History Characters / FireEmblemTheBlazingBladeTheBlackFang

This page covers the Black Fang, the major antagonistic force of ''The Blazing Blade''.

-->'''Nergal:'''Why? Why must I lose? More power... I must be... stronger... I... Why? Why did I... want power? Aenir? Don't... under...stand...

-->'''Negal:''' Nergal: Why? Why must I lose? More power... I must be... stronger... I... Why? Why did I... want power? Aenir? Don't... under...stand...

* SchrodingersCat: On Lloyd's map, instead of Igor the attack on Eliwood is announced by an unnamed generic who's using the same mouth-covered portrait seen numerous times.

* ProudBeauty: She thinks highly of her appearance, with her official portrait showing her in a vain pose [[HairFlip flipping her hair]] and [[BigBreastPride sticking out her chest]]. In ''Heroes'' she even accuses the summoner of gawking at her.

* DarkActionGirl: They do most of the heavy lifting for Nergal's plan, and are the boss of the penultimate chapter.

* PenultimateBoss: She's the last threat Eliwood's army faces before the FinalBattle with Nergal begins.

* AnimalMotifs: Wolves, as per his title. Also reflected in his tactical/strategic sense, fighting style, and personality.

* AnimalMotifs: Hounds, as per his title. Also reflected in his tactical/strategic sense, fighting style, and personality.

* AristocratsAreEvil: He's a bona-fide SerialKiller. That's dark even by ''Fire Emblem'' standards.

-->'''Pascal''': Gahaa...Urrg....gaa... Is this...death? Is this..what I have...wrought so oft before?
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Tries this on ''[[BullyingADragon Sonia]]'', of all people. She shuts him up right quick, though.
* {{Irony}}: Pascal was originally a wicked Bernese noble who found himself in trouble for the slaughter of his own subjects and then joined the Black Fang... a Bernese orgazination dedicated to assassinating wicked nobles just like himself.

* PaletteSwap: Of Bauker... who happens to be an AntiVillain.

* AlasPoorVillain: See WorthyOpponent, below. Eliwood outright ''says'' that he wishes they could've met under better circumstances.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: See his quote.

* TheFatalist: The reason why he joined the Black Fang.
* HorseArcher: Speculated to be of the Djute tribe of Sacae, as he wears very similar clothes to the Djute bosses of ''Sword of Seals''.

* NobleDemon: The best example in the Black Fang.

* KilledMidSentence: Although it turns out he was mistaken anyway.
--> "You were only...striking at air... You are...too late. The girl is already--"

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:He kills himself rather than face the Fang's justice.]]

* YouHaveFailedMe: His greatest fear. [[spoiler:He ends up doing this to ''himself''.]]

--> ''"Gaa...ha... Crow in...triumph... you've-"''
%%zce* PaletteSwap: Of Wire.

%%zce* PaletteSwap: Of Heintz.

%%zce* PaletteSwap: Of Marquess Araphen.

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%%zce* PaletteSwap: Of Sealen.

%%zce* PaletteSwap: Of Glass from Lyn's story.

%%zce* PaletteSwap: Of Cameron.

* SuicidalOverconfidence: On Eliwood's route, he trieds to attack [[spoiler:Jaffar]] immediately and is very likely to die just as fast. Less so on Hector's route as he's further away, and on Hard Mode he has the stats to actually survive and even kill [[spoiler:Jaffar]] himself if he's lucky.

* LongLived: Has used his dark magic to extend his lifespan, and is now much older than the average human.

* WizardsLiveLonger: He was alive [[spoiler:and old enough to sire children]] about a thousand years ago, during the Scouring.

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* BitchInSheepsClothing: She's a vile person with little empathy for anyone she considers to be weak, but knows how to hide her true feelings, which is how she kept her daughter Nino and her husband Brendan in the dark about what she truly thought of them.

* TheVamp: ''Very'' beautiful... and also deadly, powerful, and completely evil. Her purpose appears to be infiltration through seduction, as she managed to get in control of the Black Fang by seducing and marrying their leader, Brendan.

* TheBrute: Being an Archer aside, he's practically a ''classic'' example of this trope, as there are no clear signs that he's an intelligent creature at all, along with the fact that he commands an impressive {{Mook}} horde.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: ...Yet despite the aforementioned frailty, his HP and Defense are outrageously good -- and his Speed is quite good, too. If he ''could'' actually fight back, he'd be a nightmare to face.

* InTheHood: Keeps his hood up in his character portrait, revealing only his nose and mouth, enough to determine that he can emote.

* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:It's heavily implied he was once Renalt's dead friend, who ]]
* WellDoneSonGuy: Implied to be one for Nergal.

* TheBrute: To Nergal, being that he's the deadliest of the Four Fangs.

* {{Tykebomb}}: [[spoiler:He's been raised practically since birth to be Nergal's assassin.]]

* BadassBoast: His quote, as seen above.

* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:In the final chapter's BossRush.]]
* CoDragons: With Linus, to Brendan.

* DragonTheirFeet: [[spoiler:The brother not killed by Limstella survives the fall of the Black Fang and becomes essentially the FinalBoss of the game's [[ThreeActStructure second act]].]]

* {{Foil}}: To Eliwood, in a sense.

* SiblingYinYang: With Linus. Their personalities clash but they still hold each other close, [[spoiler:both will go after Eliwood's army after the death of their brother.]]

* TranquilFury: [[spoiler:In "Cog Of Destiny".]]

* AntiVillain: He is an assassin, and a vicious one at that, but he believes firmly in the Black Fang's noble purpose.
* BadassBoast: His quote above.

* BloodKnight: He revels in his work, rather than merely seeing it as a grim necessity like his brother does.
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:In the final chapter's BossRush.]]
* CoDragons: With Lloyd, to Brendan.

* DragonTheirFeet: [[spoiler:The brother not killed by Limstella survives the fall of the Black Fang and becomes essentially the FinalBoss of the game's [[ThreeActStructure second act]].]]

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:In "Cog of Destiny".]]

* SiblingYinYang: With Lloyd. Their personalities clash but they still hold each other close, [[spoiler:both will go after Eliwood's army after the death of their brother.]]

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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:She was quite ready to die for her failure, and only asked that she deliver her final report to Sonia. Limstella doesn't grant that last wish. If the party kills her, her thoughts are still focused on her loyalty to Sonia.]]

* BreakoutVillain: Ursula has noticeably been given at lot of focus compared to the other antagonists of ''Blazing Blade'' over the recent years. She's has appeared in the ''Fire Emblem Cipher'' card game [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/fireemblem/images/9/95/Ursula_R_-_Senri_Kita.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20161229083942 with new artwork]] and was one of the first villains to be obtainable for the player in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes'', almost unheard of for someone who does not have much impact in the overall plot. And she's the first villain to get a swimsuit variant and even won a Voting Gauntlet that has Lyndis in it.

* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:In the final chapter's BossRush.]]
* ColorMotif: Her clothing and hair have a purple / lilac motif.
* CompositeCharacter: Ursula combines the female villainous general having an affection for their superiors of [[Characters/FireEmblemAntagonistArchetypes the Ishtar archetype]] with the cruelty and appearance of the Dark Lady.
* ConsummateProfessional: She's the most professional and cold of the members of the Black Fang, and doesn't hesitate to kill her targets or Black Fang traitors. [[spoiler:When she herself fails her mission, she accepts the Black Fang's YouHaveFailedMe punishment rule without complaint.]]

* FemmeFatale: Beautiful, well-endowed... and damn deadly.
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: The other Four Fangs, primarily use swords, Ursula on the other hand uses magic.
* KickTheDog: She's rather sympathetic, but she's still pretty harsh to poor Nino. Though to her credit, she does say that [[MercyKill she'll at least make Nino's death as brief and painless as possible]].
-->''"Stupid girl... I'll see that you don't suffer, at least."''

* MsFanservice: She is displaying a decent amount of cleavage and has slits in her dress to show off her legs. Her appearance led to her getting a swimsuit alt in Heroes.

* ThePerfectionist: She strives for "absolute perfection" in everything she does and only respects those who do the same. The reason she likes Sonia so much is that she agrees with Sonia's {{Ubermensch}}'s philosophy.
-->'''Ursula:''' Perfection or oblivion? Really, it's quite obvious

* LongRangeFighter: Her Bolting tome's massive range of 3-10 is a large reason why [[ThatOneLevel Battle Before Dawn]] is considered one of the most frustrating Chapters in the whole series, as it takes her less effort to reach the targets that you need to protect.

* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:In the final chapter's BossRush.]]

* TheVamp: ''Very'' beautiful... and also deadly, powerful, and completely evil. Her purpose appears to be infiltration through seduction, as she managed to get in control ofl the Black Fang by seducing and marrying their leader, Brendan.

* TheVamp: ''Very'' beautiful... and also deadly, powerful, and completely evil. Her purpose appears to be infiltration through seduction, as she managed to get in control ofl the Black Fang by seducing and marrying their leader, Brendan.
* VerbalTic: Often starts to speak while "Hee hee" giggles.

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* AmbiguouslyGay: While she is unquestioningly loyal to Sonia, the official artbook states that she ''adores'' Sonia.

* UndyingLoyalty: To Sonia, arguably a SubordinateExcuse for some.

%%* AxCrazy: ''Knife'' crazy.
* BloodKnight: With very little emphasis on 'knight' and plenty more emphasis on 'blood'. Lots and ''lots'' of blood.

* PsychoForHire: He's definitely one of the more dangerously insane of the the Black Fang.
* RememberTheNewGuy: If you fought Kenneth in the Black Fang Fortress, the appearance of [[spoiler:Jerme's morph]] in the final chapter will be this.

* AffablyEvil: Very courteous and polite. And an asshole.

* DefectorFromDecadence: Perceives ''himself'' as such.

* RememberTheNewGuy: If you fought Jerme in the Black Fang Fortress, the appearance of [[spoiler:Kenneth's morph]] in the final chapter will be this.

* EvilCounterpart: To [[spoiler:Athos]].
* EvilSorcerer: Capable of using very powerful magic to not only devastate his opponents, but also to create morphs.

* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:Literally, in fact.]]

* InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler:With Aenir, an ice dragon and the mother of Nils and Ninian.]] Yep, you read that correctly...

** [[spoiler: Because of a translation misunderstanding between Aenir (Nergal's wife) and Aegir (Quintessence's japanese name), a piece of secret dialogue where Nergal is actually remembering her wife's name is replaced with he randomly talking about quintessence.]]
** His class name in Japanese is actually the same as his theme song (Calamity Bringer), though, even in the japanese release the class never was officially romanized that way instead being called "Basiliskglance".
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:His lust for power is rooted in his desire to rescue his kidnapped wife, and then reuniting with his children. By the time the heroes get to him, he's long forgotten this.]]
* LukeIAmYourFather: Never outright said, but heavily implied. This is because [[spoiler:[[TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget he no longer remembers their relation]], although it's hinted at since Nils and Ninian were drawn by his voice to open the Dragon's Gate, and Nils might have come to the realisation after Nergal's death]].
* MadScientist: A magical variation.

* MotiveDecay: Strongly implied to have happened to him at some point throughout Eliwood's tale. The sidequests in Hector's story reveal his backstory: [[spoiler:He was originally married to a dragon and had two beloved children, strongly implied to be Nils and Ninian. When his wife was captured during the Scouring, Nergal sent his children through the Dragon's Gate to safety and went on a failed attempt to rescue her. He devoted himself to dark magic in an attempt to reopen the Gate and reunite with his children, but lost his sense of self to the darkness and has since become obsessed with gaining power for power's sake, completely forgetting his wife and children.]]

* SanitySlippage: Thanks to [[spoiler:being consumed by the magic he researched (and forgetting his past over the centuries)]], his sanity has long been deteriorating. Especially evident in the final battle when his comments suggest MotiveDecay and his death quote (whichever you get) shows he's completely lost it in the end.
* ScarsAreForever: Just ''look'' at his [[spoiler:right eye]].
* StartOfDarkness: But you'll only see it in the sidequests... [[spoiler:Once, he was just a simple man who dabbled in the dark arts, but who loved his wife and children very much. When his wife Aenir, an ice dragon, was taken from him, he tried to save her, leaving his children behind at Valor with the instruction to go through the Dragon's Gate if he didn't return in ten days. In order to re-open the Dragon's Gate to be with them, he began to delve even further into the darkness... only to lose himself in the process, forget ''why'' he wanted power, and ultimately become a villain.]]

* ArtificialHuman: She is a Morph, no matter how hard she denies it.

* BreakTheHaughty: Her final scene in the story. [[spoiler:She's either killed off unceremoniously by Nergal, or slain by the lords after failing to kill her daughter (whom she viewed as disposable) and then left to die by Limstella after Limstella takes the quintessence Sonia's gathered and whatever quintessence is still left in her. In both cases, she dies pitifully clinging to her delusion that she's human.]]

* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Ursula seems to, at least.

* FlawedPrototype: [[spoiler:Heavily implied to be this to Limstella. Nergal refers to her as "failed work."]]
* HateSink: As a horrific AbusiveParent who is responsible for subverting the Black Fang to Nergal's control and many other atrocities, she's perhaps the most despicable character in the game.
* HoneyTrap: Got the Fang onto her dark master's payroll by seducing Brendan.
* KarmicDeath: Sonia frequently abused both her daughter, Nino, and her comrade Limstella. In the end, Sonia ends up defeated, potentially by Nino directly and otherwise on Nino's behalf, and finished off by Limstella. If the Gaiden chapter isn't taken, she instead reports back to Nergal, who [[ReducedToDust unmakes her on the spot]] as a result of her constant failure.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Despite working for Nergal, Sonia disobeys his orders when it pleases her. Despite Nergal ordering Sonia to train Nino to be a great mage, Sonia abused her and didn't teach her anything, with Nino revealing that she only learned magic at all by imitating what she saw others do in secret. Sonia also refused Nergal's orders to step aside and chose to go after Eliwood and Hector on her own so she could get all the glory. This ended up being her undoing.

* ManipulativeBitch: She's got all of the Black Fang at the ends of puppet strings.

* MsFanservice: Hoo boy. Take a look at [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/fireemblem/images/f/f1/Sonia.png/revision/latest?cb=20160622215548 her official artwork]]. She wears a black, figure-hugging dress that shows off her hourglass figure, [[NavelDeepNeckline the neckline of which stops just above her navel]]; said dress features [[SexySlitDress thigh-high slits in its skirts]] that flaunt her legs. Her art in ''Heroes'' exaggerates all of the above. The look is completed by her long black hair, red lips and the gold bracelet just above her left ankle. All perfectly justified, as she was essentially ''designed'' to be sexy by Nergal.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: Offers this as a justification for [[spoiler:placing a hit on her own daughter, stating that a freshly-killed scapegoat for Prince Zephiel's murder is necessary to head off a SuccessionCrisis in Bern]]. This doesn't make [[spoiler:Jaffar]] any more convinced.
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:Orders Jaffar to kill Nino after she kills Prince Zephiel, giving TheNeedsOfTheMany as justification. Jaffar (and presumably the player) don't buy it.]]
* ParentalNeglect: [[spoiler:Even before it's revealed she's actually ''homicidal'' toward her daughter]], she doesn't come off as a particularly good parent, even denying Nino hugs because she thinks they're a sign of weakness and never directly teaching her magic.

* RavenHairIvorySkin: She has long dark hair to contrast with her pale skin.

* {{Ubermensch}}: What she sees herself as. She's about as wrong as you can get.
* TheVamp: ''Very'' beautiful... and also deadly, powerful, and completely evil. Her purpose appears to be infiltration through seduction, as she got control the Black Fang by seducing their leader, Brendan.

* WickedStepmother: To Lloyd and Linus, who aren't much younger than her. Their father, Brendan, married her around the same time Lyn's Tale was going on, and she quickly subverted whatever noble intentions the Reed Family and Black Fang still held and turned them towards Nergal's ends, trying to destablize Bern and Lycia and start a war that would let Nergal harvest all the quinetessence he could need.

* AffablyEvil: The condescending, manipulative sort.
* ArtificialHuman: He's a morph created by dark magic.
* TheCorrupter: Corrupted Lord Darin, managed to make some leeway with Lord Helman...
* EvilChancellor: Nergal plants him as an advisor in Lord Darin's court to corrupt the latter.
* EvilGenius: Of TheCorrupter varient.

* InTheBack: His preferred method of killing people. Oddly enough, his overworld sprite indicates he's a magic-user.
* InTheHood: [[spoiler:Until his final few chapters.]]

* TheManBehindTheMan: He's the one behind the potential coup in Lycia.
* ManipulativeBastard: He plays on Marquess Santaruz's cowardice and Marquess Laus' greed to start a war in Lycia. It would have worked if Eliwood hadn't shown up.

* SmugSnake: At least Sonia is powerful and all; he doesn't even have that. [[spoiler:As far as we know, anyway, we just never got to see him in action.]]
* TheUnfought: [[spoiler:Much to the chagrin of players who wanted Matthew to gut him. He still gets his KarmicDeath, though.]]

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: They have more HP than is possible for playable Sages. On Normal difficulty, they also get more Defense and Resistance.

* TheDragon: Nergal's most powerful servant. They're the only one of his creations that he seems to genuinely appreciate, or at least admire his own handiwork.

* EmotionlessGirl: It is implied that they do feel emotions, but they don't show it or act on them.

* KickTheDog: Poor [[spoiler:Ursula, Lloyd, and Linus]].

* SuperiorSuccessor: Heavily implied to be this to [[spoiler:Sonia]].

* ArtificialHuman: [[spoiler:He's a morph, one of Nergal's failed experiments.]]

* AxCrazy: ''Knife'' crazy.

* BadassFamily: A patriarch thereof.

* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:In the final chapter's BossRush.]]

* UglyGuyHotWife: He's rather...rough looking, especially compared to his impossibly beautiful wife Sonia.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Sonia does this to him.]]

* MoreDespicableMinion: Nergal may be despicable, but he's ultimately a tragic figure who receives some degree of pity from other characters for how completely he's lost himself and his original goals in the pursuit of the power to achieve those goals. Sonia, however, is a sadistic, narcissistic, selfish, abusive, delusional monster with no TragicBackstory or FreudianExcuse and who is much more personally responsible for ruining many, many lives, and receives nothing resembling pity from anyone.

* BeardOfEvil: A rather thick green goatee.
* DieLaughing: Taking his death in stride, if only because YouAreTooLate to save Lord Helman.
* DissonantSerenity: His smile doesn’t drop once, even as he laments paying “too much” for the sellswords who couldn’t stop the party.

* MightyGlacier: Even Eliwood's rapier probably won't hurt him too much. Hector or an axefighter is probably the best bet.
* ViolentGlaswegian: Not literally, obviously, but he talks like one, at least.

* YouAreTooLate: Gloats in his last words that it’s too late to save Marquess Santaruz.

* PaletteSwap: Of Wire.

* SoftSpokenSadist: Never raises his voice, yet he slips into the “interesting diversion” caused by Fargus’ game; he seems to relish the “grieving” he’ll inflict on Eliwood by demonstrating the terror of the Fang, and possibly even LovesTheSoundOfScreaming based on his battle dialogue.

* KilledOffscreen: If the player doesn’t kill him within the turn limit, he and any remaining mooks are killed during a FadeToBlack by Fargus after he and his crew re-emerge from below deck.
* PaletteSwap: Of Heintz.

* TheChessmaster: Well, he tries to be this.

* PaletteSwap: Of Marquess Araphen.

* ThisCannotBe: His reaction when [[spoiler:Kishuna]] shows up.

* TallDarkAndSnarky: Quickly turns this way once he reveals himself as another one of Nergal's followers.

* TheDragon: Second in command Lord Darin, but only briefly (and he's been assigned the role, at that).

* KingMook: He’s basically a mini-boss obstacle leading a band of generic units.

* CombatPragmatist: He strikes the party while they’re resting in Badon, at nighttime, and a number of his subordinates carry poison weapons to further tip the scales in his favour. He also won’t move initially until you enter his range and/or cross the walls of the town, demonstrating caution and patience on his part.
* EvilRedHead: A red-haired man who is a cool-headed assassin.

* SchrodingersCat: On Lloyd’s map, instead of Igor the attack on Eliwood is announced by an unnamed generic who’s using the same mouth-covered portrait seen numerous times.

* NumberTwo: He’s Ursula’s second-in-command during the battle at the manse; while Ursula is ready to strike from a range, he’s leading the frontline of assassins going to Zephiel’s room (or on Hector’s route, covering the rear to intercept the party).

* OptionalBoss: On Hector mode, it’s technically possible (but more difficult) to complete the objective without anyone engaging him if you just take the eastern route towards Zephiel; even obtaining the Rescue staff can let you nab Jaffar before he enters Maxime’s range.

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* CombatPragmatist: He strikes the party while they’re resting in Badon, at nighttime, and a number of his subordinates carry poison weapons to further tip the scales in his favour.

%%zce* TheDragon: To Ursula.

* SuicidalOverconfidence: Tries to attack [[spoiler:Jaffar]] immediately, and is very likely to die just as fast.

* {{Foil}}: To Hector, in a sense. Lloyd even comments that Hector reminds him of Linus if you have the two fight in Cog of Destiny. And if you kill him ''with'' Hector in Chapter 29, [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration there’s a hidden dialogue scene where he acknowledges that he killed somebody so very similar to himself]].
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:If fought in "Cog of Destiny," he wasn't seeking death, but was still just glad to join Lloyd. Also applies to his Morph, who smiles in a relieved manner after being killed.]]

* RouteBoss: Fought only in Chapter 25 of Hector’s route.

* RouteBoss: Fought only in Chapter 11 of Hector’s route.

* DarkIsEvil: In fact, he's the only Druid-class boss in the game.

* RouteBoss: Fought only in Chapter 19xx on Hector’s route.

* TheDragon: To Lord Darin, but only briefly (and he’s been assigned the role, at that).
* EvilLaugh: It comes with the territory, as he gives a protracted one after taunting Eliwood.

* FlatCharacter: His lone personality trait is "guards the Dragon's Gate." He doesn't even have battle dialogue!

* PaletteSwap: Of Sealen.

* PaletteSwap: Of Glass from Lyn’s story.

* TheDragon: To Ursula.

* PaletteSwap: Of Cameron.

* YesMan: So his lone line of dialogue implies.

* {{Foil}}: To Hector, in a sense. Lloyd even comments that Hector reminds him of Linus if you have the two fight in Cog of Destiny.

* BaldOfEvil: He doesn't have any hear above his eyeline, and he's a murderous assassin.

* FantasticRacism: Towards Sacaens as he seems unsurprised that Uhai was defeated specifically because he's Sacaean and dismisses his skill as "a certain rough talent, nothing more".

%%* TheDragon: To Lord Darin.
%%* EvilLaugh: It comes with the territory.

%%* EvilRedHead

%%* TheQuietOne

* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Under the hood, he's actually something of a [[{{Bishonen}} pretty boy]] - too bad he's a smug and murderous EvilChancellor.

* MotiveDecay: Strongly implied to have happened to him at some point throughout Eliwood's tale. The sidequests in Hector's story tell this particular tale. [[spoiler:He was originally married to a dragon and had two beloved children, strongly implied to be Nils and Ninian. When his wife was captured during the Scouring, Nergal sent his children through the Dragon's Gate to safety and went on a failed attempt to rescue her. He devoted himself to dark magic in an attempt to reopen the Gate and reunite with his children, but lost his sense of self to the darkness and has become obsessed with gaining power for power's sake.]]

Called "[[RedBaron The Queen of the Four Fangs]]," Sonia is Brendan's second wife, almost disturbingly younger than he is. This is, in fact, among the ''least'' disturbing things about this woman, for she is actually one of Nergal's dark servants, and the go-between between the Dark Druid and the Fang proper. She is a skilled manipulator and an even better magician, and rumors say she holds more power over the Fang than even Brendan himself...

* AbusiveParents: She's not shown to be physically abusive towards Nino, but was emotionally abusive and neglectful to the point of not teaching Nino very basic things and leaving her [[WellDoneSonGuy starved for her mother's affection]], something she later exploits in order to get Nino to carry out an assassination for her [[spoiler:while planning on having her killed afterwards.]]
* ActionMom: {{Subverted|Trope}} - first off, none of her children are her own (nor is it clear if she is capable of producing offspring) - she's Lloyd and Linus Reed's WickedStepmother and only came into their lives around the same time as Lyn's Tale, meaning they were grown adults when she became their stepmother, and she's Nino's mother only by adoption [[spoiler: and she personally killed Nino's parents and brother, only sparing Nino on Nergal's orders]] and second Sonia is never seen interacting with her stepsons outside of giving them missions and makes no effort to actually raise Nino or put on more than the most perfunctory act of being maternal and only even doing that to manipulate her. So despite technically being a mother to three people and an incredibly dangerous combatant, there isn't actually a motherly bone in her body.

* BaitTheDog: Right before "Battle Before Dawn", she offers to hold Nino's hand and hug her and stroke her face as much as she wants if she succeeds in her assassination mission. [[spoiler:Then as soon as Nino's out of earshot, she orders Jaffar to murder her.]]
* BreakTheHaughty: Her final scene in the story. [[spoiler:She's either killed off unceremoniously by Nergal, or slain by the lords after failing to kill her daughter whom she viewed as disposable and then left to die by Limstella after Limstella takes the quintessence Sonia's gathered and whatever quintessence is still left in her. In both cases, she dies pitifully clinging to her delusion that she's human.]]

* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Ursula seems to. It's a (rather unsurprisingly) popular pairing for steamy fanart.

* HumanoidAbomination: She's one of Nergal's Morphs. Not that it wasn't obvious, though she notable believes herself to be human.

* TomatoInTheMirror: Sonia didn't know she was a Morph, and Limstella swiftly tells her that before abandoning her to her luck. That or she knew she was a creation, but sincerely believed she was a true human in spite of it.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice InTheBack: His preferred method of killing people. Oddly enough, his overworld sprite indicates he's a magic-user.

* FantasticRacism: Towards Sacaens as he seems unsurprised that Uhai was defeated specifically because he's Sacaean and dismisses his skill as "a certain rough talant, nothing more".

* SmugSnake: He believes he's unbeatable in the medium-close range his map enforces.

* BreakTheHaughty: Her final scene in the story. [[spoiler:She's either killed off unceremoniously by Nergal, or slain by the lords after failing to kill her daughter whom she viewed as disposable and then left to die by Limstella after she takes the quintessence she's gathered and whatever quintessence is still left in her. In both cases, she dies pitifully clinging to her delusion that she's human.]]

** KickTheSonOfABitch: But in [[spoiler:Sonia]]'s case...

* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:His murder of Leila.]]

* AntiMagic: His mere presence shuts down all magic within 10 spaces of him.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Despite being described as having a frail body, his HP and Defense are outrageously good — and his Speed is quite good, too. If he could actually attack, he'd be a nightmare to face.

* LuckBasedMission: [=KOing=] him in "Prisoner of Magic", a necessary step to get to 19xx in Hector mode. His HP and evasion are sky high for that point of the game, so unless you've been doing a whole bunch of grinding, it'll take some critical hits to do the job. Also, he flees on the enemy turn after you attack him, or if you take too long getting to him in Hard mode, so all you get is one try. Good luck.

* OptionalBoss: Only appears on side chapters.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Kishuna's M.O. in his first two appearances. Once the player's party catch up to him or he is attacked, [[VillainTeleportation he bails]]. Could also be perceived as a tactical retreat, something very few bosses in the game grasp the concept of.