| 1 | Character page for the Creator/AppleTVPlus series ''Series/{{See}}''. |
| 2 | |
| 3 | '''BEWARE OF SPOILERS!''' |
| 4 | ---- |
| 5 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 6 | |
| 7 | !!Alkenny Tribe |
| 8 | |
| 9 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 10 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/alkennytribe.jpg]] |
| 11 | |
| 12 | A small and isolated tribe that once lived on a mountainside. |
| 13 | ---- |
| 14 | * BarbarianTribe: They basically live like in the Iron Age and many of them wear {{pelts|Of The Barbarian}}. |
| 15 | * 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). |
| 16 | * DoomedHometown: ''Twice''. The first time they had to abandon their mountain village to the Witchfinders and move. The second time (twenty years later), only Baba Voss, Maghra, Paris, Kofun, Haniwa and Bow Lion leave, and the rest [[TooDumbToLive stay and perish at the hands of the Witchfinders]]. |
| 17 | * EverybodysDeadDave: By mid-Season 1 everyone bar Baba Voss, Maghra, Paris, Kofun, Haniwa and Bow Lion is dead. |
| 18 | * InHarmonyWithNature: They're not industrialized and live down a mountainside using natural resources and rhythms. |
| 19 | * KilledOffscreen: We don't see the Witchfinders massacring them once the second settlment is invaded. |
| 20 | * TheRemnant: Only Baba Voss, Maghra, Paris, Kofun, Haniwa and Bow Lion are still alive as of Season 2, everyone else is dead. |
| 21 | * 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". |
| 22 | * TooDumbToLive: Applies very much to most 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. Indeed, they end up massacred. |
| 23 | [[/folder]] |
| 24 | |
| 25 | [[folder:Baba Voss]] |
| 26 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/babavoss.jpg]] |
| 27 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 28 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JasonMomoa |
| 29 | |
| 30 | The leader of the warriors of the Alkenny tribe and Maghra's husband. He helped Maghra raise and protect Kofun and Haniwa. |
| 31 | ---- |
| 32 | * ActionDad: Kofun and Haniwa are not his biological children, but he still raised them, and he's one hell of a [[TheBerserker berserker]]. |
| 33 | * BarbarianHero: Gives off this vibe with the way of life of his tribe, his {{beard|Of Barbarism}} and the [[PeltsOfTheBarbarian pelts he wears]]. |
| 34 | * BattleChant: Leads his warriors into a haka-like war chant in the first episode, before going into battle against the Witchfinders. |
| 35 | * TheBerserker: He's a killing machine with swords in his hands and fights with reckless abandon until there's no enemy left. |
| 36 | * BlindWeaponmaster: Baba might be utterly blind, but he is a straight-up ''demon'' with his sword or any other weapon. |
| 37 | * BlowThatHorn: He carried a horn around his neck to call his tribe for battle and galvanize them, before having to leave the tribe behind. |
| 38 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: He used to be a slaver in his youth. |
| 39 | * DentedIron: His body (especially his back) is covered in battle scars. |
| 40 | * {{Expy}}: Of Franchise/{{Zatoichi}}. This becomes more apparent when he switches his big cleaver for a katana. |
| 41 | * {{Good Parent|s}}: He's been a loving father to Kofun and Haniwa. |
| 42 | * HandicappedBadass: Like almost everybody else in the world, he is blind as a bat, but that doesn't stop him from being a killing machine, even against sighted adversaries. |
| 43 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:In the series finale, he sacrifices himself to destroy the bombs by blowing them up himself.]] |
| 44 | * 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. |
| 45 | * ManlyFacialHair: He's bearded, and he has the highest combat body count in the series. |
| 46 | * PapaWolf: He is ''very'' protective of his adoptive children. It's telling that he threatens his brother with a horrible death and the destruction of his entire ''city'' if he tries to kidnap Haniwa again. |
| 47 | * {{Patricide}}: He killed his own father (who was a cruel slaver). |
| 48 | [[/folder]] |
| 49 | |
| 50 | [[folder:Maghra]] |
| 51 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/maghra.png]] |
| 52 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 53 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/HeraHilmar |
| 54 | |
| 55 | A woman who joined the Alkenny tribe when she was pregnant and became the wife of Baba Voss. She gave birth to sighted twin children who were fathered by Jerlamarel, Kofun and Haniwa. |
| 56 | ---- |
| 57 | * 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.]] |
| 58 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Her brief association with Jerlamarel aside, it is hinted throughout the first season that she had a past that she would prefer stayed in the past. [[spoiler:It turns out that she is a Princess]]. |
| 59 | * {{Good Parent|s}}: She has raised Kofun and Haniwa with love. It's slightly mitigated by the fact she didn't want them to open Jerlamarel's box and learn to read, but that was solely to protect them from the prejudices sighted people have to endure. |
| 60 | * 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.]] |
| 61 | * ReallyRoyaltyReveal: It is revealed in ''Plastic'' that Marghra is actually [[spoiler:Queen Kane's younger sister]]. |
| 62 | -->'''[[spoiler:Tamacti Jun:]]''' [[spoiler:"Hail Princess Marghra, of the House of Kane!"]] |
| 63 | * SiblingMurder: [[spoiler:She is the one who finally kills Sibeth in the series finale, stabbing her in the neck [[UseTheirOwnWeaponAgainstThem with Sibeth's own knife]].]] |
| 64 | * SiblingYinYang: [[spoiler:She's humble, sane and caring. Sibeth Kane is arrogant, self-centered, insane and depraved.]] |
| 65 | * SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: She married Baba Voss because, in her words, she prefers a man who can protect and help her over a man who can understand her. |
| 66 | [[/folder]] |
| 67 | |
| 68 | [[folder:Kofun]] |
| 69 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kofun.png]] |
| 70 | %%[[caption-width-right:350:some caption text]] |
| 71 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/ArchieMadekwe |
| 72 | |
| 73 | The son of Maghra and Jerlamarel and the twin brother of Haniwa. He was born with the ability to see. |
| 74 | ---- |
| 75 | * FamilyOfChoice: Even as he's reunited with Jerlamarel and finds plenty of books to read at the House of Enlightenment, he still considers Baba Voss as his true father for he was raised and loved by him, especially as the true (and unpleasant) nature of Jerlamarel reveals itself. |
| 76 | * GuysSmashGirlsShoot: He prefers melee fighting whenever he can't avoid it, while Haniwa prefers using bows and arrows. |
| 77 | * HappilyAdopted: Baba Voss is not his biological father, but he raised him and Haniwa and loves them the same as if they were his biological children. |
| 78 | * ObfuscatingDisability: He had to hide that he's able to see for about twenty years to his tribe, since they're either superstitious about it or simply don't want to end up killed by the Witchfinfers. |
| 79 | * TechnicalPacifist: Violence is an absolute last resort to him, and he's reluctant to kill. |
| 80 | [[/folder]] |
| 81 | |
| 82 | [[folder:Haniwa]] |
| 83 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/haniwa.png]] |
| 84 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 85 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Nesta Cooper |
| 86 | |
| 87 | The daughter of Maghra and Jerlamarel and the twin sister of Kofun. She was born with the ability to see. |
| 88 | ---- |
| 89 | * 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. |
| 90 | * 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]]. |
| 91 | * GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Kofun prefers melee fighting whenever he can't avoid it, Haniwa prefers using bows and arrows. |
| 92 | * HappilyAdopted: Baba Voss is not her biological father, but he raised her and Kofun and loves them the same as if they were his biological children. |
| 93 | * MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: While Kofun is content to live peacefully, Haniwa is eager to begin restoring humanity to its rightful place, even making ranged weapons that only the sighted could use. |
| 94 | * ObfuscatingDisability: Like Kofun, she had to hide that she's able to see for about twenty years to her tribe, since they're either superstitious about it or simply don't want to end up killed by the Witchfinders. |
| 95 | * StockholmSyndrome: When she's prisoner of Edo Voss, she develops a bond with Wren, the secretly sighted woman who's charged to watch over her, and that bond quickly develops into love. |
| 96 | [[/folder]] |
| 97 | |
| 98 | [[folder:Paris]] |
| 99 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/paris_0.png]] |
| 100 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 101 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/AlfreWoodard |
| 102 | !!!'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/MaikDarah (European French) |
| 103 | |
| 104 | A seer who has helped Maghra to give birth to Kofun and Haniwa and has protected their secret as they grew up. |
| 105 | ---- |
| 106 | * [[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. |
| 107 | * BlindSeer: [[SpeaksFluentAnimal Talks to owls]] and this is how she claims she can see the future. This might as well be an InformedAttribute, since it doesn't come up after the first episode. |
| 108 | * OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: It's pretty clear that she gave up on (or never believed in?) negative beliefs associated with sighted people a while ago, given how she has helped Maghra and her children and believes in their ability to improve the world. |
| 109 | * TeamMom: She's like a voice of reason for the party of Baba Voss, Maghra, Kofun, Haniwa, herself and Bow Lion after they leave the Alkenny tribe, and a [[HonoraryUncle honorary aunt]] of sorts to Kofun and Haniwa. |
| 110 | [[/folder]] |
| 111 | |
| 112 | [[folder:Bow Lion]] |
| 113 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bowlion.png]] |
| 114 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 115 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/YadiraGuevaraPrip |
| 116 | |
| 117 | The daughter of the Dreamer, she's practitioner of a dance-like martial art that earns her the rank of Kill Dancer. She's loyal to Baba Voss, and she also doubles as a stealthy spy known as a "Shadow". |
| 118 | ---- |
| 119 | * 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]]]]. |
| 120 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Is suddenly killed off when she runs to attack Tormada and falls victim to the Trivantian explosives]]. |
| 121 | * HandicappedBadass: While Baba Voss fights with brute force and (generally) heavy weapons, she's very skilled in SheFu and wielding of smaller blades (even if she's blind). |
| 122 | * PutOnABus: She's left to heal her leg within a tribe by the end of Season 1. [[spoiler:She [[TheBusCameBack reappears briefly midway through Season 2]], and then [[TheCavalry returns in the season finale.]]]] |
| 123 | * SecretIdentity: No-one except her mother knows she's a Shadow, at least until Kofun finds out about it. |
| 124 | * StealthExpert: She's a master in the arts of spies known as "Shadows" -- she covers herself in ashes to suppress smell, she can move without being heard, controls her own heartbeats and 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. |
| 125 | * UndyingLoyalty: She's completely loyal to Baba Voss and his family, and even as Souter and Gether Bax hire her as a Shadow to spy on Baba, Maghra and Paris, [[SecretKeeper she doesn't give the Baxes useful informations about them]]. |
| 126 | [[/folder]] |
| 127 | |
| 128 | [[folder:The Dreamer]] |
| 129 | [[quoteright:280:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_dreamer.png]] |
| 130 | %%[[caption-width-right:280:some caption text]] |
| 131 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/TantooCardinal |
| 132 | |
| 133 | The Alkenny tribe's priest. She's the mother of Bow Lion. |
| 134 | ---- |
| 135 | * {{High Priest}}ess: She governs the spiritual health of the tribe |
| 136 | * KilledOffscreen: She perishes along with most of the tribe when the Witchfinders eventually find the second Alkenny settlement. |
| 137 | * WitchDoctor: She's got plenty of shamanistic traits. |
| 138 | [[/folder]] |
| 139 | |
| 140 | [[folder:Ilun]] |
| 141 | [[quoteright:280:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ilunsee.png]] |
| 142 | %%[[caption-width-right:280:some caption text]] |
| 143 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/SharonTaylor |
| 144 | |
| 145 | The Alkenny tribe's Ayura, a warrior with enhanced hearing. |
| 146 | ---- |
| 147 | * ShouldersOfDoom: She has spikes on her shoulder armor parts. |
| 148 | * SuperHearing: She has the best hearing out of all the Alkenny. She's capable of evaluating the size of entire armies at long distances just by hearing them march. |
| 149 | * UndyingLoyalty: She stands with Baba Voss when most of the tribe wants to give Maghra and her children away to Tamacti Jun. |
| 150 | [[/folder]] |
| 151 | |
| 152 | [[folder:Gether Bax]] |
| 153 | [[quoteright:280:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/getherbax.png]] |
| 154 | %%[[caption-width-right:280:some caption text]] |
| 155 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Mojean Aria |
| 156 | |
| 157 | A very superstitious villager who despises sighted people and sees them as "witches". He sells the tribe out to Tamacti Jun for having sheltered Maghra and her children, since she was impregnated by the sighted Jerlamarel. |
| 158 | ---- |
| 159 | * HateSink: He has no redeeming trait whatsoever. |
| 160 | * KarmaHoudini: He gets zero comeuppance for his first betrayal of the tribe that causes them to resettle elsewhere to escape the Witchfinders and dares coming back to live among them. He's not so lucky the second time around. |
| 161 | * KarmicDeath: Haniwa, a "witch" (sighted) member of the tribe he betrayed and caused the demise of, shoots him with arrows, and he gets RewardedAsATraitorDeserves. |
| 162 | * RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: After Haniwa fatally shoots him with arrows, Tamacti Jun {{mercy kill}}s him. |
| 163 | * {{Turncoat}}: Betrayed his tribe and defected to the Witchfinders ''twice''. |
| 164 | * VillainousIncest: He's a filthy traitor, and he's in a relationship with his aunt Souter. |
| 165 | [[/folder]] |
| 166 | |
| 167 | [[folder:Souter Bax]] |
| 168 | [[quoteright:280:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/souterbax.png]] |
| 169 | %%[[caption-width-right:280:some caption text]] |
| 170 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/MarileeTalkington |
| 171 | |
| 172 | The aunt of Gether Bax and his lover. |
| 173 | ---- |
| 174 | * ConvenientMiscarriage: The children she has with Gether are deformed and die in childbirth. |
| 175 | * KilledOffscreen: She perishes along with most of the tribe when the Witchfinders eventually find the second Alkenny settlement. |
| 176 | * YouKilledMyFather: Part of why she opposes Baba Voss' family outside of sharing Gether's beliefs about sighted people is that her sister was condemned to burn after opposing the election of Baba Voss to lead the Alkenny. |
| 177 | [[/folder]] |
| 178 | |
| 179 | !!Kingdom of Payan |
| 180 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 181 | * CargoCult: The entire culture worship electricity as a god with the monarch acting as a divine conduit to its will (also the fact that they are responsible for controlling the flow of the hydroelectric dam). |
| 182 | * DoomedHometown: [[spoiler: Kanzua became this when Queen Kane sabotaged the dam that the city was built on due to uprising against her.]] |
| 183 | * TheGoodKingdom: Their society itself is a monarchy with courtiers and ministers acting as both checks on power and delegated authority. |
| 184 | * SuddenlySignificantCity: [[spoiler: Pennsa became this after Kanzua was destroyed and Maghra became the new queen.]] |
| 185 | * TheTheocracy: Entire society had a theocratic vibe as their monarchs are considered divine rulers and had Witchfinders to seek out heretics, or sighted. |
| 186 | [[/folder]] |
| 187 | [[folder:Queen Sibeth Kane]] |
| 188 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/queenkane.jpg]] |
| 189 | %%[[caption-width-right:350:some caption text]] |
| 190 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/SylviaHoeks |
| 191 | !!!'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/RieTanaka (Japanese) |
| 192 | |
| 193 | The insane queen of the Payan Kingdom, who treats those who can see as heretics. |
| 194 | ---- |
| 195 | * 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. |
| 196 | * BaldOfEvil: She's bald and an insane ruler. |
| 197 | * TheCaligula: She's always been unfit to rule, only caring about her hedonistic and egotistic pursues, killing servants on a whim and turning her sexual frustration with a sighted man into a paranoid {{cult}} that killed many people for nothing. It only got FromBadToWorse over the years. |
| 198 | * ConvenientMiscarriage: The child she wanted to have with [[spoiler:Boots]] dies in childbirth. She kills the would-be father for this. |
| 199 | * DepravedBisexual: She's obsessed with Jerlamarel, but she has no problem having a female servant perform oral sex on her as a "prayer". |
| 200 | * 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.]] |
| 201 | * 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, or later trying to kill her. |
| 202 | * GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Her people of Kanzua would prefer her to take decisions to save them from impending doom with the dam almost crumbling under the water, but she doesn't give a damn and concentrates everything on the search for Jerlamarel and "heretics". After a while she starts killing her dissenting ministers [[spoiler:and ends up causing the destruction of the dam and thus wiping out her whole city.]] |
| 203 | * HowTheMightyHaveFallen: In Season 1 she goes from Queen of Payan to beaten up slave for a silk manufacturer, mostly by her own fault. |
| 204 | * HumiliationConga: The people of Kanzua come to hate her due to how neglectful a ruler she is, she loses everything after destroying Kanzua, she's captured by slavers and brought to a silk manufacturer who's out to "teach her a lesson" since he notices she's at least some [[UpperClassTwit deeply arrogant upper class bitch]] (by having her work in his workshop, and she gets beaten up there for being mouthy and lazy). The humiliation then intensifies when it's found out she's the queen. The physical abuse and injuries stop once Maghra, Tamacti Jun and the Witchfinders reach the silk workshop, but then she loses the support of Tamacti Jun and Maghra coerces her into ''slightly'' improving her queenly rule. |
| 205 | * LaserGuidedKarma: She goes through a HumiliationConga and gets reduced to slavery at a silk workshop after years of an insane ReignOfTerror and after destroying her own city and killing countless people in her folly. It's not exactly unearned. |
| 206 | * NotGoodWithRejection: She didn't take it well that Jerlamarel left her, to say the least. |
| 207 | * SiblingYinYang: [[spoiler:She is arrogant, self-centered, insane and depraved. Maghra is humble, sane and caring.]] |
| 208 | * VillainousIncest: [[spoiler:She seduces Kofun, her nephew, in order to get pregnant with a sighted child after the one sired by Boots miscarried.]] |
| 209 | [[/folder]] |
| 210 | |
| 211 | [[folder:Tamacti Jun]] |
| 212 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tamactijun.jpg]] |
| 213 | %%[[caption-width-right:350:some caption text]] |
| 214 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/ChristianCamargo |
| 215 | |
| 216 | The Royal Tax Collector and Witchfinder General, basically the loyal enforcer of Queen Kane's will. He leads her armies to relentlessly track down the "heretics" who can see or claim they can. |
| 217 | ---- |
| 218 | * {{Determinator}}: He's so dedicated to his job that he spends ''twenty years'' relentlessly searching for Jerlamarel and his children. |
| 219 | * TheDragon: He's the enforcer in chief of Queen Kane's will. |
| 220 | * EvilDebtCollector: In addition to hunting people who can see or claim they can, he also collects taxes. |
| 221 | * 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. |
| 222 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: He spent two decades brutally interrogating every village he came across about Jerlamarel. Queen Kane is horrified to realize this means he was essentially acting as a prophet, spreading the legend of Jerlamarel's power far more effectively than he could have done on his own. |
| 223 | * NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:The last shot on his 'dead' body in Season 1 implies he's not dead. Indeed, he shows up alive in a cell in Trivantes in Season 2.]] |
| 224 | * UndyingLoyalty: He's so loyal to Queen Kane that he's willing to kill himself for having failed to find Jerlamarel and his children for twenty years (which is prevented at the last second once evidence of the new Alkenny settlement emerges). [[spoiler:Then he figures out the queen caused the destruction of Kanzua, and chooses to support her saner sister Maghra instead.]] |
| 225 | [[/folder]] |
| 226 | |
| 227 | [[folder:Cutter]] |
| 228 | [[quoteright:280:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cutter.png]] |
| 229 | %%[[caption-width-right:280:some caption text]] |
| 230 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Timothy Webber |
| 231 | |
| 232 | A silk manufacturer who supplies the material to the high-born nobles of Payan. He reduces Queen Kane to slavery after the destruction of Kanzua. |
| 233 | ---- |
| 234 | * EatTheRich: He enjoys having his servants beat up Queen Kane for being such a [[UpperClassTwit deeply arrogant and depraved upper class scion with hands that never worked hard]] to teach her a lesson, and even moreso once he finds out she's the queen. |
| 235 | * KarmicDeath: Queen Kane (who endured much physical abuse at the hands of his servants) [[TheDogBitesBack suffocates him]] [[HandyCuffs with the ropes tying her hands]]. |
| 236 | * PayEvilUntoEvil: He submits Queen Kane to cruel suffering as his slave, but she also had it coming with all the horrible things she did or ordered when she ruled Payan. |
| 237 | * SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: He uses enslaved women in his workshop. |
| 238 | * VillainHasAPoint: He's not wrong when he reminds Kane what an awful and depraved ruler she's been for Payan. |
| 239 | [[/folder]] |
| 240 | |
| 241 | [[folder:Cora]] |
| 242 | [[quoteright:280:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cora_7.png]] |
| 243 | %%[[caption-width-right:280:some caption text]] |
| 244 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JessicaHarper |
| 245 | |
| 246 | A slave working for Cutter in his silk workshop. |
| 247 | ---- |
| 248 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Before being a slave, she was the youngest of a family of six and was forced to endure her father's anger and lust. She killed him. |
| 249 | * IRegretNothing: She never regretted killing her father, saying she slept peacefully for the first time in her life after doing it. |
| 250 | * MadeASlave: She wasn't born into slavery. |
| 251 | * [[OpportunisticBastard Opportunistic Bitch]]: She betrays Queen Kane's confidence by telling Cutter who she really is, resulting in the queen getting some more beatdowns and becoming the object of a ransom. Later, when Cutter is no more and with Kane still not knowing who betrayed her, Cora becomes part of her retinue alongside Boots. |
| 252 | * {{Patricide}}: She killed her own father to save herself. |
| 253 | * SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: She gets killed by Queen Kane in the first episode of Season 2 just because Kane had a miscarriage. |
| 254 | [[/folder]] |
| 255 | |
| 256 | [[folder:Lord Harlan]] |
| 257 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/TomMison |
| 258 | |
| 259 | The lord of Pennsa, the city Queen Kane chooses as her new capital after the fall of Kanzua. |
| 260 | ---- |
| 261 | * 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. |
| 262 | * HeroicSacrifice: Dies saving Haniwa after they are both captured by a tribe of cannibals. |
| 263 | [[/folder]] |
| 264 | |
| 265 | [[folder:Toad]] |
| 266 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Hoon Lee |
| 267 | |
| 268 | A witchfinder tasked with escorting Kofun to Pennsa. |
| 269 | ---- |
| 270 | * 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. |
| 271 | * EmbarrassingFirstName: The silliness of his name is commented on a few times by Paris, though he doesn't seem overly bothered by it himself. |
| 272 | * 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]]. |
| 273 | * 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 he's even willing to fight some of his own men, who are less adaptable, to follow his orders to protect Kofun. |
| 274 | [[/folder]] |
| 275 | |
| 276 | !!Republic of Trivantes |
| 277 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 278 | * FantasyCounterpartCulture: To an extent, it had the Late Roman Republic theme as both are powerful states known for lack of a monarchical figure and practice of slavery along with their military formation resembling Roman Legions. |
| 279 | * GoodRepublicEvilEmpire: Subverted as the Republic of Trivantes is known to conquer and enslave nearby civilizations. |
| 280 | * SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Trivantes's economy is based on slavery and many nearby tribes, which were often targets of their raids, despised them for it. |
| 281 | [[/folder]] |
| 282 | |
| 283 | [[folder:Edo Voss]] |
| 284 | [[quoteright:314:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/edovoss.jpg]] |
| 285 | %%[[caption-width-right:314:some caption text]] |
| 286 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/DaveBautista |
| 287 | |
| 288 | The younger brother of Baba Voss, and the Commander General of the Trivantian armies. |
| 289 | ---- |
| 290 | * BaldOfEvil: As bald as he's cruel. |
| 291 | * BigLittleBrother: He's taller and has a larger build than Baba, which is a feat considering how [[LargeAndInCharge Jason Momoa is already immense.]] |
| 292 | * CainAndAbel: He's cruel and ruthless unlike [[CharacterDevelopment what Baba became]], and wants to make Baba pay for the murder of their father. |
| 293 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: He is cruel, sadistic and vengeful enough to have Haniwa raped just to torture Baba Voss (and [[BabyFactory produce an army of sighted children]]). However, he's not quite evil enough to do it himself. Even he, it seems, balks at incest (even though Haniwa is not biologically related to him, a fact he doesn't know). |
| 294 | * EvilUncle: He's (technically, not biologically) the uncle of Kofun and Haniwa, and a cruel military leader. |
| 295 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: Was best friends with Tormada, who claims was closer to him than a brother. |
| 296 | * KnightTemplar: He thinks vision caused humans to destroy civilization and seeks to kill the sighted... [[{{Hypocrite}} at least if he can't use them in his army to conquer the world]]. |
| 297 | * LargeAndInCharge: He commands the Trivantian armies, and he has the large and imposing build of Dave Bautista. |
| 298 | * 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. |
| 299 | [[/folder]] |
| 300 | |
| 301 | [[folder:Teo Voss]] |
| 302 | |
| 303 | A slaver and the long dead father of Baba and Edo Voss. |
| 304 | ---- |
| 305 | * AssholeVictim: Baba killed him and by Trivantian laws it's a crime, but he was a cruel slaver on the other hand. |
| 306 | * PosthumousCharacter: He's long dead, but Edo still wants to avenge his death. |
| 307 | * SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: He was a slaver. |
| 308 | [[/folder]] |
| 309 | |
| 310 | [[folder:Wren]] |
| 311 | [[quoteright:280:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wrensee.jpg]] |
| 312 | %%[[caption-width-right:250:some caption text]] |
| 313 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Eden Epstein |
| 314 | |
| 315 | A Lieutenant under the orders of Edo Voss, she is tasked to watch over a captive Haniwa. It turns out she is sighted. |
| 316 | ---- |
| 317 | * BookDumb: She is sighted, but she didn't learn to read, unlike Haniwa. |
| 318 | * 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. |
| 319 | * HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: The first time we see her, she's wearing a leather helmet that covers her eyes, but she takes it off for good after Haniwa discovers her secret. |
| 320 | * LimaSyndrome: From the moment Haniwa finds out she is sighted, they develop a bond that quickly turns into love. |
| 321 | * MageBornOfMuggles: Wren was born sighted from blind parents (though in that case, it's more due to genetic lottery reversing the blindness from ThePlague than magic). |
| 322 | * MyCountryRightOrWrong: Is a patriotic Trivantian despite the fact that possessing sight is a crime punishable by death in Trivantes. Averted in Season Three, however, when she is forced to desert the Trivantian army with Oloman after experiencing the power of Tormada's new bombs first-hand and learning that his next target was Paya (and, by extension, Haniwa). |
| 323 | * NumberTwo: She acts as Edo's right-hand woman. |
| 324 | * ObfuscatingDisability: She has successfully pretended to be blind to her boss and whole city for quite some time when Haniwa finds out she is sighted. |
| 325 | * RankUp: Edo promotes her to Captain when he sends her to the peace talks in his place. |
| 326 | [[/folder]] |
| 327 | |
| 328 | [[folder:Tormada]] |
| 329 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/DavidHewlett |
| 330 | |
| 331 | The chief scientist of the Trivantian military with a deadly grudge against Baba Voss. |
| 332 | ---- |
| 333 | * AmbitionIsEvil: Tormada wants to use the power of his bombs to expand Trivantes' borders to the entire world. When Sibeth captures him and promises him the means to build an empire if he helps her destroy Pennsa, he switches sides and [[UnholyMatrimony accepts her proposal to rule beside her as a king]]. |
| 334 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: Edo Voss was his best friend, and Tormada claims they were closer than brothers. |
| 335 | * ItsPersonal: Has a deadly grudge against Baba Voss because he is the one who killed Edo, whom Tormada considered a brother. |
| 336 | * 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. |
| 337 | ** Subverted when he switches his allegiances to Sibeth on the promise of an empire and a Queen to rule it with. |
| 338 | * UnholyMatrimony: Between himself and Sibeth Kane following his capture by her witchfinders. |
| 339 | [[/folder]] |
| 340 | |
| 341 | !!House of Enlightenment |
| 342 | |
| 343 | [[folder:Jerlamarel]] |
| 344 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jerlamarel.png]] |
| 345 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 346 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Joshua Henry |
| 347 | |
| 348 | A mysterious man who has been blessed with sight -- the Payan deemed him "heretic" for that. He is the biological father of Kofun and Haniwa. |
| 349 | ---- |
| 350 | * 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]]. |
| 351 | * {{Foil}}: |
| 352 | ** To Queen Kane. [[spoiler:Both are related to the twins, (as aunt and father). She believes the sighted are an abomination to be destroyed, while he sees them as being superior. While Kane still does care for her sister, Jerlamarel is willing to kill his children.]] |
| 353 | ** Also to Baba Voss, [[spoiler:being the twins' sighted birth-father who was EvilAllAlong, while Voss, their blind adoptive father, loves and has dedicated his life to protect them.]] |
| 354 | * KarmicTransformation: [[spoiler:Jerlamarel is a sighted supremacist and sells out Haniwa so that he can further his goal of sighted domination, and wants to kill Kofun. Baba Voss ends up [[EyeScream blinding him]] via EyePoke.]] |
| 355 | * MageBornOfMuggles: He was born sighted from blind parents (though in that case it's more due to genetic lottery reversing the blindness from ThePlague than magic). |
| 356 | * 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.]] |
| 357 | * ReallyGetsAround: He impregnates blind women in every community and settlement he comes across to produce sighted children. |
| 358 | [[/folder]] |
| 359 | |
| 360 | [[folder:Oloman]] |
| 361 | [[quoteright:280:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oloman.png]] |
| 362 | %%[[caption-width-right:280:some caption text]] |
| 363 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/DayoOkeniyi |
| 364 | |
| 365 | A sighted son of Jerlamarel living at the House of Enlightenment and his main assistant. |
| 366 | ---- |
| 367 | * CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:The EvilCounterpart to his half-brother Kofun.]] |
| 368 | * EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:He's a sighted supremacist just like his father]]. |
| 369 | * {{Foil}}: To Kofun. They're both loyal to the men who raised them, but unlike Kofun, Oloman has no trouble [[spoiler:seeking to kill or selling someone out to a blind tribe.]] |
| 370 | * NumberTwo: He seconds his father for pretty much everything. |
| 371 | [[/folder]] |
| 372 | |
| 373 | !!Other Characters |
| 374 | |
| 375 | [[folder:Boots]] |
| 376 | [[quoteright:280:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/boots_2.png]] |
| 377 | %%[[caption-width-right:280:some caption text]] |
| 378 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Franz Drameh |
| 379 | |
| 380 | A lone, sighted young man who turns out to be another child of Jerlamarel. |
| 381 | ---- |
| 382 | * 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]]... |
| 383 | * MadeASlave: Was made into a slave after his tribe realised that he could see. |
| 384 | * WildCard: He has grown to trust just about no one, so his allegiance is never a sure thing. |
| 385 | * WildChild: His behavior when Kofun and Baba Voss meet him is a bit more feral than normal, he used to be mistreated like a monster would and he seems to be constantly on the defensive. |
| 386 | * YouHaveFailedMe: His child with Queen Kane miscarried, and he is killed because of it. |
| 387 | [[/folder]] |
| 388 | |
| 389 | [[folder:Charlotte]] |
| 390 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Olivia Cheng |
| 391 | |
| 392 | A warrior of the Compass, a group dedicated to protecting the sighted wherever they appear. |
| 393 | ---- |
| 394 | * BodyguardingABadass: She's dedicated to protecting Haniwa, much to Haniwa's irritation since she believes she can protect herself. |
| 395 | * MotorMouth: She has no filter and tends to say whatever pops into her head. |
| 396 | * PutOnABus: She leaves midway through Season 3 [[spoiler:to escort Jerlamarel's other children to safety with the rest of the Compass]]. She [[BackForTheFinale returns at the end of the season]] to see Haniwa off, though. |
| 397 | [[/folder]] |
| 398 | |
| 399 | [[folder:Ranger]] |
| 400 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Michael Raymond-James |
| 401 | |
| 402 | A former member of the Alkenny who left to live in the wilderness. |
| 403 | ---- |
| 404 | * TheHermit: He prefers to live away from other people, and returns back to his home in the wilderness after the threat is ended. |
| 405 | * {{Revenge}}: His main motivation for leaving his home to help Baba Voss and co. take down Tormada is to get revenge for his past torture at Tormada's hands. |
| 406 | * TheStoner: He certainly loves his weed. |
| 407 | [[/folder]] |
| 408 |
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