Prophet's House/Characters

Ira Rostov/Lysander Rassianus

• Ax Crazy
• Byronic Hero
• Dark Messiah
• Evil Sorcerer: A rare sympathetic example.
• Glasgow Grin: Marius gives him one at the end of Altar.
• Scars Are Forever: Ira's pox-scars and broken fingers.

Sofia Rassianus

• The Chessmaster
• Everything's Better with Princesses
• Magical Girl
• Manipulative Bitch
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin

Alisayne Rassianus

• Bottle Fairy
• Broken Bird
• Curves in All the Right Places
• Lady Drunk
• Mommy Issues
• Ms. Fanservice
• She's Got Legs

Sepirahkt Rassianus

• Angsty Surviving Twin
• Badass Grandpa
• Combat Pragmatist: He pulls a bridge down on a power-mad angel instead of facing it head-on.
• The Dulcinea Effect
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Sepirahkt started the war that destroyed his family by murdering a scion of the House of Kvalus for insulting his sister-wife, Areina.
• Twincest

Asimir Rassianus

• Dirty Coward
• The Watchmaker
• Retired Monster

Marius Rassianus

• Cannot Dream: Marius states in Prophet's Mantle that he never dreams.
• Evil Uncle
• Papa Wolf
• Sinister Minister

Stephen Kvalus

• Arranged Marriage: Forced into marrying Inari to end the war against Umzad.
• Dead Little Sister: Stephen's guilt over his sister's death is his chief motivation.
• Evil Uncle: Subverted. Stephen is Sofia's uncle, but rather than usurping her rightful claim he tries desperately to restore her to the throne.
• Puppet King: To Eleazora.

Anaias Kvalus

• Blue Blood: Dark because he's half-Artaxi, but still blue from his mother's side.
• The Caligula
• The Dandy
• Evil Prince

Inari Sen'Tan

• Arranged Marriage: To Stephen.
• Blue Blood: Literally.
• God Save Us From the Queen

Anora Sen'Tan

• Blue Blood
• Evil Albino
• Mommy Issues
• White-Haired Pretty Girl

Irion Sen'Tan

• Blue Blood
• The Dandy
• Defector From Decadence
• White-Haired Pretty Boy

Albrecht

• Battle Butler
• Deadpan Snarker
• The Dog Bites Back
• The Dragon: First to Anora, then to Inari.

Kazimir Bastian

• Evil Mentor
• Heaven Seeker
• Magnificent Bastard

Magnus Rothenslay

• The Atoner
• Failure Knight
• Knight in Shining Armor

Jonathan Blackwall

• Blood Knight
• Calling the Old Man Out: It ends about as well as one might imagine.
• Casanova
• Dark and Troubled Past
• Heroic Sociopath
• The Unfavorite

John Blackwall

• Abusive Parents
• Badass Beard
• Badass Mustache
• The Dreaded
• General Ripper
• Parental Favoritism: John loved his heir, Titus, more than his second son, Jonathan.
• A Real Man Is a Killer
• Rebel Leader: As part of his conspiracy with Stephen and Sofia, John is known to the Empire as a rebel and a traitor.
• The Mourning After

Siegfried Ramm

• Bodyguard Betrayal
• Heel Face Turn
• Knight in Shining Armor: A deconstruction.

Saul Lyr

• Deadpan Snarker
• Evil Chancellor: Subverted. Saul is self-serving and conniving, but loyal.
• Happily Married
• Only Sane Man

Katrina Lyr

• Berserk Button: Go ahead. Threaten Katrina's children.
• Determined Widow
• Family Versus Career
• Happily Married
• Hot Mom
• Mama Bear

Ysabelle Lyr

• Adorkable
• Badass Bookworm
• The Woobie

Rhovan Khalimoff

• Badass Grandpa
• Grim Up North
• Happily Married
• The Patriarch
• The Stoic

Gabriel

• The Chessmaster
• Magnificent Bastard
• Mind Rape

Eleazora

• Big Bad
• Child Eater
• Eldritch Abomination
• Emperor Scientist
• Freudian Excuse
• God-Emperor
• Mama Bear: To her millions of "children."

Lysandra

• The Beautiful Elite
• Bigger Bad
• The Corrupter
• Eldritch Abomination
• Enemy to All Living Things
• Evil Is Sexy