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Nemesis

• Arch-Enemy: Understandably towards all the Nabateans (especially Rhea), considering his monstrous actions at Zanado.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Survived the Crapsack World that Fódlan used to be during his time and became the leader of the Ten Elites by essentially being the World's Strongest Man. During Flayn's flashback in Chapter 100 to the War of Heroes, she remembers Nemesis being almost a force of nature unto himself: slicing enemies with no problem, tanking even some of most powerful magic spells thrown at him and tearing his opposition apart with chilling and bloody ease. As Chapter 102 shows, several centuries of being held in suspended animation does not seem to slow him much either, considering that he is able to rather easily block and counter attacks from both Macuil and Indech while fighting King Kirah at the time.
• Broken Pedestal: For all the Ten Elites. As a despairing Renata painfully muses in chapter 87, Ronan was held in incredibly high regard by the Ten Elites before his killing of Sothis (with the implication being that, just like with Renata, Ronan saved each of the Ten Elites from similarly dark situations). But both his desire to conquer and rule and the moment he killed Sothis and gave all the Elites her blood to drink were the moments that, in Renata's own words, he "dragged all of us down into the eternal flames."
• The Dreaded: Everyone is afraid of facing this guy once he awakens, both our main heroes and Ronan's old allies alike. Be it because they still remember his monstrous actions and savagery (as the Nabateans do), because his status as a brutal case of Broken Pedestal and the feelings of intense betrayal his followers have about him (the Ten Elites), the fact they know he will kill them all on a whim as he has done in the past unless they manage to compleatly control him this time (the Agarthans) or because they dread the idea of fighting him in combat (our main heroes) the shadow of fear Nemesis creates is a long one indeed.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: Something that has bitten the Agarthans hard ever since they initially made contact with him. The original Agarthans tried to demand his cooperation and control him as their agent (and this is after he proved himself ruthless, cunning and brutal enough to find and kill Sothis in her sleep in the Holy Tomb). His reaction? Nemesis killed most of the with contemptuous ease, leaving only the alchemists who begged for their lives and Nemesis was only swayed when they swore they could construct weapons for him that would have no rivals. Even then, he swore to kill them if they failed to impress him. This is actually the main reason why the current Agarthan ruling power is so incredibly hesitant to awake him and treat him as an absolute last option, because they know that there is nothing really stopping Nemesis from deciding that the Agarthans are utterly disposable and killing them all once he awakens.
• Fatal Flaw: His ultimate flaw was the belief that he had all the answers, which evolved into a fixation on obtaining godhood and being god when he followed the Agarthans and discovered Sothis sleeping. Combining that with having grown up in a world where you had to be willing to do -anything- to survive (at least, as he saw it), combined with having Agarthan advisers whispering to him, turned all that greatness he possessed into an unfathomable cruelty and tyranny. And because of that charisma, that genuine affection for the Elites that he had, and the good he'd been able to do...he dragged them all down with him, as well as many others.
• A Father to His Men: Before he got consumed by his delusion of godhood and his bloody and absolutely uncompromising certainty that he was the person worthy of being the true leader of the world, he was this towards the Ten Elites. Both Michael and Renata bitterly reminisce about him as a quasi-parental figure and it's made very clear that before he killed Sothis and gave all of the Elites Nabatean blood to drink alongside the weapons made from thier bones, that they all held him in the highest regard due to having saved all of them from their respective horrible pasts during a time Fódlan was a lawless no mans land and giving them a place to belong. This made Ronan's betrayal and crossing the moral line so heinously so painful for the Ten Elites.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Once upon a time, a nameless baby was born from the hung corpse of his mother. Said baby would grow up to be the leader of a band of thieves and then into Nemesis, the feared King of Liberation.
• Genius Bruiser: How Indech grudgingly describes Nemesis-an incredibly powerful bandit and warrior shaped by the brutality of the world he lived in who nevertheless was distressingly smarter anyone else who tried to invade the Holy Tomb before him: he watched the Agarthan Strike teams fail, and figured out how to bypass most of the golems and other protection in the Holy Tomb – and destroy the few he couldn't avoid.
• The Ghost: As of Chapter 90 he has only been directly seen in Reneta Fraldarius's flashback in her A Day in the Limelight. Despite this, his presence is certainly felt in the story in one way or another. It's not until Chapter 101 that his coffin is finally seen and the chapter ends with the Cliffhanger of his coffin being blasted wide open from the inside, signifying his return.
• Kick the Dog: Among the many vile acts he preformed during his lifetime after killing Sothis, that he was perfectly willing to use Flayn like a twisted parody of a battle standard during The War Of Heroes has to be one of the most pointlessly cruel ones he's done. If not for Ren's actions this would have been Flayn's horrible fate. And while she was saved from said fate, it's made clear that she still has PTSD from that moment.
• Named by the Adaptation: This story runs with the theory that the name "Nemesis" was actually a Nom de Guerre as well as a very strongly implied Meaningful Rename. His real name? Ronan.
• Nay-Theist: Or so Indech believes him to be. The Nabatean theorizes that Nemesis couldn't accept that Sothis could be so benevolent, so loving, when his life and the lives of those around him were characterized with such horror and brutality. That he was astounded that Sothis was real, and sleeping (of course, sleeping ''only'' after she singlehandedly not only saved the world from Agartha and Laputa but used all her power to heal the damage they had done of the world) while Fódlan suffered. He decided that if she would sleep through this then someone needed to take her place.
• Übermensch: The comments done by the Author in chapter 87 imply that Nemesis once upon a time was this, with elements of Utopia Justifies the Means. He hated the chaos and endless violence he suffered through as a child and wanted to unify humanity into a functioning society, not just a warlord cult he could rule over. He was intensely charismatic, easily the strongest and most capable man of his era, intelligent and a great leader. Too bad about that Fatal Flaw of his.

Michael Blaiddyd

• Affectionate Nickname: Refers to Renata Fraldarius as "Rena."
• Anguished Declaration of Love: Indech revealing that Vishnu was utterly in love with Michael completely leaves Blayddid thunderstruck and obviously utterly guilt-ridden and the more Indech pushes for Michael’s own answer about his feeling the more distracted and chaotic he becomes until he explodes with an utterly anguished, agonized and emotional roar: of course Michael did not know that the blood he drank or the bones that made his weapon belonged to Vishnu. Vishnu was the only man he had ever loved, but he utterly missed the signs of what should have been obvious and that is something that has always utterly haunted him.
• Apologetic Attacker: When he clashes with Dimitri in Brigid, Michael apologizes, saying that he can't stop himself while preparing an attack.
• Dark and Troubled Past: For starters, we learn in chapter 91 that Michael’s parents were actually killed and eaten right in front of him by a Cannibal Clan. The fact that he furiously muses that he hates The Agarthans more than the people who killed his parents in the first place, despite being a pretty horrendous thing to witness, just shows how absolutely detested The Agarthans are as a whole.
• A Day in the Limelight: Chapter 91 is told from his point of view, and we get to explore a little more about his past and doomed romance with Vishnu as he and the rest of The Ten Elites await our heroes in Shambhala.
• Driven to Suicide: From Indech's recollections, Michael lost the will to live during the final battle between Nemesis and Seiros, deliberately leaving himself open to a fatal attack. Given that he was friends with/possibly in love with Vishnu, whose blood and bones became his crest and relics, he was probably in this state for while a while.
• Even Evil Has Standards: It's very difficult to call him evil in any capacity considering his current situation, but Michael shows unabashed bitter disgust at the sheer depravity the Agarthans are willing to sink in order to win.
• Identical Grandson: Michael Blaiddyd bears such a close resemblance to Lambert Blaiddyd (Dimitri's dad) that in chapter 64/65 while fighting against Dimitri, the younger quickly mistakes them for the same man at first glance.
• Lightning Bruiser: Fast and strong enough to easily keep up with Dimitri while fighting him in Brigid, and in chapter 76 he once again shows elements of this when he manages to be agile enough to catch both Rhea and Byleth by surprise and actually manages to briefly overpower Rhea in combat. Later during the Battle of Shambhala he shows his Lightning Bruiser credentials by fighting Glenn, Felix, Bernadetta and Dimitri while having a particularly painful conversation with Indech.
• Madness Mantra: “I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I didn't know! I didn't know! I DIDN'T KNOW“.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Implied to have become suicidally depressed when he found out the source of his Crest and lance, apologizing to Indech multiple times before his first death. He's not any happier about his current status as a Voodoo Zombie.
• Reluctant Monster: Doesn't want to fight for Agartha, but is compelled to serve them due to Myson's Geas. It's also implied that he was unaware of the source of his crest and relic until it was too late.
• Rescue Romance: A rare case of this being a male rescuing a male scenario, but still absolutely falls into this category. In Michael’s Interlude on chapter 91 we learn that his strong infatuation/romantic feelings for Vishnu came about when the Nabatean saved him and some of his fellow Ten Elites from several Demonic Beasts. Tragically and painfully heartwarming (considering what would happen later on to Vishnu), it seemed that Michael shared Dimitri’s non-eloquence when dealing with someone he was attracted to considering his nervous demeanor and babbling in front of the gently amused Vishnu during their first meeting and later on just before their first kiss.
• So Proud of You: Similar to how Ren shows this attitude towards Claude, Michael is nothing but absolutely and utterly proud of the man Dimitri is in comparison to him. In his own words- “He was stalwart and bold and fiercer on the field than Michael himself had ever been. He wants to tell that boy how amazing he was, how he has surpassed Michael himself, how sorry he was for leaving him with the legacy he had”
• Super-Strength: Everyone who possesses the Blaiddyd Crest has this and he's no different, nor was he weakened by centuries of being frozen—he casually stops Edelgard's impulsive attack on Fraldarius by catching her wrist mid-swing and crushing it.
• You Are What You Hate: Furiously aware of how ironic it turned out that someone whose Dark and Troubled Past was suffering at the hands of cannibals in the end became a cannibal himself when he drank to blood of the person he loved above all others. It’s made abudandly clear that this particular fact has been haunting and him driving him borderline insane with both horror and guilt for a long time.

Renata Fraldarius

• A Day in the Limelight: She's the narrator of Chapter 87 in lieu of Edelgard, who is being prepped for the Hegemon Husk transformation at the time.
• Berserk Button: Her A Day in the Limelight episode shows that she has 0 patience for any I Did What I Had to Do justification, furiously musing that the same kind of justification was a dime a dozen among the sociopathic warlords that the Ten Elites took down during thier time and tried to justify thier monstrous actions as something they needed to survive while refusing to accept how monstrous they had become. It's the main reason why she among the Ten Elites seems to be the most viscerally hateful towards the Agarthans (and all the Ten Elites utterly hate the Agarthans).
• Dark Action Girl:
  • She is one of the few formidable opponents that Byleth actually struggles against with in Chapter 62, managing to fight Byleth on pretty even ground, which actually makes her one of the most skilled warriors in the whole story considering this is after Byleth's Fusion Dance with Sothis.
  • Chapter 77 has her fighting against Dimitri, Felix, Bernadetta, Leonie and Dedue at the same time and easily holding her own against their combined assaults with great skill and elegance. In terms of pure, elegant martial skills she just might be the most dangerous of the resurrected Ten Elites.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Chapter 87 reveals that when Fódlan was still a no-man's-land dominated by competing factions after the Cataclysm, a preteen Renata was taken by a warlord as a bed-warmer, as her only other option was starving to death. One day, Nemesis and three other future Elites invaded the village and killed the warlord; Renata freed herself from her chain to the bedpost right as Nemesis came into the room, and he was so impressed by her strength that he invited her into his group.
• Friendly Enemy: A less openly amicable version of this, maybe, but this is basically how she interacts with our heroes in chapter 77. She makes it very clear that she has great respect for those fighting against her, takes her time to outright point out their mistakes in battle in hopes that they will correct them and get much better for it by the time they have to face “The King” (very obviously referring to Nemesis) and openly shows pride and satisfaction when they manage to push her back and keep her on her toes. When The White Dragons appear on the battlefield she not only outright warns them, but also directly saves both Felix and Dimitri from being turned to ashes by one of them and seconds later attacks another to save Mercedes and Dedue.
• Go Out with a Smile: As she is succumbing to her wounds gained by her Suicide by Cop in Chapter 100 she dies utterly at peace and content, her only words being her incredible pride towards Felix and heartfelt apology towards all those she harmed in life.
• Happily Married: Implied. Chapter 87 mentions that she had prayed for family and refers to her meeting her “darling Edward”.
• I Die Free: In the comments on chapter 100, the author states that part of her Suicide by Cop was done because she felt that Nemesis was awakening and she refuses to once again fight for him or be forced to be his slave and considering how utterly at peace and pleased she's during her last moments it's made clear that as far a she's concerned she died with her freedom intact.
• Magic Knight: Uses the Arrow of Indra to great effect in chapter 77 as both a normal spear and the magical weapon that it is, and she’s just as capable of using Rewarp as all the other members of the Ten Elites.
• Mama Bear: According to Macuil, she died protecting her children.
• Master Swordsman: Out of the Ten Elites she's by far the most skilled swordsman in among the group and even when when leaving very obvious opening for our heroes to exploit she still has the air of someone who is barely trying. It's what essentially cottons Felix and Bernadetta that her death is basically Renata invoking Suicide by Cop, as they clearly didn't believe she could have been defeated otherwise with her skills.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Expresses regret for what she did while fighting alongside Nemesis and, implicitly, taking Shiva's blood and bones for power.
• Not So Stoic: Out of all the The Einherjar, Renata actually comes off as one of the most coldly professional, aloof and distant towards their descendants in comparsion to how most of the The Einherjar act towards them…..so seeing her act all pettily indignant after Felix calls her a “maid” brings to mind more of a frustrated mother and less a deadly Lady of War.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives Edelgard a harsh one after the latter talks down to Blaiddyd for urging her to flee Adrestia, calling her a brat who isn't nearly as smart as she thinks she is.

  Renata:: YoUu...aRe nOo HeRo. YoUu...aRe...just thEir t-tooL...lIke Us nOw. StUpId liTtLe giRl...dId you rEaLly ThinK, wHeN yOu saw t-their works AnD m-mAdE use oF tHeir evil...thAt yYou wouLd e-ever be a hero? [...] S-ShE's j-jUsT l-like Nemesis. D-Drinking bLoOd and c-calling iT righteous. M-MaKing hEr pEoPle, w-who fOoLishLy t-truSt her, a-accomplices to i-it AlL. S-Save yYour sYmpaThy f-for our dEscEndents. [...]. YoU...tRulY kKnow n-nothing. Nemesis c-commiTTeD aN unParaLelled e-evil...Serios was yYour hero, y-your sAlvAtion. We weRe tHe fOoLs...who n-naively trusted him...]] Y-YoU m-mock the idea t-that there are things you cannot come back from. T-That...is wHaT...MaKes you A fFool.

• Reluctant Monster: Doesn't want to fight for Agartha, but is compelled to serve them due to Myson's Geas. It's also showed more than once that she is utterly horrified and absolutely disgusted by the actions she did while serving Nemesis and has absolutely no desire to serve the Agarthans in any way.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Her focus chapter shows that both her internal and external monologues are rather foulmouthed.
• So Proud of You: All throughout her fight against Felix and Bernadetta in Chapter 100 Felix notes that Renata is watching him with a look of sad longing mixed with tired yet fierce maternal pride (to the point that Felix notes that she looks like his own mother) and the more the fight goes on the more notable said pride becomes in her face and attitude. Shortly before succumbing to her death thanks to her Suicide by Cop, she outright makes it clear that she immensely proud of not only Felix, but how the Fraldarius Family has grown ever since her death.
• Stealth Mentor: Her main role in chapter 77- using her fight against the heroes to not only test their abilities and combat capabilities but also subtly pushing them to better themselves in the middle of the battle, all for the purpose of preparing them for when they have to face Nemesis in combat. Several times during the battle with the heroes she points out their mistakes in hope that they will learn to correct them and even openly shows satisfaction when they manage to push her back and corner her. Since she’s still an enemy she’s not particularly merciful when ruthlessly taking advantage of their mistakes and forcing them think on their feet and adapt but it’s made very clear that she’s doing it in order to make them strong enough to fight against Nemesis.
• Suicide by Cop: Both Felix and Bernadetta note that Renata, at the last moment, basically allowed herself to be run through by Felix's sword in order to end the fight. While she gently tries to dissuade that notion and her attitude is filled with So Proud of You energy, the narrative does implies that this is in fact the case: Renata choose to die at the hands to her beloved descendant instead to living to harm him and her living family.
• You Remind Me of X: Myself, in her case. She notes that she placed the same emotional barriers around herself that Felix does and she used to be just as much a prickly Jerk with a Heart of Gold with her own True Companions as Felix is with his.

Ren von Riegan

• Deadpan Snarker: None of the The Ten Elites have any respect for The Agarthans, but Ren is by far the most vocal and openly mocking of them among The Elites. Even with the Geas he has, the sheer disdain he has for The Agarthans is made as blatant as humanly possible with him.
• Casual Danger Dialogue: As Chapter 94 shows, a fully sentient Ren is just as much a glib chatterbox in the middle of the battlefield as Claude.
• Flipping the Bird: Proving that irreverence towards those they do not respect is In the Blood for the Riegan family. In Chapter 72 after failing his initial assault against the main heroes during the parlay, Thales orders Ren von Riegan to once again attack, but the resurrected warrior, after staring at Claude with notable interest for a moment, turns to Thales and slowly and very deliberately flips the other man off before turning turning back into Enbarr. Claude is actually left in hysterical laughter after witnessing said actions from his ancestor.
• Friendly Enemy: Once he’s able to speak normally in spite of his situation, he proves himself to be the best example of this among the Ten Elites. Openly cheerful, quite talkative, gregarious, deeply and blatantly impressed with our heroes, immensely proud of his descendant and roguishly irreverent. All in all, he comes off as an Affably Evil version of Claude, which is something that is pointed out by member of both sides.
• Friendly Fire: In Chapter 86, Flayn recalls being viciously attacked by Nemesis, and Seteth comments that it was pure luck that one of Riegan's arrows hit Nemesis in the back...until Flayn reveals that she saw him aiming.
  Flayn: Ren didn't miss. Ever.
• I Got You Covered: Proving that even his current predicament cannot erase the fact that the Ten Elites genuinely used be quite close when they were alive, in chapter 77 he aids Renata several times as a long-ranged sniper in her own fight against the heroes while at the same time facing both Claude and Dimitri.
• Implacable Man: Part of it clearly comes from being a Voodoo Zombie and the Geas he's under, but Chapter 76 quite clearly shows that the guy does. not. stop. Fight against both Claude and Dimitri at the same time? Sure, why not. One shotting several Demonic Beasts that are attacking you? Frustrating, but doable. Get shot with Banshee In the Back by Hapi? It's implied that if he could curse, he really would like to, but that does not stop him for long.
• Master Archer: As noted by Flayn, he never misses a shot, and having a dark replica of Failnaught at his disposal only makes this worse for the heroes.
• Perpetual Smiler: Although it’s made quite clear that a considerably amount of it comes from being a Stepford Smiler and a Stepford Snarker (ironically making him quite similar to his descendant), Michael fondly notes that Ren is still able to smile. And almost every time he interacts with our main heroes Ren has an impressed and gently amused attitude to him.
• Reluctant Monster: Doesn't want to fight for Agartha, but is compelled to serve them due to Myson's Geas. Ren von Riegan has absolutely no respect in any way for Thales to the point he openly defies the other man in the most insulting manner possible. Chapter 73 hints that his irreverence towards the Agarthans is actually quite common for him and he tends to find new ways to disobey their orders as much as he can.
• The Sneaky Guy: Ren fondly calling Claude Khae (the diminitve nickname of his real name, Khalid) spooks Byleth quite a bit, because that means Ren was skilled to get close enough to either her or Dimitri in order to hear the nickname being uttered and none of them were able to detect his presence.
• Sniper Duel: In chapter 76, against Claude, while Dimitri backs up Claude. Byleth describes the duel as being like a "dance" due to the skill of both combatants.
• So Proud of You: While more Downplayed than most examples due to the very strange circumstances, in chapter 75, his brief interaction with Claude shows that Ren is actually quite excited and more than a little wistful at meeting his descendant and even goes to fondly (or as fondly as someone in his state can be) and openly say that he finds Claude's banter Actually Pretty Funny. The fact that Ren is legitimately frustrated and angry at being forced to fight Claude also shows aspects of this. Chapter 94, where he's able to speak more freely, makes it abundantly clear that he's so proud of the man Claude has become that he's ready to burst, sheer parental longing being very obvious in his face and tone of voice.

Angel Lamine

• Actually Pretty Funny: During her fight against Claude, it’s made clear that she finds the much younger boy actually incredibly charming and funny considering how often she snorts with laughter and manages to sound amused with Claude’s banter despite her own situation. She goes on to fondly compare him to Ren’s own sarcastic predilection. She also says that seeing Caspar punch her handler was also funny, but it also ended up marking him as an enemy, causing her to not only attack him, but prevent her from healing him.
• Affectionate Nickname: Refers to Michael Blaiddyd as "Mike."
• Amazonian Beauty: Claude theorizes in his inner thoughts that she used to be this when she was alive, noting that her physical build is more powerful than most women (thinking that she looks like she could rip a tree up with her bare hands) but even in her zombified state the shade of her good looks she used to have are very firmly there.
• Apologetic Attacker: She’s described as being “rueful” while fighting Claude in Shambhala.
• The Archmage: Without a doubt the strongest magic user among the Ten Elites, bar none. Outside of Dark Magic (which seems to have been Julius's area of expertise among them) she is able to cast the most powerful variations of Elemental Magic in the setting at a rapid pace without any kind of negative repercussion, to the point that it's mentioned that what she's doing should literally be impossible, and being a Combat Medic meant that she also had the most powerful support spells in her arsenal as well. The only mage capable of matching her in skill is Macuil and it was stated that he spent is very long life studying every branch of magic.
• Berserk Button: Chapter 76 shows that she takes healing as Serious Business, and she’s openly furious at the fact that the Agarthans stopped her from healing Caspar after forcing her to attack him.
• Combat Medic: Although the combat part is emphasized a lot more. In chapter 76 she’s by far the biggest threat, casting Bolting and Meteor with such skill, strength and consistent impunity that almost everyone among our main heroes show frustrated incredulity at the fact that she’s able to pull said assault off and Lysithea herself states that what Lamine is doing should be impossible for any normal mage to do. Later in her fight with Byleth, Lamine not only proves herself to be incredibly agile while casting powerful spells, but she’s also the only character in the whole series capable of countering Silence. And while she does not show the healer aspects in Chapter 76, her Berserk Button shows that she takes the concept of healing as Serious Business. In chapter 103 she makes it clear that she would far prefer to be only a healer than the battle archmage she was forced to become, noting with longing that “Patching up my family and the people I gave my protection did more to create the world I wanted than a lifetime of war and killing.”
• Dark and Troubled Past: Spent almost all her life saving herself and her mother from roving rapists and marauders. As she notes to Glenn, such a thing shapes a person. Not only that, but her birth father was a Dirty Coward who abandoned both her mother and herself to a group of bandits himself.
• Deadpan Snarker: While not as glib as Ren or bitter as Griffith, her duel with Claude shows that she has a pretty deadpan sense of humor and can keep up snarking with the best of them, even if she's bemused by Claude's Casual Danger Dialogue.
• The Dreaded: Among the Ten Elites, she’s the one our main heroes are most warry and worried about. Considering she’s capable of casting Bolting and Meteor with impunity, as well as her mastery other incredibly powerful spells its made clear that she’s the most powerful magic user among The Elites by a wide margin and every one of our heroes treat her as being the number one priority to defeat. It actually speaks volumes of how dangerous she is considered by our heroes that it actually takes another master of magic such as Macuil to actually push her back.
• Even Evil Has Standards: It's very difficult to call her evil in any capacity considering her current situation, but Lamine shows genuine rage and disdain when learning that The White Dragons were about to be deployed by the Agarthans, very clearly hating the process that created them in the first place.
• Go Out with a Smile: During her last moments alive after Mercedes deals the killing blow, she's utterly gentle and even somewhat motherly with her descendant. She notes with incredible fondness that she's so utterly proud of Mercedes and lovingly calls her "sweet girl."
• Light 'em Up: During her bout against Claude in Shambahala, she shows herself to be incredibly skilled at using combat Faith Magic.
• Loophole Abuse: In her own words, "Those insufferable, evil – mole-men! – said I had to go and fight; they never said I couldn't talk!". This is referring to the fact that during her duel against Claude she manages to reveal to him via implications that The Agarthan have a reason to cut her duel with him short.
• Mercy Kill: When the Agarthans prepare to withdraw from Enbarr, Lamine creatively interprets an order to "take [Edelgard] down" and attempts to kill her in order to spare her from whatever horrific fate Thales has in store for her. Sadly for her, it doesn't work, and Lamine actually shows herself to be quite apologetic towards Edelgard for her failure.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Thanks to her Dark Rafail Gem, which allows her to take more hits than were humanly survivable for most and makes the wearer practically invincible if they access its powers at the right moments.
• Pet the Dog: She’s genuinely appreciative of Caspar trying to separate and free her from her handler and very visibly angry by the fact that the Agarthans not only made her attack him but also stopped her from healing him.
• Reluctant Monster: Doesn't want to fight for Agartha, but is compelled to serve them due to Myson's Geas. Lamine tries to interpret Thales's order From a Certain Point of View in order to Mercy Kill Edelgard and save the younger woman from the Agarthan's machinations and later shows genuine regret when she fails to do so with a muttered: "Damn. Not enough power. Sorry, kid. Failed".
• Shock and Awe: Her primary combat spell is Bolting, with Meteor not far behind. In both the canon story and this one, both are spells with very limited use, which means the fact that she can use them so frequently should be impossible, though it's unclear yet if this is because she's a Voodoo Zombie or if she was simply that powerful, even in life. It's the one she uses to attempt to Mercy Kill Edelgard in chapter 73.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Despite being a very womanly character, Claude is bemused to note that she looks more like Emile/Jeritza than she does Mercedes.

Elizabeth Daphnel

• Cool Big Sis: It's implied that she was this to Maurice. Renata's narration in Chapter 87 mentions that while Maurice was like a little brother to all of them, Daphnel was outright inconsolable when he succumbed to the effects of the Crest of the Beast.
• Foil: As Ingrid herself notes, Elizabeth is essentially a dark reflection of her descendant, what Ingrid could have become if her own chivalric sense of loyalty and duty was bounded to someone a lot worse than Dimitri. Unlike Ingrid, Elizabeth found herself sworn to a monster and Ingrid herself is notably unnerved by thier cosmic similarities despite their very different paths.
• Gender Flip: The original game's Daphnel uses the generic male Holy Knight portrait, but this interpretation of the character is a woman.
• Go Out with a Smile: After Ingrid deals the killing blow to her, Elizabeth just gently murmurs that now she will be with Julius again and gives Ingrid a gentle and proud smile, urging her to never lose her own way as she dies.
• Happily Married: With Julius Charon, as shown in their brief interaction in Chapter 91. The fact that the Agarthans stole their wedding rings from them after being forcibly resurrected is described as being just another act of indignity in a long line of sociopathic behavior.
• Lady of War: Renata recalls that Beth was always poised and stoic in combat, which is why it's rather surprising when her first line of dialogue is laced with profanity.
• Mounted Combat: A incredibly capable Lady of War who is also a master horse rider, making the combination of speed and skill deadly in her hands.
• Noble Demon: Even among the Ten Elites, she holds herself to a surprisingly knightly standard and rule of conduct. She's legitimately apologetic of Griffith's boorishness and states that he was always lacking some social graces and is utterly ashamed and pained by her former Undying Loyalty to Nemesis, but still notes that as her Parental Substitute she could not show anything less.
• So Proud of You: Claude notes that she looks deeply impressed at Ingrid's Anger Born of Worry rant towards Sylvain and unabashedly proud of her once Ingrid shows herself capable to clashing with her combatwise.
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: As Renata muses, Elizabeth has two major soft spot: her fellow Elites and children. She even notes that Elizabeth's soft spot for children is so strong that even in her current state she would not harm Agarthan children.

Griffith Gautier

• The Cynic: One of Renata's memories indicates that he coped with the horror of where their powers and weapons really came from by snarking that it's not worse than anything they'd ever done before.
• Dark and Troubled Past: He watched his entire family burn in a forest fire, one at a time. Raiders set the hay bales on fire, and the summer wind carried it into the trees. He took his five brothers and ran away from their swords and into the woods. The fire came after them like a living thing, a demon. His family then either fell back into the flames, died choking to death on the smoke, or died from exhaustion after carrying him to the edge of the woods and the water.
• Deadpan Snarker: Speaks "even more dryly than their voices sounded in general now".
• Even Evil Has Standards: While he might easily be the the prickliest of The Ten Elites, it’s made clear that he holds both Edelgard and The Agarthans in absolute contempt because he’s perfectly aware that both are such sore losers that they would burn the world to ashes as long as it stops their enemies.
• Go Out with a Smile: After Sylvian lands the killing blow on him, he looks up at Sylvain and beams with raw pride as he dies, a look of incredible relief in his face so deep than Ashe himself feels overwhelmed by it.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: Chapter 103 makes it abundantly clear that a lot of his more Jerkass moments are actually just hiding a lot of grief and guilt. He sounds almost sick to his stomach when he realizes that Maurice's cursed blood also affected his descendants and despite what appears to be an utter Lack of Empathy about his legacy he does feel a great deal of guilt about how it affected Sylvain. He also points out that Seiros rightfully had no obligation whatsoever to forgive the Ten Elites after what they did and vehemently argues that they all deserved their first deaths.
• Jerk Justifications: It's implied that his comment about how unwittingly benefitting from the slaughter of the Nabateans wasn't any worse than the things they'd already done was a way to cope with his own grief and shame, but Renata called him on it all the same as a vain attempt to justify the situation.
• Lack of Empathy: Gives absolutely no apology about his legacy and the actions he did ended facilitating Sylvain’s rather horrible childhood, stating that all of his actions were done in order to survive the chaotic and completely lawless land they lived in and to think that he intentionally planed for his descendants to have a horrible life due to it outright madness. Granted, a lot of this comes from the Jerk Justifications he’s firmly holding into, but he’s so callous about how he talks to Sylvain and justifies himself than even Elizabeth Daphnel calls him out for baiting Sylvian. Chapter 103 shows that he actually has a Hidden Heart of Gold beneath all of his callousness, however.

Achilles Goneril

• Apologetic Attacker: When he initially confuses Byleth for Sothis, he shows notable hesitance in fighting her at first and he rueful admits that he's well aware that fighting Byleth (who shares her body with Sothis) makes him feel understandably guilty. Of course, he's still deeply impressed with Byleth’s mettle and daring.
• Blood Knight: Was very clearly having the absolute time of his life fighting against both of his descendants and Balthus and was very open in his appreciation of their combat skill and tenacity.
• Boisterous Bruiser: It’s implied by both Renata and later Michael’s Interludes that Achilles Goneril used to be this before it all went to hell for the Ten Elites. Both Renata and Michael mentioned that Achilles was the kind of man who was quick to laugh and genuinely do his best to raise the spirit of others with a joke and he’s described as a man with a naturally boisterous spirit. The fact that he used the very brutal looking Freikugel in battle (and is currently using Freikugel Λ) pretty much cements that he’s just as much a physical fighter as his descendant, Hilda.
• Face of a Thug: He’s described as having a rugged, thuggish look about him that hides the fact that he’s incredibly gentle and considerate towards those he considers his True Companions, as seen in Michael’s Interlude, and Michael himself notes that his looks sharply contrast with his overall friendly, boisterous and considerate persona if you didn’t know him in the first place.
• Lightning Bruiser: Famed for it, even among his fellow Ten Elites. “Achilles Goneril was a whirlwind of death, carving through lines of cavalry on foot”. The fact that he’s able to fight against Holts, Hilda and Balthus at the same time speaks volumes about how deadly he is.
• Stealth Mentor: Despite being forced to fight against our heroes and his two descendants and being a very powerful enemy to overcome, he outright actually gives Hilda a rather wise piece of advice in the middle of battle, all in the tone of a father gently teaching their children a lesson: “The world will never give you anything easily, my Hilda. You'll always have to fight for it, in one way or another. So never stop struggling, alright?"
• Super-Strength: While not as famous as Michael's prodigious strength, his is no joke. Dimitri worriedly notes that it was documented that Achilles could sent armored knights flying into ballistas and formations like stone flung from a catapult.
• You Remind Me of X: Dimitri notes that Achilles seems to have the same kind of genuinely boisterous and cheerful air about him as Alois. The same kind of friendliness.

Julius Charon

• Apologetic Attacker: His grief and despair at being forced to fight Lysithea is painfully evident.
• Casting a Shadow: While among the Ten Elites Angel Lamine is the magical powerhouse, Julius is no slouch with his mastery over the dark magic spells that he slings in combat. The fact that he's able to easily match Lysithea blow for blow with his dark magic while at the same time fighting over half a dozen people makes it pretty clear that he's the most powerful user of this particular branch of magic in the setting.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Although by the time he makes his debut calling him evil is a major exaggeration, he's the member of The Ten Elites who shows the most grief at being forced to fight his descendant (in his case, Lysithea, whom he calls his "beautiful granddaughter"), makes it very very clear that he finds Myson's experimentation of his family utterly unforgivable and he's shown to be Happily Married with Elizabeth Daphnel. Among the many possible Evil Virtues an enemy can have, Love is easily the one he enbodies the most.
• Go Out with a Smile: Dies utterly at peace with the fact Lysithea was the one who took him out and his last words towards his descendant are tenderly paternal and filled with the utmost pride at the young woman.
• Happily Married: With Elizabeth Daphnel, as shown in their brief interaction in Chapter 91. The fact that the Agarthans stole their wedding rings from them after being forcibly resurrected is described as being just another act of indignity in a long line of sociopathic behavior.
• I Let You Win: More openly shown that with Renata Fraldarius, as he not only leaves himself blatantly open for attacks, but Cyril actually notes that Julius actually stabbed himself with Thunderbrand the first moment he could in order to give the heroes a winning chance against him. And even then, until Lysithea deals the killing blow he was still able to comfortably fight against the heroes.
• Magic Knight: While not as nightmarishly powerful as Angel Lamine, the man is no slouch at magic in any way considering he’s perfectly capable of comfortably matching Lysithea blow for magic blow, throwing powerful Luna spells and being an absolute master of dark magic spells such as Hades and other variations of this line of magic considering how much he favors using them. Byleth also notes that Julius was the pioneer of the Mortal Savant fighting style and his agility and grace just spoke to his incredible skill with a sword, skills shown in full on chapter 102.
• Papa Wolf: Julius Charon is absolutely and utterly enraged when he reveals to both Michael and Achilles what the Agarthans did to Lysithea (calling her his beautiful granddaughter when talking about her), how they brutally and callously experimented on her, shaking with barely suppressed anger and regret. He also shows himself to be viscerally disgusted by the fact that he’s being forced to fight Lysithea in Shambala.
• So Proud of You: Openly makes a point to call Lysithea a “miracle” without a hint of shame.

Jason Dominic

• A Boy and His X: A Man and his Dragon, in this case. The narrative in Chapter 91 notes that he's actually quite fond of the wyvern he rides, openly smiling at it and showing his first Pet the Dog moment by literally gently petting his mount. Macuil himself notes that even during Jason's first and original death, he refused to abandon his wyvern.
• Affectionate Nickname: Calls Annette, his descendant, "little bird."
• Dragon Rider: He’s a Wyvern Lord, after all.
• Evil Parents Want Good Kids: Played with in that he's her ancestor and not her father, but he seems actually quite pleased that Annette is both such a Nice Girl and has a talent for healing. He also seems to be truly happy that Annette is nowhere near as warlike as he was in life and his last words as he dies are words of pure encouragement towards Annette.
• I Let You Win: Blatantly drops Dark Crusher on his foot, utterly shattering it and giving both Ash and Annette the chance to get the better of him in order to finally defeat him.
• The Juggernaut: Even among The Ten Elites, Jason is described as utterly unrelenting and unstoppable. Managing to fight one on one in a airborne battle against Macuil, tearing enemies apart by the dozen while Leonnie can only watch and his later confrontation against Sylvain, Lorenz, Dorothea and Constance just adds to this.
• Lightning Bruiser: Described by Sylvain as being unfairly nimble while still hitting obscenely hard thanks to Dark Crusher. During a brief clash between Jason and Sylvain, Jason’s blows are described as being so strong that the ground beneath Sylvain’s feet actually cracks from the force.
• Mage Killer: While Sylvain is unsure of it was either something he had while alive or something that comes from Jason’s particular situation, his Magic Resistance is absolutely insane: He’s bombarded by spells flung by Constance, Lorenz and Dorothea and he basically shrugs off the constant assault with very little difficulty.
• Peaceful in Death: After Ashe rips the Crest Stone from his chest, Jason calmly succumbs to his death with an air of utmost relief and peace, his last words only being encouragement towards Annette.
• Villain Respect: Seems geneungly impressed at the fact that Sylvain was willing to fight him without the aid of Macuil and actually briefly bows in open respect towards Dorothea when she declares the reason why they are fighting so strongly against the Agarthans.

Simon Gloucester

• Out of Focus: Out of the Ten Elites, he's the one who gets the least focus by virtue of the fact that he interacts with his descendant the least and the fact that when he fights he's often teaming up with a fellow elite. Even in Chapter 105, where he dies thanks to the work of his descendant, he gets a much less focused send off than the other members among the Ten Elites.
• Workaholic: If Julius Charon's wry comment as he's dying if anything to go by, Simon lives/lived by the mentality that "sleep was for the weak".

Maurice/The Wandering Beast

• And I Must Scream: Makes it clear that his moments of humanity are fleeting; his permanent transformation causes him to rampage and devour humans without any ability to stop himself once the rampages begin. He's been trapped in this form for a thousand years.
• The Baby of the Bunch: The Elites all recall him being like a little brother to them, and being distraught when he succumbed to the poisoned blood he drank.
• Deal with the Devil: The Wandering Beast a.k.a. Maurice recounts how the Agarthans offered him godhood in exchange for his service. He took the deal, and ended up regretting it.
• Death Seeker: The Wandering Beast is tired after a millennium of wandering the forests of Edmund territory, going berserk, and eating people. He offers to help the heroes besiege Shambhala in exchange for Byleth putting him out of his misery
• The Dreaded: Everyone in the Alliance knows and fears him; when he meets him properly for the first time, Claude notes that his hide is covered in broken weapons from all previous failed attempts to slay him. Even The Agarthan soldiers are terrified of him, calling him "The Great Beast."
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Alyssa, whom he calls “my Alyssa”. It’s strongly implied that she was the woman whom the other members of the Ten Elite were teasing him about. According to Maurice, Marianne looks just like Alyssa.
• It Can Think: The Wandering Beast surprises Dimitri, Claude and the others when he reveals that he can talk and holds a conversation with them before he goes berserk
• Karmic Transformation: Maybe. The only reason he had the power that warped him into the Wandering Beast was because he was involved in the murder of Lian, consuming his blood and taking his bones to 'ascend into godhood'.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Maurice deeply regrets taking Agartha's deal with the devil, and all the subsequent harm he did both to Lian and to innocent people as the monsterous Wandering Beast.
• Peaceful in Death: Despite his last moments being incredibly tragic, he dies in the arms of his beloved descendant while tearfully apologizing to both Indech and Sothis and having both of them genuinely and tenderly mourn the man he was forced to become. After his death, his body turns starlight…finally at peace.
• Pet the Dog: Seems genuinely concerned for his descendant, Marianne, upon meeting her and realizing she has the Major Crest; he both gives her some warnings, tells her a bit of the truth about their 'curse', and shoos her away when he starts to feel his mind slipping again.
• Strong Family Resemblance: To Marianne, in his human form.
  Claude: Maurice...it was shocking how much he looked like Marianne. He was slender, slight, his scarred skin lightly tanned and soft looking; his long dark blue hair lies around his shoulders and throat. His clothes are bloodstained and torn, yet not too different in design from Marianne's priestess robe...was the deisgn passed down through the family...? Pressed at his side was a long bone sword, glittering eerily in the artificial light of Shambhala...Blutrang... He looked so small. So powerless. So strangely young, as if he was merely a few years older than his descendant rather than a thousand.
• Taking You with Me: How his death his portrayed even if the intent was not it- Maurice tackling Hagemon Edelgard through the floor, brutally battling with her as both of them are free falling and ending with her impaled on the Viskam power spire and Maurice suffering mortal wounds from both the attack and the fall, wounds from which he in the end succumbs from. His death is also an example of Taking the Bullet, considering all of his actions during his last moments were done in order to protect Byleth from Hagemon Edelgard.
  Maurice I...could sense the children...I just... wanted...to do one thing right...My body moved on its own...
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: It seemed to have been his main standard in life, even at his worst. According to him, the suffering he himself suffered as a child made him completely unwilling to harm children. Which is why The Agarthans told him the blood he drank came from some sort of beast sacred to Sothis.