Line #81 Characters/KnightsInTheNightmare


1	Character sheet for ''VideoGame/KnightsInTheNightmare''. Unmarked spoilers abound, so be warned.
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7	[[foldercontrol]]
8	!Main characters
9
10	!!!The Protagonist
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12	[[folder:The Wisp / King Wilmgard Ron Dragan d'Gleivnir]]
13
14	The "Lion Heart King" ruling over Aventheim Castle, thirty-eight years old. He carries the blood and powers of the Arbitrator, but because the Arbitrator line's knowledge of their role was sealed generations ago, he does not know how to use these powers. He is an active fighter known as the "Lion Heart King" for his prowess in battle, and because of this he is very well-liked amongst his knights and citizens. He does, however, receive criticism from political opponents--including his own son--for doing nothing to change the enslavement of the Mehse and the discrimination towards the Tiamat race, among other things. He's also a bit on the gullible side. He took Algiery as a lover out of loneliness, since his queen died not long after his son was born.
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16	Right before the beginning of the game, Wilmgard is killed by Melissa (or Marietta) when he stumbles upon her and Zolgonark. With his nation in shock and Capehorn free to act on his plans, Maria (or Mellia) steals the vessel containing his soul and releases it as the Wisp, helping it fight monsters and working together with it for her own purposes.
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18	* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking
19	%% * BackFromTheDead: In certain endings.
20	%% * DeadToBeginWith
21	%% * {{Determinator}}
22	* FailedASpotCheck: Algiery seems incredulous that he managed not to notice the scars from her amputated horns and wings, considering that they have seen each other naked often.
23	%% * FateWorseThanDeath: In Ending I and Ending G.
24	* GrandTheftMe: His powers as the Arbitrator are still tied to his physical body, so several interested parties wind up fighting over, stealing, and even possessing it for their own ends.
25	%% * HeroicMime: Except for a few of the flashbacks and two of the bad ends. Justified, though, in the main game--it's hard to talk when you're a little ball of light.
26	%% * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter
27	* InterspeciesRomance: With Algiery.
28	%% * LaughingMad: Ending G.
29	%% * LaserGuidedAmnesia
30	%% * OurSoulsAreDifferent
31	%% * OverlyLongName
32	%% * OddNameOut: Wilmgard ''Ron'' Dragan d'Gleivnir.
33	%% * PosthumousCharacter
34	%% * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething
35	%% * YinYangBomb
36	[[/folder]]
37
38	!!!The Heroines
39
40	[[folder:Maria]]
41
42	An armor-clad valkyrie who appears to be about twenty years old. She is a fragment of the archangel Marietta's personality, split from Melissa in the main route of the game. Maria steals the king's soul from the castle and frees it in the abandoned church, and occasionally aids him in his quest to regain his body. Her main goals are to find Marietta's staff, Ancardia, and to find a way to atone for Marietta's desire for power and its disastrous consequences. Halfway through the game, Maria is trapped in the throne room of Aventheim after shielding the Wisp from Zolgonark's attacks; she only reappears in the final two scenes. In the canonical ending of the game, she triumphs over Melissa, becomes one with her to return to being Marietta, and returns to Asgard despite knowing that she will be castigated and exiled. She restores Wilmgard and Algiery to life in return for Wilmgard's help.
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44	Maria is reticent and downcast, endlessly blaming herself for Marietta's actions. She is also very kindhearted and a worrier, and does her best to help the Wisp whenever she can. Eventually, she takes courage in Wilmgard's perseverence, and decides to give her all to take responsibility and "punish herself".
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46	%% * TheAtoner
47	* CharacterBlog: She has her own Twitter [[http://twitter.com/maria_kin here]]. It's ''ridiculously adorable.''
48	%% * CurtainsMatchTheWindow
49	%% * ExtremeDoormat
50	* FaceOfAThug: She has a very stern, statuesque beauty that's best depicted in the PSP key visual and Tobe's portrait art, but is a complete ShrinkingViolet in personality.
51	%% * GlassCannon: 7.77 VIT is not a lot. Especially on the more vicious difficulty levels.
52	%% * ItsAllMyFault
53	%% * LadyOfWar
54	%% * LethalChef: Not quite ''lethal'', but she seems to be having a lot of trouble trying to learn how to cook.
55	%% * OneNoteChef: Graduates to being one of these after [[TrainingFromHell training extensively]].
56	%% * NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Poor thing.
57	%% * NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: Seems to have this misconception according to some of the stuff she's been tweeting.
58	%% * PowerGivesYouWings: Even if it only works for a few seconds.
59	%% * SpiritAdvisor: To Yggdra in Yggdra's route. [[MindScrew It's, uh, complicated.]]
60	%% * SugarAndIcePersonality
61	%% * TakingTheBullet
62	%% * ThemeMusicPowerUp
63	[[/folder]]
64
65	[[folder:Mellia]]
66
67	Heroine of the game's alternate route, accessible only as a NewGamePlus bonus. She is an armor-clad Astarte who appears to be about twenty years old, and a fragment of Marietta's personality, split off from Marietta herself. She takes Maria's place in the story, rescuing Wilmgard's soul from Aventheim and helping him get back to the castle to confront Zolgonark. Unlike Maria, though, Mellia is the embodiment of everything Marietta hated about herself; also, rather than fighting to atone for Marietta's PlotInducedStupidity, Mellia fights a.) for her right to be an individual free from Marietta, and b.) because she has a beef with Zolgonark.
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69	She is also just a tad bit insane.
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71	While not cheerfully slashing her way through monsters, Mellia offers the Wisp some sage advice (including one particularly touching speech) and gets into fights with Marietta, whom she cannot abide. It is implied that Mellia is actually deeply insecure about her identity, which is suggested to be the reason she wants so badly to be free from Marietta. Otherwise, she is a cocky loose cannon. In her sole ending, however, Mellia takes the same actions as Melissa for some reason. [[{{Anvilicious}} Must be 'cause she's supposed to be EVIL.]]
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73	* AffablyEvil: She's crazy, but in the fun kind of way.
74	%% * AxCrazy
75	%% -->''"Just tell me... Tell me who needs to die."''
76	%% * {{BFS}}
77	%% * SelfishGood
78	* CharacterBlog: She has [[http://twitter.com/mellia_kin started using Twitter]], apparently feeling that Maria and Yggdra have been [[HostileShowTakeover getting way too much attention compared to her]].
79	* ContinuityNod: Astarte are the name of the Valkyrie-like dark spirits [[VideoGame/YggdraUnion Nessiah]] summons to aid him.
80	%% * CurtainsMatchTheWindow
81	%% * EverythingIsBetterWithExplosions
82	%% * EvilerThanThou: GTFO, Zolgonark.
83	%% * GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: To the Wisp, several times (verbally, since it's hard to slap a little ball of light).
84	%% * GlassCannon: 7.77 VIT? Meep.
85	%% * ItsAllAboutMe: She makes this clear from square one.
86	%% * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's deep in denial about the "heart of gold" part, but it's still there.
87	%% * PluckyGirl
88	%% * PsychoticSmirk
89	%% * RebelliousSpirit
90	* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Mellia/Melia/Mellia, indeed. "Mellia" and "Mellia" are the most commonly accepted Romanizations, but there's a lot of arguing over which one is "right".
91	%% * TakingTheBullet: And watching devil-may-care, me-first Mellia do it without a second thought is quite a PlayerPunch.
92	%% * ThemeMusicPowerUp
93	* [[{{Tsundere}} Tsungire]]: While this was commonly found in {{fanon}}, this has now been confirmed by Sting.
94	-->''"Looks like on the PSP homepage, there are lots of different wallpapers. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial I-it doesn't make me happy or anything!!]] [[BlatantLies It's got nothing to do with me!!]]"'' (Twitter post concerning the wallpaper featuring her)
95	* WillfullyWeak: Although it just seems that her pride and desire to stick it to Marietta are higher priorities for her than accepting full GameBreaker status.
96	* WhosLaughingNow: If you find Ancardia for her, she breaks it solely to get back at Marietta. And then gloats. Complete with NoblewomansLaugh.
97	[[/folder]]
98
99	[[folder:Yggdra Yuril Artwaltz]]
100	The heroine of ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion'', who has a route of her own in the PSP remake. She trades places with Maria at the release of the Wisp in what appears to be a freak time-space accident; though she wanders off on her own quickly afterward, Yggdra is understandably rather disconcerted at being suddenly plopped into a completely different continuity, and winds up allying with the Wisp, much like Maria and Mellia before her. Thus far, any other details are unknown, although it's likely her path of the story will play out similarly to theirs.
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102	* TheArtifact: DS version.
103	* {{BFS}}
104	* ContinuityPorn
105	* CuteClumsyGirl
106	* IdiotHero
107	* NaiveNewcomer
108	* OutOfCharacterMoment: During the tutorials, she has a lot of disparaging stuff to say about Maria, complaining that heroines without catchphrases are lame, and that heroines who aren't also the protagonist like Yggdra herself are out-of-date. This seems to be around for the sake of RuleOfFunny; much {{Flanderization}} has since occurred within the fandom.
109	* TookALevelInJerkass
110	* SharingABody: With Maria. [[MindScrew Or something.]] Yggdra is in control starting from the moment Wilmgard is released from his SoulJar, but Maria seems to still be around as a SpiritAdvisor.
111	* TrappedInAnotherWorld
112	[[/folder]]
113
114	!The Surface World
115
116	!!!Aventheim Castle
117	[[folder:Prince Nordich Raoul Dennis d'Gleivnir]]
118
119	Wilmgard's sixteen-year-old son and only heir. Although his mother died when he was a baby, he was spoiled by his servants and the people of the castle, and so he's grown up to be rather self-centered. He does, however, have strong political ideals. He has feelings for Capehorn' granddaughter Piche, but he and his father arranged his marriage to the princess of the Tiamat race in order to create an alliance between their peoples. Although Capehorn is Nordich's advisor, Nordich only gets annoyed with the cardinal's attempts to control him. After Wilmgard's death, Nordich realized that Capehorn might have been behind it and planned to ruin Capehorn by leaking the truth to the people, but he was discovered by Yelma, who turned him into a werewolf.
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121	As a monster, Nordich lived in the forest and preyed on the people and monsters of the area until his father (as the Wisp), not realizing his identity, killed him. While he was alive, he was closest to the knights Ganosh and Couger, and was often at odds with his father, whose popularity was greatly overrated (in his opinion).
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123	* ArrangedMarriage: Has to marry Arlier, for the sake of a political alliance. It supposedly hit him hard when the contract fell apart, despite his feelings for Piche.
124	%% * BrainwashedAndCrazy
125	%% * DyingAsYourself
126	%% * ItsAllAboutMe: Somewhat justified during the one scene we actually see him.
127	%% * LoveTriangle: With Piche and Arlier.
128	%% * NoIndoorVoice
129	%% * OverlyLongName
130	%% * OddNameOut: Nordich Raoul ''Dennis'' d'Gleivnir. Like father, like son.
131	%% * ShelteredAristocrat
132	%% * StarCrossedLovers: With Piche.
133	%% * TragicMonster
134	%% * TransformationTrauma
135	[[/folder]]
136
137	[[folder:Piche Pianotte Lucius]]
138
139	Capehorn' sheltered granddaughter, eighteen years of age. Although Piche lives in Castle Aventheim, she rarely sees her grandfather, and does not know very many people. The knight Rosa looks after her. She's rather naive, and loves Prince Nordich wholeheartedly despite the fact that they cannot be together for political reasons. She never learned of his death, and not long into the game, Zolgonark turns her into a harpy to punish Capehorn for not warning him that Wilmgard is the Arbitrator. After this, Yelma attempts to use Piche as her pawn; Piche flees to the ruined tower built by the Mehse and lives there until she is killed by the Wisp.
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141	%% * CuteMonsterGirl
142	%% * DyingAsYourself
143	%% * TheIngenue
144	%% * GodivaHair: In her harpy form.
145	%% * ParentalNeglect: Capehorn does love her, but he's barely ever around.
146	%% * PimpedOutDress
147	%% * StarCrossedLovers: With Nordich.
148	%% * TragicMonster
149	%% * TransformationTrauma
150	[[/folder]]
151
152	[[folder:Cardinal Capehorn Mirza Lucius]]
153
154	The cardinal of Wilmgard's kingdom, and secretly one of his political opponents. Sixty-five years old, Capehorn is actually one of the Tiamat; he was exiled for researching the forbidden Written Law in order to restore the Tiamat race to power. Disillusioned by this, he swore revenge on everyone and everything that had done him ill in his life, and worked to ruin both the humans and the Tiamat race by undoing the separation of the worlds. He summoned Zolgonark to accomplish this, but between Zolgonark's power and Yelma's ambitions, all his plans are undone. The only person he genuinely cares for is his granddaughter, Piche.
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156	%% * AlasPoorVillain
157	%% * DealWithTheDevil
158	* DisproportionateRetribution: So you researched the forbidden Unwritten Law in order to let the Tiamat people reclaim their dominion, and they punted you out on your ear because you broke the law. Your reaction is... to return all the worlds to chaos and remake them in your image, no matter who you have to kill? ...Um?
159	%% * EvilIsNotAToy
160	%% * EvilLaugh
161	%% * EvilSorcerer
162	%% * FantasticRacism
163	%% * KickTheDog
164	%% * OrcusOnHisThrone
165	%% * TreacherousAdvisor
166	[[/folder]]
167
168	[[folder:Aquina Ariel Lutia]]
169
170	An apathetic knight of the Third Order; one of Capehorn' top generals. She is twenty-five years old. Capehorn is the only person she fully trusts, but she especially dislikes Yelma, and is constantly bickering with her comrade Leonil. She wields a rapid-fire crossbow, and is a renowned shot. Aqueline strongly believes that the gods have abandoned the world, and it's up to people to create a new order. She is infamously racist and others often remark on her cold demeanor; the only person that actually cares about her is the knight Elizabeth.
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172	%% * CannotStandThemCannotLiveWithoutThem: With Leonil.
173	%% * EmotionlessGirl
174	%% * FaithHeelTurn: Implied in her backstory.
175	%% * FantasticRacism: The sheer number of people who complain about her racist ways is astounding.
176	%% * RedOniBlueOni: She's the Blue to Leonil's Red.
177	%% * SeriousBusiness: ''Everything.''
178	[[/folder]]
179
180	[[folder:Leonil Legid Fernando]]
181
182	A bloodthirsty knight of the Third Order; one of Capehorn' top generals. He is twenty-two years old. Leonil is unabashedly in on Capehorn' plans just so that he can fight and kill worthy opponents, and often whines about his orders to attack people that he doesn't believe are worth his interest. He often gets in trouble with Aqueline because of his lax attitude, and bickers with her over quite a lot of things. Leonil is famous for his skill with many different kinds of swords, along with his lack of remorse; there are quite a few knights in other orders who are terrified of him.
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184	%% * AxCrazy
185	%% * {{BFS}}: He has a few of them.
186	%% * BloodKnight
187	%% * CannotStandThemCannotLiveWithoutThem: With Aqueline.
188	%% * EvilRedhead
189	%% * LonersAreFreaks
190	%% * RedOniBlueOni: He's the Red to Aqueline's Blue.
191	%% * SlasherSmile
192	[[/folder]]
193
194	[[folder:Yelma Ul Varomone]]
195
196	Said to come from a ne'er-do-well Ingeid family, Yelma was found by Capehorn and quickly recruited to the Third Order, then made a general. She is thirty-six years old. Despite what she owes Capehorn, she has no loyalty to or respect for him; she makes a contract with Zolgonark for power, and tries to manipulate everything in sight in order to obtain as much power as she possibly can. She is responsible for Nordich's transformation, and also tries to manipulate Vilgo and Piche to do her bidding; she puts Algiery under mind control to make her retrieve Wilmgard's body.
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198	Although Yelma eventually does obtain Wilmgard's body and takes it for herself, she is destroyed by Zolgonark when she tries to dominate him--much to the disappointment of many a player who wanted to pummel her.
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200	%% * DealWithTheDevil
201	* EvilIsNotAToy
202	* KarmicDeath: Not only does she get manipulated and nuked by Zolgonark, who she tried to control, but she herself is ripped out of her body and turned into a Wisp... and then ''torn apart.''.
203	%% * LetsYouAndHimFight
204	%% * NoblewomansLaugh
205	%% * ObviouslyEvil
206	%% * TheUnfought: Zolgonark takes care of it for you.
207	%% * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: She tries to pull this on Zolgonark. It backfires spectacularly.
208	[[/folder]]
209
210	[[folder:Gunther F. Albandor]]
211
212	%% The fifty-year-old Grand Marshal of the kingdom, and commander of the Second Order. Gunther was one of Wilmgard's top lieutenants and a well-respected man, but after the king's death, he fell into a deep depression and blamed himself endlessly for not being there to help. Capehorn and Yelma gave him a cursed suit of armor resembling Wilmgard's, and told him to wear it in remembrance of the king; once Gunther put it on, his personality changed drastically and he came under suspicion by many of his own knights. Gunther is one of the first bosses of the game, and can only be freed from the armor's curse through death.
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214	%% * BodyHorror
215	%% * BrainwashedAndCrazy
216	%% * DyingAsYourself
217	%% * MeaningfulName
218	%% * UnwittingPawn
219	%% * WakeUpCallBoss
220	[[/folder]]
221
222	[[folder:Lord of Aventheim Castle]]
223
224	A mysterious, godlike presence taking the form of a skeletal man in a red rocking chair. He is the narrator of the story, and only appears in special cutscenes at the end of Maria's route. He reveals that he created Aventheim when the worlds became separate so that no matter what political nonsense went on in Asgard and the Underworld, he could observe the behavior of mortals in this world uninhibited. So far all he has noticed is that humans are inexplicable and never learn from their mistakes, causing history to repeat itself endlessly, but he still finds humans fascinating.
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226	He is accompanied by a raggedy black cat even more mysterious than he is (the game designers themselves admit in the manual that they have no idea if the cat is the Lord's familiar or another godlike being, or just a normal animal).
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228	* AllThereInTheManual: His role is discussed in the ''Dept. Heaven World Guidance'' book.
229	* TheFatalist
230	* GodsHandsAreTied: Because if he interfered, it would ruin his experiment.
231	* LonersAreFreaks
232	* ManBehindTheMan: Of a sort; this particular world is his experiment in observing human nature.
233	* {{Narrator}}
234	* PassThePopcorn
235	* PhysicalGod: Very probably.
236	* WhatTheHellHero: He gets rather disapproving when you start attacking the Mehse and Tiamat races, and calls you out directly on attacking Piche.
237	[[/folder]]
238
239	!!!Other Territorries
240
241	[[folder:Princess Alier Ciel Graceheize]]
242
243	Eighteen-year-old princess of the Tiamats. She is a wise leader who struggles to ensure the survival of her people in times when their race is small in number and persecuted viciously by the humans nearby. She is an occasional ally to the Mehse, and her people helped them build the tower that drew Asgard's attention. Because her people found the Written Law, she believes that not even they are innocent of breaking the law of the multiverse. Arlier agreed to an arranged marriage with Prince Nordich to give her people a voice in court and political standing, although the contract fell through when Capehorn tried to murder her. Arlier orders her people to capture Wilmgard's corpse and [[TemptingFate places a seal on it which is linked to her life]]. She is very close to Sacchito, and is more understanding of the big picture than most other characters in the game.
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245	%% * ArrangedMarriage: To Nordich, although it fell apart when Capehorn used it to try to kill her.
246	%% * BerserkButton: The easiest way to seriously piss her off is to hurt or scare her pet dragon.
247	%% * CoolSword
248	%% * CurtainsMatchTheWindow
249	%% * DragonRider
250	%% wrong example indentation and sink holes!
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252	%%
253	%% * TheHighQueen
254	%% * LadyOfWar
255	* OurDragonsAreDifferent: The Tiamat clan seems to have ''much'' thicker dragon blood than [[VideoGame/YggdraUnion Brongaa's descendants]], we have to say.
256	* PlayingWithFire: Uses a fireball reflected through the screen
257	%% * PimpedOutDress
258	%% * PrincessesRule
259	* SomethingAboutARose: She uses a HUGE rose on the screen which then slowly scatters its petals.
260	%% * TemptingFate
261	%% * WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Exactly the same. Hear that, Sacchito?
262	[[/folder]]
263
264	[[folder:Sacchito]]
265
266	A magically animated puppet created to protect the barrier that hides the Tiamat race's hidden sanctuary. She is very dutiful, but her loyalty is to Arlier rather than the Tiamat race as a whole. Because she's only a puppet, she doesn't place a very high value on her own life, something that Arlier admonishes her for. Sacchito is killed by Yelma, but then reanimated by her both to act as a barrier against Wilmgard and so that the Tiamat people won't realize that she has infiltrated their realm.
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268	%% * BarrierMaiden: Quite literally.
269	%% * BattleButler
270	%% * ExtremeDoormat
271	%% * ImprobableWeaponUser
272	%% * RedEyesTakeWarning
273	[[/folder]]
274
275	[[folder:Algiery Mirza Ector]]
276
277	A twenty-six-year-old Tiamat woman chosen by their late elder to become a spy in the Gleivnir court. She is praised both by her people and the knights for her beauty, intelligence, and skill in battle; she was also chosen specifically to seduce Wilmgard, but although she was warned to keep her emotions separate from her job, she fell in love with him anyway. He made her commander of the Sixth Order. As part of Capehorn' removal of all those close to the king, Algiery was accused of regicide; although she rightly guessed the intentions of her accusers, she was forced to flee the castle and captured by Yelma. She spends most of the game under Yelma's mind control, and what little she doesn't, she spends moping over the loss of her king and the feeling that she doesn't fit in with her people anymore. She also believes quite firmly that Wilmgard was the only person to genuinely care about her despite the fact that she has many friends and admirers amongst the knights. Yelma kills her for disobedience.
278
279	In Maria and Marietta's best endings, Algiery is revived along with Wilmgard as a reward for his long fight.
280
281	%% * BackFromTheDead: In the best endings.
282	%% * BrainwashedAndCrazy
283	* GlassCannon: She's ridiculously powerful--her Law Index starts at 100 when Priestesses' most powerful attacks are their law ones--but her base Vitality is very low and like all knights, she's only got so many levels she can gain.
284	* InformedAttribute: We see that she's intelligent and resourceful, but don't get to see any other reasons why she's constantly praised by everyone.
285	%% * InterspeciesRomance: With Wilmgard.
286	* MeaningfulName: Her first name is a feminized version of Dante's last name. (Yes, [[Literature/TheDivineComedy that Dante]].)
287	* TheMole: She was ''supposed'' to be the Tiamats' spy. [[BecomingTheMask We all know how that one turned out.]]
288	[[/folder]]
289
290	[[folder:Azhan Donier Gaudy]]
291
292	The former elder of the Tiamat race, and Princess Arlier's chief advisor. He was seventy-seven years old. Azhan was the one who decided that the Written Law be hidden in the past, and also orchestrated Arlier and Nordich's arranged marriage. He was the one who decided to send Algiery to spy for them in the Gleivnir court. However, when Capehorn sabotaged the arranged marriage, Azhan sacrificed himself to give Arlier the chance to escape, and was killed by Leonil and Aqueline.
293
294	%% * TheChessmaster
295	%% * HeroicSacrifice
296	%% * HoistByHisOwnPetard: His plans were well-reasoned, but they still wound up boxing the entire world in. And killing him.
297	%% * PosthumousCharacter
298	%% * TooCleverByHalf
299	[[/folder]]
300
301	[[folder:Vilgo]]
302
303	The leader of the Lemonoug race (also known as the Mehse or "those westerners"), an impossibly old man. After their first attempt at building a tower to Asgard, he and his race were cursed with technical immortality--only fatal injuries will kill them, but their bodies age and decay--and were cast out and enslaved by the Gleivnir kingdom. Vilgo and his people tried to build a second tower to plead for Asgard's intercession, but all they got was Marietta and a very destroyed tower as a result. Vilgo hates the kingdom with all his soul, but feels powerless to oppose them after all the atrocities they've put his tribe through. He raised Vienna after the deaths of her parents.
304
305	After Capehorn' death, Yelma transforms Vilgo into a lich and sets him against the Wisp to buy time for herself to find Wilmgard's corpse.
306
307	%% * BestServedCold
308	%% * DemotedToExtra: He's one of only two human characters ''in the entire game'' who doesn't have a full name.
309	%% * FantasticRacism: Poor guy.
310	%% * FateWorseThanDeath
311	* WhoWantsToLiveForever: ...especially if it means watching your body fall apart and decay?
312	[[/folder]]
313
314	[[folder:Vienna]]
315
316	A very young Mehse girl. Although she is a talented witch, due to the bondage of her people and her own poor living conditions, she tends to appear very scruffy and bedraggled; she has a crow named Moja as a familiar, which is often seen [[HeadPet sitting on her head]]. Vienna's parents were murdered by a knight from one of the orders, after which she was raised by Vilgo, the chief of her tribe--so it's no surprise that she hates the kingdom as much as he does. Vienna is eventually revealed to be suffering from starvation; she picks the pockets of what few travelers come through the Mehse lands for food.
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318	Although she is unable to pickpocket Yelma, she does learn from the witch that Wilmgard is coming, and decides to fight the Wisp to avenge Vilgo and her parents. Vienna is a selective mute--probably due to the trauma of losing her parents--and communicates telepathically with Moja, who interprets for her as best he can.
319
320	%% * BlackMagicianGirl
321	%% * CuteMute: She's quite talkative in her own head, but never actually speaks to other people.
322	%% * CuteWitch
323	%% * DemotedToExtra: Like Vilgo (and no one else), she has no full name.
324	%% * TheFaceless
325	%% * FantasticRacism
326	%% * HulkSpeak: The way Creator/{{Atlus}} chose to translate Moja's dialogue (which, in Japanese, used only kanji and katakana).
327	%% * MessyHair
328	%% * PollyWantsAMicrophone: Moja, of course.
329	* TalkingAnimal: Her familiar, Moja, speaks (VERY LOUDLY) in simple sentences.
330	[[/folder]]
331
332	[[folder:Pamela]]
333
334	The VideoGame/DeptHeaven series mascot, a witch who originally appeared in ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion'' and will show up in a randomized stage at a randomized level if the player has ''Yggdra Union'' in the GBA slot of their DS/''Yggdra Union'' save data on their memory card. She is accidentally pulled into Aventheim while trying to travel to another dimension for her research, and decides to side with the Wisp to get rid of Zolgonark's corruption so that she can go home.
335
336	* AwesomeButImpractical: Her Chaos Index is through the roof and her level cap is 99, the highest in the game. Her Law Index leaves a lot to be desired, and Gram traps can't be used against a number of bosses, even with the added hassle of having to map out enemies' movement patterns first to make sure the right enemy will step on them at the right time.
337	%% * CloudCuckoolander: A little bit less so than in the Episode II games, but still in effect.
338	%% * ContinuityPorn
339	%% * CuteWitch
340	%% * ImmortalImmaturity
341	%% * TrappedInAnotherWorld
342	[[/folder]]
343	----
344
345	!Asgard and the Underworld
346
347	[[folder:Melissa]]
348
349	A fallen angel who seems to be in her twenties. She is a fragment of Marietta's personality, split off from Maria in the main route of the game. Melissa remains in bondage to Zolgonark, but despite being bullied and ordered around by him and his human flunkies, her main prerogative is finding Marietta's staff Ancardia. To this end, she hassles Maria and the Wisp multiple times over the course of the game. Throughout its second half, however, she spends most of her time lying in wait and trying to recover; after Zolgonark is defeated, she is unable to resist the temptation of his power and eats it, becoming Melod Melgis. She is unable to control her power, and is defeated by Maria so that the two of them may become Marietta once again.
350
351	Instead of being presented as an evil character, Melissa is characterized as aimless and mercurial, neither wholly good nor wholly evil. However, she is also unable to stop herself from lusting after power and trying to get hold of it at any given opportunity. She killed Wilmgard when he stumbled upon her and Zolgonark prior to the beginning of the game, but does not seem to have any particular ill feelings towards either Wilmgard or Maria.
352
353	%% * AffablyEvil: She's not actually that bad a person. God help you if you're between her and something she wants, though.
354	%% * AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Mildly implied in-game; often {{Flanderized}} in fandom.
355	%% * BlackMagicianGirl
356	%% * CardCarryingVillain
357	%% * CurtainsMatchTheWindow
358	* TheDogBitesBack: After being whacked around by Maria for the entire game and generally abused by Zolgonark all the time, as soon as Zolgonark is defeated, she eats his power to become an out-of-control demigod.
359	%% * MsFanservice
360	%% * {{Stripperiffic}}
361	[[/folder]]
362
363	[[folder:Marietta]]
364
365	A recurring character in the VideoGame/DeptHeaven series, Marietta is an archangel who appears to be in her twenties but is much older than that. She is one of the most devout servants of the gods, and in the story of Knights, she is sent down to punish the world of Aventheim for building a tower that almost reaches Asgard. Wishing for more power so that she can serve Asgard better, Marietta makes a DealWithTheDevil with Zolgonark, who of course just manipulates her into helping lift his barrier and then splits her soul in two and hides her staff, intending to make her his pawn.
366
367	In Maria's route, where the two halves of her soul are Maria and Melissa, Marietta's role ends here. In Mellia's route, however, Marietta serves as the "good" half and Zolgonark's pawn while Mellia is the "bad" half and the heroine. Marietta assumes Melissa's role as the one to kill Wilmgard and act as the proverbial thorn in the protagonists' sides, and is ironically a lot nastier than Melissa was. At the end of the game, the player is presented with the option to betray Mellia and side with Marietta in order to get an ending resembling the better ones in Maria's route.
368
369	More of Marietta's story can be seen in ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion'' and ''[[VideoGame/RivieraThePromisedLand Riviera]]''.
370
371	%% * TheComputerIsACheatingBastard
372	%% * CurtainsMatchTheWindow
373	%% * DealWithTheDevil
374	%% * EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: No, it's not. It's really really not.
375	%% * GoodIsNotNice: Oh, boy...
376	%% * KickTheDog
377	%% * KnightTemplar
378	%% * LadyOfWar
379	%% * MoreDakka
380	%% * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: At the very end of Mellia's ending.
381	%% * NiceJobBreakingItHero
382	%% * OhCrap: A really, ''really'' big one, if you found Ancardia for Mellia.
383	%% * OmniscientMoralityLicense: She tries to act like she has one. Mellia [[WhatTheHellHero calls her out on it]].
384	%% * PerpetualMolt: she uses this as one of her attacks
385	* SadisticChoice: Mellia's route only. Are you going to side with the woman who killed you for the sake of order, even if it means betraying a trusted comrade--or stay loyal to Mellia, who saved you and nearly died for you, even though your world will suffer for it? And no, you may not TakeAThirdOption.
386	* SplitPersonality: It's vaguely implied in a flashback that Marietta has one even before the events of the game gives the two separate bodies.
387	%% * {{Stripperiffic}}
388	%% * TooDumbToLive: Yes, Marietta, ''agree'' when the [[ObviouslyEvil creepy disembodied voice]] offers you power in exchange for your assistance doing something it won't tell you about beforehand! Nothing could POSSIBLY go wrong with this plan!
389	[[/folder]]
390
391	[[folder:Zolgonark]]
392
393	The three-headed demon lord of the Underworld, summoned to this world by Capehorn and Yelma. While both intend to use him for their own means, Zolgonark is only interested in the freedom to take over the world of Aventheim. He summons three Accursed--[[BattleButler Rivulia]], Dotaurus (and his "dog" Garm), and [[EldritchAbomination Scoppio]]--to serve his ambitions, and manipulates Marietta into helping him bypass his barrier. He then proves himself despicable by bullying Melissa (or Marietta), turning Piche into a harpy, and blasting Maria (or Mellia) when she tries to protect the Wisp.
394
395	Zolgonark is eventually defeated by the Wisp and the heroine, and has his power eaten by Melissa or Mellia. He is connected to the character Hades from ''[[VideoGame/RivieraThePromisedLand Riviera]]''.
396
397	* TheDevil
398	* EvilerThanThou: As Yelma eventually discovers. He does, however, wind up on the losing end of this with Mellia.
399	* LegionsOfHell: His {{Mooks}}.
400	* ObviouslyEvil
401	* OrcusOnHisThrone: He was even ''ever-so-conveniently'' summoned in the throne room.
402	* SpellMyNameWithAnS: A few Sting books have his name written with a "c" instead of a "k".
403	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Yelma tried this on him and failed. He promptly returns the favor.
404	[[/folder]]
405
406	[[folder:Hector]]
407
408	A recurring character in the VideoGame/DeptHeaven series, he is one of the Seven Magi, and is also [[strike:an arrogant prick]] extremely dismissive of the worth and rights of individuals, believing mortal creatures and the other races of Asgard to be beneath him. He appears in special cutscenes in Mellia's route, and orders the sealing of Heaven's Gate to protect Asgard (read: himself), despite protests from his Servants that he may be abandoning Marietta to die.
409
410	Hector is an incredibly important figure in the continuity of this series; see the backstory of a certain character from ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion'' for why we despise him, and ''[[VideoGame/RivieraThePromisedLand Riviera]]'' for a game in which he takes a major role.
411
412	* TheChessmaster
413	* ContinuityNod: The fact that Hector even shows up in this game only has two purposes--to show how everything is part of his EvilPlan, and as fanservice for people who've played the other VideoGame/DeptHeaven games.
414	* ContinuityPorn
415	* TheFaceless
416	* FantasticRacism
417	* GreaterScopeVillain
418	* LightIsNotGood
419	* OrcusOnHisThrone: ''Again!'' Ito loves this trope in this game.
420	[[/folder]]
421
422	[[folder:Primea]]
423
424	The latest, most successful result of Hector's as-yet-experimental synthetic Grim Angel creation process. She is a very young girl who is seen only in special cutscenes in Mellia's route; her real name is never revealed (if she even has one), but her registration number is 549, and the other characters refer to her by her codename, Primea. She is not a complete Grim Angel, and her fake Diviner is only a prototype. Her wings are slightly malformed at the shoulder--whether this is congenital or a result of Hector's modifications to her body is unknown.
425
426	%% Primea appears to be a rather naive and airheaded young girl; although Hector and his Servants discuss their plans around her, all their talk goes straight over her head.
427
428	%% * {{Ahoge}}
429	%% * ChildrenAreInnocent
430	%% * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}
431	%% * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname
432	%% * RedEyesTakeWarning
433	%% * YouAreNumberSix

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