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Kingdom of Nohr
King Garon of Nohr
King Garon
The ruler of the Kingdom of Nohr, and protagonist of this story.- Backstory: The primary purpose of The Lost King is to flesh out Garon's character before Anankos kills and replaces him for the events of Fire Emblem Fates.
- Came Back Wrong: After Garon gets killed in the final chapter, Anankos reanimates him with his soul still inside his body to make him autonomous instead of a mindless vessel. However, Garon's personality and memories also get warped to ensure he'll serve Anankos effectively.
- The Casanova: He is a big womanizer. Deconstructed, in that his lust for women has lead to a Decadent Court where those same women try to murder each other for his favor, to the extent he no longer takes joy in womanizing anymore. And he hasn't even gotten Elise's mom yet.
- Good Parents: To try and make up for the concubines' Parental Neglect, Garon tries to be an absolutely awesome dad as he can to all his children. He even promises to take care of Azura.
- The Hero Dies: It's a prequel and he is canonically a possessed monster in Fire Emblem Fates, so he naturally perishes in the final chapter.
- Heroic BSoD: He spends a month in his room due to depression and self-loathing after Arete dies, at the end of the general Trauma Conga Line his life has been.
- Knight in Sour Armor: His internal dialogue and world-weary attitude show he's quite a cynical man, but he wants what's best for his country and his children.
- Slave to PR: The reason he keeps the concubines around despite all of the trouble they cause is because he doesn't want to make any enemies. Some of them hail from nobility and ejecting them will cause their families to get mad at him. The ones who aren't from nobility are self-made women with powerful abilities or other useful assets, and ejecting them will make them get mad at him. Either way, kicking them out would not end well.
- Unwanted Harem: Deconstructed. All the women interested in Garon don't really care about him, only try to take advantage of him for personal/political gain, and they try to weed out the competition through whatever means necessary. For political reasons, he's unable to eject them from his court even though he himself dislikes most of them, and is as such stuck with fierce competition raging around him.
Queen Katerina
Queen Katerina
The First Queen of Nohr, as Garon's wife; and mother to Prince Xander.- Back for the Finale: Her Anankos-controlled corpse is dispatched as part of the forces ambushing Garon in the final chapter.
- Good Parents: Unlike how the concubines treat their children, she appears to genuinely love and care for Xander.
- The High Queen: Her gentle but iron-willed demeanor and wisdom are part of what made her so popular with Nohr.
- Silk Hiding Steel: Polite, kind, sweet, and able to tame and ride a giant wyvern. Can also put up a fight with a candlestick, when necessary.
- Universally Beloved Leader: Katerina is noted as being beloved by the entire country.
Queen Arete
Queen Arete
A "commoner", single mother to Azura; and later Garon's wife, as Second Queen of Nohr. Unbeknownst to him, Arete was formerly the Queen of Valla.- Brutal Honesty: Her candor is one of the things Garon appreciates about her, even when it's directed at him.
- Fallen Princess: She was once Queen of Valla before its downfall, though Garon doesn't know this yet.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Gives up her life attempting to warn Garon about Valla, despite knowing the curse would kill her in the process (though to her credit, she did try to find a way around it, but failed).
- I Love You Because I Can't Control You: Downplayed in that they actually get along well, but the reason Garon comes to like her is because she's the one woman in his entire court who isn't pursuing him after Katerina's death.
- Mysterious Waif: Presented as such, having a cryptic past she speaks little of, a very ornate heirloom from her father, a fairly reserved personality, and being described as exotically beautiful. Eventually deconstructed: her secretive nature ends up giving the concubines material to ruin her reputation with, almost destroys her relationship with Garon, and leads to her death.
- Silk Hiding Steel: She's generally quite polite and amicable, if distant, but survived the streets of Nohr for several years by "correcting the worldview" of anyone who tried to attack her and/or Azura.
- The Scrappy: In-universe example. Compared to Katerina, who was loved by (most of) the people of Nohr, Arete was widely despised. Garon's consorts were especially cruel to her.
Concubines
Garon's concubines, and mothers to the royal half-siblings. Of those named, Bernice is mother to Camilla, Jeanette is mother to Josie, and Vesta mother to Leo.
- Abusive Parents: None of them care one whit for their children, and it's suggested (downright stated for Bernice, Camilla's mother) that they emotionally manipulate/abuse them to keep them in line.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: They are generally friendly and polite on the surface to keep in with social etiquette, and that's as far as their niceness goes.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Deconstructed. All of them are this to Garon, though less because of romantic interest and more because they want the power and riches that comes with his position. They are so jealous they will murder other women and even other children to keep him, ignoring how that same jealousy has caused him to turn away from them completely.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Bernice does when she points out, as part of her attacks on Arete, that she is very secretive and mysterious, so they have no way of knowing whether her intentions are really as good as she claims.
- Karma Houdini: Bernice and Vesta, the two who contributed the most to the court turning on Arete, are alive and well-off at the end of the story. Though this is only a temporary reprieve, as they'll end up dead from the infighting by the time of Fates anyway.
- Pragmatic Villainy: As terrible as they are, they do try to protect their children, less out of love and more out of knowing they'll earn Garon's ire if they don't.
- Would Hurt a Child: All of them are willing to order their kids to attack or outright murder other children, if they don't do it themselves.
