History Characters / TormentTidesOfNumenera

* CoverBlowingSuperpower: [[spoiler:Feriok isn't a telekinetic shouldn't be able to tend bar without touching the glasses,]] which is a big hint that they're the member of the Fifth Eye who fell in battle.

* AnAdventurerIsYou: Mitigation Tank. He's got a good Speed defense, and he starts out with the ability to issue a challenge to enemies, compelling them to focus their attention him.

** Mercilessly deconstructed, as [[spoiler: Auvigne never stops loving Tybir and spends years searching for him, dying in poverty with their mind-link rings still in his hands. Discovering this is the resolution of Tybir's sidequest in the Bloom. It's sufficiently shattering that the normally chatty Tybir is left at a loss for words.]]

* SeenItAll: He seems to have a story for ''every'' weird event the combined strangeness of the Last Castoff's journey and the Ninth World in general throws at him. Even, near the very end, [[spoiler:when he's dragged into [[MentalWorld the Labyrinth]]]], he mentions it is ''not'' the first time something of the sort has happened to him.

** As the sole survivor of a warrior race defeated by an enemy they made the mistake of thinking was weak, he's also reminiscent of Mandalore the Preserver, Canderous Ordo, from ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'' -- "the shell of their armor on the shell of a man."]]

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: ... as a stationary tour guide? Probably no one, least of all a bloodthirsty champion of a ProudWarriorRace.

* ChekhovsGunman: Something of a retroactive case. [[spoiler:The Genocide isn't the gunman himself, but rather the man from his story who stopped the Tabaht invasion -- the man who would eventually become Changing God.]] If not for the Tabaht invasion, [[spoiler:the Changing God's daughter would never have died of the wasting illness caused by their Tide-based weapons. If he had never begun his research into the Tides, he never would have become immortal, and never would have created the castoffs, awakened the Sorrow, and started the Endless Battle -- effectively, [[ForWantOfANail he never would have become the Changing God]].]] Much of this is only revealed to you in the very last leg of TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, and only if [[spoiler:you finished the Ghostly Woman's sidequest.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:A huge one. If she is sent back to her homeworld, she returns in the final stage all grown up and with a huge arrays of powerful abilities.]]

* FiveManBand: They call themselves the Fifth Eye, and there are five of them. Dhama is indisputably TheLeader and Ziobe was [[TheBigGuy their primary physical warrior]]. The other roles are less obvious since we never see them as an active team. As powerful psychics, any of them might qualify as TheSmartGuy on another team.

* UncannyValley: He is described as a tall, lean, gray-skinned humanoid with an unmistakable air of menace.

* TalkingToYourself: Describes himself as a splinter of the Castoff's memories, and a part of them. [[spoiler:Subverted, as he's revealed to be the Changing God -- or at least a figment of his consciousness.]]

* GrumpyBear: Comes across this way in comparison to your other companions, especially early on.

* {{Expy}}: For a certain other nameless amnesiac with regenerative powers in [[SpiritualSuccessor another game]] called ''[[VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment Torment]]''.

** Also interestingly the case with the main antagonist from its fellow SpiritualSuccessor ''Pillars of Eternity'', the two branching in some interesting ways. [[spoiler:Thaos being an entirely selfless villain, with the horrors he commits being calculated, deliberate actions taken to stave off the worst excesses human beings are capable of. By comparison, the Changing God's uses for his immortality are petty and self-absorbed, entirely indifferent to the damage he does, setting off a neverending war largely by accident.]]

* IllGirl: Had an illness which eventually killed her. [[spoiler:It was caused by a weapon based on Tidal energies.]]

* NiceHat: Theboros wears a wide-brimmed hat. WordOfGod says it was inspired by the hats favoured by Creator/WilliamSBurroughs, the inspiration for the character.

** Theboros's ([[MeaningfulName try saying it out loud]]) appearance, personality, and [[NiceHat hat]] are based on author Creator/WilliamSBurroughs, who'd also know a thing or two about words causing the reader physical pain.

** The neighborhood inside is a slum of Sagus Cliffs populated by the poor and disposessed, ruled over by a crime lord, and riddled with portals to other worlds, elements it has in common with ''Planescape: Torment's'' Hive Ward, Buried Village, and the gate-town of Curst. [[spoiler:The [[BirdPeople murden]], psychic vermin-like [[BeastMan abhumans]], resemble the cranium rat collective in the Warrens of Thought, Many-As-One, on a much smaller scale -- but the manner in which you finally confront the Bloom's Heart is effectively that same moment taken UpToEleven.]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Jeff Schine (Male) and Shannon Torrence (Female)

->'''Voiced by:''' Marissa Lenti

* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: [[spoiler: Just as the Memovira and the First Castoff turn out to be one and the same, the Changing God and First Castoff's [[TheSmartGuy smart guy]]Mazzof turns out to be the same person as the Memovira's Smart Guy Ishen. "Ishen" turns out to just be a nickname he picked up when he moved to the Bloom, after his resemblance to some of the local wildlife. The tabletop RPG reveals that an "ishenizar" is a kind of enigmatic crystalline creature, and naming Mazzof after one was probably a way of ribbing him for being TheSpock.]]

* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: [[spoiler: Just as the Memovira and the First Castoff turn out to be one and the same, the Changing God and First Castoff's TheSmartGuy Mazzof turns out to be the same person as the Memovira's Smart Guy Ishen. "Ishen" turns out to just be a nickname he picked up when he moved to the Bloom, after his resemblance to some of the local wildlife. The tabletop RPG reveals that an "ishenizar" is a kind of enigmatic crystalline creature, and naming Mazzof after one was probably a way of ribbing him for being TheSpock.]]

* ItemCaddy: Since she doesn't have many other options, loading her up on cyphers, artifacts, and regular healing items that can be used on other party members is generally the soundest strategy for her, particularly if you've got the Rings of Entanglement, which mean that any positive [[StatusEffect fettles]] and healing received are shared between the characters who are wearing the rings.

* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: [[spoiler: Just as the Memovira and the First Castoff turn out to be one and the same, the Changing God and First Castoff's SmartGuy Mazzof turns out to be the same person as the Memovira's Smart Guy Ishen. "Ishen" turns out to just be a nickname he picked up when he moved to the Bloom, after his resemblance to some of the local wildlife. The tabletop RPG reveals that an "ishenizar" is a kind of enigmatic crystalline creature, and naming Mazzof after one was probably a way of ribbing him for being TheSpock.]]

* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: [[spoiler: Just as the Memovira and the First Castoff turn out to be one and the same, the Changing God and First Castoff's TheSmartGuy Mazzof turns out to be the same person as the Memovira's TheSmartGuy Ishen. "Ishen" turns out to just be a nickname he picked up when he moved to the Bloom, after his resemblance to some of the local wildlife. The tabletop RPG reveals that an "ishenizar" is a kind of enigmatic crystalline creature, and naming Mazzof after one was probably a way of ribbing him for being TheSpock.]]

* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: [[spoiler: Just as the Memovira and the First Castoff turn out to be one and the same, the Changing God and First Castoff's SmartGuy Mazzof turns out to be the same person as the Memovira's SmartGuy Ishen. "Ishen" turns out to just be a nickname he picked up when he moved to the Bloom, after his resemblance to some of the local wildlife. The tabletop RPG reveals that an "ishenizar" is a kind of enigmatic crystalline creature, and naming Mazzof after one was probably a way of ribbing him for being TheSpock.]]

* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: She considers most of her "sisters" expendable in attaining her goals. To be fair, several of her sisters are doing the same... but ''that'' in turn (combined with her basic arrogance) makes her NotSoDifferent from the Changing God.

* GameplayGuidedAmnesia: As in ''Planescape: Torment'' before it, the Castoff's amnesia is used to provide justification for explaining the setting in simple terms, dropping not one but two [[MrExposition companion guides]] in your lap -- or rather, having you crash in on them through a glass dome. Others who recognize you as a castoff may be more willing to put up with your general cluelessness and answer your questions sincerely. [[TheMark Or not,]] especially if you're [[ImpersonatingTheEvilTwin pretending to be the Changing God]].

* LivingMacGuffin: Spends much of his time in both the backstory and the current story of the game as a DistressedDude who's been captured for his knowledge by one powerful figure or another. His tendency to get kidnapped is a big enough part of his personality his epithet "the Lost" comes from it. [[spoiler: Currently he's experiencing a FateWorseThanDeath in one of the Bloom's cysts, as the Bloom tries to figure out what secret he was keeping for the Memovira.]]