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The Morgana | Human Characters
War is coming and it will be the end of all you know.
The supernatural enemies of the game. Emerging after Schleswig-Holstein's first salvo on 1 September, 1939, they are mysterious beings of unknown origin who are hostile to all human life. Attacking humanity seemingly at random, and with no obvious motive, their appearance has forced the major powers of the world to agree to hold off on the fighting and to focus on the new foe instead, with the help of the recently-manifested Belles. open/close all folders
The Morgana in General:
- Black Speech: All Morgana can speak English, but due to vocal distortion, some of them sound as if they are speaking incomprehensible noises.
- Embodiment of Vice: Some Morganas, with names that represent various human faults (Cowardice, Malice, Sin etc.) appear to be this. They're also implied to have the ability to bring out said faults in their human victims.
- Expy: Being a group of female ship-entities working toward the destruction of mankind, they're this to the Abyssals and the Sirens.note
- Gameplay and Story Segregation: Several Morgana are mentioned to have abilities that don't appear during gameplay. Getting hit by Disease won't cause your Belles to continuously take damage or inflict damage directly on your manpower resource pool, fighting Sabotage won't cause equipment to spontaneously self-destruct, Fire isn't actually on fire gameplay-wise, etc. Sort of justified in that much of in-game information about the Morgana probably originate from rumor and not actual observation.
- Mechanical Evolution: The Morgana feed on ships, including damaged Morgana ships, and use materials from these ships to improve or repair themselves, growing ever larger and stronger.
- Names To Run Away From Very Fast: The Morgana all have names like Corruption, Treason, Destruction, Starvation, Sedition, and Mistrust. Even the sole non-(overtly) malicious Morgana encountered is named False Hope.
- Robot Girl: The Morgana all take the form of female automata in various states of visible roboticism and disrepair.
- Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains: The majority of the Morgana wear decidedly less practical attires than the majority of Belles, with several Morgana going into battle in what is essentially their underwear.
- Uncanny Valley: The Morgana are clearly humanoid, but features like mechanical joints, missing and/or cracked limbs, and visible skeletons (in the case of some) make them fall firmly into this trope.
Morgana Types:
Destroyers (DD)
Calamity
Voiced by: Unknown
Gunfire and smoke are birdsong and breeze to Calamity, who revels in war like few of her sisters. She is only truly comfortable in battle, regardless of its outcome - which perhaps makes her the deadliest opponent of all. How do you win against someone who can always afford to lose?
— In-game description
- Blood Knight: To a larger degree even amongst her war-happy sisters, Calamity delights in battle, aiming to bring as much chaos to the field as possible. She differs from Destruction in this in while Destruction is simply an Omnicidal Maniac, Calamity relishes the havoc and panic she brings to her human enemies.
Corruption
Voiced by: Ella Schwartzkopf
Cruelly and beautifully, Corruption demonstrates the futility of resistance. Win or lose, she steals and adapts, twisting the industry and ingenuity of humankind to fell ends. Many surviving crews have reported catastrophic losses against weapons and maneuvers in which they once placed hope.
— In-game description
- Vehicular Turnabout: She specializes in appropriating enemy technology and tactics in combat, twisting and ‘corrupting’ them for her own use in the Morgana war against humanity.
Destruction
Voiced by: Laurie Weaver
Few survive encounters with Destruction, who prosecutes war to its most hellish extent. Life itself is abhorrent to her; even at the cost of her own, she is known to throw herself guns blazing into the fiercest of firefights. She will be back faster than you can rebuild, and she knows it.
— In-game description
- Blood Knight: Few Morgana live for battle as thoroughly as Destruction, who relishes in her namesake and is quite unconcerned with the damage she suffers in the process. She differs from Calamity in that instead of delighting in causing chaos, she simply wants to destroy.
- Death Is Cheap: Her description specifically invokes this trope (though it is true of all Morgana) as she considers it part of her strategy.
- Omnicidal Maniac: She seems to have no goal except full-scale destruction of everything: even disregarding her own life in the course of doing so.
Disease
Voiced by: Cristina Vee
Woe to the fleet that encounters this Morgana, whose weapons spread contagion and rot through flesh and metal alike. Floating or sinking, Disease ranks among the deadliest of her breed, for even a glancing shot risks an infection that nothing short of fire can purge.
— In-game description
- Deadly Doctor: Her attire appears to be that of a doctor, but she's trying to wipe out mankind with her fellow Morgana.
- Plaguemaster: Although not really translated in-game, Disease is stated to have the ability to spread affliction with her weapons. Her sinking line references this:Disease: But I have so much illness left to share!
Fire
Voiced by: Theniceme
Fire dances a dangerous line between useful tool and lethal weapon. The Morgana who bears its name has mastered both, and isn't afraid to get singed. By the time one smells something burning, it is too late to escape her - and not even the ocean can extinguish her fury.
— In-game description
- Evil Is Burning Hot: She's partially on fire, and she is very villainous.
- Man on Fire: The Morgana Fire is called that for a reason. Not only does she love starting fires and wield some manner of Fire-Breathing Weapon, but she is herself constantly on fire (in actual gameplay, her ship is not on fire unless ignited, just like any other ship).
- Pyromaniac: She's clearly very fond of fire, having hair made out flames and wielding a flamethrower. Her straitjacket-inspired outfit hammers in the mentally unstable part of this trope as well.
Injustice
Voiced by: Unknown
Those who see the Morganas as simple predators are baffled and disgusted by Injustice, who views the fight for the seas as a righteous crusade. She has a penchant for beginning battles with brutal public executions, but what higher cause her bloodied decks serve is anyone's guess.
— In-game description
- Kangaroo Court: Comes with the territory of being the embodiment of "injustice."
- Miscarriage of Justice: Injustice makes a point of carrying out showy executions for crimes both real and imagined.
- Off with His Head!: Decapitation via guillotine appears to be her favorite method of execution, as she is carries one in her in-game portrait, and is reported to have used them to kill three civilians near Lagos in a Kickstarter update.
Murder
Voiced by: Julia Pavlovskaya
If there is a point to the Morganas' marauding, Murder seems content without it. As bloodthirsty as her name implies, she kills constantly and unpredictably, sniping sailors one moment and launching deadly salvos the next. Not even her own sisters are safe from her violent fits of boredom.
— In-game description
- Bad Boss: Is said to kill her own (kidnapped) sailors, possibly because It Amused Me.
- Team Killer: Also fires at other Morgana.
Light Cruisers (CL)
Avarice
Voiced by: Emi Lo
Mere destruction is not enough for Avarice, who is as dismissive of ships she deems worthless as she is greedy for those carrying valuables. She has been known to strip defenseless vessels of precious cargo before sinking them, but in a pinch bone shines as brightly to her as gold.
— In-game description
- Gold Fever: She loves precious items, and loots ships she sinks.
- Greed: Goes hand in hand with Gold Fever - Avarice will actually forego sinking a ship if it has valuables to loot.
Confusion
Voiced by: Laurie Weaver
Every enemy fights with a plan, however poorly. The apparent exception, of course, is Confusion, who fires indiscriminately and talks strategy and secrets with friend and foe alike. Unprepared though she may seem, her attacks have a way of ruining those who do not take her seriously.
— In-game description
- Cloud Cuckoolander: Confusion seems to exist in her own world, and is largely oblivious of the larger goings on around her.
- Confusion Fu: Conufusion's tactics are, unsurprisingly, a confusing and seemingly random mess.
Dismay
Voiced by: Jeannie Tirado
More than most other Morganas, Dismay likes to hint at some greater design to the carnage she and her sisters enjoy. Every shot is calculated before the battle begins; every battle lost is but a step in an inevitably successful war. Is it simply an act, or is she a tool in yet more terrible hands?
— In-game description
- All According to Plan: Dismay really enjoys invoking this trope in her lines. Whether there is a plan or not in the Morgana War is another matter entirely.
Mistrust
Voiced by: Unknown
In a world where ships come to life and fight alongside their crew, the enemy has never been easier to spot. Yet Mistrust knows that the Morganas attack a world at war, and she sows doubt and hatred among her enemies to keep them divided. Survive her, and your allies may well wonder why.
— In-game description
- Divide and Conquer: Her goal, creating A House Divided wherever she can.
- The Mole: Not her, but those who survive her attacks may be accused of this. Perhaps the battle where The Mole survived was just a False Flag Operation.
Heavy Cruisers (CA)
Cowardice
Voiced by: Amburned
Most Morganas glory in battle and bloodshed. Cowardice appears not to want to be there at all. Last to a fight, first to leave, and favoring squeals of terror over threats, Cowardice seems like an easy target. Yet those who let their guard down around her rarely live to tell the tale.
— In-game description
- Animal Motifs: Her headless/hair looks like a chicken's crown, as fitting with her namesake as cowards are commonly called chickens. It could recall a lion's mane as well, invoking Cowardly Lion.
- Cowardly Lion: Don't let the fact that she's an embodiment of cowardice convince you she isn't as dangerous as other Morgana heavy cruisers.
- Dirty Coward: The Morgana Cowardice is, unsurprisingly, a cowardly villain. Befitting her nature, she has very low reserves, meaning she will flee after just a few rounds of combat. When actually fighting, she'll try to remain as far away and hard to hit as possible and run as soon as she can, even if it means leaving the rest of the Morgana battleline to get picked off.
- White Flag: She is portrayed carrying a banner, a white one, as though she wants to surrender right off the bat.
Despair
Voiced by: Natalie Hoover
Radio crews speak in hushed tones of the Morgana named Despair. She shatters souls as readily as hulls, using the airwaves to as devastating effect as her guns. Those who listen to her sometimes step back from their guns and wait for an end that might feel like a release.
— In-game description
- Break Them by Talking: Despair is an expert in this field, reminding her human enemies of their helplessness in the Morgana war, and assuring inevitable defeat to those who oppose them. Luckily the player and their Belles won't be as easily convinced.
- Excessive Evil Eyeshadow: Her eyes are ringed with heavy black eyeshadow, some of which seem to be running down her cheeks.
- High Collar of Doom: It's not as visible here, but in the opening cutscene she sports a really high one made out of purple-black feathers.
Malice
Voiced by: Unknown
Insult can be as deadly as injury. As one of the more talkative Morganas, Malice wields both expertly. To sink her enemies in the ocean is not enough for her. For a complete victory, the humans must drown in their shameful defeat, with her taunts singing them to a watery grave.
— In-game description
- Evil Gloating: Malice is fond of doing this, although the trope is slightly subverted in that she does this after, not before, her enemies are sunk.
- "Not So Different" Remark: On the very first day of the war, Malice said the first words ever addressed to Schleswig-Holstein as a Belle: "You could almost be one of us", and it's haunted Schleswig-Holstein ever since.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Malice relishes in taunting her enemies in battle, insulting them until the bitter end, whether it be for the humans or for her.
Mischief
Voiced by: Amburned
Humor has its place even in war, tempering violence with its own absurdity. With Mischief, the jokes stretch from funny back to horrific in short order. She is constantly playing games with her opponents by rules only she knows - and to break them is to slip beneath the waves.
— In-game description
- It Amused Me: While it's not clear whether she solely wages war for fun, she certainly enjoys it a lot.
- The Trickster: Battle and destruction are simply games and pranks for her, played to rules that only she knows.
Paranoia
Voiced by: Katie Dehnart
The vastness of the ocean hides a bottomless well of monsters and enemies. Paranoia is one of many, and fear of the unknown is her first and deadliest weapon. Death lurks around every corner, and only absolute trust on one's fellow sailors can defeat her... unless that's what she wants you to think.
— In-game description
- I Know You Know I Know: When fighting her, are you Properly Paranoid, or is she just playing you? You never know...
- Paranoia Fuel: A source of this In-Universe, and seems to delight in causing this to humans.
Battlecruisers (BC)
Sabotage
Voiced by: Unknown
Guns jam. Turbines snap. Torpedoes rust in their tubes. Misfortune haunts the ship hunted by Sabotage, who delights in watching frustration and malfunction cripple her prey before she devours them. As in no other war before this one, mechanics worldwide wonder if each breakdown heralds disaster.
— In-game description
- Walking Techbane: Technology fails on ships all around her, leaving her enemies dead in the water.
Sedition
Voiced by: Vanessa Wong
All Morganas use words as weapons, but none so insidiously as Sedition. She boasts a keen instinct for flaws in all organizations, hissing poison into the minds of those within them. Crews and villages who listen too closely have shattered themselves... just in time for her to pick up the pieces.
— In-game description
- Break Them by Talking: Sedition also utilises the airwaves for nefarious purposes. Instead of convincing humans of their helplessness like Despair, she encourages her foes to rebel, agitating wholesale upheaval.
- Delinquent Hair: She is depicted quite anachronistically, with a hairstyle that belongs more to the 70s than in the midst of WWII. This is perhaps to highlight her ability to incite revolt and rebellion.
- It's Personal: Sedition managed to gain the ire of the United States by sinking the Constitution. This rivalry exists in and out of universe, as not only is it a personal offense to the US in the Victory Belles universe, but the devs have confirmed that it won't be possible to rescue Constitution in the future, as her hull was completely destroyed and her Belle apparently ceased to exist. Several United States daily missions in December 1939 require a captain to kill Sedition at least five times for completion.
Battleships (BB)
Treason
Voiced by: Marissa Lenti
Exactly what was done to offend Treason - and by whom - may never be known. Whatever grave sin the human race is guilty of, Treason has named herself their judge, jury, and executioner, and considers their presence on the oceans an insult fit only to be revenged in slaughter.
— In-game description
- BFG: According to information from the Kickstarter campaign, Treason's main battery consists of 32" rifles, which would make her guns about the size of Schwerer Gustav.
Vanity
Voiced by: Theniceme
A battle is not won by the prettiest ship. Vanity will never learn this lesson, and perhaps does not need to. Her immaculate sense of style is matched only by her rage at the slightest blemish, and a hair out of place for her spells death for her opponents.
— In-game description
- The Fighting Narcissist: As might be expected from her name, Vanity is very proud of her carefully-maintained appearance and will harshly punish anyone who even slightly blemishes her looks, and backs that up with the incredible armor and firepower of a battleship, embodying the trope as much as any male character.
- The Perfectionist: Vanity simply has to look perfect and be the Fairest of Them All amongst both the Belle and Morgana battlelines. Unluckily for her, battle has a way of offsetting that.
- Ramming Always Works: Subverted by Moskva's awakening - a Vanity-class battleship attempted to ram the destroyer either out of lack of ammo or sheer cantankerousness and would have smashed the ship to scrap metal had her Belle not awakened and given her ship the extra boost needed to reduce the ramming attack to a mere glancing collision.
- Stone Wall: At least relative to her fellow battleship Treason, Vanity has less firepower, but even more armor.
Sloth
Voiced by: Kira Buckland
"Yawn... Is this the human world? Meh. Too loud. I'm sure my bears will take care of that."
Morgana infighting in the Faroes has revealed a new enemy - one with a penchant for long naps and monstrous teddy bears. Put her to sleep for good.
— In-game description
- BFG: Sloth shares Treason's monstrous 80cm rifle.
- Killer Teddy Bear: Perhaps the most striking feature of any encounter with Sloth is her army of murderous teddy bears. As the Germans found out the hard way in December 1939, these teddy bears can lie in wait in the ocean and swarm a ship in minutes and additionally acting as an early warning system for Sloth herself.
- Sleepyhead: Unsurprisingly given her name, Sloth can often be found either asleep or barely awake.
Light Aircraft Carriers (CVL)
Delusion
Voiced by: Laurie Weaver
Even Morganas steer clear of Delusion. Erratic, rambling, and unpredictable, her behavior earns her a special place far from most formations. But make no mistake: Delusion is dangerous in her insanity. And should she speak with sudden clarity, it's almost certainly the last thing you'll ever hear.
— In-game description
- Cloud Cuckoolander: Delusion is, as might be guessed from her name, delusional and unpredictable and speaks in incoherent nonsense.
- Talkative Loon: Her lines in battle are frankly, insane nonsense. However, even a broken clock is right twice a day:Delusion: You really shouldn't have gone into the room. You know the one I mean.
Aircraft Carriers (CV)
Sin
Voiced by: Joss Olson
Vice is as old as humanity itself, and Sin embodies its every temptation. She flaunts her carefree existence, lounging on deck in the midst of battle and beckoning sailors starved for relaxation to join her. Those worn down by the war she wages find only eternal servitude in the respite she offers.
— In-game description
- Ass Shove: As a consequence of her pose, when she receives a long-range torpedo attack, it appears to be striking her directly in the posterier.
- Embodiment of Vice: Embodying almost everything that an exhausted and lonely sailor would desire for on the high seas, Sin invokes this trope the most amongst her sisters. Most specifically, besides invoking Lust via her appearance, she's also holding playing cards, representing gambling (an activity often associated with brothels and also considered inherently sinful in and of itself).
- Ms. Fanservice: She's got generous curves and her portrait has her showing off her behind for all to see. And from her expression, she's clearly enjoying it.
Infestation
Voiced by: Unknown
"My children call from their writing vessels, and I answer on wings of steel. Embrace your destiny - as their food or as their hives."
- Animal Motifs: Wasps - she has glasses resembling compound eyes next to a pair of antennae, her flight decks are supported on a third pair of limbs, she has a predominantly yellow coloration, and her planes are quite clearly modeled after wasps. Her demanding that you become her children's hives or food is another hint, as wasps both build what most people assume are beehives and are active predators.
Submarines (SS)
Asphyxiation
Voiced by: Katie Dehnart
Stories of underseas terrors have whispered across decks like wind since ships first set out for the horizon. Asphyxiation has put a face to those titanic tales of teeth and tentacles, striking from depths untouched by human eyes and turning the impossible into the inevitable.
— In-game description
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Most Morgana are human-sized entities that exist on ships. Asphyxiation is actually her own ship and is large enough to ensnare entire cruisers.
- Combat Tentacles: The in-game map depicts her tentacles ensnaring an entire warship. Her art implies that they could lay mines as well.
Starvation
Voiced by: Theniceme
Anyone foolhardy enough to board Starvation would find not a morsel of food, drink, or provisions of any kind. Though this means more space for munitions, Starvation goes through captured crew faster than any other Morgana - a hunger for lost souls that can never be sated.
— In-game description
- Horror Hunger: Human crews captured by Starvation would find themselves doomed to a short service without any sort of sustenance, resulting in the highest turnover rate of captives among the Morgana. The entire entity herself could be described as having a perpetual hunger.
- Skeletons in the Coat Closet: Zig-Zagged. While her humanoid form doesn't wear bones as clothing, Starvation is stated to decorate her guardrails, which is a part of her, with the bones of her victims.
Venom
Voiced by: Katie Dehnart
The most insidious poisons kill long after first contact, and death is infinitely patient. Such are Venom's favored tactics. She will stalk prey halfway across the ocean, pursue them to the last of their fuel and rations, and riddle them with a thousand punctures where a single breach would do.
— In-game description
- Animal Motifs: Venom references several venomous animals in her design. Her hairstyle invokes a scorpion's tail, her skirt the hood and feelers of a jellyfish, her rigging spider legs.
Unique and Story-Only Morgana
False Hope
False Hope is a damaged, colossal, seemingly non-malicious Morgana encountered during the September 1939 story who seems to want to offer up secrets about the nature of the Morgana that may help humanity.
- Bad Future: The visions she is able to share suggest the Morgana come from some manner of terrible future.
- He Who Must Not Be Seen: False Hope is never actually seen, either as a ship or as a humanoid embodiment thereof.
- I Will Only Slow You Down: She has to be left behind because she's under heavy pursuit, so she and a token crew buy some time for the Captain and others to escape with what they we able to learn from her in their brief time together.
- Meaningful Name: The hope she offers both as an intact sample of Morgana technology and as a repository of actual knowledge proves unrealizable to humanity as the Captain can't escape Morgana pursuit while towing her, and she is instead sunk.
- Token Heroic Orc: False Hope is the only known non-malicious Morgana directly met as of 1939. Sloth's introduction story states she had a partner.
