Our heroes
A teenager who decided to live his home to become the stuff of legends, Billy soon learned two things: that living an adventurous life is much scarier than he first thought, and that he is very good at it.
You can choose him to be either a warrior, a farmer, a cautious guy, or a resourceful guy.
- Action Hero: A warrior Billy knows one way to get out of trouble, and it is through anyone who would want to stop him.
- All-Loving Hero: Billy is very open-minded and ready to help virtually anyone... but do not push him to far.
- Audience Surrogate: Billy is this without being a Vanilla Protagonist. He has his own personality and opinions, you are simply learning about the world with him.
- Badass Normal: Billy may be just a kid, but he still takes on beings that would terrify most people. Even with an accomplished fighter at his side, he is rather courageous, hones his skills and proves his wit throughout his adventures, slowly but surely becoming one of the most dangerous people in Alkior.
- Beware of the Nice Ones: Billy is a sweet kid. A sweet kid that will bite your jugular and rip it out if you think that he is just a helpless child.
- Blood Knight: Other Billys may only fight when necessary, but a warrior dreams of proving his worth in epic battles.
- Born Lucky: A cautious Billy is helpless when forced in a fight, but he can use his Luck Points to skip it, winning by pure dumb luck.
- Call to Agriculture: Farmer Billy opposed it to follow the call of adventure instead, but still regularly comes back home to tend to his pumpkins.
- Combat Pragmatism: In most situations, fighting dirty is the only way for Billy to survive, and he will gladly do it.
- Deadly Dodging: It is the specialty of the resourceful Billy, though any Billy as a small chance to do it.
- Deity of Human Origin: If the P.B. leads a genocide against non-humans in your name after your death, you will ascends as the thirteenth major god of Erenner:"You are Billy, the Fortuitous God of Involuntary Consequences, of Uncontrolled Spirals and Hasardous Situations. You did not want any of this to happen, and it is for the better. You are on the right road to exercise your function."
- Et Tu, Brute?: In the "The world needs a Lich-King" alternate ending, it is revealed that you always desired the power of the Black Cauldron for yourself, betraying and killing almost every character you met during the book.
- False Friend: In the "The world needs a Lich-King" ending, you are revealed to have faked your attachment to the P.B.
- Guile Hero: Even if you are a competent warrior, you must use your wits to defeat your enemies, surprising them with unhortodox tactics and counting on your friend's raw strength and martial prowess to help you execute your plans.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: You are a nice kid (in the main continuity) drawn with blond hair in the official illustrations of C. Sideralis.
- Improv Fu: You can fight with a more othodox style, but against enemies too powerful for you, this is more useful.
- Interspecies Romance: You can develop one either with Solia, or an unnamed trolless, the reptilian maid being more of a friend that you met through Ytia's worship.
- No-Sell: This is farmer Billy's specialty. Described as one of the most sturdy being in-universe, not even a Divine Intervention can cause him to lose more than three HP by hit.
- Older and Wiser: In the alternative cautious ending, you end up as the mayor of "Where pals go", the new town you create where Plant-pumpkin once stood. You are now the Reasonable Authority Figure your grandfather once incarnated and you are seen as some sort of uncle by the children of the P.B.
- The Protagonist: Billy is the protagonist and "YOU ARE BILLY !"
- Reality Warper: You use the power of the Black Cauldron to alter the reality in a small way, making sure that you and the P.B. survive the crash of Virilus' citadel.
- The Silent Bob: As a farmer Billy, you can converse with Father Isabel and other farmers through the movements of your eyebrows.
- The Smart Guy: Scholars like the Sorcerer or the Isborian academician may be far more literate and intelligent than you, but if you chose the touristic pamphlet, you are able to read, which is quite rare in Erenner. Your time as a assistant to a travelling salesman also made you knowledgeable regarding mathematics.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour: Billy has done a lot more questionable things in his young life than most people in fifty years, and if he still expresses concern and fear over his and his friends' security, he will rarely bat an eye while committing gruesome murders. The fact that he knew that he would see most of the people he lived with die of the Iron Plague and be one of the only survivors, and then had to take care of the bodies of dozens of people, including his mother's, probably had some effect on his view of mortality.
- Weak, but Skilled: A resourceful Billy is dangerous enemy, but if he will rarely survive more than three hits.
One of the best mortal warriors roaming the land of Alkior, the Pyro-Barbarian (PB for his friends) was an old Kränelorian friend of Fanta who accepted to take care of Billy, and quickly grew fond of him.
If he loves duels and great battles, he knows that his young companion is not always fit to survive them, and always acts in Billy's best interest.
- Act of True Love: He really wants Billy to be OK, and when they are locked up, he willingly gets beaten up by the guards without defending himself so that they focus on him and do not bully Billy instead. He even goes the extra miles and stay silent so that his companion can sleep at night.
- Action Hero: An experienced adventurer with rippling muscles and a propension to fight anyone that would oppose him or his friend, he is the closest example in the series.
- Always Someone Better: The barbarian may seem like an unstoppable force, but he cannot fight a vampiress alone, and Virilus will end up killing him if you do not help him.
- Anti-Villain: He becomes this if Solia kills you. Overcome with guilt and shame, he unites the tribes of kränelorian barbarians, forming an unstoppable army that frees the world of the forces of Virilus before uniting humanity in an empire that begins to massacre every non-human in Alkior in an effort to pay the debt he feels that he owes you.
- Badass Normal: The PB is an accomplished warrior, and there are few things that he fears in a fight. However, he would rather not cross a magic user, as he feels helpless against their power; similarly, he knows that his trusty axe would be useless against anything that can control rust.
- Barbarian Hero: He wears a loincloth and boots made out of pelts, he is described to be a muscular man with long hair and a perpetually glabrious chin, wields an axe in combat, and he is on the side of good. More or less.
- Bruiser with a Soft Center: Being a bloodthirsty barbarian does not keep one from quickly forming attachments to the teenager he is asked to protect, or to play with children to keep them from panicking.
- Debt Detester: His attachment to pay his debts is the reason why he accepted to take care of you in the first place and refuses to promise anything he is not sure of being able to pull of. This devotion to Zarkan can take a dramatic turn if Solia kills Billy.
- Despair Event Horizon: If Solia kills you, he will become single-minded in his quest to bring a new world order purged of the presence of non-humans, but undertaking such a bloody task leave him incapable of sympathy.
- Dumb Muscle: some of his solutions to problems can be... simple.The PB: But we're in the capital city. Gotta be people who know.Billy: What we need are informations on that symbol, but how do we obtain them?The PB: Oh, there's nothing esier, kiddo! Tomorrow, we'll ask everyone in Lennonia.Billy: And if they don't want to tell us?The PB: Well, I'll punch them in the mouth until they tell it.Billy: And if they don't know?The PB: Well they'll get over it.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The Pyro-Barbarian is just his title, but he never gives his actual name, so that he can not be too easily caught when breaking the law.
- Hero of Another Story: Before forming a new duo with you, the PB has lived plenty of adventures with Fanta and on his own.
- Heroic Sacrifice: When you are in jail, he lets himself get shackeld and beaten up when he could easily break his bonds and defend himself, so that you would not be hurt instead of him.
- King On His Death Bed: If he becomes the Barbarian emperor, the Pyro-Barbarian will die on his throne at the age of 108, ruling a morally bankrupt new world order, with every king under his rule killing as much innocent non-humans as they can to please him.
- The Lancer: Since you are the smartest of your duo and often take cares of battle plans, he is ready to provide you with a simpler alternative anytime you start overcomplicating.
- Older Sidekick: The PB has been in this business far longer than Billy, and his experienced with different situations and enemies is valuable.
- Proud Warrior Race Guy: If he values his own qualities far more than the ones that come with being kränelornian and can criticize some aspects of his motherland, he is still proud to be a barbarian and hates goblins just as much as any of his compatriots.
- Pyromaniac: There is a reason why he is called the Pyro-Barbarian. Namely that he can burn anything to cinders with enough preparation, and will enjoy it immensely.
Old heroes of Alkior
Greatest hero that ever drew breath in Alkior , only man in history to rule over both Erenner and Isbor, bloodthirsty warrior and cunning strategist, Billy's grandfather realised that his lifestyle did not suit him anymore and disappeared, calling himself Grandpa Pumpkin and retiring in the middle of nowhere to lead a simpler and happier life (or at least, it is what her daughter told the young Billy).
He may have died when his grandson was still young, but his influence over you, your friend and the world is still felt.
- Arch-Enemy: To Virilus, who lead the opposing force in the great war and saw him as his only worthy adversary among humans. How Uther himself felt about the whole thing is unknown.
- Cincinnatus: After becoming emperor of the western kingdoms, he ruled for two months before vanishing.
- Do Not Go Gentle: He did not trust doctors and died in his bed, strangling the one that had come to check on him.
- Generation Xerox: It is heavily implied that Uther showed qualities of each of the classes you can choose from. He used the same type of weapons and seemed to use his cooking pot the same way his grandson now does.
- Horse of a Different Color: He rode into battle on Mimine, an emu.
- Older and Wiser: He finally understood that true happiness would not be found in his violent lifestyle, and fully embraced the Call to Agriculture
- One-Man Army: His various Indy Ploys often had devastating effets on his enemies, be they lone warriors or generals leading an army, to the point that Virilus recognised him as the only human he would have deemed worthy of joining him as his general, largely thanks to his cunning wits.
- Sergeant Rock: The first place he was offered in Erenner's army (after practically winning a battle against Alkior by himself because their army was too loud and kept him from fishing properly) was that of sergeant.
- Trademark Favourite Food: He accepted to officially join Erenner's army because they offered to pay him in dry sausages.
An old friend of Uther, Fanta was like an uncle to Billy, but before that, he was the PB's partner.
This affable man taught Billy the various tricks of the pumpkin trade and gave him his old bottomless bag before sending him to the PB.
- But Now I Must Go: It happens twice.
- After giving you his bottomless bag, he announces you that he will go spend some time in New-New-Azure.
- He reappears later to free you and the PB from the jail you were locked in, gives you back your stuff, and tells you what happened in town during the last few days, before opening a secret path and escaping the city for good. It is somewhat justified by the fact he plays the role of a [[NonActionGuy non-action guy]] and would probably be useless during the next two acts of the story.
- Long-Lived: Fanta has often taken an active role during the last century, and several characters have noted that he does not seem to age much, though he has assured Billy that he was too old to keep up with the young man's new life.
Pantheon of Erenner
One of the thirteen major gods of Erenner, he is associated with the first month of the year. He is the god of Duels and Honor, associated with fights against adversity, heroism bordelining on suicide and paid debts (but not promises).
His worship and power comes from any act going beyond probabilities, any suicidal but heroic actions, fair play, duels, thirst for battle and honor.
- Cool Helmet: He always wears his helmet, whose horns can be taken of and used as a goblet.
- Character Shilling: Even though different characters think highly of different gods, the fact that the deuteragonist (namely the PB) follows Zarkan above all means that the god of honor is the most consistently praised.
- Dude, She's Like in a Coma: Notably averted with Ytia. Zarkan often challenges the other gods and goddesses to a duel, and over time, he has won a night with every goddess except for Ytia: as soon as he realized that he was gonna win against someone mentally reduced to little more than a child, the god of honor forfeited and accepted whatever she was gonna ask of him for her victory, before helping her back to her home.
- The Stoic: Zarkan rarely shows his emotions, his faint smile often being the way to understand his mood, but it does not mean that he is neutral. He took great pity on Ytia when he realized that she went mad, forfeting a duel for the first and last time in his existence. It is also noted that he has only laughed once.
- Throne Made of X: The cool chair of the god of duels is made out of broken weapons and shields.
- Top God: Even though he is not officially chief of the pantheon of Erenner, the gods often meet in his domain, and he is widely respected among them for his strength and calm demeanor.
- War God: If he does not care about strategy and the actions of a general, Zarkan is very fond of duels and fair fight between a few opponents, often valuing the actions of the man more than those of the army.
- World's Best Warrior: There are few characters who could possibly threaten the god of adversity, although Mutra could potentially rival him if he stays confident enough. Moreover, all this power does not mean that he could beat any god, as Nyses would still be forever out of his reach. Virilus could eventually rival him after becoming the god of Hunger and Innocence, but it would still take him a thousand years to finally surpass Zarkan.
One of the thirteen major gods of Erenner, he is associated with the second month of the year. He is the god of Knowledge, of Misanthropic Indifference and Creativity, and out of all deities, he is the most often associated with magic. If he does not oppose the other gods, he does not like them either, but entering a conflict would slow down his researches. He is often represented writing with a long quill, inside a great library.
His worship and power comes from any form of classification, any form of categorization, any study, any creative invention, any spontaneous idea or any form of comprehension.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: A particularly cruel instance of this trope: Blathnat blesses those with a creative mind by granting their deepest hidden wish, with no consideration for the reasons of that wish or its consequences. The mortal does not even have a choice in the matter.
- Expy: His gaze was inspired by Yen Sid's
- Misanthrope Supreme: If he will not allow himself to enter any kind of conflict, he despises the other gods, seeing them as a distraction. The only exception is Runir, who is capable enough to handcraft anything the god of Creativity asks of him. Moreover, the Yack-god is mute, and never disturbs him.
- The Omniscient: It is impossible to see the back of his head, as no mortal or divine being can lay his eyes on Blathnat without the god of Knowledge looking back at them. No being except for Nyses, of course.
- The Unblinking: No one has ever seen him blink.
One of the thirteen major gods of Erenner, she is associated with the third month of the year. She is the goddess of Peace and War, the patron of strategy, and is always represented with her children: Otos, the Shield, minor god of Defense, and Itos, the Sword, minor god of Attack. She always wields Otos with her right hand and Itos with her left, showing that fighting is her least favored option.
Her worship and power come from any battle gathering more than six people, any functioning strategy or plan, and any avoided conflict. As for her children, any attack led or parried is enough, be it verbal or physical.
- Expy: Physically, she is supposed to be a younger Minerva McGonagall.
- Eye Scream: In order to create their children Otos and Itos, she ripped out her eyes and gave them to Zarkan.
- Eyeless Face: When she wishes to see through weapons of the mortal world, she opens her eyes wide, showcasing her dark and empty sockets.
- Footprints of Muck: She is usually represented with her boots and the lower part of her white skirt dripping with blood.
- Horrifying Hero: Let's see: she is a thin smiling woman with empty eye sockets and a flaming halo above her head, dressed in white and gold bloodstained clothes, and who wields a sword and a shield, both partially covered with flesh from where a single eye emerges. And yet she is one one of the kindest god in Erenner.
- Navel-Deep Neckline: Atella's armor does not seem very helpful in a fight...
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Out of the whole pantheon, she is one of the calmest. Runir and Zarkan are the only ones to have as much self-control as she does.
- War Goddess: If war is never her first choice of action, when the time comes, she puts her strategic mind to good use.
One of the thirteen major god of Erenner, she is associated with the fourth month of the year. She is the goddess of Rest and Renewal, the guardian of held promises and spring. Deeply bound to the concepts of Life and Death, she is often represented holding a lit candel in one hand and a skull in the other.
Her worship and power comes from any birth, any death, any execution of the undead, any held promise, and any eternal rest.
- Divine Intervention: She is among the few gods that may help Billy and the PB directly in their quest.
- Don't Fear the Reaper: If you accept death and the eternal rest it provides, she is a benevolent figure. However, if you do not...
- Due to the Dead: A well conducted burial always pleases her.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: She is a fundamently benevolent goddess, but she cannot stand those who fail to honor their promises, no matter if they were forced into it or betrayed their oath of their own volition.
- Psychopomp: She welcomes the souls of the newly departed into herself. This link to the souls of the dead is also one of her weaknesses.
One of the thirteen gods of Erenner, he is associated with the fifth month of the year. He is the god of Craftmanship and Well-done jobs. He is the husband of Ytia, the children of their unions being every domestic animals. He respects strength, skill and meticulousness, often rewarding those that have seen a work through with a well-deserved restorative sleep.
His worship and power come from any manual or physical work completed, any goldsmithery, any actions made with a good work deontology and application until completion.
- Consummate Professional: The god of craftsmanship can create anything, even the improbable inventions that Blathnat may ask him to realize, and his work is always meticulous.
- Creator's Favourite: Along with Phumtar, he is one of Bob Lennon's favourite gods.
- Mighty Glacier: He may not use it for violence, but he is certainly the tallest and physically strongest of all gods.
- Our Minotaurs Are Different: Unlike most instances of this trope, Runir is half-yack rather than half-bull.
- Sex God: Being one of the only people in existence with enough stamina to relieve the actual sex goddess of her pulsions, he can be considered worthy of such a title.
- The Speechless: Runir can clearly understand the other gods, but he himself is mute.
One of the thirteen major gods of Erenner, she is associated with the sixth month of the year. She is the goddess of Pleasures and Twilight, but she is also associated with irresponsability, debauchery and forgetfullness. Her twin sister is Mélène, and they are goddesses of the moon, which is called Meltia. Her husband is Runir, though this only means that he is there to help her when she is overcome with her desires. Indeed, she recieved her sister's pulsions in exchange for her fertility. She is also called the Lover, and she sometimes joins mortals during their revelries and other gaieties to mingle with them and sometimes love them.
Her worship and power comes from anyone having sex, any drinking spree, all empty words and any oversight.
- Forgetful Jones: She often loses most of her memories, although her sister is always in her mind.
- Friendship Trinket: She asked Zarkan to forge two rings out of bronze: one for Mélène and one for herself.
- Love Goddess: She is a goddess of sexual aspects of love, such as debauchery, pleasure and desire.
- Mad God: She may have lost her mind, but she is a benevolent figure still.
- Sex Goddess: Comes with being an actual deity of the carnal pleasures
One of the thirteen major gods of Erenner, she is associated with the seventh month of the year. She is the goddess of Motherhood and Dawn, and is associated to abnegation, loyalty, helpfulness and cake baking. Her twin sister is Ytia, and they are goddesses of the Moon, which is called Meltia. If she and her twin are very-much alike, Mélène is easily recognizable by her eternal pregnancy, as she bears Ytia's children, who will in turn incarnate themselves into unborn children. Indeed, her sister gave her her own fertility after Vetherr devoured Mélène's. She is also called the Mother, and she appears to women giving birth to help them and reassure them.
Her worship and power comes from any birth, any sacrifice, any moment of abnegation, any sense of duty born of pure love or affection and all help given graciously.
- All-Loving Hero: She has the love of a mother for anything alive, including for Parodikos, who is extremely thankful for it.
One of the thirteen major gods of Erenner, he is associated with the eighth month of the year. He is the god of the Sun, Philosophy, Bodybuilding, Self-confidence, Arrogance and Mirrors. Associated with self-esteem and surpassment of oneself, he gives his favor to those who have an absolute trust in themselves, allowing them to succeed in doing anything they want as long as they keep an unwavering trust in themselves. He is a vain and arrogant but ultimately kind god, and a friend of Neit and Phumtar.
- Attention Whore: He REALLY enjoys being the center of the attention.
- Distracted by My Own Sexy: The god of Mirrors often stops in front of one, observing the infinite reflections of his oiled and shining body.
- Narcissist: A Downplayed example of this trope, for even as prideful and vain as he is, he knows that he is not perfect: his friend Neit's legs are more muscular than his, and he often commends him on it.
- Pec Flex: He is said to do it constantly.
- Shameless Self-Promoter: He regularly appears in the mortal world to fix any statue of himself that he finds inaccurate.
- Shout-Out: Bob Lennon declared in interview that among Mutra's constant poses are many Jojo poses.
One of the thirteen major gods of Erenner, he is associated with the ninth month of the year. He is the god of Joy, Sound, Haggling and Speed. A friendly god, he spends his playing guitar, surfing or assisting Mutra and Phumtar, whom he lent a fraction of his power to. He technically is one of the most powerful gods of Erenner, but he never uses his considerable capacities to hurt anyone, only ever wishing to have a good time with the people he cares about.
Neit is often represented with an open shirt, his double-neck guitar that he also uses as a bodyboard, and his hair hiding his eyes.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He would probably chuckle at anything you would say to anger him, but if he was not that kind natured, he would be one of the most feared gods.
- Eyes Out of Sight: He is always represented with his eyes hidden behind his hair.
- Mellow Fellow: Neit is always the first to point out the futility of fighting when music and other forms of relaxation seem just as good of a way to take care of problems.
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Neutral Good: Of the Passively Good kind. He simply tries to spend his life as pleasantly as possible and help those who need it. - Nice Guy: Rather than using his powers to prove his superiority like Zarkan, he is contented with assisting Mutra in his bodybuilding sessions and quickly finding forms that Phumtar has lost.
- Please, Don't Leave Me: A rather cruel instance of this trope, as Neit could theoretically take care of Phumtar's terrible job in mere moments, but cannot let go of his friend, who would lose his intelligence and revert to the simple platypus he once was.
- Story-Breaker Power: Neit is so powerful that he could accomplish the work of Phumtar in mere moments, meaning that he would be fast enough to read and verify the rightness of everything that happens in the world at the same time in a few seconds. If he was willing to use his power for more than simply leading a happy life, he would be nigh unstoppable.
- Small Steps Hero: With the considerable power he commends, he could stop almost any of Vetherr's plots, if only by lending a fraction of his power to the mortals that revere him, the way he did with Phumtar.
- Super-Speed: As the god of speed, it was sure to be the case.
One of thirteen gods of Erenner, he is associated with the tenth month of the year. He is the god of Justice, Administration and Gravity, having replaced the three mysteriously disappeared gods who were once tasked with taking care of these matters.
He is both the weakest and the most powerful of all gods, for anything that happens in the world has been personally approved by this simple platypus.
- Beleaguered Bureaucrat: This poor platypus has seen much hardship, forever toiling, forever stamping, always making sure that everything is always correct and always follows the rule of this world.
- Deity of Human Origin: The only reason why Phumtar was chosen to be the substitute for the lost gods is because he stumbled on the godly stamps that he now uses. Omnius seems to think it was enough.
- True Neutral: Out of all the gods, he is the closest one to this state, rarely ever cheating of fate and changing anything to the normal course of action of this world.
One of the thirteen major gods of Erenner, it is associated with the eleventh month of the year. It is the deity of Veils, Secret, Adultery and Mystery. Nothing is known of this secretive deity, as even the inescapable gaze of Blathnat is incapable of seeing Nyses.
Its worship and power comes from thievery and all other hidden acts.
- Ambiguous Gender: Fittingly for the deity of Secret, no one knows if Nyses is a god or a goddess. It might not even have a gender. For all Blathnat knows, it might not even have a true form!
- He Who Must Not Be Seen: Interesting in that the eleventh deity does not fall into any of the categories that are often associated with these trope. Nyses does not speak, and no character has ever seen it.
- Nothing Is Scarier: Thankfully for you, you never oppose the deity of Veils, but those who foolishly try to learn more about this strange being soon feel a creeping presence closing on them, watching them from every shadow, and destroying their notes when they are not looking.
- Patron God: In one of the endings of the first volume, Nyses blesses both you and Luci; you are subsequently erased from the accounts of the history of Alkior but become an urban legend that is widely remembered by the people.
- You Cannot Grasp the True Form: Nothing has ever seen it, and most likely, nothing ever will. Except that in this case, it is just because Nyses is just that sneaky.
One of the thirteen major gods of Erenner, he is associated with the twelth month of the year. He is the god of Flowers, Jokes, Laugh, Tricks and Absurd, responsible for humor. He has an old man head and a children's body, he exists for the sole purpose of amuse and sometimes mock sentient beings. His blessing goes to pranksters and entertainers, allowing them to break the rules of physics and accomplish otherwise impossible deeds, as long as it amounts to something funny.
His worship and power comes from any act accompanied by some sort of humor, may it be sincere, cynical, ironic or even cruel.
- Mood Whiplash: He enjoys both terribly dark and cruel tricks and more innocent jokes, being described by the author to be "the god of both the Joker and Bozo the Clown."
- Reality Warper: Phumtar sometimes indulges with his jokes and allows him to break the rules of reality if the god of Flowers agrees to leave him alone for a time.
- Trickster God: Parodikos is willing to mock anything and anyone in Alkior, up to and including his fellow deities.
Thirteenth major god of Erenner, he is universally hated and feared by humans, as the god of Monsters, Creatures and Necessity has betrayed the other gods in an effort to destroy mankind. He was once a part of the pantheon of Erenner, despite having different origins, but after being warned by his creator of the danger humanity would represent to existence itself if it attained its peak, he decided to betray his lovers Mélène and Ytia, stealing and devouring the first's fertility so that he could create life, and the second's reason so that he could give a mind to his creations. Inside the ebony gorge of the mountain of Deathspit, in his Laboratories of Flesh, he constantly manipulates bone, sinew, muscle, flesh, scale and skin in an effort to handcraft the perfect race of monster, a race that will be fit to eradicate mankind from the surface of Alkior. However, he stays civil with the rest of the pantheon, warning them when he plans to execute an important plan, and congratulating them on each of their victories against him. He opposes Zarkan as a matter of principle, and does not accomplish his task for the pleasure it could bring him, but by pure necessity, bearing this responsability with much dedication and a tang of regret.
If Vetherr must be represented, it is as a tall, thin man with grey or white hair, dressed in the finest clothes, but with his sleeves rolled up and his hands and forearms soaked in blood.
His worship and power come from the birth of any monster, the existence of any non-human or half-human, the fall of any empire, any necessary (and sometimes cruel) act.
- Aristocrats Are Evil: Out of all the gods, except Edire, he is the most noble in his acts and appearance.
- I Have Many Names: He is called Vetherr the Traitor, Vetherr the Father of Monsters, Vetherr the Grey God, Vetherr the enemy of Man, Vetherr the bearer of the Burden, and the worst name of them all: Vetherr the Grieving man.
- The Man Behind the Man: Has been secretly advising, arming, guiding or sometimes outright creating most of the greatest threats human civilisation has ever faced.
- Maker of Monsters: He spends his life creating new species of monsters, hoping to one day create a race of beings strong and numerous enough to overthrow mankind.
- Necessarily Evil: Though he is sure to be acting for the greater good, most people would tend to disagree...
- Powered by a Forsaken Child: He sacrificed his lovers well-being for powers that would allow him to save the world from humanity.
- Regretful Traitor: Though he is always quick to brush aside these feelings, he is sometimes overcome with guilt over what he has done to the twin goddesses; moreover, he often regrets the actions he had to undertake, but still considers them to be a necessary evil.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: He may not look the part, but he eternally toils, spending his time on a dirty and manual work.
- White Hair, Black Heart: His work takes a toll on him, and his hair lost all color.
