Sacrifice has colorful cast of characters, each one has their own little quirks, mannerisms and flaws.
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The Gods
The Creator
The enigmatic Creator of the World of Sacrifice, who died fighting off a demonic invasion and who's death result in The End of the World as We Know It and the birth of a new generation of gods.
- God Is Dead: Has been dead for a while by the time the game starts.
Persephone
Persephone, Goddess of Life
- Voiced by: Jennifer Hale
Realm: Elysium
Followers: The Faithful
Civilians: Peasants
Champion: Yogo
Goddess of Life, Persephone is the sole woman in Sacrifice's Fantasy Pantheon and the closest thing to its God of Good, being its most prominent benevolent deity (though in a considerably more hands-on and pushy manner than James). She is the first deity to offer Eldred sanctuary in the campaign and forms an alliance with James and Stratos against Pyro and Charnel due to the former's invasion.
- Benevolent Boss: Her Faithful seem to genuinely love her, and she (and by extension Eldred) offers redemption to many of the foes you meet during her campaign.
- Colour Coded Armies: All her units are of a prominent green colour, including the humanoid Fyllid, and her faction colour is green during campaign.
- The Comically Serious: Like Pyro she has practically no sense of humour at all, and like Pyro the game delights in playing the more light-hearted gods against her because of it.
- Healing Factor: All of Persephone's Faithful slowly regenerate Hit Points even when moving (other gods' only do it when idle). Her trolls do it particularly fast.
- Healing Hands: As the Goddess of Life, Persephone has tons of healing spells.
- Incredibly Lame Pun: Makes one about her "Rain of Frogs" spell in the manual, noting that it isn't Friendly Fire Proof and you should keep your units out of it lest they croak (and then immediately apologizes for it).
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She is quite infamous for her violent and self-righteous ways, but she is really as kind as she and her followers say. She is a firm believer of redemption and quite a few of the creatures you get from her were once wicked monsters who have since become good under her wing.
- Purple Prose: Her part of the manual is written almost entirely in this.
- Rightly Self-Righteous: She will never shut up about the 'righteousness of her cause', but Persephone also seems to walk the talk as she repeatedly offers negotiation and redemption to those willing to grasp for it.
- Royal "We": Constantly uses it, complete with the 'We' or 'Us' constantly being capitalized. Stratos will lampshade just how pretentious it makes her sound during his sixth mission.
- Uncertain Doom: She is the only God that won't contact Eldred after mission nine, implying Marduk killed her during your attack of Thryring, but her death isn't explicitly stated.
James
James, God of Earth
- Voiced by: Brad Garrett
Realm: The Glebe
Followers: The Yeomen
Civilians: Farmers
Champion: Charlotte
God of Earth. Y'know, rocks and soil and stuff, and some nice gems too. James is the most grounded (heh) member of the Fantasy Pantheon and offers Eldred a place in his realm if he'll help him clear out some messes for him. Said messes eventually devolve into full-out war, causing James to partner up with Persephone in the hope of putting an end to things fast.
- Benevolent Boss: Much more hands-off than Persephone, but no less fond of his followers.
- Beware the Nice Ones: James utterly detests war and constantly argues in favor of peace. If you get him angry though, he goes for the kill. And unlike Persephone, James isn't much into 'redemption'. Notably, his highest-level spell, Bore, is the most destructive spell in the entire game, dropping a vast region of land into the void and functionally annihilating the souls of any unit that fails to get out of the way in time.
- Buffy Speak: Fond of it in his part of the manual.
- Colour Coded Armies: Brown, both in faction colour and in general colour scheme for everything.
- Dishing Out Dirt: As God of the Earth, this is to be expected of his theme.
- Expy: Of Earthworm Jim. Sacrifice was made by Shiny Entertainment, which also made the first Earthworm Jim games.
- Good Ol' Boy: Evokes this personality, complete with wearing dungarees and having a restrained southern drawl to his accent.
- Nice Guy: By far the friendliest and most benign of the gods, and likely the nicest character in the entire game.
- Only Sane Man: Is the only god to openly try and calm things down after Pyro invades Elysium. He's immediately shouted down by all other gods present. His tune also notably changes after Pyro decides to raid his realm for slaves.
Stratos
Stratos, God of the Heavens
- Voiced by: Tim Curry
Realm: Empyrea
Followers: The Servants
Civilians: Snowmen
Champion: Abraxus
God of the Heavens and the Firmament and most things close to it, Stratos is the smallest and weakest of the gods and the 'balance act' between Persephone and James on one side and Pyro and Charnel on the other. He offers Eldred access to his centre-stage view and access to his unlimited knowledge in return for his servitude.
- An Ice Person: One third of his spells are ice-themed.
- Bad Boss: Only has one wizard because his other one abandoned him in disgust, and Surtur will outright say to you that he uses and discards his servants in his Stop Poking Me! quotes.
- Blow You Away: Another third of his spells are wind-themed.
- Colour Coded Armies: His colour is deep blue, and most of his followers are blue as well.
- Evil Is Not a Toy: Happens to him in most of his endings.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Marduk will kill him in all but two of the game's endings, and in one of the others his abandoning the counterattack on Pyro to backstab Persephone leads the former to come back from the brink and crush him.
- It's All About Me: While not openly malevolent he is extremely egotistical, to the degree that he attempts to bargain with Marduk because he can't stand the thought of not being the only god of the world.
- Karma Houdini: Thanks to Eldred helping him, Stratos completely avoids punishment for his loathsome actions in his ending. This is harshly averted in all other routes where Stratos dies horribly.
- Large Ham: As expected of a character voiced by Tim Curry.Stratos: "I am Stratos. God of Air and Supreme Lord of the Heavens. Bringer of Storms. Mover of the Firmament. Ah, let's do be honest, shall we, in any halfway-civilized world, I would be the only god."
- Manipulative Bastard: Openly treats his servants as puppets, summons Marduk and throws the whole world into a war while playing both sides, and outright lies to and uses Eldred to put the cork back on afterwards.
- Shock and Awe: The final third of his spells are lightning-themed.
- Smug Snake: His defining personality trait.
- Villains Want Mercy: When Marduk arrives to desecrate his altar, Stratos desperately attempts to appeal to the demon. It does not work and the god is killed.
- Visual Pun: Stratos takes the form of a balloon with a face painted on it sticking out of an inflated body suit. He is, literally, full of hot air.
Pyro
Pyro, God of Fire
- Voiced by: Kevin Michael Richardson
Realm: Pyroborea
Followers: The Proles
Civilians: Slaves
Champion: Ambassador Buta
God of Fire, Destruction and Progress (though the latter only by his own account), Pyro represents pure, unadulterated advancement without restraint or consideration. Like the other gods Pyro offers Eldred a place in his new order as he is currently trying to 'advance' Elysium.
- Bad Boss: Enslaves his own worshippers and talks down to his own wizards, causing Sorcha to outright betray him when he looks like he might become the only god left.
- Colour Coded Armies: His units are primarily red and yellow, and his faction colour is red.
- The Comically Serious: Frequently the butt of Stratos' and Charnel's wits.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: His personality is heavily based around this, though he chases progress for its own sake instead of profit (though they're pretty much the same in his book).
- Destroyer Deity: Destruction is one of his domains.
- Egopolis: Has his realm named after himself.
- Evil Is Petty: Is much more downright nasty compared to Charnel and Marduk.
- God of Fire: Goes without saying, though he also has an emphasis on metal.
- Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Instead of the thick, coarse cigar you'd expect of a malevolent god associated with industry and engineering, Pyro smokes a cigarette on a long, elegant cigarette holder, showcasing his "evil king" attributes.
- Industrialized Evil: His main shtick, his structures all carry a wicked mechanical feel.
- Knight Templar: In contrast to Persephone (who is generally benevolent) and Charnel (who is a card-carrying evil god), Pyro simply wants to advance everything and is generally uncaring about how much destruction he causes in the process.
- Playing with Fire: All his spells and all his proles are fire-based or use fire as some part of their attacks.
- Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Is openly pro-slavery as he needs them to work his factories.
- Third-Person Person: Occasionally talks in this manner.
Charnel
Charnel, God of Strife
- Voiced by: Charlie Adler
Realm: Stygia
Followers: The Minions
Civilians: Zombies
Champion: Acheron
God of Strife, Slaughter and Death and also the God of Evil of Sacrifice's pantheon, Charnel revels in his role as the villain of the world and offers Eldred the chance to partake in the increasing tension between the gods. With the appearance of Marduk he gains an even bigger focus in taking down anyone who would try to upstage him.
- Affably Evil: As bloodthirsty and sadistic as he is, Charnel is also amazingly polite and tends to treat his wizards with respect. Notably, if you leave his service at the end of his route, he amicably bids you farewell, in stark contrast to Pyro's ranting in the same situation.
- All for Nothing: He binds a demon lord into one of his most favored minions to try and destroy Marduk, but Asatoth is either destroyed by Eldred or dies off-screen no matter which path you take.
- Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: Does this constantly in conversation.
- Body Horror: Resembles a skinless, emaciated corpse with a single glowing eye and talons instead of fingers.
- Card-Carrying Villain: He basically owns the printing shop.
- Colour Coded Armies: His faction colour is purple, and his minions have a general viscera-and-rot feel that evokes this colour in their discoloured flesh.
- Creepy Long Fingers: Looks like the fingers of a skeleton, with long talons at the end.
- Even Evil Has Standards: The destructive tastes of demons is too much even for Charnel, though this partial because he finds you can’t do evil in an already destroyed world. While he does summon one, it is more as a desperate measure to oppose Marduk.
- Evil Versus Oblivion: He despises Marduk because of it. If the world is destroyed, there won't be any more evil or conflict.
- Glass Cannon: Charnel's minions have excellent damage but terrible defenses. Given their Life Drain abilities (and the Raise Dead spell), this works to their favour more often than not.
- God of Evil: And Genre Savvy about it too.Charnel: Without me to hate, who would have cause to call themselves holy or just?
- Hidden Depths: Charnel is perhaps the God that gives Eldred the least amount of insight into his inner workings. Seeing his campaign through to the end reveals he knew all along Stratos summoned Marduk, but chose not to reveal it while he had other fish to fry.
- Large Ham: Charnel loves theatrics.
- Let Me Get This Straight...: If Eldred tries to convince him to let him go in Persephone's sixth mission after destroying his main anti-Marduk weapon, this is essentially his response.
- Pet the Dog: If Eldred leaves Charnel in his ending, the god of death takes it really well and wishes Eldred a friendly farewell.
- Poison Is Evil: Many of his units have poison attacks, and one of his spells rains poison clouds on the battlefield.
Wizards
Wizards are the basically the High Priests of Gods and They are also playable characters within Sacrifice’s Multiplayer. Abraxus
Abraxus
Alignment: Stratos
Wife of the storm giant king Surtur and Stratos' champion.- Dominatrix: Her dialogue with her husband Lord Surtur suggests she has this kind of relationship with him.Lord Surtur: Too many years away from home have left me unaccustomed to the sweet timbre of your disapproval. Have you no kindnesses for me, my dear?Abraxus: If it please my lord, return to our castle, and you shall see what, if any, kindnesses you merit.
- Fragile Speedster: She moves fast, but is more fragile than most wizards.
- Undying Loyalty: Loyal to Stratos and obeys his command without question. She will turn on you in any mission where Stratos has decided to switch sides, though she is slightly apologetic about it during Persephone's campaign.
Acheron
Acheron
Alignment: Charnel
Charnel's current champion who is quite literally heartless.
- Evil Sounds Raspy: With a slight tint of Voice of the Legion as well.
- Our Monsters Are Weird: While most wizards are at least vaguely humanoid, Acheron is some kind of spiky, tentacled, mouthless monstrosity.
- Power Floats: He has no legs, with his lower body ending in what is either tentacles or ribbons.
- Resistant to Magic: Acheron has a natural resistance to magic attacks, both in single player and multiplayer, which means attacking him with creatures is near-mandatory to harm him.
- The Soulless: According to Zyzyx, Charnel found him in "some primal hell for creatures without souls."
Ambassador Buta
Ambassador Buta
Voiced by: Jeff Bennett
Alignment: Pyro
Pyro's ambassador and his champion; a rotund politican who carries a torch for Empress Sorcha.
- Abhorrent Admirer: for Sorcha.
- Ambadassador: The ambassador of his god as well as a powerful wizard.
- Bilingual Bonus: 'Buta' means "pig" in Japanese.
- Dumb Muscle: Zyzyx notes that he's a powerful wizard, but not a particularly smart one.
- Fat Bastard: He's practically spherical.
- Large Ham: At least as bombastic as his god.
- Playing with Fire: Zyzyx notes he's famous for his Fireball-Dragonfire combo.
Charlotte
Charlotte
Alignment: James
A large spider woman and James' champion. Despite her intimidating appearance she is firmly benevolent.
- Friendly Neighborhood Spider: A heroic wizard who won’t hesitate to sacrifice herself to save her friends.
- Lower-Class Lout: Has an east-end London accent and is one of the ruder wizards around. Being James' champion she is still morally whiter than most of the rest of the class.
- Shout-Out: Her name is an obvious allusion to Charlotte's Web.
- Spider People: Of the "spider-centaur" variety.
- Visual Pun: Zyzyx says she has "quite a mouth on her", referring to her talkativeness, but she also literally has a huge mouth.
Eldred
Eldred
Voiced by: Paul Eiding
Alignment: None
The Hero of the game's story, Eldred is the Last of His Kind, a wizard from a powerful empire on a world called Jhaera that was destroyed by Marduk. The events of the main campaign involve Eldred attempting to find a new world in the Sacrifice world, and how this brings him into inevitable conflict with both several of the gods and a reunion with Marduk. In-game Eldred is not aligned with any of the gods and can serve any of them for as long as he keeps their regard of him high enough.
- Arch-Enemy: Considers Marduk this after destroying Jhaera.
- Deceptive Disciple: His ending with Stratos if Eldred chooses to stay heavily implies Eldred is considering this.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Regardless of what route you take, Eldred will be taking out multiple gods and an ancient demon by the games end.
- Evil Is Not a Toy: Summoned Marduk to Jhaera and charged him to destroy his enemies. Marduk obliged by destroying the entire world, Eldred's enemies included.
- Familiar: Zyzyx appears to be bound to him, and constantly follows him around giving him advice about the world.
- Hired Guns: Arrives in the Sacrifice world willing to work for whoever is willing to take him in. He quickly discovers that his skills are in high demand.
- History Repeats: Can be given the position of Emperor of Pyroborea in Pyro's ending.
- I Did What I Had to Do: If Eldred ends mission three aligned with one of the evil deities, their inability to focus on Marduk and their fracturing alliance will cause Eldred to possibly reconsider if he's perhaps not better off aligning with the good gods instead. If Eldred decides to double down on backing Pyro or Charnel, he will use this as a justification because they're currently the ones winning. If Eldred backs Pyro all the way to the end and then refuses his offer to become an emperor, he will say outright that he's done working for petty tyrants and his alliance with Pyro was only for convenience's sake.
- Jack of All Stats: In multiplayer. Eldred's stats are the baseline against whom all other characters are measured.
- Naïve Newcomer: Although an old and skilled wizard, Eldred is unfamiliar with the new world and needs the gods and Zyzyx to provide him with exposition.
- Retired Monster: Apparently did some rather morally suspect things in Jhaera in the attempt to keep his empire together.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Fled Jhaera rather than die with the world. He can choose voluntarily to leave the Sacrifice world if one of the evil gods are in charge following Marduk's defeat. Pyro takes offense at this, while Stratos and Charnel are more understanding.
- Sketchy Successor: In his own words:Eldred: I had laboured all my life to build another man's empire. When he died too young, far too young, authority fell to me alone. But I was not as well-liked as he had been.
Zyzyx: 'Despised', more like it...
Grakkus
Alignment: James
A mysterious stone giant who guards the Glebe.
- Silicon-Based Life: Which is lampshaded by Zyzyx in the campaign, using an absolutely wretched pun that gets a Lame Pun Reaction from Eldred.
- The Stoic: His tone is almost always completely flat and calm.
- Stone Wall: The slowest wizard in the game, but also the tankiest.
- Super-Toughness: As mentioned, Grakkus has a naturally high HP pool and can take a lot more damage than any other wizard in the game, even in multiplayer.
Hachimen
Hachimen
Alignment: None
A pair of mercenary wizards who at first work for various gods, then later join Jadugarr's Ashur cult.
- Combo Platter Powers: As mercenary wizards who have worked for all the gods at different times, they have access to an eclectic mix of all gods' spells.
- The Dividual: They're a pair of dwarfs who together count as a single wizard.
- Playing with Fire: While they use spells from all the gods, Pyro's fire sorcery seems to be their forte.
Jadugarr
Jadugarr
Voiced by:
Alignment: None (formerly Stratos)
Jadugarr, last of the centaurs, was once a powerful servant of Stratos until his people were slaughtered in an event heavily implied to have been set in motion or permitted by Stratos. Swearing eternal revenge on the gods for his loss, Jadugarr became a wanderer who rejected all divinity, starting a populist movement against the gods' rule that rallies various races under the banner of Ashur, a savior who will rid the world of the gods.
- Our Centaurs Are Different: A grey, six-limbed being with a lower face that looks almost like a beard. Also the last of his kind.
- Deal with the Devil: Even if Eldred reveals to him Marduk's true nature, Jadugarr claims he will see the gods cast down even if he must bargain with death itself to do it.
- The Dragon: To Marduk, being his most involved and powerful agent.
- He Who Fights Monsters: He desires to avenge his people and bring peace to the world, however his desperation in getting back at the gods causes him to swear allegiance to a being far more wicked and dangerous than any god could ever be. Eldred and some other characters will call out Jadugarr on this, but the centaur is too stuck in his own hatred to listen.
- Last of His Kind: His people were killed and Jadugarr is still angry about it.
- Rage Against the Heavens: Jadugarr is seeking the death of the gods and claiming mortals are better off without them.
- Shock and Awe: As Stratos' former servant, his progression is pure Stratos in single-player.
- The Stoic: Never raises his voice. Even when angry it comes off mostly as Tranquil Fury.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: He survives every ending and can be seen swearing revenge in The Stinger.
Seerix
Seerix
Voiced by: Susan Silo
Alignment: Charnel
Formerly one of Persephone's Mystics, but she defected to Charnel; she still knows some of Persephone's spells, making her better at keeping her units alive than most of Charnel's necromancers.
- Necromancer: Like all followers of Charnel, though as a former Mystic she also knows some nature/healing spells.
- Non-Mammal Mammaries: Has a rather prominent bust despite mostly looking like a snake.
- Sadist: Outright says to a peasant she's about to murder that she'll "enjoy your ssssuffering".
- Snake People: She basically looks like a large cobra with arms and breasts.
- Snake Talk: As you'd expect from a snake lady.
Shakti
Voiced by: Kath Soucie
Alignment: Persephone
Persephone's latest recruit (besides Eldred, if the player chooses to follow her.) Also serves as the playable character in the game's tutorial.
- Insectoid Aliens: She comes from some other world and looks like a humanoid beetle.
- Multiarmed And Dangerous: Has four spindly arms to cast spells with.
- Naïve Newcomer: As a recent arrival in the world and an apprentice wizard she is the player's character in the tutorial instead of Eldred who, while also a recent arrival, is an experienced wizard who presumably already knows many of the things taught in the tutorial.
Sorcha
Sorcha
Alignment: Pyro
The melancholy empress of Pyroborea and the object of Buta’s affections.
- Big Beautiful Woman: Regarded as one of the most beautiful women in the world and has a full, almost chubby figure.
- Deal with the Devil: It is implied by Pyro's fourth mission that she sees her alliance with Pyro partially as this, as his 'vision for a better tomorrow' is requiring her to make her nation go along with a lot of acts she is uncomfortable with.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: In Pyro's route she betrays him and tries to destroy his army, but by then you are on Pyro's side and are forced to slay her.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Pyro's fourth mission has a side objective to discover why Sorcha has disobeyed Pyro's orders and stopped her slaving raids into the Glebe. If you find her, Pyro will talk her back into the fold, but she is clearly not happy about it.
- Voodoo Doll: She holds one in her hand and even has a needle handy, though she doesn’t actually use it like a classic voodoo doll and just as a way to cast her spells.
The Ragman
The Ragman
Alignment: Charnel
Charnel's former champion. At the start of the game he is imprisoned by his god for some unspecified failure.
- Mind Rape: One of his specialities. The first Charnel mission shows that even in his exile he's done it to Sirrocho and made the Glebe's dragons run rampant.
- Red Baron: He is also known as "the Lord of Terror".
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Charnel's first mission involves unsealing him.
- Shout-Out: One of his combat taunts is "I'll swallow your soul!"
- Things That Go "Bump" in the Night: The citizens of the Glebe see him as something of a bogeyman.
- You Have Failed Me: He is already on the receiving end of this from Charnel when the campaign begins. Charnel's first mission involves freeing him and letting him back into the fold, but Charnel later refuses to grant him an altar and as such he dies permanently during James retaking of Karn (either by Eldred's hand or offscreen if you pick any of the other gods).
Yogo
Yogo
Alignment: Persephone
An old mystic and Persephone's champion.
- Horse of a Different Color: He rides some kind of bouncing, one-legged monstrosity.
- Magic Staff: He wields a long wooden staff with an emerald on both ends. Interestingly, he is the only wizard in the game to actually use a staff or wand to cast his spells.
Heroes
Gangrel
Alignment: Charnel
An especially strong scythe whom Charnel later tries to strengthen.
- All for Nothing: Charnel retakes the demon gate and spends an entire mission trying to summon a powerful demon lord into Gangrel in order to defeat Marduk, only for Jadugarr to defeat Astaroth off-screen.
- Demonic Possession: Gets possessed by a demon named Astaroth at Charnel's command as a counter to Marduk. This makes Gangrel immortal until the demon gate of Golgatha is destroyed.
Gammel
Alignment: James
A big ikarus who is a famous war veteran.
- Boisterous Bruiser: A jolly warrior who enjoys fighting unlike his patron god.
- Crutch Character: Joins Eldred straight out of the gate during James campaign and sticks with him for every single James mission. While he eventually loses relevance (especially to Sirroco), he's still a solid bomber unit for the first five or so missions and capable of taking down several low-level units (or lightly guarded manaliths) with only minimal support.
- Meaningful Name: His name means "old" in Danish/Swedish/Norwegian.
- Old Soldier: Zyzyx describes him as "one salty old veteran".
Lord Surtur
Alignment: Stratos
The king of the storm giants and husband to Abraxus.
- Battle Couple: When given the chance he will fight alongside his wife Abraxus.
Faestus
Faestus
Voiced by: Rodger Bumpass
Alignment: Pyro
A gnome inventor who has defected to Pyro's side and been converted into a Pyromaniac.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Leaves Persephone's side to join Pyro, then later betrays Pyro for the player in most campaign routes.
- Dirty Coward: When Pyro's capital is attacked, he immediately switches over to the players side to save himself.
- Mad Scientist: Noted as being one of the brightest inventors among the gnomes. His Stop Poking Me! quotes are a Long List of various potential doomsday devices he's been thinking up.
- Meaningful Name: His name resembles both Faustus (a scholar who made a Deal with the Devil, much like Faestus joins Pyro) and Hephaestus (Greek god of smithing, appropriate for an engineer who serves a fire god).
Sara Bella
Alignment: Stratos
The smartest of the brainiacs and protege to Stratos.- Insufferable Genius: A particularly prominent example even for a race whose entire hat is being this trope.
- Only Sane Woman: She was the only servant of Stratos who argued against summoning Marduk and warned her god that the demon would betray them. She was absolutely right, but she only gets to be right about it in Charnel's final mission.
- Psychic Static: Reveals that she knows how to disrupt a God's connection to their followers halfway through the campaign. This allows Stratos to stealthily backstab his erstwhile allies and begin a massive invasion of Persephone's territory without Persephone being the wiser.
- Sole Survivor: In Charnel's ninth mission, being the only loyalist of Stratos to survive Marduk's backstab. She joins Eldred for the final two missions if she is found.
Sirocco
Alignment: Persephone
The ancient and mighty mother of all dragons in the Sacrifice world.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Was afflicted with the Ragman's powers, causing her to go crazy. If the Ragman is defeated, and she is spared, she joins the player.
- Crutch Character: Downplayed. Sirocco is most useful in the early game and can outright break most early missions, however she still remains a useful creature in the late game and having a free titan is always a good thing.
- Lightning Bruiser: Sirocco flies, can tank attacks from a small army, and will One-Hit Kill almost any unit, building or wizard in the game. Her main setback (besides the fact that she's vulnerable to repeated, sustained ranged attacks) is that her sheer size makes her easy to target and she can often have an awkward time trying to hit things.
Thestor
Alignment: Persephone
A weaselly gnome who is Faestus' brother.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Much like his brother, Thestor betrays Persephone early on in favor of another god, in his case Charnel. Depending on what happens, Thestor will come back to her and stick with her for the rest of the game, though Zyzyx is understandably suspicious of him.
- Civil War: He's started a civil war amongst the gnomes in Persephone's first mission because he's been disqualified from running for high king (beause he's sheltered his brother Faestus, who is an exile).
- Dirty Coward: Should you defeat his bodyguards first during Persephone's first mission (which is a lot easier than killing Thestor given that he's a tier four Hero Unit) Thestor will immediately surrender.
Toldor
Alignment: Persephone
An extremely old ent and one of Persephone's most powerful servants.- Godzilla Threshold: Persephone sends Toldor to help Eldred halfway through her campaign, when Eldred is stuck inside Charnel's territory with Persephone unable to otherwise help because she's trying to survive Stratos' betrayal. Zyzyx points out that if Persephone is sending Toldor to the front lines, things must be really dire.
- Mighty Glacier: He's the slowest hero units in the game, but being an already upgraded version of Persephone's rank eight unit he hits like a truck and his life shield can protect an entire army. If Toldor touches base with something, that 'something' tends to die.
- Time Abyss: Possibly the oldest living thing in the world, being even older than the gods.
- You Shall Not Pass!: Pulls this on Eldred during Stratos' sixth mission, being the last scripted opposition between Eldred and Shakti's altar. He meets Eldred on the middle of a land bridge and summons an army to help him in combat.
Others
Marduk
Marduk
Voiced by:
Aligmment: None
The Big Bad of the game, Marduk is a powerful demon lord from an unknown plane. Eldred summoned him to his homeworld to destroy his rivals, but Marduk chose to destroy the entire world instead. As the story of Sacrifice progresses, it is revealed that he has been summoned to its world instead, and Eldred must attempt to stop him before the same fate befalls the Sacrifice world as well.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Although he'd probably argue otherwise, since no-one has ever charged him to "do not destroy me in the process of doing [X]".
- Creepy Long Fingers: Three of them, and they look like over-long spikes.
- Demon Lords and Archdevils: A very powerful one, given his apparent abilities.
- Evil Sounds Raspy: His voice sounds like he has been gargling sulphuric acid.
- I Have Many Names: He takes on a new name every time he crosses the astral void. He initially calls himself "Ashur", and starts a cult to lead the people to a world without the squabbling of petty gods.
- Knight Templar: Unusually, what little we learn of his motivations implies he's under some sort of divine mandate to destroy 'unworthy' worlds.
- Magitek: Employs a device called a 'megalith' to anchor his existence to the world, even without a divine patron.
- Mighty Glacier: Slower than Eldred and with a larger hitbox, but has higher health. Taken to extremes in single-player, where he will easily tank two to three times the damage other wizards can take.
- Necromancer: Uses mostly spells from Charnel in the single player, no matter which path Eldred takes... Except for his level 9 summon, which is the Silverback.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: There are points where he will argue that it is his purpose to destroy 'unworthy' worlds. Whether he is telling the truth is unknown, though either way Marduk eventually admits he simply loves causing destruction and misery.
- Omnicidal Maniac: Both willing and able to destroy any plane of existence to which he's summoned. He doesn't even seem to need to do anything; simply being summoned is enough to start the decay.
- The Scourge of God: In his own words:Marduk: I am the embodiment of all Creation's ills, and my purpose is but a simple one: To annihilate all that is unworthy. All that is a reflection of myself.
- Time Abyss: States that his 'age is beyond counting'.
- Villainous Breakdown: When Eldred destroys his megalith, Marduk finally loses his cool and attacks the wizard in a rage. After this, he finally dies and lets out a Big "NO!" as he fades from existence.
- You Will Be Spared: Offers to kill Eldred quickly if he surrenders.
Mithras
Mithras
Voiced by: Tony Jay
Alignment: None
Mithras is a Blind Seer and another planeswalking transplant to the Sacrifice world, having quickly gained infamy on the plane for his preaching of prophesies that foretell the death of the gods and The End of the World as We Know It. Eldred comes across Mithras amongst the ruins of the world in the introductory cutscene, and the entire story is Eldred re-telling the events that caused the current state of decay to him.
- Blind Seer: Which doesn't translate into any gameplay in multiplayer, though in single player he is presented as exactly as harmless as you'd expect a blind old man to be.
- Escort Mission: Will show up as the escortee in James' seventh mission.
- Foreshadowing: Reveals himself as being somewhat skilled in demonology during Charnel's campaign. Which he would, being one himself.
- Framing Device: His conversation with Eldred is the framing for the actual story, with some of the cutscenes being breaks during which Mithras coaxes backstory or Eldred's motivations out of him in the 'current' time-period.
- Louis Cypher: He is one of Marduk's guises, which is discarded in the final mission.
- The Power of Legacy: In Persephone or James' end, Eldred will tell the world that Mithras should be remembered as a hero for telling the truth without fear for himself, essentially treating him as a separate person from Marduk.
- Prophecy Twist: His prophecy comes true in the end, but not in the way he'd probably intended it.
- Secret Character: Unlocked in multiplayer by getting Persephone or James' ending in the campaign.
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Zyzyx
Zyzyx
Voiced by: Rob Paulsen
An imp and Eldred's familiar.- Deadpan Snarker: Gives his master Eldred quite a bit of lip, and sometimes mouths off to other wizards too.
- Exposition Fairy: He introduces new units and characters as they are encountered, gives gameplay advice, and provides color commentary.
- Oh, Crap!: As soon as he learns that Ashur is actually Marduk he suggests to Eldred that they flee to some other world.
- Ominous Owl: He looks like an owl, fittingly enough for a wizard's familiar.
