History Characters / TheOrderOfTheStickDivineBeings

* {{The Faceless}}: Their robe hoods shadow their faces except for their glowing eyes. It doesn't stop them from {{facepalm}}ing, however.

* {{Determinator}}: Gods may have a lot of bad qualities, but they sure ain't quitters. [[spoiler:They have created millions of worlds, trying out new ways to contain the Snarl each time despite every solution failing in the end. And they aren't planning on stopping any time soon.]]

* GodsNeedPrayerBadly

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Its mindset is unfathomable.

* EldritchAbomination: Even gods are baffled by its existence and nature.

* TheRival: Seemingly to Thor, if not full Archenemy, given their conflict over the souls of dwarves. [[spoiler:Though Loki may soon take that position.]]

* VillainousBreakdown: When talking to her father [[spoiler:after her plans were thwarted in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1176.html #1176]], she blows up at him, declaring that he can't succeed in stopping The Snarl, and even if she doesn't get a single soul, ''neither will Loki'' and that in the next world, her ''first'' commandment will be to task her followers with ''killing all of Loki's and [[{{Unperson}} wiping his name from history altogether]]''.]] It actually leaves Loki looking despondent with how deeply his daughter has come to hate him and how badly his little prank has hurt her. Furthermore to add to the "breakdown" element, [[spoiler:she appears to be literally wasting away at the end of her rant, in no small part due to the fact that GodsNeedPrayerBadly]].

* ShoutOut: His high priest is Black. This is a reference to the fact that Heimdall is played by Creator/IdrisElba in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse

* VileVillainLaughableLackey: Hel is the vile and serious ArcVillain of Book 6 while Thrym is the laughable incompetent lackey brought in for comedy relief.

* HufflepuffHouse: Him and his pantheon gets little play compared to the others, their Godsmoot vote is also shared with the Elves' gods.

* EthnicGod: Well, Racial God. Upon ascending to godhood, he becomes the patron god of the goblin peoples. However, the concept of this is deconstructed a bit with [[spoiler:the discovery of millions of world preceding this one and coming in all sorts of flavors, meaning the gods had various vastly different worshipers each time. Thor actually points out a few with a gritty {{Cyberpunk}} world, a world with TalkingAnimals, and a [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs world of gritty cyberpunk talking animals]], even naming an implied worshiper in Laser-Snail. He even notes a world of ''[[AnthropomorphicFood sentient movie theater snacks]]'' (a hilarious BrickJoke from 800 strips ago). It makes the idea of ethnic/racial gods seem rather ridiculous in this context. In fact, Durkon alludes to this when he tells off Redcloak, noting that the next world may not even have goblins or other humanoids, possibly consisting of talking fish or even sentient lamp posts.]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:His backup plan if his plan to seize the gates fails is to destroy the world so that he can participate when the gods build a new world. According to Thor, this will almost certainly fail, because GodsNeedPrayerBadly and he won't have stockpiled enough to remain a god during the transition.]]

* KilledMidSentence: He wasn't through the preamble before an assassin killed him while negotiating with the leaders of the humans, elves and dwarves.

* RevengeBeforeReason: He once had friendships with several other evil gods, who were hoping to negotiate a deal with him to [[spoiler:deal with the Snarl once and for all with his unique purple essence]]. But when he learned about the gates, he instead severed all ties with them, murdered Loki's messengers, and angered Rat with the destruction of Azure city. Right-Eye points out he is more motivated by spite than anything since he ascended godhood.
* SavageWolves: His mount while a mortal is a wolf. Humans would argue that is is one more mark of a villainous warlord that will destroy their civilization.

* {{Ubermensch}}: Starting out as an above-average goblin, he becomes a warlord and then a ''god'', all with the purpose of defying the natural order (namely, his people being designated fodder for adventurers) for the sake of his people... and is willing to gain access to an EldritchAbomination to do so. Subtly being deconstructed over time, since while his defiance of the natural order for the sake of his people is admirable, his refusal to cooperate with the other gods and insisting on his own path is proving to be a ''bad idea.'' [[spoiler:Namely that he's making assumptions that he can survive the world's destruction only for it to be revealed that his lack of devoted followers in quality and quantity means he ain't gonna survive to try and reshape the world with the others.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: He threatens all of creation with extinction in order to make a better life for the goblins. Subverted in that related humanoids (bugbears and such) are very low priority to him, and said races aren't very religious. [[spoiler:This turns out to be a PlotPoint, since The Dark One won't survive a universal reset -- he doesn't have enough devoted followers.]]

* BigBadTriumvirate: They lead the IFCC equally, though each is answerable to superiors on their own plane. Whether or not they're ''real'' {{Big Bad}}s or just another competing faction remains to be seen.

* {{The Faceless}}es: Their robe hoods shadow their faces except for their glowing eyes. It doesn't stop them from {{facepalm}}ing, however.

* WhamLine: "Now." [[spoiler:After not appearing for several hundred strips, they call in Vaarsuvius's debt just when s/he's trying to stop Roy from destroying Girard's gate]].
* YourSoulIsMine: Played with. Their claim is based on EquivalentExchange, and they think taking a soul for eternity in exchange for temporary power is unfair. So V only has to spend a grand total of approximately 45 minutes with them, combined. [[spoiler:What they conveniently did not tell V, though, is how they can call in this soul-time ''anytime'', such as when V's in the middle of something suuuper-important...]]

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Qarr completely failing against the combined forces of V and Blackwing's logic.

'''Shojo:''' For mere mortals like you or I, certainly, friend dwarf.

* TheWorfEffect: Ares, their god of war, died in the first round of combat against the Snarl to prove how utterly pointless it is for the gods to fight the Snarl. Lord Shojo even speculates that their godly nature made them more susceptible to the Snarl's attack. Thor confirms that being a creation of four pantheons the Snarl can cut through any gods because of how divine magic works.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Downplayed. Hel has sunken eyes, limp hair and her teeth are yellowing and rotten. however, while none of the other gods are terribly close to their mythological counterparts either, Hel doesn't have the split-down-the-middle appearance she's most famous for.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: While none of the other gods are terribly close to their mythological counterparts either, Hel doesn't have the split-down-the-middle appearance she's most famous for.

--->'''Lord Shojo:''' Malevolent and powerful, it wanted nothing more than destruction. It slew Apollo and Ares outright in the first round of combat.\\

* TailorMadePrison: The entire planet was created to hold it in a demiplane in the center. [[spoiler:Revealed to be subverted into a CardboardPrison since the world has had to be remade numerous times, due to the Snarl constantly breaking free of its prison. This is because they ''can't'' completely tailor-make a prison without a fourth variety of god to match the four types that originally created it.]].

* DeityOfHumanOrigin: More exactly, Deity of Goblinoid Origin -- the number of his followers allowed him to transcend his mortality and become a god. [[spoiler:This is a plot point, as it along with his lack of divine patronage unlike other such beings in this setting makes him a unique type of god different from the other pantheons, with an entirely new "essence". This creates the first opportunity for a four-color seal since the Eastern Pantheon was wiped out.]]

* DeityOfHumanOrigin: More exactly, Deity of Goblinoid Origin -- the number of his followers allowed him to transcend his mortality and become a god. [[spoiler:This is a plot point, as it makes him a unique type of god different from the other pantheons, with an entirely new "essence". This creates the first opportunity for a four-color seal since the Eastern Pantheon was wiped out.]]

* FirePurifies: Although nominally Evil, considering his opposition to undead, Loki's "Flames" portfolio leans closer to the [[BurnTheUndead cleansing/purifying aspect of the element]], and that's the way his clerics make use of it. Even their TurnUndead power is described by vampires as burning them.

* {{The Faceless}}es: Their robe hoods shadow their face except for their glowing eyes. It doesn't stop them from {{Face Palm}}ing, however.

* OminousLatinChanting: V's Soul Spice is accompanied by [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0635.html the choir of dead pedophiles]], because an ascention to utimate arcane power just isn't complete without apropriate background music.

* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The entire reason the Commission was formed was to prove Chaotic, Neutral and Lawful Evil beings ''could'' work together.

* YourSoulIsMine: Played with. Their claim is based on EquivalentExchange, and they think taking a soul for eternity in exchange for temporary power is unfair. So V only has to spend a grand total of approximately 45 minutes with them, combined. [[spoiler:What they conveniently did not tell V though, is how they can call in this soul-time ''anytime'', such as when V's in the middle of something suuuper-important...]]

* ConsummateLiar: Jephton is an epic-level sorcerer, and as he points out, "Bluff is a sorcerer's class skill." As such he certainly has lots of ranks in it, and has no trouble convincing Roy's ghost that he and Ganonron are "subcontractors", just linked to V for outsourcing the wizard's conjuration and sorcery needs.

* NoKillLikeOverkill: ''Familicide'' is a spell made to wipe out someone's whole bloodline instantly, you know, just in case you want to make ''absolutely certain'' that no family members wll come after you for revenge.

* {{The Faceless}}es: Their robe hoods shadow their face except for their glowing eyes.

** They were briefly shocked speechless [[spoiler:when Vaarsuvius used the ''familicide'' spell.]]

'''Thor:''' Oh, I was probably wasn't supposed to mention that. [[MockSurpriseReaction If you hear about it later, do me a favor and act surprised, OK?]]

* PsychoticSmirk: Jephton is often wearing one, being chaotic evil and all. .

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* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler:She joins the ensemble of major villains for the comic starting with the final parts of Book 5, with the end goal of letting the world be destroyed so she could collect the souls of every dwarf that dies as it wouldn't count as honourable. Even though her plan is mostly foiled at the end of Book 6, her threat still looms the Order, giving them an extra deadline to stop the Snarl.]]

* XanatosGambit: [[spoiler:His deal with Hel turns out to be one. If the Dwarves remain honorable, Hel gets no Dwarves, which motivates her to tempt them into dishonorable things, and becoming the evil deity he wants to become. If they chafe too much under the honor code despite fearing becoming Hel's slaves? They can just become one of his clerics, as they no longer have to behave honorably because Loki himself is dishonorable and thus they're following their deity, the most honorable thing a Cleric can do, giving Loki worshipers. Either outcome robs Hel of Dwarf souls and the latter has the added benefit of giving Loki followers. Subverted later on when he spells out his motives; he considered the bet nothing but a game to liven up "yet another fantasy pastiche" and is genuinely worried at how much it's draining her power.]]

* CrutchCharacter: A rare non-videogame example. If he was at the top of his game, he would have been so overpowered as to lead his pantheon to defeat the Snarl once and for all or at least play some interesting shadow games. As is, his divine brain damage allows him to see [[spoiler:"worlds within worlds and yarn winding yarn" as in, he knows the Snarl made a world in its prison. However, when Durkon off-handedly mentions it, he has no idea what is being referenced, shrugging it off because his mind can process his prophecies or he just plain forgets them.]] If he was at the top of his game, he probably would've figured out what this all meant and took decisive action on it.
* DumbassHasAPoint: In a moment of lucidity, he explains that they purposefully made it so GodsHandsAreTied, since it prevents Evil and or Neutral gods, which outnumber Good ones, from causing trouble. Given how the Fiends were involved in helping the destruction of a Gate and Hel trying to to break those rules when she is convinced no gods are looking, the rules make alot of sense. As he put it:

** Normally, an evil cleric can't turn undead, but Loki put it down that the undead are "icky", and therefore his priests can turn them.

* PillarOfLight: [[spoiler:Manifested to shut down someone that breaks a covenant with them, as seen in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0407.html "Fading".]]

* PillarOfLight: Manifested to shut down someone that breaks a covenant with them. (spoiler:[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0407.html "Fading"]])

* OmniscientMoralityLicense: [[spoiler:He sent a SelfFulfillingProphecy that got Durkon exiled and turned into a vampire loyal to Hel's plans to destroy the world. The Order {{Lampshade}}s and derides him for this, but then figures out that without [[TheHeart Durkon's presence grounding them]], they wouldn't have been able to get as far as they have in stopping Xykon and that's why Odin sent the prophecy. Or at least, that's what the Order and Thor thought. Even Thor agreed with the assessment that what happened to Durkon was horrible and is shocked that his {{Cloudcuckoolander}} father can't remember doing it at all, calling into question whether Odin even ''had'' a master plan that would have made what happened worth it]].

* SmarterThanYouLook: Generally a goofball and almost instated a hand puppet into the Pantheon, but he seems to know more about the Snarl and the [[spoiler:world inside of the rifts]] than almost anyone else. Also, the Order points out that [[spoiler:when his high priest gave the prophecy about Durkon to Hurak, he probably foresaw that Durkon would be a necessary part of the team to keep the Order moving forward. Later revelations, though, instead imply that everything working out as well as it did was just a coincidence, considering Odin can't remember making the prophecy, even when reminded by his son]]. He also points out that the fact that Good gods are a relative minority among the deities means that if GodsHandsAreTied was ''not'' a thing to the degree it is, Evil gods could cause damage in the mortal world unimpeded.

* TopGod: He's the leader of the Northern pantheon... [[spoiler:theoretically. Although the other gods (including Hel) recognize him as such, and he is coherent enough during the Godsmoot to direct the votes through his high priestess, the revelation that the believers' attitude toward magic in the previous world has left him badly mentally imbalanced means that he can't fulfill his duties at all times. (Thor describes him as having "good days and bad days".) There are strong hints that Thor and Loki are picking up most of the slack of the Top God role in stead of their father.]]

* DumbassHasAPoint: In a more lucid moment, he points out that it is a good thing that GodsHandsAreTied, since it prevents Evil or Neutral gods, which outnumber Good ones, from causing trouble. His point is helped by the Fiends helping the destruction of a Gate and Hel trying to to break those rules when she is convinced no gods are looking.

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* {{Expy}}: InUniverse to Thor. Both are gods who can summon lightning bolts, heal and have an evil trickster brother.