History Characters / Rift

* LargeAndInCharge: And he's ''canonically'' that big.
* LargeHam: "You are a '''Guardian'''!"

* HeartbrokenBadass
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething

* DropTheHammer
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething

!! Frederic Kain
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--> "Death rewards defiance."
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* KnightTemplar
* ThePaladin

* TheWisePrince

* HeroicBastard: He's Aedraxis and Zareph's half-brother.

--> "Sometimes a single idea can change the world."

* FieryRedhead
* NiceJobBreakingItHero

* RealityWarper

--> "I take orders from neither man nor god."

* LadyOfBlackMagic
* {{Naytheist}}

--> "We will '''crush''' the Blood Storm."

* OldSoldier: He's canonically both past his prime ''and'' still quite formidable.

--> "These Trials are nothing for the Kelari."

--> "No great discovery is made without a few mishaps."

* GadgeteerGenius
* StalkerWithACrush: Towards Asha Catari, apparently.
* UnrequitedLove: See above.

!! The Faceless Man
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--> "Question my motives if you must, but not my orders."

The leader of the unseen and former Abyssal cultist, the Faceless Man can often be found wherever abyssals are nearby, waiting to sabotage them and stop the madness that he's seen first hand from invading Telara.
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* TheAtoner

--> "There is something oddly perfect about death."

* GirlishPigtails

* {{Necromancer}}
* NightmareFetishist: The way she says the quoted line really makes it feel like this.
* RebelliousPrincess

* StoryboardBody: She's a bahmi; it kind of goes with the territory.

--> "I wish your presence meant good news, but I doubt it."

* DeadpanSnarker

* ProfessionalKiller
* ShipTease: See Uriel's entry above.

--> "Good is not enough. You must be ''great''."

* BadassBoast: In Meridian, regarding trophies.
* BadassNormal: She's ''not'' an Ascended.
* CoolAunt[=/=]HonoraryAunt: Uriel is ''not'' a blood relative, but nonetheless views Dacia as a CoolAunt. In fact, Dacia is one of the few people to whom Uriel will actually ''listen''.

--> "Fate? Destiny? Bah, let's make some miracles with our own two hands!"

* AdventurerArchaeologist
* ArtificialLimbs: Has a steampunk peg leg.
* GadgeteerGenius

-->"A sailor might see a shark feed, and say he has seen hunger, or through a shark’s black eyes he might understand hunger and go mad. This is the difference between the true nature of the Blood Storm, and the dragon forms they take upon Telara."

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: How they became Gods of their specific planes. As shown by the non-Dragon Akylios anyone that was an active God of an Elemental Plane at the time of the Blood Storm's first invasion is a Blood Storm.

-->"Regulos lies. He promises his cultists peace through death, but the peace of the void is not prosperity. He promises his lieutenants eternal power over the undead, but will unmake and consume all of reality to sate his hunger."

* BigBad: The greatest threat of all the dragons.
* TheBadGuyWins: In Terminus.
* CastingAShadow.

* OmnicidalManiac: Is ''offended'' by the concept of existence.
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: As shown by Endless Eclipse you actually ''can'' comprehend his completed true form since it's the humanoid body seen in Terminus which while normally just walking around on its own alongside his second Dragon Form (is [[spoiler:embedded within an artificial body made from the flesh of his zombified servant Kain attached to the Plane of Death when you kill him in Endless Eclipse]]).
** You can also grasp his true nature as two beings who'd later merge with each other and can only be killed DeaderThanDead in their merged form... Of course anyone who grasped that fact before the birth of Regulos's other half would have gone mad from the futility of their efforts fufilling the GoMadFromTheRevelation that results from learning a Blood Storm's true nature. Those from the present who want Regulos dead would see the merging of the two halves as their chance to render Regulos DeaderThanDead.

!! Alsbeth the Discordant.

-->"Weak minds crave domination. Weak flesh yearns to obey."

* FaceHeelTurn: Was once a Guardian Ascended before joining the Endless.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Was devoured by Regulos upon her final failure at the River of Souls.

--> "He was mad even before he learned all fears and secrets. There are no words for what Akylios is now."

* EldritchAbomination: Even by ''[[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragon]] standards'' due to actually being not one but thousands of tentacled sharks with multiple eyes on each one.
** Human standards of course see him or should we say them as a herd of bizzare looking sharks (though ''multiple'' bizzare looking sharks with tentacles and multiple eyes ''would'' probably unsettle the minds of Azdah's offspring due to the sheer ''absurdity'' of them being capable of holding rulership over the Plane of Water despite the best efforts of the ''real'' Dragon of Water).

* LovecraftianSuperpower: His 'gift' to his followers, the Abyssal.

* MakingASplash

* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: "Like all the Blood Storm, Akylios's true form is an expression of everything he represents, and can best be described as the best way to peel a man is in one long spiral strip, like an apple. So strange did Akylios become that even his cohorts found him unsettling, and his "dragon" form bears little resemblance to anything the sane would imagine."
** His true form is a herd of Eldritch Abomination sharks identical to his “Dragon” form which is infact extremely comprehensible (more so than whatever Regulos's human half Aedraxis Mathos really was ''before'' taking on human form) though ridiculous to the point where it becomes unsettling even for Dragons though what is likely unsettling to them is likely the fact that he's actually a herd of Akvan that conquered the Plane of Water pushing out the ''real'' Water Dragon.


!! Greenscale, Dragon of Life/[[spoiler:Tasuil, Dragon of Life]]

-->"His ideal is constant, shifting struggle, where species of every sort live and die at each others’ throats, till only the most vicious survive—or something stronger comes along."

-->"The red dragon is chaos incarnate. Any goals beyond sowing turmoil and ruin are a waste of his time."

* BigBadEnsemble: With Arak and Draum in Nightmare Tide expansion.
* BloodKnight: "Destruction for destruction's sake" describes Maelforge ''perfectly''.
* TheDragon: To Glasya after she overthrew him and her father. [[spoiler:He's actually one to her father the previous king and his court.]]
* PlayingWithFire.
* PyroManiac
* OmnicidalManiac: Subverted-he's ''so much'' of a BloodKnight that he would actually ''spare the world after he conquers it'' so it can properly rebel against him and give him an even better fight.
** His female boss [[DoubleSubversion on the other hand......]]
* {{Satan}}: His boss Glasya Queen of the Flame sees herself as this and struck down the rule of her father the previous King of the Flame[[spoiler: who is implied to have been watching her with his court while arranging [[OffingTheOffspring Woragrath's execution of her when weakened.]]]]
* TheStarscream: To Glasya. He's [[spoiler:more loyal to her father the previous king.]]

-->"A lifelong friend suddenly changes expression and becomes a deadly assassin. Children turn against their parents, and kings are killed by their consorts, who the night before swore love eternal."

* BigBadWannabe: Ends up being this to both Akylios and Demogos (and by extension his true form Arak).
* BlowYouAway

* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Air has the advantage over Death, since there's nothing solid for the Death magic to influence. Because of this, Crucia is said to be the only dragon who can defeat Regulos one-on-one. This may or may not be the reason why [[spoiler:they mated and have had children.]]
** She's not capable of beating Regulos's True Form with her Dragon Form though.

* MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll: She secretly holed up in the roof of her temple while her would be "jailors" turned the valley where her temple was located in into a frozen lake while leaving the roof of the temple untouched and ready to shatter just by moving a muscle when she has need to leave her temple so by definition she avoided imprisonment entirely!
** The only reason she hadn't left her temple until the Infinity Gate was rebuilt was because [[spoiler:she can control the Storm Legion just fine without moving a muscle (which would have and did destroyed her hideout) and her enemies think she's many meters under the unmeltable ice so she's quite safe inside her fortress.]]

* ShockAndAwe

* WorldOfSilence: Her main goal.

-->"Laethys will feast atop a pile of famished wretches. All will adore her alone, and she will never give them quite enough."

* DishingOutDirt: [[ExtraOreDinary Dishing out Gold]] is more like it.

* GoldFever: What she has, and what she inspires in those who follow her.
* {{Greed}}

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* AnIcePerson: ''All'' of his attacks are this.
* TheDragon: A literal example to [[spoiler:Draum]] and as such is only seen at Mount Sharax where [[spoiler:you kill him.]]
* MakingASplash: Though unlike Akylios it's only of the KillItWithIce variety.

TheOldGods ''more'' powerful than the Blood Storm with the exception of their weaker members known the Akylios who count as one of the Blood Storm. Held back by Regulos they seek to return to Telara.

* BigBad: Of the Nightmare Tide Expansion in his Akvan form.
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Arak, Lord of Nightmares in the Nightmare Tide Expansion.

* TheUnfought: You'll see his true form yet not fight him despite trying to stop him from draining the Plane of Water of all water. His Akvan avatar Matrodraum and his Good Dream avatar Kondraum on the other hand.....
* UnholyMatrimony: With the Akvan Izbithu who is frozen into a SealedEvilInACan...

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* BladeOnAStick: Wields a halberd.

* BadassBaritone

* BareYourMidriff

* EldritchAbomination: [[UpToEleven Even]] by ''[[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragon]] standards'' due to actually being not one but thousands of tentacled sharks with multiple eyes on each one.

* AlwaysABiggerFish: Not only is he a more powerful God of Water than Akylios but one of his minions the Yrlwalach (whose face has been previously seen popping out of every Water Rift in the game) is ''more'' of an EldritchAbomination than [[UpToEleven the Akylios!]] He also has a more powerful Dragon serving him: Izkinra the ''real'' Dragon of Water spawned by Azdah.

* GreenThumb

* TheLostWoods: If he has his way, the entire world will become this...
* ManEatingPlant: ...filled with these...
* WhenTreesAttack: ...and these.
* WildChild: What people become if they find themselves lost in the woods.

%%%* BadassBeard.