This is the list of characters of Agarest Senki Zero. Beware, there a lot of unmarked spoilers below. Read at your own risk.
Playable characters from first generation
Sieghart is a young commander in service to the Armies of Light. He is very serious and focused, and has a reputation for being a very hard worker who tends to be stubborn and obstinate. Although sometimes hard to get along with, he is well respected by all of the men under his command. In spite of his youth, he is considered a gifted commander by his fellow officers and appears to have a bright future ahead of him.
- Abusive Parents: Shockingly enough he's one to Leonis, who has a crippling inferiority complex due to the insurmountable achievements his father left before him and acts surprisingly coldly towards him once they finally reunite. He still cares about him, but his a huge dick by Agarest protagonist standards.
- The Ace: He's a human in his mid-twenties who is an incredibly high-ranking member of a army made almost entirely of demi-gods, unites several warring races and gets three women to fall in love with him. Like Leonhardt, he leaves an impossibly massive legacy for Leonis to live up to.
- Badass Longcoat: A cool long coat mixed with some armor pieces.
- Character Customization: More so than any other character. Shortly after dying in the prologue, Sieg is revived and you then pick from three class types, Warrior, Battle Mage, and Sorcerer, then you pick 5 of 24 cards to determine your stats and weapons. While you'd think this would be easy to figure out, it's not. Finally you get to pick his skill slots, half you get right from the start, half when you promote him.
- Chaste Hero: He is focused in his duties as soldier and he don't care about romance until the last moments of the first generation. Slightly less in comparison with Ladius.
- Cloud Cuckoolander: Sieghart is far more focused on combat to understand anything else, much to Eugene's frustration.
- Comically Missing the Point: Like Leonhardt, Sieghart's reaction to hearing about the hot springs is to boil eggs.
- The Comically Serious: Remains completely straight-laced during even the most hilarious moments.
- Dual Wielding: Doesn't happen with all weapon types though
- Embarrassing Nickname: Ziggy. Has no problem with Mimel calling him Zeeg or other variations.
- Expy: He's very similar to Ladius, right down to being Oblivious to Love and ridiculously chaste.
- Gameplay and Story Segregation: He always has a sword in the cut-scenes, even if he is unable to equip one.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Generally only shows the "heart of gold" bit, but once he and Leonis finally meet he's shockingly cold and disdainful towards him. This comes from his desire for Leonis to leave the battlefield to stay safe, which is eventually removed after he proves himself.
- Master Swordsman: Even if you don't have him using swords, he's said to be this.
- Meaningful Name: Sieghart's name means "Victorious Bravery", in German, referencing the fact is he is skilled warrior who very rarely defeated.
- Oblivious to Love: While not as bad as Ladius, Sieghart is certainly not good at picking up signals. It's clear Linda has a huge crush on him but he is completely unaware.
- Official Couple: The game pushes Linda together with him far more so than any other love interest in any other game.
- Senseless Sacrifice: There really wasn't much of a reason for the sacrifice. Aside from Ernesto being a manipulative evil bastard.
- Why Couldn't You Be Different?: In the Boundary Plane, he mentions that he would have preferred that Leonis had been a girl instead, right in front of him.
A heroine of the first generation, Friedelinde is a lieutenant under the direct command of Sieghart and also his de facto second-in-command. Friedelinde, or Linda as her friends call her, has very strong feelings for Sieghart and tries to express them in her own unique way, but his inability to recognize even the most basic of emotions both frustrates and depresses her.
- Action Girl: She is a soldier after all and she is the strongest (physically) female of the group.
- Affectionate Nickname: Linda. It means beautiful/pretty in Portuguese language.
- Cannot Spit It Out: Linda loves Sieg even before the start of the game (although the story never explained when Linda fell in love with Sieg, but looks like it was a love at first sight case) but she always fails to say her feelings to her captain. She even asks to Eugene and Sayane for help her.
- Composite Character: She's a mix of Elaine and Valeria personality-wise.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: While she's always extremely loyal to Sieghart, she shows anger towards most of the rest of the group due to seeing them as unfit for battle due to being untrained. She comes around to them over time. Although she doesn't defrost at all towards Eugene.
- Deuteragonist: In the first generation. She gets a lot of time screen with her attempts in confessing her love to Sieghart.
- Friendly Rivalry: With Sayane. But it's more an one sided rivalry created by Sayane which she doesn't take seriously. She even helps Linda to develop skills to confess her feelings for Sieg.
- Godzilla Threshold: Once she meets back up with the group, she's devastated that Sieghart has attracted a harem. There's no way she can compete. The solution? Ask Eugene how to get Sieghart to notice her.
- He Is Not My Boyfriend: The first time this comes up, you can either agree or just ignore the accusation.
- Heroic BSoD: Had one moments after returning to the party because she sees Sieghart with a lot of girls and some of then are calling him with affectionate nicknames. This only worsened when Eugene says Sieg is popular with girls. She snaps out of it when Eugene in a rare moment of kindness offers help to her.
- Hopeless Suitor: She puts herself in this position in some moments after the return to the party, since she believes the other girls have an advantage over her.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's cold, stern and task oriented, but has a caring soul underneath it all.
- Put on a Bus / The Bus Came Back: She leaves the party in the beginning of the game and only returns in the second half of the generation. For her despair, there are a lot of girls near of Sieg.
- Running Gag: During her attempts to put advice given to her to use, she eventually breaks down and just charges at Sieghart, or does so in response to one of your choices. This usually results in him dodging on reflex and sending her screaming over a cliff.
- Senseless Sacrifice: There really wasn't much of a reason for the sacrifice. Aside from Ernesto being a manipulative evil bastard.
- Tsundere: Type B. Oddly, it's Eugene that brings out her more aggressive behavior, not Sieghart.
- Understandable since Eugene is a jerk to her in most of times. Although she become a slightly less tsun-tsun towards him when he starts to help her to confess her feelings for Sieghart.
- Linda is total dere-dere towards Sieghart. Although in one event she started to hit him with her weapon while trying to confess her feelings.
A heroine of the first generation, Routier is a young girl traveling through the land with a young onerthes man who she considers her brother. Having been constantly on the move, she never had the chance to make any friends and, as a result, is almost pathologically shy. Whenever she finds herself in an unfamiliar situation, or in the company of strangers, her first reaction is to hide behind her brother. Routier inherited the power to see into the future from her mother, who was rumored to be a fortune teller of great skill.
- Expy: Of Mikuru from Haruhi. Both even share the same voice actress.
- She also resembles a lot Yayoi from first game.
- Jerkass Ball: In the Boundary Plane she tells Niel that his scenes were honestly not that great to begin with, that he should probably just roll with the mistake he made on his line to get some fans, and maybe have just changed his character entirely to a Reckless Sidekick that always almost ends up dead, but always come back just in time to take a bullet for Leonis to renew his Heroic Resolve.
- Seers: She is good at fortune telling.
- Senseless Sacrifice: There really wasn't much of a reason for the sacrifice. Aside from Ernesto being a manipulative evil bastard.
- Shrinking Violet: She is very timid, especially in the beginning of the game.
- Vagueness Is Coming: Mixed with Futureshadowing in one event where she reads Sieg's fortune, only to be rattling off a few key events of the first game.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She has a huge fear of bugs. Averted in the gameplay, since she can attacks bug type monsters.
One of the heroines of the first generation, Sayane is a harpuia woman who very rarely gets angry and is always the eternal optimist with a smile of her face. However, she can be incredibly stubborn and obstinate. Although harpuia are known for their stellar sense of direction, that is one aspect of her heritage that she sadly did not inherit, as such advanced concepts of 'left' and 'right' genuinely confuse her. It was while she was lost that she first encountered Sieghart and his companions. Initially, she joined up with Sieghart and Company because it looked like they were having fun, but as Sieghart's personality grew on her she began to develop feelings for him.
Sayane was born in a human village located near the Scarred Mountains. As the village was the target of constant monster attacks, the villagers incorporated the surrounding natural features into a secure fort and organized to fight off the monstrous incursions on their own. As a result, martial arts training become mandatory for both men and women. In fact, a women's ability to fight was almost as important as their homemaking skills.
Sayane's hobby is writing a form of religious haiku that has its foundation in nature worship. Although she enjoys it very much, she isn't the most skilled writer, as her prose tends to be over-wrought and is almost always missing the seasonal and votive words that define the genre.
- Ambidextrous Sprite: Justified. She actually is ambidextrous, and due to the extreme lack of sense of direction she has no idea which hand she holds her knife in.
- Ambiguously Bi: She is in love with Sieghart but has a strange fondness for Friedelinde's body.
- Expy: Inspired by Sherufanir from first game, but she is more nice and less teasing than her.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Sayane is a half human, half harpuia hybrid. Because of this, she can't fly.
- Heroic BSoD Happens upon finding out it was her home town's Elder who gave the forces of Darkness a foothold in Kraltarla in exchange for being left alone.
- No Sense of Direction: To the point where the concepts of left and right are genuinely confusing to her.
- Senseless Sacrifice: There really wasn't much of a reason for the sacrifice. Aside from Ernesto being a manipulative evil bastard.
- Winged Humanoid: She has small wings, however, unlike Silvi from the first game, her wings are just for show due to being a halfbreed.
- Wings Do Nothing: Sayane has small wings but they do nothing since she is a halfbreed Harpuia, unlike a Silvi-mothered Rex from the first game, who is a halfbreed Harpuia and can fly.
- Your Other Left: Sayane has a very bad sense of direction. It's little wonder that she casually switches up left and right, loudly exclaiming that the party needs to go right and then proceeding to the left.
Mimel is a mysterious young woman who was saved from being banished to the frigid hell of Findeste by the forces of light, who recognized Mimel's overwhelming magical powers and her ability to wield the Power of Liberation. In order to save Sieghart, she pushed her magical abilities to a dangerous extreme and almost died as a result. Unfortunately, while bringing him back from the brink of death, she mistakenly transferred her Power of Liberation to him, altering the course of history as well as their individual fates.
- Buffy Speak: Is prone to these due to her attempts to make use of any word she learns. At worst this tends to border on being a Malaproper. Subverted in the second generation.
- Dark Is Not Evil: despite being a creature from darkness, she is a good person.
- Do Not Call Me "Paul": She prefer her nickname "Mimel" to "Mimelia".
- Heroic Sacrifice: In the normal ending, She and Leonis give their lives to contain the blast from Mila.
- Innocent Fanservice Girl: Mimel asks to take a bath with Sieghart to play "Clean Everything" and "Tender, Soapy Embrace". He suspected she actually picked this up from Eugene, turns out it was Sayane who had been heard saying things like that.
- Literal Split Personality She is the Light half of Mimelia.
- Manchild: The Power of Liberation is assumed to have damaged her mind, leaving her with the mentality of a small child. In actuality she didn't have a mind of her own until just a few moments before meeting Sieghart. Deeth added this trait to her mostly just to screw with Summerill and Mobius's plans.
- Meaningful Name Mimelia apparently means Superlative Actress.
- Replacement Goldfish: Her explanations make it sound as though Deeth made her as a replacement for Varna for Chaos. He treated her more like a daughter and requested she be unmade when he realized something was wrong with her.
- Third-Person Person: She starts this way, but gets over it pretty quickly as she figures out how to properly communicate with people.
- Together in Death: Do a Heroic Sacrifice alongside with Leonis to save the party in the normal ending.
- Yum Yum: Takes a "Banana Bath" with Tetora.
A high elf who is accompanying Sieghart on his travels at the suggestion of her father, Eleazal, the commander in chief of the forces of light. She was originally forbidden to go to the far north of the continent due to the war, but declared to her father that "I want to do whatever I am able!" and joined the war effort on her own. After much consideration, her father had her work behind the front lines as a healer. For many of the injured soldiers, Alice's gentle smile was enough to make them forget about their grievous wounds. She knows Sieghart, but by reputation only, having traveled with forces on a previous campaign.
Alice was born later in Eleazel's lifetime, so she was coddled and wanted for nothing. However, as her father was frequently away from home due to his duties as commander, Alice summoned a creature with a strength of will and character equal to that of Eleazel to act as a kind of surrogate father.
She eventually became the guardian of Sieghart's son Leonis and raised him as if he was her own flesh and blood. Of course, this means that she raised him to be somewhat unnaturally grave and thoughtful, though this may have been intentional on her part in a desperate bid to countact the insanity of the adults that surround him.
- Expy: to Ellis. Starting with the name and going from there we've got a pink haired Elf with a monstrous bodyguard that fights with staffs. She even has the same Extended Area and
game breaking EX Skill that Ellis had.- Amusingly, given that the series already has one, she's also likely to be mistaken for one for Hatsune Miku]'s append design. Thinner Twin Tails, a small chest, exposed feet, and the same person providing the voice. Agarest Zero was released almost a year before Miku's append.
- The General's Daughter: She is Eleazal's daughter, the one who is in charge of Kraltarla.
- Ms. Exposition: Toward the start of the second generation she'll explain each character's role in raising Leonis, to Leonis.
- Our Elves Are Different: She is a High Elf, one of the five elven races and considered the most powerful.
- Pink Means Feminine: She is very feminine, has a pink hair and uses a dress with pink details.
- Promotion to Parent: Acts as a surrogate mother to Leonis.
A beast summoned by Alice to act as a sort of part-time father figure when she was a child, Galios is what is known as a larva, who normally only exist as spiritual entities within the Boundary. However, by attenuating to the resonance projected by the magic of a high elf, a larva is able to cross over to the physical world and construct for itself a physical body that will fit the needs and thoughts of the elf that performed the summoning. While a larva such as Galios normally don't possess feelings, the intent behind Alice's summoning imbued him with the empathy normally only found in mortals.
Galios quietly and efficiently serves Alice as both protector and father-figure, and for the most part has little desire to interact with anyone else. However, he will on occasion train and spar against the soldiers around him. In addition, his air of command, combined with his incredible bravery, has earned the respect of all those who have fought by his side. The ferocity with which he wields his massive spears is legendary, as are the awkward situations that his bulky stature and imposing demeanor sometimes land him in.
- Covert Pervert:Galios: "Have you not noticed that our party lacks for young women? We must collect some who at least appear young—"Alice: "I beg your pardon, Galios... What did you just say?"Galios: "Come now, master. Surely you are not losing your hearing already..."Alice: "Galioooooos!"
- Guardian Entity: He is Alice's Larva guardian.
- Mighty Glacier: Like Borgnine, he is slow and has S ranking in attack and stamina.
- Oh, Crap!: His reaction to being seen by Linda in her Hot Spring outfit. In the outfit description but not the scene that unlocks it at least.
- Shrinking Violet: Surprisingly, he comes off as this pretty quick into the game thanks to another Shrinking Violet thanking him. Given that Larvae are supposed to be emotionless and he's not, coupled with his appearance it's not too surprising. He's not quite as bad as most examples though.
A lieutenant serving under Sieghart along with Friedelinde, Eugene is the sole scion of the Lagrange family and a cousin of Friedelinde. He was originally assigned the task of guiding Sieghart to Inicio and joined him when he and his company departed on their journey.
- Abusive Parent: Doesn't seem to think too highly of Niel, and mentions it. Often. He does actually care about him though, and may mention it if he's not around.
- All Work vs. All Play: The all play to Sieghart, Friedlinde, Cal-Vina and Vashtor's all work. He's like this with a lot of people.
- Almighty Janitor: Was temporarily promoted after Sieghart died, but was promptly demoted back to his old rank once Leonis was old enough to take command. He's ok with that.
- He's this from the very beginning. He's shown several times to be Sieghart and Vashtor's equal in combat, but prefers to keep his lower rank so that he can screw around with Sieghart.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: Acknowledged in universe by both Sieghart AND VASHTOR to have the potential to be just as accomplished as they are, but lacks the drive to do so. He proves them right time and time again.
- Casanova Wannabe: He tries to hit many girls as possible but he fails miserably. He stops with it after his marriage.
- Cheaters Never Prosper: His scheming acts to see the girls naked (or almost) never work.
- Chivalrous Pervert: Especially in the first generation. In the second, in a lesser extent only, but he taught naughty stuff to his son in order to follow his footsteps in the hot springs peeping.
- Crazy-Prepared: Take a look at Niel's Big Damn Hero moment. Eugene had anticipated such an attack and if you brought Niel along he has him go into hiding for it.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: A complete moron most of the time, but when he decides to get serious, he gets serious.
- Dirty Old Man: In a lesser extent in the second generation.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: Almost the entire party have little to none respect for him, especially Friedelinde, despite both being soldiers.
- Expy: He's essentially Winfield promoted into being The Hero's best friend. By generation two he's stopped resembling zwinfield much at all.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Sieghart and, to a lesser extent, Vashtor.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Eugene can be a dick pretty frequently, but he does have the same lion heart that Sieghart does deep down.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: His ultimate EX skills is described as being this and is sure enough incredibly powerful. He shows it off throughout the game too, explaining why a guy like him is best friends with Sieghart and Vashtor.
- Master Swordsman: His swordplay is considered comparable to both Sieghart and Vashtor's. He has to be this.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Did this as part of his attempts to push Sieghart and Friedelinde forward in rank. Unfortunately for him, his real personality slowly faded away to this. His old self does come out on rare occasions still.
- Shipper on Deck: Wants Friedelinde to end up with Sieghart and is willing to legitimately help her out when asked.
- Sidetracked by the Analogy: Like with Leonhardt & Winfield, Eugene finds himself sidetracked when Sieghart talks about boiling eggs in a hot spring. He quickly catches himself doing this and gets back to the matter at hand.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With practically everyone who isn't Sieghat, most notably Linda, Vashtor, Cal-Vina and Alice.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Gets called out by the party about his emotional abuse toward Niel more than a couple times. Especially treating Leonis as more of a son than his own.
A cute and cheerful neocollum girl raised by the ryulent, Tetora is tasked with the unenviable job of cleansing the earth after being befouled by war. Although she appears to be a child, she shows a level of maturity that is far beyond her years as a result of her extensive travels. Except in the company of family, Tetora normally maintains a facade of playful cheerfulness at all times.
- Big Eater: Apparently has something to do with being a mage. She eats enough that after Eugene had first offered to buy her dinner, every time food is discussed around Tetora it horrifies him.
- Cat Girl: She's a feline type Neocolom.
- Lunacy: Like Sherufanir a full moon makes her excessively energetic. Incidentally this shows it was due to being a Neocolom.
- Nature Hero: She has a mission of purify the land.
- Yum Yum: Takes a "Banana Bath" with Mimel.
A young onerthes male who is traveling with Routier, a human orphan he has taken into his care. In order to keep a low profile and to avoid being targeted by onerthes hunters, he takes great pains to keep his third-eye concealed at all times. Although his race is known for their incredibly clairvoyant abilities, Cal-Vina's powers are almost non-existent. He left on his travels in order to gain life experience in hopes of expanding and training his clairvoyant powers.
- Improbable Weapon User: Breakers, generally circular blades on chains. Why anyone let a man who'll "Peel his hand when asked to peel an apple" use one of these is a mystery.
- Lethal Joke Character: In the first game Breaker using chracters were almost unusable due to a poor combination of stats and skill slots, as well as the weapons themselves not usually having skill slots that would compliment their own stats nor the setup of the character they were statistically good for. Cal-Vina does not have this problem, or at least not as much, to the point where he comes with the Double Needle combo skill and later on gains access to several passive abilities that ramp up any and potentially all of his stats and his ultimate EX Skill will actually destroy your enemies' SP, making it harder for them to use their own.
- Magic Is a Monster Magnet: Onerthes' third eyes, and the ability to see the future in general, tends to attract demons.
- Weak, but Skilled: Compared to other Onerthes his ability to see the future is almost non-existant. However when he does see something it's typically incredibly accurate and important.
Playable characters from second generation
A hero of the second generation, Leonis is proud of the accomplishments of his parents in the name of peace and enthusiastically followed in their footsteps. Because he was promoted to the position of commander at such a young age, he can't stop wondering if his promotion was due to his skills or if he was simply put in charge because of his father's past successes.
His philosophy of living life to its fullest comes from the influence of those around him as well as the loss of his parents at an early age. Leonis and well-behaved and mature beyond his years as a result of being raised with a certain amount of discipline. However, as he is so self-sufficient, this rather large pool of parental figures suffer from crushing boredom, as they would like nothing better than to coddle him into insensibility.
Leonis' ultimate goal in life is to bring about peace in the world, although he is unsure of what his role would be in a world without war.
- Dual Wielding: Like Sieghart he dualwields a good number of his potential weapon types.
- Heroic Sacrifice: In the Normal Ending. He and Mimel give their lives to contain the blast from Mila.
- Identical Stranger: Blonde Leonis is mentioned as being able to pass as Niel's twin.
- Likes Older Women: All of his potential love interests are older than he is.
- Metaphorgotten"If you are about to eat a meal, you might say a prayer or somesuch, yes? But you would not say you were sorry. Well, I think this is much the same. Instead of apologizing to your meal, would it not be better to thank it? Better from the eater's point of view, of course, not necessarily the meal's. So from now on, instead of apologizing... I think it better for you to begin giving thanks instead. Um...That is what I was getting at, at least. Things may have gotten a little...confusing."
- Uneven Hybrid: Will be 1/4 Harpuia if Sayane is his mother.
- Wife Husbandry: Gender Flipped. As with Rex, almost all of his love interests had a hand in raising him.
- Winged Humanoid: Averted if Sayane is his mother, as he does not inherit wings from her.
- Aesop Amnesia: Averted. After escaping from the cursed mirror, Apli forgets everything that happened in there except for the Aesop; The Power of Friendship.
- Fantastic Racism: Hates Humans and Half-Breeds
- Our Gods Are Different: Rem Lorient can eventually become Larvae, though it is incredibly rare. Apli hopes to make this transformation.
- Shout-Out: A few numbers off but Forever 24?
- One of her alternate outfits has her fit in more in a Console War than Agarest War.
- Token Mini-Moe: Lampshaded. Eugene and Niel figure it would be best not to be checking her out, as it could land them in serious trouble.
- Try to Fit That on a Business Card combined with a bit of Badass BoastApli: "I am Apli April, of the Rem Lorient. I am servent to none; a wandering lotus flower born in moonlight. I am pleased to make your acquaintance."Tetora: "Goodness me, it's been rather long since I've heard the whole thing."
Daughter of Zelger, who joins the party as to help atone for her father's failure. Befitting her independant streak, her motto is "A woman's bravado must be equal to that of any man!" Dana's outgoing personality and automatic assumption of the older sister role makes her a good leader and the source of an endless stream of pep talks.
- Expy: Of Noah. Energetic girls who truly love her hobby.
- Fiery Redhead: She's quite energetic and outgoing.
- Our Dwarves Are All the Same: Downplayed. While male Greer tend to fall in line with the usual images of a dwarf, Dana pretty much just has the Blacksmith thing going for her.
Shernini is a syrium woman who is one of Apli's oldest friends. Being uninterested in violence, and unwilling to dwell amongst those who keep fighting, Shernini chose to live a quiet, solitary life deep within the forest. However, at the urging of Hass Calinou, she joins Leonis and his companions in hopes of ending the war. Shernini is most comfortable being amongst those of mixed descent as pure-bred high elves tend to make her uncomfortable. Unfortunately, her being syrium makes her an automatic enemy to some.
- Butt-Monkey: Frequently gets beaten by his own pet, Decimal.
- Clothing Damage: Decimal almost destroyed her clothes in her event of second generation.
- Cloudcuckoolander: She is considered quite strange by most characters.
- Cute Clumsy Girl: She is very clumsy, but also very adorable too.
- Defector from Decadence: At the point in time Syrium were still regarded and treated as a dark race. She wants everyone to get along.
- Famous Ancestor: The founder of Syriumville, where you can find Sharona in Graccea.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Apli.
- Leotard of Power: Wears a blue one.
- Mad Scientist: Makes a Goliath Serum to increase the size of her female chickens so that there'd be bigger eggs to make 100 omelettes. The rest of the group calls her out on this, specifically that it just wouldn't work. On the eggs. She gives it to Decimal by mistake. Cue the Optional Boss fight.
- Nice Girl: She is very nice with the party.
- Too Dumb to Live: Lampshaded by Decimal. Her dumbness almost killed the entire party when she makes a “super potion” to make her chickens to produce more eggs but accidentally gives it to decimal.
Niel is a young boy who inherited his father's personality, but unfortunately got his mother's rather stunning and decidedly feminine looks at the same time. He considers Leonis to be his big brother and tries very hard to be just like him. As being slightly shorter than other boys of his age, Niel is obsessed with his height, or lack thereof.
- Badass Boast"I crush with mighty blows the chains of grim fate! I shatter with quick strikes vile conspiracies! The wandering gunman, Niel L. Lagrange, has arrived! You have been surrounded! There can be no escape for you! But I am no demon! Withdraw peacefully, and you may keep your lives! Retreat, or perish! The choice is yours!"
- Big Damn Hero: His Badass Boast was delivered after sending down a Rain of Bullets and then flying in from out of nowhere to stop a trio of Garvel from finishing off the rest of the group. Everyone is impressed that he pulled this off, even Eugene.
- Butt-Monkey: He's constantly teased for how short he is, his dad treats him like crap a little over half the time, he was traumatized by Hass Calinou as a child, and then the post-game takes it to extremes such as having Routier tell him that his scenes were honestly not that great to begin with, that he should probably just roll with the mistake he made on his line to get some fans, and maybe have just changed his character entirely to a Reckless Sidekick that always almost ends up dead, but always come back just in time to take a bullet for Leonis to renew his Heroic Resolve. That last bit leaves him seriously considering killing Routier.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: He gets refered to as being rather girly. Not that it's obvious.
- Identical Stranger: Blonde Leonis is mentioned as being able to pass as his twin.
- The Napoleon: He tends to get upset over his height being mentioned.
- Schizo Tech: Putting aside the use of guns for a moment, watch him move. The man has Rocket Boots!
- The Bus Came Back: If you choose to leave him behind, he returns some time latter for save the party in a Big Damn Hero moment.
- Turn Out Like His Father: Downplayed. He's of a smaller stature like his mother and father, has an obsession with beautiful women like Eugene, but unlike Eugene he felt that he had neither the mindset nor stature to fight with swords, so instead learned how to use guns.
NPC
Thrisasaz
- I Have Many Names: Not that you actually get to learn them, but apparently he has them as Apli enjoys people suffering when they try to figure them out due to being "tongue-twisters of sinister proportions.".
- Plant Person: He's a Ryulent, essentially a tree person.
Gigandanote
- Tempting Fate: "Our path is righteous, and we shall not stray from it." Subverted. He was talking about the Forces of Darkness.
Ernestonote
- Interface Spoiler: The Character Data Guide makes explicit mention of which god summoned him; Arumana. Guess who else was summoned by Arumana. It was mentioned in his profile from the first game.]]
Arzestnote
- Big Damn Hero: Saves the party from a powered up Ganoia.
Hass Calinou
- Heroic Sacrifice: Sacrified himself keeping the Gurgs busy in order to help the party to flee to another continent.
Decimal
- Badass Boast: Played for Laughs of all things as the fourth wall had to be broken for him to deliver it!"Brawk! Buk-bukawak! (Translation: All who see me as food, step forward! With this beak, I shall destroy you!)"
- Badass Normal: He's just a chicken, but he took on Giganda and lived.
- Refuge in Audacity: The only reason he, and by extension, the party survived their encounter with Giganda was because he attacked long enough for Niel to blind him and run. Giganda was not amused that he actually fell for it.
Rebecca
- The Ghost: You never see her, but she's mentioned repeatedly. Oddly, her name doesn't come up until the post-game though.
- Red Baron: Witch of the Sand and Steam-Wreathed Assassin
- What, Exactly, Is Her Job?: After hearing what she's been known as, Sieghart would really like to know.
Villains
Varacade
- Flash Step: He doesn't really move all that fast in game, but his moving animation displays this.
- Twin Telepathy: This is how Ganoia finds out he's been killed.
- The Worf Effect: Kills Sieghart, only for him to be revived stronger than before. Cue Curb-Stomp Battle
Ganoia
- Avenging the Villain: The only reason he's hunting down Sieghart is for killing his brother Varacade.
- Flash Step: He doesn't really move all that fast in game, but his moving animation displays this.
- Flawed Prototype: His Gem of Might doesn't work quite right.
- I Lied: Never actually says this, but the act does occur. Attacks Sayane's home town. Partly for it's purpose being done, partly because he'd gone insane.
- Puny Humans: The only reason he even cares that Varacade died was because it was to a human, which just isn't right.
- Recurring Boss: It takes fighting him three times to finally bring him down for good.
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Thanks to being given a Gem of Might after his first loss.
Universal Dark Knight Tropes
- Artifact of Doom: The Gems of Might are what turned them into Gurgs.
- Blood Knight: They exist simply to fight for Summerill.
- Superpowered Mooks: Until these guys came along Garvel were pretty much the biggest threat the Forces of Darkness had to offer.
Dark Knight Vashtor
- Curb-Stomp Battle: When he fights Leonis shortly after being turned into a Gurg. He's quite a bit more impressive than he was against Leonhardt.
- Cruel Mercy States that Leonis isn't worth the effort to actively finish off, and that the wounds will kill him in time and just leaves him there. Leonis says the same thing to him after their next fight.
- Dual Boss: Comes at you with the assistance of an unidentified Gurg the second time you fight him.
Dark Knight Giganda
- And I Must Scream: While Werdefahrt is said to be able to kill Gurgs, and unlike with the other Gurgs where it's only stated in their profiles, he was explicitly stated as having been sealed away by it destined to become a completely mindless puppet once he is freed.
- Evil All Along: Faked being a part of the forces of light.
Dark Knight Arzest
- Mercy Kill: He requests that Leonis does this to him. While it would look like Leonis complied, the profiles state that he was only sealed away, and will be completely mindless once freed.
- Noble Demon: He refuses to slaughter Findeste's citizens and keeps them safe from the others by claiming the citizens are reserves to be forced into action as needed. He's also willing to let the heroes live if they'd just hand over the remaining artifacts and stay out of the way.
- Out of Focus: After being turned into a Gurg he takes a bit of a backseat to the other two.
Summerill
- Big Bad Friend: He was disguised as Ernesto
- Deal with the Devil: Unwittingly, the Larva were subjected to this - being granted power in exchange for being warped into Dark Knights called Gurg.
- Deceptive Disciple: Inferred, to Chaos. When Mimel brings up the fact Chaos wouldn't want what Summerill wants, this doesn't stop him from attempting to murder you all whatsoever. We see that this is true in later games. Truly a loathsome monster at every stage.
- Evil Sounds Deep: His voice actor has a notably dark voice, which combines with his incredible Large Ham for a villain who obviously sounds like he's enjoying himself every step of every murder.
- Eyes Do Not Belong There: One consistent factor in his design. It gets even creepier than normal when they all start staring.
- False Reassurance: Across the games, he always does this. He always frames his death threats as offering to give you something. "I will give you the gift of eternal life" indeed.
- Kick the Dog: Summerill does this so often that the trope could reasonably be called "Summerill's Usual Action".
- Large Ham: Oh, boy. The VA was obviously having a ton of fun being a monstrous villain.
- One-Winged Angel: He starts as a pale Larva, basically a humanoid Demi-God. Then he reveals his "true nature" and...holy shit what is he?
- Smug Snake: of the uniquely awful flavour that believes his worst Kick the Dog moments and malevolent actions are in fact tactical masterstrokes, bragging about how he turns Elves and High Elves into his sadistic Garvel.
- Was Once a Man: Not him, his creations. He reveals the source of the Garvel to be Elves and High Elves.
- 0% Approval Rating: There is a reason he needs to use brainwashed minions - nobody likes him. Getting your Gurg to threaten to destroy a whole town on your own side tends to do that.
Mila
- Friend-or-Idol Decision: Offers Leonis her assistance in killing Mobius and Summerill in the Boundary Plane, but because they already had all the party members allowed she couldn't come. She says she could still come if he'd just get rid of Sieghart or his mother. He doesn't even think about getting rid of his mother, that's a no, but he had to think on it for a bit about Sieghart. Still no. This then opens up an event where you can catch her, and Decimal, as a monster unit.
- Literal Split Personality She is the Dark half of Mimelia
- Replacement Goldfish: Her explanations make it sound as though Deeth made her as a replacement for Varna for Chaos. He treated her more like a daughter and requested she be unmade when he realized there was something wrong with her.
- Taking You with Me: Both endings see her trying this to the heroes. It fails in the True End so she gives Mimel's power back in hopes of at least killing Summerill. That fails too.
- Why Am I Ticking?: Mimel warns the heroes that she may explode at any time for having absorbed both Mimel's and Werdefahrt's powers.
Mobius
- Only Sane Man: In the post-game Boundary Plane events he comments on how Leonis and Lenion's names are similar. This sends the party off on a tangent about various characters' names and the game's development. He is notably annoyed by the blatant disregard for the fourth wall and decides it's time for the world to be serious again.
- Pet the Dog: In the post-game Boundary Plane events he agrees, because it's her first game, to inform Chaos that Mimel intends to visit him with her child on New Year's.
Deeth
- Cloudcuckoolander: Between her reactions to Thoma and Dyshana in the first game, creating the Neocolom, the pranks played on the other gods, apparent habit of coming up with nicknames for the other gods, and her general treatment of Mimelia she comes off as this even among the other Gods.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: She created Mimelia to help ease Chaos's pain over losing Varna to Lenion. He treated her as a daughter instead, and requested that she be unmade when it became apparent there was something wrong with her.
- Spanner in the Works: Making one sudden change to one of her creations just to mess with Summerill and Mobius set off a chain of events that screwed them over for centuries.
Chaos
- Gray Rain of Depression: According to Mobius, it rains whenever Chaos starts to get moody.
