History Characters / TheEternalCylinder

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Ultimatelg killed when the empty desert Trebhum home it was using to try and crush the Trebhum smashes its fingers in, resulting in it being crushed by the lens it was holding.

* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:After thre

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:It turns out that the reason the Cylinder came to the Trebhum's world in the first place was because when the Trebhum first subg to the stars, the Cylinder heard them and was offended.]]

* InvincibleVillain: Hurting this thing is impossible. When it starts to move, ''run''.

[[folder:Roondaslock]]
!Roondaslock
!!''Gyroglossus prodigialis''
A strange, round sphere-bodied predator that propels itself via pushing off the ground with its tongue.

Perhaps the most unsettling human of the Cylinder's servants, Liberators fly through the skies, raining death from above.

* GodzillaThreshold: They only show up in the final biome, implicitly because the Cylinder really wants the Trebhum dead now, [[spoiler:especially after they apparently killed the Mathematician.]]

* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: [[spoiler:Durijg their third journey into the mind of the Mathematician, the Cylinder finally speaks, revealing that it is destroying and assimilating worlds because it believes separation, and thus difference, is the root of all conflict -- and it wants to solve that problem by making everything a part of itself.]]

* BodyHorror: Its body is best described as an organic ring made of fingers.

* PreFinalBoss: [[spoiler:One serves as the final wildlife-based boss in the game, as you need to steal its heart to call upon the Trewhaala so that you can finally escape the Eternal Cylinder for good.]]

!!Others
[[folder: Zooshgargs]]
!Zooshgargs
!!''Aerotorus trebhumophagus''
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A bizarre species of hovering, almost supernatural predators that are found throughout the world.

* BizarreAlienBiology: They somehow have the ability to control or perhaps make gravity for both hunting and movement.
* ExtraEyes: Has a total of eight eyes, arranged so that it has omnidirectional vision.
* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: Yet another bird of prey analogue. Its tendecy to ignore the Cylinder due to its antigravity powers allowing it to escape the Cylinder's wrath is reminescent of how some birds of prey chase fleeing wildlife during wildfires, as their flight allows them to outrun the flames.
* GravityMaster: They have the ability to use some form of energy to project a powerful vortex below it, sucking up any unfortunate animals that stray into it. This energy is also what likely keeps it floating.
* LogicalWeakness: {{Inverted|Trope}} -- they fly so high up that they are in no danger from the Eternal Cylinder, so they never try to run from it.[[note]]That being said, they'll probably die out anyway if the Cylinder destroys the world, since they won't have anymore food to eat.[[/note]]
* OverlyLongTongue: It's able to use a long, black tongue to pull in the animals closest to its mouth.
* PowerFloats: As opposed to traditional methods of flying, it appears to use gravity manipulation to float and maneuver through the air.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Trebhum -- its specific name literally means "Trebhum eater" and it makes a point of chasing down Trebhum over all other prey. Notably, only the Cactus mutation will protect you from its wrath. However, it can be tricked into eating plants or glickbol.

[[folder: Celestial Trewhaala]]
!Celestial Trewhaala
!!''Cetovermis nebulae''
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A massive, but mysterious creature that dwells in the planet's stratosphere. They are mentioned to have come here via an unknown call on the planet.

[[folder:Squadaboo]]
!Squadaboo
!!''Kakistoteuthis terriblis''
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A squid-like predator capable of mind control, which leaps out of the water to grapple into prey. The hapless animal is then marched to its doom beneath the waves.

* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: So far, they are the closest creature in the game to crocodiles and alligators, being acquatic predators that rely on dragging prey into water to make a kill.
* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: They're flying (well, [[NotQuiteFlight gliding]]) squid.
* TheGhost: One of two creatures on the website to not appear in the demo. Even glitching into the desert will give no hints about them. They're relegated to the final biome in the final game.
* GracefulInTheirElement: They are excellent swimmers and capable gliders, but WordOfGod confirmed that they are very vulnerable if forced to crawl on land.
* TheHypnotoad: They can mind control creatures via grappling with them.
* IfItSwimsItFlies: {{Downplayed|Trope}} example, but they are fairly good gliders in addition to being excellent swimmers.
* LogicalWeakness: The reason they are so cumbersome on land is that they have to crawl on their tentacles - in the water and the air, they use wing like membranes to maneuver themselves.
* NotQuiteFlight: They cannot fly on their own power, but are capable of gliding.
* OctopoidAliens: Squid examples -- they look a lot like vampire squid.
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[[folder:The Narrator]]
!!The Narrator
The game's narrator. Despite seemingly just telling the story of the Trebhum, [[NotSoSmallRole he has his own role to play in this story.]]
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Celestial Trewhaala -- the reason Grashtuub are shaped so bizarrely is so that they can eat Trewhaala whole (or at least do so rapidly). [[spoiler:This is why the Trebhum have to fight one - they need to get a Trewhaala Crystal from the Grashtuub's heart so that they can call a Trewhaala and use it to reach their Sly Fortress and finally give the Cylinder the slip.]]

* TheGhost: One of two creatures on the website to not appear in the demo. Even glitching into the desert will give no hints about them. WordOfGod confirmed that, as in the trailers, they'll be found in lakes all over the planet.

The game's narrator. Despite seemingly just telling the story of the Trebhum, [[NotSoSmallRole he has his own role to play in this story.

* FloatingEye: Aesthetically, they resemble this, GM with their camera lens looking distinctly like a human eye.

* ScavengersAreScum: They're primarily scavengers, and the Trebhum do no like them, both because Grashtuub look terrifying and [[spoiler:they eat the corpses of Celestial Trewhaala.]]

* BizarreAlienBiology: Its entire digestive system is exposed to the air, yet it is still able to eat things normally.

** Red indicates something that must be noticed - unactive towers glow red instead of blue (meaning that you need to activate them), while the organic cube is red because the mutatation it provides is needed to progress through certain areas, thus the mutation ''must'' be acquired to progress.

* HostileTerraforming: [[spoiler:When the Trebhum appear to kill the Mathematician at the end of Chapter 3, the damage to its most powerful servant causes some of the entities to spill out into the Trebhum's world, creating the final, Infected biome.]]

* TheManInFrontOfTheMan: [[spoiler:While the beginning of Chapter 2 indicates that the Mathematician is the true power behind the Cylinder (complete with a shot where it appears that the Mathematician is pushing the Cylinder, ultimately their relationship is ''exactly'' what the Trebhum believed it to be - master and servant. Even after he Mathematician appears to be destroyed, the Cylinder proves to be capable of moving on its own.]]

[[folder: The Exonerators]]
!The Exonerators
A servant taking the form of strange vehicles with baby mouths in front. They drop from the sky in pods to pursue and run over trebhum and other lifeforms.

[[folder: The Unifiers]]
!The Unifiers
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Tall entities resembling bacteriophages that wander the landscape blind, but are still capable of delivering bolts of electricity from their bottom batteries.

* FlunkyBoss: [[spoiler:With the exception of the final Unifier faced in Chapter 2, all Unifiers the player fights are rely on controlling wildlife via parasites. Killing all of the parasites will destroy the Unifier.]]
* LogicalWeakness: As they lack eyes or an equivalent sensor, a quiet Trebhum can easily sneak past them.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The corpses of several unifiers can be found around a dead Celestial Trewhaala, implying they had a massive battle that lead to both parties being slain.
* RocketTag: [[spoiler:The final boss of Chapter 2, Across the Snow, is a Unifier examining Trewhaala crystals. To defeat it, you need to catch the crystals it heats and fire them back at it to gradually destroy the Servant.]]
* ShockAndAwe: They attack by shooting electricity from their bottom-mounted batteries.
* WhoEvenNeedsABrain: An [[UncannyValley unsettling example]] -- their cranial cavities are hollow and clearly lack any brains or equivalent organs/components.

[[folder:The Hand of Fate('''Unamrked Spoilers''')]]
!!Hand of Fate
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A bizarre Servant consisting of an organic ring covered in human fingers and controlled by a strange tentacle. It is one of two bosses in Chapter 3.

* BodyHorror: Its body is best described as an organic ring made of fingers.
* HoistByHosOwnPetard: Ultimatelg killed when the empty desert Trebhum home it was using to try and crush the Trebhum smashes its fingers in, resulting in it being crushed by the lens it was holding.
* NoNameGiven: Has no formal designation.

[[folder:The Liberators]]
!!The Liberators
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Perhaps the most unsettling human of the Cylinder's servants, Liberators fly through the skies, raining death from above.
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* BorderPatrol: The ones encountered in the beta serve this role, preventing you from going over the Cylinder [[spoiler:until the story lets you]].
* GravityMaster: Pulls in Trebhum with an antigravity beam.
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[[folder:The Desert Entity ('''Unamrked Spoilers''')]]
!!Desert Entity

[[folder:The Liberators]]
!!The Liberators
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/liberator_model.png]]
Perhaps the most unsettling human of the Cylinder's servants, Liberators fly through the skies, raining death from above.

* BorderPatrol: The ones encountered in the beta serve this role, preventing you from going over the Cylinder [[spoiler:until the story lets you]].
* GravityMaster: Pulls in Trebhum with an antigravity beam.

* ItCanThink: Trebhum are far smarter than their appearance would suggest, with the game making it clear that they are a sapient species that has their own culture and mythology. A visual hint to this is that they have forward facing eyes -- on Earth, forward facing eyes are usually found on either predators (for depth perception when hunting) or primates (who have complex visual communication).

* TheGhost: Only seen so far in promotional images in the website. It hasn't even shown up in the trailers, unlike the Squadaboo. WordOfGod indicates this is because it is set to appear in the final, unknown biome.

* GenericDoomsdayVillain: It destroys worlds and all that live on them, apparently for no reason beyond the fact that it can. Administrivia/TropesAreTools, though -- the only intelligent beings opposing it are literally children who don't have the capacity to understand complex morality, and the fact that the Cylinder has no motive beyond mindless destruction [[NothingIsScarier serves to amp up how scary it is]], as it cannot be reasoned with or stopped, just avoided.
* HostileTerraforming: [[spoiler:It's strongly implied the final, mystery biome in the game was created by the Cylinder.[[note]]The promotional pages for each biome on the game's website are accompanined by a creature found in said biome - an Omnogrom for the Savannah, a Tripobosh for the Tundra, and a Great Gaaahr for the Desert. The ??? biome, however, is accompanied by a Unifier. Additionally, shots of the ??? biome show that it contains outcroppings shaped like human body parts, such as a face. An outcropping made of similar materials that is shaped like a hand is where players first encounter the Servants of the Eternal Cylinder, as an inactive Cleanser is found just beyond the reach of said hand.[[/note]]]]

* HumanoidAbomination: While the Servants are definitely cybernetic entities that best fit under MechancialAbomination, their organic parts are ''distinctly'' human. [[ChekhovsGun There's a reason for this]] -- [[spoiler:they were ''created'' from humanity, who have already been destroyed by the Cylinder.]]

* CivilizationDestroyer: The Cylinder is destroying the Trebhum's world, and its lore entry on the game's website indicate this is just the most recent world it has visited.