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'''Alanna of Trebond (and Olau)'''

* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]] - Lightning

* [[Action Girl]] - Later upgraded to [[Action Mom]].

* [[Animal Talk]] - With Faithful

* [[Asskicking Equals Authority]] - As the wife of a baron and a regular knight she's relatively low in the noble hierarchy (although the Trebond family is very old and noble.) As the King's Champion of Tortall, she speaks with the authority of the crown when neither the king nor queen is near.

* [[Bling of War]] - She has gold-washed mail picked out with amethysts for fancy occasions, but she can fight in it if she has to.

* [[Bully Hunter]] - Alanna is small and weak but she learns the skill to make Ralon leave her alone for good.

* [[The Magnificent]] - Lioness

* [[Mighty Whitey]] - She becomes a respected shaman to the Bloody Hawk Tribe in ''The Woman Who Rides Like a Man''.

* [[One of the Boys]] - Considering that she spent the better part of a decade posing as a boy this was perhaps inevitable, and even once the cat's out of the bag she still has many masculine and aggressive mannerisms. It could also be that these traits actually helped her maintain the illusion for as long as she did.

* [[Parental Abandonment]] - Her mother died giving birth to her and her father went into a deep depression as a result, neglecting his children until he sent them away when they were ten.

* [[Self-Proclaimed Knight]] - In the first half she pretends to be a boy so that she can train for knighthood.

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

* [[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.

* [[Awesome Moment of Crowning]]

* [[The Beautiful Elite]]

* [[Big Brother Instinct]] - When he found out that the new page "Alan" was being bullied, he was quick to help out "him" and was severe against the one who bullied her.

* [[Blue Eyes]]

'''Veralidaine "Daine" Sarrasri <ref>later Sarrasri Salmalin</ref>'''

* [[Animal Talk]] - Played with: Daine can talk to all animals because of her magic, and all the animals could talk to each other with relative ease, but it is implied that each species has its own distinct dialect.

* [[The Archer]] - One skills that kept her alive before she learned how to master her magic.

* [[The Beast Master]] - One aspect of her wild magic involves this ability, but Daine is something of an aversion in that it's the power she least likes to call on, and more often than not only does so to keep animals ''out'' of the fighting.

* [[Berserk Button]] - Whatever you do, just... don't try to kill Numair. It's for your own health, really. {{spoiler|''UNDEAD ZOMBIE DINOSAURS'' get involved if you do. No, seriously.}}

* [[Big No]] - {{spoiler|When Rikash dies.}}

* [[Carnivore Confusion]] - Because of her [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]], Daine knows what it's like for game animals to be hunted and killed, which turns her off from eating them as a human. Before she started to learn about her magic, she grew up eating meat like anybody else, and continued to hunt and eat meat for a long time after discovering it — she says at one point that she doesn't see why this would surprise anybody, since animals kill and eat each other all the time, and it's not as if she kills for sport or uses her magic to lure prey towards her. This changes, however, after a bad experience or two when she herself is pursued in animal form by hunters — game meat becomes Nausea Fuel for her, and she can't stand to eat it anymore, having felt what the animal went through. She doesn't object to it in principle or try to stop other people; she just literally can't stomach it herself. It's mentioned that she gets by okay with domesticated meat by never bonding mentally with any farm animals, and how she feels about fish or insects isn't mentioned.

* [[Nature Hero|Nature Heroine]]

* [[The Nicknamer]]

* [[Odd Friendship]] - With Rikash

* [[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.

* [[Semi-Divine]] - She's the daughter of a minor god (of the hunt) and a mortal woman (who becomes a minor goddess when she dies).

* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons]]

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

* [[Our Dragons Are Different]] - If anyone's a [[Mary Sue]] in this series, it's Kitten.

* [[Pet Baby Wild Animal]]

* [[Evil Sorcerer]]

* [[A God Am I]] - This is his [[Evil Plan]]; to displace the worship of the gods by his citizens with worship of ''himself''. The other gods, most prominently the Graveyard Hag, are not amused.

* [[It's All About Me]]

* [[I Want Them Alive]]

'''Varice Kingsford'''

* [[Hair of Gold]]

 

== First appearing in ''Protector of the Small'' ==

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Badass Normal]] - The whole point of her character according to [[Word of God]] and the final book. She has no powers ''at all' but still kicks ass and leads others.

* [[Bully Hunter]]

* [[Buxom Is Better]] - Inverted, Kel was not happy in the least bit when she started growing breasts.

* [[Badass Normal]]

* [[Four-Star Badass]]: A general who much prefers fighting at the border and protecting people than living at the capital training kids. Kel realizes this in Lady Knight.

* [[Old Soldier]]

* [[Pet the Dog]] - One of the first clues that Wyldon isn't ''that'' bad a guy is his kindness toward Kel's technically disallowed terrier mix Jump. Later on it's revealed that he actually breeds hunting dogs, and that Cavall produces some of the finest in Tortall.

* [[Happily Married]] - To Lady Vivenne, via [[Word of God]].

* [[In-Series Nickname]]: Neal refers to him as 'The Stump' because he's stocky and stubborn.

* [[Stern Teacher]]: To pages. He's famous among them for his rule that if a page is late to the year-end ceremony, even if its just a minute, they have to repeat the entire four years of page trainning. His reason is "Tardiness in knights causes fatalities."

* [[What Could Have Been]] - Originally he was [http://tpwords.wordpress.com/2007/08/25/evolution-of-villains/ slated to be] an outright villain.

* [[Embarrassing Nickname]] - His family calls him "meathead."

* [[The Lancer]] - To Kel. He's comical and snarky and doesn't take anything seriously.

* [[The Medic]]

* [[The Snark Knight]]

* [[Maybe Ever After]] - Implied with Kel at the end of ''Lady Knight''.

* [[Non-Idle Rich]] - Member of the noble house of Masbolle (related to Queenscove, Neal's family) but serves in the King's Own.

* [[Colonel Badass|Sergeant Badass]] - he's a squad leader (one rank below commander of the Company) who can and will take you to school.

* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]] - with Kel

* [[The Face]]: The Crows are a [[Cast Herd]]. They communicate with Aly primarily through him because, unlike them, he likes humans. He becomes their official spokesman in book 2.

* [[Interspecies Romance]]

* [[Single-Target Sexuality]] - Alysexual

* [[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.}}

 

* [[Green Thumb]]

 

'''Fadal'''