History Characters / Sacrifice

* ShoutOut: One of his combat taunts is "[[Film/EvilDead I'll swallow your soul!]]"

* DirtyCoward: When the Pyro’s capital is attacked, Thestor will go up the player and switch sides to who ever he’s serving.

* WhipItGood: Wields a whip in his right hand. He mostly seems to use it on himself to make himself move faster.

God of the Heaven and the Firmament and most things close to it, Stratos is the smallest and weakest of the gods and the 'balance act' between Persephone and James on one side and Pyro and Charnel on the other. He offers Eldred access to his centre-stage view and access to his unlimited knowledge in return for his servitude.

* AffablyEvil: As bloodthirsty and sadistic as he is, Charnel is also amazingly polite and tends to treat his wizards with respect.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: James utterly detests war and constantly argues in favor of peace. If you get him angry though, he goes for the kill. And unlike Persephone, James isn't much into 'redemption'.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: In his own words:
-->'''Jadugarr:''' Gods are cruel. Mortals only play by their rules.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She is quite infamous for her violent and self-righteous ways, but she is really as kind as as she and her followers say. She is a firm believer of redemption and quite a few of the creatures you get from her were once wicked monsters who have since become good under her wing.

* UndyingLoyalty: Loyal to Stratos and obeys his command without question.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The destructive tastes of demons is too much even for Charnel. While he does summon one, [[GodzillaThreshold it is more as a desperate measure to oppose Marduk.]]

* PetTheDog: [[spoiler: If Eldred leaves Charnel in his ending, the god of death takes it really well and wishes Eldred luck in his future endeavors.]]

Pyro's ambassador; a rotund politican who carries a torch for Empress Sorcha.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Fled Jhaera rather than die with the world. [[spoiler:He can choose -- voluntarily -- to leave the ''Sacrifice'' world if one of the evil gods are in charge following Marduk's defeat.]]

A big ikarus who is a war veteran.

* OnlySaneWoman: [[spoiler: She was the only servant of Stratos who argued against summoning Marduk and warned her god that the demon would betray them. She was absolutely right and her frustration with Stratos can result in the player recruiting her on some routes.]]

->'''Alignment:''' Persephone

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Much like his brother, Thestor betrays Peresephone early on (in his case in favor of Charnel), then later comes back to her. Zyzyx is understandably suspicious of him, but Thestor remains on the goddesses' side for the rest of the game.

* ExpositionFairy: He introduces new units and characters as they are encountered, gives gameplay advice, and provides colour commentary.

A large spider woman and James' champion.

* FriendlyNeighborhoodSpider: A heroic wizard who looks like a spider.

Pyro's champion and empress of Pyroborea.

* DemonicPossession: Gets possessed by a demon named Astaroth at Charnel's command as a counter to Marduk.

Jadugarr, last of the centaurs, was once a powerful servant of Stratos until his people were slaughtered in an event heavily implied to have been set in motion or permitted by Stratos. Swearing eternal revenge on the gods for his loss, Jadugarr became a wanderer who rejected all divinity, starting a populist movement against the gods' rule that rallies various races under the banner of Ashur, a saviour who will rid the world of the gods.

Formerly one of Persephone's Mystics, but defected to Charnel; she still knows some of Persephone's spells, making her better at keeping her units alive than most of Charnel's necromancers.

Charnel's former champion. At the start of the game, imprisoned by his god for some unspecified failure.

'''PROLOGUE (From the Game's Manual)'''

"''Being an excerpt from the Book of the Fyllid''"

In the beginning there was the Creator. Where there was naught but the cold void, the Creator gave of his flesh, and thus was all matter born. Where all was dark, the Creator spread his arms and gave light, thus was born the stars, the moons, and the suns. Where there was naught but silence and loneliness, the Creator did spill his blood, causing the very beginnings of life.


This life manifested in a multitude of forms, from the ancient behemoths of Thryhring to our own people, the Fyllid. In those times we were the chosen of the creator, the keepers of the lesser beasts and defenders of all the realms. As befit our role as his primary servants, the creator gifted us with power. The power to shape the world, the very trees, the land, the beasts, even the untouchable essence of the elements was granted us. Our people grew heady with the gift of power, and some of us turned our face from the creator. The gift became corrupted, used for forbidden experimentation and malicious purpose.


It was then that the Fallen One, he whose name must not be spoken, tore asunder the earth. In the land of Golgotha, profaning and defying the very laws of nature, the Fallen One opened a permanent gateway from this world to the demonic realms of the nether. The strain of opening this unnatural portal took its toll upon the world and the earth began to shatter. The Fyllid and all of creation watched in stunned silence as the benevolent Creator warred with the Demons of the nether, but the forces of hell proved too much for even he. A cry of unspeakable anguish broke the silence and echoed in the minds of his children as the creator was forever banished from this existence. None of his children heard the cry so loudly as the Fyllid, for it was one of our own that had ultimately betrayed and murdered our master. Most were driven mad and hurled themselves from one of the newly formed floating islands or sat useless, gibbering and moaning.


For a time the Fyllid wandered these new realms seeking signs of our former master. What was discovered was the stuff of nightmares. The creatures of the land began to warp and twist, the very land was changing. The home realm of the Fyllid, known as Elysium, grew lush and green, seeming to welcome us, even after the horrible betrayal of the Creator. So too did the other lands twist, the high reaches of Empyria grew cold and desolate; the lush, sweltering lands of Helios erupted with liquid hot magma while the arid Glebe grew even more rocky and barren. Most terrible of all were the blasted lands of Dys, which lay near Golgotha. These lands grew pestilent and the very earth rotted.


Five new Gods appeared to take the place of the Creator. Of the five it was our Lady Persephone who took us in. Grateful were we that any God would accept us into their fold and ever since we have served our Lady faithfully. We stand guard against the enemies of our Lady. We are ever vigilant, for it is the Fyllid who know intimately the price of failure.

-(''Athelas'')

* {{God Is Dead}}

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Unlike Persephone James isn't much into 'redemption'. If you get him angry, he goes for the kill.

* GodOfFire: Goes without saying.

* IndustrializedEvil: His main shtick.

Charnel's current champion.

Pyro's ambassador; also carries a torch for Empress Sorcha.

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* CigarChomper: Always wields one.

* {{Egopolis}}: Has his realm named after him self.

* RightlySelfRighteous: She will ''never'' shut up about the 'righteousness of her cause', but Persephone also seems to talk the talk as she repeatedly offers negotiation and redemption to those willing to grasp for it.

--->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/CharlieAdler

->'''Alignment:''' Charon

Charon's current champion.

* TheSoulless: According to Zyzyx, Charon found him in "some primal hell for creatures without souls."

[[folder:Marduk]]
!!Marduk
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->'''Aligmment:''' None

The BigBad of the game, Marduk is a powerful demon lord from an unknown plane. Eldred summoned him to his homeworld to destroy his rivals, but Marduk chose to destroy the entire world instead. As the story of ''Sacrifice'' progresses, it is revealed that he has been summoned to its world instead, and Eldred must attempt to stop him before the same fate befalls the ''Sacrifice'' world as well.

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* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Although he'd probably argue otherwise, since no-one has ever charged him to [[ExactWords "do not destroy me in the process of doing [X]"]].
* CreepyLongFingers: Three of them, and they look like over-long spikes.
* DemonLordsAndArchdevils: A very powerful one, given his apparent abilities.
* EvilSoundsRaspy: His voice sounds like he has been gargling sulphuric acid.
* IHaveManyNames: He takes on a new name every time he crosses the astral void. He initially calls himself "Ashur", and starts a cult to lead the people to a world without the squabbling of petty gods.
* KnightTemplar: Unusually, what little we learn of his motivations implies he's under some sort of divine mandate to destroy 'unworthy' worlds.
* {{Magitek}}: Employs a device called a 'megalith' to anchor his existence to the world, even without a divine patron.
* MightyGlacier: Slower than Eldred and with a larger hitbox, but has higher health. Taken to extremes in single-player, where he will easily tank two to three times the damage other wizards can take.
* {{Necromancer}}: Uses mostly spells from Charnel in the single player, no matter which path Eldred takes... Except for his level 9 summon, which is the Silverback.
* OmnicidalManiac: Both willing and able to destroy any plane of existence to which he's summoned. He doesn't even seem to need to ''do'' anything; simply being summoned is enough to start the decay.
* TheScourgeOfGod: In his own words:
-->'''Marduk:''' I am the embodiment of all Creation's ills, and my purpose is but a simple one: To annihilate all that is unworthy. All that is a reflection of myself.
* TimeAbyss: States that his 'age is beyond counting'.
* YouWillBeSpared: Offers to kill Eldred quickly if he surrenders.

[[folder:Mithras]]
!!Mithras
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TonyJay
->'''Alignment:''' None

Mithras is a BlindSeer and another planeswalking transplant to the ''Sacrifice'' world, having quickly gained infamy on the plane for his preaching of prophesies that foretell the death of the gods and TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. Eldred comes across Mithras amongst the ruins of the world in the introductory cutscene, and the entire story is Eldred re-telling the events that caused the current state of decay to him.

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* BlindSeer: Which doesn't translate into any gameplay in multiplayer, though in single player he is presented as exactly as harmless as you'd expect a blind old man to be.
* EscortMission: Will show up as the escortee in James' seventh mission.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Reveals himself as being somewhat skilled in demonology during Charnel's campaign. [[spoiler:Which he would, being one himself.]]
* FramingDevice: His conversation with Eldred is the framing for the actual story, with some of the cutscenes being breaks during which Mithras coaxes backstory or Eldred's motivations out of him in the 'current' time-period.
* LouisCypher: [[spoiler:He is one of Marduk's guises, which is discarded in the final mission.]]
* ThePowerOfLegacy: In Persephone or James' end, Eldred will tell the world that Mithras should be remembered as a hero for telling the truth without fear for himself, [[spoiler:essentially treating him as a separate person from Marduk.]]
* ProphecyTwist: His prophecy comes true in the end, but not in the way he'd probably intended it.
* SecretCharacter: Unlocked in multiplayer by getting Persephone or James' ending in the campaign.

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[[folder:Seerix]]
!!Seerix
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SusanSilo

Formerly one of Persephone's Mystics, but defected to Charnel; she still knows some of Persephone's spells, making her better at keeping her units alive than most of Charnel's necromancers.

* {{Necromancer}}: Like all followers of Charnel, though as a former Mystic she also knows some nature/healing spells.
* NonMammalMammaries: Has a rather prominent bust despite mostly looking like a snake.
* {{Sadist}}: Outright says to a peasant she's about to murder that she'll "enjoy your ssssuffering".
* SnakePeople: She basically looks like a large cobra with arms and breasts.
* SnakeTalk: As you'd expect from a snake lady.

[[folder:Shakti]]

[[folder:Sorcha]]

[[folder:The Ragman]]
!!The Ragman
->'''Alignment:''' Charnel

Charnel's former champion. At the start of the game, imprisoned by his god for some unspecified failure.
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* RedBaron: He is also known as "the Lord of Terror".
* SealedEvilInACan: Charnel's first mission involves unsealing him.
* ShoutOut: One of his combat taunts is "[[Film/EvilDead I'll swallow your soul!]]"
* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: The citizens of the Glebe see him as something of a bogeyman.

[[folder:Yogo]]
!!Yogo
->'''Alignment:''' Persephone

An old mystic and Persephone's champion.
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* HorseOfADifferentColor: He rides some kind of bouncing, one-legged monstrosity.

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