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Rhue
Rhue of Landorin
- The Ageless: His body hasn't aged for centuries, millennia or possibly ever, thanks to Phantom Slasher.
- Antihero: During his Protagonist Journey to Villain, he spends quite a lot of time in this stage.
- Catchphrase:
- "How sweet it is.", every time he wins a Plunge.
- "Wonderful...", every time something bad happens.
- "Sweet flaming lands..."
- "Burn me...", which is a Borrowed Catchphrase from Jeruh.
- Celibate Hero: Other women – like Lyrra or Cetsa – might be nice and cute, but it's only Serena who matters.
- Chick Magnet: It's not clear why, but women just seem to flock to him. Even women who really don't have any reason to like him.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: The number of characters he works with but later injures or kills is staggering. After all, his only true loyality is to Serena.
- Cradling Your Kill: He desperately tries to convince Lexus to hang on. Arguably, this is the moment when he begins to realize what he is becoming.
- Deadpan Snarker: One of his Catch Phrases, "Wonderful".
- Defrosting Ice King: Devoted beyond question to Serena, to the point he'd stop at nothing to find her. However, he slowly develops emotions, like his affection for Lexus or his friendship with Trazium.
- Death of Personality: His current body belonged to Midian, who hunted the Shadow Slasher, Jeruh. When he kills him, not only his personality becomes overriden by the Shadow Sword, but by Jeruh's Mad Love for Serena as well. In the True Ending, while he regains his memories of the Shadow Sword and Jeruh's, Midian's consciousness is in fact dead and gone.
- Despair Event Horizon: At the end of Episode 4, when he kills Lexus. After that, his search for Serena is literally the only thing that keeps him going on.
- The Determinator: You really have to admire Rhue for the lengths he will go to find one chick. That, or be utterly terrified of him.
- Fake Memories: It's obvious that his memory have pretty huge holes. In the end, it's discovered that they are a mishmash of the memories of other people.
- Good Is Not Nice: Towards the beginning of his Protagonist Journey to Villain.
- Heel Realization: He has several of these at various points. At the very end of Episode 6, the confrontation with the Phantom Slasher causes the biggest one.
- Heroes Prefer Swords: He starts the game with a blade even though, by his own admission, he doesn't really know how to use it.
- Heroic BSoD: In Episode 4, he gets one when he accidentally kills his girlfriend due to a freak combination of circumstances.
- I Did What I Had to Do: He can cite this trope almost literaly in Dialogue Trees, when Kloe asks him to justify his jerkassery.
- I Have Many Names: He has had several names because of his changing Fake Memories. This has been going on for centuries, as he is the wielder of Phantom Slasher. It's hinted that several of the legendary heroes and villains that you hear about were either him, or were later absorbed into him.
- In-Series Nickname: "Blue Boy", given by Strata.
- Irrational Hatred: Inspecting the mirrors that can be found in most houses reveal that Rhue has always disliked them, and hates them more and more as you progress through the story. This is because of the disconnect between who he thinks he is and the person that's actually reflected in the mirrors. Not to mention having the body of Midian and Jeruh's consciousness, who hated each other when they were alive.
- Jerkass: If you play him that way in the Dialogue Trees. He also inevitably becomes one as the story goes on and he's forced to do more and more unpleasant things in his search for Serena.
- Jerk Ass Woobie: Towards the end he's really unpleasant, but it's hard to ignore the Trauma Conga Line he has been through.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He is very bitter and doesn't have very many friends, but it's implied he cares very deeply for the friends he does have. Then Episode 5 happens.
- Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: He's ready to do anything to find Serena. And he eventually does. More notable after killing Lexus and Lyrra.
- Loving a Shadow: It's strongly implied that his love for Serena fits this trope exactly. In the end this is verified, since his memories of Serena weren't even his own.
- Love Makes You Evil: Well, losing that childhood love. Jeruh is a more straightforward example of this.
- Meaningful Rename: He took a letter out from his previous name: Jeruh -> Rhue
- Mercy Kill: When he finds Jed on the verge of death because of a bandit attack, Rhue does this. Thus absorbing Jed's soul in his sword.
- My God, What Have I Done?: His reaction after accidentally killing Lexus. After a while, he manages to rationalize that as I Did What I Had to Do.
- Older Than They Look: He seems like the youngest of the main cast, except for Lyrra. He actually has been around for centuries, thanks to his Shadow Sword.
- Protagonist Journey to Villain: Starts as a Nice Guy then goes to Good Is Not Nice, to Jerk with a Heart of Gold, to Jerk With A Heart Of Jerk, to Villain Protagonist, and in the end either has a Heel Realization or decides to Screw This, I'm Outta Here.
- Really 700 Years Old: Though the game never tells his exact age, one NPC from Episode 6 indicates that he has been using the Shadow Sword for over a hundred years.
- Sanity Slippage: He starts losing it around Episode 5. Eventually you realize he was pretty messed up to begin with.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: While it wasn't a war, the Landorin Massacre screwed Rhue up pretty bad. Or rather, Midian's consciousness.
- Sociopathic Hero: He gradually seems to become this during Episode 4 and 5.
- Tomato in the Mirror: One could even argue that he's the Big Bad of the entire game.
- Tranquil Fury: When he is walking around in the rain after Lexus's death.
- Trigger-Happy: As he becomes stronger and more confident. Amplified after Episode 4.
- Troll: If you go around talking to NPCs, Rhue sometimes amuses himself by trolling children.
- The Unfettered: He does whatever he has to do in order to find Serena.
- Unreliable Narrator: It's pretty obvious that there's something wrong with his memories of the Landorin massacre."If this isn't Landorin... why do I remember this place???"
- Villain Protagonist: After Episode 4 or 5,
depending on your interpretation. - Well-Intentioned Extremist: Rhue just wants to find his girlfriend and make sure she's safe... and in doing this he kills many, many people and is generally considered to have jumped off the deep end.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Characters often say this about him, like Strata confronting him and calling him a monster for killing Lyrra after she went crazy. Sure, Rhue did it in self-defense, but he doesn't exactly seem broken up about it.
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Rhue's moral boundaries are gradually torn down as he becomes more powerful at an unnatural rate, due to his Shadow Sword.
Strata
Strata
- Break the Haughty: Through Episode 5. Maybe.
- The Casanova: A womanizer who believes that a having a Trophy Wife is another thing that proves to the world how great of a fighter he is.
- Glory Hound: If hurting people and lying will help him get his way, he'll do it.
- Glory Seeker: Lives and breathes this trope.
- Hidden Depths: He seems genuinely broken up when Rhue kills Lyrra, to his own surprise. Also, he actually keeps his promise to protect her for most of the game.
- I Just Want to Be Badass: He wants to become the Paraphalyn, the ultimate badass.
- Jerkass: He'll gladly hurt or kill Rhue to steal him a rabbit. Which he'll later throw away, because he actually doesn't care about it that much.
- The Nicknamer: He calls Rhue "Blue Boy" and several women "Babe".
- The Rival: Played up to be this to Rhue, expecially during the tournament in Episode 4.
- Troll: He really enjoys making Rhue angry.
- Smug Snake: He spends 95% of his screentime being arrogant and violent towards those weaker than him.
- Villainous Breakdown: In earlier versions of Episode 5, Strata temporarily goes through this during his arena Plunge with Rhue if he lasts for much longer than the six-turn limit predicted upon him. This has been changed to have Rhue go down immediately at the seventh pass regardless of how much HP he has remaining.
Traziun
Traziun
- Abusive Parents: His main character arc is him wanting revenge on his father.
- The Ace: When you meet him, he is the strongest member of the party by far. Actually, he is way stronger than that.
- Calling the Old Man Out: He calls out his father for killing his mother and generally being an evil dick.
- Fiery Redhead: Has the appropriate fiery personality, though he can also be a Guile Hero when he wants.
- Good Hair, Evil Hair: Of the Good Goatee variety, indicating a mysterious character or an outsider.
- Guile Hero: Despite being one of the strongest characters, he prefers being this. At one point he even teaches Rhue that some problems can be solved by being smart instead of fighting.
- Heroic Sacrifice: In the True Ending, he manages to destroy the Phantom Slasher by using it to kill himself, forcing it to break its own rules.
- Mysterious Past: The circumstances of his mother's death are never really explained.
- The Oath-Breaker: He's one of only two Blood Lyn to ever run away from the Blana Sera and live.
- One-Man Army: He kills a whole fortress of Blood Lyn by himself.
- Pre Ass Kicking One Liner:Do you want me to make a speech or something?
- Red Is Heroic: He's probably the closest thing to a straight hero in the main cast.
- Stepford Smiler: Type A, He's a confident and upbeat guy, but he's ready to throw his life away to avenge his mother.
- You Killed My Mother: And he wants revenge for it.
Gaius
Gaius
- The Chessmaster:
- He seems to be playing both sides of the conflict among the Guided.
- Also, in Episode 5 and 6 he implies he's trying to destroy the Shadow Swords.
- Dissonant Serenity: As long as his problem isn't relating to Kloe, he seems calm and relaxed even in apparently horrible circumstances.
- Guile Hero: From Rhue's point of view, he's a Manipulative Bastard. But since by that point Rhue has become a Villain Protagonist, Gaius can be considered this.
- Hero Antagonist: In Episode 6 he wants to stop Rhue, who is the Phantom Slasher and by that point has become a Villain Protagonist. Depending on the ending, a third option may present itself.
- Hidden Depths: Interestingly, this is alluded to in the gameplay: in Episode 5, Gaius has an attack ominously called "Inner Darkness", whose in-game description states that it can be used only under peculiar circumstances. These circumstances never occur in the game, so that skill remains grayed out.
- Mind Reading: He taps into Kloe's memories. However, the details of this ability are not explored.
- Mysterious Past: The very few statements that are made about his past raise more questions than they answer.
- Nice Guy: The first two time Rhue meets him, before his Mysterious Past starts coming up.
- Non-Answer: Gaius ends up being the king of cryptic speeches.
- The Oath-Breaker: He managed to run away from the Blana Sera.
- Subverted Trope: it seems like they let him do it.
- This Is Unforgivable!: After he finds out that Kloe killed Foreman Ballar, he tells her she has crossed the Moral Event Horizon in his eyes and wants nothing to do with her from then on.
Lyrra
Lyrra
- Blood-Splattered Innocents: Part of her backstory as the Sole Survivor of the Landorin Massacre.
- Break the Cutie: Take what seems like the most optimistic and innocent person in the world, then have her boyfriend not just dump her to chase after another girl, but abandon her in a temple full of murderous ninjas, tell her Rhue killed her father, then find a sword that magnifies negative emotions and murderous intent. All in the same day.
- The Cutie: And of course Episode 5 takes great care to thoroughly break her.
- Damsel in Distress:
- Invoked Trope in Episode 3 when she thinks Rhue came to save her from Dancing Violet.
- She tries invoking it again in Episode 6 with her obviously fake story about her "kingdom".
- Dark and Troubled Past: Lyrra is the Sole Survivor of the Landorin Massacre, which traumatized her heavily.
- Despair Event Horizon: Strata, her supposed Knight in Shining Armor, not only dumping her, but showing he has never really cared about her.
- Horrible Judge of Character: To her, Strata is a Knight in Shining Armor saving the Damsel in Distress. She's blind to his womanizing and Jerkass ways for most of the story.
- The Ingenue: She probably was this as a child, and keeps faking it as a way to forget the trauma of the Landorin Massacre.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: Useful to make the player feel even worse when shit hits the fan for her too.
- Murder Is the Best Solution: Her reaction to the abovementioned Break the Cutie (and to finding a Shadow Sword). She doesn't succeed in her endeavor.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Repressed her memories of Jeruh provoking the Landorin Massacre and killing Serena.
- Long-Lost Relative: She is Jeruh's little sister.
- The Pollyanna: She spends most of the story as this... and then she snaps.
- Sanity Slippage: Slowly during Episode 5.
- Sole Survivor: She's the only known survivor of the Landorin Massacre. The other one is Midian, but his consciousness was assimilated with Jeruh, becoming Rhue.
- Stepford Smiler: She convinces herself she's basically living in a story and her horrible past will be justified when she finally reaches the happy ending that's waiting for her.
- The Storyteller: She's obsessed with stories as a way to justify her past. See Stepford Smiler.
- This Is Reality: On the receiving end of this dialogue in Episode 5, when Scatha finds her sobbing over Strata showing interest in Cetsa and berates her for believing her life was a fairytale.
- True Blue Femininity: Appropriate, since Lyrra wants to be a Damsel in Distress rescued by a Knight in Shining Armor.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: As mentioned in Stepford Smiler, she needs to be this.
- Woman Scorned: She finally snaps when Strata dumps her to go after Cetsa, and starts chasing him while swinging a blood-covered sword. It's not Played for Laughs.
Cetsa
Cetsa
However, she is later revealed to be Dancing Violet, the leader of the murderous Blue Scarves bandits, and maybe hold a clue as to where Rhue might find Serena.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: When Rhue first meets her, she's posing as an Innocent Fanservice Girl as part of a scam.
- Connected All Along: She and Kloe were childhood friends who fell out over the pendant that Cetsa found.
- Dark Action Girl: She's a very strong fighter and the head of a big bandit group.
- Evil Redhead: She has the typical fiery personality, though she's also very petty.
- Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: At several points in the story she tries to play innocent to escape her just punishment. Unluckily for her, it stops working.
- Femme Fatale: Being a very beautiful seductress is part of several of her plans.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: When Rhue meets her again in Turnway her hair is now in a Tomboyish Ponytail, as she attacks the settlement with the Blue Scarves.
- Head-Turning Beauty: The men in Lide are so infatuated with her that a Bar Brawl breaks out and she holds a tournament over who gets a kiss from her. As it turns out, she does this a lot: it's a scam to steal people's entrance fees, because her right-hand man Kygar always wins while the other guys are Distracted by the Sexy.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: Just as she decides to leave her criminal past behind her and tries to save a dying Slade, he uses his last seconds to kill her.
- Inappropriate Role Model: Lexus is a big fangirl of Cetsa.
- Informed Attractiveness: There's only so much attractiveness an RPG Maker sprite can convey before the characters have to inform the players that Cetsa is really beautiful.
- Manipulative Bitch: Her modus operandi whenever her fighting prowess isn't enough.
- Mysterious Past: We never find out when her Start of Darkness happened, though her accident involving Kloe, the pendant and the river probably helped.
- Red Baron: Most people know her only as Dancing Violet.
- Tomboy: She plays the part of a Femme Fatale, but when she doesn't need it she becomes this.
Kloe
Kloe
- Big "NO!": In the canon ending, as she stops Gaius from killing Rhue.
- Bodyguard Babes: Is sold as one to Foreman Ballar.
- Bodyguard Betrayal: She was the one who killed Foreman Ballar.
- Bodyguard Crush: She developed one on Foreman Ballar.
- Broken Bird: She has been raised as a mercenary since she was a child, abandoned by her Blood Brother, considered "damaged goods" by her masters because of said abandonment and finally sold as a Bodyguard Babe.
- Child Soldiers: As a Blood Lyn, her training began when she was very young.
- Connected All Along: She and Cetsa were childhood friends who fell out over the pendant they found.
- Green-Eyed Monster: When she witnessed how Foreman Ballar was sleeping with other women, she didn't take it well. It got to the point of eventually killing him.
- I Just Want to Be Loved: And yet she's Born Unlucky. Her childhood friend pushed her into a river, her Blood Brother who she was in love with breaked his oath and ran from the Blood Lyn and the only person to ever show real affection towards her is a cheating bastard. No wonder she tries to win Rhue's affection, or at least his friendship.
- My Master, Right or Wrong: Blood Lyn are sold to the highest bidder and trained to have this attitude to their buyer.
- The Oath-Breaker: When she was sold as a Blood Lyn to Ballar, she swore to protect Ballar's life and the Shadow Sword in Lide. She fails at both tasks.
- The Reliable One: A competent leader of the guards in Lide and go-to person when people are in danger.
- Tomboy: She needs to be one, to be an effective leader for the guards in Lide. She gradually drops this after she changes environment.
- Tsundere: Towards Rhue, sometimes.
- Tyke Bomb: She was trained as a Blood Lyn.
Slade
Slade
- Abusive Parents: His mother is a big example of this.
- Aloof Big Brother: He was this to his sisters, before his mother went past the Moral Event Horizon and brought him along.
- Anti-Villain: The man has a weird sense of justice, but that's simply because his mother trained him to obey orders without question.
- Berserk Button: Triggered by anyone who is sleazy or abusive towards women. Probably because of a subconscious My God, What Have I Done?.
- The Big Guy: In Episode 6. He's silent all the time, and a very strong physical fighter.
- Dark Secret: Having been trained for birth to blindly obey his mother, he even threw his sister into the Pits when he was ordered to.
- Deadpan Snarker: Has his moments.Find someone else to be your prostitute. Try your husband.
- Driven to Suicide: After the massacre at Estrana, failing to protect Lexus and getting a "The Reason You Suck" Speech from Rhue, Slade is filled with suicidal despair. In the middle of his breakdown, he encounters Scatha, whom he immediately recognizes as his long long sister. Scatha instead lashed out at him and told him the only way he could ever make up for what he had done was to kill himself. And he did so.
- Early-Bird Cameo: He shows up in Episode 1 long enough to save Rhue's life and scare Strata before disappearing until Episode 3.
- The Fettered: He holds the rules and his screwed up perceptions of the world very high. He's actually a very good and uncorruptible law enforcer... until he snaps.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: His facial scars represent the fact that he's a seasoned warrior.
- Lawful Stupid: He works with people who manipulate him and take him for granted, and he's very aware of it. Still, he can't even consider stopping.
- Long-Lost Relative: Two main characters, Scatha and Serena, are actually his sisters.
- My God, What Have I Done?: After he realizes that Scatha is his pressumably dead sister.
- The Quiet One: In Episode 6, he never speaks a word. Even before that, he's usually not very talkative.
- Super-Soldier: Not magically or scientifically modified, but as a Shadow Foot of the Vigilance Council he usually works alone and is an elite fighter.
- Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: He starts chasing Rhue in Episode 5. Granted, Slade isn't exactly a "virtuous" cop, but by this point Rhue has basically become a Villain Protagonist.
- Villainous Breakdown: Realizing the rules he has followed all his life were arbitrary and unjust starts driving him to suicide.
- What Have I Become?: See Villainous Breakdown and Driven to Suicide.
Scatha
Scatha
- Abusive Parents: Saying her mother was abusive would be a big Understatement.
- Better with Non-Human Company: Being knocked into a hole by her own brother and living alone hasn't done much for Scatha's social skills, but she's perfectly fine talking with monsters.
- Broken Bird: She used to be a happy young woman until the events of her Dark and Troubled Past happened...
- Cool Mask: She uses it to hide her hideously scarred face.
- Dark and Troubled Past: We don't learn her entire story, but she was thrown into the Pits by her own brother after she was disowned and scarred for life by her abusive mother.
- Deadpan Snarker:Rhue: I'm looking for a girl. And right now I'm trying to figure out why her pendant was stained with blood.Scatha: Becaussse sssomeone got cut and bled on it, hon.
- Does Not Like Men: She has her reasons: she was abandoned by the man she slept with and was later thrown in the Pits for that.
- The Grotesque: She has accepted that role for herself, refuses to take off her mask and expects to be shunned by everyone for what lies beneath it.
- Hates Being Touched: She even accuses Rhue of groping her when he carried her away from imminent danger when she was unconscious.
- Irrational Hatred: Is rather cold and callous to Rhue at first, insisting his love for Serena is shallow. Mostly because she's Serena sister and resents Midian for being the Sole Survivor of Jeruh's rampage. But after realizing he truly has no memories of being Midian she acts less abrassive.
- Long-Lost Relative: She is one of Slade's sisters.
- Meaningful Rename: She rearranged the letters of her previous name: Chasta -> Scatha.
- Scars Are Forever: Althrough we never see them, her scars played a big part in determining her personality.
- Raised by Wolves: Spent most of her youth in the Pits and is much more comfortable interacting with monsters than with humans.
- Spanner in the Works: It's mentioned that Cetsa and Kygar have had their plans foiled by her several times.
- Sssssnake Talk: Implied to be caused by the fact she's used to speaking the language of monsters.
- Stance System: In Episode 5, Scatha gains the ability to switch between forms with different skills: by default, she's in her Cold Killer stance, which gives her access to powerful offensive abilities. She can switch to The Woman Within, a more compassionate side that replaces her attacks with healing abilities.
- Straw Nihilist: Expecially about true love not existing.
- She assumes Rhue only cares about Serena because she was pretty. Mostly because of her resentment of Midian.
- When she sees Lyrra crying about her lost love, Scatha gives her another lecture about how love is an illusion.
- Technicolor Ninjas: A bright pink costume for a very sneaky and stealthy character.
- This Is Reality: Gives this dialogue to Lyrra in Episode 5. Scatha berates her for believing her life was a fairytale when Lyrra is sobbing over Strata showing interest in Cetsa.
- Tomboy: It's implied she doesn't really view herself as a woman. Though she seems to like Rhue complimenting her hair.
Lexus
Lexus
- Ascended Fangirl: She admired Dancing Violet so much that she actually tried to emulate her in every way, mimicking her fighting style, founding the Blue Scarves gang in Estrana and even going out of her way to befriend Rhue.
- Curtains Match the Window: To complete her pink/brown pattern.
- Damsel out of Distress: She can take care of herself very well, no hero needed. Expecially after the big brawl in Outer Estrana.
- Friendly Target: In a really twisted way: Rhue, in the last job he had to do before talking to Cetsa, accidentally kills her.
- Go Out with a Smile: She not only dies smiling, but uses her last words to comfort Rhue.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: She's having second thoughts about her gang. But before she can act on them, she's accidentally killed by Rhue.
- Kill the Cutie: A big part of Episode 4 is about establishing her as the Cutie... and then Rhue accidentally kills her.
- Living a Double Life: Twice. She founded the Blue Scarves gang in Estrana, modelling herself after Dancing Violet and then she joined the Arastotzi and took on her secret identity as Red Zero.
- Living Emotional Crutch: For Rhue during Episode 4.
- Monster Fangirl: Cetsa is a definitely Inappropriate Role Model for her.
- Pretty in Mink: Easy to miss, but she wears a pink fur wrap over her white dress.
- Pink Means Feminine: She's an Action Girl, but also has arguably the most feminine personality in the main cast.
- Rebellious Princess: She doesn't really appreciate being the daughter of Zedicus, the leader of the Vigilance Council in Estrana. This probably lead to her taking an Inappropriate Role Model.
- Red Baron: She's known as Red Zero in her gang.
- Sacrificial Lion: With her, the series starts getting really Darker and Edgier.
- Second Love: It's the only girl Rhue seems to show real interest in. Under certain circumstances, it's possible to end the game with Rhue spending the rest of his life with Lexus in Dream Estrana, after realizing that Serena has been Dead All Along and that the love he felt for her was fake.
- Secret Identity: She is part of the Arastotzi as Red Zero.
Sorya
Sorya
- Femme Fatale: The straightest example in the series.
- Hidden Depths: If you take her out on a date in Episode 6, she reveals that she used to be a Blood Lyn.
- Meaningful Rename: She takes a letter out of her name after dying: Sorya -> Rosa.
- Shameless Fanservice Girl:
- She gives Rhue orders for their next meeting while being naked in a bathtub. She can even ask Rhue to join her.
- In Episode 6, you can meet her again after a plunge. She's still naked in the very same bathtub.
- Silk Hiding Steel: You wouldn't know by her outfit and her way of talking, but she's quite the skilled fighter.
Dirk
Dirk
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He's not the most competent fighter, but he's much more knowledgeable than his demeanor lets on.
- Chivalrous Pervert: He acts like a Dirty Old Man towards Kloe and Cetsa during Episode 5, but never does anything really bad.
- Dirty Old Man: Though it could be Obfuscating Stupidity, at least partly.
- Messy Hair: Fits the whole "eccentric old man" thing.
- Plucky Comic Relief: He may seem like this at first. Just like everyone in The Way though, he has Hidden Depths.
- Talkative Loon: He really likes to hear himself talk.
Sacrifa
Sacrifa
- Deal with the Devil: He makes a deal with the Lord Below to cure his wife, who suffers from a mysterious disease that is eating away her flesh. This goes horribly wrong: he is discovered, his wife is stoned to death, and Sacrifa unleashes a Roaring Rampage of Revenge, destroying the city itself.
- Happily Married: To his wife Lilah. Of course, this being The Way, they both end up dead, after he resorts to desperate measures to cure her illness.
- Despair Event Horizon: When his wife gets killed, he just stops caring about anything but revenge.
- Morality Pet: Lilah. Sacrifa may be ready to go to pretty awful extremes, but is nothing but sweet and caring towards his wife.
- Love Makes You Evil: His love for his wife Lilah leads him to make a Deal with the Devil to cure her from a painful disease.
- Sacrificial Lion: When shit hits the fan in Episode 5, he's one of the victims.
- The Smart Guy: In Episode 6, he takes this role in the party.
- Younger Than They Look: According to Lilah, their struggles have aged him quite a bit.
Midian
Midian
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A young man who joins Rhue's mission to enter the Arm of Estrana – now called the Demon's Blade – in Episode 6. His unfinished business with a man called Jeruh motivates his actions, though we don't find out much more about him initially.
- Anime Hair: He has the weirdest hair in the whole series.
- Chekhov's Gunman: In-name only, but the headhunter in the Marna Strech in Episode 2 calls Rhue Midian. Come Episode 6, a guy called Midian is a playable character. Or rather, what's left of Midian's consciousness, as Rhue's current body belonged to him.
- Childhood Friends: With Serena.
- Demonic Possession: His body was possessed by the Shadow Sword, becoming Rhue.
- It's Personal: Wants to take revenge on Jeruh for killing Serena years ago.
- The Lancer: In Episode 6, he takes this role in the party.
- Pyrrhic Victory: He finally manages to kill Jeruh and avenge Serena. Unfortunately he touches the Shadow Sword, resulting in him being possessed by it and Jeruh's Mad Love, becoming Rhue.
- Sole Survivor: Of Jeruh's rampage.
- Victorious Childhood Friend: A tragic example. It's implied Serena loved him, resulting in Jeruh getting possessed by the Shadow Sword and kill her.
Jeruh
Jeruh
- Alas, Poor Villain: Midian, who despises him for killing Serena, feels sorry for him when he finds out about his Demonic Possession.
- All of the Other Reindeer: When he was young he was bullied by the other village children, who found his obsession with Serena pathetic.
- Childhood Friends: With Serena.
- Creepy Child: Was just a little boy when he caused the Landorin Massacre.
- Demonic Possession: His body was possessed by the Shadow Sword, resulting in him provoking the Landorin Massacre.
- Disproportionate Retribution: During the Landorin Massacre, killing a hundred people in the process, just because he saw the girl he liked dating another boy.
- Driven to Madness: Seeing his beloved Serena having a date with Midian made him crack big time, and the Shadow Sword's influence made things even worse.
- Entitled to Have You: Thinks he deserves Serena's love because he was nice to her and showered her with gifts.
- Fake Memories: After killing Serena, he convinces himself she's still alive and wanders towns searching for her. He only admits the truth after being confronted by the spirits of Midian and Lyrra.
- Karma Houdini: Got away with the Landorin Massacre, due to Lyrra repressing her memories of the event and the survivors refusing to believe Midian's claims that a possessed boy was the culprit.
- Karmic Death: Was killed by Serena's grieving boyfriend.
- Small Role, Big Impact: While he dies early on, his obsession with Serena is so big it overrule the Shadow Sword's desire to purge the Way. So much that when Midian touches the sword he starts thinking he's Jeruh and must find Serena.
- Unlucky Childhood Friend: Had a crush on Serena, who doesn't even like him as a friend.
- Walking Spoiler: See the blanked entries?
The Phantom Slasher
The Phantom Slasher
- Big Bad: In the end, the central conflict of Episode 6 is Rhue trying to break free from Phantom Slasher's influence in his head, which brings him to drop the sword in the real world.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: The game never reveals why he kills certain people and lets other people live. But it's largely accepted that the Shadow Swords aren't inherently linked to a black-and-white notion of good and evil which we could understand.
- Demonic Possession: Anyone who grasps the hilt of the Shadow Sword is subject to this; turning them into battle-hungry psychopaths who can copy the techniques of any opponent the sword has been wielded against before.
- Evil Weapon: Can possess the wielder if the user draws the sword from its sheath, corrupting them into violent, bloodthirsty versions of their original selves that hunger for battle.
- The Faceless
- Hidden Agenda Villain: As noted below in Well-Intentioned Extremist, he wants to keep Rhue moving along to "clean the Way", but we never get to know what he exactly means by that.
- Insanity Immunity: The Shadow Sword is known for driving everyone who tries to use it insane. This is shown when the originally unconfident Jeruh calmly kills Serena and tried to do the same to Midian. In contrast, the current unnamed host of the Shadow Sword didn't change much, since he absorbed Jeruh's insanity.
- Knight Templar: The Phantom Slasher – that is to say, the sword – kills those who fail to meet his standards. It self-destructs when forced to kill someone who it considers to be innocent.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: His name is actually being used in-universe to spread panic.
- Serial Killer: Most people consider him this. They're not wrong, but the truth is somehow more complicated.
- The Voiceless: The only time we hear him talking is at the end of Episode 6, inside Rhue's mind.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He kills people it judges as "evil", and people who try to stop him from doing this judgement. We never find out what exactly he considers "evil".
