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Earth
The God of Earth
- All Myths Are True: Every god, demon or even just character that's prayed to, feared, or simply beloved manifests all at once as a gestalt.
- Artistic License – Religion: In the story's universe, the god of Earth came into being from the different belief systems of humans, not the other way around as many of those religions teach.
- Clap Your Hands If You Believe: It exists as a direct result of people's faith and prayers, not the other way around.
- Eldritch Abomination: Due to the fact that it's all Earth's mythologies fused together, and some of them feature deities that are pretty weird to begin with, it looks like an utterly bizarre, chaotic mass of all manner of beings.
- God's Hands Are Tied: Due to the fact that it's a gestalt put together by all Earth religions, it's so busy fighting itself, that it almost never gets anything done.
- Gods Need Prayer Badly: Played straight. Those gods that aren't prayed to slowly disappear.
- Multiple Head Case: Played for laughs. All the gods humanity prays to manifest at once as a single being.
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: It's so messed up by conflicting pantheons, personalities, and attributes that it almost never manages to pull off a "miracle" or otherwise involve itself in human affairs.
- Oxymoronic Being: Considering that many Earth religions are contradictory, it's a small wonder that this god hardly ever gets anything done.
- Pass the Popcorn: At first Van only has about half of their support: Underworld and evil gods, for the most part. However, the others later decide to help out for two reasons: One, they might not like how Van does things, but he isn't causing damage to their world. Two, it's fun to watch and they don't have much else to do.
God of the Transmigration Cycle
Rodcorte
Sorry your life sucks, well keep a stiff upper lip, you can get through it, somehow!
The God in charge of the Transmigration cycle of several different worlds, including Lambda, Earth and Origin. He reincarnated one hundred people from Earth to motivate the growth of Lambda, but accidentally took away Hiroto Amamiya's fortune and later gave him several curses so he wouldn't look for vengeance as Vandalieu. Greatly disliked by other gods and mortals aware of his existence for his apathy, self-importance and meddling with other people's business.- Above Good and Evil: Doesn't care about anything other than the smooth operation of his Transmigration System.
- All Crimes Are Equal: He considers any human killing another for any reason to be murder, whether it be self-defense, assisting the weak against an aggressor, actual murder, or any other variation you can think of. While this could be considered positively as a kind of 'you should never kill' type ethic, the people around him note that it's just another display of his complete apathy: He just doesn't give a damn about these puny ants and why they do what they do.
- Can Not Tell A Lie: Rodcorte seems to be incapable of telling outright falsehoods. Whether this is because he's bound by some sort of rule, he's too stupid and lazy, or it's some other aspect of his personality is unclear. This does still have several loopholes he constantly exploits.
- He has to believe his words are true and accurate.
- His words are true and accurate when he says them, but the situation has changed since then outside his knowledge.
- Nothing stops him from lying by omission, i.e. he will make you come to the opposite conclusion by leaving out critical details.
- Can't Kill You, Still Need You: The only reason the gods of Earth, Origin, and Lambda haven't ripped him to pieces is because, without his transmigration cycle, the lives of their worlds could get extinguished. This ultimately comes to an end when he resurrects Guduranis in an attempt to kill Vandalieu. This pisses off Alda so much that he attacks Rodcorte, impaling him with multiple stakes, and once gets confirmation from Rodcorte's familiars that they can run the reincarnation system without him, leaves him impaled like that so he can't do anymore damage.
- Crippling Overspecialization: He's almost omnipotent when it concerns his reincarnation system, but at just about everything else he's completely helpless. Even the weakened sub-gods of Lambda can best him except where souls are concerned.
- Damned by Faint Praise: The one positive thing other gods say about him? His transmigration cycle is almost flawless.
- Didn't See That Coming: Vandalieu's growth in Lambda. To the point that he doesn't know what to do about him anymore.
- Did Not Think This Through: His biggest flaw is that he's too lazy and careless to ensure his plans will work. Reincarnating people into a different world with their memories intact so they can gain experience, but doesn't know if those people will actually be useful for the development of the world or what the consequences of their actions will be? Not his problem. Curse a person who has sworn vengeance, but doesn't ensure that there aren't any loopholes he can abuse? That was unexpected. Offer rewards to people in their next lives but doesn't bother to tell them the enemy they're going after can destroy souls? They get careless and are Killed Off for Real. This and many other thoughtless actions are what leads mortals and gods to do everything in their power to screw him over just like he screwed them.
- Also his system is "perfect" right up until something unexpected happens. And it is completely impossible to add a modification so that the entire system doesn't start falling apart the moment a soul is destroyed or removed from the system. Instead he has to make manual corrections every time.
- Digging Yourself Deeper: In chapter 248, the instant he regains consciousness, he comes to the "brilliant" conclusion that the best way to deal with the fact that enough people on Lambda are aware of him is to go and make even more people aware of him, In Alda's faction by spreading his name and giving blessings to Alda's "heroes."
- Dirty Coward: In addition to all his other flaws, he's a complete coward. He backs off the moment he might face any personal risk, no matter how slight, always watches things through the eyes of others, and uses disposable pawns whenever he acts, if he takes any action at all.
- Enemy Mine: He actually grows desperate enough that he agrees to work with Alda to hopefully find a way to deal with Vandalieu.
- Fair-Weather Friend: While not exactly with the gods of Lambda, he was at least opposed to Guduranis, even if he'd never actively oppose him. However, Vida suspects that if the latter had simply made an offer like "Hey, I'll make some humans to replace these gods I'm slaughtering if you help out", then Rodcorte might well have taken the deal.
- Fatal Flaw: Overconfidence and laziness. Rodcorte is always confident his plans will succeed without ever bothering to ensure they will actually work, and only tries to take measures after everything has already blown up in his face. His other biggest flaw is his apathy towards anything that's not himself and his transmigration cycle, seeing souls as nothing but resources to make his cycle even greater. This mindset alienates him from the beings that could become his allies, like the remaining Bravers and Alda and his faction.
- He later adds arrogance and impatience to the mix. He always presumes he knows more about the inner workings of the worlds whose souls he governs than the gods who live there, so he always implements his plans without consulting the locals, and when that goes wrong blames them for it. As for impatience, when he wants results, he wants them yesterday, so rather than take the time to consider his options, by merit of effectiveness, he goes with the option that's likely to produce the quickest result and is easiest to implement, constantly being surprised that it fails to go as planned.
- He considers the souls that pass through his system as static entities, completely refusing to acknowledge that people can change and grow depending on their environment, the way they're treated, their circumstances, and so on. This leads him to believe that Vandalieu will remain invariably hostile to all the other Bravers, no matter what he does, even after seeing differently through all sorts of methods, including his own eyes. As a result, he responds to every set-back by becoming more and more determined to alienate Van by trying to kill him, refusing to see how this completely screws him over on a repeated basis.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: "Friend" is pushing it. Rodcorte is more like that one Insufferable Genius that keeps getting in the way of your job but you still need. Among the gods of Lambda, Alda actually hates him the most because he considers himself to be doing a horribly difficult and thankless job while some unqualified jerk keeps getting in the way. The gods and even demons of Origin are also furious with him for reincarnating one hundred super-powered children there without permission, which has caused an increasingly terrible mess.
- God Is Inept: Apart from his control over the soul and his reincarnation circles, he seems to be completely incompetent at everything else he does. The one thing that keeps screwing him over the most is that he seems to think he's careful and methodical but is actually quite haphazard and lazy. And his system is so inflexible that it starts falling apart the moment that a soul is removed from the system, meaning that he has to make manual corrections for every resentful ghost, vampire conversion and ascension to godhood.
- God's Hands Are Tied: While a master of life and reincarnation, there are simply things he can't do with a soul. His reincarnation system is also quite rigid, making it hard to work with at times. He also can't do much directly due to not being an established, well-known god.
- Godzilla Threshold: Alda, having already suffered a Pyrrhic Victory against Vida, gave him Guduranis's soul for safe-keeping because Alda was too weakened to seal it properly, and there was nobody else available strong enough to try. And even then had to inform Rodcorte that Guduranis would not be satisfied with Lambda alone and would go after other worlds in Rodcorte's system before Rodcorte complied. Once Alda learns about Rodcorte's hypocrisy and the reincarnators, way earlier than Rodcorte planned, Rodcorte strongly considers setting the soul loose in Lambda, presuming it will try to go after Vandalieu. Though he's at least smart enough to not let it loose where it can see him.
- Gone Horribly Right:
- Rodcorte wanted to increase the flow of souls through his system, so he decided to reincarnate people from a different world to spread knowledge and increase the rate at which people die and are born. Vandalieu does exactly that, but for Vida’s competing system, due to what a Jerkass Rodcorte is, which ends up causing Rodcorte an endless stream of problems.
- Rodcorte created his reincarnation system to be almost totally flawless. He wound up making it so flawless that he isn't even necessary to keep it running, so when he finally goes too far there is nothing stopping Alda from impaling him and turning control of the system over to his familiars.
- Hate Sink: His incompetence is so indistinguishable from active malice, that the fanbase often considers him to rival the gods of real-life pantheons at their worst, and that's saying something.
- His Own Worst Enemy: Contrary to his paranoia that Van is actively out to get him and must be destroyed at all costs, and this is the reason his plans fail, the real reason his plans and schemes fail is himself.
- His scheme to round up 100 or so people, grant them gifts, have them train those gifts in a world similar to the one they grew up on, and then send them to Lambda to cultivate society, where the local gods are actively hostile to the concept, is a perfectly valid strategy, but because he couldn't be bothered to provide proper supervision, or even make certain he was giving the right gifts to the right people, aside from the most cursory of examinations, this scheme goes off the rails almost immediately, and he blows countless opportunities to get it back on the rails by neglecting "Experiment D-01."
- When "Experiment D-01" is standing before him, he gives an apology that's entirely lip service, which does absolutely nothing to redress the wrongs the kid went through, and when he hears that the boy intends to retaliate, just slaps a bunch of sloppily crafted curses, which would wind up fusing to the kid's soul if even the tiniest thing goes wrong, knowing full well that the kid is extremely unlucky and tells him "go kill yourself, I promise, I'll erase your pain." Naturally, the kid goes from "hurt and angry" to actively hostile.
- When he notices that Vandalieu has fallen out of his reincarnation system and into Vida's, and has awakened his past-life memories way ahead of schedule, he decides the best way to deal with it is to send the remainder of the people he has granted gifts after Van like hit-men, the moment he has the chance, forgetting that the very reason he wants Van dead and his soul neutralized is that Van proclaimed a desire to kill said individuals the first chance he gets, in retaliation for them killing him off and ruining his escape from a lab of horrors, and destroying his chances to rescue a bunch of other children. Naturally, the reincarnators that go along with the hit-man scheme wind up getting killed, soul-destroyed, or soul-eaten, one by one.
- Then he completely destroys his Vetinari Job Security by doing something so stupid he threatens the entire multiverse setting pieces of Guduranis's soul and memories loose in Lambda. Naturally, even his most ardent supporters turn on him and leave him to his fate.
- Hoist by His Own Petard
- Ignoring the main character's plea to be put back into the reincarnation cycle, blissfully unaware, is what results in the creation of "death magic" in the first place, which is what Rodcorte considers "dangerous" about Van.
- Cursing Van, rather than giving proper compensation or redress for the hell he went through in Origin, has the exact opposite effect of what he had intended. Rather than making Van suicidal, or making his life short and senseless, it actually opens up more options, and far more dangerous to any and all who would dare challenge or antagonize him.
- He finds Van dangerous, so he tries to get him killed. This ends up causing Van to become hostile towards him.
- His refusal or inability to give Van a destiny or fortune makes him extremely difficult to predict. It also means that he never examined Van's soul and discovered that he was the reincarnation of the creation-based champions from the alternate Earth.
- Taking the four broken souls of the champions and gluing them together gives the new soul about four times the amount of 'blank space' that can receive divine gifts or simply be used as mana. Not only that, but the sloppy job of joining the pieces together made the empty space larger. Thus, Van is literally born with an amount of mana that the gods themselves would envy.
- His lazy behavior allows Van to go unsupervised for too long, leading to him growing up a power base on par with the militaries of large empires. Then when he tries to send reincarnators to assassinate Van, about two-thirds of them feel the situation is hopeless and either defect or desert.
- Reincarnating Van to Lambda and not watching his soul allows it to be captured by Vida and reincarnated as a species he has good affinity for, in this case a Dhampir. This puts him in her system rather than Rodcorte's, so when he becomes a Guider he starts guiding souls out of Rodcorte's system and into Vida's. This is bad enough by itself - it completely goes against why Rodcorte was reincarnating people from Earth to begin with - but it also carries a strong danger of Vida perfecting her system and offering it to other worlds overseen by Rodcorte.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Because of his lack of interest, he didn't bother to check if the people he reincarnated were actually "good", or actually useful for the development of Lambda. However, after seeing their actions in Origin, he comes to recognize those like Death Scythe as being only valuable as disposable pawns because they offer nothing but combat ability and have personalities ill-suited for development.
- Hypocrite: 100,000 years ago, he refused to help the gods of Lambda against the Demon King by sending the souls of champions using his reincarnation cycle. Thousands of years later, he decides to use his cycle to reincarnate the souls of a hundred people in two different worlds without consulting the gods of those worlds first, throwing them into turmoil. The complete hypocrisy keeps Alda from realizing what Rodcorte did with a kind of "Well, yeah, he's the only that could have possibly done this, but he obviously can't be that much of a total dickhead hypocrite, right?" attitude. When Alda does find out, he's none too pleased and concerned that now he can't even trust Rodcorte and his cycle.
- He also talks about how "flawed" Vida's reincarnation system is. His own system can't survive an angry ghost without needing his direct intervention, let alone Vandalieu.
- Ignored Epiphany: On several occasions, he considers trying to appease Vandalieu somehow, rather than keep trying to assassinate him, especially once he's aware Vandalieu is no longer in his reincarnation system. He'll either discard this idea as stupid/impractical, or continue on to think about how he'll be faking extending Van any assistance, thus ruining the whole point.
- I Have Your Wife: Averted, barely. Had it not been for the gods and demons of Origin handing off the souls of the Eighth Guidance and Gazer to Zuruwarn, and Zuruwarn in turn placing the souls into Legion, Rodcorte would have happily used them as hostages to force Vandalieu to kill himself, and Rodcorte blames Vandalieu for it! It is unlikely this would even have worked, however, because Van doesn't actually remember the Eighth Guidance.
- Immortality Immorality: He's been in existence for billions of years, at least, and he's a completely amoral, self-important jerkass who blindly tramples over anyone and everyone in pursuit of his goals. His completely self-centered nature alienates everyone he meets. He wonders why everyone on those worlds is pissed the moment they find out.
- It's All About Me: All that matters in the universe are his goals and desires. Nothing else merits notice, as far as he's concerned.
- Jerkass Gods: While not intentionally malicious, he often acts against the best interests of everyone he involves in his schemes.
- Kick The Son Of A Bitch: When Avalon finally gets his comeuppance in Origin, Rodcorte shoves even more fragments of Guduranis's soul into him and then sets the corrupted oaf loose in Lambda against Vandalieu. Corrupted Avalon and Corrupted Edgar meet, fully reviving Guduranis through a Fusion Dance. After a hard fight, Van eats Guduranis, making Van even more problematic for Alda's faction.
- Lack of Empathy: He has extremely poor awareness of how his words and actions affect people's attitudes and is often surprised when he makes people angry. He also has no real sympathy for anyone at all.
- Late to the Realization: In chapter 360, he finally has an epiphany and realizes why everyone (or at least Alda) hates him as he's staked to the ground in agony, served up on a silver platter for Van to snack on, by Alda himself, but this comes over 100,000 years and over 100 souls too late, and even Alda doesn't want to hear an apology.
- The Load: Ironically for a god so efficient at administrating reincarnations, he sure makes the job of other deities so much harder, mostly thanks to his complete disinterest in the actual souls he administrates.
- A Million Is a Statistic: Because humans are nothing more than souls that pass through his cycle like cattle or products, he feels nothing at all while trying to separate Lambda from his transmigration cycle, which would mean the extinction of all those still within it in the span of a mere generation.
- Minor Injury Overreaction: When Zuruwarn is recovering the souls of the Eighth Guidance, Rodcorte tries to steal them away. Zuruwarn responds by biting him, which is a totally meaningless attack. However, Rodcorte has never been damaged at all before, so he flinches and gives Zuruwarn the opportunity to throw the souls into Lump Of Flesh-chan.
- The Needs of the Many: How he rationalizes his apathy for the lives of Earth, Origin, and Lambda. He's got many, many other worlds to look at, so the lives of billions doesn't really matter all that much, by comparison. Of course, this completely ticks off everybody on those worlds.
- Never My Fault: The fact that the gods of Origin, Lambda, and arguably even Earth are pissed at him? Can't be something he's done, or actively doing, Vandelieu must somehow be responsible. "Gotta kill him, gotta kill him, gotta kill him!" In fact, seemingly the only time he has ever admitted to making a mistake was when he had mixed up Hiroto's powers and given them to someone else, leave him with nothing and kicking off the whole plot. But even then he tells Hiroto to not blame anyone or anything for his immense misfortune.
- Even when he's angrily confronted by the fact that he's entirely responsible for the result of his actions, he completely shrugs off the anger and shifts most, if not all, the blame to someone else.
- If he had made it possible to add "software updates" to his system then he wouldn't even have noticed Vandalieu's existence because his system would have the capability to account for souls leaving the system. But he can't modify it without dismantling the entire system... because it is "perfect".
- Obliviously Evil: He's so detached and aloof he doesn't understand that, by interfering with his own reincarnation cycle, he keeps screwing over the lives of mortals and making the job of other gods much harder.
- Obstructive Code of Conduct: He can and will paralyze his familiar spirits if he thinks they're going to do or say anything that disagrees with him and his goals. This is despite the fact that he specifically "hired" them because he wanted differing ideas and methods.
- Oh, Crap!
- Has this reaction for the first time in the story when he realizes the soul made from the four champions of Vida he was supposed to keep out of Lambda's transmigration cycle, has been reincarnated back into Lambda as Vandalieu. All because he was careless and couldn't be bothered to look into Hiroto Amamiya's soul.
- Has this reaction a second time in the story after realizing that Vandalieu has spread knowledge of his existence in Talosheim and the nations within the Boundary Mountain Range, making Rodcorte a god of Lambda and unable to disconnect his reincarnation system from Earth, Origin, and Lambda for at least 1000 years.
- Pointy-Haired Boss: He's basically an Expy of the boss from Dilbert. Even when his "familiar spirits" call him an idiot to his face, he continues doing things his own way, completely disregarding their input, despite the fact that he made them familiar spirits precisely because he wanted alternate methods to meet his goals.
- Poor Communication Kills: He has a disgusting habit of withholding vital information and then getting shocked when when it jumps up to bite him and those he's manipulating somewhere sensitive.
- He neglects to announce that the option of rejecting the Isekai experience and simply being placed back into the reincarnation cycle is a limited time offer, until Amamiya Hiroto, who was patiently waiting for his name to be called, asks to be put back in the reincarnation cycle due to missing out on his promised blessings because Rodcorte screwed up.
- He neglects to tell Kanata that Vandalieu has the ability to destroy souls before sending the former to assassinate the latter.
- He pointedly refuses to tell the gods of Lambda about the existence of Vandalieu, who was put there by him, until after they figure it out on their own, and not even then.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: While he's completely hostile towards Van and unwilling to compromise on his position of killing him, when it comes to the methods of neutralizing him he can be pretty reasonable. He's willing to offer luxurious rewards, potent abilities to counter Van's strengths, reincarnate people as adults and let them choose their race. He's even willing to let Asagi try to convince Van give up death magic, though mostly because he assumes the request will piss him off and make them come to blows. If someone completely refuses to go up against Van, he'll also give alternatives since his basic reason for reincarnating people is still important to him.
- Saying Too Much: Because he never had to bother paying attention to his surroundings, he unknowingly revealed to Zuruwarn (who was prying his Divine Realm) that he's become a God of Lambda, which makes him punishable by the native gods. It was noted his Familiar Spirits did notice Zuruwarn, but said nothing out of hatred for their boss.
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Turns out the reason he cursed "Subject D-01" and ordered him to commit suicide upon reaching Lambda is that he feared "Death Magic" would eventually lead to the development of immortality and thus completely crash his reincarnation and transmigration system. This is also why he gave the Bravers a "divine message" to storm the lab that was experimenting with "The Undead" and his Death-attribute magic. Doing this, and reincarnating him into a Dhampir, to be subjected to Fantastic Racism and extreme mind-breaking trauma as an infant, is precisely what provokes Vandalieu to not only want to smash Rodcorte's system to pieces, but actually provides the tools to make it happen.
- Skewed Priorities: He's always far more interested if his schemes are easier to implement rather than their chances of success. As such, he does the same thing over, and over, and over again and refuses to consider any other options unless someone brings forward something easier to implement, or his preferred method is no longer possible to implement. He completely fails to comprehend how this pisses off everyone else.
- Sloth: His personality is described as being complete indifference disguised as impartiality. He doesn't do more than the bare minimum of work required to achieve his goals, which blows up in his face all the time as the other gods, Vandalieu, and the Bravers become increasingly hostile towards him.
- Smug Snake: Alda describes him as someone who disguises arrogance as composure, and for this reason, getting angry at him, no matter how justified, is entirely meaningless.
- Stopped Caring: The narration indicates that he wasn't always the incompetent oaf presented to the audience. He used to care a great deal about his job, and the souls and worlds in his care, but at some point that even he can't remember, it became too much for him, so he just puts forth the minimum effort to get by and started to think of himself, and his system, as all that matters.
- Strange Minds Think Alike: He also thinks Alda is the Only Sane Man of Lambda's pantheon, not because he agrees with Alda's ideology, which he actually doesn't give a damn about, but because Alda, beyond all possible reason, continues to champion him running the cycle of reincarnation despite his apathy, arrogance, hypocrisy, incompetence, insolence, and complete untrustworthiness.
- Stupid Evil: Because he thinks Konoe is a poor match for Vandalieu and only worthwhile as an assassin, he allows him to destroy himself while attacking Van when he could have extended significantly more protection. While his reasoning makes a certain amount of sense - Van probably wasn't going to die from the attack - it ignores that A) he alienated all the other reincarnators present, and B) Van was almost completely disabled and incapable of any meaningful action, which would have left him vulnerable.
- They Just Dont Get It: No matter who tells him that harassing, tormenting, and trying to assassinate Vandalieu only serves to make Van more recalcitrant, Rodcorte is so convinced that Vandalieu is an inherent existential threat that Van must be erased by any and every means available. He, of course, doesn't believe that he's responsible for making Van that way in the first place.
- Even where Van is not concerned, he does everything in his power to utterly defy Taught by Experience, utterly refusing to let himself believe that this unique situation, brought about by his own meddling, simply doesn't work the same way his billions of years of life has, so stubbornly keeps doing things his own way, over and over again, until he's no longer physically able, regardless of how much it turns around to bite him in the face, completely unable to understand why it's not working the way it should in his imagination.
- Time Abyss: The gods of Earth and Origin are only as old as the oldest human religions, arguably only as old as the oldest religions in recorded history. The gods of Lambda are over a hundred thousand years old, but implicitly not drastically longer. Rodcorte? Rodcorte far predates all life on Earth.
- Too Dumb to Live: He constantly alienates everyone around him with his short-sighted and aloof personality. He seems to have no real concept of learning from experience and instead infuriates every god he interacts with and alienates every mortal, which sets back his own plans immensely.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Combined with Took a Level in Dumbass. As he starts getting more and more desperate, due to his own ill thought-out plans backfiring, he stops being "indifferent" and becomes actively malicious, as well as making plans that even the other characters in the story would consider too stupid for him, such as putting those who chose to reincarnate as infants into factions already hostile to Vandalieu, so they'd be forced to fight him anyway, regardless of their wishes thus greatly weakening their chances of survival, let alone success.
- The Unapologetic: While he does technically apologize to the protagonist for the hellish circumstances brought about by his own carelessness, it's all purely lip service, and he doesn't even try to mitigate, redress, or compensate any of it. In fact, he goes and slaps an unbreakable curse he hopes will quickly drive Vandalieu to suicide, for the crime of being pissed off.
- He also agrees to work with Alda without really apologizing for messing up Lambda without permission, mainly because he still thinks his actions were justified and knows Alda is in no position to punish him.
- Unskilled, but Strong: As a result of being billions of years old, he's far bigger and stronger than all the other gods mentioned, even Guduranis, but he has absolutely no skill with combat, so if even a weak combat god ever faced him, he'd be nothing more than a giant piñata.
- Vetinari Job Security: Alda, the character who likely hates him the most, is unwilling to get rid of him because doing so would screw up his reincarnation system, which is so vital to multiple worlds that other gods would probably attack Lambda if he tried. However, Rodcorte is actually a god under his own domain thanks to Van, so he could apparently seal him and keep the system going if he knew.
- What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: Sure, healing Edgar's soul using a fragment of the Demon King's soul without worrying it could become susceptible to The Corruption. Nope, there's no way at all this can possibly backfire.
- Wrong Assumption: When he finds out Vandalieu actually has a foothold and followers in Origin, he panics thinking Van intends to create millions of undead to increase his worship and destroy him, but his Familiar Spirits know Van has little to no interest in Origin beyond helping a few people and has no intention of creating undead just for the sake of it.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: If you're one of his agents and he decides he no longer has any need for you, he has no issues simply abandoning you and walking away, caring not one whit about what happens to you afterwards. He still doesn't understand why everybody who knows who he is hates him.
- 0% Approval Rating: No one who knows him personally can stand him. Evil Gods and the Gods of Lambda would punch him in the face if they could. Not even his own familiar spirits have anything positive to say about him. The demons and gods of Origin even teamed up to screw him over by sending the Eighth Guidance and Gazer to Lambda instead of having them reincarnate within Rodcorte's system.
Gods of Lambda
The Eleven Founding Gods of Lambda
Alda
- Absolute Xenophobe:
- He refuses to accept that the Evil Gods and any of their progeny are anything but pure evil when it's quite clear that they were just an enemy army and didn't even choose for themselves to come here. They were simply commanded to attack. Vida finds his position especially baffling because by Alda's own standards the ones who changed sides already atoned for their crimes and should no longer be considered "criminals."
- This also applies to Vida's Races. While he eventually mellows on the genocide of dark elves, drakonids and merfolk since they originate entirely from Lambda "natives", making a deal with Rodcorte to move them to his transmigration circle down the line, Alda still refuses to budge on the complete eradication any races descended from evil gods or monsters. This is eventually subverted, however, but not in a good way: He acknowledges them as races of people no more or less moral than the likes of humans or dwarves, but is advocating for their destruction regardless because they are getting in the way of his long term plans for Lambda.
- Appeal to Tradition: He believes that the way the world was is the way it should be in the present and going into the future. A static world of peace and tranquility. Setting aside that this isn't possible anymore and that the costs of trying are too high, the very idea has left the world stagnant and teetering on the brink of a slow decline or outright destruction if anything destabilizes.
- Believing Their Own Lies: Despite consciously acknowledging that Vandalieu is morally speaking a fairly normal ruler for Lambda, he seems so blinded by his own propaganda that he thinks even Vida's races would probably stand up to him. You know, despite the fact that he knows that Vida herself is on his side.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: With Rodcorte. He may hate Rodcorte's arrogance and meddling, but they agree to work together to find a way to deal with Vandalieu.
- Black-and-White Insanity: He has a point with some of his beliefs and doesn't come across as totally unreasonable, but his absolute belief that the evil gods and anything descended from them are, well, evil totally skews his thinking and leads to some ridiculous conclusions. For example, not only does he decide that Vida is insane, he also believes that she wants to have Botin and Peria murdered and moves to station guards to protect them. Vida didn't even know where they were.
- Confirmation Bias: In universe. For tens of thousands of years, he has only listened to people and gods who agreed with him while sealing or punishing those who disagree with his "Stakes of Law" authority. His followers, as a consequence, have ended up more like the fanatical Gordan over time with few heroes who even do as well as Heinz, who has no real chance of modifying Alda's behavior like he intends. This leaves him in an echo chamber where his allies have explicitly come to believe that disrupting order for any reason is by definition evil and everything Van, Vida and so on do is always interpreted through that lens while explicitly ignoring that Van is basically just a normal king, even taking into account his insanity. This has caused all of his siblings to give up on him. He, in turn, considers them insane because they don't see the "obvious" like he does.
- A Darker Shade of Gray: While Vida is pretty morally clean, Van himself is not. However, he is still better than Alda because he is open to being proven wrong and changing his goals when his previous positions no longer make sense or would carry costs too high to make them worth it. Alda, thanks to his nature as a god of order, is nearly incapable of changing his mind even though he intellectually acknowledges flaws in his approach and merits in the other side's arguments. Further, while what he wants for Lambda is undeniably good, he refuses to acknowledge that if he took his hands off the reins and let it take care of itself, Lambda could easily be just as good as it was before: Dungeons are a source of infinite materials to work with and the diversity that Vida's races bring could make Lambda much more secure than it was before Guduranis. Best of all, no genociding innocents.
- Did Not Think This Through: Chapters 256-260 reveal that one of the meat-puppets Curatos had designed for Heinz to fight was Randolf the True, at Alda's orders. After having Heinz repeatedly fight meat-puppets of all Van's friends, family, and followers, over and over again, no opportunity for discussion, to demonstrate that they're "evil" and cannot be reasoned with. This horrifies Alda and his subordinates when they learn from Rodcorte that Randolf is being Guided by Kanako through her music, as it will most likely cause unintended conflict between the Colored Blades and Randolf the moment they meet.
- Engineered Heroics: For the purposes of installing a Puppet King as the Pope of his own religion, he deliberately weakens his own "Light" attribute to trigger an eclipse, as said pope candidate prophesied. This not only weakens the seal on numerous hostile evil gods, but on a yet unconfirmed number of Devil King body-parts, which all very quickly take the opportunity to rampage. He then uses the rampages brought about by these body-parts to have familiar spirits descend and do "heroic" things, both to bolster the number of followers, and to "recruit" people to become "heroes" that he'll send against Vandalieu. The dhampir boy that became a Devil King as a direct result of the actions of his own religious followers, most notably High-Priest Gordan and "Hero" Heinz.
- Entertainingly Wrong: Stemming from his Never My Fault mindset, but he thinks Zakkart somehow brainwashed Vida in the same way he did with the Evil Gods. The irony that he himself was influenced by Bellwood completely escapes him: though he seems aware on some level that he was guided, because Bellwood spoke of "the correct way of the world," he is untroubled enough by the thought to not pursue it.
- Everybody Has Standards: When Fitun, controlling Hajime, went with Murakami's half-baked scheme to pick a fight with Vandalieu, almost immediately after Vandalieu had defeated and consumed Hihiryushukaka, he goes completely apoplectic and repeatedly tries to go after Fitun who has gone completely off the grid.
- Failure-to-Save Murder: He suspects Vida believes that he intentionally abandoned Zakkart and his fellow champions to be killed by the Demon King, though his inner monologue indicates he simply chose not to save him in order to secure what he believed was a bigger victory. This led Vida and Alda to becoming even more estranged than they already were. It turns out she knows he isn't that cruel or crafty, but still distanced herself out of a total loss of faith in him.
- Fantastic Racism: He believes that every Evil God that came from the Demon King's world and all their progeny have to be purged from Lambda for the sake of returning it to what it was, a "clean world". Even his acceptance of Vida races only applies to ones with no relations to the evil gods, as allowing any beings with any amount of alien "corrupted" mana to exist will make it impossible for him to achieve his ultimate goal of a once again monster and dungeon free world.
- Fatal Flaw: Similarly to his champion Bellwood, Alda's biggest flaw is his refusal to bend or compromise, even when he knows his stance isn't working or doomed to create more conflict, believing it is too late to back down and that all will be worth it in the end.
- God Is Flawed: He means well, but his Fantastic Racism against the Evil Gods and sheer stubbornness have kept the world in unending stasis with no chance of complete recovery or even just cleaning up the damage from wars that ended a hundred thousand years ago.
- God of Order: As god of Law, it was his duty to keep order in Lambda, but after a hundred-thousand years of maintaining it almost completely alone, he has caused nothing but stagnation without actually fixing the damage left by fighting the Demon King and his sister Vida.
- Hero Antagonist: He's not a bad person. He's trying to guide the world onto what he considers the right path and the end result of his actions would theoretically restore an old utopia. He bears little to no malice towards Vida's children despite what his religion preaches, but because they corrupt the land around them merely by existing he wants them exterminated. This position is at least understandable, if perhaps not commendable. The position that tilts the scales more towards Hero Antagonist rather than Anti-Villain, however, is that he has made genuine efforts to move Vida's children into Rodcorte's system so as to avoid having to commit genocide or kill his sister.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Though he hates Rodcorte, he assumed that the other god is at least consistent with his previously stated beliefs and hasn't the faintest idea that it's all Rodcorte's fault that the world has become so unstable over the last decade. He also has no clue that Rodcorte nearly destroyed Lambda outright by pulling it from his system because of the minor risk to himself that Van posed.
- In Fitun's backstory, he recounts how Alda took his spirit and made him a subordinate god. Alda had presumed he was tired of a long, long life of fighting and put him in charge of moving clouds around, after Fitun had won peace at the end of an epic and brutal war. Fitun actually hated the peace he had found and was eager to start another war but died before he could get another opportunity, so when he got taken to a heavenly realm and given the task of managing clouds, he was actually in an Ironic Hell.
- Hypocrite
- He firmly believes that the best followers are those whose faith is shaken and occasionally waver on their ideals, coming back stronger. Yet, he himself never wavers on his ideals, regardless of the cost or any empirical evidence of how wrong they are, and can't, for the life of him, understand why the rest of Lambda's pantheon oppose him.
- Vida's first POV segment spends a lot of time thinking about Alda and his hypocrisy, which confuses and saddens her more than making her angry.
- He's the god of law and order, but by his own standards the evil gods who changed sides have long since paid for their crimes and should be welcomed.
- For all Bellwood and Alda said about talking things through, the two of them never did so.
- He's a god of law... choosing to punish people who have not necessarily broken the law because they don't fit his ideals of peace and order. Meanwhile, genuinely evil gods like Hihiryushukaka have set up shop and are merrily setting up murderous cults that Alda seems to mostly ignore. And although she doesn't know it, despite Alda deciding around this time that those evil gods are more of a threat he completely forgets about this once he notices a certain Dhampir.
- The one who hates Rodcorte the most isn't Vida but Alda, yet he goes to absurd lengths to defend the system Rodcorte has set up rather than at least exploring the alternatives.
- As much as Alda shuns the technology and culture of Earth, without Earth natives Lambda would have been conquered long ago.
- If Only You Knew: Has the authority to deal with Rodocorte, and make the Jerkass God realize what it is like to suffer and be completely helpless in impotent rage, like Rodcorte does to everyone else, but doesn't do it because he's not aware that Rodcorte is now a god of Lambda, and under his authority...
- Ignored Epiphany: He does notice and grudgingly acknowledge early on that the persecution of Vida's races is relatively pointless compared to attacking the genuine evil gods, but as soon as Van repels the Mirg invasion he seems to completely forget about this in favor of attacking the new Demon King who isn't really bothering anyone but their mutual enemies unless provoked.
- I've Come Too Far: Discussed. He states that even if he told his followers "you know that genocide thing we've got going against Vida's races? I'd like you to stop now," his divine message ability is so weak, his followers are not likely to hear it, and even if they do, they're not likely to believe it, or be believed, and it will only generate confusion in the ranks, at best.
- Knight Templar: While his goal of restoring the pre Demon King utopia is a noble idea in theory, in practice it's completely impossible and arguably not even a good idea given the prosperity that properly managed devil's nests and dungeons can bring. He's so fixated on the past that it causes him to abandon some of his own core principles like forgiving sinners and emphasizing proper rule of law. The other main gods of Lambda implicitly accept that trying to go back to the way things were is impossible and side with Vida, a decision Alda considers insanity without an ounce of self awareness.
- Lawful Stupid: He's perfectly willing to acknowledge that individuals of the monster races can be well integrated into society or even heroic. He still intends to wipe them all out though, for the sake of returning the world to what it "should" be.
- Light Is Not Good: With the influence of the other gods, he helped keep a proper balance. However, his obsession with purity has at best led to a pointless conflict with Vida's races, which are no more evil than any other, while relatively ignoring the actual threat posed by the demon king's remnants.
- Medieval Stasis: Like Bellwood, he honestly believes that any form of development or technology, no matter what it is, or its source, is inherently far, far more harmful than benevolent, so dictates that his followers should crack down on all forms of advancement, regardless of losses. Even though he acknowledges this has come back to bite him and his followers, repeatedly, he believes it's necessary to eventually bring the world back to what it was before the Demon King war.
- Moral Myopia: For tens of thousands of years, he has had his followers persecute and murder any of Vida's children that they can find even when he admits the individual may not have done anything wrong. Why? Because it fits into his idea of "order." Anyone who disrupts his genocide for any reason? A monster that needs to be exterminated. Any god that disagrees with him? Clearly insane!
- A Nazi by Any Other Name: Is using a totalitarian empire to instigate a race war against "foreign" races and their descendants, deeming them all sub-human monsters who must be exterminated.
- Never My Fault: The fact that the Pure Bred vampires turned to the evil gods as a direct result of his unjust persecution of Vida and her offspring? Vida's fault for siring them in the first place! Never mind the fact that the evil gods were winning the war because the "people" races were too homogeneous and simply could not cope with the situation until champions from other worlds were brought in to help them, and Vida birthing all sorts of other races was the perfect counter to such a critical weakness!
- Order Is Not Good: His insistence on law and order has caused the world to become stagnant and caused a seemingly irreversible divide between him and his sister Vida. If he had been willing to talk to her first they could, in theory, have come to a mutually acceptable compromise. In the present, while he acknowledges that Van cannot be truly considered pure evil the way Guduranis was, he still condemns him as evil because he brings disruption to the order Alda imposes on the world. Alda can no longer tell Order apart from Good and cause great harm in trying to enforce the former.
- Paranoia Fuel: In universe. Once he figures out that Rodcorte has been sending reincarnatiors from other worlds into Lambda, without consulting him first, and said reincarnators are mucking about, trying to re-create the tech from their previous worlds, he rightly starts to worry that his already genocidal followers might get their hands on nuclear weapons and really make a mess of the planet, and he can't trust any children born among the "people" races any more. Said children numbering in the millions.
- Principles Zealot: Continues to cling to his Utopia Justifies the Means plans even after 100,000 years of failure. Even after every last one of his siblings turn against him for his genocidal actions, he still refuses to admit he's wrong, simply stating he knows they'll understand what he's doing is necessary, someday.
- Pure Is Not Good: Desperately wants to make Lambda a "monster free" world, and will do anything to make that happen, no matter how vile, destructive, or counter-productive it is. He also wants to eliminate all "foreign" influence and development, even if that means he completely squashes all local or natural development, without a care for cost-benefit analysis, because he can't tell the difference, and he thinks Science Is Bad anyways.
- Pyrrhic Victory: While his side did win over Vida's, he had to take over her responsibilities and manage elements outside his jurisdiction while still weakened and his forces undermanned, meaning he can no longer influence the world as he used to, mostly focusing on maintaining the world itself.
- Revenge Before Reason: He's completely against allowing the Evil Gods to pull a Heel–Face Turn. Vida is particularly baffled by this, since by rejecting them he's denying them atonement: One of Alda's central tenants was to have mercy towards criminals, believing that those who had atoned no longer were criminals.
- Resignations Not Accepted: His faction's heroes are not aware of it, yet, but he has entered into an agreement with Rodcorte that if any of his heroes refuse to fight Vandalieu when the time comes, he will have Rodcorte surgically remove the parts of their souls that house their consciousness and turn them into nothing more than meat puppets to force them to attack anyway, under the direct control of the Alda faction's gods.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: In the side-chapter "Heinz Returns", Alda has instructed all his subordinates to fill in the Colored Blades on what Van's been up to, hoping to convince them to hunt him down, at all costs, by showcasing how "evil" Van is. Heinz, after finally seeing the honest account, deems that Van is a better hero than himself, by protecting both Vida's races and humans equally, without prejudice, and protected an entire city full of innocents from Fitun's rampage. Heinz, vexed at this realization, comes up with random excuses even he admits are nothing more than excuses to try and justify going at Van anyway, once they're strong enough to confront him without getting curbstomped and Eaten Alive. In the wake of this, Alda just sighs, shrugs while staring at the ground, and tells himself that Heinz will eventually get his head on straight and become a "proper" believer at some point.
- The Rival: He and Vida always had competing ideologies with the other gods being needed to mediate between them. Alda's domain is over law and light, but Vida's domain is over life. Basically, they're law and chaos.
- Selective Obliviousness: Chapter 247 makes it clear that he's well aware that Bellwood's [Guider] job can influence gods, just like Zakkart can, as he's seen it himself, yet utterly refuses to believe that he, who spent the most time in contact with Bellwood, might, just might, be one of them, when he clearly has, as noted in an earlier chapter when Bellwood shouted "I love this world!" and Alda responds by condemning the place to Medieval Stasis and genocide of any peoples he doesn't like.
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: He and his faction are terrified that a dhampir would arise as Vida's champion and become "a devil king". In this vein, he sends a [Divine Message] to make killing vampires and dhampirs priority number one among his faithful and fanatical, and turns a blind eye to genuinely evil gods like [The Evil God of Joyful Life] which hunt vampires and dhampirs for their own purposes. It is precisely because Vandalieu is born in such an environment, with his father dead before he was born, and his Struggling Single Mother is kidnapped, tortured and burned to death that forces Vandalieu into this role.
- Sunk Cost Fallacy: Discussed. He recognizes that his persecution of Vida's races is basically pointless, but still insists that his church continue because he's committed to this course now and doesn't want to change directions now. He even recognizes that this pointless fight is only distracting from cleaning up the mess the Evil Gods and Guduranis left, but only decides to focus on the latter with extreme reluctance.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: He utterly hates Rodcorte and would punish him for his constant meddling if he knew he could, but they're forced to cooperate so they can come up with a plan to stop Vandalieu.
- Trapped in Villainy: Chapter 248 reveals that he's become quite aware of the pitfalls of building an echo chamber full of fanatics to your ideology. He can see his ship is sailing straight towards a major waterfall called Vandelieu, hear the roars, and the ship is even on the rapids, bouncing off rocks. His crew, however, is so adamant in the belief that changing course for any reason is the very definition of pure evil, that Alda's attempts to get them to consider even weighing anchor just leaves them hopelessly confused, at best. The only words he can tell them that even registers are that misjudging Van will inevitably lead to disaster.
- Villain Has a Point: Many of his positions are defensible and reasonable even if the way he goes about defending them are terrible. However, they're often undermined by even a casual unbiased look at the situation.
- Going along with Rodcorte's plans to greatly increase the population, purely for the sake of the transmigration system, will place an exponentially large toll on the existing available resources, like food, clothing, and shelter. This point is undermined by the sheer timescale involved herenote and that dungeons and devil's nests greatly increase the amount of resources and how quickly they can be acquired.
- Introducing technological developments, purely for the sake of doing so, before the culture is ready for them, can be catastrophic, as showcased in many stories, both fact and fiction. However, many of the things banned are harmless, purely beneficial or at least something the people developed naturally before he stamped it out. And, again, given how long the world has been like this there has been far more than enough time to get used to new technologies.
- Vida's transmigration system is a flawed copy of an already flawed copy, meaning it's quite unstable and does indeed require massive amounts of maintenance from various gods and heroic spirits to not cause things like Born-Again Immortality, Resurrection Sickness, and so forth. On the other hand, it eliminates the reliance on the highly untrustworthy Rodcorte and is growing much more stable and flexible over time.
- All of Vida's races that possess ranks - the ones he refuses to compromise on - and the intelligent monster races they've allied with possess corrupted mana that, without a nearby dungeon to absorb it or similar means of management, can spread into their surroundings, eventually creating Devil Nests where monsters spawn in high enough densities. But this is only a problem if you follow the human model of city building rather than the plan that Vida's model of inclusiveness and playing to a given race's strengths while decreasing the amount of necessary conflict and increasing resources by relying on nearby dungeons and devil's nests. Van also eventually demonstrates that improvements to technology and training methods (the kind Alda encouraged outlawing) can allow even children to take on rank 4-5 monsters by themselves.
- Utopia Justifies the Means: Believes completely going against his own nature as a god of law, not allowing Evil Gods the chance at atonement, declaring entire races criminals just for being born, and even forcing a Forever War and Medieval Stasis on his own followers for thousands or even millions of years is entirely justified if it means returning Lambda to peaceful utopia it once was.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Like Alda, the protagonists also have an interest in freeing the world of Lambda from the dangers of dungeons and xenophobic species of monsters created by the Demon King's army. Unfortunately, Alda's solution for these problems is the complete extermination of anything even associated with the Demon King's world, including peaceful races, while the protagonists are working towards so far much more successful methods of peaceful coexistence.
- Written by the Winners: The victory over Vida's races paints him in a positive light, even though it was his faction who launched a surprise attack on Vida and the Evil Gods on her side.
- Wrong Assumption: He figured that since Curatos and Hihiryushukaka weren't gods talented in combat and Fitun is, then maybe, just maybe Fitun's reckless attack might at least be able to thin out Vandalieu's forces. This does not come to pass. He and his faction have a panic attack when Van's forces completely curb-stomp Fitun's entire army, including the rampaging monsters from his personal dungeon of trials, without a single casualty.
Vida
Lambda's goddess of Life and Love, who chose Zakkart as her champion. After the war with the Demon King she decided to repopulate Lambda by creating different races with all sorts of beings. This didn't sit well with Alda, who considered them bad for the balance of the world and a war between their factions occurred. She was defeated and sealed by Alda and Bellwood, until Vandalieu released her from her bindings.
- Ambiguously Brown: She has dark brown skin, as do many of the races she helped create, like the Dark Elves, Ghouls and Titans. But being one of the original high gods of Lambda, hers doesn't really have any connection to a particular ethnicity or even exposure to the sun.
- Big Good: She and her allies are Van's biggest supporters. In fact, if she hadn't yanked his soul out of Rodcorte's system and put him into her own, his odds of surviving infancy were basically non-existent.
- Both Sides Have a Point: She mentions that both Zakkart and Bellwood gave pretty good arguments over how to fight the Demon King the way they did. She still thinks the reason things got so bad was because of Alda and Bellwood's refusal to even compromise.
- Divine Parentage: Several of her consorts were either lesser gods or very powerful entities.
- Extreme Omnisexual: As a god of life and love, she's also implicitly a god of sex and seems to have a lot of it with anyone that meets her standards. This includes male humanoids, other gods, female dragons, tentacle monsters with no gender, bug gods, animal demigods, giants, 'snake' gods and the undead just for starters.
- God Is Inept
- Several of her races don't seem very well designed and have significant trouble reproducing, such as the cripplingly infertile ghouls, the asexual vampires and the single gendered arachne and scylla, which undermines the entire point of their existence. She didn't or couldn't actually choose what the species she birthed would be like, so for them to end up flawed is rather understandable. Her personality is also kind of flaky and easily flustered.
- The races she created with foreign gods can corrupt the land around them if not managed, completely defeating their original purpose of rebuilding the world alongside the original races of Lambda, whose civilians can't typically handle anything above rank two monsters.
- Alda had a point right after the demon king war that her cycle of reincarnation was a flawed copy of an already flawed copy. It was extremely unstable and required constant maintenance to keep it running normally. However, the system is becoming more stable with time as more souls are added to it and the less rigid nature of her circle allows it to recover more easily from errors like souls being added to it, broken or other issues that cause a major headache for Rodcorte. She's considering offering it to other gods once the kinks have been worked out so no one else has to rely on Rodcorte out of sheer necessity.
- Rodcorte never intended for Van's curses to be permanent so when Vida yanked Van's soul out of Rodcorte's system and into her own those curses are written into Van's soul which unfortunately makes them permanent. She is lucky that there is plenty of Loophole Abuse involving those curses.
- Good Is Not Soft: It's noted that while she has a lot of compassion and is very accepting and understanding, she is not endlessly forgiving. Her church can be very pragmatic as a result.
- Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action: Had children both with giants bigger than castles and humanoids as small as humans.
- Love Goddess: After Alda took the Life domain from her even though he isn't suited for it, her only remaining title is the goddess of love.
- The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: After the resurrected Darcia becomes her living avatar on Lambda, not only does Darcia take on some aspects of Vida, but Vida begins taking on aspects of Darcia as well, such as exhibiting Darcia's overly Doting Parent behavior when discussing Vandalieu.
- Mother of a Thousand Young: Many races are her descendants.
- Really Gets Around: Believing the best way to repair Lambda would be to introduce new races, she mated with several local gods, some mortals, the undead Zakkart and finally several evil gods who changed sides. While Alda might have been willing to give a pass on the first few, creating races like Scylla was more than he could tolerate.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: While she frequently disagreed with Zakkart, she always made a point to at least listen to what he had to say and discuss it. Alda considers this insanity.
- The Rival: Became this with Alda.
- Scars Are Forever: Even after Van removes her impalements left by Alda and Bellwood, traces of the scars remain because she's still weakened.
- Sealed Good in a Can: After her defeat against Alda, she was trapped within her own divine realm, injured and unable to interact with the world other than vague messages. When Van finally makes it to where she's enshrined, he breaks the seals on her all at once, allowing her to finally start recovering.
- Spanner in the Works: She noticed Van's soul coming to Lambda and did what she could for him, but pretty much the most she could do was make it easier for him to learn new jobs. Which was enough to make him devastatingly powerful once the power escalation really got going. Thanks to her, Rodcorte's third curse proved largely useless: Van may not be able to get as many jobs as he should, but by the age of ten he still has more than basically any other mortal in existence with no time to get through all of his options.
- Start My Own: Because she didn't trust Rodcorte (and with good reason), she decided to create her own transmigration cycle for her races, which is already based on the one created by the Demon King. While it's a good deal more unstable than his and needs to be overseen by multiple heroic spirits and the like, this does make it a great deal more flexible: Anything Van does regarding souls and death magic causes major problems for Rodcorte, but the monster races and so on migrating into Vida's transmigration cycle causes it no problems whatsoever.
- White Mage: While she's a powerful top god, or would be if she wasn't recovering her strength, she's never been very good at fighting. Her powers revolve more around creating life, healing and things of that nature. Which is why Hihiryushukaka is surprised to get his ass kicked by Darcia using goddess descent: She has all the combat skills that Vida lacks.
Ricklent
The genie of Time and Magic, who chose Ark as their champion. They also created the Job and skills system so humans could have a chance against the Demon King. They were greatly wounded by the Demon King and entered a deep slumber, only waking 50,000 years prior to the story at which point they prophesied and then began preparing for the arrival of a successor to Ark and the other creation champions.
- Neutral No Longer: Because they were in a slumber when the war between Vida and Alda occurred, they didn't pick a side. As soon as they awakened 50,000 years prior, they immediately joined Vida's side because they felt Alda and Bellwood's actions were too harsh.
- No Biological Sex: They are a shapeless entity without a defined gender.
- Not the Intended Use: When they found out the Demon King managed to manipulate part of their Job and Skills' system to give monsters Ranks, they shut themselves out of their own system to prevent it from being altered any further.
- Pet the Dog: Invoked. They help bring Legion to Vandalieu and bestows their blessing so that Vandalieu will know that they're an ally of Vida and therefore Van himself.
- Time Master: The god of time and magic, making them the best at this.
- Rule of Three: They're usually depicted as a trio of beautiful women, old men, young men or boys, so they often take those forms.
- Those Two Guys: A secondary character in the plot who almost always appears together with the god of space, Zuruwarn.
Zuruwarn
The God of Space and Creation, he's the one who brought the seven champions into the Lambda, and as such was close to all of them. He was severely injured during the war against the Demon King and entered a deep slumber until 100 years ago. He's the patron of inventors, artists and craftsmen.
- Attention Deficit... Oh, Shiny!: He changes topic very easily, as expected of a god who can manipulate space.
- Constantly Curious: His hobby was looking into different worlds and proposed all sorts of ideas to the other gods. He's also the one who came up with the application of Jobs and skills on Lambda.
- Multiple Head Case: Manifests as a grotesque four-headed lion.
- Pet the Dog: Invoked. He goes out of his way to help bring the Eighth Guidance to Lambda, give them his blessing and secure a blessing for Vandalieu so that he'll know Zuruwarn is an ally of Vida.
- Space Master: He's the god of space and creation. He's also the one who proposed and executed the summoning of Champions into Lambda.
- The Trickster: Described as trickster in personality, and can be considered whimsical as well.
- Those Two Guys: He and Ricklent get along well and their powers compliment each other, and are generally always seen together with each other.
Zantark
The War-God of Fire and Destruction, who chose Farmaun Gold as his champion. Creator of the Dwarves alongside Botin, he fused with two lesser Evil Gods after being greatly injured by the Demon King, losing a great part of his sanity. Struck down by his own champion and sealed within the Dark Continent. Recently the Storm of Tyranny and his former disciple Farmaun intend to awaken him.
- Dark Is Not Evil: His original domains were fire and destruction, but after fusing with two ominous sounding evil gods he lost his ability to rule over fire and is now only a god of destruction. Despite having lost some sanity as a result and finding it difficult to communicate intelligibly, he's still basically rational, forgiving towards Farmaun Gold and one of Vida's most solid allies.
- Destroyer Deity: While he lost his authority over fire, his control over destruction remains.
- Divine Parentage: Co-creator of the dwarves, and after fusing with two lesser gods, he gave birth to the Kijin and Majin races with Vida.
- Fusion Dance: Forcibly fused with two hostile Evil Gods, changing his nature and losing a great part of his sanity for tens of thousands of years. He eventually got better, but still can't communicate through normal means.
- Heroic Sacrifice: He was heavily wounded in battle and chose to go out doing everything he could rather than just fall into a slumber after getting damaged even more. He absorbed two Evil Gods to reduce the number of enemies and then lost his sanity as a result, going berserk. However, despite his expectations Guduranis just left the field at this point since he figured Zantark might damage his own side if left alone. As such, Zantark slowly recovered.
- Playing with Fire: God of Fire. After his sealing his champion Farmaun had to take his post.
- Rebuilt Pedestal: At first Farmaun was disappointed he fused with Evil Gods and lost his sanity, but after Bellwood is gone, he comes to understand the reasons of his patron for acting that way, returning to the side of Zantark.
- Scary Teeth: Because of the fusion his mouth is now full of sharp teeth.
- Starfish Language: His roars actually do appear to be some kind of language, but not only do they all sound the same to normal people, they also happen to be extremely dense in terms of conveyed information: A few sounds of roaring takes a good thirty seconds to translate with Farmaun Gold practically begging him to slow down.
- The Unintelligible: By fusing with two evil gods, he's no longer able to properly transmit his thoughts, requiring other gods to translate. After receiving his divine protection, Vandalieu becomes able to understand most of what he says.
- Un-person: He's mostly written out of the Alda/Vida conflict because one of the great gods siding with Vida against Alda would be bad PR, even if he's generally considered to be insane.
- Worf Had the Flu: While Farmaun Gold did hold him off during the war between Alda and Vids, Zantark was only a bit better than a berserker at the time and not fighting very well.
Peria
The Goddess of Water and Knowledge, who created the Elven race alongside Shizarion, and who chose Solder as her Champion. She was greatly injured by the Demon King, forcing her to enter a deep slumber to recover. While her subordinate Tristan joined Vida and created the Mer-people, her other subordinate Yupeon joined Alda's efforts in exterminating Vida's races.
- Our Founder: Co-Creator of the Elven race alongside Shizarion.
- Making a Splash: Goddess of water.
- Neutral No Longer: After being fully awakened, she grants Vandalieu the name of her champion Solder and fully joins Vida's side.
Botin
Mother of the Earth and Goddess of Craftmanship, she created the Dwarf race alongside Zantark. She chose Hillwillow as her champion, and like Peria, Ricklent and Zuruwarn, she fell in a deep slumber to heal her wounds from fighting the Demon King.
- Dishing Out Dirt: As mother of the earth, she has this power.
- Our Founder: Co-created the Dwarves alongside Zantark.
- The Blacksmith: Goddess of Craftmanship, meaning she also probably could do this.
- Neutral No Longer: After being fully awakened, she grants Vandalieu the name of her champion Hillwillow and fully joins Vida's side.
- Sealed Good in a Can: She was defeated and sealed by the original demon king, who after destroying Shizarion realized that killing one of the gods who controlled an attribute could cause serious instabilities to the entire planet of Lambda.
Shizarion
The God of Wind and Arts, who chose Nineroad as his champion. He was destroyed by the Demon King Guduranis, forcing his champion to take his place. He was the patron of artists and performers.
- Blow You Away: He was the God of Wind.
- Our Founder: Co-creator of the Elves alongside Peria.
- Minor Major Character: Of the Eleven high gods, very little is known about his personality.
- Posthumous Character: He's been dead for a hundred-thousand years.
Marduke
The Dragon Emperor God and creator of the Dragon race. He was killed by the Demon King Guduranis and his soul broken, forcing his subordinate Tiamat to lead the remaining dragons.
- Dragons Are Divine: He was the God of Dragons and his most powerful subordinates were lesser Gods.
- Minor Major Character: While his descendants the dragons continue to inhabit the world, very little is known about his appearance or personality.
- Posthumous Character: He's been dead for a hundred-thousand years.
Zerno
The Colossus God and creator of the Giants. He was killed by the Demon King Guduranis and his soul broken. While many of his Giants sided with the Demon King, his subordinate Talos the Sun Giant remained loyal, giving birth to the Titan race with Vida.
- Giant Equals Invincible: Subverted. He might have been the god of Giants, but his soul was broken nonetheless.
- Our Giants Are Bigger: He was the Colossi God, meaning he must have been gigantic.
- Minor Major Character: Much like Marduke, Shizarion and Ganpaplio, very little is known about him and his personality.
- Posthumous Character: He's been dead for a hundred-thousand years.
Ganpaplio
The Beast-King God and creator of all Lambda's animals. He was the first of the eleven high gods to fall in the fight against the Demon King. While his subordinate the boar beast-king joined the Demon King, and gave birth to the Orc race, several of his beast kings remained on Lambda's side. Those beast kings would become the ancestors of the Beast-People, Centaurs and Harpies with Vida.
- Minor Major Character: While he created all animal species that inhabit the world, very little is known about his appearance or personality.
- Posthumous Character: He's been dead for a hundred-thousand years.
- Sacrificial Lion: The first of Lambda gods who fell, which showed the other gods the threat the Demon King represented.
Vida's faction
Gufadgarn
True Form
The Evil God of Labyrinths and creator of the Trial of Zakkart. After Vandalieu succeeds in clearing its dungeon, it transfers its devotion from Zakkart to his successor, using a homunculus to be able to directly serve Van.- A Form You Are Comfortable With: The body Vandalieu meets first is just a vessel built to not hurt when you look at it. It still has an overwhelming presence, so it built another vessel that looks like a beautiful elf girl. The other characters default to considering it female as a result, though in truth it has no gender.
- Alien Geometries: Gufadgarn is a living example of this, being apparently an arachnid looking thing made of kaleidoscopic, crystalline shapes that cannot actually exist, such as regular heptahedrons aka seven sided polyhedrons. Zakkart just gave up in trying to describe it, asking Gufadgarn to take a form that was not a headache to look at.
- Did Not Think This Through: When told it could have used its powers as a god to help Zakkart find a beautiful girl instead of becoming one, it realizes it hadn't thought about that when creating the vessel at all.
- Emotionless Girl: Its elven disguise is even more emotionless than Vandalieu, but is still capable of body reactions, like Tears of Joy.
- Extreme Doormat: It was born of a race that has no mind, only instincts and an inherent ability to make traps and use space magic. Over time it simply grew more powerful and became a god, at which point it gained intelligence and lost its instincts. With no actual people or followers to interact with and lead, no experience to make use of its intelligence and no remaining instincts to guide its behavior, it simply quietly followed Guduranis' commands until Zakkart spoke to it and offered it a chance to make something of itself.
- The Farmer and the Viper: It regrets letting Heinz's party leave the Trial of Zakkart (mostly) alive after they traumatize Van a second time. It feels its mercy was wasted on people who will never change, though at the same time acknowledging that Heinz's party doesn't even know about it or that the Trial of Zakkart had a GM.
- Full-Body Disguise: Its vessel is actually a customized monster with a [Mimic] skill that makes it look like an elf.
- Hero-Worshipper: Towards Zakkart, and that devotion quickly shifts to Vandalieu. Van himself questions what a god is doing worshiping a mortal but eventually shrugs and forgets about it.
- Humanoid Abomination: Made itself a homunculus body in the form of a young elf in order to follow Zakkart around and, after beating their dungeon, Vandalieu. It can still split the space within its body in two though, opening her vessel up like a book and revealing the true arachnid looking creature made of Alien Geometries inside.
- Killer GM: The Trial of Zakkart is not meant to be fatal... unless you're too stupid to understand that a place named after Zakkart is probably meant to test your devotion to Zakkart's ideals. Acting like Bellwood makes the place far more dangerous and implicitly disables the safety system that teleports you out if dangerously wounded. That being said, Gufadgarn is fair: If a follower of Alda cleared the entire place with brute force and made it to the end, it would have acknowledged them as worthy and attempted to give them a chance to change their minds about the hero they followed, assuming the challenger neither attacked them nor tried to destroy Zakkart's relics. After all, Zakkart was also open minded enough to ask the Evil Gods to change sides.
- Loony Fan: Even Zakkart was somewhat put off by Gufadgarn's complete obsession with him, which included things like just sitting there and watching Zakkart while he slept.
- Mystical White Hair: Its elven girl form has long silver hair and Supernatural Gold Eyes.
- No Biological Sex: Comes from a species without gender. The first convenient form it takes is a genderless golem. It later takes the form of a young elven girl, but this is more like a suit Gufadgarn puts on than anything like a real body or even shape shifting.
- Space Master: Is a god of the space attribute, capable of opening portals, teleporting people or even entire locations wherever it pleases, creating areas that are Bigger on the Inside, and other abilities related to warping and traveling through space.
- Stalker without a Crush: Worships Van and is constantly following him around in a pocket of subspace it created just behind him, and will pop out of a portal whenever he mentions it. Though due to being followed around by ghosts all the time anyway thanks to his [Death-Attribute Charm] line of skills, Van himself doesn't find it particularly off-putting, even if other people often do.
- Subordinate Excuse: It joined with Vida because it adored Zakkart, the first person to give it a sense of worth. It also loved how crafty Zakkart was. After Zakkart's death it became directionless and remained nominally allied with Vida's faction, but simply slept and waited for the return of its master.
- Take That!: Created one towards Bellwood's followers who entered its Trial of Zakkart.
- Took a Level in Badass: A hundred thousand years ago it was no one special, just a spidery sort of Eldritch Abomination. However, being the god of dungeons means that all adventurers who journey inside a dungeon can be considered its worshipers and every curse they utter can be considered a prayer. Thus, it's now about a mid level deity.
Fidirg
The Dragon God of Five Sins, he's a lesser Evil God who defected from the Demon King's side and joined Vida's faction. After Vandalieu expels Luvesfol, the Raging Evil Dragon God from his territory, he becomes once more the patron of the Lizardmen within the marshlands near Talosheim.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Apologizes and begs for his life to Vandalieu after releasing a large amount of power that lightly damages Darcia.
- Eldritch Abomination: Looks like a giant hand whose fingers were replaced by one-eyed snakes. He's also an alien enough existence that normal mortals from lambda looking at him in his divine realm can cause serious Brown Note effects.
- Ethnic God: Before meeting Van, his only worshipers were the lizardmen he created, but thanks to Van putting a statue of his at Talosheim, his worshiping becomes more widespread.
- Guardian Entity: Of the Lizardmen.
- Heel–Face Turn: Thanks to Zakkart's convincing him to defect from the Demon King, he joined Vida's faction.
- Oh, Crap!: After the seal on him is broken he accidentally injures Darcia lightly in his joy at being freed. He's horrified and immediately begins begging Van for mercy because even at full power he probably wouldn't be able to win a fight between them let alone his weakened state.
Merrebeveil
Formerly the Evil God of Slime and Tentacles, she remade herself as the Heroic Goddess of the Scylla at the suggestion of one of her believers thousands of years ago so her followers wouldn't be persecuted for worshiping an Evil God.
Van considers her very polite and courteous to a 'mere mortal' such as himself, but he doesn't realize that she finds him terrifying.
- Bishōnen Line: Her current form is because she changed her nature from an Evil God to a heroic God so the Scylla people were not persecuted by the other races.
- Eldritch Abomination: Looks like a mass of tentacle modeled to look like a woman. She used to be just writhing tentacles, but altering her divinity made her appear more like her Scylla children because the official story is that she used to be a Scylla.
- Ethnic God: Similarly to Fidirg, her only worshipers were the Scylla, but thanks to Van her worshiping has become better known.
- Guardian Entity: Of her daughters the Scylla race. In order to protect them better she even changed her divine classification, which is a process comparable to highly invasive and painful surgery with no guarantee of survival.
- No Biological Sex: Technically speaking, she isn't female. She's a tentacle monster that could be considered both genders. However, after having become a heroic god instead of an evil god her appearance shifted to be more like her followers, meaning she at least looks female so long as you don't mind that she's really a bundle of tentacles shaped roughly like a Scylla.
- Punch-Clock Villain: Formerly. Her values were never opposed to Vida's to begin with, so Zakkart offering her and the other gods a chance to change sides was an easy decision for her. She was apparently only hostile because she feared Guduranis and didn't think Lambda would accept her.
- Tentacled Terror: She's a god of tentacles and considered an enemy of the world by the dominant religion, but this basically boils down to racism on their part: Merrebeveil is noted to be quite polite and to have values similar to those of Vida. But like many of Vida's persecuted children, people would likely be hostile to her on sight based simply upon her alarming appearance.
Mububujenge
Evil God of Degenerate Corpulence and the patron of the Noble Orc Empire. She became protector of the orcs after the defeat of the boar beast-king (who had defected to the Demon King's army), and joined Vida's side after being convinced by Zakkart she could laze around all she wanted.
- Adipose Rex: Lazes around all day, and looks quite bloated.
- Eldritch Abomination: Looks like a bloated figure with a beautiful mouth to talk, but with a body covered by tumors and body parts.
- Guardian Entity: Of the Noble Orc Empire and all the orcs that inhabit it.
- Heel–Face Turn: Accepted Zakkart's invitation to join Vida because she could laze around all she wanted.
- Laborious Laziness: Wants nothing more than to laze around and do nothing, but she still gave the Orcs under her protection flesh-wives so they didn't lost themselves to lust for other races.
- Odd Job God: She represents degenerate corpulence.
- Sloth: She tends to do as little as possible. It's even why she was able to switch sides to begin with: Her complete moral apathy meant that unlike many evil gods she felt no moral repulsion for Vida's ideals.
Zanalpadna
The Evil God of Carapaces and Compound Eyes. Once two separate Evil Gods that defected from the Demon King's army, after being injured in battle they were combined into a new deity that would give birth to the Arachne and Empusa races with Vida, to whom they patron alongside other Gods from Vida's faction.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Created the Arachne and Empusa. It looks like a giant insect with a carapace divided in two different colors, covered in compound eyes and a voice that sounds like the creaking of a carapace.
- Fusion Dance: Evil God of Carapaces Zanal and Evil God of Compound Eyes Padna fused into a new type of God.
- Guardian Entity: Of the nation that carries their name, Zanalpadna.
- Our Founder: The progenitor of the Arachne and Empusa races.
Zozogante
The Evil God of the Dark Forest and patron of the Ghoul Nation. After Borkus clears his Dungeon, he grants Eisen (and Van by extension) his divine protection.
- Eldritch Abomination: Looks like a huge black tree with eyeballs hanging as fruit and numerous mouths that look like rips in the tree's trunk.
- Guardian Entity: Of the Ghouls living within the Boundary Mountain range.
- Odd Job God: Evil God of the Dark Forest.
- Wise Tree: Despite its grotesque appearance, he's a God who genuinely cares about the Ghouls under its protection.
Garess
The God of Warriors and patron of the Kijin nation, he's a subordinate god of Zantark that fused with a lesser Evil God.
- Brutal Honesty: Because Kijin tend to be inclined towards being Dumb Muscle, he stopped giving philosophical teachings and bluntly told the Kijin what he meant, otherwise the message wouldn't reach them.
- Fusion Dance: Fused with a lesser Evil God, making the lower portion of his body grotesque in appearance.
- Guardian Entity: Of the Kijin Nation.
- Surrounded by Idiots: While he truly cares about the Kijin under his protection, he's rather annoyed they are such muscle heads, they forced him to modify his behavior as a god to convene his divine messages.
- War God: Like Xerx the God of Battle Flags, Garess is a warrior deity.
- Warrior Poet: Back when he was a regular warrior god, he was able to give deeper and even philosophical teachings about fighting, but since it got over the Kijin's heads more often than not, he now has to be very blunt in his divine messages.
Tristan
The God of the Seas. Once the right hand of Peria the Goddess of Water, he gave birth to the Mer-People with Vida. While meeting Vandalieu he asks that if gods of Alda's faction were to surrender, Van could spare some of them for the sake of the world.
- Arch-Enemy: Gyubarzo, the Evil God of the Dark Seas, is his mortal enemy, and its creation the Gillmen are Mer-People's worst enemies.
- Divine Parentage: Gave birth to the Mer-People with Vida.
- Guardian Entity: Of his children the Mer-People.
- Lord of the Ocean: As god of the Sea, he's probably the strongest water god remaining in Lambda after Peria.
- Number Two: Served as right hand of Peria, the Goddess of Water and Knowledge.
- Pragmatic Hero: Asks Van to spare some of Alda's gods if he's able to, not precisely out of sympathy, but in order to ensure the balance of the world isn't altered any further.
Rishare
The God of the Hunt and patron of the High Kobold Nation. Originally a familiar spirit of Vida, he volunteered to rule over hunting since no other god felt comfortable doing it. He protects the High Kobolds since the Evil God that created them was sealed 100,000 years ago and there was nobody else.
- Being God Is Hard: Because hunting required mediation between both human races and the Beast-kings so the balance between them was properly held, his job is considered pretty hard, but he took it regardless.
- Guardian Entity: Of the High Kobolds. He took the job because without a major god protecting the nation, the Kobolds would have never been able to develop their own culture.
- No Biological Sex: Doesn't have a defined gender, and appears as either male or female depending on its mood.
Farmaun Gold
Heroic God of Fire and former champion of the God of War Zantark, who fell for Bellwood's sweet words and empty goals and fought against his former patron in the conflict between Alda and Vida. After Bellwood was struck down he began to question his actions for the first time in thousands of years, returning to Zantark's side and helping Schneider and the other gods on Vida's faction to suppress the remnants of the Devil King's army.
- The Atoner: Wants to make amends for betraying Zantark by siding with Bellwood and Alda over Vida.
- Can't Kill You, Still Need You: When asked if Alda wouldn't remove his authority over fire for siding with Vida, Farmaun answers Alda is so undermanned he has no choice but to let him and his subordinates keep their divinities.
- Dumb Muscle: Wasn't that bright when he was human, but he finally started to think on his own when Bellwood was sealed.
- Forgiven, but Not Forgotten: After apologizing to Vandalieu for his past actions, the other gods of Vida's faction reluctantly agree to forgive him and work together, without letting him forget what he did in the war 100,000 years ago.
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: A possible reason the other gods are reluctant to trust him. Bellwood returning could potentially cause this since he is/was vulnerable to Bellwood's Guidance.
- Heel–Face Turn: Returns to Vida's faction after realizing Bellwood and Alda's barely thought out plans were just leading to Medieval Stasis and a Forever War.Farmaun: We were taking three steps forward, then four steps back.
- Our Founder: Of the Adventurer's Guild.
- Playing with Fire: Took over as god of fire since Zantark's defeat and weakening.
- Reformed, but Rejected: The other gods of Vida's faction don't like him even if he has switched to their side because of his past actions, seeing the current situation as an Enemy Mine at best.
- Ungrateful Bastard: This is how the Evil Gods of Vida's faction feel about him, since he betrayed the god for whom made him a champion in the first place.
Veld
Originally a Dhampir mercenary king who dethroned a country ruled by Vampires opposing Vida, after death he became a demi-Heroic god serving the goddess of Life and Love. After Vandalieu arrives and releases Vida, he becomes the teacher of Darcia while her body is being remade.
- Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: Not at first since Vida was too weak to fully ascend him when he died, but after Van releases Vida, he finally becomes an Heroic God.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: Downplayed but he still puts Darcia through a fierce mental training to make her more powerful when she's reborn.
- Nice Guy: He might be rather foul-mouthed because of his background as a mercenary, but he's quite friendly to Van and Darcia and is completely loyal towards Vida.
- Shared Unusual Trait: Like all Dhampirs, he has eyes of different colors.
Deeana
The Moon Giant and twin sister of Talos the Sun Giant, who greets Vandalieu and his group when they arrive to the Dark Continent.
- Giant Woman: She's a Colossus, and an awe inspiring beauty.
- Long-Lost Relative: In a way. Because the Titans are descendants of her twin brother Talos, she sees Titans as her nieces and nephews.
- Our Giants Are Bigger: She's a true Colossus and a child of their creator Zerno, as such she's so big she can hold Van and his entire group in her hands with room to spare.
- One-Steve Limit: Her name is based on the Greek Goddess of the moon, but as there was already Diana from the Five-Colored Blades, her name was changed to Deeana / Deanna instead.
- Solar and Lunar: She represents the moon to her brother's sun.
- So Proud of You: Even though they just met, she expresses pride in the growing power of Levia, who is approaching her brother Talos in greatness.
Tiamat
The Mountain Queen Elder Dragon God and creator of the Drakonid race with Vida. After the death of Marduke the Dragon Emperor, she became leader of the remaining Elder Dragons.
- Bizarre Alien Reproduction: She somehow gave birth to Bakunawa, Van's first son, by eating one of Marduke's bone bathed in Van's blood. Even Van of all people was weirded out.
- Draconic Humanoid: Looks a lot like her descendants the Drakonids, only the size of a mountain and with a snake-like lower half.
- Homosexual Reproduction: Mainly because they're both Gods, she gave birth to the Drakonid race with the also female Vida.
- Really Gets Around: She's had many spouses throughout the millenia, and given birth to several dragons and dragon-like beings. She even proposes to Van if they can make a new race. Apparently it is considered a great honor to be chosen as her consort.
- Snake People: Her upper half looks like a woman with dragon wings, while her lower half looks like a dragon or snake tail.
- You Are in Command Now: Became the leader of the remaining Elder Dragons after the death of Marduke.
Talos
The Sun Giant and twin brother of Deeana. Talosheim was founded within his resting grounds, and after thousands of years of slumber, he finally awakens as Vida's faction regains power.
- Divine Parentage: Gave birth to the Titan race with Vida.
- Humble Hero: He's so humble he actually asks the Titans if they could change the name of the land of Talosheim to something related to Vandalieu, who he feels has done far more for his children than he ever could. The Titans eventually agree to ask Van if he wants to change the name of the land, while keeping Talosheim's name for the city.
- Minor Major Character: While his name and influence in the world was known since early in the story, he only truly awakens and manifests in person in chapter 196 of the webnovel. He actually acknowledges that he has done little for his children thanks to being dormant for thousands of years.
- Our Giants Are Bigger: He's a true Colossus, created by Zerno the Colossus god.
- Power of the Sun: As the Sun Giant, he has always being associated with heat and the sun.
- Scars Are Forever: The marks on his neck made by Nineroad's whip remain even after 100,000 years of slow healing.
- You Are in Command Now: After the death of Zerno, he became the leader of the Colossus that remained loyal to Vida.
Borgadon
The God of Mountains. Once a Familiar Spirit serving Botin, after being grievously wounded during the war with the Demon King, he sealed himself alongside Forzajibal, Evil God of Pillaging and Zerzoregin, Evil God of Cannibalism. He ended up being consumed by the god of Cannibalism, being completely powerless for 100,000 years until he was finally freed by Vandalieu.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Joins Vida's faction due to Van rescuing him from the Evil God that had impersonated him for thousands of years.
- Dishing Out Dirt: He's the god of mountains, and he collapsed a mountain on top of two Evil Gods.
- No Biological Sex: While considered a male god, Borgadon doesn't actually have a gender. In fact, it isn't even really humanoid.
- Not Quite Dead: Despite being absorbed by Zerzoregin and left powerless for thousands of years, Van finds his consciousness still alive after he eats Zerzoregin.
Alda's faction
Bellwood
The Champion chosen by Alda and leader of the battle oriented champions. Originally named Suzuki Shouhei before deciding that the champions should change their names to ones who fitted more with Lambda. Throughout the story it is discovered that many of the current problems stem from his ideologies and problems his followers caused. Was sealed away with the Evil God of Sinful Chains after being effectively defeated by his psychological attacks who made him confront all the sins he committed for the last fifty thousand years in the name of his justice. After being convinced by Heinz, he decides to lend him his power but refuses to do anything else.
- Can't Take Criticism: While he said things like discussing problems to understand each other, when people argued, he simply ignored their complaints or interrupted their points.
- While showing his memories to Heinz, he explains that this came for his refusal to compromise, since he hated the many adults who gave up on their own ideals under the premise of taking compromise.
- Clueless Chick-Magnet: He was quite popular with women back when he was human but barely noticed it, something that occasionally made Zakkart jealous.
- Founder of the Kingdom: Originally helped construct a small city in the continent of Bahn Gaia with his family and followers to keep an eye on the Boundary Mountain Range recently erected by Vida. This city would eventually become the Amid Empire.
- Hypocrite: He didn't seem to follow the things he preached, sometimes even going against his words as if he didn't even recognize saying it before or even admitting he was wrong.
- Knight Templar: During his time as a Champion and Heroic God, he absolutely refused to take any compromise with his ideals, since he thought that was just giving up on them. This led constant fights with Zakkart, who asked him compromise a little more in the name of pragmatism.
- Manipulative Bastard: While he was a charming leader who always stood at the front, his words were merely what his followers wanted to hear and didn't have any long-term goals afterwards.
- Lampshaded by his [Guidance] skill. Originally he thought it was the purest form of the skill, hence having no other word, but later came to the realization that it just means that he Guided people without a clear goal or ideology, essentially being a mindless mob that just did what he asked.
- Medieval Stasis: Believed progress, any progress, other than magical progress, was evil for the environment, so he forbade any major technological advancement or products that might have been created, or inspired for that matter, by Zakkart.
- My Greatest Failure: How he sees most of the decisions he took during and after the Demon King War, commenting how many of the things he did were out of stubborn desire to not compromise "like adults who gave up on their ideals" and feed his belief he was a "perfect hero". He even admits that the main reason he wanted the races of Vida dead was something as petty as him just finding them ugly.
- Mutual Kill: After being struck by the Evil God of Sinful Chains' mind attack and being made to confront all the suffering he’d inflicted upon countless others, he willingly remains sealed away with the Evil God (who Alda sealed with his stakes of law in retaliation), thinking the world is far better off without him.
- Nature Lover: To an astoundingly unhealthy degree. Not only was he an eco-terrorist back on earth, in Lambda, he opposed any and all tech advantages from Earth during the war with the demon king if they either a.) might cause some kind of ecological imbalance in their use, or b.) didn't line up with his free-range wildlife aesthetic. Though he loved Earth foods, he hated the animal and plant husbandry tech required to make it.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Because he was fiercely opposed to Zakkart's plan to use a very powerful, but problematic weapon from Earth, (presumably a nuke) to deal with Demon King Gurudinis' anti-weapon and anti-magic barriers, despite the fact that the entire continent the demon king was using as his base was already contaminated beyond repair, the demon king not only killed Zakkart, and three other champions, broke their souls, but the war lasted much, much longer than it should have, nine of the eleven high gods of the world were put out of commission, and the contamination from the demon king's very existence spread even further in the world, creating the very "devil's nests" that still plague the planet, over 100,000 years later.
- The Penance: While he could leave the seal if he put an effort to it, he refused out of his desire to not cause further problems to the world and increment the sins he has committed.
- Pride: Arguably his Fatal Flaw. He was so enamored with the idea of being the "perfect hero" who lived up to his ideals, he proudly refused to budge on practically everything that didn't fit with his ideals, believing his methods were the best (and only) to save the world from the Demon King.
- Skewed Priorities: He acted as if protecting the environment from human pollution was more important than saving the world from the Demon King (who had already corrupted an entire continent with its magic) and was more concerned with creating an idyllic tech-free world, which almost came at the cost of the lives of everyone.
- We Used to Be Friends: He and Zakkart were once close companions, until disagreements over the course of the world made them part ways.
Curatos
- Believing Their Own Lies: He's firmly convinced that Vandalieu is as evil as Ternecia and Gubamon and to 'prove' it to Heinz's party he makes copies of the three of them to fight them. At the same time, he modifies the copy Vandalieu to fight in ways that Van would not, such as ignoring friendly fire or using his disease based abilities.
- Co-Dragons: Alongside Niltark the God of Judgement, he's Alda's closest and most loyal servant.
- Harbinger of Impending Doom: How Alda sees it when he brings news that someone has the ability to destroy souls.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: His power over records makes him capable of recreating anything there are memories of. This includes monsters, Evil Gods, Vandalieu and his followers and even S-Class adventurers. While they can't actually hurt anyone outside of extremely limited situations and even then perhaps not permanently, they make for very good training and combat experience.
- Heroic Sacrifice: More or less, given that he genuinely believed he was doing the right thing: After Van attacks and stomps Heinz's party, he uses all his strength and focus to save their lives at expense of his own. He could have used his limited time to save himself, most likely, but used it up for others instead.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: His only ability is to make copies of things he has on record, an ability that, despite appearances, has no real combat potential. Instead, he uses it to help Heinz's party train against Van and his allies. However, the real Van resonates with his copy, eventually taking it over. The copy then defeats Heinz's party including inflicting damage to Edgar's soul, destroys most of the dungeon that hadn't already been cleared and devours Curatos himself.
- It's Probably Nothing: When he notices the memory Van created to train the Five-Colored Blades did an action he didn't program, he thinks nothing of it, not realizing he has unknowingly connected Van's dreams with the memories, allowing Vandalieu to see the progress of Heinz and the others.
- I Warned You: When Heinz and party refused to flee when given the chance, stating that they had some kind of plan to stop Vandalieu in the dungeon, Curatos warns them that if he thinks they're in peril, he will intervene, immediately, in the way he sees fit, no matter how much they will resent him afterwards. Curatos does indeed intervene in the worst possible way, not only destroying their credibility, but permanently alienating Vandalieu, and Vida's races, making Heinz's stated goal abjectly impossible. Too late, he realizes what a fatal blunder this was.
- Manipulative Bastard: He places a fake Vandalieu inside the Trial of Bellwood and has it fight Heinz alongside Gubamon and Ternecia, which is wildly out of character. It also fights much more brutally than the real person. He's trying to show Heinz that Van is just as evil as the other two, completely ignoring that if he has to make up things about Van then he's basically just a liar.
- He puts Vandalieu and his followers on the same side as the Amid Empire's "Evil slaying swords" despite knowing they were enemies. He pretty much soils himself when the real Vandalieu shows up and calls them all fakes!
- Meaningful Name: Curator -> Curatos, a god of record keeping.
- Moral Myopia: He loudly proclaims and wishes to "expose Van's wickedness" to Heinz in The Trial of Bellwood dungeon, by making a Van "sock-puppet" and displaying Van's actions in the conflict between Mirg Shield Nation and Talosheim. He never stops to ponder the implications that would result from the question of "if Van is wicked for defending Talosheim, what does that say about Mirg Shield Nation who climbed over a mountain, happily looking forward to killing every last man, woman, and child? On the orders of Vampires serving EVIL GODS?"
- Moral Sociopathy: His internal narration in chapters 200-202 proclaims that before his ascension, he was truly sociopathic, in the clinical sense. He could feel absolutely no emotion, could not empathize with others, and truly could not comprehend how his actions were harmful. He believed he was doing the right thing only because Alda told him he was doing the right thing and kept going as Alda's direct subordinate. This all came to a screeching end when Van got dragged into his dungeon and ripped the facade of "righteousness" of Heinz's training, revealing that everything is fake, at best.
- My Master, Right or Wrong: Firmly on Alda's side, no matter what the latter does.
- Odd Job God: He's the god of records, meaning he's in charge of administrating practically all the memories and history seen through the eyes of Alda's believers.
- Oh, Crap!: When he realizes he can't control Van's sock puppet and isn't acting according to program, and he can't shut it off.
- This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: His power to create a Dungeon full of recreations of past beings is useful to train Heinz and his party, but it has almost no practical use outside of it.
- Tragic Mistake: His Darcia copy ploy is this in hindsight as it rescued Heinz from Van but it also destroys Heinz's credibility, turns him into the Arch-Enemy of Vida and makes his mission pointless, and destroys all hope for peaceful coexistence between Heinz and Van.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In chapter 202. Used a copy of Darcia to cause Van to hesitate and create an opening for Heinz to deliver a crippling blow. When he sees Van bind Heinz, he expected a suicide attack, the flame cage, and cast sufficient healing and protective spells to defend Heinz. When he sees a second Van show up, preparing the Hollow Cannon, which can destroy dungeon floors, he realizes he made a fatal mistake. The worst part is that his meddling has completely destroyed Heinz's credibility, and any hope of peaceful coexistence between Heinz and Van.
- Won the War, Lost the Peace: Although it was Pyrrhic Victory. While his Darcia copy ploy was instrumental in rescuing Heinz and party from Van's righteous rage, it destroyed Heinz's credibility and made him the Arch-Enemy of Vida, destroying any hope of peaceful coexistence, not to mention openly crushing any chance of lessening tensions between Alda's followers and Vida's races.
- Written by the Winners: Since he is in charge of writing the historical records, and is firmly in Alda's camp, he wrote the conflict between Vida and Alda as Alda having the moral high ground.
Nineroad
Formerly the champion of Shizarion, and the Goddess of Wind after the latter's death. While she sided with the other combat-oriented champions against the creation-oriented champions, thousands of years have made her doubt if she took the right decision. She's also one of the few gods of her faction that believe there's a chance of reconciliation.
- The Beastmaster: She created the Tamer Job (although Insects, plants and Undead remained untamable).
- Blow You Away: Goddess of Wind.
- The Champion: What she was in life for Shizarion.
- Didn't Think This Through: While proposing to Alda that Vida's races should be accepted into Rodcorte's transmigration cycle was said with good intentions, that would mean Alda has to kill Vidanote and completely destroy all races descending from Evil Gods or monster races so the remaining ones could be added to Rodcorte's cycle.
- I've Come Too Far: She already realized 50,000 years ago the world Alda and Bellwood built is fundamentally broken, but she won't change sides because she thinks she doesn't have that right after willingly supporting their Crapsack World for the 50,000 years before that.
- It's All My Fault: In the aftermath of Fitun's hair-brained schemes, she comes forward and begs Alda to seal her away with the [Stakes of Law] authority for making Fitun a subordinate god in the first place. Alda refuses.
- Suicide by Cop: She saves Heinz and the Blades at the end of volume 14 and supports Alda's holy war in volume 15, because she wants the civil war between the Alda and Vida factions to be over in days instead of centuries to minimize the damage to Lambda, and believes one side being wiped out is the only way. She's also almost certain it will be her side. When Van offers her an out, she even tells him to not hold back.
- Take Up My Sword: Became Goddess of Wind and Art after the death of Shizarion.
- Token Good Teammate: The only member of Alda's faction that actually believes there's hope for reconciliation between factions.
- Whip of Dominance: She wielded a whip when she was human, fitting for a tamer.
Yupeon
The God of Ice and a subordinate God of Peria, the Goddess of Water and Knowledge. He sided with Alda over Vida and a Spirit Clone of his dwelt within the Legendary Artifact Ice-Age, until it was destroyed by Vandalieu for threatening him and his friends.
- An Ice Person: God of Ice.
- Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: When Vandalieu has "Ice Age" in hand, he, through the spear, makes all sorts of racist gloating and taunts against the dhampir, making clear that peaceful co-existence is impossible, and then laughs outright after noting that Vida's reincarnation device was shattered by his powers, boasting that Van's dream of reviving his mother will never come to pass. He then has the nerve to be shocked that Van would attack and destroy "Ice Age," incredulous that Van would "dare to make an enemy of a god!"
- Fantastic Racism: Even worse than Alda. While Alda calls Vida "foolish, mistaken, or simply wrong" and her reincarnation system must be destroyed for what he perceives as "flaws," Yupeon straight up calls Vida "disgusting and evil" deserving of nothing but having her existence completely eliminated, so that nothing of her, her words, deeds, or her children remain in the world. Vandalieu has issues with all of it, and doesn't hesitate to make that clear.
- Kill the God: While only a clone, Vandalieu killed Ice-Age's soul, which basically makes him one, and he's just the first on an increasingly larger list of Familiar Spirits and Spirit Clones destroyed by Vandalieu.
- Knight Templar: Ice-Age (who happened to be a clone of sorts of the God) was a raging fanatic.
- Too Dumb to Live: Ice-Age, an avatar of his, loudly threatened Van by saying he would always be hostile towards him and even breaking the spear would just cause its soul to return to Yupeon. Deciding that this meant there was no room for negotiation, Van promptly broke the soul inside the spear.
- Undying Loyalty: Ice-Age towards Mikhail.
Fitun
- Asshole Victim: Nobody mourns this lout after his little stunt. In fact, Alda's entire faction universally condemns him, especially Alda himself, of all gods.
- Assimilation Backfire: To his annoyance, he didn't just gain Hajime's Marionette ability and knowledge of biology, he also picked up Hajime's Trauma Button. When he's in the near vicinity of Hajime's killers, he goes into a panic attack and can't think straight.
- Blood Knight: Wants to find a worthy foe capable of killing him, not because he wants to die, but to relish in the challenge.
- Card-Carrying Villain: He and his "heroic spirits" faction openly brag about their plan to use a monster stampede from Fitun's personal dungeon to destroy the city of Morksi and utterly slaughter all the innocent men, women, and children within, just to spite Vandalieu. When they find that Vandalieu's faction has managed to thwart the bloodshed, they explode with rage and attempt to attack the city themselves, annoyed that Vandalieu's agents have managed to hold them off.
- Death of Personality: He becomes able to do this after turning Hajime Inui into his vessel thanks to Inui's knowledge about braincells using Marionette's ability in conjunction with his natural lightning abilities to override a person's soul and mind and turn them into vessels for his followers.
- Did Not See That Coming: Thought that he had found a way to beat Vandalieu by reading the electrical impulses of his brain, not knowing Van has been able to think without a brain for years, making his initial advantage useless.
- Entertainingly Wrong: When he's hit by Van's [Curse of Consequences], where he feels the pain of his victims, he goes full-tilt Combat Sado Masochist because he believes the pain he's feeling is caused by his followers harming Van's subordinates. In truth, the pain he's feeling is the pain of the people he lobotomized so he could shove his "Heroic Spirits" into a mortal shell. In short, he believed he and his ilk were handing out a Curbstomp Battle while he was actually on the receiving end.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Very few of them, but there is one thing that Van does that makes him flinch: While he has basically no compassion in him, watching Van devour his defeated subordinates right in front of him mid conversation is a bit much even for Fitun.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Specifically averted. He knows for sure that Van has values and standards that he himself does not share, but can exploit for tactical advantage, even though it doesn't really make any sense to him. However, Hajime is too much of a fool and coward to believe it and destroys Fitun's last chance at victory as a result.
- Fusion Dance: After turning Hajime's body into a perfect vessel for himself, they have essentially become a new being with a new name, Hajime Fitun.
- Genre Savvy: He knows the Sorting Algorithm of Evil is stupid: Rather than wasting time raising up heroes and so on he thinks it would be a much better idea to just have some gods manifest in person on the surface and gib Vandalieu before he becomes a real threat. But this is against his own interests, so he doesn't say it because there's a tiny chance his tactical advice would actually be taken.
- Jerkass Has a Point: After the battle, Nineroad muses that from the standpoint of a human being Fitun's actions are, if not commendable, at least understandable and arguably worth the sacrifices. His plan killed thirty innocentish people and would have wiped out a city, but would have eliminated the Demon King had it succeeded. The problem is that he is a god, not a human, which are meant to be an example for people to live by. Not only that, but his teachings don't even include anything like willing self sacrifice, let alone him just straight up body snatching his followers to use as his minions. This deeply undermines the idea that people should worship the gods when the gods might pull this kind of stunt.
- Kick The Son Of A Bitch: While he's morally not much better, overwriting Hajime's mind and soul to use his body as vessel won't elate much pity, since Inui was a coward and a Serial Rapist. Doing the same to the Flame Blades and Gordon isn't much worse given their treachery and abusive behavior though they aren't indicated to have had their souls eaten like Hajime's was.
- I Need You Stronger: He runs interference in Alda's Faction because he wants Vandalieu to grow stronger to be capable of killing him, just because he's bored and has not battled any strong opponents in a long time.
- Manipulative Bastard: He's very good at taking advantage of Alda's naivety to ensure he gets a worthy challenge when he faces Vandalieu.
- He also takes advantage of Hajime's insecurity and feelings of inadequacy to turn him into his vessel.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: He's too much of a Blood Knight to care, but his attack on Morksi with a monster stampede from his personal dungeon gave Darcia, Zadiris, and Basdia the perfect stage to show the world that Ghouls aren't simply mindless (mutant undead) monsters when the three of them come to the defense of the city, saving countless innocent lives, and serving to give Alda's faction a major PR headache.
- Retired Monster: He was just a sociopathic mercenary who happened to have a lot of talent to go along with his bloodlust, but it wasn't immediately obvious when watching his behavior. So down comes Alda to make him a war god of the wind attribute and... there's no one to fight, so he's forced to mellow out and play along with the team. However, the moment an actual potential threat appears, he instantly jumps into action.
- Shock and Awe: He's the God of Thunderclouds, so it comes with the territory.
- Sociopathic Hero: What he used to be when he was alive. He would charge fearlessly against incredible odds to protect the weak and innocent, not because he wanted to protect them, but because that's where he could find the most enjoyable fights to the death.
- Taking You with Me: In an unorthodox way, he prevents Murakami and Hazamada from escaping fighting Vandalieu by killing themselves using his electrical powers and Hajime's [Marionette] to forcefully keep their souls in their bodies and tying their electrical impulses to his, so if he dies they all die as well. It ends up costing them dearly.
- Token Evil Teammate: While Alda's side is not exactly spotlessly moral or open minded, they are all trying to do the right thing and stand by their beliefs with strong implications that Bellwood drove them towards extremism. However, all Fitun cares about is having a good fight with no concern for the possible dangers to anyone else. He's manipulative, dishonest and slowly destroying the mind of Inui Hajime so he can serve as Fitun's vessel, much like how Ravovifard usurped Bugitas' mind.
- Undignified Death: He, a god who craved to go out in a glorious battle to the death, ends up dying when his host regains control, and tries to flee like a coward and then begging for mercy, all while he's unable to do anything but stand there as both their souls are devoured by Van.
- Villainous Virtues: You can say a lot about him, but not that he's a coward or unwilling to put himself in danger. He even willingly fights at a disadvantage by virtue of him and his men being only decently equipped and inside bodies that cannot display their full strength. He actually relishes the challenge.
- Virtue Is Weakness: When asked by one of his familiar spirits, he pointedly condemns the rest of Alda's faction for refusing to treat their followers like consumables, abusing [Familiar Spirit Descent] to displace and destroy the souls of said believers and giving the spirit a body to walk the earth again. The narration points out that he has more in common with the truly evil gods and their ilk than he does with any of the Lambda native pantheon.
- Was Once a Man: He's a former hero that became a God thousands of years ago.
- Worthy Opponent: He thinks he has found one in Vandalieu.
Niltark
The God of Judgement and one of Alda's closest subordinate gods.
- Co-Dragons: He and Curatos are Alda's foremost servants. With the death of Curatos he has become Alda's main Dragon.
- My Master, Right or Wrong: Like most familiar spirits, Niltark is blindly loyal towards Alda and his designs. This is because he exists to enforce the law, and Alda is the law.
- Only Sane Man: He might be quick to jump the gun, but when Arkum, God of the Blue Sky, suggests sending all the heroes they have created within the last few months immediately after Vandalieu hoping to Zerg Rush him, he's the one to point out doing such a thing ignoring the logistics, magical capabilities of their forces and cultural differences between the heroes located in the Amid Empire and Orbaume Kingdom, would be completely foolish and disastrous.
- This Means War!: As a god of judgement, he was among the very first who declared the gods should immediately attack Van because of his ability to destroy souls.
Pargtarta
Goddess of the Flow, assigned by Alda to guard the resting grounds of her mistress and creator Peria, but there is more to her than the gods of Alda's faction know.
- Flowery Insults: When Ricklent tries to get her to stop calling them Onee-sama, she uses very polite language to call them a stuffy old geezer.
- The Mole: While she pretends to work with Alda's faction, in reality she's serving a different master. Specifically she's been feeding info to Peria, who woke up millenia ago and has since been waiting for a large enough opposition to Alda to reveal herself.
- Odd Job Gods: Goddess of the Flow, and while she isn't openly worshipped like her mistress, she has been represented alongside her for generations. This makes her more powerful than the average subordinate god.
- Stepford Smiler: Keeps a kind smile even as she's feeding information to her true master.
- The Tease: Despite myths (incorrectly) claiming that Ricklent fell in love with her, they seem slightly put off her constant, seemingly deadpan flirting. It doesn't help that she's old enough to have met the Champions personally, meaning she knows about their hobbies and refers to Ricklent as Onee-sama for kicks, which weirds out the ambiguously gendered Ricklent.
Mills
The goddess of sleep, healing, and life. She's a Life-attribute goddess subservient to Alda.
- Forced Sleep: As the god of sleep, she can grant this power to her followers.
- Healing Hands: Healing is a sub-domain of sleep, which is why Heinz, Deliah, Jennifer, and Diana are sent to her Divine Realm after the fiasco that was the Five Colored Blades vs Vandalieu.
- Internal Reveal: She finally starts bringing Heinz up to speed on who Vandalieu is and why Vida's chosen him as her champion.
- Logical Fallacies: Tries a few to soothe Heinz' conscience. The most glaring of which is that if Heinz didn't sell Darcia to Gordan, then someone else would have. Even if that were true, that doesn't make Heinz any less guilty for doing it, and leaving a half-year old child to starve to death, and continuing to hunt and traumatize said child for ten odd years.
Bashas
A subordinate goddess of Rainclouds, she is one of the minor gods that was appointed to keep the natural systems of Lambda running as well as spying on Vandalieu.
- Brainwashed: Spies upon Taloshiem and the Boundary Mountain Range with the other minor gods through a glorified telescope, falling prey to Vandalieu's Mental Encroachment cursed guidance propaganda artwork. Whereas the other gods so far are given splitting headaches and break down upon being affected, Bashas instead is filled with passion.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Looks like a woman with long black hair and a gloomy atmosphere.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Despite her gloomy appearance and reputation, she's a benevolent goddess whose purpose was simply misunderstood.
- Heel–Face Brainwashing: Van's mental encroachment convinces her, Zelzeria and Hamul to defect from Alda's faction to Vida's. That said, they admit that the main reason they joined was because Van's way of doing things didn't clash with their own morals and felt they would be better appreciated by Van's followers.
- Mis-blamed: In-Universe. While originally she was worshipped for bringing mild rains that irrigated crops, eventually she became associated with storms that brought destruction. As such she became less and less worshipped, being considered a goddess of ill omen.
- Seers: In life she was a fortune teller who was very good at predicting the weather, who after her death was invited by Nineroad to serve as goddess of Rainclouds.
Gorn
The Boulder Colossus, who after the death of Zerno and the conflict between Alda and Vida, became the leader of the Colossi of Alda's faction.
- Circular Reasoning: He and his army ignore all of Van's peace overtures, just one-sidedly attacking. When Van's had enough and retaliates, he cries out "As I thought, you are all truly evil!"
- Dishing Out Dirt: As the Boulder Colossus, his main mode of attacking is throwing massive boulders.
- Entertainingly Wrong: Like many other gods in Alda's faction, Gorn believes Vandalieu has come to the Demon King Continent to eat the sealed Botin, when in fact Van wasn't even aware that Botin was there and wouldn't have attacked her if she wasn't hostile.
- Good Old Fisticuffs: He fights against Zod using gauntlets made of diamond.
- Mighty Glacier: He's a Colossus that stands at 100 meters tall, so while he's incredibly strong and could crush a lesser being like a bug, he's also pretty slow and lumbering when compared to a much smaller fighter.
- Only Sane Man: Unlike the highly aggressive and impatient younger gods and Demi-gods under his command, he knows they can't underestimate Vandalieu, not even if they think they have him cornered.
- Selective Memory: When he sees Zod on Van's side, he calls out the latter "for siding with Vida after she's gone insane and serving a 'Demon King'," ignoring that Alda's forces attacked Zod first.
- Surrounded by Idiots: He's quick to shut down the reckless and borderline suicidal plans that the other gods under his command come up with to attack Van and his followers, but can't help but sigh at their stupidity.
- You Are in Command Now: Became the leader of the Colossi still loyal to Alda after the death of his creator Zerno.
Brateo
Fellow demi-god sent to protect Botin's seal. He lets his son completely screw over their forces' ambush by rushing to attack Vandalieu ahead of the rest, and continues cheering his son's suicidal actions as just "avenging his mother's death to Guduranis," firmly deluded that Vandalieu and Gudurarins are one and the same, regardless of any and all evidence, until Van's had enough and retaliates. At that point, Brateo goes completely murder-crazy and insist Van has to die, at all costs, damn Botin's seal.
- Attack! Attack! Attack!: During the entire fight with Van's forces, he cared nothing about tactics, strategies, gains, or losses, all he tried to do is to keep attacking Van until either Van goes down or he does, and Gorn had a hell of a time trying to stop him from frying his own forces with friendly fire in the process.
- Bandwagon Fallacy: He attacks allies who retreat when given the chance because Van letting them go, at Botin's insistence, must be some kind of dirty trick, and even though he knows that he and his forces don't have a snowball's chance in hell of defeating Van's forces, especially since all the hard-fought battles in protecting Botin's seal were nothing more than a diversion where his side suffered heavy casualties, while Van's is still unharmed, he refuses to withdraw and sees even Gorn as a traitor if he doesn't attack "now, before it's too late." Pointedly ignoring the fact that waking up Bellwood is their best and only hope of attaining victory and they should focus on that.
- He Who Fights Monsters: In his mad obsession with revenge on Guduranis, he's become exactly like the Demon King he hates. He thinks himself righteousness incarnate for launching attacks on others, goes into an absolute rage when his attacks are rebuffed, attacks allies who try to withdraw from battle when given the chance, and becomes absolutely obsessed with avenging himself on anyone who dares to defy him.
- Hypocrite: He cheers his son attacking Vandalieu in a manner so reckless as to be abjectly suicidal, brushing off all of Gorn's protests and warnings, until the inevitable happens and his son ends up eating a fatal attack, at which point, he acts as if Gorn didn't warn him his son's actions were utterly suicidal, and are directly responsible for screwing up their best chance for a sneak attack that might have done Vandalieu in.
- Misplaced Retribution: The primary reason he attacked Vandalieu, and cheered his son on for doing the same, is that he's deluded himself into thinking Vandalieu and Guduranis are one and the same, thereby attacking someone who had absolutely nothing, at all, to do with the death of his son's mother.
- Revenge Before Reason: His son's mother died in the war with Guduranis, so he cheers when his son attacks Van, "as that's avenging his mother," utterly refusing to accept the reality that Van and Guduranis are two very, very different beings. When the inevitable happens and his son winds up not only falling in battle, but being turned into an undead, he goes absolutely murder crazy in desiring revenge for his son, despite the fact that his son is the aggressor, and he knows it.
- Shock and Awe: He attacks by hurling lightning around.
- Suicide by Cop: Despite knowing he and his forces don't stand a chance against Vandalieu especially after Botin and Peria join forces with him, he still insists on attacking and orders his allies to do the same, or he'll kill them as traitors and cowards.
Demon King and Evil Gods
Demon King Guduranis
The alien God that invaded the world of Lambda with his army of monsters 100,000 years prior to the story. Greatly feared for his ability to destroy souls, he killed the four creation-oriented champions while Bellwood and his army were distracted. In spite of being defeated and his many body parts sealed, his influence and remaining followers keep threatening the world.
- Aliens Are Bastards: An alien god who came to Lambda with the intention of taking it over, getting rid of any native life-forms that got in his way.
- Assimilation Backfire: His attempt following his incomplete resurrection to take back the Demon King fragments Van already absorbed just results in the Soul Eating Van consuming Guduranis’s body and mind instead.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: He was in charge of the evil god invasion because he was the Demon King, the strongest of them all.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: He was actually quite intelligent, quickly figuring out how to copy Rodcorte's transmigration circle to give souls to his dungeon monsters, and later hacking Ricklent's Status System with his own God of Ranks.
- Bad Boss: He saw the other Evil Gods and monsters he created as nothing but pawns to be discarded, sometimes destroying the weakest to intimidate the others, hence why Zakkart was able to convince several lesser Evil Gods to defect from his side.
- Blinded by Rage: His fatal flaw. He would readily fight even in unfavorable conditions or focus on low priority targets simply for someone angering him or hurting his pride in even the slightest of ways.
- Body Horror: Those who use demon king fragments gain strong powers, but the fragments will start to encroach on their souls over time. Once this reaches maximum encroachment they will lose their original form and apparently take the form of the fragment they represent. The now embodied fragment will then attempt to track down other fragments to revive Guduranis. However, due to being almost entirely without any intelligence or ego, Van is easily able to convince them that he is the main body they wish to return to because his mana signature matches what they are looking for, so they do not attempt to mutate him.
- The Dreaded: Even thousands of years after his defeat, the inhabitants of Lambda still fear him and his capability to destroy souls.
- Evil Evolves: His sealed body parts have mutated over time in an attempt to escape their seals.
- Evil Is Not a Toy: Fragments of his power can be used as weapons, but unless prepared very carefully they cause increasing madness. Van gets around the issue by being Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth, basically brainwashing the fragments to believe "Hey, did you know you're just a part of me? Yep, totally true." with his own warped soul and mental encroachment abilities. Eventually, Fragments he hasn't absorbed even come to consider him to be their main body given Guduranis's Might Makes Right mindset, and Van gains the [Demon King] title.
- Generic Doomsday Villain: Came to Lambda to impose his will and destroy anything in his path, with no discernible reason his former subordinates can think of other than Might Makes Right.
- Genghis Gambit: His existence was such a threat to the rest of the world that nearly every god and their champions fought against him.
- Greater-Scope Villain: For the whole of Lambda he's this, since his fragments and followers keep causing trouble even millennia after his defeat.
- Frankenstein's Monster: After his mind is finally resurrected, he reconstructs the pieces of his soul that he's still missing by ripping apart Rikudou's and Edgar's and using them as spare parts.
- I Control My Minions Through...: Fear. It worked for the most part, but many courageous evil gods defected, and they more or less escaped his wrath.
- Last Villain Stand: Despite his entire army having abandoned him for millenia, his homeworld likely being long dead, and having large portions of his power still sealed or outright consumed by Vandalieu... he's still too prideful to run away or consider the possibility of losing, so he fights his enemies with what power he does have at his disposal.
- Logical Weakness: Since he relied on [Danger Sense: Death] for his situational awareness in combat, he was prone to taking lots of Scratch Damage from mortals who couldn't actually kill him. This eventually allowed him to be softened up to the point the champions and gods could finally rip him apart and then seal him. During his fight with the resurrected Guduranis, Vandalieu also creates a [Death World] spell to project endless killing intent, which in turn makes [Danger Sense: Death] cause damaging Brown Note effects as it reacts to everything around Guduranis.
- Ludicrous Gibs: At the end of the Demon King War, his body and mind were ripped into dozens of pieces that later mutated to become the various Demon King Fragments.
- Klingon Promotion: It is theorized he became Demon King after killing the previous holder of the title.
- Magical Eye: His eyes could corrupt mana and generate monsters in any area he gazed upon.
- Magic A Is Magic A: Though various characters are uncertain of it due to Guduranis using only somewhat similar spells and Guduranis's extreme secrecy when it came to the full scope of his abilities, he was in fact a death-attribute mage just like Vandalieu. The differences in their abilities are only due to their differing tastes and specializations, similar to how an ice mage and water mage are both water-attribute mages, despite how different their spells may seem in practice.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: Subverted. The demon king fragments all belong to very different types of creatures, leaving some to wonder what the hell the guy even looked like. However, it's eventually clarified that they mutated over time to fit the environment around them after he was ripped to pieces, and are not his actual original body parts.
- Murder Is the Best Solution: Implied to be the reason he attacked Lambda in the first place, as opposed to living there peacefully. When asked what he wants to do after his revival, he makes the same decision.
- Not Quite Dead: Being a god, he can't be killed unless his soul is destroyed, a thing that up until the existence of Vandalieu only he could do. His entire consciousness also wasn't sealed as Alda had believed, with one amnesiac part becoming the [Demon King's Shadow] Fragment that ended up in Birkyne's possession, and eventually took over the Vampire's body.
- Omnicidal Maniac: Wanted nothing more than the deaths of every living being on Lambda, as he deemed them weak.
- Posthumous Character: Was ripped apart, with the fragments of his soul sealed and scattered a hundred-thousand years ago. Subverted when it's eventually revealed the Birkyne we knew was an amnesiac version of his consciousness that took over the original Birkyne's body, and later when Rodcorte's incompetence causes another piece of his mind to infect Edgar of the Five-Colored Blades.
- Powers as Programs: After Van consumes him, the status system distills all Guduranis's personal knowledge, techniques and special abilities into the unique skill [True Demon King].
- Pyrrhic Victory: Destroying Shizarion was a heavy blow to Lambda's forces, but it also destabilized the planet since he managed the wind attribute. After this, Guduranis had to avoid outright destroying the other main gods for fear of destroying his prize.
- Shapeshifting: He had the ability to alter his body into myriad different forms. After he was ripped apart, this also allowed the fragments of his body to mutate into body parts of various organism around them, like horns, claws, carapaces, antennas, proboscises, and so on.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Several gods and other beings kept his fragments sealed or contained so they didn't infect other living beings. Until Van begins to assimilate them that is.
- Sealed Evil in a Six Pack: Separated into numerous fragments before being sealed, as that was the only reliable way to defeat him and keep him weak. Each fragment is sealed separately.
- Shapeshifter Default Form: Subverted. After invading Lambda, he would appear before his armies in a suit of armor made of carapaces and scales, with a cape of bat wings on his back and a crown of horns sticking out the top of his head. However, Gufadgarn points out he never used this form before coming to Lambda. Guduranis similarly adopts a verison of Avalon's all black body after resurrecting, noting he finds the people of Lambda's attachment to a specific appearance pointless.
- Unstoppable Rage: When he was angry, he tended to kill every subordinate in the same room as him. One of the few facets of his personality that remained as Birkyne.
- Villain Decay: The original Guduranis is the Greater-Scope Villain of the entire story who nearly wiped out all life on Lambda 100,000 years ago, and his partial second resurrection serves as the Big Bad and Final Boss of volume 14. But his third and final resurrection in volume 15 is disposed of in a single chapter, to make way for Van to take on Heinz and Alda.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: He had the ability to mutate into any form imaginable, growing different arms, legs, or even multiple heads at will depending on what was most useful in the current battle.
- Where I Was Born and Razed: He left his original world for Lambda because it was seemingly dying, though even he no longer knows its ultimate fate.
- You Can't Go Home Again: Forced to stay on Lambda by the destruction of his homeworld.
- Your Soul Is Mine!: Similar to Zeezoregin, Guduranis can take and hijack souls to use their powers for himself. He does this to Edgar and Avalon to rebuild his lost strength and take advantage of the status system.
Birkyne
One of the three Pure-blood Vampires who worships Hihiryushukaka, the Evil God of Joyful Life. Known for his gentlemanly disposition that masks a violent temper. He possesses the Demon King's Shadow.
- Casting a Shadow: His demon king fragment is the demon king's shadow, a fragment of the demon king that has mutated to be able to manipulate darkness and shadows in various ways.
- The Chessmaster: Is this for the underworld in Lambda, but fails more than succeeds when it comes to Vandalieu.
- Did Not See That Coming: He never would have imagined Van had Light Ghosts among his allies, taking away the advantage he had with the Demon King's Shadow.
- Faux Affably Evil: He may speak and act politely while plotting to ruin your life and bask in your suffering.
- The Hedonist: Comes with worshipping Hihiryushukaka, the Evil God of Joyful Life.
- Hot-Blooded: He may act calm, but if angered he will rage for days nonstop.
- I Am Who?: As he lacked memories before taking over his current vampire body, Birkyne has no idea he's an amnesiac version of the first Demon King.
- Immortal Immaturity: His temper tantrums are legendary to his subordinates, to the point that they run for the hills when they happen.
- People Puppets: He's been using the orphans and nuns of the Morksi as puppets to spy on Vandalieu.
- Sadist: He loves to crush other people's hopes, and torture and mutilation are his hobbies.
- Really 700 Years Old: He's among the oldest Vampires in the world, a Pure-Breed, which makes him over a hundred thousand years old.
- The Reveal: He's actually a copy/shadow of Demon King Guduranis' personality without the memories, that consumed the original Birkyne millennia ago when the vampire was experimenting with it. As it lacked any memories of its own, it just assumed it was Birkyne and carried on as him, however its personality and methods are identical to Guduranis's, to the point Gufadgarn accurately predicts Birkyne's actions based on her time under Guduranis in the Demon King War.
- Unstoppable Rage: When he gets angry, he loses all control of himself, destroying everything around him with wild abandon, even his followers. Only other Pure Bread vampires can escape his wrath unscathed. It could take days for him to come out of this condition, and he apparently has no memory of what he did during that time.
- Villainous Breakdown: Breaks down when he realizes he can't defeat Van's subordinates, his Fragment is of no help, his body is at his limits and can't flee or surrender. And for one final kick his god, whom he dedicated thousands of years, decides he's of no use anymore.
- You Are in Command Now: While he had planned to eventually take over his faction, the deaths of Ternecia and Gubamon have forced him to scramble and gather what's left of their faction under him.
Ternecia
One of the three Pure-blood Vampires who worships Hihiryushukaka, the Evil God of Joyful Life. Though beautiful, her vulgar personality and sense of fashion are noted to make her look more like a high class prostitute than anything. Her hobby is creating undead, which she considers works of art.
- Bad Boss: She's known to dispose her subordinates far more often than the other Pure-breed Vampires.
- Deader than Dead: Her soul is broken by Vandalieu once she serves her purpose.
- The Fog of Ages: She may be immortal, but as a 'human' race her memory is still susceptible to the effects of aging. As a result, her memories of the war between Vida and Alda aren't terribly clear anymore. As a result, Van can't learn much about the true history until he happens to stumble across one of the evil gods from Vida's faction inside a dungeon.
- Genuine Human Hide: She has developed an interest in skinning Ghouls.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: She's very easy to anger and get violent.
- Healing Factor: She has such a strong healing skill she survives having her head blast off and regenerating some of her spinal column.
- Mistaken for Prostitute: While she's a beautiful, seductive woman with lots of sex-appeal, her violent personality and vulgar style of dressing makes her look more like a high-class prostitute.
- Necromancer: As with all the Vampires that support the Evil-God of Joyful Life she too is known to use and create Undead, but she seemed to think of them as art pieces and "moving furniture" instead of anything else more useful.
- Purple Is Powerful: Her hair is lilac and she's one of the most powerful vampires still active in the continent.
- Really 700 Years Old: As a Pure-breed Vampire, she's at least 100,000 years old.
- Sadist: The woman's pass times involve flaying people alive or conjoining family members and watch them suffer.
- This Cannot Be!: She gets increasingly frustrated when she realizes the Five-Colored Blades are giving her a genuine challenge for the first time in thousands of years, forcing her to use her Demon King fragment.
Gubamon
One of the three Pure-blood Vampires who worships Hihiryushukaka, the Evil God of Joyful Life. Though an immortal vampire, he has the appearance of an old man. He rarely comes to gatherings of the three pure bloods as he is too obsessed with his collection of hero zombies.
- Beard of Evil: The manga shows he has a beard and he's a deranged old vampire.
- The Collector: Loves to collect the corpses of Heroes and turn them into Undead for his own amusement.
- Evil Old Folks: Looks like a withered old man, and he's a hedonistic and evil vampire.
- Eye Scream: When he uses his Demon Eye on Van, Vandalieu's Abyss skill reflects it back at him, blowing his eye sockets. It takes him several minutes for his regeneration to grow them back.
- Fatal Flaw: His obsession with creating Undead ends up leading to his downfall.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: In his paranoia he killed as many of his subordinates as he could and turned them into Undead, not knowing Vandalieu can tame undead.
- Lack of Empathy: He only shows regret at wasting Lord Bearhart's potential as an Undead, not the fact that he turned him into an undead monstrosity.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: When you kill your subordinates over nothing but paranoia, it's only a matter of time before the survivors plot to betray you for someone a little more sane.
- Necromancer: As with all the Vampires that worship the Evil-God of Joyful Life he too is known to use and create Undead. He even has a collection of past Heroes that he personally turned.
- Pointy-Haired Boss: Because he concentrates more on his hobbies than on supervising his subordinates, Vandalieu was able to survive. After losing his marbles he becomes a full-fledged Bad Boss.
- Sanity Slippage: Seeing Ternecia's death drives him crazy and paranoid, killing his subordinates left and right because he's convinced there's no one he can trust.
Burburdura
The Evil God of the Magic Tome, who was defeated by Farmaun Gold. He turned himself into a book to manipulate his readers and gradually recover his power. He was unwittingly eaten by Vandalieu.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: Dies without even a hint of drama.
- Foreshadowing: The first indication that Vandalieu is capable of eating souls.
- God-Eating: Vandalieu unknowingly eats him and gets a boost in abilities.
- Small Role, Big Impact: From him, Vandalieu gained the Body Expansion (Tongue) and Mental Encroachment skills.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Dies in the first and only chapter he appears.
Hihiryushukaka
The Evil God of Joyful Life, who became the patron of the Pure-blooded Vampires Birkyne, Gubamon and Ternecia 100,000 years ago.
- Assumed Win: Thought he'd be able to trample down, with ease, Van and crew, including Darcia and Vida.
- The Bully: His primary teaching is that the only way to enjoy your life is to trample the lives of others.
- The Corrupter: He's the reason Birkyne, Ternecia, and Gubamon were the way they were. He used his own version of [Mental Encroachment] to warp the minds and bodies of the three vampires to be vessels he could shove his essence into, so he could fully manifest in Lambda. It proves his undoing.
- Deader than Dead: Gets Eaten Alive by Vandalieu.
- Did Not Think This Through: He's so sadistic and hedonistic that he doesn't even know the meaning of "training" and he fully descends into the body of Birkyne, already in tatters, while the latter is facing a battle-hardened army and expected an easy victory... Yeah...
- Dirty Coward: He's fond of beating up on those who can't fight back, but the moment he realizes he's facing a threat, he runs and abandons his followers.
- Driven by Envy: He's always been jealous of Guduranis and his ability to break souls, so goes after Vandalieu, trying to steal that power. It doesn't go so well for him.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: When it's undergoing its Villainous Breakdown, trying to state that Van is like him, Vida and Darcia shut it down for trying to meddle in how they raise their child.
- For the Evulz: He lets Birkyne disobey a direct order to kill Vandalieu, and try to enter a non-aggression pact, just so he can taunt Birkyne and consume Birkyne when he fails, all for his own amusement.
- The Hedonist: His followers live the worst excesses they can think up thanks to him.
- Hollywood Tactics: Committing your entire existence to a body that's already in tatters, and has already lost all his allies, and there's no way to run or hide? Yeah...
- Know When to Fold 'Em: When he realized he was facing imminent destruction, he offered to surrender to Van. Van doesn't believe he's sincere.
- Made of Evil: It can't help being the sadistic monster that it is. Before ascending to divinity, it was a member of a species that was biologically compelled to "play with its food." At some point in its evolutionary chain, the species went from simple biological compulsion to doing this to active pleasure from it.
- Stupid Evil: When "Birkyne" was already losing the battle to Van and crew, he summons his entire being into Birkyne's body to taunt the vampire and then resume the fight, personally. He gets blasted by Van's Evil-light cannon, in triplicate, for a triangulated attack so he can't use Guduranis's shadow as a shield. Yum, extra-crispy.
- Suicidal Overconfidence: He thought he could curbstomp Van's entire army in Birkyne's tattered body. He was wrong.
- Tentacled Terror: Stole Guduranis's tentacle fragment from Merrebeveil, and used it in battle with Van and crew.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Abandons Gubamon because he was no longer a reliable worshiper, leaving him to die at the hands of Vandalieu.
Luvesfol
The Evil Raging Dragon God, who sided with the Demon King after the death of Marduke. He sealed Fidirg and took control over the worshiping of the Lizardmen of the marshlands using his priest the Scaled King. Greatly injured by Vandalieu, he's forced to flee to the Dark Continent, where he comes across the Storm of Tyranny.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Begs Vandalieu to spare him and not eat his soul, despite his body structure not being made to kneel. Luckily for him, Van didn't had a particular grudge against him so he does spare him.
- Butt-Monkey: Ever since he was forced to incarnate as a wyvern and made Pauvina's pet, nothing goes right for him, is constantly terrified that Van will kill him (even though Van has no grudge towards him nor reason to do that), and is given no respect beyond being treated like a talking animal.
- Can't Kill You, Still Need You: While Zod and Lissana would love to kill him, they need his information to locate Zantark, and if they got rid of him there's a chance he will reincarnate with his memories and powers somewhere else.
- Cool and Unusual Punishment: Rather than sealing him, the Storm of Tyranny forces him to reincarnate as a tiny (for a god) lesser wyvern and become their pet.
- Dirty Coward: During the conflict between Alda and Vida he would attack the deities on both sides while their backs were turned in order to weaken them.
- The Exile: Tried to self impose this but was captured by Schneider.
- Face–Heel Turn: Originally a subordinate of Marduke, he switched sides after the death of the Dragon Emperor.
- How the Mighty Have Fallen: From a powerful dragon god, to a weak creature that has to beg for his life, ending up as a pet. This actually saves him, since he was so pitiful Van decided he was no threat towards him, or any of his stronger subordinates for that matter.
- Humiliation Conga: First he loses his spirit clone against Van, costing him a great deal of power, then he's beaten up by the Storm of Tyranny and forced to help them, while forced to reincarnate as a weak wyvern, ending up as Pauvina's pet.
- I Fight for the Strongest Side!: He switched to the Demon King's side because he seemed to be stronger.
- No-Respect Guy: He used to be a powerful Elder Dragon and he's indeed far stronger than the average wyvern, but now nobody respects him, neither his new owner Pauvina nor by lesser dragons.
- Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: When Vandalieu kills his Spirit Clone, he flees the Bahn Gaia continent in terror since he knows there's no chance in hell he could fight him again and win.
Ravovifard
The Evil God of Release, who after obtaining two fragments of the Demon King, began tempting Bugitas and his followers, granting them his protection and corrupting them. He was defeated by Vandalieu in the physical world and destroyed by the other gods within his Divine Realm, with Van eating what remains of his soul.
- The Corrupter: Took advantage of the feelings of inferiority from several people across the nations of Vida's races and turned them into The Caligula and The Starscream.
- The Corruption: The ones under his blessing become savage and unintelligent, the worst representation of the uncivilized monsters they descend from.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: His power to cripple Van by making his fragments go berserk worked great, but unleashing his power to make monsters go insane bit him in the ass when they all went absolutely nuts but still considered him the sole enemy present. Van's followers began ripping their own bodies to pieces in the process of attacking Ravvy, who did not see that one coming at all.
- Karmic Death: He's ripped to pieces by the gods he had suppressed, while Vandalieu obliviously eats the remains.
- Took a Level in Badass: In the demon king's army, his power was super lame and useless, so he was a small fry who barely amounted to anything. With the monster races learning restraint and building a civilization, his power suddenly had use by offering them power and granting it in the form of Power Born of Madness. As such, he became a lot stronger than he used to be.
Gyubarzo
Evil God of the Dark Seas, who was sealed on the ocean floor by Tristan, God of the Seas. When a solar eclipse invoked by Alda darkens the world, he breaks free from his seal with the intention of taking over the seas, only to encounter Vandalieu's ship.
- Arch-Enemy: Of Tristan, the God of the Seas. And his creation the Gillmen are the most hated foes of Tristan's progeny, the Mer-People.
- Fish People: He looks like a gigantic Gillman, who have fish heads, fins and tails.
- Kaiju: He's bigger than Talosheim's castle and could grab Cuatro with one hand. Unfortunately it also gives Van and his familiars a very big target.
- Lord of the Ocean: Intended to dethrone Tristan as ruler of the sea. Van unknowingly destroyed those plans along with the god itself.
- Monster Progenitor: He's the Evil God who created the Gillmen race, arch enemies of the Mer-People.
- Oh, Crap!: His reaction when he's attacked by Vandalieu's Demon King fragments, realizing he's facing someone who can kill him.
- Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: His surviving Gillmen flee to the depths of the sea after he's killed, evolving into a sub-species of Gillmen adapted for deep waters.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Only appears for a single chapter before being killed by Vandalieu, and his soul is devoured. At least he actually fights, unlike Buburdura.
Zerzoregin
The Evil God of Cannibalism, who had been hiding in plain sight for thousands of years, until Vandalieu's presence forces him to act.
- Assimilation Backfire: Thought he could assimilate Vandalieu's Demon King fragment and soul and become the new Demon King, only for that same fragment he absorbed to delete his personality and consume his soul.
- Cannibalism Superpower: As expected from the God of Cannibalism, he can consume other beings and absorb their skills.
- Death by Irony: Him, the God of Pillaging and Cannibalism gets his mind and soul consumed by the very same Demon King fragment he stole from Van.
- God-Eating: He consumed fellow Evil God Forzajibal, god of Pillaging, and he also consumed Borgadon, god of the Mountains, who was part of Lambda's faction.
- Hidden in Plain Sight: He hid for over a hundred thousand years right under Alda's nose in the 'Sacred Wasteland' he was supposedly sealed at, taking the fear and worship of both gods he was sealed with.
- Hidden Villain: Until Goldie was exposed as a monster who can take human form, there was no indication he even existed.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Got destroyed by the very same Fragment he absorbed right when he thought he had a chance to escape.
- Humanoid Abomination: His vessel looks like a disturbingly thin humanoid figure, whose face has no eyes or nose and a gaping mouth in its stomach.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: He grows to a gigantic size to fight Vandalieu and his friends.
- Kill and Replace: He intended to kill and replace every major god in Lambda once he has grown strong enough, becoming the near-omnipotent and omnipresent God and Demon King of the world.
- Know When to Fold Them: Realizing he can't defeat Van, he quickly tries to flee, even sacrificing a part of himself. It doesn't save him.
- Logical Weakness: He can only absorb the skills and abilities of living beings, meaning he can't do anything about the skills of undead.
- The Starscream: From very early on he decided he wanted to usurp Guduranis as Demon King, and after his defeat to grow strong enough to replace him.
- They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: His servants the Mimic Humans were able to avoid detection for thousands of years by acting completely normal. Same with his familiar spirits, who acted as if they served the already dead Borgadon.
- Weak, but Skilled: Back during the Demon King War he was a rather weak god that created the Mimics to undermine his enemies, and that actually served him well for a very long time.
