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* CombatMedic: He's primarily a StoneWall and straight-up [[TheMedic Medic]] in Chapter 2, but graduates to this in Chapter 3 after he starts picking up some [[SpellBlade Spell]][[MagicKnight blade]] abilities.

* KnightlySwordAndShield: A [[CoolSword one-handed sword]] [[KnightlySwordAndShield and]] [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe shield]].

* NeverBareheaded: Mardek's helmet in Chapter 3, complete with an "M!" scrawled on the forehead above the M-shaped eyeguard, is gloriously cheesy. Then you realize that he [[FridgeBrilliance uses it to hide]] [[MindControlEyes the glow in his eyes that appears whenever Rohoph takes over.]] [[spoiler:As well as mysterious sores, according to Elwyen's dreamstone.]]

* MagicKnight: To contrast with Mardek's [[LightEmUp Light-]][[HealingHands elemental]] abilities, Deugan learns a variety of [[ElementalPowers Natural-Elemental]] [[SpellBlade Spellbladery]] techniques.

* ActionGirl: Her fighting is [[StatusBuff mostly]] [[MusicalAssassin indirect]], but she can still kick some serious ass.

-> A peculiar man who [[LonersAreFreaks lives alone in a]] [[BigBoosHaunt House]] in the Canonia Woods. He is a {{Necromancer}}, and, typical of his sort, has a morbid fascination with death and corpses. He acquires many dead bodies from who-knows-where - perhaps from the victims he lures into his trap? - and [[AnimateDead animates them as undead to act as servants, warriors, and even friends...]] They make great listeners, but due to the whole mindlessness thing, they aren't much good at putting forward their own opinion. [[ThirdPersonPerson He talks as if narrating his own life,]] [[PurpleProse though his wording is pretentious]] [[LargeHam and self-aggrandising.]]

To put it short, Saul is a mentally insane individual whom you must track down for the quest to create Legion, Meraeador's [[{{Golem}} 'Metal]] [[RobotBuddy Man']]. Saul has kept a certain TomeOfEldritchLore from the library of Aeropolis 'far' past its due date. Unfortunately, Meraeador needs that book to make Legion, so the party is forced to track him down to his house deep within the Canonia Woods to borrow it. Of course, even though Meraeador offers to return it once he's done, [[EvilIsPetty Saul refuses to loan it to him]]. And so you have to make it through his hordes of undead minions to take it from him...

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: His crimes throughout Chapter 3? [[AnimateDead Raising the dead,]] [[TakeOverTheWorld lead army of said dead to conquer Belfan,]] and not turning in his [[TomeOfEldritchLore library book]] on time.

* EvilCounterpart: He and Meraeador are both MadScientist types who are somewhat shunned by most of the people of their homes. They both have some sort of verbal tic or irregularity. However, while Saul clearly went mad somewhere down the line, Meraeador had [[TrueCompanions Mardek and Duegan to keep him from]] [[GoMadFromTheIsolation going insane from loneliness.]]

* ThirdPersonPerson: He takes this [[PurpleProse further]] [[SmallNameBigEgo than]] [[LargeHam most.]] [[spoiler:Though he stops speaking in this way after the skeletal version of the Dracelon from Chapter 2 is defeated.]]

* DumbBlonde: Inverted. Deugan's the blonde, but Mardek is the idiot of their duo.

Characters of ''VideoGame/{{MARDEK}}''.

[[folder:The Main Cast]]

!Mardek Innanu El-Enkidu

!Deugan Selmae Eh-Deredu

!Emela Andra Wu-Jardu

[[folder:The Party Members]]

!Vehrn Juonour El-Ganobyi

!Zach Ursus Ae-Jarino

!Donovan Gonoru Fa-Alregis

[[spoiler:Donovan is King Gonoroth's only son, and such, he is also the heir to the throne. However, he doesn't want his royal status to be known by his fellow Guards and Knights, as he wants to build reputation with his talents rather than his royal blood.]]

* WarriorPrince: [[spoiler:Wields a spear in battle, and is the heir to the Goznorian Throne.]]

!Sharla Qualle Ae-Andrias

!Elwyen Sirene Wu-Nympha

!Gloria Eh-Korey

!Meraeador Dunsin Fa-Doch

* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20170909163245/http://www.fighunter.com/music/game/m/TheInventor.mid The Inventor.]]

!Sslen'ck Ea-Sslenal

!Solaar - [=IXth=] of Lupidar

* FragileSpeedster: Xe mightt be very fragile, but xyr AGI stat is one of the highest amongst the party.

!Legion

[[folder:The Villains]]

!Muriance Pharezos Ae-Bross

* {{Blow You Away}}/{{Shock And Awe}}: Is an Air-elemental person that has access to Lightning Spells.

!Mystery Man / [[spoiler:Steele Brennte Du-Korey]]

He's supremely arrogant and egotistical, believing that nobody but him is deserving to lead, that violence is the answer to everything, and that girls can't get enough of him. He beats people up mainly for the fun of it, and [[spoiler:joined the Guard]] just so he could legally assault people 'and maybe pick up some chicks'...

* AntiHero: Type V [[spoiler:Until he turned to the dark side.]]

* CharacterAlignment: ChaoticEvil, and to its most logical conclusion, at that! [[spoiler:He aims to destroy the universe with the power of the Dark Crystal, and plans on raping Emela until he kills her.]][[invoked]]
* ChildByRape: [[spoiler:Is revealed to be this in Gloria's dreamstones.]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler:After Emela injures him with a lightning bolt, Steele promptly decides to plot how to kidnap and rape her to death.]]
* EyepatchOfPower: He wears an Eyepatch as a result of an injury towards one of his eyes. [[spoiler:And he's actually a lot more powerful than he was before, as Steele.]]
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a scar across his eye, implying that he suffered from EyeScream. [[spoiler:Indeed, he did: When Emela shot Steele with the lightning bolt, it pierced his eye, apparently.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Though he wasn't much of a 'Face' to begin with...]]

* JerkJock: Fights with his fists, flaunts his apparent masculinity[[spoiler:, and bullied his half-sister Gloria as a kid.]]

* NinetiesAntiHero: [[spoiler:Steele was originally one big [[ParodiedTrope pot-shot]] at this sub-genre of hero. But then he [[NotQuiteDead "died"]] and came back as the Mysterious Man, embracing the role of a bad guy whole-heartedly.]]
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:His body is never seen after Emela "killed" him, and to the surprise of noone he returns in Chapter 3 as the Mysterious Man.]]

!Saul Du-Xesphthar

[[folder:The World's Saviours]]

!Tropes relating to the World's Saviours as a whole:

!Bartholio Strongarm El-Mars

* TurnsRed: If all of his allies fall in battle before he does, he'll use a skill called "Avengeance!", which doubles his strength.

!Vennie Vidi Ae-Vicci

%%* BlowYouAway

!Aalia Kitregis El-Aureliae

!Bernard Du-Monde

[[folder:The Governance de Magi]]

The Governance de Magi is the ruling body of Anshar, Rohoph's homeworld. They all used to be friends, but the Violet Crystal warped their minds and corrupted them, dividing them and causing them to turn on Rohoph. They're the story's main antagonists.

!Tropes relating to the Governance de Magi as a whole:

!Rohoph

!Moric

* VerbalTic: "Yeees..."

!Qualna

!Gaspar

!Balthazar

* TheDragon: To Anu, possibly.

* {{Foil}}: To Melchior.
* MakingASplash

!Melchior

* BlowYouAway

* {{Foil}}: To Balthazar.

!Anu

* CastingAShadow
* TheDragon: If he isn't the BigBad, he's probably this.

[[folder:Everyone Else]]

!Enki Ea'seph El-Regis

!King Gonoroth Fa-Regis

* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:Mardek's party accidentally kills him at the end of chapter 3.]]

* ClimaxBoss: [[spoiler:He is fought as a plot-critical boss, albeit while possessed.]]
* DemonicPossession: In chapter 3, [[spoiler: he gets possessed by Qualna.]]
* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:Though the battle with him is not the final battle in Chapter 3 (and the original series as a whole), for all intents and purposes it counts as the Last Boss, as it's the last time you'll be battling with your allies.]]

* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler: Alas, he ends up being critically wounded, and later presumably dead, due to the fight ensued by the antics of Qualna controlling him.]]

!Clavis

[[spoiler:He's actually Qualna in disguise, who created the persona in order to teach [[KnightTemplar Rohoph]] some important lessons. Unfortunately, they fell on deaf ears.]]

* TheDogWasTheMastermind: [[spoiler:Unsurprisingly, turns out that he was Qualna in disguise all along.]]

* SoulPower: One of the only few characters to be Aether-elemental, as it fits with his 'equilibriumancer' class, and particularly can discern Rohoph's font text voice, as opposed to a regular human such as Mardek. [[spoiler:Though after all, it gives off that he is actually not what he claims to be, as he, in fact, is Qualna in disguise.]]

[[/folder]]

* InfinityPlusOneSword: In Chapter 2 (Where he's the only one who has one) it's the Champion Sword, obtained by completing the Cambria Tournament. In Chapter 3, it's the Champion Sword II, obtained by doing the same thing, [[RecycledINSPACE but in Chapter 3]]. He and Deugan also have parodies of this in the Prologue, where they're pretending to be heroes.

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: In a humorously appropriate twist of events, because she uses a MagicWand, her off-hand is free to hold a shield, making her distinctly less squishy than many of the other mages you encounter.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Given that the majority of major enemies in Chapter 2 are undead, including ''all but one of the bosses'' from the point you can recruit him, Vehrn tends to be much more useful.
** DifficultButAwesome: Crosses into this in chapter 3 due to two skills: [[UnblockableAttack Sure Slash]] and [[SituationalDamageAttack Sinstrike]]. The former is ''invaluable'' at dealing with [[DemonicSpiders those damned Pixies]] and the latter depends on how many kills Zach has, but has no known maximum limit on those kills affecting the move so the damage from it can become absurd if you grind enough.
*** Another skill that makes him incredibly useful in long boss battles is Crescendo Slash, which increases in damage dealt for every time it's been used in the battle so far.

* OvershadowedByAwesome: In Chapter 2. He is a useful character in his own right, but Vehrn's Disrupt Undead/Silver Sword/Quarry: Undead combo lets him one-hit more or less every enemy in the endgame.

* BadassNormal: Like Zach, none of her skills use {{Mana}}. Despite this, her songs are incredibly powerful.

* MusicalAssassin: And she's damn good at it, too. One of her abilities allows her to deal damage to all enemies every time they get a move, ignoring resistances and defense. Slaughters the {{Demonic Spider}}s of the game (low HP, high resistances and defense) in a turn or two. A different version of the same skill functions exactly the same, but only works on undead and does 4 times as much damage. The more effective ones are the Requiem and Dolorous Dirge skills/songs.

%%* LightEmUp: She's Light-elemental, and uses only Light-elemental skills in battle.

* CaneFu: When out of mana, he uses his walking stick as (surprisingly strong) melee weapon, which also curses the target. In the chapter 3, he automatically uses it against anyone who tries to hit him with physical attacks. Both versions are named "[[{{Catchphrase}} Heh.]]".

* TheDarkChick: Shares this role with Melchior.

The air-elemental member of the Governance de Magi. Also [[TheDarkChick the odd one out]]. He appears to be completely bonkers, and whenever he speaks, it's pretty much guaranteed that you'll be laughing hysterically a few moments later. Not much else is known about him.

* TheDarkChick: Shares this role with Qualna.

->A battle-hardened mercenary from lands afar. He doesn't speak much at all, so his past is a complete mystery, though it seems as if he's been scarred deeply or he's learned to suppress his emotions...\\

A battle-hardened mercenary from far away lands, Zach rarely shows emotion and [[TheStoic speaks even less.]] He can be hired at various taverns and inns throughout the series for various sums of money. He holds very little respect for his employers, though, over time, he does recognize Mardek as an exception.

[[spoiler:Leveling him up and speaking to him more will eventually reveal that he followed an adventurer from the North, who is slightly implied to have been Mardek's father (despite being a {{Jerkass}}), out of his village of [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy proud warriors]], an act that went against his people's tradition.]]

Sslen'ck is first encountered in the lower chambers of the Sun Temple, the final boss of the area. He along with two other reptoids attack Mardek, Donovan and Sharla, believing them to be the cause of the dark creatures unleashed. Upon his defeat, he learns that Mardek and company are not to blame. He invites them to his village, of which he is chief, and [[DefeatEqualsFriendship joins them on their quest after their arrival]], leaving [[EvilChancellor Blatantly Evil Chancellor]] in charge of Xantusia.

[[spoiler:He reveals to Mardek that his parents were killed by undead if you speak to him in Saul's dungeon. This could be important later on, as he never mentions what exactly happened and claims to be unable to remember why the attack happened.]]

A group of heroes introduced in chapter 2. They seem to be searching for the elemental crystals
of the world of Belfan, but are for the most part hilariously incompetent at finding them.

The Healer and light-elemental member of the Governance de Magi. When the Violet Crystal came, he saw how it affected his friends, and tried to destroy it. Unfortunately, he was caught and sentenced to execution, but escaped and crash-landed on Belfan, where he performed a Soul Transfer into Mardek.

[[spoiler:An interesting aspect of him is that, in chapter 3, Qualna hints that ''even before the Violet Crystal affected him'', he was [[KnightTemplar overly obsessed]] with goodness and justice, and it's heavily implied that he committed a massive homicide or something similar on Ninevah. This makes him the only Governance member to have issues before being corrupted by the Crystal...]]

* MysteriousPast: His wife states she does not know much about his past. Some [=NPCs=] hint to him being [[spoiler:the former captain of the Ninevehn starship that crashed into the Dark Temple]]

* LightEmUp: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] While he ''is'' Light-elemental, all the abilities he possesses are purely powered by Rohoph's possession.

* SupportingProtagonist: Played with. The other characters do follow him and he is usually at the center of the plot, but he has a carefree, docile personality, and usually just does what other people (especially Deugan and [[spoiler:later on,]] Rohoph) tell him to do, despite being technically being the leading man.

* CovertPervert: He feels Elywen up in the Dark Temple if you take both of them there. Though the "covert" part is debatable as he has no problems with them knowing he did it.
* CripplingOverspecialization: {{Inverted|Trope}} in Chapter 2, where he's often more useful than Zach because of his primarily undead-countering skillset. Almost everything past the halfway point in Chapter 2 is undead-focused, including most of the bosses. And then in Chapter 3 undead continue to be all over the place, being the focus of two dungeons and prevalent in at least one other.

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* InfinityPlusOneSword: The Guardian Claw, which is dropped by [[BonusBoss Annihilator:Karnos]].

* ObliviousToLove: Elywen is one step short of jumping him and he still doesn't get it. Even with Emela, when Deugan asks whether he likes her, he says [[LoveYouAndEverybody they're great friends]].

* HeroesWantRedheads: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Mardek, despite showing interest in talking to her alongside Deugan early on in Chapter 2, [[LoveYouAndEveryone his interest is purely platonic]].

* DefrostingIceQueen: If you level him up enough, he slowly starts opening up and revealing more of his past.

* SquishyWizard: And a speedy one, at that.

* ClingyJealousGirl: To Mardek.

* FragileSpeedster: Has high evasion but low health.

* RedMage: See CombatMedic above.

* MightyGlacier: Has the best hp and attack of your party members.

* ProudWarriorRaceGuy:

* AmbiguousGender: Or rather, no gender at all.

* TokenNonhuman(oid)

* MightyGlacier: Fitting, given they're a ClockworkCreature.

* LargeHam

* EyepatchOfPower:
** GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a scar across his eye, implying that he suffered from EyeScream. [[spoiler:Indeed, he did: When Emela shot Steele with the lightning bolt, it pierced his eye, apparently.]]

* EvilIsHammy: Oh yes.

* ObviouslyEvil

* PurpleProse: See ThirdPersonPerson below.

* ThirdPersonPerson: He takes this [[PurpleProse further]] [[SmallNameBigEgo than]] [[LargeHam most.]]

* [[FakeUltimateHero Fake Ultimate Heroes]]

* GottaCatchEmAll: Like everyone else, they want those elemental crystals.

* QuirkyMinibossSquad

* WolfpackBoss: Laughably incompetent though they are, they can put up quite a fight.

%%* MightyGlacier

* VerbalTic: Talks in chatspeak, complete with emoticons.

* CaneFu: When out of mana, he uses his walking stick as (surprisingly strong) melee weapon, which also curses the target. In the chapter 3, he automatically uses it against anyone who tries to hit him with physical attacks. Both versions are named "[[{{Catchphrase}} Heh]]".

* Catchphrase: "Heh"

* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity

* ImprobableWeaponUser: As a MusicalAssassin.

* TheEvilGenius

* CloudCuckoolander: To the extreme.

* AmbitionIsEvil: Heavily implied.

* KatanasAreJustBetter

* LightEmUp

* ClimaxBoss: [[spoiler:Albeit while possessed.]]

* NiceGuy
* PlayingWithFire
* [[spoiler:SacrificialLamb]]

* ArcWords: His constant references to keystones.

%%* SoulPower

* [[DumbBlonde Dumb Blond]]: Inverted. Deugan's the blonde, but Mardek is the idiot of their duo.

* [[NiceGuy Nice Girl]]: Calling her the nicest character in the cast would not be an exaggeration.

* NoPronunciationGuide: Subverted. She tells you her name is pronounced "el-oo-wee-en" in one of her [[RelationshipValues P-dialogues.]]

* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Undead?]]: He can't stand zombies. [[spoiler:Justified, as they killed his parents when he was young.]]

* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: Deena plays this role out of the four souls in Legion, as while she has her own issues and tragic backstory, she isn't mentally insane like Bostolm, clinically depressed like Martin, or sociopathically violent like Doomkill.

* [[RobotBuddy Possessed Mechanical Construct Buddy]]: For Meraeador.

* MysteriousPast: His wife states she does not know much about his past. Some NPCs hint to him being [[spoiler:the former captain of the Ninevehn starship that crashed into the Dark Temple]]

* WeaponOfChoice: A [[CoolSword one-handed sword]] [[KnightlySwordAndShield and]] [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe shield]].

* WeaponOfChoice: A [[{{BFS}} greatsword]].

* WeaponOfChoice: A [[MagicWand wand]]. [[spoiler:Though the game doesn't hint that you can do it, she can also wield a shield.]]

* WeaponOfChoice: A CoolSword.

* WeaponOfChoice: [[DoubleWeapon A staff with a blade on each end.]]

* WeaponOfChoice: A [[BladeOnAStick spear]].

* WeaponOfChoice: A [[BladeOnAStick spear]].

* MusicalAssassin: And she's damn good at it, too. One of her abilities allows her to deal damage to all enemies every time they get a move, ignoring resistances and defense. Slaughters the {{Demonic Spider}}s of the game (low HP, high resistances and defense) in a turn or two. A different version of the same skill functions exactly the same, but only works on undead and does 4 times as much damage.

* WeaponOfChoice: [[MusicalAssassin Harps]]. She can actually hit monsters with her harp, but much more effective is the Requiem and Dolorous Dirge skills/songs.

* WeaponOfChoice: A staff. Weirdly enough, unlike all other Chapter 3 characters with previously-unseen weapons, like Elywen or Legion, you can find staves as enemy drops in Chapter 2, which means they're all useless unless you exploit the series' OldSaveBonus functionality.

* WeaponOfChoice: WolverineClaws.

* WeaponOfChoice: A PowerFist, one of which is [[ChainsawGood a buzzsaw]].

* WeaponOfChoice: A pistol, [[SchizoTech which is surprising]], considering Belfan's medieval setting.

* WeaponOfChoice: A [[{{BFS}} greatsword]].

* WeaponOfChoice: A dagger.

* WeaponOfChoice: A CoolSword.

* CastingAShadow: He's able to use magic from other elements as well, however.

* OnlySaneMan: Of the Saviours.

* VampiricDrain: When he uses his walking stick as a weapon, he absorbs the damage done to heal himself.

* LightEmUp

* SharingABody: With Mardek.
* ShootTheDog: [[spoiler:He does this to the other Governance de Magi members.]]

* FlunkyBoss

* {{Necromancer}}: Natch.

* WeaponOfChoice: A SinisterScythe.

* SoulPower

* TheBrute

* HotBlooded
* LargeHam

* AffablyEvil

* CripplingOverspecialization: {{Inverted|Trope}} in Chapter 2, where he's often more useful than Zach because of his primarily undead-countering skillset. Almost everything past the halfway point in Chapter 2 is undead-focused, including most of the bosses.
** And then in Chapter 3 undead continue to be all over the place, being the focus of two dungeons and prevalent in at least one other.

* {{Irony}}: Despite being an actual Paladin, Vehrn has no healing spells on introduction, instead being focused on killing undead. This is {{Subverted|Trope}} in Chapter 3, when he learns Lay On Hands.

* OptionalPartyMember: The only true one in both games, and [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] if you talk to him in Chapter 3 without meeting him in Chapter 2.

* CripplingOverspecialization: He can only cast spells from a single element. While this makes him very useful in areas with enemies vulnerable to Fire, he isn't useful for much else. Shame there are hardly any areas where monsters have a consistent weakness to fire (some are merely areas filled with undead already covered by the another specialized character, Vehrn), and several areas where enemies are resistant or immune to fire. He does have the ability to give the whole party a shield against fire attacks, but so can Gloria and she can also cast spells for the other elements.

* [[MayDecemberRomance May August Romance]]: Meraeador is 31. She's 17. However, due to being a shaman, she'll age much slower than Mereador, and she's also WiseBeyondHerYears.

* [[MayDecemberRomance May September Romance]]: Gloria is 17. He's 31. However, Gloria is also ''very'' WiseBeyondHerYears.

* WeaponOfChoice: A [[AnAxeToGrind greataxe]].

* TheBattleDidntCount: Apparently all four of the souls encountered a GrimReaper in some sort of bizarre afterlife. Doomkill challenged him to a battle, of course, which Doomkill lo- [[InsistentTerminology "let him win."]]

%%* LightEmUp

* WeaponOfChoice: A [[KnifeNut dagger]].

%%* BraggartBoss

%%* TheHero: Of his own group, perhaps.
%%* LargeHam

%%* FragileSpeedster

%%* TheDitz

%%* LightEmUp
%%* LoveInterest: Apparently...

* VerbalTic: Talks in chatspeak.

* SquishyWizard

* [[spoiler:AndIMustScream]]:

* [[spoiler:DuelBoss]]
* FlunkyBoss

* [[spoiler:NiceGuy: He is by far the nicest Governance de Magi member, and even wants to bring Rohoph back peacefully instead of killing him. He also seems to be affected the least by the Violet Crystal, possibly because it may function as an amplifier for each of the Magi's dominant traits, and as he is most devoted to balance it cannot destabilize him.]]

* [[spoiler:WhatTheHellHero]]: He spends a good bit of Chapter 3 [[spoiler:trying to get Rohoph to realize that his BlackAndWhiteMorality KnightTemplar attitude is making things much, much worse. [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope It doesn't work]].]]

* NoIndoorVoice
* PlayingWithFire
* PyroManiac

* DeadpanSnarker

* PluckyComicRelief

* [[spoiler:AccidentalMurder]]: [[spoiler:Mardek's party accidentally kills him at the end of chapter 3.]]

* [[spoiler:ClimaxBoss]]: [[spoiler:Albeit while possessed.]]
* [[spoiler:DemonicPossession]]: In chapter 3.

* [[spoiler:ChekhovsGunman]]
* [[spoiler:TheDogWasTheMastermind]]

%%* WeaponOfChoice: A SimpleStaff.

* WeaponOfChoice: A [[SimpleStaff walking stick]]. No, really.

* WeaponOfChoice: A SimpleStaff. Weirdly enough, unlike all other Chapter 3 characters with previously-unseen weapons, like Elywen or Legion, you can find staves as enemy drops in Chapter 2, which means they're all useless unless you exploit the series' OldSaveBonus functionality.

* [[NiceHat Nice Helmet]]: Complete with an "M!" scrawled on the forehead above the M-shaped eyeguard, it's gloriously cheesy. Then you realize that he [[FridgeBrilliance uses it to hide]] [[MindControlEyes the glow in his eyes that appears whenever Rohoph takes over.]] [[spoiler:As well as mysterious sores, according to Elwyen's dreamstone.]]

* SecretLegacy: [[spoiler:It very heavily implied that Mardek's father isn't from Belfan, but instead is [[HumanoidAlien a Ninevan]] Admiral, one of the races of people the Annunaki are at war with.]]

* [[TouchedByVorlons Touched By Annunaki]]: From the end of Chapter 1 onward, Mardek's abilities are entirely powered by Rohoph's presence. This is further exemplified by the fact that the icon for his abilities list is just an Annunaki.

* OptionalPartyMember: You can choose to straight ignore him in Chapter 2 if you want. [[SubvertedTrope Not so much in Chapter 3, though]].

* WifeHusbandry: {{Inverted|Trope}} and PlayedWith. She developed a PrecociousCrush on an 18-year-old Mardek after his party stopped the Lake Hag of Lake Qur. Now that she's close to being of reasonable age, she's dead set on bedding Mardek. [[ObliviousToLove Not that Mardek ever catches on, though]].

* [[InstantSedation Knockout Gas]]: The Sleep Gas Gun is another invention you can build for him.

** Bostolm is ChaoticNeutral[[invoked]]. He [[spoiler:was once a YALORTian priest,]] is now insane, and only cares about annihilating Pixies.

* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Pixies?]]: Bostolm starts screaming incoherently whenever he's near a pixie. To quote his P-dialogue in the Lifewood:

* MeaningfulName: We've yet to see how meaningful it is, but [[spoiler:his middle name, Pharezos, is an anagram of Zaephros. As in, the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Zaephros The Chaosbringer]] mentioned in Solaar's dreamstone.]]

* [[spoiler: RetiredBadass: Implied to have been a Hero named Bernard Stormkiller.]]

* [[spoiler:FinalBoss: Though the battle with him is not the final battle in this chapter, for all intents and purposes it counts as the Last Boss, as it's the last time you'll be battling with your allies.]]

* MysteriousPast

* WeaponOfChoice: A SimpleStaff. Weirdly enough, unlike all other Chapter 3 characters with previously-unseen weapons, like Elywen or Legion, you can find staves as enemy drops in Chapter 2, which means they're all VendorTrash unless you exploit the series' OldSaveBonus functionality.

* BaldOfAwesome

* BadassLongCoat
* BaldOfEvil

* BaldOfAwesome

* SoulPower

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: He has ''purple'' hair.

* [[BadassBeard Badass Goatee]]: Grows one in the TimeSkip in-between Chapters 2 and 3.

* StandardStatusEffects: He ''loves'' using these on you.

* TheDitz
* LeetLingo: Including emoticons!
* LightEmUp
* LoveInterest: Apparently...

* VerbalTic: Talks in chatspeak, as mentioned.
* WeaponOfChoice: A SimpleStaff.

** WhiteMagicianGirl

* FamousLastWords: "You must die! Only then can I be free!"

* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler:"[[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope YOU]] [[KnightTemplar UTTER]] [[YouMonster MONSTER]]!"]]