History Characters / TheDeathMageWhoDoesntWantAFourthTimeTalosheim

* TeamNormal: In terms of skills and abilities, he's pretty average.

A trio of rat sisters born from Luciano's experiments with Undead and regular animals. They serve as pets and fighters for Van's party at Morksi.

* DontYouDarePityMe: When Heinz notices that the adventurer's guild in Hartner Duchy is turning him away, [[ObviousRulePatch due to changing the rules arbitrarily]], it takes every ounce of self-restraint to keep Van from lashing out and attacking his party. He only barely manages to restrain himself because there was no way to walk away from a fight with Heinz's full party alive.

* CharmPerson: His [Death-Attribute Charm] skill makes Undead immediately wish to help or even serve him and makes him likable to "half-undead" races like Ghouls and Vampires. People who wish to die or have suffered severe mental trauma also tend to exhibit religious fervor for Vandalieu. It eventually grows so that insects, plants and even demons become subservient to him, and after becoming a Guider, causes anyone who shares similar views to him to see him as highly charismatic. However, it's not all powerful: Borkus {{No Sell}}s it during their first meeting and only voluntarily comes under it later because he's genuinely loyal and sees no point in resisting. As such, it's functionally more of an opening move in diplomacy or religious conversion. It's later indicated that this is not an automatic advantage given to death attribute mages: Only those who possess genuine respect for the dead ''and'' the living acquire this skill, so undead feel subconsciously loyal to him because he cares about ''them'' by default the way he would any other person. [[spoiler:Thus, Amemiya Mei possesses DAC but Rikudou Hijiri does not: Rikudou can cultivate fanatical loyalty, but as a sociopath his charm is too superficial to translate into a skill, so ghosts hate him.[[/note]]

* CharmPerson: His [Death-Attribute Charm] skill makes Undead immediately wish to help or even serve him and makes him likable to "half-undead" races like Ghouls and Vampires. People who wish to die or have suffered severe mental trauma also tend to exhibit religious fervor for Vandalieu. It eventually grows so that insects, plants and even demons become subservient to him, and after becoming a Guider, causes anyone who shares similar views to him to see him as highly charismatic. However, it's not all powerful: Borkus {{No Sell}}s it during their first meeting and only voluntarily comes under it later because he's genuinely loyal and sees no point in resisting. As such, it's functionally more of an opening move in diplomacy or religious conversion.
* ChickMagnet: Despite not hitting puberty, he already has more than a dozen suitors.

The protagonist and eponymous death mage of the story, once known as Amamiya Hiroto. After dying during a terrorist attack in a ship, he and a hundred other passengers were reincarnated by the god Rodcorte with each being granted a "cheat skill" and improved luck as a blessing. However, due to Rodcorte's negligence, another reincarnator received Hiroto's blessing. He was instead sent off with no blessing and no abilities beyond a giant mana pool he could not use. He was quickly sold to a research facility, which discovered that he had a mysterious type of magic up then unknown to the world he was in: Death magic.\\\

* {{Bokukko}}: When she and Van first meets, he notes that, "oh, hey, girls using boku really do exist."

* ATrueHero: The primary reason he and Heinz always clash is not the latter's part in Darcia's death (though that is a very, very big factor), but their polar opposite "Hero" policies.
** Vandalieu cares far more about the result of his actions than the morality or his reputation. As such, even Heinz, once he learns of it, sees him as a "better" hero, despite Van's rather impressive set of crimes. Heinz is vexxed at this revelation.
** Heinz, on the other hand, cares far, far more about his reputation and self-righteous morality than the consequences, especially if he can somehow tell himself that he's not at fault for whatever goes wrong. Then he strives to leverage his reputation to get the result he wants. The outcome leaves much to be desired.

* PsychoForHire: They enjoy the act of killing and bathing in the blood of their enemies.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Now we have bodies, but it's still going to be a while before we can talk.]]The daughters of Sam who worked as maids before being murdered and burned alive by bandits. Inhabiting two suits of armor given to them by Vandalieu, they eventually become incredibly powerful {{Animated Armor}}s.

* CurtainsMatchTheWindows: The Light Novel illustration shows they have eyes of their respective hair colors.

* ThreeAmigos

* SenpaiKohai: Has this sort of relationship with the Monster Rat sisters Maroru, Urumi and Suruga.

* SenpaiKohai: See themselves as the seniors of Fang.

* RatedMForManly: He's very muscular and manly despite his effeminate mannerisms.

* OverprotectiveDad: He's none too pleased to see men ogling his daughters. He only has himself to blame, though, because he's the one who asked Van to make them that way without thinking.

* LastChanceToQuit: During Heinz's descent into Bellwood's trial, Vandalieu gives Heinz several opportunities to stop his misguided crusade, stand-down, disarm, and apologize, making it crystal clear that if Heinz continues his self-proclaimed "atonement," all that awaits is a gruesome death. Heinz blithely ignores all of them, and when Heinz is offered the chance to flee during their clash in chapters 200-203, Heinz pointedly decides to stick around and protect the dungeon, despite Curatos himself telling Heinz that it's all just a pack of lies and propaganda with meat-puppets being created over and over again for the benefit of Heinz's training. Naturally, Curatos pulls his final gambit as Heinz and Van clash head-on. Now past the point of no return, Heinz no longer has any options, and his self-proclaimed goals of atonement, forgiveness, and peace with Vida's races are abjectly impossible.

* BladeOnAStick: Rita uses a Naginata and Saria a Halberd.

* BladeOnAStick: His weapon of choice was the spear, and eventually he received the AncestralWeapon [Ice Age]. He's later given back the now de-powered Ice-Age.