History Characters / DeliciousInDungeonOther

* {{Nepotism}}: He's a cousin of Dia and placed her with Kabru's party when she arrived wanting to see a dungeon.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler: Despite his oddities, he's the only one of the elven officers present who is grounded enough to realize that threatening Marcille with punishment or execution for what she did is completely self destructive, since she would then have nothing to lose in siding with the Lion. Instead he convinces the other canary squads that it's better to cooperate with Team Touden if it means possibly saving the world.]]
* SelfHarm: Supplementary material states that he wasn't allowed to be close to fire or any sort of sharp objects while recovering from [[spoiler:his time as a dungeon lord]], since he would sometimes try to hurt himself. Occasionally, he'd claw at himself with his bare hands and have to be restrained by his caretakers.
* SiblingRivalry: One-side towards his older brother. Mithrun used to look down on his unnamed brother who looks different from everyone in the family (leading to rumor that he was an illegitimate child), walks with a crutch, and had affection for the same girl as him. After Mithrun's experience as a dungeon master (and his discovery that he ''himself'' was the illegitimate child, not his brother), his brother was the one who arranged for him to be cared for, not their parents. Their relationship got better and Mithrun visits his brother once every few years--a pretty short interval for a race which lives in centuries.
* SwapTeleportation: Mithrun's favorite spell switches the locations of two objects. This can be used to extreme violent effect as he doesn't have to teleport anything ''whole'', and can in fact just tear things to pieces while swapping them around.

* {{Elfeminate}}: In one of Kui's "Daydream Hours", she [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/d5e98207bceadabc9c6029ceaf6fe685/166155ce98c8c838-31/s2048x3072/d0b92ba68ff7c6a911e0cf0588d2d18746d22df7.pnj drew the Canaries genderswapped]]. With how androgynous elves are, everyone's hair and facial features are unchanged and the way they dress is barely different (since the Canaries' uniform is largely unisex) - the most prominent dimorphism seems to be height-based, as female Lycion is less than a head taller than male Fleki.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: [[spoiler: She's easily able to tell that Chilchuck's cowardice for pursuing the Lunatic Magician and Falin isn't due to his concern for himself, but for his friends, and bluntly tells him to be honest with himself about it, shaking him deeply]].

When the Lunatic Magician sank the Golden Kingdom into the earth, he did so to protect its people from invasion, disease, and famine. A thousand years later, the citizens of the Golden Kingdom still live there, whiling away eternity in an unchanging idyll that the Lunatic Magician refuses to let them leave.

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: After 1000 years of monotony, their biggest challenge is to stay sane, so they eagerly ask Laios to free them from the curse of immortality the Lunatic Magician placed on them. Some have even tried to escape on their own, despite the risk of degenerating into insane ghosts.

[[folder:Thistle, the Lunatic Magician]]

A magician of legend, stated to be the one who sunk the entire kingdom into what is now the dungeon. The legend has it that whoever defeats him will have the underground kingdom as a reward. Long thought to be a myth, the Lunatic Magician has seemingly resurfaced, stirring dungeon denizens and local overground population alike.

* TheBeastmaster: The Red Dragon seems to be the Lunatic Magician's favored pet, having specifically ordered it to find and rescue [[TheLostLenore King Delgal]] at all costs. [[spoiler:[[FaceMonsterTurn The chimera Falin]] has become the Magician's new favorite pet (although he still thinks of her as the Red Dragon), having specifically commanded her to come up to the dungeon's first level to help the Magician fight off the Canaries.]]

* TheDreaded: To those aware of his existence, the Lunatic Magician is rightfully feared to be as powerful as he is insane. Even the Golden Kingdom survivors within the dungeon fear him because he would harm or kill them if he considers them a threat to the Kingdom itself. In fact, the Magician already killed those who helped King Delgal escape the dungeon.

* EvilFormerFriend: He and the former king Delgal were like brothers a thousand years ago, and that affection lingerts as an unhinged devotion to him on Thistle's part. But after those thousand years, Delgal's last words before his death were begging anyone to defeat the "Lunatic Magician".

* IRejectYourReality: When Mithrun tells him in a cold matter-of-fact tone that the Golden Kingdom is truly finished and King Delgal has been DeadAllAlong, the Lunatic Magician goes into a violent state of denial, complete with a MadnessMantra of "It's a lie. It's a lie! IT'S A LIIIEEE!!!"

* LivingLegend: As mentioned above, the Lunatic Magician is an entity of legend and many don't even think he exists. Too bad he very much does.

* PersonOfMassDestruction: [[spoiler:The Lunatic Magician is a very powerful dark mage who also has total control over the titular dungeon, allowing him to shape it as he pleases and control the monsters there. Bad news for anyone inside the dungeon at the time.]]

* RealityWarper: He has complete control over the dungeon environment of the former Golden Kingdom, being able to alter its layout at will, repair any damage to it, control all the non-sentient monsters within and be aware of almost everything that happens within its confines. The Lunatic Magician has also cursed the entire dungeon with a twisted form of immortality so that spirits remained confined within. While this has enabled the resurrection of adventurers who die within the dungeon, it has also resulted in countless spirits [[FateWorseThanDeath unable to move on to the afterlife]]. The Magician also succeeded in creating a SmallSecludedWorld within the dungeon where the survivors of the Golden Kingdom live to this day, [[WhoWantsToLiveForever if unwillingly]].
* RedBaron: ''The Lunatic Magician''.

* TomTheDarkLord: While not quite as mundane, "Thistle" is an oddly... adorable name for a Dungeon Lord known as The Lunatic Magician.

The late king of the Golden Kingdom. He appeared at the mouth of the dungeon and promised his kingdom to anyone who could defeat the Lunatic Magician before crumbling into dust, kicking off the craze for DungeonCrawling on the Island. He and the Magician were raised together from childhood. After the Sorcerer cursed his people with immortality, he escaped and somehow managed to make it to the surface without losing his mind and becoming a wandering spirit.

* TheLostLenore: A platonic case for the Lunatic Magician, who is still looking for him years after he died.

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: King Delgal was [[spoiler: the only member of the Golden Kingdom who managed to escape, retain his sanity and reach the surface to get help for his people. He kicks off the plot by promising his kingdom to anyone who can defeat the Lunatic Magician, i.e. the BigBad who trapped him and his subjects in the first place.]]

The grandson of King Delgal and current ruler of the Golden Kingdom. Like the rest of his people, Yaad was cursed with immortality by the Lunatic Magician.

* OhCrap: Has this reaction when the Lunatic Magician appears and asks him just who he was just talking to, just after Team Touden leaves.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Very courteous and helpful towards Team Touden, even helping them on their quest to find the Lunatic Magician and suggesting how they could protect themselves.

* FantasticLivestock: They use monsters in the place of regular livestock -- minotaurs instead of cows, unicorns as draft horses, and so on. Laios and Senshi, naturally, are instantly captivated.

When the Lunatic Magician sank the Golden Kingdom into the earth, he did so to protect its people from invasion. A thousand years later, the citizens of the Golden Kingdom still live there, whiling away eternity in an unchanging idyll that the Lunatic Magician refuses to let them leave.

* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Most residents of the Golden Kingdom resemble teenagers, and have for centuries. It's said the older members of the kingdom (particularly those who remember the surface) attempted to escape long ago, only to lose their bodies and degrade into the ghosts encountered on upper levels.
* TheNeedless: Thistle's command over the dungeon extends to ensuring that the Golden Kingdom's residents don't age or need to eat -- which they stopped doing a long time ago. The only reason they continue to farm is to have something to do with their lives.

[[folder:In General]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: In an omake, he's genuinely disturbed when Kabru tells him the ancients experimented with death in the dungeon thoroughly and mainly by tested them on [[FantasticRacism short lived races]], including resurrection from dying of sickness and how exactly pregnant women and their unborn children react to resurrection.

* TokenEvilTeammate: Even among the criminal members of the Canaries, she's one of only two who committed homicide, albeit indirectly, by using her hypnosis powers to whammy someone into doing the deed, and she tried to compel Mithrun into harming Pattadol. Additionally she takes great pleasure in humiliating and verbally eviscerating Marcille [[spoiler: taunting her for being a half-tallman and not someone higher elf society would ever accept. However, when Kabru is trying to convince Mithrun that he can still live and find meaning in a world without demons to take {{Revenge}} on, Cithis waves off Lycion and urges Kabru to continue.]]

* AmbiguousGender: The Magician's gender was kept ambiguous for a while. Laios assumes they were female on their first encounter in Chapter 12, as do the orcs as they've [[{{Elfeminate}} only seen the Magician briefly]]. He's not corrected until Chapter 47 from Yaad.

* BadBoss: His total lack of empathy for anyone that isn't of the Golden Kingdom makes him this towards the monsters of the dungeon, and by the time the story starts he's often terrible to them as well. [[spoiler:His lack of understanding of dragons instincts and necessities leads to him constantly yelling at them, and keeping Falin malnourished since he doesn't understands that her chimera form presents unique difficulties for her to get the food she needs.]]
* BadPowersBadPeople: He uses TheDarkArts. He's also murderously insane. This wasn't originally the case, but being an ageless powerful child tasked with protecting a country and then having a demon nibble at his edges for a thousand years has taken a toll.

* BloodMagic: Mixing with SummonMagic, he can summon minions made out of blood. [[spoiler: It's the same kind of ancient blood magic that Marcille can use. Later on its actual nature is revealed in full, its ''demon'' magic, blood is just a conduit for it.]]

* TheDarkArts: The BloodMagic mentioned above is this. It's also far more powerful than anything else seen to that point, granting him a very tight hold on the dungeon monsters and structure as well as large, sheer firepower that is difficult to fight off. [[spoiler: Marcille has access to the same type of magic which gives the party the ability to actually fend off his attacks. However, the difference in experience and ability is staggering, with the Magician completely outmatching Marcille by a landslide, just barely allowing Team Touden to survive a short encounter. Better than nothing though.]]

* DeliriousMisidentification: [[spoiler:In his madness, he doesn't seem to be aware of Falin and the Red Dragon as separate entities; when he meets Falin after her revival, his reaction is to scold her for taking on an impractical form and reunites her with the remaining dragonflesh, molding her into a chimera simply to correct this. In a later omake Mithrun explains that a dungeon master who creates partially-human chimerae is far advanced in the MotiveDecay that comes from exposure to the demon - one who's just started and still retains some ethical standards wouldn't, but later they want to have strong monster minions and have difficulty communicating with them, and a human head solves that problem easily. However, Thistle seems even further gone from that, as Thistle notices his "Red Dragon"'s FacialDialogue and says she has been behaving oddly, but never once realizes the obvious cause.]]

* FantasticRacism: Derides [[spoiler:Marcille for being a half-elf, calling her an "inferior being" and assuming her goal is to make herself a "full" elf. However, it's averted in other ways as he's fiercely loyal to the royal family despite them all being tallmen, who many other elves will see as lesser.]]

* FreudianExcuse: Laios muses that ever since the previous king was killed in front of Thistle - as he saw in a painting - the elf has been fearful of the same happening to Delgal and tends to see anything that could be construed as a threat as some kind of assassin.

* MeaningfulName: King Freinag named him Thistle for the color of his eyes, similar to thistle flowers.

* PlayingWithFire: When he finds out Laios is from outside the paintings, he threatens to burn him to cinders.

* ProportionalAging: A page showing his relationship with Delgal shows Thistle cheerfully talking to a crawling infant, a child, a teenager, a young man, and finally a middle-aged King Delgal. Thistle doesn't look appreciably different over all that time and Delgal doesn't really ''regard'' him as a child but as a peer, but as an elf Thistle is at best equivalent to being in his early teens.

* AllThereInTheManual: According to the world guide he's the descendant of the lord who assassinated King Delgal's father a thousand years ago.
* BackForTheFinale: Not that he ''helps'', but he reacts to the dungeon being breached by freaking out. [[spoiler: Later, in the denoument, he and the Island's Shadow Lord are side by side, the only people protesting the idea of Laios becoming king.]]

* InconsistentSpelling: The official English release has his name spelled as "Sissel", while fan translations have gone with "Thistle". Confusingly, the Japanese version of the ''Adventurer's Bible'' uses Thistle in his English subheading, but the official English translation changes this to Sissel. In both versions, Delgal's father named him for his eyes, which were the same colour as thistle flowers; in Japanese he was straightforwardly named Thistle, but in English, Delgal's father contrived the name "Sissel" because it sounds like 'thistle'.

* MeaningfulName: Delgal's father named him Thistle for the color of his eyes, similar to thistle flowers.

'''Family:''' Father, mother\\

* HellishPupils: The irises of his eyes are oddly shaped like keyholes. The cover of the Magician's spellbook also prominently displays an eye with a keyhole-shaped iris in the center. [[spoiler: It represents the infinity symbol, which is the mark of the Mana being, aka the infinite demon creature which forms all mana in the world. The shape is its calling card.]]

* InconsistentSpelling: The official English release has his name spelled as "Sissel", while fan translations have gone with "Thistle". Confusingly, the Japanese version of the ''Adventurer's Bible'' uses Thistle in his English subheading, but the official English translation changes this to Sissel. In both versions, Delgal's father named him for his eyes, which were the same colour as thistle flowers; in Japanese he was straightforwardly named Thistle, but in English, Delgal contrived the name "Sissel" because it sounds like 'thistle'.