Action Girl: Kara is a Viking woman and a sorceress.It turns out, he really did do all the things people said he did at Aral Pass he's a berserker, and has no memory of doing any actual fighting. Jalan recalls it as him running away from one battle, accidentally running straight into another, and then running and flailing wildly until it was all over.

In a greater sense, he is known back home as the Hero of Aral Pass because of his actions during the battle there.

Accidental Hero: Jalan's act of cowardice are often interpreted by others as acts of heroism, which he capitalizes on.

The trap Jalan escaped has made both of them pieces in a much larger game. Neither of them is happy about being magically bound to the other, and the farther they travel, the more things come to light about an army of the undead, and the state of the world, that Jalan can no longer safely ignore. Snorri is determined to rescue his wife and son in the north, and mistaking Jalan for an honorable sort, takes him along. Jalan likely would have continued to not amount to anything if he hadn't escaped a deadly trap set by the Silent Sister, with the result magically tying him to the Norse warrior Snorri.

He can also see the Silent Sister, a creepy old woman who serves as the invisible advisor to Jalan's grandmother, the Red Queen herself, although he likes to pretend the Silent Sister isn't there. Prince Jalan is tenth in line to the throne, and is content to gamble, womanize, and laze about without ambition or goals. The Red Queen's War is a fantasy trilogy by Mark Lawrence, the author of the Broken Empire Trilogy the plots of both trilogies take place more or less concurrently.

The Wheel of Osheim by Mark Lawrence