History Characters / XenobladeChronicles2

** ''Characters/SuperSmashBrosPyraMythra''

** ''Characters/SuperSmashBrosUltimate76To82'' [[note]]Pyra/Mythra[[/note]]

* [[Characters/XenobladeChronicles2PrequelProtagonists Prequel Protagonists]]

** [[Characters/XenobladeChronicles2Jin Jin]]

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Characters from VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2.

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* [[Characters/XenobladeChronicles2PrequelProtagonists Prequel Protagonists]]

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Characters from Xenoblade Chronicles 2.

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[[folder:Lora ''(Laura)'']]

-->Voiced by: Creator/SaoriHayami (Japanese), Anna Koval (English)

Jin and Haze's former Driver.
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* AbusiveParents: From what little we see of her father, he was a violent drunk, ready to stab his own daughter to get his Core Crystal back after she accidentally awakened Jin. As she was now under the protection of one of the world's strongest Blades, it didn't go well for him.
* IdenticalStranger: Her and Haze looked like sisters, and even had the same voice in the Japanese version. While they were hardly strangers, given the wide variety Blades come in, this level of similarity due to resonance was treated as quite unique (Blades do often take on aspects of the person who first awakens them, but normally not to such an extreme degree).
* MoralityPet: Is this to Jin, at least after [[spoiler:Jin becomes a flesh eater]]. Albeit its a pretty questionable case, as he uses Lora's death more as a reminder of why he believes himself justified in the atrocities he commits, while knowing full well Lora would hate him for what he is doing.
* PosthumousCharacter: Lived 500 years ago, having fought alongside Addam in the Aegis War.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: [[spoiler:Her death at Amalthus’s attack on Torna, and a moment of weakness when she despaired over Jin forgetting her, is what ultimately led to Jin joining Malos.]]
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[[folder:Addam Origo]]

-->Voiced by: Yusuke Handa (Japanese), Paul Thornley (English)

The legendary hero of Torna and the former Driver of Mythra.
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* {{Bishonen}}: From the little we see of him, he was handsome in his youth, and rather interestingly, resembles an older, lighter-haired Rex.
* BrokenPedestal: PlayedForLaughs. Zeke is ''mortified'' to learn that spicy food gave him diarrhea, and begs Mythra to stop when she begins rattling other little known facts about his hero.
* ButNowIMustGo: It is stated that after sealing away the Aegis, the hero Addam disappeared from the world. Although his phantasm states he has long since departed from the world, it is never elaborated upon what exactly became of him.
* FamedInStory: He is the most famous hero in Alrest, to the point that he is something of a deified hero, a childhood idol to many such as Zeke.
* GenerationXerox: Rex is seen as this to him by many who knew him, particularly Mythra/Pyra. They even look somewhat alike.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: He is the previous Driver of the Aegis and the hero who saved the world from Malos 500 years ago.
* InTheHood: He seems to have preferred to keep his hood up even in the company of his comrades, obscuring his features.
* PosthumousCharacter: He is long since dead from the start of the story.
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!Argentum

[[folder:Bana ''(Ban)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/AkioOhtsuka (Japanese), Stephen Critchlow (English)

Chairman of the Argentum Trade Guild. He hired Rex to aid Torna in their endeavors to obtain the Aegis for his own profit.

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* BadBoss: Makes Lila continue to attack even when it would destroy her. Near the beginning of the game, he was complicit in letting an entire salvage crew be executed by Jin and Malos for being witnesses to the Aegis, and even further, he even told his own camera feed guy beforehand that he was supposed to die and was ready to scold him for coming out alive.
* BeardOfEvil: Has a tiny goatee growing in his face.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Willing to do whatever he can to line his own pockets.
* DevilInPlainSight: Unlike [[spoiler:Bana of Bionis]], ''this'' Bana is clearly painted as a villain from the get-go.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** [[spoiler:Following his defeat, a sidequest regarding his secret treasure reveals that his true treasure are letters from his [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas Mamapon]]. Following that, talking to an NPC reveals that Bana loves his parents genuinely, but his obsession with money has been his fatal flaw.]]
** [[spoiler:At the end of the game, after uncovering his Mamapon's letters and completing the ''Farewell, Good Friend'' quest, you get to uncover that the mastermind behind the groups seeking the end of the Ardainian empire is Bana's Dadapon Don Dondon. After beating him, he joins Bana on the wheel and the two go on about how much they love each other]].
* EvilIsBigger: He is much larger than the other Nopon, including Tora.
* FatBastard: Rotundness is a normal Nopon trait, but Bana is a lot bigger than normal and he's an opportunistic slimeball even by his race's standards.
* {{Gonk}}: He's distinctively non-cute compared to other [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Nopon]], such as having a heavier brow and a garrish beard, mustache and topknot. Even his portraits do little to downplay his relative ugliness, making him look more like a tiny [[Franchise/StarWars Hutt]] with fur. In-universe, [[DeliberateValuesDissonance he's still considered cute by Nopon standards]].
* {{Greed}}: He cares for nothing but money to keep his lavish lifestyle sated.
* HateSink: From him granting order to Tora's families deaths, and putting Tatazo into slavery, to torturing Lila when she fails to destroy Poppi, to attempting to assassinate the royalty of Uraya and Mor Ardain, there is nothing likeable about him at all.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Never thought that TheHero Rex would actually try to stop him when he did unscrupulous weapon construction.
* HumongousMecha: Pilots the giant artificial Blade Rosa in his boss fight. Later pilots an improved version without Muimui.
* MadeOfIron: [[spoiler:Survives the explosion of Giga Rosa.]]
* MythologyGag: Shares his name with a Nopon from the previous game, [[spoiler:who was also a greed-driven villain. They are both also punished for their crimes by being forced to run on a giant wheel.]]
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Bana's attempt to assassinate the leaders of Mor Ardain and Uraya to cause a war between them ultimately causes them to call a ceasefire, since Emperor Niall's HeroicSacrifice convinces Queen Raqura that Niall was sincere in not wanting to start a war with Uraya.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Calls Dughall an idiot due to the latter's excessive flattery and mentioning of their illicit Core Crystals trafficking on an unsecured line. Later on chews out Muimui when he brings the heroes all the way into the factory while failing to capture them.
* TakingYouWithMe: After his attempts to execute the royalty of both Uraya and Mor Ardain fail, Bana attempts to defy them with one last suicidal act by self-destructing Rosa. [[spoiler:It ends up killing no one in the long run]].
* TrrrillingRrrs: He speaks this way in the English dub.
* VillainRespect: It's suggested he has some degree of respect towards Rex, since he calls Rex "Rex-Rex" (which is an AffectionateNickname by Nopon who respect him, like Tora). Might've began when he was impressed with Rex's surprising display of cunning thought during the raid on the Abandoned Factory.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Trusted by the populace. Rex only learns of his nefarious misdeeds later on. Albeit it turns out an auditor Nopon in Mor Ardain had been suspicious of Bana for a while, and working on exposing his corruption.
* WarForFunAndProfit: Bana was willing to sell weapons and material to all factions, including Torna. [[spoiler:He later attempts to kill Queen Raqura and frame the Ardainians for the crime so he can profit from a war between Uraya and Mor Ardain.]]
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[[folder:Muimui]]

-->Voiced by: Fuji Mitsuya (Japanese), Jonathan Keeble (English)

Former assistant of professor Soosoo.
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* DeceptiveDisciple: Muimui terminated his internship with Soosoo by terminating Soosoo.
* HumongousMecha: Pilots Rosa alongside Bana.
* TheMole: He worked for Bana while helping the professors, eventually betraying them and taking Lila to be reprogrammed and mass produced as part of Bana's own plans.
* NerdGlasses: Wears swirly glasses, much like [[VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX Tatsu]] before him.
* NumberTwo: Of the Abandoned Factory segment in Mor Ardain, he works for Bana and [[TheHeavy is the one driving the arc in place]].
* TheNondescript: Tora completely forgot Muimui existed simply because he's unmemorable.
* PaperThinDisguise: He wears only a small mask during the flashback of the raid on Soosoo's lab. Tatazo and Tora don't recognize him, but the player most certainly will.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's shown to have survived the fight with Rosa, but is barely conscious. However, his whereabouts following the end of Chapter 4 are unknown. It is not mentioned whether he died from possible injuries in the battle, was taken into custody or [[KarmaHoudini is still a free Nopon]].
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[[folder:Niranira]]

An auditor from Argentum's Intelligence Division, who has been following Bana's illicit dealings.
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* ForensicAccounting: Niranira is an auditor, and has tracked Bana's money to Mor Ardain.
* RankUp: Following Bana's deposal, Niranira is enstated as Acting Chairman of the Argentum Trade Guild and attends the summit of leaders.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Even before becoming the new Argentum chairman, he handles authority with efficiency and reason.
* RedHerring: There are a number of shots that suggest that he's a spy when the gang enters Mor Ardain's capital city. Turns out he was monitoring them for the sake of good. Lampshaded by Dromarch.
* VocalDissonance: Has an uncharacteristically deep and stoic tone for a Nopon.
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[[folder:Pupunin]]
A worker for the Argentum Guild.
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* ButtMonkey: This guy can't catch a break. First, he's sent by Bana to keep an eye on Rex onboard the Maelstrom, during which it was supposed to crash in order to reap the benefits from its insurance (and Bana's livid that "[Pupunin] can't even die properly"), then much later, onboard the Ardainian battleship parked at Indol [[spoiler:the heroes (incorrectly) assume that the Tirkin cooks he hired were assassins and end up beating them up senseless, then exit to confront Bana, leaving Pupunin with a huge mess]]. On Percival's side quest, Pupunin's the next target for a group of assassins that the former is tracking.
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[[folder:Tatazo]]
Tora's dadapon.
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* DirtyOldMan: Like his son and dadapon, Tatazo's motives for making Poppi and Lila are less than pure, especially when it comes to the optional features.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: He gets no respect from Lila, noting that whenever she throws out the trash, she throws ''him'' out as well.
* InTheBlood: Tora inherited his love of maids from him, who likewise inherited it from Soosoo.
* KidnappedScientist: A good portion of Chapter 4 is spent dealing with who kidnapped him and why.
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[[folder:Soosoo]]
Tora's grampypon and Tatazo's dadapon.
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* DirtyOldMan: Spent most of his time locked in the family's lab. When Rex praises his dedication, Tora corrects him: that's where he kept his PornStash.
* MadScientist: Tora has fond memories of Soosoo leaning over blueprints and cackling maniacally.
* PosthumousCharacter: Dies prior to the start of the game.
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[[folder:Lila ''(Kiku)'']]
An artificial Blade created by Toras grampypon Soosoo and dadapon Tatazo.
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* BareFistedMonk: She's a Martial Artist, as shown by her boss fight.
* DisneyDeath: Ceases functioning after using the last of her power to jump-start Poppi's ether furnace properly. Of course, she's a robot, and her creator is right there. Tatazo simply repairs her.
* FlawedPrototype: Despite being of mostly superior quality to Poppi's default configuration, her Ether Furnace is only Tatazo's inferior replication of his dadapon's work, meaning Poppi is capable of matching her power output without her own Furnace working at full power.
* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Despite being reprogrammed to ignore Tatazo, she rips out the control device implanted in her to defy Bana and honor her creators.
* JetPack: Has one on her back.
* {{Meido}}: Wears a maid outfit.
* ServileSnarker: While she's much more polite to her creator's face than Poppi, she's also a lot more passive-aggressive. The example given is that she frequently classifies Tatazo as household waste and attempts to throw him out with the garbage.
* SuperPrototype: Lila was the original creation of Soosoo, Tatazo, and some aid from Tora. Unlike Poppi, she has her full capabilities brought forth from the start thanks to the genius of Soosoo. Subverted though when it turns out her Ether Furnace is an inferior attempt to copy Poppi's. She claims to still be superior when she recognizes Poppi's Ether Furnace is not operating at full capacity, but [[spoiler: Poppi still [[CurbStompBattle crushes her]] one-on-one following the second fight with her.]]
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[[folder:The Kingpin - '''Unmarked Spoilers!''']]
!!Don Dondon
Bana's dadapon and leader of the Lindwurm Anti-Ardanian organization.
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* ArcVillain: Of the Brionac/Lindwurm sidequest arc that starts with ''We Meet Again''.
* BonusBoss: Takes the original Bana's place as the strongest sidequest boss in the game.
* CallBack:
** Dondon is this to, ironically, [[XenobladeChronicles the original Bana]], being a regular-sized nopon kingpin fought riding a flying enemy after a long sidequest chain.
** Zadazan is named after Zazadan, one of the original Bana's pawns, but his role as the penultimate villain of the arc brings to mind fellow pawn Dedeba.
* CigarChomper: One of his distinguishing traits is a cigar in his mouth at all times, even when he's running on the wheel with Bana.
* TheDragon:
** Common Blade Akatsuki serves as his first, manipulating Brionac into fulfilling his wishes.
** Zadazan, another Nopon, is his second after the death of Akatsuki's Driver, and is fought right before Don Dondon himself.
** Bana also turns out to be another one unrelated to the others. His role is to build up Argentum, which will weaken Mor Ardain in return.
* TheManBehindTheMan: Akatsuki, Zadazan, and Bana were all members of Lindwurm under him. Argentum under Bana as a whole is also a piece in taking down Mor Ardain.
* PunnyName: His name is an obvious play on don, a common title for mafia bosses that he also has before his actual name.
* UnwittingPawn: Downplayed with Bana. While the two genuinely care for each other and Bana willingly helped his father, talking to Zadazan at Dondon's office after Lindwurm is taken care of reveals that Don Dondon had Zadazan forge the letters from Bana's mother, who had walked out years ago, to keep Bana focused on Argentum.
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! Gormott

[[folder:Dughall]]
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The corrupt Ardainian consul of Gormott and ally of Bana.
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* AuthorityInNameOnly: Subverted. While he's completely aware his post is just [[ReassignedToAntarctica getting him out of the way]] and he permits things like insane delivery fees for merchants (since he gets a cut), he did actually do his job keeping the town guard in order. After he's deposed, [[RealityEnsues racial tensions flare and the militia is stretched to breaking point keeping the city running]]. Lampshaded later when the party is shocked to hear his administration might have been doing the occupied city some good.
* CorruptPolitician: Is the corrupt Ardanian consul of Gormott and is an ally of one of the villains: Bana.
* DirtyCoward: Hides behind his Blade rather than face Rex and the crew directly.
* FantasticRacism: When called out on using his Blade as a living shield, he states that he does not care about Blades' feelings, and mocks the protagonists for doing so. Notably averted regarding the province he was governing, though. He's never seen talking to the locals, but he doesn't go out of his way to insult the Gormotti either, and he was actually keeping military bigots in line (although he often refers to the city/province itself as a "flea-bitten backwater").
* {{Gonk}}: He's quite portly, has got a disproportionately big mouth, a big nose, a heavy brow and a gaudy mustache. Among the human cast, he's one of the uglier ones.
* SissyVillain: Has very...campy poses when he talks to people.
* SmugSnake: Dughall's absolutely full of himself, and acts like more of a bigshot than he really is. Naturally, Rex kicks his ass.
* StarterVillain: Is the first major boss the protagonists face, and disappears from the plot without fanfare after a single defeat.
* SurroundedByIdiots: While Bana gets frustrated when he states their dealings on open channels that Indol can overhear, even Dughall finds Captain Padraig to be a moron for not knowing the color of emerald. Even moreso with the fact Padraig never even informs him Brighid was there when they encountered the Aegis, leaving Dughall surprised when Mòrag and Brighid mention her.
* UncertainDoom: After he's defeated, he's mentioned as being deposed. It isn't clear if this means he was killed by the party in his boss fight, or if he survived the fight, but the Ardainian Empire stripped him of his power and had him tried for his illegal activity. His Blade not reverting to its Core Crystal on-screen after he is knocked out makes his exact fate more ambiguous.
* WarmupBoss: As capstone to the first real "dungeon" the player completes, he's pretty plainly just a punching bag so the player can understand the Blade combo mechanic, with an annoying Blowdown attack to show how useful seals can be.
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!Mor Adain

[[folder:Emperor Niall ''(Nefei)'']]

-->Voiced by: Creator/AkiraIshida (Japanese), Daniel Buckley (English)

The Emperor of Mor Ardain. Partnered with the Blade Aegaeon.

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* AChildShallLeadThem: He looks close to Rex's age.
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Does die for a short time after shielding the protagonists from Bana's bomb, as shown by Aegaeon returning to his Core Crystal, but fortunately is quickly revived by Nia]].
* TheGoodKing: Is loved and respected by his people and he tries to do his best to solve the problem of the dying Mor Adain Titan without bloodshed.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Puts himself in the way of Bana's last ditch bomb so that Aegaeon can protect everyone else]].
* InadequateInheritor: [[spoiler:In a meeting with Mòrag after the peace talks he refuses to take back Aegaeon's Core Crystal, feeling that he failed as a Driver, being unable to save himself along with everyone else and decides that is better for his cousin Mòrag to keep hold of it]].
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[[folder:Aegaeon ''(Wadatsumi)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/ShuichiIkeda (Japanese), Chris Ragland (English)

Emperor Niall's Blade and bodyguard.

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* AceCustom: Aegaeon looks much like the missing link between Common Blades and Rares, being essentially a much more ornate version of a Common. He's also one of the only story-related Blades, playable or not, whose weapon is of an existing type rather than unique.
* AncestralWeapon: Like with Brighid he has been passed down the Mor Adain royal bloodline.
* FailureKnight: Laments that he has become this after his failure to [[spoiler:save the life of Emperor Niall. Luckily, thanks to Nia, Emperor Niall survives. However, the current Aegaeon has no memory of his past self and Emperor Niall prohibits Aegaeon from accessing his past records, though he hears rumors about the incident. Brigid reassures to him that Emperor Niall simply wishes that he would use his strength to protect all of Alrest, rather than just him.]]
* MeaningfulName: "Wadatsumi" is one of the names for the Japanese God of Seas, [[JapaneseMythology born when Izanagi was washing himself clean of]] [[TheUnderworld Yomi's corruption]].
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!Uraya

[[folder:Cole]]
A playwright who makes plays based on the Aegis War and an old mercenary comrade of Vandham.
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* BlessedWithSuck: [[spoiler:He got all the bad aspects of being a Flesh Eater Blade with none of the benefits. Aging, lack of power, and an inability to absorb required ether to live when in small amounts.]]
* MysteriousPast: Knows Pyra and Torna, but doesn't give anything specific on his past during his first meeting with Rex.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:His real name is Minoth and he once fought in the Aegis War alongside Mythra and Azurda]].
* YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler:Due to Urayas less than ideal ether amount in the environment his dying body and health are significantly worsened by living there, shortening his lifespan significantly.]]
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[[folder:Queen Raqura ''(Queen Ragert)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/MamiKoyama (Japanese), Teresa Gallagher (English)

The Queen of Uraya.

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* AdiposeRex: Is noticeably more rotund than her starving subjects, as a consequence of Uraya's social stratification.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Despite Uraya's tensions being at an all-time high with Mor Ardain, she is willing to accept that the recent unprovoked attack on her people was a FalseFlagOperation after a little deliberation, and work out an agreement with Mor Ardain.
* OutOfFocus: Much of the exposition on Uraya is done through Vandham. Raqura doesn't even make a proper appearance until Chapter 6, well past the point where the party has moved on from Uraya. [[spoiler:She does play a featured role in the final Mercenary level-up mission, however]].

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!Indol

[[folder:Amalthus ''(Marbeni)'' - '''Unmarked Spoilers!''']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/JunichiSuwabe (Japanese), Corey Johnson (English)

The Praetor of Indol who effectively controls the nation through Core Crystals.

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* AGodAmI: He considers himself the chosen of the Architect. He's deluded himself into believing that the Architect's will aligns with his own, and eventually begins referring to his own ambitions as what the Architect wants him to do. He refuses to even entertain the idea that he is wrong or should change, believing he will lose who he is (or rather has deluded himself into being) if he does so.
* AchillesHeel: He is initially weak to ice as a boss. Jin finishes him by freezing Amalthus to absolute zero.
* AlasPoorVillain: His death has shades of this, as Zeke thinks back on a conversation he had with Amalthus after he had saved his life, remarking on how horribly sad he seemed to be, and pondering if this was as genuinely a part of Amalthus as the monster that they had just witnessed. In the end it can come across that Amalthus was as much a thoroughly broken person as he was evil.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: Besides forcing an EnemyMine, his arrival at the World Tree conveniently results in the deaths of four-fifths of Torna as well as himself, thus ensuring our heroes don't have to stain their hands with sympathetic-villain blood.
* BarrierChangeBoss: In his boss fight, he can change his weakness with the move "Divine Robe".
* BeingEvilSucks: Make no mistake, Amalthus is not a remotely happy person, his delusions of following the Architect's will being perhaps the only thing that keeps him going.
* BigBad: Shares this role with Malos; Malos is the greater physical threat of the two, even with Amalthus's transformed state, but Amalthus is the one responsible for setting Malos on his way.
* BigDamnHeroes: Given who he ends up being, he has a surprisingly impressive example of this trope, as he gets between the two armies just in time to stop all out war between Uraya and Mor Ardain.
* ChurchMilitant: Is the leader of Indol and also an extremist who wants to carry out his perverted interpretation of the Architect's will at any cost.
* CombatTentacles: Has them in his OneWingedAngel form.
* TheCorrupter: As Malos' Driver, Malos' personality was formed from Amalthus's desires, turning him into an OmnicidalManiac driven only by Amalthus's darkest impulses.
* DespairEventHorizon: Healing a wounded man, only to later catch him in the act of murder, drove him far enough into despair that he was willing to ''climb all the way to space'' in order to demand some kind of explanation from the Architect. Not getting one is perhaps part of what pushed him right over the edge.
* EmbodimentOfVice: Sloth, primarily, as befitting the leader of the nation themed after that particular sin. Though he plays the role of peacekeeper between the other nations, his contentment with keeping the world reliant on his services means no actual change occurs. Taken to extremes once he shows his true colors, embodying the more despairing and nihilistic aspects of sloth; he would rather just destroy the world than try to improve it, and he refuses to change who he is or acknowledge change in others.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: He sees the ghost of his deceased mother in his final moments. It was also her death over 500 years ago that served as his StartOfDarkness.
* FallenHero: His life story is essentially one long downward spiral, from a KnightInSourArmor to an OmnicidalManiac to finally just not caring about anything but his own power and prestige.
* GoodShepherd: In his youth, he was a genuinely benevolent priest who healed the sick and injured and protected the weak and downtrodden.
* {{Expy}}: Essentially the ''Xenoblade'' equivalent of [[VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}} Patriarch Sergius]]. Both are {{Church Militant}}s who seek to use their respective god's power for nefarious means.
* FantasticRacism: He sees Blades as nothing more than tools to be used and discarded. Same for Titans. He wants the Architect's power in part to destroy both.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Despite coming off as wise and noble towards Rex and his friends, they were nothing more than a means for him to secure dominion over Alrest. He also drops all friendly pretenses on the way to Elysium with him and his soldiers attacking anyone in his way without giving them a chance.
* FreudianExcuse: His mother sacrificed herself when he was a young child as they were running from a soldier. He soon stumbled upon the soldiers' camp where he found his dead mother with eyes open and the soldiers asleep. Amalthus promptly snapped, hating the world as he picked up a large rock and smashed a soldier's head in. Not helping matters is that all his attempts at giving humanity another chance ended poorly, such as when a man whose wounds he had tended to went off and committed murder.
* TheHeavy: Everything that happens during the game can ultimately be traced back to him, and not just his bringing back the two Aegis cores from Elysium; he's also directly responsible for the formation of Torna with his post-war actions, his policies on Blades (Flesh Eaters and Blade Eaters) resulted in Nia and Zeke being able to join the party, and Indol's domineering presence over the other nations results in multiple bad outcomes for the party (Padraig moves to arrest Rex primarily because he's an unregistered Driver, Tantal believe themselves backed even further into a corner when Amalthus sends them an ultimatum and react poorly, etc.). Even the situation of the Titans dying out with no new ones to replace them is implied to be because of Amalthus's tampering with the natural lifecycle of Blades and Titans.
* {{Hypocrite}}: For all he carries on about how mankind is regressing technologically, he doesn't seem willing to admit that his own machinations keeping civilization dependent on an unsustainable resource he controls the distribution of might have anything to do with it.
* ImpliedAnswer: A major part of his motivation is that he saw one where there wasn't. As the Architect never actually stopped him from stealing the Aegis cores, attacking Torna, or any of his more dubious actions, he came to the conclusion that "God" was fully on board with his hatred of everything. The truth was simply that Klaus believed his atonement was doomed to fail, and let his new humanity do its thing no matter what came out of it.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He is motivated solely by his own selfish desires and god complex. Even his despair over the world eventually came to be about how he thinks nothing else is as great as himself. Amalthus even admits to Rex the idea of people changing proves his selfish despair at the world's state is wrong, but doesn't care because ''he'' personally refuses to change because in his eyes he's already perfect.
* MisanthropeSupreme: His intense self-loathing and despair over the terrible state of the world festered into a desire to see everyone - humans, Blades, and Titans alike - destroyed forever.
* MotiveDecay: While he was originally driven by a belief that the world was irredeemably corrupt and needed to be destroyed, the fame he gained from climbing the World Tree brought him power and prestige, and he eventually became more interested in preserving the status quo and advancing his own self-interest than in any sort of cause.
* MouthOfSauron: Subverted. Amalthus ''believes'' himself to be this for the Architect, but in reality the Architect would rather have nothing to do with him.
* KarmicDeath: After some heavy beatdown from Rex and his party, it is Jin, one of the few survivors from the Kingdom of Torna that Amalthus destroyed 500 years ago, who finishes him off.
* KnightInSourArmor: In his youth, despite his cynicism, he still tried to make the world a better place. He was driven into complete despair by the seeming futility of his actions.
* LightIsNotGood: Wears white and gold robes. He is also one of the game's antagonists.
* OhCrap: The very first time his composure breaks is when Rex and Mythra rush Indol in midair, and it suddenly hits him that Rex and Mythra are trying to shoot down the transmission towers in Indol that let him control titans.
* OmnicidalManiac: He intends on wiping out everything that he deems unworthy with the power of the Architect.
* OneWingedAngel: He becomes a gigantic monstrosity after absorbing cores of countless Blades.
* PetTheDog: Despite his misanthropy, he seems to have genuine empathy for the downtrodden; he saved Zeke's life due to the circumstances reminding him of his childhood, and allows refugees to take shelter in Indol (Though he doesn't care enough to evacuate them before mobilizing Indol for war).
* PowerNullifier: Is able to subjugate Blades to a degree as a result of transplanting half of Fan's Core Crystal onto his forehead and his own Master Program abilities as Malos's Driver. Indol features transmission towers that amplify his power to the point he can even control the other Titans.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: He hasn't aged at all since the Aegis war 500 years ago. While he makes the excuse that Indolines live longer than normal humans and that he still looks young due to being the Driver of an Aegis, the full truth is likely more due to his being a Blade Eater. That is while its conceivable that a normal Indoline could potentially live for five hundred years, they would be very elderly at that point.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: In his OneWingedAngel form.
* ReverseRelationshipReveal: Upon their first meeting, Rex gets an eerie feeling and sense of familiarity like he's talking to Malos instead of Amalthus, and wonders if Malos is somehow influencing Amalthus. Near the end of the story it's revealed that, as Amalthus's Blade, Malos's personality was formed ''from'' Amalthus's, making it closer to the other way around.
* ShadowArchetype: He serves as one to the Architect as Klaus, whereas Klaus genuinely wanted to make the world a better place despite his own god complex, Amalthus's own negative traits overwhelemed anything else about him as he became more concerned with his own godhood and desire to destroy the world filled with life unworthy of him. Essentially becoming a mortal Zanza.
* SinisterMinister: Is the ''Xenoblade'' equivalent of the Pope, has a deep hatred of Blades and is one half of the BigBadDuumvirate.
* SmugSnake: He tries so very hard to manipulate the heroes and establish control over all Blades in order to reach the Architect, but his plans fail at every turn and he is ultimately denied a second opportunity to reach Elysium. It is his Blade, Malos, that is the greater threat who has wrested free from dependence on Amalthus long ago.
* TheAssimilator: Weaponized the Blade Eater concept to a horrifying degree, becoming able to absorb entire Core Crystals and make himself ever more powerful as he chose only the best cores to absorb, albeit with some BodyHorror side effects. One motivation for the heroes to protect the weakened Jin from him is the fear that if he managed to absorb Jin he'd become utterly unstoppable.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: The game marks his charge into battle with the Indol Titan without even evacuating the civilians as the point he goes too far. Even Mikhail is appalled when he notices the Titan he's wrestling with is still full of innocent people.
* VillainousBreakdown: As Jin chills him to absolute zero, Amalthus loses all composure and begins beseeching the Architect directly for providence before being reduced to a whimper.
--> "Father... Why do you not answer when I call...?"
* WalkingSpoiler: Not much can be said about Amalthus without revealing his connection to Malos as his Driver, his role in the destruction of Torna 500 years ago, and his desire to see the world wither away.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Has white hair and has almost zero sympathy for Blades, Titans, and humans.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fan la Norne / Haze ''(Kasumi)'']]

-->Voiced by: Creator/SaoriHayami (Japanese), Samantha Dakin (English)

A Blade in service of Amalthus. Formerly known as Haze.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Nullifies Patroka's power when she attempts to rampage against Rex and the party, forcing Mikhail to retreat with her.
* IdentityAmnesia: Not remembering people is standard for a Blade, as they lose all their memories on being returned to their Core Crystal. Forgetting their ''name'', however, ''is'' unusual. [[note]]Blades appear to know their name the moment they are awakened, even after having been deactivated.[[/note]] [[spoiler:It's the first main hint that something is deeply wrong in Indol.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Jin kills her by running her through and destroying the remaining half of her Core Crystal. To him, Jin feels it is a mercy since it frees her from Amalthus' control.]]
* PowerCrystal: Has one, like all Blades. [[spoiler:However, as Mythra takes note of and points out to Nia, there's something ''wrong'' with hers; half of it is ''missing''. The culprit is eventually revealed to have been Amalthus.]]
* PowerNullifier: She can nullify the power of most Blades and in cases of really powerful ones, {{Nerf}}.
* StoryBreakerPower: Her ability to neutralise most Blades and weaken powerful ones would make a lot of encounters against enemy Blades a breeze. [[spoiler:So she ends up getting killed by Jin.]]
[[/folder]]

!Tantal

[[folder:King Eulogimenos]]
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-->Voiced by: Shigeru Ushiyama (Japanese), Keith Bartlett (English)

Rules over the Kingdom of Theosoir, an ancient civilization that claims to have descended from Addam.
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* {{Expy}}: Of [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles Emperor Sorean]], both are fathers of someone in the party (Melia and Zeke respectively), both were scared for destruction of their respective kingdoms due to the power of a legendary sword in the game but pull a HeelFaceTurn in the end. [[spoiler:Of course, the fact that Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is a parallel universe to Xenoblade Chronicles 1 means it is quite literal]].
* HeelFaceTurn: After initially [[spoiler:restraining the heroes and attempting to outright destroy the Aegis in order to prevent any further destruction to Alrest]], he [[spoiler:apologizes for his actions, recognizing that he only made things worse, and helps the heroes find the third, true Aegis sword]].
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: He says that a ''lot'', to Zeke's ever-increasing exasperation. Especially when [[spoiler:he tries to say that his ancestors's seizing of the crown was for the good of the country and not really a power grab.]]
* YouRemindMeOfX: In his youth he was much more like the party, and even had a dream of becoming a salvager, of all things. Probably the reason why he wasn't too harsh on Zeke for running away. There's a sidequest dedicated to getting him the sunken treasures he once longed for.
[[/folder]]

! Elysium

[[folder:Artifice Ophion ''(Device Serpent)'']]

A massive, serpent-like being who guards the way to the World Tree. Is also Pyra's Artifice.
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* BonusBoss: [[spoiler:After clearing the game, Ophion can be found still floating around the Cliffs of Morytha. It's level 117 and can be battled.]]
* CallBack: Ophion's upper body is essentially that of [[VideoGame/{{Xenogears}} Weltall]], sharing its distinctive head shape in particular.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: [[spoiler:Aion is stated to be the most powerful of the Artifices, but it is a whopping 47 levels weaker than Ophion.]]
* HumongousMecha: Though it takes the shape of a serpent, it is actually an autonomous mechanical weapon.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Artifice Siren]]

A giant gold and white mech located high in the skies of Alrest. Mythra's Artifce.
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* KillSat: Functions as one for Mythra, able to rain down beams of light on whomever she chooses.
* MechaMooks: [[spoiler:Chapter 10 reveals that even though it's a weapon of mass destruction, it used to be a ''mass produced'' weapon of mass destruction. Mythra's is just the only one still active, until Malos takes over the space station's forces and reactivates the rest.]]
* ShownTheirWork: Pyra uses Siren's targeting laser to [[spoiler:threaten to destroy herself]]; the only difference between a targeting laser and a weaponized laser is the power you put into it.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Artifice Aion - '''Unmarked Spoilers!''']]

The strongest artifice, created with the purpose of destroying the entirety of Alrest.
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* CombatTentacles: Makes use of these during the boss battle.
* ContinuityNod: Its fight is a reference to the fight against [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles Egil in the Mechonis Core]], it even has a super attack that can wipe out your party if you don't finish it off in time.
* DualityMotif: Its right half is black/red and demonic (complete with tail), its left half is white/green and angelic. Someone took "becoming god or devil" a bit too literally.
* FinalBoss: Malos pilots Aion to destroy Elysium, as he promised.
* GodzillaThreshold: The reluctance of the Beanstalk director to activate it indicates that it was built as a last resort. Too bad Klaus got to the Conduit first.
* HumongousMecha: One of the leftover war machines from Klaus's world.
* SelfDestructMechanism: The reactor overload variant. When it explodes, it explodes hard.
* SphereOfDestruction: Its most powerful attack, Prometheus, takes the form of a massive fireball that is likely to wipe out your entire party if you don't finish it off quick.
* SuperRobot: It's a one-of-a-kind mech with a crazy design, humanity's last resort that was apparently designed to be capable of ''destroying the world''.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Architect ''(God of Genesis)'' - '''Unmarked Spoilers!''']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/ShintaroAsanuma (Japanese), Creator/AdamHowden (English)

The creator of life in the world of ''Xenoblade 2'' and the maker of ''Xenoblade'''s universe. Once a human scientist named Klaus, the Architect is the remaining benevolent half of Zanza. He created Malos and Pyra[=/=]Mythra personally as the Aegis.

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* TheAtoner: Klaus remade life in his ruined universe to atone for his actions. He still wears the tattered remains of his labcoat from the day of the experiment.
* BigGood: He is likely the most powerful being in Alrest and the whole world is under his domain, with even Malos being unable to lay a finger on him. However, he is not truly with or against anyone, preferring to watch his creations seek their own paths. Yet seeing Rex and Pyra alerts him to a newfound possibility in mankind, convincing him to place his faith in them.
* CreatingLife: He made all life in ''2'' by using the memories of those who died in his experiment combined with core crystals to produce the Cloud Sea, from which the first life, Titans, emerged. The titans in turn produced life that lived and developed on them, and over thousands of years some of those life forms evolved into what became the various species of humans scattered about Alrest (Indoline, Gormotti, Nopon and so on).
* CreatingLifeIsAwesome: He came to be in awe of his creation as the new mankind ended up exactly the same as before, making him realize this was mans natural state as sentient beings. His only fears were of others like his original self being born into the world, and he created the Blades as monitors and overseers of the world to try to prevent such a scenario.
* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Was a normal human scientist before using the Conduit.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Both he and Zanza are able to see into the future and thus forsees Zanza's demise. While Zanza himself is in denial in regards to his visions cutting off, Klaus calmly informs Malos and Rex of his impending death and encourages them to take on their own paths. Indeed when the time finally comes, Klaus quietly accepts his end while granting humanity a final gift while Zanza goes down in disbelief that a mere mortal was able to fell him.
* {{Foil}}: In regards to his Zanza self in the previous game who is also the Creator God of his universe. Both halves are overall meant to represent the original human Klaus' opposing feelings and morals on the success of his universe-creating experiment, as well as how each of his reborn halves use their godly powers to will and affect their own universes.
** The Architect is remorseful in regards to his past actions and ultimately seeks to benefit his creations while Zanza is a boastful god who revels in his own power and sees his progeny as mere food to prolong his own life.
** The Architect has allowed time to take its toll, appearing old and emaciated by the time Rex arrives. Zanza, through the use of Shulk's body and Meyneth's Monado, maintains his youth and takes on a more divine appearance.
** The Architect is still renowned through Alrest as their creator and is still actively worshiped by his people. Zanza's negligence has made it so that his presence on Bionis has been long been forgotten besides a select few.
** The Architect retains his physical form and memories after becoming a deity, with part of his body consumed to become Zanza, able to stay in this state for untold years without needing nourishment or a host. Zanza is reborn as a giant who lacks memories of the original world, requiring massive amounts of energy just to move his body. Only being able to stave off death by using mortals as hosts.
* {{God}}: He was the ''Xenoblade'' universe's creator god, after all.
* AGodAmI: Prior to his experiment, Klaus had a massive God complex and wanted to save humanity by creating new universes and evolving humans into something more than they were. Thankfully for this universe, the Architect lacks this characteristic, while his other half Zanza inherited it instead.
* AGodIAmNot: Though he created life in Alrest, and is worshipped as a god by its people, he's more than willing to [[DoingInTheWizard do in his own wizard]] and explain the science behind it when approached, and sees himself as simply a scientist atoning for past mistakes.
* GodIsFlawed: After he caused the destruction of his home universe, he decided to atone by recreating all life in said destroyed universe. Still he is flawed in that he became so set in his belief that his actions to atone will end in failure that he will not even bother to help against the antagonists untill the end.
* GodIsGood: Is the good half of Zanza and genuinely wants to help as well as restore life in his old universe to atone for what he did.
* TheGodsMustBeLazy: Due to his belief about YouCantFightFate below, he does nothing to stop antagonists from wrecking havoc on the world until Rex and Pyra abilities (and the Conduit reactivating) show that fate can be changed after all.
* GoodCounterpart: A literal example to Zanza, being the part of Klaus that didn't become the first game's resident GeniusLoci GodOfEvil.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Half of his body is literally in another universe.
* LiteralSplitPersonality: He is the remaining half of Klaus after the original universe met its end, part of his body becoming a malevolent god in the new universe.
* MadeOfGood: While his other half Zanza inherited all of Klaus's evil characteristics, the Architect instead retains all of his good ones.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When he realized he had destroyed his original world and the people in it, scattering many of them to various universes, he was broken by the realization. To that end, he sought to [[TheAtoner atone]] for it.
* NeutralNoLonger: Up until the party meets him he just let the new humanity do whatever they want, including Malos, even if it meant it would lead to their self destruction. After examining the shapes of the party's hearts and being exposed to Rex's optimism and determination he helps the party in their quest to defeat Malos, and even right before he dies he creates a new Elysium for humanity from the Titans.
* NoSell: Fitting his godly nature, not even Malos's attack can hit him. Not that it matters much though considering his despondent nature.
* PowerEchoes: Has a very heavy echoing reverb to his voice, fitting his status as a god.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Subjects the heroes to horrific phantasms individually crafted for each member before they reach him, just for him to see what's in their hearts. The player would only see and go through Rex's phantasms, but Zeke and Dromarch remark the whole experience being very unpleasant.
* SelfDeprecation: He refers to the people on the space station as "arrogant people" and "fools indeed." It's pretty clear he's including himself in those insults.
* {{Synchronization}}: Since he and Zanza are the same person, just split into two beings, they are forever linked together. If one dies, the other dies as well.
* YouCantFightFate: [[ContinuityNod Just like his evil half]] he believed fate was preordained. Unlike Zanza, however, Klaus believed his destiny was for actions to atone were fated to end in failure, as Amalthus eventualy appeared and took both Pyra and Malos. It wasn't until Rex and Pyra started awakening the Conduit and harnessing its power that he came around to changing fate. Shulk's fight against Zanza also inspires him to change his mind as well, as he realizes he can die freeing both worlds.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: As Klaus, he believed that by using the Conduit and opening the gateway to multiple universes, he could stop needless suffering in his world and make humanity into something better. Unfortunately, it resulted in the utter destruction of his world, scattering civilization into multiple dimensions.
[[/folder]]

!Blades

!!Optional Blades

!Torna

[[folder:Jin ''(Shin)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/TakahiroSakurai (Japanese), John Schwab (English)

The leader of Torna. Wears a mask.

* BigBad: Appears to be this at first, as the leader of Torna, but [[spoiler:subverted. Malos is the true BigBad with him as TheDragon]].
* BroughtDownToBadass: Temporarily during his first boss fight where his power is {{Nerf}}ed, but he is still an incredibly powerful fighter Rex and the party can't even defeat. [[spoiler:At the end of chapter 7, his core gets damaged in his all-out fight with Rex and the fully awakened Aegis. For the rest of the game, he can barely stand, yet keeps on trucking, even offing one of the main story's more challenging boss fights.]]
* CoolMask: Wears one that covers a lot of his face. [[spoiler:It conceals the Core Crystal on his forehead]].
* CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler:Indol destroying the Kingdom of Torna, which led to Jin's Driver dying in the attack. This drove Jin into consuming his Driver's heart, turning him into a Flesh Eater Blade, so he wouldn't revert back to a Core Crystal and lose all his memories and forget her.]]
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:One motivation he has for going to the Architect to kill him is to die, he just thinks the rest of humanity should go with him.]]
* DisappearsIntoLight: How he meets his end.
* TheDragon: To Malos, although officially, Malos is his second-in-command.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He still generally cared and loved his [[spoiler:old Driver Lora even after he joined Malos]], downright keeping her body safe in the ship. Albeit he claims keeping her body around is to remind him of his past foolishness for believing in the wisdom of the Architect, he is well aware Lora would not want him siding with Malos.
* ExactWords: In her dying moments, Lora laments that the thought of Jin forgetting her is too much to bear. To prevent this, Jin devoured her heart and continued to live on with his memories, despite losing his own will to live. Malos points out that those last words were a curse to him.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:In the Aegis War 500 years ago, he had fought on Mythra's side against Malos. He was considered to be kindest of them and was a pacifist who refused to fight unless necessary. Losing his Driver and forcing to live on by her wishes robbed Jin of a purpose until Malos gave him a new one.]]
* FlashStep: He uses this to kill Rex at the beginning of the story. He claims to be able to move at the speed of light.
* GuestStarPartyMember: For the first dungeon in the game. [[spoiler:He will also fight alongside Rex temporarily in the Land of Morytha until he has regrouped with everyone else.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Sacrifices himself to kill Amalthus]]
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:Killed Rex who was later revived by Pyra and later killed Fan la Norne.]]
* AnIcePerson: [[spoiler:It's his element as a Blade, as seen whenever he fights with or against the party. In his true form, he frequently displays his control over elementals by conjuring ice. He freezes Amalthus to absolute zero [[RedemptionEqualsDeath at the cost of his life]].]]
* InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler:He was implied to be married with his previous Driver before becoming Lora's Blade in the Japanese version.]]
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Uses a katana in battle, but it doesn't look like a Blade... [[spoiler:This is because Jin himself is a Blade]].
* TheLeader: Even though Malos is higher than him in the power hierarchy, Jin is the leader of Torna as he is the tying the other members together. He rescued Mikhail when he was a war orphan and gave the unwanted Flesh Eaters, Akhos, Patroka, and Nia a home and a purpose. They all in turn all demonstrate [[UndyingLoyalty undying loyalty]] to him, with Nia remaining conflicted until the end.
* MartialPacifist: Was formerly one [[spoiler:back during the Aegis war, where he refused to participate in military exercises and took no enjoyment in fighting. When his driver Lora died he dropped his unwillingness to fight, determined now to exterminate humanity]].
* MercyKill:
** Viewed killing Rex at the beginning of the story as this.
** Does it again to [[spoiler:Fan la Norne]], seeking to [[IDieFree free her]] of her master.
* MythologyGag: Shares some traits with [[VideoGame/XenoSaga Jin Uzuki]] such as having the [[NamesTheSame same name]], uses the same type of [[KatanasAreJustBetter weapon]] and having the [[AnIcePerson same element]].
* NoSell:
** Mythra's Foresight allows Rex to see a bit into the future and predict all incoming attacks. Against a light-speed opponent such as Jin, it is useless as he still cannot physically defend against his attacks.
** His control over elementary ether particles makes all ether-based attacks useless, even the light beams from Siren.
* NotSoDifferent: Despite having been on different sides in the Aegis War, [[spoiler:he and Malos share a commonality in lacking a purpose due to Amalthus: Jin in losing Lora and Malos being corrupted by his hatred]].
* OneManArmy: Single-handedly takes down an Ardanian imperial warship. It is stated that even an army five thousand strong would be no match for him.
* OneWingedAngel: His true form bares his chest and gives him a set of wing-like appendages on his lower back. His physical abilities become significantly boosted, taking down the entire party in the blink of an eye and completely overwhelming Rex and Mythra.
* PurposefullyOverpowered: When he's a GuestStarPartyMember he's completely broken, most notably with his ability to pull off the entire Break/Topple/Launch/Smash combo by himself with ease.
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Malos' red.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: In the beginning of the game, Pyra knows him and Malos from over five hundred years ago, but it wasn't really established how. [[spoiler:It is because Jin is a Flesh Eater Blade, allowing him to live on with his memories]].
* RestoredMyFaithInHumanity: Near the end of the game, Rex's optimism and drive to change the world for the better ultimately persuades Jin to [[RedemptionEqualsDeath sacrifice himself]] to save the party [[spoiler:from a rampaging Amalthus. Though as Rex and Pyra later point out to Malos, he never truly lost faith in humanity. He simply wanted to be by Malos's side]].
* SuperpowerLottery: One of the biggest winners in the game. [[spoiler:With his ability of particle manipulation he can move at the speed of light, NoSell any energy attack including the beams from Siren, and can freeze anything to absolute zero. He is so powerful that when he goes all out he easily overwhelms the party including Mythra. It isn't till Rex awakens the Third Blade that he fights an equal. Mitigated in that while he got the benefits that came with being a Flesh Eater (namely unique and extreme powers), said powers came with the cost of a slowly deteriorating body that after 500 years can't handle prolonged battle.]].
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Wasn't the case [[spoiler:over 500 years ago when he was a MartialPacifist. Even at the present time, he didn't fully give up on humanity, at least not until Rex helped him find an answer in the World Tree]].
* WorldsStrongestMan: It's astonishing to see a seemingly normal man display remarkable abilities, such as his [[FlashStep incredible speed]], without a Blade by his side. [[spoiler:It is because Jin is a Blade, and one of the strongest in existence, made even stronger as a successful Flesh Eater. He was called "The Strongest Man in Torna", meaning he was even stronger than Addam, the hero of Torna]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Malos ''(Metsu)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/YuuichiNakamura (Japanese), David Menkin (English)

Torna's second-in-command. Partnered with the blade Sever.

* AboveGoodAndEvil: [[spoiler:As an Aegis both him and Pyra are initially beyond both, being clean slates before being awakened. His current state is the product of Amalthus's influence]].
* AlmightyJanitor: He is initially billed as Jin's second-in-command and appears to be nothing more than a brutish subordinate. [[spoiler:Later it is revealed that he is actually the other Aegis and it is his will that Jin follows.]]
* {{BFS}}: After regaining his full power, he he replaces his Blade with [[spoiler:a black Monado, complete with Monado Arts and the glowing symbol]].
* BigBad: Shares this position with [[spoiler:his Driver, Amalthus, although he is by far the greater threat of the two]].
* BloodKnight: Has shades of this. When [[spoiler:Mythra breaks her seal]] he only grins and tells her "Welcome back!" while Akhos is panicking next to him.
* BookEnds: [[spoiler:He's the last boss of both the first and last chapters]].
* BroughtDownToBadass: 500 years ago he was a one-man army thanks to his destructive energy powers and the artifices he wielded as an Aegis. For most of the game he is still quite powerful but can only use a small portion of his Aegis powers, thanks to Mythra having severely damaged his Core Crystal at the end of the Aegis War. The fact that he was not only still alive but could still move and fight with his crystal in such a state is regarded as remarkable by other members of Torna, and possible only because he is an Aegis (indeed it doesn't seem to cause him pain or impair him in any way beyond not being able to use much of his true Aegis abilities). Once he regains his full power however, he becomes strong enough to singlehandedly subdue Artifice Ophion and is unfazed by Pyra/Mythra's ascended form (he opts to be a CombatPragmatist after seeing her and Rex beat Jin, using Ophion to avoid fighting Pneuma directly, and ending the confrontation by blowing up the battlefield and sending her falling into the Cloud Sea).
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:The Cain to Pyra's Abel, as both are Aegises created by the Architect (which, to drive the point home, both refer to as Father)]].
* CallBack: He is able to use [[spoiler:Monado Arts after restoring his full power, implying that he and the other Aegis Swords are actually Monados and that the missing third Aegis is Alvis]]. He also calls himself "the Endbringer" which was the Telethia's title in Xenoblade Chronicles X.
* DarkIsEvil: His primary element and the element of his attacks. Makes sense [[spoiler:being that he is the EvilCounterpart to the light using Mythra]].
* DeathEqualsRedemption: [[spoiler:He speaks one last time to Pneuma, free of all malice, postmortem while she herself prepares to die.]]
-->[[spoiler:''So tell me... How was it, being alive?'']]
* DeathSeeker: Malos's self-loathing quickly becomes evident during the final chapter of the story, hating the world itself due to influence from Amalthus and seeing the pain and misery running rampant in the world much in part caused by himself. To this end, Malos declares himself a monster and implores Rex to fight him with everything he has. Only in death is he able to make peace with himself, saying that his life wasn't that bad after all.
* DualBoss: With Akhos in their second encounter. Later with Jin in Malos fourth fight.
* TheDragon: He initially appears to be Jin's second-in-command. [[spoiler:Subverted as he is in charge of Jin and is the FinalBoss. He shares the BigBad.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Despite showing little empathy to the death of his comrades, it is clear that Malos cared about them, fondly recalling Akhos in regards to his own theatrics and giving Jin a warm final embrace before ascending to Elysium by himself. Prior to the final battle, he angrily cites Jin's entire life as evidence for the inherent evil of the world and bitterly calls himself a irredeemable monster for being a direct cause of those tragedies.
* EvilCounterpart: To [[spoiler:Pyra/Mythra as another Aegis. Whereas her Driver manages to help her grow beyond her suicidal desire, Malos continued to be affected for the worse by Amalthus egomania and hatred for life.]]
* EvilIsHammy: He's easily the second most hammy character after Zeke.
* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler:"Heh, kids say the darndest things." in response to Rex wondering if Rex bonded with Malos's Core Crystal like he did with Pyra if they could have been friends]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Him preferring to let Jin take charge and make the actual decisions make perfect sense [[spoiler:once it is revealed that he is an AI. While he has a will of his own, he needs a "user" for the inputs. When he said that he exists for Jin's sake, he wasn't exaggerating; all of his actions are driven by the wills of Amalthus and Jin.]]
* GuestStarPartyMember: During the first dungeon in the story.
* HiddenDepths: He's introduced as being little more than Jin's brutish second-in-command. As early as the end of Chapter 1, it becomes clear that there's much, MUCH more to him than meets the eye.
* {{Jerkass}}: He is disdainful towards everyone except Jin and the rest of Torna.
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:He claims that him needing to MindRape Pyra to restore his core crystal was NothingPersonal but deliberately going out of his way to erase her memories of Rex despite her protests was unnecessarily cruel]].
* TheManInFrontOfTheMan: [[spoiler:Although Jin is initially presented as the leader of Torna, Malos is eventually revealed to be the one in charge, though he's content to let Jin make decisions or take point.]]
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:His true name, "Logos", meaning among other things "Word of God" or "Reason" in Greek, relating to his desire of destroying the world since he believes that is what the Architect wants as well as corruption by his Driver. It also makes him the Mind of the Aegis trio, with Pneuma (Pyra/Mythra) being the Soul and the missing Ontos being the Body.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Both of his names. "Metsu" means destruction in Japanese while "Malos" means bad in Latin.
* ObviouslyEvil: He's in all black armor, has a name derived from the word evil, and one of his first actions is attacking Rex for little reason.
* OmnicidalManiac: He wants [[spoiler:to use the Aion to destroy the world. It is later revealed that this is due to being influenced by the hatred of his Driver, Amalthus, and what he felt at the state of the world.]]
* PoisonousFriend: Is very much implied to [[spoiler:have stoked Jin's nihilism after Lorna died and gave him the idea to go to Elysium to exterminate humanity]].
* PurpleIsPowerful: It shows in his darkness and destructive attacks, although intermingled with [[PurpleIsTheNewBlack black]] most of the time. [[spoiler:It is also the color of his Core Crystal]].
* RecurringBoss: He is the most fought boss in the game [[spoiler:as well as the FinalBoss]].
* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Jin's blue.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Not only is Malos a Blade, he's also an Aegis like Pyra created by the Architect]].
* ReverseGrip: Wields his Blade in this fashion. [[spoiler:Averted when he regains his Aegis sword]]
* SatanicArchetype: Self describes himself like one. [[spoiler:Feeling his purpose is to destroy everything the Architect created. Though in reality this thought process is due to corruption by Amalthus]].
* ShutUpKirk: In the Final Chapter [[spoiler:when Rex tries to bring up that the only reason Malos is so destructive is because of Amalthus he responds with "I don't give a rat's ass what you think, brat!" and begins going on how he in the end is an irredeemable monster]].
* SirSwearsALot: He is responsible for the most swearing in the game, and also the main villain. He's quite fond of PrecisionFStrike in particular.
* SphereOfDestruction: [[spoiler:This is his real power once he repairs his Core Crystal, being able to create dark spheres that completely destroy anything that comes in contact with them]].
* StatusBuff: Can give these to his fellow Torna members in addition to debuffs to the player's party.
* StrawNihilist: Just before the final battle, he outright admits to Rex that he sees the whole world as a wretched place and that he himself is a hideous abomination beyond saving, hence his wanting to destroy the world.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Takes up the villain role, in this case. He's certainly among the tallest of the main cast, wears black armor, and makes a lot of disdainful remarks and swears towards the heroes and sometimes on Torna.
* TragicMonster: [[spoiler:He was doomed to become a weapon of mass destruction from the start due to being influenced by Almathus's seething hatred. He even calls himself a hideous monster beyond redemption. This question of free will is a major part of his desire to confront the Architect.]]
* TrueCompanions: He is surprisingly considerate to the rest of Torna, besides defectors such as Nia. In particular, he shares a genuine mutual respect with Jin, with Malos even giving him a final brotherly embrace before ascending to Elysium. Prior to the final battle, he cites Jin's life as the reason for his actions instead of his Driver Amalthus, who is the actual source of his malevolence.
* VillainousBreakdown: Becomes increasingly more unhinged [[spoiler:in the final battle, where he drops any sense of calm he has and angrily shouts that he will burn the world unless if Rex stops him]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Akhos ''(Yoshisune)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/NobunagaShimazaki (Japanese), Hugo Harold-Harrison (English)

Torna's brains. Partnered with the Blade Obrona.

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* AlasPoorVillain: Twice. First, when [[spoiler:Obrona is killed by her Core Crystal being pierced]]. Second when [[spoiler:his sister Patroka dies]].
* AttackReflector: Obrona allows him to reflect attacks by harnessing the ether in the air.
* DualBoss: With Malos in their second encounter. Later joining his sister Patroka and Mikhail in his third fight.
* DualWielding: Uses two katanas together.

** He cares about Obrona, enough that he drops his usual arrogant act when she's killed by [[spoiler:Mythra]].
** He's also very close with his "sister" Patroka.
** He idolizes Jin and follows him [[spoiler:for saving him in the past]].
* EvilGenius: He is Torna's brains.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Wears glasses and has no problem trying to kill the heroes on multiple occasions, or [[spoiler:helping Jin and Malos in their plan to destroy Alrest.]]
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Uses two of them. Later switching to a bow after Obrona reverts to a core crystal.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Considers Patroka his sister. [[spoiler:Later revealed to be due to their Drivers being siblings, and those same siblings' cells being integrated into their bodies.]]
* MeaningfulName: His Japanese name refers to Minamoto no Yoshitsune, a famous nobleman and military commander of late Heian Era Japan. [[{{Irony}} Ironically]], Minamoto no Yoshitsune is often depicted as a heroic figure, while this Yoshitsune is a villain.
* NotSoStoic:
** Despite his usual calm temperament, watching Obrona revert to a Core Crystal by Pyra [[spoiler:(as Mythra)]] causes him to freak out over her death. He regains his composure by the next time Rex and the party encounter him.
** He loses it again [[spoiler:when Amalthus kills Patroka and steals her Core Crystal. He [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge tries to fight back]], but ends up with the same fate]].
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:When Mythra awakens and begins raining Siren's lasers down on him and Malos he has this reaction.]]
-->'' "I... I don't think we can win this!"''
* PrimaDonnaDirector: He acts like a narcissistic playwright, throwing acting terms everywhere and throwing a fit whenever something "goes off-script".
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:He is a Flesh Eater Blade.]]
* ShockAndAwe: [[spoiler:His element as a Blade.]]
* TheStraightAndArrowPath: His weapon after losing Obrona.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Jin who he obeys without question. [[spoiler:Even his support of Torna's goal to destroy everything is because Jin wants it more than anything. Even as he dies as a result of Amalthus, his last thoughts are of when he first met Jin.]]

[[folder:Patroka ''(Benkei)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Yuri Noguchi (Japanese), Laila Pyne (English)

A Driver partnered with fellow Driver Mikhail to oversee the manufacturing of artificial Blades by Bana.

* BladeOnAStick: Wields a pole arm [[spoiler:after losing Perdido.]]
* DarkActionGirl: Fights on the side of the antagonists and is very hotheaded and aggressive.
* DishingOutDirt: [[spoiler:Her element as a Blade.]]
* DualBoss: With Mikhail during their first encounter. Her second encounter includes him and Akhos.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Amalthus kills her from behind with one of his tentacles.]]
* MaskOfSanity: She initially appears stoic and taking her orders first and foremost compared to the jovial Mikhail. Once her Blade's Core Crystal gets destroyed, she quickly reveals herself to be NotSoStoic and attempts to [[KillThemAll destroy them all]] until Fan La Norne and Mikhail intervened. Her aggressive nature later makes it clear her professional initial appearance was just a front.
* MeaningfulName: "Benkai", her Japanese name, refers to UsefulNotes/MusashiboBenkei. While a GenderBlenderName due to Benkei being male, her Blade wields multiple weapons at once, which is what Benkei was known for.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:She is a Flesh Eater Blade.]]
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: She is the only female member of Torna following Nia's defection early in the game.
* UndyingLoyalty: Not to the same extent as Akhos, but she's loyal to Jin as well. Though she will question and defy Jins orders unlike him.

[[folder:Mikhail ''(Satahiko)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/DaisukeNamikawa (Japanese), Todd Kramer (English)

A Driver partnered with fellow Driver Patroka, the two overseeing the deal of artificial Blades sold between Bana and Torna.

* CasanovaWannabe: Tries flirting with Mythra and Mòrag in Chapter 6 and apparently does it frequently with Patroka. Naturally they all aggressively turn him down.
* CastingAShadow: [[spoiler:His element as a Blade]].
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Appears in a few of the flashbacks with Mythra and Addam as a child, as shown when he reveals himself to Amalthus as another Blade Eater.]]
* CombatHandFan: Wields them [[spoiler:as a Blade Eater]].
* DistractedByTheSexy: Finds Mythra beautiful when she uses her power to destroy his and Patroka's Blade Cores. And again with Mòrag when they clash at the end of Chapter 6 and he declares her to be quite a looker.
* DrawAggro: Effectively serves as the party tank in fights with multiple Torna members, even having an ability to force the player's party to constantly draw aggro to him.
* DualBoss: With Patroka during their first encounter. Then again in his second boss fight including her and Akhos.
* DualWield: Both his fist and fan weapons.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Kind of. During the flashback right after his boss battle, he is the little boy alongside the group during the training regimen. This is far before any of the Torna members have their backstories revealed.
* EveryoneHasStandards: He [[spoiler:makes no effort to cause collateral damage on Indol out of sympathy for the refugees (fitting, as he is one himself), and]] is utterly disgusted by [[spoiler:Amalthus starting his war for the World Tree without evacuating them first, though not disgusted enough to hold back in the fight]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: People paying even a little attention during his and Patroka's second appearance will be able to spot that [[spoiler:unlike Akhos and Patroka, his Core Crystal is a visibly untainted blue.]] This makes the later reveal that [[spoiler:he's not a Flesh Eater at all a lot more preditable; all Flesh Eaters have shades of red in their Core Crystals, but the only other Blade Eater seen before the reveal, Zeke, keeps Pandoria's crystal colour with no alteration.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Commits one so that Rex and the others can stop Jin.]]
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: He knows when to retreat, taking Patroka away while she seeks to rampage.
* PowerFist: His initial weapon when with his Blade.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:He is not a Flesh Eater like his fellow Tornans; he is the inverse, a Blade Eater, which makes him immune to Fan la Norne's power used by Amalthus. Being a Blade Eater has also allowed him to live for more than five hundred years while still looking quite young.]]
* TagAlongKid: It appears he used to be this to Addam's original group during the Aegis War 500 years ago after he was discovered by Jin.
* TokenGoodTeammate: To a certain extent. [[spoiler:He's the only member of Torna after Nia defects who isn't fully on-board with the plan to destroy ''everything'', and ends up making a HeroicSacrifice to take down the Titan Indol.]]
* TokenHuman: [[spoiler:He's the only member of Torna to have been born a human. Malos is an Aegis and pure Blade, while the other members, Nia included, are all Flesh Eaters who started as normal Blades. Mikhail is a Blade Eater like Zeke and Amalthus, both of whom are considered human.]]
* WarRefugees: [[spoiler:Originally a human survivor of the destruction of Torna 500 years ago after Amalthus's armies destroyed the country.]]

[[folder:Obrona ''(Kamui)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Yuri Yamaoka (Japanese), Naomi [=McDonald=] (English)

Akhos's Blade, seems to have the ability to stagnate either flow, as well as the ability to locate other Blades' energy signals from several kilometers away.

* IntendedAudienceReaction: There's no way she wasn't made as irritating as she is on purpose. It makes it hard to sympathize with Akhos when [[spoiler:she's abruptly returned to her crystal and dies due to the damage to the crystal. Of course, that's the point - it distracts from asking why Akhos is so aghast a "mere" Blade was slain.]]
* PsychopathicWomanchild: Speaks in a high-pitched childish voice while sharing Akhos's sadistic tendencies, even repeating some last words he says.
* ShockAndAwe: Her Blade element is Electric.
* StoryBreakerPower: She can sense global Ether patterns, which amounts to giving Torna accurate tracking of ''every Driver and Blade in existence'', and can choke Blades of their Ether up close, crippling their effectiveness. [[spoiler:Is it any wonder she's out of the picture same chapter she debuts?]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Gets killed rather suddenly along with Malos' Blade Sever at the end of Chapter 3 by Mythra's powers piercing her Core Crystal]].

[[folder:Sever]]

-->Voiced by: Anri Katsu (Japanese), Eric Meyers (English)

Malos's Blade, a wind-based Blade with an unorthodox shapeshifting weapon.

* BlowYouAway: His element is Wind.
* GuestStarPartyMember: Serves as Malos's Blade during Chapter 1.
* MorphWeapon: Sever's weapon takes several forms, inclusing a shield/knuckleduster hybrid, a straight-bladed longsword, and a reverse-grip blade that seems to be a mix of both.
* SatelliteCharacter: Mostly serves as a background character and lends Malos his weapon; aside from a few overworld lines (and a brief stint as an interactable NPC) he barely says anything.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:While he's in more cutscenes than Oborona is, he has only a tiny handful of lines before he's obliterated by Siren at the end of chapter 3]].

[[folder:Perdido]]

-->Voiced by: Keiji Hirai (Japanese), Joseph May (English)
Patroka's Blade.

* AllThereInTheManual: Is only named in the artbook.
* DualWielding: ''Quad''-wielding.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Four arms, one for each weapon.
* MultiMeleeMaster: Carries an Greataxe, Megalance and Chroma Katana, while Patroka uses his cannon.
* NominalImportance: [[spoiler:Doesn't get a ''single cutscene line'' before Mythra offs him]].
* PlayingWithFire: His element is Fire.

[[folder:Cressidus]]

-->Voiced by: Kentaro Tone (Japanese), Kerry Shale (English)
Mikhail's Blade.

* AllThereInTheManual: Is only named in the artbook.
* DishingOutDirt: His element is Earth.
* DualWielding: Wields one weapon per fist.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: His kuckle duster/tonfa weapons can expand and merge to form a shield.
* NominalImportance: [[spoiler:Is killed along with Perdido before getting a single cutscene line.]]
* StuffBlowingUp: Stellar Explosion, his level IV Blade Special.

[[folder:Lora ''(Laura)'']]

-->Voiced by: Creator/SaoriHayami (Japanese), Anna Koval (English)

Jin and Haze's former Driver.

* AbusiveParents: From what little we see of her father, he was a violent drunk, ready to stab his own daughter to get his Core Crystal back after she accidentally awakened Jin. As she was now under the protection of one of the world's strongest Blades, it didn't go well for him.
* IdenticalStranger: Her and Haze looked like sisters, and even had the same voice in the Japanese version. While they were hardly strangers, given the wide variety Blades come in, this level of similarity due to resonance was treated as quite unique (Blades do often take on aspects of the person who first awakens them, but normally not to such an extreme degree).
* MoralityPet: Is this to Jin, at least after [[spoiler:Jin becomes a flesh eater]]. Albeit its a pretty questionable case, as he uses Lora's death more as a reminder of why he believes himself justified in the atrocities he commits, while knowing full well Lora would hate him for what he is doing.
* PosthumousCharacter: Lived 500 years ago, having fought alongside Addam in the Aegis War.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: [[spoiler:Her death at Amalthus’s attack on Torna, and a moment of weakness when she despaired over Jin forgetting her, is what ultimately led to Jin joining Malos.]]

[[folder:Addam Origo]]

-->Voiced by: Yusuke Handa (Japanese), Paul Thornley (English)

The legendary hero of Torna and the former Driver of Mythra.

* {{Bishonen}}: From the little we see of him, he was handsome in his youth, and rather interestingly, resembles an older, lighter-haired Rex.
* BrokenPedestal: PlayedForLaughs. Zeke is ''mortified'' to learn that spicy food gave him diarrhea, and begs Mythra to stop when she begins rattling other little known facts about his hero.
* ButNowIMustGo: It is stated that after sealing away the Aegis, the hero Addam disappeared from the world. Although his phantasm states he has long since departed from the world, it is never elaborated upon what exactly became of him.
* FamedInStory: He is the most famous hero in Alrest, to the point that he is something of a deified hero, a childhood idol to many such as Zeke.
* GenerationXerox: Rex is seen as this to him by many who knew him, particularly Mythra/Pyra. They even look somewhat alike.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: He is the previous Driver of the Aegis and the hero who saved the world from Malos 500 years ago.
* InTheHood: He seems to have preferred to keep his hood up even in the company of his comrades, obscuring his features.
* PosthumousCharacter: He is long since dead from the start of the story.

!Argentum

[[folder:Bana ''(Ban)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/AkioOhtsuka (Japanese), Stephen Critchlow (English)

Chairman of the Argentum Trade Guild. He hired Rex to aid Torna in their endeavors to obtain the Aegis for his own profit.

* BadBoss: Makes Lila continue to attack even when it would destroy her. Near the beginning of the game, he was complicit in letting an entire salvage crew be executed by Jin and Malos for being witnesses to the Aegis, and even further, he even told his own camera feed guy beforehand that he was supposed to die and was ready to scold him for coming out alive.
* BeardOfEvil: Has a tiny goatee growing in his face.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Willing to do whatever he can to line his own pockets.
* DevilInPlainSight: Unlike [[spoiler:Bana of Bionis]], ''this'' Bana is clearly painted as a villain from the get-go.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** [[spoiler:Following his defeat, a sidequest regarding his secret treasure reveals that his true treasure are letters from his [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas Mamapon]]. Following that, talking to an NPC reveals that Bana loves his parents genuinely, but his obsession with money has been his fatal flaw.]]
** [[spoiler:At the end of the game, after uncovering his Mamapon's letters and completing the ''Farewell, Good Friend'' quest, you get to uncover that the mastermind behind the groups seeking the end of the Ardainian empire is Bana's Dadapon Don Dondon. After beating him, he joins Bana on the wheel and the two go on about how much they love each other]].
* EvilIsBigger: He is much larger than the other Nopon, including Tora.
* FatBastard: Rotundness is a normal Nopon trait, but Bana is a lot bigger than normal and he's an opportunistic slimeball even by his race's standards.
* {{Gonk}}: He's distinctively non-cute compared to other [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Nopon]], such as having a heavier brow and a garrish beard, mustache and topknot. Even his portraits do little to downplay his relative ugliness, making him look more like a tiny [[Franchise/StarWars Hutt]] with fur. In-universe, [[DeliberateValuesDissonance he's still considered cute by Nopon standards]].
* {{Greed}}: He cares for nothing but money to keep his lavish lifestyle sated.
* HateSink: From him granting order to Tora's families deaths, and putting Tatazo into slavery, to torturing Lila when she fails to destroy Poppi, to attempting to assassinate the royalty of Uraya and Mor Ardain, there is nothing likeable about him at all.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Never thought that TheHero Rex would actually try to stop him when he did unscrupulous weapon construction.
* HumongousMecha: Pilots the giant artificial Blade Rosa in his boss fight. Later pilots an improved version without Muimui.
* MadeOfIron: [[spoiler:Survives the explosion of Giga Rosa.]]
* MythologyGag: Shares his name with a Nopon from the previous game, [[spoiler:who was also a greed-driven villain. They are both also punished for their crimes by being forced to run on a giant wheel.]]
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Bana's attempt to assassinate the leaders of Mor Ardain and Uraya to cause a war between them ultimately causes them to call a ceasefire, since Emperor Niall's HeroicSacrifice convinces Queen Raqura that Niall was sincere in not wanting to start a war with Uraya.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Calls Dughall an idiot due to the latter's excessive flattery and mentioning of their illicit Core Crystals trafficking on an unsecured line. Later on chews out Muimui when he brings the heroes all the way into the factory while failing to capture them.
* TakingYouWithMe: After his attempts to execute the royalty of both Uraya and Mor Ardain fail, Bana attempts to defy them with one last suicidal act by self-destructing Rosa. [[spoiler:It ends up killing no one in the long run]].
* TrrrillingRrrs: He speaks this way in the English dub.
* VillainRespect: It's suggested he has some degree of respect towards Rex, since he calls Rex "Rex-Rex" (which is an AffectionateNickname by Nopon who respect him, like Tora). Might've began when he was impressed with Rex's surprising display of cunning thought during the raid on the Abandoned Factory.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Trusted by the populace. Rex only learns of his nefarious misdeeds later on. Albeit it turns out an auditor Nopon in Mor Ardain had been suspicious of Bana for a while, and working on exposing his corruption.
* WarForFunAndProfit: Bana was willing to sell weapons and material to all factions, including Torna. [[spoiler:He later attempts to kill Queen Raqura and frame the Ardainians for the crime so he can profit from a war between Uraya and Mor Ardain.]]

[[folder:Muimui]]

-->Voiced by: Fuji Mitsuya (Japanese), Jonathan Keeble (English)

Former assistant of professor Soosoo.

* DeceptiveDisciple: Muimui terminated his internship with Soosoo by terminating Soosoo.
* HumongousMecha: Pilots Rosa alongside Bana.
* TheMole: He worked for Bana while helping the professors, eventually betraying them and taking Lila to be reprogrammed and mass produced as part of Bana's own plans.
* NerdGlasses: Wears swirly glasses, much like [[VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX Tatsu]] before him.
* NumberTwo: Of the Abandoned Factory segment in Mor Ardain, he works for Bana and [[TheHeavy is the one driving the arc in place]].
* TheNondescript: Tora completely forgot Muimui existed simply because he's unmemorable.
* PaperThinDisguise: He wears only a small mask during the flashback of the raid on Soosoo's lab. Tatazo and Tora don't recognize him, but the player most certainly will.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's shown to have survived the fight with Rosa, but is barely conscious. However, his whereabouts following the end of Chapter 4 are unknown. It is not mentioned whether he died from possible injuries in the battle, was taken into custody or [[KarmaHoudini is still a free Nopon]].

[[folder:Niranira]]

An auditor from Argentum's Intelligence Division, who has been following Bana's illicit dealings.

* ForensicAccounting: Niranira is an auditor, and has tracked Bana's money to Mor Ardain.
* RankUp: Following Bana's deposal, Niranira is enstated as Acting Chairman of the Argentum Trade Guild and attends the summit of leaders.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Even before becoming the new Argentum chairman, he handles authority with efficiency and reason.
* RedHerring: There are a number of shots that suggest that he's a spy when the gang enters Mor Ardain's capital city. Turns out he was monitoring them for the sake of good. Lampshaded by Dromarch.
* VocalDissonance: Has an uncharacteristically deep and stoic tone for a Nopon.

[[folder:Pupunin]]
A worker for the Argentum Guild.

* ButtMonkey: This guy can't catch a break. First, he's sent by Bana to keep an eye on Rex onboard the Maelstrom, during which it was supposed to crash in order to reap the benefits from its insurance (and Bana's livid that "[Pupunin] can't even die properly"), then much later, onboard the Ardainian battleship parked at Indol [[spoiler:the heroes (incorrectly) assume that the Tirkin cooks he hired were assassins and end up beating them up senseless, then exit to confront Bana, leaving Pupunin with a huge mess]]. On Percival's side quest, Pupunin's the next target for a group of assassins that the former is tracking.

[[folder:Tatazo]]
Tora's dadapon.

* DirtyOldMan: Like his son and dadapon, Tatazo's motives for making Poppi and Lila are less than pure, especially when it comes to the optional features.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: He gets no respect from Lila, noting that whenever she throws out the trash, she throws ''him'' out as well.
* InTheBlood: Tora inherited his love of maids from him, who likewise inherited it from Soosoo.
* KidnappedScientist: A good portion of Chapter 4 is spent dealing with who kidnapped him and why.

[[folder:Soosoo]]
Tora's grampypon and Tatazo's dadapon.

* DirtyOldMan: Spent most of his time locked in the family's lab. When Rex praises his dedication, Tora corrects him: that's where he kept his PornStash.
* MadScientist: Tora has fond memories of Soosoo leaning over blueprints and cackling maniacally.
* PosthumousCharacter: Dies prior to the start of the game.

[[folder:Lila ''(Kiku)'']]
An artificial Blade created by Toras grampypon Soosoo and dadapon Tatazo.

* BareFistedMonk: She's a Martial Artist, as shown by her boss fight.
* DisneyDeath: Ceases functioning after using the last of her power to jump-start Poppi's ether furnace properly. Of course, she's a robot, and her creator is right there. Tatazo simply repairs her.
* FlawedPrototype: Despite being of mostly superior quality to Poppi's default configuration, her Ether Furnace is only Tatazo's inferior replication of his dadapon's work, meaning Poppi is capable of matching her power output without her own Furnace working at full power.
* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Despite being reprogrammed to ignore Tatazo, she rips out the control device implanted in her to defy Bana and honor her creators.
* JetPack: Has one on her back.
* {{Meido}}: Wears a maid outfit.
* ServileSnarker: While she's much more polite to her creator's face than Poppi, she's also a lot more passive-aggressive. The example given is that she frequently classifies Tatazo as household waste and attempts to throw him out with the garbage.
* SuperPrototype: Lila was the original creation of Soosoo, Tatazo, and some aid from Tora. Unlike Poppi, she has her full capabilities brought forth from the start thanks to the genius of Soosoo. Subverted though when it turns out her Ether Furnace is an inferior attempt to copy Poppi's. She claims to still be superior when she recognizes Poppi's Ether Furnace is not operating at full capacity, but [[spoiler: Poppi still [[CurbStompBattle crushes her]] one-on-one following the second fight with her.]]

[[folder:The Kingpin - '''Unmarked Spoilers!''']]
!!Don Dondon
Bana's dadapon and leader of the Lindwurm Anti-Ardanian organization.

* ArcVillain: Of the Brionac/Lindwurm sidequest arc that starts with ''We Meet Again''.
* BonusBoss: Takes the original Bana's place as the strongest sidequest boss in the game.
* CallBack:
** Dondon is this to, ironically, [[XenobladeChronicles the original Bana]], being a regular-sized nopon kingpin fought riding a flying enemy after a long sidequest chain.
** Zadazan is named after Zazadan, one of the original Bana's pawns, but his role as the penultimate villain of the arc brings to mind fellow pawn Dedeba.
* CigarChomper: One of his distinguishing traits is a cigar in his mouth at all times, even when he's running on the wheel with Bana.
* TheDragon:
** Common Blade Akatsuki serves as his first, manipulating Brionac into fulfilling his wishes.
** Zadazan, another Nopon, is his second after the death of Akatsuki's Driver, and is fought right before Don Dondon himself.
** Bana also turns out to be another one unrelated to the others. His role is to build up Argentum, which will weaken Mor Ardain in return.
* TheManBehindTheMan: Akatsuki, Zadazan, and Bana were all members of Lindwurm under him. Argentum under Bana as a whole is also a piece in taking down Mor Ardain.
* PunnyName: His name is an obvious play on don, a common title for mafia bosses that he also has before his actual name.
* UnwittingPawn: Downplayed with Bana. While the two genuinely care for each other and Bana willingly helped his father, talking to Zadazan at Dondon's office after Lindwurm is taken care of reveals that Don Dondon had Zadazan forge the letters from Bana's mother, who had walked out years ago, to keep Bana focused on Argentum.

! Gormott

[[folder:Dughall]]
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The corrupt Ardainian consul of Gormott and ally of Bana.

* AuthorityInNameOnly: Subverted. While he's completely aware his post is just [[ReassignedToAntarctica getting him out of the way]] and he permits things like insane delivery fees for merchants (since he gets a cut), he did actually do his job keeping the town guard in order. After he's deposed, [[RealityEnsues racial tensions flare and the militia is stretched to breaking point keeping the city running]]. Lampshaded later when the party is shocked to hear his administration might have been doing the occupied city some good.
* CorruptPolitician: Is the corrupt Ardanian consul of Gormott and is an ally of one of the villains: Bana.
* DirtyCoward: Hides behind his Blade rather than face Rex and the crew directly.
* FantasticRacism: When called out on using his Blade as a living shield, he states that he does not care about Blades' feelings, and mocks the protagonists for doing so. Notably averted regarding the province he was governing, though. He's never seen talking to the locals, but he doesn't go out of his way to insult the Gormotti either, and he was actually keeping military bigots in line (although he often refers to the city/province itself as a "flea-bitten backwater").
* {{Gonk}}: He's quite portly, has got a disproportionately big mouth, a big nose, a heavy brow and a gaudy mustache. Among the human cast, he's one of the uglier ones.
* SissyVillain: Has very...campy poses when he talks to people.
* SmugSnake: Dughall's absolutely full of himself, and acts like more of a bigshot than he really is. Naturally, Rex kicks his ass.
* StarterVillain: Is the first major boss the protagonists face, and disappears from the plot without fanfare after a single defeat.
* SurroundedByIdiots: While Bana gets frustrated when he states their dealings on open channels that Indol can overhear, even Dughall finds Captain Padraig to be a moron for not knowing the color of emerald. Even moreso with the fact Padraig never even informs him Brighid was there when they encountered the Aegis, leaving Dughall surprised when Mòrag and Brighid mention her.
* UncertainDoom: After he's defeated, he's mentioned as being deposed. It isn't clear if this means he was killed by the party in his boss fight, or if he survived the fight, but the Ardainian Empire stripped him of his power and had him tried for his illegal activity. His Blade not reverting to its Core Crystal on-screen after he is knocked out makes his exact fate more ambiguous.
* WarmupBoss: As capstone to the first real "dungeon" the player completes, he's pretty plainly just a punching bag so the player can understand the Blade combo mechanic, with an annoying Blowdown attack to show how useful seals can be.

!Mor Adain

[[folder:Emperor Niall ''(Nefei)'']]

-->Voiced by: Creator/AkiraIshida (Japanese), Daniel Buckley (English)

The Emperor of Mor Ardain. Partnered with the Blade Aegaeon.

* AChildShallLeadThem: He looks close to Rex's age.
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Does die for a short time after shielding the protagonists from Bana's bomb, as shown by Aegaeon returning to his Core Crystal, but fortunately is quickly revived by Nia]].
* TheGoodKing: Is loved and respected by his people and he tries to do his best to solve the problem of the dying Mor Adain Titan without bloodshed.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Puts himself in the way of Bana's last ditch bomb so that Aegaeon can protect everyone else]].
* InadequateInheritor: [[spoiler:In a meeting with Mòrag after the peace talks he refuses to take back Aegaeon's Core Crystal, feeling that he failed as a Driver, being unable to save himself along with everyone else and decides that is better for his cousin Mòrag to keep hold of it]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Aegaeon ''(Wadatsumi)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/ShuichiIkeda (Japanese), Chris Ragland (English)

Emperor Niall's Blade and bodyguard.

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* AceCustom: Aegaeon looks much like the missing link between Common Blades and Rares, being essentially a much more ornate version of a Common. He's also one of the only story-related Blades, playable or not, whose weapon is of an existing type rather than unique.
* AncestralWeapon: Like with Brighid he has been passed down the Mor Adain royal bloodline.
* FailureKnight: Laments that he has become this after his failure to [[spoiler:save the life of Emperor Niall. Luckily, thanks to Nia, Emperor Niall survives. However, the current Aegaeon has no memory of his past self and Emperor Niall prohibits Aegaeon from accessing his past records, though he hears rumors about the incident. Brigid reassures to him that Emperor Niall simply wishes that he would use his strength to protect all of Alrest, rather than just him.]]
* MeaningfulName: "Wadatsumi" is one of the names for the Japanese God of Seas, [[JapaneseMythology born when Izanagi was washing himself clean of]] [[TheUnderworld Yomi's corruption]].
[[/folder]]

!Uraya

[[folder:Cole]]
A playwright who makes plays based on the Aegis War and an old mercenary comrade of Vandham.
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* BlessedWithSuck: [[spoiler:He got all the bad aspects of being a Flesh Eater Blade with none of the benefits. Aging, lack of power, and an inability to absorb required ether to live when in small amounts.]]
* MysteriousPast: Knows Pyra and Torna, but doesn't give anything specific on his past during his first meeting with Rex.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:His real name is Minoth and he once fought in the Aegis War alongside Mythra and Azurda]].
* YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler:Due to Urayas less than ideal ether amount in the environment his dying body and health are significantly worsened by living there, shortening his lifespan significantly.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Queen Raqura ''(Queen Ragert)'']]
[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gzt9pka_1.png]]

-->Voiced by: Creator/MamiKoyama (Japanese), Teresa Gallagher (English)

The Queen of Uraya.

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* AdiposeRex: Is noticeably more rotund than her starving subjects, as a consequence of Uraya's social stratification.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Despite Uraya's tensions being at an all-time high with Mor Ardain, she is willing to accept that the recent unprovoked attack on her people was a FalseFlagOperation after a little deliberation, and work out an agreement with Mor Ardain.
* OutOfFocus: Much of the exposition on Uraya is done through Vandham. Raqura doesn't even make a proper appearance until Chapter 6, well past the point where the party has moved on from Uraya. [[spoiler:She does play a featured role in the final Mercenary level-up mission, however]].

[[/folder]]

!Indol

[[folder:Amalthus ''(Marbeni)'' - '''Unmarked Spoilers!''']]
[[quoteright:280:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7x7n6ps.png]]

-->Voiced by: Creator/JunichiSuwabe (Japanese), Corey Johnson (English)

The Praetor of Indol who effectively controls the nation through Core Crystals.

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* AGodAmI: He considers himself the chosen of the Architect. He's deluded himself into believing that the Architect's will aligns with his own, and eventually begins referring to his own ambitions as what the Architect wants him to do. He refuses to even entertain the idea that he is wrong or should change, believing he will lose who he is (or rather has deluded himself into being) if he does so.
* AchillesHeel: He is initially weak to ice as a boss. Jin finishes him by freezing Amalthus to absolute zero.
* AlasPoorVillain: His death has shades of this, as Zeke thinks back on a conversation he had with Amalthus after he had saved his life, remarking on how horribly sad he seemed to be, and pondering if this was as genuinely a part of Amalthus as the monster that they had just witnessed. In the end it can come across that Amalthus was as much a thoroughly broken person as he was evil.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: Besides forcing an EnemyMine, his arrival at the World Tree conveniently results in the deaths of four-fifths of Torna as well as himself, thus ensuring our heroes don't have to stain their hands with sympathetic-villain blood.
* BarrierChangeBoss: In his boss fight, he can change his weakness with the move "Divine Robe".
* BeingEvilSucks: Make no mistake, Amalthus is not a remotely happy person, his delusions of following the Architect's will being perhaps the only thing that keeps him going.
* BigBad: Shares this role with Malos; Malos is the greater physical threat of the two, even with Amalthus's transformed state, but Amalthus is the one responsible for setting Malos on his way.
* BigDamnHeroes: Given who he ends up being, he has a surprisingly impressive example of this trope, as he gets between the two armies just in time to stop all out war between Uraya and Mor Ardain.
* ChurchMilitant: Is the leader of Indol and also an extremist who wants to carry out his perverted interpretation of the Architect's will at any cost.
* CombatTentacles: Has them in his OneWingedAngel form.
* TheCorrupter: As Malos' Driver, Malos' personality was formed from Amalthus's desires, turning him into an OmnicidalManiac driven only by Amalthus's darkest impulses.
* DespairEventHorizon: Healing a wounded man, only to later catch him in the act of murder, drove him far enough into despair that he was willing to ''climb all the way to space'' in order to demand some kind of explanation from the Architect. Not getting one is perhaps part of what pushed him right over the edge.
* EmbodimentOfVice: Sloth, primarily, as befitting the leader of the nation themed after that particular sin. Though he plays the role of peacekeeper between the other nations, his contentment with keeping the world reliant on his services means no actual change occurs. Taken to extremes once he shows his true colors, embodying the more despairing and nihilistic aspects of sloth; he would rather just destroy the world than try to improve it, and he refuses to change who he is or acknowledge change in others.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: He sees the ghost of his deceased mother in his final moments. It was also her death over 500 years ago that served as his StartOfDarkness.
* FallenHero: His life story is essentially one long downward spiral, from a KnightInSourArmor to an OmnicidalManiac to finally just not caring about anything but his own power and prestige.
* GoodShepherd: In his youth, he was a genuinely benevolent priest who healed the sick and injured and protected the weak and downtrodden.
* {{Expy}}: Essentially the ''Xenoblade'' equivalent of [[VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}} Patriarch Sergius]]. Both are {{Church Militant}}s who seek to use their respective god's power for nefarious means.
* FantasticRacism: He sees Blades as nothing more than tools to be used and discarded. Same for Titans. He wants the Architect's power in part to destroy both.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Despite coming off as wise and noble towards Rex and his friends, they were nothing more than a means for him to secure dominion over Alrest. He also drops all friendly pretenses on the way to Elysium with him and his soldiers attacking anyone in his way without giving them a chance.
* FreudianExcuse: His mother sacrificed herself when he was a young child as they were running from a soldier. He soon stumbled upon the soldiers' camp where he found his dead mother with eyes open and the soldiers asleep. Amalthus promptly snapped, hating the world as he picked up a large rock and smashed a soldier's head in. Not helping matters is that all his attempts at giving humanity another chance ended poorly, such as when a man whose wounds he had tended to went off and committed murder.
* TheHeavy: Everything that happens during the game can ultimately be traced back to him, and not just his bringing back the two Aegis cores from Elysium; he's also directly responsible for the formation of Torna with his post-war actions, his policies on Blades (Flesh Eaters and Blade Eaters) resulted in Nia and Zeke being able to join the party, and Indol's domineering presence over the other nations results in multiple bad outcomes for the party (Padraig moves to arrest Rex primarily because he's an unregistered Driver, Tantal believe themselves backed even further into a corner when Amalthus sends them an ultimatum and react poorly, etc.). Even the situation of the Titans dying out with no new ones to replace them is implied to be because of Amalthus's tampering with the natural lifecycle of Blades and Titans.
* {{Hypocrite}}: For all he carries on about how mankind is regressing technologically, he doesn't seem willing to admit that his own machinations keeping civilization dependent on an unsustainable resource he controls the distribution of might have anything to do with it.
* ImpliedAnswer: A major part of his motivation is that he saw one where there wasn't. As the Architect never actually stopped him from stealing the Aegis cores, attacking Torna, or any of his more dubious actions, he came to the conclusion that "God" was fully on board with his hatred of everything. The truth was simply that Klaus believed his atonement was doomed to fail, and let his new humanity do its thing no matter what came out of it.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He is motivated solely by his own selfish desires and god complex. Even his despair over the world eventually came to be about how he thinks nothing else is as great as himself. Amalthus even admits to Rex the idea of people changing proves his selfish despair at the world's state is wrong, but doesn't care because ''he'' personally refuses to change because in his eyes he's already perfect.
* MisanthropeSupreme: His intense self-loathing and despair over the terrible state of the world festered into a desire to see everyone - humans, Blades, and Titans alike - destroyed forever.
* MotiveDecay: While he was originally driven by a belief that the world was irredeemably corrupt and needed to be destroyed, the fame he gained from climbing the World Tree brought him power and prestige, and he eventually became more interested in preserving the status quo and advancing his own self-interest than in any sort of cause.
* MouthOfSauron: Subverted. Amalthus ''believes'' himself to be this for the Architect, but in reality the Architect would rather have nothing to do with him.
* KarmicDeath: After some heavy beatdown from Rex and his party, it is Jin, one of the few survivors from the Kingdom of Torna that Amalthus destroyed 500 years ago, who finishes him off.
* KnightInSourArmor: In his youth, despite his cynicism, he still tried to make the world a better place. He was driven into complete despair by the seeming futility of his actions.
* LightIsNotGood: Wears white and gold robes. He is also one of the game's antagonists.
* OhCrap: The very first time his composure breaks is when Rex and Mythra rush Indol in midair, and it suddenly hits him that Rex and Mythra are trying to shoot down the transmission towers in Indol that let him control titans.
* OmnicidalManiac: He intends on wiping out everything that he deems unworthy with the power of the Architect.
* OneWingedAngel: He becomes a gigantic monstrosity after absorbing cores of countless Blades.
* PetTheDog: Despite his misanthropy, he seems to have genuine empathy for the downtrodden; he saved Zeke's life due to the circumstances reminding him of his childhood, and allows refugees to take shelter in Indol (Though he doesn't care enough to evacuate them before mobilizing Indol for war).
* PowerNullifier: Is able to subjugate Blades to a degree as a result of transplanting half of Fan's Core Crystal onto his forehead and his own Master Program abilities as Malos's Driver. Indol features transmission towers that amplify his power to the point he can even control the other Titans.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: He hasn't aged at all since the Aegis war 500 years ago. While he makes the excuse that Indolines live longer than normal humans and that he still looks young due to being the Driver of an Aegis, the full truth is likely more due to his being a Blade Eater. That is while its conceivable that a normal Indoline could potentially live for five hundred years, they would be very elderly at that point.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: In his OneWingedAngel form.
* ReverseRelationshipReveal: Upon their first meeting, Rex gets an eerie feeling and sense of familiarity like he's talking to Malos instead of Amalthus, and wonders if Malos is somehow influencing Amalthus. Near the end of the story it's revealed that, as Amalthus's Blade, Malos's personality was formed ''from'' Amalthus's, making it closer to the other way around.
* ShadowArchetype: He serves as one to the Architect as Klaus, whereas Klaus genuinely wanted to make the world a better place despite his own god complex, Amalthus's own negative traits overwhelemed anything else about him as he became more concerned with his own godhood and desire to destroy the world filled with life unworthy of him. Essentially becoming a mortal Zanza.
* SinisterMinister: Is the ''Xenoblade'' equivalent of the Pope, has a deep hatred of Blades and is one half of the BigBadDuumvirate.
* SmugSnake: He tries so very hard to manipulate the heroes and establish control over all Blades in order to reach the Architect, but his plans fail at every turn and he is ultimately denied a second opportunity to reach Elysium. It is his Blade, Malos, that is the greater threat who has wrested free from dependence on Amalthus long ago.
* TheAssimilator: Weaponized the Blade Eater concept to a horrifying degree, becoming able to absorb entire Core Crystals and make himself ever more powerful as he chose only the best cores to absorb, albeit with some BodyHorror side effects. One motivation for the heroes to protect the weakened Jin from him is the fear that if he managed to absorb Jin he'd become utterly unstoppable.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: The game marks his charge into battle with the Indol Titan without even evacuating the civilians as the point he goes too far. Even Mikhail is appalled when he notices the Titan he's wrestling with is still full of innocent people.
* VillainousBreakdown: As Jin chills him to absolute zero, Amalthus loses all composure and begins beseeching the Architect directly for providence before being reduced to a whimper.
--> "Father... Why do you not answer when I call...?"
* WalkingSpoiler: Not much can be said about Amalthus without revealing his connection to Malos as his Driver, his role in the destruction of Torna 500 years ago, and his desire to see the world wither away.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Has white hair and has almost zero sympathy for Blades, Titans, and humans.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fan la Norne / Haze ''(Kasumi)'']]

-->Voiced by: Creator/SaoriHayami (Japanese), Samantha Dakin (English)

A Blade in service of Amalthus. Formerly known as Haze.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Nullifies Patroka's power when she attempts to rampage against Rex and the party, forcing Mikhail to retreat with her.
* IdentityAmnesia: Not remembering people is standard for a Blade, as they lose all their memories on being returned to their Core Crystal. Forgetting their ''name'', however, ''is'' unusual. [[note]]Blades appear to know their name the moment they are awakened, even after having been deactivated.[[/note]] [[spoiler:It's the first main hint that something is deeply wrong in Indol.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Jin kills her by running her through and destroying the remaining half of her Core Crystal. To him, Jin feels it is a mercy since it frees her from Amalthus' control.]]
* PowerCrystal: Has one, like all Blades. [[spoiler:However, as Mythra takes note of and points out to Nia, there's something ''wrong'' with hers; half of it is ''missing''. The culprit is eventually revealed to have been Amalthus.]]
* PowerNullifier: She can nullify the power of most Blades and in cases of really powerful ones, {{Nerf}}.
* StoryBreakerPower: Her ability to neutralise most Blades and weaken powerful ones would make a lot of encounters against enemy Blades a breeze. [[spoiler:So she ends up getting killed by Jin.]]
[[/folder]]

!Tantal

[[folder:King Eulogimenos]]
[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pabk9gf_1.png]]

-->Voiced by: Shigeru Ushiyama (Japanese), Keith Bartlett (English)

Rules over the Kingdom of Theosoir, an ancient civilization that claims to have descended from Addam.
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* {{Expy}}: Of [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles Emperor Sorean]], both are fathers of someone in the party (Melia and Zeke respectively), both were scared for destruction of their respective kingdoms due to the power of a legendary sword in the game but pull a HeelFaceTurn in the end. [[spoiler:Of course, the fact that Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is a parallel universe to Xenoblade Chronicles 1 means it is quite literal]].
* HeelFaceTurn: After initially [[spoiler:restraining the heroes and attempting to outright destroy the Aegis in order to prevent any further destruction to Alrest]], he [[spoiler:apologizes for his actions, recognizing that he only made things worse, and helps the heroes find the third, true Aegis sword]].
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: He says that a ''lot'', to Zeke's ever-increasing exasperation. Especially when [[spoiler:he tries to say that his ancestors's seizing of the crown was for the good of the country and not really a power grab.]]
* YouRemindMeOfX: In his youth he was much more like the party, and even had a dream of becoming a salvager, of all things. Probably the reason why he wasn't too harsh on Zeke for running away. There's a sidequest dedicated to getting him the sunken treasures he once longed for.
[[/folder]]

! Elysium

[[folder:Artifice Ophion ''(Device Serpent)'']]

A massive, serpent-like being who guards the way to the World Tree. Is also Pyra's Artifice.
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* BonusBoss: [[spoiler:After clearing the game, Ophion can be found still floating around the Cliffs of Morytha. It's level 117 and can be battled.]]
* CallBack: Ophion's upper body is essentially that of [[VideoGame/{{Xenogears}} Weltall]], sharing its distinctive head shape in particular.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: [[spoiler:Aion is stated to be the most powerful of the Artifices, but it is a whopping 47 levels weaker than Ophion.]]
* HumongousMecha: Though it takes the shape of a serpent, it is actually an autonomous mechanical weapon.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Artifice Siren]]

A giant gold and white mech located high in the skies of Alrest. Mythra's Artifce.
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* KillSat: Functions as one for Mythra, able to rain down beams of light on whomever she chooses.
* MechaMooks: [[spoiler:Chapter 10 reveals that even though it's a weapon of mass destruction, it used to be a ''mass produced'' weapon of mass destruction. Mythra's is just the only one still active, until Malos takes over the space station's forces and reactivates the rest.]]
* ShownTheirWork: Pyra uses Siren's targeting laser to [[spoiler:threaten to destroy herself]]; the only difference between a targeting laser and a weaponized laser is the power you put into it.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Artifice Aion - '''Unmarked Spoilers!''']]

The strongest artifice, created with the purpose of destroying the entirety of Alrest.
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* CombatTentacles: Makes use of these during the boss battle.
* ContinuityNod: Its fight is a reference to the fight against [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles Egil in the Mechonis Core]], it even has a super attack that can wipe out your party if you don't finish it off in time.
* DualityMotif: Its right half is black/red and demonic (complete with tail), its left half is white/green and angelic. Someone took "becoming god or devil" a bit too literally.
* FinalBoss: Malos pilots Aion to destroy Elysium, as he promised.
* GodzillaThreshold: The reluctance of the Beanstalk director to activate it indicates that it was built as a last resort. Too bad Klaus got to the Conduit first.
* HumongousMecha: One of the leftover war machines from Klaus's world.
* SelfDestructMechanism: The reactor overload variant. When it explodes, it explodes hard.
* SphereOfDestruction: Its most powerful attack, Prometheus, takes the form of a massive fireball that is likely to wipe out your entire party if you don't finish it off quick.
* SuperRobot: It's a one-of-a-kind mech with a crazy design, humanity's last resort that was apparently designed to be capable of ''destroying the world''.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Architect ''(God of Genesis)'' - '''Unmarked Spoilers!''']]
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/santaklaus.jpg]]
-->Voiced by: Creator/ShintaroAsanuma (Japanese), Creator/AdamHowden (English)

The creator of life in the world of ''Xenoblade 2'' and the maker of ''Xenoblade'''s universe. Once a human scientist named Klaus, the Architect is the remaining benevolent half of Zanza. He created Malos and Pyra[=/=]Mythra personally as the Aegis.

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[[folder:In General]]
* AchillesHeel: While blades can normally rapidly heal from any injury (albeit they can still be knocked unconscious), with a few exceptions (such as an Aegis) significant damage to the Core Crystal will kill them in short order. That said, its not a weakness that many can take advantage of, as it takes a great deal of power and precision to damage a Core Crystal. Only two characters in the game successfully use this tactic to kill Blades in battle (Mythra and Jin). A more easily exploited weakness involves the various methods to block a Blade's ability to absorb ether from the atmosphere, as without this ability most Blades are basically powerless.
* CantDropTheHero: The main Blades, for story reasons, can't be unequipped from their Drivers. [[spoiler: Doesn't apply to New Game+.]]
* CastOfSnowflakes: The rare Blades all have very distinct appearances, as well as unique Heart-to-Hearts and questlines.
* DamagerHealerTank: There are three types of Blades: Attacker, Healer, and Tank.
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Most Blades have at least two: [[spoiler:the Driver impaling themselves on their Blade's weapon to temporarily empower themselves]], and [[spoiler:consuming part of a human's body to become a Flesh Eater]].
* EquippableAlly: Equipping a Blade grants the Driver the ability to perform certain Arts. Each playable Driver can equip up to three Blades at a time.
* ExoticWeaponSupremacy: Every Blade is associated with a weapon type. Naturally, all but one of the story-important Blades have unique weapons that you can't obtain otherwise. Still, several of these unique weapons are bog-standard fantasy fare such as Greatswords; while the generic weapons feature such interesting tools as [[MixAndMatchWeapon shield-hammers]] and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX IP-friendly blitzballs]].
* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:Flesh Eater Blades are Blades that have incorporated human flesh into their bodies. This allows them to persist even if their Driver dies, and allows them to resonate with fellow Blades just like a Driver. In addition, their Core Crystals have a tinge of red incorporated to signify the change instead of being the usual blue. The inverse, a human that has had a Blade's Core Crystal incorporated into their body, also exists; Mikhail, Zeke, and Amalthus are all "Blade Eaters".]]
* ImmortalLifeIsCheap: Due to all Blade's innate HealingFactor and immortality, novice drivers tend to use their Blades as living shields. Vandham warns Rex against this tactic - equal partnerships produce the strongest bonds and powers.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: A Blade whose Driver dies reverts back to Core Crystal form, and after an idle period, can resonate with another Driver to reincarnate the Blade. However, the Blade loses all of their memories in the process except for knowledge of their own name and their basic abilities, which can be disturbing to people who knew the Blade's prior incarnation. This frequent amnesia bothers some Blades more than others, with many Blades keeping diaries in an effort to preserve their memories between incarnations. It all too often fails, due to the tendency of Drivers to die violent deaths.
* LimitBreak: Each Blade has three increasingly powerful Specials built up by performing Arts. The Driver tosses their weapon back to the Blade to perform them. At maximum Affinity, the gauge can build to a Level 4 Special - these moves pause the normal flow of combat to focus on the spectacle. [[InvulnerableAttack Enemy attacks will whiff during these techniques.]]
* LivingWeapon: Each Blade is both an individual and a weapon, with the weapon being more powerful in their Driver's hands than the Blade's own. If the weapon is broken or lost, the Blade can create a new copy of it from their own core.
* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: If you don't have the potential/aptitude to be a Driver, trying to awaken a Blade has some ''nasty'' backlash on your body due to it not being able to handle the core crystal's power (ranging from nosebleeds that last for days, to outright death from massive hemorrhaging all over the body). Beyond that, however, they're not picky: Drivers include humanoids, but also monsters (an early boss fight pits you against a Driver that happens to be an Elder Arachno) and, in special cases, even other Blades.
* PowerCrystal: Each Blade has a Core Crystal inside their body (almost always their chest). If the Core Crystal is destroyed (or in most cases just badly damaged), the Blade dies for good. [[spoiler:Said crystals are actually technologically advanced computation and memory devices, with the Aegis being originally the manager of all the Core Crystals. They were originally developed as a replacement for human brains in a quest for immortality.]]
* {{Reincarnation}}: After a Blade ceases to function, they're returned to their Core Crystal. Once a new Driver bonds with them, they're reborn without any memories of their past life.
* RequiredPartyMember: The main Blades for each party member (Dromarch for Nia, for example) cannot be removed from their Driver's palette of active Blades.
* SapientSteed: Quadrupedal Blades can be ridden for faster travelling.
* StanceSystem: They act as the proverbial stances in the game's StanceSystem, with most Blades contributing three Arts apiece.
* SuperpowerLottery: [[spoiler:Blades who become Flesh Eaters may end up with the worst of both worlds, losing both their immortality and the ability to properly respire ether, crippling their Blade powers. Others gain the ability to resonate like a Driver; or StoryBreakerPower to rival the might of an Aegis. Most (but not all) suffer debilitating side effects. The very luckiest ones gain immense power with no side-effects at all, becoming the best possible mix of Driver and Blade.]]
* TronLines: Common blades and some of the unique blades have these. The rare blades can have them on their clothes; skin or in the case of Perun, hair.
* WeaponOfChoice: Each Blade powers a specific weapon type, which usually gives a visual reference to their role. BladeOnAStick wielders tend to focus on offense, {{Bare Fisted Monk}}s tend to be healers, and so on.
* ViciousCycle: Late in the game [[spoiler:it is revealed that Blades are not truly immortal. Eventually their Cores return to the Titans that birthed them and become new Titans themselves, from which new Core Crystals and Blades are born, and the titans eventually die of old age. Each new phase involves a total loss of memory]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Common Blades]]
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-->Voiced by: Various

The most common type of Blade. While they lack the versatility and growth potential of Rare Blades, they help fill out gaps in your party and complete mercenary missions. Their strength is estimated in "crowns"; 1-4 crowns denote increasingly strong common Blades, and 5 marks a Rare.

* BoringButPractical: Especially in the early game, before you get any good special Blades. Once you have a full set, they remain useful for Merc missions and for the key items earned by filling out their affinity charts, which can be cashed in for large amounts of WP.
* CantCatchUp: Common blades don't have nearly as many segments on their affinity chart, so it's unlikely you'll be using that 1-crown Blade all the way through the endgame.
* ComMons: You will probably get a lot of these while trying to get a rare Blade.
* CrutchCharacter: Tend to be this until one can draw enough Rare Blades, or in Mercenary Missions. ''Especially'' the one Gramps hands over, which cannot be released or transferred.
* EmergencyWeapon: The Blade that Gramps hands over cannot be ditched or transferred.
* FacelessMooks: Used by most NPC Drivers.
* InfinityMinusOneSword: 4-crown common Blades can very useful warriors. They're still of considerable value even outside of battle, as they leave behind a super rare Overdrive Protocol if released with a filled-out affinity chart.
* PlayerMooks: Their main purpose in the mid-game is to send them on mercenary missions.
* ElementalPowers: Can come in any element save for Light.
* YouAllLookFamiliar: Common Blades come in 4 body types, [[ArtificialHuman Male]], [[RobotGirl Female]], [[TopHeavyGuy Big Male]], and [[PantheraAwesome Quadruped]], with slight variations based on their element, weapon, and helmet design. Given the number of Core Crystals you'll be awakening, you'll see all the different variants quite quickly.
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[[folder:Adenine ''(Shiki)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/MamikoNoto (Japanese), Laural Lefkow (English)
-->Designed by: Koji Ogata

-->'''Role''': Healer
-->'''Element''': Wind
-->'''Weapon''': Knuckle Gloves

* AnArmAndALeg: Has parts of her body just... missing. This doesn't seem to hinder her at all.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: It can be easy to mistake her for a boy due to her short hair.
* BadassBookworm: Enjoys books, especially ancient literature and historical texts. Her weapons are spiked tomes that materialize around her wrists like gauntlets, and a giant volume hangs from her back on a chain. Her strength stat is also higher than average compared to some of the other rare Blades.
* CashGate: Her Affinity Nodes are opened by acquiring and translating ancient books. One of them can be found on auction in Argentum, where the bidding options range from pennies to a small fortune... Subverted, though, as the Nopon are such penny-pinchers that even the lowest available bid is sufficient enough to buy the book.
* HappyDance: When she gets really excited, she dances by hopping on one foot and spinning in place while shaking her hand above her head.
* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler:Subverted. At the end of her personal side quest, she decides to make the World Tree's data archive her home for the rest of her life due to its wealth of knowledge (she notes it will take one-thousand years to study all of it, but her Driver won't live as long). However, she can still travel with the party and be sent on Merc Missions. She'll just be spending her free time in the archive instead of Garfront.]]
* PaperMaster: Her robe is made of sheets of paper, and her attacks are accompanied by pages flying everywhere.
* PowerFist: Manifests a pair of combat knuckles (in the form of books that project energy spikes).
* TooManyBelts: Has several belts integrated into her outfit.
* WorthyOpponent: In her Heart-to-Heart, she matches wits with a scholarly Nopon who laid eyes on the same book she wanted. No one wins, but the Nopon bows out gracefully and allows her to purchase the text.
* WhammyBid: During an auction in Argentum, you have the option to bid a large quantity of gold for a Tome of Morytha; the other bidders are putting up laughably small amounts. The auction may drag out longer than necessary unless you stump them all with a sack of cash, one of which is also a laughably small amount (30 G).
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Agate ''(Meno)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/AtsumiTanezaki (Japanese), Laila Pyne (English)
-->Designed by: Yusuke Kozaki

-->'''Role''': Attacker
-->'''Element''': Earth
-->'''Weapon''': Greataxe

* AnAxeToGrind: Unlike most {{Cute Witch}}es, she's armed with a battleaxe.
* BigNo: Agate mistakes a Nopon for a giant bug. She screams when it starts moving toward her.
* CuteWitch: Her outfit is designed to resemble a witch's dress, hat 'n all.
* GemstoneAssault: Agate's Specials kick up brilliant pink jewels from the ground to pierce foes.
* GoalInLife: Unlike many Blades, Agate is reborn with a specific desire. Because she will one day return to her Core Crystal, she wants to unearth a brand new mineral that's never been seen before. [[spoiler:Her personal sidequest ends with the discovery of her own gemstone: the real-life mineral, agate.]]
* LadyOfAdventure: Her intro cutscene and field lines make it clear that Agate has an absolute blast just exploring the world and seeing what there is to find.
* MeaningfulName: Her Japanese name, Meno, directly means "Agate". Interestingly, it's an InvertedTrope within the game world. Agate is a rock-hunter as a hobby and her personal quest is to find a new mineral to name after herself.
* {{Understatement}}: Tora chimes up when Agate casually mentions that she has a "bit of a problem" with bugs.
-->'''Tora:''' "Bit of problem" understatement of the year.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: ''Freaks'' when fighting bugs and insectoid enemies.
-->'''Agate: WAAAH! GET THAT THING AWAY FROM ME!''' I'm not joking, ''get it away!''

[[folder:Azami]]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/ChiwaSaito (Japanese), Teresa Gallagher (English)
-->Designed by: hakus

-->'''Role''': Attacker
-->'''Element''': Darkness
-->'''Weapon''': Ether Cannon

* AmbiguouslyBi: She has deeply flirtatious intentions for her Driver, regardless of their gender.
* CheshireCatGrin: She frequently displays [[https://i.redd.it/b96992f5l4201.jpg an unsettling smile]].
* CreepyGood: She means well, but her cyborg-like appearance, TrueSight, questionable ethics, and obsessive attachment to her Driver make her a little unnerving even to her own allies.
* CreepyLongFingers: Averted. Her artwork makes her look like she has a giant, skeletal hand holding her Ether Cannon, but it's just a part of the cannon itself.
* DarkIsNotEvil: She is a Dark Blade with puppet-like limbs and a ruthless approach to solving problems; but she is ultimately loyal to the party. At least, as long as her beloved Driver is there.
* GlassCannon: Par for the course with Ether Cannon users. Her strength is amplified when her Driver is badly hurt, which means her best work is usually done seconds from KO.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: In her personal side quest, she was able to shoot down an airship with one well-placed shot from her [[{{BFG}} Ether Cannon]] thanks to her TrueSight.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: During her personal quest, she squeezes information out of a bioterrorist by threatening to force-feed him his own poison (which is strong enough to kill Titans).
* MagicalEye: Her left eye flares purple when she activates her TrueSight. With it, she can spy on anyone, anywhere - even on other continents. [[ParanoiaFuel Don't run.]]
* MarionetteMotion: She looks and dances like a ballerina puppet. In her summoning cutscene, her limbs are visibly held up by strings.
* StalkerWithACrush: Gives off this vibe with her Driver, whomever they may be.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Not really evil per say, but out of all the optional Blades the party can awaken, Azami is one of the most ruthless, even by [[DarkIsNotEvil Dark Blade]] standards.
* {{Yandere}}: Azami does not appreciate those who prevent her from monopolizing her Driver. Some of her personal Merc Missions involve targeting these individuals (whether lethally or not is unclear, but all she clarifies is that they've been punished at the end). She doesn't react well to being sent on Merc Missions either, as she interprets it as her Driver looking for an excuse to get rid of her. If you release her, her departure line can come off as a veiled threat.
-->'''Azami:''' Don't think this is over. It will ''never'' be over.

[[folder:Boreas ''(Idaten)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/AyaHirano (Japanese), Jules de Jongh (English)
-->Designed by: I-IV

-->'''Role''': Healer
-->'''Element''': Wind
-->'''Weapon''': Bitball

* {{Acrofatic}}: He is absurdly fast; he's somehow able to travel from one Titan to another in less than a second, and can steal just about anything from an Indoline statue to Emperor Niall's underwear without being noticed.
* BellyMouth: His entire body is one giant mouth, letting him gobble down vast quantities of food. It's also where he hides his Bitball and [[BreathWeapon various other weapons]].
* BigEater: His huge size isn't just for show; he can eat food without ever getting full, and all of his Affinity Chart requirements pertain to food in some way.
* BizarreAlienBiology: Boreas is ''weird''. Despite the aforementioned BellyMouth (with no digestive system to be seen) he still has a head... that he can take off and juggle around like it's a hat. His limbs are penguin-like flaps that morph into large hands when he needs to hold something. While most rare Blades just look weird, Boreas' body is a total mystery.
* CashGate: One of multiple Blades that require some degree of monetary investment to power up. That said, unlike Sheba and her piggybank, and Adenine and her ancient tomes, filling up his food stash should be comparatively-affordable.
* DiscOneNuke: Provided that you unlock him early, he's one of the game's most durable healers. His skills are fairly easy to upgrade, too - just buy him a lot of food.
* ExtremeOmnivore: By his logic, if it tastes good, it's on the menu. He jokes about [[ImAHumanitarian potentially eating Nopon if they are tasty enough]] in a conversation with Tora, but draws the line at actually doing so.
* MeaningfulName: Depending on language, either the Greek god of the north wind, or the fastest runner in the Buddhist pantheon.
* RealMenWearPink: One of his favored item types is Cosmetics.
-->'''Boreas:''' How do I look? Pretty?
* StoneWall: What makes him so desired as a healer. Boreas has absurdly high defense ratios, which is rare for healers and even more so for Bitball users. Even if the designated tank goes down, Boreas' Driver might actually last long enough to get everyone on their feet again.

[[folder:Dagas ''(Kubira)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/MamoruMiyano (Japanese), Dar Dash (English)
-->Designed by: hakus

-->'''Role''': Attacker
-->'''Element''': Fire
-->'''Weapon''': Greataxe

* BlueBlood: Dressed like a Napoleonic monarch, with a haughty attitude to boot.
* CoolChair: Has a regal red throne, as seen in his summoning. He also materializes it for some idle animations.
* CoolCrown: Wears a crown at an angle.
* ErmineCapeEffect: Wears an elaborate cape and is never seen without it.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Although he treats the party as his retainers, he cares for them in his own way. After the party helps him with his sidequest, he starts utilizing more of his power to aid the party, [[spoiler:which is reflected with his gaining a more useful affinity chart, better stats, and more aux core slots]].
** Even before the end of his quest, he has moments where his kinder side shines through. He is very polite and courteous when questioning Torigoth's chief about his past, and the main reason why he decides to battle the arrogant behemoth is to avenge his people.
* MysteriousPast: It's still unclear whether Regideria was his kingdom, if he even had a kingdom in the first place.
* PrestigeClass: [[spoiler:After completing his quest, his trust level resets, but in exchange, he gets a number of field skills, the potency of his specials and battle skills increases, his stats increase, and he gets 3 aux cores slots instead of 1]].
* PrinceCharmless: His ego tends to rub the party the wrong way. With enough investment, though, he genuinely offers his support in battle and in mercenary missions.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: He's just as capable in battle as any other Blade. [[spoiler:Completing his quest increases his battle prowess all around]].

[[folder:Dahlia ''(Tsuki)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/NaomiShindo (Japanese), Kelly Burke (English)
-->Designed by: [[Anime/MacrossFrontier Risa Ebata]]

-->'''Role''': Healer
-->'''Element''': Ice
-->'''Weapon''': Bitball

* TheAgeless: Like any Blade, her physical appearance will stay the same over many incarnations. She appreciates the fleeting nature of human beauty by contrast.
* CombatStilettos: The rear talons on her feet are greatly elongated, giving her this effect.
* CuteMonsterGirl: Perhaps the straightest example in the game, given her LittleBitBeastly aspects go to a further extreme than usual while at the same time keeping her very humanoid in the face and overall body
* HiddenDepths: She has a talent for ice sculpture, using her freezing powers to preserve flowers and other items as delicate reliefs.
* KansaiRegionalAccent: She's given the a Texan SouthernBelle accent in the dub which leads to a weird case of translation during her side quest. In Japanese, a little girl tells her she sounds like Zeke (who has the same accent), but in English, tells her that she does NOT sound like Zeke (whose accent was adapted into a rougher way of speaking but Dahlia's wasn't).
* LittleBitBeastly: Her hands and feet are massive paws, she has a small fluffy tail plus rather sharp teeth and her hair turns into giant rabbit ears. That said, she wouldn't describe herself as a rabbit girl.
* MsFanservice: Is the bustiest character in the game by a good margin, has an ImpossibleHourglassFigure, wears a [[VaporWear translucent minidress]] complete with AbsoluteCleavage, and has quite a bit of {{Gainaxing}} to boot.
* ShesGotLegs: Like a rabbit she walks on her toes, with her heels being functionally part of her legs, making her legs appear all the longer.

[[folder:Electra ''(Raiko)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/HimikaAkaneya (Japanese), Clare Corbett (English)
-->Designed by: Asato Mizu

-->'''Role''': Tank
-->'''Element''': Electric
-->'''Weapon''': Shield Hammer

* AttackReflector: One of her skills deals damage back to an enemy when struck.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Really wants to help everyone she meets... If only she could do it without zapping the daylights out of them.
* CuteLittleFangs: Has one pointy canine that is noticeable in both her character art and model.
* GlacierWaif: She is a Tank-type Blade, despite looking like a little girl.
* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: Design-wise, she's based off Raijin, the Shinto God of Storms.
* PowerIncontinence: She angsts a lot over it. Her power is impressive but she has little control over it. She usually ends up shocking people (such as Nia) just by physical contact and has trouble using electricity at levels that aren't "fry everything". Her personal sidequest involves intensive training to fine-tune that dreaded power of hers.
* TheGlomp: Does this to Nia during her sidequest, [[AmusingInjuries with hilarious results]].

[[folder:Finch ''(Ibuki)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/AoiYuuki (Japanese), Jules de Jongh (English)
-->Designed by: Kunihiko Tanaka

-->'''Role''': Tank
-->'''Element''': Wind
-->'''Weapon''': Shield Hammer

* AccidentalMisnaming: Tends to get characters' names wrong, such as calling Dromarch "Bromarch." Even gets into a misnaming match with the Tirkin countess, Omulette, at the end of her personal quest.
* AchievementsInIgnorance: Finch can forget that she used up an attack, thus using it again with no cooldown.
* BirdPeople: A Blade in the shape of a green-feathered, humanoid bird.
* BlushSticker: She has two round red blushes on her cheeks to highlight her cuteness.
* BoldExplorer: Loves adventure and discovering new places and sights to behold. Except that with her brain problems, all it takes is a minute of not looking somewhere to forget all about it. Which makes her happier because it means everything is always new to her.
* TheDitz: Scatterbrained, forgetful, and adorable. She even forgets her name upon being summoned, despite [[ThirdPersonPerson having said it multiple times]].
* ForgetfulJones: Her special skill is called "Bird-Brained" and she fits the bill.
* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Zeke's is the only name Finch actually remembers, including her own. While he's flattered by it, it also feels like [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg not being invited to a party]].
* NotSoDifferent: Her personal quest kicks off in earnest when the [[BirdPeople Tirkin]] mistake her for a [[SaveThePrincess kidnapped Tirkin countess]], so Finch goes off to find her to prove she's smarter than them. It turns out the countess went to Tantal, and forgot where home was. The king spaces out and tries to give Finch the position anyway - because she, the king, and the entire tribe have all forgotten who the missing royal was. Finch and Countess Omulette become friends, but both have a knack for completely forgetting people's names.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: She sounds pretty snarky when drawing aggro in combat.
-->'''Finch:''' Someone's being ''TAR-GET-TED''.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Finch mentions that she dreams of being buried in a pile of Stuffed Meaty Carrots. Unfortunately, sometimes she forgets and mistakes other people's dishes for her own - like Juicy Samod or Cream Orange Paratha.
--> '''Nia:''' "That's MY favorite, you twit!"

[[folder:Floren ''(Hotaru)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/KaoriIshihara (Japanese), Clare Corbett (English)
-->Designed by: Taiki

-->'''Role''': Healer
-->'''Element''': Earth
-->'''Weapon''': Bitball

* DeliberatelyCuteChild: Floren exploits his cute looks for all they're worth. It's even an exclusive Field Skill, which lets him get free items by charming certain [=NPCs=]. In his introduction, he briefly drops the goody-two-shoes act to celebrate duping another rube.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Several characters refer to him as a young girl, but he rarely bothers to correct them. He's listed as male for the purpose of Merc Mission deployment requirements.
* GreenThumb: As his flowery appearance and green attire suggests, plantlife is his domain, though it's folded into DishingOutDirt as far as the game's element system is concerned.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Perhaps due to his floral nature, he does not take kindly to being pitted against giant bug monsters.

[[folder:Godfrey ''(Guren/Glen)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/ToruFuruya (Japanese), Julian Kostov (English)
-->Designed by: Minoru Iwamoto

-->'''Role''': Tank
-->'''Element''': Ice
-->'''Weapon''': Shield Hammer

* BlackAndWhiteMorality: He has a really hard time with the idea of NecessaryEvil, which causes a few problems when he attempts to shut down Tantal's black market (aka the only reliable source of food in the icy Titan).
* DontThinkFeel: According to him, the idea of living with justice only seems complicated because people think too hard about morality.
* ForGreatJustice: Godfrey is obsessed with justice, righteousness, and helping the downtrodden, which is reflected in his exclusive Merc Missions.
* ShutUpHannibal: After a criminal named Sandstream leads Godfrey around on a quest just to show him how terrible the world is and how meaningless his ideals are, Godfrey points out that every wicked thing he saw was directly the result of Sandstream's actions, and swiftly takes him down.
* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: All Godfrey's field skills are exclusive to him, and all of them are called for by at least a few merc missions. It's often worth making him team leader just to get the most out of him.

[[folder:Gorg ''(Yuuou)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/TomoakiMaeno (Japanese), Mikey O'Connor (English)
-->Designed by: Soraya Saga

-->'''Role''': Attacker
-->'''Element''': Water
-->'''Weapon''': Greataxe

* HeroicSelfDeprecation: He'll blame himself if the party wipes.
* OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: He's the only Water Rare Blade who's drawn from a random core crystal (all others are drawn from unique ones and can be applied with complete foresight).
* TheStrategist: Gorg's Heart-to-Heart and personal sidequest reveal his strong tactical acumen, especially in the kitchen.
* SweetTooth: Gets easily distracted by tasty-looking desserts. In his personal sidequest, Gorg pursues his dream of opening his very own sweets shop.
* UnscaledMerfolk: His theme invokes this.

[[folder:Herald ''(Teni)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/AyaEndo (Japanese), Laila Pyne (English)
-->Designed by: Hideo Minaba

-->'''Role''': Attacker
-->'''Element''': Electric
-->'''Weapon''': Ether Cannon

* TheAtoner: She vows to use her great power for good to make up for the destruction of the Theospeti Temple in the past.
* TheBerserker: She goes on a rampage upon utilizing her full power. There's a reason she was sealed up.
* GlassCannon: On top of being an Ether Cannon Blade, which is naturally glassy, one of her abilities increases any damage done by, and taken by, her Driver at max Affinity.
* InfinityMinusOneSword: She is remarkably powerful for a rare Blade, only losing out to the likes of Mythra and KOS-MOS. She is able to equip up to three Aux Cores, is able to snipe enemies from a distance while other team members distract them, and is easy to unlock her full affinity tree. However, her battle skill, Dissolve Seal, while it allows her Driver to deal more damage at max affinity, it also has them receive more damage in return.
* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: Her mech armor is styled after a dragon as to emphasize her great but uncontrollable power.
* MinmaxersDelight: Her unique passive [[GlassCannon increases damage taken]], sure. But it's on an Ether Canon, one of only two ranged weapons, and one that comes bundled with aggro-reduction tools. If her Driver's getting hit by anything more than the occasion AOE attack something's gone horribly wrong.
* MundaneUtility: One of Ursula's ''many'' mercenary missions requires three electric blades and three ether cannon blades, and said mission requires Ursula herself to be in it, meaning that one of the blades on the mission must fit both qualities. Herald is one such reliably accessible example.
* OneManArmy: She took down an army of Laias by herself, noting her similarity in power to [[LightEmUp KOS-MOS]]. If she and KOS-MOS are under the same Driver during battle and the Driver switches to Herald, she might say that she'll show no mercy to their foes like KOS-MOS would.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: She destroyed a temple and killed nearly everyone in it by herself as well as took down many Laias that was overwhelming the party in the side quest "The Calm and the Storm". However, her [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity tremendous power]] caused her to attack the party and nearly overwhelmed them including the Aegis. If she hadn't stopped herself from proceeding on the attack the party would have died on the spot. Note that she does this after spending a substantial amount of time in an environment that weakens blades.
--> '''Nia:''' "A few seconds more and we'd have been toast too..."
* PowerGivesYouWings: The only Blade to travel by floating via her dragon-based mech armor aside from Sheba, who [[IdleRich sits in her giant floating bathtub]].
* SchizoTech: Her futuristic draconic mech armor, especially considering that she is obtainable in Tantal.
* SealedBadassInACan: After she went berserk in the past and destroyed Theospiti Temple, her previous Driver [[CantLiveWithoutYou killed himself to stop her]], returning her to her Core Crystal. This crystal was then hidden behind a cracked wall ''and'' sealed inside an ominous altar that requires an offering of a lot of [[BloodMagic blood (or blood-like things, such as red fruits)]] to open. Naturally, opening the seal causes [[TheDreaded a bit of panic]] among the residents of Theosoir, and the King himself meets the party outside the shrine to inform you of ''why'' that Core Crystal was sealed away. He [[ThePowerOfTrust chooses to trust]] that Rex and company can keep Herald's power in check, though.
* StationaryWings: Herald's armor has dragon wings that don't flap, but she is capable of flight regardless.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: She doesn't exactly lose her mind, but her inability to control her power has her attack anyone in her way, friend and for alike.

[[folder:Kasandra ''(Kasane)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/InoriMinase (Japanese), Kosha Engler (English)
-->Designed by: Shirabii

-->'''Role''': Tank
-->'''Element''': Darkness
-->'''Weapon''': Shield Hammer

* DarkIsNotEvil: Her element is darkness and she's a living bad luck charm, but she is one of the nicest Blades you'll ever meet.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Kas herself is a friendly, cheery girl, who happens to radiate bad luck and darkness.
* FamedInStory: Her previous Driver was a local Argentum celebrity, one of their best salvagers and a very rare Nopon Driver. Well, until he got eaten by a giant fish. Today, only stories remain.
* {{Irony}}: Kasandra is acquired from the "Lucky Core Crystal".
* TheJinx: Kasandra isn't aware of it, but her mere presence seems to cause misfortune to those around her, including her previous Driver who was eaten by a monster.
* MaskOfPower: She wears a fox-shaped mask behind her head most of the time, which rattles every time misfortune is about to happen. For Kasandra's Lv. 3 Blade Special, ''Secret Desire'', she enters an unconscious state upon putting on her mask to draw upon her true power.
* WideEyedIdealist: She is completely unaware of her own powers and ditzy enough to not realize even when told straight to her face (but she is aware that she can't fully control them yet). The dissonance between her attitude as a perpetually cheerful girl always ready to help those in need and most people's desire to get the hell away from the "calamity witch" is hilarious.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kora ''(Zakuro)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/ChinatsuAkasaki (Japanese), Nikki Hartung (English)
-->Designed by: Shunya Yamashita

-->'''Role''': Healer
-->'''Element''': Electric
-->'''Weapon''': Knuckle Gloves

* GenkiGirl: All it takes is one look at her into or profile art to know she's full of energy.
* MotorMouth: Will happily talk her Driver's ears off. One bit of victory chatter has Nia begging Kora to let her get some sleep this time.
* PomPomGirl: One of her specials is even called "Electric Pompoms", and if her Driver starts a fight with a sneak attack, she'll start trying to lead a cheer chant for them. She's far too nice (and out of genre) to qualify for TheCheerleader though.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: She gets called out on this by Mythra (despite actually wearing more than she does).
* ValleyGirl: Has shades of this personality if her MotorMouth is any indication.
* WorthyOpponent: Considers Mythra one from their Girl Power contest during her personal side quest.

[[folder:KOS-MOS ''(KOS-MOS Re:)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Mariko Suzuki (Japanese), Caitlin Thorburn (English)
-->Designed by: Kunihiko Tanaka

-->'''Role''': Attacker
-->'''Element''': Light
-->'''Weapon''': Ether Cannon

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Implied to be this to the Aegis as the party states that in the side quest, "Artificial Intelligence," if KOS-MOS hadn't helped them the party would be overwhelmed by an army of Artificial Blades.
* GuestFighter: She's from ''VideoGame/{{XenoSaga}}'', Creator/MonolithSoft's previous RPG series.
* LightEmUp: Shares this element only with Mythra and, [[spoiler:if you're lucky with Tiger Tiger, Poppi QTπ, exclusively]].
* MythologyGag: In KOS-MOS's side quest, "Artificial Intelligence," she winds up befriending a young girl from Tantal named Astelle, who is a nod to [[VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}} Shion Uzuki]].
* OneManArmy: She took down an army of Artificial Blades by herself.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: In gameplay. She's a very solid Blade to use but unfortunately has to share her element and battle role with [[GameBreaker Mythra]]. It is also interesting to note that if Rex has her equipped and switches to her during a battle, KOS-MOS might say her battle output is on par with that of Mythra's, but one would have to listen closely through the battle noise to hear her.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: She took down over 90 Artificial Blades by herself and is implied her power is at least on par if not better than the Aegis.
* ShootOutTheLock: From what she has to say about it, her Lockpicking skill is clearly less than subtle.
* WorldsStrongestMan: Zeke's cousin, Astelle, believes KOS-MOS is the most powerful Blade on the face of Alrest and given how she has firsthand experience with KOS-MOS's capabilities she doesn't believe without merit.

[[folder:Newt ''(Nyutsu)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/YokoHikasa (Japanese), Janine Harouni (English)
-->Designed by: Takeshi Nogami

-->'''Role''': Tank
-->'''Element''': Fire
-->'''Weapon''': Chroma Katana

* {{BFS}}: Played with. Her extra arms are gigantic and scale up any weapon they get their hands on to their size. Her usual katana dwarfs the Aegis when she uses it, but when wielded by a Driver it's one of the smallest blades in the game.
* CurbStompBattle: When she expresses concern that Gormott's ardainite garrison does not seem up to par in skills or training, the captain tells her not to worry, for their strength lies in their Titan superweapons. Her reaction is to request a one-on-one duel with the Alrest equivalent of a large tank, and promptly wreck it in one hit (via CatchAndReturn, no less). The soldiers get the message.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: There's a huge, blinking eye on the back of her head.
* {{FanGirl}}: Of military stuff in general and ships in particular.
* HotBlooded: Newt is intense. There's really no other word.
* LeeroyJenkins: Her side quest makes it increasingly clear that even with all the love she has for the army, she would make a ''terrible'' soldier. Her first reflex when facing any hardship is to run in and crush it with all her might, and is often gone before anyone can tell her to calm down. It only works because might is something she has in spades. By the end, she has the respect of the entire ardainite army, and even Emperor Niall himself is praising her strength... and also pleading her to stop rushing in like that before she gets herself killed (which would be crushing to the soldiers who now see her as a beloved hero).
* MeaningfulName: Newts are a subfamily of Salamanders, which were believed to have been born of fire.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Comes with two huge extra arms that float around her. They're FloatingLimbs but still act like they're connected to her body (though their shoulders are at head level).
* TopHeavyGuy: Her body is normally proportioned, except for the two extra arms that are humongous. In her intro, she can do push-ups no problem, but falls over when she does a sit-up.

[[folder:Nim ''(Uka)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/MaoIchimichi (Japanese), Caitlin Thorburn (English)
-->Designed by: Nakaba Higurashi

-->'''Role''': Healer
-->'''Element''': Earth
-->'''Weapon''': Knuckle Gloves

* FantasticRacism: She has a low opinion of Mor Ardain, as she finds their exploitation of nature to be abhorrent. Throughout her sidequest, she often assumes Mor Ardain is up to no good.
* LittleBitBeastly: Has animal limbs and nose.
* MartialPacifist: Non-violent to the point that she's been known to attempt to reason with monsters, but when the talking obviously fails she gets pissed and starts punching. Hard.
* MultipleHeadCase: She has what appear to be two pet foxes, and they seem to be sentient... but they actually grow out of her back.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: She's able to communicate with [[FantasticFoxes Phonexes]]. Nim also tries to speak to a large Antol in Temperantia during her side quest to free the Phonexes it has in its captivity, but that goes with as much success as you'd think speaking to a wild non sentient beast would go.

[[folder:Perceval ''(Vasara)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/{{KENN}} (Japanese), Kerry Shale (English)
-->Designed by: Yasushi Suzuki

-->'''Role''': Tank
-->'''Element''': Darkness
-->'''Weapon''': Chroma Katana

* DarkIsNotEvil: Despite being of the Darkness element, looking like a demon and being a ruthless assassin, he is very heroic.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Believes that letting his foes spend the rest of their lives locked away for their crimes is far worse a fate than just killing them, as his old nemesis finds out the hard way.
* IWorkAlone: When the party tracks down a doctor and his primary accomplice in a fraud scam, Perceval immediately rushes ahead of the party to subdue them both for the Ardanian authorities to take into custody. He then promptly ignores the party's concerns about working on matters like that together, and arranges for Merc Missions where he personally doles out justice to others he determined to be involved in a similar fashion. Of course, while Perceval must be the leader of any teams you send out for these missions, you can still back him up with other Blades.
* KnightErrant: His desire is to punish evildoers wherever they may be.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Although he was a ruthless assassin in his previous incarnation, this instance of Perceval has sworn to never take a human life in his duties.
* UnstableEquilibrium: Every time he defeats an enemy his power increases. This can often encourage the player to take down hordes of enemies to reap this bonus.

[[folder:Perun ''(Tokiha)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/AmiKoshimizu (Japanese), Ria Lina (English)
-->Designed by: Takahiro Kimura

-->'''Role''': Attacker
-->'''Element''': Ice
-->'''Weapon''': Megalance

* TheBait: During her personal quest, she suggests that she splits away from the main party to distract the kidnappers while Rex and company free all the children.
* DangerouslyShortSkirt: Her panties are always visible. Her in-game art is the same as you see on this page, only in closer detail.
* ForGreatJustice: Much like Godfrey, she likes going on about smiting evil and fighting for justice.
* {{Gainaxing}}: Not the biggest bust in the game, but clearly the bounciest. All the more impressive when the rest of the cast is relatively subdued in that regard. (Takahiro Kimura [[AuthorAppeal is notorious for this sort of thing]]; how he goaded the 3D animators into doing it, though, that's anyone's guess.)
* OfCorsetsSexy: Her outfit includes a blue corset.
* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: You'll need to exploit this to complete her chart, since she has at least one Affinity Node that requires using her exclusive skill, Chivalry, in Merc Missions.
* {{Underboobs}}: She's basically got an inverse CleavageWindow going on that shows the underside of her bouncy chest.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Hers is a long silver ponytail with a bluish glow at the end.
* ZettaiRyouiki: She sports this along with her DangerouslyShortSkirt.

[[folder:Praxis ''(Mikumari)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/AyaneSakura (Japanese), Rebecca Kiser (English)
-->Designed by: CHOCO

-->'''Role''': Attacker
-->'''Element''': Water
-->'''Weapon''': Megalance

* TheAtoner: After their reincarnation by the heroes, her and Theory's personal side quest involves them atoning for their criminal Core Crystal Hunter past to the people of Fonsa Myma.
* BoobsAndButtPose: Her artwork has her leaning forward to show her butt and bending her spine backwards to show her boobs. It's not the same pose as Theory's, but it gets the same effect, and it still looks like she's trying to herniate about 8 discs.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: In her and Theory's personal side quest, "Theory and Praxis," there is a mini quest that has the group find a bully in Uraya and retrieve something he stole from another kid. Praxis "threatens" to unleash her "Eye of Shining Justice" on the bully unless he behaves. Zeke then admits that her EyepatchOfPower is cooler than his.
* EyepatchOfPower: She and Theory sport eyepatches on opposite eyes, and they were both powerful thieves making lives miserable for Alrest before their defeat and reincarnation.
* GenkiGirl: Has a personality as bubbly as her appearance.
* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Despite having a [[GenkiGirl girly]] personality and even having the Girls' Talk skill, many characters note that some of Praxis's habits don't really show her being girly. Theory mentions that Praxis is horrible with housework in their combined side quest. In Kora's side quest, both she and Mythra are hesitant to have Praxis judge them on their "Girl Power" (provided she's also active in the party during the side quest to have her part) because some things they list off on Praxis not being girly include her being a messy eater and diving into the bathtub; Praxis storms off insulted.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Theory, whether as former Core Crystal hunters or under the custody of the heroes. For the latter, Praxis tries to be a CoolBigSis to the cold Theory due to their similarities and past history.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Sending her into battle against giant bug enemies will cause her to freak out and request an exterminator.

[[folder:Sheba ''(Rinne)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/AriOzawa (Japanese), Naomi [=McDonald=] (English)
-->Designed by: F. Parsley

-->'''Role''': Attacker
-->'''Element''': Water
-->'''Weapon''': Ether Cannon

* BadassGay: She wants an 'entourage' of beautiful women, her Affinity Tree has multiple nodes that are filled out by recruiting, fighting alongside or talking to women, and her weapon is an enormous cannon.
* BathingBeauty: She spends about 90% of the time in her flying bathtub drinking tea, [[AwkwardlyPlacedBathtub which she uses to travel everywhere]], and [[NonNudeBathing her outfit is a fancy bathing suit]]. Also, one of her attacks involves [[RammingAlwaysWorks ramming]] the [[ImprovisedWeapon bathtub]] into her enemies, thus playing with CantBatheWithoutAWeapon and inverting DeadlyBath.
* CashGate: Her powers and abilities revolve around amassing as much wealth as possible, and you need to donate over 1,000,000 G into her personal coffers in order to fully power her up. [[spoiler:Fortunately, you can recoup some of the initial cost of acquiring her core crystal by talking to the merchant again after resonating with her, thanks to an oath sworn by said merchant's grandfather.]]
* DiscOneNuke: She's considered pretty good as far as Ether Cannon Blades go, and she'd have to be to be worth 500,000 G just to get her Core Crystal (let alone the cash needed to access higher tiers of her Affinity Chart). That said, by exploiting the Salvage mechanic, you can buy her, and access her entire Affinity Chart, as early as Chapter 4 (or even 3, if you're extremely patient).
* FailedASpotCheck: She gets swindled out of the 1 million G you invested in her by buying an island in the Leftherean Archipelago with the promise of a beautiful mansion overlooking a large beach. Her illusion is shattered only when she finally opens her eyes on the island.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: She lists Pandoria among her Entourage in the ''Sheba's Dream'' Heart-To-Heart. That said, it can be viewed before Zeke and Pandoria become party members.
* GlassCannon: A trait she shares with Ether Cannons in general, but it's predictably pronounced with Sheba's low defense and high attack modifiers. Her aggro-reduction passives are necessary for keeping her Driver out of the firing line, since they won't last long under direct attack.
* HaremSeeker: The English script merely uses Entourage as a thinly-veiled euphemism, but in Japanese, Sheba is loud and proud about wanting a harem, right up to using the actual word to Pyra's face.
* TheHedonist: Her dream is a fabulous banquet with a harem of beautiful women.
* IdleRich: Floats around in a giant bathtub made of water.
* IncompatibleOrientation: She's a LipstickLesbian, and wishes for a harem of beautiful women. That said, the female party members with an explicit sexual preference tend to be straight.
* LipstickLesbian: She constantly seeks female companionship on and off the battlefield, sees men as servants to be used rather than romantically pursued, and makes suspiciously sexual advances on just about every woman in the party. In her personal Heart-To-Heart, she wishes to hold a banquette where she lists off every last female character in the main cast as her guest list. In the Japanese script, her orientation and goals are stated outright, while in the English script her being solely attracted to women is kept mainly ambiguous but is still outright pointed out in a Heart-To-Heart with Mythra and Kora.
* LandmarkSale: She gets swindled by a Nopon who sells her an island in the Leftherean Archipelago. She was promised a huge island complete with a mansion, but only realizes the scam when everyone points out the dinky little island to her.
* MakingASplash: Has the water element, and is shown to be able to control water telekineticly. The merchant who sold her core crystal even comments about the bathtub made of water that she floats around in.
* MegaTwintails: They end in large points resembling conch shells.
* [[MegatonPunch Megaton Kick]]: Performs one during her sidequest. [[https://i.imgur.com/mBjVSwf.gif That poor, poor Nopon...]]
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: She's almost completely human-like except for the elongated fish tail (which would make up the entire lower body of any other merfolk) behind her legs.
* PunnyName: Her Squad Name is "Royal Teas", which does describe her fondness of drinking tea while bathing, but it also sounds like "Royal Tease" or "royalties", both of which hint at her GoldDigger personality.
* RichBitch: Downplayed. Almost everything she says revolves around making money or holding banquettes, but she doesn't actively look down upon the less fortunate or try to make herself the center of attention in any malicious way. She's actually quite friendly, offers to buy gifts to her female companions, and has an unshakeable sense of justice to help any female in immediate need. It's only during her final quest, "Fool's Gold" that she treats Rex, Tora, and Zeke as servants.
* RoyalWe: As to emphasize her royal status, she addresses herself as more than one person.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: She has a more refined vocabulary fitting of her "royal" stature than most.
-->'''Sheba:''' We shan't know unless we try. Come, let us perambulate and look for suspicious individuals.
* SweetTooth: Really enjoys her tea time and desserts are among her favorite pouch items.

[[folder:Theory ''(Seori)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/AyakoKawasumi (Japanese), Sarah Borges (English)
-->Designed by: CHOCO

-->'''Role''': Tank
-->'''Element''': Ice
-->'''Weapon''': Chroma Katana

* TheAtoner: After their reincarnation by the heroes, her and Praxis's personal side quest involves them atoning for their criminal Core Crystal Hunter past to the people of Fonsa Myma. However, Theory is not as enthused as Praxis in rebuilding their reputations, believing there's no point, but eventually warms up to the idea.
* BoobsAndButtPose: Her official art shows her in this pose.
* EyepatchOfPower: She and Praxis sport eyepatches on opposite eyes, and they were both powerful thieves making lives miserable for Alrest before their defeat and reincarnation.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Praxis, to the point that the old Theory wanted Praxis to rejoin the Core Crystal hunters once Praxis is reawakened by the heroes, but [[spoiler:kills off her own Driver so that Rex and the others would have her Core Crystal instead]]. Upon her reawakening to the side of good, Theory is distant from everyone, but does warm back up to Praxis eventually due to Praxis promising to remember the friendship they were meant to have.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Theory wants Praxis back so much that she tries to make her remember her old life, and eventually leads Praxis' new Driver into a fight with her Driver. [[spoiler:When Praxis refuses to become a criminal like she was before, Theory removes the person she sees as getting in their way of being together again, her own Driver.]]
* SugarAndIcePersonality: After being reawakened by the heroes as a new Blade, Theory has a bit of a distant icy demeanor, befitting an ice-element Blade. She's even reluctant to be close to Praxis despite the fact that they were a team previously as the Core Crystal Hunters. However, she does warm up to Praxis and the others upon doing their combined side quest and even calls her "Big Sis" at times.
* WhenSheSmiles: As noted at the end of her and Praxis's shared sidequest, her being able to smile naturally is a very good look for her.

[[folder:Ursula ''(Nanakoori)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/RinaHidaka (Japanese), Phillipa Alexander (English)
-->Designed by: Risa Ebata

-->'''Role''': Healer
-->'''Element''': Ice
-->'''Weapon''': Knuckle Gloves

* ActionPet: Her polar bear, Beary, battles alongside her.
* BearyFriendly: {{Pun}} aside, Ursula's polar bear is nice and quiet like her, but also does most of the fighting with his claws.
* MagikarpPower: Filling out her affinity chart requires one to send her on an absurd amount of mercenary missions. However, this leads to her filling out most of her chart on her own. She also learns great healing skills, such as healing good chunks of each party member's HP just by switching in.
* MundaneUtility: Thanks to the base length of her merc missions being only 10 minutes, they happen to be the most efficient way of filling out other Blades' affinity charts.
* MythologyGag: At the end of a battle, Ursula might sing a few notes of a tune she came up with, which sounds like it came from ''[[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles Engage the Enemy]]''. Rex picks up on it and hums it himself.
* ShrinkingViolet: Despite her natural talent as a singer and musician, her crippling shyness and fear of attention make fulfilling her dreams of stardom an uphill task.

[[folder:Vale ''(Mei)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Sayaka Senbongi (Japanese), Jessica Preddy (English)
-->Designed by: Yasuomi Umetsu

-->'''Role''': Attacker
-->'''Element''': Darkness
-->'''Weapon''': Megalance

* DarkIsNotEvil: She may be a darkness-element Blade with the demeanor of a rebellious and indifferent teenager, Vale does value the bonds she shares with her Driver and friends.
* DeadpanSnarker: Very sarcastic and acerbic, but she means well.
* {{Goth}}: Very much so. With that said, while she likes to talk a lot about darkness and witches and similar topics, she draws the line at actual meddling with the forces of evil. Her sidequest deals with getting rid of a Nopon ''satanic cult'' attempting to summon demons into this world.
* NotAMorningPerson: It takes Pyra's threatening to reveal Vale's secrets to the party to get her to wake up in the morning.
* TextileWorkIsFeminine: Outside of battles, she specializes in weaving textiles. She can create her own textiles after speaking to the old woman in charge of the textile store in Fonsett Village.

[[folder:Vess ''(Musubi)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Miki Takahashi (Japanese), Lucy Newman-Williams (English)
-->Designed by: Kia Asamiya

-->'''Role''': Healer
-->'''Element''': Electric
-->'''Weapon''': Bitball

* DubNameChange: Not just her, but her signature dish was renamed as well. Her specialty is making dumplings. That said, the "dumplings" are obviously Onigiri[=/=]Rice Balls. Well, at least they weren't called [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Jelly Doughnuts]].
* MeaningfulName: For only her original Japanese name. ''Omusubi'' is another name for her trademark onigiri. When the party first discovers her cooking specialty, no one is surprised.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Her face has very noticeably different proportions, with a large nose and broad eyes, in contrast to the {{Animesque}}-style the rest of the characters use. Kia Asamiya was after all mostly active during the late 80's/early 90's (see ''Manga/SilentMobius'' for instance) and his style still reflects this.
* ParentalSubstitute: After Mabon's wife passed away, she took on the role of being his kids' surrogate mother. Apparently, she was a great mother.
* TeamMom: She takes on this role upon joining the team. Even in Merc missions she tells the team that they have only 300G each for snacks.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: She loves Fruity Rice Balls. Appropriately, her "dumplings" (actually Rice Balls) are her only, and best, dish.

[[folder:Wulfric ''(Djikarao)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/ShunsukeTakeuchi (Japanese), Ronan Summers (English)
-->Designed by: Ryosuke Aiba

-->'''Role''': Attacker
-->'''Element''': Earth
-->'''Weapon''': Megalance

* BadassBookworm: One of his favorite items types is literature.
* BerserkButton: Gets easily frustrated when people misunderstand him, which ends up just hurting his image more.
* TheBerserker: His fighting style involves a lot of wild swings from his lance and a lot of button mashing ActionCommands.
* ChestBlaster: His Level 2 Special which involves him firing a beam of earth energy from his chest.
* FaceOfAThug: He's a shy, super nice guy who happens to be the single most monstrous Blade in the game. He's trying to help people to improve his rep, but it's not working all too well when most think he's a monster.
* GentleGiant: Played with; off the battlefield, he is very much this trope, and is obviously uncomfortable with how people fear him just for his brutish looks. On the battlefield, however, he is just as vicious as his appearance suggests.
* HeelFaceTurn: He was the Blade of Elder Arachno who attacked the party but after the latter's defeat he joins the party.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: One of his goals so he can have a better reputation.
--> '''Wulfric''': "One day, I will make friends with everyone!"
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Is able to understand the speech of monsters. This allows him to solve the Gogol issue in his sidequest diplomatically. He was also formerly the Blade of the Elder Arachno in Uraya before Rex and his friends felled the creature.

[[folder:Zenobia ''(Yaegiri)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/AyanaTaketatsu (Japanese), Jessica Preddy (English)
-->Designed by: Minoru Iwamoto

-->'''Role''': Attacker
-->'''Element''': Wind
-->'''Weapon''': Greataxe

* ArrogantKungFuGuy: She doesn't actively boast about her power, but still makes sure everyone else knows about it through her desire to fight stronger opponents. However, Zenobia does claim that her axe is stronger than [[InfinityPlusOneSword KOS-MOS's]] firepower if both Blades are under the same Driver and the Driver switches to Zenobia during a fight.
--> '''Zenobia:''' [[BadassBoast "My axe beats KOS-MOS's firepower any day!"]]
* BadassArmfold: Her default pose, as shown in her artwork. She maintains her armfold almost all the time (in battle, out of battle, and even while swimming) as to emphasize her confidence.
* BadassBookworm: One of her favorite item types is literature.
* BloodKnight: She delights in battling strong enemies; all of her Affinity Chart requirements pertain to defeating Unique Monsters, and her personal Quest involves finding and unleashing a SealedEvilInACan just so that she can kick its ass.
* ChallengeSeeker: Oh yes. Most of her fights she just finds underwhelming, hence her endless quest to find actual rivals worthy of her. In gameplay all of her passive skills boost her power the more challenging the battle is (one activates when fighting bosses and Unique Monsters, one activates against higher-level enemies, and the last one increases the more enemies are in the current battle).
* CuteLittleFangs: Has a tiny protruding fang like Electra's, though hers is meant to appear wild more than childish.
* HotBlooded: Very much so, considering her desire to fight strong opponents at any moment.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: When faced with what she finally considers a decent challenge (the aforementioned SealedEvilInACan, a giant monster with an absurdly strong HealingFactor), she decides to use her full power for one moment... and promptly [[ATwinkleInTheSky punts it into the stratosphere]]. Apparently going all out just feels ''good'' but it ends fights too quickly for her.
* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: Her design is based off Fujin, the Shinto God of Wind.
* PhysicalGod: Not only is she, design-wise, based off [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C5%ABjin Fujin]], she's so incredibly powerful that, when she decides to go all out, the target of her full power instantly [[ATwinkleInTheSky pulls a Team Rocket]].
* PowerFloats: Floats slightly above the ground while in battle.
* TheRival: Considers herself as one to Mythra and wants to fight her if her Heart-to-Heart is any indication, but knows that she's no match against an Aegis.
* UnskilledButStrong: Unquestionably the strongest Blade in terms of raw physical power, but she's well aware that challenging people like Jin or Mythra would take more than pure strength. Too bad her plan to fix that is to get even stronger.
* WillfullyWeak: As much as she wants to go all out, she limits herself because, otherwise, fighting wouldn't be fun.

!Torna

[[folder:Jin ''(Shin)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/TakahiroSakurai (Japanese), John Schwab (English)

The leader of Torna. Wears a mask.

* BigBad: Appears to be this at first, as the leader of Torna, but [[spoiler:subverted. Malos is the true BigBad with him as TheDragon]].
* BroughtDownToBadass: Temporarily during his first boss fight where his power is {{Nerf}}ed, but he is still an incredibly powerful fighter Rex and the party can't even defeat. [[spoiler:At the end of chapter 7, his core gets damaged in his all-out fight with Rex and the fully awakened Aegis. For the rest of the game, he can barely stand, yet keeps on trucking, even offing one of the main story's more challenging boss fights.]]
* CoolMask: Wears one that covers a lot of his face. [[spoiler:It conceals the Core Crystal on his forehead]].
* CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler:Indol destroying the Kingdom of Torna, which led to Jin's Driver dying in the attack. This drove Jin into consuming his Driver's heart, turning him into a Flesh Eater Blade, so he wouldn't revert back to a Core Crystal and lose all his memories and forget her.]]
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:One motivation he has for going to the Architect to kill him is to die, he just thinks the rest of humanity should go with him.]]
* DisappearsIntoLight: How he meets his end.
* TheDragon: To Malos, although officially, Malos is his second-in-command.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He still generally cared and loved his [[spoiler:old Driver Lora even after he joined Malos]], downright keeping her body safe in the ship. Albeit he claims keeping her body around is to remind him of his past foolishness for believing in the wisdom of the Architect, he is well aware Lora would not want him siding with Malos.
* ExactWords: In her dying moments, Lora laments that the thought of Jin forgetting her is too much to bear. To prevent this, Jin devoured her heart and continued to live on with his memories, despite losing his own will to live. Malos points out that those last words were a curse to him.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:In the Aegis War 500 years ago, he had fought on Mythra's side against Malos. He was considered to be kindest of them and was a pacifist who refused to fight unless necessary. Losing his Driver and forcing to live on by her wishes robbed Jin of a purpose until Malos gave him a new one.]]
* FlashStep: He uses this to kill Rex at the beginning of the story. He claims to be able to move at the speed of light.
* GuestStarPartyMember: For the first dungeon in the game. [[spoiler:He will also fight alongside Rex temporarily in the Land of Morytha until he has regrouped with everyone else.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Sacrifices himself to kill Amalthus]]
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:Killed Rex who was later revived by Pyra and later killed Fan la Norne.]]
* AnIcePerson: [[spoiler:It's his element as a Blade, as seen whenever he fights with or against the party. In his true form, he frequently displays his control over elementals by conjuring ice. He freezes Amalthus to absolute zero [[RedemptionEqualsDeath at the cost of his life]].]]
* InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler:He was implied to be married with his previous Driver before becoming Lora's Blade in the Japanese version.]]
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Uses a katana in battle, but it doesn't look like a Blade... [[spoiler:This is because Jin himself is a Blade]].
* TheLeader: Even though Malos is higher than him in the power hierarchy, Jin is the leader of Torna as he is the tying the other members together. He rescued Mikhail when he was a war orphan and gave the unwanted Flesh Eaters, Akhos, Patroka, and Nia a home and a purpose. They all in turn all demonstrate [[UndyingLoyalty undying loyalty]] to him, with Nia remaining conflicted until the end.
* MartialPacifist: Was formerly one [[spoiler:back during the Aegis war, where he refused to participate in military exercises and took no enjoyment in fighting. When his driver Lora died he dropped his unwillingness to fight, determined now to exterminate humanity]].
* MercyKill:
** Viewed killing Rex at the beginning of the story as this.
** Does it again to [[spoiler:Fan la Norne]], seeking to [[IDieFree free her]] of her master.
* MythologyGag: Shares some traits with [[VideoGame/XenoSaga Jin Uzuki]] such as having the [[NamesTheSame same name]], uses the same type of [[KatanasAreJustBetter weapon]] and having the [[AnIcePerson same element]].
* NoSell:
** Mythra's Foresight allows Rex to see a bit into the future and predict all incoming attacks. Against a light-speed opponent such as Jin, it is useless as he still cannot physically defend against his attacks.
** His control over elementary ether particles makes all ether-based attacks useless, even the light beams from Siren.
* NotSoDifferent: Despite having been on different sides in the Aegis War, [[spoiler:he and Malos share a commonality in lacking a purpose due to Amalthus: Jin in losing Lora and Malos being corrupted by his hatred]].
* OneManArmy: Single-handedly takes down an Ardanian imperial warship. It is stated that even an army five thousand strong would be no match for him.
* OneWingedAngel: His true form bares his chest and gives him a set of wing-like appendages on his lower back. His physical abilities become significantly boosted, taking down the entire party in the blink of an eye and completely overwhelming Rex and Mythra.
* PurposefullyOverpowered: When he's a GuestStarPartyMember he's completely broken, most notably with his ability to pull off the entire Break/Topple/Launch/Smash combo by himself with ease.
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Malos' red.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: In the beginning of the game, Pyra knows him and Malos from over five hundred years ago, but it wasn't really established how. [[spoiler:It is because Jin is a Flesh Eater Blade, allowing him to live on with his memories]].
* RestoredMyFaithInHumanity: Near the end of the game, Rex's optimism and drive to change the world for the better ultimately persuades Jin to [[RedemptionEqualsDeath sacrifice himself]] to save the party [[spoiler:from a rampaging Amalthus. Though as Rex and Pyra later point out to Malos, he never truly lost faith in humanity. He simply wanted to be by Malos's side]].
* SuperpowerLottery: One of the biggest winners in the game. [[spoiler:With his ability of particle manipulation he can move at the speed of light, NoSell any energy attack including the beams from Siren, and can freeze anything to absolute zero. He is so powerful that when he goes all out he easily overwhelms the party including Mythra. It isn't till Rex awakens the Third Blade that he fights an equal. Mitigated in that while he got the benefits that came with being a Flesh Eater (namely unique and extreme powers), said powers came with the cost of a slowly deteriorating body that after 500 years can't handle prolonged battle.]].
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Wasn't the case [[spoiler:over 500 years ago when he was a MartialPacifist. Even at the present time, he didn't fully give up on humanity, at least not until Rex helped him find an answer in the World Tree]].
* WorldsStrongestMan: It's astonishing to see a seemingly normal man display remarkable abilities, such as his [[FlashStep incredible speed]], without a Blade by his side. [[spoiler:It is because Jin is a Blade, and one of the strongest in existence, made even stronger as a successful Flesh Eater. He was called "The Strongest Man in Torna", meaning he was even stronger than Addam, the hero of Torna]].

[[folder:Malos ''(Metsu)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/YuuichiNakamura (Japanese), David Menkin (English)

Torna's second-in-command. Partnered with the blade Sever.

* AboveGoodAndEvil: [[spoiler:As an Aegis both him and Pyra are initially beyond both, being clean slates before being awakened. His current state is the product of Amalthus's influence]].
* AlmightyJanitor: He is initially billed as Jin's second-in-command and appears to be nothing more than a brutish subordinate. [[spoiler:Later it is revealed that he is actually the other Aegis and it is his will that Jin follows.]]
* {{BFS}}: After regaining his full power, he he replaces his Blade with [[spoiler:a black Monado, complete with Monado Arts and the glowing symbol]].
* BigBad: Shares this position with [[spoiler:his Driver, Amalthus, although he is by far the greater threat of the two]].
* BloodKnight: Has shades of this. When [[spoiler:Mythra breaks her seal]] he only grins and tells her "Welcome back!" while Akhos is panicking next to him.
* BookEnds: [[spoiler:He's the last boss of both the first and last chapters]].
* BroughtDownToBadass: 500 years ago he was a one-man army thanks to his destructive energy powers and the artifices he wielded as an Aegis. For most of the game he is still quite powerful but can only use a small portion of his Aegis powers, thanks to Mythra having severely damaged his Core Crystal at the end of the Aegis War. The fact that he was not only still alive but could still move and fight with his crystal in such a state is regarded as remarkable by other members of Torna, and possible only because he is an Aegis (indeed it doesn't seem to cause him pain or impair him in any way beyond not being able to use much of his true Aegis abilities). Once he regains his full power however, he becomes strong enough to singlehandedly subdue Artifice Ophion and is unfazed by Pyra/Mythra's ascended form (he opts to be a CombatPragmatist after seeing her and Rex beat Jin, using Ophion to avoid fighting Pneuma directly, and ending the confrontation by blowing up the battlefield and sending her falling into the Cloud Sea).
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:The Cain to Pyra's Abel, as both are Aegises created by the Architect (which, to drive the point home, both refer to as Father)]].
* CallBack: He is able to use [[spoiler:Monado Arts after restoring his full power, implying that he and the other Aegis Swords are actually Monados and that the missing third Aegis is Alvis]]. He also calls himself "the Endbringer" which was the Telethia's title in Xenoblade Chronicles X.
* DarkIsEvil: His primary element and the element of his attacks. Makes sense [[spoiler:being that he is the EvilCounterpart to the light using Mythra]].
* DeathEqualsRedemption: [[spoiler:He speaks one last time to Pneuma, free of all malice, postmortem while she herself prepares to die.]]
-->[[spoiler:''So tell me... How was it, being alive?'']]
* DeathSeeker: Malos's self-loathing quickly becomes evident during the final chapter of the story, hating the world itself due to influence from Amalthus and seeing the pain and misery running rampant in the world much in part caused by himself. To this end, Malos declares himself a monster and implores Rex to fight him with everything he has. Only in death is he able to make peace with himself, saying that his life wasn't that bad after all.
* DualBoss: With Akhos in their second encounter. Later with Jin in Malos fourth fight.
* TheDragon: He initially appears to be Jin's second-in-command. [[spoiler:Subverted as he is in charge of Jin and is the FinalBoss. He shares the BigBad.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Despite showing little empathy to the death of his comrades, it is clear that Malos cared about them, fondly recalling Akhos in regards to his own theatrics and giving Jin a warm final embrace before ascending to Elysium by himself. Prior to the final battle, he angrily cites Jin's entire life as evidence for the inherent evil of the world and bitterly calls himself a irredeemable monster for being a direct cause of those tragedies.
* EvilCounterpart: To [[spoiler:Pyra/Mythra as another Aegis. Whereas her Driver manages to help her grow beyond her suicidal desire, Malos continued to be affected for the worse by Amalthus egomania and hatred for life.]]
* EvilIsHammy: He's easily the second most hammy character after Zeke.
* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler:"Heh, kids say the darndest things." in response to Rex wondering if Rex bonded with Malos's Core Crystal like he did with Pyra if they could have been friends]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Him preferring to let Jin take charge and make the actual decisions make perfect sense [[spoiler:once it is revealed that he is an AI. While he has a will of his own, he needs a "user" for the inputs. When he said that he exists for Jin's sake, he wasn't exaggerating; all of his actions are driven by the wills of Amalthus and Jin.]]
* GuestStarPartyMember: During the first dungeon in the story.
* HiddenDepths: He's introduced as being little more than Jin's brutish second-in-command. As early as the end of Chapter 1, it becomes clear that there's much, MUCH more to him than meets the eye.
* {{Jerkass}}: He is disdainful towards everyone except Jin and the rest of Torna.
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:He claims that him needing to MindRape Pyra to restore his core crystal was NothingPersonal but deliberately going out of his way to erase her memories of Rex despite her protests was unnecessarily cruel]].
* TheManInFrontOfTheMan: [[spoiler:Although Jin is initially presented as the leader of Torna, Malos is eventually revealed to be the one in charge, though he's content to let Jin make decisions or take point.]]
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:His true name, "Logos", meaning among other things "Word of God" or "Reason" in Greek, relating to his desire of destroying the world since he believes that is what the Architect wants as well as corruption by his Driver. It also makes him the Mind of the Aegis trio, with Pneuma (Pyra/Mythra) being the Soul and the missing Ontos being the Body.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Both of his names. "Metsu" means destruction in Japanese while "Malos" means bad in Latin.
* ObviouslyEvil: He's in all black armor, has a name derived from the word evil, and one of his first actions is attacking Rex for little reason.
* OmnicidalManiac: He wants [[spoiler:to use the Aion to destroy the world. It is later revealed that this is due to being influenced by the hatred of his Driver, Amalthus, and what he felt at the state of the world.]]
* PoisonousFriend: Is very much implied to [[spoiler:have stoked Jin's nihilism after Lorna died and gave him the idea to go to Elysium to exterminate humanity]].
* PurpleIsPowerful: It shows in his darkness and destructive attacks, although intermingled with [[PurpleIsTheNewBlack black]] most of the time. [[spoiler:It is also the color of his Core Crystal]].
* RecurringBoss: He is the most fought boss in the game [[spoiler:as well as the FinalBoss]].
* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Jin's blue.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Not only is Malos a Blade, he's also an Aegis like Pyra created by the Architect]].
* ReverseGrip: Wields his Blade in this fashion. [[spoiler:Averted when he regains his Aegis sword]]
* SatanicArchetype: Self describes himself like one. [[spoiler:Feeling his purpose is to destroy everything the Architect created. Though in reality this thought process is due to corruption by Amalthus]].
* ShutUpKirk: In the Final Chapter [[spoiler:when Rex tries to bring up that the only reason Malos is so destructive is because of Amalthus he responds with "I don't give a rat's ass what you think, brat!" and begins going on how he in the end is an irredeemable monster]].
* SirSwearsALot: He is responsible for the most swearing in the game, and also the main villain. He's quite fond of PrecisionFStrike in particular.
* SphereOfDestruction: [[spoiler:This is his real power once he repairs his Core Crystal, being able to create dark spheres that completely destroy anything that comes in contact with them]].
* StatusBuff: Can give these to his fellow Torna members in addition to debuffs to the player's party.
* StrawNihilist: Just before the final battle, he outright admits to Rex that he sees the whole world as a wretched place and that he himself is a hideous abomination beyond saving, hence his wanting to destroy the world.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Takes up the villain role, in this case. He's certainly among the tallest of the main cast, wears black armor, and makes a lot of disdainful remarks and swears towards the heroes and sometimes on Torna.
* TragicMonster: [[spoiler:He was doomed to become a weapon of mass destruction from the start due to being influenced by Almathus's seething hatred. He even calls himself a hideous monster beyond redemption. This question of free will is a major part of his desire to confront the Architect.]]
* TrueCompanions: He is surprisingly considerate to the rest of Torna, besides defectors such as Nia. In particular, he shares a genuine mutual respect with Jin, with Malos even giving him a final brotherly embrace before ascending to Elysium. Prior to the final battle, he cites Jin's life as the reason for his actions instead of his Driver Amalthus, who is the actual source of his malevolence.
* VillainousBreakdown: Becomes increasingly more unhinged [[spoiler:in the final battle, where he drops any sense of calm he has and angrily shouts that he will burn the world unless if Rex stops him]].

[[folder:Akhos ''(Yoshisune)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/NobunagaShimazaki (Japanese), Hugo Harold-Harrison (English)

Torna's brains. Partnered with the Blade Obrona.

* AlasPoorVillain: Twice. First, when [[spoiler:Obrona is killed by her Core Crystal being pierced]]. Second when [[spoiler:his sister Patroka dies]].
* AttackReflector: Obrona allows him to reflect attacks by harnessing the ether in the air.
* DualBoss: With Malos in their second encounter. Later joining his sister Patroka and Mikhail in his third fight.
* DualWielding: Uses two katanas together.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** He cares about Obrona, enough that he drops his usual arrogant act when she's killed by [[spoiler:Mythra]].
** He's also very close with his "sister" Patroka.
** He idolizes Jin and follows him [[spoiler:for saving him in the past]].
* EvilGenius: He is Torna's brains.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Wears glasses and has no problem trying to kill the heroes on multiple occasions, or [[spoiler:helping Jin and Malos in their plan to destroy Alrest.]]
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Uses two of them. Later switching to a bow after Obrona reverts to a core crystal.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Considers Patroka his sister. [[spoiler:Later revealed to be due to their Drivers being siblings, and those same siblings' cells being integrated into their bodies.]]
* MeaningfulName: His Japanese name refers to Minamoto no Yoshitsune, a famous nobleman and military commander of late Heian Era Japan. [[{{Irony}} Ironically]], Minamoto no Yoshitsune is often depicted as a heroic figure, while this Yoshitsune is a villain.
* NotSoStoic:
** Despite his usual calm temperament, watching Obrona revert to a Core Crystal by Pyra [[spoiler:(as Mythra)]] causes him to freak out over her death. He regains his composure by the next time Rex and the party encounter him.
** He loses it again [[spoiler:when Amalthus kills Patroka and steals her Core Crystal. He [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge tries to fight back]], but ends up with the same fate]].
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:When Mythra awakens and begins raining Siren's lasers down on him and Malos he has this reaction.]]
-->'' "I... I don't think we can win this!"''
* PrimaDonnaDirector: He acts like a narcissistic playwright, throwing acting terms everywhere and throwing a fit whenever something "goes off-script".
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:He is a Flesh Eater Blade.]]
* ShockAndAwe: [[spoiler:His element as a Blade.]]
* TheStraightAndArrowPath: His weapon after losing Obrona.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Jin who he obeys without question. [[spoiler:Even his support of Torna's goal to destroy everything is because Jin wants it more than anything. Even as he dies as a result of Amalthus, his last thoughts are of when he first met Jin.]]

[[folder:Patroka ''(Benkei)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Yuri Noguchi (Japanese), Laila Pyne (English)

A Driver partnered with fellow Driver Mikhail to oversee the manufacturing of artificial Blades by Bana.

* BladeOnAStick: Wields a pole arm [[spoiler:after losing Perdido.]]
* DarkActionGirl: Fights on the side of the antagonists and is very hotheaded and aggressive.
* DishingOutDirt: [[spoiler:Her element as a Blade.]]
* DualBoss: With Mikhail during their first encounter. Her second encounter includes him and Akhos.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Amalthus kills her from behind with one of his tentacles.]]
* MaskOfSanity: She initially appears stoic and taking her orders first and foremost compared to the jovial Mikhail. Once her Blade's Core Crystal gets destroyed, she quickly reveals herself to be NotSoStoic and attempts to [[KillThemAll destroy them all]] until Fan La Norne and Mikhail intervened. Her aggressive nature later makes it clear her professional initial appearance was just a front.
* MeaningfulName: "Benkai", her Japanese name, refers to UsefulNotes/MusashiboBenkei. While a GenderBlenderName due to Benkei being male, her Blade wields multiple weapons at once, which is what Benkei was known for.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:She is a Flesh Eater Blade.]]
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: She is the only female member of Torna following Nia's defection early in the game.
* UndyingLoyalty: Not to the same extent as Akhos, but she's loyal to Jin as well. Though she will question and defy Jins orders unlike him.

[[folder:Mikhail ''(Satahiko)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/DaisukeNamikawa (Japanese), Todd Kramer (English)

A Driver partnered with fellow Driver Patroka, the two overseeing the deal of artificial Blades sold between Bana and Torna.

* CasanovaWannabe: Tries flirting with Mythra and Mòrag in Chapter 6 and apparently does it frequently with Patroka. Naturally they all aggressively turn him down.
* CastingAShadow: [[spoiler:His element as a Blade]].
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Appears in a few of the flashbacks with Mythra and Addam as a child, as shown when he reveals himself to Amalthus as another Blade Eater.]]
* CombatHandFan: Wields them [[spoiler:as a Blade Eater]].
* DistractedByTheSexy: Finds Mythra beautiful when she uses her power to destroy his and Patroka's Blade Cores. And again with Mòrag when they clash at the end of Chapter 6 and he declares her to be quite a looker.
* DrawAggro: Effectively serves as the party tank in fights with multiple Torna members, even having an ability to force the player's party to constantly draw aggro to him.
* DualBoss: With Patroka during their first encounter. Then again in his second boss fight including her and Akhos.
* DualWield: Both his fist and fan weapons.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Kind of. During the flashback right after his boss battle, he is the little boy alongside the group during the training regimen. This is far before any of the Torna members have their backstories revealed.
* EveryoneHasStandards: He [[spoiler:makes no effort to cause collateral damage on Indol out of sympathy for the refugees (fitting, as he is one himself), and]] is utterly disgusted by [[spoiler:Amalthus starting his war for the World Tree without evacuating them first, though not disgusted enough to hold back in the fight]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: People paying even a little attention during his and Patroka's second appearance will be able to spot that [[spoiler:unlike Akhos and Patroka, his Core Crystal is a visibly untainted blue.]] This makes the later reveal that [[spoiler:he's not a Flesh Eater at all a lot more preditable; all Flesh Eaters have shades of red in their Core Crystals, but the only other Blade Eater seen before the reveal, Zeke, keeps Pandoria's crystal colour with no alteration.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Commits one so that Rex and the others can stop Jin.]]
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: He knows when to retreat, taking Patroka away while she seeks to rampage.
* PowerFist: His initial weapon when with his Blade.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:He is not a Flesh Eater like his fellow Tornans; he is the inverse, a Blade Eater, which makes him immune to Fan la Norne's power used by Amalthus. Being a Blade Eater has also allowed him to live for more than five hundred years while still looking quite young.]]
* TagAlongKid: It appears he used to be this to Addam's original group during the Aegis War 500 years ago after he was discovered by Jin.
* TokenGoodTeammate: To a certain extent. [[spoiler:He's the only member of Torna after Nia defects who isn't fully on-board with the plan to destroy ''everything'', and ends up making a HeroicSacrifice to take down the Titan Indol.]]
* TokenHuman: [[spoiler:He's the only member of Torna to have been born a human. Malos is an Aegis and pure Blade, while the other members, Nia included, are all Flesh Eaters who started as normal Blades. Mikhail is a Blade Eater like Zeke and Amalthus, both of whom are considered human.]]
* WarRefugees: [[spoiler:Originally a human survivor of the destruction of Torna 500 years ago after Amalthus's armies destroyed the country.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Obrona ''(Kamui)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Yuri Yamaoka (Japanese), Naomi [=McDonald=] (English)

Akhos's Blade, seems to have the ability to stagnate either flow, as well as the ability to locate other Blades' energy signals from several kilometers away.
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* IntendedAudienceReaction: There's no way she wasn't made as irritating as she is on purpose. It makes it hard to sympathize with Akhos when [[spoiler:she's abruptly returned to her crystal and dies due to the damage to the crystal. Of course, that's the point - it distracts from asking why Akhos is so aghast a "mere" Blade was slain.]]
* PsychopathicWomanchild: Speaks in a high-pitched childish voice while sharing Akhos's sadistic tendencies, even repeating some last words he says.
* ShockAndAwe: Her Blade element is Electric.
* StoryBreakerPower: She can sense global Ether patterns, which amounts to giving Torna accurate tracking of ''every Driver and Blade in existence'', and can choke Blades of their Ether up close, crippling their effectiveness. [[spoiler:Is it any wonder she's out of the picture same chapter she debuts?]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Gets killed rather suddenly along with Malos' Blade Sever at the end of Chapter 3 by Mythra's powers piercing her Core Crystal]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sever]]

-->Voiced by: Anri Katsu (Japanese), Eric Meyers (English)

Malos's Blade, a wind-based Blade with an unorthodox shapeshifting weapon.
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* BlowYouAway: His element is Wind.
* GuestStarPartyMember: Serves as Malos's Blade during Chapter 1.
* MorphWeapon: Sever's weapon takes several forms, inclusing a shield/knuckleduster hybrid, a straight-bladed longsword, and a reverse-grip blade that seems to be a mix of both.
* SatelliteCharacter: Mostly serves as a background character and lends Malos his weapon; aside from a few overworld lines (and a brief stint as an interactable NPC) he barely says anything.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:While he's in more cutscenes than Oborona is, he has only a tiny handful of lines before he's obliterated by Siren at the end of chapter 3]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Perdido]]

-->Voiced by: Keiji Hirai (Japanese), Joseph May (English)
Patroka's Blade.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Is only named in the artbook.
* DualWielding: ''Quad''-wielding.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Four arms, one for each weapon.
* MultiMeleeMaster: Carries an Greataxe, Megalance and Chroma Katana, while Patroka uses his cannon.
* NominalImportance: [[spoiler:Doesn't get a ''single cutscene line'' before Mythra offs him]].
* PlayingWithFire: His element is Fire.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Cressidus]]

-->Voiced by: Kentaro Tone (Japanese), Kerry Shale (English)
Mikhail's Blade.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Is only named in the artbook.
* DishingOutDirt: His element is Earth.
* DualWielding: Wields one weapon per fist.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: His kuckle duster/tonfa weapons can expand and merge to form a shield.
* NominalImportance: [[spoiler:Is killed along with Perdido before getting a single cutscene line.]]
* StuffBlowingUp: Stellar Explosion, his level IV Blade Special.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lora ''(Laura)'']]

-->Voiced by: Creator/SaoriHayami (Japanese), Anna Koval (English)

Jin and Haze's former Driver.
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* AbusiveParents: From what little we see of her father, he was a violent drunk, ready to stab his own daughter to get his Core Crystal back after she accidentally awakened Jin. As she was now under the protection of one of the world's strongest Blades, it didn't go well for him.
* IdenticalStranger: Her and Haze looked like sisters, and even had the same voice in the Japanese version. While they were hardly strangers, given the wide variety Blades come in, this level of similarity due to resonance was treated as quite unique (Blades do often take on aspects of the person who first awakens them, but normally not to such an extreme degree).
* MoralityPet: Is this to Jin, at least after [[spoiler:Jin becomes a flesh eater]]. Albeit its a pretty questionable case, as he uses Lora's death more as a reminder of why he believes himself justified in the atrocities he commits, while knowing full well Lora would hate him for what he is doing.
* PosthumousCharacter: Lived 500 years ago, having fought alongside Addam in the Aegis War.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: [[spoiler:Her death at Amalthus’s attack on Torna, and a moment of weakness when she despaired over Jin forgetting her, is what ultimately led to Jin joining Malos.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Addam Origo]]

-->Voiced by: Yusuke Handa (Japanese), Paul Thornley (English)

The legendary hero of Torna and the former Driver of Mythra.
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* {{Bishonen}}: From the little we see of him, he was handsome in his youth, and rather interestingly, resembles an older, lighter-haired Rex.
* BrokenPedestal: PlayedForLaughs. Zeke is ''mortified'' to learn that spicy food gave him diarrhea, and begs Mythra to stop when she begins rattling other little known facts about his hero.
* ButNowIMustGo: It is stated that after sealing away the Aegis, the hero Addam disappeared from the world. Although his phantasm states he has long since departed from the world, it is never elaborated upon what exactly became of him.
* FamedInStory: He is the most famous hero in Alrest, to the point that he is something of a deified hero, a childhood idol to many such as Zeke.
* GenerationXerox: Rex is seen as this to him by many who knew him, particularly Mythra/Pyra. They even look somewhat alike.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: He is the previous Driver of the Aegis and the hero who saved the world from Malos 500 years ago.
* InTheHood: He seems to have preferred to keep his hood up even in the company of his comrades, obscuring his features.
* PosthumousCharacter: He is long since dead from the start of the story.
[[/folder]]

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!Argentum

[[folder:Bana ''(Ban)'']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/AkioOhtsuka (Japanese), Stephen Critchlow (English)

Chairman of the Argentum Trade Guild. He hired Rex to aid Torna in their endeavors to obtain the Aegis for his own profit.

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* BadBoss: Makes Lila continue to attack even when it would destroy her. Near the beginning of the game, he was complicit in letting an entire salvage crew be executed by Jin and Malos for being witnesses to the Aegis, and even further, he even told his own camera feed guy beforehand that he was supposed to die and was ready to scold him for coming out alive.
* BeardOfEvil: Has a tiny goatee growing in his face.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Willing to do whatever he can to line his own pockets.
* DevilInPlainSight: Unlike [[spoiler:Bana of Bionis]], ''this'' Bana is clearly painted as a villain from the get-go.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** [[spoiler:Following his defeat, a sidequest regarding his secret treasure reveals that his true treasure are letters from his [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas Mamapon]]. Following that, talking to an NPC reveals that Bana loves his parents genuinely, but his obsession with money has been his fatal flaw.]]
** [[spoiler:At the end of the game, after uncovering his Mamapon's letters and completing the ''Farewell, Good Friend'' quest, you get to uncover that the mastermind behind the groups seeking the end of the Ardainian empire is Bana's Dadapon Don Dondon. After beating him, he joins Bana on the wheel and the two go on about how much they love each other]].
* EvilIsBigger: He is much larger than the other Nopon, including Tora.
* FatBastard: Rotundness is a normal Nopon trait, but Bana is a lot bigger than normal and he's an opportunistic slimeball even by his race's standards.
* {{Gonk}}: He's distinctively non-cute compared to other [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Nopon]], such as having a heavier brow and a garrish beard, mustache and topknot. Even his portraits do little to downplay his relative ugliness, making him look more like a tiny [[Franchise/StarWars Hutt]] with fur. In-universe, [[DeliberateValuesDissonance he's still considered cute by Nopon standards]].
* {{Greed}}: He cares for nothing but money to keep his lavish lifestyle sated.
* HateSink: From him granting order to Tora's families deaths, and putting Tatazo into slavery, to torturing Lila when she fails to destroy Poppi, to attempting to assassinate the royalty of Uraya and Mor Ardain, there is nothing likeable about him at all.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Never thought that TheHero Rex would actually try to stop him when he did unscrupulous weapon construction.
* HumongousMecha: Pilots the giant artificial Blade Rosa in his boss fight. Later pilots an improved version without Muimui.
* MadeOfIron: [[spoiler:Survives the explosion of Giga Rosa.]]
* MythologyGag: Shares his name with a Nopon from the previous game, [[spoiler:who was also a greed-driven villain. They are both also punished for their crimes by being forced to run on a giant wheel.]]
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Bana's attempt to assassinate the leaders of Mor Ardain and Uraya to cause a war between them ultimately causes them to call a ceasefire, since Emperor Niall's HeroicSacrifice convinces Queen Raqura that Niall was sincere in not wanting to start a war with Uraya.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Calls Dughall an idiot due to the latter's excessive flattery and mentioning of their illicit Core Crystals trafficking on an unsecured line. Later on chews out Muimui when he brings the heroes all the way into the factory while failing to capture them.
* TakingYouWithMe: After his attempts to execute the royalty of both Uraya and Mor Ardain fail, Bana attempts to defy them with one last suicidal act by self-destructing Rosa. [[spoiler:It ends up killing no one in the long run]].
* TrrrillingRrrs: He speaks this way in the English dub.
* VillainRespect: It's suggested he has some degree of respect towards Rex, since he calls Rex "Rex-Rex" (which is an AffectionateNickname by Nopon who respect him, like Tora). Might've began when he was impressed with Rex's surprising display of cunning thought during the raid on the Abandoned Factory.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Trusted by the populace. Rex only learns of his nefarious misdeeds later on. Albeit it turns out an auditor Nopon in Mor Ardain had been suspicious of Bana for a while, and working on exposing his corruption.
* WarForFunAndProfit: Bana was willing to sell weapons and material to all factions, including Torna. [[spoiler:He later attempts to kill Queen Raqura and frame the Ardainians for the crime so he can profit from a war between Uraya and Mor Ardain.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Muimui]]

-->Voiced by: Fuji Mitsuya (Japanese), Jonathan Keeble (English)

Former assistant of professor Soosoo.
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* DeceptiveDisciple: Muimui terminated his internship with Soosoo by terminating Soosoo.
* HumongousMecha: Pilots Rosa alongside Bana.
* TheMole: He worked for Bana while helping the professors, eventually betraying them and taking Lila to be reprogrammed and mass produced as part of Bana's own plans.
* NerdGlasses: Wears swirly glasses, much like [[VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX Tatsu]] before him.
* NumberTwo: Of the Abandoned Factory segment in Mor Ardain, he works for Bana and [[TheHeavy is the one driving the arc in place]].
* TheNondescript: Tora completely forgot Muimui existed simply because he's unmemorable.
* PaperThinDisguise: He wears only a small mask during the flashback of the raid on Soosoo's lab. Tatazo and Tora don't recognize him, but the player most certainly will.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's shown to have survived the fight with Rosa, but is barely conscious. However, his whereabouts following the end of Chapter 4 are unknown. It is not mentioned whether he died from possible injuries in the battle, was taken into custody or [[KarmaHoudini is still a free Nopon]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Niranira]]

An auditor from Argentum's Intelligence Division, who has been following Bana's illicit dealings.
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* ForensicAccounting: Niranira is an auditor, and has tracked Bana's money to Mor Ardain.
* RankUp: Following Bana's deposal, Niranira is enstated as Acting Chairman of the Argentum Trade Guild and attends the summit of leaders.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Even before becoming the new Argentum chairman, he handles authority with efficiency and reason.
* RedHerring: There are a number of shots that suggest that he's a spy when the gang enters Mor Ardain's capital city. Turns out he was monitoring them for the sake of good. Lampshaded by Dromarch.
* VocalDissonance: Has an uncharacteristically deep and stoic tone for a Nopon.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Pupunin]]
A worker for the Argentum Guild.
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* ButtMonkey: This guy can't catch a break. First, he's sent by Bana to keep an eye on Rex onboard the Maelstrom, during which it was supposed to crash in order to reap the benefits from its insurance (and Bana's livid that "[Pupunin] can't even die properly"), then much later, onboard the Ardainian battleship parked at Indol [[spoiler:the heroes (incorrectly) assume that the Tirkin cooks he hired were assassins and end up beating them up senseless, then exit to confront Bana, leaving Pupunin with a huge mess]]. On Percival's side quest, Pupunin's the next target for a group of assassins that the former is tracking.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tatazo]]
Tora's dadapon.
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* DirtyOldMan: Like his son and dadapon, Tatazo's motives for making Poppi and Lila are less than pure, especially when it comes to the optional features.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: He gets no respect from Lila, noting that whenever she throws out the trash, she throws ''him'' out as well.
* InTheBlood: Tora inherited his love of maids from him, who likewise inherited it from Soosoo.
* KidnappedScientist: A good portion of Chapter 4 is spent dealing with who kidnapped him and why.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Soosoo]]
Tora's grampypon and Tatazo's dadapon.
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* DirtyOldMan: Spent most of his time locked in the family's lab. When Rex praises his dedication, Tora corrects him: that's where he kept his PornStash.
* MadScientist: Tora has fond memories of Soosoo leaning over blueprints and cackling maniacally.
* PosthumousCharacter: Dies prior to the start of the game.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lila ''(Kiku)'']]
An artificial Blade created by Toras grampypon Soosoo and dadapon Tatazo.
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* BareFistedMonk: She's a Martial Artist, as shown by her boss fight.
* DisneyDeath: Ceases functioning after using the last of her power to jump-start Poppi's ether furnace properly. Of course, she's a robot, and her creator is right there. Tatazo simply repairs her.
* FlawedPrototype: Despite being of mostly superior quality to Poppi's default configuration, her Ether Furnace is only Tatazo's inferior replication of his dadapon's work, meaning Poppi is capable of matching her power output without her own Furnace working at full power.
* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Despite being reprogrammed to ignore Tatazo, she rips out the control device implanted in her to defy Bana and honor her creators.
* JetPack: Has one on her back.
* {{Meido}}: Wears a maid outfit.
* ServileSnarker: While she's much more polite to her creator's face than Poppi, she's also a lot more passive-aggressive. The example given is that she frequently classifies Tatazo as household waste and attempts to throw him out with the garbage.
* SuperPrototype: Lila was the original creation of Soosoo, Tatazo, and some aid from Tora. Unlike Poppi, she has her full capabilities brought forth from the start thanks to the genius of Soosoo. Subverted though when it turns out her Ether Furnace is an inferior attempt to copy Poppi's. She claims to still be superior when she recognizes Poppi's Ether Furnace is not operating at full capacity, but [[spoiler: Poppi still [[CurbStompBattle crushes her]] one-on-one following the second fight with her.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Kingpin - '''Unmarked Spoilers!''']]
!!Don Dondon
Bana's dadapon and leader of the Lindwurm Anti-Ardanian organization.
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* ArcVillain: Of the Brionac/Lindwurm sidequest arc that starts with ''We Meet Again''.
* BonusBoss: Takes the original Bana's place as the strongest sidequest boss in the game.
* CallBack:
** Dondon is this to, ironically, [[XenobladeChronicles the original Bana]], being a regular-sized nopon kingpin fought riding a flying enemy after a long sidequest chain.
** Zadazan is named after Zazadan, one of the original Bana's pawns, but his role as the penultimate villain of the arc brings to mind fellow pawn Dedeba.
* CigarChomper: One of his distinguishing traits is a cigar in his mouth at all times, even when he's running on the wheel with Bana.
* TheDragon:
** Common Blade Akatsuki serves as his first, manipulating Brionac into fulfilling his wishes.
** Zadazan, another Nopon, is his second after the death of Akatsuki's Driver, and is fought right before Don Dondon himself.
** Bana also turns out to be another one unrelated to the others. His role is to build up Argentum, which will weaken Mor Ardain in return.
* TheManBehindTheMan: Akatsuki, Zadazan, and Bana were all members of Lindwurm under him. Argentum under Bana as a whole is also a piece in taking down Mor Ardain.
* PunnyName: His name is an obvious play on don, a common title for mafia bosses that he also has before his actual name.
* UnwittingPawn: Downplayed with Bana. While the two genuinely care for each other and Bana willingly helped his father, talking to Zadazan at Dondon's office after Lindwurm is taken care of reveals that Don Dondon had Zadazan forge the letters from Bana's mother, who had walked out years ago, to keep Bana focused on Argentum.
[[/folder]]

! Gormott

[[folder:Dughall]]
[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zhjuz5r.png]]
The corrupt Ardainian consul of Gormott and ally of Bana.
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* AuthorityInNameOnly: Subverted. While he's completely aware his post is just [[ReassignedToAntarctica getting him out of the way]] and he permits things like insane delivery fees for merchants (since he gets a cut), he did actually do his job keeping the town guard in order. After he's deposed, [[RealityEnsues racial tensions flare and the militia is stretched to breaking point keeping the city running]]. Lampshaded later when the party is shocked to hear his administration might have been doing the occupied city some good.
* CorruptPolitician: Is the corrupt Ardanian consul of Gormott and is an ally of one of the villains: Bana.
* DirtyCoward: Hides behind his Blade rather than face Rex and the crew directly.
* FantasticRacism: When called out on using his Blade as a living shield, he states that he does not care about Blades' feelings, and mocks the protagonists for doing so. Notably averted regarding the province he was governing, though. He's never seen talking to the locals, but he doesn't go out of his way to insult the Gormotti either, and he was actually keeping military bigots in line (although he often refers to the city/province itself as a "flea-bitten backwater").
* {{Gonk}}: He's quite portly, has got a disproportionately big mouth, a big nose, a heavy brow and a gaudy mustache. Among the human cast, he's one of the uglier ones.
* SissyVillain: Has very...campy poses when he talks to people.
* SmugSnake: Dughall's absolutely full of himself, and acts like more of a bigshot than he really is. Naturally, Rex kicks his ass.
* StarterVillain: Is the first major boss the protagonists face, and disappears from the plot without fanfare after a single defeat.
* SurroundedByIdiots: While Bana gets frustrated when he states their dealings on open channels that Indol can overhear, even Dughall finds Captain Padraig to be a moron for not knowing the color of emerald. Even moreso with the fact Padraig never even informs him Brighid was there when they encountered the Aegis, leaving Dughall surprised when Mòrag and Brighid mention her.
* UncertainDoom: After he's defeated, he's mentioned as being deposed. It isn't clear if this means he was killed by the party in his boss fight, or if he survived the fight, but the Ardainian Empire stripped him of his power and had him tried for his illegal activity. His Blade not reverting to its Core Crystal on-screen after he is knocked out makes his exact fate more ambiguous.
* WarmupBoss: As capstone to the first real "dungeon" the player completes, he's pretty plainly just a punching bag so the player can understand the Blade combo mechanic, with an annoying Blowdown attack to show how useful seals can be.
[[/folder]]

!Mor Adain

[[folder:Emperor Niall ''(Nefei)'']]

-->Voiced by: Creator/AkiraIshida (Japanese), Daniel Buckley (English)

The Emperor of Mor Ardain. Partnered with the Blade Aegaeon.

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* AChildShallLeadThem: He looks close to Rex's age.
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Does die for a short time after shielding the protagonists from Bana's bomb, as shown by Aegaeon returning to his Core Crystal, but fortunately is quickly revived by Nia]].
* TheGoodKing: Is loved and respected by his people and he tries to do his best to solve the problem of the dying Mor Adain Titan without bloodshed.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Puts himself in the way of Bana's last ditch bomb so that Aegaeon can protect everyone else]].
* InadequateInheritor: [[spoiler:In a meeting with Mòrag after the peace talks he refuses to take back Aegaeon's Core Crystal, feeling that he failed as a Driver, being unable to save himself along with everyone else and decides that is better for his cousin Mòrag to keep hold of it]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Aegaeon ''(Wadatsumi)'']]
[[quoteright:280:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/peo599w.jpg]]

-->Voiced by: Creator/ShuichiIkeda (Japanese), Chris Ragland (English)

Emperor Niall's Blade and bodyguard.

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* AceCustom: Aegaeon looks much like the missing link between Common Blades and Rares, being essentially a much more ornate version of a Common. He's also one of the only story-related Blades, playable or not, whose weapon is of an existing type rather than unique.
* AncestralWeapon: Like with Brighid he has been passed down the Mor Adain royal bloodline.
* FailureKnight: Laments that he has become this after his failure to [[spoiler:save the life of Emperor Niall. Luckily, thanks to Nia, Emperor Niall survives. However, the current Aegaeon has no memory of his past self and Emperor Niall prohibits Aegaeon from accessing his past records, though he hears rumors about the incident. Brigid reassures to him that Emperor Niall simply wishes that he would use his strength to protect all of Alrest, rather than just him.]]
* MeaningfulName: "Wadatsumi" is one of the names for the Japanese God of Seas, [[JapaneseMythology born when Izanagi was washing himself clean of]] [[TheUnderworld Yomi's corruption]].
[[/folder]]

!Uraya

[[folder:Cole]]
A playwright who makes plays based on the Aegis War and an old mercenary comrade of Vandham.
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* BlessedWithSuck: [[spoiler:He got all the bad aspects of being a Flesh Eater Blade with none of the benefits. Aging, lack of power, and an inability to absorb required ether to live when in small amounts.]]
* MysteriousPast: Knows Pyra and Torna, but doesn't give anything specific on his past during his first meeting with Rex.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:His real name is Minoth and he once fought in the Aegis War alongside Mythra and Azurda]].
* YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler:Due to Urayas less than ideal ether amount in the environment his dying body and health are significantly worsened by living there, shortening his lifespan significantly.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Queen Raqura ''(Queen Ragert)'']]
[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gzt9pka_1.png]]

-->Voiced by: Creator/MamiKoyama (Japanese), Teresa Gallagher (English)

The Queen of Uraya.

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* AdiposeRex: Is noticeably more rotund than her starving subjects, as a consequence of Uraya's social stratification.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Despite Uraya's tensions being at an all-time high with Mor Ardain, she is willing to accept that the recent unprovoked attack on her people was a FalseFlagOperation after a little deliberation, and work out an agreement with Mor Ardain.
* OutOfFocus: Much of the exposition on Uraya is done through Vandham. Raqura doesn't even make a proper appearance until Chapter 6, well past the point where the party has moved on from Uraya. [[spoiler:She does play a featured role in the final Mercenary level-up mission, however]].

[[/folder]]

!Indol

[[folder:Amalthus ''(Marbeni)'' - '''Unmarked Spoilers!''']]
[[quoteright:280:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7x7n6ps.png]]

-->Voiced by: Creator/JunichiSuwabe (Japanese), Corey Johnson (English)

The Praetor of Indol who effectively controls the nation through Core Crystals.

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* AGodAmI: He considers himself the chosen of the Architect. He's deluded himself into believing that the Architect's will aligns with his own, and eventually begins referring to his own ambitions as what the Architect wants him to do. He refuses to even entertain the idea that he is wrong or should change, believing he will lose who he is (or rather has deluded himself into being) if he does so.
* AchillesHeel: He is initially weak to ice as a boss. Jin finishes him by freezing Amalthus to absolute zero.
* AlasPoorVillain: His death has shades of this, as Zeke thinks back on a conversation he had with Amalthus after he had saved his life, remarking on how horribly sad he seemed to be, and pondering if this was as genuinely a part of Amalthus as the monster that they had just witnessed. In the end it can come across that Amalthus was as much a thoroughly broken person as he was evil.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: Besides forcing an EnemyMine, his arrival at the World Tree conveniently results in the deaths of four-fifths of Torna as well as himself, thus ensuring our heroes don't have to stain their hands with sympathetic-villain blood.
* BarrierChangeBoss: In his boss fight, he can change his weakness with the move "Divine Robe".
* BeingEvilSucks: Make no mistake, Amalthus is not a remotely happy person, his delusions of following the Architect's will being perhaps the only thing that keeps him going.
* BigBad: Shares this role with Malos; Malos is the greater physical threat of the two, even with Amalthus's transformed state, but Amalthus is the one responsible for setting Malos on his way.
* BigDamnHeroes: Given who he ends up being, he has a surprisingly impressive example of this trope, as he gets between the two armies just in time to stop all out war between Uraya and Mor Ardain.
* ChurchMilitant: Is the leader of Indol and also an extremist who wants to carry out his perverted interpretation of the Architect's will at any cost.
* CombatTentacles: Has them in his OneWingedAngel form.
* TheCorrupter: As Malos' Driver, Malos' personality was formed from Amalthus's desires, turning him into an OmnicidalManiac driven only by Amalthus's darkest impulses.
* DespairEventHorizon: Healing a wounded man, only to later catch him in the act of murder, drove him far enough into despair that he was willing to ''climb all the way to space'' in order to demand some kind of explanation from the Architect. Not getting one is perhaps part of what pushed him right over the edge.
* EmbodimentOfVice: Sloth, primarily, as befitting the leader of the nation themed after that particular sin. Though he plays the role of peacekeeper between the other nations, his contentment with keeping the world reliant on his services means no actual change occurs. Taken to extremes once he shows his true colors, embodying the more despairing and nihilistic aspects of sloth; he would rather just destroy the world than try to improve it, and he refuses to change who he is or acknowledge change in others.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: He sees the ghost of his deceased mother in his final moments. It was also her death over 500 years ago that served as his StartOfDarkness.
* FallenHero: His life story is essentially one long downward spiral, from a KnightInSourArmor to an OmnicidalManiac to finally just not caring about anything but his own power and prestige.
* GoodShepherd: In his youth, he was a genuinely benevolent priest who healed the sick and injured and protected the weak and downtrodden.
* {{Expy}}: Essentially the ''Xenoblade'' equivalent of [[VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}} Patriarch Sergius]]. Both are {{Church Militant}}s who seek to use their respective god's power for nefarious means.
* FantasticRacism: He sees Blades as nothing more than tools to be used and discarded. Same for Titans. He wants the Architect's power in part to destroy both.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Despite coming off as wise and noble towards Rex and his friends, they were nothing more than a means for him to secure dominion over Alrest. He also drops all friendly pretenses on the way to Elysium with him and his soldiers attacking anyone in his way without giving them a chance.
* FreudianExcuse: His mother sacrificed herself when he was a young child as they were running from a soldier. He soon stumbled upon the soldiers' camp where he found his dead mother with eyes open and the soldiers asleep. Amalthus promptly snapped, hating the world as he picked up a large rock and smashed a soldier's head in. Not helping matters is that all his attempts at giving humanity another chance ended poorly, such as when a man whose wounds he had tended to went off and committed murder.
* TheHeavy: Everything that happens during the game can ultimately be traced back to him, and not just his bringing back the two Aegis cores from Elysium; he's also directly responsible for the formation of Torna with his post-war actions, his policies on Blades (Flesh Eaters and Blade Eaters) resulted in Nia and Zeke being able to join the party, and Indol's domineering presence over the other nations results in multiple bad outcomes for the party (Padraig moves to arrest Rex primarily because he's an unregistered Driver, Tantal believe themselves backed even further into a corner when Amalthus sends them an ultimatum and react poorly, etc.). Even the situation of the Titans dying out with no new ones to replace them is implied to be because of Amalthus's tampering with the natural lifecycle of Blades and Titans.
* {{Hypocrite}}: For all he carries on about how mankind is regressing technologically, he doesn't seem willing to admit that his own machinations keeping civilization dependent on an unsustainable resource he controls the distribution of might have anything to do with it.
* ImpliedAnswer: A major part of his motivation is that he saw one where there wasn't. As the Architect never actually stopped him from stealing the Aegis cores, attacking Torna, or any of his more dubious actions, he came to the conclusion that "God" was fully on board with his hatred of everything. The truth was simply that Klaus believed his atonement was doomed to fail, and let his new humanity do its thing no matter what came out of it.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He is motivated solely by his own selfish desires and god complex. Even his despair over the world eventually came to be about how he thinks nothing else is as great as himself. Amalthus even admits to Rex the idea of people changing proves his selfish despair at the world's state is wrong, but doesn't care because ''he'' personally refuses to change because in his eyes he's already perfect.
* MisanthropeSupreme: His intense self-loathing and despair over the terrible state of the world festered into a desire to see everyone - humans, Blades, and Titans alike - destroyed forever.
* MotiveDecay: While he was originally driven by a belief that the world was irredeemably corrupt and needed to be destroyed, the fame he gained from climbing the World Tree brought him power and prestige, and he eventually became more interested in preserving the status quo and advancing his own self-interest than in any sort of cause.
* MouthOfSauron: Subverted. Amalthus ''believes'' himself to be this for the Architect, but in reality the Architect would rather have nothing to do with him.
* KarmicDeath: After some heavy beatdown from Rex and his party, it is Jin, one of the few survivors from the Kingdom of Torna that Amalthus destroyed 500 years ago, who finishes him off.
* KnightInSourArmor: In his youth, despite his cynicism, he still tried to make the world a better place. He was driven into complete despair by the seeming futility of his actions.
* LightIsNotGood: Wears white and gold robes. He is also one of the game's antagonists.
* OhCrap: The very first time his composure breaks is when Rex and Mythra rush Indol in midair, and it suddenly hits him that Rex and Mythra are trying to shoot down the transmission towers in Indol that let him control titans.
* OmnicidalManiac: He intends on wiping out everything that he deems unworthy with the power of the Architect.
* OneWingedAngel: He becomes a gigantic monstrosity after absorbing cores of countless Blades.
* PetTheDog: Despite his misanthropy, he seems to have genuine empathy for the downtrodden; he saved Zeke's life due to the circumstances reminding him of his childhood, and allows refugees to take shelter in Indol (Though he doesn't care enough to evacuate them before mobilizing Indol for war).
* PowerNullifier: Is able to subjugate Blades to a degree as a result of transplanting half of Fan's Core Crystal onto his forehead and his own Master Program abilities as Malos's Driver. Indol features transmission towers that amplify his power to the point he can even control the other Titans.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: He hasn't aged at all since the Aegis war 500 years ago. While he makes the excuse that Indolines live longer than normal humans and that he still looks young due to being the Driver of an Aegis, the full truth is likely more due to his being a Blade Eater. That is while its conceivable that a normal Indoline could potentially live for five hundred years, they would be very elderly at that point.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: In his OneWingedAngel form.
* ReverseRelationshipReveal: Upon their first meeting, Rex gets an eerie feeling and sense of familiarity like he's talking to Malos instead of Amalthus, and wonders if Malos is somehow influencing Amalthus. Near the end of the story it's revealed that, as Amalthus's Blade, Malos's personality was formed ''from'' Amalthus's, making it closer to the other way around.
* ShadowArchetype: He serves as one to the Architect as Klaus, whereas Klaus genuinely wanted to make the world a better place despite his own god complex, Amalthus's own negative traits overwhelemed anything else about him as he became more concerned with his own godhood and desire to destroy the world filled with life unworthy of him. Essentially becoming a mortal Zanza.
* SinisterMinister: Is the ''Xenoblade'' equivalent of the Pope, has a deep hatred of Blades and is one half of the BigBadDuumvirate.
* SmugSnake: He tries so very hard to manipulate the heroes and establish control over all Blades in order to reach the Architect, but his plans fail at every turn and he is ultimately denied a second opportunity to reach Elysium. It is his Blade, Malos, that is the greater threat who has wrested free from dependence on Amalthus long ago.
* TheAssimilator: Weaponized the Blade Eater concept to a horrifying degree, becoming able to absorb entire Core Crystals and make himself ever more powerful as he chose only the best cores to absorb, albeit with some BodyHorror side effects. One motivation for the heroes to protect the weakened Jin from him is the fear that if he managed to absorb Jin he'd become utterly unstoppable.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: The game marks his charge into battle with the Indol Titan without even evacuating the civilians as the point he goes too far. Even Mikhail is appalled when he notices the Titan he's wrestling with is still full of innocent people.
* VillainousBreakdown: As Jin chills him to absolute zero, Amalthus loses all composure and begins beseeching the Architect directly for providence before being reduced to a whimper.
--> "Father... Why do you not answer when I call...?"
* WalkingSpoiler: Not much can be said about Amalthus without revealing his connection to Malos as his Driver, his role in the destruction of Torna 500 years ago, and his desire to see the world wither away.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Has white hair and has almost zero sympathy for Blades, Titans, and humans.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fan la Norne / Haze ''(Kasumi)'']]

-->Voiced by: Creator/SaoriHayami (Japanese), Samantha Dakin (English)

A Blade in service of Amalthus. Formerly known as Haze.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Nullifies Patroka's power when she attempts to rampage against Rex and the party, forcing Mikhail to retreat with her.
* IdentityAmnesia: Not remembering people is standard for a Blade, as they lose all their memories on being returned to their Core Crystal. Forgetting their ''name'', however, ''is'' unusual. [[note]]Blades appear to know their name the moment they are awakened, even after having been deactivated.[[/note]] [[spoiler:It's the first main hint that something is deeply wrong in Indol.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Jin kills her by running her through and destroying the remaining half of her Core Crystal. To him, Jin feels it is a mercy since it frees her from Amalthus' control.]]
* PowerCrystal: Has one, like all Blades. [[spoiler:However, as Mythra takes note of and points out to Nia, there's something ''wrong'' with hers; half of it is ''missing''. The culprit is eventually revealed to have been Amalthus.]]
* PowerNullifier: She can nullify the power of most Blades and in cases of really powerful ones, {{Nerf}}.
* StoryBreakerPower: Her ability to neutralise most Blades and weaken powerful ones would make a lot of encounters against enemy Blades a breeze. [[spoiler:So she ends up getting killed by Jin.]]
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!Tantal

[[folder:King Eulogimenos]]
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-->Voiced by: Shigeru Ushiyama (Japanese), Keith Bartlett (English)

Rules over the Kingdom of Theosoir, an ancient civilization that claims to have descended from Addam.
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* {{Expy}}: Of [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles Emperor Sorean]], both are fathers of someone in the party (Melia and Zeke respectively), both were scared for destruction of their respective kingdoms due to the power of a legendary sword in the game but pull a HeelFaceTurn in the end. [[spoiler:Of course, the fact that Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is a parallel universe to Xenoblade Chronicles 1 means it is quite literal]].
* HeelFaceTurn: After initially [[spoiler:restraining the heroes and attempting to outright destroy the Aegis in order to prevent any further destruction to Alrest]], he [[spoiler:apologizes for his actions, recognizing that he only made things worse, and helps the heroes find the third, true Aegis sword]].
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: He says that a ''lot'', to Zeke's ever-increasing exasperation. Especially when [[spoiler:he tries to say that his ancestors's seizing of the crown was for the good of the country and not really a power grab.]]
* YouRemindMeOfX: In his youth he was much more like the party, and even had a dream of becoming a salvager, of all things. Probably the reason why he wasn't too harsh on Zeke for running away. There's a sidequest dedicated to getting him the sunken treasures he once longed for.
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! Elysium

[[folder:Artifice Ophion ''(Device Serpent)'']]

A massive, serpent-like being who guards the way to the World Tree. Is also Pyra's Artifice.
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* BonusBoss: [[spoiler:After clearing the game, Ophion can be found still floating around the Cliffs of Morytha. It's level 117 and can be battled.]]
* CallBack: Ophion's upper body is essentially that of [[VideoGame/{{Xenogears}} Weltall]], sharing its distinctive head shape in particular.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: [[spoiler:Aion is stated to be the most powerful of the Artifices, but it is a whopping 47 levels weaker than Ophion.]]
* HumongousMecha: Though it takes the shape of a serpent, it is actually an autonomous mechanical weapon.
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[[folder:Artifice Siren]]

A giant gold and white mech located high in the skies of Alrest. Mythra's Artifce.
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* KillSat: Functions as one for Mythra, able to rain down beams of light on whomever she chooses.
* MechaMooks: [[spoiler:Chapter 10 reveals that even though it's a weapon of mass destruction, it used to be a ''mass produced'' weapon of mass destruction. Mythra's is just the only one still active, until Malos takes over the space station's forces and reactivates the rest.]]
* ShownTheirWork: Pyra uses Siren's targeting laser to [[spoiler:threaten to destroy herself]]; the only difference between a targeting laser and a weaponized laser is the power you put into it.

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[[folder:Artifice Aion - '''Unmarked Spoilers!''']]

The strongest artifice, created with the purpose of destroying the entirety of Alrest.
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* CombatTentacles: Makes use of these during the boss battle.
* ContinuityNod: Its fight is a reference to the fight against [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles Egil in the Mechonis Core]], it even has a super attack that can wipe out your party if you don't finish it off in time.
* DualityMotif: Its right half is black/red and demonic (complete with tail), its left half is white/green and angelic. Someone took "becoming god or devil" a bit too literally.
* FinalBoss: Malos pilots Aion to destroy Elysium, as he promised.
* GodzillaThreshold: The reluctance of the Beanstalk director to activate it indicates that it was built as a last resort. Too bad Klaus got to the Conduit first.
* HumongousMecha: One of the leftover war machines from Klaus's world.
* SelfDestructMechanism: The reactor overload variant. When it explodes, it explodes hard.
* SphereOfDestruction: Its most powerful attack, Prometheus, takes the form of a massive fireball that is likely to wipe out your entire party if you don't finish it off quick.
* SuperRobot: It's a one-of-a-kind mech with a crazy design, humanity's last resort that was apparently designed to be capable of ''destroying the world''.

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[[folder:The Architect ''(God of Genesis)'' - '''Unmarked Spoilers!''']]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/ShintaroAsanuma (Japanese), Creator/AdamHowden (English)

The creator of life in the world of ''Xenoblade 2'' and the maker of ''Xenoblade'''s universe. Once a human scientist named Klaus, the Architect is the remaining benevolent half of Zanza. He created Malos and Pyra[=/=]Mythra personally as the Aegis.

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