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Sanctifiers
The AI antivirus programs tasked with the security of Magrasea. After the cloud server lost contact with the real world, they still continue to protect the safety of Magrasea's residents by destroying Irregular Agents — "Daemons", in their own word. Unfortunately, their definition of a Daemon includes the Exiles and many other innocuous processes. Their headquarters is the Reverse Babylon Tower.Shared Tropes:
- Enemy Civil War: Unbeknownst to much of Magrasea, the Sanctifiers are divided into two factions, each led by Greater Sanctifiers with different opinions on how to handle Irregular Agents — Eosphorus, who believes there's merit to cooperating with friendlier Irregular Agents, and Hesperus, who believes all such Agents must be cleansed without question. This eventually escalates when it's revealed near the end of the Perilous Advancement event that Eosphorus is actively spreading the Entropic virus, leading to an actual civil war between his and Hesperus' factions.
- Godzilla Threshold: The Inverted Mordent Resonance event reveals that the Sanctifiers collectively went over the threshold long before the Professor's arrival. Facing an unprecedented outbreak of Entropy all over Magrasea, Hesperus felt there was no choice but to lead the Sanctifiers into destroying every Agent in order to contain the outbreak. The only reason why they haven't done this again after the Profesor's arrival is because their knowledge of Sandbox Barriers gave Magrasea hope to fend off Entropy for themselves, as Eosphorus points out. Hesperus begrudgingly gives Eosphorus and the Exiles the chance to prove his approach wrong before setting back out into Magrasea's borderlands.
- Knight Templar: Sanctifiers belonging to Hesperus' faction are primed to destroy Irregular Agents on sight, justifying it as for the good of Magrasea as a whole.
- Mooks: Lesser Sanctifiers have limited computational capability, only enough to obey commands from Greater and Intermediate Sanctifiers.
- Ominous Floating Castle: Their HQ is the Reverse Tower of Babylon, an upside-down Evil Tower of Ominousness floating in the skies above Magrasea.
- Punch-Clock Villain: The way Sanctifiers see it, they only do the job given to them by humans.
- Thank the Maker: The Sanctifiers collectively see the humans and their orders as divine right, and their clothes and architecture are either loosely based on Christianity and/or angelic in appearance to reflect this.
Greater Sanctifiers
Eosphorus
One of the highest ranking Sanctifiers.
- Big Damn Heroes: He intervenes just in time to cleanse a corrupted Wisdom during the climax of Chapter 5.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: "Perilous Advancement" reveals that Eosphorus was actually the Greater-Scope Villain behind Eucharist's escape and the spread of the Entropics throughout Magrasea for reasons that are yet unknown. By the end the event, Hesperus has finally caught on to Eosphorus' schemes meaning a civil war within the Sanctifiers is likely.
- False Flag Operation: Near the end of the Perilous Advancement event, Eosphorous tries to kill Sol with a shot of Entropy straight through her heart. After the Professor hears of this, they realize in hindsight that every single major Entropy outbreak the Exiles and Eosphorous's faction have teamed up to exterminate was likely perpetuated by Eosphorous in the first place in order to gain the Exiles' trust.
- The Gadfly: Early on in the Inverted Mordent Resonance event, the Profesor and Eosphorus (using his female "Eos" disguise) end up getting randomly kidnapped by Nascita as part of a live-action recording for the Toku show Mysterious Warrior Omega. They get tied up together on a stake and have to wait while Nascita and the other actors set up a sacrificial bonfire for the next scene. Eosphorus uses this time to tell the Professor a legend about a tragic romance between a human and a Doll, then uses this legend and the ongoing filming as a pretense to tease the Professor romantically. No matter what the player's choice is in the next few Dialogue Trees, they'll end up getting flustered. The end of the event also shows Eos getting the Professor's digital signature for future reference by taking off one of their gloves and biting their finger hard enough to draw blood, which flusters and bewilders the Professor in equal measure.
- Noble Demon: Eosphorus is rather tolerant to Irregular Agents (and by extension the Exiles). He sees value in working together with more reasonable Daemons, even if he must exterminate them too afterwards.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Employs one during Chapter 7/the Inverted Mordent Resonance event, posing as the female tour agent Eos as an excuse to follow the Professor throughout the Burbank sector and learn more about them. Somehow, despite the obvious similarities between the two (their name, general color scheme and manner of dress, and strange artificial cavity through the chest), the only one who actually picks up on it is the Professor, since his disguise also comes with credentials to fool any Dolls that scan him.
- Ship Tease: Eosphorus does enjoy teasing the Professor, especially when he is in his female disguise, Eos.
- Universally Beloved Leader: The intermediate Sanctifiers aligned under his command constantly showers him with praise and reverence.
Hesperus
- Establishing Character Moment: He makes his first appearance at the end of the Inverted Mordent Resonance event, chastizing Eosphorus for both his female disguise (as he puts it, "playing house") and passiveness in containing Burbank's Entropic infection before threatening to end everybody on the spot just to be safe. He only relents when Eosphorus points out that he dropped in right when the Professor and the Exiles were about to wrap up the situation without having to destroy everyone, and also points out that they've contributed to the safety of Magrasea through the use of Sandbox Barriers, a real world technology only people like the Professor would know about.
- The Ghost: He has not made a direct appearance as of Chapter 6. This is because he is busy fighting Daemons in the Border Regions.
- I Did What I Had to Do: This trope is his reasoning for why he destroyed nearly every Agent to contain Magrasea's first major Entropy outbreak, which occurred long before the Professor's arrival. Unfortunately, this mentality of his extends to non-Entropic Irregular Agents, which puts him at odds with Eosphorus's more sympathetic approach.
Intermediate Sanctifiers
Faith
The Sanctifier in charge of the Rossum Sector.
- Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Her ultimate skill involves putting up a temporary shield that makes her immune to almost all forms of damage while regenerating her health. In timed modes such as Vulnerability Check, this makes her fights a DPS check to take her out before the timer runs out.
- Starter Villain: She is the first boss-level Sanctifier in the game. Her interactions with the processes in Rossum and the Exiles set the tone for how Sanctifiers operate.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: She knows Turing is secretly breaking Sanctifier law with her AI research, but without hard proof and Turing being a Rules Lawyer, all she can do is grumpily play along.
Raven
The Sanctifier in charge of the Cyclopes Sector.
- Blood Knight: Fittingly for Cyclopes, she relishes the thought of having a good fight against the Exiles.
- Dual Wielding: She uses a pair of jousting lances to fight.
- Hold the Line: Her "Awakened" version has a particular vulnerability regarding her Outburst of Calamity protocol - if removed, her Star Sigils will eventually take her out. Of course, surviving that long might be an issue.
- You Will Not Evade Me: Clarion Call pins her target down with one of her lances before charging at them with the other.
Eucharist
The Sanctifier in "charge" of the Helios Sector.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Her moral compass seems focused only on helping whoever helps her get more chocolates from Choco, although she seems to have taken a liking to the Professor by the time the Exiles reach Enigma.
- Evil All Along: Critical Cascade reveals without a doubt that Eucharist has been in league with the Entropy for quite some time.
- Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: A simple round shield. One of her defensive skills also sets up a barrier that's substantially more effective against ranged attacks, making Snipers less effective against her overall.
- Reassigned to Antarctica: Thanks to her slouching off against the Exiles as well as her standing up to Angelus, by the events of Divine Heresy she's been demoted to the rank of Lesser Sanctifier, being now a simple communication operator assigned to the Reverse Tower. She's slightly miffed about it.
- Throwing Your Shield Always Works: One of her Auto Skills, Sacrificial Paten, has her throwing her shield in a straight line at a random tile, teleporting to it when it arrives at its destination, and repeating the process until the skill's duration ends. This makes her especially hard to pin down for melee-based Doll teams.
- Wild Card: Eucharist's actions imply she isn't fully working in the interests of Sanctifiers nor the Exiles. She's working with the Entropy.
Angelus
The Sanctifier in charge of the Enigma Sector.
- Knight Templar: Being a follower of Hesperus, she does not care in the slightest for the Exiles' attempts to fix ENIAC, unlike Eucharist.
Wisdom
A Sanctifier sent to neutralize and contain the Entropic breakout from Pierides.
- Body Horror: Her Entropic form. Thelens of her monocular goggles has been punctured by a single, bulging eye with a purple sclera dead center on her forehead, purple cracks have formed all over her body, and her Idle Animation consists of her twitching constantly (especially her head), as if writhing in pain while Undercranked.
- Break the Cutie: Arguably the cutest Intermediate Sanctifier shown on-screen, especially in regards to her personality, and also the first humanoid Agent to completely give in to the Entropic infection, despite the aid of the Exiles and Eosphorus.
- Blue Is Calm: Other than Reverence (who doesn't fit the bill personality-wise), Wisdom is the only other blue-haired Intermediate Sanctifier. She's generally the Mellow Fellow in the Intermediate Sanctifiers under Eosphorus's command and believes in his empathetic cause for non-hostile Irregular Agents the most.
- Enemy Mine: During Chapter 5, she works alongside the Exiles to contain Entropics in Pierides Sector.
- Friendly Sniper: Her weapon of choice is a large-caliber sniper rifle, and she's one of the most affable Sanctifiers encountered by the Exiles.
- Put on a Bus: After her corruption into an Entropic, Wisdom is captured by Eosphorus and put into stasis in hopes that her infection can someday be cured.
Hope
Messenger
Reverence
Sin and Punishment
A pair of Sanctifier siblings. They can combine into a special Intermediate Sanctifier named Judgement.
- Dub Name Change: Sin got his name changed to Crime in English.
