The History of the Runestaff/Characters

Dorian Hawkmoon

 * The Chosen One: It does at least suck somewhat less for this aspect of the Eternal Champion.
 * Cosmic Plaything: Dorian gets a bit fed up with artifact hunting by The Sword of the Dawn.
 * Heroic BSOD: He starts out having been defeated and taken prisoner by Granbretan.
 * Determinator: Told you he got better.

Count Brass

 * Heroic Neutral: It doesn't even last halfway through the first book.
 * Neutral No Longer
 * Royals Who Actually Do Something

Bowgentle

 * Martial Pacifist: He would be a Warrior Poet but he's more poet than warrior.
 * Meaningful Name
 * The Medic

Yisselda

 * Action Girl: Takes up arms alongside her father and husband in The Runestaff. While pregnant yet!
 * Brainwashed and Crazy: During The Mad God's Amulet.
 * Heroes Want Redheads: And strawberry blondes, too.

Oladahn

 * The Archer
 * Half-Human Hybrid: Half giant-- oddly enough, this makes him shorter than most men (and very furry).
 * Non-Human Sidekick

Baron Meliadus

 * The Big Bad Wolf: His mask definitely evokes this.
 * If I Can't Have You: Yisselda's refusal leads to...
 * Revenge Before Reason: To the point of regicide.
 * Wicked Cultured: At first.

Huillam d'Averc

 * Agent Peacock / The Dandy
 * The Casanova: He does quite a good job on Flana (see below) and in turn becomes...
 * Ladykiller in Love
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Defector From Decadence, though for purely self-serving reasons. A little different in that he is not a Granbretanian born, but a Frenchman who threw his lot in with them even before they took his nation.
 * Incurable Cough of Death: Subverted
 * Wild Card

The Knight in Jet and Gold

 * Enigmatic Empowering Entity: Though he doesn't so much give Dorian items of power as points him to where to find them.
 * The Faceless
 * Knight Errant: Duh.

Flana Mikosevaar

 * The Hedonist: Until her...
 * Sex Face Turn
 * Unexpected Successor: Meliadus (her ex-husband) thinks if he sets her up as Queen-Emperor, he can set things right (and, coincidentally, rule through her). It doesn't work.
 * The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask: After  she seems resigned to being this. Ironically, one of her first orders is to dismantle the Granbretanian mask-wearing system.