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Ignus is actually one of the few things he had nothing to do with - if you ask him about it, he has no idea who you\'re talking about.


* MoralEventHorizon - [[spoiler:He has a virtual laundry list of atrocities, including metal torture (Dak'kon), physical torture (Morte), and physical ''and'' mental torture (Ignis), but leading Deionarra into a HeroicSacrifice is widely considered to be his worst.]]

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* MoralEventHorizon - [[spoiler:He has a virtual laundry list of atrocities, including metal torture (Dak'kon), physical torture (Morte), (Morte) and physical ''and'' mental torture (Ignis), general bastardry, but leading Deionarra into a HeroicSacrifice is widely considered to be his worst.]]
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* CompleteMonster - Can be this, depending on how viciously you play. And not just in a StupidEvil way either; the game presents TNO with dialogue options and things he can do to people horrific enough to place him among the most repulsive, manipulative villains in RPG history, if you so choose.

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* TheLancer

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* TheLancerTheLancer - Your first party member, and one of two that must join you as a part of the story. Morte has the most interjections of all the party members, plays the {{foil}} to The Nameless One a lot, and will stick by you pretty much no matter what you do.



* TheBigGuy - Until/unless you get Vhailor, Dak'kon fulfills this role by being mainly melee-focused and having generally little to say unless you're a mage and study the Path of Zerthimon.



* TheSmartGuy

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* TheSmartGuyTheSmartGuy - Fall-From-Grace is a primary magic user, unlocks several dialogue options with other party members by asking for her analysis on them, and is also remarkably knowledgeable on a series of other topics.



** His dialogues is very useful for The Nameless One as a mage, however.



* ChaoticNeutral - By [[HiveMind Modron]] standards, at least.

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* ChaoticNeutral - By [[HiveMind Modron]] standards, at least.His individuality is pretty much all he has, given that Modrons don't even have that normally.
* TheChick - Probably the closest you get to the archetype in this game.



* TheSmartGuy
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Morte is The Lancer much more than The Big Guy.


* TheBigGuy - Yes, he's a floating skull. Yes, it still fits.
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* MoralEventHorzion - In most games, going evil on the KarmaMeter involves being a wacky and/or wisecracking HeroicSociopath. In PlanescapeTorment, the worst evil options involve being a cold-blooded ManipulativeBastard, and are ''really'' evil.

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* MoralEventHorzion MoralEventHorizon - In most games, going evil on the KarmaMeter involves being a wacky and/or wisecracking HeroicSociopath. In PlanescapeTorment, the worst evil options involve being a cold-blooded ManipulativeBastard, and are ''really'' evil.

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* AmnesiacDissonance: No matter which alignment you choose, [[spoiler:you'll find that ''at least'' one of your incarnations was your complete opposite. For an even bigger kick in the balls, you can find out that your first incarnation was so overwhelmingly horrible and evil that even the potentially thousands of lifetimes you spent doing good didn't have a chance of saving you from hell.]]

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* AmnesiacDissonance: AmnesiacDissonance - No matter which alignment you choose, [[spoiler:you'll find that ''at least'' one of your incarnations was your complete opposite. For an even bigger kick in the balls, you can find out that your first incarnation was so overwhelmingly horrible and evil that even the potentially thousands of lifetimes you spent doing good didn't have a chance of saving you from hell.]]


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* MoralEventHorzion - In most games, going evil on the KarmaMeter involves being a wacky and/or wisecracking HeroicSociopath. In PlanescapeTorment, the worst evil options involve being a cold-blooded ManipulativeBastard, and are ''really'' evil.
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* LampshadeHanging on him being a floating head. Try to give him a weapon and he'll say this:
->'''Morte''' Oh ''yeah'', sure. I'll just ''swing it with my arms''.
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* PlayerPunch - [[spoiler:Butchering your party members one by one (Except [[FakingTheDead Morte]]), then rubbing it in your face by claiming ''it was your fault''. Yes, as noted above, he ''did'' give them a chance to leave, but ''damn''.

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* PlayerPunch - [[spoiler:Butchering your party members one by one (Except [[FakingTheDead Morte]]), then rubbing it in your face by claiming ''it was your fault''. Yes, as noted above, he ''did'' give them a chance to leave, but ''damn''.]]
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** [spoiler:Only because normally, Devas can't lie in any way at all]]

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** [spoiler:Only [[spoiler:Only because normally, Devas can't lie in any way at all]]
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AARGH!


* [[spoiler:CompleteMonster]] - [[spoiler:"Good" Incarnation is [[{{Understatement}} a bit of a misnomer. It's never revealed ''what'' kind of thing he did to earn him this description, but it certainly wasn't pleasant.]]]]

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* [[spoiler:CompleteMonster]] - [[spoiler:"Good" Incarnation is [[{{Understatement}} a bit of a misnomer. ]] It's never revealed ''what'' kind of thing he did to earn him this description, but it certainly wasn't pleasant.]]]]]]
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* [[spoiler:CompleteMonster]] - [[spoiler:"Good" Incarnation is [[{{Understatement}} a bit of a misnomer.]]]]

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* [[spoiler:CompleteMonster]] - [[spoiler:"Good" Incarnation is [[{{Understatement}} a bit of a misnomer. It's never revealed ''what'' kind of thing he did to earn him this description, but it certainly wasn't pleasant.]]]]
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How on earth did I miss that.


* [[spoiler:CompleteMonster]] - [["Good" Incarnation is [[{{Understatement}} a bit of a misnomer.]]]]

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* [[spoiler:CompleteMonster]] - [["Good" [[spoiler:"Good" Incarnation is [[{{Understatement}} a bit of a misnomer.]]]]
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* ManOnFire - [[OverlyLongGag He. Is. On. Fire.]]


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* [[spoiler:CompleteMonster]] - [["Good" Incarnation is [[{{Understatement}} a bit of a misnomer.]]]]
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* WhoWantsToLiveForever - [[spoiler: [[SoYouWantToLiveForever The first incarnation does.]]

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* WhoWantsToLiveForever - [[spoiler: [[SoYouWantToLiveForever The first incarnation does.]]did.]]]]
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* WhoWantsToLiveForever - [[spoiler: The first incarnation.]]

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* WhoWantsToLiveForever - [[spoiler: [[SoYouWantToLiveForever The first incarnation.incarnation does.]]
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* HeyItsThatVoice - Rob Paulsen, who's Morte's voice actor, also voices [[{{Animaniacs}} Yakko Warner]].

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* HeyItsThatVoice - Rob Paulsen, RobPaulsen, who's Morte's voice actor, also voices [[{{Animaniacs}} Yakko Warner]].
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* VitriolicBestBuds - With Nodrom.

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* [[spoiler:FakingTheDead - He's the only party member not killed by the Transcendent One, but pretends to be dead until the battle's over.]]



* MoralEventHorizon - [[spoiler:Leading Deionarra into a HeroicSacrifice.]]

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* MoralEventHorizon - [[spoiler:Leading [[spoiler:He has a virtual laundry list of atrocities, including metal torture (Dak'kon), physical torture (Morte), and physical ''and'' mental torture (Ignis), but leading Deionarra into a HeroicSacrifice.HeroicSacrifice is widely considered to be his worst.]]


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* PlayerPunch - [[spoiler:Butchering your party members one by one (Except [[FakingTheDead Morte]]), then rubbing it in your face by claiming ''it was your fault''. Yes, as noted above, he ''did'' give them a chance to leave, but ''damn''.

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** - They are beasts biologically though.



--> '''Morte:''' Morte. Like leather. Or death.

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--> '''Morte:''' Morte. Like leather. Or latin. For death.



**[spoiler:Only because normally, Devas can't lie in any way at all]]




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* [[spoiler:NiceJobBreakingItHero - His paranoia led him to set up traps for his later incarnations and destroy the journal that contains a ton of important info.]]




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** There's a reason why he is the Practical Incarnation, not the Evil Incarnation.



Yet another of the Nameless One's previous incarnations.

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Yet another of the Nameless One's previous incarnations.
incarnations. The first, in fact.


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* PetTheDog - [[spoiler: He offers your party members the chance to leave instead of killing them.]]
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* TrueNeutral

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* TrueNeutral
TrueNeutral - In the end, his only desire is to be left alone. The only reason he's an antagonist is because he [[spoiler:rightfully]] believes that he'll never achieve this so long as the Nameless One keeps trying to learn about his past, and he's willing to do ''anything'' to prevent this.

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* ShutUpKiss - If the Nameless One talks to Annah after kissing Ravel and specifically starts a conversation by mentioning that, Annah gets upset saying that he couldn't say anything that would make her feel better. [[FirstKiss So he doesn't say anything.]]



* LawfulNeutral - True Lawful, i. e. the embodiment of Law.

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* LawfulNeutral - True Lawful, i. e. the embodiment of Law.[[LawfulStupid To an extreme.]]

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* GreenEyedMonster - Annah often gets angry when the Nameless One shows attention to another female. If he pays a harlot to help him "find what he's missing", Annah [[BerserkButton flip out and kill her]].

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* GreenEyedMonster - Annah often gets angry when the Nameless One shows attention to another female. If he pays a harlot to help him "find what he's missing", Annah [[BerserkButton flip flips out and kill kills her]].



** And even then, YourMileageMayVary.



** [[WordOfGod Chris Avellone]] says he [[http://www.sorcerers.net/Games/Torment/Platter/crap/threads/chris_prophecy2.htm#1 sees her more as Neutral]].
* TheCameo / MythologyGag - Incarnations of Ravel make appearances in the IcewindDale series; she's the Seer in Heart of Winter and the cat lady in Targos in [=IWD2=]. ChrisAvellone gave some hints about identifying who her incarnations are, as they have bad eyesight, are female, and are usually elderly.



* [[spoiler:Yandere]]

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* [[spoiler:Yandere]]
[[spoiler:{{Yandere}}]]

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* GreenEyedMonster - Annah often gets angry when the Nameless One shows attention to another female. If he pays a harlot to help him "find what he's missing", Annah [[BerserkButton flip out and kill her]].




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* YouAreWorthHell - In the best ending, she promises to search for the Nameless One in the Lower Planes after he loses his immortality. Although, being a tanar'ri, she's actually no stranger to the hellish planes.
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* [[spoiler:IOweYouMyLife - Dak'kon is bound to serve The Nameless One for as long as The Nameless One lives due to a life-debt to The Practical Incarnation, who 'saved' Dak'kon by giving him the Unbroken Circle of Zerthimon.]]

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* [[spoiler:IOweYouMyLife - Dak'kon is bound to serve The Nameless One for as long as The Nameless One lives due to a life-debt to The Practical Incarnation, who 'saved' Dak'kon by giving him the Unbroken Circle of Zerthimon. Finding out The Nameless One was immortal was...unpleasant, for him.]]



* CuteMonsterGirl

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* CuteMonsterGirlCuteMonsterGirl - Probably not a good idea to call her "cute" within earshot though.



* HotBlooded - Both figuratively and literally. It's why she dresses the way she does.

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* HotBlooded - Both figuratively and literally. It's why she dresses the way she does. [[spoiler: If you smooch her, her outfit starts ''smoking''.]]



* InfernalRetaliation

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* InfernalRetaliationInfernalRetaliation - [[RuleOfThree He. Is. On. Fire.]]



* PyroManiac - And how!

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* PyroManiac - And how!how! [[RunningGag He's on fire!]]



* WreathedInFlames - [[RunningGag He. Is. On. Fire.]]

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* WreathedInFlames - [[RunningGag [[OverUsedRunningGag He. Is. On. Fire.]]



* SecretCharacter: He is in that obscure a locale that you may not even know he exists until another fan tells you. And finding him can be a real GuideDangIt quest.

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* SecretCharacter: SecretCharacter - He is in that so obscure a locale that you may not even know he exists until another fan tells you. And finding him can be a real GuideDangIt quest.



''"Justice is not blind... for I am Her eyes!" ''

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''"Justice is not blind... for I '''I''' am Her eyes!" ''



* AnAxeToGrind

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* AnAxeToGrindAnAxeToGrind - A big honkin' one.



* RightMakesMight - Literally, his power grows in proportion to the task he has to accomplish.

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* RightMakesMight - Literally, his power grows in proportion to the task he has to accomplish. [[spoiler: With careful wording, you can give him a massive power boost by telling him of the "injustice" of your plight.]]



* ChaoticEvil

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* ChaoticEvilChaoticEvil - A remarkably romantic one though.



* ThePunishment - She's been mazed for [[spoiler:attempting to ''[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt free]]'' the Lady of Pain.]]

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* ThePunishment - She's been mazed for [[spoiler:attempting to ''[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt free]]'' the Lady of Pain.]]Pain]]. She's pretty comfy in there though [[spoiler: and can apparently come and go as she pleases]].



A demon bound to do acts of selfless goodwill by Trias.

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A demon bound to do acts of selfless goodwill by Trias.
Trias. [[{{Understatement}} He is not pleased by this]].



* CompleteMonster

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* CompleteMonsterCompleteMonster - An impressive individual to be sure, but also as ruthless and unremorseful as they come.



* ManipulativeBastard

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* ManipulativeBastardManipulativeBastard - Reliving his memories gives you a front-row seat of him effortlessly twisting people round his finger.



* NoteToSelf

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* NoteToSelfNoteToSelf - Very big on this.
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** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by the tailor in the Clerk's Ward. If you visit him before you've recruited Fall-from-Grace, he will ruthlessly critique her outfit on the grounds of practicality. She will shrug it off, saying she's never felt extremes of heat or cold because of her part-fiend heritage.

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** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by the tailor in the Clerk's Ward. If you visit him before you've recruited Fall-from-Grace, he will ruthlessly critique her outfit on the grounds of practicality. She will shrug it off, saying she's never felt extremes of heat or cold because of her part-fiend heritage. Or, if Morte is in your party, she'll seriously consider letting the tailor create some more practical armor before Morte interjects, saying that it's a terrible idea.
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* HeroicBSOD - If good-aligned, he will have once when he recalls [[spoiler:the Practical Incarnation's [[MoralEventHorizon most terrible act]].]]
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Not the first time John de Lancie plays a [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration being of immense power.]]
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* SelfMutilationDemonstration - You do this quite a bit, even killing yourself a few times for various reasons.

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* [[spoiler:LoveMakesYouEvil]] - [[spoiler:She wants the Nameless One, and is willing to murder him and his ''entire party'' to keep him around.]]

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* [[spoiler:LoveMakesYouEvil]] - [[spoiler:She wants the Nameless One, and is willing to murder him and his ''entire party'' to keep him around. However, that turns out to be an act on her part to get the Nameless One to kill her in hopes that it would undo immortality.]]
-->--[[spoiler:'''Ravel''': I had thought that dying at his hand would fulfill the requirements the past put forth.
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* VideogameCrueltyPotential: The protagonist can not only kick the dog, but also crush its soul. Party members are particularly vulnerable to this. It is a testament to power of the game's script, however, that it ''will'' make you feel like a complete bastard for going down that path.

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