Necromancer Characters / Characters

Characters from the Necromancer online Gamebook. Due to the nature of gamebooks, references to the player are in the second person. Due to the nature of these gamebooks, all spoilers are unmarked.

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You and your family

Player Character

You. You're an aspiring necromancer who seeks power and control above all else. Whether you achieve this is completely up to you.

A God Am I: You seek power no matter what, and will bend the fabric of hell to ascend to a higher form, with death literally coming from your fingertips.
Alas, Poor Villain: Horrible as you may be, there's something almost tragic about being so utterly crushed by your decisions that death is the only way out. Emphasis on almost.
- Other endings where you or those close to you die horrifically can also ellicit some sympathy, enough to make you temporarily forget the fact you're a homicidal monster with an immeasurable kill count.
Always a Bigger Fish: No matter how powerful you may end up, chances are there's someone even stronger ready to take your place when you're at your weakest. Unfortunately for you, demons are very patient and very powerful.
Ambition Is Evil: Your desire to be a powerful necromancer leads to you forgoing almost all your morality.
And Then What?: After destroying the world, you roam around it in boredom, with nobody but yourself as company.
Antagonistic Offspring: You can imprison or kill your own father in several endings, becoming far worse than he ever could have dreamed of being.
Apocalypse How: In the true ending, you finally succeed in erasing all life from the planet.
Apologetic Attacker: If you return from Drozz unsuccessful, your relationship with Catalina turns to both of you resenting each other, and you smite her with negative energy in an argument while apologising for ending her life. Out of remorse, you burn her remains.
- In a more poignant example, you can kill your sister in a battle to the death, struggling with feelings of guilt and remorse as you do so.
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: You solicit help from demons to become a powerful necromancer with world domination in mind, and also cheat on your finals.
Asshole Victim: You're a reprehensible necromancer with world domination in mind, so at the very least, your many deaths are well deserved.
Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Making your way up the power scales requires you to get your hands dirty, using all your skills in necromancy to wipe out your foes using your undead army.
Bad Boss: Your favorite solution to dealing with unruly minions is murdering the fuck outta them.
The Bad Guy Wins: If you make the right choices in the Dark Order path, you successfully destroy all living things and turn the world into an inhospitable hellscape. You even get away with your actions, with Serena offering you a chance to start anew in a different dimension.
Be Careful What You Wish For: You yearn for a world where only you remain, a desolate wasteland that you can roam for eternity. You can get it, though the emptiness and boredom proves to be too much for you, and you realise how pointless and misguided your quest for world domination has been. Fortunately, Serena appears to give you a second chance a hundred years later.
Being Evil Sucks: Your path of darkness tends to only bring misery and death, and the more you embrace it, the more it'll claw at your mental state.
Berserk Button: Weaklings. Your solution to those who get in your way or fail to live up to your standards tends to be swiftly executing them.
Big Bad: If Velzix doesn't take on this role and you survive for long enough, you become this completely.
Boom, Headshot!: You can be shot in the skull by a marksman if you get too careless as a serial killer.
Bullying a Dragon: There comes a point in the story where it's entirely possible to provoke Velzix, a powerful demon lord. This comes with massive repercussions.
Cain and Abel: You're the cain (mixed with a little Lucifer) to your sister's Abel. She may be a bit of a brute, but she's a skilled soldier fighting against you, your demon cohorts, and the army of the dead you control.
Cast from Hit Points: If you side with the armies of hell, your necromancy takes a toll on your physical health due to the stressful and exhausting nature of it.
The Chessmaster: What you can end up becoming. Surviving amongst some of the most dangerous beings around takes some brains, and to stay standing requires becoming familiar with the different hierachys and how to exploit them to your advantage.
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: You're not trustworthy in the slightest, betraying people as soon as it provides a worthwhile advantage. Whether this works or leads to your gruesome demise is entirely up to you.
Cold-Blooded Torture: You can do this to your own father if you go down a certain path. It's not pretty in the slightest.
Control Freak: Like most other villains in the story, power is paramount to you. So much so that you'll destroy the whole world if you can rule the ruins.
Cruel and Unusual Death: There's a few brutal ones.
- You can have your heart exploded by an angry professor.
- You can have your eyes gouged out before having your heart torn from your chest.
The Cynic: Your default view on society and it's inhabitants. Goes with living in a Crapsack World where Murphy's law is applied quite liberally.
Dark and Troubled Past: Abusive childhood due to a rotten father and a dead high school sweetheart, it's clear life was never easy for you in the slightest.
Deal with the Devil: With Velzix. You can embrace his ideals and participate in his atrocities in exchange for immense power.
Death Equals Redemption: Well some, considering you're pretty much Beyond Redemption at this point. In dying, you save the world from yourself, being uncomfortable with going forward with your crusade of death.
Death Seeker: After destroying the world and losing everyone close to you, your life becomes empty and pointless, with only ruins laying where the society you once inhabited stood. Fortunately for you, Serena makes a sudden appearance, willing you into another world and giving you a chance to start a new existence, with the powers of a god of death at your disposal.
Didn't Think This Through: If you try to lie to Mr. Demar, he'll instantly see through your lies due to knowing far more about the great lich lord than you do. After failing to worm your way out of your web of untruths, he'll promptly murder you.
Doomed Hometown: Yours can become this at your own hand if you wish.
The Dreaded: If you consume the souls of powerful demons and acquire the power of the infernal realm, everyone will rightfully be terrified of you.
Driven to Suicide: After a Heel Realisation, you can off yourself using your skeletons in a mixture of agony and regret.
Due to the Dead: You tend to burn the bodies of the victims you respect, in order to spare them from becoming undead horrors. Catalina and your sister can be the recipients of such "mercy."
Dying as Yourself: You can have a Heel Realisation when fighting your sister and surrender, allowing her to kill you. The reason you do this is out of realising the evil you are capable of, and how close you are to destroying the world. In your dying moments, your thoughts are of your family and of what you were before you went down this path, not of the horrors you committed as a necromancer.
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: In one ending where you're slain by your sister in a brutal battle, you ask her to give your final letter to your mother, a letter expressing remorse for what you've become. This serves to add a tiny glimmer of humanity to someone almost completely devoid of it.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Your mom is one of the only people you continue to love, as you seem genuinely concerned about her welfare. In a twisted way, you do love your sister, though the two of you can become fierce rivals if you embrace the path of darkness for too long.
- Catalina certainly counts as this, as the two of you develop a blossoming romance if you join the dark alliance.
Evil Is Petty: Someone insulted you? Blam.
Evil Old Folks: By the time your story ends, you can clock in at almost two centuries, providing you've gained the powers of lichdom. To add to the evil part, you are the one responsible for bringing forward the apocalypse.
Eye Scream: Your eyes are gouged out in one ending. Thankfully, you're killed shortly afterwards.
Face Death with Dignity: If you're killed by your sister, you congratulate her on her position in the military.
Fantastic Racism: While you can ironically become one, you tend to hold a burning hatred for vampires, shouting insults about them whenever you kill them or whenever they're brought up by someone.
Fatal Flaw: Pride. Your desire to be the best at whatever you do frequently causes misfortune and mayhem, which you tend to be the recipient of. Your lust for power also tends to be your downfall, as you're willing to go far beyond what is acceptable to gain the abilities of the demons you conspire with, despite your physical form taking immense damage from the power you embrace.
Fate Worse than Death: If dragged to hell, you're tormented for eternity by demons not too pleased by your actions in the mortal realm. It's nonstop agony with no way to escape from, a fitting fate for the atrocities you're responsible for.
- You can also be turned into an empty husk after Sinthinina absorbs your energy. Fortunately, it's never specified if you have enough clarity to know what has become of you.
- If you disappoint Mr. Demar, he can turn you into one of his undead minions. Your miserable existance is ended quickly after being released into the human realm as cannon fodder for the rest of his undead army.
- In one of the biggest Mind Screw examples, Trelik can trap you in an infinite Time Loop, doomed to repeat the same experiences over and over, with no chance of breaking free.
Fingore: Ironically, you can share this in common with Trelik, losing fingers during the vampire assassins attempts on your life.
Freudian Excuse: Constantly being unable to live up to your parent's expectations causes you do develop a huge resentment for humanity and a desire to be in control, regardless of the consequences.
From Nobody to Nightmare: Depending on your choices, you can go from a total layabout to a powerful necromancer.
Glass Cannon: You're hardly more physically powerful than most people, yet one of the most powerful and dangerous forces in the world.
Golden Ending: In the "true" ending, you destroy all living life and roam aimlessly across the ruins for a century before your First Love Serena returns, telling you about the different dimensions there are to explore and potentially conquer. You proceed to step into one of these portals, with the story ending on this cliffhanger, your future adventures unknown and unwritten.
Go Out with a Smile: If you die while killing Velzix, your last thoughts are satisfaction of finally defeating him.
Hates Their Parent: Your relationship with your dad is incredibly strained, bordering on hostile. This can lead to some explosive confrontations if you interact later on in life once obtaining necromancer powers.
Heel Realisation: In one path, you can realise just how far you've fallen, coming to terms with the fact that in your quest for world domination, you lost your humanity, family, and will to live.
- You can also allow your sister to kill you after feeling guilt over the horror you've inflicted on the world, realising your conquest would lead to the end of the world if you weren't slain.
He Knows Too Much: Mr. Demar can do this to you if you disappoint him, trapping you in the demon realm as an undead servant.
Hero Killer: You become this (as well as a kinslayer) if you murder your sister.
Hypocrite: You can condemn your father for his actions, despite doing way, way worse deeds than he ever managed to. You're right in the fact he's a loathsome bastard but coming from you, it's not exactly the strongest comparisson.
I Cannot Self-Terminate: You find this out the hard way after destroying all life on the planet. Even worse, you want to die by this point, having nothing to live for anymore.
Incompatible Orientation: You pick a class due to seeing a cute witch join it, only to find out she's a lesbian. Due to your temporary lustful state, you forgot that about half of all witches are lesbians, and the ones that aren't would never give you the time of day.
Irony: If you go far enough down your path of necromancy, you find out that the only person you cannot kill is yourself, the only person left to kill. Even worse, you've become a Death Seeker by this point.
I've Come Too Far: Even when your body is being destroyed by unnatural power, you frequently refuse to turn back or resist it, being too tempted by the power you could potentially gain. If this goes on for too long, this can end up being a fatal error.
Karma Houdini: If you give up your quest for domination, you live a peaceful life with Catalina and die on your own terms, never facing any consequences for your actions.
- In an even more extreme example, you get away with destroying the world, even being offered another chance to wreak havoc on another reality. While you did have to spend a century on an empty planet, time has become meaningless to you due to your newly gained immortality.
Karma Houdini Warranty: After 45 years of turning the world into your own playground, Big Red makes a surprise visit and whisks you away to hell in a few minutes, finally granting you a punishment fit for all your heinous deeds.
Karmic Death: You can be killed by the corpses you tried to control in several of the endings.
Kick The Son Of A Bitch: While it's easy to feel a bit of pity for your father during his torture, it's not entirely undeserved considering what he's done in the past. The same goes for any demons you betray and kill, as they've done horrendous actions on a massive scale, taking away any sympathy they could otherwise have.
Kill It with Fire: You can be burned alive by Trelik as he recklessly incinerates a bunch of vampires.
Know When to Fold 'Em: If Catalina successfully deters you from turning the world into an inhospitable wasteland, the two of you can give up on your plans for world domination and live a peaceful life inside Rostov's castle.
Lack of Empathy: When your father confronts you about killing children during your conquests, you coldly brush it off by reminding him people die in war.
Laser-Guided Karma: You can be tormented for eternity by the forces you sought to control.
Laughing Mad: If you fail to close up Quayle's portal, kill your sister in combat, and get abandoned by Catalina, your mental state evaporates completely and you sit on your throne laughing hysterically about the futility of everything before being horribly killed by some otherworldly monsters.
The Lost Lenore: Your high school sweetheart died some time before the events of the story, something that still weighs on your mind to this very day.
- Catalina can also become this if she dies before you. No matter how she dies, her loss stings you deeply and creates a hole in your heart that never truly heals.
Loves the Sound of Screaming: The screams of those you slay tend to satisfy you immensely, as enjoying the screams of your enemies is a recurring theme in the gamebook.
The Many Deaths of You: Well, Endmaster did write this. Expect a mistake to be punctuated by an especially gruesome demise. Emphasis on gruesome.
Misanthorpe Supreme: Human life means little to you, and it becomes even less important when all those close to you are killed. This removes any last care you may have for preserving the lives of others, causing you to embrace your calling as an Omnicidal Maniac in the most absolute way possible.
Murder Is the Best Solution: Due to not being able to pay Big Red's fees, the solution you come up with involves murdering him. Fortunately for you, he's killed before you come to realise just how close you were to being on the recieving end of a Curb-Stomp Battle.
- This also becomes your main solution to every problem you face later on, with a trail of bodies being the main outcome of your problem resolution. Demons being dicks, humans resisting your domination, time for them to die.
Narcissist: One of your most apparent personality traits as the story progresses is your total desire to be recognised no matter what. People die at the slightest provocation to you and your conquest is purely to serve your own ego. If this doesn't make you a narcissist, nobody is one.
Necromancer: What you are. Your ability to bring corpses to life to serve as your undead minions drives the story and provides the source of your powers.
Not Distracted by the Sexy: Well, not enough to cloud your mind like most examples of this trope. Sinthinia masturbating in front of you does little to arouse or distract you (though you are said to be enjoying the show), despite her being an incredibly attractive succubus.
Oh, Crap!: You don't take it well if Big Red suddenly reappears to take away all your hard work and damn you to the infernal realm.
Off with His Head!: You can be decapitated by a vampire assassin while cradling the body of your girlfriend Catalina.
Omnicidal Maniac: What you can become in one ending. With nothing holding your misanthropic nature back, you proceed to destroy all life around you, ruling over the barren lands that were emptied by your hand.
Pyrrhic Victory: You can achieve your goals and outlive all your enemies, yet you die a broken, unloved man with nothing but misery to his name.
That Man Is Dead: You try to uphold this trope once your transformation is complete, believing yourself to have gone beyond the petty mortal squabbles you once partook in. While you've gone numb to most emotions, you still hold bitter grudges against the people who wronged you in the past, showing that even with your new demonic form, some of your past self still lingers on.
Schmuck Bait: If you put on the ring the Ghoul king hands you, you become paralysed, allowing him to easily dispatch you.
Serial Killer: You can become one in order to practice your necromancy, preying on those unlucky enough to walk down the alleyways at night when you're around.
The Slacker: The main reason you're not doing very well in school is due to not being bothered to study for exams. As the story goes on, you shed this completely, becoming absolutely determined to gain power no matter how hard you have to work for it.
The Sociopath: You're frequently unable to plan ahead, resort to violence far quicker than most, are profoundly narcissistic, and unable to form meaningful bonds with most people. There's clearly something not right with your mental state.
- On the dark order route, you still embody this trope but in a more realistic way. You can still have genuine care for people, yet there's little stopping you from acting out on your worst impulses and you percieve everyone and everything as expendable. Your impulsitivity also gets the best of you, being unable to contemplate what you'll do with the world after you've erased all life from it.
The Starscream: It's clear you're just waiting for the right opportunity to strike and take over Velzix's army for yourself, an impressive feat for a mortal.
Start of Darkness: Your curiosity in the dark arts leads you down a very destructive path, to say the very least.
Suicide by Cop: If you're lacking resources and magical energy, you'll eventually surrender yourself to the authorities and await your execution instead of continuing to fight a losing battle.
Take Over the World: What you seek to do as a necromancer. Whether this happens is another story.
Taking You with Me: You can kill Velzix and Sesisek during a climatic battle, though you succumb to your injuries shortly afterwards.
Time Loop: You can get trapped in one by Trevik, either experiencing the same events on an infinite loop or rewriting the course of history by travelling between realities.
Together in Death: If Catalina dies when in Rostov's castle, you decide to join her as well, having nothing to live for without her in your life.
Too Dumb to Live: You can sometimes approach people way more powerful than yourself with demands they'd never accept unless under serious pressure. At best, you're laughed at for your bravado and at worst you're made quick work of.
Unperson: You can kill yourself by travelling back in time and allowing your dad to die at the hands of the elf your mother was meant to marry, at your mother's insistence. Unfortunately, while this stops you from taking over the world, it causes you to reincarnate as the great lich lord, the harbinger of death and destruction.
Villainous Breakdown: You're left a cowering wreck as Big Red destroys everything you've worked so hard for, being completely paralyzed by his magic and by fear as he reaps your soul and your realm.
Villain Protagonist: Necromancers aren't the nicest of folks. You're no exception.
We Can Rule Together: You can propose this to Velzix. He reprimands you for this, saying that he has no need for you as his equal, stating you'd be better off simply merging with his army.
"Well Done, Son" Guy: Your desperation for your father's approval leads you to do some things that even he wouldn't have stooped so low as to do. Of course when you reach your ultimate form, you don't ever give him a second thought.

Mom

Your mother. She's an elf, meaning that you're half elven due to her genes. Unfortunately, you didn't inherit her harmonious personality, causing great problems for many people later on.

Arranged Marriage: She was to be married to a high elf, being kept in a castle to protect her purity. Dad put a quick stop to that.
Driven to Suicide: If she fails to prevent you from being born, she'll kill herself in order to be reborn in a reality long before the great lich lord existed. Despite what you had become, she still couldn't bring herself to end you and would rather die than live in a world that you sought to destroy.
Education Mama: A benevolent example. She wants the best for her son and is willing to push him while overlooking his many flaws to try and get him to be the best he can be.
Foreshadowing: Early on, she's mentioned to have a magical aura that could charm even your father. This ends up being a hint to the fact that she has some magical abilities, a fact that becomes incredibly important later on in the story.
Good Parents: She's decent, considering the time she lives in, something that can absolutely not be said about her husband.
Morality Pet: She tries to send you on the path of good and is the only stable relationship you have growing up. Tragically, her positive influence does nothing to stop you from dabbling in necromancy and she's unable to save you from the path of evil once she finds out what you've become.
- This is played more straight towards your father, who is concerned about how your actions have impacted her mental state. He also seems to have mellowed out due to her influence. He'll even use her dismay about what you've done to make a valid point to you about your character when the two of you face off.
Nice Girl: She's a far friendlier person than her husband, who is a bonafide barbarian with a heart of obsidian.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Her attempt to stop you from destroying the world ends up reincarnating you as the great lich lord, an Omnicidal Maniac even more powerful and evil than you.
Offing the Offspring: Possibly one of the most heroic and misguided examples possible. She attempts to convince you to prevent yourself from being born in order to stop the apocalypse, though this ends up being All for Nothing as you just end up as the great lich lord reborn.
Opposites Attract: She was a naive and sheltered elf. He was a ruthless marauder with an unquenchable bloodlust. Somehow, the two of them hit it off and had two children together.
Rescue Romance: She fell in love with her husband after he slaughtered every single elf who was keeping her locked in her castle. He was so smitten by her that he settled down with her, unlike every other elf he and his army raped and butchered.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: She wisely flees if you Take Over the World, knowing that her world will be irreversibly changed, especially if you track her down and tie off let another loose end.
Uncertain Doom: It's assumed but never confirmed that she died when the portal to the infernal realm was permanantly opened.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: She's the one who pushes for you to go to university, leading to you potentially becoming a dangerous necromancer.
- In her plan to stop you from becoming the harbinger of the end, she can try and erase you from existance, causing you to become the great lich lord in another reality.
Walking Spoiler: She also has access to forbidden magic, namely the ability to warp time and reality itself. This revelation leads to one of the most shocking and confusing endings necromancer has to offer.

Dad

Your father, a brutal mercenary with an unquenchable thirst for violence.

Abusive Parents: He's an awful man and an awful father, causing you to live in absolute fear of him and his wrath.
Accidental Hero: In the middle or raping and murdering a bunch of elves, he saved your mom from an Arranged Marriage and forcible confinement.
The Ace: He's a fantastic mercenary, one of the only "good" things that can be said about him.
Ain't Too Proud to Beg: He'll beg you to stop if he witnesses you turning your sister into a monster, the first time he's shown any emotion that wasn't pride or anger.
Alas, Poor Villain: Monster he may be, there's something almost tragic about seeing how broken and weak he's become over the years at the hands of his own son. It's hard to find catharsis in what he's been subjected to due to the torture he's endured.
A Lighter Shade of Black: Yes, a mass murdering rapist with thousands of bodies slain by his hand is the lesser evil in this tale. Even worse, he's so insubstantial compared to the other villains that he's one of the least evil people out there.
Anti-Villain: An extremely dark example. He's a ruthless monster, yet will fight on the side of good if things get too bleak, showing that he has some morality deep within his black soul.
Asshole Victim: If he dies before he can display many redeeming qualities, his death comes across as cathartic. If not, it's more pitiful and partially subverts this trope.
Badass Boast: Even on the verge of death and faced with torture, he still insults you to your face, disowning and condeming your actions while confirming that he always loved your sister more than you.
Badass Normal: He's a skilled soldier just like his daughter, and he doesn't have any supernatural powers to enhance his skills like you do. He's no match for you, but he's still an esteemed fighter nonetheless.
The Berserker: His fighting style. It's what makes him such a fearsome opponent.
Blood Knight: He makes his living by pillaging and murdering all that stand in his way, and he enjoys doing this immensely.
Bullying a Dragon: He'll continue to belittle you to your face, despite the fact that by this point you're a powerful necromancer who could murder him within seconds. If there's something he's not, it's cowardly.
Cold-Blooded Torture: He's on the recieving end of this from you and your cohorts if you manage to imprison him. He's almost pitiful due to how weak he's become, a far cry from the terrifying brute he once was.
Cruel and Unusual Death: He can be tortured for months on end before his body gives in, with the pain being unbearable and nonstop. It's one of the cruellest fates in the gamebook, a gamebook with many, many gruesome deaths.
Disproportionate Retribution: He murdered all his companions after they mocked him for settling down with a woman.
The Dreaded: His enemies aren't the only people terrified of him, you are as well. This is for good reason, considering the type of man he is.
Enemy Mine: Despite the two of you hating each other, you hate Velzix more and will temporarily put your volitle feelings aside to put an end to the demon lord.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Absolutely detestable morals aside, he does love his wife, though whether he loves her as much as he enjoys murdering people is unlikely.
- Even moreso for his daughter, who remains his pride and joy. He's devastated if she dies or is brainwashed into becoming your minion.
Even Evil Has Standards: He's a mass murdering rapist with few morals at the best of times, yet even he is disgusted by omnicidal necromancers and demon lords. Goes to show you how fucked up the world is when he's not the worst the kingdom has to offer.
Evil Parents Want Good Kids: Despite initially disliking her soldier work, he grew to admire and appreciate his daughter's military service, proud of the fact that she took a nobler path than he did. He's devestated if she's brainwashed into becoming a monster just like him, knowing that the woman he was so proud of is just a mindless husk now.
Heel–Face Turn: He can go from a ruthless bandit to a soldier like his daughter. While his tactics haven't changed, his victims have.
Heroic Sacrifice: Yes, even he can get to be the hero. If he dies killing Velzix, he's finally given up his life for a noble cause, showing that there's a first for everything.
Karmic Death: He can be killed by you the same way he's killed many others: by attacking entire groups of people until nobody is left standing.
Killed Mid-Sentence: He's killed shortly after his army while simultaneously attacking you and cursing your name. He doesn't get to finish either before you rot his flesh into dust.
Killed Off for Real: He can die during his raid on Velzix's base. Amazingly, he's not an Asshole Victim in this instance.
Killed Offscreen: He can be slain during a failed raid, though you only hear about it.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: While he dies doing so, he can kill the demon lord Velzix with only him and his mercenary company, an incredible feat for someone without any magical powers whatsoever. You only hear about this, though it's enough to impress even you, as you haven't managed to kill Velzix despite your undead army.
Outliving One's Offspring: He can live longer than his daughter or you in some endings, though he usually dies mere months after her, sometimes not even that long before he meets his own maker.
Pet the Dog: In his dying moments, he can finally show some appreciation to you, complimenting you for decapitating Velzix using his sword. It's a rare moment where he isn't being an absolute dick to you, showing you some genuine respect. Because of this, you don't feel hatred for him in his final moments, even commenting on how you probably would have felt satisfaction in seeing him die if this had happened earlier.
Politically Correct Villain: He sees women as being just as capable in the field as men, having nothing but pride for his daughter taking after him.
Rape, Pillage, and Burn: His profession, something he's excellent at.
Retired Monster: He used to be a fearsome warrior, but a mixture of the ravages of time and the injuries he's suffered at your hands while in captivity have left him a far cry from who and what he was, a man with only his vitriol as a worthwhile weapon.
Sir Swears-a-Lot: He's a crude man with a crude vocabulary.
Sole Survivor: He tends to be this during his battles, as he frequently outlives his companions in arms.
Villain Has a Point: He's completely right in saying that you've deeply hurt your mother with your actions, as she's had to witness and feel guilt for all the destruction you've caused.
Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Unless they're his own kids, he tends to draw the line at massacring children, preferring to take his violent urges out on other men in the battlefield.

Sis

Your sister. Like you, she's a skilled fighter, despite having no magical power of her own. Unlike you, she's a good person who fights for the grand alliance, putting you at odds with her.

The Ace: Like her father, she's a fantastic warrior.
Ax-Crazy: She becomes a ferocious berserker if brainwashed by you, starting with her own beloved father.
Badass Normal: She's not a necromancer with an undead and demon army like you, but she's a damn good soldier.
Big Good: If she leads the fight against you, your undead servants, and your necromancers, she can embody this trope perfectly. Whether she succeeds completely depends.
Brainwashed and Crazy: If she becomes your undead servant, her mental state takes a swandive.
The Bully: She's this to you as a child, as her actions go beyond what siblings would usually do.
Cain and Abel: She's a bit of a jerk but a good-hearted soldier. You're a ruthless necromancer hellbent on world domination. It's pretty obvious you're the Cain in this circumstance.
Child Prodigy: She's an exceptional warrior, even at a very young age. In fact, she was the youngest soldier in the army for a very long time.
Daddy's Girl: She was her father's favorite and he hers.
Dark Is Evil: After her transformation, she wears primarily black clothing.
Earn Your Happy Ending: She spends years fighting you and your army of undead as well as Velzix's demonic army, and has to kill her own brother to save the world. Eventually, she reclaims the realm you controlled and leads it to a brighter future, reunited with her mother so the two of them can help the recoveries of each other from the horror they've experienced.
Face Death with Dignity: She dies like a warrior at your hands if the two of you manage to fight, showing that despite having less power than you, she has more honor and dignity than you and your army combined. While you tell your father she died begging for mercy, this is almost certainly an exagguration to hurt your father even more, as she dies almost instantly after you incapacitate her.
Face–Monster Turn: At your own hands, no less. Her rage and hatred can forcibly consume her, turning her into the monster she could have been, had she embraced her father's ways. It's clear that at this point, she's a far cry from the valiant woman she started off as.
Fate Worse than Death: She can be molded into a minion of yours in an agonising and irreversible process. It's notable that this is treated as a far worse fate for her than murdering her, as her transformation strips away everything she stood and fought for beforehand.
Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: She's horrified with how easily you've succumbed to the path of evil, unsure of how you can throw your emotions and empathy away on a whim so easily.
Good Is Not Soft: She's more than happy to get her hands dirty and is a ruthless fighter, yet manages to be one of the most heroic characters in the story.
Hero Antagonist: If you go down Velzix's path and she's the one to slay you, it's pretty clear she's on the side of good and you're not.
Heroic Sacrifice: She can die attempting to protect her Doomed Hometown, a far more honorable way to expire than you, her evil brother.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She may be a violent brute like her dad, but even she won't let you get beaten up by orcs. That said, she stole your money instead.
Mercy Kill: She can be put out of her misery by you if she slays Velzix, a way of rewarding her for her deeds. Considering how far you've sunk, this is one of the kindest choices you can make at this point in the story.
Ms. Fanservice: She's rather attractive and wears skimpy clothing, both as a soldier and brainwashed monster.
Self-Made Orphan: She can be forced to murder her own father, a man she loved dearly.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: She gives one to you if her and your paths cross in your mother's house. Considering what you've done, she's not wrong in the slightest.
Tragic Villain: She can become everything she fought against, and not even out of her own volition. The only reason she ends up evil is because you turned her into a villain.

The grand alliance and the vampire clans

Lord Rostov

The enigmatic leader of the vampire clans.

The Ageless: He's immortal due to being a vampire. He'll pass this gift onto you if you join him as one.
Burn the Undead: When he's slain by you, fire tends to be the main catalyst for his demise.
Control Freak: He wants everything to run like clockwork and dabbles in human affairs to mantain power over his council and allies. He's described as a dictator by fellow vampires and all those who associate with him.
Face Death with Dignity: If ambushed in his fortress, he won't beg for his life. Instead, he'll fight you until the bitter end.
Hidden Elf Village: What his castle essentially is. He uses powerful magic to obscure it from the view of mortals, lest they disrupt his power schemes.
Kill It with Fire: He can be incinerated in one ending. It's super effective.
The Man Behind the Man: He's the puppetmaster behind the grand alliance, using their military to wage war against Velzix's armies while keeping himself hidden from potential threats.
Walking Spoiler: Like Velzix, his appearance changes the story completely, opening up an entirely new storyline and offering an unconventional ending that you can choose to accept.

Yolev

One of the vampires in the clan

Brutal Honesty: He's blunt and straightforward, something that makes him informative and antagonistic.
Bullying a Dragon: Antagonising a group of ambitious necromancers was a bad idea from the get go, something he learns very quickly.
Gonk: Even for a vampire, he's hideous.
Jerkass: His Brutal Honesty and hostility makes him a difficult person to deal with.
Kill It with Fire: He's burned alive by Felsa, though it's Demar exploding his heart which kills him.
Mr. Exposition: In his short appearance, he gives some exposition about the vampire's involvement in the dead war and their fall from grace.
No Kill like Overkill: He's set on fire, has his heart blown up, and is then torn apart by two imps. Ouch.
Too Dumb to Live: Pissing off the Dark order was his biggest and final mistake.
We Hardly Knew Ye: He doesn't get much screentime before being decimated.

Ghoul king

The king of the ghouls in the wasteland

Affably Evil: He's surprisngly reasonable and polite for a deranged vampire. That doesn't mean that he's not a ruthless opponent if you reject diplomacy with him.
- Even when he betrays you, he gives you a quick and merciful death, being more concerned about the danger you could cause rather than killing you out of total malice. It's still not ideal, but it's a far nobler reason than most villains in this gamebook utilise.
Asskicking Leads to Leadership: He's not called the ghoul king for nothing. It's clear that he's done much to amass and mantain his army, especially since he can't create reinforcements at a whim anymore.
Badass Boast: While he fights you, he reinforces the fact that he's not scared of you as he slaughters his way through your undead army.
Benevolent Boss: Impressively enough, he's one of the few leaders not to mistreat his underlings, giving his ghouls freedom to roam the land he reigns over as well as continuously supplying them with the corpses of unfortunate barbarians who cross his path.
Cruel and Unusual Death: When you revive yourself after Lord Rostov kills you, you can force him to rip out his own heart and eat it before setting him on fire. Obviously, he doesn't survive this.
The Dreaded: The barbarians are scared of him due to the fact he's killed so many of them.
Evil Old Folks: He's not too old for vampire standards, but he's been in this world much longer than you have. He's also a mass murdering cannibal with an army of ghouls at his disposal.
Gonk: Good lord is he disgusting. This is said to be a common fate for vampires who degrade over time, as they start to look like hideous monsters rather than humans.
I'm a Humanitarian: He feasted on royalty once, now he has to be content with the corpses of barbarians. Whatever he decides to feast on, his cannibalistic urges follow.
The Mole: He's this for Lord Rostov, as he's secretly trying to lure you into his grasp in exchange for getting back into his good graces.
More Teeth than the Osmond Family: He's got many razor sharp teeth which are likely very helpful for chewing apart those he slays.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: He somehow killed an entire army of giants with his mangy ghoul army. How he did such a feat is never revealed.
Only Known by Their Nickname: He's simply referred to as the ghoul king.
The Resenter: He's still upset about his fall from power, and is driven by his desire to get revenge on the vampires who cast him out, no matter how long it takes him.
Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: He's brutally murdered by you for trying to sacrifice you to Lord Rostov.
The Starscream: He will betray you if you put on his ring, stating he didn't want to make the same mistake of following another insane necromancer. It seems that despite his disdain with Lord Rostov's choices, he still holds some loyalty to him.
Zerg Rush: His ghouls are weak but plentiful. Unfortunately for him, your army is numerous and more powerful than his, and he falls rather quickly at your feet once his army is sufficently weakened.

The Dark Order

Mr. Demar

A professor at your university and the secret leader of the Dark Order.

Affably Evil: He's rough around the edges and a homicidal manaic, but he's a reasonable and dedicated teacher who is supportive of those who earn his respect. Those who get on his bad side don't get the luxury of seeing this though.
Bad Boss: He sends his demonologists to deal with his problems if he's at a disadvantage. This leads to them being ahnillated before you can take care of the creatures yourself.
Beard of Evil: He has a noticable beard, and is a dangerous necromancer.
Cruel and Unusual Death: If being killed by his own second in command isn't bad enough, one path has him materialise through a stone floor, slowly crushing the life out of his broken body.
Evil Genius: He's a cult leader and a skilled conjuror, as well as someone sorely lacking in morals.
Evil Teacher: It's a given he's this, being both a necromancer and conjuring professor.
Face Death with Dignity: If he's slain by Trelik, he gives you some parting advice before quietly expiring. At this point, it almost seems like he's accepted death, doing nothing to prevent it from taking him.
Karmic Death: He can be killed by the demons after accidentaly summoning them into his realm. More specifically, Velzix, the demon he had imprisoned, can be the one responsible for his demise.
Killed Offscreen: In one of the paths, he's killed after being mortally wounded by Trelik. This also tends to happen to him if he fails to prevent the demons from wreaking havoc on the human realm.
No-Sell: He'll easily see through your lies if you waltz into his office and try and convince him to let you join the Dark Order. This bravery ends with your heart exploding.
The Social Darwinist: He believes the strong should take back control and is willing to conspire with vampires to herald in a demonic invasion to wipe out those he deems as unworthy.

Trelik

Mr. Demar's assistant and an unpleasant traitor.

Ain't Too Proud to Beg: If you meet him during your conquest of the barbarian lands, he'll beg you to help him defend himself from the grand alliance, who are crushing down on him in droves.
Always Second Best: While he's an exceptionally talented necromancer, he's nothing compared to you, causing him to hold a great deal of resentment towards you because of this. Unfortunately, he can warp time and reality, which dwarfs all your achievements up until them if you're unfortunate enough to cross paths with him at this point.
Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: He's powerful, sure, but also a pompous dick convinced of his superiority to everyone else.
Asshole Victim: He's a traitorous necromancer partially responsible for a demonic uprising, so his death is always well earned, no matter how brutal it is.
Back for the Dead: After you retire from being a necromancer, he returns to claim he defeated you and Catalina. He's killed shortly afterwards by infighting undead.
Bond Villain Stupidity: If he gets too cocky, he'll start ranting about his superiority and evil plans, giving you more than enough time to overwhelm and eliminate him without much hassle.
Cruel and Unusual Death: If you encounter him in his most pitiful state, you give him an equally pitiful death by feeding him to your undead ghouls. They make quick and bloody work of him.
- He can also be devoured by a creature that Quayle summoned, being Eaten Alive by an Eldritch Abomination. Truly an awful end for an awful human.
Dark Is Evil: he wears black clothing, has black hair, and is an incredibly evil and treacherous necromancer.
Dirty Coward: He hauls ass after murdering Sebastian and seriously wounding Mr. Demar.
Even Evil Has Standards: Whether it's out of envy or concern, he's worried about how powerful you're becoming and can conspire with your mom to erase you from existence to prevent you from destroying the world, showing even he isn't alright with someone causing the apocalypse.
Fingore: If you meet him again in your conquests, he'll be missing a few fingers along with his sanity.
Green-Eyed Monster: He's extremely jealous of your abilities and willing to murder anyone he sees as being on his level, insecure of anyone or anything that poses a potential threat to him.
Humiliation Conga: If you encounter him later on, he's being ambushed nonstop by the grand alliance, his mental state has taken a nosedive, and he's lacking a few fingers. He's then swiftly eaten by your hungry ghouls.
Jerkass: He's certainly not the nicest evil necromancy student around, that's for sure.
Karma Houdini Warranty: If he survives the initial demon invasion, he'll be hunted down and killed a year later.
Karmic Death: He can be killed by his own undead minions, a fate he has subjected many innocents to.
Killed Offscreen: He's killed by Sebastian in retaliation for killing Catalina. This is done while you're busy trying to kill Quayle.
Laughing Mad: His years in isolation have made him ever more insane, and when he returns to fight you, he's become a lunatic hellbent on destroying the fabric of reality itself.
Narcissist: Ego isn't something in short supply for him. He's exceedingly confident about his abilties, seeing himself as better than everyone around him. He also has no loyalty whatsoever, murdering even his closest allies in order to amass more power.
Necromancer: Like you, Catalina, and Quayle, he has some control over the dead. Unfortunately for him, he's nowhere near as powerful as the three of you, something that causes him immense shame. His real skill is being able to warp time itself, something even Quayle hadn't completely mastered.
Not Quite Dead: Decades into your world domination, he makes a reappearance, having used that time to become far more powerful. By then, he's far more than just a formidable foe, he's a terrifyingly dangerous opponent.
The Starscream: He betrays Mr Demar in one of the paths, trying to use the Dark Order's power for his own sinister means.
Walking Spoiler: Turns out he is far more formidable than he originally appears, being able to continue bending time just as Quayle attempted. Once he does this, the entire gamebook turns on its head, taking the story in a completely different direction.

Felsa

One of Mr. Demar's students

Asshole Victim: She can be killed during the botched demon invasion. Due to her involvement in starting it, sympathy for her is limited.
Disproportionate Retribution: Murder probably isn't the best way to deal with an unruly vampire.
Epic Fail: Her diplomatic mission to the vampire clans ends up with her murdering their delegate, souring the vampire's view of the dark order.
Flat Character: Like Irwin, she gets very little time to grow as a character, apart from being another victim of the Nuro incident.
Killed Offscreen: Like other lowly members of the dark order, she can be unceremoniously slain during the demonic uprising. Fortunately, this gives you one more undead servant for your growing army.
Murder Is the Best Solution: Vampire being an asshole? Kill It with Fire.
We Hardly Knew Ye: She lives a few minutes longer than Irwin, though she gets a little bit more dialogue and screentime than the generic disciple manages.

Sebastian

A student of Mr. Demar and the resident Butt-Monkey of the dark order.

Affably Evil: For an aspiring necromancer, he's incredibly polite and welcoming.
Better to Die than Be Killed: He kills himself rather than be executed for his crimes if confronted by the grand allaince.
Boom, Headshot!: The magical equivalent. He's shot in the face with a magic blast by you, killing him instantly.
Butt-Monkey: He tends to be at the mercy of far more evil and dangerous people, caught in the middle of a fight he has no chance of winning. Depending on your choices, he can die in rather pitiful ways.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: While it's almost certainly one sided, he cares deeply for Catalina, with Sebastian being distraught if she is killed during the demonic uprising.
Gonk: He is frequently described as being very ugly.
Killed Offscreen: He can be slain by Trelik during the latter's betrayal of the Dark order.
Mr. Exposition: He tends to provide information about the world around you, and the circumstances plaguing it.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: He can kill Trevik in revenge for Catalina and Mr. Demar's deaths. It's never seen and he's killed by you shortly afterwards, but it's undeniably an impressive feat.
Oh, Crap!: He's rightfully horrified when the demons go out of control, knowing his days are numbered while he's trapped in the middle of a volatile battlefield.

Catalina

A woman studying under Mr. Demar and the potential queen of the dead.

Affectionate Nickname: Once the two of you become an item, you frequently refer to her as "cat baby." Shockingly, she doesn't seem to mind.
All Girls Want Bad Boys: The more ruthless you become as a necromancer, the more she recipocates your feelings. Though she's attracted to your power just as she is to the darkness within your heart.
And Then What?: As part of her Armor-Piercing Question, she inquires what you intend to do after destroying the world, as you'll have nothing but ruins to show for your efforts.
Armor-Piercing Question: She can give you a pretty effective one if you make your intentions to wipe out all life clear to her. She retorts by asking what your goal is afterwards, as all you'll have left to rule over will be ruins of a desolate wasteland.
Asshole Victim: Like the rest of the dark order, she's an incredibly evil person, so her death isn't exactly unearned when it happens.
Cruel and Unusual Death: Fortunately you don't see her death happen but you do see the outcome. It involves her having been torn to pieces by Velzix's demonic army.
Dark and Troubled Past: She had an even worse childhood than you, one full of lonliness and poverty. She was an orphan isolated from most other people her age due to her lack of social skills, with the one person she cared for dying at an early age. Fortunately for her, Demar became almost a surrogate father for her, introducing her to the dark arts once she reached adulthood.
Dark Is Evil: She wears mostly black and is a homicidal necromancer just like you.
Driven to Suicide: She can kill herself after realising you've been killed, not wanting to live in a world without you and your power.
Even Evil Has Standards: Horrible as she may be, even she winces at the idea of destroying all life in the world.
Freudian Excuse: A childhood of being powerless and isolated has left her with a desire to be powerful and in control. She can recieve this wish if she survives long enough.
From Nobody to Nightmare: Like you, she started off as a lowly citizen before ending up as a powerful necromancer.
Hidden Depths: As well as being a skilled necromancer, she's also rather astute, being quite skilled at understanding the motivations and personalities of other people.
I Love You, Vampire Son: You can turn Catalina into a vampire so the two of you can share the power of immortality without necromancy continuing to take a toll on your physical form.
Ironic Name: Catalina means "pure," a name that doesn't quite fit the queen of the dead.
Karma Houdini: Like you, she can die peacefully if the two of you flee to Lord Rostov's castle. Considering the chaos she helped cause, it's not exactly a fate she deserved.
Killed Offscreen: A possible fate she can encounter during the demonic uprising. This can also happen to her years later, where Velzix's army rips her to shreds while you're fighting the grand alliance to a standstill.
Male Gaze: You seem to have a crush on her, checking out her ass after being slapped for kissing her.
Ms. Fanservice: Unlike Sebastian, she's described as being very attractive, enough for you to have strong feelings for her.
Necromancer: Like you, she is capable of raising and controlling the dead.
Relationship Upgrade: You go from having sexual tension to being a full on couple after laying waste to an entire kingdom using your undead giant army. You put the cherry on top of this relationship by popping hers.
The Stoic: She's rather unemotional even in the toughest of circumstances, coming across as almost aloof because of this.
Tsundere: She may not show it and appears quite icy, but her feelings for you grow over time.
Undignified Death: She can be unceremoniously murdered by you during a heated argument, an unfitting end for a promising necromancer.

Irwin

Another student studying necromancy under Mr. Demar

Asshole Victim: He dies during the demonic uprising, though considering he was heavily involved in it, it's not too much of a tragedy.
Flat Character: He has a few lines of dialogue and a barely defined personality, being killed rather early during the demonic invasion.
Running Gag: He's the one to point out that all your classes ended up with you accidentally harming your professors.
We Hardly Knew Ye: His name is pretty much all we learn about him.

Quayle

A powerful necromancer who can also open portals to different realms.

The Ace: He's an excellent necromancer as well as being able to bend time and open up portals to the infernal realm. It's no wonder Mr. Demar sees him as his best student.
Beware the Quiet Ones: Despite keeping to himself and coming across as strange and distant, he's capable of bending time and summoning terrifying monsters into the world, monsters that will kill you in seconds if you're not careful.
Cloudcuckoolander: His intense study and isolation from others has taken a severe toll on his mental state, making his sentences gibberish and esoteric whenever he occasionally opens his mouth.
The Cloud Cuckoolander Was Right: Turns out he was correct about there being different realities. Somehow, he can experience multiple of them at the same time.
Foreshadowing: His tentacle monsters don't come from the infernal realm, showing there's more realities to explore. While it seems like a throwaway event at the time of his death, this turns the story 180 degrees by the end, opening up an entirely new series of possibilities.
Necromancer: Like you, he's able to reanimate corpses and even summon demons. His recklessness and complete disregard for human life can put him at odds with you, as he's one of those responsible for causing a demonic invasion.
The Quiet One: He prefers to hone his skills rather than interact with people. Others tend to avoid him due to how weird he is.
Undignified Death: He can be killed by tackling him into the ground, causing him to shatter into pieces like a vase.

Demons

Big Red

A demon you encounter on your path to necromancy.

Actually a Doombot: In one ending, it turns out the corpse of "him" you saw was actually someone else. He lets you know four and a half decades later.
The Aggressive Drug Dealer: Drugs aren't the only thing he sells, but he's rather brash and confrontational for someone so engrained in the seedier and secretive side of Nuro academy. It's really a wonder he hasn't been arrested yet.
Already Done for You: Your plan to murder him fails, because somebody else got to him first. The results aren't pretty.
Asshole Victim: He's a slimy little shit, so it's hard to feel too bad for him when he's brutally murdered.
The Bad Guy Wins: After many years of ruling the remains of the world, your reign of terror ends when Big Red appears, reveals he was the mastermind behind your success, and proceeds to take your place as the dark ruler of the world.
Bigger Is Better in Bed: Well according to him, he is. It's implied he date-rapes people at the university using a mixture of drugs and his sex appeal.
Big Red Devil: Mostly. He's smaller than most devils, but has the standard look of one.
The Chessmaster: He fakes his death, tricks you into reading tainted necromancy tomes which infuse you with powers that while making you powerful, also secretly make you fall under his control. He waits 45 years until you're at your weakest and strikes you down. Even among the demons, he's a grandmaster.
Cruel and Unusual Death: He's absolutely eviscerated when you catch up to him, making it clear that someone wanted him dead and made sure to be as absolute as possible.
The Dog Was the Mastermind: Who would've thought a lowly demon could outsmart you and the other lords of hell singlehandedly?
Even Evil Can Be Loved: Utter scumbag he may be, there's still people that genuinely care for him. One of his girlfriends is utterly devastated when he dies.
Killed Offscreen: If you go to murder him, you'll find someone finished him off before you could. While you don't see the murder, you certainly see the aftermath.
Meaningful Appearance: He's got pretty good style for a demon, as shown by his dapper little hat.
Noble Demon: He'll fulfil his end of the bargain providing that you pay him what he demands. For a sleazy dealer, he's surprisingly reliable.
Obviously Evil: Everyone knows he's up to no good and if someone happens to associate with him, chances are they're participating in one of his illicit activities. He's only tolerated by the university due to his insight into security measures.
Really Gets Around: He's a polygamist with many girlfriends, and he seems to be popular among the women, despite being a borderline rapist.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: In one ending when you're all but certain you've won, he comes to remind you that no matter how powerful you become, there will always be someone better. Unfortunately for you, it's him and he's right.
Sinister Shades: He wears them and they compliment his untrustworthy demon persona quite nicely.
Sir Swears-a-Lot: As with many endmaster characters, his vocabulary consists of many colorful four letter words.
Starter Villain: He's one of the first enemies you can face, and far, far less dangerous than the powerful necromancers and demon lords you can cross paths with later on.
Walking Spoiler: In the demonic invasion route, it turns out he was behind everything, secretly pulling the strings while you inadvertedly did his dirty work for him. This turns everything on it's head and leads to one hell of a twist ending.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: He's eviscerated by Mr. Denar after refusing to hand over his collection of tomes.

Velzix

A powerful demon lord spawned during the Nuro incident.

Ambition Is Evil: Like you, he lusts for total power, not caring what he has to do to get it.
Asshole Victim: While he's not quite without redeeming qualities, it's almost impossible to feel any sorrow for him if he's slain, considering how monstrous his actions are.
Asskicking Leads to Leadership: He's an incredible fighter, something that has helped him become so powerful. This makes him a fearsome opponent if you end up facing him.
Bad Boss: He's quick to murder anyone who he thinks may get in his way.
Berserk Button: Traitors. He fucking HATES them. You'll find out the hard way if you attempt to betray him.
Big Bad: He's likely the main threat you'll face in your quest for world domination. A fair weather friend at best and a nightmarish foe everywhere else.
Big Red Devil: He looks more beast than human, with massive horns and infernal skin. He's also huge in size, unlike the relatively short Big Red.
Card-Carrying Villain: He's aware of how loathsome he is, stating he's aware of the evil people hold due to doing such actions himself.
Cruel and Unusual Death: After he delievers a mortal blow on you, you retaliate by sending your demonic souls inside his body, causing his internal organs to be ripped apart and his body to be torn to shreds. Even he can't recover from that, and his last moments are of total agony.
Curb-Stomp Battle: If you're unprepared, he'll make short work of you, especially if he's able to summon an army of demons from the infernal realm. Unfortunately, he's able to do this quite frequently.
Decapitation Presentation: His severed head can be bought to you by your sister after she slays him. You're so appreciative of this act that you even Mercy Kill her as a reward.
Egopolis: His kingdom is called "Velzix's realm." Three guesses for why he named it that.
Evil Genius: He's incredibly savvy and patient, being able to hold power long after he obtains it. He's skilled at negotiation along with conquest.
Eviler than Thou: To the entire Dark Order. He enslaves an entire kingdom and plans world domination alongside enslaving the entire populations of the realms he conquers.
Evil Plan: He wishes to open up the portal to hell to increase his demon army and take over the world.
Exact Words: He'll tell you he won't harm you in exchange for freeing him from his confinement. Pity you didn't realise this deal didn't extend to his demon bretheren.
Fatal Flaw: Pride and wrath. He freaks out after being beaten, and becomes suicidally aggressive, leaving him open to attacks by his many enemies. In his quest to reclaim lost pride, he inadvertedly gives up his power, the thing that meant the most to him.
Faux Affably Evil: Behind his polite and calm exterior is a power hungry and opportunistic monster who will crush all who stand in his way.
Final Boss: It's entirely possible for him to become this to you, as he's your last obstacle in your quest for absolute power.
Gone Horribly Right: He was summoned to help stop the conflict happening during the Nuro uprising. He proceeded to overthrow the Dark Order, unite the demons under his control, and establish his own rule in the Turan kingdom. He ended the conflict, but became infinitely worse than the people he defeated.
It's All About Me: His conquests are all about stroking his own ego and he's quick to take credit for the deeds of his underlings. It's obvious he enjoys being the center of attention.
It's Personal: He seeks revenge against the Dark Order for imprisoning him.
Karma Houdini Warranty: He can finally be defeated years after he's wreaked havoc on the mortal world. Though whether you're any better than him at this point is entirely debatable.
Karmic Death: He can be slain by the grand alliance after making the same Fatal Flaw he accused you of, recklessly going on the offensive and expending forces needlessly while opening himself to attack.
- He can also be killed by Sesisek, the demon he's constantly abused.
Lack of Empathy: He doesn't give two shits for all the deaths he causes, in fact, he's quite proud of it.
Manipulative Bastard: He allows his underlings to squabble against each other to distract them from attempting to usurp him. He's also very charismatic, being able to agree to his demands, regardless of how outrageous they are.
- He's also clever enough to appeal to the hellbred monsters you create, knowing they're only working for you because they're being forced to. This helps him improve his already impressive army and gain some powerful allies due to appealing to their needs.
Narcissist: Like many another character in this tale, his view of himself is extremely grandiose, he has a disturbing Lack of Empathy, as well as a desire to control everything, becoming destructive if he is beaten in any way.
Noble Demon: Amazingly, he manages to be this. He honors most of his deals, sometimes out of pragmatism, sometimes out of honor. While it doesn't negate his crimes, it adds a bit of humanity to a being otherwise devoid of it.
Obviously Evil: He looks like Satan. He obviously wasn't intended to be anything but a brutal monster.
Off with His Head!: He can be decapitated by Sesisek in one ending.
Properly Paranoid: He's aware that anyone could kill him at any moment, so all his underlings are kept under close surveilance. Considering the fact all of them want to betray him, this is an extremely reasonable choice.
Sealed Evil in a Can: He's trapped by a warding spell inside of the infernal realm. When he breaks free, he holds a lot of resentment to those who enslaved him.
Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: If taking over kingdoms wasn't bad enough, he enslaves those he conquers as well.
Smug Snake: He's aware of how powerful he is, and is completely fine gloating about it to you.
Take Over the World: After failing to control the infernal realm, he's hellbent on dominating your world, an action that would make even the great lich lord proud.
Tranquil Fury: When you defy his orders and seek out on your own conquest, his words are oozing with rage, despite him never raising his voice.
Ungrateful Bastard: He rewards you for rescuing him by murdering you. What a dick.
Villain Has a Point: He's right in stating that you're not worth allying with, due to being untrustworthy and weak. He's also correct in stating that working for him is a better option than working alone, as you'll eventually be worn down by the constant attacks from the Grand Alliance.
Villainous Breakdown: He bursts into a screaming rant filled with obscenities if you best him in a fight, behavior that is extremely unusual on his part.
Villain Respect: He sees you as equal to one of his higher-ranking demons and genuinely seems to appeciate your skill enough to risk keeping you around despite your growing power.
Walking Spoiler: He comes out of nowhere and proves to be far more formidable than everyone who has come before him. His appearance completely changes the scale of events, and really marks the beginning of the end for the world as you know it.

Sinthinina

A Succubus and consort to Velzix, as well as a gifted spymaster.

Asshole Victim: Considering what she's done, her death isn't exactly unearned.
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Like pretty much every fucking demon, her main loyalty is to herself. The only person she is consistently loyal to is Velzix, and even she will stab him in the back if it gives her some sort of advantage. Unfortunately since you're not on as high standings as him, it's entirely possible to meet your end at her hands due to her ruthlessness and cunning.
The Corruptor: She sometimes goes on "diplomatic" missions with the purpose of corrupting weak-willed individuals into joining her side.
Dude Magnet: Many of the devils lust after her, and she's not above getting down with the underworld's finest, making her even more appealing to them.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: It's not known the extent of her feelings for Velzix, but regardless of what they are, she cares for him very much, going out of her way to ensure his safety rather than betray him like everyone else.
Evil Genius: Like most other demons, she's incredibly astute, dangerous, and immoral.
Faux Affably Evil: She uses her charms to lull men into a vunerable state, then she decimates them as if she was a sexy spider.
Hypercompetent Sidekick: Possibly apart from you, she's the best at doing her job, with Velzix being genuinely impressed with her skills.
It Amused Me: She likes to feed off the emotions of people she deems "fun," leading to her being disinterested by your necromancy, due to the dead being unable to express feelings or desire.
Karmic Death: She can be killed by the undead assassins she sent after you.
Ms. Fanservice: She's sexy and seductive, things she uses to wrap people under her thumb and amass allies for Velzix.
Really Gets Around: Like pretty much every succubus to exist, sex comes easily and frequently to her.
Sadist: She apparently delights in brutally murdering those she seduces.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: If Velzix loses control over his army, she'll flee back through the infernal realm portal after weakening him even more, realising her time is limited if she stays by his side.
The Spymaster: Her role in Velzix's army. She provides information and insight, preventing anyone from betraying her boss.
Succubi and Incubi: She is a succubus after all.
Undying Loyalty: To Velzix, whom she's fiercely protective of. Though, even she'll turn on him if things go to shit.
Women Are Wiser: She's one of the only female characters, and one of the most intelligent people you encounter on your quest for world domination.

Tivadol the destroyer

Another soldier in Velzix's army.

Asshole Victim: If he dies in any way, sympathy is sure to be the last of your reactions.
Ax-Crazy: He's just itching for the chance to murder as many people as possible, and he's constantly fantisizing about crushing you under his foot.
Blood Knight: Not unlike your father, murder is something that is immensely appealing to him, and part of his skill as a general comes from his willingness and enthusiasm with getting his hands dirty.
Dumb Muscle: He's not the brightest, and it's clear he's gotten as far as he has due to his incredible physical strength rather than his intelligence.
Fantastic Racism: He despises humans, leading to him having nothing but total contempt for you.
Fatal Flaw: Wrath. His hatred for you is so strong that he'll risk everything to attempt to murder you, even when the odds are utterly against him. He's decimated by your undead army if he goes down this route.
Fate Worse than Death: He can be slain on the battlefield by your sister, then revived as her slave, doing everything she requests. To him, death would have been a better option.
The Heavy: He's one of Velzix's top generals and he fights on the front lines, brutally dispatching all those unfortunate to cross his path.
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: You don't get called the destroyer for nothing, after all.
The Starscream: What he wants to be. He's biding his time to take Velzix's empire by force and kill all who oppose him.

Sesisek

Another demon working for Velzix, formerly his second in command before his failures soured him in Velzix's eyes.

Asshole Victim: His death is well deserved, regardless of how it happens and how brutal it may be.
- On a less fatal and earlier note, his humiliation is completely deserved, as he's a terrible person who has brought nothing but suffering to those in his path, meaning that he's completely void of sympathy, no matter how undignified his failings end up being.
Butt-Monkey: Things in recent months have not gone well for him, to put it mildly. Sinthinina outsmarted him and took over his position, and he's now condemned to menial tasks to futher rub in his failure. It's easy to understand why he's so bitter about what happened to him.
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: He's almost as bad as you in this regard. Velzix, you, there's nobody he won't turn on.
Cruel and Unusual Death: He can be eviscerated by his own demons after being blinded by a magical blast to the face.
Curb-Stomp Battle: If you betray him or he tries to betray you, he'll easily be quashed by you, Velzix, or Sinthinia. Poor guy can't even die well.
The Dog Bites Back: If he's lucky enough, he can actually kill Velzix, a feat only the strongest of people could ever hope to achieve. An unexpected but impressive feat for the resident Butt-Monkey. Though because it's him, he's killed shortly afterwards, showing even in his brightest accomplishment, he still doesn't get to reap the rewards.
Enemy Mine: With Lord Rostov and his vampire army by his side, he seeks to take out Velzix.
Epic Fail: His rebellions almost always go terribly, leading to him being the victim of a particuarly gruesome Curb-Stomp Battle at the hands of whoever gets to him first.
Evil Genius: While not the smartest character by a long shot, he's still a very skilled tactician, though he pales in comparison due to many of the other demons, who happen to be just even more cunning and strategic than he is.
Fate Worse than Death: He was spared by Velzix but condemned to a life of menial labor. To say he's still bitter by this is an understatement, and he's working hard to get back even a bit of the power he once had.
Humiliation Conga: He lost his position to his ex who played him like a fiddle, is assigned to humiliating menial labor, is treated like crap by his own men, and tends to be easily defeated whenever he makes an attack. It's hard not to feel a bit bad for how pathetic he is.
It's Personal: Where his hatred for Sinthinina stems from. He seeks to murder Sinthinia for taking his role as head of security, and condemning him to a string of nonstop humiliations. She's completely unfazed by his attempts to kill her, finding them hilarious.
No-Respect Guy: He's treated as a joke by pretty much everyone and even his own underlings look down on him. Those who remember his actions in the underworld still hold a grudge against him, something they probably would have carried out if he had stayed there.
Out-Gambitted: By Sinthinina. She played him like a fiddle and took everything from him. In turn, he hates her with a burning passion.
The Quisling: He can defect to the vampires and try to help them out to save his own skin. This gets him tortured to death.

Other characters

Serena

Your lover, who sadly died before the events of the story.

Affably Evil: She may be enticing you to dabble in the dark arts, but she's still comforting and understanding to you.
Book Ends: Your start and end of your necromancy story involves her enticing you to take an important first step, in your own or another realm.
The Bus Came Back: In the Golden Ending, she returns to you a hundred and fifty years later, inviting you to join her in another dimension, another realm you could potentially subject to a similar fate.
The Corruptor: The first thing she does after coming back as a ghost is encouraging you to become a necromancer.
First Love: She was this to you, being your highschool sweetheart. Unfortunately for both of you, she died far too young, leaving you in mourning many years later.
The Lost Lenore: She's this to you.

The Great Lich Lord

A necromancer so evil that his craft was banned from the world.

The Dreaded: His actions still stike fear into the hearts of many, even long after his reign of terror ended.
Enemy Mine: Ironically, it was him who stopped the demons, though only because he wasn't about to have something or someone else cause the apocalypse before he could.
The Ghost: Only his actions are heard about, as he's long dead by the time the story starts.
Hated by All: Due to being evil incarnate, nobody has anything nice to say about him.
Omnicidal Maniac: He murdered millions by crashing entire cities into the ground.
Names To Run Away From Very Fast: Be honest, does the great lich lord sound like a friendly guy to you?
No Name Given: His name has apparently been lost to history.
Take Over the World: What his main goal was. He actually stopped the demon invasion by closing their portals solely because they were getting in his way of destroying the world.

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