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Hartner Duchy
The first of the Orbaume duchies Van decides to investigate. Lucas Hartner
The eldest son of Duke Hartner, born from a concubine. He and his half-brother Belton conspired against each other to become the next duke.
- Bastard Bastard: Illegitimate first born of the former duke and someone who will happily sabotage and murder farmers, just to spite his brother.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: While his ancestor never faced punishment for betraying the Titans, and he's never personally punished for trying to destroy the lives of the refugees, he became Duke at such a cost that he can only curse his ancestors and subordinates for their foolishness.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: When he and his aides hear of Van's actions in the Alcrem duchy, his aides try to persuade him to allow them to send troops to try and apprehend Van, using tax evasion as a pretext. He asks them if they're out of their minds as he's well aware that an entire battalion of troops, two cultivation villages, and an entire mine full of slaves suddenly and mysteriously vanished while a dhampir with the same name just happened to be passing through his territory, said dhampir also happened to be nearby when his previous castle fell over, and he knows that Van's mother can use [Familiar Spirit Descent], can face down multiple rank 11 dragons, and Van himself has at least two ghoul familars that are each strong enough to rival that! He does eventually relent and agree to the sending of spies to keep an eye on Van, but that's neither here nor there.
- Oh, Crap!: When he takes the Duke position and learns all his family's "dirty laundry" and how that royally pissed off the survivors of Talosheim, and their new king, all he can do is cup his head in horror and curse his ancestors for their foolishness.
- Prematurely Grey-Haired: His hair goes gray from all the stress and paranoia of the many recent events.
- Pyrrhic Victory: He may have succeeded his father as Duke, but the reputation of his family is in shambles, all his attempts to sabotage his brother failed, he realizes something in Talosheim utterly hates him and his family, lost several subordinates under sinister circumstances, and his hair goes gray from all the stress.
- Psychological Projection: Because he's hostile towards the Cultivation Villages and quite a ruthless bastard, he assumes the same applies in reverse and comes to the conclusion that they're trying to blackmail him and will destroy him if given any chance. His kneejerk response results in the destruction of an entire knight order and the realization that he's seriously pissed off something dangerous.
- War Hawk: Wants to bring glory to the Hartner duchy by reclaiming the Sauron Duchy in the name of the Orbaume Kingdom by using the refugees from Sauron as cannon fodder.
Belton Hartner
Second born, legitimate son of the former duke.
- Cain and Abel: The Abel to Lucas's cain.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Stayed by his father's side, trying to nurse him back to health, sent peasants, war refugees, and orphans to a farm, and gives them every available tool so they can succeed, and his reward? The house he lives in falls on hard times, literally, his top aid is critically injured and then revealed as a pawn of evil vampires, and his finances, career, and reputation, lost forever.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Sure, he may have set up those peasants to be farmers, just to get rid of them, but at least he gave them a chance to earn an honest living, and exempted them from taxes for five years, so they would have some hope of setting up a firm foundation. His elder brother quite literally pissed all over that.
- Unwitting Pawn: He truly had no idea that his most trusted and faithful followers were also pawns of the Pure Breed vampires under the "protection" of the Evil God of Joyful Life.
Froto
A mage from the Hartner duchy working for Lucas Hartner in hopes of getting a better position. He was sent to infiltrate the Cultivation Villages by pretending to be a priest and sabotage them.
- And I Must Scream: Vandalieu lets his bugs parasitize him and devour him from the inside out before storing him in his body for later disposal, all while he's paralyzed and unable to scream.
- Broken Pedestal: Vandalieu felt betrayed because he thought he was one of those rare Alda's Good Shepherds, not a self-serving fraud.
- Even Evil Has Standards: He was disgusted, horrified, and shocked when Karcan gave his men permission to engage in Rape, Pillage, and Burn, and the men actually began to look forward to it!
- Fate Worse than Death: Because Van feels personally betrayed, he isn't given a quick death like the knights attacking the villagers. Instead, the last we see of him is Van having his insects slowly devour him alive.
- Never My Fault: When Karcan is about to attack the cultivation villages, he quickly shifts the blame to the Amid Empire who drove them from their homes, even though he's the one who tried to sabotage them in the first place.
- Non-Action Guy: He's a researcher, not a combat mage, so when the bugs come after him, there's no way for him to fight back.
- Small Name, Big Ego: His thoughts show he believes he's invaluable for the development of the Duchy, but he's nothing more than a moderately competent researcher who's treated little better than an underling by the nobles.
Karcan Lassen
- And Then What?: Lampshaded in the narration. His "brilliant plan" openly disobeying orders to stand down, and attack the cultivation villages anyway would not have pleased or helped his patron in any way. In fact, considering the scandal already going on in regards to Belton, it would have harmed Lucas's cause immensely, and the consequences wouldn't have been pretty.
- Beard of Evil: The manga illustrated him with a full beard and he's a bastard willing to murder a bunch of unarmed villagers to gain a promotion.
- Dirty Coward: The moment he faced actual resistance from the farming villages his unit assaulted, disguised as bandits, he tried to sacrifice his men to save himself. It didn't work.
- Glory Hound: Despite leading a covert ops group, and knowing neither he nor his "knights" would receive any kind of public recognition, he defies orders to attack the peasant villages, hoping to "earn accomplishments."
- Rape, Pillage, and Burn: When he realizes the morale of his troops is at rock bottom, his plan to raise it is to give them permission to "act like proper bandits." To Froto's disgust, it works.
Pablo Marton
Commander of the Red Wolf Knights, sent by Lucas Hartner to destroy the cultivation villages to cover up Karcan's screw up.
- Moral Myopia: With an army of 100 knights at his back, he attacks farming villages, threatens the villagers with a tax bill they can't possibly pay, despite the written law explicitly exempting them from taxes, starts smacking the villagers around, and when Vandalieu shows up and merely asks for their name, orders his men to try to strike the dhampir down, and has the gall to be enraged when Vandalieu dares to defend himself. Then when Vandalieu brings in reinforcements he rescued from the mines, who were illegally enslaved, threatens Van with treason.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Van was facing a horrible quandary because in the defense of the farming villages, he had to reveal too many of his abilities, and chances were good the Five Colored Blades would come after him unless he left no witnesses, which defeats the point of rescuing them in the first place. Pablo's attack gave the villagers more than ample justification to abandon the cultivation villages and emigrate to Talosheim.
- Training the Peaceful Villagers: The fate of his men once they're turned into undead Living Armors in Talosheim.
- Villains Want Mercy: The moment he realizes he and his 100 knights are outmatched, he surrenders and begs for mercy. Van spares him just long enough to have him send a false message that everything's okay, then kills him.
Sauron Duchy
The second of the Orbaume duchies Van decides to investigate. Iris Bearhart
The daughter of a family of knights from the Sauron Duchy who led the Sauron Liberation Front alongside other abandoned noblemen as their figurehead. She's the classic 'knight princess' character, though her actual status falls far short of that level. Though brave, honorable and charismatic, she isn't very politically savvy.
- The Ageless: Majins are practically immortal, and now she's no exception.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Like her 'father' Godwin, she now has blue skin.
- Culture Clash
- Despite being considered an adult in human terms, the other majin treat her like a child because she hasn't succeeded in the majin coming of age yet. And not like teenager child but more like a child so small you have to constantly watch out to make sure they don't get lost or taken away by strangers.
- Godwin tells her that despite the reputation succubi have she doesn't have to behave like one. She seems to be trying, sort of, but that level of skin exposure and lack of sexual inhibition are clearly very foreign to her.
- Emergency Transformation: She's mortally wounded in a fight by a magic sword that blocks pretty much any form of healing, even the Healing Factor belonging to a vampire. She's given two options: She can become an undead or she can become a majin since the majin transformation ritual basically boils her down to goo and then rebuilds her body, thus circumventing the unhealable wounds issue. Since a majin is stronger, she picks that choice figuring she'll end up big and bulky like Godwin. She actually ends up turning into a succubus, much to her horror.
- Fanservice Pack: Becoming a majin involves breaking her body down into goo and then building it back up. She ends up looking the same except blue skinned with gold eyes, a tail and two horns... mostly. She also ends up with a fuller figure and a racial ability that makes her look sexier.
- Fluffy Tamer: In theory. She needs to tame a demon before she's considered an adult, so she's desperately trying to do so.
- Heel–Faith Turn: While originally a worshiper of Alda, after becoming associated with Vandalieu and her subsequent reincarnation as a succubus, she now worships Vida.
- Horned Humanoid: After being reborn into a Majin she grows twisted horns from her temples.
- Irony: She's the stock 'beautiful reserved female knight' character, but gets turned into a lewd looking succubus that goes around wearing little in the way of clothing. Her personality hasn't changed, though, which makes her feel very awkward.
- Lady of War: She's elegant, graceful and deadly with the blade, especially after her father's soul is transferred to her sword.
- Last of Its Kind: Last living member of her family, although now that she's practically immortal, she doesn't care about that anymore. It's noted to be irrelevant after turning into a succubus since majin do not have human rights in Orbaume.
- Platonic Co-Parenting: In a strange way. Her biological father George lives within her sword, while her adopted father (the Majin who turned her) is Godwin, and both occasionally argue over how to raise her.
- Please Spare Him, My Liege!: She asked Van to spare Rick Paris, although not out of sympathy but pragmatism, since she considered him crucial to the moral of the resistance. Vandalieu answered sparing his life was the one thing he wouldn't grant.
- Rebel Leader: Of the Sauron Liberation Front after the deaths of Raymond and Rick Paris.
- Reluctant Fanservice Girl: Agreed to become a majin assuming she'd become one of the big, powerful ones, only to learn from Godwin afterward that this was extremely unlikely and that she was nearly guaranteed to become a succubus, giving her sex skills that she has absolutely no interest in. To her further horror, the current trending fashions in the majin nation are all either extremely stripperiffic or sort of stripperiffic but decorated with things like skulls which make her look like a supervillain.
- Sentient Weapon: The spirit of her father George dwells within the enchanted sword given to him by Van that used to belong to a member of the Fifteen Evil-breaking swords Nemesis Bell, renamed Nemesis George.
- Stripperiffic: Her new outfit as an Obscene Succubus looks like underwear. She manages to compromise with her sense of dignity by wearing a bulky cloak that happens to have a hole at the back for her wings and tail to poke out.
- Succubi and Incubi: After being fatally wounded, she's transformed into a majin to save her life and becomes a succubus, though Godwin tells her she doesn't have to actually behave like people think. She gains the succubus racial skills of Allure and Endless Sexual Stamina, but since she's a virgin their ranks are only at level 1. The skills do rise later as her rank increases, though it's left vague as to why. It's implied that she is deliberately working on Allure as a distraction technique in battle, but only getting mixed results because behaving like a seductress is just too foreign to her.
- The Vamp: Defied. She has the racial skill of Allure as well as the ability to tempt people as a distraction mid fight, but while other majin would accomplish this with seductive body language, attitude and so on, Iris is too reserved for that kind of behavior. She's told that being a little awkward is charming enough and she should use this instead of trying to be something she isn't.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Succubi and Incubi can disguise themselves pretty much as they wish, but it only works on members of the opposite sex.
- You Can't Go Home Again: Now that she's a Majin and her father is a Cursed Weapon, both would be seen as monsters in the Orbaume Kingdom, not that they mind.
- You Are in Command Now: Becomes the sole leader of the resistance after Raymond and Rick are killed, taking the remnants of their respective groups.
Raymond Paris
An illegitimate son of the previous Duke Sauron, he led the Sauron Reborn army to reclaim it from the occupation of Amid Empire.
- Entitled Bastard: He has a grudge against the Scylla for not helping defend the Sauron duchy when attacked by the Amid empire. Thing is, the Scylla are basically an independent nation with no treaty of any sort that requires them to join in on the war. Even if his plan had worked he wouldn't have given them anything apart from 'magnanimously' continuing to recognize their right to live on land that the duchy can't use and doesn't want anyway. So they had nothing to gain, a lot to lose and on top of that already had chilly relations anyway after the Sauron duchy broke treaties with them in the past.
- A Hero To His Home Town: While he's a heroic figure to the resistance against the Amid Empire's occupation of the Sauron Duchy, to just about everyone else, he's anything but heroic.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Tried to charm Vandalieu by staring him in the eye, not realizing Van was already using his Mind Encroachment abilities to make him more susceptible to his commands.
- Living Bodysuit: Van removes several organs from his body and hides within it to take Gubamon by surprise.
- Mugging the Monster: Despite seeing that the Scylla, who are both strong, and well-versed in combat, pay deference to Vandalieu, he thought his army could either subdue or eliminate him with ease, with a simple show of force. Say hello to the wrong end of a one-sighted slaughter, and he'd be dead too if Van didn't need him alive, briefly, for his larger plans and goals.
- Rebel Leader: He led the most successful resistance group in the area with excellent political skills, decent tactical ability and a (shaky) claim to the duchy. Iris was desperate to have Vandalieu spare him so he could continue to be the leader they needed even after she learned of his crimes, but Van rejected her by saying he'd never face punishment otherwise.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Wanted to convince the Scyllas to fight for the Sauron Duchy against the Amid Empire by having his brother Rick kill several innocent Scylla and framing the Empire, in order to make the negotiations fail. Van calls him out on this by arguing he intended to draw the Scylla to a bloody conflict they probably couldn't win in order to reclaim the Duchy before any of his legitimate siblings could.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Van lets him die once he has no further use for his body.
Rick Paris
The younger half-brother of Raymond Paris, who charmed and killed several Scylla under orders from his brother to make the Scylla believe the empire is behind the killings.
- Big Brother Worship: He's even called a bro-con by the Scylla and Pauvina.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Seduced Scylla with a smile on his face while secretly resenting them for not immediately siding with his brother and fighting to the death for the Duchy.
- Black Widow: Male example. He seduced at least five Scylla, poisoned them with a ring and desecrated the bodies to make it seem the Empire is behind it.
- Dirty Business: How he saw murdering innocent Scylla and desecrating their bodies. He thought it was necessary for his brother to become Duke.
- False Flag Operation: Under the orders of his elder brother, he seduced, murdered, and desecrated the bodies of several Scylla, hoping to frame the Amid Empire, to draw the Scylla into the fight. He never dreamed they'd hire a "spritualist" that would provide evidence of his wrongdoing.
- Karmic Death: He's drowned by Orbia and the other Scylla ghosts he seduced, poisoned, and desecrated.
- Moral Myopia: He views the Scylla with disgust, for not siding with the resistance immediately, despite the fact they would have nothing to gain, and plenty to lose, viewing his False Flag Operation as "necessary sacrifices" for the good of his nation. When Vandalieu uses Raymond as a Living Body Suit to catch Gubamon, arguably a much, much larger threat than the empire, by surprise, and explicitly refers to it as a "necessary sacrifice," Rick goes totally ballistic, hurling all kinds of verbal abuse at Vandalieu, not realizing the contradiction. This makes his death by drowning so much more satisfying.
- Motive Rant: He rants how much his brother deserved to be made duke and how the Scylla should have sided with them from the beginning. This makes Van and the Scylla to show no mercy towards him.
Haj
A citizen of the Sauron Duchy who, along with his companions, pretended to be members of the resistance to get supplies. They ended up being chased by the Extermination force of the Amid Empire into the Scylla's territory, were they came across Vandalieu's followers. When their lies were exposed, Van decides to spare their lives and shape them into real resistance fighters.
- The Berserker: What they ultimately become after some "training" by Van. Van then provides them Power Armor to make up for the deficiencies in this so they can be true resistance members.
- Didn't Think This Through: He and his friends didn't consider that by pretending to be members of the resistance, they placed a huge target on their backs by the Extermination force sent by the Amid Empire. Luckily Van and his followers happened to be there to save their asses.
- Fainting: He and the rest of his group fainted, with some soiling themselves, when they saw Vandalieu's followers.
- Got Volunteered: Van wasn't pleased to find out they were pretending to be the resistance to get supplies, so he sends them to Talosheim and molds them into real resistance fighters.
- Powered Armor: He and his companions were given Animated Armors that act this way.
Debis
A former knight of the Sauron Duchy forced to become a mercenary, but quickly abandons that job and becomes Iris' second in-command.
- Bodyguard Betrayal: Normally this would be bad, but on this case the person he was body-guarding completely deserved it.
- Everyone Has Standards: He could not tolerate selling his fellow citizens as slaves, hence why as soon as Iris shows up, he kills the slave trader and stops being a mercenary.
- Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job: He's a three-generation knight from the Sauron Duchy, hence why he sees mercenary work as a major step-down.
- Kick The Son Of A Bitch: His Establishing Character Moment is killing Padej Boctarin, a disgusting slave trader who intended to sell non-humans to the Amid Empire just to get a quick buck.
- Number Two: For Iris at the Sauron Liberation Front.
Rudel Sauron
The reigning duke of Sauron Duchy.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Because he abandons the SLF and completely ignores their accomplishments in freeing the Sauron Duchy from Amid Empire occupation, Vandalieu has to set up an automatic Mook Maker generator in the Scylla territory where the resistance was based. Doing this turns the area into a Devil's nest, which is not only uninhabitable to anyone Van himself didn't escort to live there, but is openly expanding into the Sauron Duchy, as the naturally spawning monsters flee from the "crude" undead that are being generated.
- Leave No Witnesses: His "unofficial" policy is to seek out, capture, and torture all the villagers who supported the SLF, to learn everything possible, and then kill them, so there are no witnesses to testify about his corruption. This leads to the Laser-Guided Karma entry above.
- Mugging the Monster: He stole the land the Scylla lived on and publicly declared that the resistance members who fought to restore him to power were all dead. This happens to make their sponsor very angry. He didn't even know at the time that Vandalieu exists, but he sure knows afterward.
- Pyrrhic Victory: He wins the duke title for the Duchy, but alienates his siblings and has to rely on supporters from other Duchies in Orbaume kingdom just to hold on to his title, never mind repair the infrastructure and defenses destroyed by the Amid Empire during their occupation. He also pissed off someone powerful without even realizing it, resulting in part of his land being cursed and filled with the undead, which cause monsters to flee into other parts of his territory.
- Rousing Speech: He starts his reign with one, off screen, that takes a couple of hours.
- Stealing the Credit: He wins the Duke crown by riding in as the Amid army is departing, engages in a few "show battles" and claims the accomplishments of the SLF as his own. His foreign backers cheer. The townsfolk in the Sauron Duchy capital cheer. The commoners among the rest of the populace, do not.
- Ungrateful Bastard: He takes control of the Duchy and immediately declares the Sauron Liberation Force resistance fighters as dead, promising the Scylla territory, where the resistance fighters are based, to his foreign supporters. He actually does believe that the resistance members are all dead, but would have done the same thing either way.
Marshal Fatherick Dolmad
Duke Rudel Sauron's prime minister.
- It's Probably Nothing: He dismisses all of the stories of Vandalieu's feats as "Amid Empire lies" because he simply can't wrap his head around such stories possibly being true.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: His advice to Rudel about the SLF being replaced by impostors, as part of some kind of Amid conspiracy, considering their sudden rise in performance after an attack by Amid's "Fifteen Evil Vanquishing Blades", and the inexplicable logistics of their functions, make sense, as does his suggestion that the stories regarding Vandalieu are, at best, wildly exaggerated. This couldn't possibly be farther from the truth.
Alcrem Duchy
The third of the Orbaume duchies Van decides to investigate. Takkard Alcrem
The current Duke and head of the Alcrem Duchy.
- Comically Small Bribe: Why does he begin converting local churches into showing more Vida friendly imagery despite knowing this would anger basically everyone? Because Van cured his baldness.
- I Ate WHAT?!: Vandalieu serves him some odd looking gray meat during a victory celebration. He eats it without minding, only to be told afterward that it was the God of Cannibalism that Van had just killed. He makes it pretty clear afterward that even if it was delicious, he really would have preferred to know what it was beforehand.
- Know When to Fold Them: Realizing that Vandalieu and his followers are hilariously far more powerful than he could ever imagine, and witnessing them saving his life and the lives of his men from an Evil God makes him throw his lot with Vida's Demon Empire.
- Practically Different Generations: He's in his late 50s while his half-sister Juliana was in her twenties when she died and was reincarnated.
- Prematurely Bald: He was losing hair due to the stress of working with Van, but thanks to Van's special cream he's recovering his hair.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He's a reasonable noble who sees that it would be far more beneficial for his duchy and his personal safety that he didn't try to antagonize Van and his followers.
Bravatiyu
The second oldest of the Five Knights of Alcrem with the moniker of Knight of the Roaring Flames.
- Conspiracy Theorist: He's prone to coming up with crazy theories that are rarely correct.
- Hot-Blooded: He's been hot-headed since he was young, and in his older age that also makes him suspicious. Fittingly his moniker refers to flames and wields a sword with fire powers.
- Old Soldier: At 65 years old, his hair has already turned white, but unlike Takkard he hasn't lost hair.
- Personality Powers: Hot-headed and he specializes in fire magic.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: While the truth behind Goldie's actions were completely off the mark, he wasn't wrong by decrying that Goldie was no longer an ally and needed to be put down.
- Undying Loyalty: He's completely faithful to his liege Duke Alcrem, and as such he's willing to become of follower of Vida.
Baldiria
The oldest of the Five Knights of Alcrem and the only female. She's a dwarf with the moniker of Knight of Thousand Blades.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Becomes devoted to Darcia after she saves her life and heals her.
- Blue Blood: She comes from a dwarven family with the rank of Count, and while she's not the head of the house, she doesn't mind using her title to put an arrogant Viscount in his place when he's rude to Darcia.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: Whenever a newcomer knight mistook her for an apprentice and tried to flirt with her, she would simply offer to "train" them until they gave up. Serjio managed to last an entire week under her training, which made her recommend him as a Knight of Alcrem.
- He Knows Too Much: Almost gets killed by Goldie and his partner after she finds out they were behind the 'False Face-Tearing-Demon' incidents.
- Hero-Worshipper: After Darcia saved her from dying, she becomes completely devoted to her.
- Older Than They Look: She's 78 but due to her race, short stature and youthful face people tend to mistake her for a young apprentice. She used to have a complex about it but now she doesn't mind.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: Dresses in a cutesy outfit to help Darcia with her food cart
- The Smurfette Principle: She's the only female among the Five Knights of the Alcrem Duchy.
Serjio
The youngest of the Five Knights of Alcrem, known as the Knight of Distant Thunder.
- Broken Pedestal: He used to be close to Goldie and even admired him, so finding out his true nature was a huge blow for him.
- Family Honor: He and his family have served the Alcrem Duchy with pride with countless generations.
- It's Personal: Becomes completely determined to beat the Mimic Humans when he realizes they killed and replaced his great-aunt alongside countless people during their millennia-long charade.
- Shock and Awe: His skill at throwing Lightning attacks is why he earned his moniker.
Ralmeya
The Knight of Keen Insight, who managed to get a glimpse of Van's true power, going mad but eventually snapping back turned into a fanatical follower of Vandalieu.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Wanted to gauge Vandalieu and his followers' skills and levels, but he ended up being driven temporarily mad by the experience.
- Go Mad from the Revelation: Witnessing Van's inhuman skills and being exposed to his Abyss skill drove him temporarily mad.
- Heel–Face Brainwashing: Went from an average believer of Alda to a fanatical follower of Vandalieu and Vida. That said, his personality and loyalty to Duke Alcrem remain the same.
- Prematurely Grey-Haired: Being exposed to Van's Abyss skill turned his hair completely white despite just being 31 years old. Even after regaining his sanity his hair color remains the same.
- Secret-Keeper: His 'Demon Eye of Appraisal' allowed him not only to witness Van's Status and some of his skills, he's also the only one aware of Darcia, Pauvina, Kachia, Myuze and Gizania's measurements and weights.
Goldie
The Knight of Collapsed Mountains. In reality he's the latest in a long line of Mimic Humans at the service of Zerzoregin the Evil God of Cannibalism.
- Hidden in Plain Sight: He and his family of Mimic Humans have been pretending to be human for thousands of years in the name of Zerzoregin.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: He consumes Van's "Demon King" skill and takes it back to Zerzoregin. This is precisely what Van wanted, as it leads to the evil god being torn apart and consumed by a fragment of Van's consciousness. Oops.
- Insult Backfire: When he and his fellow Mimic humans start shapeshifting and impersonating people in front of Vandalieu, Vandalieu proclaims they are all just cheap Curatos knock-offs. Goldie takes that as a compliment because he's being compared to a god.
- Irony: After his death Krül the slime impersonates him and makes him a casualty of the fight between Borgadon and the Evil God. A Mimic is disposed of and publicly mimicked.
- Kill and Replace: The Mimic Humans have been killing and replacing any human who married into their family or joined their household to ensure their secret wouldn't be exposed.
- Power Parasite: Thanks to the abilities received by Zerzoregin he and fellow Mimics can steal the Skills of those they consume a part of.
- Weak, but Skilled: Mimics as a whole never get high ranks nor achieve many levels, but their ability to transform and steal skills is what makes them so dangerous.
Juliana
The younger half-sister of Duke Alcrem, who was sent alongside her bodyguards to subjugate a Minotaur infestation, only to be captured, mutilated and intended to be used as sacrifice to an Evil God. Rescued by Randolf and left at the care of Vandalieu, much like Pauvina she's reincarnated and becomes a whole new race. She even receives a blessing from a goddess, the now awake Peria, Goddess of Water and Knowledge.
- Acting Your Intellectual Age: Unlike Pauvina who reincarnated as essentially a new person, Van's growth in the past few years allowed him to ensure she keeps most of her memories and personality even after reincarnating, though she does have the personality of a fanatic thanks to the heavy usage of mental encroachment needed to make her even semi functional.
- An Arm and a Leg: Gets all four of her limbs cut off by Minotaurs.
- Broken Bird: Unlike Natania who was only held captive for a few days, Juliana and all her companions became empty shells after a solid month of mind breaking trauma, and it's only after reincarnating that she shows more of her true personality.
- Child by Rape: Much like Pauvina, she's essentially her own mother, with Vandalieu using one of the Minotaur embryos in her womb to serve as vessel for her reincarnation, becoming a half minotaur passed off as a mutant, though she does still seem to be a monster, unlike Pauvina.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Has become the very first Minotaur-Human hybrid thanks to Van. Her deceased subordinates soon follow.
- Idol Singer: Zadiris intends to train her and her companions into idols.
- Little Bit Beastly: After reincarnating, she now has the ears and tail of a cow, and will most likely grow horns once she's fully grown. Unlike with Pauvina, Van makes no attempts to pass her off as something other than a descendant of a minotaur, possibly as a way of bringing up the 'are monsters people?' debate.
- Modest Royalty: She might be the sister of a Duke, but she was raised away from luxury thanks to her parentage, so other than talking like The Ojou, she doesn't act particularly high-class, to Tarea's disappointment.
- Plot-Relevant Age-Up: She's in the same boat as Pauvina in that she's a member of a race that grows to adulthood quite a bit faster than humans, but the story is still so far along that she couldn't just grow to relevance the normal way. Instead, she happens to have been conceived using a demon king fragment that causes monsters to grow fast and die young. She's reborn off screen and when she reenters the story about two chapters later she now looks about eight years old and can be used to move the narrative along. And the downside of reduced lifespan? Doesn't matter if you're friends with Vandalieu.
- Practically Different Generations: She was in her mid-twenties at the time of her death while her half-brother Takkard was nearing 60. Now she looks like a young girl, making the difference even more pronounced.
- Rape as Backstory: She was raped and impregnated by a minotaur alongside her bodyguards.
- Younger Than They Look: She might look like an 8 year old, when she's actually only a few months old. But then again, unlike Pauvina, she has near full continuity of consciousness from her old life, so you could actually argue the opposite trope applies.
Morksi
Joseph
The vice-guild leader of the commerce guild of Morksi.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Skirts the law to harass members who don't agree to his one-sided proposals, like a certain Dhampir boy with a dark-elf mother...
- Did Not Think This Through: Which his nephew, the Earl running Moksi, spells out. Dhampir children may not seem that special at first glance, and are the constant targets of persecution from Alda fanatics and evil vampires, but those that weather the storm tend to be rather powerful individuals, and his harassment campaign against Van for not wanting to run a PR show for Heinz is certain to turn around and literally bite him in a few short years. That's presuming Heinz, the busybody, doesn't do something about it first, throwing the weight of his A-class noble title around.
- Dramatic Irony: Just as he's contemplating going to Van and bowing his head to the ground with an (insincere) apology for the harassment campaign, trying to save his reputation, the next knock in his door are the knights sent to arrest him and take him away into protective custody!
- The Exile: His nephew has him exiled from Moksi in disgrace, and he will most likely die in a ditch, or homeless in another city.
- For Your Own Good: He completely deludes himself into believing that his harassment campaign against Van is a genuine effort to help Van, "by teaching him the harshness of the world." Van is a dhampir, one of the most heavily persecuted races around. Any dhampir his age would obviously know full well how harsh the world is and would never need any such "education."
- Know When to Fold 'Em: Almost. He realizes the harassment campaign against Van is going very badly and decides to drop it and offer an insincere apology, but by this point far more intelligent people than he is are terrified that Van is going to snap and murder him at the very least. He is promptly arrested on rather flimsy charges and exiled as much for his own safety as anything else.
- Never My Fault: He pointedly refuses to believe the fact that he loves Loophole Abuse to harass guild members he doesn't like sours his reputation with the guild and the city as a whole and this is the reason he can never advance beyond vice-guild master, even if he otherwise had the merit to do so, which he doesn't.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Though he's completely unaware of it, everything he does to try and harass the Dhampir known as Vandalieu fits nicely into the latter's plans and goals, giving him the perfect cover to carry out his schemes, unquestioned. For example, cutting off the supply of monster meat for Van's stall prompts Van to go to the woods and procure it himself, where he can go and conduct his experiments out of sight and mind of everyone in Moksi. What's more, since Van does his own hunting, he can offer better meals at lower prices, and make even higher profits, as well as handing off subjugation proof materials to handicapped adventurers who can't do their own hunting, and give half of those proceeds to charity!
- An Offer You Can't Refuse: When he hears of a dhampir boy wanting to sign up to run a street-side stall, he calls said dhampir to his office and offers the boy a chance to run a media campaign for Heinz. Joseph doesn't know it, but he's damn lucky he got to walk out of that little chat with his life.
- Psychological Projection: Since he loves to abuse his authority, using loopholes in the law to make the lives of his fellow guild members unpleasant if he doesn't like them, he presumes his nephew, the Earl, does the same to him, keeping him stuck as the vice-leader of the Commerce Guild. He pointedly refuses to believe the Earl doesn't have the authority to do it, even if he wanted to.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: The moment the Knights of Morksi enter his office to arrest him, he shouts "Do you know who I am?! The Earl is my nephew!" The knights don't care, as said nephew is the one who gave the arrest order, to put him in custody before Van retaliates towards Aggar's attempt to kidnap some orphans and use them hostage.
- Self-Serving Memory: He rewrote his memory to delude himself into thinking that he offered Van the opportunity to be Heinz's standard-bearer for Van's benefit, not to fill his own coffers, and thus drives himself into a rage at the ungrateful little dhampir who pointedly refused such "benevolence" and actively resists all his attempts at "education."
- Slave to PR: He's entirely stuck on milking Heinz's reputation for his own wealth as much as possible. He does his best to sabotage Van's streetside stall to bring him into line when Van absolutely refuses to have anything to do with the so-called "hero".
- Unishment: He pushes Van to set up his shop in the red-light district, not only next to the slums, but the base of a notorious gang. He's completely unaware that this "gang" is now staffed entirely by Van's subordinates, and giving Van the permit to set up there gives him the perfect excuse and cover to conduct his espionage activities, the reason he went to the commerce guild in the first place.
- Unknown Rival: Van is almost completely indifferent to his harassment because some of it is meaningless and some of it is outright helpful for achieving his actual goals. As such, he never bothers to do a thing about the man and his own nephew instead has him arrested for his own protection in case he ever does finally cross the line. He was getting awfully close.
- You Have to Believe Me!: As he's being arrested, he shouts at the top of his lungs that he's innocent and has to be believed. The guards doing the arresting turn a deaf ear to him.
Aggar
The guard Van meets at the gates to the Alcrem Duchy's capital city. This guard demands an access fee from Van and then pockets it.
- Dirty Cop: He's a town guard, and is rotten to the core, frequently taking bribes from criminals to look the other way, and extorts entry fees from people trying to enter the city.
- Entitled to Have You: No matter how he's warned off, threatened, or told "hey, she's out of your league and going after her is sure to go badly," he refuses to give up pursuing Darcia to be his sex-toy.
- Fantastic Racism: He's human supremacist, but since the Duchy is Alda-friendly, this is hardly surprising.
- Laser-Guided Karma: He has to be constantly reminded that the children he's planning to kidnap need to be taken alive to be effective hostages. Gufudgarm's "child" form winds up swallowing him, ignoring his and his lackey's pleas for mercy. When he finally remerges, he's been Driven to Madness.
- Mugging the Monster: Extorts entrance fees from Van and Darcia, and then tops it off by staring at her lewdly. He is blissfully unaware of how close he came to calamity as a result.
- Smug Snake: He may be a veteran soldier, but he is nowhere near as badass as he thinks he is.
- Swallowed Whole: When he and his gang break into the orphanage, they find themselves being redirected to Gufudgarm's private dungeon, at which point, the lackeys are eaten by a rank 11 slime. He winds up in Gufudgarm's gut when Gufudgarm's "child elf" form splits in half vertically, and consumes him.
- Tempting Fate: Even without prompting from Joseph, he keeps looking to provoke Van and Darcia, looking to lay hands on her at the earliest opportunity. He remains blissfully unaware of how much danger he's putting himself in. He would be lucky if he just ran afoul of "Starving Wolf" Michael who is publicly proclaimed to be her lover and is the known leader of a gang of thugs.
- Too Dumb to Live: After seeing Darcia use [Familiar Spirit Descent] in a sermon, his mooks warn him to give up on her, as they did on previous occasions when they targeted a woman, way, way above their pay grade. He considers if for a moment then he gets the "brilliant" idea to use the orphans of Van's and Darcia's favorite orphanage as hostages to force their compliance, and trying to shift the blame to "Starving Wolf" Michael.
Earl Isaac Moksi
The mayor of Moksi.
- A Father to His Men: When Fitun's monster stampede is bearing down on his city, he goes to the city gates to fight alongside his men.
- Genre Savvy: He's possibly the smartest politician in all of Orbaume. He quickly realized there's way, way more to Vandalieu than meets the eye, did a thorough preliminary investigation, invited him to his estate to give him a fair hearing, and then quickly realizes that it's dangerous to piss him off and it's much, much better for his city if he focuses his efforts on countering whoever might want to harm Van instead.
- If Only You Knew: He regards managing to form friendly relations with Vandalieu Zakkart as equal import to the signing of a peace-treaty with a foreign nation. He's completely unaware that he did just that because Vandalieu is the King of Talosheim and Emperor of the countries in the boundary mountains.
- Not in This for Your Revolution: He introduced some very basic reforms to favor Vida's races. This isn't because he really cares one way or the other but simply because Heinz was becoming politically prominent and it appeared a prudent thing to do. He later gets roped in for real by Vandalieu after some heavy proselytizing in the city.
- One Degree of Separation: He's Joseph's nephew.
- Rage Breaking Point: Rightly scared of Van's retaliation after Joseph and Aggar go way, way too far in harassing Van and Darcia, he sends his knights after that Evil Uncle with the task of stopping him, by any means, even if that means having to make up charges to have him dragged to a dungeon in chains.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Unlike his Evil Uncle, he's not stupid, and realizes Van is up to something, so to win Van's favor sends knights from both the temples of Alda and Vida to offer him protection from evil vampires and Alda fanatics, and the offer is genuine. While Van does politely turn the knights away, he's genuinely touched, especially when the Knights of Vida ask Darcia to lead the church in prayer.
- Sins of Our Fathers: Which he's actively trying to avoid. He takes to protecting the gates to the city, personally, so the duke of Alcrem wouldn't have cause to go after his family for the "mistake" of failing to notice Fitun's B-rank dungeon that suddenly appeared and then immediately started spewing out a monster stampede.
- Spotting the Thread: Unlike Joseph, he actually checked out Van's activities and contacts, and realizes the cover story doesn't make any sense. Van wants to run a streetside stall, yet has enough funds to buy a house, even if it is in poor repair and has a bad reputation. "Starving Wolf" Michael is far, far too powerful and talented to be running a simple gang of thugs in the red light district. A bunch of other stuff simply doesn't add up and as a good ruler, this makes him nervous.
Kest
Another guard Van and Darcia meet when seeking entrance into Moksi.
- Beast Man: A wolf-type demi-human.
- By-the-Book Cop: He's an honest and upright guard, though he doesn't dare call out Aggar on his corruption, as Aggar's his boss, and his complaints would have to pass through Aggar, who controls his post. Even if he wanted to quit, being a guard is the only job available to him.
- Exposed to the Elements: Just because he has fur doesn't mean he doesn't feel cold in winter. Aggar refuses to comprehend this and just shouts at him when he fidgets and shivers.
- Honor Before Reason: He's repeatedly ordered by his superior officers to evacuate the city with his family, but he refuses, stating that his place is fighting on the front lines along with his fellow guards. Eventually, his superior gives up and gives him the chance.
Berger
The adventurer's guild-master of Moksi.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He gives Van, Nataria, and the catatonic Juliana a fair hearing concerning their grievances for "The Flame Blades" taking a quest into a minotaur nest to murder Juliana and crippling Nataria herself to use as bait for the minotaurs so they can escape. Despite Morski being Alda friendly, and Nataria being a Little Bit Beastly, Berger calls the party's actions too evil to ever be justified and uses his guild-master authority to spread the words to the all the nearby branches. When it's commented that their apparent punishment doesn't sound so bad, he notes that their reputation will be utterly destroyed and they'll be in such massive debt due to a penalty that they'll be close to slaves.
- Secret Secret-Keeper: Vandalieu, Juliana, and Natania don't realize it, but he's puzzled out that "Julia" is actually Juliana, the younger sister of Duke Alcrem, and that "Ralph" who rescued them from a minotaur horde is "Randolf the True." He, perhaps wisely, decides to ignore this deduction.
- Sensing You Are Outmatched: He briefly considers recruiting the promising dhampir boy tamer Vandalieu to the Adventurer's guild, but then declines to do so, sensing that Van is far more dangerous than he appears.
Seris and Vestra
Two nuns that worked at Moksi's orphanage, growing close with Vandalieu and Darcia. They were revealed to be vampires whose memories were erased by Birkyne, and after the latter's death, continue to be friends with Van and tending to the orphans.
- Daywalking Vampire: They're some of the only survivors from Birkyne's experiment in his attempt at creating Subordinate Vampires with Sunlight Resistance. He got around the incredible danger and pain vampires normally face when even trying by simply blasting normal people with absurd amounts of sunlight until they either died or gained the skill, then vampirizing them.
- False Memories: How Birkyne made them believe they were still human and forgetting the torture they suffered.
- Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: Even after coming to terms with their own vampirism, they still care deeply about the orphans under their care.
- Naughty Nuns: Ever since they found out they were vampires, they find it increasingly harder to resist the temptation of drinking Van's blood.
- Older Than They Look: Despite appearing in their late teens, due to being vampires their aging has halted, and they aren't sure how old they truly are. It's indicated that they're probably older than the seemingly elderly Holly, who uses chemicals to make herself look older.
- Only Sane Man: They're very reluctant to drink any blood potion because they've noticed that most vampires around Van become freaks after drinking it.
- Tomato in the Mirror: Yeah, they were pretty shocked at learning their true identities.
- Those Two Guys: They're both almost always seen together. Seris is calm and welcoming while Vestra is more stern and serious.
Holly
The director of Morksi's orphanage. Similarly to Seris and Vestra, she's revealed to be a Dhampir who was brainwashed by Birkyne. After Birkyne's defeat she continues to work as director while coming to terms with her true age and appearance.
- Cool Old Lady: She might look old but she's pretty reasonable and now she doesn't have to hide her true spry body condition.
- Dhampir: She's the third known Dhampir in the Orbaume Kingdom, although technically due to her age she would be first, with Van second and Selen third.
- Tomato in the Mirror: She was also pretty shocked at discovering her true identity, and her memories have been altered so much she doesn't remember her true face.
- Younger Than They Look: She might appear in her late sixties, but due to being a Dhampir her aging would be much slower and she's probably younger than Seris and Vestra, so Birkyne used painful chemicals to simulate wrinkles. She continues falsifying her age because it would be suspicious if she suddenly just got young one day.
Arman
The head priest of Morksi's Church of Alda.
- Cool Old Guy: While he's on duty, he's a bit stuffy, but he was hooting and hollering, enjoying Konako's Idol Concert along with everyone else.
- Good Shepherd: He rode Heinz's coat-tails to become Alda's head priest in Morksi. He stays the head priest by being of genuine good moral fiber, doing genuine acts of charity, like sponsoring orphanages and giving aid to the destitute in the slums, and genuinely tends to the needs of his flock. He also takes the opportunity as one of the heads of the "peaceful faction" to openly condemn all of the xenophobic, genocidal actions of the radical sect, especially in Amid, seeing all, yes all, of Vida's races as people, not "mindless monsters that need to be exterminated" and calls out all the so-called heroes who got their fame by going into villages and wiping them out.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Though he resents Darcia's stance that advocates against peace between Vida and Alda, he can see where she's coming from. After all, even if he had the ability to magically make all the xenophobic genocides stop in an instant, 100,000 years of Alda having his people trying to exterminate each and every one of her races for his own paranoia is a tough thing to gloss over as "water under the bridge."
- The Resenter: His biggest beef with Darcia is not her stance against peace between Vida and Alda, but the fact that he's an old man, and Vida, through Darcia, is introducing the Magical Girl culture. Even if he somehow managed to get a transform staff and not be a Creepy Crossdresser with the magical girl gear, his old bones couldn't keep up with the dance routines idols would have to go through.
Eduard
A merchant that comes to Darcia with a proposal to make tamed ghouls "sacred prostitutes" in Vida's temple. He has the gall to be shocked when Darcia turns him down.
- Did Not See That Coming: He attempts to pressure the local holy woman, Darcia, into allowing him to set up a brothel based around ghouls and call it a church. While Vida does allow for a certain type of prostitution, this isn't it, and both Darcia and the ghouls are insulted. He attempts to pressure her into accepting the deal only for his rather powerful bodyguard to give a flat Nope to that plan. Afterward, his guard says that while he would die for Eduard, that would only be in the case that it would actually help him at all. Picking a fight with Darcia is just pointless suicide. His plans go up in flames, but fortunately for him he also knows when to cut his losses.
- Enlightened Self-Interest: He bought out the inventory of all the nearby merchants, who were desperate to offload their heavy and perishable merchandise, and set up shop to help the locals. He then offered huge temporary discounts on his goods and helped them seek shelter, even providing supplies from his own inventory during the incoming attack, to buy up good-will with the citizenry and to corner the market. Further, despite providing large discounts, he actually bought the stock for even less than that, meaning he both looked good for not price gouging and still made a lot of money.
- A Friend in Need: How the city of Morksi sees him after he not only helped the citizens evacuate from an incoming monster horde, but being open for business the instant the horde was defeated and having bought the inventory of all the other merchants, who fled, and then turned around to sell it at a one-day only discounted price, so the citizens could prepare a celebratory banquet. Not to mention the fact that he sent his own private body-guard to the main gate to help protect the city.
- Good All Along: When the city of Morksi comes under attack, he sends Rodriguez to defend the gate while he helps the unarmed civilians to evacuate, and prepares supplies from his own warehouse, free of charge.
- Intrepid Merchant: What else do you call a merchant who sets up shop in a town facing an oncoming monster horde?
- Know When to Fold 'Em: In chapter 242 he presents Darcia with a proper apology gift for attempting to pressure her into helping him open a ghoul centric brothel disguised as a church. At this point he's realized that not only is she influential, but also wayyyy out of his league and impossible to coerce.
- Mugging the Monster: He planned to have his bodyguard Rodriguez pressure Darcia if she refused his "business venture." Fortunately for both of them, Rodriguez sensed he was outmatched by several magnitudes and politely let her leave.
Rodriguez
Eduard's bodyguard.
- Debt Detester: He serves Eduard because the latter saved the life of his son, using a very, very costly medicine.
- Dented Iron: Admits to himself he has let his skills dull since he stopped being an adventurer, and he could be considered a C-rank adventurer instead of a B-rank adventurer.
- Good All Along: When the city of Morksi is facing an unprecedented monster stampede, he, of his own volition, goes to the front gate to help the city's defenders.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: He can't tell for sure how strong Darcia is, but he knows picking a fight with her would be a very bad idea and cleanly rejects his boss' plan of strong-arming her into helping them.
- Sensing You Are Outmatched: The moment Darcia left the room, he told Eduard that there's no way on Lambda he's going to go antagonize Darcia as she's way, way stronger than he is.
- Undying Loyalty: He tells Eduard that if an elder dragon were bearing down on them, he'd happily throw his life away, if that would buy even one second more for Eduard to run, but there's no way he's going to willingly go step on an elder dragon's tail, not even for Eduard.
