History Characters / TheForgottenCity

* IHaveManyNames: [[spoiler: As an immortal being worshipped by several cultures throughout history, they have been called Charon, Kharon and Kherty, at least.]]

[[folder: Karen/Charon -- '''Spoiler''']]

* TheAlcoholic: She is this because her drinking was "unbecoming of a lady, let alone the wife of a Magistrate" after Malleolus treated her badly, so she asks the player to get wine for her in exchange for discovering the true identity of Malleolus is Quinctius. [[spoiler:She's surprised when she learns he is allegedly responsible for starting the Great Fire of Rome and thought she wanted to destroy him]]. [[spoiler: But in the canon ending, she ended up blowing all her money on wine, trying to drink herself back to the Underworld]].

[[folder: Malleolus/ [[spoiler: Quinctius]] ]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Her whispering to Livia through the statues resulted in her becoming obsessed with returning them to life and inflicting horrible tortures on them.

* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: While Sentius is BigBad and the main mortal problem with the city, he is a mere mortal who would not be in this position were it not for This Guy.]]

** [[spoiler: Sentius' imprisonment of Sentilla]] ''is'' sin-like behavior in his eyes, but since it was done to prevent escape from the city (which he considers a more serious sin), he considers it justified and thus not a violation of the Golden Rule. Yet he doesn't apply the same logic to killing in self-defense or stealing to save a life.

* WhamLine: Provides the loud, booming voice rendering judgement on the city and its people. [[spoiler:And in the GoldenEnding provides a different one.]]

--> [[spoiler: ''"The many have suffered long enough."'']]

* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: Given that the spell to create the time loop requires him to sacrifice his own life and he admits he wasn't expecting to remember each loop, that means at one point Sentius truly was who he appeared to be: the leader of a city living under a divine rule which would cause all their deaths if even one person broke, trapped on a day where it's seemingly impossible to prevent someone breaking the rule. He might have already imprisoned his own daughter, but if willing to give his own life that would have made him a WellIntentionedExtremist. But after who knows how long reliving the same day, he has become the exact opposite of who he once was as he now abuses the time loop to live forever and enjoy a day where nothing goes wrong.

* Adaptational Villainy: Her mod counterpart Rastasia was a gossipy flirt but [[EthicalSlut a genuinely warm and kind-hearted]] person despite her past as a Forsworn terrorist. Aurelia is a selfish bitch who only cares about enriching herself.

* {{Expy}}: Aurelia is greedy and willing to sell anyone around her for more money. She runs a tavern, but also swindles other inhabitants like Iulia on the side.

* [[spoiler: FourOneNineScam: She fell for this when she blew her wealth in order to be "living in the high life".]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: In the canon ending, she was boasting about getting her claws into some rich Prince, and how she was going to be "living in the high life"...in Nigeria. She gets scammed out of all her wealth as a result]].

* TheAlcoholic: She is this because her drinking was "unbecoming of a lady, let alone the wife of a Magistrate" after Malleolus treated her badly so she asked the player to get wine for her in exchange for knowing the true identity of Malleolus as Quinctius. [[spoiler:Only she surpried for his allegedly responsible for starting the Great Fire of Rome and thought she wanted to destroy him]]. [[spoiler: But in the canon ending, she ended up blowing all her money on wine, trying to drink herself back to the Underworld]].
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: Has one when the player tells her that Malleolus's allegedly responsible for starting the Great Fire of Rome and Nero wants him dead.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even he rude to the player, he warns them about [[spoiler: "the monster" in the lower cistern below Malleolus's villa, which is a peeled statue killed Hannibal when he found a way out of the city.]]

* {{Expy}}: Of Patches, a greedy recurring character in Creator/FromSoftware's catalogue who's known for tricking the player character to leave them trapped and rob them.

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: She was reduced to a wreck of herself when she realised part of the truth of what was going on in the city.

* [[spoiler: FourOneNineScam: She fell for this when she blowed her wealth for "living in the high life".]]

* SamaritanSyndrome: Perhaps his defining character trait and one that endlessly screws him over. His suicide note near his corpse details how he had lived several years in the Forgotten City trying to set things right and never could, resulting him [[DrivenToSuicide deciding that unaliving himself was the best way to stop the pain.]] [[spoiler: TheReveal at the end by Charon shows this was another level, since his decision to help the Player Character try to save the obols from more mortal enemies also got him killed and brought here.]] [[spoiler: Sentius]] notes this as his chief flaw.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Non-lethal example. If you confront him about what you have learned about his true nature, he gives you a BreakingSpeech and mocks you before declaring he has become bored with you. However, unlike most examples he does not attempt to kill you since he knows full well doing so would merely result in another loop or risk ending it entirely, so he's limited to impotently telling you to get out of his Villa because you bore him.]]

--> ''[[ArcWords "The many shall suffer for the sins of the one!"]]''

The wife of the God of the Underworld. She loved humans so much that she sacrificed her immortality to remain with them. However, her husband was determined to restore her immortality, and placed her in stasis to keep her alive until he could.

* InsaneTrollLogic: Claims his morality is based on the rule, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you', but his interpretation of this rule is extremely selective and hyper-literal. A developmentally-disabled man innocently picking up something that doesn't belong to him is a sin worthy of death, but slave-taking, gouging someone for lifesaving medicine, homophobic hate crimes and abduction all get a pass.

* BodyHorror: Livia's attempts to help them move again by removing their golden skin causes them incredible pain and leaves them bleeding revenants who attack other creatures on sight and beg to be killed. They'll thank you for returning them to their golden prison.

[[folder: Karen/[[spoiler: Charon]] -- '''Spoiler''']]

[[folder: Karen -- '''Spoiler''']]

* BigBadEnsemble: It turn out Sentius is main antagonist of story by abusing the prayer to his own to live forever since he remembers every time loop. Even worse, he's responsible for the disappearance of his daughter, Sentilla by keeping her locked away in the upper cistern, both to keep her away from the man she loves and to ensure she doesn't foil his plan.

* BigBadEnsemble: It turn out Sentius is sharing the role of main antagonist with Pluto. While Pluto established the Golden Rule that has been cursing the city, it it Sentius whose abusing the prayer to his own to live forever since he remembers every time loop. Even worse, he's responsible for the disappearance of his daughter, Sentilla by keeping her locked away in the upper cistern, both to keep her away from the man she loves and to ensure she doesn't foil his plan.

* BigBadEnsemble: With [[spoiler: Sentius]]. While [[spoiler: Sentius]] is the main mortal problem in the city, he is a mere mortal who would not be in this position were it not for Pluto whose responsible for establishing the Golden Rule in the first place.

* Troll: In the Golden Ending she surprises the player by doing an impression of a whispering statue right behind them.

* Jerkass: She doesn't bother to hand her notes over to Lucretia or unlock her chest of medicines before absconding to carry out her research, leaving the city without a qualified healer and no way to get the medicines back due to their fear that trespassing or theft might break the Golden Rule.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: A very slim example but unlike Metellus, he isn't raping his hostage, likely because she is his adoptive daughter and the Romans viewed adoption to be almost as binding as blood relations.

* BigBadEnsemble: It turn out Sentius is sharing the role of main antagonist of with Pluto. While Pluto established the Golden Rule that has been cursing the city, it it Sentius whose abusing the prayer to his own to live forever since he remembers every time loop. Even worse, he's responsible for the disappearance of his daughter, Sentilla by keeping her locked away in the upper cistern, both to keep her away from the man she loves and to ensure she doesn't foil his plan.

* EgocentricTeamNaming: While Roman naming was famously uncreative within families, the fact that both of his daughters are named as variations of his own name is still remarkable. This is a hint about his real, brutally egotistical nature.

* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:He's responsible for the disappearance of his daughter, Sentilla. He's keeping her locked away in the upper cistern, both to keep her away from the man she loves and to ensure she doesn't break the Golden Rule.]]
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: A very slim example [[spoiler: but unlike Metellus, he isn't raping his hostage, likely because she is his adoptive daughter and the Romans viewed adoption to be almost as binding as blood relations.]]
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: In the canon ending, he becomes the last golden statue in the city, doomed to be eternally conscious but unable to move or speak.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler: He desired to become immortal as the gods by using Proserpina's prayer created the time loop in order to live forever.]] [[spoiler: And he got what he wanted as the sole gold statue left in the Underworld alone and unable to act under his own power in canon ending.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Turn out Sentius is the main antagonist of game, asthe prayer he uses to reset the time loop kills him when it's used but ends up subverted when we learn he remembers every time loop and is abusing the prayer to his own selfish ends. Even worse, he's responsible for the disappearance of his daughter, Sentilla by keeping her locked away in the upper cistern, both to keep her away from the man she loves and to ensure she doesn't foil his plan.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: He presents himself as a stern but caring master, who puts the player on a quest to save his city from destruction. In reality, he is perfectly aware of what is going on, is an abductor, and is using the player's repeated time loops as a way of living forever.]]
* BlasphemousBoast: [[spoiler: During his MotiveRant BreakingSpeech upon being confronted, he lapses into this.]]
--> Sentius: [[spoiler: ''"I have become, in effect, as immortal as the gods!''"]]
* BreakingSpeech: [[spoiler: Delivered one to AL that drove him to suicide, and attempts to do the same to you. [[NoSell It doesn't work]] but it still upends the end game.]]
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: In endings one, two and three the player or Sentilla kills him for his misdeeds despite the fact that will trigger the golden rule and kill the other residents.]]
* EgocentricTeamNaming: While Roman naming was famously uncreative within families, the fact that both of his daughters are named as variations of his own name is still remarkable. [[spoiler: This is a hint about his real, brutally egotistical nature.]]
* {{Expy}}: Of Jarl Metellus from the original mod. Both are the ruler of the city, who are responsible for the time loop. Both are also reasonable rulers whose policies have left them unpopular among much of the city. [[spoiler: Both are ultimately exposed to be villains holding a woman hostage for selfish reasons.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: The prayer he uses to reset the time loop kills him when it's used. He does it anyway. [[spoiler:This ends up subverted when we learn he remembers every time loop and is abusing the prayer to his own selfish ends.]]
* IronicHell: [[spoiler: His fate in the Canon Ending. As the sole gold statue left in the Underworld, he has the immortality he so desired -- except now he's all alone and unable to act under his own power.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler: His ultimate motive, as he himself explains. While his body has to die in order to restart the time loop, this is no obstacle for him due to retaining his memories, and in the meantime he can live forever.]]
--> Sentius: [[spoiler: ''"Why? Isn't it obvious? Because I have grown attached to all this: my title, my beautiful villa, the sun on my face, the music of birds chirping... And as long as this day keeps repeating itself, I get to enjoy it all, over and over again, for eternity. Don't you see? I've found a way to prolong my life indefinitely. To cheat death! I have become, in effect, as immortal as the gods! Can you honestly say you would not wish the same for yourself?''"]]
* JerkassHasAPoint: His imprisonment of Duli seems cruel, but he notes that he keeps the man fed and comfortable and that it would be too dangerous to let someone with his cleptomaniac tendencies roam free in a city given the Golden Rule forbids theft. [[spoiler: He's proved right if Galerius released Duli, who instantly breaks the Rule by picking up a shiny object belonging to someone else.]]

* JustBetweenYouAndMe: [[spoiler: Has particular power since he and the travelers are the only people with Ripple Effect Proof Memories, meaning he has the power to taunt and goad them without them being able to alert anybody else and have it stick to the next cycle. He seems to take outright *pleasure* in the fact that a speech like this broke Al to the point of suicide.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: [[spoiler: He gleefully describes how he watched Al Worth descend into despair over repeated loops, eventually taking his own life, and encourages the player to do the same, saying he'll just get another divine agent to exploit.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: Every one of the game's endings includes his death in some way. He either gets [[spoiler: turned into a golden statue in the canon ending, is directly murdered by the player in one optional ending, and is set on fire by Sentilla in the other two.]]
* LoadBearingBoss: [[spoiler:Essentially acts as one. Since he's the only one who knows the prayer to reset the time loop, killing him will result in a TemporalParadox that will boot the protagonist back to the present day, regardless of whether or not you're responsible for his murder. This is how you get all but the canon ending.]]
* MotiveRant: [[spoiler: Happens if you choose to confront him about his kidnapping his daughter, during which time he shows his real colors, the reasons why he is doing what he does, and the fact that he [[RippleEffectProofMemory remembers Al and all the previous loops.]]]]
* NotAfraidToDie: [[spoiler:Oddly enough, given his quest for immortality. Proserpina's prayer, which resets the time loop, kills the person who uses it. However, as a soldier, Sentius has overcome his fear of dying and is able to use it to reset time endlessly.]]
** [[spoiler: This is helped by the fact that he retains all his memories from one loop to the next.]]

* RippleEffectProofMemory: [[spoiler:Sentius is the only character (besides the player) who can remember the events of previous loops.]]

* WeHaveReserves: [[spoiler: He believes if the player gives up or otherwise dies Prosperina's ritual will just send him another visitor from the future to maintain the loop. It turns out he's actually wrong as Al Worth and the player had the last two obols in existence, meaning there was no-one else for Charon to send.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Non-lethal example. [[spoiler: If you confront him about what you have learned about his true nature, he gives you a BreakingSpeech and mocks you before declaring he has become bored with you. However, unlike most examples he does not attempt to kill you since he knows full well doing so would merely result in another loop or risk ending it entirely, so he's limited to impotently telling you to get out of his Villa because you bore him.]]
--> Sentius: [[spoiler: ''"Understand that to me, you've never been anything more than a useful idiot - and you're no longer useful."'']]

* GreaterScopeVillain: While [[spoiler: Sentius]] is BigBad and the main mortal problem with the city, he is a mere mortal who would not be in this position were it not for This Guy.

* ThePhilosopher: This is his pursuit, and before he leads you to Khabash you'll ask you to engage in a Socratic dialogue with him about many of the themes associated with the Golden Rule and morality. [[spoiler: And if the player failed to persude Pluto in the previous timeline, he would help them by appealing to emotion how he considers a sin and his reasons for imposing The Golden Rule]]. [[ spoiler: In the GoldenEnding, he's working as a consultant to Faculty of Classics at Cambridge University, helping to fill the odd gap in their knowledge.]]

* ThePhilosopher: This is his pursuit, and before he leads you to Khabash you'll ask you to engage in a Socratic dialogue with him about many of the themes associated with the Golden Rule and morality. [[spoiler: And if the player failed to persude Pluto in the previous timeline, he would help them by appealing to emotion how he considers a sin and his reasons for imposing The Golden Rule]]. [[In the GoldenEnding, he's working as a consultant to Faculty of Classics at Cambridge University, helping to fill the odd gap in their knowledge.]]

* ThePhilosopher: This is his pursuit, and before he leads you to Khabash you'll ask you to engage in a Socratic dialogue with him about many of the themes associated with the Golden Rule and morality.