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Meteos Roguerider
Meteos Roguerider
The protagonist. A Grand Mage, a government official of the Holy Milishial Empire's Ministry of Ancient Sorcerous Empire Countermeasures' Ancient Arms Analysis Tactical Operations Department, and the captain of the superweapon Pal Chimera who found himself reborn in the past with his future memories intact. Carrying the knowledge of the future, this man embarks on a self-imposed mission to right the wrongs twenty years in the making, ensuring that his homeland will never be humiliated by anyone.
- The Ace: Meteos is able to become someone capable of "solving problems in the most perfect way," especially technology-related, thanks to his own past life's memories, combined with the inherited memories from Attarsamain that he acquired some point later after remembering his time in the limbo with Kagaseo.
- Adaptational Badass: In the original Japan Summons, he is simply a government official with no shown combat abilities. Here, he's a skilled physical combatant and mage although his status as a mortal takes away any chance of him winning against the outright cosmic entities that were his antagonists.
- Anti-Hero: Of the Pragmatic Hero variety. He is trying to create a more ideal future for his homeland and treats people with kindness, but sometimes his kind treatment is more pragmatically-motivated and Meteos isn't above pulling off manipulation to achieve his goals. He is cautious at first, but acquiring the Temple of Heaven made him bolder by directly gleaning information from the members of the Order of the Ancients and the foreigners (including even the Annonrial Empire delegation) themselves and using them as a basis for his long-term plans.
- Awesome, but Impractical: Because the Temple of Heaven is a reverse-engineered Malakh magic created for the ancestors of the Light-Winged People, using it as a Homo sapiens sapiens will result in a number of drawbacks. A single usage will rapidly drain Meteos' mana reserves enough to knock him out. The Manadriver and the Desire Driver lets him mitigate some of the limitations, but then Pestilence's threat of killing him should he use it 'frivolously' becomes a drawback that he could never surpass.
- Badass Bookworm: His job doesn't require him to fight, but not only he has shown incredible magical skills even as a young teenager, the new timeline Meteos is able to overpower a martial artist larger than him using his hand-to-hand combat skills. He also survived fighting a god.
- The Beautiful Elite: A very loaded commoner who works in the elite governmental agency and is easy on the eyes. And then the Third Timeline makes him an elite even more by having the point of divergence turning his family into a renowned conglomerate.
- Blow You Away: His elemental magic affinity is wind and with the properties of a Manadriver, is able to generate invisible spiraling wind bullets capable of tearing a rock face apart without chanting.
- Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: Downplayed. Because he feels guilty about Astarte's condition in the Third Timeline, he decides to try completing a challenge from Pestilence to grant his wish of the goddess' recovery only for his ass to get handed to him.
- Childhood Friends: With Walman. His falling out with him and his death in the First Timeline were his greatest regrets, and the fact that there is an audience out there who use this as an object of mockery infuriates him to no end.
- Also with Annette Pendragon in the Third Timeline.
- Control Freak: Meteos would rather have the situation around him under his control or at least have the elements to be predictable, and he will go out to ensure that he is in control of the situation. This is before the Illusion Magic: Temple of Heaven even enters the picture.
- Cool Mask: As Amon.
- Dark Horse Victory: As one of the souls picked by Kagaseo to establish a connection to Ars Goetia and expedite Astarte's recovery, someone as selfish as Meteos is not the type of person that Kagaseo expected to pass his trial. But he did.
- Determinator: Even when curbstomped by Kagaseo pre-reincarnation he still refuses to back down for the sake of a chance to realize the vision of his ideal world. Several minutes and exchanges of blows later, he is rewarded with a second chance for his indomitable will.
- Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: In Chapter 64 he is visited by Pestilence, the one behind the Civilization Annihilation Game, who invites him for a meal and discusses his reality show with him.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Downplayed. Even with the help of Astarte's divine intervention, he barely achieves a draw fighting against Kagaseo.
- Enlightened Self-Interest: Despite his actions ultimately contributed to the development of society as a whole, Meteos admitted that the driving intent behind his actions in the new timeline is an incredibly selfish one, as he refused to acknowledge what the Holy Milishial Empire in his previous life turned into after the arrival of Japan and the Gra Valkas Empire.
- Hated by All: Downplayed. The audience and people in places adversely affected by his work as a magical engineer (such as GVE and Mu if his monikers of the "Most Hated Man in Gra Valkas" and the "Undercutter of Muish Economy" go by) in the First Timeline hated him and called him insults, and he decided to return that hatred in kind.
- Hidden Depths: Beneath that calm and affable exterior lies an angry man who is fed up with the hate directed at him by the otherworlders for just doing his job.
- Jerkass to One: He is generally cordial to the people around him, but is cold towards his Third Timeline older brother Legiel for obvious reasons.
- Master of Illusion: His Illusion Magic: Temple of Heaven reverse-engineered from the memories of Attarsamain is the Expy of Kotoamatsukami which works exactly the same by manipulating the target by giving them false experiences, making it seem as if they were doing things of their own free will. Using this technique, Meteos is able to have an easier time steering people's actions to fit his agenda. However, without supporting devices such as a certain very powerful energy cell to provide the required mana, the strain from its usage is enough to knock him out.
- Meaningful Name: His surname, "Roguerider," seems a good fit for someone who tries hard to defy fate, which is exactly what he does. And then Kagaseo gives him a Rider System to become Kamen Rider Rogue just because of his name.
- Personality Powers: Attarsamain's inherited memories grant him the Temple of Heaven as his first reverse-engineered magic spell out of the man's desire to be able to better convince people, being a rather poor speaker with a tendency to be incredibly blunt when interacting with people.
- Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Retains his Second Timeline memories when the Four Horsemen's insertion into his world changes history and creates the Third Timeline.
- Screw Destiny: His main goal after realizing that he's reborn as a younger version of himself is to avoid the future that awaits his homeland. Later it's revealed that he's been doing this by defying Kagaseo's expectations during the fight in the afterlife to determine if he's worthy.
- Secretly Selfish: The primary fuel of his drive to make the HME strong is less of patriotic fervor and more of envy due to the appearance of Japan and Gra Valkas in his first timeline hurt the pride and ego he didn't realize he possessed deep down. In addition, the people from nonmagical nations hate him for doing his job because the magical technologies he invented were too successful, leading him to spite those newcomers in his new life, making it personal.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: Prefers outfits good enough to make him gets mistaken as a nobleman's son in public.
- Shout-Out: The name and appearance of his masked persona in the Third Timeline is based on Amon from The Legend of Korra (with a slightly different mask if you were to use the picture attached on the Wattpad version's Chapter 77 as a reference). Ironically, this Amon is (primarily) an airbender.
- Double the irony since the clandestine group he's leading is called the White Lotus.
- Superpower Lottery: Thanks to this trope being invoked by the god who reincarnated him as an investment and reward, in a world where people can paint reality using their magic, Meteos hit the jackpot and definitely becomes the biggest winner of the lottery by inheriting the memories of the Attarsamain civilization, allowing him to study them and reverse-engineer overpowered magic spells (by Ars Goetia's standards) that he now uses as his greatest trump cards.
- Technology Uplift: The one who orchestrates the emergence of technologies that are not supposed to exist in the new timeline's 1614 one after another. The main goal of his life in the new timeline is to bring the already-powerful (for the known world's standards) Holy Milishial Empire into an even more overpowered entity so that when the time came for Japan, the Gra Valkas Empire, and the Ravernal Empire to appear, his country would still emerge as the strongest. His first invention differs between the Second and Third Timelines. He first invented the conductive magnetic radar in the Second, while the Third Timeline's history has him invent the Holy Milishial Empire's first cruise missile.
- Teen Genius: By the age of 14, he is already skipping higher education to speedrun the technology tree as a member of the MOASEC.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Justified. He uses the Temple of Heaven to make his allies not question him whenever he's doing it in the open.
- Workaholic: If not for the constant reminder from his colleagues to take a proper rest, he would have exhausted himself staying all night pouring his past life memories into plans.
- Your Heart's Desire: Meteos' inherited memories of Attarsamain works by responding to what he desires and rewarding his eagerness to learn. The desire to compensate for his poor speaking skills resulted in Temple of Heaven, while a desire to recreate a metal from Attarsamain grants Meteos the ability to learn Overhaul.
Holy Milishial Empire
In General
Home to the protagonist, the Holy Milishial Empire is a country ruling the southern part of the First Civilization Area called the Middle Lands and the self-proclaimed world's strongest country.
- Benevolent Conspiracy: The modern unified HME is founded largely due to the efforts of the Order of the Ancients, which seeks to establish a harmonious state where there will be no war in the Middle Lands.
- Creative Sterility: As a consequence of their imitative technological development process, being innovative is not really the HME's strongest suit. At first.
- Mage Marksman: "Every soldier a mage". While the HME military has the more specialized mage units, guns are classified as magic tools, making the HME soldiers this.
- Schizo Tech: Due to its reliance on reverse-engineering the Ravernal Empire's relics they can find, the HME initially has a very stunted technological development process.
- Serious Business: Three things that the people of HME take very seriously: filial piety, the Ancient Sorcerous Empire, and training. Kaios from Parpaldia has to be warned about these three things so that he will not unknowingly insult someone even if he tries to act humble.
- Smug Super: Is so far above everyone else in the known world and knows it that even when being benevolent, they are still condescending, as seen with the HME's diplomats' behavior.
Emperor Milishial VIII
Lucius Eldart Hollowrain de Milishial
The current ruler of the HME and the victor of the Warring Kingdoms Period three millennia ago, where he unified the fractured Middle Lands to establish the modern iteration of the Holy Milishial Empire.- Cold Sniper: A mage example. He is The Stoic creator of the magic spell whose concept of 'rotating bullet' inspired guns and he demonstrated it to kill an invading dragonfolk tribe's king by sniping him from afar during the Warring Kingdoms period.
- The Dreaded: Subverted. When he unified the Middle Lands under his rule, everyone feared that he would become a second coming of Ravernal. However, as an emperor he pushed for reconciliation policies and promoted peace to the point even Emor of all countries nicknamed him the "Lightbringer of the Two Lands" (even though they still condescendingly see him as a grumpy jerk of a town elf).
- Hero of Another Story: His time ending the chaotic Warring Kingdoms period (the era before the formation of the modern HME) as the unifier of the Middle Lands.
- Red Baron: Lucius of the Morning Star.
- Lucifer, the Lightbringer of the Two Lands is what people also knew him after becoming the unifier of the Middle Lands.
- The Stoic: His face never shows emotion, but he's a decent and very generous guy.
Princess Lugiel
Lugiel Eldart Hollowrain, Imperial Lady of the 3rd Rank
Seventeenth in line to the throne. She is also the Magister of the Eyes, a branch of the Order of the Ancients in charge of intelligence and counter-intelligence.- Named After Somebody Famous: In-universe. She is named after the ancient Third Milishial Emperor, Lugiel of the Azure Star.
Roguerider Family (unmarked spoilers)
In General
The house to which the main character belongs. The Rogueriders are known as a small middle-class family from the Enysfal Province. Things change in the Third Timeline where a point of divergence that occurs earlier transforms this family into one of the largest conglomerates in the Holy Milishial Empire, the Roguerider Foundation.
- Mystical White Hair: The matriarch and children of the family have silver hair and blue eyes that make them somewhat stand out from the rest of the population. Eight of the family's ten children are also related to the supernatural in one way or another. The first four are the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the fifth is actually a god, the sixth is reborn in the past thanks to the fifth, and the seventh and eighth are "incomplete" reincarnators.
Parpaldia Empire
In General
The strongest country of the Third Civilization Area and the fourth-ranked superpower.
- Animal Motifs: Dragons, specifically the wingless tortoise-like land dragon. A pair of them are featured in the empire's flag and its epithet is the "Dragon of Philades."
Emperor Leonius
Leonius
The current emperor of the Parpaldia Empire. He is the father of Ludius, the Parpaldian Emperor in the OG who is still an infant at this point.- Enraged by Idiocy: A surefire way to instantly trigger his Berserk Button is by being an incompetent imbecile, which is unfortunately the majority of the Parpaldian ruling structure.
Cosmic Entities (unmarked spoilers)
Gods
Kagaseo
Amatsu-Mikaboshi/Ace Roguerider
The August Star of Heaven. He is a god who originally resided on Earth in Ancient Japan before the destruction of the Linto Tribe by the Yamut Empire broke his heart and he decided to leave the planet for a while. Upon returning, Kagaseo learned that Amaterasu had broken the non-interference principle and sent Mu to another world. Disgusted, he confronted Amaterasu about this violation, but found out that she had already manipulated the Amatsukami and turned them against the Star God. It was unknown what happened after that, but Kagaseo ended up leaving Earth again.
Kagaseo learned about the Civilization Annihilation Games, encountered the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse and received the Suet Jade Purifying Jar, rescued the captive Astarte, and visited planet Yggdra to make contact with the sibling gods Ashir and Mirook in no particular order sometime during his wandering. Informing them about the future events, the siblings were initially skeptical, but soon allied themselves with Kagaseo after the prophecies came true one after another.
Kagaseo is revealed to be the god who reincarnated Meteos, but not before putting his soul through a fight to the death to determine if Meteos deserved his right. This is done for the sake of re-establishing a connection between Ars Goetia and Astarte so that the goddess may heal.
- All for Nothing: His painstaking effort to hide Astarte from the Civilization Annihilation Game and rebelling against them in general turns out to be utterly meaningless since Pestilence already knew everything from the start and is merely letting him run wild before ruining everything Kagaseo has built whenever he likes it.
- Big Good: From the divinity side. He is noted to be so far the first and only god to openly defy the Civilization Annihilation Game.
- Break Them by Talking: Points out Meteos' selfish motivations as part of the trial pre-reincarnation. Not only it has no effect, it only serves to motivate Meteos further.
- Deus ex Machina: Invoked and even called by name outright. Kagaseo gives Meteos the ability to recall inherited memories based on Attarsamain out of spite towards the Audience who once wanted the Civilization Annihilation Game to destroy the planet for being "unrealistic" in their eyes.
- Hated by All: Other gods hate him and won't listen to his warnings simply because he's a foreigner to their domains. After his break-in and rescue of Astarte, the Civilization Annihilation Game's view changed from seeing him as an insignificant deity who was coping on his own fault of getting too attached to the demise of mortals who worshipped him to a detested entity deserving nothing less than cold-hard annihilation due to being "unrealistic."
- The Chooser of the One: In order to heal Astarte, Kagaseo must first reestablish her connection to her home world by making someone remember her. To achieve that, he picks souls and places them in trials against him. However, none lasts long enough for that connection to be reestablished until this one random, selfish soul named Meteos Roguerider...
- The Worf Effect: While he manages to trounce the Civilization Annihilation Game's enforcers who are after Astarte, Kagaseo is absolutely destroyed by Pestilence when he pays him and Astarte a visit.
Astarte
Astarte/Guinevere Pendragon
Ars Goetian pantheon's Goddess of Fertility and the Blessed Mother of the Elven Race.- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: She once asked Shamash (Amaterasu) for help in stopping the Ravernal Empire's torment of the planet at the cost of her divinity out of love. In return, Shamash sold her to the Civilization Annihilation Game where she would be the focal point of a torture-themed entertainment segment called Gaiden to please a certain demographic of the Audience who gets a kick from seeing her suffering.
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
In General
Four personifications of calamities that are neither good nor evil, but anti-mortal life in nature.
- Cool Bike: Pestilence, Famine, and War have one to symbolize their horses, except Death who instead has a Cool Car.
- Hopeless Boss Fight: The Rule of Chapter 69 states in no uncertain terms that the result of trying to fight them is an instant defeat.
The Pale Rider
Death/Adonis Roguerider
The entity who is introduced as Kagaseo's mysterious backer but decides to not involve himself in his rebellion. Only after Pestilence directly attacks Kagaseo did he retaliate by putting a pause to their feud and reset the ongoing timeline of Ars Goetia into a new timeline.- Cosmic Retcon: Reset the ongoing Second Timeline of Ars Goetia after intervening in the mortal plane as retaliation for Pestilence's intervention in the mortal plane. As a result, the Four Horsemen and Kagaseo are inserted into the new timeline as members of the Roguerider family who live in an even more advanced HME.
- Shout-Out: His pale green car is one to Death's car from Supernatural complete with a matching Vanity License Plate.
- The Watcher: He prefers to "watch and record stories" most of the time. However, there is no one who prohibits him from interfering directly with the creation. However, at this point he's already shown some biases by giving Kagaseo a means to empower himself and finally he subverts this trope by stepping in to stop Pestilence's plans by the end of the Scheme Arc.
The White Rider
Pestilence/The Executive Producer/Legiel Roguerider
The overarching main antagonist and the supreme leader of the Civilization Annihilation Game. After Death used his power to forcibly modify the second timeline into a "third timeline", Pestilence inserted himself into Ars Goetia's plane of existence to live as a human named Legiel Roguerider.- Affably Evil/Faux Affably Evil: He always speaks in a polite and easygoing tone throughout his interactions, bearing no ill will against his opposition as he thinks of himself as more of a businessman whose job happens to endanger the entities concerned. However, Pestilence's condescending moments show that he is only superficially polite at best and an outright sadist at worst.
- Arch-Enemy: To Kagaseo.
- Bad Boss: He is more friendly to his enemies than his own subordinates, whom he engineers to die on a regular basis. Justified since the Civilization Annihilation Game exists to corral these kinds of individuals in one place so that Pestilence can dispose of them off.
- Big Bad: The founder and supreme leader of the Civilization Annihilation Game.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Deities who willingly subscribe to the Civilization Annihilation Game? They'll get what they deserve for choosing to revel in the suffering of others. Benevolent deities but lose against the former group? Skill issue. Mortals? Defective products from defective production lines.
- Brought Down to Badass: Becoming Legiel Roguerider doesn't stop Pestilence from being overpowered.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Being in a league of his own, whenever Pestilence has to fight, his enemies always lose quickly. Both Kagaseo and Meteos can vouch for that.
- Establishing Character Moment: His introduction scene showcases his sadism, Bad Boss tendencies, and threat level by having him admire the results of past Civilization Annihilation Games, turning his minions who had fought a god to a stalemate into puppets without breaking a sweat, and slaughtering audience members who criticize him in a single swipe of hand.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: His love for his fellow Horsemen is genuine. In addition, he loves to indulge in Death's request despite their conflicting philosophies.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Averted. Pestilence understands that a creature is able to change for the better. It's just he views the process as incredibly inefficient in the grander scheme of things and it's better to just wipe the 'defective' individuals by force.
- For Happiness: Believe it or not, this is Pestilence's true goal in becoming a Well-Intentioned Extremist he identifies himself to be in the present day. By purging the universe of deities with 'defective' tendencies who will only create 'defective' creations, he intends to bring happiness to all creation."Simply put, unhinged gods create unhinged creations. These kinds of gods, who themselves thrive in feuds within their pantheon, don't really care about their creations' well-being, only enjoying the chaos they cause whenever conflicts between them erupt."
- Hopeless Boss Fight: Even a god like Kagaseo is hopelessly trounced by Pestilence.
- Greater-Scope Villain: The source of every otherworldly problem that plagues Meteos' world and countless other civilizations (such as Yggdra, Mu, and Attarsamain in the series' universe). Stealing a country and dumping it on another world where its existence is incompatible is merely one of the methods he used to entertain his Civilization Annihilation Game's audience.
- Kick the Dog: In a rare moment where his affable expression morphs into something else, Pestilence as Legiel taunts a depowered Kagaseo over what he deems a series of poor decision making which leads to the events of the story, calling him "God of Nothing... Protector of Nobody!" before uppercutting Kagaseo into unconsciousness.
- Knight of Cerebus: The series may have started off a relaxed story with hints of intrigue popping up here and there, and then it made a Genre Shift with the revelation of why Meteos Roguerider is reincarnated, topped by the appearance of Pestilence himself.
- Lack of Empathy: What makes him a villain in the eyes of the mortals affected by the Civilization Annihilation Game is utter the lack of consideration for their well-being. While he is committed to purging the creation of evil and decadent higher beings whom he compared to rabid dogs, he likens the mortals that these gods created as their excrement, whom he needs to clean but is not worth caring for. It's not that he doesn't understand of their capacity to be better, it's just that he doesn't care.
- Light Is Not Good: An Invincible Villain cosmic function that takes the form of a white-haired young man who dresses in white.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Directly intervening in Kagaseo's shenanigans leads to his brother Death retaliating by intervening himself and proposing that Ars Goetia be made into a ceasefire zone of sorts until they can solve the crux of their argument, which for Meteos Roguerider, it means a third timeline where the Holy Milishial Empire is even more technologically advanced than his second timeline.
- Orcus on His Throne: Played with. He is aware of Kagaseo's actions from the beginning but is content with letting his minions try to reclaim the stolen Astarte at first. Immediately after Kagaseo defeats his first Gameizers, Pestilence decides to pay him a visit and unravel everything the Star God has built.
- Plague Master: Represents diseases of all kinds, including physical, mental, and spiritual.
- Satanic Archetype: He tempts the deities who feel stagnant with promises of quality entertainment only for him to devolve them into disposable mindless addicts.
- Scare 'Em Straight: Threatens to kill Meteos if he or Death finds him using his Temple of Heaven for something they find frivolous.
- Smug Super: The Horsemen are totally invincible to gods and mortals who defy them, and Pestilence in particular is very gleeful to rub this fact on their faces.
- Time Master: He is able to stop time, and he makes his first appearance to Meteos on Ars Goetia by doing this.
- Troll: Seems to enjoy yanking Kagaseo's and Meteos' chains. The former especially.
- Villain Takes an Interest: After he involves himself directly in Ars Goetia's new timeline affairs, Pestilence as Legiel decides to know Meteos better. He listens to his motivations and even pampers him on one occasion. He does the same thing to Kagaseo, albeit in a much more condescending way.
