History Characters / TheSecretWorld

** TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight: He might be wrong about quite a few things, but when it comes to fearing the Illuminati's power, he's absolutely right.

* [=Cloudcuckoolander=]

* [=CloudcuckoolandersMinder=]: To Gladstone.

* [=Cloudcuckoolander=]: A third of his dialogue consists of internet memes, and another third consists of bizarre public announcements.

* [=Cloudcuckoolander=]

* [=Cloudcuckoolander=]: Non-comedic example. Rada freely admits that she loses track of reality very easily; the drugs, booze and mounting stress don't do much for her coherency either.

* [=Cloudcuckoolander=]

* [=Cloudcuckoolander=]

* [=CloudcuckoolandersMinder=]: Of course, to Galahad.

* [=Cloudcuckoolander=]: Amongst other things, Screed thinks that Pac-Man is a visual representation of how the Illuminati see the rest of humanity.
** The [=Cloudcuckoolander=] Was Right: He might be wrong about quite a few things, but when it comes to fearing the Illuminati's power, he's absolutely right.

* [=Cloudcuckoolander=]: A troubled childhood combined with the arrival of the Fog on Solomon Island have ''not'' been good for Andy's sanity.

* [=Cloudcuckoolander=]

* [=CloudcuckoolandersMinder=]: To Montag.

* [=Cloudcuckoolander=]

* [=Cloudcuckoolander=]: The Lore entries reveal them to be this, decorating their already bizarrely-written explanations with mechanical commands and error messages, along with quotes from film, literature, pantomimes, and advertising.

* CloudCuckooLander

* CloudCuckooLandersMinder: To Gladstone.

* CloudCuckooLander: A third of his dialogue consists of internet memes, and another third consists of bizarre public announcements.

* CloudCuckooLander

* CloudCuckooLander: Non-comedic example. Rada freely admits that she loses track of reality very easily; the drugs, booze and mounting stress don't do much for her coherency either.

* CloudCuckooLander

* CloudCuckooLandersMinder: Of course, to Galahad.

* CloudCuckooLander: Amongst other things, Screed thinks that Pac-Man is a visual representation of how the Illuminati see the rest of humanity.
** TheCloudCuckooLanderWasRight: He might be wrong about quite a few things, but when it comes to fearing the Illuminati's power, he's absolutely right.

* CloudCuckooLander: A troubled childhood combined with the arrival of the Fog on Solomon Island have ''not'' been good for Andy's sanity.

* CloudCuckooLander

* CloudCuckooLandersMinder: To Montag.

* CloudCuckooLander

* CloudCuckooLander: The Lore entries reveal them to be this, decorating their already bizarrely-written explanations with mechanical commands and error messages, along with quotes from film, literature, pantomimes, and advertising.

* CloudCuckooLander
* ConsultingMrPuppet: Has a habit of chatting with the crown-wearing glove puppet on his left hand.

* TheTrickster: Claims that ''sagas'' have been written about his long cons.

->'''Mary:''' Scandalous! We're their ''WhatNotToWear,'' bringing a touch of class to a dreary military-occult complex.

* DarkWorld: Prone to recreating objects and buildings from the real world, though rarely to any meaningful dregree... [[spoiler: Up until "The Vanishing of Tyler Freeborn," when it's revealed that the Fog around Solomon Island conceals an extension of the Dreaming Prison, consisting of a twisted recreation of Kingsmouth populated by Filth-infected duplicates of its people.]]

* [[DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu Did Cthulhu Just Proposition Us?]]: At the end of "Into The Inferno," she goes so far as to flirt with the players, using decidedly Lovecraftian promises in the process:

Dignified, affable, and occasionally quite sarcastic, Richard Sonnac is not only an administrator among the Templars, but the public face of the "New Templars," ushering new blood into an ancient society. Serving as your liason, he provides misison briefings and information on the Secret World, espousing the virtues of the Templars and their place in securing humankind's salvation.

* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: During the final Dragon-specific misison, [[spoiler: the Child quite unexpectedly beckons you over and shakes your hand. Judging by Bong Cha's stunned expression and the bow one of the servants gives you on your way out, it's clear that this trope was running through their heads.]]

* WhiteHairedPrettyGirl

* TheCorruption: The Filth makes [[MetroidPrime Phazon]] seem like penicillin.

* IHaveManyNames: The Filth; throughout history, it's been known as the Eater, Nergal's Rot, the Devouring Plague, the Zero Point Pathogen, the Dark Homunculus, the Blackworm Jism, and many other titles.

Portals to this dimension appear wherever the filth is particularly strong, looking like holes in reality leading to a distorted version of outer space. Players see this dimension in an opening cutscene during character creation, and enter this dimension after the three main story missions in the game, and experience a dark, moonlit world with ice, a filth sea, with the cubic gaia engines sitting on a black and dark sanded island, and a stream of floating rocks drifting in the sky. It is here where the Dreamers communicate with the players, through their voice and visions, p[layers must make decisions about how to respond.

(There is also a portal from Agartha that leads here, but it is only used when players in the middle of a mission here need to reenter, and in story does not appear to exist.)

* DarkWorld: resembles a dark vwersion of Earth in general, rather than a particular location.
* EldritchLocation: The floating ice, floating rocks, and visions of pat events given by the dreamers are the more obvious weird elements of the place.

Created during a previous age of history, the Hell Dimensions are now an anima deprived, fiery alternate dimension, filled with various types of demons, and strewn with remnants of heavy machinery. The player enters these a number of times to stop demonic invasions, and gets involved in a war between forces led by Theodore Wicker, and forces led by Eblis.

* FireAndBrimstoneHell; Certainly has the fire and lava, the heavy machinery adds to the atmosphere as well.


[[WMG: Theodore Wicker]]
A legendary Oxford-educated demonologist who disappeared twenty years prior to the events of the game, Wicker nonetheless left a long trail of clues that both Daniel Bach and the player end up following- all the way into Hell, via the portal in the Overlook Motel. Once there, it's revealed that Wicker is actually leading a revolution on behalf of the demons, having learned that the Hell Dimensions are actually a ruined ScavengerWorld, and wants to restore them to their former glory.

* AntiHero / AntiVillain: It's hard to tell which, though he could swing in either direction,
* ApocalypseMaiden: Eblis, the ruler of Hell, wants to use him as a living portal to send his armies through.
* BeamOWar: Ends up getting caught in one of these with Eblis in the last battle of "Sympathy for the Devil."
* BeatStillMyHeart: As part of his preparations for surviving the Hell Dimensions, he tore his own heart out; you can still see the scar on his chest.

* [[spoiler: [[The Woman Behind The Monsters TheManBehindTheMonsters]] ]]

* ManBehindTheMonsters

* ArcVillain: Of the Hell Dimensions.

* TheVoice

Ruler of the Hell Dimensions and Wicker's nemesis, Eblis is the nearest equivalent to the devil present in the game; devoted to maintaining his kingdom at any cost, he is single-mindedly dedicated to the death of Wicker and anyone allied with him.

* FallenAngel

* IncompetenceInc: In about 70% of your encounters with their operatives in the field, they'll have screwed up in a particularly spectacular fashion; either they'll have been caught out of their protective boundaries and gotten massacred (something not even the Council agents don't suffer), one of their facilities will have been conquered from within, or they'll have accidentally unleashed the villain of the setting or set off a regional disaster. And occasionally, it'll be ''all three.'' Even the Mysterious Caller takes the time to lambast the Orochi Camp in the City of the Sun God for being dumb enough [[spoiler: to steal the Song of the Sentinel - a theft that could have ''ended the world''-]], and all evidence points to him being [[spoiler: the company CEO.]]

* MacGuffinGirl: For the Orochi Group [[spoiler: and Lilith in particular]]. Late in Issue #7, it's revealed that the Breach in the Carpathian Mountains was only opened through the forced application of her powers.

Ruler of the Hell Dimensions and Wicker's nemesis, Eblis is the nearest equivalent to the devil present in the game; devoted to maintaining his kingdom at any cost, he is single-mindedly devoted to the death of Wicker and anyone allied with him.

* SealedEvilInACan: Imprisoned outside our reality and attempting to break out, most of their activities across the world involves their followers trying to release them. [[spoiler: At the end of the main game, the Player has the option of either breaking down one set of restraints or reinforcing it.]] Apparently, the main line of defence against their invasion are the Gaia Engines, which Emma Smith describes as "music boxes" lulling the Dreamers to sleep - with dire consequences if enough stopped playing.

* IncompetenceInc: About 70% of your encounters their operatives in the field, they'll have screwed up in a particularly spectacular fashion; either they'll have been caught out of their protective boundaries and gotten massacred (something not even the Council agents don't suffer), one of their facilities will have been conquered from within, or they'll have accidentally unleashed the villain of the setting or set off a regional disaster. And occasionally, it'll be ''all three.'' Even the Mysterious Caller takes the time to lambast the Orochi Camp in the City of the Sun God for being dumb enough [[spoiler: stealing the Song of the Sentinel - a theft that could have ''ended the world''-]], and all evidence points to him being [[spoiler: the company CEO.]]

* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: [[spoiler: Subverted. In reality, he's only managed to dilute the brain-destroying effects of the Filth down to a crippling addiction, while at the same time suffering almost all of the physical deformities associated with Filth infection.]]

* PoliceBrutality: Kim takes great delight in beating up Morninglight cultists right in the middle of the police station's office.

[[folder: The Gaia Engines]]

* DarkWorld: Their "red sargasso dream", a dark, twisted version of Kingsmouth inhabited by dark, mutated versions of the residents [[spoiler:because the real ones have all been infected by the Filth; the dreamers expect them to be fully corrupted sometime in the near future]].

* ScrewPolitenessIAmASenior

* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler: During "Virgula Divina" it's revealed that she was subjected to this after being hospitalized by her Grandmother - mainly because the instituion was run by an Orochi Group subsidiary. On top of being subjected to miserable housing, hellish drug regimes and humiliating experiments, she was ultimately rejected in favour of Emma Smith; worse still, the Orochi responded to her failure by throwing her out of Amity House and leaving her stranded. The fact that nobody, not even "the Bad Guys," would accept her was so crushing that just recalling it drives her to tears, though her tears are more out of anger than anything else.]]

* PowerIncontinence
* TheRunaway

* TheAlcoholic: Judging by the Stuart twin's remarks that he stinks of sherry.

* AcquiredPoisonImmunity

* PreAssKickingOneLiner: Just before he unleashes his energy wave upon you, he announces "Let me show you what I have learned in the spaces beyond..."

* ArcWords: "We are all made of stars!" Especially in the lore entry [[spoiler: when it takes on a much more disturbing note.]]

* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler: During "Virgula Divina" she describes the time she spent in a Orochi Group institution, it drives her to tears and John tries to comfort her, but her tears are more out of anger than anything else.]]

* [[spoiler: AFateWorseThanDeath]]: [[spoiler: Her favoured method of keeping you under control, as she finds the notion of a hobbled immortal exquistly humiliating, as the player can attest.]]

* [[spoiler: MotherOfAThousandYoung]]

* BigBad: Samuel Chandra, the CEO.

* FallenAngel: [[spoiler: It's implied by the lore entry on Orochi that CEO Samuel Chandra is actually a fallen angel- but not actually {{Satan}}, of course.]]
* LightIsNotGood: The Orochi Group and many of its charitable institutions, Samuel Chandra and Lily Engel being notable examples; both are attractive, well-regarded figures with a lot of white in their wardrobes- Chandra being a WhiteHairedPrettyBoy, and Lily wearing white during her brief appearance [[spoiler: at the end of the Transylvania arc]].
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: It's revealed that Lily Engel is actually Lilith, the villain behind the events of the Transylvania Arc, manipulating the local Orochi and the vampires for her own ends.]]

A Orochi agent in Translyvania, with the codename "Ghost". He is all that remains of the Orochi operation in the area after the disaster at the Breach. Since then he mostly takes care of Emma's teddy bear, and seeks out help getting out of the Carpathian Fangs.

* DefectorFromDecadence: [[spoiler: By Issue #7 with words of Orochi's experimentation in the Nursery, Dragan is now chiefly concerned that Emma gets out of Translyvania safely regardless of company policy.]]

[[WMG: Lily Engel [[spoiler: Lilith]]]]
The Chairwoman of the Orochi Group's Board of Directors. The Lore hints towards a more sinister past. [[spoiler: Ultimately responsible for the disaster that befell Orochi operations in the Carpathian Fangs. As revealed in Issue #7, her true name is Lilith, and she is interested in Emma.]]

* [[spoiler: AFateWorseThanDeath]]: [[spoiler: Her favoured method, as she finds a hobbled immortal, exquistly humiliating as the player can attest.]]
* BigBad

* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler: Lore entries and the end of the Transylvania mission hint that Lily Engel the chairwoman is merely the human form of something [[EldritchAbomination very old and monstrous]]; judging by the hints dropped by the Bees- remarks on "a monstrous nativity" and that "there are tombs that are less haunted than some wombs", and the fact that Mara reacts to Engel's signiature by whispering "Mother?"- she's possibly a MotherOfAThousandYoung. As to be expected of Lilith.]]
* IHaveManyNames: [[spoiler: Seventeen in fact. Not counting her Lily Engel and Council Agent personas]]

* [[spoiler: FallenAngel: Hinted at, given his remark that you should "rush in where we fear to tread." Further hinted at by the fact that he's most likely CEO Chandra.]]

* DefectorFromDecadance: [[spoiler: By Issue #7 with words of Orochi's experimentation in the Nursery, Dragan is now chiefly concerned that Emma gets out of Translyvania safely regardless of company policy.]]

* [[spoiler: AFateWorseThanDeath]]: [[spoiler: Her favoured method, as she finds nothing better than a hobbled immortal as the player can attest.]]

* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler: Lore entries and the end of the Transylvania mission hint that Lily Engel the chairwoman is merely the human form of something [[EldritchAbomination very old and monstrous]]; judging by the hints dropped by the Bees- remarks on "a monstrous nativity" and that "there are tombs that are less haunted than some wombs", and the fact that Mara reacts to Engel's signiature by whispering "Mother?"- she's possibly a MotherOfAThousandYoung. In any case, she's almost certainly Lilith.]]