History Characters / TormentTidesOfNumenera

* ChasteHero: The Last Castoff doesn't get the chance for any explicit romance arcs in this game, and eventually it's revealed to you by the chiurgeons in the Bloom that your naughty bits as a castoff are completely nonfunctional -- either for recreation or for reproduction. (Note that while your body may always have been sterile, the Changing God ''was'' completely capable of having sex while he inhabited it, carrying on a long and torrid affair with the nano Salimeri before abandoning it and her, meaning that leaving you in your sexless state was one of his many {{Jerkass} moves.)

* ChasteHero: The Last Castoff doesn't get the chance for any explicit romance arcs in this game, and eventually it's revealed to you by the chiurgeons that your naughty bits as a castoff are completely nonfunctional -- either for recreation or for reproduction. (Note that while your body may always have been sterile, the Changing God ''was'' completely capable of having sex while he inhabited it, carrying on a long and torrid affair with the nano Salimeri before abandoning it and her, meaning that leaving you in your sexless state was one of his many {{Jerkass} moves.)

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Because you helped send her back home, despite the danger both to yourself and to Rhin, she seeks you out in the Calm and helps you fight your way to the final controntation with the Specter and the Sorrow.

* 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.]]

!Other Characters

[[folder:The Levies]]
!!The Levies
The purple-clad city guards of Sagus Cliffs, upon turning sixteen (or the equivalent age of majority for their species), any person may walk into the Order of Truth and apply for citizenship. Upon doing so, they enter an ancient piece of the numenera -- which drains a year of their life and uses it to build up an artificial humanoid out of gray sludge, which then serves the city in the new citizen's stead for one year.

* RealAfterAll: Adult Rhin's reappearance and the powers she displays when she comes back leave it pretty ambiguous that the gods of Rhin's world are and always were real.

* CastFromLifespan: Sagus Cliff's levy machine directly subtracts a year of life from the user in order to create a levy, one of the city's ArtificialHuman CityGuards, called levies. This ages the person directly, as is the case for Levy captain Sigyn, who gave up multiple years of her life, making her much OlderThanSheLooks -- but it also apparently somehow preemptively voids the ''events'' of those years, such that [[spoiler:you meet a former thief who would have died in a fire that wiped out a whole neighborhood -- he didn't, but his levy remembers, and still feels the extraordinary guilt of it.]]

%%* MightMakesRight:

%% * BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind

%% * DrivenToMadness

%%* BrilliantButLazy

%% * GetAHoldOfYourselfMan

%% * HeroicBSOD

%%* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch

%%* CastFromSanity

%%* {{Foil}}: To fellow castoff and death cult founder Melmoth Leviarm, who is, among other things, sane. [[spoiler:Both have gone into hiding from the Sorrow, but Melmoth's sojourn in the Endless Gate is considerably more comfortable than being trapped on the other side of the Endless Gate.]]

%%* LoadBearingBoss

%%* RhymesOnADime

* TeleportersAndTransporters: Her unique starting ability lets her teleport by swapping physical locations with another version of her who was already standing there in another universe.

* {{Expy}}: For T3-M4 from ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicII''. Both are knee-high CuteMachines who are remarkably personable despite being TheUnintelligible, with each having a major connection to a central, enigmatic figure from the setting's past[[labelnote:Note]]the Changing God for Oom, Revan for T3[[/labelnote]]. Even Oom's skittish demeanor echoes T3's nervous, eccentric personality.

** 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 Knights of the Old Republic II]]'' -- "the shell of their armor on the shell of a man."]]

* WrongGenreSavvy: Acts like the heroic lead in a ThudAndBlunder fantasy story and judges actions by what is most "heroic".

* BadassGay: An omnisexual veteran soldier and the love of his life was a man.

* AGodAmI: She makes no bones about the fact that leaving her physical body and merging with the datasphere will make her a kind of intangible information elemental, the closest thing the Ninth World can have to a true god.

* BiTheWay: If you are female, she was in a lesbian relationship with an Aeon Priest.

* BiTheWay: Mentions that telling people he is a captain "lifts skirts and drops trousers."

* AmbiguousGender: He's unambiguously male, even if Last Castoff is female.

* HiveMind: Self-described, though she and her sisters are not perfectly in sync, in thought or deed. This latter fact gives her pause, uncertain as to whether she truly wishes to give herself over to the datasphere and risk being overwhelmed. Of lesser concern, but still noted, is that she would be forcing the same fate any other undecided Callisteges across the multiverse.

Worshipers of the Bloom, an interdimensional parasite the size of a city and whose countless maws open to other planets, other times, other dimensions. The Bloom's cultists seek to feed its hunger for things which may be physical and may be wholly conceptual, yet for the most part they remain beneath its notice.

* JunkieProphet: Most of the cultists are hooked on bloom juice, one of the various...secretions produced by the Bloom. It causes visual and especially auditory hallucinations produced by a temporary telepathic connection between the drinker and the Bloom's MindHive.

* MoralityChain: She was this for [[spoiler:her father]]. When she died and the chain broke, he eventually became [[spoiler:the Changing God]].

** By all accounts, there's nothing at all pleasant about the way the Bloom disposes of the old Memovira when the time comes to choose a new one. [[spoiler:The previous Memovira is still alive, a withered, semitransparent shadow of his former self, barely even recognizable to Matkina, who served under him in his heyday.]]

%%* MoralityChain

* TheEndingChangesEverything: A natural consequence of said ending revealing [[WalingSpoiler her ''very'' relevant identity]].

%% * TheEndingChangesEverything

* StringyHairedGhostGirl: She's this kind of being, a spectral woman who is even known as "Ghostly Woman".

** 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.]]

* MindHive: Is made up of millions of interconnected minds distributed throughout its vast, amorphous body -- some less than animal, some more brilliant than any any human.

* PortalNetwork: Its maws, toothy orifices that open when fed what they desire, link to other planets, other dimensions, even other times.

%% * StringyHairedGhostGirl

%%* GrandTheftMe

%%* StringyHairedGhostGirl

* ChekhovsGunman: Her sidequest is optional, but depending on how you resolve it, it can affect the ending. [[spoiler:It turns out she's the "ghost" of the Changing God's daughter, Miika, her memories and consciousness. After she was injured by a numenera weapon during the Tabaht invasion of Sagus Cliffs, her father, the man who would one day be known as the Changing God, began searching for a cure. He uncovered the secrets of a past civilization, the Dalad, which in turn led him to the Tides -- the use of which in turn drew the Sorrow to him, forcing him to accelerate his research and using that technology to prolong his own life, eventually losing sight of why he'd started out on this path in the first place and abandoning a daughter who, for him, had been dead for thousands of years. Her presence during your final confrontation with the Changing God opens up the alternate solution of convincing the God to give up his own existence to finally return his daughter to a life of her own.]]

%% * SoapOperaDisease

%% * StringyHairedGhostGirl

* FighterMageThief: Glaive, nano, or jack, respectively. The player also gains access to a three different foci, representing [[CombatDiplomacyStealth defense, stealth, or social expertise]], respectively. Unlike the original Torment, this choice is set early in the game and cannot be changed.

* MindRape: Unleashing the Tides against people to force them to cooperate has this effect. This usually shifts your Tidal domains to Blue and/or Silver [[spoiler:the same as the Changing God's. Assaulting someone's mind with the Tides to extract information and/or to force them to do your bidding suits The Changing God perfectly.]]

%%* MercyKill

* DeathSeeker: Considerably nicer than the Endless Gate, seeking mostly to curate the tombs of the Necropolis and assist pilgrims, and certainly not hastening anybody to the better world they describe. They do believe, however, that it is only through their deaths in this world that they will find their way to the "true" afterlife.

* {{Expy}}: Like the Dendra O'hur the two cults' mutual enemies in the Endless Gate, they represent another aspect of the original ''Torment'''s Dustmen, in this case the belief that the world in which they "live" is actually the afterlife, an EpiphanicPrison from which they seek some escape.

A small cult who inhabit the Valley of Dead Heroes and the Necropolis, caretaking the graves and researching those that they memorialize. They believe the world everyone exists in is the afterlife and seek a way to the real world the graves indicate.

* DeathSeeker: Considerably nicer than the Endless Gate, seeking mostly to curate and assist, and certainly not hastening anybody to the better world they describe. They do believe, however, that it is only through their deaths in this world that they will find their way to the "true" afterlife.

* {{Expy}}: Like their enemies in the Endless Gate and the Dendra O'hur, they represent another aspect of the original ''Torment'''s Dustmen, in this case the belief that the world in which they "live" is actually the afterlife, an EpiphanicPrison from which they seek some escape.
* {{Protectorate}}: The Memorialists dedicate themselves to tending the Necropolis and its surroundings, learning as much as they can of those interred there, in the hopes that they can find some hint to their own past lives, that they might also escape this false life in which they find themselves.