The Grimmcroft Series (Darth Wiki)/Characters

Characters of The Grimmcroft Series.

All Grimmcrofts

 * Badass: If they weren't, they would die.
 * Blue Blood: All Grimmcrofts are descended from nobility, and enjoy elevated rank above most other commoners and magician houses, even those not directly in line for the title, or not having titles of their own.
 * The Dark Arts: All Grimmagisters practice the taboo Grimmagister Arts by law. These arts include Necromancy, Black Magic, Summoning and taking on dark spirits and beings as servants, Blood Magic, and anything that has to do with trying to attain Immortality, which is taboo basically because all theoretical means to do so require something of the former.
 * Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: A characteristic of Ghyrish people, rather than Grimmcrofts specifically, but considering their origins are Ghyrish and that they frequently marry other Ghyrish people, many of them have this trait, especially in the main line.
 * Gentleman Wizard: All of them are this, the ladies are even a female equivalent.
 * Kissing Cousins: Played with. Females sometimes marry within the family to keep their last names Grimmcroft and therefore be able to continue to perform as Grimmagisters. Otherwise however, they are much more likely to marry outside their class than other magicians or nobility, valuing skill in magician's arts, rather then family, blood, wealth or connections. Mostly because if they didn't, they'd have a lot of dead wives on their hands.
 * Nobles Who Actually Do Something: Their nobility is actually incumbent upon them doing things.
 * The Big Guy: It's another trait of ghyrish folk, so they tend to be much taller than the average Rozarian.

Jackdaw "Jack" Grimmcroft
A Grimmagister and the Grimcount and heir to the Grimgravate, which he ascends to upon his Father's unexpected death. An Ill Boy most of his life, he's lived a great deal in isolation and has a flat affect and his social skills could use some work. Three years before the beginning of the story is wife was killed while carrying out grimmagister duties.


 * Dead Little Sister: His first wife, Jenesis, KIA during a case.
 * The Dreaded: Despite what his family and the nobility think, he has a formidable reputation among malificers as one of the worst Grimmagisters to cross.
 * Handicapped Badass: Is extremely badass, but his activities are also limited because of his illness.
 * Friendless Background: Because he was always Ill and indoors, he didn't have many friends who weren't family or servants as a child.
 * Ice King: Definitely comes off as this. His defrosting is rather limited, in the sense that he doesn't get any less stoic but it does happen a bit.
 * Ill Boy: Suffers from chronic illness which is probably severe asthma in a world where medicine isn't developed enough to help him. He wheezes and has coughing fits if forced to run for long periods of time, has difficulty sleeping without having coughing attacks.
 * It's All My Fault: Sees his wife's death as his fault.
 * Photographic Memory: he has a very good memory and it shows, which automatically makes any claim he might make that he, say, forgot someone's name, as Blatant Lies. Probably to insult you.
 * Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: Stuck inside with nothing else to do because he was an Ill Boy, his grandmother trained him in Thaumaturgy from a very young age (which is really the only way to be good at it). As such he has a rediculously strong Will and is an amazing Thaumaturgist (magic which relies on direct Reality Warping, without the aid of rituals or talismans), giving him an extreme advantage in speed, power, versatility and ability to react in magical duels. This however has made it somewhat more difficult to do magic with rituals (which you still need to do a lot of the more complicated magic), and isolation hasn't made him the most friendly individual.
 * The Stoic: Almost to the point of seemingly like an Emotionless Boy
 * Stoic Spectacles, Specs of Awesome, Smart People Wear Glasses: He wears glasses. They have a tendency to turn into Scary Shiny Glasses when he's pissed off.
 * Tranquil Fury: It goes with being stoic.
 * Verbal Tic: He has a thick Ghyrish accent, so he's prone to saying Enm all the time, which is the catchall sound Ghyrish use to mean anything from "Wait, I'm thinking," ""Ah, I see," and "I have nothing to say," and "You are such an idiot that words cannot even communicate your level of retardedness, but I'm nice enough not to tell you directly."
 * Widower Hero: see Dead Little Sister.

Roan
Jack's freshly acquired Leithe servant. Roan isn't his real name but is actually the name of the person whose corpse he currently inhabits. Jack caught and bonded him when he attended the funeral of a local Lord. His son and heir (Roan) turned out to be a former schoolmate of Jack's from University, so Jack recognized immediately that he wasn't acting himself (as well as that he's suddenly become right-handed) and determined he had been taken by a Leithe, one of the entities grimmagisters typically hunted. Instead of dispatching him, Jack bonded him instead as a servant.


 * Badass Abnormal: Don't screw with this guy.
 * Bond Creature: sort of, to Jack.
 * Ho Yay: With Jack, as he starts to get used to and empathize with his Master. Also one of the things that leads us to think he might not have been a male to start with, or at least times using female bodies might have affected him.
 * Humanoid Abomination
 * Fiery Redhead: His current body, and his personality rather matches it.
 * Mysterious Past: We don't know anything of what he originally was, or how old he is, though presumably over a few hundred years. He might not even have originally been male.
 * Our Liches Are Different: What he is, is very similar to a Lich, just with Body Snatching involved. He's taken many different bodies when the one he was using started to show signs of being affected by his undead spirit, or taking a different one was advantageous or needful because Grimmagisters were getting suspicious.
 * Servile Snarker: He hates being tied to Jack, and takes every opportunity to say something caustic about it.
 * Smug Snake: Extremely arrogant and full of his own superiority. It usually hinders him more than anything else.
 * Tsundere: turns into this as he gets used to Jack.
 * Upperclass Twit: Generally acts like one, he's a complete ass.

Cynthia Grimmcroft
Jack's younger sister, she isn't yet old enough to act as a grimmagister in an official capacity, but that doesn't stop her from trying to anyway. Says she'll never marry, so she can remain a grimmagister. It's been suggested she marry one of her distant cousins her age, Silas Grimmcroft, but she claims to hate him, even though she can't really provide a good reason.


 * Annoying Younger Sibling: Has been known to step into this on occasion, especially when trying to baby or hassle her older brother as if she were his mother.
 * The Ingenue: She doesn't realize it, but this is actually what she is a lot of the time. She can be pretty naive and optimistic, for a grimmagister.
 * Noblewoman's Laugh: She has one.
 * Maiden Aunt: Aspires to be this.
 * Raven Hair, Ivory Skin
 * Silk Hiding Steel: Seems like a Proper Lady, but she's really not that proper, underneath it all.
 * Socialite: She excels at intrigue and wading through politics.
 * Summon Magic: The school of magic she ascribes to mostly revolves around this.

Spirrow Grimmcroft
Jack's great uncle and The Lord Arch Grimmagister, meaning he's the elected, administrative head of the Grimmagisters, rather than the government representative and public face. He is a


 * Cool Old Guy
 * Eccentric Mentor
 * Reasonable Authority Figure

Clairence "Claire" Grimmcroft
Jack's cousin, he's a Grimmagitser in Shelby, of the Blessem Prefecture, so they don't see each other much, but they went to University together and he can be considered Jack's best friend.


 * Amulet of Concentrated Awesome: He makes them, and then uses them to kick ass.
 * Badass
 * Beware the Nice Ones: He's often underestimated because he is very nice and doesn't really seem like a Grimmagister. As many malifers will yell you, this is a big mistake.

Dionna Grimmcroft
Claire's wife, she comes from a prominent family of Vertwitches.


 * Lady of Black Magic: She is very much a witchy-archetype.
 * Proper Lady: Very much so.

Rheynard "Rhey" Grimmcroft

 * Bunny Ears Lawyer: Way more competent than he seems.
 * Deconfirmed Bachelor: He doesn't necessarily denounce marriage or anything, but he's an unrepentant bachelor nonetheless.
 * Gentleman Snarker
 * Magical Incantation: He ascribes to a school of magic that uses these.
 * Upper Class Wit: He's the king of witty, sarcastic one liners.
 * Sophisticated As Hell: Loves this.

Aliscott Grimmcroft

 * Beleaguered Assistant: The only other grimmagister who went with Rhey to Cairum and the person who has to put up with his eccentricities.
 * Naive Newcomer: He's still rather new to grimmagistering, and he really wasn't expecting his new superior to be so outlandish.
 * The Watson: Acts as this a lot of the time.

Lafaye Grimmcroft

 * Maiden Aunt

Hildebryn Gylldenfeldt
The daughter of a Dwytan (a rank in Rozaria held over from the Valkyran Republic and equivalent to a Rozarian Duke) who is an accomplished alchemist and practitioner.


 * Alchemy Is Magic: And she uses it.
 * Always Identical Twins: Averted. She and her sister are fraternal twins, but they do look very similar to each other due to Strong Family Resemblance.
 * Cleopatra Nose: She has a sharp, hawkish nose, from her Valkyran heritage.
 * Gadgeteer Genius: She tinkers.
 * Hair of Gold: She has white-blond hair.
 * Quirky Curls: She has Curlyish hair, the main distinguishing feature she has from her sister.
 * Strange Girl: Often qualifies as this.

Branwhitt Gylldenfeldt
Hildrebryn's twin and the heir to the Dwyttany.


 * Cleopatra Nose: Like her sister.
 * Hair of Gold: She has white-blond hair, like her sister.
 * The Klutz: There's a very good reason she isn't a practitioner, she's ridiculously danger prone. It's really for the best that she turned to politics instead.
 * Proper Lady: In contrast to her sister who is a bit eccentric. Still, they get along very well.
 * Socialite

Zanatus Thana

 * Big Brother Mentor

Stein Leblanc

 * Deadly Doctor