History Characters / TheWitcherDuchyOfToussaint

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: [[spoiler:What her experiences led to believe. Dettlaff is tame in comparison; he's powerful and dangerous, but straightforward.]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Antonia Bernath (English), Polina Kuzminskaya (Russian), Barbara Beretta (French)

* TheDreaded: Other vampires are terrified of him. Regis explains that calling him "dangerous" is a grave understatement. Meeting him is compared to suicide. [[spoiler:All of it ends up being true. He brutalizes and nearly kills Geralt the moment they meet, and then *will* kill him if he fucks up the dialogue in the second meeting.]]

->'''Voiced by:''' [=MyAnna Buring=] (English), Elena Chebaturkina (Russian)

->'''Voiced by:''' Antonia Bernath (English), Polina Kuzminskaya (Russian)

->'''Voiced by:''' Tom Goodman-Hill (English), Oleg Novikov (Russian)

->'''Voiced by:''' ???

->'''Voiced by:''' Andrew Greenough (English), Maxim Dakhnenko (Russian)

->'''Voiced by:''' Laura Doddington

->'''Voiced by:''' Peter Marinker (English), Alexander Hotchenkov (Russian)

->'''Voiced by:''' [=MyAnna Buring=] (English), Elena Chebaturkin (Russian)

->'''Voiced by:''' Antonia Bernath (English), Polina Kuzminsky (Russian)

->'''Voiced by:''' ??? (English), Ekaterina Semenov (Russian)

* RealityEnsues: Thought this was a standard RPG conversation where you get ask any and all questions you want, or answer however you like? Nope. You ''will'' tread lightly and pay attention to the Elder or you'll have no game to continue playing.

* TwoFaced: The right side of his face will become a huge mass of scars from repeated strikes by a vampires claw that he suffered during the assault on Beauclair.

* WrongGenreSavvy: He believes he is the heroic knight who will end the threat to Toussaint while Geralt is a useless mercenary. Upon learning that the Beast is a vampire, he scoffs that Geralt is having trouble and proceeds to list a number of ways to kill a vampire. Damien gets a hard dose of reality check once he learns that all of those are falsehoods perpetuated by fairy tails and would do nothing but amuse a Higher Vampire.

* TheIdealist: Palmerin firmly believe in the chivalric virtues and inherent goodness of men. [[GoodIsNotDumb That doesn't mean that they don't know how to deal with bad people, though.]] He's even more idealistic than Milton, thinking he can talk bandits out of their lives of crime - and if he can't he knows he did everything to avert violence.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Regis relates a tale from three hundred years previous, where Detlaff tracked down and killed the Brute of Lyria, a fiend that had been terrorising Lyria, Aedirn and Rivia and had killed almost two hundred people. After the monster killed a boy who [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe had shown Detlaff an unexpected kindness]], Detlaff tracked down and killed the fiend, then left its carcass beside a sleeping hunter so the man could take the credit for killing the Brute (and ensuring Detlaff's hand in the matter went unnoticed).

* RedHerring: At the start of ''Blood and Wine'' he appears to be the most likely suspect to the murders, between his name, his unprovoked hostility towards Geralt, and his closeness to the murder victims. Turns out he has nothing to do with them.

->'''Voiced by:''' [=MyAnna Buring=]

->'''Voiced by:''' Antonia Bernath

->'''Voiced by:''' Tom Goodman-Hill

->'''Voiced by:''' ???

->'''Voiced by:''' ???

->'''Voiced by:''' Dino Kelly

->'''Voiced by:''' Andrew Greenough

->'''Voiced by:''' Peter Marinker

* HaughtyHelp: Subverted. He has the accent, the position, the mannerisms... everything except the attitude. He is consistently polite, friendly and non-judgemental, shows no signs of prejudice against anyone, and does his level best to serve the humble monster hunter whom fate has appointed to be his master.

[[folder:Commander Damien De La Tour]]

* CommanderContrarian: Due to misplaced arrogance and wounded pride, he constantly attempts to belittle if not outright dismiss Geralt's warnings and expert analysis throughout the murder investigation. This comes to a halt once it finally dawns on Damien how terribly ill-prepared he is at handling the vampire menace on Toussaint.

* CommanderContrarian: Due to misplaced arrogance and wounded ego, he constantly attempts to belittle if not outright dismiss Geralt's warnings and expert analysis throughout the murder investigation. This comes to a halt when it finally dawns on Damien how terribly ill-prepared he is at handling the Detlaff situation.

** Inverted in the bad ending, [[spoiler: where Syanna succeeds in killing her sister. Even though Geralt is partially responsible in this case for edging Syanna down the path where she murders Anna Henrietta, Damien holds no ill will towards Geralt, and will ensure his best that the Duchess's orders regarding Geralt is carried to the letter.]]

* CommanderContrarian: Justified in that he's initially insulted in having the investigation taken out of his hands and given to an outsider.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Believes he is the heroic knight who will end the threat to Toussaint while Geralt is a useless mercenary. Upon learning that the Beast is a vampire, he scoffs that Geralt is having trouble and proceeds to list a number of ways to kill a vampire. Damien is rather disturbed to learn all of those are falsehoods perpetuated by fairy tails and would do nothing but amuse a Higher Vampire.

* BigBad: [[spoiler:She is the reason for Dettlaff committing the murders and ultimately sacking the city, and she may attempt to have her own sister killed even after getting imprisoned.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: InUniverse, Regis considers her intentions to [[spoiler:murder Anna Henrietta to be this. Regis was already extremely pissed at her for ruining his friend Dettlaff's life (and possibly causing his death), but learning she wants her own beloved sister dead causes him to wash his hands of her completely.]] Geralt, however, can still succeed in bringing out some good in her.

* NatureVsNurture: If she's inherently evil because of a curse she was born with or if she simply started acting out from abuse is never really answered for sure. However, with a LOT of work on Geralt's part, she can be happily reunited with her sister.

* KarmaHoudini: In the GoldenEnding of ''Blood and Wine'', [[spoiler:she, who orchestrated all the horror and tragedy of the main quest to gain revenge for her exile, is implied to get off scot free for her crimes since her newly reconciled sister the Duchess refuses to punish her harshly like she would any other criminal. And to make matters worse, any attempt by the player to have Syanna face justice for her crimes results in a DownerEnding.]]

* RevengeBeforeReason: She would have completely gotten away with her scheme, without anyone ever finding out she was involved, if she hadn't decided to go even further by stealing Sangreal as well as the Heart of Toussaint. But she says if she could turn back time, she'd do it all over again because they were her birthrights.

* TheIdealist: Milton firmly believe in the chivalric virtues. He is however far more cynical than Palmerin.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Count Louis de la Croix, the third victim of the Beast. He states that their paths diverged years ago, [[spoiler:presumably because of how de la Croix treated Sylvia when they exiled her]].

* AccompliceByInaction: [[spoiler:Because he raised not a word at the other three knights' maltreatment of Syanna when escorting her to exile, she deemed him a Coward, and targeted him as such fro the Beast of Beauclair's thematic serial killing.]]

* HaughtyHelp: Averted. He has the accent, the position, the mannerisms... everything except the attitude. He is consistently polite, friendly and non-judgemental, shows no signs of prejudice against anyone, and dies his level best to serve the humble monster hunter whom fate has appointed to be his master.

* StalkerWithACrush: To Vivienne. H emeans well, but he is pestering her.