Alanna.]]

* [[Redheaded Hero|Redheaded Heroine]]

* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]] - In ''Lioness Rampant''. Jon doesn't recognize her in a dress.

* [[Snarky Non Human Sidekick]] - Faithful.

* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]] - As a ten-year old she starts dressing as a boy in order to train for knighthood.

* [[Throwing Down the Gauntlet]] - Alanna was actually ''forbidden'' by Jon to challenge men to duels on personal grounds, simply because if she kept doing so every time she was insulted, Tortall's population would drop. Rapidly.

* [[You Say Girl Like a Bad Thing]] - The Shang Dragon found it distasteful when he saw The Lioness in a dress.

* [[The Paragon]] - In ''The Woman Who Rides Like a Man'' according to Bazhir law she must be the tribe's shaman until she trains a new one to replace her or someone kills her and takes her place so Alanna selects three Gifted children of the tribe, Ishak, Kara, and Kourrem, and begins to train them in magic.

'''Thom of Trebond'''

* [[Break the Haughty]]

* [[Ineffectual Loner]]

* [[Lonely At the Top]]

* [[The Big Guy]]

* [[A Father to His Men]]

* [[Honorary Uncle]] - To Alanna and George's kids.

* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]] - With Buri.

* [[Cool Old Guy]]

* [[Cool Teacher]]

* [[Parental Substitute]] - To Alanna. He eventually makes it official, becoming a case of [[Happily Adopted]].

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]] - Thayet's the girly-girl, Buri's the tomboy.

* [[Princess in Rags]] - Thayet is a runaway princess from a country at war.

* [[Badass Princess]] - She was first seen holding a crossbow like she knew how to use it.

 

* [[Cosmic Plaything]] - In ''Emperor Mage'' only, thanks to a Carthaki goddess named the Graveyard Hag claiming her as her 'vessel.' Otherwise, Daine is entirely her own woman.

* [[Friend to All Living Things]] - Justified: Daine's magic allows her to communicate with animals, i.e. explain to them that [[Humans Are Bastards|she isn't a cold-blooded killer,]] heal them, and animals gravitate to her because of this.

* [[Heroic Bastard]] - {{spoiler|Of a god, no less}}.

** According to [[Word of God]], it's also what {{spoiler|finally convinces her to marry Numair while heavily pregnant, since she didn't want her child to go through what she went through.}}

* [[Hot for Teacher]] - Guess who.

* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]] - Lands a fatal hit on a fast-moving spidren ''in the dark''--even Alanna is impressed. Later explicitly named as part of her magical ability, {{spoiler|inherited from her father, the Hunt God.}}

* [[Just Friends]] - See Numair's entry below.

* [[Raised By Wolves]] - Literally, but only for a little while after her mother died.

* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] - At the end of ''Emperor Mage,'' when she thought a certain friend of hers had been executed. Sadly, the person her revenge was supposed to be directed at - the executor - [[Face Palm|turned into a Stormwing,]] and his innocent nephew had to pay the damages.

* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]

* [[Student and Master Team]]

'''Skysong (Kitten)'''

* [[Happily Adopted]]

* [[Muggle Foster Parents]] - Considering Kitten's birth parents were dragons, Daine and Numair are definitely muggles in comparison.

* [[Only Known By Their Nickname|Only Known By Her Nickname]]

'''Lord Wyldon of Cavall'''

* [[Badass Normal]]

* [[Nice to The Waiter]]

* [[Old Soldier]]

* [[Anti-Hero]] - Aly is a bit of a [[Jerkass]]. She starts the series as a spoiled rich girl who views war and spy work as fun. She enjoys stringing boys along. She gets better, though she still retains some [[Jerkass]] traits. See [[Magnificent Bitch]].

* [[Cosmic Plaything]]: For Kyprioth who engineered her abduction and enslavement. Unlike the rest of her family, she gives him as much grief as he does her.

* [[Guile Hero]]: Unlike her mom, she's not much good in a fight. Her speciality is manipulations and [[Plan|plans]].

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: With Nawat the crow-man.

* [[Interspecies Romance]]

* [[Raised By Wolves|Raised By Crows]]: Justified because he is one and gets along pretty well with humans.

* [[To Be Lawful or Good]] - {{spoiler|Has to choose between culling one of his triplets according to crow law, or letting her live, but being cast out from his flock forever.}}

 

* [[Incest Is Relative]]: Imajane and Rubinyan offer a [[Arranged Marriage|marriage contract]] with [[A Child Shall Lead Them|Dunevon]] to Sarai {{spoiler|and later to Dove}}. They didn't expect her to accept.

* [[Puppet King]]: Poor {{spoiler|Dunevon}}.

* [[Royal Mess]]