History Characters / KingdomUnderFireTheCrusaders

* FantasticRacism: Subverted. She does make fun of "apes" like other darkelves, but she actually finds them attractive.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: She likes to paint herself as the typical, boy-obsessed ditzy darkelf girl, but she's actually rather smart and perceptive.

* CatFight: With Lucretia, with the two constantly bickering and in ocassions willing to kill one another. Not surprisingly Lucretia is Morene's FinalBoss in ''Heroes''.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Morene characterization between ''The Crusaders'' and ''Heroes'' is more consistent than Urukabarr, but there is still a clear difference. In ''The Crusaders'', Morene as a supporting character is TheStoic and cold-hearted to contrast with Lucretia, but by ''Heroes'' as a main character a BloodKnight side to her is shown.

''Then prove you have the strengh to defend Hexter!''

* {{Jerkass}}

The first nation in Bersian history to unite the warring darkelf city-states. Founded by the Vampire King Valdemar, Vellond is a fast-growing multiracial hegemony held together by liberal use of the GenghisGambit. At the top, vampires and half-vampires serve as the ruling caste, providing high-ranked generals, officers, aristocrats and territorial '''Overseers'''. The matriarchal darkelves compose most of the population and fighting force, as well as the elite Yenicheri bodyguards. Orcs and ogres of Hexter are a recent acquisition, see Hexter Itself for details. There are also humans living in Vellond, perpetually in fear of their vampiric overlords. A notable Vellond subfaction are the '''Kaedes'''. This Anti-Vellond darkelf nationalist faction is intent on overthrowing the vampiric rulers of the realm and restoring darkelf self-governance. What they lack in power, they make up for in stealth operations and by supporting Vellond's enemies. In the end, the Vampire King's manipulations fail him and the Kaedes reach their goal as he is abandoned by more and more of his allies while Encablossa comes down on him, leading to his death and the dismantling of the Vellond Empire as we know it.

* AmazonBrigade: All darkelf troops. Darkelves seem to be naturally matriarchal. You will find the occasional male in their ranks, but rarely with a specific pattern to it. In many ways, it could be said that males with darkelves are of a similar role as an ActionGirl in a usually patriarchal army.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Used and subverted. Orcs, darkelves and half-vampires make up the state together, but they highly distrust each other and despite claiming unity between the races, the half-vampires are clearly the ruling caste, while the orcs are considered the lowest.

More of a geographical region than a nation, Hexter is inhabited by many independent tribes of orcs who are traditionally lead by ogres as their chiefs. Though feuding one another, the tribes are fairly united in their beliefs and traditions, until Vellond sees an oppurtunity to expand and begins "pacifying" Hexter by supporting some of the weaker tribes with war materials. The most notable of these tribes is the '''Darokha Tribe'''. This effectively splits Hexter into the Pro-Vellond and Anti-Vellond tribes. Besides the Darokha, the most notable Pro-Vellond faction turns out to be the otherwise independent-minded '''Jurai Tribe''', led by Chief Jubal, while the Anti-Vellond faction is led by Chief Urukubarr of the '''Gorzanik Tribe'''. Managing to get the Darokha to switch allegiance, Urukubarrs Anti-Vellond movement eventually succeeds in driving out most Vellondians. This in turn causes King Valdemar to send Regnier to pacify and regain the area, but Regnier has his own plans. Gaining the allegiance of Urukubarr and thus the whole movement of free orcs, as well as the support of Valdemar's own son Leinhart, he begins quietly consolidating power of his own until eventually breaking away from Vellond altogether, causing them to go to war with his newly-founded '''Hexter Commonwealth'''. After this point, very few orcs and ogres still serve Vellond, instead following Regnier wherever he chooses to lead them.

* ToServeMan

* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: After Encablossa is destroyed and Ecclesia is in ruins, Hironeiden takes control of Ecclesia with Gerald ruling over the southwest part. He rules for 20 years before retiring to the suburb of Esse, and later dies peacefully on the arms of his wife.]]

* ArbitraryScepticism

->'''Faction:''' Hironeiden
->'''Weapon:''' One-handed Sword

->'''Weapon:''' Dual Scimitars

* RedOniBlueOni: The Red to Morene's Blue.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: As with most Dark Elves in the game.
* Tsundere: A heavy type A.

* WorkingWithTheEx: With Rithrin.

-->''Their short lives limit what meaning they can draw from life itself, they cling to their little reality, Never really seeing it, their lives are over so quickly it's as if they try to fight back with passion alone...You wouldn't understand...not for a long time.''

->'''Faction:''' Hexter
->'''Weapon:''' Greatsword

* TheAce: Probably the strongest warrior in the world.

* HiddenDepths: His long lifespan has given him a great insight into the human mind.

''I am Leinhart, Prince of Vellond.''
->'''Faction:''' Vellond-> Hexter
->'''Weapon:''' Vampire saber

* JackOfAllStats
* UndyingLoyalty: Develops this towards Regnier.

->'''Faction:''' Ecclesia
->'''Weapon:''' Mace and shield

* MissionFromGod

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom

->'''Faction:''' Hironeiden
->'''Weapon:''' Warhammer

* HotBlooded: Has a serious problem in tactical judgement when his emotions get the better of him.

* RevengeBeforeReason: He goes kind of AxCrazy, after the Dark Forces sack his home town. He also goes after Regnier in the end of his campaign to avenge [[spoiler: General Hugh]], despite that being ''very'' bad idea, that [[spoiler: gets Rubpert killed]].

-->''Feel the wrath of the Divine!''
->'''Faction:''' Ecclesia
->'''Weapon:''' Warhammer and Mace

* ConvenientlyAnOrphan

* HotBlooded: She has a bad temper.

* SirSwearsALot

* ChildSoldier
* WellDoneSonGuy

* SuspiciousSimilarSubstitute: As a male dark elf leader of a group of archers that is in love with the playable dark elf protagonist, he is one to Rithrin from Lucretia's campaign.

--> ''Apes don't smell as bad as I thought!''

A half-vampire supervisor who serves King Valdermar. She was assigned to Lucretia's unit as an overseer.

--> ''Apes don't smell as bad as I thought!''

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* KilledOffScreen: [[spoiler: Her campaign ends with her forces dying at the hands of Encablossa monsters.]]

!!Cirith
''Apes don't smell as bad as I thought!''

+ Faction: Vellond (The Crusaders) Kaedes (Heroes

->'''Faction:''' Vellond
->'''Weapon:''' Katar

* TheDitz: It's actually a facde.

->'''Faction:''' Vellond
->'''Weapon:''' Arm Blades

* CatFight: With Lucretia.

->'''Faction:''' Hexter
->'''Weapon:''' Bare Hands

* BiggerBad

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite being a comedic relief whose advances are constantly rejected by Cirith and treated more or less as a nuisance, he's actually a fairly good soldier who pulls off a CrowningMomentOfAwesome late in the campaign.

-->''Now you will know a true vampire bloodlust!''

-->''Now you will a true vampire bloodlust!''

* ActionGirl: As an overseer, she worked with Lucretia on her campaign, and after [[spoiler: Rithrin death]], she took over her troops for her own campaign.

* ActionGirl

%%* FragileSpeedster: With a bit of JackOfAllStats.

* MightyGlacier

%%* FragileSpeedster

''Those apes...''

%%* FragileSpeedster: With a bit of JackOfAllStats

* TsunDere: A heavy type A.

%%* ActionGirl

%%* FragileSpeedster

''We're soldiers. We put our swords first and our hearts second.''

%%* OnlySaneMan

[[caption-width-right:300:''Show them the error of their mortality'']]

''Feel the wrath of the Divine!''

''Their short lives limit what meaning they can draw from life itself, they cling to their little reality, Never really seeing it, their lives are over so quickly it's as if they try to fight back with passion alone...You wouldn't understand...not for a long time.''

''They'll get theirs... I swear it!''

''Are you even elves?!''

* RevengeBeforeReason

* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Well, countries, considering that the darkelves are traditionally organized into city-states. But Lucretia is a darkelf surpremacist who absolutely despises that they are ruled by half-vampires now.

%%* AntiHero =/= AntiVillain: Take your pick.

%%* HeroKiller

%%* NobleDemon

%%* TheStoic