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* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: The first time we see her, she's wearing a leather helmet, but she takes it off for good after Haniwa discovers her secret.
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Is suddenly killed off when she runs to attack Tormada and falls victim to the Trivantian explosives]].


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* HeterosexualLifePartners: Was best friends with Tormada, who claims was closer to him than a brother.


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[[folder:Tormada]]
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/DavidHewlett

The chief scientist of the Trivantian military who has a grudge against Baba Voss.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: Edo Voss was his best friend, and Tormada claims that they were closer than brothers.
* ItsPersonal: Has a deadly grudge against Baba Voss because he is the one who killed Edo, whom Tormada considered a brother.
* KnightTemplar: Like Edo, Tormada is both ruthless and so devoted to his tribe that he is perfectly willing to ignore Trivantian law and work with the sighted (a crime punishable with death in Trivantes) to ensure Trivantian supremacy.
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* BackForTheDead: Is reunited with Baba Voss in the first episode of Season Three [[spoiler:but she falls victim to the new Trivantian weapon by the end of the episode. [[NotEnoughToBury According to Baba, there were too many pieces of her left behind for him to find and bury]]]].

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A lone sighted young man who turns out to be another child of Jerlamarel.

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A lone lone, sighted young man who turns out to be another child of Jerlamarel.



* ChosenConceptionPartner: Since she can't find Jerlamarel to try having a sighted child from him, Queen Kane chooses Boots for that purpose. Unfortunately, she has a miscarriage...

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* ChosenConceptionPartner: Since she can't find Jerlamarel to try having a sighted child from him, Queen Kane chooses Boots for that purpose. [[YouHaveFailedMe Unfortunately, she has a miscarriage...miscarriage]]...


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* YouHaveFailedMe: His child with Queen Kane miscarried, and he is killed because of it.
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* IncestIsRelative: She's Gether's aunt, and has a love relationship with him.
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* BarbarianHero: Gives off this vibe with the way of life of his tribe, his {{beard|of barbarism}} and the [[PeltsOfTheBarbarian pelts he wears]].

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* BarbarianHero: Gives off this vibe with the way of life of his tribe, his {{beard|of barbarism}} {{beard|Of Barbarism}} and the [[PeltsOfTheBarbarian pelts he wears]].
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* StealthExpert: She's a master in the arts of spies known as "Shadows" -- she covers herself in ashes, she can move without being heard, control her own heartbeats and cleanse her mind of thoughts to avoid being detected by even people with SuperHearing and {{Sensor Character}}s. She's basically undetectable to anyone who can't see.

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* StealthExpert: She's a master in the arts of spies known as "Shadows" -- she covers herself in ashes, ashes to suppress smell, she can move without being heard, control controls her own heartbeats and cleanse cleanses her mind of thoughts to avoid being detected by even people with SuperHearing and {{Sensor Character}}s. She's basically undetectable to anyone who can't see.
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* HandicappedBadass: He is the Alkenny's chief warrior, and like almost everybody else in the world he is blind as a bat.
* LargeAndInCharge: Is the Alkenny's leader and its best warrior, and he is easily the biggest man in the tribe. So big that Paris frequently notes how much of a giant he is. It helps that Baba is played by Jason Momoa.

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* HandicappedBadass: He is the Alkenny's chief warrior, and like Like almost everybody else in the world world, he is blind as a bat.
bat, but that doesn't stop him from being a killing machine, even against sighted adversaries.
* LargeAndInCharge: Is the Alkenny's leader and its best warrior, and he is easily the biggest man in the tribe. So big that Paris frequently notes how much of a giant he is. It helps that Baba is played by Jason Momoa.

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* BadassBeard: He's bearded, and he has the highest combat body count in the series.


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* ManlyFacialHair: He's bearded, and he has the highest combat body count in the series.
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!!!'''Portrayed by:''' [[Wrestling/{{Batista}} Dave Bautista]]

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!!!'''Portrayed by:''' [[Wrestling/{{Batista}} Dave Bautista]]
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* BaldWomen: She's bald.

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* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Haniwa believes that because she has the ability to see that she is somehow superior to everyone else.

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* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Haniwa believes that because she has the ability to see that she is somehow superior to everyone else. She mellows on this somewhat over the course of Season 2, but she never stops believing that people with sight are special, a belief that causes some tension between her and Kofun.
* DatingCatwoman: She falls in love with Wren, the Trivantian lieutenant charged with guarding her while she's the prisoner of Edo Voss, and continues to pursue a relationship with her even once their people are at war with each other, even going so far as to [[spoiler:free her after the battle at the end of the season and let her return to Trivantes unharmed, much to Kofun's dismay]].


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* DefectingForLove: {{Defied}}. Although she falls in love with Haniwa and doesn't want to fight her once their people are at war with each other, she's unwilling to abandon her family and her home just to be with her.

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* AltarDiplomacy: [[spoiler:She agrees to marry Lord Harlan in order to secure his support, and through him the support of the people of Pennsa. Everybody involved in the scheme knows that it's purely a political arrangement, and she still considers Baba to be her true husband.]]



* TheHighQueen: [[spoiler:She finally manages to oust Sibeth near the end of Season 2, and takes up the Payan throne as a much kinder and wiser queen.]]



* PutOnABus: She's left to heal her leg within a tribe by the end of Season 1. [[spoiler:[[TheBusCameBack She reappears briefly midway through Season 2, and then returns in the season finale.]]]]

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* PutOnABus: She's left to heal her leg within a tribe by the end of Season 1. [[spoiler:[[TheBusCameBack She [[spoiler:She [[TheBusCameBack reappears briefly midway through Season 2, 2]], and then [[TheCavalry returns in the season finale.]]]]



* UndyingLoyalty: He's loyal to [[MyCountryRightOrWrong his kingdom]] broadly and [[MyMasterRightOrWrong the Witchfinder General]] in particular, even when their orders to protect sighted people go against everything he's known previously. Particularly notable since [[spoiler:he's even willing to fight some of his own men, who are less adaptable, to follow his orders to protect Kofun]].

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* MentorOccupationalHazard: He becomes a mentor and combat teacher to Kofun, [[spoiler:and ends up [[DiedInYourArmsTonight dying in his arms]] during the battle at the end of Season 2]].
* UndyingLoyalty: He's loyal to [[MyCountryRightOrWrong his kingdom]] broadly and [[MyMasterRightOrWrong the Witchfinder General]] in particular, even when their orders to protect sighted people go against everything he's known previously. Particularly notable since [[spoiler:he's he's even willing to fight some of his own men, who are less adaptable, to follow his orders to protect Kofun]].Kofun.



* MotorMouth: She tends to say whatever pops into her head and has difficulty shutting up.

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* MotorMouth: She has no filter and tends to say whatever pops into her head and has difficulty shutting up.head.
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* RankUp: Edo promotes her to Captain when he sends her to the peace talks in his place.

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* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: She married Baba Voss because, in her words, she prefers a man who can protect and help her than a man who can understand her.

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* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: She married Baba Voss because, in her words, she prefers a man who can protect and help her than over a man who can understand her.



* PutOnABus: She's left to heal her leg within a tribe by the end of Season 1.

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* PutOnABus: She's left to heal her leg within a tribe by the end of Season 1. [[spoiler:[[TheBusCameBack She reappears briefly midway through Season 2, and then returns in the season finale.]]]]


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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She does seem to genuinely love her sister [[spoiler:Maghra]], though that doesn't stop her from manipulating and using her to her advantage.


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* VillainousIncest: [[spoiler:She seduces Kofun, her nephew, in order to get pregnant with a sighted child after the one sired by Boots miscarried.]]


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!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/TomMison

The lord of Pennsa, the city Queen Kane chooses as her new capital after the fall of Kanzua.
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* AltarDiplomacy: He convinces [[spoiler:Maghra]] to marry him in order to solidify his status now that the queen has taken over his city, and in exchange he can keep the people from rising up due to the shaky circumstances of that resettlement.
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[[folder:Toad]]
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Hoon Lee

A witchfinder tasked with escorting Kofun to Pennsa.
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* BlindWeaponmaster: He's deadly in combat and is blind like most people in the setting. When he trains Kofun to fight, he has him blindfold himself so that he can learn to use his body and his other senses without relying so much on his sight.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: The silliness of his name is commented on a few times by Paris, though he doesn't seem overly bothered by it himself.
* UndyingLoyalty: He's loyal to [[MyCountryRightOrWrong his kingdom]] broadly and [[MyMasterRightOrWrong the Witchfinder General]] in particular, even when their orders to protect sighted people go against everything he's known previously. Particularly notable since [[spoiler:he's even willing to fight some of his own men, who are less adaptable, to follow his orders to protect Kofun]].
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* NumberTwo: She acts as Edo's right-hand woman.


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* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:He meets his end this way at the hands of Edo Voss after Edo mistakenly believes that he was the one who helped Haniwa escape, and realizes that Jerlamarel is now blind and therefore no longer has anything over him.]]


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[[folder:Charlotte]]
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Olivia Cheng

A warrior of the Compass, a group dedicated to protecting the sighted wherever they appear.
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* BodyguardingABadass: She's dedicated to protecting Haniwa, much to Haniwa's irritation since she believes she can protect herself.
* MotorMouth: She tends to say whatever pops into her head and has difficulty shutting up.
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* WildCard: He has grown up to trust just about no one, so his allegiance is never a sure thing.

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* WildCard: He has grown up to trust just about no one, so his allegiance is never a sure thing.
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* LikeASonToMe: He has a soft-spot for his right-hand Wren, even admitting that she is like a daughter to him. This doesn't change when he finds out that she was sighted the whole time.
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* BaldWomen: She's bald.
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* EntitledBitch: She believes that not only is it her right to be Queen, but by virtue of being Queen, all of her subjects are hers to use and dispose of, a mindset that led to her [[spoiler:flooding her own capital and sabotaging any hope of salvaging peace with Trivantes.]]


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* HeelFaceTurn: After his near-death experience at the end of Season One, he suddenly develops immense regret for his campaign of terror over the last twenty years.
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* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:He's a sighted-supremacist just like his father]].

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* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:He's a sighted-supremacist sighted supremacist just like his father]].



* WildCard: He has grown up to trust just about no-one so his allegiance is never a sure thing.

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* WildCard: He has grown up to trust just about no-one no one, so his allegiance is never a sure thing.
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* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:He's not the wise and loving father the twins imagined him to be. He's a sighted-supremacist who wants to be known as a god and would sell out and murder his own children to achieve that]].

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* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:He's not the wise and loving father the twins imagined him to be. He's a sighted-supremacist sighted supremacist who wants to be known as a god and would sell out and murder his own children to achieve that]].
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* UndyingLoyalty: She stands with Baba Voss when most of the tribe wants to give and Maghra away to Tamacti Jun.

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* UndyingLoyalty: She stands with Baba Voss when most of the tribe wants to give and Maghra and her children away to Tamacti Jun.
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* [[BlindBlackGuy Blind Black Gal]]: She's black and blind, although race doesn't seem to be an issue anymore in a world where (almost) everyone is blind.
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* CultureChopSuey: Their culture mixes Iron Age Europe (the furs and weapons), Native American (the attire of the Dreamer), Hawaiian (Creator/JasonMomoa's haka) and Inca (the quipu knots everyone uses to read).
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!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Tantoo Cardinal

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* BadBoss: Her ministers start dropping like flies when it's become clear she's insane and doesn't care about actually ruling her kingdom.

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* BadBoss: Her ministers start dropping like flies when they try to do something once it's become clear she's insane and doesn't care about actually ruling her kingdom.
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* InbredAndEvil: He's not inbred, but the children he produces with his aunt are all deformed and die in childbirth.
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* TooDumbToLive: Applies very much to most iof the tribe when they choose to stay in the second settlement instead of following Baba Voss & co as Tamacti Jun closes in, while perfectly knowing that Tamacti Jun will kill them all even if he doesn't find Maghra and the children of Jerlamarel.

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* TooDumbToLive: Applies very much to most iof of the tribe when they choose to stay in the second settlement instead of following Baba Voss & co as Tamacti Jun closes in, while perfectly knowing that Tamacti Jun will kill them all even if he doesn't find Maghra and the children of Jerlamarel.Jerlamarel. Indeed, they end up massacred.

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* TangledFamilyTree: They're not numerous and their gene pool starts to seriously suffer from their isolation in their second settlement after a while (especially illustrated with the incest between Gether Bax and his aunt Souter), which prompts them to have some of their people go to a festival far from the settlement to seek "new blood".

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* TangledFamilyTree: They're not numerous (about 75) and their gene pool starts to seriously suffer from their isolation in their second settlement after a while (especially illustrated with the incest between Gether Bax and his aunt Souter), which prompts them to have some of their people go to a festival far from the settlement to seek "new blood".blood".
* TooDumbToLive: Applies very much to most iof the tribe when they choose to stay in the second settlement instead of following Baba Voss & co as Tamacti Jun closes in, while perfectly knowing that Tamacti Jun will kill them all even if he doesn't find Maghra and the children of Jerlamarel.



* TooDumbToLive: Applies very much to staying in the second settlement along with most of the other villagers while perfectly knowing Tamacti Jun will kill them all even if he doesn't find Maghra and the children of Jerlamarel.

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