Characters that appear in Solar Ash.
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Rei
Rei/Wretched Rei
Voiced by: Fryda Wolff
"So this is the Ultravoid... can't believe I made it."
The protagonist of the game, Rei is a member of a team of space explorers known as Voidrunners, whose mission to keep their home planet from being destroyed by a black hole called the Ultravoid.
- All Your Powers Combined: When players choose to destroy the Starseed, the events that follow grant Rei access to the ‘Absolution’ suit, which combines and amplifies the special abilities of all the other Voidrunners’ suits.
- Apocalyptic Log: Like the other Voidrunners, you can find Rei's own log in the Crater, showing what she said before they crashed on the Ultravoid.Rei: Breaching event horizon now. Velocity a little high. Wow... It's... It's beautiful. Are you guys seeing this? Yeah, look! The Starseed implanted successfully. Yeah! We're gonna be heroes! I knew I joined you crazy lowlifes for a reason.
Checking the- [warning noises] What? No... [alarm noise] No no no, this can't be happening! Come on now, stay with me! [loses control of the ship] Dammit! Everyone, buckle up! All the instruments are going haywire! Steering is gone! I- I can't... Brace! BRACE! BRA-!! [CRASH!] - Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Like every Remnant she encounters throughout the game, Rei is gigantic in her own Remnant form, "Wretched Rei".
- Badass Cape: Her signature suit, the Tempest Adagio, sports a long, translucent purple cloak. When she obtains the other fallen Voidrunner suits, the cloaks come in different colors.
- Celestial Body: When wearing the Absolution suit, her exposed arms and shins have this effect.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: She's desperate to save her world at any cost and is willing to do anything, consequences be damned. Echo calls her out on this in their encounters.
- Cooldown Manipulation: Her new and improved "Tempest Adagio" suit reduces the cooldown time of her timeslip ability.
- Everything Sensor: To keep players from getting lost or confused about what they need to do, Rei can use her multi-tool to scan whatever area she's in in order to search for anomalies and Cyd ports. Wearing Tufte's suit, the "Shepherd's Calling", adds to her scanning ability by allowing her to pick up signals for Voidrunner caches as well.
- Extra Eyes: Based on the mild amazement she reacts with upon seeing a corpse in Ahrric's hovel that “only” has two eyes, Rei is apparently a naturally three-eyed being.
- Face–Monster Turn: Regardless of whether she chooses to activate the Starseed or not, Rei transforms into a towering Remnant after succumbing to the Despair Event Horizon, after she listens to Echo and realizes that the Starseed will only make her relive the destruction of her planet, prolonging her people's suffering.
- Flaming Hair: Downplayed. Despite being pitch black like her "skin", Rei's "hair" has this kind of effect going for it with the way it moves. Wearing the Shepherd's Calling suit adds to the effect by making the ending trail of her hair red. Her restored self has a glowing plume of violet light, similar to her other half Echo.
- Fragile Speedster: Rei is pretty speedy and agile, but she can only take up to five hits before it's lights out for her.
- Ghostly Glide: The way she floats along the blue-green clouds of the Ultravoid resembles this when she's not skating on them.
- Hard Light: Presumably through the use of voidtech, Rei has the ability to use light energy in the form of either Razor Wind-like attacks that she can unleash on enemies or as a grappling hook of sorts to zip to different hook points on an anomaly in order to take it out, whether it's an environmental anomaly or a weak point on the Remnants, boss-based massive anomalies.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Her Remnant form has the Starseed's remains embedded in her body.
- Life Drain: Wearing Pyat's suit, the "Engine Robber", allows Rei to regain shield energy from killing enemies.
- Literal Split Personality: Rei was separated into two beings when she first used the Starseed. The half of her that became obsessed with saving her people at any cost is "our" Rei, while the other half, the one that realized saving her homeworld was impossible and keeps trying to convince her other half to break the cycle is Echo.
- Meaningful Name: Her name means "zero" in Japanese, and given that the number is commonly associated with nothing or having nothing, the meaning fits her in the most tragic way. Over the course of the game, she finds out that (sans Cyd and in the end Darb) none of her fellow Voidrunners are alive, her planet was already destroyed, leaving with her no home, friends or family to go back to, and as a result, she finds herself having nothing left to live for, making way for her mutation into a Remnant late in the game.
- Money Multiplier: Wearing Erving's suit, the "Aegis Wellspring", doubles Rei’s intake of plasma, the game’s main form of currency for when Rei needs to repair her shields.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Feels this way when she accidentally traps Cyd in a lethal error when she orders her to calculate how to use the Starseed to manipulate time.Rei: Alter spacetime? Is that possible? Could we reverse time if we activate the Starseed now?Cyd: Theoretically, yes. But the calculations required to-Rei: Cyd, this may be our only chance to put things back to the way they were. Before the Ultravoid. Before... All of this. We have to take it.Cyd: We know you have the best intentions, but you would risk creating an irrepairable schism in our reality. We fear there would be terrible repercussions if performed incorrectly-Rei: That's why you're doing the calculations, Cyd.Cyd: Rei, we insist-Rei: I want it done. That's an order.Cyd: Very well... Beginning Starseed Attunement Protocol. Processing Photon Amplitude Assessment... Assessment Complete. Processing Temporal Condition Assessment... ''Process-ng Temp—-l C-nd—ti—s Asse—— P-p-p-p-r-r-r...Rei: Cyd...? No! Don't tell me-Cyd: CRITICAL SYSTEMS OFFLINE. TERMINAL CALCULATION LOOP. PLEASE TRY AGAIN LATER.Rei: What... No no, Cyd! We were so close!Cyd: CRITICAL SYSTEMS OFFLINE. TERMINAL CALCULATION LOOP. PLEASE TRY AGAIN LATER.Rei: I have to keep moving forward, Cyd. I'm sorry.
- In the true ending, she has a massive one after realizing her time loop only prolonged the suffering and death of her friends and most of her people, with the full realization striking her when she destroys the Starseed. Unfortunately, it breaks her so badly that she starts to transform into a Remnant.
Rei: I see it now... There's no saving them. All I did was prolong their suffering! I'M SO SORRY I'M SO SORRY I'M SO-!! - New Meat: Both the Opening Scroll of the game and the way she's referred to in certain Voidrunner logs (i.e., the "rookie" by Tufte, the "kid" by Ghozam and the "neophyte" by Pyat) make it clear that Rei is the newest recruit of her team.
- One-Hit Kill: Wearing Ghozam's suit, the "Hand of the Unknown", doubles the damage Rei is able to dish out against enemies, allowing her to kill them with a single hit.
- Painful Transformation: Her transformation into her Remnant form, "Wretched Rei", in a nutshell.
- Rapid-Fire "No!": She reacts with a few of these in response to seeing the destruction of her home planet and her many failed attempts to save it with the Starseed.Rei: No... No No NO!
- Rollerblade Good: One of the biggest allures of playing as Rei is her ability to skate through her surroundings, especially on the clouds of the Ultravoid.
- Scarred Equipment: Her initial suit was damaged by the crash-landing or rather, her transformation into the Wretched Rei. Fortunately the Crater's Voidrunner cache holds an intact spare.
- Sole Survivor: Much to her heartache, Rei gradually finds out over the course of the game that other than Cyd, she's the only member of the Voidrunners left alive.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: During the credits (through audio only and not visuals), Rei finds out that Darb, Erving's dog, survived the events of the game, giving her at least one other individual aside from Cyd to look to for companionship in the lonely Ultravoid.
- Time Master: As its name implies, Rei’s “timeslip” ability allows her to slow down time. This ability is especially important when taking out environmental anomalies and fighting Remnants, as it allows Rei to grapple and zip to certain weak points on both groups of anomalies and take them out in a timely manner.
- True Final Boss: Rei in her Wretched form is the final boss of the game, faced only if Rei destroys the Starseed and ends the cycle.
- Two Girls to a Team: Played with. In terms of humanoid members of the Voidrunners specifically, the only other female Voidrunner aside from her is Tufte. Aside from that, there's technically three female members of the team if you count Darb.
Echo
Echo/Rei
Voiced by: Fryda Wolff
"Another one? I told you all to leave me ALONE!"
A strange entity Rei meets when she first arrives at the Ultravoid. She's antagonistic towards her for uncertain reasons, which are revealed throughout the story.
- Ambiguously Evil: Echo's true allegiance is unknown when first met. She's very antagonistic and angry with Rei, but Rei doesn't know why.
- Good All Along: As she's actually Rei, she has accepted that saving her world is impossible and the Starseed will only prolong her suffering. She just wants her other half to realize it too and let go of her grief.
Echo: Your grief has made you blind. I am asking you to let go.Rei: I can't do that!Echo: And around we go. Spiraling ever downward. - And Now for Someone Completely Different: Echo becomes playable after Rei destroys the Starseed and turns into a Remnant.
- Didn't See That Coming: As she's observed her other half repeat the same mistakes over and over, she's shocked if Rei listens to her and destroys the Starseed, ending the time loop for good and releasing her.Echo: You listened... Why this time? It's killing you... For once... I can't see past this moment...
- Flaming Hair: Her "hair" is a violet plume of light.
- Giant Hands of Doom: She ends her conversations with Rei by crushing her into black paste with her massive hand. This doesn't kill her, but it damages her shield.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: At the end of every contentious conversation she has with Rei, Echo's eyes will glow in a faint yellow color before she proceeds to crush Rei in the palm of her hand.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: She has a massive golden spear impaled on her chest, with blood flowing from the wound. It's a manifestation of the Starseed.
- Jerkass: She's very mean towards Rei, as she blames her for her suffering.Rei: So you are trapped here... Help me activate the Starseed, and I'll free us both.Echo: My torturer offers me a deal. "How kind".Rei: Torturer? I'm not your enemy, Echo.Echo: Your every move intensifies my pain. Your blind ambition, all your good intentions... Everything you touch turns to ash!
- Jerkass Has a Point: What she says is Not Hyperbole: Rei is indeed responsible for Echo's pain (and by extension, her own), but is unaware of the truth until Echo says it to her.
- Literal Split Personality: She's a piece of Rei that separated from her when she activated the Starseed for the first time.
- Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: She remembers every moment of the time loop Rei triggered with the Starseed.
- Split-Personality Merge: She and Rei merge back into a single being in the true ending, after Echo rips out the remains of the Starseed from her.
- Time Abyss: According to herself, she's been imprisoned in the Ultravoid for eons.Rei: Enough of your riddles, Echo. I have to save my planet, and then, maybe I can save you. I know you're in pain.Echo: Oh. You would help me? You interlopers drove this spear through my chest, left me to die in this place. Eons I've been a prisoner, and now you offer me the key?!
- After she's freed, she mentions to Cyd she's witnessed her other half's failed attempts to save her world during several lifetimes.
Echo: I spent lifetimes watching her become a twisted and cruel monster... clutching at her version of the truth. - Tomato Surprise: She's the one that reveals the truth that changes everything: Rei cannot save her homeworld, no matter how much she tries, and Echo is actually a piece of herself that was separated from her.Echo: You see it now, don't you? You finally see the truth.Rei: TRUTH IS WHAT I MAKE IT! I can bring them all back!Echo: You sound like me. You always do, at the end.[Rei tries to activate the Starseed]Echo: Do not draw this out... Show some mercy...Rei: I didn't want to hurt you!Echo: Enough! Don't you get it? We were too late. We've always Been. Too. Late!Rei: You... You knew?Echo: Our planet was already lost, but I couldn't face the truth. I thought I could use the Starseed to change what had already come to pass.Rei: Who are you?Rei: I'm a relic of the past, and you're the part of me that won't let me forget, forever repeating our mistakes! We are two halves split by the Starseed, eternally tessellating.Rei: But that means...Rei: The Starseed doesn't reverse time! It... it just repeats it! Over and over, our world is ripped apart! We've never had a choice. The clouds you dance on are the remains of our home.Rei: I can't accept that... I'll start over... There has to be another way.Rei: There's only one choice left to make: Accept the truth. Destroy the Starseed! Let me go!
- Tranquil Fury: Her state in her encounters with Rei. Her words are brimming with barely-restrained wrath.
- Walking Spoiler: Her true nature makes her one, or rather, a floating spoiler.
- Was Once a Woman: When she introduces herself , she mentions she was "someone" once, but not anymore. She used to be Rei before she separated into two beings.Echo: I was someone once... but no longer. Now I'm merely an Echo.
Cyd
Central Yottabyte Database (C.Y.D./Cyd)
Voiced by: Pilar Uribe
"We've always got time for our favorite Voidrunner."
An artificial intelligence with a robotic appearance, Cyd was created by Tufte to assist the Voidrunners on their missions.
- Benevolent A.I.: Throughout the entire game, Cyd is nothing but helpful and decently upbeat, even as bleak situations unfold.
- Extra Eyes: Like Rei, Cyd's avatar has three eyes.
- Holographic Terminal: Cyd has no physical form, but interacts with Rei by taking a Voidrunner-like appearance.
- Logic Bomb: Trying to do extremely complex calculations (like the ones needed to use the Starseed as a Time Machine without risks) will lock Cyd in a Terminal Calculation Loop. Fortunately Tufte added Superuser commands to abort the calculations if Cyd ever became trapped in that loop. When Cyd recovers, they refer to that state as being lost in thought.
- Machine Monotone: They speak like this when their Safe Mode is active.
- No Biological Sex: Although Cyd is voiced by a woman, they're an AI and has no physical gender.
- Red Is Heroic: Their holographic manifestation wears a crimson cloak.
- Robot Buddy: They're a robotic-looking AI that was specifically created to help the Voidrunners on their mission, and by the time of the main events of the game, serve as Rei's only friend and confidant throughout.
- Royal "We": Cyd refers to themself in we's.
- Save Point: Starseed Conduits are the places where you save the game, and they act as Cyd's eyes throughout the Ultravoid.
- Token Robot: The only member of the Voidrunners who’s not a biotic lifeform.
The Voidrunners
The Voidrunners (as a group)
A group of space travelers that Rei belongs to (or... belonged to). They went to the Ultravoid to destroy it with the Starseed.
- And I Must Scream: The other Voidrunners have been trapped in a state between life and death since Rei started the time loop, doomed to relive their final moments and transformations for as long as it continues.
- Apocalyptic Log: Throughout the Ultravoid, Rei can find logs of her fellow Voidrunners made during their trips in its regions. Their final logs recount their last moments before Rei started the time loop and killed them all.
- Face–Monster Turn: When Rei used the Starseed to create a Stable Time Loop, the other Voidrunners were killed and turned into the Remnants by the enormous release of Void energy.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: They as a whole did this. When their world's nations fell to war over how to deal with the Ultravoid, they left and went to it to end the problem themselves. Sadly, they failed.
- Virtual Ghost: As their profile pictures show, finding each member's last Voidrunner log will result in Rei finding out that they've all been dead for quite some time, with glitching holographic ghosts generated by their logs left behind.
Erving
Erving
Voiced by: Troupe Gammage IV
"And this void... ain't no place for an old dog and her man."
The medic of Rei's team. Often brings his dog Darb with him on their expeditions. He was tasked with assembling a Starseed conduit in the Broken Capital. Upon his death, he presumably became the Remnant known as the "Forgotten Thresher".
- Aerith and Bob: His plain English-sounding name clashes with the more unique and alien-sounding names of the other Voidrunners.
- Anti-Gravity Clothing: When Rei stumbles upon his last Voidrunner cache, and his Virtual Ghost with it, he’s revealed to wear a semi-halo form of headgear around his head.
- Extra Eyes: Based on what can be gleaned from looking at him, he presumably had four eyes.
- Fantastic Racism: Erving apparently had a low opinion of robots and AIs, and C.Y.D. was sadly not exempt from it. Supposedly, he would often claim that one should "never send a robot to a do a man's job", within earshot of C.Y.D. He also allegedly claimed that robots were only smart when it came to taking lives, but "dumb as hell" when it came to saving them.
- Go Out with a Smile: Based on the tone of his last Voidrunner log, he presumably died happily while enjoying the view of the Ultravoid while sitting on top of a building in the Broken Capital.
- Green and Mean: Downplayed. His suit, the "Aegis Wellspring", which Rei inherits after finding all of his Voidrunner caches, is green, and while Erving is clearly not evil, he's still kind of a Jerkass when it comes to his unwillingness to respect and recognize robots and A.I.s as people.
- Heroes Love Dogs: Erving loved his dog Darb dearly, so much so that in Voidrunner logs, he would refer to himself in a secondary manner to her (i.e., "an old dog and her man").
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While he wore his robotphobia on his sleeve with no care as to how it might have made C.Y.D. feel, the latter nonetheless feels that he was a good man who meant well.
- The Medic: Verifies himself as such in his third Voidrunner log.
- Noodle Incident: He mentions crossing paths with Lyris in his second Voidrunner log, though it's highly unlikely that he was able to having meaningful conversation with her, if her mental state when Rei first meets her is any indication.
- Old Soldier: In his first Voidrunner log, he mentions having fought in not one, not two but three planetary wars.
- Technophobia: Aside from his dislike of robots and A.I.s, he was also mistrustful of voidtech as well.
- War Is Hell: This notion is surprisingly subverted in his first Voidrunner log. As mentioned above, he mentions having fought in three planetary wars and (presumably during those wars) seeing whole cities brought down by "fire from the sky". However, he then goes on to say that what he saw during those wars was all kids' stuff compared to what's at stake with the Voidrunners' mission to activate the Starseed. To be fair, the end of the game seems to prove him right.
Verse
Verse
Voiced by: Zeno Robinson
One of the younger members of the Voidrunners alongside Rei. A pretty hotheaded individual. He was tasked with assembling a Starseed conduit in the Ironroot Basin. Upon his death, he presumably became the Remnant known as the "Lost Sentry".
- Beast Man: With his cat-like eyes and bushy tail, Verse is very likely a Veruki, but in his Voidrunner logs, he talks about the Veruki (glowingly, mind you) like they're an entirely different race of people that he has no connection to.
- Butt-Monkey: Damn near nothing goes right for him as he tries to set up his Starseed conduit, from his boosters malfunctioning to his signal flares not firing correctly.
- Cyborg: His lower legs were mechanical, possibly the result of losing his original lower legs in a prior expedition with the Voidrunners.
- Hot-Blooded: Amongst the Voidrunners, Verse was infamous for his short temper and impulsiveness. C.Y.D. recalls to Rei at one point in the game that Ghozam often described Verse's head as being "hotter than a solar flare". The general tone of most if not all of his Voidrunner logs substantiates this.
Pyat
Pyat
Voiced by: Todd Haberkorn
One of the older members of Rei’s team. Despite being one of the main technological specialists in the team, he was also a very religious and spiritual man. He was tasked with assembling a Starseed conduit in the Eternal Garden. Upon his death, he presumably became the Remnant known as the "Withered Eye".
- Admiring the Abomination: His feelings toward the Ultravoid count as this. He feels that the void is unfairly feared and vilified when it’s really a thing of beauty, due to it, in his mind, bonding so many parts of the universe together and highlighting its diversity.
- Meaningful Name: His name is very likely a play on the word “piety”, which is the quality of being religious or reverent to one’s god or gods.
- Sanity Slippage: He went increasingly unhinged during his trip. In his final moments, he's singing praises to the Starseed as it's about to start looping time.
Ghozam
Ghozam
Voiced by: Todd Haberkorn
The leader of the Voidrunners. He was tasked with assembling a Starseed conduit in the Mirrorsea. Upon his death, he presumably becomes the Remnant known as the "Rust Dagger".
- The Ace: According to Rei, Ghozam was the "best" of the Voidrunners, and that no matter what problems arose, he would always know how to fix them. His first Voidrunner log seems to confirm this, as he casually mentions having been through black holes before.
- Ambiguously Human: Ghozam appears to have a vaguely human appearance compared to the other Voidrunners, or at least what few features players can see. Granted, he doesn't have a visible nose and his eyes are nothing more than thick black lines, though that could boil down to simple art style choice. Whereas the other Voidrunners seem to be Humanoid Aliens, it could be that Ghozam is the lone Human Alien of the bunch.
- The Leader: He was presumably the leader of the Voidrunners, due to a conversation between Rei and C.Y.D. later in the game describing as a natural at it, being clever, decisive and strategic.
- Light Is Good: The suit that Rei inherits from him after finding all his Voidrunner caches, the "Hand of the Unknown", is mostly white, fitting his characterization as a brave and kind leader.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Aside from the 'I' being replaced by a 'we' (him and the other Voidrunners), Ghozam pretty much says this word for word in his last Voidrunner log when the Starseed is activated by Rei from a previous timeline.
- Wizard Beard: One of his most defining features is his long and seemingly dark grey beard.
- Wizard Classic: Downplayed. He's not a wizard (at least not as far as players of the game know), but he has the look to a certain degree, what with his robe-like attire, bead accessories and Wizard Beard.
Tufte
Tufte
Voiced by: Janellen Steininger
The other technological specialist for the Voidrunners aside from Pyat, as well as the geologist of the team and the creator of Cyd. She was tasked with assembling a Starseed conduit in the Luminous Peak. Upon her death, she presumably becomes the Remnant known as the "Burning Hunter".
- Big Guy, Little Guy: Downplayed, seeing as players never get the chance to see Rei interact with her. Regardless, Tufte's Virtual Ghost is shown to be as tall as Rei when she's on one knee (like in her profile picture), implying that she was significantly taller than Rei when standing.
- Blue Is Heroic: Based on blue being the main color that makes up her suit, the "Shepherd's Calling", which Rei inherits from her by collecting all her Voidrunner caches, Tufte applies.
- Bookworm: If her second Voidrunner log is anything to go by, Tufte was a huge bibliophile. At the time she recorded her log, she stumbled upon a huge library inside the Crystal Palace where the Antecedent resides, and was very much in awe of the various subjects that were covered in many of the books, from history, folklore, archaeology, gadgetry, etc.
- Gadgeteer Genius: She was the one who created Cyd. She was also the one who built and installed the failsafe program on the Starseed once she figured out that it could potentially become an Artifact of Doom if misused.
- Happily Married: She mentioned having a wife named Layra in her fourth Voidrunner log. Before she met her end, she regretted not spending a few more days with Layra and their daughter before joining the other Voidrunners on their mission, and lamented the fact that both of them would eventually be consumed by the Ultravoid.
- Hazmat Suit: Pretty much makes up the entirety of her appearance, due to the intense heat of the Luminous Peak.
- Omnidisciplinary Scientist: She was both the Voidrunners' technological specialist (alongside Pyat) and the geologist of the group.
- Two Girls to a Team: The only other female member of the Voidrunners aside from Rei. At least as far as humanoid members of the Voidrunners are concerned. In terms of gender alone, Darb counted too.
- Women Are Wiser: At some point during the Voidrunners' mission, Tufte figured out that the Starseed was not exactly the Artifact of Hope that the team originally believed it to be and put together a failsafe program on it.
The Starseed
The Starseed
A powerful Voidtech device deployed by the Voidrunners. It was originally designed to create stars, but it's been repurposed to destroy the Ultravoid and save their homeworld from it when activated. Rei's main objective throughout the game is to fully charge it by slaying the Remnants that are interfering with its conduits.
- Artifact of Hope: Rei and the other Voidrunners brought it to the Ultravoid to save their world from being destroyed by it. They hoped to use it to collapse the black hole and end its world-destroying rampage for good.
- Artifact of Doom: It isn't one by nature, but Rei accidentally turned it into one. She overloaded the Starseed's capacitors to alter spacetime itself, desperate to save her homeworld after it was destroyed. It also separated Rei into two beings: "Our" Rei and Echo.
- Stable Time Loop: The Ultravoid is trapped in a time loop ever since Rei witnessed the destruction of her homeworld, which drove her to modify the Starseed to try to go back in time. Unfortunately, it also had disastrous consequences: It turned the Voidrunners into the Remnants and split Rei into two beings.
- Time Machine: When its capacitors are overloaded, the Starseed can be used to reverse time itself. However, if used incorrectly, it will cause severe damage to the fabric of time and space. Unfortunately, the temporal calculations needed to correctly use it as one are impossible, as they're so complex even Cyd will be locked in a fatal loop if they try. Rei will never be able to use it as anything but as a Stable Time Loop generator.
The Ultravoid
The Ultravoid
The Ultravoid
An anomalous and gigantic black hole that travels across the galaxy, eating and destroying countless worlds in its path. Those many worlds' shattered remains now lie inside it in a strangely habitable landscape overrun by black sludge and the Remnants.
- Beautiful Void: The inside of the Ultravoid is a colorful landscape of islands floating in blue-green clouds or otherwise suspended mid-air by the Ultravoid's weird sense of gravity.
- Planet Destroyer: It has devoured several planets in its travels, including Cyclodorea and the homeworld of the Veruki.
- Shattered World: The destroyed planets' remains survive inside the Ultravoid, as smaller landmasses and ruins of the many races and civilizations that were felled by it.
The Remnants
The Remnants
Gigantic beasts of black sludge and bone that roam the Ultravoid. Each of them guards one of the Starseed Conduits Rei needs to reconnect to activate the Starseed and save her world.
- Brown Note Being: They're this to Cyd, as they release an intense amount of chaotic signals that interferes with Cyd's functioning.
- Dark Is Evil: Their black tar is deadly to the touch, and it releases an enormous amount of signals that interfere with Cyd's higher brain functions.
- Evil Takes a Nap: When first encountered, the Remnants are fast asleep. Unfortunately, this also makes them invulnerable until they're fully awakened by killing their region's Dregs.
- Giant Flyer: The Crater Ouroboros, Forgotten Thresher and Burning Hunter. The Burning Hunter arguably more so seeing as it's a winged creature.
- My Blood Runs Hot: Their bodies will burn Rei to ash if she touches their exposed flesh. According to Cyd, their bodies can burn up to 10,000 degrees Velkin (Kelvin), hotter than our Sun's surface.
- Ouroboros: The Crater Ouroboros of course. When it first descends upon the clouds before being fought by Rei, it coils around the isle that the Starseed is suspended from like it's trying to eat itself.
- Sea Monster: The Forgotten Thresher appears to be this to a certain extent, due to the creature's introduction showing it "swimming" through the blue-green clouds that surround the Broken Capital of the Veruki City.
- Was Once a Man: After Rei kills them all, Echo heavily implies that the Remnants were what remained of the Voidrunners, turned into monsters by Rei's time loop.Echo: You speak with such passion, but the fire in your eyes doesn't belong to you. You belong to it! All those Remnants you killed... Did you ever wonder where they came from? Did they seem familiar?!Rei: No! They're... abominations! They had to die so my world could survive. It was the only way.
Lyris
Lyris
Voiced by: Pilar Uribe
A Veruki that survived both the Dross invasion of her homeworld and its destruction at the hands of the Ultravoid.
- Martial Pacifist: Unlike most Veruki, Lyris renounced her people's ways to fight the Dross.
- Sole Survivor: She seems to be the only Veruki that has survived into modern times.
Tarragon Danderpaws
Tarragon Danderpaws
Voiced by: Zeno Robinson
A Veruki that lived during the Dross invasion of their homeworld.
- Apocalyptic Log: Pieces of his diary can be found all over the Ultravoid, narrating his recount of the Dross invasion of the Veruki homeworld and its destruction at the hands of the Ultravoid.
- Posthumous Character: He died long before the game. He willingly ended his own life with the rites of the Umbra to join their Eternal Cycle. You can find his mushroom-overgrown body near the final pages of his diary.
Ahrric
Ahrric
Voiced by: Zeno Robinson
A young Umbra gardener who's been chosen by his people to become an Elder. However, he's been given a chance to live a normal life first before he can join the Eternal Cycle.
- Mushroom Man: As an Umbra, he's one.
- Nervous Wreck
The Elders
The Elders
Voiced by: Janellen Steininger (The Speaker of the Silent), Troupe Gammage IV (The Keeper & The Tender), Todd Haberkorn (The Collector), Pilar Uribe (The Antecedent)
Ancient Umbra that became one with the Eternal Cycle, a mycelium network that preserves their memories and stories, millennia after their bodies' deaths.- Hive Mind: The Eternal Cycle allows the Umbra to preserve their culture and memories. They become one with it after their deaths. It also gives them Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory, allowing them to remember Rei's true nature.
- Mushroom Man: The Umbra are a race of living fungi.
- Posthumous Character: To become Elders, their bodies had to die first. This doesn't stop them from communicating with those who know the Spore Song, however.
- Time Abyss: The Keeper of the Rites died 10,044 years before he met Rei.
Admiral Ames
Admiral Ames
Voiced by: Todd Haberkorn
The former admiral of the Imperial Armada of Cyclodorea. Like Rei, he's desperate to save his people.
- Broken Pedestal: He's shaken when he discovers Pertinax' true nature, when he savagely attacks his crew for entering his bunker. Ames is left in shock after being forced to kill him.Ames: First Citizen Pertinax... Why are you in this room filled with greed? My away team... murdered... Why?! For what?!
- But Now I Must Go: After almost going insane inside Pertinax' bunker, he returns to the Ucalegon and leaves the Ultravoid on it after Rei restores herself, taking her words ("This is no place to live. You should get out of here while you can.") at heart.
- Fish People: He's a Cyclodorean, a race of bipedal, crustacean-like aliens from Cyclodorea.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Unfortunately proves to have misplaced faith in both the four away teams that he sends to search for the First Citizen and the First Citizen himself.
- Insane Admiral: The destruction of Cyclodorea and his experiences in the Ultravoid have damaged his sanity. After the deaths of his men and discovering Pertinax' true nature, Ames is left so devastated he nearly goes insane.
- The Kingslayer: He ultimately ends up killing Pertinax after he attacks his crew.
- Knew It All Along: After killing Pertinax, he mentions to Rei he'd heard rumors about how he really was, but had refused to believe them until he saw the truth with his own eyes.
- My Greatest Failure: Once he realizes the truth about Pertinax, he blames himself, both for not seeing it sooner and for sending his men to their deaths. While he tries to rationalize it as a necessary sacrifice, he rips out the medals in his uniform before leaving the Ultravoid, implying he still blames himself.Rei: Looks like Pertinax had some secrets. I'm sorry, Aimes. People aren't always who they say they are.Ames: You think I can't see that? You think I've never heard the rumours? I sent my crew to their graves. They trusted me, and I let them die. It all happened so fast... Pertinax shot them, without a shred of guilt. And... I unholstered my pistol... I ended the Cyclodorean Empire. It's something I can never forget, and yet... I'd already seen it, in every dream I had since I entered this place.
Dungeness Pertinax
First Citizen Dungeness Pertinax
The ruler of the Cyclodorean Empire. Ames and the Ucalegon entered the Ultravoid after their homeworld was destroyed by it to rescue him.
- The Caligula: As it turned out, Pertinax wasn't a great ruler. Cyclodorea was stricken by poverty while he had a massive hoard of gold in his underground bunker.
- Just the First Citizen: Literally so. His title as ruler.
- Posthumous Character: By the time you reach his bunker, he's been killed by Ames.
- Sanity Slippage: It seems his time stuck in his bunker has damaged his mental health. When Ames and his crew enter it, he attacks and kills two of them, leaving Ames no choice but to shoot him dead.
FCS Ucalegon Crew
FCS Ucalegon Crew
Voiced by: Pilar Uribe (Cymothoa Squad Leader), Janellen Steininger (Argulus Squad Leader), Troupe Gammage IV (Lernaea Squad Leader), Zeno Robinson (Gnathia Squad Leader)
Consisting of four different squads, they were dispatched by Ames for the purpose of the search and rescue of the First Citizen, Dungeness Pertinax.
- Acid Pool: The Lernaea Squad meets their end this way. After crash-landing near the Hotsprings of Oplontis, the squad leader has his/their entire squad take a dip to soothe their wounds, despite a squad member by the name of Ro warning that the acidity levels in the hot springs were slowly but surely rising. For some asinine reason, the squad leader disregards his warning and orders him to jump into the gradually acidic hot springs with the rest of the squad.
- Alien Blood: Based on the blood from the carcasses of the each squad that Rei comes across while exploring the Mirrorsea, all Cyclodoreans bleed a greenish-blue blood.
- Fish People: They're bipedal crustacean-like aliens.
- High-Voltage Death: The Cymothoa Squad meets their end this way. The squad's misfortune first began when they crashed their ship into another already capsized ship, which damaged their ship's generators. Wanting to get a better survey of the crew's new surroundings, the squad leader had herself and her crew climb up the damaged cables of their ship... while at the same time ordering another crew member to tinker with the ship's power drives. The fried carcasses of the squad speak for themselves...
- Sleep Deprivation: The root cause of the Argulus Squad's demise, as evidenced by the squad leader barely being able to get through her/their field report without yawning. After searching for the First Citizen for two days with no sleep, the squad came across an huge industrial grade signal scanner. Upon discovery, the squad leader foolishly decides that she/they and her/their squad have to get it running somehow, despite the rest of the squad making it clear that they're too drowsy to work on it. Hence their crushed carcasses...
- Sneeze of Doom: The Gnathia Squad perished in the midst of their search for the First Citizen because midway through his field report, the squad leader sneezed at the most inopportune time, when he and his team were attempting to lift their ship over their heads effectively enough to unwedge it from out of a tower where they crash landed.
- Too Dumb to Live: The Cymothoa, Argulus and Lernaea Squad Leaders seem to qualify as this to an almost comical degree. Based on the field reports that Rei comes across in different parts of the Mirrorsea, they pretty much led their teams to their deaths not only with little to no forethought or common sense, but also with willful disregard for the better judgment of some of their subordinates.
