History Characters / TheRunelords

* {{Because Destiny Says So}}: Gaborn was supposed to be named Erden Geboren, as was the name of the first Earth King, but otherwise fits the prophecy of the new Earth King appearing.
* {{Celibate Hero}}: Through the first book, right up until he gets married.
* {{Chronic Hero Syndrome}}
* {{Determinator}}
* {{Disappeared Dad}}: To Fallion and Jaz
* {{Nice Job Breaking it Hero}}: Trying to kill the man you promised to save as a seed of mankind ''pisses Earth off''.
* {{Turn The Other Cheek}}: The philosophy Gaborn learns from a diagram and eventually accepts as the core of his responsibility to mankind.

* {{Action Girl}}: At various points in her life
* {{Family Versus Career}}: Would really love to have the fighting against the forces of darkness hellbent on wiping out mankind done before her kid is born
* {{Royals Who Actually Do Something}}

* {{Arranged Marriage}}: By Gaborn, who sees a girl searching for a potential husband, then turns and looks at Borenson, who he thinks needs a wife. Actually turns out to have been a good decision, thinks to Gaborn's blossoming Earth Powers.
* {{Badass Family}}: Everybody with the surname Borenson, be they born to it, married in, or adopted, somehow turns out to be a badass.
* {{Determinator}}: After he loses his endowments
* {{Groin Attack}}: Found out the hard way what happens to men who look at Raj Ahten's wives.
* {{Slasher Smile}}: The worse the fighting gets, the more he laughs

* {{Elemental Powers}}: Serves the Earth and the Earth serves him in return.

* [[spoiler:{{Demonic Possession}}: Revealed after his death that he was possessed by the locus Scathain, Lord of the Ashes.]]
* {{Evil Overlord}}
* {{Even the Guys Want Him}}: The drawback to taking endowments of glamor from women as well as men.
* [[spoiler:{{Karmic Death}}: After allowing the flameweavers to sacrifice entire towns to Fire, and joining in service himself, he is killed by having his limbs chopped off, being wrapped in chains, and thrown into a river. They even check the body.]]
* {{More Than Mind Control}}: So many endowments of glamor and voice that everybody who sees or listens to him wants to believe anything he says without question. Binnesman claims that he's not immune to his own powers; he's been listening to his own proclamations for so long that he's become completely self-deluded.
* {{Person of Mass Destruction}}: Destroys a fortified castle with only his voice.
* {{Playing with Fire}}: Keeps a group of Flameweavers with him as his closest advisers and magical specialists. Eventually gives in to their requests that he join them in serving Fire.

* {{Arranged Marriage}}: By Gaborn, who sees a girl searching for a potential husbadm, then turns and looks at Borenson, who he thinks needs a wife. Actually turns out to have been a good decision, thinks to Gaborn's blossoming Earth Powers.

* {{Action Girl}}/{{Action Mom}}/{{Badass Grandma}}: At various points in her life

* {{Badass Grandpa}}: Even after prematurely aging himself to summon a warrior formed from the Earth, Binnesman still exudes badass.

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* {{Redheaded Hero}}

* {{The Obi Wan}}: Oddly enough, he doesn't die, despite having survived long past the usual expiration date for beloved mentors.

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* {{Groin Attack}}: Found out the hard way what happens to men who look at Raj Ahten's wives. [[IGotBetter He got better]].

*{{More Than Mind Control}}: So many endowments of glamor and voice that everybody who sees or listens to him wants to believe anything he says without question.