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Salvos

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I am not "Demon" or "Imp" I am SALVOS! (The creature on her shoulder is her back in her larval form)

Introduced in chapter 1 as a newly hatched larval demon, she goes through many near-death experiences, starting in infancy, then she's dragged off to the Mortal Realm at the start of Volume 2 and has to adapt and deal with humans who either flee in terror or attack her on sight, until she manages to get through to one of them and get herself a disguise. The story then focuses on her attempts to go back to the Nether Realm, doing many heroics in the process, to reunite with her First Friend Haec, a fellow larva demon who is eternally loyal to her because she not only saved his life but gave his life meaning, asking for nothing in return.

Admiring the Abomination: When she clashes with Belzu and his monster army, she comes to want to emulate and surpass him despite his clear villainy and fanatical devotion to Regnorex. It doesn't help that he utterly stomped her without even being present.
All-Loving Heroine: She will try to make friends regardless of race, background, or moral alignment, provided they're not trying to hurt her or hers, don't treat others as nothing more than disposable resources, and aren't mindlessly antagonistic. She's especially grateful to people who reach out to her even when they know she's actually a demon.
Attack Its Weak Point: Her first effective battle-tactic, and one she will always stick with, is attacking her enemies where they're vulnerable, and she knows it hurts. When a particularly aggressive recruiter for Iron Champions company refuses to heed her "no" and leave her alone, she punches him in the groin, purely based on the fact that's where she can reach. Once she learns that's a particularly vulnerable spot for humans, she punches antagonistic men in the groin every chance she gets.
Awesome, but Impractical: Her new [Partial Mortal] skill is a notable downgrade from her earlier [Mortal Form] skill. The latter only had a 1hr cool down and a small debuff while disguised as a mortal species. The former has a 12 hour cooldown, resets her sleep and hunger cycles the instant she takes a mortal form, knocking her out for hours, in exchange for having stats that don't go down between her mortal disguise and her true form. Fortunately, this is all fixed when she reaches level 100 and the skill fuses with her Super Mode, allowing for Partial Transformations.
Badass Adorable: Even as a demon larva, she was exceptionally huggable, but ever since she was hatched, she's been forced to fight, and beat, enemies considerably higher leveled than herself, and she is a legit legendary hero when she saves the city of Silvergrove from the rampaging Greater Demon Lucerna, despite being less than half the guy's level of 68, and being the highest level of her three-man party.
Badass Bookworm: She loves to read and kick ass, whichever comes first.
Berserk Button: She has several that you'd best not press if you value your life.
- Don't hurt, or try to hurt, her companions. She will retaliate with extreme prejudice, first chance she gets.
- Don't hurt your own companions, or just generally treat people like tools and resources. She will hate you more than she does mindless beasts, and she kills them for picking a fight with her, given the chance.
- Judge people on who they are, not what they are, especially herself. She simply can not comprehend nor tolerate racism, no matter how justified. At best, she will beat you up until you recant. You can be racist if you want, just don't act on it while she's around.
Bizarre Taste in Food: When she's forced by her magical disguise to eat, via Growling Gut, she still finds traditional human meals repulsive, even if she agrees that they smell good and make her drool. By sheer accident, she learns that live insects are absolutely delicious, and it's not a prank. Daniel has a good and proper Freak Out.
- She later learns that this applies to any shelled animal with many legs, such as crustaceans and shellfish like shrimp, but she still squicks people out when she prefers them raw... She must have a hell of an immune system.
Character Catchphrase: "Humans are weird."
Chaste Hero: Since demons are asexual, except for the succubus variety, she truly has no comprehension of sexual attraction nor libido, and she thinks romantic love is stupid. She does understand and agree with familial love and sees her companions as welcome family that she treasures.
Clothing Damage: Once she unlocks the [Changeling] type subspecies, her true form is often much bigger than her Mortal form, so her clothes tend to get shredded when she goes into her Super Mode.
Curious as a Monkey: She's fascinated by the new and interesting Mortal Realm and she's always running around asking plenty of questions about everything and everyone new she meets. She even badgers the cyclops leader of an adventuring party she meets when en route to a dungeon she was investigating. The cyclops in question didn't mind as her questions were reasonable and she was asking from genuine curiosity and ignorance, not malice.
Defends Against Their Own Kind: She'd love to give demons the benefit of the doubt, since she knows humans are prone to attack them on sight, without reason. Unfortunately, all the demons she encounters on the Mortal Realm are either mindless wild demons that attack everything in sight, fanatical followers of Regnorex that have to be killed to stop their genocidal rampages, or independent demons that can only see others as walking-talking pools of Exp, and act like Wild Demons, except that they can use strategies and tactics, instead of acting purely on instinct. Demons like Salvos herself or Haec, who genuinely understand the value of teamwork, friends, and loyalty are rare.
Ditzy Genius: She comes across as a goof-ball and complete air-head, but she is actually exceptionally intelligent and often provides impressive strategies and tactics to defeat enemies way above her weight class.
Doting Parent: Given a free moment, she dotes on and smothers the three wyvern infants she adopted with affection. The little guys return that affection even when they learn she is not actually their mother.
Endearingly Dorky: She's as silly as a two-year human child, and she is around two years of age, by her estimates, but she is very, very well liked because she's gentle, kind, caring, and treasures her companions more than herself.
Entertainingly Wrong: When she's accosted by a couple of drunks who refuse to go away and insist on treating her to a restaurant, regardless of her protests, she interprets it as the drunks in question trying to feed her to a building. Edithe and Daniel call her out on it until she points out that Human Sacrifice and golems are a thing, so a building that eats people isn't out of the question. Daniel and Edithe grudgingly admit that she's got a point.
Fight Magnet: She primarily wants to return to the Nether Realm to reunite with her first companion Haec, but enemies of all kinds just keep coming at her and her companions.
Friend to All Children: She's great with kids because she can think like them, and dotes on them like crazy, especially the sweet human girl Rachel, who adores her right back, even knowing she's a demon.
The Gadfly: She loves to tease and prank her friends to get a reaction, and they give back as good as they get.
Good Feels Good: A virtue she shares and learned from her first human companion, Daniel.
Good Is Not Soft: She is a genuine sweetheart, but when she considers people irredeemable, she has absolutely no compunction against giving them cruel and graphic deaths when she has the chance.
Hope Bringer: Whenever she shows up, the poor, downtrodden, oppressed, weak and helpless, etc. light up, because if there's anyone who can improve their situation, it's her, after repeated acts of heroism, with her name preceding her. If she can't help, the situation is dire indeed.
Hypocritical Humor: In volume 5, she chances upon a group of sapient monsters as she's fleeing from a massive Centinel attack. She names a couple of them based on their species and thinks she's creative and clever. Then she meets Centina, the Sage Centinel, and a couple of other creatures with names based on their species and calls the naming sense of the person(s) that did it horrible. And she doesn't realize the contradiction.
I Am a Humanitarian: Subverted. When Rachel asks her if she eats people, she states that she tried and didn't find them tasty. Daniel asks her just when the hell she tried the taste of human meat, and she retorts "just now, I was curious" since everybody always says demons eat people and the humans she tasted were the corpses of the evil cultists who murdered each other in trying to summon Ignavare.
Ideal Hero: She does heroic works purely for their own merits, caring little for rewards, though she loves praise and attention, helps the helpless when she can, and protects innocents when she must.
I Gave My Word: She takes her promises seriously, and always delivers on what she promised to the best of her ability. Her pride won't allow for any less.
I Just Want to Have Friends: She treasures her companions dearly. She knows friendship is rare and hard to come by.
The Ingenue: As an asexual demon who spent most of her life nude, she simply doesn't comprehend why humans put so much value on clothing, or what it means to constantly keep getting "Succubus" type subspecies offered to her in her evolution lists.
Innocently Insensitive: Since she has no social skills, she often steps on toes without intending to. Case in point, Jacob Axworth flirts with her, leads her into the city of Windmore thinking he's inviting her on a date, but she had an emergency that she needed to inform the Adventurer's Guild, namely Belzu's growing army, so she runs off the moment she's past the gates. When she tries to take up his open invitation at his Adventuring Company, he slams the door in her face and remains butt-hurt for in-universe months and over a hundred chapters, and she doesn't understand why until Saffron spells it out for her.
Intrigued by Humanity: She finds humans fascinating precisely because she finds them weird.
Know When to Fold 'Em: Her Nether Realm "upbringing" may have resulted in making her rather reckless, but she won't go pick a fight she knows she'll lose and she will try to flee from an un-winnable battle that's thrust upon her, if she can. She's pointedly not suicidal, after all.
Lack of Empathy: She honestly doesn't care if people live or die, as long as they're not her companions. She doesn't even have the capacity to mourn the dead, not even if it's someone her companions treasure. She simply can't comprehend the concept. It's not a universal demon trait either, as her companion Haec did mourn the loss of his previous companions when he was a larva in the Nether Realm, to her confusion.
The Leader: Benevolent type. She runs whatever party she's in with the consent of the others. She takes in their ideas, opinions, and circumstances before she makes a decision, but she ultimately calls the shots.
Magnetic Hero: Her praiseworthy heroics and work-ethic frequently brings people to her cause.
Mama Bear: She eventually adopts three baby wyverns that she hatched from eggs, honoring the last wishes of their alphas, after the wyverns in question attacked human lands and refused to stand down until Salvos killed them. She sees these adorable and well-behaved infants as her own children, though it takes her a while to realize it. She takes any and all threats against these little guys even more poorly than threats against her companions. Ira, Hellprince of Wrath, made the mistake of targeting them just for laughs and boasting that he would kill them, no matter what it takes, just to rile up Salvos. She gives him a beat down so severe that he winds up loathing his own Healing Factor, because it just extends his suffering, and winds up grateful when Salvos completely annihilates his body, not even leaving one cell to regenerate from.
Money Dumb: Since she's a demon from the Nether Realm, and demons usually have no use for money, she truly doesn't comprehend why her human companions fixate on metal coins, and tends to have difficulty grasping the concept of "money" in its entirety, but trade and barter she picks up on right away.
Mr. Vice Guy: Around the 100 chapter mark she evolves into a Greater Demon of Pride. But this is a good thing, as her pride motivates her to do acts that are praiseworthy and prompts her to be a genuine hero wherever she goes.
My Species Doth Protest Too Much: She is an outlier among outliers. Not only is she an extremely rare un-summoned demon in the Mortal Realm, she is exceptionally kind and heroic. If her friends didn't know she was a demon, they'd never believe it.
The Needless: Played with. In her true form, she doesn't need to eat or sleep, is often confused why mortals do, and in fact can't eat, finding the very concept of eating utterly disgusting. When she evolves a demonic form that allows for a [Partial Mortal] disguise, she's forced to sleep and eat as part of her disguise, pointedly not liking it.
Noble Demon: She might be an actual demon, but she's the epitome of virtue, regardless of race, and proud of it.
No Sense of Direction: In the Neather Realm, telling where she was going was never an issue, but stepping into the Mortal Realm has seriously screwed up her internal compass, and she gets lost very easily. Fortunately, she is improving and has learned to read maps and tell the cardinal directions from the location of the sunrise and sunset.
No Social Skills: Though she is improving, she has great difficulty understanding normal social cues, thanks to being a demon from the Nether Realm.
Parents as People: When the three wyvern infants she adopts see her as Mama, and she tries to raise them, they didn't come with instructions, so she makes a lot of mistakes. The baby wyverns still adore her because she dotes on them.
Playing with Fire: She specializes in controlling fire-based magic of just about all kinds.
The Prankster: Evolving into an Imp subspecies made her extremely mischievous and she never loses this trait.
The Reveal: Close to the end of Volume 5, where it looks like Regnorex is going to storm the mortal realm, and there's nothing anybody can do about it, she reveals she's a demon. This being Salvos we're talking about, it's done in truly epic fashion with a lovely Badass Boast.
"[My plan to trash the ritual] will work! Because I! AM! SALVOS! and ''I AM A DEMON!'" (Proceeds to transform into her true demon form, throw herself through the summon ritual backwards, trashing the ritual, and then teleports away from Regnorex, leaving him ranting in an impotent rage.)
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: She doesn't let a little thing like "the law" get in the way of her heroics. When the Iron Champions were hoarding a dungeon, she sneaked into the Iron Champions HQ and swiped the map. When she sees a Cyclops trader being harassed at a border checkpoint, she beats up the guard responsible, and covers for it by saying that she was attacked because said guard shoved her roughly first. She is otherwise very law-abiding if she can help it.
Secretly Selfish: Yes, she is a genuine hero despite being a demon, but she's not as heroic as her reputation claims.
- She cares for her companions because they are hers and their happiness reflects on her. In general, she doesn't actually care if people live or die. She's incapable of it.
- She performs heroic acts, not because it's inherently the right thing to do, but because she craves the praise and attention she gets from it.
- Her generosity comes in two flavors, either she's giving away stuff she has no use for anyway, or the act of giving things away secretly gives her an even bigger benefit. For example, she crafts Edithe and Daniel Primordial magical weapons to replace their broken weapons in order to raise her own magical abilities. The fact that she gets their gratitude for giving them weapons superior to the ones that were lost is a welcome bonus.
Seven Heavenly Virtues: Despite being a demon, she's got the full set.
- Charity: She goes out of her way to lend a helping hand to the helpless.
- Chastity: Sure, she doesn't understand innuendo and seemingly has no libido, but she turns down and turns away even the appearance of sexual wrongdoing.
- Diligence: She's very hard working and professional.
- Honesty: She's especially blunt, and her lies are intentionally obvious, though she's not above tactical deception in a fight, and is forced to hide her identity in human lands.
- Humility: She's proud, not arrogant. She knows she's amazing and a genius, and loves it when people tell her that. She also knows she's flawed and appreciates it when her friends address her flaws, and she'll happily accept advice on how to correct them.
- Kindness: She's a real sweetheart until she's given reason not to be, and hates people who can see others only as resources to exploit.
- Patience: She wants her goals as fast as possible, true, but she's willing to wait as long as it takes if she has to.
- Temperance: She cares not a whit about rewards, though trinkets that boost her fighting prowess are always welcome.
Spontaneous Weapon Creation: One of her many magic skills is the ability to create solid weapons of magical flames. It's a skill she learned after acquiring an abandoned magical spear in the Nether Realms while in her larval form and has continued to work and refine the skill for her entire Mortal Realm existence.
Supernatural Gold Eyes: Her golden eyes highlight that she's a demon, even in her Mortal disguises.
Wild Card: She doesn't really have any loyalty to any nation or group. The only person she obeys is herself. If she listens to her companions, it's because she wants to.
Young and in Charge: She is the leader of any party she's in and she's always the youngest at less than 10 years old.

Daniel Song

The first human willing to stop attacking and listen to Salvos, he turns out to be a [Hero] summoned from Earth, presumably the United States, some time in the past, and was used by the Kingdom of Elustra as a Living Weapon. He promises to help Salvos find a way back to the Nether Realm, and Salvos returns the favor by promising to help him get back home once she learns how.

Be Careful What You Wish For: Back on Earth, his girlfriend Emily was killed in a traffic accident, and his depression made him borderline suicidal, wishing to be whisked away like in the isekai stories of which he's a fan. He gets summoned to Elustra and gets forced into killing people over and over again, quickly realizing that the isekai life does not live up to the hype.
Berserk Button: Honey traps. His experiences with Princess Faith of Elustra have greatly hardened and traumatized him. So when he's investigating rumors that the Inora Empire intends to use the millions of people from the Kingdom of Elustra in a mass-summoning ritual, he investigates and is set upon by a Harrowed Vindicator who uses some kind of mind-altering skill to try and seduce him before killing him. Enraged to unprecedented levels, he beats the woman down, hard, and then goes on the offense to hunt down and eliminate the entire assassin order, no matter how long it takes.
Butt-Monkey: Poor guy just can't catch a break, and when he does manage to get ahead financially, the coins get taken out of his hands by one of Salvos's antics.
Commonality Connection: He first sympathizes with Salvos when he learns she just wants to go home because he's an isekai victim who wants to go home but can't.
Cowardly Lion: By his own admission, he's a coward, but that's okay, because when the chips are down, he puts himself in harm's way to help the helpless and protect the innocent.
Defeat Means Friendship: He befriends Salvos after she beats him down and manages to get it into his head that she's not the rampaging Greater Demon that is terrorizing the land.
Good Feels Good: He strives to do the right thing purely because he enjoys doing so. Salvos respects and emulates that.
Hero Ball: In the Elustra war arc, his guilt over his earlier acts of cowardice, and failure to save the citizens from a demon induced massacre, drive him into suicidal fights with overwhelming odds against him, where if his allies didn't knock him out and physically drag him away, he would have died, and even then Salvos has to come rescue him.
Heroes Prefer Swords: He's a hero and prefers to wield a greatsword.
Nominal Hero: Although he is genuinely heroic, the primary reason he's a hero is that he has the [Hero] class, not his actions or character.
Trapped in Another World: He's an isekai victim who wants to go back to Earth but can't.

Edithe Dawnriser

A [Summoner] Daniel and Salvos meet while hunting Lucerna. She just barely survived the Djinn's rampage, and then, only because Daniel and Salvos showed up on the scene with healing potions. She is initially very hostile to all demons, including Salvos, understandably so, but she outgrows it after partying with Salvos for a while, and when they together take down the rampaging Djinn.

Actually Pretty Funny: When a couple of drunks go full tilt Bullying a Dragon by hitting on her and Salvos, refusing to heed the term "no," despite being at least 20 levels weaker, and offer to treat the latter to a restaurant, Salvos mistakenly interprets that as the drunks in question intending to feed her to the restaurant. Salvos retaliates by slamming one of the guy's heads into their table and punching the other in the groin with enough force to send him flying across the room. Edithe guffaws like a child and thinks paying a couple of gold fine for Salvos's overreaction more than worth it for the entertainment.
Being Good Sucks: Contrary to Daniel who enjoys doing good works for its own sake, she suffers for her idealism and heroics, but she still does it because she loathes evil with every fiber of her being.
Daughter of a Whore: Her mother was a prostitute from the slums who died when she was very young. Her father is an unknown client.
Enemy Mine: How her relationship with Salvos began. She had nothing but distrust towards the main character for being a demon, but reluctantly allied with her and Daniel because they were all in agreement that Lucerna needs to die. After the fight, where she saw that Salvos is a genuine hero, she bonds with both Salvos and Daniel and they become True Companions.
Fiery Red Head: She sports red hair and is a very passionate woman.
Lone Survivor: Of her adventuring party prior to Salvos, she's the only one to survive their encounter with Lucerna.
Noble Bigot: She, rightly, is prejudiced against the races that humans are prejudiced against, Demons, Kobolds, etc., but she's willing to give individual members of those races a fair hearing when they reach out to her, and if they prove themselves truly noble and upright, will go out of her way to protect them from all threats.
Orphan's Ordeal: She grew up as a child in the slums, not knowing her parents. She's eternally grateful to the Sanctuary of Elements and the Valiant Dreamers because both organizations went out of their way to raise her with kindness and affection.
Right for the Wrong Reasons: When she's kidnapped by the lich Zacharias the Quisling, she presumes the heavily guarded box on the throne is his phylactery. When it's destroyed, his Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum at the loss of a Tragic Keepsake reveals the real phylactery, which allows her party to take down the insane undead once and for all.
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: When Stephen and his assassin lackeys are coming after her, she banishes her spirit summons, breaking her side of the contract, so they don't wind up getting killed. Even after the Spirit King labels her Persona non Grata, she still thinks she made the right tactical decision.
Survivor's Guilt: She feels extremely guilty that she's the only one to survive the party's encounter with Lucerna, especially since it was her quest choice that put her party in the area. It takes several in-universe months and plenty of pep-talks before she gets over it.
Team Mom: The dynamic between her, Salvos, and Daniel, is often referred to as her watching over Daniel and Salvos quarreling like a couple of young children.
Trauma Button: Helplessly watching her friends die while she survives always leaves her shaken. Her enemies love to try it just for kicks.
Vengeance Feels Empty: She sought out vengeance against Lucerna, just so she would have some motivation to keep living. When she manages to actually kill the arrogant Djinn, she goes into a funk, wondering just what it is that she has to live for and suffers serious Survivor's Guilt.

Rachel

A 10-year-old girl Daniel and Salvos rescues from some cultists, after her father voluntarily gave her up to settle his monetary debts.

Abusive Parents: Considering her father saw nothing wrong with letting cultists kidnap his daughter for Human Sacrifice and to settle his monetary debts, she's definitely better off with the main characters, by miles, even though they're adventurers whose quests frequently take them far away.
The Baby of the Bunch: Played with. Although Salvos is the youngest of the party at around 2, she's a 10-year-old while Salvos is technically an adult.
Broken Bird: She has abandonment issues because her mother abandoned the family after getting fed up with her father, and she is extremely shy around strangers because cultists tried to murder her as a sacrifice in demon summoning.
Chekhov's Skill: Salvos teaches her to punch guys in the groin if they're a threat. When a Harried Vindicator assassin tries to use her as a hostage against Daniel, threatening her life if the [Hero] doesn't kill Salvos and then himself, she punches the assassin in the groin. It doesn't hurt him, but he's so startled he drops the chains holding her, allowing her to escape and Salvos to retaliate.
Conditioned to Accept Horror: She is less scared of approaching Salvos in her true form than of her home life, even when she honestly believes that Salvos is a man-eating monster. Fortunately, Salvos is actually a total sweetheart who goes on to dote on Rachel and genuinely makes the girl happy.
Follow in My Footsteps: She is so enamored with Salvos that she wants to emulate the latter's heroic journey, even working herself to the bone to qualify for Malvos academy, and she gets it, being approved as a student at the tender age of 12!
Hero-Worshipper: She adores Salvos, not just because the demon saved her life and dotes on her, but because Salvos is a genuine hero who routinely does amazing things. When Salvos accurately describes her experiences in The Plaguelands to her, especially the part where her party slew Zachirias the Quisling, Rachel happily jumps up and down cheering.
Protectorate: Because she's a small child who can't defend herself, Salvos, Edithe, Daniel, or one of their allies always has to watch over and protect her. She hates it and studies diligently to raise her level.

Demons

Demon King Regnorex

He first appears in chapter 0, engaged in an oft-repeated speech detailing the coming of a swarm of demon larva, and ordering his court to go and capture the survivors to be brought before him for the traditional Join or Die offer.

Create Your Own Hero: His own edicts are indirectly responsible for having Salvos wind up in the Mortal Realm and growing into the biggest hindrance to his plans.
Even Evil Has Standards: He loathes traitors. In Levithus's backstory, the now primal demon was once a rival to Regnorex and sought to overthrow him, but his companions turned on him and sold him out. Regnorex killed the scoundrels without a second thought and then offered to make Levithus his lieutenant.
A God Am I: His internal monologue in chapter 0 reveals that he thinks he's the "god" of the Nether Realm and his demonic court reinforces this mindset by treating him as if he is their god.
Greater-Scope Villain: It is his edict that is directly responsible for Lucerna trying to capture or kill both Salvos and Haec, and dragging Salvos into the Mortal Realm when he's summoned by some cultists. Not to mention the capture and enslavement in all but name of countless unnamed demon larva.
Intrigued by Humanity: The reason he's so desperate to get to the Mortal Realm is that he, personally, wants to live like a human. His fanatically loyal demon army doesn't have even the tiniest clue how to do that, nor do they care.
Irrational Hatred: He doesn't just want to rescue his demon followers by bringing them over to the Mortal Realm. He wants to bring hell to the mortals too. The mortals have done nothing to him or his, aside from legit self-defense.
Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: If you betray your allies to try and earn favor with him, he will destroy you and then extend favor to the allies you betrayed.
Villain of Another Story: Over 1000 years ago, he led an armed invasion into the Mortal Realm and is directly responsible for killing [Hero] King Alexander the Immortal, and thousands of humans before ultimately being repelled back to the Nether Realm.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: The primary reason he's trying to invade the mortal realm is that life in the Nether World is too harsh and he wants the demons to have the ability to live freely, like the denizens of the Mortal Realm, as opposed to having lives in constant peril, never having anything to their existence except the danger of certain death, whether it's their closest companions, wild demons, The Beast, or the realm's inherent dangers.

Haec

A fellow demon larva who takes a liking to Salvos. He is last seen having evolved to a Tank Fiend and reaching out his hand to Salvos as the latter was being dragged off to the Mortal Realm by Great Demon Djinn Lucerna.

The Bus Came Back: He returns to the story at the very, very end of volume 4, where he's shown to be alive and well, and then is shown to have been pressed into service under Regnorex, paired with some random succubus. He is pointedly not happy about it and would have preferred to still be working under Salvos.
First Friend: He's the first ever companion Salvos had and reuniting with him is the primary motivation for her heroic acts.
Follow In My Footstepts: He takes after Salvos and gets his own band of companions together, after bucking Regnorex first chance he gets.
I Owe You My Life: Because Salvos rescued him from a losing battle, where he was unjustly attacked by a (relatively) high-leveled demon larva, he follows her around, obeys her orders, and shows complete loyalty, which Salvos appreciates.
Mirror Character: The only two differences between him and Salvos are his gender and the fact that he was dragged into Regnorex's service as his titular heir, while Salvos winds up being recognized by The System as "The Devil's Daughter."
Noble Demon: He's a [Fiend], but he's honorable, brave, loyal, and a very nice guy.
What Happened to the Mouse?: He's last seen in Lucerna's lair, trying to rescue Salvos from being dragged off by the evil Djinn, and he's Salvos's prime motivation, but after hundreds of chapters after the event, nobody knows what's happened to him. At the end of volume 5 and into volume 6, he starts his own adventures, trying to reunite with Salvos.

Naiveyet

A random larval demon Salvos meets early in the story. Her name is not revealed until an interlude chapter from her POV. She does not survive long after the meeting.

Actual Pacifist: Deconstructed. Upon hatching in the Nether Realm, she leveled up without a single fight by increasing her general skills through the Power of Friendship, and if she had been a bit more wary of larva with levels higher than herself, it could well have been a viable strategy. Unfortunately, she decided to approach a level 5 larva without any precautions. She got literally squashed to death as a result.
I Just Want to Have Friends: After hatching, she reached out her hand (or the appendage serving as the closest equivalent) to every demon larva she came across. It worked well, for a while, gaining her many followers. But when she reached out to a level 5 larva, while she was level 3, it was a [wild] demon and squashed her to death for the affront. Most of her followers did not survive the ensuing bloodbath.
Lethally Stupid: She got herself and most of her followers killed by approaching a higher-leveled demon larva without precautions or caution of any kind.
Meaningful Name: Her name sounds similar to Naivete, and she's naively suicidal.
Skilled, but Naive: She was one of the fastest levelers in the Nether Realms at the start and had many general skills as a result, but because she had little to no wariness in regards to strangers, she got herself and most of her followers killed by reaching out to a larva with a higher level than herself.

Lucerna

A Djinn and Greater Demon working directly under Demon King Regnorex. He captures Haec early in the story and tries to capture Salvos too, but when she proves too difficult to capture, he tries to kill her. This results in him being shoved into a summoning circle cast by human Cultists, but he's not content to go into the summoning circle and then come back later. He grabs Salvos and drags her with him, trapping them both on the other side.

Ashes to Ashes: He attacks with magically summoned, explosive, and corrosive constructs composed of ash.
Card-Carrying Villain: He's loathsome and proud of it. He brags about all his kills as Salvos, Edithe, and Daniel have him on the ground before Edithe finishes him off.
Death Seeker: According to the spirit Sakura, the reason he rampaged was that he was hoping to provoke the humans into launching an army with the power to kill him. Murdering humans along the way was just a welcome bonus.
Evil Virtues: Loyalty. He had a fanatical loyalty to Regnorex, but he was otherwise completely despicable.
Never My Fault: He blames Salvos for stranding him in the Mortal Realm by breaking his summoning collar through tailgating his summoning. He completely ignores the fact that he physically dragged her to the Mortal Realm with him against her will.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: His petty and vindictive act of dragging Salvos to the Mortal World brought the realm the best genuine hero the population could ever ask for.
Starter Villain: While Salvos has had to fight numerous unnamed wild demons prior to him, he's the first to demonstrate genuine sapience and sentience, not just brute cunning.

Ignavare

A demon summoned by a cult that Salvos and Daniel are investigating. He is initially insulted that the cult called on him for aid to deal with Salvos, instead of their original task, whatever that was, but then goads Salvos into a fight, seeking a challenge.

Achilles' Heel: If the shadow he's hiding in gets disrupted, by say a bright light, or the surface the shadow's on getting damaged, he is violently cast out of that shadow and takes damage in the process.
Blood Knight: He called the sacrifices offered him "pathetic" and scoffed at the cultists, but when he appraised Salvos as a Greater Demon [Midday Changeling], he agreed to their request to fight and continuously taunts Salvos, looking for a good fight. He gets it.
Casting a Shadow: His greatest strength is diving into shadows, attacking from them, or even using them to flee.
Hoist by His Own Petard: He gets beheaded by his own magically summoned axe.
Teeth Flying: When Salvos punches him with an Elemental Punch, one of his teeth is knocked out.
Tempting Fate: When Salvos punches him, he stops to gloat about how the punch "didn't hurt." It gives her an opening to take his head with his very own axe.
Underestimating Badassery: Because he was a fiend-type Greater Demon while Salvos was a Changeling type, he thought he had the latter beat, easily. Off goes his head.

The Devil

An unnamed demon who greets Salvos as the latter is trying to get summoning collars by putting some evil cultists through their very own practices and killing the summoned demons. He takes the collars for himself, but then warns her, for his own amusement, that Daniel is in jeopardy.

Above Good and Evil: He is so powerful and aloof that he simply doesn't care about such petty concepts.
Affably Evil: He calls himself the Devil and hangs out with cultists, instructing them to sacrifice innocents for summoning rituals to do despicable things, but he's friendly and polite as long as he's not directly provoked. Salvos actually likes him as a result.
Badass Bystander: He's powerful enough to refer to Regnorex as "Reggy-boy" and get away with it, and can ostensibly only be challenged by the most powerful of the movers and shakers, but he personally rarely gets involved in the goings on in Nexeus. He'd rather sit back and watch the struggle of those "puny mortals" for his own amusement.
It Amused Me: He was originally planning to kill Salvos for killing off his favorite cultists, but then decides to spare her out of sheer amusement at her antics, and despite grabbing the summoning collars she's trying to use to get back to the Nether Realm for himself, despite her protests, he shows he's not above being affable by pointing out that Daniel's in trouble and needs immediate assistance.
Mirror Character: At first glance, and on the surface, he and Salvos look very, very similar. But while Salvos is genuinely ditzy and her pranks have no malice behind them, The Devil knows full well what he's doing, is Obfuscating Stupidity, and does have genuine malice behind his self-proclaimed "jokes."
Satanic Archetype: Daniel even calls him Satan. He's got all the common trademarks; wields a pitchfork, has very, very red skin, goat horns, legs like a horse, and the evil goatee.
Satan Is Good: Zigzagged. He actually likes Belzu, and was fond of a murder-crazy cult, but he's mostly helpful towards Salvos. doing everything he can to make her a more effective demon, even if his aid is only understandable in hindsight.
Time Abyss: He dates to before the Nexeus even existed and often sees thousands of years as a "small break."
Trickster Mentor: He just summarily declares himself Salvos's father and takes to teaching her things, even when she emphatically refused, but his "tutoring" involves pranking and humiliating the hell out of her, just to see what new skills she'd pick up.
The Unfought: There is only one scene where he's in any kind of a proper fight, enraging and humiliating Salvos to the point she goes all-out in a rage, willing to risk her life just to land a solid blow, but he just shrugs it off and laughs himself silly at her efforts. The rest of the time, he'd rather just use space-magic to teleport out of the area rather than fight in any way.
Wowing Cthulhu: He is genuinely impressed with the fact that Salvos managed to land a solid hit on him and even set off her trademark [Demon's Mark] skill on him. He takes her as his apprentice, regardless of her wishes, as a result.

Beelzu

A very, very high level demon Salvos and Daniel chance upon as the duo is investigating some ruins to find fairies so they can maybe find a way for Salvos to return to the Nether Realm.

Ambition Is Evil: All his villainy is prompted by his desire to usurp Regnorex as the Demon King.
Consummate Liar: He tells lies and uses illusions so convincing, that he even fools himself.
Curbstomp Battle: His clash with Salvos was so one-sided, he didn't even have to be present to utterly stomp her. She had to grab Daniel, Edithe, and flee with her tail between her legs, escaping by the skin of their teeth.
Dead Person Impersonation: He not only fakes his death, he comes back disguised as Mori Gladuius, who was publicly slain by Levithus. Salvos and Helena pointedly spelled out all the ways this could go wrong and posited several alternatives, but he insisted on it anyway as the price for his cooperation.
Driven by Envy: In his final moments, Salvos manages to get through to him and make him realize that the only reason he opposes Regnorex is that the demon king's goals don't directly benefit him, personally.
Enemy Mine: After being swatted aside with ease by Levithus, who is way weaker than Regnorex, he realizes that he's actually far, far weaker than he thought, and Salvos is able to press him into at least temporarily allying with the human armies to try and stop Regnorex's return.
Even Evil Has Standards: He is demon supremacist and hates mortals for being mortals, but when he chances on slavery being practiced in the Inoria Empire's town of Roguehollow, he stops his rampage just long enough to rescue the slaves and promise them freedom for serving him. This is one of the rare promises he actually keeps.
Evil vs. Evil: He's a demon guilty of wiping out human innocents, by the millions, but he's opposed to Regnorex, who wants to fuse the Nether Realm and the Mortal Realm together, and is a much more pressing and overwhelming threat.
Fantastic Racism: He's got such a glaring superiority complex and irrational hatred towards the humans of the Mortal Realm, just because they're human, that he refuses to work with them in opposing Regnorex, choosing to slaughter them by the millions, for exp, shits, and giggles. When Salvos proposes an Enemy Mine, because the humans hate Regnorex same as he does and don't want the guy fusing the Mortal and Nether realms together, he retorts that he'd rather die. This prompts Salvos to give up all thought of trying to appease him, and declares her intent to kill him, the very first opportunity.
For Want Of A Nail: Because his savior, an unnamed female larva demon, died protecting him, and he spent untold cycles of advent and desolation, living alone and in hiding in the Netherworld, he became cold, cruel, and cowardly. Salvos, who has yet to lose a companion, and was brought to the Mortal Realm as a newly evolved imp, living among mortals and learning the value of companions, became an affectionate Ideal Hero.
Gone Horribly Right: Benefits from it. A group of cultists came together in city ruins turned dungeon to try and summon an Arch Demon. They succeeded, and he turned them into his slaves.
Hated by All: Everybody who knows this guy loathes him, and rightfully so. His fellow demons hate him for his wicked ambitions and betraying Regnorex. The humans hate him for his cruelty and wholesale slaughter. Even Salvos utterly loathes him once she learns that he's an arrogant blowhard who only sees people as walking-talking bags of exp., and demands Salvos swear fealty to him, as it's his birthright. At that point, she swears to kill him the next time they meet.
Keystone Army: His monster army chain of command is actually very fragile. The Mindreapers he's using are focusing their psionic powers to keep them in a sleeping or sleepwalking state. If the monsters are ever awakened, they will riot and it will be utter chaos as numerous species that are either rivals or predator/prey are being forced to work together, and the monster armies, as a whole, are stronger than their single Mindreaper commander.
A Lighter Shade of Black: As loathsome as his actions have been, Salvos agrees to work with him against Regnorex, for a time, because the latter is so vile, Belzu seems rather moderate by comparison.
Not So Similar: In his final moments, he and Salvos trade barbs regarding their respective philosophies, and Belzu eventually realizes that his selfish nature benefits him alone, while Salvos's Secretly Selfish nature helps others.
Pragmatic Villainy: In the Inora empire, he comes across the town appropriately named Rougehollow and chances upon some gladiatorial slaves. With his army depleted, he puts aside his racism to give the slaves a Join or Die offer.
Reality Warper: His Grand Skill makes his illusions so real, he can fool reality itself, even giving out exp and official notifications on his "death."
Shout-Out: His name "Belzu" is actually a shortened form of Belzebub, known as the Lord of the Flies and a very powerful devil.
Survivor's Guilt: He convinces himself that he survived an attack from a wild hellhound by pushing a fellow infant demon down a ravine to save himself. In reality, he survived because she lured the hellhound to its death by jumping into the ravine herself, and stopping him from doing it.
Turned Against Their Masters: A group of cultists sacrificed the local minotaurs to summon him. The summon succeeded but he somehow gathered for himself an army of Mindreapers and using their powers, combined with his own curse and illusion magic, took control of the cult and are building up a powerful monster army for unknown reasons.
Underestimating Badassery: He thinks there's nothing Salvos can do to counter him, since he's just running around mass-murdering anyone and anything in his way, gaining exp. all the while. He doesn't realize that while levels are important, they're not everything.
Unwitting Pawn: He thinks that going around, slaughtering humans by the millions for exp, and gathering together all of Alexander's artifacts for himself will make him strong enough to usurp Regnorex and become the new Demon King. Regnorex is actually counting on him to do all that and then stomp him when he's got the full set, so the dangerous artifacts and humanity's defenses are cleared out of his way of total conquest.
Your Mind Makes It Real: His illusions are so comprehensive and convincing that they can kill you all by themselves.

Simag

An archdemon disguised as a high-level [Warrior] leading the invasion into Elustra with genocidal attacks against the population. When Salvos sees him, she realizes he's the same Archdemon that terrorized a bunch of demon larva and scared the hell out of her when she was less than level 10.

Early-Bird Cameo: Salvos sees him herding a bunch of low-leveled demon larva early in the story, not understanding what he's doing shouting orders and hitting them with a whip, and is quickly horrified when he sees the guy spear a level 3 demon larva for fleeing from a very, very large pack of hellhounds. He is showcased in the story proper during the Elustra invasion arc of volume 5, almost 300 chapters later. The author even highlights a flash-back scene when Salvos is bearing down on him.
Humiliation Conga: When Salvos chances upon him tormenting Daniel, she utterly tramples his superiority complex by routing his army with ease, blocking all his attacks without even trying, overcoming his artifacts with a humiliating time-reversal skill, and then ripping off the arm wielding said artifact before he can use it again, and lastly, showing him how it feels to be on the receiving end of the terror he dished out to her less than a decade ago in the Nether Realm, skewering him to a mountain with a magically conjured spear of flame as he's trying to flee.
Karmic Death: In the very early chapters, he spears a level 3 larva demon into a canyon wall, for the "crime" of fleeing an un-winnable fight, just to make himself feel superior and to terrorize the rest of the larva into obeying him. When Salvos has soundly beaten him, and he tries to run in chapter 314, she spears him into a mountain, so he sees how that feels.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: By spearing a level 3 larva into a mountain, he provided Salvos with her first ever magic weapon. Analyzing the spear gave her the magic skill she needed to create her own weapons, and the spear itself was very, very useful while she still had it.
Smug Snake: Yes, he's a level 114 Archdemon, which is a serious threat to humans and lower leveled demons. When he's up against Salvos, who is level 127 at the time, he still thinks he's superior and brags about how easy it would be to kill her. She winds up routing his army with ease and literally tearing him apart, until he tries to run and then it's demon shish-kabob time.
Villain Forgot to Level Grind: Literally. He has spent so much time gloating, playing political games, and letting his subordinates go all the hunting and killing, while he sits back and laughs at his victims, that he hasn't had much, if any, advancement since Salvos first saw him in the Nether Realm. So he's a total pushover against her when they meet again.

Ira

The Archdemon, later primal demon, second in command under Levithus, leading the invasion into the Mortal Realm in prelude to Regnorex's attempt to fuse the two planes together.

And I Must Scream: While fighting Salvos, she activates her skill [Invoke Wrath] to Draw Aggro away from her wyvern babies. He is fully aware of what his body's doing but can't control himself as he's attacking her like a mindless beast.
Bloody Murder: His magical powers that don't center around space-magic use his own blood as a weapon.
Blinded by Rage: Invoked. Salvos hits him with her [Invoke Wrath] skill to protect her three wyvern babies, and he completely loses control of his actions as a result.
Dirty Coward: When he's got the advantage, he loves to mock his enemies for their weakness, but when he's at a disadvantage, he grovels, flees, calls for aid, and turns on team-mates to protect himself.
Healing Factor: His blood magic allows him to recover from injury more quickly than the norm, and his Grand Skill boosts the regeneration to the point of From a Single Cell.
Necessary Drawback: His Healing Factor makes him all but immortal, but he hates it, because his injuries still hurt. So when Salvos uses [Invoke Wrath] on him and he goes all out at her, he's in an Ironic Hell, and is grateful when Salvos completely annihilates his body so he can't come back.
No Body Left Behind: Salvos had to completely incinerate his body with the simultaneous explosion of five clones and her [Demon's Mark] skill to put him down for good.
Revenge Myopia: He goes out of his way to antagonize Salvos by re-activating a summoning ritual at the site of a city holding POW and wounded soldiers and where Salvos was tending to her baby wyverns. When she retaliates and has him on the ropes, he tries to spite her by targeting the baby wyverns, who are actively fleeing the battlefield, and thus pose no threat, and then gets vengeful when Salvos gives him a graphic beating for the affront.
Space Master: In addition to his blood-magic abilities, he utilizes space-magic to do his work, even trapping several human elites (over level 120) in a Prison Dimension while attacking the capital city of Seldos Kingdom.
Straw Hypocrite: When he realizes Salvos is a demon hiding among mortals, not a mortal herself, he taunts her by accusing her of having no pride in being a demon, despite the fact that he's also a changeling who hides among humans and is an utterly shameless coward.
Would Hurt a Child: He actively targets the weak and helpless whenever possible. The instant he realizes Salvos is strong enough to give him a legit challenge, after he went out of his way to antagonize her in the first place, he makes it a point to try and murder her three wyvern babies, at all costs, just to spite her.

Levithus

The demon in charge of Regnorex's invasion summoning ritual.

Because You Were Nice to Me: Expecting to be executed by Regnorex when his own companions sold him out, he swears loyalty to the demon king when Regnorex killed the traitors and offered him the opportunity to serve instead.
Diabolus ex Machina: Mori Gladius was about to deliver the final blow to Belzu, having used up all his skills, grand or otherwise, only for Levithus to strike from literally out of nowhere and backstab both Belzu and Mori.
Lack of Empathy: To him, all demons in Regnorex's army are nothing more than tools and chess-pieces, including himself.
Moral Myopia: He and his army massacred humans by the millions but when Clayton Skyshredder showed up to try and stop the ritual to summon Regnorex, the demon is murderously enraged as if he is the wounded party.
One-Winged Angel: When he really wants to go all-out, he transforms himself into a Cerberus at least 20 levels higher.
Red Baron: "The Hound of the Demon King." And it's literal.
Undying Loyalty: He is so loyal to Regnorex that he doesn't mind dying to accomplish the latter's goals.
Xanatos Gambit: The way he set up the summoning ritual to bring Regnorex's army to the Mortal Realm was designed so that no matter what the humans did, it would only speed it along. Kill wild demons? Add more energy. Demons kill humans? Add more energy. Kill his lieutenants? Add more energy. Kill Levithus himself? Add more energy. By the time the human armies learn of it, it's too late...

Humans of Sunmere Kingdom

Iron Champions Company

Common to All

Assumed Win: They thought that if they managed to provoke the Valiant Dreamers to war with as many acts of rampant destruction and death as need be, they would be the victors and could then rewrite history as they please. At best, they've made themselves complete pariahs, and their allies aren't likely to want to support them much longer.
Blatant Lies: They provide their assassin allies with gear clearly engraved with their name, blame the assassins for using hostages, in clear violation of the rules of war, despite openly working side by side with said assassins, and tell anyone and everyone who will listen that the Valiant Dreamers started the war despite launching repeated unprovoked and unjust attacks on the latter, in broad daylight and right in the center of the town.
Disproportionate Retribution: They launch repeated murderous attacks against the Valiant Dreamers and provoke the latter to war, because Edithe, Daniel, and Salvos exposed their hidden and very dangerous dungeon to the public as a matter of public safety when they know the guild and the country as a whole frowns on hiding dungeons in the first place.
Evil Hero: Their organization was founded on a genuine act of heroism, clearing an iron mine that turned into a dungeon and saving a town, hence their name. They use said reputation to recruit unwitting stooges and pawns to exploit, only see all people, including their own members, as nothing more than exploitable resources, and don't hesitate to play every dirty trick they can to get their way.
Gone Horribly Wrong: They pressure the Valiant Dreamers by launching completely unprovoked and unjust attacks on their infrastructure and members, after months of scheming, trying to provoke the latter to war. They get their war. They not only suffer a crippling loss on their opening salvo, they are now loathed by most of the kingdom for their underhanded tactics, and the church has launched an inquisition to bring them to ruin. Even though they have allies, their odds of recovering and coming out on top are abysmal.
Kill and Replace: Victims of it. One of their best went to face a cult, The Church of Regnorex, and the guy was killed and replaced by a demon changeling. It infiltrated the organization, killing and replacing the top ranks that resisted, corrupting the rest. By the time Orbur noticed, it was too late, and he was Driven to Villainy.
Moral Myopia: They hoard dungeons, even close to cities, which the adventurer's guild frowns upon and act like they're the bastions of morality. But someone dares to reveal said dungeon, by pinching their map and showing it as evidence, and they declare total war.
Stupid Evil: They don't just repeatedly attack Valiant Dreamers and call themselves the victims when the dreamers declare war and retaliate, they ally with known assassins, take hostages from the civilian population, and even storm the local Sanctuary of The Elements branch to try and take even more hostages. The last part has made them bitter enemies of the church's parent organization, the Den of Souls, which always retaliates to such an action by declaring Total War themselves and refusing to stop until their enemies have been completely brought to ruin.
Virtue Is Weakness: They launch unprovoked attacks and assassinations on the Valiant Dreamers because the latter revealed the dungeon they were hiding to the public, after learning that the dungeon was about to stampede and had very, very dangerous monsters, exploit the latter's charity and good works to launch ambushes, demand the surrender of high level members by using hostages, and kill said members when they get that surrender, and when the Dreamers break the siege in retaliation, their own high rankers call the dreamers "foolish." Subverted because despite all their dirty tricks and outnumbering the dreamers 2 to 1, they still lost.

Blake

The first of the Iron Champions Company the party lead by Salvos meet. He openly harasses Daniel in the adventurer's guild, but when he sees Salvos and recognizes that she's ahead of the curve regarding her level, very, very aggressively tries to recruit her, refusing to heed her wishes when she says "no" and dares to think he's the victim when he lays hands on her and she retaliates by punching him in the family jewels.

Jerkass: He goes out of his way to be unpleasant to everyone he meets and refuses to heed the term "no" when he tries to recruit people to his adventurer's company.
Karmic Death: He attacks the Valiant Dreamers guild disguised as an assassin, with the disguise being intentionally poor. He dies in the attack, failing to kill any of the dreamers.
Never My Fault: Despite his company having a history of refusing to aid local towns during monster attacks, he tries to shift the blame for the casualties caused by Lucerna's attack to Salvos, Daniel, and Edithe when they weren't even present, investigating the dungeon Iron Champions was trying to keep secret. Salvos one-ups him by providing hard evidence that the reason the Iron Champions didn't do their best to repel the Greater Demon is because they were more focused in trying to keep secret a very, very dangerous dungeon, that happens to be close to another city and several towns, and had monsters of even higher levels within. The only reason it didn't stampede was rival monsters fighting within it.

Stephen

While Salvos couldn't initially read his level, he's later revealed to be level 87 and is Blake's immediate supervisor in charge of recruitment. He's butt-hurt when Salvos still refuses to join up despite personally trying to recruit her himself.

Crime of Self-Defense: He condemns Salvos for punching Blake in the balls after the latter grabbed her when she refused to let herself be enlisted by the Iron Champions Company, and Blake was being a total jerk.
Dirty Coward: He loves to lord over others when he greatly out-levels them, has an army at his back, is using hostages, or some other dirty trick(s), or any combination of the above. When he's facing a fair fight with someone anywhere near his level, he panics, runs, hides, and abandons allies. The second time he and Salvos meet, he's level 87 and she's level 80. He smugly calls her an idiot for daring to refuse his recruitment offer a second time, after just having attacked Edithe in a temple, who was trying to protect Rachel from assassins, then Salvos goes through his assassins like they're Paper Mache, and reveals she's a Greater Demon, using her [Zealous Call] skill to force him to draw aggro, and protect Edithe. The moment he regains control of his actions, he runs off, calling for aid, that's not forthcoming, thanks to his own actions, and repeatedly tries to hide and beg for mercy. Salvos has none to spare.
Exact Words: He begs Salvos to not eat him. She complies, but what she does to him is so, so much worse that it needs a Gory Discretion Shot, and the books are not shy about showing graphic deaths.
Hoist by His Own Petard: His own company's despicable tricks to lock up the priests in their own temple so he can grab Rachel to use as a hostage, or let the Harrowed Vindicators do the same leaves him with nobody to help him when Salvos learns of his actions and comes at him.
Karmic Death: He uses a civilian hostage and relative of one of the dreamers to draw out a high-leveled member of the Valiant Dreamers, unarmed, and sits back laughing and gloating as his assassin allies take their sweet time tearing the poor dreamer to pieces, right in front of Dreamers HQ. When he storms a temple said assassins have locked down so the priests inside can't come to the aid of any hostages he might take and goes after Edithe, who was there to rescue Rachel, he winds up facing an enraged Salvos. After seeing she is now very close to his own level, in record time, he offers to recruit her on the spot. She takes his offer seriously, but then asks him if he'll genuinely accept her for what she is, and reveals she's a demon. He stupidly panics and orders his assassin allies to "kill it" just to try and cover his own escape. After she tears through his assassins, she makes it a merry game to chase him through the town his company's actions have put in lock-down and when she catches up to and corners him, she takes her sweet time making him suffer and giving him a death so graphic, even the story doesn't show the reader what it is, just that nobody was available or willing to come to his aid.
This Cannot Be!: He shouts out that it's impossible for the Valiant Dreamers to have won the fight and Salvos must be bluffing when she reveals that she's at the Sanctuary as a result of getting directions from Harridan.
We Can Rule Together: He personally tries to make Salvos a member of the Iron Champions company, twice. The first time, he did his research, learned she's the lead hero who took down Lucerna in defense of Silvergrove and saw that she is leveling at record speeds, openly calling her an idiot for turning him down after he offered to "forgive her transgressions" against Blake. He tries it again right after attacking Edithe in a temple, despite knowing that Salvos takes what happens to her companions seriously. He promises a bunch of benefits but is still refused when Salvos realizes he has no sincerity, is completely untrustworthy, and would never really accept her or treat her as a person.

Orbur Vale

The leader and founder of Iron Champions Company.

An Arm and a Leg: Edithe manages to cut off one of his arms before he's subdued and captured.
Combat Pragmatist: All he cares about is winning. He cares not about the methods, and has given Stephen sanction to take hostages, ally with amoral assassins, launch ambushes, raid temples, and use every dirty trick he can.
Driven to Villainy: Demons killed and replaced the loyal members of his organization and corrupted the rest. He didn't want to war with the dreamers, but he was forced into it by demonic magics and skills.
Fallen Hero: He used to be genuinely heroic, but he and his company stopped being genuine heroes at some time in the past and just started treating all people as resources to exploit. By the time he's introduced in the Company War arc, he and his company are all about as evil as it gets.
Our Founder: He built the company out of an act of genuine heroism.
Recurring Boss: He launches hit and run attacks on the dreamers no less than three times, focusing on Edithe.
Underestimating Badassery: He presumed that he could fight off both Harridan and Baris with ease. He was wrong.

Valiant Dreamers Company

As a Whole

Right Makes Might: It is their credo to protect the weak from the strong, help the helpless, and to champion the innocent. As a result, the system grants them many, many advantages over their more despicable rivals.
This Means War!: When Iron Champions company didn't even bother to hide their blatant attacks and launched a salvo of acid magic to murder several of their most important members, they all pressure Harridan and Baris to openly declare war on them. After weighing the options, and realizing that refusing to give Iron Company the war they want will be more costly in the long run, they give Iron Company that war.
True Companions: All their members are like genuine family. Harm one of them and you offend all of them.

Pia

A fellow dreamer to whom Edithe is exceptionally close. Sophia is often tasked with watching over Rachel while Salvos's party is away.

Childhood Friend: She and Edithe grew up together under the banner of the Valiant Dreamers.
I'm Melting!: She takes a magical acid attack from the Iron Champions to the face, causing her death by melting her face off so fast that Edithe's highest ranked healing potions could not keep up.
Sacrificial Lion: Her death is the deciding factor that makes Harridan tell his father Baris that the attacks coming from Iron Champions must be answered with force, since the kingdom is too useless to do anything about high-level attacks in a very populated city. The very next day, Harridan goes to the adventurer's guild himself and openly declares war on the scoundrels.

Harridan

The current leader of the dreamers.

Magic Knight: While he primarily fights with a sword, he can use magic in a pinch.
Master Swordsman: He fights with a sword and is so skilled, he can go up against multiple talented opponents, including mages, all by himself.
One-Man Army: When he does fight the Iron Champions, he goes up against at least three Platinum members plus several unknown assassins of similar level. He beats them all without breaking a sweat.
The Peter Principle: Downplayed. He's a fantastic warrior, but the clerical day to day work of running the company is over his head. Fortunately, he outgrows it under his father's guidance.
Reasonable Authority Figure: He treats Daniel and Salvos kindly because they rescued his member Edithe, are genuine heroes, and doesn't hold it against Salvos when she blew right past his company's magic barrier when she was over-excited at meeting Edithe again, just simply took it as a lesson how under-protected his guild is, something that serves his company well when the Iron Champions decide to go full-tilt evil. He also bears no grudge and respects Salvos's decision to say "no" when he tries to recruit her based on her character, accepting her reasoning when she tells him why.

Baris

Harridan's father and former company leader. He trained his son to run the company after his retirement.

The Archmage: While his son specializes in sword-play, he specializes in magic, and rare is the spell he doesn't know how to cast.
Badass Pacifist: He prefers to avoid war between adventuring companies because he knows how much collateral damage will occur. When Iron Champions forces a war, he goes to the front lines as well and demonstrates why he was in charge.
Dark Secret: He and his sons are vampires. But that's not the secret. The secret is that he knows why the Iron Champions really started the war, the dungeon thing was just a pretext. He's actually got an Ancestral Weapon from the time of Alexander the Immortal, and the Iron Champions were taken over by Regnorex worshipping cultists that want to destroy it. Edithe was most displeased when she found out Baris manipulated and tricked the dreamers into fighting his battles for him, although she understands where he came from.
Rebuilt Pedestal: Edith lost all respect for him for hiding the reason for the war with Iron Champions, but when he sacrificed his life so the company could escape, he earned it back, though the rest of the company was splintered due to his actions.
Retired Badass: He used to be the company leader and remains one of their most powerful members.
Wrong Assumption: He figured that the Iron Champions being desperate to make his company declare war meant that the kingdom would come down on the Iron Champions eventually, not to mention declaring war would trigger some kind of all-out attack from the Iron Champions that his company's not ready for. After weeks of one sided attacks and the deaths of several high-ranking members, Harridan comes to his office at night and goes "enough is enough," declaring war openly the very next day.

Gabriel

The company's top alchemist. He is initially away gathering medical herbs when the Iron Champions has an assassin poison Baris.

Alchemy Is Magic: While anyone can mix potions if they know the recipe, alchemists have skills that make the process faster and better, as Salvos learns in Mavos academy.
The Archmage: He's not just an alchemist, he's also a high-leveled mage and rare is the spell he can't either identify nor cast.
Good Is Not Nice: He's grouchy, rude, and acerbic, but he's morally upright and genuinely heroic.
Grumpy Old Man: He's very grouchy and temperamental, plus he's older than Baris who retired from running the company.
Morality Chain: Intended. He leaves the Valiant Dreamers and joins the True Valiants, by his own admission, to keep the butt-hurt members from forgetting the reason they became dreamers after feeling betrayed by Baris. So far, there is no on-screen success to his attempts.
This Means War!: When the Iron Champions firebomb Dreamers HQ, resulting in several deaths, including his apprentices Pia and Ian, he openly calls for war.

Celine

Another of Edithe's close friends among the dreamers.

Childhood Friends: She grew up with Edithe among the Valiant Dreamers.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: She's always cheerful, upbeat, and nearly fearless, so when she freaks out at the reports that Belzu is heading their way, it's taken seriously.

The True Valiants

Jake

The most butt-hurt of the dreamers after learning of Baris's motives. He splinters the company and starts his on "True Valiants" company to compete with his former fellow members.

Became Their Own Antithesis: After Belzu went and destroyed what should have been their celebration at winning the Company War against the Iron Champions, by killing Baris and stealing the Sword of Alexander, he not only spits on Baris's Heroic Sacrifice every chance he gets, and founds the True Valiants, but he goes and actively frees the man most responsible for the war and has the highest dreamers death count, by all tricks fair and foul, just to try and spite the dreamers he left behind... And he still thinks he's the one with the moral high ground.
Holier Than Thou: After starting his own adventuring company, he twists himself into pretzels to see himself and his members as being the epitome of righteousness while those who stayed with The Valiant Dreamers as cowards and backstabbers. Don't confuse him with facts on it, his mind's made up.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He is a real asshole, as Edithe puts it, but when Edithe finds herself separated from the Dreamers, and an archdemon is bearing down on her, Jake and Gabriel come to the rescue, going Think Nothing of It.
Start My Own: After seeing Baris go up against Belzu with The Sword of Alexander, thus revealing he knew, or suspected, the real reason for the company war, Jake decides that the dreamers are a bunch of cowards and hypocrites who stabbed him in the back, so he splinters the Valiant Dreamers and ropes in a bunch of other dreamers into founding the adventuring company he calls "True Valiants."
Ungrateful Bastard: If it wasn't for Baris going off to face against Belzu, alone, losing his life in the fight, he and all the other dreamers would be dead. But rather than acknowledge that Heroic Sacrifice, he fixates on the fact that Baris had a super-weapon he didn't use, even though everybody laid out very sound reasons why it wasn't used sooner, namely, the fact that demons would have openly attacked the members if he used it earlier.

Humans of Elustra

Princess Faith El

The woman who summoned Daniel Song as a [Hero] to Nexeus's Mortal Realm to fight in a war against the Inora Empire. She gave him the mushroom treatment (keep him in the dark and feed him crap) and used him as a Living Weapon. When Daniel learned of this, he bolted, first chance he got.

Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When her country is losing the war with the Inora Empire, she rents a carriage, hires the best adventures she can find as escorts, and runs over to Daniel to bow her head to the ground and beg him to come back and save her nation, even saving his life from some assassins in the process. Daniel responds with a hearty "no." Not just because of his own bad experiences with her, but because the situation is already at the point where going back would be suicide.
The Atoner: She suffers greatly trying to make up for her crime of summoning and abusing Daniel to use him as a weapon of war, against international law.
Broken Pedestal: Daniel used to think the world of her, but after a few too many lies and manipulations, he now sees everything she says and does as suspect.
The Cassandra: She goes far and wide to spread the word that the Inora Empire has waged war on her country to use the citizens in a mass demon summoning ritual. Nobody believes her, but Daniel at least is willing to investigate, on the off-chance that she's telling the truth. To his horror, he learns the truth is far, far worse. The Inora Empire's armed forces and government are run by demons, and they're orchestrating the war for genocidal reasons.
Forgiven, but Not Forgotten: Daniel does ultimately forgive her after seeing how much she's suffered and a sincere apology, but when Faith asks if they can ever be friends, Daniel immediately responds with a firm "No."
Real Politik: Deconstructed. Sure, summoning Daniel and stringing him along with platitudes, manipulations, and trickery got her nation ahead of her enemies, for a while, but Daniel eventually learned the truth and bailed. This results in her nation collapsing, and the people thinking the worst of her when she ran out to try and beg him to come back.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: She gloriously calls out her sister Hope for siding with Simag, trying to get herself and her siblings killed, and being responsible for the death of their parents, unwilling to even hear the latter's excuses.

Humans of Van Qiuer Empire

Alex Cromwithe

A knight Salvos encounters while trying to evacuate the city of Ghostlight from Zix's genocidal rampage. Even after being rescued by Salvos, he remains dismissive of her, and chooses to keep fighting the invading kobolds. He dies, but not before rescuing several civilian non-combatants.

Killed Offscreen: The only reason Salvos and crew knew he died is that Zix came along and threw his severed head at them.
Noble Bigot: He thinks kobolds are nothing but murder-happy monsters. He's justified by the fact that the kobolds he's fighting are the fanatical Scale Defenders clan under Zix and are actively in the process of trying to provoke a war of annihilation by attacking the city of Ghostlight unprovoked, with the intent of murdering every man, woman, and helpless child.
Stay in the Kitchen: Despite seeing Salvos easily slay a level 100+ kobold he was struggling with, he remains dismissive of her and tells her to focus on evacuating civilians while he focuses on killing "the kobold scum." He winds up outnumbered and out-leveled, with his severed head being delivered by Zix and the remaining zealots.

Kaitlin Darkhelm

One of the Elites in the army defending the capital city of Seldos from a demon attack. She's the leader of the Van Qieur Empire Swordsman Division.

Twentyfour Hour Armor: She is never seen outside her armor and helmet.
Dark Is Not Evil: She wields darkness based attacks and is a genuine hero.
Knight in Shining Armor: Literally. She's a knight, wears shining plate-mail, and is the epitome of virtue.
Magic Knight: She's a Master Swordsman who uses darkness based magic attacks.

Humans of the Inora Empire Spoilers

Amanda

A woman who approaches a despairing Daniel in a bar, trying to drown himself with booze. She at first seems to be a Level 13 [Farmer] but Daniel smells a rat and realizes she's actually an assassin over level 100.

All Love Is Unrequited: She winds up developing feelings for Daniel, who understandably remains oblivious, thanks to her trying to seduce and kill him. Daniel, in turn, has a crush on Salvos, who is asexual, and doesn't understand romance, at all.
And This Is for...: She cries out that she slashed Simag's throat for the sake of the Harrowed Vindicators he murdered, because they payed well.
Assassins Are Always Betrayed: When she sees a fellow Harrowed Vindicator break into the room where Daniel is holding her captive, rather than coming to her rescue, the assassin reveals that a contract had been placed on her head.
Enemy Mine: When Daniel captures her, her assassin buddies try to kill her and Daniel. They are forced to work together to get at the truth and defend themselves.
Mook–Face Turn: When she and Daniel get to Harrowed Vindicators HQ and see that the assassin guild and the country of Inora have been taken over by demons, she and Daniel genuinely join forces to try and stem the tide.
Tap on the Head: Justified. When Daniel was about to launch himself at Simag, as the latter had the upper hand, in a suicidal attempt to protect the citizens of Elustra, she uses a magic skill to render him unconscious with a blow to the head.

Romyn Ino

The current emperor.

It's Personal: Thanks to the actions of Simag and the demons under him, his parents were killed and his people were forced into a costly war with the country of Elutra. As such, he's got a personal grudge and wants them all dead.
Puppet King: He has no authority, at all. Archdemons and above control his empire and are responsible for the death of his parents.
Rebellious Princess: Gender inverted. He flees his empire, along with the Elustra Resistance, to spread the word about the Demon usurpation of his home country and the coming of Regnorex, in force.

Melvos Academy

Nolan, the mighty warrior

A noble, adventurer, and playboy, his skirt chasing antics are indirectly responsible for bringing Lucerna and Salvos to the Mortal Realm.

All Love Is Unrequited: The one lady he wants to commit to isn't interested.
Dramatic Irony: He's a well-known playboy who makes it a point to tell his targets that they're nothing more than a fling, but when he finds someone he wants to settle down with, she's not interested in romance at all.
Everybody Has Standards: When Lucy dragged herself into his party, just for the sake of Dating What Daddy Hates, he didn't just dump her in the wilderness, but at least brought her to the nearest town and made sure she was safe before he took off for parts unknown.
Ladykiller in Love: All his flings were just that, flings. He lays eyes on Salvos and falls in love with her for real. Unfortunately, she's not interested and friendzones him.
The Magnificent: He goes by Nolan, The Mighty Warrior. Not just Nolan.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Because he had a fling with Lucy, who tried to make things serious against his wishes, her unrequited love Chris became a [Cultist] and summoned Lucerna to hunt him down, which goes egg-shaped because the Greater Demon Djinn dragged Salvos along.

Kobolds

The Rising Dragon clan

Xandri, the alchemist

One of the first Kobolds Salvos meets and the only one who doesn't react with hostility towards her true form. Salvos saved her life from being kidnapped and murdered by a rival Kobold sect. The two have been friends ever since.

Actual Pacifist: Unlike the Scale Defenders faction that fanatically tries to adhere to what they see as the will of the Old Gods and want to start a genocidal war with the humans, where either the Kobolds go extinct or the humans do, she wants Kobolds and Humans to work together to fight the oncoming calamity that's prophetized.
Fantastic Racism: Like the rest of her people, she's biased against humans, thanks to the ancient prophecy about the end of the world, but she's willing to give individual humans a fair hearing.
I Owe You My Life: She's friendly and cordial to Salvos because the latter saved her life more than once.
Reasonable Authority Figure: She's willing to help Salvos rescue her human companion Edithe from blight and mana poisoning because Salvos is a treasured ally, and holds no hatred for Salvos being a demon, nor Edithe and Daniel being humans because they're close to Salvos.
Support Party Member: Her class is clearly a non-combat class, but she's great at supporting those who fight on her behalf.

The Scale Defenders clan

As a whole

Cult: They are all fanatical Old God worshippers, based on ancient stone tablets of dubious veracity, and genuinely believe that the only way to save all of reality is to exterminate every non-believer, and non-kobold from the Mortal Realm. They have an especial hatred of [Heroes], demons, and spirits.
Moral Myopia: When the law is on their side, all fine and good, but when it isn't, it's to be ignored.
Straw Hypocrite: When Zix challenges Salvos to a Trial by Combat and loses, they have the gall to accuse Salvos of cheating despite completely ignoring the rules of the bout. To wit:
- Salvos walked into the bout with a couple of temporary buffs, which is technically not breaking the rules, while Zix walked in wearing a bunch of powerful artifacts under his robes, which is strictly forbidden.
- They proclaim Salvos broke the rules by dragging Zix into the ritual fire of the bout and falling out of the ring in the process. There is no rule against it.
- Edithe cried out that Zix has many anti-fire enchantments while the bout is underway, and that's technically a violation of the "No outside interference" rule, but Zix was being boosted by his clan actively spell-casting in his favor, a very, very egregious violation.
Tautological Templar: Seeking to save reality is the ultimate virtue, so anything they do in that pursuit is the ultimate virtue too. Anyone who disagrees deserves death.
Warhawk: They are desperate to initiate genocidal war with the human race and will kill any kobold who objects first chance they get.

Gelick, the Warrior

The leader of the band who kidnapped Xandri when Salvos, Daniel, and Edithe were training in the Plague Lands. Despite being at least 30 levels higher than her, Salvos manages to defeat him in a fight to the death, rescuing Xandri in the process.

Breath Weapon: He breathes fire either in a powerful jet or as an exploding ball of flame.
The Fundamentalist: Only the "true" believers in the Old Gods are permitted to live. Everyone else is a [Heretic] or [Blasphemer] that deserves death.
Half the Man He Used to Be: He had Salvos cornered until she took a gamble on a new skill and boosted it to the max, attacking him with her claws. She wins the gamble and rips him in half.
Tautological Templar: He sees his belief in the Old Gods and fighting the Apocalypse Prophecy as the ultimate virtue, so anything he does to that end is the ultimate virtue to. Anyone who disagrees must be a [Heretic] that deserves death.

Zix, the Warrior

The leader of the Scale Defenders. He is introduced leading a squad of high-leveled kobolds to burn the human city of Ghostlight to the ground and kill every man, woman, and child, hoping to launch a never-ending war of extermination with the humans.

Assumed Win: He is so wrapped up in his self-righteous zealotry that he thinks he will ultimately win any fight he goes into.
Cheaters Never Prosper: He demands a Trial of Scales (Trial by Combat) with Xandri, knowing her clan is compromised and when Salvos agrees to be Xandri's champion, both because it's the right thing to do and because she's got a grudge against this guy burning down the city of Ghostlight, trying to murder helpless children, and coming at her companions, he goes into the bout loaded down with artifacts, and has his followers in the crowd chanting magic to buff him the entire fight. Salvos still wins, though it was a tough fight.
Death by Irony: He does a bunch of despicable things in the name of his so-called faith and the kobold laws as he sees them. The very laws and rituals he holds in high esteem are what do him in.
A God Am I: When he transforms himself into a pseudo-dragon, he boasts that he's ascended into an Old God. When Salvos calls him out on it, all he can do is shout "insolence."
Hate Sink: He is so odious, not only does the fanbase celebrate his death, the system awards Salvos a bonus for it!
One-Winged Angel: During the bout with Salvos, he uses a magic artifact to transform himself into a pseudo-dragon.
So Long, Suckers!: During the torching of Ghostlight, he hangs back and lets all his subordinates fight while he goes around killing helpless civilians. When his subordinates are all dead, he flies off, bragging that he will come back stronger to finish the job.
Would Hurt a Child: He wants the total extermination of the human race. By necessity, that includes helpless children, and kobold children who object are also fair game for the purge.

Notable Monsters

Zacharias the Quisling *Spoilers*

Formerly a summoned [Hero], he was called to the Mortal Realm of Nexeus to deal with the powerful necromancer Lilian. He allied with the necromancer, turning on the country that summoned him. A multi-national alliance sent armies at the two of them in response. The necromancer was slain in the fight but he had turned into a powerful Lich, and the battle site turned into an inhospitable land full of undead known as the Plaguelands. Countless red-headed women were taken by him due to his mad obsession with his beloved, including one Edithe Dawnriser.

Driven to Madness: According to his testimony, he was an ordinary Joe on Earth, but when he was summoned to some unnamed country that no longer exists, he was treated like crap and used as a disposable weapon and rebelled, siding with Lilian, the very necromancer he was sent to kill. Her death completed the process of breaking his mind and the result is a barren wasteland of blight-flowers and high level undead.
Fisher King: The area now known as the Plaguelands used to be a very vibrant and fertile land when he was alive, to the point that the surrounding countries sent armies to try and take it. With Lilian's death and his own return as a lich, it became an uninhabitable wasteland where only the undead can roam freely and safely. His Final Death freed the land from his curse, but it could take centuries before the taint is gone and the soil recovers.
Glass Cannon: He is a powerful mage who wields impressive ice magic, but his body is composed of nothing but normal bones and is very fragile.
An Ice Person: He specializes in ice-based magic.
The Lost Lenore: He fell in love with Lillian, the necromancer, and her death during the war broke his mind. He's been kidnapping any woman with red hair he comes across, thinking it's her. When he finds out she's not, he goes into a rage and locks her in a giant crystal of ice "for deceiving him."
Puzzle Boss: Brute force attacks can't stop him. His phylactery has to be found and destroyed first, or he will just regenerate from any damage done to him, and his phylactery is also hardly fragile. As it's an entire castle.
Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum: When Edithe, Salvos, and Daniel manage to destroy a box holding Lilian's ashes, he goes completely apoplectic and starts blasting high level magic regardless of location, this winds up destroying his castle, that serves as his phylactery, leaving him vulnerable to a counter-attack, and his own Final Death.
Tragic Keepsake: He kept a black box full of Lilian's ashes on the throne room of his palace.
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: In universe. He was summoned to Nexeus against his will, betrayed by countless companions in the country that summoned him, his lover was killed before his eyes, and all his hopes and dreams crushed. He retaliated by destroying entire armies and turning the battlefield where it happened into an uninhabitable wasteland where only high-level undead can travel safely.

Centina

A sapient Centinel Salvos finds in the Bloodfilled Canyon, when she's sent to that high-level monster zone by The Devil. Centina has a sanctuary for other species of monsters that don't want to fight and just want to leave the area and live.

Humanity Ensues: She used to be just another Centinel, going mostly on instinct, until she became self-aware and started developing human thoughts and feelings.
Hunter of His Own Kind: After being repeatedly suffering mindless attacks from other Centinel and having her lover murdered by another [Evolved Centinel] like herself, she has no issue helping others hunt and kill Centinels.
The Lost Lenore: Her human lover who was killed by a butt-hurt [Evolved Centinel] who keeps beating her to the brink of death and then throwing her back down the ravine she crawled out of, just for laughs.
A Match Made in Stockholm: Her human lover once saved her life, in order to capture and interrogate her because he wanted revenge on the Centinels for invading his home and mindlessly attacking all his friends and family to death. After an extended period of captivity, they fell in love with each other, but another [Evolved Centinel] came upon the scene and murdered him then captured her and threw her in a ravine, and keeps beating her up and throwing her back in every time she tries to crawl out and run away.

The Vengeful Sage Centinel

An Evolved Centinel that one-sidedly decides Salvos has to die to avenge "his kin." Problem is, as Salvos points out, his "kin" are all Centinels, the vast, vast majority of which mindlessly attack everything in sight, including other centinels, starting from the instant they hatch, and Salvos was only fighting in self-defense.

Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: His cruel acts of vengeance against Salvos and trying to murder her monster companions, all of whom are innocents, causes her to unlock not one, but two, grand skills, which are so rare elites over level 150 are lucky to get even one. At the time Salvos was level 125.
Power Parasite: He gains new powers and abilities by stealing them from the corpses of monsters and people he kills.
Revenge by Proxy: When he sees Salvos taking some innocent, harmless, and unrelated monsters out of the killing fields known as Bloodied Gulf to safety, he leads a hungry horde of centinels to the lair that is their home and actively blocks Salvos's way to keep her from rescuing them, just to show her how it feels to watch your loved ones die. Salvos retaliates with extreme, emphasis on extreme, prejudice.
Revenge Myopia: Combined with Revenge Before Reason. He must kill Salvos and make her suffer his pain for killing his kind. His kind are almost entirely composed of mindless beasts that mindlessly attack everything around them, including each other, starting from the instant they hatch, and even eat their own young. When Salvos points this out, he retorts "Doesn't matter. You kill centinels! I KILL YOU!"

Vampires

Common to all

Emotion Control: They don't charm or mind-control people, but their racial [Vampire Essence] skill allows them to control the emotions of other races around them, unless their target is somehow protected from the effect.
Fantastic Racism: To various degrees. Their ancestors suffered greatly at the hands of Regnorex and his minions at the time of Alexander The Immortal, and were granted noble titles as a result of their sacrifice and aid in driving back the demonic scourge. As such, they tend to be intrinsically hostile to demons, some more than others.
Hiding in Plain Sight: Their numbers were too depleted after the war with Regnorex to sustain themselves, so they blended in with humans, barely bothering with a disguise.
Our Vampires Are Different: They could and do easily pass for humans as their need for food, sleep, and shelter are all the same, and have no glaring weaknesses like sunlight or garlic. While they can drink blood, it's intoxicating as if it were booze. While booze has no effect on them.
We Have Become Complacent: The vast majority of the Vampire nobles have forgotten their duty to prepare for Regnorex's coming return and indulged themselves in wanton luxury, caring only about staying in their plushy lives, even to the point they conspire and collude against each other, leading to several noble houses and clans being stripped of their noble titles and perks. This made it almost too easy when Belzu and Regnorex's bunch independently start going after them and the mystical treasures they guard. Once the battle began, they refuse to band together, focusing their strengths on trying to stay out of the cross-hairs, even if it means offering up each other.

Merryster House

Saffron Merryster

A noblewoman Salvos meets near the start of volume 2 as her first escort mission. After saving her life from bandits and monsters, Saffron offers her hand in friendship and the two reunite in Mavos academy.

Blue Blood: She is noble both by birth and by character.
Drunk on Milk: She gets intoxicated on blood very easily, especially on the blood of demons.
Knight Templar: She is very gung-ho about exterminating all demons wherever she finds them, without exception, and sees them as Always Chaotic Evil worshippers of Regnorex. She is suitably shaken when she learns of Salvos's true identity.
Rose-Haired Sweetie: She's a very nice girl who has bright pink hair.
You Have to Believe Me!: When she stumbles on Salvos, who had unknowingly been turned back to her true form by a class advancement, she fakes compliance, knowing attacking Salvos head on is suicide, and runs off the next day to try and recruit allies. Her best friend Velda refuses to believe Salvos is a demon, or even let Saffron say it, not only because of Salvos's sparking public image, but because Salvos treated her with respect when nobody else would.

Naustrom House

Marcel Naustrom

The son and heir of the house at the time Saffron is trying, and failing, to rally troops against Regnorex's invasion. He considers Saffron a madwoman for "clinging to a childish fable" and sees her attempts at rallying a unified front as merely a conspiracy to somehow bring down his house, even after Belzu, wielding the Sword of Alexander, leveled the capital city of the Merryster house while trying to claim the Breastplate of Alexander. He tries to sabotage any and all inter vampire house alliances at any cost.

Flat-Earth Atheist: He lives in a world where demon summoning cults are real, and summoned demons wear an artifact that shows their allegiance to Regnorex, which he should be aware of, seeing as he summoned one himself, yet he thinks talk of "Regnorex is at the gates" is just a fairy-tale and anyone who holds sway with those words is either a dangerous schemer or a madman that has to be stopped.
Improperly Paranoid: Until he's carted off and executed, he was utterly convinced that any and every time vampire houses ally, even his own house, it was nothing more than a conspiracy to try and doom his house, and him personally.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: His attempts to sabotage Saffron's efforts to bring forward a united front against the demon invasion are far more effective at rallying all the houses together than Saffron's months-long campaign.
Not Me This Time: He is guilty of many, many death-penalty acts, including murdering his own wife in order to summon a demon assassin that murdered all the bodyguards of a visiting noble vampire from a neighboring house and tried to murder Saffron, only failing thanks to Salvos getting a convenient power-up which translated over to the clone acting as Saffron's bodyguard, but he genuinely had no hand in the poisoning of yet another vampire house's child attending a conference in his estate, at least not directly. He did hire the actual agents responsible and is also responsible for bringing them to the mortal world because the demon he summoned summoned others.
Only Sane Man: What he thinks he is, as he's utterly convinced that Saffron trying to mobilize an alliance against the coming demonic invasion is either just a pretext, or the act of a madwoman when he learns she genuinely believes what she's saying, and he thinks the fact that everyone disagrees means they're all cuckoo for cocoa puffs. It's only when demons launch an attack on his estate with genocidal intent, singing Regnorex's praises that he realizes he's in the wrong, but it's way, way too late to save him by then.
Psychological Projection: Weaponized. He makes a point of accusing his opponents or enemies of engaging in skullduggery and then holding himself as the one trying to stop it, when he's the one guilty of the very charges he's leveling.
Too Dumb to Live: Which Saffron calls him out on. He murdered his wife and hid her body after using a demon summoning ritual, all in his own bedroom, and kept the bloody summoning tome among his effects, and when this evidence is presented to him, in public, he angrily denounces the head of another neighboring house whose child was poisoned at an event held in his own estate, telling the guy that he wishes said child would die. At this point, Saffron asks him if he's desperately suicidal, and that's what finally pierces his bubble of self-righteousness, letting him realize just how far up the creek he is.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His own paranoid, idiotic, and self-righteous delusions cemented in the machinations of two succubus "twin" demons nearly wiping out his own house, several other houses, and looting most of the pieces of Alexander's gear for the forces of Regnorex. It's only because Salvos came to the rescue that anyone managed to escape alive.
Villain Has a Point: Vampire houses allying together to crush an innocent vampire house has precedent, as Baris, and his son, can attest. So his concerns about an alliance being just a pretext have merit. Unfortunately, when an archdemon stampeded through a neighboring territory on route to your estate, collecting the very tools used to hold off the demon king last time he tried for an armed invasion, leveling cities in its wake, going full-tilt "no alliances, at all costs!" is a suicidal stance to take.

Mavos Academy

Faculty

Clayton Skyshredder

The headmaster.

Awesome Mc Cool Name: "Skyshredder" sounds like a name one would find in a Space Opera.
Badass Teacher: He runs a school of elites and is one of the most powerful men in the country of Sedos.
Heroic Lineage: He descends from a researcher who escaped the mass invasion of Centinels that wiped out the coast now going by the name Bloodied Gulf, became a legit heroic adventurer and returned a couple of decades later to exact revenge on the very monsters that wiped out most of his neighbors, friends, and family.
Reasonable Authority Figure: Sure, Saffron did pay back a favor and talk on Salvos's behalf to let the latter enter the academy, and late in the mid-terms, but Clayton didn't get petty or obstructive and put Salvos through the normal interview process, accepted proper payment and then let her enroll in the classes she needed to master the space magic she wanted. He's rewarded when Salvos gets distinctive marks in all courses and even completes a very difficult Potion of Regeneration for her alchemy class. He also gives the monsters Salvos brings back from Bloodied Gulf a fair hearing and agrees to try and repair the Breastplate of Alexander when Salvos presents its broken remains, as, if nothing else, it's an excellent opportunity for him to research a Mythical Grade artifact, which is an opportunity he'd never expected to have in his entire life, even if he devoted his school's entire budget to the search.

Isais

The professor in charge of teaching space magic theory.

Graceful Loser: After The Devil has tossed him out a window, Salvos is expecting that she's going to have to do a lot of groveling to stay in his class. The next day, she's surprised that he's actually given what the guy told him some serious thought, did the research, and realized that The Devil was telling the truth. The course manual he wrote is full of errors, excess extrapolation, and wrong mechanics that would actually have grave consequences if overused, requiring a massive revision and rewrite.
Mugging the Monster: When The Devil, in disguise, calls him out for errors in his curriculum, he gets into a shouting match with the high-level demon and challenges the latter to a fight. He winds up getting tossed out the window of his own classroom.

Students

Velda

A fellow vampire that goes to Mavos college. Born as a commoner, she doesn't have the same passion as her friend Saffron for fighting the demon scourge. She fixates on Salvos because the latter is both a legendary hero and treats her like an equal, unlike the majority of other students who just look at her in envy for her genius and consider her "a lucky upstart" for getting into the academy in the first place, overlooking all her hard work.

Accidental Truth: Far, far removed from Salvos's actions, she and her study group are moping, thanks to a certain Primal Demon causing classes at Mavos to shut down, for public safety. They all come to the conclusion that Salvos is either a [Hero] thanks to her meteoric rise to power and fame, or she's a [Sentinel of Secily]. Guess which title Salvos earned by beating up the Ancient Centinel in the Bloodied Gulf?
Because You Were Nice to Me: She becomes a near fanatical fangirl of Salvos because the latter patted her on the shoulder and said words of encouragement when the two meet in the academy, as opposed to looking down her nose at her like the vast majority of the class.
Entertainingly Wrong: She comes to the conclusion that Salvos is a [Hero] because of how quickly she leveled and her impressive feats. Salvos is actually a Demon, but she does party with a [Hero] Daniel.
Loving a Shadow: Of a platonic variant. She's fascinated with an idealized fantasy of Salvos's heroics that doesn't quite match the reality.

Characters / Salvos

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Demons

Humans of Sunmere Kingdom

Iron Champions Company

Valiant Dreamers Company

The True Valiants

Humans of Elustra

Humans of Van Qiuer Empire

Humans of the Inora Empire Spoilers

Melvos Academy

Kobolds

The Rising Dragon clan

The Scale Defenders clan

Notable Monsters

Vampires

Merryster House

Naustrom House

Mavos Academy

Faculty

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The True Valiants

Humans of Elustra

Humans of Van Qiuer Empire

Humans of the Inora Empire *Spoilers*

Melvos Academy

Kobolds

The Rising Dragon clan

The Scale Defenders clan

Notable Monsters

Vampires

Merryster House

Naustrom House

Mavos Academy

Faculty

Students

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