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Sun Kingdom
Annie, Betty and Cara
Annie, Betty and Cara
A trio of strong-willed Rune Academy students. They met at school and despite their different backgrounds became fast friends who do everything together and share everything—like rivalries and crushes.- Alpha Bitch: All three have elements of it, but it's most pronounced in Annie.
- Cute Little Fangs: Cara has one on her left side.
- A Day in the Limelight: They're the starter characters in the original Balzac's Heritage mission, and are perfectly capable of clearing it themselves.
- Hidden Depths: Their seemingly shallow crush on Elio stems from their deep respect and admiration for him.
- Girl Posse: Annie is the leader, Betty is the 2nd in command, and Cara's the dumb(er) one.
- Guest Fighter: Are playable in Balzac's Heritage.
- Laser-Guided Karma: They try to bully Leah and end up getting sent on Leah's first assignment. They try to take Leah's reward and are fed Charle's cake.
- Meaningful Appearance: Betty has a strand of green hair, signifying that she's of noble descent.
- Power Trio: The Academy trio, or the ABCs to the fans. Interestingly, they're the second ABC trio chronologically, as Morris's students Aosta, Barbara and Clio make up a prior one.
- Sitcom Archnemesis: With Leah during Leah's "Pride and Prejudice" character story. Since then, they've been Fatima's.
Barbara
Barbara Balzac
A Life Magic student who studied under Morris Dietrich together with Aosta and Clio. As of Mirage she is the Headmaster of Rune Academy.- The Bus Came Back: Originally only appeared in flashbacks to when Morris was still alive. She enters the main story in Mirage chapter 8.
- Fluffy the Terrible: She inherited Morris's Rune creature, which looks like a skeletal fish. She named it "Gwenivere".
- Heroic Lineage: Samuel Balzac founded Rune Academy. It's likely the reason that Barbara was selected as the Academy's new headmaster.
- Impoverished Patrician: Theodore captured and executed many Balzac family members for conspiring with the Dracontines, leaving the survivors without their traditional privileges.
- Stern Teacher: She's much stricter than she was as a young person,
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: She decides to consult the Dracontines about the Morris situation. Unfortunately for her, Zola has a personal vendetta against Rune Academy...
Hyacinthus
Hyacinthus Folrey
A woman who lives in the Slums. Being Nigel's friend, she took care of the children in the Slums before her demise.- Beleaguered Assistant: Particularly during Nigel's storyline, where she's shown to be much more concerned about the immediate aftermath of the riot than Nigel is.
- Dying as Yourself: Comes back to herself and acknowledges that she caused trouble for Nigel before he delivers a Mercy Kill.
- Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Was male in the beta version of the game.
- The Lad-ette: About as rough and tumble as any male slums resident.
- Meaningful Name: Named for the Hyacinthus flower. The same one from the Greek myth The Death of Hyacinthos. Take a wild guess on how she ended up when Void Monsters invaded the slums.
- Mercy Kill: Tragically in Chapter 4, delivered by Nigel's own hand.
- Prophetic Name: One wonders why her parents gave her that name. Sure enough, she died.
- Satellite Character: Pretty much all of her interactions revolve around Nigel. Which only makes sense, as she dies in chapter 4 of a multi-year ongoing story.
- Sidekick: To Nigel.
- Tomboy: Dresses boyishly and wears her hair short. It takes Naya a while to realize that Cin is a she.
Nikola
Nikola
Former Kingdom of the Sun tactician who had served under William Carlos, Angelia's father.- Grumpy Old Man: He had a short temper, as Hyde can attest when the old man violently chased off Theodore's soldiers who merely relayed the king's order for Nikola to come back to service.
- Mentor Archetype: One to Hyde, who ultimately replaced him as Angelia's choice of advisor.
- Posthumous Character: He's long dead by the time Angelia comes looking for him.
- Retired Badass: He was apparently quite the brilliant strategist back in the day.
- The Farmer and the Viper: After learning all he can from Nikolas and his books, Hyde lures Nikolas into the outskirts of a village, overwhelms him with brute strength, and leaves him to be eaten by monsters.
Jeff
Jeff
A thief who worked with Roger and Kittyeyes in the Bandit Trio's storylines. He later parted ways with them. Ralph
Ralph
A man who serves Theodore as a spy. He has some major issues, and wishes to be useful to Theodore.- Blood Magic: Possesses the "power from the North" which allows him to absorb blood and corpses to empower himself.
- Body Horror: His transformation into his second form, wherein his body and limbs begin to twist and elongate unnaturally - quite a change from the game's normal art style.
- Butt-Monkey: Poor Ralph has it rough: Mugged by Izumi, beaten by Aosta, betrayed by Hyde, lambasted by Theodore again and again...
- Final Boss: He is the last enemy the player faces in Sunset. And he EARNS the title.
- Last Villain Stand: Theodore's army's been broken, but Ralph singlehandedly turns the tide.
- One-Winged Angel: After he's beaten the first time at the climax of the Civil War, he seems spent - until Theodore rips into him for his constant failures, driving him to throw away what remains of his humanity in a desperate attempt to kill Angelia and prove he's not a disappointment.
- Undying Loyalty: He wishes to be useful to Theodore no matter what, disregarding the king's constant verbal abuse and even his own safety by using the power from the north.
William Carlos
William Carlos
Sun Kingdom's former king, father of Angelia and brother of Theodore. Killed by an assassin one Lazer Bernard in the war against Desert Kingdom.- Fantastic Racism: Despite his kindness and desire for peace, William saw nothing wrong with slaughtering the lizardmen warriors for fun, believing that his duty was to protect humans by killing everything else until they learned to leave them alone.
- Even discounting his warmongering, he roasts Theodore for daring to abridge the privilege of Sun Kingdom's noble class to even slightly benefit the Sun Kingdom's lower classes.
- A Father to His Men: Was extremely popular with the soldiers and most of the aristocrats; Dylan still holds an immense respect for him in the present.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Subverted; while William was 'rewarded' for trying to come to a human's aid with a poisoned knife to the chest, it was his merciless slaughter of lizardmen and condescension of the lower classes (which indirectly led to Lazer being considered disposable by the army) that convinced Lazer he was still irredeemable scum.
- Posthumous Character: His death caused so many problems.
- Too Dumb to Live: William saw a human in tattered rags in the middle of a battlefield. Instead of calling for a medic, he ignored his bodyguard and went in personally to ask if anything was wrong. He's promptly stabbed with a poisoned dagger.
Desert Kingdom
Deo
Deo
A little lizard boy who befriends Rune during the early days of Rune's freedom after winning the Martyr's Colisseum.- All of the Other Reindeer: He is hated by other children because his father runs an unscrupulous business.
Minnie
Minnie
Sophie's estranged mother who divorced from Morgan.- The Fashionista: After mother and daughter mend the bridge for good, Minnie becomes a fashion designer, and among her first designs is Sophie's SSR outfit.
- Missing Mom: She left her husband and daughter, and only recently she reconciles with Sophie.
- My Beloved Smother: Wanting to reconnect with your estranged daughter after not seeing her for years? Nice. Trying to lock up your daughter so that she'll never leave you again? Lady, you've got a problem. Eventually Sophie calls her out of it, and she drops the shenanigans.
- Playing Sick: She often suddenly suffers pangs whenever things aren't going her way, which earns her Hanbei's enmity. Sophie actually realizes her act, but plays along for a while.
Morgan
Morgan
Sophie's father, and the founder of Morgan's Circus Sophie is running now. He died in an accident some time in the past.- Disappeared Dad: Sophie takes over his circus business due to his death.
Hanbei, Ru-Yi and Hutchinson
Hanbei, Ru Yi and Hutchinson
Sophie's circus teammates. Hanbei is the porcupine-ish demihuman, Ru Yi the whale and Hutchinson the deer.- Ocular Gushers: Ru Yi likes to cry a lot, sometimes literally flooding the scene.
- Power Trio: The three as a whole essentially is a single member of Morgan's Circus.
Sanchez
Sanchez
Rune's fellow slave who sees himself as the brains to Rune's brawn. He's not as smart as he thinks he is, and vents his frustrations by smacking Rune around.- The Complainer Is Always Wrong: Complains about everything, and his snap decisions are almost always wrong as well.
- The Cynic: He's intensely bitter about the world and takes it out on the few people he can. Changes his outlook when he decides to back Rune up at the Martyr's Colosseum, and is much happier and more pleasant as a free man.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Messes with Lazer to give his friends a chance to escape, knowing he'll be captured and tortured. After he's rescued he takes a dagger meant for Rune, accelerating his own death.
- Jerkass: Might be getting better. Maybe.
- Lovable Coward: Despite his early unjustified cruelty toward Rune, it's hard not to laugh at his antics.
- The Mole: Devious promises to make him fabulously wealthy if he he prevents Sophie, Rune and their gang from investigating Elio's kidnapping..
- Small Name, Big Ego: Makes grandiose boasts and threats with less than nothing to back them up.
- This Is Gonna Suck: His negativity means he reacts poorly to unexpected situations... especially given that most of his friends run towards danger.
Andrew
Andrew Giuliano Gomez
A high-ranking noble of the Desert Kingdom, and Diana's uncle. During his campaign for the throne, he enlisted the support from the Snake God Shrine.- The Good Prince: Andrew is easily the best leader Desert Kingdom could have had: beloved by the population, with the full support of the the normally apolitical Holy Temple, with an enlightened philosophy that would radically reshape the kingdom if implemented.
- Motive Misidentification: Lazer overhears him discussing a failed assassination attempt on Diana. What Lazer doesn't hear is that Andrew was against the plan and has decided to allow Diana to leave the country in exchange for giving up her claim on the throne, resulting in Lazer assassinating Andrew to install Clover as queen.
- Pacifism Backfire: Showing mercy to Diana was a risky and unprecedented move that got him killed.
- Posthumous Character: He died in the backstory.
- Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: The war for Desert Kingdom's throne involves killing everyone else with a claim—namely everyone else in the family and then some. Andrew is the favorite to win and has indeed removed most of his rivals. Clearly his reasonable and enlightened attitude is covering up his ruthlessness. Nope, he's prepared to radically reinterpret the kingdom's Might Makes Right philosophy.
Eastern Alliance
General Yu
Yu
A tiger general overseeing the insect tribe territory after the alliance subjugated them.- We Hardly Knew Ye: He is an important character in Season 3 Chapter 1, but is unceremoniously killed off-screen between chapter 2 and 3.
- Would Hurt a Child: He knows how dangerous an insect tribe fused with ice tail moth is, thus he does not hesitate in killing such insects regardless of age, which bites him in the ass hard when the mother of a child bonded with an ice tail moth decides to off him in revenge.
Maeok
Maeok
The current arbiter of East Alliance and mother of Soohyeon.- Ambadassador: A beastman can only become Alliance arbiter by winning the highly competitive Martial Arts Tournament. Her last fight against Qing Feng and the honey badger tribe shows that even when fatally injured, she's still a terrifying fighter.
- Good Parents: Initially unbeknownst to her own daughter, Maeok actually knows that Soohyeon has contracted bewitchment that not only is infectious, but also causes its victims to be stigmatized to the point of being killed on sight. Maeok even takes extreme measures such as deliberately endangering foreign monarchs just for any chance to hide her daughter from public, and when that fails and Soohyeon reveals that disease in front of the masses, forcing Maeok to treat her daughter as a criminal to be imprisoned and possibly executed, Maeok tries to sneak her daughter out of the alliance to protect her.
- Parental Substitute: Downplayed, but Juan Yun says he respects her as much as he respects his Missing Mom.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: She is more interested in keeping peace in the Alliance, but unfortunately has to deal with bloodthirsty beastmen who'd rather use force to solve their problems (such as crushing the Insect Tribe for good).
Qing Feng
Qing Feng
Juan Yun's father, and a ruthless qilin.- Abusive Parents: He freely belittles and beats up his son anytime he feels like it.
- Blow You Away: Qilins are naturally attuned to the wind.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: He attempts to escape the Alliance when the void outbreak happens, but Izumi cuts him down under Juan Yun's order.
- Jerkass: Dude has no respect to anyone at all, the arbiter and other chieftains included.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: He and most other chieftains are absolutely unwilling to let Tindoiimu be the next arbiter. His own reasoning is simple racism, but turns out allowing Tindoiimu to become arbiter gives her access to the Udumbara tree, which ends up causing a major disaster he doesn't see coming thanks to his own son, or rather, the Dracontine possessing him.
Himawari
Himawari
A leopard beastman who is Juan Yun's sister-in-law.- Conveniently an Orphan: 1st Parhelion found her orphaned in a warzone, so he sent her to be raised in the Qilin household.
- Dead Person Impersonation: The real Himawari, who was Miranda's friend, has already been dead for some time after Sennosuke ruined the leopard tribe. This Himawari is a human (actually an insect tribe) who is masked as a leopard via rune magic.
- He Knows Too Much: She catches Juan Yun conversing with a Dracontine lackey, and he executes her for the trouble.
- Womanchild: She behaves more like an incompetent entitled brat than a young adult.
- Yandere: She's obsessed with Juan Yun, and is not happy when Juan Yun supports Tindoiimu.
Toyokuni
Toyokuni
A beast chieftain who agrees that the Alliance should pursue peaceful and just ideals.- Asian Lion Dogs: He is a koma-inu.
- Martial Pacifist: He openly admits to Tindoiimu that while he would very much prefer to solve problems with words alone, if his enemy decides to draw blood, he will not hesitate to strike back.
- Only Sane Man: The only chieftain in the Alliance who is neither an ass (Qing Feng, Sennosuke) nor a wishy-washy brown-noser (the rest of them although the tiger chieftain Shun later joins his cause). He even insists on hearing out Tindoiimu's account about the void outbreak even as she believes she'll only be seen as The Cassandra, believing that the other party couldn't have done such a horrible thing without clear motive.
Jiyanama
Jiyanama
Princess Tindoiimu's elder caretaker during the princess' imprisonment in East Alliance.- Revenge Before Reason: Presumably gets herself involved in General Yu's death to avenge her son who is killed by Yu during a botched rite of passage ceremony. Tindoiimu chews her out on this, as the situation gives the East Alliance more reason to crush the Insect tribe for good.
Tingko
Tingko
The younger caretaker of Princess Tindoiimu. Her bonded insect is a firefly.- Brutal Honesty: Unlike her princess, Tingko doesn't like playing submissive or sugarcoating her opinions.
- Go Through Me: Tries to stand between Tindoiimu and the First Parhelion. It ends badly.
- Not Enough to Bury: Her Cruel and Unusual Death leaves nothing but blood behind, and even that is later absorbed by the Udumbara tree.
- Silk Hiding Steel: Tingko looks sweet and kind, because she is. But she's very conscious of Tindoiimu's dignity and takes Jihasaha to task.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: During her reunion with Tindoiimu, the princess remarks that Tingko has become rather too enthusiastic in crushing the Alliance, contrasting it with Tin's own wavering resolve to do so despite initially wanting to do it herself.
The Dracontines
A mysterious organization bent on resurrecting Sdorica, said to be the remnants of the people who sided with the dragon against Vendacti's freedom-bringing crusade.
The Dracontines as a whole
- Black Cloak: The rank and file all wear full-body concealing dark robes.
- Dark Is Evil: Their clothes and attitude is the first warning, their affection for for dark magic is proof positive that they're the bad guys.
- Enemy Civil War: Apparently the leadership aren't all on good terms with one another.
- Immortality Seeker: A whole organization of them, if Sunset's opening narration is to be believed.
- Man Behind the Man: They're suspected of being behind many of the historical disasters in Sun Kingdom, like the disaster in Atlas. However they had nothing to do with William's death or Theodore and Angelia's civil war, they're just taking advantage there.
- Nebulous Evil Organization: Almost nobody outside their circle knows who they are.
- Poke the Poodle: After an entire season's worth of build-up they're hardly nasty at all when they show up at the end of Sunset. It's only until their appearances in Mirage and onward see them behaving suitably villainously.
- You Have Failed Me: Twice in Mirage, both when their underlings expose their doings.
Zola
A Dracontine who was close to Shirley.
- The Bus Came Back: Originally appeared in Shirley's story, 29 years before Sunset, and then some 13 years later. Makes her return in Mirage chapter 13.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: On both the giving and receiving end in rapid succession. She effortlessly takes down Barbara and Tica, only for Charle to show up and turn the tables.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She really loves Shirley. When Zola attempted to kill Shirley's baby, Shirley offered to trade her life for the baby's, causing Zola to relent and later hide Shirley from the Dracontines hunting her down. Her villainy in the present day also stems from her wrath towards the Carlos family and Rune Academy whom she blames for Shirley's death.
- Final Boss: The last opponent in Mirage.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Was willing to betray the Dracontines to stay with her beloved "sister" Shirley. In the present she's one of their top enforcers, with sadistic plans for Shirley's son.
The Parhelions
WARNING: Their identities are spoilers in and of themselves, so all spoilers are unmarked!
The True Sun
- The Ghost: The True Sun has only been mentioned sparsely in story and their true identity has not even been hinted at, even after 1st Parhelion takes over his position.
- Inadequate Inheritor: This is how Hugo, the previous True Sun, feels about the current one, as Hugo laments he has appointed a wrong successor.
The First Parhelion
What at first seems to be a miraculous revival instantly turns horrifying as Juan Yun murders Tingko in cold blood, proclaiming himself as the First Parhelion, and the one behind the events of Eclipse.
- The Bad Guy Wins: He succeeds in unsealing the Beast of Judgment trapped in the Udumbara tree, causing a massive void outbreak at the expense of the entire world.
- Bad Samaritan: He helps Tindoiimu become the arbiter only so that he can use her to break the Udumbara tree.
- Did Not See That Coming: He expects Sione, Yonghyeon and Tica to die in what he thinks is a suicide mission. However, he completely doesn't foresee Tica's knowledge in deciphering barrier stones, forcing him to blow his cover to undo the team's effort in containing the Beast of Judgment using said barrier stones.
- Fostering for Profit: He took in Himawari, an orphaned insect tribe, to be raised as a tool to break the Udumbara tree. Her unsatisfactory growth prompted him to shift his attention to Tindoiimu.
- Meaningful Name: Juan Yun translates into cirrus cloud, the type of cloud capable of causing the parhelion
phenomenon in real life. - Rank Up: In the interim between end of Eclipse and start of Aurora, he has succeeded the previous True Sun.
- Uriah Gambit: He basically sends Sione, Yonghyeon and Tica to a death zone expecting them to die in vain. Tica's success in deciphering barrier stones forces him to try and kill them himself.
The Second Parhelion
Real name Zophiene. A Parhelion who works behind the scene to undermine Angelia's authority using the Serafin noble house as an agent. She eventually settles in the body of the Serafin daughter, Adelaide.
The Third Parhelion
To the surprise of no one, High Priest Devious is a member of the Dracontine leadership. However, Devious isn't content with being number three in the group: his ultimate goal in Desert Kingdom is to complete and cast a rune that will turn him into a new Sdorica, fueled by the lives of the people in the capital.
A conversation with Rei reveals that he was her childhood mentor. A hidden dialog goes one step further and reveals his original name: Neotelemus.
A conversation with Rei reveals that he was her childhood mentor. A hidden dialog goes one step further and reveals his original name: Neotelemus.
The Fifth Parhelion
A Parhelion who holds the position of Grand Sorceress of the North from generation to generation with the northerners none the wiser about her body-hopping stint.
The Eighth Parhelion
Though it's obvious from Sunset character stories that Izumi is a high-ranking Dracontine, ``Mirage`` spells out that Izumi is the Eighth Parhelion. Eclipse shows them acting in their role for the first time, culminating in Izumi's assassination of Qing Feng at the First Parhelion's request.
Others
Uzziah (SPOILERS UNMARKED)
Uzziah
A mysterious dark mage who is invested in Sdorica's resurrection.- All-Powerful Bystander: He is one of the most powerful characters in the setting, but rarely interacts with characters involved in the main plot as he's usually more concerned about the void and Dracontines, both of which are often background threats.
- Arch-Enemy: He apparently has a nasty history with Izumi; just seeing the kitsune is his personal Godzilla Threshold. This unfavorable sentiment later expands to include all Parhelions.
- Dark Is Not Evil: He is wreathed in dark aura (some characters are wary of him or even accuse him of being a Dracontine), he controls the dangerous Void monsters... but he's trying to prevent the resurrection of Sdorica and eliminate the Dracontines' Parhelions.
- Enemy Summoner: He can summon and control Void monsters.
- No Man Should Have This Power: How he feels about Sdorica's core within him: He'd rather take it to the grave than bequeath it to the wrong person.
- Pet the Dog: While he generally stays out of everyone's business, he sometimes can't stop himself from directly helping people who remind him of his old self, such as Aosta and Tindoiimu, or at the very least being courteous to those he has no ill will with such as Angelia.
- Really 700 Years Old: Implied; During Tica's storyline, he hints that he knows exactly what happened centuries prior that led to the rise of marionette religion in Atlas.
- The Unfettered: We don't know what his deal is but we know that he's completely ruthless in his methods.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Assuming he's actually trying to stop Sdorica's resurrection, he's a truly epic one.
- We Used to Be Friends: Despite his threats in the (original) intro battle, Angelia seems to regard him as an ally, telling him not to go through with his dangerous plans. Alas, by then, his mind is already made up and he won't be stopped.
