Do u have any headcanons/thoughts about the more minor characters in the story? Soren and claudia, corvus, lujanne ect?
I have many, and you can find a bunch of them by filtering/searching for "tdp headcanons" on my blog lol. But I'm always down to ramble about more.
Soren didn't have pneumonia, he had asthma, same as Damien. The magic used to heal him didn't just do that - it's part of why he's so effortlessly athletic too, as he has a nearly inhuman lung capacity and strength. Runaan noticed this when they fought in the castle, though he never clocked that it was due to dark magic - some people just have unusual advantages, after all, and Soren wasn't the mage responsible so it didn't taint him the way it did Viren.
Claudia was lying to Ezran about how her mother left, that's why her story doesn't match up with Viren's. I believe the creators have said she's autistic, but to me also autistic she reminds me a lot of a relative of mine who was what's called a clinical psychopath. Where autistic people often struggle with emotions and expression, in a clinical psychopath, the brain connections that allow someone to feel empathy/understand others' emotions are The Same as your own/basically the instinctive "morals" we have of avoiding others' distress just aren't there. Claudia is also a clinical psychopath - she has no trouble expressing her own emotions, sometimes to degrees that make others uncomfortable (autism), but she lacks the brain connection to have real empathy (psychopathy). Had she been raised by someone with a decent moral center, no one may have ever noticed the psychopathy because she would have just learned morals manually/by rote, but since she was raised by Viren, she never learned them.
Lujanne has had five husbands, but only two of them ever came to Katolis. Her first three all left her back in Xadia before she became the Guardian, because they just couldn't handle her lies and her idea of "pranks" anymore. She considered it not much of a loss if they didn't share her sense of humor in the long haul. The last two followed her to Katolis. One of them passed away there, and the other buckled under the grief where Lujanne did not. He is the only one Lujanne really has any regrets about, as she could not support him through that grief alone, and sent him back to what remained of his other family in the Silvergrove. He, like his other partner in Katolis, passed away of old age there without returning to her.
Corvus is more of a major character these days in the fic and his role is only going to get bigger after he returns, but you mentioned him specifically so: also autistic. He's not just reserved, he's just forgetting he has to make expressions for people to pick up on his emotions. Because it's an active action for him it's also part of why he's so good at tricking people, because he just puts on whatever face he needs to wear, and his own emotions don't get in his way that much. He's a bit claustrophobic and prefers to camp over sleeping indoors. He's a cuddler, despite this. Can sleep literally anywhere, like an elf, including in trees, but will tie himself down just to make sure he can't roll off (made that mistake in his teens, never again). His family is alive and well in the northern reaches of Katolis, he just has several siblings and wanted to get some space because as much as he loves them, his family is very . . . loud. And his house could be very overwhelming, even with the best of intentions. There's no hard feelings though, he adores them all; his oldest brother has children and he's a favorite uncle when he goes to visit because he always has stories of faraway places. He's well-traveled and has been to several other kingdoms as well. He met Amaya when he tangled with a beast he'd never encountered before and miscalculated; it was sheer luck that she and her patrol were passing through in time and she saved him. She adopted the 17 year old adventurer immediately and took him back to the barracks to patch him up and offered him a job as her personal tracker, which he's held ever since. You'll never catch him without gloves because he has texture issues, and he prefers to make his own food for the same reasons. Though he wouldn't use this word for it, he's demisexual.
Gren is a highborn member of the Katolian aristocracy. He's extremely well-educated and has visited all five human kingdoms; he was on track to become an ambassador for much of his young life. That was what his family expected of him. Personally, however, he always had a fascination with language - all forms of it - and was always partial to exploring that. Meeting Amaya was one of the most exciting things in the world for him, a woman who had made such a successful military career when her only form of language wasn't audio. He's gay, and his relationship with Amaya is classic mlm/wlw solidarity; there was a brief period in their early friendship where people wondered if they had feelings for each other, and Amaya joked "are you really best friends if there isn't a rumor you're dating?" and Gren replied "the only problem is we're both gay in the wrong direction". He was her friend before he was her interpreter, and that's actually how he got the job - he was bemoaning to her once again his family's expectation that he leave Katolis to travel as an ambassador, when he preferred to stay home, and she suggested that instead he stay to work for her. She needed an interpreter she trusted, and she knew he would not only relay her words and tone, but he was a skilled enough ambassador to be her vocal filter as well. She trusted no one else in the world to let them filter her. Gren gladly accepted, though the military is sometimes hard on him. He's more of a diplomat than a fighter (canon), and that's why he doesn't carry his own weapon unless he has to. Beyond that, he's relentlessly upbeat, because he had a childhood that was anything but, and at some point in his darkest moments as a teen he realized that if he didn't start trying to see the good in everything he was never going to get through. The lifestyle has carried him through a lot now. Despite his aristocratic, scholarly upbringing he's generally quite athletic and strong, though he wouldn't consider himself particularly remarkable as a soldier.
Pyrah the dragon will be showing up later too. She's one of the Dragon Queen's handmaidens, essentially, though I'm still debating whether dragons would use that particular word. She came to Katolis searching for some kind of news to explain the arrow Runaan sent the night of the king's death, why there was only one ribbon and where they all were, and had no intention of doing anything but reconnaissance on her own people until Soren shot at her. Like all dragons, while she can think and reason to a degree, she's also very much still a lizard (just a sapient one) and she reacted as a threatened animal would when attacked. She was present when Runaan received the mission from Zubeia, and she'll recognize him - and he will recognize her - when she appears in Different Path Taken.
Oh, also, Idk if she'll show up in any meaningful way in Different Path Taken, but Queen Fareeda of Evenere has a trade deal with several factions of Tidebound elves and might in fact be in a relationship with one. Evenere is an island nation and she thought it advantageous to be on good terms with the people of the sea, and she succeeded where her predecessors had managed mostly a mutual respect and polite distance. Now it's not uncommon to see Tidebound elves walking the far beaches of Evenere without bothering to disguise themselves, though they avoid anywhere that Evenere regularly has visitors from other human nations.
