Characters in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness
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This is a list of characters in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series by Michelle Paver
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[edit] Main characters
[edit] Torak
The main character of the book, he is a Spirit Walker and he can talk to wolves. He has close ties with the raven clan but comes from the secretive wolf clan. His mother (of the red deer clan and related with the seal clan) died when he was very young and his father died when he was 12 in the claws of an elemental demon trapped by the soul eaters inside a bear's body. In Outcast Torak finds out that he is clanless and is cast out because of the soul eater tattoo; he then cuts it out, after he is made to spirit walk into an elk and attack Renn.
Torak's can be somewhat immature and hot headed, and when he's angry, he does not think though his action. But for all his faults he is protective for the people he cares about (i.e Wolf, Renn and Fin-Kedinn) He also has many wolfish qualities, such as a distinct grin that he rarely gives and an otherworldly sense of things. He also fights like a wolf and howls out his feelings. His most well know physical attributes are a long scar stretching down his left cheekbone, cutting directly through his clan tattoo. He, after being in Outcast, now has a scar on his chest from where he cut out the soul eater mark. He originally, at the start of outcast had a black ring tatooed on his forehead to symbolise him being an outcast. Fin-Kedinn changed it into a divided circle, one for each section of the clans, and coloured in blue (Sea clans), green (Forest clans), red (Mountain clans) and white (Ice clans). This is to show that he belongs to all the clans. Torak is very good at tracking, he is also a spiritwalker (Your souls can move from body to body and control them)
[edit] Renn
Torak's best friend, her uncle is Fin-Kedinn, the leader of the raven clan, she is also friends with (initially mistrustful) Wolf and has helped Torak many times. At first she mistrusted the young hunter, but they soon became friends in their travels in Wolf Brother. Renn's mother is Seshru the Viper mage. Although she does not care for her mother she has the mother's talent for mage craft, but does not like using it. Renn's character is sharp and straight forward, she has lots of secrets and is good at hiding them. She thinks of Torak as her only friend (apart from Wolf and Bale). She always thinks situations over carefully and knows a lot of things, this often makes her and Torak argue.
[edit] Wolf
Torak's pack-brother, a young wolf that helped Torak in Wolf Brother and Spirit Walker, he is a 'pack brother' with Torak, and is friends with Renn, his parents and brothers were killed by a flood and he was the only one to survive. One of his favorite foods is Lingonberries. Unlike other wolves, he has only most of his tail (He's missing 1 or 2 inches) from where it became infected and Torak had to cut it off. Wolf has a strong pack relationship with Torak, calling him Tall Tailless and respecting him as the lead wolf. He also refers humans as "taillesses'", fire as "the bright beast that bites hot", and the sky as "the up" and he calls creeks "fast wets" and the sun is "the bright eye"and snow is "the soft cold wet" and the fireopal "the bright beast that bites cold". When wolf was a cub Torak (his pack-brother) used to play a game with him called "hunt the lemming" and that has been his favorite game since.
[edit] Fin-Kedinn
The leader of the Raven clan, knew that Torak's uncle and Torak's father were Soul Eaters. He is a vital person to Torak. Wolf respects this leader, as Fin-Kedinn sleeps like a wolf. In Outcast, he fosters Torak after outcasting him and he told Torak that he was in love with his mother.
[edit] The Soul Eaters
Powerful and fearsome beings; they want complete control of the forest, once known as the Healers or the Mages, since each one was a Mage from his/her clan, only seven are known. Each Soul Eater has a characteristic that represents their clan, e.g. The Viper Mage has the tongue of the viper, and so on. Torak's father was a Soul Eater until they turned evil. Their original name was the Healers but when they turned evil they renamed themselves so they could appear terrifying to others.
[edit] Raven clan
[edit] Hord
Is Renn's brother. He was strong,but also cowardly and he is very much an attention seeker, who is also too ambitious for his own good. He also did not get on with Torak because he wanted to kill Torak and bring Torak's heart's blood to the Mountain of the World Spirit in "Wolf Brother" - a quality that lead to an unlucky fate. ( He was killed by the bear in Wolf Brother)
[edit] Seal clan
[edit] Bale
A Seal clan boy, who is an expert skinboater, and Torak's bone kin, first appearance in Spirit Walker. He becomes friends with Renn, although he believes women should not hunt, they should stay back at camp.
[edit] Wolf clan
[edit] Maheegun
The Wolf clan leader, the whites of his eyes are dyed yellow, giving him a spooky appearance. He seems ashamed of Torak's Father. The night when everyone in the forest comes together to discuss about Torak. (having the soul eater tattoo on his chest, the three pronged fork) They talk about that he broke the clan law and must be outcast unless his clan (wolf) comes to 'vouch for him' Maheegun came with the clan looked at Torak and said something that will change his life for ever. He said 'His is the son of the Wolf mage, yes, but his is not wolf clan.' (quote for the fourth book, Outcast)
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