History Characters / LoneWolf

The emperor of Vassagonia, a powerful desert kingdom. He struck a deal with Archlord Haakon -- in exchange of a powerful ArtifactOfDoom called the Orb of Death, he would help Haakon find the book of Magnakai (so he could destroy it) and capture Lone Wolf. Later, after Haakon's death and Gnaag's rise in power, he chose to side with the Darklords' forces, hoping to share the spoils of war with them. [[spoiler:He meets his end during the siege of Tahou, after being killed in a duel by Lone Wolf. After his death, a revolution breaks in Vassagonia, allowing a more moderate leader to take the throne and withdraw from the war]].

* BlackSheep: He is actually [[spoiler:a renegade Shianti]].

* ForWantOfANail: From the Darklords' point of view, Lone Wolf occupies this trope in the original continuity, where he survived the massacre of the Kai because he was away gathering firewood as a punishment for his inattention in class. Had Lone Wolf simply ''paid attention in Kai class'' that day, he would have been exterminated right alongside the rest of the Kai order, and there would have been no one to stop the Darklords from ultimately conquering all of Magnamund.

* GoodIsNotNice: To some extent. He's [[BigGood Ishir's and Kai's]] champion and the bane of the forces of Evil. However, if attacked, he will always use lethal force, even when he's fighting normal guards just doing their duty and who attack him because they think he is a threat. For instance, if he's arrested in ''The Cauldron of Fear'', he won't hesitate to kill some guards of the prison during his escape. Those guards are normal soldiers trying to protect their city, which is threatened by the Darklords. The guards are often distrustful of strangers and have the nasty habit of attacking / killing first and asking questions later, though.

%%* [[Characters/LoneWolfandAllies Lone Wolf and Allies]]
%%* [[Characters/LoneWolfTheDarklands The Darklands]]

* GoodIsNotNice: Apparently is restricted from outright killing, but her punishments are bad enough. After encountering and fighting the traitor wizard Vonotar, she ages him to a wizened centenarian and locks the changes into his very soul. This makes him virtually immortal to dying of old age, but old age is all he will ever know again.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: There is no such thing as a "Good" Darklord.

* DepartureMeansDeath: The Darklords of Helgedad cannot survive for long outside the polluted atmosphere of the Darklands without special apparati, which can be magical, but can also include special breathing tanks. Of course, they are attempting to expand the Darklands through conquest.

* AuthorityGrantsAsskicking: The king of the Masbaté is also a near-unstoppable fighter.

* AuthorityGrantsAsskicking: He's the leader of the Freedom Guild and a good fighter himself.

* GreaterScopeVillain: In most books, his influence is indirect, and another villain takes the role of BigBad. He goes unmentioned in the first few books. It's only following the defeat of his favored servants in Magnamund, the Darklords of Helgedad that he begins taking a more active and center stage role, pitting his agents against Lone Wolf. His indirect role is justified in that he cannot directly interact with Magnamund, being consigned to his own plane of darkness.

* TheManBehindTheMan: Many enemies, especially tyrannical rulers, who at first seem unrelated to him turn out to be worshippers or agents of Naar. For example [[spoiler:Autarch Sejanoz]].

Infernal minions created by Naar (or, according to some sources, corrupted by him) to invade Magnamund. Usually led by the most powerful among them (who holds the title of Archlord). They are otherwise a factitious bunch, prone to infighting and backstabbing one another unless they're united under a powerful Archlord (and sometimes even then). Each of them is unique in appearance, but all of them are repulsive, and utterly, sadistically evil. Each Darklord leads armies of Giaks, Drakkarim, and Helghast among other monstrosities, forming the bulk of Naar's military might on Magnamund. Following their extinction, Naar is forced to fall back on more subtle schemes (though the Darklords' minions and creations live on to be claimed by Naar's agents and other evil forces). Darklords are almost invulnerable, the only things that can harm them being [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder weapons made by another Darklord]] and the Sommerswerd, the latter of which can vaporize a Darklord by its mere presence. They thus understandingly fear the Sommerswerd (and, by extension, Lone Wolf) above all.

* AuthorityGrantsAsskicking: Both invoked and averted. Vashna and Zagarna were both known for being extremely formidable warriors, although being evil demigods tasked with conquering a whole planet, none of the Darklords is a slouch.

* SilentAntagonist: Ixiataaga doesn't utter one word when fighting Lone Wolf - he just laughs, howls or screams instead. This does have the effect of making him more alien and disquieting.

* BladeOnAStick: On the cover of both of her books, she's shown wielding a spear.

* RedheadInGreen: Her design on the cover of the books: she has red hair and wears the typical green clothes of the Kai Order.

A Drakkarim officer who went alongside Darklord Zagarna during his invasion of Sommerlund, but was left stranded behind enemy lines after the demise of his master. With sheer cunning, guts and ferocity, Gunzar made his way back into the Darklands and was rewarded for his efforts. From the tower stronghold of V'taag, Gunzar leads an army of creatures against the nearby village of Rockstern, wanting to get his hands on the impressive technologies kept there.

* RedheadInGreen: Her design on the cover of the books: she has red hear and wears the typical green clothes of the Kai Order.

* DamselInDistress: Unfortunately her main role in the series. After her HeroicSacrifice, the Kleasa claims her soul and she becomes its slave, but Grey Star later manages to bargain with the EldritchAbomination to rescue her. In the third book, the scholars of the Crystal Tower use her as a hostage to force Grey Star to search a magical item for them. She's then taken by the Jahksa before Grey Star can return. In the fourth book this happens again, where her former teacher mind-controls her into returning to captivity, and Grey Star knows his only hope of saving her is to hurry up and defeat Shasarak.

* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: The king of the Masbaté is also the near-unstoppable fighter.

* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: He's the leader of the Freedom Guild and a good fighter himself.

* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Both invoked and averted. Vashna and Zagarna were both known for being extremely formidable warriors, although being evil demigods tasked with conquering a whole planet, none of the Darklords is a slouch.

* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Both invoked and averted. Vashna and Zagarna were both known for being extremely formidable warriors, although being evil demigods tasked with conquering a whole planet, none of the Darklords is a slouch.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The king of the Masbaté is also the near-unstoppable fighter.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He's the leader of the Freedom Guild and a good fighter himself.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Both invoked and averted. Vashna and Zagarna were both known for being extremely formidable warriors, although being evil demigods tasked with conquering a whole planet, none of the Darklords is a slouch.

* NighInvulnerability:
The Darklords are explicitly described as impossible to kill with mundane or even most magical means. They can be banished to another world (one possible way to deal with Darklord Haakon), but otherwise you need a divinely powered weapon such as the Sommerswerd. Although it is later revealed that Darklord-forged weapons (like Helshezag, the Dagger of Vashna or a Zejar-Dulaga arrow) can also kill a Darklord — no doubt on purpose, since [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder other Darklords are the most likely enemies they can have to confront]].

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: He started from a rank and file soldier and ''earned'' his position through cunning and tenacity.

* CoolPet: He shows up with Doomwolves as his RightHandAttackDog pets. Just to make the battle harder, he can summon even more.

* DoomMagnet: Whatever you do, never board the same ship/boat/ferry as Lone Wolf. You'll either be attacked by pirates, be the victim of sabotage, sunk by an ironclad battleship, attacked by a hungry sea serpent, captured by a giant fish-shaped boat crewed by a horde of Undead, ambushed and dragged to your death by hungry frogmen, have a necromancer stir up havoc in the taproom, or any combination of the above. Justified to an extent: Lone Wolf is such a powerful force for good that he naturally attracts evil.

* RememberTheNewGuy: The New Order protagonist has no canon name. Or even background prior to joining the Kai monastery (unlike Lone Wolf whose family, and village of origin, are all mentioned). In fact, he has never been mentioned prior to ''Voyage of the Moonstone''. The named Kai during ''Dawn of the Dragons'' and ''Wolf's Bane'' are all mentioned as "Lone Wolf's Best Students" including Firestone, Black Hawk, Star Lynx, and Steel Hand. Yet each have been established as a separate people throughout the New Order books who are familiar with him. This is of course so the New Order Protagonist can be a self-insert to the reader.

* DamselInDistress: Unfortunately her main role in the series. After her HeroicSacrifice, the Kleasa claims her soul and she becomes its slave, but Grey Star later manages to bargain with the EldritchAbomination to rescue her. In the third book, the scholars of the Crystal Tower uses her as an hostage to force Grey Star to search a magical item for them. She's then taken by the Jahksa before Grey Star can return. In the fourth book this happens again, where her former teacher mind-controls her into returning to captivity, and Grey Star knows his only hope of saving her is to hurry up and defeat Shasarak.

* NamedWeapons: Some of the most prominent of the Darklords have magic swords with special names, like Helshezag (owned by Kraagenskul) and Nadazgada (Gnaag).

* FlunkyBoss: During the first battle, he'll costantly summon Doomwolves to help him and act as shields. During the final battle, when out of Mana, he'll drain the life out of his minions to recharge his magic.

* MagicKnight: During the final clash he makes full use of the Shianti Amulet to protects himself with powerful magic and attack Lone Wolf with hard-hitting spells. As a result, he will also have a power gauge under his health gauge.

* ScaryImpracticalArmor: Wears a highly intimidating but incredibly uncomfortable-looking suit of platemail armor complete with gigantic shoulderpads, helm with scary mask-like face plate and an horizontal metal bar to hold his cape (the last one can be detatched before combat at least).

* EvilerThanThou: The Darklords of Helgedad never thought of releasing him from his icy tomb, fearing that he could turn against them and enslave them all. It's telling that he forced the Demon Prince Tagazin to work for him.
* GlassCannon: While his combat level is among the highest in the series (and this is when his Deathstaff is discharged) his Endurance points are lacking and, since he's undead, takes twice the damage from the Sommerswerd.

* PetTheDog: For all his evil, he actually befriended his Giak servant, Carag. Even if he named him for the Vassagonian word for a chamberpot, Vonotar was positively nice to Carag compared to the way most Giaks are treated by their masters. (It's not rare for them to be killed to be used as torch lighting fluid!)

* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: Turns out that the Sommerswerd (or, if you don't have it, the Ironheart Broadsword) can wound this seemingly-invincible creature and kill him.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Implied. He has a sister, Arla, who assists him in his revenge scheme against Lone Wolf during ''The Kingdoms of Terror'', while disguised as a male knight. If Lone Wolf kills her, Roark will be enraged by her death and will summon a horde of undead to avenge her.

* WeaponOfChoice: The Sommerswerd, the InfinityPlusOneSword which gives you the highest combat bonuses available for any weapon for a good long time and makes picking up other weapons obsolete in most cases. In the novels he also favors axes which fits his more anger-prone personality.

* IncompletelyTrained: The Shianti send Grey Star off with only a fraction of the Shianti lesser magicks learned. He's expected to unlock the rest (and the greater magicks) himself using the Moonstone. When he appears as NPC in the New Order series, Grey Star wears a shard of the Moonstone in a headpiece to continue to allow him to wield the full powers of Shianti magic.

* AntagonisticAbilities: His grapple attack can chokehold and possibly kill Lone Wolf in one hit if he misses the prompt.

* DualWielding: Shows up wielding two massive arming swords with jagged edges.

* ScaryImpracticalArmor: Wears a highly intimidating but incredibly uncomfortable-looking suit of platemail armor complete with gigantic shoulderpads, helms with massive horns and an horizontal metal bar to hold his cape (the last one can be detatched before combat at least).