Characters / The Sight

Huttser and Palla's pack

In General

• Badass Family
• The Chosen Many: Some wolves suspect that they are the family that the prophecy foretells.
• Dwindling Party: They are cursed by Morgra to slowly die. The curse was fake, but nearly all of them do end up dead.

Larka

• All-Loving Hero
• Animal Eye Spy: Part of her power.
• Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Kar sees her in a dream after her death, suggesting this.
• Bad Powers, Good People: She has the Sight, which is generally seen as evil, but is a good wolf and the Sight was never "evil" or "good" anyway.
• Big Damn Heroes: Appears in time to save Huttser and Palla from being forced to kill each other.
• Break the Cutie: Starts out as an adorably curious cub, but then she loses nearly all of her family, not to mention how It Sucks to Be the Chosen One.
• Cain and Abel: She ends up having to confront Fell, but she convinces him to join him.
• Care-Bear Stare: Projects her positive emotions to get Fell on her side again.
• Childhood Friend Romance: With Kar.
• The Chosen One: Though the prophecy only mentions her vaguely as an omen foretelling the man-vargs's birth, she turns out to be one of the most powerful users of the Sight, part of the family mentioned in the prophecy and the wolf who ends up activating the vision instead of Morgra.
• Constantly Curious: As a cub.
• Disney Death: Subverted. She seemingly returns in the final chapter, but it turns out to actually be Slavka.
• Disney Villain Death: She dies by falling off a collapsing bridge.
• Honor Before Reason: Why she doesn't let Skart kill Kraar after promising him he would live and refuses to kill Morgra when she's defenseless.
• Identical Stranger: She looks nearly identical to Slavka.
• It Sucks to Be the Chosen One: She thinks this.
• Power Trio: With Fell and Kar.
• The Promise: Makes one to always stay with Kar and Fell.
• Sole Survivor: By the time she finds Tsarr and Skart she believes she's the only survivor of her pack, though it turns out that Huttser, Palla, Kar, and Fell as still alive.
• Stupid Sacrifice: She has a premonition of her death, but is willing to die anyway to stop Morgra... except that she later finds out that it is possible to change the future, and decides at the last minute to jump out of the way as the bridge that she and Morgra are standing on collapses but she is a second too late.

Kar

• Big Damn Heroes: He finally reunites with Larka, just in time to stop her from being trapped in the Red Meadow forever.
• Childhood Friend Romance: With Larka.
• Despair Event Horizon: After being stranded from his family, completely alone, and nearly dead, in the middle of a land ravaged by war and possibly nearing the apocalypse, he just retreats into his den and refuses entrance to anyone.
• Disney Death: He seemingly dies in a fire which separates him from Larka, but Larka finds out he's alive due to her powers.
• Go Mad from the Isolation: Being alone is a big part of his brief Sanity Slippage near the start of the third part.
• Lovable Coward: His characterization as a cub.
• Power Trio: With Larka and Fell.
• The Promise: Makes one to always stay with Larka and Fell. More than either of the other two, he keeps it.
• Sanity Slippage: Near the start of part 3.

Fell

• Anti Anti Christ: He is actually Wolfsbane, the wolves' equivalent of Satan, but manages to overcome his evil until Morgra brainwashes him to be her servant, and even then he ends up fighting on Larka's side in the end.
• Barred from the Afterlife: He is believed to have drowned, which means this according to wolves' beliefs. This means that Larka is so happily surprised to see him in the Red Meadow that she forgets her instructions and is nearly trapped there. Though it turns out that he's actually alive, because the Red Meadow isn't a real afterlife but just made of memories of the deceased.
• Cain and Abel: He ends up fighting Larka, but Larka convinces him to make a Heel–Face Turn.
• The Chosen Wannabe: He loves the idea of having powers like Larka does.
• Dark Is Not Evil: He's a black wolf who is also Wolfbane himself, but he ends up not being a villain in the end.
• Dark Magical Girl: A Rare Male Example. He is Morgra's dragon, who has powers that are the dark equivalent of the protagonists and is motivated by his deep loneliness, but he ends up joining Larka at the end.
• Dead Guy Junior: He is named after Huttser's father.
• Decoy Protagonist: He gets set up as the Deuteragonist, but then he is seemingly killed at the end of the first part.
• The Dragon: To Morgra.
• Disney Death: He seemingly dies at the end of the first part, but is rescued by Morgra.
• Green-Eyed Monster: He is jealous of Larka's powers and Kar's relationship with her.
• Jerkass: He is often cruel to Kar and Larka due to his jealousy.
• Power Trio: With Larka and Kar.
• The Promise: Makes one with Kar and Larka to always stay with them.
• Too Happy to Live: He drowns just after it seems he has regained a good relationship with his parents, sister and Kar, and only walks on thin ice because he's distracted with how beautiful the stars are.

Huttser:

• Agent Scully: He doesn't believe that the Sight exists, and always tries to avoid superstitions.
• Deuteragonist: He and Palla's character arc is nearly as important to the story as Larka's.
• Kill the Ones You Love: He tries to kill Palla to spare her a worse death for winning the battle Slavka prepares for them, but Larka intervenes.
• The Leader: Of the pack, along with Palla.

Palla:

• All-Loving Hero: It is part of why Tsinga thinks she is necessary to fulfill the prophecy.
• Cain and Abel: She's Morgra's half sister.
• The Chosen One: According to Tsinga, she is supposed to activate the vision instead of Morgra, because she knows what it is like to be a mother.
• Deuteragonist: She and Huttser's character arc is nearly as important to the story as Larka's.
• Heroic BSoD: After She finds out what truly happened to Fell.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Morgra is always trying to corrupt her to make the prophecy not work for her, but she refuses to feel hatred. Morgra finally gets a reaction from Palla when she tells her what she did to her son.
• Kill the Ones You Love: She tries to kill Huttser to spare him a worse death for winning the battle Slavka prepares for them, but Larka intervenes.
• The Leader: Of the pack, along with Huttser.
• Obi-Wan Moment: After Kraar traps her and Huttser to find a sacrifice, she decides to be a willing sacrifice to Morgra.

Bran (wolf)

• Butt-Monkey: Tends to be mocked as the Sikla.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: The Balkar torture him for information, but he refuses to talk, and dies from his injuries.
• Heroic Sacrifice

Brassa

• The Atoner: She is trying to atone for not accepting Morgra, leading to her turning to villainy, and not being there to see Tsinga.
• The Mentor
• Mentor Occupational Hazard
• Secretly Dying: She doesn't tell the other wolves she's dying until after they work out a plan for how they should deal with Larka having the Sight.

Kipcha

• Beta Couple: With Khaz, quite literally.
• Death by Despair: She could have escaped her death, but gives up fighting due to her despair at knowing her cubs will be born without Khaz and guilt at her jealousy about Larka.
• Disney Villain Death: She dies from falling from an Inevitable Waterfall.
• Green-Eyed Monster: She is jealous of Larka and at one point considers killing her, though she regrets it.

Khaz:

• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: He is impaled on a hunting trap, leading to his death.
• Number Two: He's the highest ranked after Huttser and Palla themselves.

Skop:

• Put on a Bus: He leaves the pack to join the Free Wolves.
• Back for the Dead: He next shows up slowly dying from an infected wound, and convinces Kar to gain motivation in life again.

Other Users of the Sight and their allies

Morgra:

• Accidental Murder: Her accidentally killing a cub sets off her Start of Darkness.
• Animal Eye Spy: As part of her power. As a result, she uses ravens as her spies.
• Bad Powers, Bad People: She has the Sight, which is generally seen as evil, and uses it in evil ways though the Sight in fact is a prt of nature and does not have a moral alignment.
• Big Bad
• Create Your Own Villain: The main pack is part of why she turns to villainy, since she would have tried to put aside her ways if they had accepted her.
• Disney Villain Death: She dies by falling from a collapsed bridge.
• The Dreaded: Most packs are horrified of her and her powers, and the book starts with Huttser and Palla's pack fleeing them.
• Evil Counterpart: To Larka, Palla and Tsarr.
• Evil Matriarch: Intentionally invokes this even though she can't have cubs, because the prophecy requires a mother.
• Evil Versus Evil: When fighting against Slavka.
• Get It Over With: She begs Larka to kill her after she activates the vision instead of her, but she refuses.
• Klingon Promotion: She becomes leader of the Balkar by killing Tratto.
• Sorcerous Overlord: She uses the Sight to rule over the Balkar.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: Her motivation. No one ever forgives her for killing a cub even though she meant to save it, so she actually becomes a villain who Would Hurt a Child.
• What Is Evil?: Responds this way whenever Huttser calls her evil.
• Would Hurt a Child: She's fine with killing cubs to get her way. In fact, killing a cub was the reason she was exiled though she didn't mean to.

Kraar:

• Arch-Enemy: Of Skart who eventually kills him.
• Butt-Monkey: Gets shouted at a lot by Skart and mostly mocked.
• Creepy Crows
• Evil Counterpart: To Skart.

Skart:

• Arch-Enemy: Of Kraar.
• I Lied: He decides to kill Kraar after getting the information he needs from him, despite his promise that he would let him go, but Larka intervenes.
• Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Tortures Kraar to get information about Morgra's plans with the promise that he will live. He decides to kill him anyway, but Larka stops him.
• The Mentor: To Larka.
• Noble Bird of Prey
• Politically Incorrect Hero: He hates ravens, which Larka calls him out on.

Tsarr:

• Animal Eye Spy: Due to the Sight. He uses it with his bird parter, Skart.
• Big Good
• The Mentor
  • Mentor Occupational Hazard
• Minor Major Character: He is The Mentor to Larka, but Skart gets more scenes actually teaching her and he has comparatively fewer appearances.

Tsinga:

• Blind Seer
• The Dreaded
• The Mentor: To Tsarr and Morgra.

Bran (human):

• The Chosen One: Is more important in the prophecy than anyone, including Larka.
• Dead Guy Junior: He's named after Bran the wolf.
• Improbable Infant Survival: He survives a lot despite his young age.
• Raised by Wolves: He's literally a human baby who is raised by wolves.

Jarla

The Free Wolves

Slavka

• Evil Versus Evil: In her fight against Morgra.
• Flat-Earth Atheist: She refuses to believe in the Sight and feels betrayed by Huttser when he turns out to be Larka's father.
• Freudian Excuse: Her mate and cubs were killed by humans, which led her to becoming a very extreme Rebel Leader.
• Knight Templar
• Identical Stranger: She looks exactly like Larka.
• Iron Lady
• Offing the Offspring: She kills her pups to protect them from the humans
• Rebel Leader: Leads the wolves rebelling against Morgra.
• The Stoic: Most of the time, she shows little emotion.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: She wants to stop Morgra and create better world for wolves, but she's also somewhat insane and very ruthless in stopping whatever she feels shouldn't be part of that world, even the main characters.

Gart

• Face Death with Dignity: When he's about to be killed by Larka, though she spares him.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist

Keeka:

• Genki Girl
• Those Two Girls: With Karma.

Karma

• Those Two Girls: With Keeka.

Rar