The History of the Runestaff/Characters

Dorian Hawkmoon

• The Chosen One: It does at least suck somewhat less for this aspect of the Eternal Champion.
• Cosmic Plaything: Dorian gets a bit fed up with artifact hunting by The Sword of the Dawn.
• Heroic BSOD: He starts out having been defeated and taken prisoner by Granbretan.
  • Determinator: Told you he got better.

Count Brass

• Heroic Neutral: It doesn't even last halfway through the first book.
• Neutral No Longer
• Royals Who Actually Do Something

Bowgentle

• Martial Pacifist: He would be a Warrior Poet but he's more poet than warrior.
• Meaningful Name
• The Medic

Yisselda

• Action Girl: Takes up arms alongside her father and husband in The Runestaff. While pregnant yet!
• Brainwashed and Crazy: During The Mad God's Amulet.
• Heroes Want Redheads: And strawberry blondes, too.

Oladahn

• The Archer
• Half-Human Hybrid: Half giant-- oddly enough, this makes him shorter than most men (and very furry).
• Non-Human Sidekick

Baron Meliadus

• The Big Bad Wolf: His mask definitely evokes this.
• If I Can't Have You: Yisselda's refusal leads to...
• Revenge Before Reason: To the point of regicide.
• Wicked Cultured: At first.

Huillam d'Averc

• Agent Peacock / The Dandy
• The Casanova: He does quite a good job on Flana (see below) and in turn becomes...
  • Ladykiller in Love
• Deadpan Snarker
• Defector From Decadence, though for purely self-serving reasons. A little different in that he is not a Granbretanian born, but a Frenchman who threw his lot in with them even before they took his nation.
• Incurable Cough of Death: Subverted since it's not what kills him-- he's just a hypochondriac.
• Wild Card

The Knight in Jet and Gold

• Enigmatic Empowering Entity: Though he doesn't so much give Dorian items of power as points him to where to find them.
• The Faceless
• Knight Errant: Duh.

Flana Mikosevaar

• The Hedonist: Until her...
• Sex Face Turn
• Unexpected Successor: Meliadus (her ex-husband) thinks if he sets her up as Queen-Emperor, he can set things right (and, coincidentally, rule through her). It doesn't work.
• The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask: After the death of her lover, Huillam she seems resigned to being this. Ironically, one of her first orders is to dismantle the Granbretanian mask-wearing system.