Desendence of Tengel the Evil appearing in the Books
First Generation from Tengel the Good
Tengel the Good
- Creepy Good
- Disappeared Dad
- Happily Married
- Healing Hands
- The Medic
- Mercy Kill: Commits this toward his niece, and later his wife.
- Missing Mom
- Murder-Suicide: Poisons himself and his wife.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Planned to murder a boy in order to eat him (though he was talked into it by other relatives) before changing his mind at the last minute when the boy showed him an unexpected kindness.
- What If the Baby Is Like Me? Why he was reluctant to marry at all at first, and why he wants Silje to abort both times she is pregnant. With Are he even contemplates causing a miscarriage without her consent, but is stopped by his niece.
Second Generation
Are
- Murder By In Action: Allows his newborn great-niece to die because she is cursed
- Outliving One's Offspring: Outlives two of his three sons.
Liv av Isfolket
- Domestic Abuse: Was a victim of this in her first marriage.
- Happily Married: Her second marriage is far better the first.
- In the Blood: Is implied to have some of her mother´s artistic abilities
- Like Mother, Like Daughter: Sweet and artistic like her mother
- Monster In Law: Her first mother-in-law puts her through quite a lot of emotional abuse.
- Murder By In Action: Allows her newborn great-granddaughter to die because she was cursed.
- Nice Girl
- Not Blood Siblings: Marries her fosterbrother.
Sol av Isfolket
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Just not genocidal, self-serving cowards who caused the murders of the people they grew up with, including some of her relatives and mentors.
- Anti-Hero: Has some murders on her conscience, but it´s usually done to protect her family, or to people she believes truly deserve it. She means well when it comes to people she likes or pities, like Meta, and often goes out of her way to protect and help others.
- Disappeared Dad: Her father never appears, and probably died of the plague.
- Fatal Flaw: Restlessness and vindictiveness.
- Happily Adopted
- I Did What I Had to Do: When she kills the deacon
- Mercy Kill: How she dies
- Missing Mom: Dies when her daughter is an infant. Her own mother died when she was a toddler herself.
- Wife-Basher Basher: Kills Liv´s first husband for abusing her.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: Seems to believe in this.
- Suicide by Cop: Witchhunters more precisely (though she ends up being mercy killed instead)
Third Generation
Tarjei Lind av Isfolket
Son of Are, grandson of Tengel and Silje, brother of Trond and Brand.- Disappeared Dad: Becomes this to Mikael
- The Medic
Trond Lind av Isfolket
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Before the curse kicked in.
Tarald Meiden
- Betty and Veronica: The Archie to Sunniva´s Veronica, and Yrje´s Betty. Sunniva is sweet, but perhaps not as dependable and hard-working as Yrje, dramatic, and according to Silje, prone to exploiting other´s goodwill and avoiding adversity. On top of that, then because of their bloodline, Sunniva and Tarald are in greater danger of having a cursed child together than Yrje and Tarald.
Fourth generation
Kolgrim
- Cain and Abel: Tries to get rid of his half-brother when he finds out Tarjei wants to make him the heir to the inheritance of the Ice People. Talked about wanting to stab Matthias when he was in the womb.
- Dark Is Evil: Has a darker appearance than his "angelic" brother, and is rotten to the core.
- The Sociopath
Matthias
- Light Is Good: Compared to his brother, Matthias has light complexion, blond hair and a good nature.
- Nice Guy
- Sleep Walking
Spouses of the Ice people
First Generation (Counting from Tengel the Good)
Silje
- All-Loving Hero
- Beware the Nice Ones: Sweet and kind, but can protect herself if needed, as revealed when she got an unwanted suitor in the Valley of the Ice People in first book of the series.
- Happily Married
- Mercy Kill: How she ends her life
- Nice Girl
Second generation
Dag
- Disappeared Dad
- Missing Mom: Doesn´t meet his birth mother for the first few years of his life.
- Happily Adopted
- Not Blood Siblings: Marries his foster sister
- Parental Abandonment:Is abandoned at birth, but later reunites with his birth mother and moves in with her.
- Rags to Royalty: not actually royalty, but he is the(illegimate) son of a baroness
