Line #113 Characters/GameOfTouhouEssos


1	This page covers all characters that hail from, or are seen in Essos in Fanfic/GameOfTouhou For the rest of the characters, see [[Characters/GameOfTouhou this page]]. Characters from Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire will be noted with this: (!)
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3	[[foldercontrol]]
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5	! The Free Cities
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7	The westernmost region of Essos has nine proud free cities, some of which are visited during Yorihime's travels throughout the eastern continent.
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9	! Volantis
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11	Volantis is an old scion of the now-dead Valyrian empire, and the triarchs often claim it to be the spiritual successor to Old Valyria, right down to its thriving slave markets. It is the home of the temple of the Lord of Light, the Merchants' House, and one of the largest ports in Essos.
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13	[[folder:Ferrisos Siderys]]
14	An old, experienced treasure hunter well-accustomed with sailing the flooded ruins of Old Valyria. He rents his ship to the younger Luna sisters, temporarily renaming it the ''Silent Sinner'' for them.
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16	* AdventurerArchaeologist: Is almost this setting's equivalent of one, searching through the ruins of a dead civilization and finding treasure.
17	* CoolOldGuy: He's certainly seen a lot of years, but is also a hardened treasure hunter and all-round survivor.
18	* EyepatchOfPower: He has one that regularly switches eyes, as he wears it not to hide a deformity, but to improve his night vision.
19	* MeaningfulName: His name is based on 'Ferrus' and 'Sidero', Latin and Greek respectively for 'Iron'. This is foreshadowing for [[spoiler:his ship taking on an ironborn]].
20	* MrExposition: As the most experienced treasure hunter and sailor in Yorihime's vicinity, he tends to act as this.
21	* OriginalCharacter
22	* TheStoic: Rarely shows his emotion, but when he does, it's for [[SurvivorsGuilt quite a good reason]].
23	* SurvivorsGuilt: Appears to suffer this after [[spoiler:a good portion of his crew die fighting through the Qartheen guard]].
24	* ThirdPersonPerson: As the Essosi tend to be, due to the common tongue not being his first language.
25	[[/folder]]
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27	! Lorath
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29	Lorath is a free city situated on a small island north of Essos. It is not particularly notable for anything, though its residents appear to have red-and-white dyed hair. The city also appears to have a thriving prostitution market.
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31	[[folder:Meterys]]
32	A whorehouse owner and temporary boss for [[spoiler:the child prostitute cover identity Tewi Inaba assumes]].
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34	* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite being a whorehouse owner, even ''he'' finds the concept of what he thinks is an orgy between a child, a cripple, and ''two sisters'' is HeadTiltinglyKinky. [[spoiler:It's actually PlatonicProstitution, but he does not know that]].
35	* MeaningfulName: His name is based on the Latin for whore, 'Meretricem'.
36	* OnlyOneName: That we know of.
37	* OriginalCharacter
38	* ThirdPersonPerson: As is standard of Essosi.
39	[[/folder]]
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41	! Braavos
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43	A free city at the very north-west of Essos, situated within a many-isled lagoon. Its landmarks include the Titan of Braavos, the Drowned Town, and the Temple of the Many-Faced God, home of the Faceless Men. It is also home to a dueling culture involving swaggering fighters named 'Bravos'.
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45	[[folder:Fastorio Rictas]]
46	A smug, irritating bravo who takes Yorihime into Braavos. He is constantly disparaging of Denys Pyke for being crippled, [[spoiler:an attitude that results in him dueling to the death with him]].
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48	* AgentPeacock: He has a flamboyant swagger and likes to wear bright clothes, as most bravos do.
49	* [[spoiler:AnArmAndALeg]]: [[spoiler:Loses his hand in his duel with Denys Pyke]].
50	* BloodKnight: As bravos tend to be, he is rather fond of fighting and violence.
51	* [[spoiler:BloodMagic]]: [[spoiler:He becomes a blood sacrifice to hatch Selenion's egg, after being DrivenToSuicide]].
52	* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide]]: [[spoiler:After losing his hand, he decides to end it all, so as not to be a {{Hypocrite}}]].
53	* DuelToTheDeath: He enjoys having these, as a bravo, [[spoiler:but loses his with Denys Pyke when his sword gets stuck in his peg-leg]].
54	* HandsomeLech: He is young and handsome, but acts in a rather lecherous manner to Yorihime which she ''does not'' appreciate.
55	* HotBlooded: As a [[BloodKnight bravo]], this should not come as a surprise.
56	* {{Hypocrite}}: Surprisingly, he [[AvertedTrope averts]] this regarding his policy on cripples: [[spoiler:when he becomes one, he puts himself down]].
57	* [[spoiler:IronicDeath]]: [[spoiler:After encouraging euthanasia for Denys due to his being crippled, he winds up losing his own hand and putting himself down]].
58	* {{Jerkass}}: Oh so very much. His surname, 'Rictas', refers to a grin, which is often described as being exceptionally smug.
59	* [[spoiler:MadnessMantra]]: [[spoiler:When psyching himself up for his suicide, he repeats over and over 'Valar Morghulis'. Readers of Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire will know what he's saying is 'all men must die']].
60	* MeaningfulName: 'Rictas' is latin for 'grin', representing his smugness. [[spoiler:It also foreshadows his fate, as a 'Rictus Grin' refers to a 'smile' caused by facial muscles tightening after death]].
61	* OhCrap: Has one when [[spoiler:his sword gets stuck in Denys' peg-leg]].
62	* OriginalCharacter
63	* ThirdPersonPerson: He says his own name whenever he refers to himself, which makes him seem all the more arrogant.
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65	[[folder:Selenion]]
66	A dragon hatched from an egg initially in Euron Greyjoy's possession, [[spoiler:though in a trade, Yorihime gains it]] and hatches it in Braavos. He is fiercely loyal to his 'mother', and [[spoiler:dies fighting for Yorihime even after she is crazy]].
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68	* [[spoiler:BigSleep]]: [[spoiler:Sadly [[AvertedTrope averted]]- once he's down, he's still making weak noises]].
69	* BreathWeapon: He, like most dragons, can breathe fire.
70	* KillItWithFire: His usual means of attacking.
71	* MeaningfulName: Selenion refers to the moon, which [[spoiler:references that Yorihime Luna is his master]].
72	* MementoMacGuffin: [[spoiler:His bones are a macabre version of this in the Epilogue- Lady Iku Nagae has his bones to signify her killing of him to save the Rainbow Fort]].
73	* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Being an animal, he acts this way regarding his 'mother', [[spoiler:Yorihime]], fighting for her [[spoiler:even when it leads to his death]].
74	* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: According to several sources, Selenion is likely responsible for [[spoiler:charbroiling several wight caches in the Woodlands en-masse]].
75	* OriginalCharacter
76	* OurAngelsAreDifferent: He's considered an angel by [[spoiler:Mokou Fujiwara and her ascetics, an attitude Yorihime encourages when she moves into the City of Flames]].
77	* OurDragonsAreDifferent: He is more like a wyvern, having two feet and two wings.
78	* PersonOfMassDestruction: As a dragon, this comes with the territory.
79	* PetBabyWildAnimal: While he is an adorable baby, as he grows larger and harder to control, he becomes wilder and wilder. [[spoiler:This eventually forces Yorihime to build him a dragon pit to reduce his undesired destruction]].
80	* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: He is this as a baby. [[PersonOfMassDestruction As an adult, though...]]
81	* [[spoiler:SacrificialLion]]: [[spoiler:He has to die in order for Noros to have lasting peace, despite being for the most part simply a wild animal that wants to eat and fly]].
82	* [[spoiler:SenselessSacrifice]]: [[spoiler:He dies due to being sent on an entirely unnecessary vengeance attack by a maddened Yorihime, and to make things worse, he's still crying even after he's downed]].
83	* ShoutOut: A cute purple dragon. [[Franchise/SpyroTheDragon Seems familiar]]. Also, his whole existence is a reference to the dragon egg [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire Euron Greyjoy]] claims to his younger brother Victarion that he had, but threw overboard in 'one of [his] black moods'.
84	* TragicMonster: His increasing savagery is only the nature of dragons, and despite it all, he is unflinchingly loyal to [[spoiler:Yorihime to the point of death]].
85	* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler:To Yorihime, even when she's mad]].
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88	! The Smoking Sea
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90	The Smoking Sea is what remains of Old Valyria. A flooded ruin, there are many secrets and treasures lying in these ruins.
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92	[[folder:Nessun Visos]]
93	A faceless man sailing the Smoking Sea with an ironborn crew. He is currently posing as a Tyroshi. He is first seen with the ship he's on sinking and surrounded by krakens, and is saved by the crew of the ''Silent Sinner''.
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95	* AnimalsHateHim: While in the kraken-infested waters, he is bizarrely safe, the krakens avoiding him like the plague.
96	* BalancingDeathsBooks: As per a Faceless Man. In exchange for Yorihime's crew saving he and Denys Pyke, he offers to kill two people.
97	* MeaningfulName: 'Nessun Visos' means 'no face' in latin, referring to his status as a Faceless Man.
98	* OddFriendship: With Denys Pyke, his total opposite number in terms of being emotional and culture.
99	* OriginalCharacter
100	* [[spoiler:PrisonerExchange]]: [[spoiler:He is part of one, being traded for Reisen Inaba in Qarth, while he enters the service of Euron Greyjoy]].
101	* ProfessionalKiller: As per his role as a Facless Man. [[spoiler:He's implied to be the very Faceless Man who kills Balon Greyjoy for Euron]].
102	* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue to Denys Pyke's Red.
103	* ShoutOut: [[spoiler:He is given to Euron Greyjoy for his killing services, and is strongly implied to be the cause of Balon Greyjoy's death, a large driving force of the Ironborn plot of Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire]].
104	* TheStoic: He very rarely shows emotion, as expected of a ProfessionalKiller.
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106	[[folder:Denys Pyke]]
107	A bastard from the Westerosi and Ironborn House Botley of Lordsport. He is sailing on the same ship as Nessun Visos, and ends up saved by Yorihime's crew after the ship sinks, albeit losing a leg to a kraken in the process.
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109	* AffectionateNickname: He calls Toyohime his 'Fair Mermaid'.
110	* AnArmAndALeg: He loses his leg to a kraken when his ship gets shipwrecked, but still ''fought it off with his bare hands''.
111	* BrosBeforeHoes: [[AvertedTrope Averts]] this by [[spoiler:not going with Nessun Visos onto the ''Silence'' with Euron Greyjoy]], opting to stay with Toyohime.
112	* FairForItsDay: An in-universe example more akin to 'Fair for his culture'. He is genuinely being courteous to Toyohime when he promises he'll only take her for a wife if they get married, and not 'salt wives'.
113	* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]- due to being tended to by Toyohime Luna after losing his leg to a kraken, he falls obsessively in love with her.
114	* HandicappedBadass: Even after he loses his leg to the aforementioned kraken, [[spoiler:he still beats a bravo in a DuelToTheDeath, partially ''due'' to the injury]].
115	* HeroicBastard: Is quite a kind-hearted man, especially for [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy an ironborn]].
116	* HookHand: He has a peg-leg to replace his mostly gone leg.
117	* HotBlooded: He is quite boisterous and warm given his situation, but is also easy to rile up.
118	* IntergenerationalFriendship: With [[spoiler:Rumia Woods during his time at the Rainbow Fort]], showing how kind to children he is.
119	* OddFriendship: With Nessun Visos, a mysterious ProfessionalKiller that is TheStoic, especially considering how HotBlooded he is.
120	* OriginalCharacter
121	* PermaStubble
122	* PluckyComicRelief: His simple-mindedness and desperation to be with Toyohime makes him this more often than not.
123	* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: As he has ironborn blood, he is naturally predisposed to being this, but [[SubvertedTrope subverts]] this as often as he plays it straight.
124	* RedOniBlueOni: The red to Nessun's blue.
125	* ShooOutTheClowns: He is noticeably absent from serious scenes such as [[spoiler:Marisa debating what to do with Yorihime]]- [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in that he shows up in ''some'' serious scenes.
126	* SingleTargetSexuality: While it is noted several times that Yorihime is more beautiful than Toyohime and [[spoiler:she is the one who breast-feeds Selenion in full view of Denys]], he merely makes jokes about Yorihime's predicament, not demonstrating attraction to her due to his romantic obsession with Toyohime, his savior.
127	* UndyingLoyalty: After having his leg-stump tended to by Toyohime Luna, he falls head-over-heels in love with her, and stays loyal to her over all else.
128	* WhiteSheep: He is certainly one of the nicer ironborn, if Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire is anything to judge by. Funnily enough, another WhiteSheep of the ironborn in the books would in theory share family ties with Denys- Tristifer Botley.
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130	[[folder:Euron Greyjoy(!)]]
131	The exiled younger brother of Balon Greyjoy, Lord Reaper of Pyke and current self-proclaimed King of the Iron Islands. He was exiled from Pyke for raping his younger brother Victarion's salt-wife and forcing him, by ironborn law, to beat her to death. Not the nicest of fellows. He is the Captain of the ''Silence'', and is currently searching Old Valyria and Essos for treasure.
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133	* AxCrazy: He has absolutely ''no'' qualms [[spoiler:butchering the Qartheen nobility]] for a bit of extra plunder.
134	* EyepatchOfPower: Like in Canon, he wears an eyepatch to cover his black, shiny eye.
135	* HeManWomanHater: He is notably misogynistic, as if just to add to his unpleasantness.
136	* HeroOfAnotherStory: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]- he is one of the VILLAINS in the main Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire universe.
137	* '''{{Jerkass}}''': Probably putting it lightly. By a noticeable margin.
138	* KickTheDog: He is a constant practitioner of it, but a special mention goes to him ripping out the tongues of any part of his crew not useful for teaching him magic.
139	* PrisonerExchange: He arranges one so he can get [[spoiler:the services of Nessun Visos to kill Balon Greyjoy]].
140	* PsychoSerum: He, not unlike a warlock, has pale blue lips, indicating he has a taste for shad-of-the-evening.
141	* RapePillageAndBurn: If his treatment of the Pureborn is any indication, this is generally how he deals with people.
142	* ShoutOut: So, you wondered how Euron got a dragonhorn and a [[spoiler:faceless man to kill his brother]] in Literature/AFeastForCrows? Now you know.
143	[[/folder]]
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145	! Qarth
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147	The greatest city that ever was or will be, or so the Qartheen claim, Qarth is a beautiful city in the very east of Essos, only surpassed by the Shadowlands. Its wealth and affluence are unparalleled, and it is known as 'the Queen of Cities'.
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149	[[folder:Xaro Xhoan Daxos(!)]]
150	A merchant prince of Qarth with the masculinity of a eunuch, Xaro Xhoan Daxos is a walking example of Qarth's exotic culture. Encrusted head to toe with jewels, he is wealth and aristocracy embodied.
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152	* AmbiguouslyGay: He is rather effeminate, and dresses flamboyantly.
153	* CrocodileTears: Like in Canon, Xaro is able to form a single perfect tear to poorly simulate emotion.
154	* KnowWhenToFoldEm: He's under no illusions that he's a fighter. Hence, when [[spoiler:he sees the Pureborn are likely being killed]], he runs.
155	* MrExposition: He gives a little exposition about Qarth to Yorihime and company.
156	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: He abandons the scene [[spoiler:once he figures out the Pureborn are being massacred]].
157	* ShoutOut: Various snippets of his dialogue are references to Daenerys's time in Qarth in the actual Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire.

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