Characters / Katmandu Mitseleman Clan

Tropes about Liska's family and clan.

Tropes associated with all of them:

• Badass Family: A given, considering the deeds of both Liska and many of their members, especially Rial and Pyndan.
• Breaking the Fellowship: Due to a combination of many of their members either dying (Rial and Mother Sanna), being demoted to extras (Pyndan and Markree) or simply disappearing from the plot altogether (basically all Liska's children with Shaygin, Rial and Pyndan, excluding Quiet Bird and Patches' baby) the clan gets reduced at the very end of the story to just Liska, Pyndan, Shaygin, Patches, her baby, Quiet Bird and Wind Flower.
• Cosmic Motifs: Not very consistent, but the clan's emblem is traditionally the sun, through in some issues, a lightning emblem is used instead.

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Liska's Harem and Significant Others

Rial Hada-ro-seg

Rial, designed by Terrie Smith at 1997

Click ^here: to see his updated version done at 2022 by Shawntae Howard.

Age: 21 (when mated Liska at issue 4), 34 (issue 8)
Height: 5 ft. 8 in./1.73 cm
Date of Birth: A.K. 1727
Date of Death: A.K. 1761
Race: Velite (Tuxedo cat)

Liska's former master (along Mother Sanna), her very first mate, and Pyndan's younger cousin-brother. Rial, along with his brother, is a warrior from the highlands who kidnapped Liska and turned her into his personal Sex Slave, through their relation was more like husband and wife rather than master and servant, and he treated her relatively well. Compared with the more nicer Pyndan, Rial is quite arrogant and mysoginistic fellow who thinks that a woman cannot become a warrior, something that pisses Liska off countless times. He tragically dies when he, Pyndan, Liska and many other warriors of his tribe attacked a Hoplite camp when trying to rescue rodent slaves from their hands. It also outright stated he is also Leah's great-grandfather when Liska's spirit helped Thorin in the same place Rial died two centuries ago. He still appears in some stories involving him told in Anachronic Order, however. Had one hell of a rivalry with both Markree, Liska's brother, since he kidnapped his sister and he never apologized about it, and with Rakon, after he force-kissed Shaygin, her mate's concubine and later on, he tried to rape Liska in her own teepee.

While he was Liska's mate, he wasn't technically her husband: Due to tribal laws, Liska, being female, cannot marry him due to her warrior status, and she was technically married with both Shaygin and Elishaa; he was married with another girl named Wasil before he met Liska and he had a kid with her. Not that it made any difference in their relation with her anyway, as both loved her.

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• Anti-Villain: The only reason he can even be considered a "villain", for the lack of a better word for him, is the fact that Liska is his personal slave and the one who kidnapped her in the first place, as well as being quite mysoginistic, but on the other hand, his heart was always in the right place, and he really loved both Liska and his children, even if he took a bit of time to show this.
• Art Evolution: From all the main characters designed by both Terrie Smith and Shawtae Howard during their time drawing the comic, Rial and Liska are two of the main characters in the comic who underwent the most dramatic changes in their designs. When he was first introduced, Rial had a design that was reminiscent of an American cartoon character or anime from the late 80s and early 90s. However, in Shawtae Howard's version of the character, Rial became more muscular and gained cat-like features, while still maintaining his good looks; as a result, his design became less cartoonish or anime-like.
• Berserk Button: Has three of them:
  • Never touch his warrior sash, as Liska found out the hard way at first.
  • The sole idea that a woman can become a warrior. He mellowed out of first two later on.
  • Anyone hurting Liska.
• Bigger Is Better in Bed: Rial was really endowed down there, to the grade Markree nicknamed him "Stout Lance" as a mocking joke on him. This is especially more evident in the 2022 updated version of him.
• Breakout Character: He is, along with Pyndan, one of the most popular characters of the comic, due to partly his personality and his looks, to the grade that he still appears in many retroactive stories involving him after his canonical death at issue No. 8.
• Butt-Monkey: Almost nothing goes well for him, especially after he was Made a Slave for a while, and after Liska became a warrior, much for his chagrin.
• Cat Stereotype: Of all feline characters, Rial is the only one who played with many of the stereotypes associated with cats painfully straight, and not just for him in a indirect way: Since he is a black cat, he was pretty unlucky, including being mocked, becaming a slave for a while, being the target of racial insults for many characters, including heroes and villains alike, and finally, he ended up being killed. And his bad luck seems to also affected Liska in some degree, through not as bad as he had.
• Cats Hate Water: Rial is notorious for being the only feline character who hates being wet, compared with the rest of the cast, who really enjoy taking baths when possible.
• Dead Guy Junior: Not him, but Two of his children he had with Liska, one of them being Thea and another nameless one who was basically Rial as a kitten kid, after he died. This was lampshaded by Liska when talking about the topic.
• Death by Newbery Medal: Rial follows this to a T: He is the first important person in Liska's life, since he is the one who kidnapped her and later, bed her, not to mention being the first person she loved in her life, being Shaygin the second. Then, just at the second arc after the one he debuted, he is killed by a random warrior when trying to rescue slaves from an army of raiders.
• Decoy Protagonist: In a very warped way: One could thought Rial is one of the deuteragonists of the plot, along Liska, Pyndan and later on, Hesta, when she appears on. This is quickly dispelled, in a very brutal way, when he died at issue 8, when chronologically appearing in just five issues. While he still appears in retroactive stories and side-stories, his role as supporting protagonist is now filled by either Shaygin, Patches and Hesta instead.
• Dramatic Irony: He was the victim of this twice:
  • During the Hoplite raid on his village, Rial, who captured and slaved Liska a year ago, was captured and Made a Slave by his attackers, until Liska had to buy him back from Flint, becoming Liska's slave, at least for half of a day. He wasn't amused of this at all.
  • The way how he dies. He sacrified his life trying to rescue people from slavery on the hands of a invading tribe, considering how he, Pyndan and the rest of his tribe did the same with Liska.
• Enemy Mine: With Markree during the tribal games, despite he defeated the latter in the competition, when Rakon, after being defeated by Liska, tried to rape her in her teepee. Luckily enough, both males threatened Rakon with ripping his head off before he could attempt to do that.
• Expy:
  • If Liska was possibly inspired on Sacagawea, Rial may have been inspired by Toussaint Charbonneau, who was the husband of Sacagawea and is rumored to have mistreated her. However, there are some key differences between the two characters. Rial is a Native-like character, while Charbonneau was a white man from Quebec. Additionally, while Rial was somewhat unfriendly at times, he only hit Liska twice, and one of them was out of necessity. Charbonneau, on the other hand, is said to have had a short temper and mistreated Sacagawea. In terms of their deaths, Rial died a heroic death while trying to free slaves, while Charbonneau's death is shrouded in mystery, with some rumors suggesting he was killed while trying to rape his daughter, through it's uncertain how much of this was true or a legend.
  • Likewise, Rial shares some points in common with the Lakota war leader Crazy Horse, mainly both being really good-looking men in their younger days and both being womanizers, through Crazy Horse didn't share with Rial his hot temper, as the former was notorious, in his private life, for being quite a Nice Guy. Also, both share similar deaths, as both where stabbed by their enemies, with Rial being slashed in the back with a sword, and Crazy Horse being stabbed with a bayonet by an U.S. soldier.
• Famous Ancestor: It's later revealed that Rial is the ancestor of Leah, when Liska's spirit identify herself to Thorin during a mission the latter was doing against some mercs in the same place Rial died centuries ago. This is especially relevant, because Thorin and Leah's children were wondering if their mother was a descendant of Liska and Pyndan instead.
• Fantastic Racism: Since he is a black cat, he suffers of casual racism at the hands of many characters from outside his tribe, especially from Liska's rival Rakon during the Tournament Arc. To be completely fair, his brother Pyndan, who has white hair and fur, also suffers racist insults due to being a white cat.
• First Love: For Liska, as he was her master, along with Mother Sanna.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: Or in this case, Forgotten Fallen Lover. After the "Ceremonies" sub-arc, chronologically-wise, he is never mentioned again by either Liska or anyone else, even Pyndan, his cousin-brother. While in Liska's case this could be justified on the grounds she wanted to forget about him for good in order to avoid her past from tormenting her, that doesn't explain why Pyndan, who was even more closer with Rial than Liska did, did the same. He doesn't even appear or get mentioned in the Distant Finale, and that considering Rial is technically Leah's ancestor as well.
• For Want Of A Nail: Rial, along with Mother Sanna and in less degree, Pyndan, are probably the two most important characters who played a role into Liska's Character Development and her future role into becoming a tribe chief in a distant future. Hadn't he has kidnapped Liska, she would had passed her entire life becoming into another poor girl, while the Highland tribe would had continued to be a bunch of thieves and slavers, and if they wouldn't ended up being wiped out first by slave raiders, maybe they would had been exterminated by Rakon and his goons decades later, a fact lampshaded by both Liska and Rial later on.
• Full-Frontal Assault: Rial is one of the few characters in the comic that appears completely naked without any kind of censorship applied to him.^note The other ones are Liska, Pyndan, Leah and Thorin.
• Generation Xerox: According with both the Katmandu Handbook and the Katmandu: The XXX Files side-story "Proper Training", Rial was basically a younger version of his grandfather, Athos, and that included both dying younger, through Athos died in his 50s, while Rial died at his 30s.
• Hot-Blooded: He, along with Markree and in less degree Hesta, are the most hot-headed warriors of the cast, through he is more willing on picking fights against anyone standing his way.
• Hunk: Especially in the Shawntae Howard version of him, Rial's body was quite well-built, without losing his good looks.
• In the Back: The way how he is killed during the rescue raid on the mine, when a one of the slavers strikes him down with a sword.
• Instant Death Bullet: A variation: Rial dies instantly when one of the slavers slash him in his back with a sword.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Rial is depicted as a arrogant jerk who thinks that women only are good for cooking, and not for becoming warriors, and even after he was set free by Liska he didn't changed his mind until Liska herself proved him wrong. Despite this, he really loved her.
• Mr. Fanservice: While almost all the main cast are very good-looking, Rial, along with Pyndan, distinct himself from other males since most of the time he only wears a loincloth, shoes, and wearing his bow and arrows on his back. The fact his fur is pitch-black, which contrast with his white hair, helps him a lot.
• The Lost Lenore: He is this for Liska, really big time.
• The Plot Reaper: Had Rial being not killed during the White River raid, he would sooner or later would clash with his brother-cousin Pyndan for Liska's affections, as both characters fell in love with her, and that without going with the fact that Pyndan had children with her, as well that, according with the Not What It Seems and When Warriors Die sub-arcs, Liska was cheating him with Pyndan behind his back for years before he died, causing unneeded drama.
• Never Bring a Gun to a Knife Fight: Or in his case, never bring a bow and an arrow to a sword fight, as he was killed by a swordsman in the back.
• Scary Black Man: Or in this case, Scary Black Cat instead. As if Rial wasn't already volatile enough, he was especially scarier when angry, since he looks remarkly more feral and cat-like than the rest of his kind when someone really puts him in his bad side.
• Traumatic Haircut: A tear-jerking variation of this trope, as he suffered from one done post-mortem by Liska as way to grieving and as a tribe custom symbolizing change and loss in the lives of the living.
• Tsundere: Rial was very quickly to enrage, but he was also very nice in his best moments, and he was a very good lover with Liska, and a good father with his children.
• Ungrateful Bastard: The first thing he did when he regained freedom from slavery and Liska unchained him was bitch-slapping her for using his warrior sash. In retalation, Mother Sanna whacks him with a mace she had in hand.
• Vague Age: Just like Liska, his age is never stated officially, but there's also clues about how old he really was: according with Word of God, Liska had sex with him when the former was of legal age, which mean that both were very likely 18 or 21 years old when that happens, and also it was at the same age Liska became a warrior, which also means they were both about 30-33 when he died.

Pyndan Kota-te-mar

Age: 22 (at issue 4), 59 (final arc)
Height: 5 ft. 9 in./1.79 cm
Date of Birth: A.K. 1726
Race: Velite (Turkish Angora cat)

Another of the warriors from the highlands, Pyndan is the older brother-cousin of Rial, and also his second-in-command regarding anything related tribal warfare until Liska became the tribe's war chief. Unlike his brother, however, Pyndan is much nicer and kinder and less prone to anger, making him the Only Sane Man of the warrior trio (or quartet, if we include Hesta). It's heavily implied he had a crush with Liska, through he avoids to show any romantic advance to her, due to Liska being her chief, her best friend and also his brother's mate. That changed after Rial died, as due to tribal tradition, Pyndan is entitled to became Liska's mate. He had a biological sister named Panka, who got married with another warrior later on.

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• Beware the Nice Ones: While Pyndan is normally a very Nice Guy and normally avoided looking for a fight or conflict, compared with Rial, if someone dared to make him angry, he did not hesitated to respond strongly against the offender, regardless of whether that person was an enemy or a known person, like Rial, or even Liska at couple of times.
• Breakout Character: Just like his brother, Pyndan is one of the most popular characters of the comic, due to partly being a Nice Guy and his pretty looks.
• Confirmed Bachelor: He never married again after being forced to break up with Liska as a result of her Vow of Celibacy. And while it's never fully explained the reasons, his relationship with her afterwards became non-existent, and that without going his role in the story decreased quite a lot.
• Curse: Deconstructed: According with Pyndan, his ancestors were cursed with severe fertility problems after one of them pissed the Goddess as a result as one of the refused to give one single berry to a child, causing the deity to curse his entire family line. It's later implied by Hesta, and later confirmed later by both Leah in-universe and Word of God in the Q&A section of the comic, that "curse" is nothing more than Rh incompatibility, which caused Liska to having a very hard pregnancy, and causing her to finally stop having any more children for fear of dying in childbirth.
• Demoted to Extra: After the end of the "Family Matters" sub-arc, he doesn't appear anymore until the last arc, and even there he only had a brief speaking part. Special mention that, as a result of Liska becoming the new tribe chief, his relationship with her became non-existent, and he treated her formally and coldly afterwards, despite that him was the father of her final biological children.
• Did You Just Have Sex?: After Rial had sex with Liska for the first time, Pyndan couldn't avoid to make a cheerful, singing crack about it:
  Pyndan (singing): Well, you've certainly been cheerful lately.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Due to his pretty looks and his long hair, it's not difficult for some fans to confuse him with a woman, especially when wearing a buckskin or anything that covers his chest. This is more evident in all the illustrations featuring him done by either Terrie Smith or Shawntae Howard.
• I Was Quite a Looker: By the end of the story, especially in the last arc, Pyndan's pretty looks fizzled out, as he now looks older than when he was younger, being the one of the characters from the older generation who aged the most.
• Just Friends: As a result of Liska's Vow of Celibacy, he was forced to technically break out with her, through he is still the father of the kittens he fathered with her. Oddly enough, unlike with Shaygin, who did a lot of drama about the same dilemma, he accepted the situation with no problems, despite that, unlike Shaygin, he was unable to live with Liska anymore in the same tent.
• My Greatest Failure: Pyndan makes it painfully clear in the last published issues that he really regrets helping Rial on kidnapping Liska and turning her into his Sex Slave, something that he states with Liska's surviving family in the lowlands when the latter payed a visit to them.
• Nice Guy: Compared with his brother Rial, he is much nicer and less prone on having grudges with anyone who wrongs him, as long you don't hit him first, of course.
• Only Sane Man: He, along with Hesta, are sometimes the voice of reason during any mission involving hunting or fighting, due to the clashing personalities between Rial, Liska and her brother Markree.
• Pretty Boy: Along with his cousing-brother Rial, he is the prettiest male of the whole cast. Oddly enough, the only female who wants to hanging out with him is Liska.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Big time, as by having sex with Liska, knowing before hand he was Rh-incompatible with her, which almost doomed her and her children later on, he also tainted the rest of his future descendants, Leah included, with this genetic flaw. It was until Leah's era when a solution for this was found.
• Vague Age: While the narrative doesn't give him an age, the Katmandu Handbook does instead. As many things stated in that book, there's an incongruence between his stated age in the comic and the one stated in the book, as the latter says Pyndan is older than Liska, while comic says otherwise.

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Shaygin Mitsel-eman

Age: 17 (When she was bought by Liska at issue 6), 54 (final arc)
Height: 4 ft. 11 in./1.50 cm
Date of Birth: A.K. 1731
Race: Velite (Red Tabby cat)

Liska's very first wife after she became a free warrior, along with Elishaa, the fourth-in-command in the tribe, and one of the most important secondary characters in the story, Shaygin, along with the latter, were the slaves from another tribe after Liska and Markree defeated Flint in a game of dices, much for latter's disgust, which quickly freed them afterwards, while Shaygin wanted to be her wife, something that Liska found at first disgusting, but she quickly mellows out with the idea. She is loyal to Liska to the bone, and also the one with more screentime in the story.

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• All Lesbians Want Kids: This is most of her drama that befall her during "The Quest for Magic" sub-arc and also her main problem in the side-story "Families", as she wanted to have children with Liska, despite both of them being females, to the grade any mention about anyone having babies, like Elishaa, caused her to cry. This finally was resolved at both issue 7 (retroactively, in-universe) and also in the already mentioned side-story (also retroactively, both in and out-universe) when Liska, with the help of her brother Markree, managed to impregnate her and finally giving her kits.
• Berserk Button: She had three of them, in that particular order:
  • Calling her a "bed slave" is enough to put her in her bad side.
  • Insulting Liska in her face would drive her mad.
  • And finally, calling Liska a "torn skirt" would turn this nice girl into a wild, homicidal beast.
• Beware the Nice Ones: There's three times when we see Shaygin physically resorting to violence against someone else:
  • In the first one, she goes apeshit against Kebec, when the latter insulted Liska in her face, and also to Shaygin for being a lesbian.
  • In the second one, she chase out Rial from her and Liska's teepee when he barged inside the place when both girls wanted to had sex in private and Rial attempted to had a threesome with them, causing Shaygin to chase Rial naked through the whole village.
  • In the third and last one, Shaygin crushed Rakon's balls with her hand when the latter gave her a Forced Kiss.
• Big Beautiful Woman: Compared with Elishaa, Shaygin is quite fat, but at the same time is quite gorgeous as well, something lampshaded by many characters in the story.
• Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Played for Laughs in her side-story, "Shaygin's Song", when the aforementioned character, along with Elishaa and the rest of the females, excluding Liska, were doing a singing contest about who sing the best song about a close relative of theirs. When it was her turn to sing, her song was about how Liska was the best warrior, defeated Willoem, freed the White River mine slaves, saved Shaygin from a wild beast, and then how her and Liska had wild sex afterwards. Needless to say, she won by a wide margin.
  Elishaa: Shaygin, I think you have won the contest, and I feel the need to see my husband.
  Panka: So do I.
• Character Development: Not as dramatic as her husband Liska, but she went from being an annoying, sex-obsessed crybaby in her younger years to a more mature, intelligent woman. The main difference is that it took her more years until her 30s to really mature. Considering all the drama she went through in her childhood and pre-teens, this is somewhat more justified.
• Divergent Character Evolution: Originally, Shaygin, along with Elishaa, filled the role of Those Two Girls with Liska in terms of personal relationships, as most of the romantic plot of the first arc is between Liska, Rial and Pyndan. After Rial kicks the bucket and Pyndan is forced to separate from Liska after the latter took a Vow of Celibacy as a result of Pyndan's curse, almost dying after having the latter's litter, and already having too many children, her role in the story went from support character to secondary protagonist, outstaging both Elishaa and even Pyndan.
• Does Not Like Men: Shaygin is the only female character that really despise men, as she was sexually abused by her previous masters, to the grade she rather prefer to stay with other women like Liska, who treated her with utmost kindness. The only male she tolerates is Markree, and just because she need him in order to have children with Liska.
• Explosive Breeder: While she is not the only character which who has had many children during her life, as basically most females, Liska included, underwent this, Shaygin is heavily implied for taking the "explosive" part really hard, as she had children from Liska (via Markree), plus more children that aren't accounted in the narrative.^note Also, there's the implication that Shaygin previously had children from her previous master, according with what she discuss with her daughter Thea in the The Quest for Magic sub-arc.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: Not as bad as Liska, but her hairstyles switch between using braids, having long hair and even using a Japanese-style Hime Cut.
• Fat and Skinny: She is the fat over Liska and Elishaa, who are both slim.
• Forced Kiss: On the receiving end at the hands of Rakon during the Tournament Arc when she gave him some food as one of the quirks of being one of Liska's guests, giving the latter one of many reasons to hate him for life.
• Genki Girl: She is normally in very good spirits, and there's few things that could make her sad, like anything that could upset Liska, anyone talking shit against her, and anything regarding Rakon.
• Hair Color Dissonance: In Terrie Smith's color illustrations and in her model sheets, Shaygin is officially depicted as a redhead, but in the Shawntae Howard version of her, she is normally depicted as a brunette, something that remained constant during all the comic's whole run.
  • According with Word of God, this is a little bit complex: The Katmandu Handbook states that she is redhead, but the official model sheets contradict that information, as it also state that Shaygin's hair is supposed to be brown, but in Howard's art, she is depicted as a brunette, a fact also stated in the comic when she debuted.
• Lipstick Lesbian: Just like Liska and every female in her harem, she is very feminine, sweet, and above all, she prefers women like Liska over any other male, unless you're Markree.
• Ms. Fanservice: She was also as bad, if not even worse, than Liska in this department, as the only clothes she weared were either a bra and a thong, or a very skimpy blouse, and it's heavily implied she doesn't even used underwear.
• Mysterious Past: For a character as important as she was, we know nothing about her backstory before being a slave. The only things we know about Shaygin's past are the fact that she was a slave who lost her parents beforehand, then, she was probably raped by her previous masters, and being Elishaa's young sister-cousin, despite not being related by blood.
• Not Allowed to Grow Old: Bizarrely enough, despite Shaygin being just one year younger than Liska, she looks exactly the same at her older teens at 17 when she was about 54 in the last arc, and at that point, she was older than every character during her debut, including the Seneschal, Chief Pownetkee and even Mother Sanna, and considering all these three characters already passed away in the last issues. This is even more egregious given that everyone else, Liska included, did look aged.
• No Badass to Her Valet: Invoked in issue #30 in the last issue of the "Wicked Ways" sub-arc when Liska, along with Hesta and Giles, was planning to both rescue Thea from the clutches of Patches' family and killing them with her own hands, until Shaygin, which until that point never dared to question Liska's decisions, she finally decided to do it because Patches was crying, afraid that Liska could kill her family. Liska finally changed her mind on trying to kill Patches' father and sisters after she saw Shaygin's face, and when she also saw Patches' crying.
  Shaygin: You can render a snake harmless by removing its fangs. This snake has fangs as well, and they are here in camp.
• Neko: She is the receiving part in the relation with Liska, through the roles could get inverted at times.
• Plot Hole:
  • According with the Katmandu Handbook, Shaygin was 17 when Liska bought her from slavery. But in the comic itself, Liska slept with Shaygin after she bought her, which, taking her stated age, would had made her relation took a darker undertone.
  • Also, both the handbook and the comic later during The Curse of the Blood sub-arc also stated she married with Liska two years later after the latter bought her, very likely to solve this hole, but the comic contradict itself later on in later issues and also during Shaygin's debut stating she married with Liska two weeks later after Liska herself bought Rial from slavery. And that without going with the fact her sister Elishaa married Markree almost at the same time as her, despite the handbook states otherwise.
  • Also, by the same handbook, Shaygin was supposed to be shorter than Liska by many inches, but in the comic itself, the height difference is barely notable, and some artists made both women having the same height.
• Rape as Drama: It's heavily implied that Shaygin was raped and mistreated continuously since childhood, causing her to distrusting men as a result and this is the most likely reason why she suffered an emotional breakout when Rakon forced her to kiss him.
• Rape and Switch: The only main reason why she did became a lesbian was because she was sexually abused by three of her previous masters before meeting Liska.
• Silk Hiding Steel: If wasn't for the fact she was a Native, she could had been a textbook, exaggerated example of a Yamato Nadeshiko in Western media, as her utter devotion to Liska was at times quite unhealthy. Kebec learned what it meant to insult Liska in her face the hard way.
• Single-Target Sexuality: Oh, boy, there's no other person in her life than Liska for her, and sometimes it reached to almost Yandere levels, just ask Kebec...
• Supreme Chef: Shaygin's cooking was considered by all the members of the tribe as great, and she was really proudful on that fact, especially when cooking for Liska.
• Those Two Girls: With Elishaa, through Shaygin had more screentime than her, and as the time goes by, she completely outshadows Elishaa, on the ground the latter dissappears entirely from the plot.
• Top Wife: At the end of the story, Shaygin was this for Liska, since she was the first woman the latter married and being technically her official wife. While she slept with Rial, Pyndan, Kress, Elishaa, Wasil and finally Patches, being she also her second wife, Shaygin was the woman from which Liska loved the most, and not to mention being the one with the biggest screen-time in the comic.
• Undying Loyalty: Shaygin is loyal to her husband Liska, and Liska herself also reciprocate her affections back.
• Vague Age: Again, her age is never given anywhere, but it's heavily implied she is slightly older than both Liska and Elishaa, as in the latter issues she mentions she isn't younger anymore, despite looking the same she was in her younger days.

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Elishaa Mitsel-eman

Age: 18 (at issue 6)
Height: 5 ft. 7 in./1.70 cm
Date of Birth: A.K. 1730
Race: Velite (Brown Tabby cat)

Another member of Liska's female harem, Shaygin's best friend and sister-surrogate, and also Markree's mate, at least as far as breeding rights is concerned, somewhat, Elishaa was another Sex Slave bought by the latter just like Shaygin. Unlike Shaygin, however, most of her interactions with the rest of the cast spins around either Liska or Markree.

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• Only Sane Woman: Compared with her younger sister Shaygin and his Hot-Blooded mate Markree, Elishaa was somewhat more grounded on reality and she tried her best to calm the spirits of either of these two characters.
• Rape as Drama: Just like Shaygin, it's heavily implied she was also raped when she was a slave. This was later subverted, as, unlike Shaygin, she never brought the topic or seems to care much about it, through her past as a slave mad her wary about other males outside Markree
• Satellite Character: Most of her personality spins around either the Mitsel-eman slibings, who are both her husbands, Shaygin or her children.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: She dissapears entirely from the plot starting with the "Wicked Ways" sub-arc, with no explanation of her whereabouts; she isn't even mentioned in the epilogue episode, unlike Shaygin and Patches, the latter was a last addition to Liska's harem.

Markree Mitsel-eman (neé Tala-re-sha)

Age: 9 (When Liska was kidnapped), about 10 (when reuniting with Liska at issue 31), 18 (when married with Elishaa), 50 (final arc)
Height: Unknown
Date of Birth: A.K. 1735
Race: Velite (Grey Tabby cat)

Liska's younger brother, and Elishaa's mate. Compared with his more forgiving sister, Markree never forgave Rial or Pyndan, causing to butt heads with the former countless times, to the grade to really threatening to kill him. Even after Rial's death, Markree never got over his hatred to him, to the grade the whole situation caused a brief Succesion Crisis, on the grounds he is Liska's, the warchief, younger brother.

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• Always Second Best: To both his sister and Rial. He managed to got over with the former, but not with the latter, which he butted heads countless times.
• Berserk Button:
  • If you hurt his sister Liska, consider yourself dead.
  • Rial was a walking berserk button for him.
• Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: While it could be unintentional, Markree looks like a feline version of the Serbian actor Gojko Mitic in his role as Chingachgook from the East German film Chingachgook, die große Schlange.
• Demoted to Extra: He only appears in the last sub-arc in two single panels, and he just speaks in one of them, when he helps the tribe snipers on ambushing Rakon and his men, while using rolling logs to distract them.
• Glorified Sperm Donor: Due to tribal rules, Liska could not get married with Rial due to her status as a warrior, and all her legal wives were women, so in order to Liska to bear children with Shaygin, and later with Patches, he had to become this; not that neither slibing nor Elishaa mind on this one.
• The Native Rival: Markree offers an insteresting twist on this trope, as he is also a Native-like person like his rival Rial and everyone else in the setting, through he is an outsider, just like his older sister. Furthermore and in an inversion, he is the one who antagonize Rial, the local, (and Pyndan, at times) and not the other way around, and for very justified reasons, as the latter two kidnapped his sister Liska when the she was a teen, causing Markree to continously butting heads with them.
• Natural Weapon: Just like his sister, he prefered knives, but was also adept on using his claws as well.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: He was very racist against Rial, not only because he kidnapped Liska, but also because of the color of his fur.
• Plot Hole: To beginners, Markree's age is a quite confusing thing, since is completely incongruent with both what is shown in the comic compared with what is stated in the Katmandu Handbook: According with the handbook, he was 9 years old when his sister Liska was kidnapped, and she reunited with him a year later at 10, after Liska wins her freedom and warrior status. However, the comic stated during The Quest For Magic sub-arc that he reunited with Liska at 10 years old, and he married with Elishaa a few days later, and, to make things even more confusing, when his sister returned to the Lowlands to find him, he was visibly older than 10.
• The Rival: For Rial, on the grounds he was the person who kidnapped his sister.
• Sole Survivor: By the end of the story, he was the only living member from the Tas-So-Wen clan who survived Rakon's loyalist forces' onslaught, after his sister Liska sacrified her life, and their uncles very likely passed away due to old age.

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Wasil Hada-ro-seg (later, Mitsel-eman, and finally ??, since Donel's clan name is never given.)

Age: 18 (at issue 8), 20 (at issue 12), 22 (at issue 28)
Height: 5'1 ft./1.55 cm
Date of Birth: A.K. 1743
Race: Velite (Grey Tabby cat)

Rial's legal wife (for less of a month) after he bought her from a slaver named Stone Breaker during the When Warriors Die sub-arc. After Rial's death, she became Liska's wife for some few years, just to end marrying with another character named Donel. She is also the mother of Athos Jr. aka Little Rial, her only child with Rial before he died. From all the members of Liska's harem, she is one of the less developed ones, along with Elishaa, outside some descriptions about her in the Katmandu Handbook, outside being somewhat shy, compared with with Shaygin or Elishaa.

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• Flat Character: The only reason she exists in the story is for two reasons: The first one is, since Liska cannot marry with Rial without losing her warrior status, and Rial needed someone else to have sex and bear a child using his clan name, instead of using Liska's one, he bought her and then, he impregnated her, just to die an issue later. The second one and more egregious one was to being Put on a Bus along with her son, after the author probably didn't found any use for either of them.
• Someone to Remember Him By: She had a baby with Rial after he died during the battle against the slavers.

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SPOILER CHARACTER: Patches

See also Katmandu Other Tribes under Pajalis/Patches tap

Children

Thea Mitsel-eman

Age: About 11-12 (at issue 8), 18 (at issue 28), 36 (final arc)
Height: 5 ft./1.52 cm (at issue 8)
Date of Birth: A.K. 1749
Race: Velite (Mixed breed)

Liska's and Rial's eldest daughter, and the only of Liska's offsprings with any kind of continous spotlight. Thea didn't originally have too much screen time until she reached her teens, when she started to have her own adventures, through most of the time she ended up getting her family, her tribe, or herself in trouble due to her vain and arrogant personality, something she inherited from her father.

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• Action Girl: At least in "The Tomorrow Breed" continuity. In the regular one, not so much...
• Black Is Bigger in Bed: Thea seems to like guys with black fur for other reasons beyond the color of their pelt:
  Thea:: You've got dark fur in your hands...
  Giles:: Uhhh...
  Thea:: Anywhere else?
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: Oh very much, to the extent that it ended up getting her into trouble on an ongoing basis, and something that also became a concern for her family, for fear that she would end up pregnant for her problems.
• The Chief's Daughter: She was the daughter of the most notorious war chiefs of the Highland tribe. This is especially notorious, as the chief in question was female.
• Damsel in Distress: In the "Wicked Ways" sub-arc, she got kidnapped by Patches' father and her sisters in order to force Liska to bring back his daughter to him, otherwise he would had give Thea to a couple to Ratkind warriors to rape her. The plan completely failed when it turned out the Ratkind warriors not only knew they were used by Patches' father for his own plans, but they didn't want to rape Thea either.
• Dead Guy Junior: According with the Katmandu Handbook, she was named after Liska's late mother.
• Demoted to Extra: Starting with issue 32, she doesn't appear physically anymore in the story, and she is only mentioned by her family afterwards. In the last arc, it's stated she married with Giles and had children with him.
• Official Couple: With Giles in canon, and with Matoo in side-stories.
• Generation Xerox: Somewhat, as she was basically her father Rial as a girl, except without his warrior status.
• Hero of Another Story: She became the heroine of her own side-stories, when she shares the spotlight with Matoo, an human astronaut.
• Kissing Discretion Shot: A rather egregious and weird example: For some bizarre reason, and, with sole exception of her non-canon story "The Tomorrow Breed", where this is avoided with a vengeance, her kissing scenes with Giles are shadowed. On the other hand, her parents, Liska and Shaygin, a lesbian couple, don't have their kissing scene censored at all.^note This could be likely explained because, while Liska and Shaygin are lesbians, they are legally adults, while both Thea and Giles were underage at that time, or at least they're still underage as far as the non-Native American readers are concerned anyways. That's doesn't explain why her kissing scenes when she was an adult during the "Wicked Ways" sub-arc aren't very explicit, while her parents could get away with more erotic stuff.
• Out of Focus: She vanished entirely from the plot, along with the rest of her brothers and sisters, excluding Linna, who still appears until the end of the "Runt" sub-arc. It's later explained in the "A Simple Life" final sub-arc that she got married with Giles, and she had children with him.
• Really Gets Around: To say Thea was quite horny would be an understatement, as she tried to find any good-looking man she could get in her hands, which caused lots of grief along her family, fearing that she could get an unwanted pregnancy. She even tried to tease Pyndan, despite him technically being her uncle, on the grounds he had sex with Liska. This is one of the reasons why she got kidnapped by Patches' family during the "Wicked Ways" sub-arc, as she was captured when trying to have sex with Giles.
• Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: Very likely named after Theia, one of the Titans of the Gigantomachia from the Classical Mythology, the wife of Hyperion and the mother of Helios.
• Sassy Black Woman: Or in this case, Sassy Black Cat: Unlike her father Rial, both her hair and her fur were pitch black, and she also had the personality to match, especially when using her charms on trying to get the attention of any male she wants.
• Strong Family Resemblance: She was basically a female Rial with Liska's body frame, through he lacks both their parents' hair, as hers is black and her entire fur is also black, without white spots.
• Toplessness from the Back: During her womanhood ceremony in the Ceremonies sub-arc, Thea has to do the whole ceremony while being in the nude. However, who only see her nude from her back, while her tail and her arms cover her intimates. This was done due to, while being an adult by the rules of her tribe, she is still underage for the readers, as she is 16 years old at the time.
• Vague Age: Averted with a revenge. She is the only character in the comic whose age is given, as she was 18 years old in the last issues, which also means she was 12-13 when his father Rial died and 16-17 when she did her coming-of-age ceremony.

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Mela Mitsel-eman

Age: 4 (at issue 8)
Height: 3 ft./0.91 cm (at issue 8)
Date of Birth: A.K. 1757
Race: Velite (Mixed breed)

Liska and Rial's daughter from their first litter and Thea's younger sister, order-wise. Not much is known about her, outside that, unlike her elder sister, she prefered to date men with more classical methods, unlike her much sex-crazed sister. Also, Thea's antics were starting to continously irk her.

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• Only Sane Woman: She is completely aware that, unlike Thea, she didn't like going around looking for men to flirt with, something that she made painfully clear to her sister:
  Thea: Are you cooking for that Okaido again? You'll spoil him.
  Mela: Thea, I like cooking for him. He loves my dinners; and that's how I'll get a husband, not by flouncing my teats around.
• Meaningful Name: Mela is a shorthand of "Melanie", which also derivates from the Greek term for "black girl", which is very fitting for her, as her fur is black.
• Out of Focus: Just like Thea and the rest of her siblings, she doesn't appear anymore starting with issue 32, with the additional caveat her fate isn't mentioned anywhere, unlike Thea. It's heavily implied she got married later with the aforementioned Okaido later on. She isn't mentioned in the "Alternate Worlds of Katmandu" Alternative Continuity either.
• Satellite Character: She doesn't have too much screentime, compared with her older sister Thea, as much of her interactions spinned around her father, Shaygin or Thea.
• Strong Family Resemblance: In some degree, she had her mother Liska's body frame and hair, but with Rial's fur color.

Linna Mitsel-eman

Age: Newborn (at issue 8), 8 (issue 28), 24 (final arc)
Height: 2 ft, 4 inch/0.71 cm (at issue 8)
Date of Birth: A.K. 1761
Race: Velite (Mixed breed)

Liska and Shaygin's (via Markree) daughter from their first litter and the youngest of the trio.

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• The Baby of the Bunch: She was the youngest of the trio, at least until Liska had another litter with Pyndan
• Dead Guy Junior: Named after Liska's grandmother.
• Expy: As a result of the Animesque style used by the artist Ronzo Murphy at issue 33, Linna looks like a feline version of C-ko Kotobuki.
• Out of Focus: Compared with the rest of her siblings, Linna still appeared physically until issue 33, and she is mentioned in passing in the last arc. Unlike with the rest of them, however, she still lived with her parents, along with one of Liska's granddaughters.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Unlike her dark-furred elder sisters Thea and Mela, Linna is basically Liska as a kid, but with Markree's curled hair.

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Liishan Mitsel-eman

Age: Newborn (at issue 8), 8 (issue 28), 24 (final arc)
Height: 2 ft, 6 inch/0.76 cm (at issue 8)
Date of Birth: A.K. 1761
Race: Velite (Mixed breed)

Liska and Shaygin's (via Markree) son from their first litter and also the youngest of the trio.

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• Bit Character: He only appears in both When Warriors Die and Ceremonies sub-arcs, and he only had a speaking part in the latter, compared with his sister. The story also implies in the final arc that he got married later on.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Basically, he is Liska as a male kid, except chubbier and with curly hair, just like Markree.

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Darmin and Talwin Mitsel-eman

Talwin

Darmin

Age: 9 (at issue 8), 13 (at issue 16)
Height: 4 ft, 2 inch/1.27 cm (at issue 8, both of them)
Date of Birth: A.K. 1752 (both of them)
Race: Velite (Mixed breeds)

Liska and Rial's twin male children. Not much is known about them, in stark contrast with their sisters.

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• All There in the Manual: They only thing about their personalities is stated in the Katmandu Handbook: Darmin likes to hunt, while Talwin is somewhat more contemplative.
• Bit Character: They are basically footnote characters with very few screentime and almost no relevance in the whole story, and they dissappear from the plot after the "Wicked Ways" sub-arc. Of both of them, only Darwin appears more often than his other twin brother.
• Generation Xerox: They are basically their mother Liska as males.

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Pellew Hada-ro-seg

Age: 10 (at issue 8), 14 (at issue 16)
Height: 4 ft, 4 inch/1.32 cm (at issue 8)
Date of Birth: A.K. 1751
Race: Velite (Grey Tabby cat)

She is the adopted child of an unnamed Rial's deceased cousin. She only appears in the When Warriors Die sub-arc, and only mentioned in the Ceremonies arc. It's also heavily implied she also Liska's adopted child as well, as Pellew is mentioned along the rest of her other children.

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• Bit Character: She only appears in a single sub-arc, mentioned in passing by Liska in another one, and she never appears again.
• Fiery Redhead: According with both the leaked model sheets of the comics and the Handbook, this is her more striking feature and the only redheaded character in the comic.
• Happily Adopted: By both Rial and Liska, through it was never explained about Pellew's supposed dead cousin, who was her biological mother.

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Athos Hada-ro-seg Jr. aka Little Rial

Click ^here to see his identity.

Athos Jr. as a kid

Age: Newborn (at issue 9), about 18 (at Alternate Worlds of Katmandu)
Height: 2 ft/0.61 cm (issue 9)
Date of Birth: A.K. 1762
Race: Velite (Mixed breed, though he resembles a Tuxedo cat)

Wasil and Rial's only child son, who was born a year after his father's death. We don't know much about him, since he was Put on a Bus after The Curse of the Blood sub-arc when his mother marries with another man named Donel, but he was intended to play an important role in the Alternate Continuity Alternate Worlds of Katmandu, when he shares the spotlight with Matoo and Thea's daughter Thea Jr. when both became adults.

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• Battle Couple: With Thea Jr. in Alternate Worlds of Katmandu as adults.
• Generation Xerox: Basically, he is Rial as a kid, and the similarity is uncanny in Alternate Worlds of Katmandu, when he looks the same like his father, except he prefers to use knives rather than bow and arrows.
• I Know Karate: In Alternate Worlds of Katmandu, it's stated that, besides using weapons, Athos Jr. also learnt Wing Chun from both Thea Jr. and the humans, something that was used in the side-story The Legend.
• Put on a Bus: Since his mother Wasil marries with another man after Rial's death, he dissappears from the narrative afterwards as well, mostly because Liska doesn't want him around her, as he looks too much like his late father. Averted in the Alternate Worlds of Katmandu continuity, as Liska doesn't reject him there.

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Chepá and Valora

Chepá (left) and Valora (right)

Age: Newborns (at issue 11)
Height: Unknown
Date of Birth: A.K. 1764
Race: Velite (Mixed breeds)

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Liska and Pyndan's children and the former's last litter she had in her life before she took the black drink in the Ceremonies sub-arc as a result of their birth, since she almost died due to Pyndan's curse, aka his RH-incompatibility, and also causing breaking up with him for good.

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• Bit Character: They only appear in The Curse of the Blood and Ceremonies sub-arcs, and they are basically living framing devices in order to give Liska something to angst about, since their birth caused a lot of pain for her and also caused Liska to take the black drink and break with Pyndan as a result. They aren't even part of the Mitsel-eman clan, due to an arrangement she did with Pyndan in order to give him descendants who could carry his clan name. The only thing known about them is that Valora is female and Chepá is male.

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Danvee Mitsel-eman

Markree and Elishaa's sole son.

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• Flat Character: He has no lines in the entire story and he only appears twice, one as a baby in The Hunt sub-arc and one as a child in the Ceremonies sub-arc, as well not having any kind of personaly outside being Markree and Elishaa's son.
• Generation Xerox: Danvee is basically Markree when he was a kid, except having blonde hair like his mother Elishaa.

Others

Mother Sanna/Sonna Hada-ro-seg

Age: 51 (at issue 4), 71 (issue 28, her final canon on-screen appearance, through her final appearance is at issue 31 in a retroactive way)
Height: 5 ft. 1 in./1.55 cm
Date of Birth: A.K. 1695
Date of Death: circa A.K. 1780
Race: Velite (Siamese)

Rial's grandmother, Pyndan and Panka's step-mother of sorts, and for all practical effects, the leader of the Highland tribe in all but name, along with Liska. Mother Sanna is the oldest person in the tribe which is both the healer and the almost-literal Team Mom of the tribe, while being also the voice of reason when the things goes south. Everyone, Liska included, treated her like a real mother and she also did the same with them, even when Liska was first a slave.

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• Artistic License – Biology: According with the Katmandu Handbook, her fur is grey due to her old age. In Real Life, with some very odd exceptions, felines' fur cannot turn grey, at least not in the same way, as humans do, much less Siamese cats as her. This could be handwaved as Sanna being an alien anthro feline, and not an Earth one.
• Character Death: She likely died due to old age before the events of the last sub-arc, since there's a 18 years Time Skip between that sub-arc and the previous one.
• Expy: She could be an somewhat younger and feline expy from Buffalo Cow Head, John Morgan's mistress, from A Man Called Horse, as both women are the former mistresses of the main characters, while Sanna having an uncanny look to her.
• Dirty Old Woman: Somewhat. Despite her age, she is not affraid on telling dirty jokes or sexual allusions to her younger peers.
• Foreshadowing: For all the narratives holes the Katmandu Handbook does regarding many present and future plotlines, there's one managed to get right during the "Ceremonies" sub-arc: According with both the handbook and the comic itself during the arc, Sanna took the same Vow of Celibacy (drinking the black drink) Liska took in the same arc, after her first mate, Athos, died when she was young, causing her life to go downhill after his death. And just like her former slave, drinking that thing didn't prevented her from having a normal sexual life, through she never married again.
• Grumpy Old Woman: Very downplayed, but she at times showed this as an effect of her age, or when the things went sour, especially when Rial, Pyndan or Liska are involved. This is justified, as the first two were her adoptive children, and the latter was her former slave, and her most loyal one to boot.
• Meaningful Name: "Sanna" means "to heal" in Latin, which is quite fitting for her, as she was the head healer of the tribe.
• No Badass to Her Valet: She didn't take kindly any kind of shit from anyone, even from her own grandson Rial when after Liska bought him back from slavery, he slapped her for using his sash. Afterwards, Sanna hits him with a stick.
• Not So Stoic: The only time she definitively losed her cool was when Rial was killed, causing her to grieve him for days.
• Number Two: Hierarchy-wise, she is this in the tribe, but all effects, she, along with Liska, was the one who called the shots, and no one, not even her own children, dared to question that.
• Parental Substitute: She was this for basically every younger character younger in the tribe, Liska included, and she was literally this for Pyndan and Panka, as the latter got orphaned at as kid; she wasn't named Mother Sanna for nothing after all.
• Silver Vixen: Or Silver Cat in her case, as even as a old woman doesn't stop her to looking good like every other female in the comic; it helps a lot she is a literal silver cat, as she is a Siamese cat. There's a side-story when when she was younger and she was even more gorgeous than in her older days.
• Spell My Name With An S: According with Carole Curtis, her name is supposed to be spelled as "Sonna", but pronounced phonetically as "Sahn-na", even if doesn't have much sense, pronunciation-wise.^note For the record, and according with the Handbook, Curtis is dyslexic, hence why many of the spelling used in the comic weren't very consistent.

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Panka Kota-te-mar

Panka as an adult

Panka as a kid

Age: 6 (at issue 4), 20 (when married with Gareth at issue 10), 22 (during "Ceremonies" arc), about 42 (during final arc)
Height: 5 ft. 3 in./1.60 cm (at issue 10)
Date of Birth: A.K. 1742
Race: Velite (Ginger Tabby cat)

Pyndan's younger biological sister, and by kinship, Liska's daughter when his brother became the latter's mate. Panka was a healer-apprentice learning from both Mother Sanna and Wissa. There's not much known about her, other that she got married with a warrior named Gareth and she got involved into a nasty conflict between her, Gareth and another warrior named Willoem, who tried to became her mate by challenging Liska, the clan leader, and the only one able to gave her blessing on Panka's marriage, to a death duel.

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• Harmful to Minors: She got an arm broken by one of the Hoplite raiders that attacked her tribe and also killed Kayce, which probably influenced her decision on becoming a healer like Mother Sanna.
• Identical Stranger: Bizarrely enough, especially in Shawntae Howard's designs, she looks like a more feminine version of Liska, except younger. This is especially more weird considering that Liska herself was her mother by kinship since her brother Pyndan was her mate for a while.
• The Medic: She was the second best healer on the tribe, only behind Mother Sanna, her mentor, and Wissa.
• Rank Up: She became the head healer of the tribe after Mother Sanna passed away.
• Satellite Character: Much of her characterization spins around with her brother Pyndan, Mother Sanna or with Gareth.

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Giles

Thea's official mate from the regular canon. Not much is known about him, outside he lived with his parents previous to marry with Thea, and he married her and had children with her afterwards.

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• Distressed Dude: In the "Wicked Ways" sub-arc, Giles is attacked and tied down by the two Ratkind warriors hired by Patches' father when they kidnapped Thea, just when both were planning to had sex in a lonely place far away from the tribe.
• Official Couple: With Thea in the official canon.
• Pretty Boy: Much like almost all males in the comic, he is very good looking, something that didn't go unnoticed by Thea and other females.
• Satellite Character: He only appears in two arcs, and all his interactions spins with either Thea or her mother Liska, as the latter is his senior warchief.

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Moirah

Liska and Rial's pet parrot-like bird.

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• Mix-and-Match Critters: Basically, she is a mix between a parrot and a quetzal bird.
• Not in Front of the Parrot!: Is heavily implied that her tendence of repeating the names of her owners was because she learned their names when they had sex. Considering how noisy they were during their intimacy...
• Running Gag: A very common gag used during the comic is she always repeated the name of any member of the Liska's family in an annoying fashion, sometimes in the most unwelcome circumstances.
  Rial: Is that bird ever going to die?
• Shoo Out the Clowns: She disappears from the plot starting the Tournament Arc, signaling the beginning of the Darker and Edgier parts of the story.

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Thetis

Liska's faithful female riding lizard.

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• Cool Horse: Or in this case, cool lizard.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: As many riding lizards, Thetis is basically a giant iguana combined with a velocirraptor.
• Out of Focus: For some bizarre unexplained reason, she dissappears from the story starting with the "Runt" sub-arc. While this could be handwaved that she could had died of old age, what make her dissappearance from the plot even more stranger is the fact that Liska never used another riding lizard afterwards, despite Thetis having a very numerous offspring just like her master, even in scenarios when walking on foot would had being impractical or dangerous.^note In fact, after her dissapearance, we don't see any other riding lizards, or any other dinosaur-like beings starting from that sub-arc, being replaced with regular mammals instead.
• Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: A double one in Classical Mythology:
  • She is named after one of the Titans from the Titanomachy, who was the wife of Oceanus, and also the goddess of the sea, in this case, her name was spelled as "Thethys".
  • Also, Thetis was also a sea nymph, who, according with the Greek myths, was the wife of Peleus, and being also the mother of the legendary hero from the The Iliad, Achilles.