| 1 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 2 | |
| 3 | !!The Player |
| 4 | |
| 5 | [[folder:The Player (''Soul Sacrifice'')]] |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Some poor sap trapped by Magusar in a cage in a post-apocalypse. After witnessing another sorcerer fall at his captor's hand, he finds Librom under a pile of bones, and reads him. Within Librom's stories, The Player is able to gain the experience needed by defeating the Archfiends detailed within and defeat Magusar. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | * FlatCharacter: The Player is just TheHero, and that's really all you need to know. The story mostly comes from the Author's detailing of the Sorcerer's life and battles. |
| 10 | * HeroicMime |
| 11 | * MadeASlave: Though it's less a slave, more a sacrificial offering. |
| 12 | * StableTimeLoop: Implied in the sacrifice ending. [[spoiler:Caught in a nasty one. Namely, he's the Sorcerer who will become Magusar. He will sacrifice Magusar, and resurrect the world. Unfortunately, the corruption of Magusar will then affect him, and he will take on the identity of Magusar. Which leads to the events that occur in the game.]] |
| 13 | [[/folder]] |
| 14 | |
| 15 | [[folder:The Player (''Soul Sacrifice Delta'')]] |
| 16 | |
| 17 | Pretty much the same person from the first game, except they are able to be a part of the Grim Faction within Librom. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | * AllJustADream: [[spoiler:No matter which ending is chosen from ''Soul Sacrifice'', the beginning of Delta reveals that it was just a dream the player had. Librom asks about it.]] |
| 20 | * FlatCharacter |
| 21 | * LegacyCharacter: In Sanctuarium's side story, [[spoiler:Ceryx is revealed to be a descendent of Sympatha and, by extension, related to the third Lenixion of Sanctuarium.]] The exact relation is left ambiguous, but it explains why [[spoiler:Ceryx]] starts off with a Divine Arm and implies they were meant to [[spoiler:inherit the Lenixion title (if they hadn’t already) before they were captured.]] |
| 22 | * MeaningfulName: Doubly so. [[spoiler:Ceryx Camlann. Ceryx was a Greek Demigod, the son of Hermes who served as a messenger of the gods. Camlann was one of the most important battles in Myth/ArthurianLegend. Perhaps more importantly, the very fact that he has a name shows that he is not the Nameless Sorcerer, suggesting that the world is finally starting to break free of the EternalRecurrence.]] |
| 23 | [[/folder]] |
| 24 | |
| 25 | !!A Sorcerer |
| 26 | |
| 27 | [[folder:Gameplay-related]] |
| 28 | * LimitBreak: The Sorcerer can unleash the Black Rites when he's low on health. |
| 29 | ** NukeEm [[KillItWithFire with Fire]]: Infernus hits everyone on the map, at your skin's expense, halving your defense. |
| 30 | ** ChainPain: The Gleipnir rite summons a bony chain by ripping off the right arm, useful to restrain an Archfiend. However the sigils you carved in your right arm will stop being effective. |
| 31 | ** TakenForGranite: [[EyeScream Gouging out one of your own eyes]], by the Gorgon rite, grants you petrifying beams shot from levitating eyes. Your vision will suffer from it, though. |
| 32 | ** TheBlacksmith: The Vulcan rite, outside of healing everyone within range and sending shockwaves, allow your allies to gain swords made out of your soul. The lack of a heart will reduce your health by half. |
| 33 | ** {{BFS}}: The Excalibur rite summons a giant sword. Like Vulcan, it requires your heart. Unlike Vulcan, however, the side effect is a gradual loss of health. What else did you expect taking that kind of sword from your mouth? |
| 34 | ** StormOfBlades: If you're willing to sacrifice your partner, the Gungnir rite will rain down bony spine-like spears from the sky. Sure, your partner won't be actively fighting anymore, but he will have better rewards and will be able to see someone's exact health bar. |
| 35 | *** In ''Delta'', each faction got their own version of this rite: Grim got Yggdrasil and Sanctuarium has Angelus. |
| 36 | ** BlowYouAway: The Berserker rite, at the price of the brain (thus rendering you unable to distinguish your offerings), can lure everyone towards you and blow them away. |
| 37 | ** LightEmUp: The Angelus rite uses your bones to summon wings. Said wings pierce through enemies and heal allies. However, you lose your ability to evade and your movement is reduced. |
| 38 | *** In ''Delta'', however, it has been replaced by Caduceus, Lucifer, and Sylphid. Angelus is now triggered the same way as Gungnir: sacrificing a fellow Sanctuarium sorcerer. |
| 39 | ** SpinAttack[=/=]ThisIsADrill: Replacing Angelus as the leg-crippling Black Rite, Caduceus, Lucifer, and Sylphid gives you wings and allows you to attack an archfiend by spinning on it akin to a drill. The same side-effect applies (reduced movement and inability to dodge), but depending on which variant you chose: |
| 40 | *** Lucifer makes cursed parts more vulnerable; |
| 41 | *** Caduceus allows players to damage archfiends with healing spells; |
| 42 | *** Sylphid makes foes vulnerable to aliments. |
| 43 | * MultiMeleeMaster: Outside of the [[CoolSword swords]] and the axes from the aptly-named weapon offerings, the available offerings include, but are not limited to, projectiles, fists, shields, armors, blood sprays... |
| 44 | [[/folder]] |
| 45 | |
| 46 | [[folder:Appearance-related]] |
| 47 | * CatGirl: The latest patch for ''Delta'' comes with the free White Cat raiment, although it is exclusive for female sorcerers. The closest thing for a [[GenderInvertedTrope male variant]] of this trope is to combine the Beast raiment (top) and the Conjurer raiment (bottom). |
| 48 | * FurBikini: The female variant of the Hunter raiment. |
| 49 | * HellBentForLeather: A majority of the raiment options are made of leather. |
| 50 | * {{Stripperific}}: The female variants of the raiments, some more than others. |
| 51 | [[/folder]] |
| 52 | |
| 53 | [[folder:Story-related]] |
| 54 | |
| 55 | * [[AuthorAvatar Reader Avatar]]: The means by which the player experiences the memories contained within Librom. |
| 56 | * SanitySlippage: The Sorcerer begins growing increasingly bloodthirsty after sacrificing Sortiara. [[spoiler:Sacrificing Illecebra cures The Sorcerer of this.]] |
| 57 | |
| 58 | [[/folder]] |
| 59 | |
| 60 | !!Avalon |
| 61 | |
| 62 | [[folder:Avalon as a whole]] |
| 63 | * AintTooProudToBeg: With very, very few exceptions, an Avalon sorcerer is just as prone to begging for mercy as any other vanquished Archfiend. |
| 64 | * BlackMage: Literally. |
| 65 | * GlassCannon: They forego defense and recovery power, preferring more offense-oriented builds. As a result, you might end up having to save or sacrifice Avalon allies (even those possessing high-level Dark Arms) a lot. |
| 66 | * KnightTemplar: Members of Avalon firmly believe in purifying the world from monsters through bloodshed, even if said monsters are [[WasOnceHuman former sorcerers]]. |
| 67 | * NecessarilyEvil: Their members believe their acts to be a necessary evil. |
| 68 | * NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Saving too many archfiends will make them send assassins after the perpetrator. |
| 69 | * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Their members are dressed in black clothing with some red details. The faction's members also follow a KnightTemplar mentality of slaughtering monsters, although they're willing to make exceptions for rescuing monsters. |
| 70 | [[/folder]] |
| 71 | |
| 72 | [[folder:Magusar (Merlin)]] |
| 73 | * [[spoiler:AGodAmI]]: [[spoiler:Becomes a benevolent example in one of the true endings of ''Delta''.]] |
| 74 | * [[spoiler:AndIMustScream: Even when Magusar is completely taken over by the soul of the mad wizard whom he defeated, the BossBanter during the final battle shows that he is aware of what is going on and wishes to be killed.]] |
| 75 | * [[spoiler:AmnesiacDissonance]]: [[spoiler:Inverted; the nameless sorcerer who became Magusar was a selfless hero, and he kept most of his idealism upon becoming Magusar. He only became the BigBad after being overtaken by memories of the original Magusar.]] |
| 76 | * BigBad |
| 77 | * BadPowersGoodPeople: Despite his need to sacrifice monsters to stave off his rapid aging, Magusar is a pretty decent guy all things considered. [[spoiler:The previous Magusar… not so much.]] |
| 78 | * [[spoiler:DemonicPossession: Gets possessed by the Twin Gods in the Good Ending boss battle.]] |
| 79 | * [[spoiler:HeterosexualLifePartners]]: [[spoiler:With Geoffery Librom.]] |
| 80 | * IJustWantToBeNormal: His motivation for seeking the chalice. |
| 81 | * MerlinSickness: Averted, despite sharing his namesake with the TropeNamer. He doesn't age backwards, and while he does have precognition, it has nothing to do with his rapid aging. |
| 82 | * ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: The whole point of the main story is learning how Magusar went from an idealistic figure to the BigBad we see at the beginning of the game. |
| 83 | * RapidAging: His body is cursed to suffer this, though he can temporarily reverse this through sacrifice. |
| 84 | * [[spoiler:IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Is the subject of this due to his curse... specifically, anyone that is powerful enough to kill and Sacrifice Magusar ''becomes'' the new Magusar.]] |
| 85 | * EyesDoNotBelongThere: His arm is covered in eyes before the end of the world. It got much worse afterwards. |
| 86 | * TrueCompanions: [[spoiler:With Librom. He actually refused to sacrifice Librom when he had a chance.]] |
| 87 | * [[spoiler:OurDragonsAreDifferent]]: [[spoiler:His OneWingedAngel form.]] |
| 88 | [[/folder]] |
| 89 | |
| 90 | [[folder:Librom [[spoiler:(Geoffery Librom)]]]] |
| 91 | A strange sentient tome that appears to be made of flesh, with eyes and a mouth on the front "cover". Within him is the secrets of what happened in the past and the means to defeat Magusar. [[spoiler:The tale contained within Librom's pages were actually a depiction of his own life. His real name was Geoffery Librom, and he was a sorcerer of Avalon who partnered with Magusar.]] |
| 92 | |
| 93 | * CreepyGood: Sure, he might be a creepy talking book, but his only desire is to train you up so you can SaveTheWorld [[spoiler:as well as his best friend, Magusar]]. |
| 94 | * DarkIsNotEvil: Librom looks like a demonic face wrapped around over a book like some morbid meat jacket, but his heart is in the right place. See CreepyGood above. |
| 95 | * DeadpanSnarker: Librom loves to crack some sarcastic jokes whenever he talks to you. |
| 96 | * {{Expy}}: Librom will surely remind players of [[VideoGame/{{Nier}} Grimoire Weiss]], since they're both sarcastic magical books who start off as snobby jerks, but they slowly develop a loyal friendship with their respective {{Player Character}}s as their games progress [[spoiler:to the point of [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificing themselves]] to help their respective protagonists at the end. In fact, [[WasOnceAMan they used to be humans]] until they were [[ForcedTransformation morphed into books]] long before their respective games took place.]] |
| 97 | * [[spoiler:HeterosexualLifePartners]]: [[spoiler:With Magusar.]] |
| 98 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's very rude and abrasive to the player, but is still doing everything in his power to save them. [[DefrostingIceQueen He becomes nicer as the story goes on]]. |
| 99 | * [[spoiler:NarratorAllAlong]]: [[spoiler:Made obvious in the postscript.]] |
| 100 | * TrueCompanions: [[spoiler:With Magusar.]] |
| 101 | * [[spoiler:PassingTheTorch: The protagonist absorbs all of Librom's memories and powers before fighting Magusar. This is taken even further in the savior ending, where the protagonist literally becomes another Librom.]] |
| 102 | * WalkingSpoiler: All we can safely say is that he's a talking book. |
| 103 | [[/folder]] |
| 104 | |
| 105 | [[folder:Sortiara (Nimue)]] |
| 106 | |
| 107 | * [[spoiler:ArtificialHuman: Created by the Grail to grant Illecebra's wish.]] |
| 108 | * AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Deconstructed.]] |
| 109 | * [[spoiler:BackFromTheDead: She temporarily returns to aid you in the final battle against the Archfiend-turned Terrwyn.]] |
| 110 | * [[spoiler:GoMadFromTheRevelation: Learning the truth is what made her so AxCrazy.]] |
| 111 | * [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: As part of the Sorcerer's Ordeal.]] |
| 112 | [[/folder]] |
| 113 | |
| 114 | [[folder:Radux (Percival)]] |
| 115 | |
| 116 | * BodyHorror: The right side of his body is covered in roots, he's unhealthily pale, and he's scratched at his chest enough to keep it raw and bleeding. |
| 117 | * CharacterTic: He scratches at his chest. While initially believed to perhaps be a disease or curse, it's revealed that it's [[spoiler:driven purely by guilt of killing his adoptive monster mother. As the narrator states, "it's as if he's trying to tear out his heart".]] |
| 118 | * [[EmotionlessGirl Emotionless Boy]]: He looks like this at first, but it is ultimately subverted. |
| 119 | * GreenThumb: If his right arm and his spells aren't a dead giveaway… |
| 120 | * ParentalAbandonment: He was abandoned in the woods by his parents, possibly for being a sorcerer. |
| 121 | * [[spoiler:[[RaisedByWolves Raised By A Tree Monster]]]] |
| 122 | * [[spoiler:SelfMadeOrphan: He sacrificed the monster who had been raising him when it suddenly attacked him. The guilt of doing such an act constantly causes him to scratch his chest over and over again…]] |
| 123 | [[/folder]] |
| 124 | |
| 125 | [[folder:Venatar (Gawain)]] |
| 126 | * EyepatchOfPower |
| 127 | * EyeScream: He sacrificed an eye just to find the werewolf he was seeking. [[spoiler:That werewolf was a doppelganger, the real one being Venatar himself.]] |
| 128 | * PlayingWithFire: The majority of his offerings are fire-based. |
| 129 | * [[spoiler:OurWerewolvesAreDifferent]] |
| 130 | [[/folder]] |
| 131 | |
| 132 | [[folder:Militar (Lancelot)]] |
| 133 | * {{Expy}}: Of Lancelot. He's also named as such in the Japanese version. |
| 134 | * FireIceLightning: As of ''Delta'', he packs three spear offerings, ones of fire, ice, and lightning. |
| 135 | * MagicKnight: In looks. In the original game, most of his spells involves him summoning a sword or an axe, completed with an armor spell. |
| 136 | * TheStarscream: His goal was to bring down the kingdom [[spoiler:in retaliation for the king killing his parents]].[[/folder]] |
| 137 | |
| 138 | [[folder:Persapius]] |
| 139 | The leader of Avalon. [[spoiler:Well, the title given to the current leader. The founder and original one became the archfiend Odin.]] |
| 140 | |
| 141 | * CoolOldGuy: [[spoiler:Despite faking his senility, the 13th Persapius is pretty laid-back and even helps the PlayerCharacter rescue Riding Hood.]] |
| 142 | * GoodOldFisticuffs: The 13th favors Arm offerings. |
| 143 | * LegacyCharacter: There are two Persapius in the game: the 13th one (that you can bring with you on pacts) and the original Peraspius who [[spoiler:became the archfiend Odin]]. |
| 144 | * MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:Odin is the Norse God of knowledge. Peraspius the First's thirst for knowledge is what made him an archfiend.]] |
| 145 | * Myth/NorseMythology |
| 146 | * RedHerring: In the story, it is told that the Ars Magica is a grimoire. Grim's story ''The End Begins'' [[spoiler:reveals that the Ars Magica is Persapius himself. He knows every spell, but if he wants to learn a new thing, he must forget something that he already knows]]. |
| 147 | * SpellBook: His encyclopedia, Ars Magica, contains information about every spell that has been cast. The player can access it by Librom. |
| 148 | * [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt You Sacrifice It, You Bought It]]: Essentially how each Persapius succeeds to each other: the new leader sacrifices his predecessor and takes all of his knowledge in the process.[[/folder]] |
| 149 | |
| 150 | [[folder:Terroria]] |
| 151 | * BloodLust |
| 152 | * BodyHorror: Her right arm... is skeletal. |
| 153 | * [[spoiler:FantasticDrug]]: [[spoiler:Her corrupted blood was the drug sorcerers called Lycergy.]] |
| 154 | * [[spoiler:PayEvilUntoEvil]]: [[spoiler:Her usual customers for Lycergy? Criminals.]] |
| 155 | [[/folder]] |
| 156 | |
| 157 | [[folder:The Reaper [[spoiler:(Sceletum)]]]] |
| 158 | * TheQuietOne: He doesn't speak. [[spoiler:Until the narrator found out about his identity when he got hit by a monster.]] |
| 159 | * [[spoiler:[[SuicideByCop Suicide by Sorcerer]]]]: [[spoiler:What he attempted to do when the narrator had him unmasked. When that failed, he decided to seek the Chalice.]] |
| 160 | [[/folder]] |
| 161 | |
| 162 | !!Sanctuarium |
| 163 | |
| 164 | [[folder:Sanctuarium as a whole]] |
| 165 | * TheAtoner: Some Sorcerors' reasons for their Defection is because they understand to an extent what their actions brought them. |
| 166 | * BloodyMurder: Despite their kind-hearted nature, Sanctuarium's members are very adept with Blood Offerings and that's the best way to make up for their normally low attack points. That being said, there's less emphasis on "murder" and more emphasis on subduing, unless they're dealing with Lizard Men. |
| 167 | * CombatMedic: While other faction members have the occasional Healing Offerings, Sanctuarium's members are the best healers in the game, thanks to their massive defense and recovery boost. [[StoneWall While their damage leaves much to be desired]], certain builds (like [[BloodyMurder Blood builds]]) can drastically boost their damage output. |
| 168 | * CreateYourOwnHero: The reason why Sanctuarium was founded? [[spoiler:Its leader nearly got sacrificed by a panicked sorcerer.]] |
| 169 | * DefectorFromDecadence: Many of the Sorcerors, if they don't choose the Order of Grim, become this considering Avalon's ways. |
| 170 | * GoodIsNotSoft: Sanctuarium is perhaps the most [[AllLovingHero kind-hearted and forgiving]] faction available and their goal is to help monsters by redeeming them, but sweet-talking isn't enough to subdue said monsters, so they have to whittle the monsters down by brute force before saving them. |
| 171 | * HeavenlyBlue: Over their white clothes. Also overlaps with BlueIsHeroic since Sanctuarium is the most benevolent of the three factions and their symbol is clad in sky blue with white. |
| 172 | * LightIsGood: Sanctuarium's members are clad in a HeavenlyBlue and white color scheme, and their goal is to redeem all Archfiends without sacrificing them. In fact, many of the redeemed Archfiends join the faction [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe out of gratitude]] and[=/=]or a chance of [[TheAtoner atonement]]. |
| 173 | * TheRedeemer: Their sole goal is to redeem all Archfiends by saving them, believing that all creatures deserve mercy and redemption. |
| 174 | * RousseauWasRight: The philosophy of Sanctuarium is that all Archfiends can be saved and redeemed, and the saved Archfiends [[DefeatMeansFriendship become recruitable allies]] for the player. The only exceptions are [[LizardFolk Lizard Men]], where the only way to deal with them is to [[CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption Sacrifice]] them as a form of {{Mercy Kill}}ing, although Saving them grants you their Life Essence. |
| 175 | * StoneWall: In contrast to Avalon, they forego offense for defense and recovery power. So while you won't really have to worry about having to save them a lot, don't expect them to contribute to damage. That being said… |
| 176 | ** LightningBruiser: With the correct Sigils and Offerings (for example: Blood Sigils with Blood Offerings) and the optional Agility Offerings, a Sanctuarium player can dish out as much damage as an Avalon member without sacrificing survivability. |
| 177 | * SuperToughness: These guys can take ''tons'' of hits. The extra healing powers improves their already impressive toughness. |
| 178 | * TheHeretic: In Avalon's eyes for their refusal to sacrifice archfiends. |
| 179 | * WhiteMage: A literal example as their members wear white and [[HeavenlyBlue blue]], and they are incredible healers and tanks. |
| 180 | [[/folder]] |
| 181 | |
| 182 | [[folder:Sympatha]] |
| 183 | A sorceress who seeks to pass the Ordeal, as to join with the sect Sanctuarium. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that she is Lenixion, the leader of Sanctuarium.]] |
| 184 | |
| 185 | * AscendedExtra: [[spoiler:Her role as the leader of Sanctuarium is expanded upon in ''Delta''.]] |
| 186 | * BoyishShortHair |
| 187 | * GlacierWaif: She possesses a Divine Arm V, which makes her extremely difficult to kill and her healing spells all the more effective. |
| 188 | * LegacyCharacter: Despite it being treated as [[spoiler:her real name, "Lenixion" is actually a title given to the leader of Sanctuarium. The title's namesake was Sympatha's older brother, the founder of Sanctuarium.]] |
| 189 | * SupportPartyMember: While Sympatha sports some offensive capabilities, she is mainly used due to her incredible defense and healing power. |
| 190 | [[/folder]] |
| 191 | |
| 192 | [[folder:Aegrus (Mordred)]] |
| 193 | A sorcerer of Avalon who works as a sorcerer hunter. Despite this, he appears dressed in the white and blue colors of Sanctuarium. Appears in ''Soul Sacrifice Delta''. |
| 194 | |
| 195 | * AnArmAndALeg: He's got a hook for a left hand and an artificial leg from his left knee down. |
| 196 | * BodyHorror: [[http://storage.siliconera.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/soulsss06.jpg He looks worse off than Galahad.]] |
| 197 | * BloodyMurder: He uses a melee blood offering as a primary means to attack. |
| 198 | * GlassCannon: He's the most fragile member of Sanctuarium thanks to sporting a Dark Arm V. |
| 199 | * HookHand: He has a hook where his left hand used to be. |
| 200 | * {{Irony}}: A member of an organisation who is all about salvation with a Dark Arm. [[spoiler:Excusable since he used to kill sorcerers who violated the Sorcerer's Code for Avalon.]] |
| 201 | * MageKiller: His function when he was in Avalon. |
| 202 | [[/folder]] |
| 203 | |
| 204 | [[folder:Calixto]] |
| 205 | A member of Sanctuarium. He appears in ''Soul Sacrifice Delta''. |
| 206 | |
| 207 | * {{Curse}}: After [[spoiler:sacrificing the love of his life at her own behest, her deep love of him transferred to his arm, causing him to quite literally fall in love with himself]]. |
| 208 | * InTheHood |
| 209 | * {{Narcissist}}: The player repeatedly insults him for this, causing him to recoil as if he got slapped in the face. [[spoiler:His wife can hear you.]] |
| 210 | * PrettyBoy: He's quite pretty, he knows it, and he will never shut up about it. ''EVER.'' |
| 211 | [[/folder]] |
| 212 | |
| 213 | !!Order of Grim |
| 214 | |
| 215 | [[folder: The Order of Grim as a Whole]] |
| 216 | * [[spoiler:AGlitchInTheMatrix: They believe this, and in fact the whole Faction's existence is a clue that something is ''very'' wrong.]] |
| 217 | * DefectorFromDecadence: A Sorceror's other choice if they do not believe in Sanctuarium's ideals. |
| 218 | * FairytaleMotifs: Their members are based on fairy tales. |
| 219 | * JackOfAllStats: Their offenses and defenses are balanced, and their builds encourage balancing out life and magic. |
| 220 | * ScrewDestiny: [[spoiler:They're aware of the EternalRecurrence, and are trying to break it.]] |
| 221 | [[/folder]] |
| 222 | |
| 223 | [[folder:Terrwyn]] |
| 224 | * AnIcePerson: Her offensive spells are all of the Frost Element, [[spoiler:and when she turns into an Archfiend, all of her attacks carry the same element]]. |
| 225 | * FairytaleMotifs: She is based on Sleeping Beauty, with some of her recurring themes being about sleep, and having EyesAlwaysShut. |
| 226 | * [[spoiler:GoMadFromTheRevelation: After Persapius forces her to realize the folly of her plan to save the world, she transforms into an Archfiend.]] |
| 227 | * {{Stripperific}}: Her outfit can be described as a bikini paired with a trench coat. |
| 228 | [[/folder]] |
| 229 | |
| 230 | [[folder:Kalem]] |
| 231 | * TheBard |
| 232 | * DudeLooksLikeALady: As a kid, he looked and dressed like a girl, and even believed he was a girl until he grew up. |
| 233 | * MagicMusic: The player suspects that his song is this. [[spoiler:It's not. He's just ''that'' good at singing.]] |
| 234 | [[/folder]] |
| 235 | |
| 236 | [[folder:Red Hood [[spoiler:(Similia)]]]] |
| 237 | |
| 238 | * TheDreaded: Her illusion spells and her legacy as Red Hood make her quite feared. |
| 239 | * FairytaleMotifs: She's basically Little Red Riding Hood. |
| 240 | * IconicOutfit: Her red hood. |
| 241 | * LegacyCharacter: [[spoiler:She's the granddaughter of the original Red Hood, her grandmother having become the Archfiend Big Bad Wolf.]] |
| 242 | * MasterOfIllusion |
| 243 | * RedRidingHoodReplica: She's known by her epithet Red Hood. She is a member of Grim and comes from a line of sorcerers known and feared for the hood, being the third. The original Red Hood became an archfiend, tricking a man in wolf armor to eat her. She took over his body and they became the monster known as Little Red Riding Hood. |
| 244 | * ShipTease: Implied to have a bit of a thing for the player character and [[spoiler:on her deathbed, she refused to be sacrificed, because it would confirm to him these feelings she has for him, and the jealousy/resentment she has towards Sortiara, who he had feelings for]] |
| 245 | * TakeAThirdOption: Is probably the first person in history to think of [[spoiler:actually trying to destroy the Sacred Chalice. [[SubvertedTrope It turns out that attacking the instrument of a]] GodOfEvil is a '''''[[TooDumbToLive supremely bad idea]]'''''. Whodathunkit? [[DoubleSubverted But then]] it turns out that her actions were the right ones, and they set the stage for the protagonist and Magusar to actually defeat the gods.]] |
| 246 | * TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:Near the end of ''Delta'', she takes an attack meant for the player, and dies in their arms while refusing to be sacrificed. While this would allow her to live on within the player, she does not want him to feel how jealous she was of Sortiara.]] |
| 247 | [[/folder]] |
| 248 | |
| 249 | !!The Bazaar |
| 250 | |
| 251 | [[folder:Carnatux (Bowman)]] |
| 252 | A heavy-set sorcerer who is seemingly obsessed with money. His siblings appear in ''Delta''. |
| 253 | |
| 254 | * AboveGoodAndEvil: He believes that money is the only happiness he needs, so he doesn't really care whether you save or sacrifice enemies. |
| 255 | * {{Acrofatic}}: For someone so heavyset, he's surprisingly agile. |
| 256 | * BlingOfWar: His right arm, shoulder, leg, and the right side of his face is covered in gold. Even all of his ''teeth'' are gold! |
| 257 | * HandicappedBadass: He lacks an eye and an ear [[spoiler:who went to Vidiara and Aurex, respectively]]. That doesn't affect him in the slightest. |
| 258 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: [[spoiler:He probably has a literal one to go with his figurative one. In his introductory chapter, he is actually trying to earn money for the family of his friend, who got turned into a monster. ''Delta'' further reveals that he uses the influence and money he gets from his business to help the poor, and refuses to extort or deceive those who can't afford to be tricked or taken advantage of by him — he's horrified and outraged when a poor person comes to his shop, not because he doesn't want to help him, but because he could have ended up extorting him by mistake, though to keep up appearances, he does pretend that he's outraged to deal with a filthy beggar who can't afford his products or services.]] |
| 259 | ** [[spoiler:Taken to its logical extreme when ''Sanctuarium'', of all organizations, sent someone to recruit him due to his deeds. The envoy left empty-handed.]] |
| 260 | * WealthyPhilanthropist: [[{{Greed}} He's obsessed with money because he believes that it is the key to happiness,]] which means giving out money to those in need will bring them happiness. |
| 261 | [[/folder]] |
| 262 | |
| 263 | [[folder:Vidiara (Lyonesse)]] |
| 264 | The younger sister of Carnatux. She shares his love of money, and is completely loyal to him. Appears in ''Soul Sacrifice Delta''. |
| 265 | |
| 266 | * BigBrotherWorship: She ''adores'' her brother. It's justified because he willingly sacrificed his sight to save her. |
| 267 | * BlingOfWar: Just like her brother, her sorcerer's markings are covered in gold and gems. |
| 268 | * EyeScream: Twice. [[spoiler:To the point the only eye she currently has was originally ''Carnatux's''.]] |
| 269 | [[/folder]] |
| 270 | |
| 271 | [[folder:Aurex]] |
| 272 | A former Avalon sorcerer. |
| 273 | |
| 274 | * GoodOldFisticuffs: He's a user of Arm offerings. |
| 275 | * {{Troll}}: He likes to mess with the player a lot, claiming that they have more debts to pay despite not saying anything beforehand, and others. |
| 276 | [[/folder]] |
| 277 | |
| 278 | [[folder:Cassus]] |
| 279 | * [[TokenHuman Token Romalus]]: The only one in the Bazaar that can't use sorcery. |
| 280 | [[/folder]] |
| 281 | |
| 282 | !!Other sorcerers |
| 283 | |
| 284 | [[folder:Illecebra (Morgan le Fay)]] |
| 285 | * [[spoiler:OneWingedAngel]]: [[spoiler:After beating her in the story, she becomes a gorgon.]] |
| 286 | * IfICantHaveYou |
| 287 | * {{Yandere}}: She is obsessed with dying with Magusar. |
| 288 | [[/folder]] |
| 289 | |
| 290 | [[folder:Monstrux (Galahad)]] |
| 291 | A sorcerer who is rumored to have made thousands of sacrifices. Appears in ''Soul Sacrifice Delta''. |
| 292 | |
| 293 | * BodyHorror: Good lord, [[http://storage.siliconera.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/soulsss05.jpg look at the guy]]... |
| 294 | [[/folder]] |
| 295 | |
| 296 | !!Archfiends and monsters |
| 297 | |
| 298 | Former Humans transformed into various warped caricatures, vile beasts, and sad forms by the Sacred Chalice granting them their desires in their most hopeless moments. Most get LaserGuidedKarma, some get a FateWorseThanDeath, and others are actually satisfied with the results. [[NotMeThisTime Some aren't even created by the Sacred Chalice]], but are created through some sorcery afflicting them. |
| 299 | |
| 300 | [[folder:Tropes That Apply To All]] |
| 301 | |
| 302 | * AssholeVictim: Quite a few deserve to be killed. The rest… |
| 303 | ** TragicMonster[=/=]WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: …You'll probably feel sorry for. |
| 304 | * AttackItsWeakPoint: Every Archfiend has a "Cursed Part", an item or portion of themselves that was crucial to the deal they made with the chalice. (For example, the Cyclops's is the weapon he carries, while the Harpy's are her wings.) Dealing enough damage to this part "breaks" it, rewarding you with an extra Offering related to the Archfiend after the battle and improving your score. Break them all for a secret Offering usually stronger than what you'd get anywhere else at that point. |
| 305 | ** In ''Delta'', some of these parts are purple "Ill-Cursed Parts", which, while fewer than the traditional Cursed Parts (indicated by Red), work out the same way. In both cases, taking out Cursed Parts benefits you in some way. Note that for the GuestFighter Archfiends ([[VideoGame/{{Toukiden}} Chthonian Fiend, Abyssal Fiend]], [[VideoGame/FreedomWars Dionaea]], and [[VideoGame/GodEater2 Marduk]]), Cursed Parts are about the same spots you'd expect in their Source World. |
| 306 | * TheCorruptible: Either by sorcery or the Grail. |
| 307 | * DefeatMeansFriendship: If you choose to save one, although its allegiance might not mesh with yours. |
| 308 | * {{Expy}}: Of [[Manga/{{Berserk}} Apostles]], being corrupted humans who turned into monsters by [[DealWithTheDevil making deals]] with [[ArtifactOfDoom sinister artifacts]] (the Behelit for Apostles; the Sacred Chalice for Archfiends). But unlike Apostles, Archfiends can be saved and [[HeelFaceTurn redeemed]]. |
| 309 | * SevenDeadlySins: Despair included. The Archfiends are categorized by the sin they were most guilty of prior to their transformation. |
| 310 | * WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Played with. It's pointed out that no matter how monstrous they've become, killing Archfiends is still murder. |
| 311 | |
| 312 | [[/folder]] |
| 313 | [[folder:Foul Monsters]] |
| 314 | |
| 315 | !The Goblin |
| 316 | Former masses of rats mutated by magically-enhanced poison bait following a mass outbreak of plague. |
| 317 | |
| 318 | * FusionDance: A big rat with a skull for a nose formed from more smaller rats. |
| 319 | ** TheWormThatWalks |
| 320 | * GoneHorriblyWrong: A sorcerer created magical traps to deal with the Rat infestation, only for certain rats to absorb the magic from the traps, gather its kin to form a body, and attack people. |
| 321 | * TheGoomba: The most common enemy to appear in any setting, with multiple versions to accommodate various locations. |
| 322 | * RedRightHand: All of them have one thick, large arm for swiping attacks. |
| 323 | * YouDirtyRat: They're nasty rats made of smaller ones. |
| 324 | |
| 325 | !The Orc |
| 326 | Mutated cats that absorbed residual magic to combat goblins. Their boldness grew greater, and they turned against their former human masters. |
| 327 | |
| 328 | * CatsAreMean: Taken to its logical extreme, being gluttonous cat-like abominations that betray their masters. |
| 329 | * FatBastard: All of them are nothing more than vaguely cat-like bags of flesh with gaping maws. |
| 330 | * JabbaTableManners: They eat people, are fat to the point that they seem slug-like, and have skulls of their victims visible within their mouths. |
| 331 | |
| 332 | !The Kobold |
| 333 | Trees which were mutated by residual magic. As they grow in wisdom, they grow more cowardly, to the point of fleeing to the ends of the earth to avoid death. |
| 334 | |
| 335 | * FragileSpeedster: They're fast but squishy. |
| 336 | * LovableCoward: There's something strangely adorable about a small tree creature running away from you, particularly when every other living thing in the field tries to maim you. |
| 337 | * MonsterIsAMommy: Some travel with a bunch of little seedlings in tow; should you kill the big kobold, the orphans wander off to find another to follow. |
| 338 | * PinataEnemy: Hitting them with a non-lethal attack turns them into a fruit-bearing tree which can be plucked for power-ups. |
| 339 | * WhenTreesAttack: Subverted; they count as enemies, but the most they do is run away to avoid dying at your hand. |
| 340 | |
| 341 | !The Ghoul |
| 342 | Mutated crows that were transformed by eating the flesh of dead sorcerers. They want to be more like humans, and they conclude that they must be just as greedy as them, if not greedier. |
| 343 | |
| 344 | * AirborneMook: They stay in the air unless they're feeding on a dying enemy. |
| 345 | * CreepyCrows: Nothing's creepier than giant crows that feast on dead sorcerers. |
| 346 | * PlagueDoctor: The Venom variant looks like a plague doctor, complete with mask and robes. |
| 347 | * StockAnimalBehavior: Despite all their goal trying to be like people, they're still attracted to dying creatures, which leaves them more vulnerable to your attacks. |
| 348 | |
| 349 | !The Fruit Spider |
| 350 | Mutated spiders that seek constant food supplies, growing false fruits on their bodies to lure prey in. |
| 351 | |
| 352 | * GiantSpider: They're 5-foot tall spiders. |
| 353 | * {{Irony}}: They first grew the fruits just to lure prey in; as they became more concerned with how sweet the fruit was, they started becoming more active predators, defeating the purpose of the fruit altogether. |
| 354 | |
| 355 | !The Fairy |
| 356 | Bees that have mutated due to magic, who overthrew the queen bee. |
| 357 | * BeeAfraid: They're mutant, spear-wielding bees, and they're the least of your problems. |
| 358 | * TheFairFolk: They're nasty fairies with a tendency for stabbing. |
| 359 | * OurFairiesAreDifferent: Spear-wielding bees transformed by magic. |
| 360 | |
| 361 | !The Gnome |
| 362 | Rabbits transformed by magic, their ears growing into hand-like limbs. |
| 363 | |
| 364 | * DishingOutDirt |
| 365 | * HairRaisingHare: Aggressive rabbits mutated by magic. |
| 366 | * KillerRabbit |
| 367 | |
| 368 | !The Orichalcum |
| 369 | Snails transformed by magic, their shells turning into treasure chests. |
| 370 | |
| 371 | * {{Orichalcum}}: Despite their name, the Orichalcum's shells are made of stone and crystals rather than metal, although their shells are highly sought for due to their beauty and sturdiness. |
| 372 | * PinataEnemy: They won't bolt it, but they're ''very'' unlikely to show up in any Pact (even with a Rumor that lets you try to fudge the odds), but they do grant tons of EXP if the Sorcerer finds the guy by some miracle. |
| 373 | |
| 374 | [[/folder]] |
| 375 | |
| 376 | [[folder:The Proud]] |
| 377 | |
| 378 | !The Valkyrie |
| 379 | The only child of a renowned knight who only sought her father's approval. She became a knight, hoping to gain her father's love by becoming the son he never had. Despite her skill, the disparity of strength between her and her male opponents made her fall into despair. She sacrificed her beauty to the Chalice to double and redouble her skill, becoming a literal dynamo in the process. After hearing that her father died on the battlefield, she sought to become the greatest knight in the world, that her glory would reach her deceased father on earth or in heaven. |
| 380 | |
| 381 | Her true name is Virtatia. |
| 382 | ---- |
| 383 | * TheAtoner: Fights for Sanctuarium if you save her. |
| 384 | * DishingOutDirt: She's weak to stone. |
| 385 | * FragileSpeedster: She moves and flies incredibly fast, making her difficult to catch, but once she's downed, she's very vulnerable to attack. |
| 386 | * HeelFaceTurn: She'll fight for Sanctuarium if you save her. |
| 387 | * Myth/NorseMythology |
| 388 | * ShockAndAwe: Her element. |
| 389 | * [[WellDoneSonGuy Well Done Daughter Girl]]: All she wanted was her father's love. |
| 390 | * WorthyOpponent: Tries to seek soldiers out on the battlefield to battle. |
| 391 | |
| 392 | !The Hydra |
| 393 | A swordsman from a severely impoverished land, he became a mercenary to provide for his family. Born with superhuman dexterous hands, he developed his "Sword-Juggling Style", eventually becoming infamous enough to cause soldiers to flee in fear from him. A scheming general, hoping to defeat the swordsman, bribed a comrade-in-arms of the swordsman to poison his evening meal. After three days and nights of agony, he survived at the expense of his arms and legs becoming crippled. He quickly fell into despair, as his reason for fighting had changed from providing for his family to perfecting his technique. The Chalice appeared before him as he was about to throw himself into the sea. He sacrificed the family he once cared for in return for the technique he lost. Snake-like appendages erupted from his stomach, turning his technique into the "Nine Sword Juggling" style. |
| 394 | |
| 395 | His true name is Anbard. |
| 396 | |
| 397 | * FallenHero: He was once a hardworking man trying to provide for his family. |
| 398 | * GreenThumb: He can poison anyone with his tentacles and cover the map in a purple mist, requiring a venomous armor to prevent being poisoned. |
| 399 | * KillItWithFire: A venom-aligned Archfiend, making him weak to fire. |
| 400 | * MultiArmedAndDangerous: With a sword on each of his tentacles. |
| 401 | * PaletteSwap: Of the Kraken. |
| 402 | * [[PoisonedWeapons Poisoned]] [[NaturalWeapon Tentacles]] |
| 403 | |
| 404 | !The Troll |
| 405 | |
| 406 | A boastful warrior [[MilesGloriosus whose skills didn't live up to the words]]. When word got out that he'd fled from a battle, his home town turned against him. He moved to a smaller village, telling story after story of his skills, his favorite being of the time he slew a troll in single combat. Then a mighty warrior arrived, and saw through all of his tales. As the braggart tried to find a way to escape being thrashed, the chalice appeared... |
| 407 | |
| 408 | * AllTrollsAreDifferent: This one is growing out of a man's back. |
| 409 | * DownloadableContent: Released along with the Basilisk. |
| 410 | * FallenHero: He lost his reputation after losing ''one'' battle — in part because that was the only battle he really took part in as opposed to hanging around the edges… |
| 411 | * MightyGlacier: He's quite slow to move, thanks to that huge monster on his back. His attacks have large reach to compensate, though. |
| 412 | * SmallNameBigEgo and TheAlcoholic: What he became after losing a battle. |
| 413 | |
| 414 | !Beelzebub |
| 415 | A nobleman who refused to do anything for himself. Even as his lands were stricken with disaster and his servents abandoned him, he couldn't swallow his pride and do things for himself. His manor and his health lay in ruins, and at the brink of death, the chalice appeared before him. The Aristocrat wished for servants, so the flies that lived in his manor came to his need. He became the lord of the flies, who no longer needed to take care of himself. |
| 416 | |
| 417 | * DownloadableContent: Released alongside Cat Sith. |
| 418 | * FlunkyBoss: He summons a ton of annoying flies to harass you from afar. |
| 419 | * LazyBum |
| 420 | |
| 421 | !Musicians of Bremen |
| 422 | An old chorus singer who lost his voice and mind to age. Abandoned by his family, he was left only with his mule, which he thought to be his son. The old man couldn't even hear the chalice's offer, but the mule could. The mule sacrificed itself to repay his "father" for his love so that he could be happy. The mule man attracted crowds to listen to his music and adopted a dog as his "son". But the people left, and more sacrifices were made; the man's sons, a dog, a cat, and a rooster. He became so monstrous that the people fled, leaving the old man to wander hoping to find someone to listen to his song. |
| 423 | |
| 424 | * CompanionCube: A mule, a dog, a cat, and a rooster, each of which he mistook for his son. |
| 425 | * [[GrowingUpSucks Getting Old Sucks]] |
| 426 | * PaletteSwap: Of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. |
| 427 | |
| 428 | [[/folder]] |
| 429 | |
| 430 | [[folder:The Envious]] |
| 431 | |
| 432 | !The Cyclops |
| 433 | |
| 434 | A former blacksmith whose crude weapons were seen as inferior to the more elaborate and refined arms forged by a younger blacksmith. No matter how hard he worked, his weapons were always passed over in favor of the younger man's. He seethed, convinced that the "pretty" works of the younger blacksmith were far inferior to his own. As he brooded over this disparity, the chalice appeared... |
| 435 | |
| 436 | His true name is Hendricks. |
| 437 | |
| 438 | * TheBlacksmith: He used to forge weapons. The trident he uses is one of his creations. |
| 439 | * BoringButPractical: He believes that weapons are made to kill, thus he didn't bother refining them. |
| 440 | * EyeScream: He sacrificed one of his eyes to make the trident he wields. |
| 441 | * InferioritySuperiorityComplex: The customers preferred the dazzling weapons of a younger blacksmith over his. And as such, he worked harder... only for his rival to become even better. |
| 442 | * MightyGlacier: He moves fairly slow, but can stick his trident into the ground to catch you even at long distances. |
| 443 | * PaletteSwap: His model looks similar to the Siren. |
| 444 | |
| 445 | !The Leviathan |
| 446 | |
| 447 | The younger of two sons of a king, to whom no attention was ever paid. His father only ever gave him material goods, denying him love, and so the boy destroyed everything he was given. When he killed a little bird he received as a gift, he finally felt power over something for the first time, and relished it. Soon he had the palace servants bring him animals constantly; his favorite was a gift from distant lands, a crocodile that took everything he could give it. As he fed the beast the day of his brother's coronation, filled with anger at his brother's position, the chalice appeared... |
| 448 | |
| 449 | His true name is Herar. |
| 450 | |
| 451 | * GreenEyedMonster: Taken to its logical extreme. |
| 452 | * GrievousHarmWithABody: When not shooting high-pressure water, he will use its body. |
| 453 | * HeelFaceTurn: If you choose to save him, he'll take up a Divine Arm and fight for Sanctuarium. |
| 454 | * KickTheDog: He enjoyed [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing]] [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals little animals]], as wielding power over them made him feel superior. |
| 455 | * KrakenAndLeviathan: As his name implies, he is ''The Leviathan'' to this trope, and oh boy does he ''[[{{Kaiju}} fit that role well]]''. |
| 456 | * MakingASplash: One of Leviathan's attacks is to spray a beam of water at the Sorcerers. One of his Offerings is a [[IceMagicIsWater Frost-elemented]] Spacial Offering that slows down the flow of time. |
| 457 | * MightyGlacier: Leviathan hits really hard and has a ''ton'' of health, but his attacks are fairly slow and telegraphed. |
| 458 | * ShockAndAwe: His weakness, fitting for a SeaMonster. [[{{Irony}} Ironically]], one of his Offerings is a Volt-elemented Mine. |
| 459 | * TheUnfavourite: He was considered inferior to his brother in every single way. |
| 460 | |
| 461 | !Cinderella |
| 462 | |
| 463 | Similar to the fairy tale, Cinderella is left at home, unable to go to the ball. But there is no fairy godmother in this story, so Cinderella simply poisons her sisters with centipede venom. Disguising herself as her sister, she goes to the ball and meets the prince, who is a foot fetishist. Cinderella is found out when the prince (who likes the aroma of feet, not the feet themselves) finds out that she is not the older sister. While running away, she loses her shoes and breaks her legs so she can't be caught. Then the chalice appears, and she sacrificed her legs, but now was able to take the legs of others. She tried to trick the prince again, but failed. So in a last-ditch attempt, she fused her body with a centipede, and continued to steal the legs of others; she even turned her legs to glass to make them more admirable. She will make the prince taste all of them, no matter how many legs she needs to take. |
| 464 | |
| 465 | Her true name is Cinisa. |
| 466 | ---- |
| 467 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: Not so much when she was human, ''VERY'' much so as an archfiend. |
| 468 | * TheAtoner: If you save her, she will state that she wishes for a world without bloodshed, indicating that she wants to atone for her actions as an archfiend. |
| 469 | * CreepyCentipedes: Invoked in her design, thanks to her length and multiple legs. She also used one to poison one of her sisters. |
| 470 | * DeadPersonImpersonation: Tried this with her sister. It failed. |
| 471 | * HeelFaceTurn: If you save her, she will be allied with Sanctuarium. |
| 472 | * KickChick: One of her Cursed Part offerings has you perform a rapid-fire kick, similar to [[Franchise/StreetFighter Chun-Li]]. |
| 473 | * LightningBruiser: Those glass legs make her move surprisingly fast, and allow her to perform powerful sweeping attacks. |
| 474 | * PaletteSwap: Of Gigas. |
| 475 | |
| 476 | !Succubus |
| 477 | |
| 478 | A poor woman who tried to make a living by selling candles, she was desperate to sell even one, lest she faced abuse from her lover. One day, a man pushed her down and mocked her. Overcome with grief, she then saw the man's home and his happy family. Filled with burning jealousy, she burned the house down and began an arsonist spree, burning down houses wherever she went. When she was finally caught, she confessed that she was just trying to make a living for her lover… ''[[spoiler:except he never existed in the first place and was just a statue of wax]].'' And then the chalice appeared to her… |
| 479 | |
| 480 | Her true name is Ignisella. |
| 481 | ---- |
| 482 | * TheAtoner: Like Cinderella, she fights for Sanctuarium if saved, and she approves when you save an archfiend. |
| 483 | * FlunkyBoss: She summons little flame creatures to attack you. |
| 484 | * GreenEyedMonster: She was jealous of every family that had a home, so she began burning them down. |
| 485 | * HeelFaceTurn: If you save her, she'll fight for Sanctuarium. |
| 486 | * KillItWithFire: Her manner of crime. |
| 487 | * MeaningfulName: Her true name, Ignisella, contains the word ''ignis'', which relates to fire; as in 'ignite'. |
| 488 | * PaletteSwap: Of Snow White. |
| 489 | * PlayingWithFire: As hinted by her backstory. |
| 490 | * {{Homage}}: Her backstory is an ''extremely'' warped version of Creator/{{Hans Christian Andersen}}'s ''Literature/TheLittleMatchGirl''. |
| 491 | |
| 492 | [[/folder]] |
| 493 | |
| 494 | [[folder:The Greedy]] |
| 495 | |
| 496 | !The Griffin |
| 497 | |
| 498 | * BeatItByCompulsion: Carries around a bunch of his ill-gotten coins and jewels within his arms as he battles you. So what to do? Target his arms to make him drop them, so he'll spend the next few moments frantically picking them all up again. He's completely vulnerable during this. Dropping a Miserly Coinpurse item will also cause him to abandon fighting temporarily and zero in on the gold. |
| 499 | * BlindedByTheLight: Can use the riches held in his arms to emit a blinding flash of light at foes. |
| 500 | * ClipItsWings: Want to stop this fellow from flapping around and pecking at you from the sky? ''Break his wings''. He'll be grounded for the rest of the battle and be much easier to handle. |
| 501 | * DeathFromAbove: Mostly likes to keep out of your reach and surprise you with diving attacks from above. |
| 502 | * FeatheredFiend |
| 503 | * FusionDance: The chalice granted his wish by having him merge with the statue he obsessed over. |
| 504 | * GemEncrusted: Several large gems are embedded into his armored hide. |
| 505 | * GoldMakesEverythingShiny |
| 506 | * TheScrooge: If an avaricious slime is the poorest of the greedy, the griffin is the richest of them. |
| 507 | |
| 508 | !The Wyvern |
| 509 | |
| 510 | An assassin noted for his incredible hearing. He identified with bats (who also have such hearing), and when the nobleman he worked for sent men to kill him, he gave up his ears to the chalice. Bat wings grew from his head in their place, and he became increasingly more chiropteran. |
| 511 | |
| 512 | His true name is Vesden. |
| 513 | |
| 514 | * AnimalMotifs: The bat. |
| 515 | * DopplegangerSpin: Can send out shadowy decoys that hover around you. Hitting the one with the shadow beneath it will stagger him, giving you ample time to wail on him. Fail to do so in time, and he'll hit you for major damage. |
| 516 | * FragileSpeedster: He's very fast and quite difficult to catch, but he becomes very vulnerable to attack once you stagger him. |
| 517 | * GoneHorriblyWrong: [[AssassinsAreAlwaysBetrayed His employer tried to have him killed]]... which did not work. |
| 518 | * ProfessionalKiller: He worked for a noble as his personal assassin. |
| 519 | * SuperSenses: His hearing. |
| 520 | |
| 521 | !The Pegasus |
| 522 | |
| 523 | * [[AnIcePerson An Ice Archfiend]] |
| 524 | * PaletteSwap: Of the Phoenix, with a icy variant of her attacks. [[JustifiedTrope Due to a insect bite.]] His true name is also similar to the Phoenix's true name (Erran to her Errany). |
| 525 | * ShockAndAwe: His elemental weakness. |
| 526 | |
| 527 | !The Slime |
| 528 | |
| 529 | There is no one Slime. The key to becoming one, instead, is to press your body beyond its limits in the pursuit of your hungers. Be they for gold, meat, love, revenge, if you should be too driven by what you want, the chalice may just appear to you... |
| 530 | |
| 531 | * BlobMonster |
| 532 | * PaletteSwap: The Slime comes in two variants: The Avaricious slime, who is composed of gold and jewels, and the Carnivorous one looks like a fusion of food, bones, and a fork. |
| 533 | * RocksFallEveryoneDies: He will permanently throw blobs of food/gold. |
| 534 | * TheGhost: It's directly stated that a version of the Slime for The Lustful exists, and it's implied there's a version of the slime for ''every'' type of Archfiend, but we only see the ones for The Greedy and The Gluttonous. |
| 535 | |
| 536 | !Ouroboros |
| 537 | |
| 538 | One of the world's greatest inventors, his dream was simple — to make a carriage that would require no horses, one powered by the lightning. No one dared to back his projects, however, and every prototype he built was a failure. Desperate to harness the lightning, to make just ''one'' carriage that would work, he went a step too far and donned metal armor in a thunderstorm. When the lightning struck and his life was about to end, the chalice appeared... |
| 539 | |
| 540 | His true name is Ginmar. |
| 541 | |
| 542 | * AwesomeButImpractical: His inventions were described as such. |
| 543 | * BodyHorror: He made a wheel out of his own body. |
| 544 | * DeathFromAbove: One of his attacks involves summoning thunderstorms. |
| 545 | * DownloadableContent: Released along with the Wraith. |
| 546 | * ForScience: A scientist obsessed with perpetual motion. |
| 547 | * GadgeteerGenius: His goal? Building a horseless carriage. |
| 548 | * ShockAndAwe: His element. Also how the inventor planned to power his invention. |
| 549 | * TheSparkOfGenius |
| 550 | * TooDumbToLive: Let's just say that wearing a suit of armor in the middle of a thunderstorm isn't the brightest of ideas. |
| 551 | |
| 552 | !The Leprechauns |
| 553 | |
| 554 | The three sons of a cobbler, each trained in the art themselves. Independently of each other, the three worked out that material is the key to a fine shoe, and the smarter the animal, the better the shoe. They soon took it to the logical extreme, and realized that ''humans'' would make the best shoes. As they wondered how to make this a reality, the chalice appeared to all three of them — something they didn't realize until ''after'' all agreeing to sacrifice the other two. |
| 555 | |
| 556 | Their true name is Nadox. |
| 557 | |
| 558 | * DownloadableContent: Released along with the Incubus. |
| 559 | * PaletteSwap: Of the Dwarves. |
| 560 | * ToServeMan: Or to make shoes of them, anyways... |
| 561 | |
| 562 | !The Chimera |
| 563 | |
| 564 | * Myth/GreekMythology |
| 565 | * WellDoneSonGuy: He just wanted to make his father proud. |
| 566 | |
| 567 | [[/folder]] |
| 568 | |
| 569 | [[folder:The Angry]] |
| 570 | |
| 571 | !The Cerberus |
| 572 | |
| 573 | The guard for a quiet village, forever flanked by his twin hunting dogs. He protected it from everything that would dare attack it from without... but then a plague struck the village. As people began to flee, the guard realized that he would have nothing left to protect if they all left, and he began to kill any villager who tried to leave. Eventually, in desperation, someone impaled him with a spear. As the guard lay dying, enraged at the betrayal, the chalice appeared... |
| 574 | |
| 575 | His true name is Lorfram. |
| 576 | |
| 577 | * Myth/GreekMythology |
| 578 | * {{Hellhound}}: Subverted. This Cerberus, despite being the usual tri-headed dog, differs by being capable of ShockAndAwe and by being born from the FusionDance between a guardsman and his two hunting dogs. |
| 579 | * LightningBruiser: [[ShockAndAwe LITERALLY!]] This 3-headed beast of an Archfiend has high mobility for its size, hits like a truck, and can take a huge punishment unless you're using Stone-elemented spells, and even then he still takes a while to beat until you finally take him down. |
| 580 | * LodgedBladeRecycling: One of his attacks involves using the spear that pierced through his body. |
| 581 | * ShockAndAwe: Most of his attacks involve this. Let it be from the spear in his chest, his other heads... |
| 582 | * TheJailer: He was so obsessed with protecting his town that he ultimately became this when he prevented the townspeople from leaving despite the deadly outbreak. |
| 583 | |
| 584 | !The Minotaur |
| 585 | |
| 586 | A young woman born of an affair between her land's Duke and a maid. She was hidden away in a deep labyrinth, wearing an iron mask, to prevent the Duchess from finding out that she existed. One day, she escaped and went looking for her mother, who it turned out was now in a convent. The Duchess had found out anyway and tortured the woman into madness. As she cradled her broken mother in her arms, the chalice appeared... |
| 587 | |
| 588 | Her true name is Ardroth. |
| 589 | |
| 590 | * HealingFactor: Her axe is one of her cursed parts, and as long as it remains active, she'll heal herself. |
| 591 | * GreenEyedMonster: Both figuratively and literally. The literal part, she had her father's green eyes, which was a trait of his lineage. The figurative part comes in that all she ever wanted was a loving family, which the Duke and his [[GreenEyedMonster wife]] never let her have. |
| 592 | * MightyGlacier: She moves and attacks slowly, at least until you knock her axe out of her hands, then she starts running ''really'' fast to reclaim it. |
| 593 | * RoyalBastard: She was the result between an affair between a Duke and one of his maids. |
| 594 | * TalkingWeapon: Her axe ''is'' her mother, and says her name over and over as she carries it. |
| 595 | |
| 596 | !The Kraken |
| 597 | |
| 598 | A sailor who loved nothing more than his ship. When he was hired to carry royal gems, his ship was attacked and taken over by pirates. He joined the navy to hunt them down, and eventually became known as the scourge of piracy. Eventually, he did find his ship, and realized that it was beyond repair. As he wept over its loss, the chalice appeared... |
| 599 | |
| 600 | His true name is Aldefran. |
| 601 | |
| 602 | * CombatTentacles: Fitting for his name, he sports a ton of them all over his body. |
| 603 | * CompanionCube: His ship. |
| 604 | * AnIcePerson: His elemental affinity is Frost. |
| 605 | * KrakenAndLeviathan: He's ''the Kraken'' of this trope, and he's covered in tons of tentacles made of ice. |
| 606 | * MakingASplash: He can flood the map, reducing the player's speed. [[GoodBadBugs This debuff used to be negated with Ice armor.]] |
| 607 | * PaletteSwap: He shares his model with the Hydra. |
| 608 | * ShockAndAwe: His weakness. |
| 609 | |
| 610 | !The Basilisk |
| 611 | |
| 612 | A sickly man whose parents hired a woman to care for him. She was a homely woman, and fell in love with him in part because his condition left him blind, unable to see her ugliness. When he started to heal, she began to poison him, and one day she overdid it. As he lay dying, she confessed her crime... and that was when the chalice appeared. |
| 613 | |
| 614 | * DownloadableContent: Released along with the Troll. |
| 615 | * FragileSpeedster: He's fast and difficult to catch, just like the Valkyrie, with the same vulnerability. |
| 616 | |
| 617 | !Snow White |
| 618 | |
| 619 | * AbusiveParent: Doesn't even begin to describe her mother. |
| 620 | * EnergyWeapon: Can launch these from her mirror eye until it's broken. |
| 621 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After killing her mother. |
| 622 | * OurDwarvesAreDifferent: Hers are apples with legs. |
| 623 | |
| 624 | !Pied Piper of Hamelin |
| 625 | |
| 626 | * MisBlamed: InUniverse, for a child abduction. |
| 627 | * MonsterClown: A horrifying cross between a clown and a rat. |
| 628 | * ThenLetMeBeEvil: A heroic example... at least in motivation, anyways... |
| 629 | * PestController: For the rats. |
| 630 | * YouDirtyRat: He appears as a [[AnimalisticAbomination giant malformed]] rat, although his motives are more sympathetic than other examples of this trope. |
| 631 | |
| 632 | [[/folder]] |
| 633 | |
| 634 | [[folder:The Lustful]] |
| 635 | |
| 636 | !The Elven Queen |
| 637 | |
| 638 | A barren woman who so badly desired a child that she took to kidnapping them. Chased from her home, she ended up in a field of dandelions, too wounded to escape. The chalice appeared before her, and she took the dandelions into herself. Now she thinks of them as her children, and will do anything to keep them from leaving the valley. |
| 639 | |
| 640 | Her true name is Anrakh. |
| 641 | |
| 642 | * KillItWithFire: She's weak to fire. |
| 643 | * OurElvesAreDifferent: They're little beings born out of dandelions. |
| 644 | * SpinAttack: One of her attacks has her spin around the stage very quickly, making it difficult to dodge her attacks. |
| 645 | * TurnsRed: She'll literally turn red when you damage her enough, changing how her attacks work, but she'll eventually revert. |
| 646 | * WouldHurtAChild: She was an infamous baby kidnapper. |
| 647 | |
| 648 | !The Siren |
| 649 | |
| 650 | A young woman who fell in love with a nobleman, and once sang to the sea for days in order to bring back his boat. They became engaged, but when he went on a long voyage, she eventually heard that he'd married a rich woman instead. So she traded her song to the chalice in exchange for a song that brings down storms and causes pain... |
| 651 | |
| 652 | Her true name is Adreid. |
| 653 | ---- |
| 654 | * HeelFaceTurn: She will fight for Sanctuarium if you save her. |
| 655 | * MightyGlacier: She's slow to move, but her long%ranged streams of water compensate for it. |
| 656 | * PaletteSwap: She looks similar to the Cyclops. |
| 657 | * KillItWithIce: Can fire high-pressure streams of water from her instrument with a high chance of freezing. |
| 658 | |
| 659 | !The Dullahan |
| 660 | |
| 661 | A masochistic knight who was infamous for laughing every time he was struck. When his reputation started to drive opponents away, he took to garbing himself in chains to make it easier for them to hit him. When ''that'' didn't work, he realized that what he ''really'' wanted was to taste death. And then the chalice appeared... |
| 662 | ---- |
| 663 | * CombatSadomasochist: He actively directed his opponents to wound him. It got to the point that his only pastime was having his henchmen torture him for his own pleasure. |
| 664 | * DownloadableContent: Released along with the Behemoth. |
| 665 | * EpicFlail: Of the Head and Chain variety. |
| 666 | * LightningBruiser: He moves surprisingly fast, his attacks have a wide range, and can power them up to OneHitKill levels. |
| 667 | * OffWithHisHead: When the chalice appeared, he decapitated himself. Now the head floats alongside him, and serves as his Cursed Part. His Offering is a [[StuffBlowingUp Mine Offering]] based on his head. |
| 668 | |
| 669 | !The Incubus |
| 670 | |
| 671 | A brilliant but insane artist, he never managed to sell anything. This was because all of his paintings were based on the most horrible things he could think of; he refused to compromise his vision, which kept his works from being marketable. Even with that, he despaired at ever truly getting his imagination down on canvas. And then the chalice appeared. |
| 672 | |
| 673 | His true name is Jessom. |
| 674 | ---- |
| 675 | * BodyHorror: He smashed his body into a gross potato-sack-looking thing, so he could absorb his patrons into himself. |
| 676 | * DownloadableContent: Released with the Leprechauns. |
| 677 | * MadArtist |
| 678 | * PaletteSwap: Of Alice. |
| 679 | |
| 680 | !The Iron Maiden/Virgin |
| 681 | |
| 682 | Once a simple woman who fell in love with a wounded knight, in order to win his love, the chalice gave the woman the power of healing through the shedding of her own blood. Driven by her intense affection for the man, she proceeded to use all sorts of torture tools to spill her blood to fill up to three large barrels. She returned to the knight, only for him to die of the sheer shock of seeing her in such a state. With this, her head had fallen off from all of the blood she had spilled. So she wanders, lamenting her failure. |
| 683 | ---- |
| 684 | * BloodMagic: She can give life by spilling blood. |
| 685 | * ColdBloodedTorture: Inflicted a great deal of it on ''herself'' just to spill more of her blood. |
| 686 | * DownloadableContent: As a standalone archfiend. |
| 687 | * LightningBruiser: She's surprisingly fast and sturdy, her attacks are difficult to avoid, and can power them up to borderline OneHitKill levels. |
| 688 | * NonElemental: One of the few archfiends to have no weaknesses, making her quite challenging to fight. |
| 689 | * PaletteSwap: Of Dullahan. |
| 690 | |
| 691 | !Naked Emperor |
| 692 | ---- |
| 693 | * BodyHorror: The dude's SEE-THROUGH. As in, you can see every pulsating muscle and organ under his skin. |
| 694 | * FullFrontalAssault: When not assuming his functions, he acts as a streaker. |
| 695 | * ShockAndAwe: Also a literal LightningBruiser. His offerings are also Volt-elemented. |
| 696 | * UniversallyBelovedLeader: Deconstructed. His subjects loved his image as a perfect ruler rather than an actual person. |
| 697 | * WolverineClaws: Sports a pair of them, and his Volt-elemented [[BloodyMurder Blood Offering]] is based on them. |
| 698 | |
| 699 | !Frog Prince |
| 700 | ---- |
| 701 | * AbhorrentAdmirer |
| 702 | * BondageIsBad: Oh so very much. |
| 703 | * LoveMakesYouEvil and LoveMakesYouCrazy: An understatement. |
| 704 | * MakingASplash: With ''sweat'', no less. ''Gross.'' That does give him a crippling weakness to lightning, though. |
| 705 | * PaletteSwap: Of the Tortoise and the Hare. |
| 706 | * {{Yandere}}: Yet another understatement. |
| 707 | |
| 708 | !Tortoise and the Hare |
| 709 | ---- |
| 710 | * BondageIsBad: Seems to be a shared theme with the Frog Prince. |
| 711 | * {{Dominatrix}}: The Hare herself. |
| 712 | * HairRaisingHare: It's in the name! Then again, the Tortoise does all the dirty work for her. |
| 713 | * PaletteSwap: With the Frog Prince. |
| 714 | |
| 715 | [[/folder]] |
| 716 | |
| 717 | [[folder:The Slothful]] |
| 718 | |
| 719 | !The Centaur |
| 720 | |
| 721 | An incredibly lazy bowman who once worked for a lord, but decided that robbing people was easier. He had a wagon turned into his home, where he no longer moved — he didn't even feed himself, having the bandits who served him do it instead. When he killed them to stop their chattering and started to starve, he gave up his body to the chalice and became one with the wagon. |
| 722 | |
| 723 | * ArrogantKungFuGuy: Being a born weapon master, he looks to those who train with contempt. |
| 724 | * DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:He tried to kill himself when life became too much of a hassle, but realized that as long as the horse lived, he couldn't die — and he couldn't reach it.]] |
| 725 | * FaceHeelTurn: He used to be a bodyguard for a lord, but decided to be a bandit later. |
| 726 | * KillItWithFire: His element. |
| 727 | * KillItWithIce: His elemental weakness. |
| 728 | * LazyBum |
| 729 | * PaletteSwap: Of the Unicorn. |
| 730 | |
| 731 | !The Gargoyle |
| 732 | |
| 733 | An indolent young man who grew tired of life as a nobleman, and sacrificed his flesh to the chalice to become a rock, ignored and unnoticed. Which was fine, until he fell in love with a girl who repositioned him. Then the chalice appeared again... |
| 734 | |
| 735 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: And how! |
| 736 | * DishingOutDirt: His attacks in a nutshell. |
| 737 | * PaletteSwap: Of Jack Frost and the Jack-o'-Lantern. |
| 738 | |
| 739 | !Cat Sith |
| 740 | |
| 741 | A young prince who wanted to become just like a cat instead of being the next king. |
| 742 | |
| 743 | * AnimalisticAbomination: Just like the other non-humanoid Archfiends, Cat Sith is a horrific parody of a feline. |
| 744 | * CatsAreMean: He's a pretty ''nasty'' one to say the least. |
| 745 | * CuteKitten: He adopted a kitten while venturing outside. [[spoiler:He ended up sacrificing it.]] |
| 746 | * DownloadableContent: Released along with Beelzebub. |
| 747 | * LightningBruiser: Thankfully [[NonElemental not]] [[ShockAndAwe literal]] this time, but he still moves fast and hits hard, and he's got a hefty amount of health. |
| 748 | * PaletteSwap: Of the Wraith. |
| 749 | * WolverineClaws: Cat Sith sports a pair of these, appropriate for a catlike monster. His [[BloodyMurder Blood Offering]] is also based on these, dealing low but fast non-elemental damage-per-second. |
| 750 | |
| 751 | !Three Little Pigs |
| 752 | |
| 753 | * FatBastard |
| 754 | * LazyBum |
| 755 | |
| 756 | [[/folder]] |
| 757 | |
| 758 | [[folder:The Gluttonous]] |
| 759 | |
| 760 | !The Harpy |
| 761 | |
| 762 | * FatBitch: A fat tub of lard as a human, and a cannibal at that. |
| 763 | * ExtremeOmnivore |
| 764 | * IAmAHumanitarian: She ate her beloved and all his belongings. |
| 765 | * KillItWithFire: She's weak to fire, despite not being Venom-based. [[LogicalWeakness Must be her fat.]] |
| 766 | |
| 767 | !The Behemoth |
| 768 | |
| 769 | A boy who wanted nothing more than apples. His hunger for them grew so overbearing that his family was forced to drive him away, as they could no longer afford to feed him. The chalice offered him one more apple, and now there is a tree upon his back. And as long as he can eat the apples it grows, he doesn't care what he has to do to keep it healthy. |
| 770 | |
| 771 | * BlowYouAway: Can fire off tornadoes that home in on you. |
| 772 | * DownloadableContent: Released along with the Dullahan. |
| 773 | * KillItWithFire: Naturally, being a tree, his weakness is fire. |
| 774 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: His favorite food, and one of his main modes of attack: either the apples growing on his back spit seeds at you, or detach entirely and become drones to back him up. |
| 775 | |
| 776 | !The Dwarves |
| 777 | |
| 778 | Three men who did nothing more than drink all day long. They sacrificed their health to the chalice when their mead ran out, and discovered that their sweat had turned into mead. When they stopped sweating, they realized that it didn't need to be ''their own'' sweat... |
| 779 | |
| 780 | * TheAlcoholic |
| 781 | * DownloadableContent: Released along with the Ogre. |
| 782 | * KillItWithFire: They're weak to fire. [[JustifiedTrope Considering the barrels they wear are filled with sweat turned into alcohol...]] |
| 783 | * LogicalWeakness: One of alcohol's properties? [[KillItWithFire It's flammable!]] |
| 784 | * PaletteSwap: Of the Leprechauns. |
| 785 | * PoisonousPerson: They are of the Venom attribute. |
| 786 | * TheNeedForMead: Their drink of choice. Hell, it's what the sweat gathered in their barrels turns into. |
| 787 | |
| 788 | !The Ogre |
| 789 | |
| 790 | A chef, and a supremely talented one, who worked for a king who insisted on a new dish every single day. When she ran out of ingredients she hadn't used, the chalice made her an offer... and so she used her ''tongue'' in a soup that the king now insisted on having all the time. [[ImAHumanitarian So she looks ever for ingredients.]] |
| 791 | |
| 792 | Her true name is Rynalm. |
| 793 | |
| 794 | * DownloadableContent: Released along with the Dwarves. |
| 795 | * HeelFaceTurn: Fights for Sanctuarium if saved. |
| 796 | * KillItWithFire: Being a palace chef, she'll throw burning food at you. |
| 797 | * KillItWithIce: Her weakness is ice-based spells. |
| 798 | * LethalChef: Literally, after becoming an Archfiend. |
| 799 | ** Before becoming an Archfiend, she accidentally poisoned the royal family with a foreign ingredient she never worked with before. |
| 800 | * PaletteSwap: Of the Minotaur. |
| 801 | * SupremeChef: She was a naturally talented chef. |
| 802 | * ToServeMan |
| 803 | |
| 804 | !Hansel and Gretel |
| 805 | After the fields of a town were destroyed by locusts, a married couple had to abandon their children in woods to avoid starvation. As the children starved to death, the chalice appeared; the children gave their limbs for food. Their limbs now candy, they thought they could make their family happy if they shared with them. But their parents and the town chased them to the woods in fear that they were undead monsters coming for revenge. Now left in the forest to be eaten by locusts, they found happiness. They felt needed by the locusts, so they made a wish to be in a family of them. They sacrificed what was left of their bodies given by the parents and became a candy village, part human, part candy, and part locust. |
| 806 | |
| 807 | Their true name is Pryderi. |
| 808 | ---- |
| 809 | * AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: They replace the Leviathan fight in ''Delta''. It serves as proof that something has changed with Librom's contents. |
| 810 | * BigCreepyCrawlies: They appear as a pair of massive locusts with human arms, complete with candy frosting. |
| 811 | * BodyHorror: Their use of the Chalice turned their limbs into ''fucking candy''. Using the chalice again turned them into a horrifying abomination of candy, human flesh, and the body of a locust. |
| 812 | * EnfanteTerrible: They're children who became Archfiends. They're also one of ''the'' most powerful Archfiends in the game. How so? The first time you can fight them starts at ''level 15, the highest difficulty.'' |
| 813 | * GeniusLoci: While they appear as colossal, frosting-caked locusts, their true form is the very candy village itself. |
| 814 | * HeelFaceTurn: Fights for Sanctuarium if saved. |
| 815 | * ParentalAbandonment: Just like in the story. |
| 816 | * {{Superboss}}: You don't need to defeat them to complete the story, but if you choose to fight them, take note of their ''level 15 difficulty'' so you can brace yourself for a ''tough'' battle. |
| 817 | |
| 818 | [[/folder]] |
| 819 | |
| 820 | [[folder:The Desperate]] |
| 821 | |
| 822 | !The Jack-o'-Lantern |
| 823 | * KillItWithIce: His weakness. |
| 824 | * PaletteSwap: Of Jack Frost and the Gargoyle. |
| 825 | * PlayingWithFire: His element. |
| 826 | |
| 827 | !The Jack Frost |
| 828 | * [[AnIcePerson An Ice Archfiend]] |
| 829 | * HonorBeforeReason: Due to them being duty-bound to their lord, who ordered them to repel winter. |
| 830 | * PaletteSwap: Of the Gargoyle and the Jack-o'-Lantern. |
| 831 | * KillItWithIce: His element. |
| 832 | * ShockAndAwe: His elemental weakness. |
| 833 | |
| 834 | !The Unicorn |
| 835 | |
| 836 | After taking the place of the old king, the new king arranged the assassination. But the new king became worried, what if he were to fall the same way. Trapped in anxiety, he let his health deteriorate, avoiding anything and anyone that could kill him. He would never leave his chambers without a suit of armor, but still he was afraid. Then the chalice came and gave the monarch an impenetrable suit of amor, almost fused to the king's body. In one final test, he asked the assassin he hired to shoot an arrow of ice into his brow. The arrow became a horn, it felt like nothing happened. This only helped for a short while, and the man's worries still haunt him. |
| 837 | |
| 838 | His true name is Rakasar. |
| 839 | |
| 840 | * TheAtoner: Fights for Sanctuarium if saved. |
| 841 | * AnIcePerson: As opposed to the Centaur's fire powers. |
| 842 | * PaletteSwap: Of the Centaur. |
| 843 | * TheParanoiac: Drove him to make the deal with the Chalice. |
| 844 | * ShockAndAwe: His weakness. |
| 845 | * {{Unicorn}} |
| 846 | |
| 847 | !The Phoenix |
| 848 | A girl who became nothing more than a slave in her household, forced to help her mother take care of her father, slowly watching as any chance of living life escaped her. Even losing one chance when a traveller fell in love with her and they tried to elope. They were caught, she lay locked into her faraway home, almost forgotten by the traveller completely. Her family passed and she had to take care of her mother's phony moth potion business, finally deciding to burn the business and herself to the ground along with the poor moths. The chalice arrived, but she had nothing to give, then the now older traveller returned. She was reborn from the ashes, and began life anew. But her life grew short, as burning herself and others to be reborn started giving her moth-like traits. She was desperate to avoid age and the moths that ruined her life, but to no avail. She was stuck in a ever-burning loop between newborn baby and decrepitude. |
| 849 | |
| 850 | Her true name is Errany. |
| 851 | |
| 852 | * AnimalMotifs[=/=]BigCreepyCrawly: The moth, rather than the usual bird. |
| 853 | * KillItWithFire: Fire balls? Rain of fire? Fiery kamikaze explosion followed by a rebirth? |
| 854 | * KillItWithIce: Her weakness is ice-based spells. |
| 855 | * MothMenace |
| 856 | * ThePhoenix: Just like the bird of legend, she can be reborn from her ashes. The catch is that she becomes more moth-like after each rebirth and each cycle gets shorter. |
| 857 | |
| 858 | !The Wraith |
| 859 | |
| 860 | A woman who used her beauty to live a hedonistic lifestyle, which resulted in her contact with a disease that ravaged her body. She sacrificed her human body to elude death, becoming a hazy glowing spectre. She soon was caught in the boredom of immortality, realizing she took her finite life for granted. She came to a church and took the colors of its stained glass windows, only to realize no one could see her and her beauty, growing several sighing mouths. She still wanders to this day, still eluding death. |
| 861 | |
| 862 | * DownloadableContent: Released alongside Ouroboros. |
| 863 | * TheHedonist: She was this until the illness started eating away at her body. |
| 864 | * OurGhostsAreDifferent |
| 865 | * WhoWantsToLiveForever |
| 866 | |
| 867 | !Red Riding Hood |
| 868 | |
| 869 | * AnimalMotifs: Wolves. |
| 870 | * BlackKnight: The wolf knight's armor is jet black. |
| 871 | * ConArtist: Both the wolf knight and the elder; the old woman was just better. |
| 872 | * {{Expy}}: It's hard not to see [[Manga/{{Berserk}} the Berserker Armor]] in his design. |
| 873 | * OurWerewolvesAreDifferent |
| 874 | |
| 875 | !Lizardman |
| 876 | |
| 877 | * CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption[=/=]MercyKill: Unlike other Archfiends, they can ''only'' be Sacrificed to finish them off. However, like the Bounty Hunters that are out for your blood in the original, you have to try to save them at least once in order to get their Life Essence. |
| 878 | * LizardFolk: ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, although they're supernatural and [[InexplicablyTailless tailless]] examples. |
| 879 | |
| 880 | !Alice |
| 881 | A sorceress who went mad trying to rescue her daughter from a place called Wonderland... a daughter and place that never existed. Created a training ground for sorcerers to try and find a replacement... known as Alice's Wonderland. |
| 882 | |
| 883 | * AliceAllusion: She is explicitly based on the titular Alice from ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'', including the tea pot motif as a reference to the Mad Hatter. |
| 884 | * BossRush: This Archfiend only appears in the dedicated arena known as "Alice's Hollow", where to even get to her, one has to go though just about every other Archfiend (in both standard and Gemini flavors) just to reach her. |
| 885 | * CompulsiveLiar: She was known as one; no wonder why no one believed her about her daughter and Wonderland. [[RightForTheWrongReasons Although it's actually because her memories mixed up with those of people she sacrificed]]... |
| 886 | * PaletteSwap: Of the Incubus. |
| 887 | |
| 888 | !Bahamut |
| 889 | |
| 890 | * {{BFS}}: He can summon one made of pure energy. [[AttackItsWeakPoint Unless a sorcerer destroys his stomach.]] |
| 891 | * FusionDance: They are Lizardmen who absorbed [[MetalSlime Orichalcum]], giant snails with treasure chests as their shells. |
| 892 | * KamehameHadoken: He can fire a massive, sweeping energy beam from his stomach. |
| 893 | * OurDragonsAreDifferent: Bahamut is clearly a DraconicHumanoid made of stone. |
| 894 | * RammingAlwaysWorks: One of his attacks. Breaking cursed parts allow the player to do this themself as a Blitz offering. |
| 895 | * WingedHumanoid: Fitting for a DraconicHumanoid, Bahamut sports a pair of massive wings that lets him fly and boosts his agility unless a sorcerer [[ClipItsWings destroys them]]. |
| 896 | |
| 897 | [[/folder]] |
| 898 | |
| 899 | [[folder:Gods]] |
| 900 | |
| 901 | !Romalus God Soul (Romulus) |
| 902 | |
| 903 | * AdaptationNameChange: Romulus in the original Japanese version, but Romalus in the NA and PAL versions. |
| 904 | * AngelicAbomination: Also a HumanoidAbomination to a degree, Romulus appears as a one-winged cherub, but the other tropes below show that he's more (morbid) than he appears, being a powerful god of light and order, yet is also partially responsible for the CrapsackWorld setting and EternalRecurrence. |
| 905 | * BodyHorror: To a lesser extent than his twin, but it bears some mentioning. Romalus has a fairly normal skin complexion on his left side, but his right side has porcelain-like skin and his golden robes look as though they are seemingly ''melting'' on his body. |
| 906 | * CainAndAbel: Romulus heavily opposes his younger brother, Cert, both [[OrderVersusChaos out of the forces they represent]] and for control over the world. [[spoiler:Romulus succeeds in sealing his brother ''inside the Earth'', but even then Cert still gets the last laugh through the Sacred Chalice.]] |
| 907 | * DishingOutDirt: One of his attacks is to raise his whip and slam it down on whatever is in front of him, striking the ground with such force that it causes the earth itself to shoot upward on either side. |
| 908 | * EnfantTerrible: Like his brother, Romalus looks like a giant baby. |
| 909 | * EvilVersusEvil: Romulus is the god of [[LightIsNotGood light]] and [[OrderIsNotGood order]] and he opposes his younger brother, the god of [[DarkIsEvil darkness]] and [[ChaosIsEvil chaos]]. They're both villains, although the elder brother is [[ALighterShadeOfBlack somewhat better]]. |
| 910 | * GodAndSatanAreBothJerks: Romulus serves the role of God and Cert serves the role of Satan. Both of them are responsible for the CrapsackWorld setting and EternalRecurrence that kick off the plot of the game, although Romulus at least wants to make a world free from greed and chaos. |
| 911 | * GodIsEvil: Well, kind of. He definitely is bad news for humanity, but he represents good, order, and temperance compared to his brother. The issue comes from his role in the EternalRecurrence, which drives the entire plot of ''Soul Sacrifice''. |
| 912 | * GoldAndWhiteAreDivine: In stark contrast with his [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver red and black]] brother, Romulus is clad in gold and white, emphasizing his angelic appearance. [[LightIsNotGood Not that he's a good guy]]. |
| 913 | * GoodWingsEvilWings: Bears a single, golden, feathered wing upon his left shoulder, the type that is usually associated with angels and cherubs... [[SubvertedTrope unfortunately]], Romalus himself is ''not'' such a nice guy. |
| 914 | * GreaterScopeVillain: Alongside his brother: the feud between the two is the cause of all the misery in the game. |
| 915 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Romulus is the God of reason and logic, yet he keeps up with the feud against his brother rather than try to reason with him. |
| 916 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: Uses a large golden whip as his weapon, but it's actually part of of the aforementioned melting robe and is shown emerging from over his stomach, implying that it's actually his [[{{Squick}} umbilical cord]]. |
| 917 | * LightEmUp: One of his attacks has him summoning orbs of light for him to pelt you with. |
| 918 | * LightIsNotGood: A cherub-like god with an angel-like wing, clad in a gold robe, who represents virtues like order, and utilizes the the power of light in his fighting style? Surely, he's one of the good guys, right? [[GodIsEvil Well...]] |
| 919 | * ALighterShadeOfBlack: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. While he seems slightly better than Cert for representing reason and temperance (which are much more benevolent qualities than greed and chaos) and for [[SealedEvilInACan sealing him away]], Romulus is hardly any better than his brother, given the fact that he seeks a world of order without any concern for all the death and suffering caused by his feud against his brother; a feud he's just as responsible for. [[spoiler:[[LeakingCanOfEvil Also, sealing Cert away still didn't stop him from influencing mortals]] through the Sacred Chalice]]. |
| 920 | * MeaningfulName: Romalus/Romulus draws his name from the Roman king of the same name (spelled as Romulus). In the legend, Romulus and his twin brother Remus quarreled over the location of their new kingdom, leading Remus to be killed by his twin, who went on to take on the glory of king himself. [[spoiler:This is exactly how his relationship with Cert went, imprisoning his brother within the earth after they argued over their ownership of the world.]] |
| 921 | * NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: It seems that Romulus wants to create an [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans ordered paradise-like world free from greed]] and tries to SaveTheWorld with an envoy to ensure said its existence. This sounds noble until you realize that countless lives suffer in the process. Not to mention, his sole reason to save the world is to make a medium of order for the sake of order, completely unconcerned of the death and suffering around him. |
| 922 | * OrderIsNotGood: Desires to keep order in the world, no matter how much everyone is suffering. |
| 923 | * OrderVersusChaos: The order to Cert's chaos. [[spoiler:He triumphed over his brother in their feud for creation long before the story's events. Not that it stopped [[LeakingCanofEvil Cert from being a threat]].]] |
| 924 | * OurAngelsAreDifferent: Not actually an angel and more like a powerful god, but Romulus certainly got the [[AngelicAbomination design philosophy]] in terms of [[LightIsNotGood appearance]], at least. |
| 925 | * SaveTheWorld: A warped example where Romulus focuses his powers to preserve order for the sake of the world itself, not the life that's living on said world. |
| 926 | * WalkingSpoiler: Any details involving Romulus and his brother will spoil the game's backstory and plot. |
| 927 | |
| 928 | !Druid God Soul (Cert) |
| 929 | |
| 930 | * AdaptationNameChange: Cert in the original Japanese version, but Druid in the NA and PAL versions. |
| 931 | * BerserkButton: [[spoiler:Attacking the Chalice directly is a good way to piss him off. Just ask Similia.]] |
| 932 | * BodyHorror: As if the fact that he's a giant, evil, levitating devil baby wasn't enough, the ''entire'' right side of his body is covered in what seems to be a hardened layer of bluish, vein-like webbing and dark, necrotic flesh. And then there's his ''weapon''... |
| 933 | * CainAndAbel: Cert heavily opposes his older brother, Romulus, both out of the forces they represent and for control over the world. [[spoiler:Romulus succeeds in sealing his brother ''inside the Earth'', but even then Cert still gets the last laugh through the Sacred Chalice.]] |
| 934 | * CastingAShadow: In contrast to his brother, the projectiles he summons lean more toward darkness. |
| 935 | * ChaosIsEvil: Cert desires to spread as much chaos as possible, especially by [[TheCorrupter corrupting mortals]] with [[spoiler:the Sacred Chalice]]. |
| 936 | * TheCorrupter: [[spoiler:Cert uses the [[ArtifactOfDoom Sacred Chalice]] to twist people and animals into horrific Archfiends and Foul Monsters respectively, depending on their [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor desires]].]] |
| 937 | * DarkIsEvil: Fittingly enough, given that his [[BodyHorror unsettling appearance]] and role as the God of Chaos. |
| 938 | * DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:Cert does this through the Sacred Chalice, giving mortals promising wishes before turning them into the horrific Archfiends that sorcerers battle against]]. |
| 939 | * DishingOutDirt: Just like his brother, Cert can use his whip to slam the ground in front of himself and uplift sharp stones from the earth. |
| 940 | * EnfantTerrible: The god of chaos, greed, and evil takes the form of a giant malformed baby. |
| 941 | * EvilVersusEvil: Cert is the god of [[DarkIsEvil darkness]] and [[ChaosIsEvil chaos]] and he opposes his elder brother, the god of [[LightIsNotGood light]] and [[OrderIsNotGood order]]. They're both villains, but Cert is ''even worse'' than his elder brother. |
| 942 | * GodAndSatanAreBothJerks: Cert serves the role of Satan and Romulus serves the role of God. Both of them are also responsible for the CrapsackWorld setting and EternalRecurrence that kick off the plot of the game, but most of the responsibility is from Cert himself, thanks to him being a JerkassGod [[spoiler:who created the Sacred Chalice as a medium to corrupt people and animals]]. |
| 943 | * GodIsEvil: [[spoiler:He invented sorcery... and deliberately designed it with FailureIsTheOnlyOption in mind.]] |
| 944 | * GodOfEvil: What do you expect from a God who represents Chaos and Greed? |
| 945 | * GoodWingsEvilWings: Bears a tattered, demonic, bat-like wing upon his right shoulder, mirroring his position as Romulus' twin and counterpart. |
| 946 | * GreaterScopeVillain: Alongside his brother, although he plays a far more active role through his invention, [[spoiler:the Sacred Chalice]]. |
| 947 | * HeroKiller: [[spoiler:Cert impales Similia as she tries to destroy the Chaos God's evil little toy, the Sacred Chalice, although he was trying to kill the PlayerCharacter instead but it's not like he cares anyways.]] |
| 948 | * JackassGenie: Every single Archfiend mentioned above? [[spoiler:They look like that because of how ''this'' guy distorted their wishes to purposely make them into monsters.]] |
| 949 | * JerkassGod: Even more so than his brother, Romulus. Why? [[spoiler:Because that Nefarious Fetus created [[ArtifactOfDoom the Sacred Chalice]] in the first place!]] |
| 950 | * MeaningfulName: Cert is clearly a corruption of the name Surt, the Norse god who played a part in the creation of the world, just as Cert did with his brother. However, Surt also played a major role in bringing about [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Ragnarok]]. [[spoiler:Given [[CrapsackWorld the state of the world]] that the Sacred Chalice has brought, it's not too big of a stretch for the comparison.]] |
| 951 | * NaturalWeapon: Fights with what appears to be a giant whip consisting of many floating tendrils... on closer examination, they are numerous black veins and are emerging from his stomach like an umbilical cord. |
| 952 | * ObviouslyEvil: The fact that he's a demonic god who looks like a one-winged black and red baby who represents darkness and chaos shows that he's a straight-up bad guy. |
| 953 | * OrderVersusChaos: The chaos to Romulus' order. [[spoiler:Their battle for creation is what led to his loss and imprisonment.]] |
| 954 | * OurDemonsAreDifferent: Although a powerful god rather than a mere demon, Cert bears a demonic appearance and gives [[DealWithTheDevil sinister deals to people and animals]], even sporting a single massive bat wing. |
| 955 | * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: While the left side of his body's skin tone resembles an infant's (aside from proportions, anyway), Cert's right half is predominately cast in black, with his single ridge of hair up above colored a deep red. You know, [[ObviouslyEvil in case you missed the fact that he's a villain]]. |
| 956 | * SatanicArchetype: While not explicitly compared to The Devil himself, Cert does bear similarities to him: they're clearly demonic in [[ObviouslyEvil appearance]], tempting mortals with [[DealWithTheDevil sinister deals]] that [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor go awry]], and opposing the divine God for selfish intentions. |
| 957 | * SealedEvilInACan: His brother sealed him away long ago after their battle. [[spoiler:The can itself? ''The Earth''.]] |
| 958 | * WalkingSpoiler: Just like his brother, details about Cert will spoil a majority of the game's backstory and plot. |
| 959 | |
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| 961 | |
| 962 | [[folder:Guest Archfiends]] |
| 963 | !Dionaea |
| 964 | * BlowYouAway: Like its original counterpart, this Dionaea flaps its wings to make massive winds, although the winds simply push the Sorcerers rather than deal damage to them. |
| 965 | * TheCameo: Comes from ''VideoGame/FreedomWars''. |
| 966 | * HitboxDissonance: Thankfully {{Averted}}, because this game's version of Dionaea has sensible hitboxes that fit the Abductor's model, unlike the original Dionaea where its hitboxes are absurdly bigger than they appear. |
| 967 | * MechanicalMonster: As it is [[CyberneticMythicalBeast a cybernetic dragon]], Dionaea looks much more robotic than the other Archfiends. |
| 968 | * OurDragonsAreDifferent: Dionaea is [[OurWyvernsAreDifferent a robot wyvern]] that fires a WaveMotionGun through its horns. |
| 969 | * PlayingWithFire: Dionaea's element is Heat, making it weak against Frost. Its common Offering, Skydrake Dragonwing, mimics the raining fireball attack, although it's AwesomeButImpractical due to its weak damage and inaccuracy. |
| 970 | * WaveMotionGun: Just like its home universe counterpart, Dionaea is still able to fire its iconic laser beam through its horns. Thankfully, the laser blast emits a much smaller and less deadlier AreaOfEffect, making it safer to take on the draconic Abductor in close range, unlike its original ''Freedom Wars'' counterpart where the AreaOfEffect is much bigger and deadlier. [[CaptainObvious Just don't stand in front of its face while the laser is charging]]. |
| 971 | |
| 972 | !Marduk |
| 973 | * TheCameo: Comes from ''VideoGame/GodEater 2''. |
| 974 | * MarthDebutedInSmashBros: Appeared in ''Soul Sacrifice'' before ''VideoGame/GodEater2'' was even announced for a US release. |
| 975 | * PlayingWithFire: Just like [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Dionaea]] and [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Chthonian Fiend]], Marduk is also Heat-elemental. |
| 976 | * SavageWolf: Marduk is a violent fire-elemented Aragami that resembles a wolf, and it can summon other Archfiends for back-up. |
| 977 | |
| 978 | !Chthonian Fiend |
| 979 | * TheCameo: Comes from ''VideoGame/{{Toukiden}}''. |
| 980 | * PlayingWithFire: It's the third fire-elemental crossover Archfiend. |
| 981 | * OurDemonsAreDifferent: Cthonian Fiend is a massive Oni with a Manticore-like appearance, sans wings. |
| 982 | |
| 983 | !Abyssal Fiend |
| 984 | * TheCameo: Comes from ''VideoGame/{{Toukiden}}''. |
| 985 | * LightningBruiser: Just like Cerberus, the Abyssal Fiend is absolutely fast, deadly, and durable. Also like Cerberus, Abyssal Fiend takes this trope literally. |
| 986 | * OurDemonsAreDifferent: Abyssal Fiend's appearance is similar to Cthonian Fiend, except it's blue instead of red. |
| 987 | * ShockAndAwe: Abyssal Fiend's element is Volt, unlike its Sky-elemented home universe counterpart. Then again, Sky is the closest thing to this trope in the ''Toukiden'' universe. |
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