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!'''The Federation of Man'''

!! The Cumaea
An order of witches who augment their natural PsychicPowers with lilium refined from Arcanic bodies. Unbeknownst to most of the order, their leadership has been infiltrated by a small group of Old Gods.

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!'''The Federation [[folder:Blood Queens]]
!!The Blood Queens
of Man'''

!! The Cumaea
An order of witches who augment their natural PsychicPowers with lilium refined from Arcanic bodies. Unbeknownst to most of the order, their leadership has been infiltrated by a small group of Old Gods.
Thyria



* MutantDraftBoard: In the Federation, any human girl with PsychicPowers is sent to the Cumaea. No exceptions.
* PsychicPowers: Telepathy, telekinesis, and precognition are known.

[[folder:The Mother Superior]]
!! The Mother Superior
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The leader of the Cumaea--secretly possessed by an Old God. She, or rather her host body, is named Destria.

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* MutantDraftBoard: In the Federation, any human girl with PsychicPowers is sent to the Cumaea. No exceptions.
* PsychicPowers: Telepathy, telekinesis, and precognition are known.

[[folder:The Mother Superior]]
!! The Mother Superior
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The leader of the Cumaea--secretly possessed by an Old God. She, or rather her host body, is named Destria.

!!Queen Consort



* CoolMask: She wears an elaborate half-mask to hide her ExtraEyes.
* RapidAging: Undergoes this temporarily after fighting Maika and Zinn and losing.
* ThirdEye: She has three eyes, all perpendicular to the usual orientation. (Prior to being possessed, Destria had two eyes, both in the usual positions.)

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* CoolMask: She wears an elaborate half-mask to hide her ExtraEyes.
* RapidAging: Undergoes this temporarily after fighting Maika and Zinn and losing.
* ThirdEye: She has three eyes, all perpendicular to the usual orientation. (Prior to being possessed, Destria had two eyes, both in the usual positions.)
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!! Gull
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An Inquisitrix Commander and right hand of the Mother Superior. Like her boss, she is possessed by an Old God.

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!'''The Federation of Man'''

!! Gull
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The Cumaea
An Inquisitrix Commander and right hand order of witches who augment their natural PsychicPowers with lilium refined from Arcanic bodies. Unbeknownst to most of the Mother Superior. Like her boss, she is possessed order, their leadership has been infiltrated by an a small group of Old God.Gods.


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* MutantDraftBoard: In the Federation, any human girl with PsychicPowers is sent to the Cumaea. No exceptions.
* PsychicPowers: Telepathy, telekinesis, and precognition are known.

[[folder:The Mother Superior]]
!! The Mother Superior
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The leader of the Cumaea--secretly possessed by an Old God. She, or rather her host body, is named Destria.
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* CoolMask: She wears an elaborate half-mask to hide her ExtraEyes.
* RapidAging: Undergoes this temporarily after fighting Maika and Zinn and losing.
* ThirdEye: She has three eyes, all perpendicular to the usual orientation. (Prior to being possessed, Destria had two eyes, both in the usual positions.)
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[[folder:Gull]]
!! Gull
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An Inquisitrix Commander and right hand of the Mother Superior. Like her boss, she is possessed by an Old God.
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!'''Golga'''

!!'''The Fallen Houses'''

!!'''The Defiled'''

!!'''Cats'''
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* BlatantLies: Tells Colonel Anuwat she has no knowledge of anyone by the name of Moriko Halfwolf. The first chapter of the story introduces Yvette's past with Moriko.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Downplayed, but she negotiates for her daughter Sophia to be healed from her injuries in exchange for helping the Mother Superior track down the mask and Maika.


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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: What seems to have happened with her and the mask.


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* ScaryTeeth: when she flashes her SlasherSmile, her canines are far too long.


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* VillainTakesAnInterest: She's taken quite an interest in Maika, describing her as her "life".


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* WildCard: While technically a Cumaean elder, she has no particular allegiance and one never knows what faction she'll pop up with next.
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!!Jadala Bonetail
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* ThisIsUnforgivable: She says this after having her mind controlled by one of the Defiled.

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* ThisIsUnforgivable: She says this Her reaction after having her mind controlled by one of the Defiled.


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!!Hajin
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!!Prime Minister of the Federation
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!'''The Isle of Bones'''

[[folder:Blood Fox]]
!!Rohar the Insatiable
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!!The Ferryman
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* EasilyForgiven: By Kippa, after having delivered her to Blood Court agents. ''Not'' by Maika.


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* CanineCompanion: She has a fondness for dogs, and carries a [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter tiny fuzzball]] of a pup with her everywhere.
* CassandraTruth: After her experience being possessed by one of the Defiled, she suspects something is wrong back in the prison of the Old Gods. She's right, but the others in her group don't believe her.
* CombatTentacles: Fights with these.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: When using her powers, she reveals a huge God-Eye on her chest.
* FacialHorror: While forcibly removing the two mask fragments that Gull is wearing, Maika ''tears her entire face off in the process.'' (It grows back later.)
-->'''Maika:''' Nasty.
* FateWorseThanDeath: In the wake of the dimensional rift at Pontus, the Lord Doctor captures her and places her in a torturous contraption that drains her blood. Gull is trapped in there with no hope of escape until Maika shows up and decides to free her.
* FriendlyEnemy: To Maika, after being saved by her. She refuses to kill Maika, and even shares the number of Old Gods in her group, and the location of the next mask fragment.
* GetItOverWith: As Maika breaks her out of the Lord Doctor's blood-draining apparatus, Gull tells Maika to just kill her before the Lord Doctor comes back.
* IOweYouMyLife: Says this to Maika after Maika saves her from the Lord Doctor.
* MindRape: When she puts on two of the mask pieces, her mind is taken over by a member of the Defiled, a rival faction of Old Gods. Gull feels deeply violated by the experience.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: She says this after having her mind controlled by one of the Defiled.

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* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Before the Warlord arrives, she commandeers the war effort of the city of Ravenna by laying waste to everyone who challenges her.



* IAteWhat: When dining with her father, she's digusted to find out the meal they've been eating is made from human flesh.

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* IAteWhat: When dining with her father, the Lord Doctor, she's digusted disgusted to find out the meal they've been eating is made from human flesh.


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* LetMeAtHim: When she sees Ren again after he betrays her and Kippa to the Lord Doctor.


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* RedOni: To her friend and lover Tuya's blue.


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* SaveTheVillain: Despite her hardened and cynical nature, she rescues the Inquisitrix Gull from the Lord Doctor's brutal experimentation. This is significant because not only is Gull part of the Cumaea, whom Maika hates, but she's an eldritch god that just tried to open up a dimensional rift to let more of her life-draining kind into the world.
* ShamingTheMob: She calls out an angry mob of Arcanics who want to kill her for resembling a human, calling them cowards unable to deal with their own grief. [[NoSell It doesn't work.]]


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* SorryToInterrupt: When she finally goes to see the Baroness, she walks in on [[spoiler: Tuya and the Sword of the East having sex.]]


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* UsedToBeASweetKid: Pre-war flashbacks show her as a spirited CheerfulChild. Later on, Maika's child self appears as a manifestation of her psyche, and comes into conflict with her present self.


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* YouKilledMyMother: She initially believes that Yvette killed her mother. The story begins with Maika seeking her out for revenge, and answers about her past.

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* AllLovingHero: She is kind and friendly to everyone she meets, even Zinn, a terrifying eldritch god who initially wanted to eat her.



An Inquisitrix Commander and right hand of the Mother Superior. Like her boss, she is possessed by an Old God.
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Two high-ranking Inquisitrixes.

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Two high-ranking Inquisitrixes. Dedicated to the standing of the Order above all else, a number of suspicious incidents cause them to question the true nature of the Cumaean leadership.



* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Their first appearance has them bursting into the Zamora compound and slaughtering a number of Cumaea inside, before staging things to look like Arcanics did it.



* VillainousFriendship: They like and respect each other.

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* NomDeGuerre: They are named for their weapons.
* VillainousFriendship: They appear to like and respect each other.




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* DisproportionateRetribution: She kills Sister Mektilda for insulting Hammer's face.
* EvilSlinks: The flowing garb she wears give her a notably smooth, willowy aspect to her movement.



* MeaningfulName: She wields a long thin sword.




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* FlippingTheBird: She doesn't think highly of Gull, and gives her one of these when her back is turned in Issue #15.
* GoryDiscretionShot: Her back is to the reader when Sister Mektilda burns off her face covering.


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* MeaningfulName: ''Hammer.''


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* SilentSnarker: She can be quite sardonic, though other characters generally have to repeat what she says for the audience.

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* DeathGlare: Gives a terrifying one to some scent hounds who are about to discover she's Arcanic. Luckily, Ren distracts them before things go south.



* IAteWhat: When dining with her father, she's digusted to find out the meal they've been eating is made from human flesh.



* MyGodWhatHaveIdone: She's horrified upon learning the she ate the Arcanic boy who came with her from Zamora.



* LetMeAtHim: Maika has to hold him back when he sees a [[EldritchAbomination Rift Hound]] aboard the Jolly Ravager.



* KickTheDog: When he comes across a greviously wounded Kippa during the siege of Ravenna, he kills the people who noticed she was still alive, takes the insignia Maika and Corvin gave her, and leaves her for dead. He later shows Corvin the insignia as proof that Kippa died in the invasion.

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* KickTheDog: When he comes across a greviously grievously wounded Kippa during the siege of Ravenna, he kills the people who noticed she was still alive, takes the insignia Maika and Corvin gave her, and leaves her for dead. He later shows Corvin the insignia as proof that Kippa died in the invasion.



* BondOneLiner: When she cuts down Sister Aurelia.
-->'''Sword of the East''': I've missed the smell of witch-blood.



* TheyCallHimSword: The Sword of the East, even.

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* TheyCallHimSword: The Sword "Sword of the East, East", even.
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* Unstoppable Rage: When she smells the Federation gas weapons she goes into a rage-driven frenzy.

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* Unstoppable Rage: UnstoppableRage: When she smells the Federation gas weapons she goes into a rage-driven frenzy.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: She appears to have had a hand in the Dawn Court air fleet being shot down by the Federation at Ravenna. However, the Federation's weapons (supplied by the Lord Doctor) include gas cannisters containing an agent developed from the blood of an Old God. This results in a [[HatePlague madness]] being spread to Arcanics who inhale it. When the Queen of Wolves, an Ancient, gets a whiff of it, she is driven into an enraged frenzy and is compelled to kill Maika and Zinn. She is seriously injured in the ensuing fight.


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* ParentalFavoritism: She preferred Moriko to the Sword of the East.


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* Unstoppable Rage: When she smells the Federation gas weapons she goes into a rage-driven frenzy.
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* MurderIsTheBestSolution: When she finds out the truth about Tuya and Maika, she has them both locked up. She then decides to go down to the holding cells to kill them for good measure.
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* TheConscience: Is this to Maika and Ren.


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* GlowingEyes: When using her Arcanic gift, her eyes glow.


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* ISeeDeadPeople: As a Nekomancer, he can temporarily summon the souls of the dead.


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* SophisticatedAsHell: Known to sprinkle erudite vocabulary with more vulgar terminology.
-->'''Ren''': "To quote the poets ... we're fucked."


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* GlowingEyesOfDoom: When the scent of Old God blood from Federation gas weapons forces her into {{Berserker}} mode.
* HairTriggerTemper: She generally maintains a serene disposition, but this can turn on a dime. You do ''not'' want to be on the receiving end of her wrath.

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* ComedicSociopathy: In the early issues, before his character development, there was some comedy to be had from him being a self-centred eldritch abomination that kept trying to eat people -- including Kippa.



* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Possibly the case with Zinn and the Shaman-Empress, as she tied him to herself and her bloodline.



* UglyGuyHotWife: He was lovers with the beautiful Shaman Empress and the two would beget a bloodline. He also has memories of being with Marium, the founder of the Cumaea

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* RepressedMemories: After he awakens, he is initially unaware of major events in his past and even his own name. Over the course of the story he slowly regains these memories, though it turns out he repressed them and lay dormant for centuries for a reason.
* UglyGuyHotWife: He was lovers with the beautiful Shaman Empress and the two would beget a bloodline. He also has memories of being with Marium, the founder of the Cumaea Cumaea.


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* InterruptedIntimacy: [[spoiler: When Maika]] walks in on her having sex with the Warlord.


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* CatFolk: A tiger Arcanic.


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* GadgeteerGenius: As the high engineer of Pontus, she's very knowledgeable about machinery and technology.
* LittleBitBeastly: In her Arcanic form, she appears as a human with antlers.

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* YouNeverAsked: He knew [[spoiler:the Blood Fox]] survived being apparently killed by Maika, but he never mentioned it until Maika asked him about it volumes later.

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* YouNeverAsked: He knew [[spoiler:the Blood Fox]] would have survived being apparently killed by Maika, but he never mentioned it until Maika asked him about it volumes later.

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* EatingTheEnemy: Given his need to consume the flesh of sapients to sustain himself, he feeds on many of the enemies that he and Maika battle.



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.* YouNeverAsked: He knew [[spoiler:the Blood Fox]] survived being apparently killed by Maika, but he never mentioned it until Maika asked him about it volumes later.


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* BackToBackBadasses: Briefly with Maika in Issue #33.


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* CoolMask: Wears a wolf mask that somewhat resembles the Shaman-Empress' Anubis-like one. She also has a battle version with four eyes on it.


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* PerpetualFrowner: She's usually frowning or scowling.


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* TheyCallHimSword: The Sword of the East, even.


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* SoleSurvivor: She's the only one of the four enhanced nuns to survive the fighting in Ravenna.



* SoleSurvivor: She's the only one of the four enhanced nuns to survive the fighting in Ravenna.

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!!Colonel Anuwat
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* AnArmAndALeg: In her first appearance she had already lost a leg and one of her wings during a period where she was enslaved. She then loses another leg in the siege of Ravenna.
* BlackSheep: She is the only healer in her family, the rest of whom are warriors. Her parents see her as a disappointment.
* EyepatchOfPower: She wears an eyepatch over her missing right eye.
* TheUnFavourite: Her parents regard her as deformed, and her mother refers to her as "the other offspring" when Bettani revisits the Dusk Court with Corvin.


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A member of a small group of experimental Cumaea nuns. She has enhanced psychic powers and an altered appearance from being exposed to lilium in the womb.
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* CharacterTics: Frequently scratches at her wrists, drawing blood.
* LockedIntoStrangeness: Her hair is white due to lilium exposure in the womb.
* TheSilentBob: Aside from the first page she appears, where she says a brief prayer to Marium with her comrades, she hasn't spoken at all. Other characters communicate with her fine though.
* TaintedVeins: She and the other experimental Cumaea nuns all have this in addition to albinism.

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* EvilIsHammy: She is fond of of going on about the power of the mask and making over the top, maniacal facial expressions to the point of {{Nightmare Face}}.

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* EvilIsHammy: She is fond of of going on waxing lyrical about the power of the mask and making over the top, maniacal facial expressions to the point of {{Nightmare Face}}.


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* SanitySlippage: She went mad from years of using a mask fragment.

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* DualWielding: He carries two swords and wields them both in combat.



* FantasticRacism: He's not fond of foxes, saying you can never trust them.
* KickTheDog: When he comes across a greviously wounded Kippa during the siege of Ravenna, he kills the people who noticed she was still alive, takes the insignia Maika and Corvin gave her, and leaves her for dead. He later shows Corvin the insignia as proof that Kippa died in the invasion.



* AffablyEvil: She's always pretty good-humored, even to enemies.



* EvilIsHammy: She is fond of of going on about the power of the mask and making over the top, maniacal facial expressions to the point of {{Nightmare Face}}.



* NervesOfSteel: Creepily unflappable at all times, no matter how dangerous the situation.

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* MisplacedRetribution: Maika initially believes Yvette killed her mother and wants revenge. Turns out that wasn't exactly what happened...
* NervesOfSteel: Creepily unflappable at all times, no matter how dangerous the situation.situation is to her personally.


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* WickedWitch: As a member of the Cumaean order, she's frequently referred to as a witch. She also embodies this trope in the sense of being an evil old woman who eats people.

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!!Arekanara'el
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