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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: General Kail had the potential to be an interesting character, due to being an OmnicidalManiac like his boss, but with a different goal. The fact that he wants to be the SoleSurvivor of the planet's destruction also could have given him a role as DragonAscendant in the post-apocalyptic BadFuture. Instead, he was made into a FlatCharacter whose fate is ambiguous and anticlimatic.

** [[BigBad Barclyss]] is the rogue Tren General who is revealed to be behind all the tragedies that [[TheProtagonist Xero]] and his companions has to endure. Starting as a [[FromNobodyToNightmare normal street urchin]] with intellectual potential, Barclyss [[StrawNihilist lost any respect towards human life]] after studying biology books. After he joins the Judgment Faction, he first decimates the peaceful town of Ellea. When Corporal Slash of the Blaze Soldiers is captured by the Judgment Faction and refuses to be subjugated by Barclyss, he then [[CruelMercy spares the Corporal]] so that he can hear all the screams of his men being butchered in the arena. When Xero tries to challenge Barclyss in order to save the Tren Captain Farrell, Barclyss beheads the captain out of spite. It was also revealed that he turned the people that he slayed into his slaves for Judgment Faction. In addition, he was also responsible for the loss of his childhood friend's eye. When the heroes tries to form a pact with another country, Heyama, Barclyss takes a mobile "Aquadome" fortress to Heyama's shores and has it fire on a building complex. After Barclyss confronts the heroes, he then launches a spell towards the duo and throws warning shots out of petty amusement. After Barclyss's army is defeated, he uses a weapon that could [[OmnicidalManiac decimate most of the planet's surface]] by causing a [[EndlessWinter nuclear winter]]. Although claiming to be a victim of his nihilistic grief and saying that survival is merely an option, Barclyss really does all of his atrocities in order to [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery slake his sadistic and nihilistic pleasures]].

** [[TheDragon General Kail]] is the chief subordinate of the aforementioned Barclyss, and is just as omnicidal as his master. As a high-ranking member of Tren's Judgment Faction, Kail joins Barclyss in shelling innocent villages, murders prospective faction recruits, and summons a sea monster to sink a civilian ship, all to slake his bloodlust and to give the faction more undead slaves. During the attack on Heyama, Kail personally oversees the destruction of the country's largest housing complex, only expressing regret that the Aquadome's cannon doesn't allow him to savor his victims' deaths up close. Using his [[MadScientist alchemy and scientific knowledge]], Kail acts as the chief engineer of the orbital fortress Affliction, which he and Barclyss commandeer to bombard the planet with the [[FantasticNuke explosive Cosmite mineral]]. Once his boss is defeated, Kail takes charge of Affliction by himself, launches the largest Cosmite shard, and tries to ram the fortress into the surface in order to finish off the planet's few remaining lifeforms. Cruel and [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]], Kail seeks to betray Barclyss and rule an utterly silent world as its SoleSurvivor.

** In his first onscreen appearance, Barclyss wipes out Ellea with his derrangers [[spoiler:and converts most of the residents into his minions]]. In-universe, the Aurian resistance rejects him when he needlessly kills two prisoners, seeing this as an indication that he no longer respects human life.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: General Kail had the potential to be an interesting character, due to being an OmnicidalManiac like his boss, but with a different goal. Instead, he was made into a FlatCharacter whose fate is ambiguous and anticlimatic.