Characters / Empires SMP: Season Two

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Rulers and their Empires

Grand Architect False Symmetry of Cogsmeade

False

IGN: falsesymmetry (formerly, pre-crossover), falsesymmetry_ (current, crossover)
Preferred name: False
Species: Human

A Dimensional Traveler who woke up in the Empires world one day. While she started out the series biding her time until she can find her way home, she has gradually settled into the world of Empires and built a new home for herself. However, as the Rift opens up at spawn and inhabitants from the other side of the portal pass through into the Empires world, False finds the past she has so far been unaware with catching up with her.

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• Action Girl: False apparently has a reputation for this, as the main reason Pix recruits her to help reverse the sculk corruption on Cubfan is because she's capable in a fight and in self-defense.
• Amnesiac Dissonance: After regaining her memories, False seems to be intimidated and conflicted about her past, but eventually decides to move on with her life and build up Cogsmeade to be more welcoming.
• Amnesiac Hero: In her second episode, False describes herself as "unlucky" for landing in an unfamiliar place and "forgetting everything", indicating that this is the case. Later, according to the Hermitcraft crossover, Hermit-False is responsible for this, apparently because pre-amnesia False was dangerous and destructive, but the details of which remain murky for now; thus, the 'hero' part may also be questionable. It takes until after the Hermit-False leaves for her to regain her memories.
• Asleep for Days: False has a tendency, especially in her later episodes, to sleep for days and even weeks on end.
• Based on a Dream: In-universe; several of her creations are based on dreams that she had, including her Elytra wings and her Cool Airship.
• Buffy Speak: She seems unfamiliar with shulker boxes and refers to them as "magic boxes".
• Doppelgänger Crossover: Considering cc!False the plays characters on both Empires and the server on the other side of the Rift, the crossover event obviously results in this. It has consequently led to characters from both servers mistaking the False from the other server to be the False's counterpart from their server.
• Evil Twin: False has been alleged to be this to Hermit-False, as she suddenly gained a "glint" in her eyes and started wreaking havoc and property damage on Hermitcraft before Hermit-False locked her up and banished her to the Empires realm when she escaped. However, the cause of this change in behaviour is unknown, and Hermit-False herself is implied to be an Unreliable Narrator and not so morally upstanding herself, so how much this actually is the case is unclear.
• Goggles Do Nothing: In her default appearance, False wears a pair of steampunk-esque goggles, and gets a new pair in her 2nd episode based on copper. Since this is part of a Minecraft skin, this is understandable out-of-universe.
• The Hermit: False mostly remains distant from other rulers instead of building up friendly relations with them, though she still conducts trade with other rulers on occasion. It turns out to be a Literal Metaphor when the Hermitcraft crossover reveals she was originally from that server herself, making her an ex-Hermit who is The Hermit.
• Mysterious Past: As of the first episode, False's backstory has only been vaguely hinted at — she woke up in the Empires world one day and is a pilot at heart, but little about her life before waking up there is stated. Later justified confirmed that she has some form of amnesia.
  • Gradually subverted as of the Hermitcraft crossover, as it's revealed that Hermitcraft-False, her sister, caused her amnesia, and that she broke out from her Hermitcraft counterpart's laboratory which she was locked up in, because Hermit-False thought she was being a danger to everyone around her for causing rampant property destruction across the server.
• Put on a Bus: After the Rift opens up as a portal, False remembers a message telling her that "THEY ARE COMING!" and goes out adventuring in the opposite direction of the Rift, in fear that anyone that comes through is hostile and that she wouldn't be able to protect the other rulers. Subverted as she returns sometime later, in time to meet the Hermits themselves.
• Robbing the Dead: In her 2nd episode, False robs what appears to be a dead body near her base for clothing. It later turns out to be subverted in that the clothes were not from a dead body, but Hermit-False actually threw them through the Rift to help out Empires-False.
• Strong Family Resemblance: False looks virtually identical to her sibling, Hermit-False.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: False starts out the series a touch paranoid and cynical, and doesn't trust her fellow rulers to be naturally amiable. Due to this, she initially strives to keep others satisfied through trading for as long as she remains in the dimension; however, she gradually warms up to her fellow rulers the longer she remains in the Empires world.

Cogsmeade

Biome: Cliffs

An empire built into a mountain and cliff-face. Its primary exports are iron and enchanted books.

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• Cool Airship: False constructs an airship that is Based on a Dream in-universe in her 4th episode, specifically, one that's powered by an engine connected to a computer, in order to take her home. When that fails, she repurposes it into a revamped iron farm.
• Diesel Punk: The empire has elements of this, being fairly industrialized and featuring iron and airships. Of course, that's excluding the small computer used to control the airship's engines. Sausage even refers to False as the server's "cool steampunk captain" in his 18th episode.
• Inconsistent Spelling: The Castle of Memories in Sanctuary spells the empire's name as 'Cogsmead' instead.

fWhip of Gobland

fWhip

IGN: fWhip
Preferred name: fWhip
Species: Goblin, Human (on Hermitcraft)

The clever and mischievous King of Gobland.

fWhip is the thirteenth Emperor of the server, and the fifth King of Season 2. His rule is that all rulers must adopt and care for a Goblin child "to help with the sudden population growth".

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• Assassin Outclassin': When Jimmy and Scar finally go through with the assassination attempt on fWhip to get the Deputy badge back, it backfires and ends with fWhip having both of them killed and taking on the mantle of the Sheriff for himself. The main reason fWhip survives the ungodly amount of arrows Scar 'Hawkeye'd' at him at all is because he chugged an enchanted golden apple just as Scar starts shooting, and later grabs an absurd number of backup Totems halfway through the fight from his Ender chest.
• Carry a Big Stick: As of the end of his 17th episode, fWhip's preferred weapon is a large mace.^note In-game, of course, it's a retextured netherite sword.
• Ear Wings: Shelby's second potion for him causes his ears to grow large enough to act as wings. His content creator counterpart is fully on board with any Dumbo comparisons in fan-works.
• Eat Dirt, Cheap: Downplayed. While fWhip mostly subsists himself on farmed Hoglin pork, he considers rocks and stone to be snacks and is more than willing to munch on it when given the chance.
• Exact Eavesdropping: Having built an underground tunnel to Dawn, fWhip eavesdrops on Gem chatting with Oli at the Tavern and overhears that Oli visited the Deep Dark. Connecting the dots that Oli looted the chests there and left the signs there that fWhip found, he drops Oli down a hole and holds him in a cage hanging above a section of the Deep Dark for his "crimes".
• Exact Words: fWhip thoroughly enjoys exploiting the loopholes in the wording of "the rules" to troll his server-mates.
• Humanity Ensues: He appears as a human while on Hermitcraft during the crossover event, likely as a result of certain world properties and the Rift.
• Noodle Incident: While selling empanadas to Shelby in his 48th episode, Sausage recounts one time fWhip bought a lot of cheese empanadas from him in spite of his lactose intolerance, which eventually got quite messy.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: While disguised as the Sheriff's lawyer, fWhip doesn't make much of an attempt to disguise his most distinctive features, only having a change of outfit and a pair of sunglasses on.
• The Prankster: fWhip sometimes trolls the other rulers for the heck of it. He explains that he does so because he considers them friends. However, the scale of his pranks can range from silly (e.g. helping Jimmy get a Toy Story-referencing advancement) to annoying (e.g. waxing copper blocks so they don't age) to a tad over-the-top (e.g. unleashing Wardens on people's empires as "gifts" of protection for attending his wedding in real life).
  • However, this is deconstructed when the aforementioned Warden prank results in Jimmy firing him as a deputy, Joel pranking him in retribution (and Scott planning to do so as well, though that hasn't seemed to go anywhere as the crossover went down), and Gem declaring Gobland as an enemy of Dawn, all the while his content creator counterpart was away on his honeymoon. Overall, as far as reactions go, the only prank-victim who doesn't seem to hold the Warden prank against him is Lizzie (that's 1 in 6).^note Yes, even Mythical J. "I saved the Warden and named her Dolores" Sausage holds it against fWhip, if the message he left on fWhip's real-life computer with Gem and Scott is anything to go by.
• Stalker Shrine: Deep in the underground Gobland, fWhip has a shrine to the Law filled with Sheriff toys, and by "filled with", we mean he purchased Joel's entire first stock of them. Considering how he acts in response to Jimmy firing him as Deputy... let's just say Grian is understandably uncomfortable when he accidentally digs into the cavern where it's located.
• Super-Hearing: fWhip gets better hearing after Shelby's potions enlarge his ears, but it escalates to this level after his ears are enlarged enough to become Ear Wings. Slightly deconstructed in that even regular decibels of speech can make him feel uncomfortable.
• Tunnel King: Living Beneath the Earth, fWhip often builds tunnels and underground railway systems within those tunnels for travel, including to different empires.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: fWhip is described to be this after he murders both Jimmy and Scar and proclaims himself to be the Sheriff. However, this doesn't come to pass.

Gobland

Biome: Dripstone Cave

An underground empire built in a vast cavern near the Deep Dark. Its primary exports are various stone types and copper, though it also sells pork (both of the regular and Hoglin varieties) and cave pickles.

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• Beneath the Earth: Gobland are located far below a mountain, in a giant Dripstone Cave.
• Born as an Adult: Downplayed; goblins are born as young children... when they are dug out of the mountain like precious stones such as emeralds. Sausage doesn't really believe the last part, though.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Sources on the name of the empire are divided between Gobland, The Goblands, and the Goblin Empire.
• Pointy Ears: Goblins have these; according to Pix in his finale, they are in actuality vestigial Ear Fins from their ancestors from the maritime empires of Season 1.
• Tunnel Network: Gobland is the heart of one, having underground tunnels and railway systems reaching various empires on the continent, though they are meant to be Secret Underground Passages.
• Underground City: A fairly technologically-advanced settlement built into a massive cavern, home to underground hogs and revived Zombie Villagers.

Princess Gem of Dawn

Gem

IGN: GeminiTay
Preferred name: Gem
Species: Celestial Being

The self-proclaimed Princess of Dawn. While she is quite amiable, if a little zealous on her Sun 'religion', she treats most of the world more like a D&D campaign rather than as a life-or-death scenario like her fellow server-members, for reasons only to be revealed as a certain purple crack in the mountains near Spawn appears.

Gem is the eleventh Emperor of the server, and the third Queen of Season 2. Her rule is that all rulers must care for a hive from Dawn's bee army.

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• Actual Pacifist:
  • Downplayed. Gem doesn't usually carry weapons on her or inflict violence on others, and is relatively weak in a fight compared with her fellow rulers, though she usually makes an exception for naturally-spawning hostile mobs. This backfires on her when fWhip's "Thank You For Coming To My Wedding" Warden gives her a lot of trouble, causing her to call Joel, Pixl, and Sausage for back-up.
  • The above is completely and utterly subverted in that it's her character on the Empires server who is relatively pacifistic — the regular, default Gem from Hermitcraft has zero qualms murdering people to collect their skulls, and is considerably more trigger-happy with a sword than her roleplay persona.
  • Her not-so-pacifist side makes an appearance on Empires as well when Jimmy tries to assert his authority one too many times, where she ends up murdering him with little to no provocation. She later regards logging on burning as punishment from the Sun for this.
  • Ultimately averted after she takes the Crown; in fear that someone would try to assassinate her for it, Gem begins to use a weapon again.
• Ambiguously Human: While Gem looks human in her princess and default appearances, she appears as an Elf on Hermitcraft, making her true species ambiguous. She later identifies herself to be a "celestial being".
• Character Overlap: With GeminiTay of Hermitcraft, due to her being a Dimensional Traveler. For tropes she exhibits in the Hermits' world, see here.
• Dark Secret: Her status as a LARPing Dimensional Traveler, at least on the Empires side, which gets "weird" (in her words) once her fellow Hermits actually start crossing over. The only fellow ruler on Empires who is in the know is Pixlriffs, by virtue of hosting the Hermitcraft Recap and being in a similar situation to her.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Gem's primary motivation, at least at the start of the season, is to figure out where she belongs in the world and her destiny.
• Dimensional Traveler: Subverting the paradox created via creator overlap between the servers, while Gem essentially LARPs a princess in the Empires world, she's the same person as Hermitcraft-Gem and could already cross between all the worlds she's part of in the Minecraft Multiverse anytime, even before the official crossover event. However, she keeps this a secret, much to the confusion of her fellow Hermits during said official crossover event. Her 15th Empires episode (and 24th Hermitcraft episode) reveals that she does this by dreaming of the other worlds. Her perspective of the season also ends with the Wisps leading her back to Hermitcraft, as they believe she shouldn't be on two servers at once.
• In-Series Nickname: Lizzie calls her "the Queen Bee".
• Nice Character, Mean Actor: A downplayed version in-universe; while LARPing as the Princess of Dawn, she's a pacifist, but her regular Hermitcraft persona is more than happy to decapitate her server-members for a severed head collection.
• Phone Word: Gem apparently has one, as Lizzie dials 0-800-BEES for her help in relocating a bee nest from Animalia.
• Pretty Butterflies: Gem receives monarch butterfly wings from the Magic of Sanctuary as she's led there by the Wisps.
• Princesses Prefer Pink: Gem wears a long-sleeved pink dress and is a self-declared princess, though it's later revealed that she's just a very dedicated LARPer.

Dawn

Biome: Flower Forest

A northeastern empire themed around the Sun with a medieval build-style, surrounded by mountains and the sea. Its primary exports are honey-related products and Villager trade products like golden carrots.

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• Arcadia: While it does partake in merchant trade, agriculture is Dawn's primary industry and source of prosperity, and the empire is located far in the northeast and away from most other nations.
• Ban on Magic: Gem sets out a ban on magic in her 16th episode out of annoyance at the Wisps interrupting her farming and her overall disinterest in it.
  Gem: (on the magically-grown trees in Sanctuary) It's really pretty... but... I think that we should just wear sunglasses and stay out of magic.
• Color Motif: Yellow, orange, red, and pink, all colours associated with the Sun and its light.
• Cosmic Motifs: Gem's empire is themed around the Sun and is evidently named for it.
• Cult: The Sun religion of Dawn is referred to as a cult by fWhip, but whether or not it classifies as one is up for debate.
• My Local: The design of the Tavern is based on that of some pubs in London.
• Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: Gem's bear mount Apollo is evidentially named after the Greco-Roman solar deity, among many other aspects.

Sheriff Jimmy of Tumble Town

The Sheriff

IGN: SolidarityGaming
Preferred name: Jimmy/The Sheriff
Species: Human/Toy

The self-appointed Sheriff of the SMP, who wants nothing more than for someone to respect him.

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• And the Adventure Continues: The ending of his perspective of the series has him and the Old Sheriff move out of Tumble Town to start a new 'Weekend Town' north of the Empires lands, though he's only prompted to do so after the Fae start to take over Tumble Town.
• Berserk Button:
  • Played for Laughs Running Gag; he is not a toy, thank you very much, and doing so is the highest level of disrespect to the Sheriff. Unfortunately for Jimmy, almost every single character presses this button, including his cat Deputy Norman and even (subtly) his content creator counterpart through a facecam bit.
  • Nor is Tumble Town an extension of anyone else's builds. Sausage gets killed for making jokes about Tumble Town being the Western extension of Scarland from Hermitcraft.
• Butt-Monkey: Just about everyone pranks or otherwise "disrespects" the Sheriff; even several of his allies joke about him being a toy behind his back, and Joel and Grian, being Joel and Grian, even decide to fight a Wither near Tumble Town without hesitation just to mess with him.
• Didn't Think This Through: When Jimmy arrests Joel for "Direspect" [sic] and locks him in the Tumble Town jail, he completely forgets that Joel can just break out through the iron door as opposed to the obsidian surrounding the rest of the cell. By the time he rushes back to get the obsidian to block out the doorway, Joel has already broken out and gathered his belongings.
• Dirty Cop: Early in the series, Lizzie accused Jimmy of bribery in the in-game chat for making various trade deals with other server-members. While there is little evidence for this, Jimmy's own Judge, Jury, and Executioner tendencies and morally dubious actions (e.g. attempting to burn down Joel's "Toy Barn", which would have been arson if the server wasn't set to have Fire Spread turned off) arguably cause this trope to be a Double Subversion.
• Flat "What": His reaction to fWhip offhandedly mentioning he bribed the judge (Pix) before the Courtroom Episode.
• Fun Size: Jimmy spends a good chunk of the series half the size of a normal player, and is often cooed over by other people on the server because of it, to his annoyance.
  • Briefly invoked by Joel, who uses a splash "Revealing Potion" to turn Jimmy short because of the Toy bit.
  • It's invoked again during the Hermitcraft crossover by fWhip and Sausage for comparison with the visiting Hermits, who are shorter than the average Empires player. This time, however, it lasts until he and the Old Sheriff stumble across a solution in his finale, and nets him absolutely zero of the respect he craves.
• Hat of Authority: Jimmy wears a Sheriff Hat to show he's "the Law" of the server; its backstory is discussed in his 31st episode.^note His content creator sometimes wears a matching hat in real life during livestreams.
• Hypocrite: In response to being fired, fWhip accuses him of not following the book of Law in spite of writing it himself, and by extension being a Dirty Cop. The charges he lists include not finishing the Tumble Town railroad^note But seriously, that's a lot of iron, trapping a Harengon Villager^note In his defense, that's on Sausage for making the Villager a Harengon in the first place, not having enough water to sustain the empire^note Which would probably be a valid concern if this didn't take place in Minecraft, various unsafe working conditions, leaving his chests disorganized (henceforth "disrespecting himself"), etc. Overall, fWhip is more Right for the Wrong Reasons than anything else.
• In-Series Nickname: While he usually prefers to be called by his self-appointed title, just about everyone calls him 'Jimmy', as in his content creator counterpart, which he never really objects to.^note Well, that or 'Timmy', based on a creator in-joke from older series.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Jimmy is admittedly petty, vengeful, and arguably corrupt, but his attempts to enforce his 'authority' have been taken seriously by just about nobody. Even when he actively steps into a Face–Heel Turn, he's easily thwarted and no one actually sees him as much of a threat overall.
• Judge, Jury, and Executioner: While it's not quite clear how much legitimacy his claim on being "the Law" has, Jimmy can and will arrest people for disrespecting him, which he codifies into his original book of Law as the first rule. Again, how much legitimacy that book has is debatable among the empires.
• Lust: His desire for respect and to not be a Butt-Monkey is an arguable manifestation of this. This eventually (and officially) drives him to villainy.
  Jimmy: I've told some of my friends to meet me on the Bridge, I'm gonna tell them all about this... experience that I've just had [meeting the Old Sheriff]. Hopefully, they show me that they respect me, you know? 'Cause that's– that's all I'm craving. Just need a little bit of respect around here.
• Misplaced Retribution: Jimmy's reaction to the sale of "illegally distributed" Sheriff badges is to put the buildings of Chromia up for sale. The problem? It was fWhip who was selling them, not Scott. When Scott catches him in the act, he points this fact out.
• No, You: In the aftermath of the "Anvillain" fiasco, Jimmy tells Lizzie, "I thought I was the villain. You're the villain!" Since he was the one who fell for her booby trap in the first place, Lizzie simply laughs him off.
• Not So Above It All: While Jimmy normally tries to present himself as a stern enforcer of law and order, when fWhip asks him to step in as the Sheriff to stop Pirate Joe and Shelby's Duel to the Death for Katherine's heart at the Festival of the Rift, Jimmy replies that he should, but he's enjoying watching the drama unfold too much to do so.
• Not the Fall That Kills You…: During the Multiverse Tag against the Hermits, Jimmy is tasked with killing a Hermit with fall damage to pass on the jester's hat designating who's It. He accomplishes this by convincing Pearl to show him the farm she built, borrowing her Elytra wings for "inspection" because their Sanctuary design allegedly violated the law (it's not, for the record, but it's understandable for him in the Tag context to want to cover the bases), and shoving her off the farm.
• Rage Breaking Point: The ending of his 31st episode, where Gem dismisses him and murders him on the Greatbridge, winds up being the last straw to drive him into villainy.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: His villain arc appearance comes with crimson eyes. Subverted in that he isn't very good at that either.
• The Sheriff: Jimmy takes on this role and title early in the series after finding a Sheriff Hat in a mineshaft chest, though admittedly, where he stands on the moral scale depends on the day.
• Sins of Our Fathers: Jimmy strongly disliked Hermes for nothing but being Joel's child. He gets better after making up with Joel.

Tumble Town

Biome: Badlands/Mesa

An empire based in a basin in the southern badlands biome. Its primary exports are gunpowder and terracotta, though production of the former is struggling greatly.

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• Alliterative Name: Tumble Town.
• In-Series Nickname: Joel often refers to the empire as "Toy Town", usually in a derogatory sense, while Scar calls it "Trouble Town".
• Ludicrous Precision: The barrier on the railroad into the Tumble Town basin, as of the start of Jimmy's Episode 10, reads "DAY 6731 Of The TUMBLE TOWN Railway Not Being Open..", with the number of days being presented in Minecraft server days. Jimmy even actively tries to update the sign whenever a day passes.
• Running Gag: In spite of Tumble Town being supposed to be the empire that exports gunpowder, there is always little to none of it in stock. Many of the other rulers have expressed frustration over this, to the point Pirate Joe, fWhip, and Lizzie have all been prompted to Start My Own and Pix has to resort to stealing the TNT wagon supply itself to make the missile to blow up Grumbot.^note Eversea productions are eventually merged with Tumble Town's, but even that isn't enough to compensate for the shortage.
• Sdrawkcab Name: The Old Sheriff's adopted Goblin child, Ffiresh, has a name which is simply 'Sheriff' spelt backwards.
• Shout-Out: Jimmy's horse Bullseye is named after the character from Toy Story. This eventually devolves into a Whole-Plot Reference to the first movie as a whole.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: The Tumble Town Pillager bandits' terracotta shop proclaims that their business is "totally legit".
• The Wild West: The theme of Jimmy's empire.

Joel of Stratos

Joel

IGN: Smallishbeans
Preferred name: Joel
Species: God

The allegedly 11-foot-tall^note or 335.28cm-tall for the metric system users God of the Sky, and later of Gold.

Joel is the fourteenth Emperor of the server, and the sixth King of Season 2. His rule is that all rulers other than himself must only use golden pickaxes.

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• Breaking the Fourth Wall: In a series where the line between character and content creator can sometimes be quite blurry, Joel is likely the biggest offender of this among the player-characters (excluding Pix), going as far as to openly hate "Editor Joel", who is in charge of the building time-lapses and voiceovers.^note Though they probably have some Teeth-Clenched Teamwork going on, or else the episode-videos wouldn't exist.
• Bring It: His response to Jimmy's lawsuit, as he claims the laws in question are a violation to the right of freedom of speech and that he's "above the law".
• Broke the Rating Scale: He ranks gathering mangrove wood to be -500/10 in terms of difficulty.
  Joel: Who made these trees? They're so annoying–
• Character Overlap: Possibly. Due to Joel making a passing reference to "the Red King" during the Hermitcraft crossover during Rendog's visit to Stratos, it's suggested that he is the same character as 3rd Life Joel, or he at least has some recollection of that server's events.
• Compensating for Something:
  • His neighbour very pointedly accuses of this for building a very large portal on the Nether roof hub.
    Scott: Joel, like, everyone else has nice, little-sized portals, and then there's this man. I don't know what you're compensating for, but it's very obvious.
  • Oli also accuses him of this, albeit in a tamer sense, in response to the sheer size of his empire.
    Oli: This is a joke! Whoever built this is making my megabase feel very inadequate. (towards Stratos) You're overcompensating!
• Drunk Driver: Defied Minecraftian equivalent. Joel mentions drinking wine in his 5th episode, but immediately clarifies that it's non-alcoholic, because "Don't drink and Elytra".
• Evil Overlord: Lizzie calls him this in all but by name through her book "Rebellion 101", which she publishes and sells in Lower Stratos to invoke Rage Against the Heavens. While whether Joel actually is an overlord befitting the trope is up for debate, he makes it a point to stock the books in the back corner.
• Gold Fever: In his 7th episode, we get this gem as a footnote in the video:
  It’s not really an obsession, I just think gold is really shiny, pretty, beautiful, cool, amazing, fun, awesome, great, sweet, lovely, wonderful, nice, epic, hot, handsome and fantastic looking
• Gratuitous Greek: One of Joel's material-gathering montages in his 5th episode features him trying to say the names of the materials in Greek, with a disclaimer that he's using Google Translate.
• Height Angst: In retaliation for the 'Toy Barn' debacle, Jimmy tries to codify Joel having this into his character's "lore", claiming Joel was ashamed of his height for being the shortest in a family of gods. While whether how much truth there is in that statement is unconfirmed, given Joel's own heavily-implicated Inferiority Superiority Complex...
• Hoist by His Own Petard: In Joel's 3rd episode, he attempts to troll Jimmy by lifting him up into the sky with a fishing rod while flying on Elytra wings. Not only does he fail to do so, but Joel crashes out of the sky attempting to do this and dies.
• In-Series Nickname: "Thunder Daddy", courtesy of Sausage and Hermes.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: Heavily implied with Joel's constant insistence of being tall, sexy, buff, and so on, as well as his tendency to construct large and extravagant builds. Refer to this quote:
  Joel: We take our lore seriously here on the SmallishBeans channel, especially the part where I'm 11-foot, that is canon and will forever be canon, okay? I'm not imagining it like this fanart, it is REAL!!
  • What probably does not help at all is that according to Lizzie, Joel's greatest problem is that he "needs constant praise and validation".
• Interspecies Romance: Possibly. While it's not overt like in Season 1, Joel is married to Lizzie in real life and occasional nods to this have been made in Empires Season 2, such as Joel cheering on his "in-real-life wife" in a contest at the Festival of the Rift and Lizzie making a Valentine's Day special short with Joel as the subject. In this season, they're respectively a god and an anthropomorphic cat.
• Jerkass Gods: Joel enjoys messing around with his mostly-human server-mates and kills baby Piglins and Hoglins for fun, though he does Pet the Dog on occasion and has a nice streak underneath everything.
• Jerkass Has a Point: As much as Joel enjoys bullying the Sheriff, so much that he's willing to capitalize on it, he's correct in that said Sheriff's Judge, Jury, and Executioner tendencies is, by all means, corruption.
• Jerkass to One: While Joel messes with many server-members when he wants to, he especially likes making fun of Jimmy — his Toy Story trolling builds in Tumble Town are only the start of it all. They make up and become friends later in the season.
• Large and in Charge: He's 11 feet tall, or 12 feet tall in heels, and he's the ruler of his empire.
• Last of His Kind: He mentions there existing other gods on the server, but all of them are apparently dead now. He claims to cope with this with humour.
• Our Gods Are Different: In spite of allegedly being a god, Joel still has to eat, and still has most of the abilities and functions of a normal player in-game. According to Scott, no one actually believes he's a god, but it's unknown how founded this claim is.
• Papa Wolf: He's more than willing to attack anyone who badmouths his son, especially to his face. Looking at you, Mr. Sheriff.
  If anyone ever tries to hurt him I will eat them
• Physical God: An god of the skies, though apparently only a "demigod" in the eyes of the Lore Gods.
• Precision F-Strike: Implied. While Empires is, for the most part, a PG series^note excluding half of the server's flirting antics this season, after Joel has a vision of "the Lore Gods" in his finale, he exclaims, "What the (bleep) was that?!"
• Puny Humans: Joel lapses into this from time to time, usually in regard to his server-mates and even the audience in episode intros.
• Self-Imposed Challenge: Invoked for his 7th episode, where he tries his best not to use the word "lore" in the episode. Instead, he substitutes it with "story", "backstory", "storytelling", "canon", etc.
• Swapped Roles: In his 34th episode, Joel briefly dives into a lore pool in the caves and inadvertently swaps places with his Season 1 counterpart for a brief period of time.
• Take That, Audience!: He makes fun of his viewers in several videos.
• Weather Manipulation: As a god of the skies, one of his divine abilities includes control over the weather. Other than Hermes having inherited this ability, it's been demonstrated that it starts raining when Joel gets mad.
• Worth It: His ultimate feeling towards spending about 10 hours in real life to prank Jimmy for allegedly stealing the Sheriff toy stock.^note He didn't even steal them, he hid them in the shop. The prank in question? Building Andy's wallpaper around Tumble Town.
• Would Hurt a Child: Joel actively kills baby Piglins and Hoglins in the Nether to "assert dominance". Apparently, they're "easy to kill" and he considers it to be "fun". However, he adores his son Hermes and considers Hermes to be the second-most precious thing in the world to him (just after the Stratos-sphere).

Kingdom of Stratos

Biome: Plains

Formerly known as the Sky Empire, Stratos consists of a series of floating islands over a plains biome. Its primary export is "toys" (customized player heads), though also gold and XP indirectly through the Zombified Piglin farm on the Nether roof, as well as moss.

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• City of Gold: Thanks to Joel's Zombified Piglin-based gold and XP farm on the Nether roof, Stratos prominently uses blocks of gold as a decorative building material. It also incorporates oxidized copper blocks into its build palette.
• Color Motif: White, gold, and cyan/turquoise. The blocks used in the construction of the build similarly make use of this colour palette, including quartz (and lots of it), calcite, sandstone, gold blocks, warped wood, and oxidized copper.
• Floating Continent: The empire is located on these. There are also sprawling villages below the islands, but Joel doesn't consider them part of Stratos.
• Meaningful Name: While the word stratos means "army" in Ancient Greek, it also alludes to the 'stratosphere', a layer of the atmosphere. He also builds a sphere-shaped floating dome as the pedestal for a large ball of gold called "the Stratos-sphere", just to capitalize on the naming pun.
• Secret Test of Character: The lore fountain from Joel's 1st episode is revealed in his finale to be a test from the Lore Gods that he would use his powers for good. Apparently, he passes, and is given one last day to say his goodbyes before ascending to the Lore Sky as a "true" god.
• The Theocracy: All but outright stated to be one in Joel's 35th episode; when he asks Lizzie for advice on what to build in Lower Stratos to honour all the other empires, Lizzie suggests a place where the people can learn. Joel then states that they already receive religious education at the church... which Lizzie dismisses as "indoctrination".

Princess Katherine of GlimmerGrove

Katherine

IGN: katherineeliz
Preferred name: Katherine
Species: Human
"When the light turns to night, we rid the world of fright."

The Princess of GlimmerGrove whose kingdom started to deteriorate around the time of her birth, which she insists to not be a "curse" as many of her people say. She is determined to revive the kingdom by killing monsters that are rumoured to spawn in the "cursed" land.

Katherine is the twelveth Emperor of the server, and the fourth Queen of Season 2. Her rule is that all rulers must bring their version of a remedy to help fix GlimmerGrove.

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• Amazonian Beauty: While it's not seen in-game due to Minecraft skin limitations, Katherine is described to be "ripped" and buff. Shelby and Sausage once discuss this, with Shelby describing such muscularity to be inspirational and wanting to watch her work out. Played with in that Katherine later describes herself as "petite", which alternatively hints at her being a Pretty Princess Powerhouse, but most fan-works tend to go with the buff description.
• BFS: Her preferred weapon is a hand-made giant Battle Axe with an axe-head the size of her own player-head, which is longer than she is tall.
• The Big Girl: Sausage recruits her to be the enforcer of the Rift investigation unit for her strength.
• Duality Motif: Katherine describes her life to be "split" after her Big Fancy Castle is split into two sides, and her favourite horse is split into being half-pink unicorn and half-skeletal. It's quite fitting to the roles she takes in life as well, being a Rebellious Princess.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: She wears pink in her everyday outfit, likes building with a cute style and light/pastel shades, and is one of the nicest characters in the cast. She also has a muscular physique and fights under the cover of darkness, and certainly has admirers (well, at least one) for this.
• Hunter of Monsters: Her role alongside being a princess, though she only targets hostile mobs and not fellow players. However, while she tries to keep her status as a Rebellious Princess via this a secret, this is known to half the server due to certain fellow rulers being unable to keep their mouths shut, and when she tells three of the Hermit visitors her secret in a moment of excitement, she swears them to secrecy as well.
• Invisible Parents: There have been various mentions to Katherine's parents throughout the series, but they never actually appear, not even in Katherine's introductory comic outside of a pair of arms. Subverted in the epilogue of her 17th episode, where they do appear again.
• Mistaken Identity: In her 6th episode (and his 7th), Pirate Joe mistakes Katherine for a fellow pirate for the simple fact that she's built a shipyard and pier with boats, and for some reason decides that's good enough grounds to want to court her. Katherine is just baffled by this and affirms that any feelings she has for him are platonic at most.
  Katherine: What do you mean, you're in love with me? I don't even know who you are!
• Muscles Are Meaningful: In spite of being raised to be a Princess Classic, Katherine is said to be quite muscular and can more than hold her own in a fight; the main reason this isn't evident on-screen is due to the limitations of Minecraft skins.
• Nice Girl: Katherine is one of the only people on the server who has remained consistently polite and kind to others, seeking peace over conflict in most (if not all) situations and staying distant from the drama. In contrast, her server-mates are either prone to chaos, criminals to varying degrees of justification, or have actively engaged in bullying and/or morally questionable (if not necessarily corrupt) behaviour.
• Not What It Looks Like: During one encounter, the Sheriff catches Katherine with blocks of TNT in her hands and his wagon missing TNT blocks, and initially assumes that she's stealing the explosives. Katherine quickly sets the record straight, saying this and explaining that she's returning the TNT that her Self-Proclaimed Love Interest stole. The two quickly return to amicable relations once the misunderstanding is cleared up.
• Pretty Princess Powerhouse:
  Katherine: I am just petite and obnoxiously strong, okay? I'm not like Shrek.
• Princesses Prefer Pink: During the day, Katherine wears pink. By night, she wears black as a monster slayer.
• Rebellious Princess: Katherine's parents, the King and Queen of GlimmerGrove, want their only child to be the "fancy dress, always wearing a smile type" of princess, but Katherine rebels against this by sneaking out under the cover of night to be a monster slayer. They seem to accept this in the epilogue after Katherine reveals this to them.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: Katherine appears to be the only member of the royal family that actively tries to restore the kingdom to its former glory and rid it of the darkness that has consumed it, and is also a skilled tailor.
• Speaks Fluent Animal: Possibly. In her 16th episode, Katherine hears the bees in GlimmerGrove and Dawn repeat the words "queen bee" to her, informing her of the new Queen of the server and possibly her rule.
• Team Switzerland: She prefers to remain neutral in the Joel-vs-Pirate Joe conflict due to having only started to rebuild her kingdom and not wanting to be involved in trouble as a result. She does, though, return the gold from the Stratos-sphere to Joel to avoid having an eleven-foot god seek revenge on her, even if she's not directly involved in the conflict.
• Transformation Sequence: She has one for when she switches over the Monster Slayer outfit, which is described explicitly to be Magical Girl-esque.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: Katherine says outright in her intro that all she wanted to do was to make her parents proud, but the way she wants to do so is not the way her parents expect her to do so.

GlimmerGrove

Biome: Plains

A kingdom consisting of a triangle of villages and the surrounding flatland, suspected to be cursed from around the time of Katherine's birth. Its primary export is tailoring supplies like wool, string, and leather.

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• Amazing Technicolor World: GlimmerGrove was stated to be very colourful in its glory days.
• Big Fancy Castle: While the Castle isn't a megabase-level build, it's still quite large, with a plethora of towers, several balconies looking out over the kingdom, multiple entrances, and a complex enough layout for Katherine's build tour to contain a disclaimer that she's trying not to make the viewers confused in the tour.
• Bright Castle: The reconstructed GlimmerGrove Castle is constructed out of a light and bright colour palette of whites, pinks, and purples. It's zig-zagged due to part of the Castle standing on the corrupted/cursed lands, causing the Castle to be split down the middle.
• Chekhov's Boomerang: Katherine's old Forgotten Fairies book, which she has had since childhood. At first, she reads about them to rescue a group of Allays from a Pillager outpost. At the end of her 17th episode, she consults them again to visit the Enchanted Forest they called their home, calling on their help to rid the lands of GlimmerGrove from the curse.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: All of the Villagers populating the GlimmerGrove village have different colours designating their jobs:
  • Light Blue: Fletchers.
  • Lime Green: Farmers.
  • Pink: Librarians.
  • Purple: Masons.
  • White: Shepherds.
• Dark Is Evil: When Katherine attempts to rebuild the Castle on the cursed land, the blocks turn from light grey and white to dark grey and black.
• Death World: The corrupted/cursed lands of GlimmerGrove, as plants growing in the soil there wither and die almost instantly, anything of a light colour palette turns dark and dreary, and it's rumoured that the monsters terrorizing the population spawn there. And worse yet? It spreads. Katherine goes as far as to describe it as a situation where life is sucked out of the kingdom. Averted once the lands are uncorrupted and uncursed again, of course.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Is it 'GlimmerGrove', 'Glimmergrove', or 'Glimmer Grove'?
• Malicious Misnaming: After the kingdom started to deteriorate, the Villagers that fled it started to refer to it as "GlimmerGrave". Katherine doesn't approve of this, or at least not until she finds out how corrupted parts of the land is.
• Medieval Universal Literacy: Somewhat played with, considering the ambiguous time period, but more on the averted side. When Hermit-Pearl points out that Katherine has blatantly written the name of the Battle Buddies Base on a sign at the building's entrance even though she wants to keep her Hunter of Monsters status a secret, Katherine brushes it off, saying that her Villagers can't read, or at least read what the sign says.
• Resurgent Empire: After suffering from an earthquake around the time of Katherine's birth and deteriorating for years, Katherine aims to "restore the light" of the land and return it to its former glory from before she was born.

Mayor Lizzie of Critter City, Animalia

Lizzie

IGN: LDShadowLady
Preferred name: Lizzie
Species: Anthropomorphic cat

The most definitely human Mayor of Critter City, who aims to create a utopia for animals.

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• Cat Folk: She's some sort of anthropomorphic calico cat, with paws and fur and (via her Joel disguise) a tail. She also demonstrates many cat-related tropes, outright including allusions to once being stuck up a tree. So far, she has opened up about it with her audience in her 9th episode but with none of her server-mates, and only Scott and Joel seem to be aware of this fact in-universe.
• Cats Are Snarkers: Lizzie doesn't hesitate to throw jabs at her server-mates, warranted or not, in-universe or edited into her episodes out-of-universe.
• Cats Are Superior: She holds some contempt for her human server-mates and thinks of humans in general as "ugly"; her qualms in messing with them and their livelihoods is a negative number. It's zig-zagged in that it's unknown what she thinks about other animal species, sapient or not, and that she believes Humans Are the Real Monsters.
• Cats Hate Water: Lizzie is visibly distressed by being knocked into water off of Pirate Joe's dock.
• Cats Have Nine Lives: Briefly mentioned in her 7th episode, where she shouts that she has "never in [her] nine lives come across this" while fighting silverfish underground.
• Collector of the Strange: Her Community Centre in Critter City aims to house a collection of wide varieties of items, from foods and woods to "gadgets and conquests", the latter including anything from goat horns to a Warden head.
• Con Man: She scams Pirate Joe out of ink sacs in exchange for a fake map leading to one of his crew-mates' alleged location. Slightly in her defense, she didn't wake up that morning with the intention of doing this.
• Cool Aunt: To Hermes, of the Honorary variant, though she is dubiously Hermes' stepmother via her content creator counterpart's marriage to Joel. When Hermes is entrusted in Lizzie's care for a weekend, she takes him out adventuring and causing chaos in other empires, which Sausage gives his approval to in a YouTube comment.^note For reference, quote source below is from the comments section of Sausage's 12th episode.
  PUGHOST 100: i just wanted to tell you that hermes had a great time with her auntie he learned about so manny things like vandalism messing with a witch and plenty more 🥰🥰
  TheMythicalSausage: Great News!!!! THATS MY BOY!!!!!!!!!!!
• Curse Cut Short: Lizzie's 23rd episode and finale has her drop a rare Precision S-Strike (by Empires standards) after accidentally yeeting the Goblin child assigned to her by fWhip into the mountain she's terraforming.
  Lizzie: Sh– (error screen; cut to next scene) A terrible fate has befallen my beautiful Goblin baby.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: She has negative qualms telling off the Physical God next door to his face, even selling the residents of Lower Stratos books instructing them on how to overthrow their "divine" ruler.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: This appears to be Lizzie's belief, in that her jungle-cat ancestors were "trapped in cages and forced to wear silly outfits" by the human that ruled over them "once upon a time", and her human-disguise is to prevent the same from happening to herself.
• Hypocritical Humor: During the "Tiny Tim" bit, Lizzie comments in the in-game chat that Jimmy "trying to hide [his] true identity" (i.e. allegedly being a toy, or otherwise being actually short) is "shameful"... while half of her entire character schtick is disguising herself as a human.
• Interspecies Romance: Possibly. While it's not overt like in Season 1, Lizzie is married to Joel in real life and occasional nods to this have been made in Empires Season 2, such as Joel cheering on his "in-real-life wife" in a contest at the Festival of the Rift and Lizzie making a Valentine's Day special short with Joel as the subject. In this season, they're respectively an anthropomorphic cat and a god.
• Last-Second Word Swap: In her 8th episode, after taking a tumble off of Stratos and dying from fall damage while investigating what fWhip was doing in the empire:
  Lizzie: Curiosity literally killed– me. Killed me. Curiosity killed me!
• Phony Psychic: Lizzie, under the disguise of "Mystic Mary", sets up a Fortune Teller stand at the Festival of the Rift with a Crystal Ball for the purpose of scamming fellow rulers out of their diamonds and selling them products from her empire.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: When Lizzie is accused of trapping the End portal at the start of the series, she denies it.
  Lizzie: I'm hiding nothing! There's absolutely nothing secretive about me whatsoever!
• Take Over the World: Her long-term ambition.

Animalia

Biome: Old Growth Birch Forest

A small settlement in the forest housing various critters and creatures. Its primary export is amethyst.

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• Alliterative Name: Downplayed. The name of the capital city of Animalia is Critter City.
• Arcology: Animalia's outpost in Chromia is built within a 16×16 chunk. The small skyscraper includes Villager work-stations, a kitchen, dormitories, a rooftop crop farm for food, and a lava farm for power.
• Asian and Nerdy: Possibly alluded to; the panda Villagers are librarians by trade and populate the Magic District.^note For further context, giant pandas are native to and strongly associated with China.
• Beast Man: The Villagers of Animalia take the form of anthropomorphic animals — the Butchers are Fox Folk, the Fishers are Frog Men, and the Librarians are Pandafolk. When Impulse first lands there via Rift-induced teleportation, he is extremely confused by this.
• Brainy Pig: Dirk the pig is, according to Lizzie, one of the most intelligent members of the Critter Council and likes carrots, potatoes, and theoretical physics.
• Due to the Dead: The Lost Panda Trail is named after a 'weak' panda Lizzie tried to bring to her empire from the jungle, only to be blown up by a Creeper about a hundred blocks from the destination.
• A Lizard Named "Liz": fWhip's ambassador to Animalia, Boris, is a giant boar.
• Punny Name: 'Animalia' is the name of the biological kingdom of animal-kind.
• Shout-Out:
  • The fox Lizzie adopted for an automated chicken farm is named 'Buffy the Chicken Slayer'. She also names a goat she brought back 'Ariana Goate' for her "unique singing voice".
  • The entire town center is a wholesale and explicitly-made reference to the Community Center from Stardew Valley, with each room having a collection of a certain item category — such as the simple collections of wood and mushrooms, the more complex collections of food or plants, or the extremely-varied collection for "gadgets and conquests" — which includes items such as a Nether Star, a Warden's head, or a Heart of the Sea.
  • Among the frog Villagers, three of them are named Tiana, Naveen, and Kermit.
  • The area Lizzie builds for the cleric bat Villagers is named the District of Gotham, "for no reason at all".
• Town with a Dark Secret: While Critter City is populated by fox-villagers that walk on two legs, the farms in the basement are run by four-legged foxes trapped underground. Lizzie would prefer not to advertise this to outsiders.
• Urban Segregation: Lizzie strongly discourages Villagers of different anthropomorphic species to mingle with each other, and prefers that they remain in their designated districts.

Oli of the Olipelago

Oli

IGN: OrionSound
Preferred name: Oli
Species: Human (questionably)

The Sole Survivor of the Afterlife SMP who quite literally fell from Heaven, sailed westward in search of new opportunities, defeated the Ender Dragon, and spent an unknown period of time stuck in the game's credits sequence before reemerging into the world of Empires. For tropes related to his character before he set sail for the Empires world, see here.

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• Adopt the Food: Oli originally claimed the Dragon Egg to make a mega-omelette, but when it's revealed to contain an actual dragon inside it, he tries to abandon it either in someone else's care or in the middle of the ocean. He eventually gets attached enough to it to accept "fatherhood".
• Ambiguously Human: While Oli certainly looks human, considering his past adventures as various decidedly non-human Origins on the ALSMP, it's unconfirmed whether Humanity Ensues for him after he fell from Heaven. It doesn't help that he refers to Endermen as his "fellow Enderians" in his 3rd episode, suggesting he doesn't necessarily identify as human himself.
• Blaming the Victim: After visiting a Village with the Bad Omen effect and accidentally starting a raid, Oli flees the settlement to leave the locals to deal with the problems "that he caused", then claims that the Villagers probably deserved to be victims of the raid because "they probably committed crimes. War crimes."
• Burn the Witch!: Alluded to when Oli, at one point, sets the ground around Shelby on fire while on Hermitcraft for the crossover. He is reprimanded on the spot for doing so.
• Butt-Monkey: Not quite to the same extent as Jimmy, but Oli has a tendency to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, resulting in many mishaps for him — from being sent to Gobland jail for trivial reasons to being used as a Human Sacrifice to corrupt Shelby into the Sculk.
• Character Overlap: Oli's ALSMP finale segues into his first episode of Empires Season 2, confirming the two are the same character.
• Faking the Dead: In his finale, after being involved in a series of controversies, having his lute stolen by a certain colourful collector, and having to deal with teen angst from his hatched dragon Gregg, Oli escapes from Empires in what's apparently the only way he knows how: by finding a zombie, luring it up to a great height on his tower, disguising it as himself, performing some dramatic stunts, and shoving the disguised zombie onto the ground far below as he flies off and attempts to go through the Rift to Hermitcraft... only to find himself back in Crazy Craft.
• Large Ham: Oli's episodes are presented in extremely dramatic fashion, and his character is similarly bombastic and overenthusiastic.
• Medium Awareness: Oli is aware that he's in a story and requests a change of outfit for the fan-artists during his first visit to Sanctuary. This awareness also grants him some degree of meta-knowledge of Season 1, and makes him the only person to realize Dark Sausage is not the same man as the Protector of Sanctuary.
• Mistaken Identity:
  • Gem thinks he's a bard because he was singing in her empire's Tavern when she first found him, and this rumour spread its way to the other rulers. It takes him a while to actually embrace this image, but only because "the world has chosen to force this role upon [him]".
  • While embarking on a boat trip to save Crewmate Gator, Joey runs into Oli at sea during a "typhoon" while Oli is wearing a skeleton skull on his head. Joey immediately mistakes him for a member of Skeletron's Army and starts shooting at him with a gun, ultimately knocking him off of his boat to be washed to the shores of Sanctuary. To be slightly fair to Pirate Joe, Oli had just raided the remains of the Skull Cave before running into him at sea.
• Old Friend: He considers himself to be this to Sausage, who was utterly bewildered by this and had zero recollection of knowing Oli before their first meeting. In actuality, Oli was the old friend of Sausage's ALSMP counterpart, a previous incarnation of the Protector of Sanctuary.
• Panicky Expectant Father: A variant; having adopted the Dragon Egg, Oli freaks out when it begins to hatch, not knowing what to do.
• Really 700 Years Old: Implied. Oli sailed to the Empires world long before any of the current settlers arrived, or even before the Greatbridge was constructed, but still appears to be a young adult.^note This is under the assumption that Pix wasn't the one who built the Greatbridge in-universe. It's likely that being stuck in the Minecraft credits sequence kept his health and appearance in stasis for however long he was stuck there for.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: In his 2nd episode, he gets a new outfit from Princess Katherine, swapping out the torn remains of his normal outfit for a fancy bard outfit, with a bright red and blue color scheme along with gold accessories, which he's not a fan of at first (as he insists he's not a bard), but quickly grows to like. With this new outfit that matches the fanciful skins of the other emperors, he returns to the Olipelago to create an impressive and inspiring empire of his own, rather than the standard base he originally built in his regular skin.
• Trapped in Another World: He describes his experience in the Empires world as being "isekai'd in some random location where nobody knows me".
• Trash of the Titans: Oli has a tendency to leave his chests extremely disorganized, even in comparison with the rest of the server. Just about everyone who has rifled through his belongings (for reasons of all sorts), both fellow rulers and visitors, finds his organization skills (or rather, lack thereof) appalling.
• Walking Spoiler: Several ambiguities at the start of the series all have something to do with Oli, whose first appearance kicks off multiple character arcs unto themselves.
• We Named the Monkey "Jack": Whilst exploring a Frozen Peaks biome, Oli adopts a dog and names it "Sausage, after an old friend of [his]".
• You Can't Go Home Again: In attempting to convince the higher powers that may be to take him back to Afterlife, Oli tries to sail back to the "Far Side" Island where he landed, only to find that it was located just beyond the border of the Empires world. He laments being Trapped in Another World as a result of this.

The Olipelago

Biome: Beach

A northeastern archipelago near Dawn.

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• Egopolis: All of the considered names of the area pun on Oli, its ruler.
• Inconsistent Spelling: The Olipelago has no consistent spelling, being referred to as the Olipelago, Olipeligo, or Olipoligo.
• Out of Focus: The Olipelago doesn't have much focus on it, since its ruler doesn't spend much time building it, nor does said ruler's content creator counterpart create much content at all.

Pirate Joe of Eversea

Pirate Joe

IGN: JOEYGRACEFFA
Preferred name: Pirate Joe / Joey
Species: Human

A pirate blown off his ship with a cannon, who aims to restart and rebuild while seeking revenge on his enemies, the Skeleton army. He's also a self-proclaimed god of the sea.

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• Backhanded Apology: Pirate Joe delivers an Ordered Apology to Lizzie for stealing amethyst from the Critter City town square. Katherine, who dragged him there to return the amethyst in the first place, is not amused by this.
  Pirate Joe: I'm so sorry that you left your amethyst out here in the open– (Katherine smacks him) –for someone to steal.
• Bad Boss: Zig-Zagging Trope. While he cares enough about his crew-mates to rescue them from the clutches of his enemies and provide them with work befitting them in Eversea, he isn't above hurting said crew-mates to further his own ends, such as leading a zombie into the library to attack Pirate Parrot Pete and turn him into a Zombie Villager, before curing him for better trade deals and gaslighting him, claiming he had a nightmare.^note From a purely Minecraftian perspective, that is a pragmatic decision and absolutely understandable behaviour, but in the context of a storyline, not so much.
• Blackmail: Pirate Joe finds out about Shelby's expulsion and outlaw status by snooping around in her area and reading one of her unsent private letters, and threatens to tell everyone about it over a romantic rivalry of all things. By the time the wanted posters start flying, Shelby decides to metaphorically say, "Screw it," and renders Pirate Joe's blackmail fundamentally useless. Cue the Villainous Breakdown and shootout.
• Casual Kink: He appears to be perfectly open to kinky roleplay and mistakes his arrest for this, to the exasperation of both Katherine (who considers him an Abhorrent Admirer) and Jimmy (who is actually there to enforce the law).^note It doesn't help that both Katherine and Jimmy's content creator counterparts usually try to keep things PG. On the other end of the spectrum, Joey's counterpart's outro is quite literally "Good-damn-bye." The only slightest resolution that came out of this is that Katherine decides, as a temporary Sheriff's Deputy, that locking him up is not a feasible solution for dealing with any of his further nonsense.
• Comically Missing the Point: After being arrested by Jimmy and forced to return everything he stole by Katherine, he says that he's learned his lesson, and he'll stop stealing the various treasures from other emperors... because he thinks that Katherine's frustration was over being given anything less than diamonds.
• Distinction Without a Difference: Upon being arrested for theft:
  Pirate Joe: Well, stealing is a very harsh word; I would say I am just taking things people aren't using and giving it a better purpose for my girlfriend who needs it.^note Spoiler alert, Katherine isn't actually in a relationship with him, and doesn't need it.
• Distressed Dude: He's this briefly after being overwhelmed by Skeletron's forces in his finale, leading to his capture. Fortunately, Katherine and Shelby figure out something's up from his farewell letters and break him out in time.
• Foe Romance Subtext: Fourth wall-breaking as it may be, Joey apparently considers a piece of fanart involving his Arch-Enemy Skeletron being aggressive with him "kind of sexy", and secretly thinks his banner is cool.
• Has a Type: He claims to be "piratesexual" and doesn't give a flip about the gender of someone he's attracted to, as long as that person is a pirate... which, unfortunately for Katherine, also applies to people he assumes to be pirates who aren't actually pirates.
• I Will Find You: One of Pirate Joe's objectives is to search for his crew from before his fall in order to rebuild his fleet and oceanic power.
• It's All About Me: Pirate Joe has a self-centred and even entitled streak a mile wide. He spends several of his early episodes in a row looting others' bases under the influence of Mad Love, and after Shelby kills him in a brief shootout early in his 26th episode, he grumbles about having been nice to her the whole time even though he was the one to blackmail Shelby and draw his gun in a Villainous Breakdown when the blackmail doesn't work anymore. Even his Salvage Pirate tendencies can be arguably attributed to this attitude.
• Love at First Sight: In his 7th episode, Pirate Joe mistakes Katherine for a fellow pirate for the simple fact that she's built a shipyard and pier with boats and is "smart" enough to not leave treasure randomly lying around in said boats, and decides that's good enough grounds to want to court her the minute he meets her.
• Loving a Shadow: He's seemingly completely unaware that Katherine isn't a pirate and doesn't like him back even when she tells him that to his face, instead thinking she's Playing Hard to Get; Katherine has to directly tell him this in public for him to get the message.
• Mad Love: His Loving a Shadow towards Katherine takes it to such an arguably-delusional level that he assumes Katherine does like him back, even though she has repeatedly asserted that she does not reciprocate his romantic feelings, and assumes just about any evidence to the contrary (e.g. Katherine calling for him to be arrested for breaking the law in trying to woo her) to be an attack on Katherine and himself. It takes Katherine calling him out in front of the entire server for him to snap out of it.
• On the Rebound: After Katherine very publicly denounces him when he tries to blackmail Shelby after she won their Duel to the Death for Katherine's hand, and later has an honest conversation with the two of them about what Katherine wants, he gives up on chasing after Katherine and starts flirting with some of the other women at the festival, like Gem.
• Past Experience Nightmare: He has one at the start of his 5th episode on the night he lost everything; however, the focus was on a detail of the dream that he didn't initially recall.
• Pirate: In his backstory, Pirate Joe used to captain a pirate ship across the oceans.
• Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: "You shall suffer for the sins you've committed!" Or otherwise some variation of that, as a carry-over from his content creator counterpart.
• Prongs of Poseidon: He owns a trident with a Channeling enchantment, is the self-proclaimed King of the Sea, and considers said trident to be a highly personal item. Shelby enchants it with Loyalty I and Mending and renames it "God of the Sea" as repayment for stealing it to get a Creeper head banner pattern of her own, earning her the pirate's respect for the theft... which is eventually thrown out the window when they become Friends Turned Romantic Rivals.
• Rite of Passage: Pirate Joe initially missed out on his, having gone off to hunt down Skeletron.
• Salvage Pirates: One of the ways Pirate Joe obtains treasure is to loot them from shipwrecks. He justifies it to himself, saying that they belonged to his pirate comrades.
• Self-Proclaimed Love Interest: To Katherine, who doesn't return Pirate Joe's affections at all due to them barely even knowing each other. It gradually evolves into him becoming an Abhorrent Admirer due to his less-than-legal attempts to impress her.
• Sticky Fingers: Due to being a pirate, he's mentioned wanting to rob other players' storage rooms several times, and even stole various precious items from other empires, including the Stratos-sphere, in an attempt to impress Katherine. It ends up having quite the opposite effect, as Katherine just returns the stolen items to their owners to keep the peace, and it's deconstructed in that Jimmy eventually shows up to arrest him on Katherine's request.

Eversea

Biome: Various, but primarily Ocean

Based in the Forgotten Cove near Sanctuary, Eversea claims territory over various coastal regions to the southeast. Its primary exports are prismarine products and fish, though it has also branched out in the sale of paper and gunpowder production in collaboration with Tumble Town.

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• Animal Motifs:
  • Parrots. Aside from Pirate Parrot Pete, Pirate Joe also keeps several parrots in a shop and constructs one with an eyepatch for the empire's outpost on the Greatbridge.
  • Seahorses. They have served as mounts from where Pirate Joe hails from, and were traditionally sought after in a Rite of Passage adventure. Pirate Joe has also constructed giant seahorses in the gateway to Eversea, in honour of his personal history.
• Distressed Dude/Badass in Distress:
  • Sir Piggles, after being captured by Skeletron's army for saving Joe. Rescuing him is the focus of the first half of Joey's 5th episode. Later, he gets kidnapped by Joel in a Hostage Situation in retaliation for Pirate Joe stealing the Stratos-sphere.
  • Pirate Joe's various crew members also count, as many have been captured by Skeletron's army.
• Not-So-Safe Harbor: While the Forgotten Cove is a port town, it is built from the ground up by a pirate captain and serves as his base of operations.
• Pirate Parrot: Pirate Parrot Pete is implied to be some form of Bird People, and is one of Joe's crew-mates, specifically a librarian.

Pixlriffs of The Past

Pixlriffs

IGN: Pixlriffs
Preferred name: Pix/Pixl
Species: Human (formerly); Ghost (currently)
"Soon enough, new nations would rise to take their place, and perhaps it is our destiny too to one day vanish, but until then, there are still secrets to the past yet to be uncovered."

Pix is the Historian, an inquisitive archaeologist who aims to investigate and uncover secrets of the past of the world he resides in. Out-of-universe, due to his desire to remain uninvolved in the lore, Pix takes a backseat when it comes to character- and empire-building, instead choosing to focus on overall worldbuilding as the roleplay's soft equivalent to a Game Master.

Pix is the ninth Emperor of the server, and the first King of Season 2. His rule is that all rulers must donate one item of national importance of their empire to his museum.

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• Bookends: Invoked during the Hermitcraft crossover. When Pix joins Hermitcraft via the Rift, Grian calls for Impulse to play the intro of the "Hermitcraft Recap" which Pix usually narrates; when he leaves to return to Empires, he says the outro while walking up to the shrinking Rift before leaving.
• The Engineer: He helps fix and improve the redstone mechanisms for various empires' attractions for the Festival of the Rift. He also uses his skills to build and launch a missile to destroy the Hermitopia incarnation of Grumbot.^note In actuality, it's a piston-slime block flying machine with TNT.
• Faux Horrific: He claims, albeit in a deadpan tone, to have had constant nightmares of the Hermits trying to recap him back. Grian, as the resident "Pesky Bird" of Hermitcraft, takes much delight in returning the favour once he's an official guest on the Empires server.
• Game Master: His out-of-universe role. Due to fWhip preferring to lean into the fantasy, D&D roleplay side of the story, Pix decided to step in as the Dungeon Master to work on the worldbuilding itself — the other content creators have their own worldbuilding and stories to tell, of course, but Pix is more in the background telling the "story of the world", so to speak.
• Hope Spot: Pixl's 21st episode starts with him raiding an Ancient City with Jevin and recovering enough artifacts to complete the Ancient City exhibition of the museum... then he returns home to find his museum plundered and robbed. And he gets a brief dose of amnesia and a murder courtesy of False.
• In-Series Nickname: The "Lore Man", for being the worldbuilding-centric Game Master.
• Judicial Wig: He wears a long, white judge wig as "Judge Riffs" during the Courtroom Episode.
• Magitek: Pix's use of Litematica to detect the presence of Sculk catalysts leftover from Cubfan's possessed rampage has been variously explained to the other rulers as magic and technology. The closest of the approximate explanations would likely be "lore" (to Joel), but in actuality, it's Pix's ability to tap into the meta plug-ins of the server as the Game Master, which arguably makes both explanations valid.
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist: While Pixl's specialty is mainly in archaeology and history, he also acts as a paleontologist in preserving a fossil Jimmy found near his territory.
• The Omniscient: In a non-traditional sense. While Pix is fairly knowledgeable about the history of the Empires world as a Game Master and the resident "Lore Man", he's this for Hermitcraft, a completely different universe to his own, by virtue of narrating for the Hermitcraft Recap. Naturally, this causes complications once the Hermits actually show up in the Empires world...
  Gem: They've [the Hermits] found out that I like LARPing, it's weird.
  Pix: (laughing) Yeah, you and me both, right? Like, the first– the first thing they've said to me is like, "Oh, Hermitcraft Recap?" and I'm like, "Well, my cover's blown."
• Only Sane by Comparison: Pixl is one of the more level-headed server-members; Sausage explicitly cites this when recruiting him to investigate the Rift, saying that Pixl is The Smart Guy who can ensure the team doesn't do something stupid during the investigation. However, one can just as easily argue that Pixl is eccentric enough in his own right, from making a storage system out of an ancient tomb, to straight-up yoinking some guy's house à la the British Museum, to getting so attached to a rare ore block^note (to be fair, his signature favourite block, IRL and in-universe, since 1.17) that he assumed literally getting stabbed to death was just the mental anguish of losing it.
• Our Ghosts Are Different: After mysteriously withering away during the Princess Tea Party, Pix returns to the Empires realm as a ghost, being a transluscent entity that others can walk through. However, he retains many characteristics of the average player like having to use Elytra wings to fly, and can still be damaged by fire and lava.
• Out of Focus: Pix's character and role is comparatively more minor than other players' on the server due to his Game Master status, and doesn't have an active character arc unlike the other player-characters.
• Passive-Aggressive Kombat: While Pix is usually fairly mellow and friendly, he has a strong passive-aggressive streak when it comes to things that annoy him, from Joel stealing his mountains' calcite (which he responded to by building a huge preservation case around it with a sign pointing out the calcite was taken from his territory) to having to reconstruct Oli's chest organization (or rather, lack thereof) in the Museum.
• Person of Mass Construction: On a meta level; downplayed in that he's a Survival Mode builder rather than a Creative Mode one, but Pix is a very quick and skilled builder, and is the one responsible for large constructions on the server out-of-universe, such as the Greatbridge and Skeletron's Skull Fort.
• Pretend to Be Brainwashed: Trying to recover Cubfan from the sculk corruption by the Evermoore Fog, Pixl covers himself in sculk gathered from the Machine^note The sculk-based XP farm he 'found' early in the series in an attempt to lure Cub into a trap to kill him, in order to reverse the corruption. It doesn't work in the slightest, causing Pixl to call in more backup.
• The Smart Guy: Gem and Sausage regard him as this for the Empires server.
  Gem: Sometimes, he just knows too much.
• Surrounded by Idiots: According to Lizzie, this is his greatest problem.
• Textbook Humor: Pix's reconstruction of Oli's original "megabase" in the Museum features scathing commentary on Oli's chest organization skills, or rather, lack thereof.
  Pix: And so it is with pinpoint accuracy that we're able to recreate Oli's entire inventory of– (stumbles) weird stuff like kelp and orange beds, and it is my belief that through recreating these in their exact formations, we can maybe get an insight into the mind of why somebody would put four ink sacs there in this chest otherwise full of wool and one pink dye. […] Having recreated them in all their glory, can we ever truly understand why he chose to put these two blocks of wool here [in a chest mainly filled with plants and plant products] and not over here on the opposite side of the room with the other wool?

N/A

Biome: Savanna

Currently a series of ruins, the unnamed Ancient Capital was once considered the heart of civilization of a land long since crumbled. Pix is most likely investigating the ruins in his work, and attempting to reconstruct and revive the empire. Its primary export is froglights, alongside various services Pix offers out.

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• Animal Motifs: Dodos, which dwell in the froglight orchards, being revived and brought back from extinction like the empire in which they reside.
• Big Fancy Castle: One used to stand on a hill within the Ancient Capital's borders. It was built on a mountain spring which serves as a water source for the main city, and was destroyed in a siege about five centuries prior to the beginning of Empires Season 2. It has multiple towers, courtyards, and army barracks and training areas.
• City with No Name: The empire which the main city is based around has no given name, and is generally referred to as "the Ancient Capital".
• Flintstone Theming: The catalogue on the lectern in the Catacombs indicates that the occupants of the tombs and coffins have very punny names.^note For example, the woods section has "Mr Oaksworth", "the Birches", "G. Sprucington", "John Glee" (jungle), "D. Oaksworth", "Ms Acacia Bentley", "Mr. B. Warply", "Ms. Crimson", "Unnamed Man" (mangrove), and "Miscellany". Enforced as the Catacombs double as Pix's storage room out-of-universe and he needs some way of showing the contents of each chest (coffin) without making the place look like a storage room.
• Grows on Trees: The froglights exported by the empire grow on trees in-universe, so much that orchards are made out of froglight trees.
• Punny Name: At the Festival of the Rift, Pix names the pig he's racing on "Pigslriffs".
• Urban Ruins: The Ancient Capital is mainly comprised of ruins from after it fell to warfare, long after its citizens fled.

Sausage, Protector of Sanctuary

Mythical J. Sausage

IGN: MythicalSausage
Preferred name: Sausage
Species: Human (presumably)

A refugee-turned-leader who is determined to build a safe place for those around him after his old kingdom fell from its tyrannical ruler trying to take the people's Magic for himself. However, this soon proves to be the least of Sausage's worries when he starts having mysterious memory flashes and eventually teleportations to alternate realms and realities.

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• Accidental Misnaming: Due to Pearl bearing an uncanny resemblance to Sausage's patron deity, Sausage frequently refers to Pearl as a saint by accident.
• Agony of the Feet: During his brief stint as a zombie, Sausage nonchalantly mentions losing two toes to bodily decay, but is convinced that they'd grow back eventually. Lizzie's isn't quite as convinced about the latter part.
• All-Loving Hero: Sausage is notably kind and amiable to most people, so much that he's willing to absorb Dark Sausage as part of himself again, after his previous incarnation cast him out. It likely has something to do with him being born to be composed of the 'good' part of the King of Mythland's soul and not the 'bad' part. However, Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones, and he has zero qualms killing those who has hurt the ones he loves.
• The Beastmaster: With some combination of his mastery over nature magic and his zoolingualism, Sausage is friendly to many creatures and has even managed to befriend a Warden (whom he has named 'Dolores') and pacify hordes of monsters with rituals.
• Became Their Own Antithesis: Defied. Sausage refuses to use the Magic of Sanctuary unless he has to, due to having witnessed people becoming Drunk with Power in his Dark and Troubled Past. He's since grown more liberal with his magic usage, but never to the point of corruption.
• Blue Is Heroic: Sausage has blue eyes, cyan Elytra wings, and the Technicolor Magic he casts is a light, electric blue.
• Cannot Keep a Secret: Sausage's love for gossip apparently comes with an inability to keep anything a secret, from turning Katherine's Hunter of Monsters status into an Open Secret, to sparking conflict between Pirate Joe and Shelby for their mutual attraction towards Katherine, to blabbing about his Dark and Troubled Past and precarious situation to a couple of guests who had just showed up in Sanctuary for about five minutes.
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Summoning other iterations of himself from the Multiverse.^note The ones who appear include the King of Mythland from Season 1 and the Wither-born, Gravital, and Angel iterations from the ALSMP. Bubbles has previously warned Sausage against doing this, as using it can potentially break the Multiverse. However, she advises him to do so when the Mad King tracks down and attacks Sanctuary, with permission from the Council of Bubbles. The result is a Curb-Stomp Battle where the king is obliterated in less than five seconds.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Sausage mentions in his first episode that he once lived in another kingdom before Sanctuary and that it fell. Episode 9 directly addresses this as an Origins Episode — the king that ruled his former home kingdom became corrupted by the power of the Magic and was Driven by Envy to drain the Magic from the people themselves for his own use, which Sausage had to escape from. This isn't even going into the circumstances surrounding his birth, as revealed in the finale.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: In his 7th episode, Sausage punches a Warden in the face for killing Katherine, unarmoured. It doesn't last.
• Dimensional Traveler: Sausage's Past-Life Memories flashbacks often involve him being transported through space-time to the sites of his various past lives, and even to places where he hasn't been before (like past seasons of Hermitcraft). He gains control over this ability once his memories are fully restored, mainly using the Staff of Sanctuary.
• Druid: Sausage's content creator counterpart confirms that this is his character's D&D character class, and it's quite clear why — he Speaks Fluent Animal and runs a nation built in conjunction to nature magic, and is speculated on Twitter (by the content creators) to have further abilities in this territory. He also has very limited Shock and Awe abilities through the use of a Channeling trident, matching Joel and Hermes' more divine Weather Manipulation powers.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Sausage only gets to live out a happy ending once he's gained mastery over his powers and memories, had his Split-Personality Merge, and defeated the evil king. In the epilogue, many years later, everyone's still alive and well, having grown old and grey, with Sanctuary still standing and flourishing and Joel as a Lore God watching over them all.
• Foreign Cuss Word: In one livestream, Sausage drops the word coño in a mostly out-of-character conversation with Jimmy. The Spanish word is nowhere near as offensive as its English counterpart, but still.
• Friend to All Living Things: Is implied to have been one as a child from the official artwork, though it's justified in that he can communicate with them, unlike everyone else.
• Genocide Survivor: The reason Sausage fled his old kingdom to found Sanctuary is to escape from a tyrant's Ban on Magic, though it's revealed in the finale that the Mad King had a different reason to track him down.
• Godzilla Threshold: The Mad King's attack on Sanctuary is considered this, to the point Bubbles advises Sausage to use a Dangerous Forbidden Technique that might break the Multiverse if used.
• Gossipy Hens: Gender-Inverted Trope, but Sausage's recounting of his backstory suggests that he's enjoyed gossipping since he was a child. This has caused a fair few issues all over the server because he Cannot Keep a Secret.
• Gratuitous Spanish: He slips into this at times, sometimes for the sake of trolling his non-Spanish-speaking server-mates, and most of his tools bear Spanish names. Considering the Hispanic influence in his empire's design and his content creator counterpart being Cuban-American, it makes sense.
• Green Thumb: Channeling the Magic of Sanctuary through his staff, Sausage is able to grow custom trees from scratch.
• Heroic Bastard: His mother's a castle servant, and his biological father was an evil king who "had his way with" her and presumably many others, though Sausage doesn't learn about the latter part until the finale. Still the noble and kind-hearted Protector of Sanctuary, all the way.
• I Call It "Vera": He named his first sword "La Venganza de Pablo", or "Pablo's Revenge" in English, in tribute of his late parrot Pablo Jr. It has since been lost to the Deep Dark due to some misadventures involving the Warden and a Swift Sneak III enchanted book.
• I Will Find You: One of Sausage's aims, at least at the start of the series, is to search for his lost family and friends, most likely separated after the fall of his old kingdom.
• Identical Grandson: According to a vision he has in his 26th episode, Sausage is heavily implied to look exactly like his Season 1 counterpart, and most likely sounds like him too. Through context clues and reference to previous incidences in the same universe, it's suggested that this is a Reincarnation-Identifying Trait.
• Improperly Paranoid: In his 8th episode, he briefly gets paranoid with the suspicion that someone might be watching him from the world-spawn while he's on the Greatbridge. It's later revealed that he believes there are Professional Killers out to get him for 'daring' to be born with Magical gifts… which turns out to not be the reason the evil king is trying to find out where he is.
• Inconsistent Coloring: Downplayed. Sausage's eyes are slate blue, but the animation presenting his fight with Dark Sausage changes his eye colour to periwinkle, a purplish blue shade.
• Innocently Insensitive: In an early episode, Sausage gifts Joey a banner based on the stereotypical skull and crossbones, not knowing it hints towards his Arch-Enemy and that he hasn't yet reclaimed the flag.
• Insistent Terminology: It's not a raid farm, it's a Circle of Rebirth, thank you very much.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Implied. While being transported from Hermitcraft back to Empires, Sausage meets a Bubbles with a black collar, whom Sanctuary-Bubbles explains is the "boss" of the interdimensional network who holds the connections together and fixes things when everything is about to break. When Sausage asks if there's a counterpart of himself that does the same, Bubbles tells him that he's asking too many questions and refuses to answer.
• My Significance Sense Is Tingling: He feels a disturbance in the realm in his 41st episode, prompting him to check on Tumble Town as it seems the strongest there. Naturally, he finds an out-of-time Mezalean holiday home on the other side.
• Mysterious Middle Initial: Carrying over from his Season 1 counterpart, his 'full' name is said to be "Mythical J. Sausage". What the 'J' stands for has never been stated; what we do know about the initial is that it is silent and apparently is a symbol of hope.
• Noble Male, Roguish Male: A cross-series example, where Empires Season 2!Sausage is the All-Loving Hero Noble Male as a blacksmithing apprentice turned woodcutter and protector, in contrast to Pirates!Sausage, who plays the flirtatious and at-times murderous Roguish Male who robs others on the high seas.
  Wassup_im_E: i think i can post this meme [of quotes Sausage's two characters might say] now

  Empires Season 2!Sausage: I'll have her home by 9 o'clock, Sir
  Pirates!Sausage: Your daughter calls me Daddy too
  Mythicalsausage: This is canon.
• Ornamental Weapon: His Tumble Town/Western skin features him carrying a gun, but it is only there for aesthetic purposes.
• Parental Abandonment:
  • In his Origins Episode, Sausage mentions he never knew the identity of his father. Even when the true identity of his biological father is revealed in the finale, he rejects it, uncaring for power.
  • While his mother did her part in raising him, she worked long hours at the castle when he was younger and died suddenly when he was ten. Eddie has speculated that the evil king she worked for had something to do with her death, but it was never proven.
• Past-Life Memories: Sausage started to have visions of his Season 1 and ALSMP counterpart's life around his 11th episode, and zones out while having such visions. He eventually graduates to time/dimension-hopping during these visions, and starts regaining recollection of memories from Season 1 as of his Episode 35. While the 'past lives' part is only hinted at initially, it's confirmed in his 38th episode that Empires Season 1 and ALSMP are indeed a past life of his.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Has an overtly masculine appearance, is a blacksmithing apprentice turned protector, and is generally driven by courage and a sense of justice; is also freely affectionate and emotional, cross-dresses on a semi-regular basis, and goes vegetarian early in the series.
• Reincarnation Friendship: Sausage is at the heart of two of these:
  • Oli is a stranger case. When Oli washes up on Sanctuary's shores, he treats Sausage as an Old Friend; however, while Sausage befriends him quickly, he had never met the man before. In actuality, Sausage of Sanctuary is the reincarnation of the Sausage from the ALSMP, while Oli directly hailed from the server without need for reincarnation.
  • Sausage's relationship with Pearl during the Hermitcraft crossover is a more standard case, though it's only implied on Pearl's end. The two's Empires Season 1 counterparts were close friends; while Pearl's Season 1 status is venerated as a saint by the time Season 2 rolls around, creating some awkwardness during their initial encounters, Sausage from Sanctuary and Pearl from Hermitcraft quickly become friends and fall back into their Season 1 counterparts' dynamic, and even manage to stay in contact after the closure of the Rift through Sunny, their robot "child".
• Speaks Fluent Animal: One of Sausage's "gifts" from when his old kingdom was around that stuck with him; however, among the many animals he can speak to, he cannot understand Blood Sheep.
  Sausage: Some of us in the kingdom were actually blessed with certain gifts. I was able to communicate with animals, which was great! (laughs) They had so many amazing stories to tell, and they just couldn't believe that a human was able to talk back with them, and the gossip they would share was just so funny to me.
• Spoiled Sweet: Eddie has admitting to spoiling Sausage while raising him. Sausage seems to have turned out alright for the most part, being gregarious and approachable.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: Sausage veers into this territory while persuading his first Villager to live in his country.
  Sausage: Would you like to go in a beautiful location with me called 'Sanctuary'? It's a brand new empire, everyone can do what they want, free rent, free room and board, and you can just live your life free! Peaceful! Happy! Supply me with books, though, but everything else, free, happy, and peace. Totally peaceful! Nobody bad is after me at all! Yeah?
• Tempting Fate: In his 26th episode, Sausage rejoices in not having a single Past-Life Memories-induced time/dimension-hopping incident for an entire episode and thinks that they're coming to an end. Within the minute, he somehow teleports to the map room in Mythland...
  Sausage: Great, I spoke too soon.
• Token Religious Teammate: Among the Season 2 cast, Sausage is the only mortal character with an explicit religious affiliation, being the champion of a deified close friend from a past life. (That is, of course, excluding Joel the resident Physical God.)
• Trauma Button: In his 2nd episode, he gets spooked by smoke from a campfire. Seven episodes later, the artwork of the Night of the Great Purge is depicted with his old kingdom being engulfed in flames, which... explains a lot.

Sanctuary

Biome: Jungle

An empire built to protect its residents and by extension, the server, from outside dangers and harm. Its primary exports are wood and custom banners.

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• Alliterative Name: The name of the tavern, El Caldero de Colores in Spanish, or the Colorful Cauldron in English.
• Amazing Technicolor World: Sanctuary is constructed with a variable colour palette.
• Animal Espionage: The parrots of Sanctuary report back to Sausage on insight throughout the Empires lands, from looking out for assassins to what is basically gossip fuel and interpersonal drama.^note There's a slight From Beyond the Fourth Wall element here, with Sausage once calling for his viewers to act as those parrots to look out for the happenings of the server. The fact that Sausage Speaks Fluent Animal probably plays a role in this.
• Elaborate Underground Base: Sanctuary has one located in a mineshaft between the border of stone and deepslate, built and protected by the Magic and a forcefield of its making. It's actually more of an Underground City than a base, being fully furnished with houses and underground farms, created as a last resort safe bunker if Sanctuary were to fall. Its entrance is also quite inconspicuous, that being Sanctuary's portal to the Nether roof, and is only accessible if the person entering carries the Magic of Sanctuary with them.
• Flower Motifs: The national flower of Sanctuary is the sunflower, most likely honouring its patron saint.
• Fun with Acronyms: The office dedicated to Rift investigation is known as the Logistics and Observation of the Rift Enigma Building, or "the L.O.R.E. Building" for short.
• Genius Loci: The Magic of Sanctuary, a carryover from Sausage's as-of-now unnamed old kingdom, is a form of nature magic that shapes the land, constructs relevant infrastructure, and gives gifts in accordance to the people's needs and desires.
• Last of His Kind: Gaia the jaguar, who has lived in Sanctuary since its conception as a cursed ocelot and seeks out Sausage for help in bringing their people back and protecting them.
• Meaningful Name: Rocky the adopted Goblin child is named for the fact that Goblins are born from the mountain like minerals and gemstones.
• Shout-Out: The building style of Sanctuary is explicitly stated to be styled off of Encanto.
• Shout-Out Theme Naming: The axolotls of Sanctuary are all named after Spider-Mans and/or their actors, including Tobey Maguire, Miles Morales, Tom Holland, and Andrew Garfield.
• Textile Work Is Feminine: Outside of being a leatherworker, Maria the Harengon is also a skilled seamstress.
• Theme Naming: A majority of the residents of Sanctuary have Spanish names, owing to the Hispanic influence and inspiration in the empire. So far, we've had Sir Edmundo "Eddie", Ángel the trader llama, Pablo Snr. and Pablo Jnr. the green parrots, Juan Miguel the panda contractor, Pepe the storage-room-managing blue-and-yellow macaw, Miguelito the bannermaker, Juanita the tavern-coatroom-managing hyacinth macaw, Dolores the Warden (formerly "Thank You For Coming To My Wedding"), Camillo the dockmaster scarlet macaw, Maria the leatherworker (and one of Eddie's sisters), Alfredo the blue-and-yellow macaw, and Bruno the tavern general manager allay.
• This Is My Name on Foreign: Most of the residents of Sanctuary have Spanish names, and Sausage sometimes switches between their names in Spanish and English.^note Sausage himself does so indirectly by naming his Elytra "El Chorizo Volador", i.e. "The Flying Chorizo"; the usual Spanish word for 'sausage' has feminine grammatical gender, in case anyone's wondering the choice of wording.

Mayor Scott Smajor of Chromia

Scott

IGN: Smajor1995
Preferred name: Scott
Species: Human

A adventuring collector with a truly colourful backstory indeed, who has eventually settled down and founded Chromia as a base of operations.

Scott is the tenth Emperor of the server, and the second King of Season 2.^note His Season 1 counterpart served as the second Emperor. His rule is that all empires must build something of their choice in Chromia.

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• All for Nothing: Played for Laughs in his 30th episode. After finding out Gem stole the Crown from him, Scott tries to complete Gem's rule in an attempt to kill her to get the Crown back... only to find out Gem had already passed the Crown to Katherine. By the time that happens, Katherine's already lost the Crown and Scott doesn't even have to complete her rule either.
  Scott: I can't believe I've done two different Crown rules and still not even found the person with the Crown! I swear if I get to fWhip and it turns out he's also got rid of the Crown by the time I get to him, I'm gonna be mad.
• Ambiguous Criminal History: He off-handed claims to have had run-ins with authority figures that didn't end well, but has so far refused to elaborate.
• And the Adventure Continues: Scott's season finale has him answering the call of adventure and travelling to distant lands to collect more treasures. However, Chromia remains his established home base, and it's explicitly stated that he returns there after his adventures.
• Aura Vision: He gains it alongside his Supernatural Gold Eye after making a deal with an old swamp wizard in exchange for an eye-robbing magical skull that he didn't want anymore (and for good reason).
• Be Careful What You Wish For: While trying to deal with certain bad reviews at the tavern, Scott requests that Shelby brew a potion to turn Owen into a human. Unfortunately for him, while the potion worked, Owen's mentality remained that of a llama, leaving Scott as the Cloudcuckoolander's Minder questioning his life choices, and he eventually convinces Shelby to reverse the potion's effects.
• Casual Kink: He claims during his first visit to Tumble Town that about 20% of the reason he showed up to trade for gunpowder in the first place is for the handcuffs. Knowing his content creator counterpart, this is absolutely nothing out of the ordinary for Scott.
• Cloudcuckoolander: An eccentric builder who constructs his starter house from both types of Nether wood and considers llamas his best friends. He seems quite proud of his status as a bit of an oddball. Of course, he still pales in comparison to Owen...
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: To Owen, to whom he has to explain "How to Human", and whose llama-induced eccentricities he has to put up with. When Owen somehow eventually takes over Chromia in his absence, Scott ends up becoming so frustrated with Owen's antics that he talks Owen into leaving the place altogether… but eventually picks him back up again after accidentally finding him in the finale.
  Owen: (chats with a graveyard cat in Tumble Town)
  (The screen zooms out on Scott with the subtitle "help me")
• Curse Cut Short:
  • His 23rd episode ends with his outro cutting off his reaction to Chromia being redecorated in orange in his absence.
    Scott: WHAT THE FU– (outro starts playing)
  • His reaction to the Crown being stolen from him six episodes later goes the same as above.
• Eye Scream: The story behind his Supernatural Gold Eye is that he once raided an ancient temple for a famed jeweled skull, succeeded in it, and the skull stole his eye in his sleep. He spent the next several years trying to reverse this, but it didn't work quite as planned.
• Fedora of Asskicking: He used to have a brightly-coloured patchwork one while adventuring, but lost it from currently unknown causes along the way. Since then, he's commissioned Katherine to recreate it.
• Lovable Rogue: He has an Ambiguous Criminal History and can and will flaunt about planning to conduct lawbreaking activities in front of the Sheriff, and is charming enough to get away with it.
• Noodle Incident: According to his 4th episode, Scott once angered a witch in the past and it didn't end well for him, which prompts him to deliberately ask Shelby for permission to collect mangrove wood from her swamp in a trade. In the same episode, he mentions having spent years training to become acrobatic and travelling around a lot. Only the last one has had a canonical explanation so far.
• Sticky Fingers: As a self-proclaimed Collector of the Strange, Scott has absolutely zero qualms raiding ancient monuments and museusms to collect any and all shinies and treasures he encounters. His Empires conquests have so far included Pix's Ancient City exhibit, Pirate Joe's "God of the Sea" trident, the Multi Tag jester hat, Joel's trident, Gem's archery trophy from the Festival of the Rift, and multiple sets of Elytra wings from various empires.^note He's since lost a few of these due to the Empires server being the Empires server.
  Scott: (after robbing Pix's museum) Some people call it stealing, I call it "adventure collectibles".
• Technicolor Eyes: Scott has heterochromia, with a normal blue-green right eye and a bright chrome-yellow (almost orange) left eye. The latter is revealed to be a Supernatural Gold Eye.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: A one-off incident as far as we're aware of; Scott cosplays as Bo Peep for the Toy Story Halloween prank and is mentioned to have worn a dress doing so, and absolutely nobody bats an eye. Of course, by the time the Princess Tea Party rolls around, he's not the only one to show up in a pretty dress.
• Written-In Absence: Scott doesn't appear for the End investigation due to his disinterest and preference to focus on building his empire; the other rulers also throw around the theory that Scott was the one who opened the End portal and killed the Dragon, before disregarding it as they thought it would be OOC of him to do so.^note In real life, Scott was attending VidCon 2022.

Chromia: The Colour Kingdom

Biome: Meadow
"Come visit: it's a place to dye for."

An empire themed around colors. Its primary export is dyes.

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• Amazing Technicolor World: Chromia, being the land that exports dyes, has an extremely bright and colourful build palette. In his 5th episode, Scott goes as far as to compare the place to "Disney on an acid trip". Its variety in colour only makes Owen's eye-bleedingly Vibrant Orange redecoration of the place more jarring.
• Black Market: There exists one that's accessible under the Chromian outpost on the Greatbridge, dedicated to selling misellaneous goods and contraband items like custom hats, Sheriff toys (in Joel's case), and various treasures that Scott has robbed from the items' rightful owners. It's played with in that there were technically no laws against its establishment, but several of the items sold there (albeit not by Scott) are no doubt items which the Sheriff doesn't want distributed.
• Color Motif: While the land is themed around colours as a whole, its primary symbolic ones are cyan, yellow, and magenta.
• Meaningful Name: 'Chromia' is a reference to Scott incorporating heterochromia into his character design. It can also be taken as a reference to one of his eyes being colored chrome-yellow or to the word 'polychrome' (multicolored).
• Theme Naming: The two llamas stationed at the Chromian outpost on the Greatbridge are named 'Crow' (black carpet) and 'Mia' (lime green carpet).

Shelby of the Evermoore

Shelby

IGN: ShubbleYT
Preferred name: Shelby
Species: Human

A resident witch assigned to the region for apparently having the worst grades, desperate to prove that she could be great on the threat of being banned from practising magic ever again. Shelby soon proves herself to be powerful enough to shift into a parallel world by complete accident, but this causes the Witching World to deem her too dangerous to be kept around and expell her from the Academy anyway.

Due to this lack in qualification, Shelby is technically banned from practising magic and continuing to do so would make her an outlaw, but she refuses to comply to this regulation on the basis of wanting to prove herself. The Witching World, however, doesn't take this persistence lightly...

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• All Witches Have Cats: Subverted. Shelby's familiar is a frog named 'Tortoise'; though she mentions that most witches have cats or owls as familiars, she thinks living in the Evermoore means that she can't be picky about what animal she has.
• Amazon Chaser: She likes Katherine in her monster slaying outfit and explicitly claims admiration to her muscles.
• Apathetic Student: Downplayed. Shelby didn't really pay attention in class, but did show enough concern for her ability to practise magic to care about how well she does as a resident.
• Being Evil Sucks: To some extent; Shelby notably feels bad for saying mean and insensitive things in fits of rage, and tries to seek Sausage out to absolve herself of the guilt of killing members of the Witching World by proxy of allowing Dark Sausage to do so. Unfortunately for Shelby, she only finds Dark Sausage waiting for her in Sanctuary, who only further encourages her less-than-noble exploits and manipulates her into being corrupted by the Sculk.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: At the end of her 21st episode, Shelby is consumed by the Sculk corruption. Sausage has to banish her soul to the Spirit Realm and drag her back to uncorrupt her two episodes later.
• Character Overlap: Shelby's finale confirms that she is the same character as Shelby from the WitchCraft SMP, just ten years younger.
• Cop Hater: She's noticeably reticent to have anything to do with Sheriff Jimmy, as her Dark Secret (see below) being discovered by him would probably land her either in the Tumble Town jail or reported to the Witches' Council to be sent to witch prison.
  • When Jimmy sets up his "compliment the sheriff" booth at the Festival, her message towards him is threatening him not to go near the Evermoore.
  • After the Hermitcraft crossover event, when Jimmy shows up at her doorstep asking about the wanted posters of her at his spawn outpost, Shelby refuses to let him into her home or tell him any details of what caused this to happen, and when Jimmy oversteps the boundaries, Shelby ends up murdering him in a fit of rage. Luckily, as far as we know, Death Is Cheap, and Shelby herself is possibly influenced by the spirits of the Evermoore fog to turn to violence in the first place.
• Cultural Rebel: The Witching World has a vow to only use magic on other witches and have been reclusive for thousands of years, under the belief that all the other empires are "cruel", "idiotic", and "selfish". Resident witches are also supposed to live in the shadows as their society dictates, essentially acting as spies on the non-witch empires. Shelby, on the other hand, breaks protocol by making friends with everyone else and helping them with their problems.
• Dark Secret: Her lack of magical qualification and legal status as a rogue witch. Various incidents in her 4th episode cause her to get expelled from school for being too dangerous to continue using magic, but she burns the letter informing her of this, and hopes that the Council of Witches' lack of concern for her education can allow her to be overlooked and forgotten even though she's supposed to be going back to the school to hand in her magical tools.
  • At first, Lizzie is the only one she has told, as part of a mutual understanding that they both have things not to talk about; but Pirate Joe has found out about it by reading Shelby's then-unsent letter to her Grandmother-figure by adoption, and has tried and failed to use it as blackmail against her for beating him in a duel for Katherine's hand.
  • It's later completely turned on its head and averted once Wanted Posters of her are spread everywhere, by which point Shelby has decided there's no point keeping it a secret anymore, since everyone is going to find out about her fugitive status one way or another.
  • In her finale, the decision of Shelby's expulsion and criminal status have been repealed in light of a previous magical leader being a dark witch.
• Everybody Has Standards: In her 9th episode, Shelby threatens the unknown entity playing disc "13" near her from two hidden jukeboxes.
  Shelby: If I hear from you one more time, I'm gonna curse you, and your sons, and your sons' sons... yeah. And your daughters. And your– and your dog. No, not the dog, I'm sorry, that was too far.
• Faking the Dead: After being kicked out of school, Shelby attempts to pull this off by never replying to the Council's orders for her to hand in her magical supplies and items, so that they'd think she disappeared into the cursed fog of the Evermoore; she plans to use this time to do something spectacular enough for the school to take her back. It doesn't work.
• Fights Like a Normal: Even though she's a witch and can use magic, Shelby has quickly leveled up her armour, tools, and weapons and resolves to become physically strong. This is because she's legally no longer allowed to use magic due to a freak accident, and if nothing else, she needs a way to resist arrest if the Council of Witches ends up going after her for going "rogue".
• Happily Adopted: Via Word of Shubble in a Tumblr Q&A, Shelby was adopted by the old woman she calls her Grandma as a baby, and the two love each other very much. invoked
• Head Pet: Shelby sometimes takes her frog familiar, Tortoise, around with her and keeps him under her witch's hat.
• Hearing Voices:
  • Only Shelby can hear the mysterious, invisible entity haunting her, first in the form of various copies of disc "13" being played across the Evermoore, and later actual voices speaking allegedly French and the demon-summoning disc "5".
  • While under possession by the Sculk and Fog of the Evermoore, Shelby can hear the spirits of the dead Gnomes in her head, demanding to be rehomed as she had promised them.
• In-Series Nickname: Pirate Joe calls her "Miss Witch".
• Inept Mage:
  • Can be partially attributed to her Apathetic Student tendencies. While most of her potions work out the way they're supposed to, one that was supposed to allow fWhip to better access Joel's floating islands (by either making him fly or jump higher) ends up giving him pointed ears and better hearing, and she accidentally breaks her home chunk by badly-timed potion brewing. This is later Played for Drama due to the latter incident causing her to be deemed too much of a risk to society to continue practising magic officially, which results in this becoming her Dark Secret.
  • In spite of this, considering her ability to shift between parallel worlds from the broken chunk incident, it is implied (and later partially confirmed) that Shelby might just be Unskilled, but Strong and possibly lacking training and guidance from a decent teacher, hence resulting in this trope being in effect.
  • With the finale confirming Shelby's immense magical power and continued studies in the WitchCraft SMP, it's safe to say that she's grown out of it as time goes on.
• Locked into Strangeness: After Sausage, with Lizzie's help, "exorcises" the Sculk corruption from Shelby by sending her to the Spirit Realm and bringing her back, Shelby's hair turns entirely white.
• Maybe Ever After: After being uncorrupted in her finale, Shelby visits GlimmerGrove to apologize to Katherine about how she acted while Brainwashed and Crazy and asks her out for coffee, an invitation which Katherine accepts.^note In the sequel WitchCraft SMP, Shelby is known to have a partner, but their identity is never stated, so it's unconfirmed how far her relationship with Katherine goes in the end. The content creators have decided to leave it deliberately ambiguous.
• Meaningful Appearance: Shelby wears a large olive-green pointed hat which she commissioned from Katherine. According to her, hats are very personal items to witches, though she has allowed others to wear her hat with her permission and consent.
• Mystical White Hair: The result of Shelby being Locked into Strangeness after Sausage and Lizzie exorcised the Sculk corruption from her.
• Outlaw: She is deemed one in the Witching World for practising magic illegally and attempting to fake her own death to get the authorities off her tail.
• She Is the King: After being corrupted by the Sculk, her 22nd episode has her declare herself King of the Evermoore and Master of the Fog.
• Shock and Awe: At the end of her series, Shelby chooses Weather Manipulation and storms as her specialty and trains under Joel to improve her magical abilities; she continues to grow more powerful in this field a decade later.
• Sinister Scythe: She wields a large enchanted scythe as a weapon, and uses it to capture the souls of monsters.^note In-game, it's a retextured netherite sword.
• Solitary Sorceress: Invoked by the Great Witches Academy, as Witching Society as a whole tend to be this. It's subverted in that while witches are supposed to keep to themselves, Shelby herself is quite happy to help everyone else out.
• Technicolor Magic: Shelby's magic wand is revealed to glow a bright purple. Her wanted poster depicts her magic as a Sickly Green Glow, which she complains about.
• Tempting Fate: In her 4th episode, Shelby accidentally breaks a chunk in the world and ends up having to replace it with one in a "parallel universe". She believes that the Great Witches Academy won't hear about this... until she receives a letter at the end of the episode from the Council of Witches. This ends up driving much of her character arc and plotline to come.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: She embraces being "the bad guy" and her outlaw status in the Witching World come the end of her 19th episode, and thinks the Sculk corruption might not be all that bad since it's allowed her to feel more self-assured and confident in her abilities than before.
• Thinking Up Portals: Shelby soon proves herself to be incredibly powerful by accidentally shifting into a parallel world while brewing potions. Word of God suggests that she would be able to further develop this ability into conscious portal manipulation in her original ending. invoked
• "Wanted!" Poster: She finds one upon her return from Hermitcraft, in a village on the way to the Evermoore. It claims that she committed "crimes against the empires" and requests a bounty of 100,000,000 in an unspecified currency. And apparently, they're plastered all over the rest of the world of Empires.
• Witch Classic: She wears a pointed hat as part of her attire, keeps a toad in her house, and lives mostly alone in a forest. She also mentions that witches usually use brooms to fly. A lot of artwork depicts her as a Cute Witch, and Tango regards her look as adorable when they first meet.
• Wizarding School: She attended the Great Witches Academy and was most likely in her final year(s) there as a student.

The Evermoore

Biome: Mangrove Swamp

A dense and muddy mangrove forest along the eastern shore, rumoured to be home to some sort of cursed fog. Its primary export is potions and mud.

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• Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Tortoise the frog is bright purple in colour. This is invoked to officially turn him into Shelby's familiar.
• Amphibian at Large: Oli once makes a mention to a giant frog residing deep in the Evermoore. Shelby finds it while investigating the mangrove in her 14th episode, and the frog is indeed as large as a horse; she muses that frogs would only be able to grow to such a great size if they'd lived in the Enchanted Forest for hundreds of years.
• Bubblegloop Swamp: The Evermoore is a muddy wetland prone to hostile mobs spawning under the cover of thick mangrove trees.
• A Dog Named "Cat": Shelby named her toad 'Tortoise', or as her subtitles once spelt it, 'Tortious'.
• Enchanted Forest: The Evermoore is a thick, swampy woodland filled with trees that are said to be good for containing and amplifying magic. It's also said to have cursed Fog that claims the souls of travellers who don't make it out of it alive.
• Swamps Are Evil:
  • The mangrove has cursed Fog that apparently induces hallucinations, both visual and auditory, in those that stay in the forest for too long, and claims the souls of lost travellers and those who wander in too deep. Later on, when Cub, one of the Hermits, enters the depths of the Evermoore to investigate the Fog, he reports that the Fog has "a distinct and putrid pungence and an odd [cyan] colour to it"... before being corrupted to spread sculk and soul-light wherever he goes.
  • Ever since the broken chunk incident, an unknown entity has seemingly haunted Shelby wherever she goes, leaving cryptic messages on signs and playing the infamously spooky disc "13" near her from hidden jukeboxes.
• Weaksauce Weakness: While it's unknown what their effects have on the Fog directly, people who are corrupted by it into spreading sculk and Darkness are weak to potions, as they can reverse the corruption. After finding out about this, Pix and False exploit this by recruiting Shelby to create a stockpile of potions to help decorrupt Cubfan, and ultimately succeed in doing so.

Other Characters

Bubbles

Bubbles

Voiced by: soupforeloise

Bubbles is Sausage's Yorkshire terrier companion both in- and out-of-universe, having befriended him when he was a child prior to the events of Season 2. She's also a presumably-immortal interdimensional being who has "been through a lot", and is part of a network of different iterations of herself across various realms and timelines; it's implied that one iteration of Bubbles served as the Canine Companion of Sausage's Season 1 counterpart. The iteration in Sanctuary has a yellow collar.

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• Action Pet: To Sausage. Not only is she intelligent enough to babysit Hermes, but it's offhandedly mentioned that she once swallowed a person whole and transported them to another dimension (which is described to be "like Kirby, but more powerful"), and is apparently capable of doing the same to a Warden.
• Canine Companion: Sausage's faithful confidant and second-in-command at Sanctuary.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Prior to the events of Season 2 (or early in the series off-screen), Bubbles broke Eddie out of prison and brought him to safety.

Dark Sausage

Dark Sausage

IGN: MythicalSausage

Dark Sausage is the Corrupted form of Lord Sausage from Season 1 who emerged when he was fully overtaken by Xornoth's influence. Power-hungry and vengeful, he is arguably the embodiment of Sausage at his worst and desires unlimited power, and became a Literal Split Personality of Lord Sausage after Wizard Gem's 'exorcism'.

After ravaging the alternate Mythland he was left to live out his life in, Dark Sausage sneaks back into the world of Empires by intercepting a connection between Bdubs' Sun Church in Sanctuary and Hermitcraft, and intends to take over the world once again.

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• Bad People Abuse Animals: While it doesn't actually happen and he asks for it "politely" afterward, Dark Sausage threatens to beat Pepe the parrot to hand over some building materials.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Downplayed; after taking a liking to Shelby out of a Commonality Connection, Dark Sausage declares that he'll save Shelby for last on his kill-list.
• Blood Knight: He's very enthusiastic about murder, regardless of them being a player or mob, and gets bored when he doesn't get to kill anything.
• Card-Carrying Villain: He's quite proud of his morally unscrupulous actions and describes himself as "evil".
• Commonality Connection: He's surprisingly friendly with Shelby as they both use soul-harvesting scythes as weapons and have some sort of connection with Sculk corruption. This eventually culminates into him manipulating her into being corrupted by the Sculk.
• The Corrupter: Dark Sausage repeatedly encourages Shelby to partake in murderous acts and embrace the Sculk corruption.
• Evil Feels Good: He certainly believes so; he meditates in a summoning circle of Sculk to help him "forget" about his dark exploits and prepare to commit evil acts afterward. However, since Sausage after the Split-Personality Merge describes Dark Sausage's psyche as "just lost and in pain most of the time", it's suggested that it's not actually the case.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Dark Sausage's voice is significantly deeper than regular-Sausage's, and about as deep as Xornoth's from back in Season 1. He resorts to stealing a hapless Sanctuary Villager's voice box to disguise himself as regular-Sausage.
• Good Weapon, Evil Weapon: By default, he uses a Sinister Scythe. Subverted in Season 2, where he somehow gains ahold of the Staff of Sanctuary, which has vines and mushrooms entwined along it, and Sausage's other weapons; in his final fight, he uses an alternate version of the Staff of Sanctuary made from dark oak wood as opposed to the lighter wood of Sausage's original staff.
• Good Wings, Evil Wings: His invasion of Sanctuary somehow grants him regular-Sausage's cyan-dominant Elytra wings, but he turns to a different form of levitation magic after his takeover. He still wears Sausage's Elytra wings when pretending to be regular-Sausage, though.
• Holy Burns Evil: When he tries to enter the Cathedral of Saint Pearl, the door delivers what is implied to be an electric shock to him, forbidding his entry. He bars up the Cathedral after his takeover just because he can't enter it. When he visits Stratos soon after, the Temple of Peril gives him the same electric shock when he tries to enter.
• Inconsistent Coloring: Dark Sausage has crimson eyes as his default, but the animation where he and regular-Sausage fight shows him with dark blue eyes, a few shades darker than regular-Sausage's.
• Kill and Replace: A child-friendly version; after sneaking his way into Season 2, Dark Sausage traps Season 2 Sausage in an alternate past Sanctuary and attends social functions in his place. Regular-Sausage has to conduct a risky ritual to speed up and rip the fabric of space-time to return to Sanctuary.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: He is never referred to by any name in particular in canon, only as "Sausage" as they look alike, or "Evil Sausage" if they have to differentiate.
• Psychopathic Manchild: His casual, playful attitude when it comes to murder and glee upon Soul Eating makes him feel very much like one.
• Red Is Violent: Dark Sausage is characterized with red eyes and bloodthirst, and his Technicolor Magic is red in colour.
• Rule of Symbolism: Invoked. In Season 2, Dark Sausage "donates" the Shield of Sanctuary to Pix's museum because he's trapped the Protector of Sanctuary in an alternate reality and he "won't be needing it" anymore.
• Soul Eating: He makes a regular habit of this. At the end of Season 1, Dark Sausage breaks into the Church of Aeor in the alternate world to retrieve the Xornoth-crystal and eats it, apparently gaining unimaginable power from this. He also plans on reversing Wizard Gem's exorcism by consuming his good counterpart in order to begin "the cataclysm"... and by that point, he means Sausage's Season 2 counterpart and reincarnation, who accidentally dimension-hopped into the realm.
• Split-Personality Merge: While he's initially split from Lord Sausage in Season 1, the Protector of Sanctuary, the reincarnation of Lord Sausage, merges Dark Sausage as part of his soul again after their battle. Shelby is the only person to learn the two are, in fact, both different and the same person.
• Walking Spoiler: He plays a significant role in Sausage's character lore.
• Would Hurt a Child: He's willing to kidnap Hermes, a child young enough to not have had The Talk yet, from Stratos to hold him hostage against the Protector of Sanctuary.

Eddie

Sir Edmundo, or "Eddie", is a family friend of Sausage's and later his adoptive father. He moves into Sanctuary between Episodes 4 and 5 from Sausage's POV of the series.

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• Dad the Veteran: He used to be a warrior (and a part-time bartender) before settling down as an Ultimate Blacksmith.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Eddie is said to be of a half-human, half-rabbit race called Harengons.^note Pronounced "Hare-ons".
• Parental Substitute: Eddie has been acting as this to Sausage since he was young due to him having a Disappeared Dad. He took over the parental role full-time after Sausage's mother suddenly passed away when he was ten.
• Ultimate Blacksmith: While he's a blacksmith by trade, he has the ability to craft magical weapons ten times stronger than the average weapon.
• Weapon Specialization: It has been briefly mentioned that Eddie was extremely skilled with a battle-axe as a former warrior.

The Fae

A mysterious entity which manifests in the form of plant-like structures. They can be found in various locations across the server, including an island in Eversea, the icy mountains near Dawn, the plateaus of Tumble Town, and a hollow near Spawn.

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• Color Motif: They are constructed with mainly cyan blocks of prismarine and stripped warped stem.
• The Fair Folk: The Fae demand various rulers across the server to cater to their wishes, from preparing feasts to breeding turtles, and mess with their empires if they refuse to comply. Even when the Fae grant wishes, they refuse to give the person what they want directly, instead telling them to follow strange paths, answer riddles, or fight a Boss in Mook's Clothing. In the end, they only do so to take physical form in the Empires realm, and offer interesting trades in return to anyone who seeks them out.
• The Nicknamer: They refer to the rulers as "[X] Creature".
  • Gem: Sweet Creature.
  • Jimmy: Big-hatted Creature.
  • Katherine: Warrior Creature, Kind Creature.
  • Lizzie: Fluffy Creature.
  • Pirate Joe: Booty-Snatching Creature.
  • Sausage: Kind Creature, Confusing Creature.
  • Scott: Colorful Creature.
  • Shelby: Curious Creature, Our Dearest Magical Creature Friend.

Hermes

Voiced by: OwengeJuice (adult)

A small humanoid demigod figure^note Made from an armour stand, a Shulker head, and purple-dyed leather armour in-game. Joel and Sausage share "joint custody" of him as his "parents", making him a resident of both Stratos and Sanctuary.

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• Badass Adorable: A small child who's cooed over by his parental figures and some of their friends, and powerful enough to take down thousand-year-old evil beings.
• Deliberately Cute Child: Invoked on at least one occasion where Sausage and Hermes make use of the latter's cuteness as a child to prank other members of the server.
• Dimensional Traveler: According to Sausage's epilogue, many years later once he's all grown up, Hermes often borrows the Staff of Sanctuary to explore the Multiverse.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: In Hermes' first appearances, he didn't have the classic Shulker head or purple clothing.
• Goo-Goo-Godlike: While Hermes' human equivalent age is ambiguous, he's powerful enough to control the weather within a thousand-block radius and can zap hostile intruders to dust from dozens of blocks above. He's also strong enough to create typhoons and destroy entire populations. Joel does consider him too young to be given The Talk, though, suggesting he's younger than a pre-teen for the duration of the series.
• Learnt English from Watching Television: He apparently knows Japanese from watching anime.
• Meaningful Name: Joel named him after the Greek messenger and trickster god from Classical Mythology, and Hermes mainly serves as a messenger between his two "parents". Both of his parents also bring him along to prank other members of the server.
• Our Phlebotinum Child: How Sausage explains Hermes' existence to Eddie; Hermes was created from god magic, possibly mixed with the Magic of Sanctuary, and contrary to popular belief, is not the two's biological child.
• Prophet Eyes: His eyes glow pure white before he casts lightning.
• Shock and Awe: Being the child of a storm deity, Hermes has the ability to strike others with lightning and electricity. They wind up incapitating Dark Sausage with this ability, and even then, their powers are set to stun rather than disintegrate.
• Shrinking Violet: Hermes is described to be not very talkative and quite skittish, and often prefers to communicate through telepathy.
• Trademark Favourite Food: Chocolate-chip cookies.
• Weather Manipulation: Hermes can control the weather even as a young child, most likely inherited from his "Thunder Daddy". It's also said that he changes the weather when he giggles.

The Hermits

The Hermits, also known as members of Hermitcraft, are real-life friends of many of the rulers. They were transported to the Empires world in Season 2 through the Rift during a crossover event, and many have chosen to either settle in one of the pre-existing empires or to construct a new Hermits' empire, tentatively named Hermitopia, from the ground up.

The list of Hermits involved in the crossover are Cubfan135, Docm77, FalseSymmetry, GeminiTay (in a twisted way), GoodTimesWithScar, Grian, iJevin, ImpulseSV, JoeHills, Keralis, PearlescentMoon, TangoTek, Xisumavoid, and ZombieCleo, with BDoubleO100 (Bdubs) and Rendog joining the server later.

For more information about the Hermits in their home world, please refer to this page. Since Grian has previously visited the Empires SMP in Season 1, tropes related to that visit belong in his personal folder here.

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• Agony of the Feet: Ren has claimed that one of his toes was bitten off by a venomous silverfish while collecting his first piece of cobblestone.
• Ambiguously Human: Exactly what Grian actually is is a questionable statement. While he's certainly a Hermit, it is entirely possible for Grian to be non-human despite his appearance, from being labelled a "Pesky Bird" by Sausage (through external sources), to being a Watcher, courtesy of the semi-canonicity of the Life SMP to both seasons of Empires.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: After entering the Evermoore to investigate it, Cubfan is consumed by its cursed Fog and starts spreading sculk corruption and soul light sources everywhere. After being decorrupted, he has no recollection of this ever happening.
• Call-Back: Several references have been made to the Life SMP due to creator overlap between the three series, with Tango and Jimmy's very emotional reunion being one of them. However, it appears that not all of the characters whose creator counterparts are involved remember these events.
• Complexity Addiction: Grian's Tag task involves killing an Empires player by letting them fall into the Void. He initially attempts to recreate some aspects of the Boatem Hole from Hermitcraft Season 8 for this... which eventually devolves into him being just a bit extra by setting up an entire "Tea Party" in the Void with some of Lizzie's Frog Men villagers. In spite of questioning his life choices in committing to the bit, after everything is said and done, he deems it all Worth It.
  Grian: (while building a minecart track to transport a frog villager into the Void-hole) This plan has turned into something... just insane now. I don't even know what I'm doing anymore. This is a game of tag! Why am I... committing to the flair of a tea party?
• Culture Clash: Some of the visiting Hermits make intention to trade with diamonds as currency, but on Empires, this system is mostly left by the wayside in favour of an extensive barter system using the main export of one's own empire, which said empire has a trading monopoly over. Gem, being a member of both servers (in the Character Overlap sense, unlike False), and Pixl, who is familiar with Hermitcraft affairs, are well-reheased enough in both trading systems to explain this to the Hermits they come across.
• Diplomatic Impunity: Invoked in Hermitopia, the Hermits' faction, as they are considered "international waters" according to Grian (even though it's built on land) and Jimmy has been banned from entering as a result of this. The issue? Hermitopia is where several of the Hermits have constructed resource farms for the purpose of undermining the Empires' barter system economy.
• Doppelgänger Crossover: Due to creator overlap between the series, Pearl and False are subjected to this; Shelby lampshades it when she meets Hermit-False and says she reminds her of someone she knows. Additionally, Pearl of the Empires-verse is a distant god in Season 2 and any resemblances between her and Pearl the Hermit is treated as entirely coincidental. Subverted with Gem, who is revealed to be the same character as Hermit-Gem.
• Eye Colour Change: After being consumed by the Evermoore Fog, Cub's eyes turn from dark green to the turquoise of Echo Shards, and his sclerae turn to the black and dark teal of Sculk corruption.
• Fedora of Asskicking: Pearl receives a replica of Scott's fedora hat as a gift after she builds a house to stay in Chromia. The 'asskicking' part comes in when she wipes the floor with Sausage in the Sanctuary battle arena at least a dozen times.
• Fun Size: The Hermits, allegedly a species in their own right, are a quarter to half a head shorter than the average player height, varying from player to player. The Empires folks, being the Empires folks, react to this with great enthusiasm.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Many of the Hermits are very skilled at redstone, and their 'empire' reflects it with its multitude of automated and industrialized resource farms.
• A God Am I: Bdubs, notorious for being Really Fond of Sleeping, hijacks Gem's sun-worshipping religion and places himself as its deity.
• Height Angst: Bdubs is constantly made fun of for being allegedly shorter than the other Hermits. When the Hermit 'transfiguration' machine shrinks his height down to actually being the shortest among them in-game, he is not amused.
• Hive City: Hermitopia is constructed as one giant skyscraper-tower with communual storage rooms and a large variety of resource farms, though some of the Hermits have residences, bases of operations, and workplaces in other empires.
• In-Series Nickname: The L.O.R.E. investigation team refers to them as "the Rifties".
• Instant Costume Change: Several of the Hermits experience appearance changes in the time frame of going through the Rift, from one server to another. For example, Impulse's beard disappeared, while Pearl goes through an entire outfit and hairstyle change from a cleaning lady to the splitting image of a goddess (i.e. her Season 1 counterpart).
• Mad Scientist: Hermit-False is heavily implied to be one, considering she locked up Empires-False in her lab for apparently being dangerous, and when she recovers her memory, Empires-False mentions she was usually up to some experiments.
• My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: During his first visit to Sanctuary, Bdubs continuously mispronounces Santa Perla as "Santa Perra". In Spanish, perra refers to a female dog. Sausage is not particularly happy about this.
• The Napoleon: After seeing the visiting Hermits build resource farms for everything, thus disrupting the Empires' original barter system economy, Gem accuses this form of 'compensation' to be "short people behaviour".
• Neat Freak: Pearl is visibly uncomfortable with Oli's lack of chest organization skills and is prompted to do the job for him when she visits the Olipelago. Considering she was a cleaning lady back on her home server, it's somewhat understandable.
• The Omniscient: Bdubs, as a proclaimed sun god, has claimed to be "omnipresent" and thus omniscient, and is able to watch over events that he isn't physically present to witness.
• Person of Mass Construction: The Hermits are ridiculously efficient builders, being able to create enormous structures in fairly short periods of time. While most of the Empires rulers are quick builders who make megabases all the same, when they visit the Hermitcraft server, there's quite a bit of culture shock in terms of the sheer scale at which the Hermits build.
• Self-Imposed Challenge: Invoked by Cub, who aims to obtain a stack of blocks from every empire on the server and build a starter house only using those blocks.
• Stalker without a Crush: Hermit-False is insistent on keeping an eye on her Empires counterpart because Empires-False was allegedly dangerous before Hermit-False gave her amnesia, going as far as to construct a tower in Cogsmeade to document activity on her.
• Sticky Fingers: Several of the Hermits have a tendency to- ahem, permanently borrow items from the Empires folks, but much like in their home world, Grian tends to do this much more than others.
  Grian: Don't use the S word around me, no, I'm borrowing.
• Swapped Roles: Played for Laughs. Shortly after the Hermits' arrival in the Empires world, Grian and Impulse track down Pixlriffs and narrate at him in the fashion of the Hermitcraft Recap, which Pixlriffs provides the voiceover for.
• Talk Like a Pirate: Invoked by Xisuma and Cleo, who set their game language to Pirate Speak throughout the duration of their stay in Eversea to "show their dedication" to the cause.
• Trapped in Another World: Exaggerated due to the scale of the crossover. After about half of the active Hermitcraft cast (about as many players there are on Empires, for the record) crosses the portal into the Empires world, they find that they are unable to return to their home server due to complications with the Rift, which is made of purple glass on the Empires end. It's also revealed from Grian's perspective that the portal on the Hermitcraft end shattered after the Hermits crossed through. Since then, they have reconstructed an iteration of Grumbot to send them back to their home dimension.
• Walking Spoiler: Their presence points towards the Hermitcraft crossover event, which only begins a few months into the series proper.
• Xanatos Gambit: Subverted. After getting stuck in a 2×1 hole in bedrock while planning out the "Void Tea Party", Grian calls for Pix to help him out. Pix is initially hesitant to do so, believing Grian to be playing one of these gambits, as characteristic of the "Pesky Bird". This turns out to not be the case and the call for help is genuine, as the "Pesky Bird" has indeed been outsmarted by a one-by-two hole in the ground.
  Pix: I mean, I looked down there. I literally saw a hole into the Void and I thought this entire thing has been a ruse and he's trapping Lizzie's base to trap me. [...] I'm expecting you to be playing 3D chess at all times, bro. Like, that's how it works.

The Mad King

Voiced by: InTheLittleWood

The monarch of the kingdom which Sausage used to call his home.

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• All Your Powers Combined: After the Night of the Great Purge, the king has taken many people's Magical abilities for themselves, citing telepathy, telekinesis, communicating with nature (presumably not just animals), and even necromancy. However, he gets curb-stomped so quickly that this is only an Informed Ability.
• Archnemesis Dad: Allegedly, Sausage's mother lied to everyone about the true identity of Sausage's biological father, because of course, it's this guy. Of course, even if she lied, she did it for understandable reasons...
• Ban on Magic: He invokes this on the kingdom he rules out of jealousy, as he himself has no Magical ability while many in the population do. It's Played for Horror in that he aims to drain Magic from not just the lands, but from the people as well so that only he can use and abuse the power that comes with it.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Apparently, the king subjected Eddie to this on the Night of the Great Purge for information over whether Sausage was actually his biological son like the rumours stated; Eddie held up for a long time but eventually gave up because without going into detail, "it was bad".
• Disowned Parent: In his perspective's finale, Sausage is very adamant that Eddie, his adopted father, is his true dad as opposed to the genocidal royal who had his friends and family killed for Human Resources.
• Driven by Envy: Played for Drama and for Horror. The king resented his people who were born with Magical gifts due to him not being born with them, and wanted to take his people's Magic for his own use. His inner circle decided that he should drain the Magic of his people for this... and cue the Night of the Great Purge.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: As it turns out, the reason the king wants to find Sausage in the first place is this trope to result in We Can Rule Together. On the flip side, Sausage doesn't make a big deal out of the newfound fact, nor does he care about power or wealth.
• No Name Given: So far, the king has gone unnamed throughout the season.
• Serial Rapist: Implied. While it's never stated outright, the king "had his way with" many castle servants (or "had relations with", according to the post-canon Q&A livestream), and not just Sausage's mother. Even at best, it's Questionable Consent, but considering his comment about Sausage being "stubborn" like his mother during the final battle...
• We Can Rule Together: The king says this verbatim in Sausage's finale, after finding out they apparently share blood relations. Sausage rejects the offer, even when the king proceeds to threaten to raze Sanctuary to the ground.

Madre de Girasoles

Voiced by: PearlescentMoon

The "Mother of Sunflowers", a mysterious deity venerated in the unnamed Ancient Capital and Sausage's old kingdom. A statue of her stands above the Catacombs as its guardian. For tropes about her before she became the "Mother of Sunflowers", see here.

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• Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: As of Afterlife SMP and Season 2, she has been venerated a saint/deity after her passing, most likely as a Deity of Human Origin.
  • In the ALSMP, AL!Sausage builds a sunflower-decorated church venerating her as a saint and eventually ascends to Heaven in his last life to reunite with her. Later in the series, Oli briefly visits her in Heaven and rejects life spent as her sparring buddy, and falls down from Heaven to settle the Season 2 lands.
  • It's mentioned in passing during Season 2 that Sausage's old kingdom venerated her as an unnamed sunflower goddess.
• Cosmic Motifs: The Moon. This is why Gem, as a worshipper of the Sun religion, deems the religion to be an antithesis to hers.
• God in Human Form: She briefly appears as a manifestation at the end of Sausage's 18th episode, complementing him on his construction of the cathedral dedicated to her.
• Flower Motifs: Sunflowers, naturally. In actuality, it presumably refers to the kingdom she ruled when she was alive.
• I Have Many Names: She is known and/or worshipped under multiple names — the "Mother of Sunflowers" in the unnamed Ancient Capital, "Peril" in Stratos, and "Saint Pearl" in Sanctuary, alongside their Spanish translations should they have one... and "Santa Perra", Bdubs' mispronunciation of one of her Spanish names. Of course, that's not going into her titles from before her apotheosis, or should it be the case, whatever names her Hermit (and possibly Life series) counterpart has accumulated across the realms.
• Irony: In spite of being the "Mother of Sunflowers", according to Gem, she is also associated with the moon.
• No Name Given: Her name was likely lost to time and most references to her make use of epithets. Subverted in Sausage's visions, which explicitly refer to her as "Pearl"... as in PearlescentMoon, the Farmer Queen of Gilded Helianthia, and he names the cathedral dedicated to her La Catedral de Santa Perla in her honour.
• Posthumous Character: Though having been dead for millennia by the time the season takes place, she appears in some of Sausage's Past-Life Memories, and a statue of her stands as the Guardian of the Catacombs in the Ancient Capital.
• This Is My Name on Foreign: The previously-unnamed sunflower deity venerated in Sausage's old kingdom is honoured as "Santa Perla" in Sanctuary (or "Santa Pearla", according to the Castle of Memories). However, that in itself is a Spanish translation as both regions are explicitly based on Latin America, and the original historical figure who became Santa Perla was the Farmer Queen PearlescentMoon of Gilded Helianthia (from Season 1 of the series), who spoke English/Common and not Spanish. Sausage uses both the original English and translated Spanish names interchangably for the most part.
• Walking Spoiler: Her true identity isn't made known until several weeks into the season.

The Old Sheriff

IGN: InTheLittleWood
Species: Human

The old Sheriff of "the old M.W." who was trapped in a cavern near Tumble Town for an estimated thirty years.

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• The Alcoholic: He repeatedly mentions enjoying having a drink at the saloon.
• Companion Cube: The Sheriff Hat, which he named "Wednesday" and considered his "pretty little thing", i.e. prime attachment. He apparently lost it about fifteen years of being trapped in the mines, eventually leading to Jimmy coming across it at the start of the series.
• Dirty Cop: He's not above swiping diamonds from others' countertops. According to him, everyone is a bit of a criminal, even the law enforcement.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: Being stuck in the mines for decades, he has no clue what a train is and refers to the Luxo Express as a giant horse.
• Glorified Sperm Donor: He claims to have fathered 14 children and Married to the Job, which do not make a very good combination for fatherhood. Jimmy actually calls him out on this, and apparently, the fact that he even got away with not paying child support is because he got stuck in the caves.
• Married to the Job: He claims to be married to his work and not to his "wife".
• No Name Given: He's referred to as simply "the Old Sheriff" for most of his appearances. Subverted in Jimmy's finale, when he reveals his name to be 'Roswell Jameson XVI'.

Owen

IGN: Owen (as a llama) / Owenge_Juice (as a human)
Preferred Name: Owen
Species: Llama (formerly), Human (questionably)

An orange-carpeted llama who serves as the tavern bartender in Chromia. He was at first briefly, then later permanently transformed into a human using magic.

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• Color Motif: Orange, the colour of his carpet decorations and his favourite colour. His fondness for the colour also makes it very evident who redecorated Chromia while Scott was visiting Hermitcraft.
• Cloudcuckoolander: As a llama who was transformed into a quasi-human, Owen's thought processes often align more with that of a llama than a human. This includes being lured by Delicious Distractions, not understanding the concepts of opening doors, reflections, replanting seeds after harvest, and crafting items, and spitting at others (which is apparently a cultural thing).
• Determinator: He and the other llamas take over and redecorate Chromia with eye-watering shades of Vibrant Orange and eat up all of its crops in the two weeks or so Scott was away.
• Extreme Omnivore: Most likely due to being a transformed llama, Owen is capable of eating carpet and wheat in its natural form.
• Humanity Ensues:
  • Owen is transformed into a mostly-human form briefly using one of Shelby's potions. Deconstructed in that he still mostly keeps his llama mentality, forcing Scott to take on the role of the Cloudcuckoolander's Minder and eventually request for Shelby to change him back.
  • Later, Owen somehow becomes human again while Scott is away in Hermitcraft... and takes over Chromia in the meantime. Scott is not amused by the results upon his return.
• Innocently Insensitive: Upon meeting Jimmy for the first time, Owen's first impression is that he recognizes him from the Sheriff toys he picked up from the tavern rooms. This ends in a brief fight and Owen getting kicked out of the town.
• Little Bit Beastly: In his quasi-human form, he keeps his llama ears and tail.
• Llama Loogie: Owen has an unfortunate tendency to spit in the drinks at the tavern he's supposed to be in charge of. It ends with many customers at the tavern leaving negative reviews for this, resulting in the entire Humanity Ensues incident. According to Owen, when he could vocalize this, this is a cultural thing for llamas and form some sort of tonal language.
• Mirror Reveal: Subverted. When Scott attempts to show his post-transformation appearance in the fountain, Owen mistakes his reflection for a man drowning in the pool.
• Offscreen Teleportation: He's capable of this, even on an interdimensional level.
• Snarky Non-Human Sidekick: While Owen displays a certain level of sass in quasi-human form, it remains even when he's in his original llama form.
• Taking Over the Town: During the Hermitcraft crossover, Owen takes over Chromia as mayor and turns it into 'Llama Land'. In doing so, he lets the other llamas loose (other than Perry Paddingon, who is deemed a villain), redecorates the roofs orange, harvests the crops for food without replanting them, and barricades the human(oid?) Villagers in their homes. It takes an entire episode for Scott to talk him into leaving the place.
• Trademark Favourite Food: Sugar.
• Tuckerization: He was initially named 'Owen' after Scott's real-life friend and fellow content creator OwengeJuice, whose favourite colour is orange. This eventually culminates into cc!Owen playing Owen the llama in human form.
• Vibrant Orange: His trademark colour, and Owen certainly has the determination and zeal to back it up, though it manifests quite unorthodoxly.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He's terrified of thunder and lightning. Perhaps it was a good thing for Owen that Joel was also in Hermitcraft when he took over Chromia.

Sausage's Mother

Sausage's mother who raised him as a single parent, until her mysterious death when he was about ten.

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• The Medic: Her Magical ability was to heal people (possibly by food), according to invokedWord of God. This was inspired by Julieta Madrigal from Encanto.
• Missing Mom: While Sausage's mother did her part in raising him, she worked long hours at the castle when he was younger and died suddenly when he was ten. In-universe rumours have speculated that the evil king she worked for had something to do with her death, but it was never proven; invokedWord of God would later confirm this is indeed the case and that she was the king's first kill — a test to see if the siphoning powers thing actually worked, but it was considered Accidental Murder because apparently, no one knew how it happened.
• A Saint Named Mary: Her unofficial name, 'Mary', is explicitly meant to play into how Sausage's character arcs are often entwined with religious elements.
• Unnamed Parent: Downplayed; Sausage's mother is never explicitly named in canon material, apparently because Sausage's content creator counterpart didn't want everyone to get too attached to a deceased character. However, she is given an unofficial name in a post-canon Q&A livestream.

Skeletron

Voiced by: BerthaDarling

Captain Skeletron is Pirate Joe's Arch-Enemy who commands an army of fellow skeleton pirates.

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• Dem Bones: He's a walking, talking Skeleton, and so are most of his army.
• I Want Them Alive!: According to his journal in the Skull Fort, Skeletron wants Pirate Joe to be captured and brought to him alive as opposed to dead.
• Jolly Roger: Skeletron uses a banner based on the Jolly Roger — a white skull wearing a red bandanna over a black background. It's somewhat justified in his case, since Skeletron is a living skeleton.

The Witching World

The secretive society in which the witches of the Empires world reside. There exists a hierarchy system between Great Witches and Lesser Witches, though the distinction between the ranks or titles remains unclear.

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• Ban on Magic:
  • The Council of Witches has restrictions on which people are allowed to be witches and use magic, and rogue witches, i.e. those not under their jurisdiction (like expelled students from the Great Witches Academy who continue to use magic), can be put into prison.
  • The witches as a whole also have a society-wide vow to never use their magic on non-witches. It's unknown exactly how much this is enforced, however, as several characters outside the Witching World have made passing mentions to witches using their magic or otherwise acting in cruel and malicious ways.
• The Dark Arts: Dark witches who presumably practise this congregate in underground societies; one of them is known as "the Soot Witches", which is described to hide in the shadows and attempt to run the Witching World in secret.
• Evil Sounds Deep: While they are never voiced in the series proper, Word of God reveals that it's intended for Headmaster Nowls to have a deep voice. invoked
• Extraordinary World, Ordinary Problems: While the Witching World is a society built around magic and its use, it faces many normal and often political problems, such as governmental corruption, political isolation from the outside world in part due to a cultural superiority complex, and as the sequel series shows, choosing a suitable leader among multiple prospective candidates when their predecessor can no longer fulfill their duty, for whatever reason.
• Fantastic Racism: Implied. Witchkind has a strong sense of superiority over other groups, and there have been passing allusions to witches cursing non-witches, including a couple of mentions of Bewitched Amphibians.
• Flying Broomstick: Witches use these for transportation.
• Hypocrite: Shelby calls out the Witching World for being Dirty Cowards, watching the non-witch empires destroy each other and themselves while the witches keep at a safe distance away.
  Shelby: We vow to never use magic on non-witchkind because they're cruel, and they're idiotic, and they're selfish, but now we're the ones that have become cruel and selfish.
• Inconsistent Spelling: The former Headmaster of the Great Witches Academy has a name which is spelt both 'Nowls' and 'Knowls' in canon. From supplementary material and Q&As, the former spelling is likely the correct one.
• Magical Society: The witches live in relative secrecy apart from the other empires; while others know they exist, witches are reclusive and tend to keep to themselves.
• Mole in Charge: Headmaster Nowls/Knowls, a member of an underground dark witch society, becomes the Headmaster of the Great Witches Academy and a member of the Council of Witches at some point before the events of Season 2.
• Mysterious Watcher: What resident witches are supposed to do, acting as solitary spies for the Witching World in the non-witch realms. Shelby, on the other hand, refuses to do this and actively invests herself in the Empires world.
• The Omniscient Council of Vagueness: The Council of Witches, which rules over the Witching World. The only known member is the Headmaster of the Great Witches Academy; though there also exists a powerful figure known as "the Supreme", their relationship with the Council of Witches is unknown.
• Our Witches Are Different: Witches have access to powerful magic, tend to keep to themselves, and their Magical Society has strong restrictions on how magic can be used. They use wands to channel their magic, use flying brooms to get around, and have animal familiars. They are also known to be distinct from wizards, though how exactly they are different is unstated.
• Pride: The Witching World, at least according to Shelby, consider themselves superior to the other empires and look down on them, allegedly because witches consider themselves smarter and more selfless. Headmaster Nowls/Knowls of the Great Witches Academy also acts very condescending towards Shelby in their letter in her 18th episode, alluding that life outside the Witching World is not worth living, and serving the Great Witches is considered an "honorable" line of work for Lesser Witches. However, considering the Headmaster is revealed in the finale to be an evil Mole in Charge, it's unknown what the attitude of the greater Witching World as a whole is like naturally.
• Wicked Witch: Witches tend to not have a good reputation among non-witches, and considering how Shelby, a witch herself, describes the Witching World and its attitude in contrast to her Cultural Rebel tendencies, the Empires everyman's impression of witches likely have some basis in reality.
• Wizarding School: The Great Witches Academy, the school at which young witches are trained to use their magic. However, if they flunk out or are expelled, they are no longer allowed to use magic and will be declared outlaws if they continue to do so.

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