History Characters / WizardWithAGun

[[folder:The Exiled God ('''SPOILERS''')]]

* AmbiguouslyRelated: There are some lore entries that playfully hint that Chaos may in fact be Alchemi's brother, and that she may have tricked or otherwise coerced him into committing whatever crime he wound up committing to be exiled.

* SealedEvilInACan: Twice over. He's firstly trapped in the part of the Tower beyond the Oculus, and secondly trapped inside the Cryptomancer's body thanks to her advanced cryptomancy magic.

Before the Shatter, the cryptomancers of the Imperium spent years encoding the secrets of magical knowledge and the empire. That process came with its own political power and soon the cryptomancy guild had agents across the Imperium and into the other kingdoms, spreading their influence and gathering secrets outside their original purview. Who this cryptomancer is and how she survived the Shatter and the centuries since remains a mystery to all who've met her - one she's not quick to reveal.

The inventor of Gunmancy and a skilled alchemist, Hilda has been on the run from her brother's militias for twenty years. Five years ago, she left the mainland to travel the Shatter.

She's spread Gunmancy far and wide across the broken islands in hopes that when the mainlanders invade in earnest, the inhabitants will put up a fight. The gun cults have discovered her plot, and the bounty on her head and those who follow her has increased dramatically.

The Valyn Bards were renowned for their retellings of the stories of the god-wizards and their exploits in the world. When the Vale fell, so did the long line of bards trained by Magus himself. Now only one bard remains who knows the ancient songs and the old lore. The magi of the Vale and their descendants were blessed with long lives. Some say the craft is still passed from one master to a new apprentice every generation, but there are also rumors that the bard is older than the Shatter, old enough to have seen the fall of the Imperium and the shattering of the world.

Young Joshua's smithy was well known across the Shatter... That is, until a group of bandits came and looted the place. Nowadays, the smithy is much humbler, but he still does what he can to carry forward his craft. Perhaps someday, someone will come along and restore his lost blueprints.

The magi were masters of growth and creation. Though most of their knowledge was lost when the Vale fell, some of their knowledge persists through generations of midwives and hedgewitches who have resisted the overwhelming corruption of the swamp. Grandma Bogfen is one such hedgewitch, and will help your Gumancer out by teaching them the recipes for various potions.

Alchemi was the patron of the early Imperium, where she built a library to house all of her knowledge. Aside from his book collection, Alchemi was known for his ability to spontaneously transform everything, including his own appearance and gender, as well as his love of trickery and the mischief his abilities granted him. The Imperium, out of respect, alternated between referring to Alchemi in her female and male forms. After the gods left, the Imperium continued their worship of Alchemi, treating transformation magics as the pinnacle of magical knowledge.

After creating the world, Magus lived in the verdant Vale with his people, the Magi. He taught them the magics of life and agriculture, which lead to the Valyn being the predominant empire for thousands of years. When Magus left with the other gods, the Magi attempted to crack the secrets of immortality. Instead, they poisoned the Infinite Well, their main source of water, and destroyed their civilization.

Solus, lived among the Koleye barbarians for millennia, teaching them the ways of war. When the Koleye began warring with the Valyn, Magus and Solus were drawn into the conflict. They forged a truce between their peoples, and Magus gifted the Kolbara tree to Solus to honor the peace. She planted it in the heart of the wastes, where it grew to be a massive WorldTree that provides food and shelter for the tribes. When Solus left with the other gods, she pulled her own eye out and left it to watch over her tribes, to judge their deeds and glories for eternity.

Chaos does not have a mind. Chaos does not have a soul. Why, then, does this manifestation of Chaos seem to bear a grudge against you and all of existence?

* EldritchAbomination: Much moreso than any other Godwizard. Chaos doesn't appear to have any kind of physical form, instead needing to inhabit the bodies of those he corrupts, and his influence is marked by glowing pink energy and tentacled horrors

!The Three Godwizards

* DishingOutDirt: Like normal Construct Mechana, it's capable of raising walls of earth around itself and creating and throwing boulders at you.

* DiskOneFinalBoss: Defeating it gives you the last gear for the Chronomancer's Wheel and unlocks the Oculus, which indicates there's more to come despite it being the ClimaxBoss of your quest to restore the Wheel. Currently it's the effective FinalBoss, however, as more content has yet to be added.

* UniqueEnemy: Jeremy Edward is the only Golden Bounty that's not a KingMook based on another enemy's existing moveset, instead being a wholly original TentacledTerror.

!The Three Godwizards

[[folder:Alchemi, Godwizard of Transformation]]
Alchemi was the patron of the early Imperium, where she built a library to house all of her knowledge. Aside from his book collection, Alchemi was known for his ability to spontaneously transform everything, including his own appearance and gender, as well as his love of trickery and the mischief his abilities granted him. The Imperium, out of respect, alternated between referring to Alchemi in her female and male forms. After the gods left, the Imperium continued their worship of Alchemi, treating transformation magics as the pinnacle of magical knowledge.

* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: It's unknown what Alchemi's true gender was, if she even had one to begin with or if he considers herself to be male and female simultaneously due to his VoluntaryShapeshifting powers.
* ExpositoryPronoun: The description of her statue keys in the player that his gender is either fluid or double-binary by using alternating pronouns to describe her.
* TricksterGod: He was renowned for filling this role in the trinity of Godwizards, as she was quite partial to mischief.
* ShapeshiftingTrickster: He is very heavily implied to fall directly into this archetype.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Because she was the Godwizard of transmutation magic, he could transform everything around him and could even transform her own appearance and gender at will.

[[folder:Magus, Godwizard of Creation]]
After creating the world, Magus lived in the verdant Vale with his people, the Magi. He taught them the magics of life and agriculture, which lead to the Valyn being the predominant empire for thousands of years. When Magus left with the other gods, the Magi attempted to crack the secrets of immortality. Instead, they poisoned the Infinite Well, their main source of water, and destroyed their civilization.

* TheMaker: He supposedly created the world, not just the Shatter but the Mainland as well.

[[folder:Solus, Godwizard of Destruction]]
Solus, lived among the Koleye barbarians for millennia, teaching them the ways of war. When the Koleye began warring with the Valyn, Magus and Solus were drawn into the conflict. They forged a truce between their peoples, and Magus gifted the Kolbara tree to Solus to honor the peace. She planted it in the heart of the wastes, where it grew to be a massive WorldTree that provides food and shelter for the tribes. When Solus left with the other gods, she pulled her own eye out and left it to watch over her tribes, to judge their deeds and glories for eternity.

* DestroyerDeity: Solus' domain is all destruction magic, and as such she is greatly favored by sorcerers and warlocks due to their schools of magic overlapping with her interests.
* EyeScream: She tore her own eye out to leave as a gift for the people of Koleye.

!Chaos
[[folder:The Harbinger of Chaos ('''Spoilers for defeating all four riders''')]]
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Chaos does not have a mind. Chaos does not have a soul. Why, then, does this manifestation of Chaos seem to bear a grudge against you and all of existence?

* AlphaStrike: When it gets reasonably low on health, it will charge forward and unleash a huge wave of lasers which destroy all the terrain in its path.
* BeamSpam: It has the FrickinLaserBeams of Eyes of Chaos, but can use them much faster and more lethally, culminating in its AlphaStrike beam attack.
* DiskOneFinalBoss: Defeating it gives you the last gear for the Chronomancer's Wheel and unlocks the Oculus, which indicates there's more to come despite it being the ClimaxBoss of your quest to restore the Wheel. Currently it's the effective FinalBoss, however, as more content has yet to be added.
* FlunkyBoss: To a ludicrous extent. It's capable of summoning scores of Chaos creatures and even a slew of Ambush Rifts which can then summon even ''more'' Chaos.
* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: It resembles a gigantic, flying Portuguese Man-o-War.
* GateGuardian: Defeating it is the only way to gain access to the Oculus, the gate into the Tower that the Godwizards left through.
* KingMook: You'll encounter a smaller, much weaker version of it in each new biome you unlock, each of which holds a gear and [[WarmUpBoss primes you for some of the Harbinger's moveset]] It's also capable of summoning Acolytes of Chaos during its fight, which are essentially much smaller and weaker versions of it.

* RecurringBoss: You'll encounter a smaller, much weaker version of it in each new biome you unlock, each of which holds a gear and [[WarmUpBoss primes you for some of the Harbinger's moveset]].