History Characters / Salvos

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Humans are weird."

* ConsumateLiar: He tells lies and uses illusions so convincing, that he even fools '''''himself'''''.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's last seen in Lucerna's lair, trying to rescue Salvos from being dragged off by the evil Djinn, and he's Salvos's prime motivation, but after hundreds of chapters after the event, nobody knows what's happened to him.

! Mavos Academy
!! Faculty
[[folder: Clayton Skyshredder]]
The headmaster.

* AwesomeMcCoolName: "Skyshredder" sounds like a name one would find in a SpaceOpera.
* BadassTeacher: He runs a school of elites and is one of the most powerful men in the country of Sedos.
* HeroicLineage: He descends from a researcher who escaped the mass invasion of Centinels that wiped out the coast now going by the name Bloodied Gulf, became a legit heroic adventurer and returned a couple of decades later to exact revenge on the very monsters that wiped out most of his neighbors, friends, and family.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Sure, Saffron did pay back a favor and talk on Salvos's behalf to let the latter enter the academy, and late in the mid-terms, but Clayton didn't get petty or obstructive and put Salvos through the normal interview process, accepted proper payment and then let her enroll in the classes she needed to master the space magic she wanted. He's rewarded when Salvos gets distinctive marks in all courses and even completes a very difficult Potion of Regeneration for her alchemy class. He also gives the monsters Salvos brings back from Bloodied Gulf a fair hearing and agrees to try and repair the Breastplate of Alexander when Salvos presents its broken remains, as, if nothing else, it's an excellent opportunity for him to research a Mythical Grade artifact, which is an opportunity he'd never expected to have in his entire life, even if he devoted his school's entire budget to the search.

[[folder: Isais]]
The professor in charge of teaching space magic theory.

* GracefulLoser: After The Devil has tossed him out a window, Salvos is expecting that she's going to have to do a lot of groveling to stay in his class. The next day, she's surprised that he's actually given what the guy told him some serious thought, did the research, and realized that The Devil was telling the truth. The course manual he wrote is full of errors, excess extrapolation, and wrong mechanics that would actually have grave consequences if overused, requiring a massive revision and rewrite.
* MuggingTheMonster: When The Devil, in disguise, calls him out for errors in his curriculum, he gets into a shouting match with the high-level demon and challenges the latter to a fight. He winds up getting tossed out the window of his own classroom.

!! Students
[[folder: Velda]]
A fellow vampire that goes to Mavos college. Born as a commoner, she doesn't have the same passion as her friend Saffron for fighting the demon scourge. She fixates on Salvos because the latter is both a legendary hero and treats her like an equal, unlike the majority of other students who just look at her in envy for her genius and consider her "a lucky upstart" for getting into the academy in the first place, overlooking all her hard work.

* AccidentalTruth: Far, far removed from Salvos's actions, she and her study group are moping, thanks to a certain Primal Demon causing classes at Mavos to shut down, for public safety. They all come to the conclusion that Salvos is either a [Hero] thanks to her meteoric rise to power and fame, or she's a [Sentinel of Secily]. Guess which title Salvos earned by beating up the Ancient Centinel in the Bloodied Gulf?
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: She becomes a near fanatical fangirl of Salvos because the latter patted her on the shoulder and said words of encouragement when the two meet in the academy, as opposed to looking down her nose at her like the vast majority of the class.
* EntertaininglyWrong: She comes to the conclusion that Salvos is a [Hero] because of how quickly she leveled and her impressive feats. Salvos is actually a Demon, but she does party with a [Hero] Daniel.
* LovingAShadow: Of a platonic variant. She's fascinated with an idealized fantasy of Salvos's heroics that doesn't quite match the reality.

* WeHaveGrownComplacent: The vast majority of the Vampire nobles have forgotten their duty to prepare for Regnorex's coming return and indulged themselves in wanton luxury, caring only about staying in their plushy lives, even to the point they conspire and collude against each other, leading to several noble houses and clans being stripped of their noble titles and perks. This made it almost too easy when Belzu and Regnorex's bunch independently start going after them and the mystical treasures they guard. Once the battle began, they refuse to band together, focusing their strengths on trying to stay out of the cross-hairs, even if it means offering up each other.

! Humans of the Inora Empire *Spoilers*

[[folder: Amanda]]
A woman who approaches a despairing Daniel in a bar, trying to drown himself with booze. She at first seems to be a Level 13 [Farmer] but Daniel smells a rat and realizes she's actually an assassin over level 100.

* AndThisIsFor: She cries out that she slashed Simag's throat for the sake of the Harrowed Vindicators he murdered, [[OnlyInItForTheMoney because they payed well.]]
* AssassinsAreAlwaysBetrayed: When she sees a fellow Harrowed Vindicator break into the room where Daniel is holding her captive, rather than coming to her rescue, the assassin reveals that a contract had been placed on her head.
* EnemyMine: When Daniel captures her, her assassin buddies try to kill her '''and''' Daniel. They are forced to work together to get at the truth and defend themselves.
* MookFaceTurn: When she and Daniel get to Harrowed Vindicators HQ and see that the assassin guild and the country of Inora have been taken over by demons, she and Daniel genuinely join forces to try and stem the tide.
* TapOnTheHead: Justified. When Daniel was about to launch himself at Simag, as the latter had the upper hand, in a suicidal attempt to protect the citizens of Elustra, she uses a magic skill to render him unconscious with a blow to the head.

[[folder: Romyn Ino]]
The current emperor.

* ItsPersonal: Thanks to the actions of Simag and the demons under him, his parents were killed and his people were forced into a costly war with the country of Elutra. As such, he's got a personal grudge and wants them all dead.
* PuppetKing: He has no authority, at all. Archdemons and above control his empire and are responsible for the death of his parents.
* RebelliousPrincess: Gender inverted. He flees his empire, along with the Elustra Resistance, to spread the word about the Demon usurpation of his home country and the coming of Regnorex, in force.

! Melvos Academy

[[folder: Nolan, the mighty warrior]]
A noble, adventurer, and playboy, his skirt chasing antics are indirectly responsible for bringing Lucerna and Salvos to the Mortal Realm.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: The one lady he wants to commit to isn't interested.
* DramaticIrony: He's a well-known playboy who makes it a point to tell his targets that they're nothing more than a fling, but when he finds someone he wants to settle down with, she's not interested in romance at all.
* EverybodyHasStandards: When Lucy dragged herself into his party, just for the sake of DatingWhatDaddyHates, he didn't just dump her in the wilderness, but at least brought her to the nearest town and made sure she was safe before he took off for parts unknown.
* LadykillerInLove: All his flings were just that, flings. He lays eyes on Salvos and falls in love with her for real. Unfortunately, she's not interested and friendzones him.
* TheMagnificent: He goes by Nolan, The Mighty Warrior. Not just Nolan.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Because he had a fling with Lucy, who tried to make things serious against his wishes, her unrequited love Chris became a [Cultist] and summoned Lucerna to hunt him down, which goes egg-shaped because the Greater Demon Djinn dragged Salvos along.

! Kobolds

!! The Rising Dragon clan

[[folder: Xandri, the alchemist]]
One of the first Kobolds Salvos meets and the only one who doesn't react with hostility towards her true form. Salvos saved her life from being kidnapped and murdered by a rival Kobold sect. The two have been friends ever since.

* ActualPacifist: Unlike the Scale Defenders faction that fanatically tries to adhere to what they see as the will of the Old Gods and want to start a genocidal war with the humans, where either the Kobolds go extinct or the humans do, she wants Kobolds and Humans to work together to fight the oncoming calamity that's prophetized.
* FantasticRacism: Like the rest of her people, she's biased against humans, thanks to the ancient prophecy about the end of the world, but she's willing to give individual humans a fair hearing.
* IOweYouMyLife: She's friendly and cordial to Salvos because the latter saved her life more than once.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She's willing to help Salvos rescue her human companion Edithe from blight and mana poisoning because Salvos is a treasured ally, and holds no hatred for Salvos being a demon, nor Edithe and Daniel being humans because they're close to Salvos.
* SupportPartyMember: Her class is clearly a non-combat class, but she's great at supporting those who fight on her behalf.

!! The Scale Defenders clan

[[folder: As a whole]]
* {{Cult}}: They are all fanatical Old God worshippers, based on ancient stone tablets of dubious veracity, and genuinely believe that the only way to save all of reality is to exterminate every non-believer, and non-kobold from the Mortal Realm. They have an especial hatred of [Heroes], demons, and spirits.
* MoralMyopia: When the law is on their side, all fine and good, but when it isn't, it's to be ignored.
* StrawHypocrite: When Zix challenges Salvos to a TrialByCombat ''and loses'', they have the gall to accuse Salvos of cheating despite completely ignoring the rules of the bout. To wit:
** Salvos walked into the bout with a couple of temporary buffs, which is technically not breaking the rules, while Zix walked in wearing a bunch of powerful artifacts under his robes, which is strictly forbidden.
** They proclaim Salvos broke the rules by dragging Zix into the ritual fire of the bout and falling out of the ring in the process. There is no rule against it.
** Edithe cried out that Zix has many anti-fire enchantments while the bout is underway, and that's technically a violation of the "No outside interference" rule, but Zix was being boosted by his clan ''actively spell-casting in his favor'', a very, very egregious violation.
* TautologicalTemplar: Seeking to save reality is the ultimate virtue, so anything they do in that pursuit is the ultimate virtue too. Anyone who disagrees deserves death.
* {{Warhawk}}: They are desperate to initiate genocidal war with the human race and will kill any kobold who objects first chance they get.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Gelick, the Warrior]]
The leader of the band who kidnapped Xandri when Salvos, Daniel, and Edithe were training in the Plague Lands. Despite being at least 30 levels higher than her, Salvos manages to defeat him in a fight to the death, rescuing Xandri in the process.

* BreathWeapon: He breathes fire either in a powerful jet or as an exploding ball of flame.
* TheFundamentalist: Only the "true" believers in the Old Gods are permitted to live. Everyone else is a [Heretic] or [Blasphemer] that deserves death.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: He had Salvos cornered until she took a gamble on a new skill and boosted it to the max, attacking him with her claws. She wins the gamble and rips him in half.
* TautologicalTemplar: He sees his belief in the Old Gods and fighting the Apocalypse Prophecy as the ultimate virtue, so anything he does to that end is the ultimate virtue to. Anyone who disagrees must be a [Heretic] that deserves death.

[[folder: Zix, the Warrior]]
The leader of the Scale Defenders. He is introduced leading a squad of high-leveled kobolds to burn the human city of Ghostlight to the ground and kill every man, woman, and child, hoping to launch a never-ending war of extermination with the humans.

* AssumedWin: He is so wrapped up in his self-righteous zealotry that he thinks he will ultimately win any fight he goes into.
* CheatersNeverProsper: He demands a Trial of Scales (TrialByCombat) with Xandri, knowing her clan is compromised and when Salvos agrees to be Xandri's champion, both because it's the right thing to do and because she's got a grudge against this guy burning down the city of Ghostlight, trying to murder helpless children, and coming at her companions, he goes into the bout loaded down with artifacts, and has his followers in the crowd chanting magic to buff him the entire fight. ''Salvos still wins,'' though it was a tough fight.
* DeathByIrony: He does a bunch of despicable things in the name of his so-called faith and the kobold laws as he sees them. The very laws and rituals he holds in high esteem are what do him in.
* AGodAmI: When he transforms himself into a pseudo-dragon, he boasts that he's ascended into an Old God. When Salvos calls him out on it, all he can do is shout "insolence."
* HateSink: He is so odious, not only does the fanbase celebrate his death, the system awards Salvos a bonus for it!
* OneWingedAngel: During the bout with Salvos, he uses a magic artifact to transform himself into a pseudo-dragon.
* SoLongSuckers: During the torching of Ghostlight, he hangs back and lets all his subordinates fight while he goes around killing helpless civilians. When his subordinates are all dead, he flies off, bragging that he will come back stronger to finish the job.
* WouldHurtAChild: He wants the total extermination of the human race. By necessity, that includes helpless children, and kobold children who object are also fair game for the purge.

! Notable Monsters

[[folder: Zacharias the Quisling *Spoilers*]]
Formerly a summoned [Hero], he was called to the Mortal Realm of Nexeus to deal with the powerful necromancer Lilian. He allied with the necromancer, turning on the country that summoned him. A multi-national alliance sent armies at the two of them in response. The necromancer was slain in the fight but he had turned into a powerful Lich, and the battle site turned into an inhospitable land full of undead known as the Plaguelands. Countless red-headed women were taken by him due to his mad obsession with his beloved, including one Edithe Dawnriser.

* DrivenToMadness: According to his testimony, he was an ordinary Joe on Earth, but when he was summoned to some unnamed country that no longer exists, he was treated like crap and used as a disposable weapon and rebelled, siding with Lilian, the very necromancer he was sent to kill. Her death completed the process of breaking his mind and the result is a barren wasteland of blight-flowers and high level undead.
* FisherKing: The area now known as the Plaguelands used to be a very vibrant and fertile land when he was alive, to the point that the surrounding countries sent armies to try and take it. With Lilian's death and his own return as a lich, it became an uninhabitable wasteland where only the undead can roam freely and safely. His FinalDeath freed the land from his curse, but it could take centuries before the taint is gone and the soil recovers.
* GlassCannon: He is a powerful mage who wields impressive ice magic, but his body is composed of nothing but normal bones and is very fragile.
* AnIcePerson: He specializes in ice-based magic.
* TheLostLenore: He fell in love with Lillian, the necromancer, and her death during the war broke his mind. He's been kidnapping any woman with red hair he comes across, thinking it's her. When he finds out she's not, he goes into a rage and locks her in a giant crystal of ice "for deceiving him."
* PuzzleBoss: Brute force attacks can't stop him. His phylactery has to be found and destroyed first, or he will just regenerate from any damage done to him, and his phylactery is also hardly fragile. [[spoiler: As it's an '''entire castle.''']]
* SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum: When Edithe, Salvos, and Daniel manage to destroy a box holding Lilian's ashes, he goes completely apoplectic and starts blasting high level magic regardless of location, this winds up destroying his castle, that serves as his phylactery, leaving him vulnerable to a counter-attack, and his own FinalDeath.
* TragicKeepsake: He kept a black box full of Lilian's ashes on the throne room of his palace.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: In universe. He was summoned to Nexeus against his will, betrayed by countless companions in the country that summoned him, his lover was killed before his eyes, and all his hopes and dreams crushed. He retaliated by destroying entire armies and turning the battlefield where it happened into an uninhabitable wasteland where only high-level undead can travel safely.

[[folder: Centina]]
A sapient Centinel Salvos finds in the Bloodfilled Canyon, when she's sent to that high-level monster zone by The Devil. Centina has a sanctuary for other species of monsters that don't want to fight and just want to leave the area and live.

* HumanityEnsues: She used to be just another Centinel, going mostly on instinct, until she became self-aware and started developing human thoughts and feelings.
* HunterOfHisOwnKind: After being repeatedly suffering mindless attacks from other Centinel and having her lover murdered by another [Evolved Centinel] like herself, she has no issue helping others hunt and kill Centinels.
* TheLostLenore: Her human lover who was killed by a butt-hurt [Evolved Centinel] who keeps beating her to the brink of death and then throwing her back down the ravine she crawled out of, just for laughs.
* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Her human lover once saved her life, in order to capture and interrogate her because he wanted revenge on the Centinels for invading his home and mindlessly attacking all his friends and family to death. After an extended period of captivity, they fell in love with each other, but another [Evolved Centinel] came upon the scene and murdered him then captured her and threw her in a ravine, and keeps beating her up and throwing her back in every time she tries to crawl out and run away.

[[folder: The Vengeful Sage Centinel]]
An Evolved Centinel that one-sidedly decides Salvos has to die to avenge "his kin." Problem is, as Salvos points out, his "kin" are all Centinels, the vast, vast majority of which mindlessly attack everything in sight, including other centinels, starting from the instant they hatch, and Salvos was only fighting in self-defense.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: His cruel acts of vengeance against Salvos and trying to murder her monster companions, all of whom are innocents, causes her to unlock not one, but two, grand skills, which are so rare elites over level 150 are lucky to get even one. At the time Salvos was level 125.
* PowerParasite: He gains new powers and abilities by stealing them from the corpses of monsters and people he kills.
* RevengeByProxy: When he sees Salvos taking some innocent, harmless, and unrelated monsters out of the killing fields known as Bloodied Gulf to safety, he leads a hungry horde of centinels to the lair that is their home and actively blocks Salvos's way to keep her from rescuing them, just to show her how it feels to watch your loved ones die. Salvos retaliates with extreme, emphasis on extreme, prejudice.
* RevengeMyopia: Combined with RevengeBeforeReason. He must kill Salvos and make her suffer his pain for killing his kind. His kind are almost entirely composed of mindless beasts that mindlessly attack everything around them, including each other, starting from the instant they hatch, and even eat their own young. When Salvos points this out, he retorts "Doesn't matter. You kill centinels! I KILL YOU!"

! Vampires
[[folder: Common to all]]
* EmotionControl: They don't charm or mind-control people, but their racial [Vampire Essence] skill allows them to control the emotions of other races around them, unless their target is somehow protected from the effect.
* FantasticRacism: To various degrees. Their ancestors suffered greatly at the hands of Regnorex and his minions at the time of Alexander The Immortal, and were granted noble titles as a result of their sacrifice and aid in driving back the demonic scourge. As such, they tend to be intrinsically hostile to demons, some more than others.
* HidingInPlainSight: Their numbers were too depleted after the war with Regnorex to sustain themselves, so they blended in with humans, barely bothering with a disguise.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They could and do easily pass for humans as their need for food, sleep, and shelter are all the same, and have no glaring weaknesses like sunlight or garlic. While they can drink blood, it's intoxicating as if it were booze. While booze has no effect on them.
* WeHaveGrownComplacent: The vast majority of the Vampire nobles have forgotten their duty to prepare for Regnorex's coming return and indulged themselves in wanton luxury, caring only about staying in their plushy lives, even to the point they conspire and collude against each other, leading to several noble houses and clans being stripped of their noble titles and perks. This made it almost too easy when Belzu and Regnorex's bunch independently start going after them and the mystical treasures they guard. Once the battle began, they refuse to band together, focusing their strengths on trying to stay out of the cross-hairs, even if it means offering up each other.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Saffron Meyerines]]
A noblewoman Salvos meets near the start of volume 2 as her first escort mission. After saving her life from bandits and monsters, Saffron offers her hand in friendship and the two reunite in Mavos academy.

* BlueBlood: She is noble both by birth and by character.
* DrunkOnMilk: She gets intoxicated on blood very easily, especially on the blood of demons.
* KnightTemplar: She is very gung-ho about exterminating all demons wherever she finds them, without exception, and sees them as AlwaysChaoticEvil worshippers of Regnorex. She is suitably shaken when she learns of Salvos's true identity.
* RoseHairedSweetie: She's a very nice girl who has bright pink hair.
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: When she stumbles on Salvos, who had unknowingly been turned back to her true form by a class advancement, she fakes compliance, knowing attacking Salvos head on is suicide, and runs off the next day to try and recruit allies. Her best friend Velda refuses to believe Salvos is a demon, or even let Saffron say it, not only because of Salvos's sparking public image, but because Salvos [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe treated her with respect]] when nobody else would.

! Mavos Academy
!! Faculty
[[folder: Clayton Skyshredder]]
The headmaster.

* BadassTeacher: He runs a school of elites and is one of the most powerful men in the country of Sedos.
* HeroicLineage: He descends from a researcher who escaped the mass invasion of Centinels that wiped out the coast now going by the name Bloodied Gulf, became a legit heroic adventurer and returned a couple of decades later to exact revenge on the very monsters that wiped out most of his neighbors, friends, and family.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Sure, Saffron did pay back a favor and talk on Salvos's behalf to let the latter enter the academy, and late in the mid-terms, but Clayton didn't get petty or obstructive and put Salvos through the normal interview process, accepted proper payment and then let her enroll in the classes she needed to master the space magic she wanted. He's rewarded when Salvos gets distinctive marks in all courses and even completes a very difficult Potion of Regeneration for her alchemy class. He also gives the monsters Salvos brings back from Bloodied Gulf a fair hearing and agrees to try and repair the Breastplate of Alexander when Salvos presents its broken remains, as, if nothing else, it's an excellent opportunity for him to research a Mythical Grade artifact, which is an opportunity he'd never expected to have in his entire life, even if he devoted his school's entire budget to the search.

[[folder: Isils]]
The professor in charge of teaching space magic theory.
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* GracefulLoser: After The Devil has tossed him out a window, Salvos is expecting that she's going to have to do a lot of groveling to stay in his class. The next day, she's surprised that he's actually given what the guy told him some serious thought, did the research, and realized that The Devil was telling the truth. The course manual he wrote is full of errors, excess extrapolation, and wrong mechanics that would actually have grave consequences if overused, requiring a massive revision and rewrite.
* MuggingTheMonster: When The Devil, in disguise, calls him out for errors in his curriculum, he gets into a shouting match with the high-level demon and challenges the latter to a fight. He winds up getting tossed out the window of his own classroom.

!! Students
[[folder: Velda]]
A fellow vampire that goes to Mavos college. Born as a commoner, she doesn't have the same passion as her friend Saffron for fighting the demon scourge. She fixates on Salvos because the latter is both a legendary hero and treats her like an equal, unlike the majority of other students who just look at her in envy for her genius and consider her "a lucky upstart" for getting into the academy in the first place, overlooking all her hard work.

* AccidentalTruth: Far, far removed from Salvos's actions, she and her study group are moping, thanks to a certain Primal Demon causing classes at Mavos to shut down, for public safety. They all come to the conclusion that Salvos is either a [Hero] thanks to her meteoric rise to power and fame, or she's a [Sentinel of Secily]. Guess which title Salvos earned by beating up the Ancient Centinel in the Bloodied Gulf?
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: She becomes a near fanatical fangirl of Salvos because the latter patted her on the shoulder and said words of encouragement when the two meet in the academy, as opposed to looking down her nose at her like the vast majority of the class.
* EntertaininglyWrong: She comes to the conclusion that Salvos is a [Hero] because of how quickly she leveled and her impressive feats. Salvos is actually a Demon, but she does party with a [Hero] Daniel.
* LovingAShadow: Of a platonic variant. She's fascinated with an idealized fantasy of Salvos's heroics that doesn't quite match the reality.

* NoSocialSkills: Though she is improving, she has great difficulty understanding normal social cues, thanks to being a demon from the Nether Realm

[[caption-width-right:350:I am not "Demon" or "Imp" I am '''SALVOS'''! (The creature on her shoulder is her back in her larval form)]] Introduced in chapter 1 as a newly hatched larval demon, she goes through many near-death experiences, starting in infancy, then she's dragged off to the Mortal Realm at the start of Volume 2 and has to adapt and deal with ''humans'' who either flee in terror or attack her on sight, until she manages to get through to one of them and get herself a disguise. The story then focuses on her attempts to go back to the Nether Realm, doing many heroics in the process, to reunite with her FirstFriend Haec, a fellow larva demon who is eternally loyal to her because she not only saved his life but gave his life meaning, asking for nothing in return.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Her Nether Realm "upbringing" may have resulted in making her rather reckless, but she won't go pick a fight she knows she'll lose and she will try to flee from an unwinnable battle that's thrust upon her, if she can. She's pointedly not suicidal, after all.

* KarmicDeath: In the very early chapters, he spears a level 3 larva demon into a canyon wall, for the "crime" of fleeing an unwinnable fight, just to make himself feel superior and to terrorize the rest of the larva into obeying him. When Salvos has soundly beaten him, and he tries to run in chapter 314, she spears him into a mountain, so he sees how that feels.

* RunawayPrince: He flees his empire, along with the Elustra Resistance, to spread the word about the Demon usurpation of his home country and the coming of Regnorex, in force.

[[folder: Engor Inora]]

* AwesomeButImpractical: Her new [Partial Mortal] skill is a notable downgrade from her earlier [Mortal Form] skill. The latter only had a 1hr cool down and a small debuff while disguised as a mortal species. The former has a 12 hour cooldown, resets her sleep and hunger cycles the instant she takes a mortal form, knocking her out for hours, in exchange for having stats that don't go down between her mortal disguise and her true form.

* TheProtectorate: Because she's a small child who can't defend herself, Salvos, Edithe, Daniel, or one of their allies always has to watch over and protect her. She hates it and studies diligently to raise her level.

[[folder: Celline]]

[[folder: Princess Faith]]

* DrivenToVillany: [[spoiler: Demons killed and replaced the loyal members of his organization and corrupted the rest. He didn't want to war with the dreamers, but he was forced into it by demonic magics and skills.]]

* BadassGay: She's a lesbian who is also a powerful fighter.

* ThisIsFor: She cries out that she slashed Simag's throat for the sake of the Harrowed Vindicators he murdered, [[OnlyInItForTheMoney because they payed well.]]

* ActualPacifist: Unlike the Scale Defenders faction that fanatically tries to adhere to what they see as the will of the Old Gods and want to start a genocidal war with the humans, where either the Kobolds go extinct or the humans do, she wants Kobolds and Humans to work together to fight the oncoming calamity that's prophesized.

* TheProtectorate: Because

! Humans of Sievere Kingdom

! Humans of the Inora Empire

! Melvos Academy

[[folder: Nolan, the mighty warrior]]
A noble, adventurer, and playboy, his skirt chasing antics are indirectly responsible for bringing Lucerna and Salvos to the Mortal Realm.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: The one lady he wants to commit to isn't interested.
* DramaticIrony: He's a well-known playboy who makes it a point to tell his targets that they're nothing more than a fling, but when he finds someone he wants to settle down with, she's not interested in romance at all.
* EverybodyHasStandards: When Lucy dragged herself into his party, just for the sake of DatingWhatDaddyHates, he didn't just dump her in the wilderness, but at least brought her to the nearest town and made sure she was safe before he took off for parts unknown.
* LadykillerInLove: All his flings were just that, flings. He lays eyes on Salvos and falls in love with her for real. Unfortunately, she's not interested and friendzones him.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Because he had a fling with Lucy, who tried to make things serious against his wishes, her unrequited love Chris became a [Cultist] and summoned Lucerna to hunt him down, which goes egg-shaped because the Greater Demon Djinn dragged Salvos along.

! Kobolds

!! The Rising Dragon clan

[[folder: Xandri, the alchemist]]
One of the first Kobolds Salvos meets and the only one who doesn't react with hostility towards her true form. Salvos saved her life from being kidnapped and murdered by a rival Kobold sect. The two have been friends ever since.

* ActualPacifist: Unlike the Scale Defenders faction that fanatically tries to adhere to what they see as the will of the Old Gods and want to start a genocidal war with the humans, where either the Kobolds go extinct or the humans do, she wants Kobolds and Humans to work together to fight the oncoming calamity that's prophesized.
* FantasticRacism: Like the rest of her people, she's biased against humans, thanks to the ancient prophecy about the end of the world, but she's willing to give individual humans a fair hearing.
* IOweYouMyLife: She's friendly and cordial to Salvos because the latter saved her life more than once.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She's willing to help Salvos rescue her human companion Edithe from blight and mana poisoning because Salvos is a treasured ally, and holds no hatred for Salvos being a demon, nor Edithe and Daniel being humans because they're close to Salvos.
* SupportPartyMember: Her class is clearly a non-combat class, but she's great at supporting those who fight on her behalf.

!! The Scale Defenders clan

[[folder: As a whole]]
* {{Cult}}: They are all fanatical Old God worshippers, based on ancient stone tablets of dubious veracity, and genuinely believe that the only way to save all of reality is to exterminate every non-believer, and non-kobold from the Mortal Realm. They have an especial hatred of [Heroes], demons, and spirits.
* MoralMyopia: When the law is on their side, all fine and good, but when it isn't, it's to be ignored.
* StrawHypocrite: When Zix challenges Salvos to a TrialByCombat ''and loses'', they have the gall to accuse Salvos of cheating despite completely ignoring the rules of the bout. To wit:
** Salvos walked into the bout with a couple of temporary buffs, which is technically not breaking the rules, while Zix walked in wearing a bunch of powerful artifacts under his robes, which is strictly forbidden.
** They proclaim Salvos broke the rules by dragging Zix into the ritual fire of the bout and falling out of the ring in the process. There is no rule against it.
** Edithe cried out that Zix has many anti-fire enchantments while the bout is underway, and that's technically a violation of the "No outside interference" rule, but Zix was being boosted by his clan ''actively spell-casting in his favor'', a very, very egregious violation.
* TautologicalTemplar: Seeking to save reality is the ultimate virtue, so anything they do in that pursuit is the ultimate virtue too. Anyone who disagrees deserves death.
* {{Warhawk}}: They are desperate to initiate genocidal war with the human race and will kill any kobold who objects first chance they get.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Gelick, the Warrior]]
The leader of the band who kidnapped Xandri when Salvos, Daniel, and Edithe were training in the Plague Lands. Despite being at least 30 levels higher than her, Salvos manages to defeat him in a fight to the death, rescuing Xandri in the process.

* BreathWeapon: He breathes fire either in a powerful jet or as an exploding ball of flame.
* TheFundamentalist: Only the "true" believers in the Old Gods are permitted to live. Everyone else is a [Heretic] or [Blasphemer] that deserves death.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: He had Salvos cornered until she took a gamble on a new skill and boosted it to the max, attacking him with her claws. She wins the gamble and rips him in half.
* TautologicalTemplar: He sees his belief in the Old Gods and fighting the Apocalypse Prophecy as the ultimate virtue, so anything he does to that end is the ultimate virtue to. Anyone who disagrees must be a [Heretic] that deserves death.

[[folder: Zix, the Warrior]]
The leader of the Scale Defenders. He is introduced leading a squad of high-leveled kobolds to burn the human city of Ghostlight to the ground and kill every man, woman, and child, hoping to launch a never-ending war of extermination with the humans.

* AssumedWin: He is so wrapped up in his self-righteous zealotry that he thinks he will ultimately win any fight he goes into.
* CheatersNeverProsper: He demands a Trial of Scales (TrialByCombat) with Xandri, knowing her clan is compromised and when Salvos agrees to be Xandri's champion, both because it's the right thing to do and because she's got a grudge against this guy burning down the city of Ghostlight, trying to murder helpless children, and coming at her companions, he goes into the bout loaded down with artifacts, and has his followers in the crowd chanting magic to buff him the entire fight. ''Salvos still wins,'' though it was a tough fight.
* DeathByIrony: He does a bunch of despicable things in the name of his so-called faith and the kobold laws as he sees them. The very laws and rituals he holds in high esteem are what do him in.
* AGodAmI: When he transforms himself into a pseudo-dragon, he boasts that he's ascended into an Old God. When Salvos calls him out on it, all he can do is shout "insolence."
* HateSink: He is so odious, not only does the fanbase celebrate his death, the system awards Salvos a bonus for it!
* OneWingedAngel: During the bout with Salvos, he uses a magic artifact to transform himself into a pseudo-dragon.
* SoLongSuckers: During the torching of Ghostlight, he hangs back and lets all his subordinates fight while he goes around killing helpless civilians. When his subordinates are all dead, he flies off, bragging that he will come back stronger to finish the job.
* WouldHurtAChild: He wants the total extermination of the human race. By necessity, that includes helpless children, and kobold children who object are also fair game for the purge.

! Notable Monsters

[[folder: Zacharias the Quisling *Spoilers*]]
Formerly a summoned [Hero], he was called to the Mortal Realm of Nexeus to deal with the powerful necromancer Lilian. He allied with the necromancer, turning on the country that summoned him. A multi-national alliance sent armies at the two of them in response. The necromancer was slain in the fight but he had turned into a powerful Lich, and the battle site turned into an inhospitable land full of undead known as the Plaguelands. Countless red-headed women were taken by him due to his mad obsession with his beloved, including one Edithe Dawnriser.

* DrivenToMadness: According to his testimony, he was an ordinary Joe on Earth, but when he was summoned to some unnamed country that no longer exists, he was treated like crap and used as a disposable weapon and rebelled, siding with Lilian, the very necromancer he was sent to kill. Her death completed the process of breaking his mind and the result is a barren wasteland of blight-flowers and high level undead.
* FisherKing: The area now known as the Plaguelands used to be a very vibrant and fertile land when he was alive, to the point that the surrounding countries sent armies to try and take it. With Lilian's death and his own return as a lich, it became an uninhabitable wasteland where only the undead can roam freely and safely. His FinalDeath freed the land from his curse, but it could take centuries before the taint is gone and the soil recovers.
* GlassCannon: He is a powerful mage who wields impressive ice magic, but his body is composed of nothing but normal bones and is very fragile.
* AnIcePerson: He specializes in ice-based magic.
* TheLostLenore: He fell in love with Lillian, the necromancer, and her death during the war broke his mind. He's been kidnapping any woman with red hair he comes across, thinking it's her. When he finds out she's not, he goes into a rage and locks her in a giant crystal of ice "for deceiving him."
* PuzzleBoss: Brute force attacks can't stop him. His phylactery has to be found and destroyed first, or he will just regenerate from any damage done to him, and his phylactery is also hardly fragile.
* SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum: When Edithe, Salvos, and Daniel manage to destroy a box holding Lilian's ashes, he goes completely apoplectic and starts blasting high level magic regardless of location, this winds up destroying his castle, that serves as his phylactery, leaving him vulnerable to a counter-attack, and his own FinalDeath.
* TragicKeepsake: He kept a black box full of Lilian's ashes on the throne room of his palace.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: In universe. He was summoned to Nexeus against his will, betrayed by countless companions in the country that summoned him, his lover was killed before his eyes, and all his hopes and dreams crushed. He retaliated by destroying entire armies and turning the battlefield where it happened into an uninhabitable wasteland where only high-level undead can travel safely.

[[folder: Centina]]
A sapient Centinel Salvos finds in the Bloodfilled Canyon, when she's sent to that high-level monster zone by The Devil. Centina has a sanctuary for other species of monsters that don't want to fight and just want to leave the area and live.

* HumanityEnsues: She used to be just another Centinel, going mostly on instinct, until she became self-aware and started developing human thoughts and feelings.
* HunterOfHisOwnKind: After being repeatedly suffering mindless attacks from other Centinel and having her lover murdered by another [Evolved Centinel] like herself, she has no issue helping others hunt and kill Centinels.
* TheLostLenore: Her human lover who was killed by a butt-hurt [Evolved Centinel] who keeps beating her to the brink of death and then throwing her back down the ravine she crawled out of, just for laughs.
* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Her human lover once saved her life, in order to capture and interrogate her because he wanted revenge on the Centinels for invading his home and mindlessly attacking all his friends and family to death. After an extended period of captivity, they fell in love with each other, but another [Evolved Centinel] came upon the scene and murdered him then captured her and threw her in a ravine, and keeps beating her up and throwing her back in every time she tries to crawl out and run away.

! Vampires
[[folder: Common to all]]
* EmotionControl: They don't charm or mind-control people, but their racial [Vampire Essence] skill allows them to control the emotions of other races around them, unless their target is somehow protected from the effect.
* FantasticRacism: To various degrees. Their ancestors suffered greatly at the hands of Regnorex and his minions at the time of Alexander The Immortal, and were granted noble titles as a result of their sacrifice and aid in driving back the demonic scourge. As such, they tend to be intrinsically hostile to demons, some more than others.
* HidingInPlainSight: Their numbers were too depleted after the war with Regnorex to sustain themselves, so they blended in with humans, barely bothering with a disguise.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They could and do easily pass for humans as their need for food, sleep, and shelter are all the same, and have no glaring weaknesses like sunlight or garlic. While they can drink blood, it's intoxicating as if it were booze. While booze has no effect on them.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Saffron Meyerines]]
A noblewoman Salvos meets near the start of volume 2 as her first escort mission. After saving her life from bandits and monsters, Saffron offers her hand in friendship and the two reunite in Mavos academy.

* BlueBlood: She is noble both by birth and by character.
* DrunkOnMilk: She gets intoxicated on blood very easily, especially on the blood of demons.
* KnightTemplar: She is very gung-ho about exterminating all demons wherever she finds them, without exception, and sees them as AlwaysChaoticEvil worshippers of Regnorex. She is suitably shaken when she learns of Salvos's true identity.
* RoseHairedSweetie: She's a very nice girl who has bright pink hair.
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: When she stumbles on Salvos, who had unknowingly been turned back to her true form by a class advancement, she fakes compliance, knowing attacking Salvos head on is suicide, and runs off the next day to try and recruit allies. Her best friend Velda refuses to believe Salvos is a demon, or even let Saffron say it, not only because of Salvos's sparking public image, but because Salvos [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe treated her with respect]] when nobody else would.

! Mavos Academy
!! Faculty

!! Students
[[folder: Velda]]
A fellow vampire that goes to Mavos college. Born as a commoner, she doesn't have the same passion as her friend Saffron for fighting the demon scourge. She fixates on Salvos because the latter is both a legendary hero and treats her like an equal, unlike the majority of other students who just look at her in envy for her genius and consider her "a lucky upstart" for getting into the academy in the first place, overlooking all her hard work.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: She becomes a near fanatical fangirl of Salvos because the latter patted her on the shoulder and said words of encouragement when the two meet in the academy, as opposed to looking down her nose at her like the vast majority of the class.
* EntertaininglyWrong: She comes to the conclusion that Salvos is a [Hero] because of how quickly she leveled and her impressive feats. Salvos is actually a Demon, but she does party with a [Hero] Daniel.
* LovingAShadow: Of a platonic variant. She's fascinated with an idealized fantasy of Salvos's heroics that doesn't quite match the reality.

* TheFisherKing: The area now known as the Plaguelands used to be a very vibrant and fertile land when he was alive, to the point that the surrounding countries sent armies to try and take it. With Lilian's death and his own return as a lich, it became an uninhabitable wasteland where only the undead can roam freely and safely. His FinalDeath freed the land from his curse, but it could take centuries before the taint is gone and the soil recovers.

[[folder Zacharias the Quisling *Spoilers*]]

[[folder: Centina]]
A sapient Centinel Salvos finds in the Bloodfilled Canyon, when she's sent to that high-level monster zone by The Devil. Centina has a sanctuary for other species of monsters that don't want to fight and just want to leave the area and live.
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* HumanityEnsues: She used to be just another Centinel, going mostly on instinct, until she became self-aware and started developing human thoughts and feelings.
* HunterOfHisOwnKind: After being repeatedly suffering mindless attacks from other Centinel and having her lover murdered by another [Evolved Centinel] like herself, she has no issue helping others hunt and kill Centinels.
* TheLostLenore: Her human lover who was killed by a butt-hurt [Evolved Centinel] who keeps beating her to the brink of death and then throwing her back down the ravine she crawled out of, just for laughs.
* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Her human lover once saved her life, in order to capture and interrogate her because he wanted revenge on the Centinels for invading his home and mindlessly attacking all his friends and family to death. After an extended period of captivity, they fell in love with each other, but another [Evolved Centinel] came upon the scene and murdered him then captured her and threw her in a ravine, and keeps beating her up and throwing her back in every time she tries to crawl out and run away.
[[/folder]]

** Humility: To the point that she's paradoxically proud of being humble.

[[folder: Sophia]]

! Humans of Elustra

[[folder: Princess Faith]]
The woman who summoned Daniel Song as a [Hero] to Nexeus's Mortal Realm to fight in a war against the Inora Empire. She gave him the mushroom treatment (keep him in the dark and feed him crap) and used him as a LivingWeapon. When Daniel learned of this, he bolted, first chance he got.

* AintTooProudToBeg: When her country is losing the war with the Inora Empire, she rents a carriage, hires the best adventures she can find as escorts, and runs over to Daniel to bow her head to the ground and beg him to come back and save her nation, even saving his life from some assassins in the process. Daniel responds with a hearty "no." Not just because of his own bad experiences with her, but because the situation is already at the point where going back would be suicide.
* BrokenPedestal: Daniel used to think the world of her, but after a few too many lies and manipulations, he now sees everything she says and does as suspect.
* RealPolitik: Deconstructed. Sure, summoning Daniel and stringing him along with platitudes, manipulations, and trickery got her nation ahead of her enemies, for a while, but Daniel eventually learned the truth and bailed. This results in her nation collapsing, and the people thinking the worst of her when she ran out to try and beg him to come back.

! Notable Mosters

[[folder: Edithe]]

[[folder: Ogrim]]

* KilledOffscreen: He's introduced attacking and fighting both Harridan and Baris, the leader and retired leader of the Valiant Dreamers. He's next seen as a corpse being carried off and cremated.

* WeHardlyKnewYe: Introduced and killed off off-screen.

! Undead

* HopeBringer: Whenever she shows up, the poor, downtrodden, oppressed, weak and helpless, etc. light up, because if there's '''anyone''' who can improve their situation, it's her, after repeated acts of heroism, with her name preceding her.

* FriendToAllChildren: She's great with kids because she can think like them, and dotes on them like crazy, especially the sweet human girl Rachael, who adores her right back, even knowing she's a demon.

* IAmAHumanitarian: Subverted. When Rachael asks her if she eats people, she states that she tried and didn't find them tasty. Daniel asks her just when the hell she tried the taste of human meat, and she retorts "just now, I was curious" since everybody always says demons eat people and the humans she tasted were the corpses of the evil cultists who murdered ''each other'' in trying to summon Ignavare.

[[folder: Rachael]]

* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: She is ''less scared'' of approaching Salvos in her true form than of her home life, even when she honestly believes that Salvos is a man-eating monster. Fortunately, Salvos is actually a total sweetheart who goes on to dote on Rachael and genuinely makes the girl happy.

* ShoutOut: His name "Beelzu" is actually a shortened form of Beelzubub, known as the Lord of the Flies and a very powerful devil.

* DirtyCoward: He loves to lord over others when he greatly out-levels them, has an army at his back, is using hostages, or some other dirty trick(s), or any combination of the above. When he's facing a fair fight with someone anywhere near his level, he panics, runs, hides, and abandons allies. The second time he and Salvos meet, he's level 87 and she's level 80. He smugly calls her an idiot for daring to refuse his recruitment offer a second time, [[BerserkButton after just having attacked Edithe in a temple, who was trying to protect Rachael from assassins]], then Salvos goes through his assassins like they're Paper Mache, and reveals she's a Greater Demon, using her [Zealous Call] skill to force him to draw aggro, and protect Edithe. The moment he regains control of his actions, he runs off, calling for aid, that's not forthcoming, thanks to his own actions, and repeatedly tries to hide and beg for mercy. Salvos has none to spare.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: His own company's despicable tricks to lock up the priests in their own temple so he can grab Rachael to use as a hostage, or let the Harrowed Vindicators do the same leaves him with nobody to help him when Salvos learns of his actions and comes at him.
* KarmicDeath: He uses a civilian hostage and relative of one of the dreamers to draw out a high-leveled member of the Valiant Dreamers, unarmed, and sits back laughing and gloating as his assassin allies take their sweet time tearing the poor dreamer to pieces, right in front of Dreamers HQ. When he storms a temple said assassins have locked down so the priests inside can't come to the aid of any hostages he might take and goes after Edithe, who was there to rescue Rachael, he winds up facing an enraged Salvos. After seeing she is now very close to his own level, in record time, he offers to recruit her on the spot. She takes his offer seriously, but then asks him if he'll genuinely accept her for ''what'' she is, and reveals she's a demon. He stupidly panics and orders his assassin allies to [[ItIsDehumanizing "kill it"]] just to try and cover his own escape. After she tears through his assassins, she makes it a merry game to chase him through the town his company's actions have put in lock-down and when she catches up to and corners him, she takes her sweet time making him suffer and giving him a death so graphic, even the story doesn't show the reader what it is, just that nobody was available or willing to come to his aid.

A fellow dreamer to whom Edithe is exceptionally close. Sophia is often tasked with watching over Rachael while Salvos's party is away.

! Kobolds

!! The Rising Dragon clan

[[folder: Xandri, the alchemist]]
One of the first Kobolds Salvos meets and the only one who doesn't react with hostility towards her true form. Salvos saved her life from being kidnapped and murdered by a rival Kobold sect. The two have been friends ever since.

* ActualPacifist: Unlike the Scale Defenders faction that fanatically tries to adhere to what they see as the will of the Old Gods and want to start a genocidal war with the humans, where either the Kobolds go extinct or the humans do, she wants Kobolds and Humans to work together to fight the oncoming calamity that's prophesized.
* FantasticRacism: Like the rest of her people, she's biased against humans, thanks to the ancient prophecy about the end of the world, but she's willing to give individual humans a fair hearing.
* IOweYouMyLife: She's friendly and cordial to Salvos because the latter saved her life more than once.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She's willing to help Salvos rescue her human companion Edithe from blight and mana poisoning because Salvos is a treasured ally, and holds no hatred for Salvos being a demon, nor Edithe and Daniel being humans because they're close to Salvos.
* SupportPartyMember: Her class is clearly a non-combat class, but she's great at supporting those who fight on her behalf.