History Characters / TheDeathMageWhoDoesntWantAFourthTimeAdventurers

* TheHunter: He's been hunting all sorts of dangerous animals and monsters for most of his life, which is what made him surprisingly effective despite his inexperience.

* DropTheHammer: Her weapon of choice is a mace.

* BlamingTheVictim: Justified. In chapter 200, Van gets enough control over the Curatos created copy body to actually address Heinz and party to tell them they're letting themselves be led around by the nose in repeatedly attacking Curatos created meat-puppets, but before he can finish, Heinz interrupts him, points at the corpses, and yells out that the battle is their fault for not wanting to talk things out. Van himself concedes the point, but isn't swayed from considering Heinz, Edgar, and Delizah as existential threats that need to be exterminated, considering their history with Vida's races and the fact that they chose to enter this situation willingly and intentionally.

* CrimeOfSelfDefense

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: The fundamental flaw to his character is not a blind belief in Alda's dogma, as he has openly questioned it on several occasions, but rather that his decision making process is impulsive, irrational, rash, overly trusting and almost completely based on his emotions. He rarely takes empirical evidence or even his own first hand observations into account, instead preferring to fall back on the ease of letting other people do his research for him while ignoring their intentions are not as good, or allowing himself to be comforted by Edgar's words because he's a friend while ignoring that Edgar doesn't particularly believe in Heinz's actual cause. This leads him to completely ignore the obvious consequences of his "heroic" acts until they come along and blast him in the face, completely subverting his stated goals. Worse, he also fails to look back at what he's "accomplished" to see how successful he's actually been so far, meaning he doesn't even learn from his mistakes.

* DoubleStandard

* FatalFlaw
** Despite appearances, he can't actually accept when he's done something wrong, which makes him unable to modify his beliefs or atone for his actions. Instead, he claims that he failed to save Darcia rather than helping to kill her himself. He's even nearly convinced himself of this story.
** Despite his goals, he holds a clear double standard when it comes to the human races and Vida's children. His position is better than ''nothing'' but for all his talk of championing Vida's races and bringing peace, he doesn't actually respect them at all nor does he view them as equal to humans.

* GoodIsDumb: He means well. He really does. He wades into mortal danger with little to no thought for any possible rewards, struggles to free oppressed minorities from illegal slavery and works to bring about gradual reforms rather than stoop to what could charitably called terrorism from Van's group. Unfortunately, his blind acceptance of values dictated by a flawed god that he ''knows'' to be at least partially wrong leads him to actions that boil down to bounty hunting and mass murder. His inability to actually look at the consequences of his actions, those of the people around him and those he considers adversaries blinds him to the fact that he isn't actually getting much done, or at least not fast enough for it to matter to people who are suffering right now.

* HisOwnWorstEnemy: He means well, he really does, but he seeks to bring about the end of a system of oppression while still being seen as a hero by that very same system. To compound that problem, he also wants to be seen as a flawless IdealHero, emphasis on '''flawless''', so he refuses to even admit his mistakes, let alone learn from or correct them, instead choosing to throw out lies, half-truths, and random excuses to try and pin the blame on circumstances beyond his control. Naturally, he never fails to sabotage himself every chance he gets.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Not in the "everything in the world is my property and people should do whatever I say" manner, but in the "everything that goes on in the world is my doing." Even though Vandalieu specifically pointed out that Heinz's actions are not what made Vandalieu the "Demon King", Heinz firmly insists that he's directly responsible for all Van's "evil" acts and beats himself up over it.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain

* NobleBigot: While his reforms seem like a good measure, they're still highly human focused and would still put Vida's races in an inferior and vulnerable social position at ''best.''

* StupidGood: For a very, very loose definition of "good." His actions might mean well in the short-term, but are ultimately self-defeating.

* CaptainErsatz: He's basically what Cecil Harvey from Final Fantasy IV would be if he never underwent his pivotal CharacterDevelopment and remained an UnwittingPawn.

** But the most striking parallels he has are with Motoyasu, the spear hero. He takes as fact anything and everything that he hears from a friendly face, or thinks is a friendly face, twists himself into pretzels to find some way to believe that he is not at fault for his actions, and blames his victims for the fact that they're mad at him, because he victimized them, and dubs them "evil" for daring to resist his attempts at killing them, or taking what's precious to them away by force. When he can't flee from his guilt anymore, he goes into a depression, only to be roused on the other end as an even worse person. Not to mention that he constantly goes out of his way to meddle in the protagonist's affairs and antagonize him every chance he gets, drowining in self-righteousness.

* PointOfNoReturn: He had ''plenty'' of opportunities to throw down his sword and try to make peace with Vandalieu, or at least get out of the way. He throws away his last, best chance in chapters 200-203 by refusing to apologize and admit fault in what he's done, instead choosing to try and defend himself by blaming everyone else, and trying to deconstruct Vandalieu's motives and actions. But what cements him in Van's mind as a lying, self-righteous murder-hobo is his choice to stick around and fight when Curatos told him to book it and Curatos has to intervene to try and save him, choosing to do so in the worst possible way, reenacting the very same deed that put Vandalieu on the path of villainy in the first place. From that point onward, Van and Heinz are stuck on a collision courses that guarantees only one of them will walk away alive, and Heinz's odds aren't that great.
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: His moral compass usually boils down to "Right and wrong is what [[ItsAllAboutMe I say it is]]. If my actions are objectively evil, [[AssholeVictim my victims are far worse and deserve it]], [[TautologicalTemplar or I'm serving some greater good and should be overlooked.]] If neither of those apply, then it was just a simple TragicMistake, and I can 'atone' [[NeverMyFault by simply running away from my guilt by lying about my involvement,]] [[BelievingTheirOwnLies and then making myself believe it.]] [[MoralMyopia Don't you dare call me out on it, evil-doer!]]"

** Despite stating that he desires peace, his very nature is to draw his sword and attack first, ask questions later, much later, if ever, and he doesn't grasp why this is a problem.
** His most glaring flaw is that all his "heroic" efforts are luke-warm, at best. He does terrible things that he knows are terrible and gets mad when called out on it because he just can't bring himself to do the leg-work to see if he's actually doing good deeds or not until long after he's done them.
** He never really bothers to do his own research, instead choosing to believe whatever a friendly face told him last. This causes him to repeatedly undermine his own goals by committing borderline ''genocide'' against the groups he claims to want to champion.

* SeparatedByACommonLanguage: She and Van both speak Japanese, but while Van is familiar with Katakana, she's only familiar with Hiragana. When Van gets a letter from her asking for a play-date, he replies that it's not possible as long as Heinz is around, because he's a Vida fundamentalist and Heinz is a well-known Alda follower, even if he is part of the self-proclaimed "peaceful" faction. Van could only reference this in his return letter by using Katakana. Unable to understand the letter's contents, she goes to her Vida "moderate" guard and asks for a translation. He keeps her out of the loop by going "Van can't come because he's busy" and then goes on to insult Van in his own mind and ponder how best to sell Vida's races out to curry favor with Heinz...

* NoSympathyForGrudgeholders: He fully expects, nae demands, that Vandalieu should have no grudge against Heinz and what remains of the adventuring party that's responsible for Darcia's kidnapping, torture, and murder, especially by pointing out that said party is now nurturing Selen, because [[FantasticRacism raising one Dhampir "kindly" is a good enough apology for putting another, completely unrelated, Dhampir through hell for ten years, starting at half-a-year old.]]
* NotQuiteTheRightThing: He means well in trying to soothe Heinz's conscience, as Heinz stewing in a puddle of his guilt, no matter how well deserved, doesn't help anyone. Unfortunately, he does this by either convincing Heinz that his actions weren't wrong in the first place, and genuinely believes it himself, or by convincing Heinz that some well-meaning and noble act has made up for his mistakes when it's either completely unrelated to the victim of the original offense, even if it is a good deed, like rescuing Selen from evil dhampir hunting mercenaries, or only makes Heinz feel like he's accomplished something when he hasn't, or has only made things worse, like pushing forward a law that puts Vida's races in reservations in the Archem Duchy. This all culminates in both alienating Van further and further until their schism is irreversible, and causing Heinz to just keep repeating his ill-advised self-proclaimed "heroics" such as repeatedly going after beings even his own "peaceful faction" considers as people based solely on hand-delivered letters written by nobles with dubious motives and taking the request at face value without bothering to investigate the merits. Which makes his self-proclaimed goal of peaceful relations, or reducing tensions, utterly impossible, and alienates Vida herself.

** As he's undergoing the Trial of Bellwood and gets the "Holy Mother Killer" title, he and his party start going through his RoguesGallery to try and think how it could be possible before settling on Darcia getting the "Holy Mother" title after her death. Among the list of victims is a merfolk woman leading a "cult" guarding a demon king bodypart, who managed to escape his crusade alive. Chapters 254 and 255 reveal to Van and the readers that the "cult" was a '''Temple of Tristan''', an Alda ally, and he attacked them going purely by the merits of a hand-delivered letter from a noble who wanted the head-priestess dead because she's the result of an adulterous tryst and he didn't want the possibility of a SuccessionCrisis nor {{Blackmail}} hanging over his head. Wasn't taking a noble's letter at face value what got him in trouble in the first place?

** As he's undergoing the Trial of Bellwood and gets the "Holy Mother Killer" title, he and his party start going through his RoguesGallery to try and think how it could be possible before settling on Darcia getting the "Holy Mother" title after her death. Among the list of victims is a merfolk woman leading a "cult" guarding a demon king bodypart, who managed to escape his crusade alive. Chapters 154 and 155 reveal to Van and the readers that the "cult" was a '''Temple of Tristan''', an Alda ally, and he attacked them going purely by the merits of a hand-delivered letter from a noble who wanted the head-priestess dead because she's the result of an adulterous tryst and he didn't want the possibility of a SuccessionCrisis nor {{Blackmail}} hanging over his head. Wasn't taking a noble's letter at face value what got him in trouble in the first place?

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[[folder:The Flame Blades]]
The most notorious of the groups that seek to imitate Heinz and the Five Colored Blades.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Their greatest desire was to be "heroes," for fame, wealth, and glory. Fitun seeks them out and makes them "heroes" alright, ''as heroic spirits'', killing them all, '''painfully'''. The process is not shown, but they are heard screaming from off-screen.
* BrokenPedestal: Because their adventures brought back critical information, and they made a good show of "keeping a stiff upper lip in the face of loss," whenever they lost their sixth "rookie" member, the Adventurer's Guild and the public at large saw them as dependable adventurers who power through their personal losses to protect the population at large. When Natania's testimony reached all the local branches and the investigation found a pattern of recruiting new members just to use them as bait, ''everyone'' looked upon them in disdain, their reputations completely shattered.
* EngineeredHeroics: Natania is the ''fifth'' time they've recruited a sixth member with the express purpose of using as bait so they can escape if things went wrong and then reporting to the guild that they were victims of an ambush, forced by circumstances beyond their control to abandon a wounded party member. They've done this to collect the sympathy of their fellow adventurers and the public at large, as well as boost their name. The moment the truth came out, public opinion turned a full 180 degrees in an instant.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: The five core members have various races among them, human, half-elf, even Titan and beast-kin, the last two being a shock since they're often seen as second-class citizens, at best, even in Orbaume.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: They are truly devoted to each other but will cripple, wound, and happily sacrifice any "sixth" member when the situation gets too rough for them.
* EvilVirtues: Loyalty. The fact that they are loyal to one another is their motivation for constantly seeking out sixth "rookie" members that can be used as bait when things get rough. Loyalty means protecting your friends and not caring about strangers, right?
* HeroicWannabe: They strive to be "heroes" like Heinz, copying and "improving" on his legend, ''even his flaws.''
* ItsAllAboutMe: They only care about themselves. When Natania's testimony reached their ears, they had the gall to complain that they were getting a fine, not being imprisoned, or worse.
* NoNameGiven: Their names aren't mentioned.
* PeoplePuppets: After Fitun's finished "making them into heroes," he, through Hajime, marches their animated corpses over to the nearest adventurer's guild branch and pays off their reparation debts before the fine is finalized, by using monster materials in lieu of cash. This ''immediately'' tips off Vandalieu that Alda's faction and the hostile reincarnators are up to something nasty.
* ShadowArchetype: To the Five Colored Blades. They have all of the flaws but almost none of the virtues, real or imagined, of Heinz and company, and react with the same level of ... distaste when those flaws are pointed out. Their fate is also a fine example of what would have happened to the Five Colored Blades if the truth about their misdeeds in Amid had come to light early in their careers, before they became highly lauded "heroes" whose claim to fame is, of course, taking up guild requests to wipe out entire villages on flimsy, or non-existent "evidence".
* TrueCompanions: Yes, the five core members are indeed truly devoted to each other, through thick and thin, but this does not extend to new members they recruit.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Introduced and "turned into heroes" by Fitun in the same chapter.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: If you're recruited to the sixth position, they will sacrifice you to save themselves the moment things get to be too much for them.

[[folder:Randolf]]

An Elf also known as "Randolf The True", and one of the only two S-class adventurers in the Orbaume Kingdom. Despite his rank, he prefers to complete requests alone and live a humble life away from politics.

* AntiHero: Though ultimately trying to do good, he's quite willing to engage in heinous acts if he believes they're expedient or a net positive. For instance, Randolf's quite willing to MercyKill limbless victims of monster attacks because he believes they'll suffer for whatever does remain of their lives in abject poverty. He also has no problem imprisoning or even assassinating major nobles or adventurers if he believes they are a major threat to the continued existence of Orbaume.
* TheBard: One of his more commonly used identities is a bard named Rudolf, and he's genuinely good at playing instruments, having learned in his youth how to play at his home village.
* BrilliantButLazy: He's an S-class adventurer without interest in politics or being an honorary noble, preferring to just hunt to feed himself.
* TheCynic: Generally doesn't think any of his actions can really change things, making him not want to deal with nobles or adventures anymore if it's not a serious threat to the kingdom.
* EntertaininglyWrong: When he stumbles across Fang, Van's pet Hellhound, and Simon, he presumes Simon is a powerful monster-tamer, and the Hellhound is his familiar, because Fang moved in to protect Simon and growled a warning. In reality, Fang growled a warning because he considered Van's "disciple" Simon to be the weakest of their "pack".
* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite his moral apathy, there ''are'' certain lines he won't cross: He planned to MercyKill the limbless Juliana and Natalia after they had been mutilated by minotaurs. However, when Natalia states she wants to live to help the mind broken Juliana and expose the adventurers who injured her to serve as bait while they got away, even Randolf grudgingly takes the pair of women to relative safety despite the potential personal inconvenience.
* JadeColoredGlasses: In his youth, he lost his village to a dungeon overflow caused monster rampage that destroyed the whole thing and turned it into a devil's nest. In hopes of saving it, he became an adventurer, assembled true companions, and eventually amassed the money and fame to mount a culling of the monsters... only to find that the devil's nest had become a source of economic prosperity for the area, and the other elves from his hometown were happier living in cities than a tiny forest village. This led to Randolf becoming the grumpy cynic he is today.
* GrumpyOldMan: For a young-looking elf, he certainly gives that vibe with his gloomy disposition and general disinterest with things that he considers bothersome.
* HumbleHero: Looks more like an average middle-aged mercenary than a glamorous S-class.
* MasterOfDisguise: Can easily alter his appearance and mannerisms to move around incognito. It's to the point that even though Vandalieu has met Randolf in multiple different disguises, he hasn't realized they're the same person or that any of them is the famous adventurer Randolf the True, at best wondering if all these somewhat similar looking highly skilled elves he meets are perhaps related.
* OurElvesAreDifferent: If it wasn't because of his pointy ears, he would look like the average middle-aged mercenary.
* RedBaron: Picked up the nickname "Randolf the True" for his incredibly powerful and accurate archery skills.
* RefugeInAudacity: He infiltrates the city of Morksi as a bard, an occupation that's often a guise for criminals or bounty targets. How to avoid being suspected as such? Turn his eyes and hair bright blue so that he could never blend into the crowd. As such, the guards ignore him.
* RetiredBadass: He even announced his retirement and tried to give back his guild card, only agreeing to keep it because otherwise he would have been unable to buy materials or other goods from Devil's Nests or Dungeons, such as the proof of having exterminated the monsters
* StoppedCaring: He used to be a more heroic man, but upon seeing there were always more people in need of help and more evils to vanquish he just stopped trying, figuring that if he couldn't fix everything there was little point to even doing what he ''could.''

[[folder:Simon]]

A 27-year old adventurer who lost his arm a decade ago. After being bitter and aimless for years, Darcia's sermons motivated him to improve himself, eventually receiving an artificial arm from Vandalieu.

* AnArmAndALeg: Lost his right arm a decade ago while adventuring, considering it a CareerEndingInjury, until Darcia and Vandalieu motivated him to go back.
* ArtificialLimbs: Vandalieu commissioned a new arm and helped him train to use his spirit materialization so he can use almost like his original arm.
* BeardOfSorrow: Had grown a beard that made him look older thanks to his loss of purpose.
* HeCleansUpNicely: After finding a new purpose thanks to Van, he gets a haircut and starts using better clothes, looking his actual age.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: Kind of inverted. When fighting a thuggish adventurer named Gordon, the thug thinks his normal left arm is weaker than his artificial one, when in fact Simon has been training his new dominant arm for years. Cue a sucker punch to the jaw of the thug, followed by unconsciousness.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Only 27 but looked much older due to his disheveled looks and BeardOfSorrow.

[[folder:Natania]]

A 17-year old Wildcat Beast person abandoned by the Flame Blades at the mercy of Minotaurs during an adventuring quest, losing her four limbs in the process. Rescued by Randolf and left in Vandalieu's care, she's been given four new limbs by the Eclipse Emperor.

* AintTooProudToBeg: She manages to get Randolf to grudgingly spare her via such means. Most notably, even if she had to survive by prostituting herself to people with sick fetishes - the only realistic hope of not starving - she would do it. Fortunately, she gets dumped on Van indirectly and doesn't have to.
* AnArmAndALeg: Much like Juliana, Natania had all four of her limbs cut off by Minotaurs.
* ArtificialLimbs: She's been given two new arms and legs, and thanks to training alongside Simon, she can now use them just like her original limbs.
* BigOlEyebrows: Described as having thick eyebrows.
* {{Determinator}}: Unlike Juliana and the other girls raped by Minotaurs, Natania refuses to lose the will to live when offered a MercyKill from Randolph, even being willing to become a limbless prostitute if it means she can stay alive.
* LittleBitBeastly: She's a wildcat Beast Person, and has feline ears and a tail (which thankfully wasn't cut off by the minotaurs).
* RunningOnAllFours: Her new limbs can morph into cat limbs that allow her to run this way. Due to not being used to it, she [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome injures her back and has to rest in bed afterwards]].
* TookALevelInBadass: From an average adventurer to slowly but surely becoming much stronger with her new and improved limbs.

[[folder:Gordon]]

A C-rank adventurer that thought browbeating the owner of Van's two ghoul "familiars" to claim the very attractive women for himself was a grand idea.

* AssholeVictim: If the truth were known about his ultimate fate, nobody would mourn. In fact, many would celebrate.
* TheBully: Very used to using his strength to brow-beat other people into submission.
* BreakTheHaughty: His C-rank status and "Strong-Arm" title went to his head and made him think he was invincible. Then he met "Starving Wolf Micheal" and the two D-rank Adventurers, Natania and Simon. Not only did any one of them rebuff his attacks, and with ease, but he wind up on the ground, unconscious, after receiving a haymaker from a one-armed Simon.
* DeathOfPersonality: [[spoiler:Fitun essentially erases his mind and modifies his soul to become a vessel for his subordinate the Heroic spirit Bobby. His name is even changed to Gordon Bobby after the descent.]]
** DeathEqualsRedemption: [[spoiler:Since Van has no personal grudge against him and his personality is all but erased, he has no problem with either turning him into an undead or pseudo-reincarnating him instead of eating his soul.]]
* EntertaininglyWrong: When he sees the daughter of the Alchemist Guild's guildmaster speaking with Zadaris and Basdia, he immediately presumes they're her familiars and tries to browbeat her into turning them over to himself, and barely lets her get a word in edgewise to explain that they're not her familiars and trying to browbeat an influential person in Morksi is a bad idea.
* FantasticRacism: He thinks Vida's races, including Dhampirs, are all sub-human, and says that to Van's face. Fortunately for him, he doesn't get to see how wrong he is.
* FatalFlaw: Lust. He let his desire to own one or more very attractive ghoul {{Sex Slave}}s lead him to messing with people way, way above his paygrade, both in martial talent and political influence. He's lucky he got off as light as he did.
* HumiliationConga: He demands a duel with Alicia, the daughter of the guild-master from the Alchemist's guild only for "a random thug" to completely own him. He tries to save face by going after Natania, a D-rank adventurer who lost all her limbs only to receive a LiteralAssKicking. As a last-ditch effort to win his self-proclaimed duel with ''anyone'' on Van's side, he picks a fight with Simon and winds up unconscious on the ground, losing a SingleStrokeBattle with a one-armed man. Lastly, he loses his "Strong Arm" title. He's just lucky Vandalieu and the Adventurer's Guild think he's been punished enough.
* MuggingTheMonster: Under normal circumstances, his belief that he could clean the clock of "Starving Wolf Michael", Simon, and Natania would have been well justified, as a C-rank adventurer is usually far stronger than a random street-thug, and two D-rank adventurers, all put together, especially since the adventurers are missing a few limbs. Unfortunately, this "random thug" is actually a high-ranked noble vampire in disguise, and both the D-rank adventurers had been training for a month under Vandalieu and are far stronger than they appear. He's really fortunate that he didn't challenge Van to a fight, as losing to a barely teen kid would have been a humiliation he'd never recover from.
* SerialRapist: As he's departing from Alcrem Duchy, trying to flee his disgrace, for fear that those he terrorized would come seeking vengeance, the narration states that he repeatedly took women against their will.

[[folder:Arthur]]

A rookie adventurer from a remote village who received the blessing of Bashas, the Goddess of Rain Clouds, coming into contact with Vandalieu and the deities he represents.

* AllTheOtherReindeer: His appearance and strength made most of villagers distrust and avoid him with the exception of an elderly priest and Borzofoy's family.
* CountryMouse: Comes from a small, isolated village who didn't even know adventurer was an actual career path.
* FaceOfAThug: He's a nice and virtuous person, but his size, strength and fierce gaze made most people in his home village distrust him.
* HeroicBuild: He's pretty muscular and heroic person, and those muscles are what make Vandalieu accept him quite easily.
* TheHunter: He's been hunting all sorts of dangerous animals and monsters for most of his life, which is what made him surprisingly effective despite his inexperience.

[[folder:Kalinia]]

The younger sister of Arthur, a Priestess and a fellow adventurer, who also received the blessing of a god that had been led by Vandalieu, in her case Zelzeria, Goddess of Dark Nights.

* CoolBigSis: Because she never had any female friends, she treats Miriam like the younger sister she never had.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Her patron is a goddess of darkness, but she's a nice person who has been through rough times.
* DeathGlare: Similarly to her brother, her gaze constantly makes her look intimidating.
* DoesNotLikeMen: Due to being attacked by a group of young men from another village when she was young, she developed an androphobia that makes her uneasy around most men.
* FriendlessBackground: With the exception of her brother and Borzofoy, she never had any friends until she met Miriam and Van's followers.
* StatuesqueStunner: Described as tall like her brother and undoubtedly beautiful.

[[folder:Miriam]]

A completely average adventurer who came across Arthur, Kalinia and Borzofoy, ending up leading them in starting their careers as adventurers and following them into meeting Van.

* NiceGirl: Despite how much she's exasperated by her companions' lack of common sense, she's too nice to just leave.
* OnlySaneMan: She's the most normal and with the most common sense in her RagtagBunchOfMisfits.
* RidiculouslyAverageGuy: She was a completely normal adventurer who just happened to be saved by Arthur when she was looking for rare herbs.
* WeirdnessMagnet: A regular person who ends up with the protection of three separate gods and leading a party with a serious lack of common sense.
* YoungAndInCharge: She's the youngest member of the party at just 15 years old, but ended up as the leader due to being the only one with actual experience adventuring.

[[folder:Borzofoy]]

A Dwarf adventurer and childhood friend of Arthur and Kalinia who also received a blessing from a god of Alda's faction that decided to defect to Van's side.

* ChildhoodFriends: He's been friends with Kalinia and Arthur since they were children.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Like his two companions, his parents are deceased so he had no problem joining them as an adventurer.
* CreepyGood: He considers himself a cheerful person who laughs easily, but he comes off more like an old man with a creepy laugh.
* DarkIsNotEvil: He received the blessing of Hamul, God of Shadows, but he's a pretty nice guy, if a bit unknowingly creepy.
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: He's described as very un-dwarf like, being lean and frail-looking, with some aptitude for earth and fire magic.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: He's only 27, pretty young for a dwarf, but due to his weak constitution he's rather lean and gloomy faced, looking like a tiny old man instead of a young dwarf.

* PoisonousFriend: Whatever Heinz's faults may be, Edgar amplifies them and helps keep Heinz from thinking for himself and accepting responsibility for his actions. Edgar genuinely means well, but his basic worldview includes ideas like "You should kill women and children after exterminating their providers cause it's not like women and children can fend for themselves, right?" So since he sees absolutely nothing wrong with Heinz's actions, he helps soothe Heinz's conscience when Heinz hasn't actually done anything to make up for what he has done yet.

* WouldntHurtAChild: Played with. At first he was hesitant to even kill pregnant goblins, but thanks to being [[PoisonousFriend influenced by Edgar]] he ends up loosening said inhibitions compared to what he considers humanoid monsters. But on the other hand, at the time he genuinely did not consider ghouls to be actual people but rather just weird zombies and even then, it isn't made clear if he personally did so or if he just condoned his party members like the aforementioned Edgar killing them.
* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Mother]]: He is one of the targets of Vandalieu's revenge, for kidnapping his mother and selling her to be burned at the stake by a religious fanatic.

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* HeroismAddict: Natania is the ''fifth'' time they've recruited a sixth member with the express purpose of using as bait so they can escape if things went wrong and then reporting to the guild that they were victims of an ambush, forced by circumstances beyond their control to abandon a wounded party member. They've done this to collect the sympathy of their fellow adventurers and the public at large, as well as boost their name. The moment the truth came out, public opinion turned a full 180 degrees in an instant.

* KnifeNut: His close combat weapon is a short sword made from Mythril.