Old Kingdom/Characters

Characters introduced in Sabriel

Sabriel

• Action Girl
• Badass Bookworm
• Bob Haircut
• First Girl Wins
• Happily Married: To Touchstone in Lirael and Abhorsen.
• Heroic Lineage
• It Is Not Your Time
• Kid with the Leash: To Mogget.
• Lady of War
• Magical Girl
• Magic Music
• Official Couple
• They Do
• When You Coming Home, Dad?: Not only does she have this problem with her father, but her duties stopping horrific undead monstrosities and radioactive magic constructs from killing everyone tend to cut into her time with her kids later.

Mogget

• Brilliant but Lazy
• Cats Are Mean
• Cat Scare
• Deadpan Snarker
• Feline Abomination
• God Was My Co-Pilot: Real name: Yrael.
• Hidden Agenda Villain: Well, sort of.
• Intellectual Animal
• Offscreen Teleportation
• Quit Your Whining: Says this a lot, especially to Sam.
• Restraining Bolt
• The Reveal: Mogget, that snarky, Free Magic thing disguised as a cat? He's Yrael, the Eighth Bright Shiner. Yeah.
• Sdrawkcab Name: Yrael was the one who neither stood for, nor against the creation of the charter.
• Sealed Evil in a Teddy Bear
• Servile Snarker
• Snarky Non-Human Sidekick: Oh so very much.

Touchstone

• Awesome Moment of Crowning
• The Berserker
• Cain and Abel: With Kerrigor. He's Abel.
• Dual-Wielding
• Mr. Fanservice
• Happily Married: To Sabriel in Lirael and Abhorsen.
• Heroic Bastard
• Heroic Self-Deprecation
• Human Popsicle
• Late Arrival Spoiler: Yeah, trying describing the second and third books without giving away that he's the last survivor of the royal family.
• Meaningful Rename
• Naked on Arrival
• Official Couple
• Royal Blood
• Royals Who Actually Do Something
• They Do

Kerrigor

• Backwards Name: His actual name is Rogir, or Rogirek to be formal; "Kerrigor" was a childhood nickname that stuck.
• Big Bad
• Cain and Abel: With Touchstone. He's Cain.
• Evil Sorcerer
• Humanoid Abomination: As a Greater Dead.
• Our Liches Are Different: Or rather, as a Greater Dead Adept, he's the local equivalent.
• Sealed Evil in a Teddy Bear: Gets turned into a cat like Mogget.
• Self-Made Orphan: Murdered his mother and his sisters to break the Charter Stones.
• The Undead
• Was Once a Man

The Mordicant

• The Dragon: To Kerrigor
• Golem: A Mordicant is essentially an artificial body of inorganic materials possessed and animated by a Dead spirit, and is therefore equal parts Golem and undead.
• Implacable Man
• No Name Given: A Mordicant is what it is, being the name of one of the most powerful types of Dead. Its own personal name is never revealed, if it has one.
• Scarily Competent Tracker
• Was Once a Man: Presumably, though we're given no indication of who or what it really was in Life.

Sanar and Ryelle

• Dark-Skinned Blond
• Mad Oracle
• One-Scene Wonder: In Sabriel. They have more to do in Lirael.
• Prescience Is Predictable
• Psychic Link
• Psychic Powers
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
• Single-Minded Twins: They really come off this way.
• Twin Banter
• Unstuck in Time
• Wonder Twin Powers

Characters introduced in Lirael and Abhorsen

Lirael

• Action Girl
• Badass Bookworm
• The Call Put Me on Hold
• The Chosen One
• Driven to Suicide: She seriously considering it in her introduction.
• Heroic Lineage
• Heroic Self-Deprecation
• Incest Is Relative: Sam's advances on her, not knowing she's his aunt.
• Instant Expert
• In the Blood
• Kid with the Leash
• Long Lost Sibling
• Magic Mirror
• Magic Music
• The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body
• The Unfavorite

The Disreputable Dog

• Canine Abomination
• Dead Ex Machina: For Nick.
• Gender Equals Breed: Subverted.
• Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: Lirael has bite scars from the last time she considered suicide.
• God Was My Co-Pilot: Real name: Kibeth.
• I Lied: She is the Disreputable Dog.
• Intellectual Animal
• Offscreen Teleportation

Sameth

• Character Development: He starts off in Lirael uncomfortable as his role as Abhorsen-in-waiting, and feels out of place in the Old Kingdom. By the end of his journey with Lirael he's found a path that suits him better and become more responsible.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation
• Improvised Weapon User: Shortly after we meet him, he organizes a group of kids in fighting off the Dead with cricket equipment.
• Incest Is Relative: His flirting with Lirael.
• Kid with the Leash
• Refusal of the Call
• Royal Blood
• Royals Who Actually Do Something

Nicholas Sayre

• Agent Scully
• Badass Abnormal: In "Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case"
• Badass Normal
• Demonic Possession
• Improvised Weapon User
• Last Boy Wins
• Took a Level In Badass
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
• Unexplained Recovery

Ellimere

• Royal Blood
• Royals Who Actually Do Something

Hedge

• Bald of Evil: Or at least he's on his way, more like Balding of Evil.
• The Dragon: To Orannis.
• Enemy to All Living Things: Hence not being able to use a normal horse.
• Evil Sorcerer
• Go Out with a Smile: Upon seeing the Stars of the Ninth Gate, the flames in his eyes go out, he smiles and raises his hands to the sky before falling into the last gate.
• Hellish Horse: Ordinary horses can't stand him, so he rides undead ones instead.
• Humanoid Abomination: An exercise in knowing when to stop using Free Magic. It takes him over and transforms his body and soul. Mostly his soul, though.
• Necromancer
• Omnicidal Maniac
• This Is Your Brain on Evil: Particularly notable in Abhorsen, he becomes increasingly inhuman the more he falls under Orannis's sway. Of course, since this comes with an increase in power, it's not like he minds...

Chlorr of the Mask

• Ascended Extra: Getting her own book called Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen.
• The Dragon: To Hedge.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: Tapping into an ancient, powerful, source of Free Magic you know next to nothing about: bad idea.
• Fallen Hero - Once upon a time Chlorr was an Abhorsen named Clariel.
• Humanoid Abomination: Notice a trend here?

Orannis

• Apocalypse How
• Big Bad
• The Dreaded: Even the Disreputable Dog, who is actually Kibeth in disguise, is afraid of him, and with good reason.
• Eldritch Abomination
• Kill It with Fire: His destructive phases can best be described as explosions of flame and heat.
• The Destroyer
  • Names to Run Away From Really Fast
• The Eldritch Abomination Behind The Man
• Numerological Motif: ^[1] Ninth Bright Shiner, nine manifestations, nine second countdown before the Destroyer phase activates...
• Omnicidal Maniac
• The Scottish Trope: The Disreputable Dog will write his name, but doesn't say it and warns Lirael and Sam not to either.
• Sealed Evil in a Can
• What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic: His Numerological Motif is nine. To clarify, the ninth (and highest) rank of Angels are the Seraphim, also known as the fiery ones. And what is Orannis' usual weapon?

1. ↑ There may be a better trope for this akin to Arc Number