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%%* EasilyForgiven: For his actions in ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia''.

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%%* * EasilyForgiven: For his actions in ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia''.''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia'', which included [[spoiler: trying to wipe out an entire world of people to protect his own instead of looking for compromise, or to at least destroy all their spyrix in the English version.]]


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*NotSoAboveItAll: He gets in on the party's silly antics in the sequel when trolling Ludger and Elle, such as when Milla describes the final battle in the first game as a wrestling match and Gaius just rolls along with it claiming that he lost due to the referee calling the match wrong.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first time she's revealed, she implodes a bunch of airships with a [[SphereOfDestruction doomball]] to demonstrate her power. Then shortly after when meeting Jude for the first time, she greets him with a hug speaks sweetly but then quickly destroys a nearby spyrix with extreme prejudice before snapping back to being sweet, hinting at her true nature.

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first time she's revealed, she implodes a bunch of airships with a [[SphereOfDestruction doomball]] to demonstrate her power. Then shortly after when meeting Jude for the first time, she greets him with a hug and speaks sweetly but then quickly destroys a nearby spyrix with extreme prejudice before snapping back to being sweet, hinting at her true nature.

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first time she's revealed, she implodes a bunch of airships with a [[SphereOfDestruction doomball]] to demonstrate her power.

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first time she's revealed, she implodes a bunch of airships with a [[SphereOfDestruction doomball]] to demonstrate her power. Then shortly after when meeting Jude for the first time, she greets him with a hug speaks sweetly but then quickly destroys a nearby spyrix with extreme prejudice before snapping back to being sweet, hinting at her true nature.



%%* ShipTease: With both Gaius and Ludger.

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%%* * ShipTease: With both Gaius and Ludger.Ludger in the second game. Muzet shows more genuine affection towards Gaius than the other party members and he is also the only person she gives any kind of farewell to in the ending. With Ludger she'll openly tease and flirt with him, but if you max Ludger's affection with her she will geninuely thank Ludger for "the way you look at me".



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%%%%* * SphereOfDestruction: Her gravity spells take on this form. In her introduction she destroy multiple airships by conjuring an enormous one and ripping the ships out of the sky.

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* BackUpTwin: Game play wise she work as this as [[spoiler: she shows up after the Fractured Milla dies]] and aside from the Great Four fights in the same way as her. Narratively wise, she's a [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]] of this in regards to Elle, who was quite close to Fractured Milla and is understandably not happy to have her be "replaced" so easily by the rest. [[spoiler: It takes quite a lot of time for Elle to work out her issues with losing the Milla she got to know for the Prime Dimension version.]]

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* BackUpTwin: Game play Gameplay wise she work works as this as [[spoiler: she shows up after the Fractured Milla dies]] and aside from the Great Four fights in the same way as her. Narratively wise, she's a [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]] of this in regards to Elle, who was quite close to Fractured Milla and is understandably not happy to have her be "replaced" so easily by the rest. [[spoiler: It takes quite a lot of time for Elle to work out her issues with losing the Milla she got to know for the Prime Dimension version.]]



* ButIReadABookAboutIt: Just about ''everything'' she knows about humans is from books.

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* ButIReadABookAboutIt: Just A RunningGag is that just about ''everything'' she knows about humans is from books.



* BuxomBeautyStandard: Both Leia and Elize express envy at her "huge knockers". They're the focus of some MaleGaze shots in a few scenes, such as when Presa takes her captive and basically gropes her.



The leader of the Chimeriad, and his name signifies the "wing". Wingul is Gaius' right-hand man and strategical expert. He is a powerful swordsman in his own right, though in combat he switches to a violent and bloodthirsty persona.

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The leader of the Chimeriad, and his name signifies the "wing". Wingul is Gaius' right-hand man and strategical strategy expert. He is a powerful swordsman in his own right, though in combat he switches to a violent and bloodthirsty persona.



* MurderTheHypotenuse: More than once tries to kill Jude and the party even after Gaius has pulled a EnemyMine with them, for no other reason than because he feels they are going to lead him astray.

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* MurderTheHypotenuse: More than once tries to kill Jude and the party even after Gaius has pulled a an EnemyMine with them, for no other reason than because he feels they are going to lead him astray.



* PetTheDog: Small, but it counts. [[spoiler:After Jiao's death, he speaks greatly of him rather than be cold as he normally is. He even sounds and acts rather upset by his loss.]] He also around the same time gives Elize good and even gentle sounding advice.

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* PetTheDog: Small, but it counts. [[spoiler:After Jiao's death, he speaks greatly of him rather than be cold as he normally is. He even sounds and acts rather upset by his loss.]] He also around the same time gives Elize good and even gentle sounding gentle-sounding advice.
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-->''"What's necessary to make a decision is not time or circumstance. It is your will."''

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-->''"What's ->''"What's necessary to make a decision is not time or circumstance. It is your will."''

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%%* BareYourMidriff: Sylph
* BlowYouAway: Sylph the wind spirit.

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* BareYourMidriff: Wears a strapless crop top that only covers her breasts and leaves the entire rest of her abdomen exposed.
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* WorthyOpponent: Is eventually considered one by [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Gaius]].

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* %%* WorthyOpponent: Is eventually considered one by [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Gaius]].Gaius.



* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: At the end of the first game, he becomes [[spoiler:Gaius's Prime Minister, making him the second most influential man in Rieze Maxia, and he's no slouch at all.]]

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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: %%* AuthorityGrantsAsskicking: At the end of the first game, he becomes [[spoiler:Gaius's Prime Minister, making him the second most influential man in Rieze Maxia, and he's no slouch at all.]]



* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He was able to block Milla's sword attack with his bare hands and knocks her across the room.

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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: %%* AuthorityGrantsAsskicking: He was able to block Milla's sword attack with his bare hands and knocks her across the room.
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: He became king of Auj Oule by kicking ass left, right, and center. He even kicks ''[[PhysicalGod Maxwell's]]'' ass.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: What he also invokes since it's been ten years since he kicked his way to the throne, and in ''Xillia 2'', he's one of the strongest party members gameplay wise.

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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: He became king of Auj Oule by kicking ass left, right, and center. He even kicks ''[[PhysicalGod Maxwell's]]'' ass.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: AuthorityGrantsAsskicking: What he also invokes since it's been ten years since he kicked his way to the throne, and in ''Xillia 2'', he's one of the strongest party members gameplay wise.

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* SexyWalk: As if [[MsFanservice dressing the part wasn't enough]], she also has an exaggerated strut to go with it.


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* SupermodelStrut: As if dressing the part of a MsFanservice wasn't enough, she also has an exaggerated sexual strut to go with it.
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* TheRedBaron: "Ilbert the Conductor"

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* TheRedBaron: RedBaron: "Ilbert the Conductor"

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* TheChick: Compared to Milla's more mature and serious personality, and Elize's shy and introverted one, Leia is the most sterotypically feminine girl in the cast,



* GirlyGirl: Compared to Milla's more mature and serious personality, and Elize's shy and introverted one, Leia is the most sterotypically feminine girl in the cast.



%%* TheChick: A more traditional version than Leia.
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* StaringThroughTheSword: In ''Xillia 2'''s opening, she does this, before facing off with Exodus terrorists alongside Jude. She does it again during the main story when [[spoiler:vowing to Elle that [[AlternateSelf Fractured Milla's]] sacrifice was not in vain.]]
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* {{Gainaxing}}: Yep, though her white crop-top can make this a bit hard to notice.



* {{Gainaxing}}: Subverted in this victory quote:
--> '''Milla''': Don't they get in the way when they bounce?
--> '''Leia''': They're not big enough for that!
--> '''Milla''': I was talking about your head dress.
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* SealedGoodInACan: In ''Xillia 2'', [[spoiler:Chronos traps her in the void between dimensions so she wouldn't tip the trial in humanity's favor. She ended up trapped even longer when Elle accidentally brought a different Milla into the prime dimension, [[OnlyOneMeAllowedRightNow preventing Prime Milla from returning.]]

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* SealedGoodInACan: In ''Xillia 2'', [[spoiler:Chronos traps her in the void between dimensions so she wouldn't tip the trial in humanity's favor. She ended up trapped even longer when Elle accidentally brought a different Milla into the prime dimension, [[OnlyOneMeAllowedRightNow preventing Prime Milla from returning.]]]]]]
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* HotScientist: He becomes a full-fledged medical doctor by the time of ''Xillia 2'', but his efforts are focused on spyrite research.
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* GoodOldFisticuffs: Jude fights using his fists equipped with gauntlets, and is one of only two ''Tales'' main characters to use his fists as his main weapon, the other being [[VideoGame/TalesOfLegendia Senel]].

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* RoyalRapier: His WeaponOfChoice is befitting for a refined old man.

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* RoyalRapier: His WeaponOfChoice is befitting for He's a refined old man.elderly man of House Ilbert and acts as the butler to House Sharil, and wields a sword like a conductor's baton.



* SpellBook: Her WeaponOfChoice.

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* SpellBook: Her WeaponOfChoice.She carries a large tome with her to cast spirit artes, unlike any other Rieze Maxian in the game.



* DropTheHammer: His WeaponOfChoice is a titanic hammer. Combined with his StoutStrength, the guy hits like a truck.

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* DropTheHammer: His WeaponOfChoice weapon is a titanic hammer. Combined with his StoutStrength, the guy hits like a truck.



* PrehensileHair: She uses her long hair to hit and grab foes. [[ImprobableWeaponUser The actual weapon she's equipped with are different hairpins]].



* WeaponOfChoice: PrehensileHair, which she uses to smack people around. [[ImprobableWeaponUser The actual weapon she's equipped with are different hairpins]].

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* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: He is trying very hard to cure himself of this. [[spoiler: His Character Episodes show he's not doing as well as he would have liked, when his attempt at conning Yurgen causes the latter to tell him he can't trust him.]]


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** By the time of Xillia 2, He is trying very hard to cure himself of this. [[spoiler: His Character Episodes show he's not doing as well as he would have liked, when his attempt at conning Yurgen causes the latter to tell him he can't trust him.]]

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BigBad: Of the first half of the game, being the one to have authorized the creation and use of Lance of Kresnik.

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%%* ButtMonkey: A non comedic example. Poor Alvin goes through some just straight up horrible stuff.

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%%* * ButtMonkey: A non comedic example. Poor Alvin goes through some just straight up horrible stuff.He tends to be the target of many a sarcastic or sly comment from the rest of the party in the skits and post-battle scenes.



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%%* * TheChick: Compared to Milla's more mature and serious personality, and Elize's shy and introverted one, Leia is the most sterotypically feminine girl in the cast,



* MartialArtsStaff: Was trained in the martial arts alongside Jude and uses a staff in battle.



* TelescopingStaff: Her special ability, Elongating Staff, allows her staff to increase in range for a short time upon dodging an attack.



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%%* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Is killed when he has several icicles pierce his chest.

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* AbsoluteCleavage: Reaches down to her navel.



* MsFanservice: Wears a skin-tight suit that shows ''much'' of her skin, as well as her curves. She also paws Milla during their first encounter.

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* MsFanservice: Wears a [[FormFittingWardrobe skin-tight suit suit]] with a NavelDeepNeckline that shows ''much'' of her skin, as well as her curves. She also paws Milla during their first encounter.encounter.
* NavelDeepNeckline: Her skin-tight suit has a neckline that reaches down to her navel.

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** Even before the above event, she had knowledge of spyrixes even before Milla brought them up and revealed she had a huge amount of issues in her childhood steaming from her IllGirl status.

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** Even before the above event, she had knowledge of spyrixes even before Milla brought them up and revealed she had a huge amount of issues in her childhood steaming from her IllGirl ill girl status.



* IllGirl: She was one when she was younger and it was caused by a spyrite blowing up in her face. She got better, and it seems to have resulted in her being chipper all the time, making the most of the time she has.



* StepfordSmiler: Mostly outgrown it but it's clear she was one in her childhood. [[spoiler:She had trouble dealing with being a IllGirl for most of her life and felt she would never recover and almost gave up. Only Jude managed to convince her otherwise.]]

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* StepfordSmiler: Mostly outgrown it but it's clear she was one in her childhood. [[spoiler:She had trouble dealing with being a IllGirl ill for most of her life and felt she would never recover and almost gave up. Only Jude managed to convince her otherwise.]]
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* AllWomenAreDomsAllMenAreSubs: {{Inverted| trope}} and played entirely for laughs. When Muzet comments on the difference between [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything direct tethering]] with Jude and Gaius, she comments on how Jude was a very giving tetherer whereas Gaius' commanding nature completely overwhelmed her so much that she forgot to actually explain the implications of the act. [[TheTease All with a teasing smile on her face]]. Gaius, naturally, is [[NotSoStoic rather]] [[SexChangesEverything shocked]].
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* SimpleStaff: Though they also extend. And what she does with it in her Mystic Arte is anything but simple, causing massive cracks in the earth with it.



* SimpleStaff: Uses a wand in battle along with Teepo.
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* ActionGirl: Sure, her weapon is a [[SimpleStaff staff]]. But look at her in combat. Her attitude and combat prowess completely destroy stereotypes associated with the helpless, meek little healer girl trope.

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* ActionGirl: Sure, her weapon is a [[SimpleStaff staff]].staff. But look at her in combat. Her attitude and combat prowess completely destroy stereotypes associated with the helpless, meek little healer girl trope.
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* TheUnfettered: Gaius will not stop his goal of protecting his people, not even if it means a deadly and maybe long and drawn out war. [[spoiler:When he decides to become Maxwell, he's UpToEleven]].

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* TheUnfettered: Gaius will not stop his goal of protecting his people, not even if it means a deadly and maybe long and drawn out war. [[spoiler:When he decides to become Maxwell, he's UpToEleven]].up to eleven]].



* RapeAsDrama / RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Somehow, [[spoiler: Gilland manages to crank these tropes UpToEleven. According to supplementary materials, he often does this to Alvin's ILL mother. Worse yet, he purposefully revealed this to a twelve year old Alvin in order to break him.]]

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* RapeAsDrama / RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Somehow, [[spoiler: Gilland manages to crank these tropes UpToEleven.up to eleven. According to supplementary materials, he often does this to Alvin's ILL mother. Worse yet, he purposefully revealed this to a twelve year old Alvin in order to break him.]]

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* {{Bowdlerise}}: A notable example in that it also doubles with a case of (slight) AdaptationalHeroism. In the English translation, [[spoiler:Gaius only attempts to destroy all of Elympios' spyrix technology regardless of who suffers from its absence instead of trying to destroy Elympios entirely.]]



* KarmaHoudini: Whatever his reasons, [[spoiler:he ''was'' trying to wipe out an entire world. Not only does he get away scot-free, but he even gets to become the king of the united world of Rieze Maxia in the ending, with Rowen as his prime minister. Out of all the characters in the game, it seems like Gaius got the best deal. It's made considerably less extreme in the English translation where Gaius only tried to destroy all of Elympios' spyrix technology instead of the entire world.]]



* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is it "Jilland" or "Jirand"? This English release spells his name as Gilland.



* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: By the end of the game Muzet has probably slaughtered hundreds of people in the name of keeping the schism a secret, made numerous attempts on the group's lives and tried to help Gaius commit genocide (in the Japanese version at least). Despite all of this, Muzet gets off with barely a slap on the wrist and Milla accepts her into her family as her sister. She even comes back as a [[PromotedToPlayable party member]] in the sequel.]]

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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: By the end of the game Muzet has probably slaughtered hundreds of people in the name of keeping the schism a secret, secret and made numerous attempts on the group's lives and tried to help Gaius commit genocide (in the Japanese version at least).lives. Despite all of this, Muzet gets off with barely a slap on the wrist and Milla accepts her into her family as her sister. She even comes back as a [[PromotedToPlayable party member]] in the sequel.]]

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* {{Bishonen}}: No wonder he ends up becoming a ChickMagnet as the game goes on.



* EvilOldFolks: At 52, he's considerably older than most of the playable cast. And ''looks'' a lot older than several other ''Tales'' series antagonists as well, on account of not being a ReallySevenHundredYearsOld {{Bishounen}}.

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* EvilOldFolks: At 52, he's considerably older than most of the playable cast. And ''looks'' a lot older than several other ''Tales'' series antagonists as well, on account of not being a ReallySevenHundredYearsOld {{Bishounen}}.pretty boy.



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* {{Bishounen}}: He's attractive in the opposite way Jude is. His personality needs work though.

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* DeadGuyJunior: In the sequel, [[spoiler:she's revealed to have been named after the Genesis Sage, Milla Kresnik, who [[DivineDate had gotten close to Maxwell]] and earned his favor. Even more notable is that Maxwell had resented Milla Kresnik for choosing to stay in Elympios instead of joining him in Rieze Maxia, yet he still cared about her enough even then to name Milla after her.]]



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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In the sequel, his intention to isolate Rieze Maxia to protect his chosen spirits and humans from the failure of Origin's Trial [[SelfFulfillingProphecy guarantees the Trial would fail]], since he unintentionally prevents the Kresnik clan from retrieving several [[{{MacGuffin}} Waymarkers]] needed to complete the trial.



* WellIntentionedExtremist: This is further explained in the guide books. Another reason he wanted to separate Rieze Maxia and Elympios is because the Kresniks were faring poorly in Origin's trial. He then made the Schism to protect his chosen few from the consequences of the trial, as well as Spyrix usage. He also hoped to bring Milla Kresnik over in order to protect her from her clan's infighting, but she stayed out of concern for Elympios. Unfortunately, his assumption that the Kresniks will fail becomes a SelfFulfillingProphecy because the Schism prevents them from gathering the {{MacGuffin}}s for the trial.

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were faring poorly in devolving into infighting instead of completing Origin's trial. He then made Trial, the Schism to protect his chosen few from failure of which would result in miasma flooding the consequences world and killing all humans, Maxwell decides to separate the worlds, taking with him part of the trial, as well as Spyrix usage. He also hoped to bring Milla Kresnik over clan who rejected the Trial. He would handle the cycle of reincarnation himself in Rieze Maxia and prevent the deaths of spirits from spyrix, at the cost of forsaking Elympios entirely. Milla Kresnik, [[DivineDate the human he had gotten close to]], rejects this view and refuses to join him in Rieze Maxia in order to protect her from her clan's infighting, but she stayed out of concern for Elympios. Unfortunately, his assumption that the Kresniks will fail becomes a SelfFulfillingProphecy because the Schism prevents them from gathering the {{MacGuffin}}s for the trial.save Elympios.

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