Characters from The Traitor Son Cycle.
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The Company
The Red Knight
Gabriel Moderatus Muriens
The protagonist of the story, the captain of his mercenary band. He kept his real identity a secret and simply goes by The Red Knight. Hired by an abbess to protect her convent from monsters.- The Ace: The Red Knight is a brilliant schemer, a great warrior, and a powerful mage.
- The Captain: Of his own mercenary band.
- Child by Rape: The Red Knight is conceived by the king of Alba’s rape of his sister.
- Heroic Bastard: Illegitimate son of Ghause Muriens and her brother, the king of Alba.
- King Incognito: Heir to the Earldom of Westwall.
- Royal Bastard: He's the bastard child of the King of Alba and his sister, by the way of rape.
Bad Tom
Ser Thomas Lachlan
- The Big Guy: he’s 6’5” and is the company best fighter
- Blood Knight: He’s love nothing more than a good fight
- The Lancer: Before Michael is knighted and takes up the role while Tom has to become "The Drover", Bad Tom was the Red Knight's right-hand man.
Sauce
Ser Alison Graves
- Action Girl: One of the best fighter in the company and is actually one of the founding members of the company (the Red Knight and Sir Jehannes are the others).
- Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Was a former prostitue in Morea, but never let that sink her spirits or keep her from being one of the kinder if snarkier members of the company.
- Male Might, Female Finesse: She's pretty strong physically but she's not the muscle that Bad Tom is. She was a former acrobat before taking up prostitution and she still retains her quickness from those days.
The Kingdom of Alba
The King
The king of Alba at the start of the series.
- Curse: Cursed with Infertility for raping his own sister.
- Luke, You Are My Father: The Red Knight revealed he is his son at the end of the first book.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": His real name is never given.
The Queen
Gavin
Galle
Jean de Vrailly
Jean de Vrailly, Captal de Ruth
- Ax-Crazy: Proudly admits to having slaughtered countless peasants who dared to defy him.
- Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: He’s a very beautiful man. He’s also probably the biggest jerkass in the series.
- Kick the Dog: His introduction has him assaulting a knight in an inn and murder his squire.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: The third book portray him in a much more sympathetic light than before. He also started to suspect his “angel” identity and motive. He’s killed soon after.
- World's Best Warrior: He believes he’s the greatest knight in the world.
- Villainous Valour: As bad as he is, he follows a very strict code of honor.
The Empire of Morea
The Emperor
- Brainless Beauty: Is as clueless as he’s beautiful.
- Stupid Good: He’s a very kind-hearted man. Unfortunately, he’s also incredibly naive and gullible.
- World’s Most Beautiful Man: A product from the intermarriage of beautiful princes and princesses from different countries around the world.
Princess Irene
- Ambition Is Evil: Wants to be Empress so bad that she plotted to have her father and the Red Knight murdered.
- Arranged Marriage: Invoke this with the Red Knight.
- World's Most Beautiful Woman: A straighter example than her father.
Powers
Ash
- Big Bad: Of the series as a whole.
- A God Am I: He considered himself a god. Given his powers and the fact that other dragons also considered as such by humans. He and his kind are probably the closest things to gods the series has.
- Hero Killer: A good chunk of the named characters (such as Gelfred, Mag the Seamstress and Wilful Murder) in the series are killed by Ash, whether personally or by his magical plague.
- Light Is Not Good: As Jean de Vrailly’s angel
Lot
Lot, The Wyrm of Erch, Master Smythe
- Big Good: Given that he’s a fellow dragon to Ash and thus, one of the very few beings who could fight him head-on.
Tar
Outwaller's goddess and Lot's mother
- Big Good: The only being capable of chasing away Ash.
- Eldritch Abomination: The characters appendix implies she might be something even more powerful than dragons.
- Fertile Feet: Plants grow in her present, even in a dungeon.
