''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'' is a fantasy {{webcomic}} by Ryan Sohmer and Lar [=DeSouza=], the creative team behind ''Webcomic/LeastICouldDo'' and Blind Ferret Entertainment animation studio. It borrows from classic D&D conventions and ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' to tell an original story.

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[[folder:Cale]]
!!'''Cale'Anon Vatay'''
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[[caption-width-right:300:Cale's first appearance.]]

Cale is an elven hunter and the central figure of the group. Cale is seen as noble and virtuous to the point of naivete, while in the LFG universe elves are AlwaysChaoticEvil. After an seemingly accidental meeting with the less morally upstanding Richard, and additional company, he has since found his beliefs in the moral code challenged. Cale has proven an excellent fighter, skilled with both his twin swords and archery. As the series has progressed Cale has begun to gain more depth and grow used to Richard's gruesome sense of humor. He is fiercely loyal, breaking laws and risking death to protect his friends and allies.

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* AntiHero:
** He tries to go against his evil heritage and be good despite being surrounded by amoral characters.
** He's an anti-hero like Franchise/{{Batman}}, moving outside the system to do what's ''right'' rather than what's ''lawful''. He doesn't believe in the end justifying the means, but he does believe in sacrifice for the greater good. His transition from Lawful to Chaotic Good is the entire point of his character development.
* ArrowCatch: [[CatchAndReturn And return it without a bow]].
* BackFromTheDead: In the very beginning of the comic, Richard reduces him to a pile of talking ash, but Richard soon brings him to Benny for a resurrection spell.
* BadassCape: Even Richard wants it. He even weaponizes it at one point.
%%* BattleCouple: With Benny.
* BattleCry: "For Gamlon!"
* BerserkButton: He is not happy about the Vulii turning the elves into a race of tyrannical conquerors; part of his motivation in the war against Legara is to wipe out the aristocracy who are descendants of the Vulii. Also don't brag about your evil deeds; Richard can get away with it but that's because he is stronger than Cale and immune to his attacks.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Easily the nicest and most idealistic character in the main group, even after character development, as well as the frequent butt of jokes. Yet there is no denying that he is also a fearsome fighter, and in fact is directly responsible for [[spoiler:the deaths of ''every'' major villain they have faced so far]].
* BigGood: As leader of Kethenicia, he has effectively become this.
* BreakTheCutie: We see a lot of this from Cale.
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:To Gaten, who had great hopes for Cale. And yet Cale disappointed again and again.]]
* ButtMonkey: Before he TookALevelInBadass and even then most people like to mock his masculinity and intelligence with him barely objecting anymore.
* BystanderSyndrome: He eventually goes from DudleyDoRightStopsToHelp to this, becoming completely indifferent to any suffering he isn't responsible for--at least when he's already on a quest. Even then he has problems committing to it and will end up trying to help them if he has time.
* TheChewToy: Richard sets him on fire on a regular basis, Pella attacks him to prove he is not fit for a fight, his panther mauls him in its first introduction (not a case of addressing her as a male) and physics come back from lunch just for him when he tries running on a giant's arm.
* TheChosenOne: [[spoiler:TheArchmage]], who claims to ''be'' destiny, chose Cale to become the king of Kethenecia. The Dragon Elders expect him to be at the heart of a war greater than any the world has ever seen. His master said he was the result of generations of effort.
* ClothFu: He once used his cape to temporarily blind an enemy dwarf.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: His idealism and life in monastery made him really naive and can be really slow. He is also the best fighter in the story.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Let's see: He was happy to live his life training in a monastery with his young wife and wise master, only for his master to manipulate him into leaving by forcing his beloved to have an affair, breaking his heart in the process. And while he wouldn't know it, most of his old buddies would die to ensure he had nothing to go back to.
* DoomMagnet: [[spoiler:Benny even cites this as the reason for her dumping him.]]
* DualWielding: He dual wields with two swords Pella forged from the Sword of Truth which have [[PlayingWithFire fire]] and [[AnIcePerson ice]] powers.
* DudleyDoRightStopsToHelp: A trait that considerably annoys [[TheChooserOfTheOne The Choosers of The One]], constantly getting sidetracked resolving whatever problems enter his path instead of focusing on a grander scale.
* DyingAlone: After Benny [[spoiler:points out his DoomMagnet tendencies, he spends a year going to extremely isolated places with no companionship save Richard, so that he may avoid bringing harm to those around him and eventually die alone. He eventually snaps out of it.]]
* EmbarrassingNickname: Pinky.
* FightingForAHomeland: Once the story started getting serious, he begins fighting to build Kethenecia into a new kingdom, and hopefully a better one than the last. Although he leaves Kethenecia once he thought everything was safe for the people.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: The only thing that keeps Cale from being a Disney Princess is his lack of a ballgown. While Cale constantly brings disaster unintentionally, trying to learn how to do evil on purpose just [[https://www.lfg.co/page/1432/ attracts the love]] of happy animals.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: As one might expect from a handsome elven leading man.
* TheHeart: He is the only one of the group who does not enjoy bloodshed, making him this by default. It helps that despite all the abuse he is victim of by his own team and people he encounters, he still tries to find non violent solutions except if his BerserkButton is pushed.
* MagneticHero: He has charisma, if nothing else. It helps him put TheAlliance together.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** Despite his best efforts, Cale unintentionally [[DoomMagnet screws up just about everything he touches]] to the point where a tribe of cannibals feels sorry for him.
** Him leaving Kethenecia for a long time ended up allowing for Princess Leena to usurp him. [[spoiler:And she was able to do it in the first place because of the magic she inherited after Cale killed the Archmage]].
* NoRespectGuy: Every faction he brings to in Kethenecia has either betrayed him or treated him like shit at some point. Even his girlfriend takes pleasure in seeing him being beaten.
* OddlyShapedSword: He goes on a quest to find a weapon that can defeat Leena. He ends up acquiring the Elfin Owl Glee Blade, a very ugly and misshapen magic sword, only to realize he got the ''wrong'' magic weapon.
* TheOneGuy: [[spoiler:Turns out, he's the only male in the main group once Krunch dies, including both Sooba and ''Richard'']].
* OneManArmy: When Cale [[LetsGetDangerous gets serious]] you ''really'' don't want to get in his path. [[spoiler:He manages to breach the walls of Kethenecia virtually ''singlehanded'' with nothing but a few horses and a magic bow.]]
* PayEvilUntoEvil: When Cale gets ordered by the Demon Court to do evil deeds, he eventually settles on doing evil deeds to evil people. It doesn't work out since the chosen victims are completely cooperative and surrender instantly, with Cale not having the heart to KickThemWhileTheyAreDown.
* PointyEars: It comes with being an elf.
* PokeThePoodle: The Demon Court gives him a SadisticChoice, to either commit evil himself or watch as they kill everyone he has ever had contact with. Cale reluctantly agrees, and the evil he inflicts takes the form of stealing lollipops from children before giving them back.
* PunctuationShaker: Cale "'" Anon, eh?
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Whenever he gets angry enough, his entire eyes turn red.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Upon learning that [[spoiler:the Archmage orchestrated every tragedy in his life and has just seemingly killed Richard]], he completely ''loses it''.
* TookALevelInCynic: Cale notably goes from horrified at killing anyone who isn't obviously evil to calmly asking if [[spoiler:they're going to have to kill the dragon elder]].
* TrainingFromHell: His training consisted of three other armed novices routinely and constantly beating Cale into unconsciousness and repeating the moment he came to. Interestingly, despite the fact that he blindfolded can beat up numerous trained fighters with his bare hands, as he was trained to, Cale prefers the dual-swords and bow over unarmed combat.
* VictoryIsBoring: After finally stopping the war in the north, rebuilt Kethenecia and got the sword of truth, he had nothing else to do since no leaders has quests to give him so he killed time hunting giant rats until he got a new adventure.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He wants to do good, but he was ultimately willing to murder what he thought was an innocent boy to save the world. So much evil happens around him that he comes to grow rather accepting of the very evil his own faction causes. And he eventually qualifies as being particularly guilty, to the extent that he [[spoiler:gives Richard a considerably stronger guilt-fueled power boost than the guilty raiders attacking them]].
* WideEyedIdealist: Starts out as one at the beginning of the story, wanting to do good regardless of the fact that his race is supposedly AlwaysChaoticEvil. He has a very difficult time grasping the situations at hand when he first becomes part of a group with the evil warlock Richard.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Everyone in the group physically abuses Cale or leaves him to get wounded by the enemies. It would probably be easier for the elf if he was saving the world alone.
* WorfHadTheFlu:
** He once got captured by the Imps after his swords started malfunctioning.
** He would normally have no problem against the Knights of the Way attacking him when they come en masse to assassinate him, but a surprise attack left him weak.
** And in a separate incident with the Knights of the Way, he is left weak by being a non-magical being that spent too much time in a BagOfHolding, leaving him disoriented.
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[[folder:Richard]]
!!'''Richard'''
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[[caption-width-right:300:An average day for Richard.]]

An undead warlock who willfully sows destruction without any provocation whatsoever, Richard is Cale's {{foil}} and serves as the strip's [[PluckyComicRelief comic relief]]. He is depicted as manipulative, both physically and magically powerful, exceedingly evil, and [[ManChild childish]]. He's very sensitive about his [[FluffyTheTerrible less-than-threatening name]] and reacts aggressively to Cale's nickname for him -- [[EmbarrassingNickname "Dick."]] His companions often react mildly to his frequently psychopathic activities.
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* AffablyEvil: He's a pretty joyful and comedic fellow, despite butchering villages and eating babies on a regular basis.
* AbusiveParents:
** His father more or less sacrificed him on the Archmage's behalf, due to considering Richard nothing but a disappointment.
** Richard himself adopts a Reptilian King as his own son. While his actions towards Charles are not malicious, he has little idea how to serve as a proper parent. And while it is admittedly the best out of bad options, he repeatedly puts Charles in harm's way because he needs to save innocents to [[spoiler:fuel his powers]]. [[https://www.lfg.co/page/852/ He also doesn't know if babies need to eat]] and frequently leaves Charles behind in his BagOfHolding. He encourages him and his brothers (the kraken and dragon he also took as children) to fight for his love too.
* AnArmAndALeg: His limbs are severed pretty regularly and he ends up needing to have them reattached when he can track them down. After his battle with [[spoiler:TheArchmage, his limbs are destroyed entirely, forcing Cale's group to look for a healer strong enough to help him]].
* AntiHero: Even this is something of a stretch, though he does show a hidden good side occasionally.
* AndShowItToYou:
-->'''Richard:''' The look on your face when a toddler rips out your heart and shows it to you; priceless.
* AnIcePerson: Uses ice magic, although not as much as fire magic.
* AnimateDead: One of his abilities. With a horrifying twist in that he can actually animate the skeletons of living people causing them to peel the still screaming person open like a suit to expose the bones beneath.
-->'''Richard:''' In case you weren't sure, the skeletons are on our side.
* AnnoyingArrows:
** The guy's been shot at with arrows by just about everyone with a bow, including Cale. Repeatedly. He has also been pinned to a ship's mast with arrows, shot in the back with arrows, and had an arrow through his head when being "tortured." Seeing as how he's already dead, he usually just plucks them out.
** Taken to the logical extreme when, since they're having a hard time removing an arrow from Richard, Cale just draws his bow and fires the arrow, with Richard still attached.
** [[spoiler:An arrow actually ''hurting'' him is a sign that his powers need to be recharged.]]
* ArchEnemy: [[spoiler:The Archmage claims that Richard was ''supposed'' to be Cale's. Richard defied this and became Cale's friend.]]
* AristocratsAreEvil: He is the mayor of a village of undead, and was once known as Lord Ashendale.
* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Richard's extensive titles are [[https://www.lfg.co/page/105 earned based on kills.]]
* BackFromTheDead: He's undead, although following his original cursing [[spoiler:has to take measures to maintain that undeath or he will revert back to being a mortal human]].
* BadassBoast: [[https://www.lfg.co/page/947/ Here.]]
-->'''Richard:''' [[spoiler:Even without magic, I'm never powerless. Or any less dangerous.]]
* BadassLongRobe: He dresses in a black robe.
* BagOfHolding: He has a pink purse he uses to store Charles and a large number of pets. The inside resembles a large abandoned village.
* BaldOfEvil: Or at least mostly bald. Nobody knows for sure.
* BarrierWarrior: His formidable offense and NighInvulnerability means he rarely needs to use his defensive spells, but he does have them.
* BattleCry: '''"For pony!!"'''
* TheBeastmaster: He acquires a "purse dragon". Much later in the story, this crops up more and more as he starts magically binding more animals into his BagOfHolding, including a Kraken, several MixAndMatchCritters, and an attack goat. He occasionally makes use of them in battle.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He is both the PluckyComicRelief ''and'' one of the most individually powerful characters in the comic.
* BlackCloak: Dresses in a black robe with ShouldersOfDoom.
* BlackComedy: Richard ''lives'' this trope.
* BlackMage: He's all about killing with magic. And many methods of killing without magic.
* BrickJoke: Richard introduces himself by listing off his numerous titles, and at the end he mentions he's "mayor of a little town up the coast."
* BroughtDownToNormal: Richard is [[spoiler:losing his powers and becoming mortal again since he's no longer engaging in wanton murder and villainy which his brand of dark magic requires. He gets around this for a while through animal sacrifice, but eventually, TheArchmage seals off his powers, requiring him to find a new way to fuel them.]]
* BroughtDownToBadass: [[https://www.lfg.co/page/947/ Here again.]] [[spoiler:Richard proves that, even without his magical powers, he is no less dangerous than before, and has weaponized his gardening skills to breed a species capable of releasing an odourless and colourless gas.]]
* TheCaligula: Though the citizens of his town are pretty used to it, and are thus incredibly jaded towards dangerous situations. This is, of course, because they are [[spoiler:already dead]].
* CardCarryingVillain: Enforced. As the story goes on he's engaged in fewer atrocities [[MoralityPet largely due to his new company]], which has been resulting in him losing his powers and turning human.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: As a rule, Apart from ComedicSociopathy, Richard's main contribution to the comic was his increasingly weird and bizarre actions, as well as an ability to pitch in with silly ideas in the middle of serious conversations. This has only gotten marginally better.
* ConfusionFu: KillItWithFire is by far his favorite tactic, but he can also [[AnIcePerson cast ice spells]], animate skeletons (even while their owners are ''still alive''), use his gem as a blade, attach his own body parts to other creatures, [[TheBeastmaster unleash dangerous monsters]] from his BagOfHolding, [[GreenThumb grow explosive plants]], and [[KungFuWizard tear his opponents apart with his bare hands]]. With such an arsenal at his disposal, one never quite knows how his enemies will be mutilated.
-->'''Richard:''' Even without magic, I'm never powerless. Or any less dangerous.
* CoolMask: He wears a veil across the lower half of his face.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Though he probably wouldn't consider it such.
* TheDeadCanDance: He even declares himself "Lord of the Dance".
* DemBones: He's a skeleton, possibly even a lich. Most of his body is still covered up, though, so it's less apparent.
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Did it to Cale upon being 'killed' by the Archmage.]]
* {{Depower}}: [[spoiler:Richard loses most of his magic after TheArchmage casts a spell upon his gem. He regains it after finding a new way to recharge his power.]]
* DoNotCallMePaul: Don't call him Dick... or [[spoiler:Lord Ashendale.]]
* EmbarrassingNickname: Cale dubs Richard "Dick".
* EvenEvilHasStandards: PlayedForLaughs. Richard is rather shocked that the Kraken is racist. But he's singing for both of them.
* EvilSorcerer: Well, warlock, anyway, but he sure acts like a sorceror in terms of his magical combat style.
* EvilTastesGood: Monks' souls taste like chocolate.
* EvilWearsBlack: Constantly wears a black robe.
* FaceHeelTurn: It's an implied one, if you bring into account [[spoiler:how seemingly peace-loving he was as a child.]]
* TheFaceless: Only his eyes are clearly visible to the reader, the rest of his face perpetually covered by his veil. (On rare occasions other characters have caught sight of what lies underneath, however.)
* FacialMarkings: Above and below his left eye. His bags may or may not count.
* FakingTheDead: It's ambiguous as to whether Richard [[spoiler:needed to fuel his undead-ness all along or whether his waning powers were a result of the Demon Court's sentence taking effect. Either way, he does this whenever his mortality starts returning.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Although later sliding into genuinely AffablyEvil.
* ForTheEvulz: Enforced. [[spoiler:He needs to commit evil acts to fuel his powers. Since he hasn't been doing as many since he joined up with Cale, he started to lose his powers.]]
* FriendlyEnemy: He introduced himself by half-heartedly attempting to corrupt Cale, with the ultimate intention of demolishing his wide-eyed idealism. Even after Cale got toasted by Richard, they ended up travelling together, never really resolving their past antagonism. [[spoiler:As it turns out. the Archmage intended for Richard to serve as a rival and possible StarterVillain to get Cale going on his Hero's Journey.]]
* GenderReveal: [[spoiler:Richard, or rather, Regyna ''herself'' forgot that she was originally a woman before becoming undead and thought she was her own little brother.]]
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: He has glowing yellow eyes.
%%** GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath
* GreenThumb: He enjoyed gardening while alive. As an undead, he uses his gardening skills to cultivate plant varieties that he can weaponize.
* HealItWithFire: Cauterizes an injury Cale sustained with his fire magic until it could be healed properly.
* HeroicComedicSociopath: And apart from a few HiddenDepths, his status as this has only marginally changed.
* HeroicVow: Makes one to protect Cale, even from the Archmage.
* HeroismIncentive: The easiest way to get him to cooperate is by promising him the opportunity to wreak death and destruction.
* HiddenDepths: Switches between being a HeroicComedicSociopath and [[spoiler:being philosophic and vaguely frightened about his undead status.]]
* ImmortalImmaturity: Richard is a PsychopathicManChild despite having lived for centuries.
* InTheHood: Is never seen with his hood down.
* IronButtMonkey: Richard being able to survive just about any injuries (in his undead state) makes him prime fodder for this role.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: [[https://www.lfg.co/page/232/ He hasn't quite gotten the hand of it yet]].
* {{Jerkass}}: His very first scene featured him scorching a bunny right under Cale's nose, and he gets in a lot more as time goes on.
* KillItWithFire: His favourite means of killing things.
* KungFuWizard: He's great at physical combat, thanks to some [[EvilTastesGood chocolate monk soul]].
* LaughablyEvil: As with all {{Heroic Comedic Sociopath}}s, his hilarity is prioritised over the totally evil nature of his actions.
* LargeHam: As fitting for a VillainProtagonist, he's well-versed in ChewingTheScenery.
* LeanAndMean: Skeleton-lean, in fact.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: His constant pop culture references.
* LesserOfTwoEvils: At one point, Richard seems to imply that things would be a lot worse if he didn't have his powers. It was never elaborated on (since he knocked out Cale right afterwards) but one possibility is that he gave up his innocence to prevent a more powerful evil.
-->'''Richard:''' As my power wanes, his grow.
* LoopholeAbuse: [[spoiler:When Richard learns that he can fuel his powers by saving the guilty, he asks Pella to kill a guilty person and then saves him]].
* LongList:
** Richard's list of titles, and tropes compared to the other characters.
** And his list of decrees when he mistakenly assumes to be worshipped as a divine.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: Introduced this way. Over the strips he has developed a much more benevolent side.
* TheManTheyCouldntHang: More like The Man They Couldn't Decapitate
* MeaningfulName: It's probably no accident that his name can be shortened to [[{{Jerkass}} "Dick."]]
* TheMillstone: Despite being the most powerful of the group, they usually fare better when he isn't involved since he ruins any element of surprise, injure his allies and escalate situations.
* MoreThanMeetsTheEye: [[spoiler:Richard's cozy little village up the coast turns out to be filled to the brim with undead citizens.]]
* MySiblingWillLiveThroughMe: Cale meets Regyna, Richard's sister, in the memory-based pocket dimension. [[spoiler:She's the one who actually became the warlock, but confused her identity with her brother's in the process. Even after rediscovering the truth, she continues to go by "Richard".]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Invoked. He may have taught others to fear the name.
* {{Necromancer}}: He raised an entire village from the dead and gave them the power to assume a human appearance on the outside, while naming himself mayor. He doesn't do it on-screen though, making it a downplayed example.
* NighInvulnerability: He can survive pretty much anything, even a heavy coating of molten lava.
* NotQuiteDead: Just when you thought he was gone for good, Richard proves to be more resilient than [[spoiler:the Archmage]] accounted for.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant
* NominalHero: Other than his duty to protect Cale, he's pretty much a comically enforced CardCarryingVillain. Though this is given a little more depth as the story goes on.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: For all his apparent immaturity, Richard is really very knowledgeable and intelligent, and is probably more in the know on the Archmage's machinations than any other main character (with the possible exception of Pella).
* OlderSidekick: To Cale.
* OmnicidalManiac: He even admits to being one in his VillainSong.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When Richard is [[https://www.lfg.co/page/585/ truly]] [[https://www.lfg.co/page/778/ serious]] about achieving something, you can bet there's something large at stake.
* OurLichesAreDifferent: He's nearly invulnerable, even surviving decapitation, and can possess gems. But there's no indication he can reform after complete destruction [[spoiler:and has to kill innocents to maintain his immortality.]]
* OverlyLongGag: His titles.
* PhlebotinumOverload:
** [[spoiler:TheArchmage induces this in his gem in an attempt to kill him.]]
** [[spoiler: He threatens Benny with this when she magically binds his hands to keep him from using magic. She immediately backs down.]]
* PlayingWithFire
** {{Fireballs}}: Likes flinging them around.
** TechnicolorFire: Normally he has red flames, [[spoiler:but after The Archmage breaks his gem he can only use red flames by saving the innocent, whereas saving the guilty will give him blue flames.]]
* PowerCrystal: Which he occasionally uses as a limited SoulJar.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild:
** [[spoiler:His powers are fueled by the ashes of the innocent people he kills. But as this increasingly becomes a case of NecessarilyEvil rather than ForTheEvulz, he eventually comes to sacrifice animals instead. After The Archmage prevents him from sacrificing the innocent, another sorcerer reveals that it is possible to save the guilty instead, which has an even ''easier'' loophole, though it only works once per saved soul. In addition, if he saves the ''innocent'', he can regain his power multiple times over, working around the one soul limit. Which is still a case of this since it results in him deliberately putting Charles in harm's way to save him]].
** Richard’s gem is another example of this. [[spoiler:Lord Ashendale sacrificed his son Richard on a sarcophagus, and his blood condensed into the iconic red power jewel.]]
* PowerParasite: He knows how to steal magic from others if he needs to.
* PowerSource: It seems to be the corpse of his father as well as the PowerCrystal he wears.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner:
** [[https://www.lfg.co/page/106/ "Rejoice. For very bad things are about to happen."]]
** [[https://www.lfg.co/page/125/ "Come then. Oblivion awaits."]] [[spoiler:Subverted in the fact that he was captured shortly afterwards.]]
* PreMortemOneLiner: Just as good at these as he is about the ass kicking variant.
--> It was great meeting you, Ajellah. ''''[Krak!]''''
* PsychopathicManchild: And he still hasn't lost his immature streak.
* RealMenWearPink: Though Richard often claims to be the more masculine of the two, Cale isn't the one seen wearing a pink apron, putting curlers in his "hair", or carrying around a pink, flowered purse with deadly animals inside it. [[spoiler:Then again, considering Richard’s [[UnsettlingGenderReveal true identity]]…]]
* RecklessSidekick: Richard generally displays little regard for the group's plans, preferring to act of his own accord even when he has the same goals in mind. Since he is a rare example of this trope where he is by far the most powerful member of the group and has [[NighInvulnerable little fear of death]], there are usually few permanent consequences to his recklessness. Nonetheless, there have been a few occasions of this where he has been left incapacitated, [[DeusExitMachina leaving the rest of the group to accomplish their mission without his power]].
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His eyes glow yellow, an indicator of being an undead.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Exactly the sort of thing you'd expect a warlock to do after you kill one of his friends.
* ScrewDestiny: He tells the Archmage to stop planning Cale's destiny and leave his life in his own hands. [[spoiler:According to the Archmage, Richard and Cale were intended to be ''enemies'', not friends, and tries to annihilate him for throwing fate all apart.]]
* ShouldersOfDoom: And they're getting bigger.
* SleevesAreForWimps: His robe has ShouldersOfDoom, but lacks sleeves. [[spoiler:It makes seeing his human skin easier.]]
* SoulJar: It seems he has one, though it's debated as to what it is.
* StaringDownCthulhu: He subtly threatens the Archmage, telling him that he will not allow him to interfere with Cale's life any further. Could be a subversion, considering that it's Richard.
* StoryBreakerPower: He's the resident GameBreaker, though it's generally curbed by the fact that he's incredibly unhelpful and not there when he's needed.
* StrawCharacter:
** Rich is registered to the Republican party. Though [[EvenEvilHasStandards even he]] has issues with their immigration policy.
** This goes double for Tiny Dick in the BSideComics, who is unsubtly used to portray various people and political standpoints in a negative light. Or in a few cases, to portray them in a ''good'' light. Is largely used to promote Democratic Socialism and put down Conservatism and related ideologies.
* TheSoulless: Traded away his soul to become an undead warlock.
* SummonBackupDancers: [[https://www.lfg.co/page/607 Oppa Gangnam Style]].
* SuperPowerLottery: He has a ''lot'' of powers. [[KillItWithFire Pyrokinesis]], [[AnIcePerson cryokinesis]], [[BlowYouAway aerokinesis]], [[EnergyWeapon various]] [[DisintegratorRay energy attacks]], {{Necromancy}}, [[MindOverMatter telekinesis]], a HealingFactor, and DemonicPossession (of both living creatures and inanimate objects) are just a few. He tops off any gaps with [[TheBeastmaster pet monsters]], [[GardenOfEvil deadly botany]], and [[PowerParasite martial arts skills]].
* TokenEvilTeammate: He's an utter madman who only joined Cale's party for the opportunity to cause chaos and destruction.
* TomatoInTheMirror: While Richard's memories are vague, he believes himself to be Lord Ashendale's son. [[https://www.lfg.co/page/1355/ During a fight]] in a pocket dimension where power is tied to lack of preconceptions, Richard says that power could be gained "If I suddenly began questioning everything around me; my entire existence even." Cale yanks off his cowl and hands him a mirror. [[spoiler:Apparently, he was actually formed from Lord Ashendale's ''daughter''.]]
* TomTheDarkLord: He's a HeroicComedicSociopath and PersonOfMassDestruction named... Richard. It's even more humiliating when one considers (as Cale does) that he can be called "Dick" for short.
* TooKinkyToTorture: Richard took to ''singing'' during his torture sessions. And pointed out that there was still room for an axe by his thigh.
* TheUndead: With a twist that UndeathAlwaysEnds: Richard is [[spoiler:slowly regaining his mortality if he doesn't perform evil deeds, as per [[ChekhovsGun the Demon Court's sentence]].]]
* TheUnfavourite: His father greatly favored his ruthless sister over him, who just wanted to be a simple gardener.
* UnscrupulousHero: After finding less harmful ways to fuel his powers, he transitions from TokenEvilTeammate to this.
* UnskilledButStrong: Richard is incredibly powerful but other spellcasters have been able to shut him down on multiple occasions. Par for the course for warlocks.
* VillainSong: Richard gets one of these, "Slaughter Your World", in one of the animations, with the added bonus of it being taken from a Disney song with the lyrics modified.
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: He can't recall simple words like "Grow" and instead mentions helping flowers "unkill". He seems to not understand sexual intercourse, but that's partly due to him being undead since he was a kid.
* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Richard had a passion for [[spoiler:gardening, but his father wanted a warrior and heavily disagreed with his son's chosen career. This made it easy for the Archmage to convince his father to sacrifice his disappointing son, which turned Richard's sister Regyna into the warlock]].
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds:
** Might be considered one, if you take into account the implications of [[spoiler:his forgotten past and how genuinely sad he seemed about it]]. Doubled [[spoiler:when you see his vision of Innocence: a large, near perfect rose like the ones he planted as a human child.]]
** And the line that hints [[spoiler:that all of his killing is holding a GreaterScopeVillain at bay.]]
* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler:Richard is a PersonOfMassDestruction and the strongest member of the group by orders of magnitude. Leena defeats him effortlessly, which leads to Cale concluding they stand no chance against her.]]
* YourSoulIsMine: He can eat them.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Benny]]
!!'''Benn'Joon'''
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Benny is a priestess that Richard and Cale met while seeking [[TheMedic a healer]]. Her exact race is unknown to most. It was earlier stated by her ex-husband Rojave that she has mixed ancestry. Benny is a talented priestess; she is able to resurrect others after death (as long as the death is recent enough), heal both minor and serious wounds, and create powerful magical shields in combat. She is also a highly skilled warrior trained by the Bloodrage Clan. She usually takes a pragmatic cynical view of the world.
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%%* ActionGirl
%%* ActionGirlfriend: To Cale.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Benny's outfit. It looks delightful, but offers no protection.
* BarrierWarrior: She can create powerful red force fields when she's not kicking ass.
* BattleCouple: With Cale... [[spoiler:until she becomes fed up with his accidental DoomMagnet tendencies.]]
* BlackBraAndPanties: Shown while she had a pillow-fight with Pella.
* BullyingADragon: She enjoys antagonizing Richard whenever she can, and usually, he plays along. Sometimes, though, she has to be reminded that he could kill her ''easily.''
* CombatMedic: Her most essential role in the group is being the healer, but she is capable of fighting too.
* CuteLittleFangs: Like you'd expect from a CuteMonsterGirl, her monster attributes are played for prettiness.
* CuteMonsterGirl: A role she grew into as her romance with Cale went on.
* DeadpanSnarker: Along with Richard, this to the more serious Krunch and Cale.
* DomesticAbuse: She takes pleasure in seeing her boyfriend suffer and often inflicts him with abusive pranks.
* FourFingeredHands: She has four fingers, which is one of a number of hints that [[spoiler:her father-daughter relationship with Krunch isn't solely adopted]].
%%* HealingHands: As part of being a priestess.
* HotWitch: Not a traditional priest outfit, and the comic isn't shy about letting us see her hotness up close.
* HybridMonster: Heavily implied. [[spoiler:And if later comics are anything to go by, she's a half-minotaur, half-elf. Maybe. It's complicated.]]
* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: When was the last time you saw a priest wearing that get-up?
* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: All the better to show off the NavelDeepNeckline.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Despite constantly making jokes at Richard's expense, the one time he seriously threatens her, she immediately backs down.
* LittleMissBadass: [[https://www.lfg.co/page/736/ When a disembodied voice calls out to Little Benny]], she jumps a bit, then proceeds to [[LittleMissSnarker snark at the voice]] and [[ImprobableWeaponUser threaten it with a rock]].
* LoveTriangle: She would actually ''appreciate'' having a romantic rival for Cale's affections, to make the relationship more exciting.
* MsFanservice: Ended up this way for most of the early comic, and there are still a few moments from time to time.
* NavelDeepNeckline: A conveniently low-cut robe goes a long way, people.
* NonhumanHumanoidHybrid: Her mother is [[spoiler:the dark elf pirate captain Tah'vraay, and it's been strongly hinted that [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction Krunch the Minotaur is her biological father as well]]]].
* PowerCrystal: She has one in her staff.
* PointyEars: Alluding to an exotic elven lineage.
* PimpedOutCape: Has one trimmed with white fur, and has gold-decorated shoulders.
* PrettyInMink: Krunch gives her [[https://www.lfg.co/page/120 a fur-lined cape]] in the snow, when she was shivering. In [[https://www.lfg.co/archives/24/ Book 24]], she wears a white fur coat for travelling in the mountains.
* ProgressivelyPrettier: Compare Benny's appearance from [[https://www.lfg.co/page/5 her first appearance]], to [[https://www.lfg.co/page/167 later]] [[https://www.lfg.co/page/208 ones]].
%%* PunctuationShaker: She's like Cale that way.
* RaisedByOrcs: She was raised by minotaurs.
%%* RedEyesTakeWarning: When she gets pissed...
* SleevesAreForWimps: She rarely wears sleeves in her outfits.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Especially her first one, but most match the description.
* TheChiefsDaughter: Through Krunch, to Chief Bloodrage.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: After Rojave gets his head roasted during the fight with his guild, Benny brings him back to life and heals all his injuries because she wants to smash his head in herself.
* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: Probably adopted, but you still wouldn't expect her to introduce Krunch as her father. Not that he's ugly, but he is a walking, talking cow.
* WomanScorned: Anyone who gets uncooperative around her is set for a beating.
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:While she doesn't want revenge for it, she does blame Cale for Krunch's death. She recognizes, however, that it isn't fair, and that they'll talk after she returns from a journey to Krunch's library, but that she does need some time away from Cale.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Krunch]]
!!'''Krunch Bloodrage'''
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Krunch is the elder son of the Bloodrage clan's chief. His younger brother, [[PunnyName Ray'd Bool]], is the Bloodrage's battle leader and current chief. Although he possesses great strength and battle prowess, Krunch has admitted to being the [[GeniusBruiser scholar]] of the two brothers. Krunch has taken a fairly neutral side in the "good/evil" debate that is, essentially, Cale and Richard's relationship. While Cale believes strongly in good, and Richard equally strongly in evil, Krunch believes that people do what they must to survive and everything is, in essence, relative. Due to his secular nature, and the fact that he is generally able to give logical reasoning to his beliefs, Cale often looks to him for truth and advice.
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* ActionDad: To Benny, through adoption [[spoiler:but possibly through blood as well]].
* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Well hooves really, but ties into his people's wild and uninhibited status.
* BigDamnHeroes: Drops in to save the day just as a dragon lands to capture Cale, Richard and Benny.
* CallingTheOldManOut: To both his father ''and'' his brother when he finds out why they've been attacking the other Northern tribes.
-->'''Krunch:''' You, with your {{ambition|is evil}}, and you, with your [[MyMasterRightOrWrong blind loyalty]]!
* EnslavedElves: In the past, Krunch's people were enslaved and used for hard labor. Krunch himself was once enslaved in a prison.
* FantasticRacism: Krunch's people were once subject to this.
* GeniusBruiser: He's a scholar and TheSmartGuy, but is a strong fighter nevertheless.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: The only clothes he wears are a pair of britches.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: It was Krunch who introduced this theme to the comic and would serve as its main advocate until the arrival of the Archmage, at which point it became a prominent theme in the comic overall. He even created the page image.
* ImAHumanitarian: Used as a mocking threat towards Pella's father after they establish themselves as enemies.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Killed offscreen during the battle in Legara.]]
* KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect: His brother teases him about being a scholar and his father does not seem to respect him either, although there are other reasons for his father's animosity.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Would you really want to mess with someone named Krunch ''Bloodrage''?
* OurMinotaursAreDifferent: He's a member of the Bloodrage minotaur clan.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: When he gets angry, which also is part of his Bloodrage heritage.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: He goes on one when [[spoiler:his father is killed.]]
%%* SacrificialLion
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:Richard]] told him about how [[spoiler:Cale was tricked into leaving the Beacon of Hope by believing his wife was unfaithful, and how she was then killed]], something [[spoiler:Cale]] himself isn't aware of.
* SlaveRace: Or, at least, his race used to be.
* ShootTheDog: He treats his killing of the gnome, Fitch, who accomanies them as insuranceas a grim-but-necessary act.
* [[FourFingeredHands Three Fingered Hands]]: Like all members of his clan.
* TopHeavyGuy: He comes from a race of these.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With [[spoiler:[[https://www.lfg.co/page/561 Tah'vraay]]]].
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Defied. Krunch proved a capable scholar with a thirst for knowledge, although he did retain his racial strength and effectiveness in combat.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Krunch does not like water.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Pella]]
!!'''Pella'''
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Pella of Clan Breem is a dwarven fighter from old Kethenecia, as well as the youngest child and only daughter of the Commander of the Kethenecian Royal Guard. After the death of her brothers in the war against the Vullii, Pella was given the choice of which path to follow: the axe (a warrior) or the lute (a bard). After a moment of consideration, Pella decided she liked the feel of both. When Cale and friends were sent to bring Kethenecia to the present, Pella was assigned to guide them to the city catacombs under the orders of the Archmage. She aided the heroes in holding off the Vullii and releasing the city from its temporal anchor, later deciding to travel with the Group to the present. Pella has since stayed with the party ostensibly as she "has nowhere else to go." An exceptional fighter as well as an enthusiastic singer, Pella is known to sing love songs to her enemies while dismembering and/or killing them.
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* AmazonianBeauty: Many fans admire her well-muscled, warrior-style build compared to Benny's WhiteMagicianGirl MsFanservice appearance.
* ActionGirl: With or without a weapon.
* BadassAdorable: She has her cutesy moments, but she can still hand small armies their asses.
* BoisterousBruiser: Probably the loudest, proudest warrior in the comic.
%%* BraidsOfBarbarism: Two of them.
* BraveScot: Though like her father, her accent is a more subdued example.
* FieryRedhead: Pella loves a good fight. (Good being the operative word)
* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: Specifically, an axe.
* IronicEcho: A group of men desperately beg for help. When she offers it, they all turn out to be {{Straw Misogynist}}s and reject her help due to her being a woman, with one of them telling her "You are dismissed." She punishes that person by cutting off his hand and tells them "You be dismissed." before making it clear that she will kill them if they don't get out of her sight.
* MurderousThighs: The TropeNamer.
* PerpetualSmiler: Very, ''very'' rarely does the smile leave her face.
* PutOnABus: Left the group to live with a very attractive Amazonian woman. They return as a romantic couple.
* TakeAThirdOption: When Pella was asked if she wanted to pursue being a bard or a warrior (presented with an axe and a lute and asked to pick one), she said, "I rather be liking the feel of them ''both''".
* TokenHeroicOrc: At minimum, the only good dwarf left of Clan Breem, and it's unknown whether there are any other good dwarves in the setting either.
* TheBlacksmith: The series also adheres to the tradition that smithing is to be expected from dwarves.
* UltimateBlacksmith: She built a mechanical arm, far above our own technology, in the middle of the mountains, seemingly without our technology, and without any proper components.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sooba]]
!!'''Sooba'''

Cale's pet panther, but appears to be more loyal to Richard. Is a strong fighter and appears to be quite intelligent.

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* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: Almost to the extent of HypercompetentSidekick.
* BerserkButton: Sooba tends to attack Cale whenever he says "Good boy", because [[spoiler:she's actually a girl. Cale was lead to believe she was male by her previous owner, Shora, and even after he is corrected, continues to call her this out of habit.]]
* CatchPhrase: ''You think you know me...''
* GenderReveal: Was assumed to [[spoiler:be male, but Benny reveals that Sooba is in fact female, much to the shock of Pella and the audience.]] "You think you know me" indeed...
* InnerMonologue: During the group's raid on the Legion fort, and the source of the above-mentioned CatchPhrase.
* OddFriendship: With Richard.
* PantheraAwesome: It isn't a stretch to say Sooba is one of the most badass animals in the comic and quite possibly one of the most badass characters overall.
* SpeechImpairedAnimal: Other than some facial expressions, Sooba is mostly non-anthropomorphic in behavior and mannerisms, but is capable of coherent internal monologue.
* TeamPet: Specifically Cale's, but there seem to be some ownership issues.
[[/folder]]


[[folder:Richard's Pets]]
!!'''Richard's Pets'''
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* ADayInTheLimelight: "The Accessory" reveals the dragon's backstory.
* BadassAdorable: The Chacha Richard captured to be Charles' nanny (nicknamed "Nancha" by Cale). It can boss around Richard to get Charles supplies, beats up the regent while dazed and sleepy, and offers to deal with Assaracus so Richard can tend to Charles (and get his powers back).
* BagOfHolding: Spend most of their time inside Richard's. The main group's trip inside the bag reveals they sometimes play Skee-Ball in there.
[[/folder]]


[[folder:Charles]]
!!'''Charles'''

A baby reptilian king, adopted and named by Richard.

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* BadassAdorable: He got into a tussle with the Kraken and Dragon over a fish as a background event. It ended with the Kraken's tentacle wrapped around the dragon's jaw in a knot, and him enjoying said fish.
* DeathFakedForYou: Since the RegentForLife's plan to kill him backfired and brought him under Richard's protection, he spreads propaganda that Charles was killed and uses a {{Frameup}} on Cale.
* HappilyAdopted: Well, Charles likes Richard enough to save him despite Richard's very iffy parenting. To be fair, his last guardian was trying to kill him, while Richard is invested in keeping him alive.
* MoralityPet: Upon his revival, Tavor ends up as his new caretaker, and he actually feels somewhat guilty performing wicked deeds in Charles's presence.
* PowerSource: He becomes this to Richard. [[spoiler:Originally, Richard's powers were fuelled by the death of innocents. But after TheArchmage causes a PhlebotinumOverload in his gem, altering the nature of his powers, Richard discovers that he can fuel himself by ''protecting'' the innocent and thus keeps Charles around for that purpose]].
* PubertySuperpower: On his fourteenth name day, he will inherit special abilities.
* PuppetKing: Since Charles is little more than a baby, his RegentForLife rules in all but name. But even that was not enough to satisfy the regent and he tried to have Charles killed.
* PurpleIsPowerful: Wears a purple shirt and is Richard's power source in addition to a baby king.
* TheSpeechless: Doesn't talk, due to being a baby/toddler. Richard encourages this since he thinks it makes Charles seem really cool.
* TookALevelInBadass: His first scenes were just him being in a cradle or carried around by Richard. Then he beat up his "brothers" the Kraken and the Dragon. He was also instrumental in saving Richard from being encased in ice, since everyone else was in jail at the time.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Archmage]]
!!'''The Archmage'''

The Archmage of Kethenecia is an old man, and a seer. Of questionable morals, he intended the city of Kethenecia to survive the millennia by shifting it into the future when the final attack of an alliance of many races was at Kethenecia's gates. The Archmage gave Cale the task to go down to the catacombs and "loosen the anchor." Unfortunately, as Cale found out, the "anchor" was in the form of a small child, and the Archmage's order translated into killing the boy. It was later revealed, after Cale had 'killed' the boy and left, that the young boy was actually the Archmage himself in a magical disguise.

[[spoiler:The Archmage later traveled forward to the present date, witnessing what he sees as a new age for Kethenecia. It is eventually revealed that Richard's bunny is actually the Archmage in disguise, and that Richard has known for a long time who his bunny really is.]]

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* AllEncompassingMantle: Part of the wise and wizardly characterisations surrounding him.
* AncientKeeper: He is privvy to most if not all of the background secrets in the comic lore.
* TheArchmage: His title and profession.
* BaldOfEvil: Part of his wizardly appearance. His baldness is the result of [[spoiler:stealing too much power from his fellow mages when he murdered them.]]
* BigBad: To an extent, since everything bad that's happened in the story is a direct or indirect result of his machinations throughout history. [[spoiler:After his death this becomes ''much'' more obvious, though he claims to have been working to avert a greater evil.]]
* BreakTheCutie: By pretending to be a child that Cale is (supposedly) forced to slay in order to send Kethenecia back to the present, the Archmage intended to forcibly impose a Machiavellian streak on Cale to prepare him for his destiny. After all, "Innocence is the cost of justice."
* CatchPhrase: "[[TheChessmaster As I have written.]]"
* TheChessmaster: He essentially runs fate and puts all the pieces in place. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:he does not manage fate all that benevolently and throws temper tantrums when his pawns start going out of place]].
* TheChooserOfTheOne: He is the one who made Cale TheChosenOne and manipulates destiny in general.
* DeflectorShields: Conjures one to protect against [[spoiler:Richard]].
* DidntSeeThatComing:
** He is a chessmaster and claims to be omniscient. [[spoiler:But he ultimately fails to foresee his own death, just as his familiar had warned]].
** In addition, despite all his "molding" of Cale to get Cale to be TheChosenOne, Cale is personally invested in helping anyone who truly needs it, not just the "bigger picture" the Archmage claims to be preparing him for.
* DisappointedInYou: Towards Cale for [[spoiler:running away from his destiny, helping individuals instead of the masses as the Archmage had intended]].
* DrunkWithPower: Happens after his [[spoiler:MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment, he quickly understood his power would lead to this and [[https://www.lfg.co/page/922/ made the Chachas as a safety measure]].]] However the realization that he could have this happen to him didn't stick and he later started claiming to be omniscient without irony.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Fellbunny/Archbunny
* EvilOldFolks: His main antagonism came from his behind-the-scenes manipulation instead of directly menacing the main characters, but he's undeniably powerful. [[spoiler:When he finally confronts the group for not adhering to his plans, he curb-stomps Cale and quickly puts the normally curse-happy Richard on the defensive.]]
* EyeBeams: Can use them. [[spoiler:It's implied that he uses these to attack Richard's gem while Richard has both his hands held back.]]
* GambitRoulette: Turns out that many events that take place are for the purpose of [[spoiler:molding Cale into the future king of Kethenecia]], all put into place by this guy. Given the sheer number of moving parts (especially since one of those parts was ''Richard'') frankly it's no wonder not everything went the way he wanted.
* GodGuise: The Sisters believe his rabbit guise to be a god, due to the fact that he used powerful magic to save them from certain doom while they prayed for a miracle as well as a ''very'' convenient head injury that afflicted their leader. He may very well [[PhysicalGod come close]]. Other areas seems to worship him as well, if the rabbit motifs in those places are taken as religious.
* IAmTheNoun: He claims to ''be'' magic and destiny.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Cale, likely possessed by Richard, manages to smash the gems embedded in his forehead while he is distracted gloating over his "victory" over Richard. His corpse is later seen as a component of a hand puppet in Richard's possession.]]
* MiseryBuildsCharacter: He brings a lot of pain to the people he wants to make leaders, they don't like it.
* MoreThanMeetsTheEye: [[spoiler:The rabbit is the Archmage]]. He's been seen in that guise in many, many different places including the monastery, the Sisters' backstory, and with Richard.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After receiving a vision of a terrible future, he [[spoiler:murdered his fellow magi to steal their power. Immediately afterwards he regretted it, wondering whether it really had been for the greater good.]] He eventually grew past it.
* MysteriousEmployer: To Cale, Richard, and Pella, not that Cale is completely aware of it.
* {{Necromancer}}: He can enslave and draw power from the dead and [[spoiler:murdered his fellow magi for this reason]].
* NotSoOmniscientAfterAll: [[spoiler:When Cale runs away from Ketheneca over guilt for not preventing Krunch's death, it takes the Archmage several years to find him, despite priding himself in knowing everything.]] He apparently did not see the commander destroying the North either. [[spoiler:Or his own death.]]
* TheOmniscient: Something he claims to be. Later events put this a lot more in doubt, given how things go OffTheRails from his plan.
* PowerCrystal: He has three gems embedded in his head, which presumably serve this purpose. One of them is in the ThirdEye position. [[spoiler:When he confronts the party, Cale eventually smashes them.]]
* PowerParasite: Over the ages, he has stolen massive amounts of magic from many mages throughout history. [[spoiler:When he dies, that magic is returned to its rightful owners or their successors, resulting in a massive shift in the balance of power]].
* PropheciesAreAlwaysRight: A firm believer in this.
* ProphetEyes: They glow when he see's things.
* {{Seers}}: And one with the power to arrange the events of the past and present as well as opposed to watching and waiting.
* ShapeShifter: One of his powers. His favored form is the rabbit.
* ShapeshifterGuiltTrip: [[spoiler:He once shapeshifted into an innocent boy to trick Cale into thinking he had to make a SadisticChoice, killing the boy to save Kethenicia and breaking Cale's innocence in the process.]] A long time later, after Cale runs away from his destiny, The Archmage shapeshifts into this form again while trying to make Cale go back on course.
* ShootTheDog: He killed a lot of people for the greater good and caused even more indirect death from it. We still have yet to see any real pay off. [[spoiler:After his death, the narrative seems to support that he may have just been drunk on his own power and sense of being the chessmaster.]]
* SquishyWizard: Very frail looking, physically. [[spoiler:Engages in a drawn-out magic duel with Richard, but a few strokes from a sword end him. (To be fair, those strikes took out his {{Power Crystal}}s and wizard or not it was right through his head.)]]
* SuperEmpowering: He granted magic to the [[spoiler:Sisters and the Sons]].
* TheyWereHoldingYouBack: He's not very fond of Cale's companions. [[spoiler:He intends for Cale to become a great king, destined to help those in need and lead the world into a new age. But whenever he thinks Cale needs a nudge to get back on course, he tends to take away things that are dear to him, such as his first wife, Shora. He later tries to kill Richard as well for the same reason, but ends up killed himself.]]
* ThresholdGuardians: The dragons involved in Kethenecia's backstory guard him as part of their deal.
* TimeMaster: He possesses considerable insight into the past and present, but the future appears a little squiffy. He can time-travel as well.
%%* WalkingSpoiler
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He and his fellow magi foresaw a terrible future in which Kethenicia would burn and the land would fall to evil. He concluded that this prophecy would be impossible even for them to avert, but that it could be managed. He has since proceeded to commit terrible crimes all in the name of restoring hope to the world, and his sanity has increasingly declined.
* WhoDares: He is outraged when Cale pulls out his swords and asks "You dare draw your weapons at me?"
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: According to one of the dragon elders, he was once a kind man. But the weight of his own magical power drove him insane, and it only got worse with age. He did see this coming, and took measures to ensure someone would be around to stop him when this inevitably occurred.
* YouCantFightFate: He believes in this. Though he does feel it can be managed.
* YourSoulIsMine: [[spoiler:He enslaved the souls of his fellow magi to increase his own power.]] Though it's revealed he later released the souls in order to create [[spoiler:The Chachas.]]
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: The Dragon Elder is considered suspicious due to his connections to the Archmage because the group is very wary of anything to do with him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Other Kethenecians]]
* TheAlliance: Join with the other tribes of the North to fight TheEmpire.
* CivilWar: [[spoiler:Cale abdicates the throne and creates a council to rule Kethenicia in his stead. Leena usurps the council, crowns herself Queen, and kills anyone she fears will oppose her, causing Kethenicia to split between her faction and the rebels.]]
* DragonRider: They rode on sand dragons to break through the Legaran forces.

!!'''Dragon Elders'''
* TheAgeless: They have lived for centuries and have implied themselves to be immortal if not killed.
* BackForTheDead: The last elder dragon shows up in the final arc working alongside Tah'vraay, but [[spoiler:is abruptly killed by Tavor/Vat moments before his own defeat]].
* BigGood: They left the [[Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium Undying Lands]] for Kethenicia to guide mortals into an age of wisdom and peace. They have played a key role in moving Cale towards his destiny, and unlike the Archmage, have stronger moral scruples.
* TheChooserOfTheOne: They, along with the Archmage, made Cale TheChosenOne. They ultimately expect him to be at the heart of a war greater than any the world has ever seen.
* DraconicHumanoid: They are called dragons, but are considerably more humanoid than the dragons used by The Legion.
* ItIsBeyondSaving: As their original efforts with the city of Kethenicia failed and was overrun by evil, and the future Cale wished to save was considerably more corrupted than even the current time, they express this sentiment to him, choosing to return to the place from whence they came. Nevertheless, Cale manages to persuade them to give the world hope, even a small one.
* LastOfHisKind: So far only one of them is confirmed to still be alive. The rest seems to have been killed by Tavor and the vulii, and the only known survivor explicitly references the trope.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: One of them prevented the chachas from killing the Archmage when they were originally created. The next time the chachas are summoned, they decide to leave instead of performing their task, allowing for the Archmage's plotting that would cause much misery over the course of the main plot.
* NoNameGiven: The elder dragon most involved in the plot has not given a name and no one has asked for it either. {{Lampshaded}} by Benny just before Cale calls him "you". The [[https://www.lfg.co/page/1709/ final arc]] reveals it to be [[spoiler:Algerdroden]], but Cale and Benny never learn it.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Unlike the winged, non-talking dragons also seen in the setting, they are wingless, bipedal, and fully sapient.
* PoorCommunicationKills: The main elder dragon's warnings are constantly ignored by Cale who would prefer never having to deal with him again since he wants to help people his way instead of being a pawn in a scheme. This leads to some problems when the danger the dragon was trying to warn him about came to pass.
* SealedGoodInACan: One of the dragon elders [[spoiler:attempted to move against the Archmage when he grew too insane. Unfortunately, the Archmage's fail-safe against madness, the Cha-Chas, mysteriously left, leaving him at the Archmage's mercy]]. As a result, he was locked away for centuries.

!!'''Humans'''

!!!'''Gaten'''
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:He joins Leena's murderous dictatorship and betrays Cale. He initially claims that he did it in the name of stability, but later admits he did it out of {{Greed}}.]]
* {{Greed}}: [[spoiler:His motives for betraying Kethenicia for Leena are revealed to be pretty simple; she offered him the right of coinage.]]
* NonActionGuy: Though he does lead the charge while defending his village from the Elementals, he is easily overshadowed in martial skill and power by most other major characters, and is the least involved among the Kethenician leaders in fighting during the war against Legara. It is implied that he is more active in managing the day-to-day affairs of the city.
* OutOfFocus: Lacking many interesting quirks or skills, he gets the least amount of focus of the Kethenecian leaders.
* PapaWolf: When it seems like his son has been killed in the battle against Elementals, he refuses to surrender despite being outmatched.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: What little characterization he has received mostly paints him as this, being a reliable leader while rebuilding Kethenecia and committed to doing good for his people. However, he turned out to be [[NotSoAboveItAll somewhat less reasonable]] when Leena takes the throne, admitting that he sided with her out of greed.

!!!'''Commander [[spoiler:Aelloon Sr.]]'''
* AntagonistInMourning: Following his crushing defeat of the Bloodrage, he was seen [[INeedAFreakingDrink drinking]] and coming to terms with killing his old friend Chief Bloodrage.
%%* BadassCape
* BadassNormal: He doesn't have any magical or supernatural powers, but he defeated Cale, Benny and Pella with nothing but a table and a helmet. "Those Left Behind" reveals that he once also encountered and easily defeated Notan.
* TheChessmaster: He suggested to his old buddy Chief Bloodrage that he should conquer the lands of the other Northern tribes to weaken them all in anticipation of Legara's conquest of the region.
%%* CommandingCoolness
* CoolOldGuy: He's [[spoiler:General Aelloon's father]] and graying, and despite that is still a very capable fighter and leader.
* DefectorFromDecadence: [[spoiler:Defected from Legara because he knows that the King of Legara won't stop his conquest at Legarion, bringing a number of men with him]].
* FriendlyEnemy: With Chief Bloodrage.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:He defected to Kethencia to stop Tavor's conquest.]]
* ImprovisedWeapon: He defeated Cale, Benny and Pella with the use of a table and a helmet.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: When ordered to invade the North, he convinced his old friend, Chief Bloodrage, to attack the other tribes, thereby weakening all of them, including the Bloodrage, for eventual conquest by Legara.
* OddFriendship: With Chief Bloodrage.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: His son was killed by Cale.
* TheStrategist: He's the reason the armies of Legara were so successful in the north. [[spoiler:After his HeelFaceTurn, he serves as this for Kethenecia.]]
* WorthyOpponent: To Chief Bloodrage.

!!'''Bloodrage'''
* OurMinotaursAreDifferent: They are a clan of minotaurs.

!!!'''Ray'd Bool'''
* AnArmAndALeg: His left arm was cut off and replaced with...
* ArtificialLimbs: A metal arm built by Pella.
* BackForTheDead: In the final arc, he and his family are captured by [[spoiler:Tavor/Vat. When they're set free by Tah'vraay interfering, Ray'd and Leena sacrifice themselves to give their daughter a chance to escape.]]
* BigBrotherMentor: To Krunch.
* CharacterDevelopment: Seemingly undergoes this in more recent pages. [[spoiler:He becomes actually capable of questioning his leadership, and entertain thoughts of rebellion, with enough cunning and care to stage a HopelessBossFight yet ThrowingTheFight in such a way that the paranoid Queen looking through his senses would be fooled. This is a far cry from the guy who would obey the Chief without question.]]
* CoolUncle: To Benny.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: When he first appeared, he had no superpowers beyond his physical strength. After he loses his left arm, it is replaced by a metal one that enhances his strength even further. [[spoiler:And then when Leena usurps the throne of Kethenecia, she magically empowers him so that his metal arm can absorb magical attacks and create weaponized constructs out of them.]]
* GrievousHarmWithABody: Threw a horse at a bunch of enemies.
* InformedAbility: For the warrior son he always get effortlessly beaten. Even when having the power to nullify [[spoiler:Richard's]] attacks he still lost handily in a melee fight.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:Joins Leena in usurping Kethenicia and crowning her SorcerousOverlord for this reason. He ends up regretting it when she becomes an AbusiveParent who uses their own daughter as a hostage against him.]]
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Went along with his father's questionable conquests because the war leader answers to the chief, which Krunch chews him out for.
* PunctuationShaker: Unusually, in the middle of his name rather than between two names.
* PunnyName: Let's just say Ray'd Bool gives you wings.
* TheWorfEffect: After his introduction as the Bloodrage warrior son, he is repeatedly defeated to demonstrate the power of the group's enemies.

!!!'''Dorel'''
* ADayInTheLimelight: In the NPC series "Nature's Wrath".
* BarrierWarrior: As a druid, he notes that his primary role in battle is to defend. He also demonstrates how defensive spells can still be used to [[https://www.lfg.co/npc/tale/13-16/ deadly effect]].
* FunctionalMagic: He has magic for all occasions.
* GreenThumb[=/=]InHarmonyWithNature: He appears to use nature-based magic distinct from other kinds seen in the comic.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: [[spoiler:Reluctantly participates in Ray'd's actions against Kethenicia for this reason, though he expresses strong regret upon Benny's return.]]
* NonstandardCharacterDesign: Amongst the minotaurs. His pointy snout and horn placement makes him look like a goat, but he lives in a tribe of bull-people.
* TheSmartGuy: As a sort of spiritual advisor for his tribe and chieftain.

!!'''Gnomes'''
* ButtMonkey: When you need a RedShirt for a humorous death, it's usually a gnome.
* EnemyMine: They team up with the other northern forces.
* OurGnomesAreWeirder: The inventive, engineering kind.
* MiniMecha: They use these in battle to make up for their small size.
* RedShirtArmy: Most casualties in battle are gnomes. For instance, when [[spoiler:Pella tried to save Benny and Tah'vraay from the Legarian soldiers]], all the gnomes were killed.

!!!'''Chief Engineer Toyk'''
* BusCrash: When the protagonists return to Kethenecia to investigate Leena's betrayal, Richard offhandedly mentions that Toyk had died during their absence. The exact details surrounding his death are unknown, but presumably had to do with Leena taking the throne.
* DeadpanSnarker: He gets some moments.
* DefiantToTheEnd: He would not abandon Mechastone until the clock tower was lost.
* TheEngineer: It's his race's shtick, and he certainly has the look of one, but we never see him get in on the action.

!!!'''Fitch'''
* ADayInTheLimelight: In the [=NPC=] short story [[https://www.lfg.co/npc/archives/3/ "A Gnome Song"]].
* GeniusBruiser: Before becoming MadeOfIron, he introduces himself as "just the Librarian".
* MadeOfIron: He couldn't be killed unless he was stabbed four times with a spear in one day.

!!'''Sisters and Sons'''
* CrystalDragonJesus: The sisters, especially Matron Elosha, worship a rabbit. The [[spoiler:Archmage in his favorite disguise]].
* EyeBeams: They can fire their magic this way.
* FunctionalMagic: Their magic is as much telekinetic as elemental onslaughts, and includes the power to create constructs and bind giants to service.
* OlderThanTheyLook: They are said to age slowly.

!!!'''Matron Elosha'''
* AbusiveParents: Not physically, thank goodness, but she [[IHaveNoSon became coldly indifferent]] to her daughter upon discovering her poor grasp of magic.
* ADayInTheLimelight: In the [=NPC=] short story [[https://www.lfg.co/npc/archives/4/ "The Daughter"]].
* BattleCouple: She used to be one with Fuerst.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: She was a badass even before the Archmage empowered her people with magic.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Up until her real name was revealed in the NPC story "The Daughter", she was known only as "Matron".
* IdentityAmnesia: She was once a bandit who had a disdain for religion stemming from the CorruptChurch she had been raised in. But she eventually received a ''very'' convenient head wound, anticipated, and possibly even planned by The Archmage. After being healed by a magical rabbit, she effectively becomes a completely different person. She fanatically worships said rabbit as a god, turns away her former husband, and eventually even rejects her own daughter.
* IronLady: Through unknown means that many attribute to the Archmage, her personality took a sharp turn to the left when she gained her powers.
* LittleMissBadass: [[https://www.lfg.co/npc/tale/4-3/ As a young girl.]]
* MamaBear: [[https://www.lfg.co/npc/tale/4-19/ "All of you. Get behind me."]] On the other hand, she was quick to turn her back on her ''actual'' daughter when she found that she didn't possess magic.
* ParentalAbandonment: She turned her back on her own daughter after she discovered that she inherited very little of the magic her mother received from the rabbit.
* PirateGirl: When she was younger, she was one.
* PregnantBadass: Even in late into her pregnancy with Tah'vraay, she was still capable of throwing axes with lethal aim.

!!!'''Captain Tah'vraay'''
* ActionGirl: Goes straight into violence when it's called for.
* BigDamnHeroes: Saves Cale, Sooba, and Pella in [[https://www.lfg.co/page/941/ 941]].
* CombatPragmatist:
** Dressed her first mate in drag to draw the king's messenger into a trap.
** When an EliteMook soldier says that he's bested the entire group before, she uses a throwing knife to take him by surprise, saying that she cheats.
** Her preferred battleground always has a clear line of sight to the shore, where her ship's weapons are ready to support her.
* DaddysGirl: [[spoiler:After her mother stopped being interested in her for her lack of magical talent, her father spent his time with her instead.]]
* DaddysLittleVillain: In the NPC backstory, her father describes understanding what joy truly was when she asked to become a pirate like him.
* ISeeDeadPeople: An ability implied to be granted by her trick eye. She can even see Richard while he is possessing Cale.
* LukeIAmYourFather: She is [[spoiler:Benny's biological mother, and judging from Benny's physiology it's strongly hinted that Krunch is not merely an ''adoptive'' father. She never actually tells her this.]]
* MuggleBornOfMages: Did not inherit any of the [[spoiler:Sisters]] magic from her mother, leaving the woman without interest in her and [[spoiler:letting her father raise her]].
* OlderThanTheyLook: White hair makes it difficult to tell her exact age, but she's a lot older than she seems.
* PirateGirl: [[LamarckWasRight Like father and mother, like daughter.]]

!!!'''Fuerst'''
* ActionDad: [[spoiler:He is Tah'vraay's father.]]
* ADayInTheLimelight: In the [=NPC=] short story [[https://www.lfg.co/npc/archives/4/ "The Daughter"]].
* BadassesWearBandanas: He wore a nice green one.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: He's seen four times before his body is found hanged in Legara. Most of his story comes from the [=NPC=] side story.
* NumberTwo: He was Captain Tah'vraay's first mate aboard her ship.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: In his own words, [[spoiler:keeping their daughter from him was something he could almost forgive Elosha for; what he ''couldn't'' forgive was when she turned her back on Tah'vraay for not sharing her magical talents.]]
* WholesomeCrossdresser: He didn't have any objections to [[https://www.lfg.co/page/117/ dressing as a woman]] to ambush a Legarian patrol, even saying that it made him "feel rather pretty".


!!'''Trolls'''
* AllTrollsAreDifferent: They do act like bad guys, but they are ''not'' the dumb, illiterate brutes they are portrayed as in other media. The only one to act like one is Tim, who has the excuse of being hit over the head with a mace one too many times.
* AntiMagic: Their shamans have the power to shut down magic.
* BarbarianTribe: As close as the comic gets to one anyway.
* EnemyMine: They join with the other races to fight for survival.
* GreenAndMean: They have green skin.
* TheHorde: Right up until they join TheAlliance. Go figure.
* OneGenderRace: Maybe? All troll warriors we've seen have been male, and the only example of what ''could'' be a female troll is a servant offering food to Lord Stoll (in [[https://www.lfg.co/page/26/ this]] strip). However, gay marriage is not the norm, implying they ''do'' have females.
* RapePillageAndBurn: They were planning to invade and plunder the home of the gnomes, and they might have succeeded had Toyk not sought outside help.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Their eyes are black with beady red irises to underline their nature.
* SquishyWizard: No being of magic can harm the troll shamans, but non-magical ones (like Sooba) easily can.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Of the Alliance. They don't really apologise for their actions earlier in the comic or reform their ways, and at all times they look out for themselves first. Since abandoning the Kethenecia arc it's never been mentioned whether or not they've since changed their ways. Then again the Bloodrage indirectly destroyed every Northen tribes home, the Commander directly did it and the undead are Richard's people. They don't really stick out as the worse group in the Alliance.

!!!'''Styx'''
->''"Actually, truth be told, we're rather intelligent."''

Leader of the trolls. First introduced as the second-in-command of Stoll, the troll warlord besieging the gnome city of Mechastone, he assumed command of Stoll's forces after the latter's death early in the comic. Some time later, he joined forces with the other tribes of the North to oppose the Legaran advance.

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* ADayInTheLimelight: He is a significant character in the NPC stories "Tales as Old as Tim". The [[https://www.lfg.co/npc/archives/1/ first part]] reveals that he is Tim's brother; the [[https://www.lfg.co/npc/archives/17/ second one]] gives him more focus, and shows how he came to be Stoll's second-in-command.
* AffablyEvil: He went from applauding the cunning involved in Cale & co. pretending to be on their side and Krunch killing Stoll in the confusion of a diversionary attack by the gnomes to turning his new underlings on Cale and Krunch, pointing out that he could hardly let their leader's death go unavenged. The "Tales as Old as Tim" NPC stories show that he more or less did the same thing once.
* BadBoss: Doubt his leadership and you just signed yourself up for a nigh suicidal mission. Oh, and he'll slice your heel.
* BeardOfEvil: A thick black one.
* BigBrotherInstinct[=/=]KnightTemplarBigBrother: Well, InvertedTrope, as Styx is Tim's younger brother, but the ''Tales as Old as Tim'' NPC stories show that he's quite protective of his rather dull-witted big brother.
* BigGuyLittleGuy[=/=]BrainsAndBrawn[=/=]FatAndSkinny: With Tim as the latter, the former and the latter again respectively.
* {{Cincinnatus}}: While for all intents and purposes he leads the trolls, he is not the rightful heir to the throne, [[spoiler:who is implied to be Tim]].
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Appears to be this for Tim.
* DragonAscendant: After Stoll's death he became the new leader of the trolls.
* DeadpanSnarker:
** From time to time.
--->'''Styx:''' Why don't you tell us more about how you wanted to kill Lord Stoll?
** This other time:
--->'''Ray'd:''' We assumed you were dead.\\
'''Styx:''' How much sleep did you lose over that fact?
* TheDragon: To Lord Stoll.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He still cares about his brother Tim.
* PragmaticVillainy: When the Bloodrage united the north as TheAlliance, Styx joined them to ensure his and the trolls' continued survival; when he reappeared later, he reasserted loyalty to them in exchange for a new home for him and his men at Kethenecia in light of Legara's conquest of the north, to the consternation of Ray'd and Krunch.
* TacticalWithdrawal: How he and his troops managed to survive the War of the North.
-->'''Ray'd:''' You mean fleeing.\\
'''Styx:''' Call it what you wish. I survived. [[{{Troll}} Where is dear old Dad?]]

!!!'''Tim'''
->''"CHICKEN!"''

A big, fat and incredibly stupid troll, Tim is unusual among his fellows in both intelligence and body size. Very fond of Cale (whom he has named "Chicken" for some reason), he seems to mainly serve as a dogsbody for his smaller and much smarter brother Styx. Despite being a troll, he's actually ''very'' good-natured.

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* ADayInTheLimelight: In the NPC short story [[https://www.lfg.co/npc/archives/1/ "Tales as Old as Tim."]]
* AerithAndBob: A world full of unusual names and somehow this idiot wound up with one of the normal ones. Exemplified by his brother being called Styx.
* BerserkButton: Don't harm chickens, even if they're actually elves.
* BigBrotherInstinct: When Styx was merely a toddler, now the role are reversed as Tim's intellect is gone and Styx grew older.
* BigGuyLittleGuy[=/=]BrainsAndBrawn[=/=]FatAndSkinny: As noted above, he and Styx couldn't be more different if they tried.
* CarryABigStick: Favors club if he needs a weapon.
* DentedIron: According to Styx, his personality is the result of being hit on the noggin with a mace once too often.
* TheDitz: No use sugar-coating it -- Tim's a moron, plain and simple.
* DumbMuscle: Functions as this for Styx and the rest of the trolls.
* DumbIsGood: At least, nowhere near as evil as his fellow trolls. The main group did more evil than Tim including [[TheHero Cale]] mostly because Tim is too dumb to get jaded or frustrated by the events surrounding him.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: In the second half of his NPC tale, he displays the ability to swing a tree trunk at people.
* {{Malaproper}}: Subverted once for comedy in his first appearance...
-->'''Tim:''' I lick you!\\
'''Cale:''' I think you mean ''like''.\\
'''Styx:''' [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments No, he doesn't.]]
** But played straight otherwise.
--->'''Tim:''' Sticks!\\
'''Styx:''' It's pronounced the same, but I'm still pretty certain you're spelling it wrong.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Amply demonstrated in the short time the trolls were antagonists. To begin with, Cale successfully manipulated him into turning against his fellow trolls to help "Chicken".
* TheNicknamer: He calls Cale "Chicken", as mentioned above, and Richard "Squishy man".
* StoutStrength: Even for a troll he is insanely strong and quite fat.
* TokenGoodTeammate[=/=]TokenHeroicOrc: The only troll so far to not display any villainous traits, aside from working with his villainous brother Styx.

!!'''Knights of the Way'''
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:After Cale leaves Kethenecia, they are tasked to kill him on Leena's order.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: They oppose the heroes at first, but are eventually persuaded to join them.
* HeroKiller: Through a combination of [[ZergRush numbers]] and strategy, they have posed a serious threat every time the protagonists have gone up against them. During their first appearance, they incapacitate Richard by ambush and proceed to defeat Pella, Ray'd, and Dorel. [[spoiler:When Leena orders the assassination of Cale, they overwhelm Cale, Pella, and Sooba by sheer numbers. After the protagonists return to Kethenecia, they manage to grievously wound Cale.]] In every confrontation, additional reinforcements were needed for the heroes to triumph over them.
* ThresholdGuardians: Prior to joining Kethenecia, they protected portals from misuse.
* ZergRush: [[spoiler:The initial wave of them sent to kill Cale numbered a hundred and they continued to send reinforcements.]]

!!!'''Leena'''
* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:She doesn't pay much attention to her daughter and forces her husband to kill Cale and Dorel instead of taking care of her, even using their own daughter as a hostage against him.]]
* BackForTheDead: In the final arc, she and her family are captured by [[spoiler:Tavor/Vat. When they're set free by Tah'vraay interfering, Ray'd and Leena sacrifice themselves to give their daughter a chance to escape.]]
* BackFromTheDead: Her spirit was preserved at the moment of her death. Later, she comes back for real as an asskicking ActionGirl.
* BondVillainStupidity: Despite ordering Cale's assassination while he was away from Kethenecia, she merely has him imprisoned once he actually returns. She also decides to incapacitate Richard simply by encasing him in crystal that can be easily cracked by an outside force, as opposed to using a spell that would be more difficult to reverse. Naturally, the heroes manage to escape both predicaments pretty quickly with help from their allies.
* {{Depower}}: [[spoiler:Richard takes away her magic.]]
* DomesticAbuse: She is implied to torture her husband when he doesn't obey her demands.
* EvilMakesYouUgly: Her appearance steadily deteriorates after her FaceHeelTurn. [[spoiler:It reverts back to normal after her magic is stripped from her and her sanity is restored.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:In Cale's absence, she assumes leadership of Kethenecia, becomes a despot, and orders the assassination of Cale.]]
* ForgivenButNotForgotten: [[spoiler:After her magic is stripped from her and her sanity is restored, her husband acknowledges that it wasn't her fault she went mad and tells her he can forgive her. But even so, it will take time for him and their daughter to forget what she did to them.]]
* MsExposition: She shows Cale the background to the elves' StartOfDarkness and the fall of Gamlon, along with the way to find Kethenecia.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:After her magic is stripped from her, restoring her sanity, she expresses horror at what she did and breaks down in tears.]]
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:Cale had no intention of returning to Kethenicia and likely would not have learned of her misdeeds for some time had she not ordered him assassinated.]]
* NoKillLikeOverkill: Orders a hundred soldiers to kill one target: [[spoiler:Cale]] Then again, [[OneManArmy given who the target is]] she may have sent ''too few''.
* PosthumousCharacter: She's been dead for hundreds of years by the time we meet her.
* SorcerousOverlord: [[spoiler:She starts the plot as non-magical warrior. But one of her great grandparents was an extremely powerful mage, whose magic was stolen by TheArchmage. After TheArchmage dies, said magic is inherited by Leena. She uses it to seize power, crown herself Queen, and attack anyone she fears is a threat to her rule.]]
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: [[spoiler:Blasts Richard out of a tower and traps him inside crystal after he knocks out Ray'd.]]
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: [[spoiler:She became a mad despot due to inheriting magic from one of her ancestors without the training needed to control it. After she gets {{Depower}}ed, her sanity is restored.]]

!!'''Undead Villagers'''
* ADayInTheLimelight: In the NPC tale "Great Pain, Greater Gain", which showed how they realised what happened to them and came to terms with it.
* AnimateDead: They were animated by Richard's magic. Despite being fully dead, they are still fully mindful as well, instead of being mindless shambling zombies.
* BadassArmy: Comprised of men and women of all ages, they're capable of fighting the legions of Legara.
* BeneathTheMask: The first hint of their abnormal status was when a young man's arm was cut off by a saw blade and easily reattached.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Maikos reveals [[spoiler:the villagers lose their undead power when Richard becomes more human.]]
* DemBones: They can magically mask themselves to look like normal people, but their true forms are emaciated and skeletal.
* EnfantTerrible: The undead toddler.
* HappinessInSlavery: For a given measure of slavery; Richard doesn't command their loyalty by force and apparently acts just like a regular mayor around them. Even so, their existences are bound to him by his magic because it facilitated their transformation, and they'd ''really'' like to keep it that way. [[spoiler:So when Richard starts losing his powers and they start being mortal again, Maikos begs Cale to find Richard and get him his powers back.]]
* HealingFactor: They easily recover from physical damage. Being undead, even beheading is just an inconvenience to them.
-->'''Freshly beheaded villager:''' Umm... ouch? Well, I guess we can [[TheUnmasquedWorld stop pretending]] now.
* MoreThanMeetsTheEye: The entire village is undead, but they put on the appearance of a normal human village to avoid detection.
* OutOfFocus: Despite being some of the most powerful and loyal allies the main group has, they're basically relegated to background characters shortly after the war against Legara.
* PullingThemselvesTogether: They can reassemble themselves from individual bones.
* WalkDontSwim: They reach Kethenecia by walking across the bottom of the ocean.
* WasOnceAMan: There was a time when they really ''were'' just a little village up the coast. Suffice it to say, that time is past.

!!!'''Maikos'''
* ButtMonkey: In his early appearances he was Richard's [[TheChewToy Chew Toy]].
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: At least in his initial appearance. Later on, he keeps his more visibly badass appearance along with the other villagers.
* NumberTwo: To Richard.

!!'''Imps'''
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: They're not brought up again after the war against Legara.
* TheFaceless: So far they've never been seen without their masks. They can even somehow eat while wearing them.
* HeelFaceTurn: They first attempt to eat Cale, but join Kethenecia after he helps them defeat an invading tribe.
* HulkingOut: Their main method of battle is to inflate themselves into a much stronger form.
* LetsGetDangerous: It at first seems laughable that they can pose a credible threat to anyone, but it turns out they have the power to {{Hulk Out}}. Cale (with his swords malfunctioning) and the Legion's dwarves are no match.
* ToServeMan: They gleefully feast on the bodies of their fallen enemies.
* TokenEvilTeammate: The NPC "What Lies Beneath the Underneath" shows in a more serious light what it means to have a tribe that eats their enemies on your side; it's... not pretty.
* WeakToMagic: They easily subdue foes in melee combat, but have trouble against an invading group of magic-using imps and need to enlist the help of Cale and Richard.

!!'''Dnah'''
* BadassBookworm: His main role in the group (when he appeared) was to be TheSmartGuy, but when Leena takes the throne he also becomes a RebelLeader who actively fights against her reign.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: The average response that his species gets from people who don't know them is "...wait, are you a talking hand?"
* ADayInTheLimelight: "High Five".
* TheExile: He learned that his people, the Right, had been manipulated into mindless slavery by the Left. Feeling that the truth was important, he exposed it. But due to the Left and Right having grown [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything extremely polarized]], this simply resulted in a riot. When everything settled down, the Left and Right punished him for spreading the truth by banishing him, shortly before choosing to forget that anything had happened and returning to routine.
* OddFriendship: He's an old buddy of Krunch. Their shared interests aren't strange but it's probably unusual for a [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Bloodrage]] to hang out with someone from [[StarfishAliens his species]].
* RebelLeader: He leads the rebellion against Leena.
* SdrawkcabName: Of "[[PunnyName Hand]]". There's also his special move, the "Hctib Pals".
* TheSmartGuy: He is a librarian and assisted Krunch in his studies.
* StarfishAliens: Not an alien but he's still ''a walking, talking hand'' with a dinosaur body. His genitals are also in his pinky.
* TookALevelInBadass: Before Leena took the throne, the only opponent he was ever seen defeating was Hctib Elttil, who he had a massive size advantage over. After Leena assumes leadership of Kethenecia, he becomes a RebelLeader and has been shown beating up Leena's knights while wearing armor.

!!'''Sand dragons'''
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: They're not brought up again after the war against Legara.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: They are made out of sand, need little sleep, and do not feed at all.
* PlayingWithFire: Like normal dragons, they can breathe fire.

!!'''Phares'''
* AwesomeButImpractical: They can exert control over the elements of the world, but across long periods of time rather than moments. Their powers can be combined with those of a powerful magic user (such as Richard) to achieve more instantaneous results, however.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Set up to play a major role in the war against Legara and their NPC story "My Cup Runneth Over", but not mentioned again after Richard summons them to help fight the Archmage.
* ElementalEmbodiment: What they essentially are and care for.
* ElementalPowers: They have the power to affect change over generations using all four classical elements and likely others as well.
* HeelFaceTurn: In their first appearance, they nearly wiped out an innocent town with a horde of Elementals in a misguided attempt to protect nature. They have since reformed and now assist Cale and co.
* ImmortalImmaturity: Downplayed, as they are not particularly juvenile in their mannerisms. However, being so old and having little experience in interacting with people, they are easily misled by deception.
* ObliviouslyEvil: They were misled by Hctib about the nature of the villagers living in their valley, as well as the cause of the drought in the region. When the truth became apparent to them, they conceded the error they made.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Legion of Legara]]
* CivilWar: Richard kills many of those who would normally inherit the throne, causing the country to fall into chaos. General Aelloon eventually makes his own faction dominant, but he himself [[spoiler:meets his end]]. Several years later, refugees are looking for new places to call home and occasionally still fighting one another.
* {{Dragon Rider}}s: They maintain a sizable dragon pen as part of their military.
* TheEmpire: They were clearly designed with this in mind.
* KillItWithFire: Their battle-mages favour fire spells aside from FunctionalMagic, and their dragons have fire breath, naturally.
* TheUsualAdversaries: For most of the comic, the conflicts and disasters can trace their cause directly or indirectly to their involvement.

!!'''Tavor, King of Legara'''

* BeardOfEvil: Age developed his facial hair into a truly impressive example.
* BigBad: TheArchmage used him to unite all of Kethenicia's enemies under one banner so that they would collapse together with his defeat. [[spoiler:And even long after the Archmage's own death, he turns out to still be alive, or at least, undead.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Before his true colours were revealed.
-->'''Tavor:''' I see the time apart has done nothing to dampen your inquisitive and feminine nature.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Maybe it was a low moment for Kethenecia when they refused to aid Gamlon against the Vulii, but that hardly gives him license to make the whole world suffer in return.
* DualWielding: During his battle with Cale, he dual wields a pair of swords.
* EvilOldFolks: As [[spoiler:he's only going on because of his oath and his rage]]. He has been king of Legara for a very long time, passing it off as [[MyGrandsonMyself different generations of the same family line]].
* HealingFactor: [[spoiler:He is already dead so with his rage and oath being what keeps him from moving on. It takes magic to put him down for a while.]]
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:He killed Krunch.]]
* HumanPopsicle: [[spoiler:Defeated when Cale uses the power of the sword to seal him in a block of fire and ice.]]
* EvilCounterpart: To Cale. Like Cale, Tavor started out idealistic and somewhat carefree (if a little more cynical than Cale) but wound up having his illusions almost entirely shattered in the events surround Kethenecia's history. Also like Cale, he lost everything in the place he grew up and [[YouCantGoHomeAgain can't go back again]]. However, ''unlike'' Cale, who always dusted himself off afterwards and eventually became something resembling an IdealHero, Tavor decided to make everyone suffer just as he suffered.
* EvilOldFolks: By the time he appears again he's aged considerably.
* FallenHero: He was originally a hero of an elven city, but it fell when Kethenicia refused to aid them. As a result, he decided to take out his anger on the entire world, aiming to bring suffering to generation after generation.
* KlingonPromotion: [[spoiler:How he became the king.]]
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:After being frozen and having his head destroyed, it takes many years, but he eventually does come back.]]
* OffWithHisHead: After [[spoiler:being frozen solid, Richard destroys Tavor's head in order to steal his crown. Even that doesn't take him out for good.]]
* PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: He aimed to make the entire world suffer for Kethenicia's refusal to save his nation.
* RasputinianDeath: Even burning and freezing him with the Sword of Truth isn't enough to kill him. Even destroying his head only makes him more visibly undead. Putting him down for good would require you to very thoroughly destroy every fragment of his body with magic.
* SkullForAHead: When the main universe and a sci-fi one become a [[spoiler:MergedReality, a robot restores his skull, allowing him to become active again.]]
* TragicVillain: Specifically, one PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery example.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: His desire to erase Kethenecia, the world's last bastion of hope, from existence is fueled by the loss of his own nation.

!!'''General Temmet Aelloon[[spoiler:, King of Legara]]'''

* ADayInTheLimelight: "His Father's Son".
* AntagonisticOffspring: To his father, the Commander of the Legarian forces [[spoiler:who defected to Kethenecia]].
* AntiVillain: His big plan was revealed to be [[spoiler:destroying the portals to Kethenecia to end the war Tavor started. When Benny offers to negotiate a truce he hesitantly agreed.]]
* AxCrazy: As the NPC comic "His Father's Son" shows, Aelloon used to be psychotic and violent in his youth. It's not as obvious in the main comic but he displays a kill-first mentality and does not hesitate to deliver a savage beating to his father for questioning him.
* BeardOfEvil: A cool goatee type.
* BigBad: The first one who showed up in the webcomic.
* CombatPragmatism: He knows how to use his troops to attack the heroes, don't hesitate to burn villages and kidnap children to slow down his pursuers and in his NPC story "His Father's Son", set during a time where he didn't have an army to do his bidding, shows that he usually relied on trickery when he had to kill someone himself.
* TheDragon: To Tavor, although Tavor didn't show up until the attack on Legara, which allowed the General to function as TheHeavy.
* DragonAscendant: [[spoiler:He won the civil war following Tavor's death, and became the new king of Legara.]]
* FourStarBadass: After his promotion to the rank of General, which he received as a reward for his conquests.
* IAmTheNoun:
-->'''Aelloon:''' I am Legara.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:He was killed while trying to make peace, much like how he killed the Mud'ye matriarch while she was surrendering.]]
* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler:"Keep him pinned while we destroy the book-"]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:He was shot at with at least twelve arrows in one shot.]]
* NonActionBigBad: Downplayed and justified. Despite being a trained soldier, he knows from his initial confontation with Cale & co. that he's outmatched in a straight-up fight with the group, so after their first skirmish he avoids direct confrontation with them. Indeed, his ''NPC'' comic strongly hinted that his true strength as a commander is [[CombatPragmatist his refusal to fight fairly]], as well as a knack for [[AttackItsWeakPoint finding/identifying tactical advantages]] and [[CombatPragmatist exploiting them ruthlessly]].
* PragmaticVillainy: [[spoiler:He wants to end the war between Kethenecia and Legara because he knows he's too weak to pursue it because of the civil war back home; he still wants to TakeOverTheWorld or at least rule as much of it as he can. Benny even said that despite his evil, they could still have peace.]]
* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler:His death could have been avoided and the war could have ended had Cale not accidentally dropped in with Richard, and he confused it for an attack.]]
* RankUp: He was initially a Commander, and then he was promoted to the rank of General as a reward for his conquests.
* TheStarscream: Strongly implied that he aims to overthrow the king. Searching for the sword of truth, [[spoiler:a weapon that can kill Tavor]], his claim of being Legara, his backstory as a ManipulativeBastard who wants to obtain station and his father questioning him on the king's absence hint about his ambition. [[spoiler:He gets what he wants in the end.]]
* TheStrategist: He subdued the East border off-screen, captured Tah'vraay thanks to having a fleet as a rear guard and is really good at forcing the group to split up.
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* WickedCultured: He certainly enjoys his wines.

!!'''Black Dwarves'''
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: One of them gets [[https://www.lfg.co/page/281/ tauntauned]] alive, another is quartered and the Imps have developed a taste for their flesh. So far they've gotten the brunt of the most horrifying deaths in the comic.
* DarkIsEvil: Thanks to their above name and black clothing, it's easy to figure out that they're no good.
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: They're not really standard dwarves, although they do fit the physical description.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: This seems to be their state of association with the Empire.
* TheRemnant: Of Clan Breem, Pella's family-clan.[[note]]At least, the ones met by our titular group[[/note]] Because of this, she can't bring herself to fight them.
* TunnelKing: They function mainly as the Legion's diggers and their digging skills contributed significantly to their victory in the North. [[spoiler:They do not work nearly as well on Kethenecia after the latter recruit the imps.]]
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[[folder:Other characters]]

!!'''The Demon Court'''
* {{Autocannibalism}}: [[spoiler:Richard rewrites the book that provides the judge's knowledge to make each judge automatically eat themselves at the conclusion of a case.]]
* BaddieFlattery: They offer Richard a round of applause for slaughtering a village seemingly ForTheEvulz.
* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: They claim to exist to maintain this balance to keep order on behalf of the gods.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Cale ultimately deals with the court by [[spoiler:modifying the magic book used to give the judge his knowledge, changing the punishment to needing to perform a dance move called the "Floss".]]
* GoodIsBadAndBadIsGood: When the prosecutor describes Richard mass-slaughtering the village of Bertu, he is applauded for it; when the prosecutor then explains how [[NiceJobFixingItVillain this bad deed ultimately proved helpful to the good guys]] and speculates the warlock may actually be ''[[HeelFaceTurn turning good]]'', they shirk in horror.
* JuryOfTheDamned: The reason they put Richard on trial is because they think he's not being evil ''enough''.
* KangarooCourt: Richard was presumed guilty until proven innocent.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: To ensure impartiality, they have a new judge born for every case. When each case is over, they then kill the former judge since they don't need him anymore. [[WeHaveReserves Creating new judges is easy]].

!!'''Hctib Elttil'''
* ADayInTheLimelight: In the [=NPC=] short story [[https://www.lfg.co/npc/archives/2/ "The Hctib Diaries."]]
* ChekhovsGunman: First mentioned by Richard in passing, he becomes more important later on.
* CompensatingForSomething: Due to him being short, Richard muses that they can easily find him by looking for something that inflates his ego.
* DrivenToMadness: He went insane as a result of his service to Richard.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He wanted to be the servant and friend of a very evil master. Richard's cruel and creative killings proved to be too much even for him.
* {{Familiar}}: He is a familiar bound in service to Richard. Richard eventually proves to be too much for his sanity and he ends up turning on him.
* IronicEcho: An associate of his repeatedly abuses him, reminding him that [[AlwaysChaoticEvil they're demons]]. When said associate finally makes a genuine expression of sympathy, Hctib says "YOUKNOWWEREDEMONSRIGHT?" while beating him to a bloody pulp.
* MobileSuitHuman: After [[spoiler:seizing control of Richard's purse]], he pilots a machine that looks like a BigRedDevil version of himself.
* MotorMouth: He used to speak like a normal person, but since going mad with hatred for his master his speech consisted of entire sentences strung together with no spaces.
* SdrawkcabName: Of "Little Bitch". Richard wanted his name to [[MeaningfulName symbolise his position in their relationship]].
* {{Parody}}: He is an obvious devil clone of WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse. Small overall body with large (albeit flappy) ears? Check. Red pants with gold buttons? Check. Tail? Check. Referred to as a rodent? Check.
* SoleSurvivor: Among the demon court.
* UnfortunateNames: A fact he remains completely oblivious to.
-->'''Phares:''' [[LampshadeHanging Is your master aware of the significance of his name?]]\\
'''Demon Lieutenant:''' [[ElephantInTheLivingRoom No one's had the heart to tell him.]]
* VerbalTic: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

!!'''Chief Bloodrage'''
* ActionDad: To Rayd and Krunch, when the fighting arrives at their doorstep.
* AmbitionIsEvil: Sort of. It's more "ambition is selfish and destructive", since he winds up getting his tribe brought to the brink by making enemies of the other Northern tribes.
* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: There's a damn good reason he's chief.
* BadassFamily: When the Sisters attack the Bloodrage clanhold, he and his sons fight together.
* CarryABigStick: He uses a pair of maces in battle.
** DualWielding: As a consequence.
* CharacterDeath: He died off-screen at the hands of the Empire's diggers.
* CoolOldGuy: Being old hasn't slowed him down any.
* EarlyBirdCameo: He first appeared in page 141, but was mentioned all the way back in page 26. This would serve as firm foreshadowing for the circumstances of his first appearance; Stoll mentioned that Krunch's father had always supported his efforts, and according to Krunch he was a firm believer in empirical expansions. He had no idea how true that was...
* FriendlyEnemy: With the Commander. They sit down for a last talk before they go to battle.
* OddFriendship: With the Commander -- that of a human from TheEmpire and a chief of the Bloodrage.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Big time. Just see what happens when the Sisters order him to ''surrender''.
-->'''Chief Bloodrage:''' Surrender? Heh.\\
'''Krunch:''' Bad word.\\
'''Rayd:''' ''Very'' bad word.\\
'''Chief Bloodrage:''' Surrender. Heh. My sons and I will be pleased to show you how a Bloodrage surrenders. '''''[[PreAsskickingOneLiner We surrender]]'''''.
* ShoutOut: Quotes a large chunk of King Théoden's speech from ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers''.
-->'''Chief Bloodrage:''' How did it come to this?
* VerbalTic: Heh. Sort of makes you wonder what he's laughing about all the time. Heh.
* WorthyOpponent: To the Commander. The feeling appears mutual.

!!'''Shora'''

Cale's former wife, and Sooba's first owner.

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* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: Agreed to feign infidelity with another student to drive Cale away from the monastery and on the path to his destiny.
* HappilyMarried: If Cale's devastation at discovering her "cheating" and her own gut-wrenching tears at being forced to do so are any indication.
* PosthumousCharacter: It isn't until late in the story that Cale finally finds out, but she was murdered before it even began.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: She was useful in that she piqued Cale's curiosity about the outside world and made him question how the temple aimed to achieve its ends. But then he married her, giving him an attachment that would get in the way of accomplishing his destiny. As a result, Cale's master forced her to act unfaithful to drive Cale out. He then murdered her to ensure he would have nothing to go back to.

!!'''Giants'''
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Suffice it to say, they're all pretty tall.
* OurGiantsAreBigger: Though not nearly as savage and villainous as they are typically portrayed.

!!'''Cale's Former Master and Colleagues'''
* ADayInTheLimelight: "Those Left Behind" reveals what happened to them after Cale left the monastery.
!!!'''Master'''

The monk who trained Cale while preparing him for his destiny as TheChosenOne.

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* CoolOldGuy: He was able to fight the three monks at the same time without much difficulty, [[spoiler:but is eventually killed by Clada]].
* DeadlyEuphemism: When Cale leaves the monastery, one of the monks questions why Shora isn't leaving with him. The master tells him that she will be leaving shortly. The students later find her dead.
* EyeScream: He's stabbed in the eye with a splintered broom by [[spoiler:Clada]].
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: He felt that Shora's marriage to Cale would get in the way of him accomplishing his destiny. So he forced her to act unfaithful to drive Cale out and then killed her. While he does not take pride in his actions, he continuously asserts this. He later tries to justify killing his students for the same reason.
* ImGoingToHellForThis: His reaction to seeing Cale and Shora kissing in the romantic sunset makes him acknowledge the terribleness of his impending actions.
-->'''Master:''' [[ThisIsUnforgivable There will be no forgiveness]] for what I must do.
* {{Mentor|s}}: To Cale, obviously, and his other students.
* OldMaster: He was Cale, Clada, Notan and the third monk's master.
* PosthumousCharacter: He's killed by [[spoiler:the monk trio]] from [[https://www.lfg.co/npc/archives/6/ Those Left Behind]] shortly after he murdered Shora.
* ShootTheDog: He genuinely hates killing or driving away his students, but he does so anyway BecauseDestinySaysSo; it adds a layer of tragedy to his actions.
* SleevesAreForWimps: He wore a green sleeveless shirt.

!!!'''Clada'''

A Drow monk who was one of Cale's colleagues at the monastery.

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* TheAce:
-->'''Clada:''' I was never your favorite pupil. Doesn't mean I wasn't your best.
* ActionGirl: While her peers had trouble [[spoiler:fighting their master, she was able to kill him with relative ease]].
* KlingonPromotion: Takes command of a band of elvish bandits by assassinating their leader and killing all challengers.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite being established as the most skilled among her peers, the second chapter of "Those Left Behind" shows her blundering several escape attempts while the three are faced with bandits, until she admits that she [[IndyPloy didn't have any plan in the first place]].

!!!'''Notan'''

A monk who was one of Cale's colleagues at the monastery.

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* BewareTheSillyOnes: He's a little out there, but can turn into a complete berserker in battle. He managed to survive a skirmish with a horde of bandits after his peers had left him behind.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He has his moments.
-->'''Notan:''' You kissed him!\\
''[[{{Beat}} (beat)]]''\\
'''Notan:''' I thought confusing kissing and killing was going to be our thing.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Things don't usually end well for his enemies when he needs to "find Gerry".
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* GeniusDitz: He doesn't seem too bright, but has a [[https://www.lfg.co/npc/tale/26-08/ knack]] [[https://www.lfg.co/npc/tale/26-17/ for]] CuttingTheKnot solutions.
* PunnyName: Notan has no tan.
* SleevesAreForWimps: His fur shirt has no sleeves.

!!!'''Mohawk Monk'''

A monk who was one of Cale's colleagues at the monastery. Their master forced him to make out with Shora in order to end their relationship.

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%%* NoNameGiven: So far.
* SleevesAreForWimps: His shirt has no sleeves.

!!'''Stranger Danger'''

A resident of the criminal underworld from the danger cast.

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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: All his animals are named in an alliterative manner.
* ADayInTheLimelight: A Friend You Haven't Yet Met, a NPC story explaining how he got those animals.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Purple, with horns, red eyes, and a beard that has a natural green streak in it.
* AwesomeButImpractical: The magical abilities displayed by the animals that he attracts can range from incredibly mundane to extremely powerful, but he cannot actively control what animals will show up or even whether they'll show up at all at a given moment.
* BlessedWithSuck: Animals with special abilities somehow always found him so he can name them. It once got on his nerves, because they can't all be as cool as the Labradoodle of laserbeams.
* TheBeastMaster: He keeps an entire menagerie of animals with different magical properties.
* TheDragAlong: Only came with the gang to Kethenicia because he could get them out of a jam and they could get him out of the city. May or may not have grown out of it by the time he agrees to infiltrate the city.
* HealingHands: One of his creatures, Harold, the Hedgehog of Healing, possesses immense magical healing abilities.
* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: His first name really is Stranger. Lampshaded when he goes to a bar and is initially surprised to be greeted by his name when the barman says "Afternoon, stranger."
* {{Invisibility}}: The Indri of Invisibility can make him invisible, though the Indri itself remains visible.
* {{Retirony}}: One of his pets, Ernest, the Elephant of Explosions, was only one day from retirement before he died in a massive explosion.
* StraightGay: No hints as to his sexuality are given before he sleeps with a barman.
* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: The animals with less impressive powers or very niche abilities often have the decency to show up at times when their very limited skills are needed.
* TreacherousQuestGiver: Cale uses him as an agent for heroic mercenary work. A RegentForLife, wanting to kill Charles to take the crown for himself, makes a deal with Stranger. They proceed to use Cale as a token defence force to make it look like Charles was tragically killed by bandits. Unfortunately for both of them, Stranger has a bad case of UnderestimatingBadassery, and Cale threatens to sic Richard on him should he try it again. He gives them a better quest the next time.
* WeNeedADistraction: He is able to use the Dugong of Distraction for this purpose, which completely draws the attention of his desired targets.

!!'''Assaracus'''

A powerful mage that specializes in experimenting on animals.

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* TheBeastMaster: He has an entire army of MixAndMatchCritters at his command.
* BigBadWannabe: Despite being legitimately powerful, the protagonists never take him seriously when he tries to confront them and he is usually summarily defeated offscreen.
* ForcedTransformation: He claims that his current form (a large collection of asses) is the result of a curse imposed by his colleagues, who didn't like his power over life.
* MixAndMatchCritters: He specializes in creating them.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Though more by chance than by design, he does manage to put Richard on the ropes at one point when Richard wastes too much magic on burning down his extremely inflammable whale-elephant mooks.
* {{Revenge}}: Seeks it against Cale and company for humiliating him instead of saving him.
* UnfortunateNames: It isn't lost on him, and he deeply wishes he were named something else.

!!'''Chachas'''
A group of deceptively cute golems that were originally meant as a safeguard against TheArchmage going insane.

* BadassAdorable: Small white blobs with big round eyes, yet they can curb-stomp the Archmage.
* CombinedEnergyAttack: They use swarm magic, a form of magic that grows stronger with each additional caster using it.
* {{Golem}}: They are effectively constructs animated by the enslaved souls of dead magi.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy:
** They have no trouble hitting a chair Richard was about to hit them with, but not one of their attacks manages to hit the heroes.
** Even more jarring since they had no problem hitting Richard without touching the wee king in their first [[https://www.lfg.co/page/886/ encounter]]
* LoopholeAbuse: Their programming causes them confusion when dealing with non-magical attacks, but like Richard, they don't have much problem going around their rules.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: The chachas are small, silly-looking, and can't seem to say much other than "chacha." But they can overwhelm Richard by ZergRush, break through Benny's shields, and are GenreSavvy enough to not aim for Charles. Their origin story reveals that they were created to keep the ''Archmage'' in check.
* PokemonSpeak: The Archmage challenged them, and they repeated the first part of the word, resulting in them saying almost nothing but "chacha".
* SquishyWizard: They are highly effective when fighting against magic users as powerful as Richard and the Archmage. But when it comes to non-magical beings, not only does their programming cause them confusion, but they are also highly susceptible to physical attacks.
* ZergRush: The chachas operate by swarm magic: the more of them there are, the stronger their magic becomes. With enough of them, they can take down the likes of Richard and the Archmage.

!!'''Regent'''
A Lizardman who wanted to kill Charles and take his place as king, as well as making sure Charles doesn't reach his 14th name day.
* MrExposition: He is a chatty king and spent a whole page explaining what will now be his motive and means.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: His army is a joke for the group but then he shows up with all the enemies the group made on the Western continent.
* TheUsurper: Wanted to be king which he succeeds after the group take Charles with them.
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