Tropes about the all the historical, posthumous characters mentioned in the story, mainly the dead relatives of Liska, Rial, Pyndan, Mother Sanna and others. All these characters, excluding Athos, Pyndan's cursed ancestor and Two Sticks, are mentioned in the Katmandu Handbook.
Tropes associated with all the historical characters:
- The Ghost: With the sole exceptions of Athos (Mother Sanna's husband and Rial's grandfather), Pyndan's cursed ancestor and Two Sticks, everyone else doesn't have official art to show how they looked like.
- Posthumous Character: All these characters are already gone, some of them, like King Artoismagne, by a millennia.
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Liska and Markree's Family
Talwen Tas-so-ren (Grandfather)
- Farm Boy: His only description given about him in his backstory.
Linna Ral-si-dan (Grandmother)
- The Medic: According with the Katmandu Handbook, Leahtrah's healing abilities where inherited from her. Oddly enough, no one else in her family, not even Liska, had that skill.
Thea Ral-si-dan (Mother)
- Farm Girl: Just like her father, she was also a farmer, and that could had being Liska's fate, hadn't she died first.
- Together in Death: She died along with Darmin from pneumonia in the same place and in the same season
Darmin Tala-re-sha (Father)
- Farm Boy: Same case as Thea, except they met during a feast celebrating a good harvest.
- Together in Death: Just like Thea, he died with her in the same place and season.
Rial and Mother Sanna's Family
Athos Hada-ro-seg (Grandfather)
Age: 43 (when he died)
Height: Unknown
Date of Birth: A.K. 1690
Date of Death: A.K. 1733
Race: Velite (Tuxedo cat, just like Rial, based on descriptions about him in the handbook)
Mother Sanna's first and only husband, and the only character, outside Two-Sticks, that physically appears in the story, through he only appears in Katmandu: The XXX Files when he was younger.Height: Unknown
Date of Birth: A.K. 1690
Date of Death: A.K. 1733
Race: Velite (Tuxedo cat, just like Rial, based on descriptions about him in the handbook)
- The Lost Lenore: His death affected Sanna so greatly, that she never married again, through she had other lovers. Oddly enough, and only with the rest of the characters from this list, his cause of death is never mentioned anywhere, except that he died when he had 43.
- Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: Athos is the name of one of the Titans who defied the Greek gods during the Gigantomachia in the Classical Mythology. Also overlaps with Ironic Name, because Rial, his grandson, was taller than him in his prime. It's also the name of Mount Athos, a famous mountain located in Greece known for his male-only monastic order located there.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Rial, his nephew, and Athos Jr., aka Little Rial, were basically identical to him, according with the description given in the handbook and also in the XXX Files.
Voni Hada-ro-seg (Father)
- Disappeared Dad: He died during a hunt when Rial was 8 years old.
- Strong Family Resemblance: According with the handbook, he was identical to his father Athos, his son Rial and his nephew Athos Jr.
Candance Forestdotir (Mother)
- Missing Mom: Died of sickness three years later after her husband Voni died, and she never married again.
- Odd Name Out: Judging by her clan name, she was either likely not a Native like Voni and his descendants, or she had foreign ancestry, since "Forestdotir" is an Icelandic surname. Also, it's heavily implied, according with her backstory, she had a more higher social status before marrying him.
Pyndan and Panka's Family
Tropes associated with all of them:
- Big, Screwed-Up Family: Compared with Liska and Rial's families, Pyndan and Panka's one was definitively royally screwed since centuries, no thanks to one of his ancestors pissing the Goddess for not sharing some berries to a little girl.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Their parents suffered gruesome fates compared with Liska and Rial's ones.
Delos Kota-te-mar (Father)
- Heroic Sacrifice: The way how he died, as he died by drowing when saving a boy in a raging river.
- Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: Named after the island of the same name in Greece, which is considered, in Classical Mythology, as the birthplace of the gods Apollo and Artemis.
Tressa Mab-ke-dan (Mother)
- Death by Childbirth: She died when Pyndan and Panka were still kids, when giving birth to another litter. It should be noted, at this point, that another litter died with her.
The Cursed Ancestor
As his name indicate, he was Pyndan's distant ancestor who lived in the past, and he was cursed by the Goddess just because he refused to give some berries to a girl, and for a good reason, causing him and his descendants to having many serious cases of either very few kids, or botched births, including Pyndan's own mother. It turns out it wasn't a curse, but a nasty hereditary case of genetic RH-incompatibility, which caused all those problems in Pyndan's family line, and he ended passing this on Liska, which almost kills her during childbirth. This also cause Liska some serious repercussions later on, as she had to give up her own fertility in order to prevent the same to happen to her- Disproportionate Retribution: The Goddess cursed him with serious fertility problems to all his family line just because he refused to give some berries to a little girl, and he did it because his wife gave them as a gift, not to mention he planned to give more food to the girl later if she wished.
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