This is the character sheet for the MMORPG Rift.
- "We were chosen, not for our virtue, but for our might. Our brilliance. Our ruthlessness."
Cyril Kalmar
- Big Damn Heroes: Single-handedly breaks a siege and saves Zareph from his brother's forces.
- Boisterous Bruiser: Well, not so much since coming back as an Ascended.
- Shrouded in Myth: "Stories disagree about Cyril's origins..."
Shyla Starhearth
- Face–Heel Turn: In the Defiant start zone, she's sided with Regulos and is now called "Shyla the Fallen."
- Gondor Calls for Aid: And Shyla answers, creating the first break between her and Hylas.
- Beast and Beauty She resurrects the satyr and former villain Atrophinius in the Greenscale's Blight Chronicle, and becomes romantically involved with him while they raise a dragon hatchling together, contributing to his Love Redeems plotline.
Borrin Gammult
Frederic Kain
- "Death rewards defiance."
- Face–Heel Turn: He's also gone over to Regulos in Terminus, and is called "Frederic the Betrayer." He does this in the normal timeline as well and gives Regulos's true form the flesh needed to create a shell to protect his true body.
Zareph Mathos
- Posthumous Character: Though his status was initially ambiguous, Zareph was confirmed dead in the River of Souls Chronicle.
Carwin Mathos
- Boisterous Bruiser: He really gets into smacking around those zombies in Ardenburgh. Later, when he aids the Guardian player in defending a shrine, he talks smack to Regulos.
- Death by Origin Story: Despite being immortal, and a damn good fighter besides, Aedraxis/Regulos smacks him down hard enough that the last the player sees of him is a regretful spirit 20 years in the future.
- "We choose to defend ourselves. We will save Telara."
Orphiel Farwind
Founder of the defiants and its current leader. Orphiel is an exceptionally powerful mage and brilliant scientist, having had a very large hand in the creation of factory made ascended as well as Orphiel's failsafe, the time travel device that allows the PC to return to the past to help save the world. Despite his genius, Orphiel considers his greatest shame to be his teachings of Aedraxis, the Mathosian king who began the shade.
- The Atoner: Depending on how canon you take Mathosia (the guardian starting zone), Orphiel fell to corruption and seems to have snapped out of it after Aedraxis fell, hence his attempts at making ascendant can be viewed as trying to make amends for his past misdeeds. Apparently sacrifices himself to protect the player from Crucia in Vostigar Peaks.
- Historical Rap Sheet Orphiel tends to nudge history, at one point Asha speculates that he was responsible for first giving the Eth access to magitech.
- Naytheist: Like most defiant, he's less than impressed with the Vigil, preferring science to faith.
- Vague Age: He's hunched over most of the time like he's well up there, but he looks fantastic, so it's hard to say. He was in Mathosia in the past, which would have to make him at least 40, but he hasn't visibly aged a day over the 20 year period between then and when players get into the main game world. Orphiel is a Tenebrean, which results in his appearance remaining unchanging.
Asha Catari
The high general of the Defiant and descendant of Ethian royalty. Asha was once a member of the Dragonslayer Covenant, working to keep an eye on the dragon cults. When Aedraxis caused the shade, Asha was caught in the first burst of energy and killed. In the void, she was confronted by Regulos, the dragon of death, and was offered a chance to lead his armies against Telara, infusing her with power to tempt her. She turned him down, and just when Regulos was about to destroy her using the same power he had just given her, she was pulled away from him and revived by Orphiel.
- Chainmail Bikini: Or Platemail Bra, as the case may be.
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Regulos declared his intent to make her his herald. She brushed him off.
- Non-Human Sidekick: A troll named Murph that she saved somewhere along the way, She says he's a good bodyguard and friend, not like it matters, since he attached himself to her and wouldn't go away.
- Power Tattoo: Her elaborate runes are where Regulos gave her some of his power to tempt her into joining him. It didn't work.
Rahn Chuluun
The leader of the bahmi and the Defiant's stratego, Rahn is a steadfast and honorable man who believes in morals. This isn't entirely positive: He doesn't trust the Kelari due to their practice of Human Sacrifice, often clashes with Anthousa Mona, and is estranged from his daughter Uriel on account (in part) of her interest in the plane of death.
- Old Soldier: He's canonically both past his prime and still quite formidable.
Anthousa Mona
The higher priestess of the Kelari, Anthousa can usually be found with Asha and Rahn. Her feelings towards Rahn are mutual, she doesn't care much for how "unimaginative" the bahmi can be and wonders if, when the time comes, he can make the necessary sacrifices.
- Flat Character: Although this is set to change in the future, she currently really doesn't have anything going for her except her disdain for Rahn and her backstory in which she was the one who called for the Kelari exodus.
Sylver Valis
An eccentric Kelari scientist, Sylver is the one responsible for making Orphiel's manufactured ascended a reality.
The Faceless Man
The leader of the unseen and former Abyssal cultist, the Faceless Man can often be found wherever abyssals are nearby, waiting to sabotage them and stop the madness that he's seen first hand from invading Telara.
- Anti-Hero: Easily the most ruthless of the Defiants, which is fitting considering his past in the Rift Cults. Much of his dialog suggests (and some outright states) that he considers himself beyond good and evil as long as the Dragons are defeated (Regulos and Akylios especially)
- Heel–Face Turn: "I gazed into the void, and I did not very wall want to be pulled further in."
- No Name Given: "Do not ask my name, for I abandoned it long ago." It's Henry. This reveal results in a multitude of problems for him.
Uriel Chuluun
Uriel is the daughter of Rahn Chuluun and a member of the Unseen's higher-ups, working directly with the faceless man. Her interests with the plane of death have led her to be at odds with her father. Good friends with Kira Thanos.
- Genki Girl: She always sounds cheery.
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: She's unequivocally on the side of the good guys - or at least the Defiant - again as of the canon story "Drowning in Snow."
- Homoerotic Subtext: The undertones to her dynamic with Kira have been
strongly implied to be deliberate by the characters' creator. - Missing Mom: She's stated to be dead. Rahn claims that Uriel blames him for it.
- Ship Tease: This conversation in Perspice could either be this or setting them up as an official couple:Kira: Uriel, there you are. I heard you were in Perspice so I wanted to come check on you.Uriel: So what you're saying is, you came to see me by choice? not be cause you had to? I'm touched, Kay Tee.Kira: Don't call me that! Anyway, I better get back to Lotham's Strike, try to stay out of trouble, princess.(Kira leaves)
Kira Thanos
A higher up of the unseen with Faceless man and Uriel, Kira is the Kelari's deadliest assassin, going by the nickname "Azul Viper." Close friends with Uriel.
- Calling Card: Draws a blue snake on her victims when given the chance.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Someone in perspice mentions that Kira's presence has become "Tolerable" as opposed to previously, when he would have rather preferred to have butted heads with her.
- Homoerotic Subtext: As seen under Uriel's entry, although there's a hint of Tsundere on Kira's end of things.
- Meaningful Name: "Thanos" means "death."
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Her surname has been covered already. Her given name both sounds like "killer," and could be interpreted as the Japanese word for "cut."
Dacia Ultan
A renowned huntress who has "claimed more trophies than some entire tribes." Apparently one of the few people who can keep Uriel in line.
- Honorary Aunt: Uriel is not a blood relative, but nonetheless views Dacia as a Cool Aunt. In fact, Dacia is one of the few people to whom Uriel will actually listen.
- Never a Self-Made Woman: Zigzagged. Her family are renowned artisans. Dacia set out to be an adventurer instead, and earned them all the more honor for being related to her.
- Proud Warrior Race Girl: While bahmi are technically a Proud Warrior Race in general, Dacia seems to be one of the most obvious about it.
Kaspar Massi
The defiant's resource manager, Kaspar loves digging up lost peices of history as much as he loves his beer.
- Artificial Limbs: He has a steampunk peg leg.
The six Gods of the Elemental Planes that invaded Telara all at once. Five of them are counted among the seven greater Dragons while the sixth Akylios — while mostly mistaken for a Dragon due to the fact that the other Blood Storm are Dragons — is in fact a herd of lesser Akvan swimming in the seas above Draumheim.
- Authority Equals Asskicking: How they became Gods of their specific planes. As shown by the non-Dragon Akylios, anyone that was an active God of an Elemental Plane at the time of the Blood Storm's first invasion is a Blood Storm.
- Crippling Overspecialization: With the exception of Crucia the Dragon of Air (who uses every form her Element has), Maelforge the Dragon of Fire (who also uses every form of his Element) and Regulos the Dragon of Death (whose Element has only one form) all of them overspecialize in a specific form for their Element: Greenscale the Dragon of Life uses Plants, Akylios the Blood Storm of Water uses liquid Water, Izkinra the real Dragon of Water uses Ice and Laethys the Dragon of Earth uses Gold.
- Go Mad from the Revelation: If one were to understand their true forms in the same way they would if they looked into a shark's eyes: Regulos is two beings capable of merging into one (Regulos and Aedraxis Mathos) and can only be killed Deader than Dead in that merged form (hence why anyone living before Aedraxis Mathos's birth would Go Mad from the Revelation), Laethys is merely using a horde of gold as an avatar, Crucia's true form is a powerful mind controlling Greater Dragon that can ditch her true body should anyone kill it while possessing another one at a moment's notice, Akylios is the avatar of a herd of ravenous Akylios sharks and has no relation to the rest of the Blood Storm and Maelforge is an avatar of the current King/Queen of the Flame's pet Dragon named Woragrath.
Regulos, Dragon of Death/Regulos, God of Death
Dragon of Death and the single greatest threat to Telara, Regulos wants nothing less than the total cessation of all existence. Called the 'Dragon of Extinction', he is last and mightiest of the Blood Storm and the most dangerous to the lives of those on Telara. Amongst the dragons, he alone was not imprisoned when they were first defeated over a thousand years ago. Instead, his physical form was outright destroyed, his spirit banished beyond the Ward into the void between the planes. For over a millennia, he has railed and screamed against the wall separating him and the world, until he was finally able to subvert the crown-prince of Mathosia; Aedraxis Mathos. The result of his corruption was a crack in the Ward and the creation of the rifts. If Regulos is able to succeed, he will unmake everything until the universe is oblivion. His followers, the Endless Court, delude themselves with fantasies of ruling the world, but their master will leave no world to rule. His true form (Blood Storm of the Plane of Death AKA the God of Death) is killed in Endless Eclipse rendering him Deader than Dead.
- Deader than Dead: After Endless Eclipse due to the destruction of both of his halves combined.
- Fighting a Shadow: During the Shade he creates a Shade of Regulos identical to his true form. In Terminus he creates a new Shade of Regulos similar to his Dragon half.
- God in Human Form: He creates a Dragon Avatar by the time of Terminus.
- Literal Split Personality: One half was the Dragon of Death which was banished until king Aedraxis Mathos AKA the other half of real Blood Storm of Death summoned it to Terminus in order for the king to merge with it to create the complete God of Death.
- Omnicidal Maniac: He is offended by the concept of existence.
- You Cannot Grasp the True Form: As shown by Endless Eclipse you actually can comprehend his completed true form since it's the humanoid body seen in Terminus which while normally just walking around on its own alongside his second Dragon Form (is embedded within an artificial body made from the flesh of his zombified servant Kain attached to the Plane of Death when you kill him in Endless Eclipse). You can also grasp his true nature as two beings who'd later merge with each other and can only be killed Deader than Dead in their merged form... of course anyone who grasped that fact before the birth of Regulos's other half would have gone mad from the futility of their efforts fufilling the Go Mad from the Revelation that results from learning a Blood Storm's true nature. Those from the present who want Regulos dead would see the merging of the two halves as their chance to render Regulos Deader than Dead.
Alsbeth the Discordant
Regulos' lieutenant and leader of the Endless Court, Alsbeth seeks nothing more than her master's revival and the breaching of the Ward.
- Arch-Nemesis: To Asha Catari. The two went to school together, and Asha's dialog says that she was always trying to prove herself better. When Asha refused to become Regulos' Herald, Alsbeth rushed to take her place.
- Face–Heel Turn: She was once a Guardian Ascended before joining the Endless.
- You Have Failed Me: She's devoured by Regulos upon her final failure at the River of Souls.
Aedraxis Mathos
- "For I am not yet whole, have never been whole all my life. I shall tear apart the sky, and my other half shall join with me."
Former king of the Mathosians and the one who instigated the shade, every problem in Telara can be traced back to him joining the Endless Court.
- The Caligula: Was honestly so deluded as to believe he and Regulos were separate aspects of the same being. Judging from their Fusion Dance he was not only right but is in fact half of the real Blood Storm of Death whom Regulos is the other half of....
- God in Human Form: Is revealed at the end of the Gaurdian starting experience to be the reincarnation of half of the Blood Storm of Death's true soul and will and merges with his Dragon half to obtain his complete form.
- The Evil Prince: Before he became king. He arranged his father's death to ensure that he had the freedom to merge his reincarnated body with his Dragon Form Regulos.
Akylios, "Dragon" of Water/The Akylios Akvan Shark Herd, 2nd God of Water
"Dragon" of Water, Akylios is a mystery. His original goal was the pursuit of knowledge, and to that end he absorbed all the thoughts and secrets that Crucia scoured from her followers. He spent endless eons crossing from world to world, learning every tragic secret, every evil spell, sipping the nightmares of dying worlds. It is said that while the motives of the other dragons can be understood - the desire to hoard, to consume, to destroy - Akylios is beyond understanding. He does not seek victory or riches or domination, but will one day kill everyone just to listen to their screams. Second of the Blood Storm to fall. His true form is a herd of Eldritch Abomination shark Akvan that all look the same as his “Dragon” form. He'll be the third Blood Storm killed (at least partially considering he's literally a herd of Eldritch Abomination sharks) in his true form.
- Degraded Boss: In his true form naturally (it's a herd of Akvan sharks identical to his "dragon" form and aren't World Raid bosses).
- Eldritch Abomination: Even by dragon standards due to actually being not one but thousands of tentacled sharks with multiple eyes on each one. Human standards of course see him or should we say them as a herd of bizzare looking sharks (though multiple bizzare looking sharks with tentacles and multiple eyes would probably unsettle the minds of Azdah's offspring due to the sheer absurdity of them being capable of holding rulership over the Plane of Water despite the best efforts of the real Dragon of Water).
- Go Mad from the Revelation: "Akylios covets knowledge, all knowledge. He learned every hideous secret he could, and invented many of his own, refusing to forget anything he learned even when his vast mind became full to the outer limits of madness."
- Those secrets include the secrets of the Akvan he or should we say they are members of and are infact named after.
- Those who realize that Akylios is actually a herd of Akvan sharks controlling one of their number as their avatar would in all likelyhood go more crazy than they would if they looked at a lesser shark's eyes to understand hunger.
- Loves the Sound of Screaming: "The living interest him because the tortured howls of races sound almost like music."
- The Stars Are Going Out: "[Akylios] floated in the cosmos, singing along to the dance of the stars. And the stars who heard him went cold and would sustain no life."
- You Cannot Grasp the True Form: "Like all the Blood Storm, Akylios's true form is an expression of everything he represents, and can best be described as the best way to peel a man is in one long spiral strip, like an apple. So strange did Akylios become that even his cohorts found him unsettling, and his "dragon" form bears little resemblance to anything the sane would imagine." His true form is a herd of monstrous sharks identical to his “Dragon” form, which is in fact extremely comprehensible (more so than whatever Regulos's human half Aedraxis Mathos really was before taking on human form) though ridiculous to the point where it becomes unsettling even for Dragons though what is likely unsettling to them is likely the fact that he's actually a herd of Akvan that conquered the Plane of Water pushing out the real Water Dragon.
Greenscale, Dragon of Life
Dragon of Life, Greenscale personifies the phrase "survival of the fittest". To his mind, civilization is the subversion of nature, which should always be expressed in its purest form - kill or be killed. The forests that grow under his power are filled with relentless predation and unstoppable wildlife, usually at the same time. Those who find themselves lost in his woods are often forced to become a feral beast themselves just to survive, until they can find themselves killing their own families without realizing it. His cult, the Aelfwar, is really only the noble house of the High Elves who support his cause to tear down all remnants of civilization. True to his nature, Greenscale cares nothing for his followers, but instead is only interested in creating a world choked by the deadliest of jungles and where living minute to minute is the greatest of accomplishments.
- Light Is Good: The second avatar of the Blood Storm of the Plane of Life Tasuil not to mention the very Blood Storm he's an avatar of on the other hand... His body is white, unlike Greenscale's, which is green.
- Light Is Not Good: Greenscale's ideal of natural beauty is parasitic plants the size of a human head, murderous foliage, and survival by any means.
Maelforge, Dragon of Fire/Woragrath, favorite pet Dragon of Glasya Queen of the Flame
Dragon of Fire, Maelforge has no greater motive beyond destruction. However, unlike Regulos who seeks to permanently unmake all of existence, Maelforge takes pleasure in the very act of destruction. To this end, he is always careful not to destroy something completely, but to allow enough to survive so that he can destroy it again in the future. He ultimately desires a world where he can fly from nation to nation, burning down each one before leaving to let it rebuild, as he destroys another that has just been rebuilt. The least subtle of the dragons, this mindset extends to his followers, the Wanton, who will destroy anything ranging from individual lives to entire nations. Maelforge predictably hates Greenscale, but also Regulos, who would leave him with nothing to destroy. It is later revealed on the official site that his boss the de jure ruler of the Plane of Fire Glasya Queen of the Flame is invading the Plane of Water to turn it into a second Plane of Fire.
- Blood Knight: "Destruction for destruction's sake" describes Maelforge perfectly.
- The Dragon: To Glasya after she overthrew him and her father. He's actually one to her father, the previous king and his court.
- Omnicidal Maniac: Subverted — he's so much of a Blood Knight that he would actually spare the world after he conquers it so that it can properly rebel against him and give him an even better fight.
- Satan: His boss Glasya Queen of the Flame sees herself as this and struck down the rule of her father the previous King of the Flame who is implied to have been watching her with his court while arranging Woragrath's execution of her when weakened.
- The Starscream: To Glasya. He's more loyal to her father the previous king.
Crucia, Dragon of Air
Dragoness of Air, Crucia desires total control of the world. She sees individual minds and thoughts as a cacophonous bother, one that she will correct by erasing every song except her own. By using the power of air, Crucia erodes the mind and will of an individual, replacing everything within them with herself. Her cult, the Storm Legion, is exclusively made of such people. She is the most subtle and possibly the most dangerous dragon, and was able to subvert and infiltrate every major power during the Age of Dragons before her imprisonment. Unlike the other dragons, her cage is far from hidden: the combined power of a pyromancer and shaman sealed her away in a deep lake from which they banished all heat, creating an endless winter for miles around.
- An Ice Person: Ice is just as tied to Crucia's Air element as Wind and Lightning are.
- Big Bad: Of the Storm Legion expansion where everything results from her plans with the later patches resulting from her kill Regulos plan backfiring on both her and the world at large.
- Body Snatcher: After her defeat in the Frozen Tempest she takes control of Queen Miela Aurentis's body. This is shown in the "A Hero Rises" - Chronicle. Doesn't stop the Blood Storm of the Plane of Air from attempting (and failing) to create a new avatar.
- Brainwashed: How she gains members for her cult.
- The Chessmaster: Rather than fight directly, Crucia prefers manipulate others. She only stays imprisoned because, inside it, no one can harm her.
- Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors: Air has the advantage over Death, since there's nothing solid for the Death magic to influence. Because of this, Crucia is said to be the only dragon who can defeat Regulos one-on-one. This may or may not be the reason why they mated and have had children. She's not capable of beating Regulos's True Form with her Dragon Form though.
- Hoist by Her Own Petard: Her attempt to invade the Plane of Water through the Infinity Gate she escaped her prison to obtain resulted in her being captured by the Akylios breed of Akvan who presumably seek to turn her into their minion.
- Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All: She secretly holed up in the roof of her temple while her would be "jailors" turned the valley where her temple was located in into a frozen lake while leaving the roof of the temple untouched and ready to shatter just by moving a muscle when she has need to leave her temple so by definition she avoided imprisonment entirely! The only reason she hadn't left her temple until the Infinity Gate was rebuilt was because she can control the Storm Legion just fine without moving a muscle (which would have and did destroyed her hideout) and her enemies think she's many meters under the unmeltable ice so she's quite safe inside her fortress.
- Nice Job Breaking it Crucia: Crucia's arranging the death of Regulos leads to the arrival of the Akvan and Demogos's true form Arak. What's more her attempts to control the Akvan lead to them capturing and controling her for their purposes.
- Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains: The first thing she does after taking over Queen Miela Aurentis's body is change into skimpier clothing.
- Unishment: All attempting and failing (considering she had holed up in the roof of her own temple which was above the ice prison she practically avoided punishment entirely) to imprisoning her did was give her an excellent fortress to serve as a Red Herring to distract he enemies giving her freedom to exercise her Mind Control from her real fortress AKA her temple.
- We Can Rule Together: She offers this to the Ascended after escaping her prison in order to obtain the Infinity Gate. She succeeds after her dragon body is killed and she hijacks Queen Miela Aurentis's body.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: She attempts this on the Ascended. It backfires badly.
Laethys, Dragon of Earth
Dragoness of Earth, Laethys' one and only goal is to own everything. From her point of view, all riches and wealth already belong to her - she is merely reclaiming them. This extends to all members of her cult, the Golden Maw, whose members extend through the rich and nobility. While she is one of the least destructive dragons, her influence can be far more damaging. It is through Laethys and her followers that entire nations can find their wealth gone, funneled into the bottomless gullet of the Golden Maw. Unlike other cults, her followers are the rich and the powerful, the wealthy merchant or the greedy noble. Whether it be a single copper coin or a pretty slave, Laethys will never be satisfied until everything in creation belongs solely to her. It is for this reason that she particularly despises Regulos, who would destroy what she would own, and her own sister, Crucia, who would replace heated lust for gold with passionless serenity.
- Fighting a Shadow: Her Dragon form is gold under her control shaped into a Dragon. Her true form (that in all likelihood is a real Dragon unlike her dragon form) is still in the Plane of Earth.
- Villainous Glutton: Albeit of the "own
ALL the things!" rather than the "eat everything" variety.
Goddess of Fate
A rogue member of the Vigil who allied with the Blood Storm. Her Sinister Voices (not to be mistaken for Demogos's Sinister Presences): Tyshe the Messenger of Fate and the Drekanoth of Fate travel back in time to aid the Dragons with their powers. She is also the original Goddess of the Plane of Earth before Laethys took over.
- Big Bad Ensemble: With Matodraum, Glasya (and later Woragrath), and Arak though unlike either of the three only her minions will appear though it is certain that the Ascended will come after her once they have resolved the Akvan and Arak problems.
- Predecessor Villain: As shown by Word of God the Plane of Earth is also the Plane of Time which means that she is the original ruler of that particular Elemental Plane.
- Set Right What Once Went Wrong: She attempts this to stop the Akvan.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: She seeks to stop the Akvan and will join the Blood Storm to do it.
- You Can't Fight Fate: Her followers claim this when allying with the Blood Storm.
Izkinra, Dragon of Water
The real Dragon of Water who failed to conquer the Plane of Water from Akylios (likely due to the sheer numbers of the God of Water's true form). He lies in wait on Mount Sharax.
Demogos, Dragon of Nightmare/Arak, Lord of Nightmares
The successor to the position of Lord of Nightmares to Draum the first God of Dreams/Water within the Plane of Water, his true form Arak, Lord of Nightmares sent his Dragon avatar Demogos (considered a false Dragon by the Atragarians and Demogos himself due to the fact that he was born from Nightmare rather than from Azdah's eggs like the Blood Storm's Dragon forms) to bring Nightmares and his Akvan predecessors to the physical plane of Telara.
- Big Bad: Is this in his Demogos form for both the Storm Legion expansion and the upcoming Nightmare Tide Expansion.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: With Draum in the Nightmare Tide Expansion
- Big Bad Ensemble: With Glasya and the Goddess of Fate in the Nightmare Tide Expansion.
- Climax Boss: As the villain behind the attacks on Telara his boss fight in the Raid instance located in the city of dreams Draumheim is this for the Nightmare Tide expansion.
- Eldritch Abomination: His head looks like one when peaking through the Nightmare Rifts.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: He and the Akvan are this and escape when Regulos dies.
- Screw Destiny: His minions mock the Goddess of Fate's actions as a cruel trick.
- You Cannot Grasp the True Form: What we see of his true form hovering under the Nightmare Rifts shows him as a disembodied multi-eyed head surrounded by floating mouths seperated from his lower body which looks like pieces of wood covered in eyes though it would seem his "dragon" form on the other hand looks like your stereotypical dragon (specifically a green reskin of the lesser Dragon known as Scarn) though one with Nightmare manifesting abilities. His second manifestation looks humanoid.
The Akvan
The Old Gods, more powerful than the Blood Storm with the exception of their weaker members, known the Akyliosm who is counted as one of the Blood Storm. Held back by Regulos, they seek to return to Telara.
- Always a Bigger Fish: Their stronger members are individually stronger than the Blood Storm are. Their weaker members known as the Akylios combined is even counted among the Blood Storm due to their rulership over the Plane of Water.
- Eldritch Abomination: All of them aside from the crab shaped ones (which include Matrodraum). Most are Akylios while others are more Eldritch (like Yrlwalach) or less Eldritch (like Izbithu) in appearence then the Akylios are regardless of power.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Aside from the Akylios (whose avatar is one) all of them are.
Druam, 1st God of Water/Matrodraum, first of the Akvan/Kondraum, Ruler of Draumheim
The god who dreamed the Plane of Water into existance and now that the Blood Storm's dragon forms are dead he's waking up which is causing water to disappear from the Plane of Water turning the Elemental Plane into an Eldritch Location where there are vertical water surfaces bordering the dry areas. His dream forms include both the first of the Akvan but also the ruler of Draumheim.- Always a Bigger Fish: Not only is he a more powerful God of Water than Akylios but one of his minions the Yrlwalach (whose face has been previously seen popping out of every Water Rift in the game) is more of an Eldritch Abomination than the Akylios! He also has a more powerful Dragon serving him: Izkinra the real Dragon of Water spawned by Azdah.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: His Good Dream avatar Kondraum at the hands of Arak when you bring him to the end of the Citadel of Insanity Dungeon.
- Giant Enemy Crab: His Akvan avatar Matrodraum.
- Literal Split Personality: With Kondraum being good and opposed to Arak and Matrodraum being evil and allied with Arak.
- Lovecraftian Superpower: His minions The Old Gods known as the Akvan which include the Akylios themselves are even more Lovecraftian than Akylios's followers.
- That's No Moon : He is the seashell moon of the Plane of Water and when he starts to wake the water of his Dream Land gets carved out and goes to him for some unspecified purpose.
- The Unfought: You'll see his true form yet not fight him despite trying to stop him from draining the Plane of Water of all water. His Akvan avatar Matrodraum and his Good Dream avatar Kondraum, on the other hand...
- Unholy Matrimony: With the Akvan Izbithu who is frozen into a Sealed Evil in a Can.
- You Cannot Grasp the True Form: The part of him seen while he's asleep is a big spiral seashell though what's likely sleeping inside that seashell.....
