The characters of Yes, Your Grace.
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Davern royal family
King Eryk
- The Chains of Commanding: Eryk is a middle-aged ruler of a not-so-prosperous kingdom, and the stress of balancing limited resources and waging two wars proves taxing on his health.
- Fainting: His age, coupled with a curse placed on him, leaves him prone to fainting spells whenever he's placed under extreme emotional duress.
- Fantastic Racism: Is not overly fond of Radovians. It makes him see Beyran as nothing more than a savage and he and Aurelea desperately try to find a different spouse for Lorsulia. Later events with the Radovians and Beyran prove that this was a fatal mistake, and Eryk can come to lament his previous prejudices.
- Former Bigot: A possible way to play him in the third act, encouraged by the tasks required to get Fabioun's help and the possibility of changing his stance about Maya.
- Geas: Eryk is revealed to have been cursed by a witch affiliated with Beyran, afflicting him with misfortune unless he keeps his promise to allow Beyran to marry his eldest daughter. Zigzagged when Beyran claims that the curse was fake.
- The Good King: One possible way of playing Eryk is as a benevolent ruler who goes out of his way to help those in need, even Radovian refugees. While it's impossible to please everyone, keeping the populace happy results in them paying their taxes willingly and even adding a bonus, while letting the kingdom's happiness sink into the negative results in a Non-Standard Game Over.
- Irony: The events of the game occur as a result of Eryk's attempts to avoid having his eldest daughter Lorsulia marry the Radovian king Beyran... but his middle daughter falls in love with Beyran's daughter and can wind up eloping with her — something Eryk can choose to approve of.
- Open-Minded Parent: He can choose to give his blessing to Asalia and Maya, letting them elope wth each other.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Unfortunately a possibility if bad choices are made and inevitable when it comes to Lorsulia.
- Parents as People: Eryk only wants what's best for his family and kingdom, but his duty to the kingdom can force him to to use them as bartering chips for support. He's horrified and outraged when he discovers Ivo has been abusing Lorsulia, and is devastated that he can't do anything to protect her.
- Spanner in the Works: Ivo withholds his troops during Eryk's battle against the Radovians in an attempt to get Eryk killed. If Eryk plays his cards right, he holds out long enough for an avalanche to destroy the attacking army. Though it costs him his own force, it allows him to escape with his life.
Queen Aurelea
- Happily Married: She dearly loves and supports her husband, even when she doesn't agree with his decisions.
- Bridezilla: Mostly seen when choosing Lorsulia's wedding dress. She'll insist on the most expensive option, which requires to take out a loan, is hated by Lorsulia and has every other character who gets to comment on it remind the player that the setting is a few centuries early for the Pimped-Out Dress to be in fashion. On top of this, the Point of No Return in the dress-choosing sequence is enforced by Aurelea telling Eryk he's not leaving before he chooses the dress.
- Death by Childbirth: A possible outcome if Eryk botches the ritual intended to break the curse placed on her.
- Fantastic Racism: She despises the Radovians just as much as her husband, if not more so. She's outraged and horrified by how easily Maya was able to infiltrate the castle and get close to Asalia, and should Eryk lend aid to the surviving refugees and spare King Beyran, she'll voice her disapproval of his decision.
- Geas: Aurelea is revealed to have been cursed by a witch affiliated with Beyran, making her unable to give birth to a son unless Eryk honors his promise to allow Beyran to marry his eldest daughter. Zigzagged when Beyran claims that the curse was fake.
- Law of Inverse Fertility: Aurelea desperately wants to give birth to a son so as to continue the royal lineage, but due to a curse placed on her and Eryk by a witch she has trouble conceiving and can only give birth to daughters. Or possibly not?
- Mama Bear: If she lives to see the final assault on the castle, she'll be shown alongside Cedani's bear cub, holding a pitcher, with her two youngest children behind the two of them, while the enemy soldiers are trying to break into her bedroom.
- Sheltered Aristocrat: She has a few moments where her sense is a little lacking:
- The dress she wants Lorsulia to have at her wedding needs to be purchased with a loan and is twice the price of the middle-ground option. When pushing the expensive option on Eryk, she doesn't quite seem to grasp that repaying the loan's installments for five or six weeks can be just as crippling on the treasury as paying the full price outright.
- If consulted about supporting the Oracle Dust trade, she will be shown to generally under-estimate the risks that come with doing so.
- When encouraging Eryk to go along with the ritual, the possibility that Delilah may have downplayed the risk-to-benefit ratio to get her to agree to it doesn't seem to cross her mind.
Princess Lorsulia
- Arranged Marriage: Thirteen years prior to the beginning of the game, Princess Lorsulia was promised to King Beyran of Radovia, back when he was a highwayman threatening to kill her mother, a marriage that King Eryk is desperate to prevent. The first act of the game involves setting her up with Prince Ivo. It doesn't end well for her.
- Awful Wedded Life: After she is married, her husband Ivo proves to be a manipulative sociopath who abuses her, can murder her beloved cat and force her to make a scarf out of its fur, and ultimately has her executed just to spite her father.
- Breach of Promise of Marriage: What Beyran claims in his letters to Eryk, having been promised Lorsulia's hand in marriage. He realized Eryk had no intentions of actually honoring this promise, but doing so probably would've turned out better than marrying her off to Ivo.
- Burn the Witch!: Ivo's Ban On Magic turning into a literal Witch Hunt doesn't end well for her.
- Hidden Depths: The game starts not long after she has started coping with the prospect of a future Arranged Marriage by dialing up her aloof side. Later, she turns out to be the kind of person who will build a small house for her cat when her husband won't let it stay inside, quickly forgive petitioners who bump into her by accident or interrupt her horse-riding lessons to help peasants with a stuck cart.
- In-Series Nickname: Lulie. Eryk knows she doesn't like it much, but admits she'll miss it after moving in with Ivo.
- Married Too Young: She's only thirteen at the start of the game, and winds up being married to Prince Ivo in the hopes of cementing a political union between Davern and Atana. Her married life, however, proves to be utterly disastrous — she is physically and psychologically abused by her husband, who has her executed to spite her father.
- Princesses Prefer Pink: She's Eryk's daughter and her main dress is pink.
Princess Asalia
- Arranged Marriage: Eryk can choose to marry her off to Lady Lena's son or King Varid in exchange for their support, though she's not happy with either marriage.
- Awful Wedded Life: Her marriage with King Varid is explicitly this, to the point of being her bad ending.
- Battle Couple: She can become this with Maya, who she met after sneaking out to the wedding.
- Butch Lesbian: In one route she's revealed to be romantically involved with Maya.
- Dating What Daddy Hates: She can start a romantic relationship with Maya, who is not only a Radovian but the daughter of King Beyran.
- In-Series Nickname: As.
- Old Man Marrying a Child: She can be married off to the elderly King Varid despite being even younger than the 13-year-old Lorsulia.
- Rebellious Princess: Asalia finds the traditional duties and activities of princesses to be hopelessly boring, and spends most of her time in the gardens sparring with Maya. When informed of Varid's intention to marry her she cuts her hair, pierces her nose, and gives her dress a barbarian makeover to voice her disapproval. A few of her endings have her eloping with Maya.
- The Runaway: If she's neither married to Varid nor allowed to run off with her true love by Eryk, she will leave to join her true love on her own and never return to Davern.
- Tomboy Princess: As a princess more interested in swords and horse riding than dresses and court etiquette, she definitely counts.
Princess Cedani
- Adorably Precocious Child: Her constant attempts to recruit 'agents' from the local wildlife definitely qualify her as this.
- The Baby of the Bunch: Due to her young age, she tends to bring out the caring and protective side of people who interact with her. She's also the most likely to be comic relief in scenes she's part of.
- Chronic Pet Killer: While Cedani herself doesn't kill her pets, almost all of them end up dying over the course of the story either by accident or being killed by people who don't know they're her pets. The snail is eaten, the hedgehog sat upon, the rooster butchered by the castle's chef, and the fox shot by the Hunter.
- The Cuckoolander Was Right: Her fairytale-fueled mindset results in her being on a one-person mission to "save Lorsulia from the evil Prince", that goes nowhere because she's trying to train wild animals to do it for her. She turns out to have cast exactly the right person as her story's villain.
- In-Series Nickname: The player gets to pick it among three options, the one she likes the most being "Pumpkin".
- Embarrassing Nickname: She really doesn't like it if Eryk nicknames her "Potato-head."
- Fluffy Tamer: The pet she lands by the end of the game qualifies her as a budding one.
- Friend to All Living Things: Played with. Cedani is immensely fond of animals and very good at taming wild ones; in order, she manages to 'recruit' (to her parents' increasing exasperation) a snail, a hedgehog, a rooster, a fox, and a bear cub. It's once she's made them her agents that problems begin.
- Spanner in the Works: She unwittingly saved her father's life by accidentally switching the goblets while looking for her pet snail, resulting in King Talys drinking the poisoned wine.
Prince(ss) Eryk II / Edward / Ernest / Lorsulia II / Aurelea II / Amelia
Eryk's youngest child born little before the final siege. If the ritual is completed, he will be Eryk's long-awaited son and heir. If the ritual is skipped completely or reversed, she will be a girl.
- Dead Guy Junior: The Princess can be named after Lorsulia in a reversed ritual route, and gets that name offscreen in a skipped ritual route. A girl named Aurelea the Second is an aversion of the trope, as keeping her mother alive is the entire point of the route in which she exists.
- Designer Babies: The Prince gives every sign of being a magical variant, considering the Princess is the result of not accomplishing the ritual ensuring a male child or reversing it. Further supporting this is that the book about the ritual mentions it can also be used to change things like hair and eye color.
- Heir Club for Men: The Prince eventually inherits the throne despite having two older sisters. Though one of them couldn't care less.
- Hello, [Insert Name Here]: Routes in which the baby is born during the ritual allow the player to choose between three options for each sex.
- Last-Minute Baby Naming:
- Downplayed. It's implied that Eryk and Aurelea managed to narrow things down to the options given to the player.
- Discussed if the ritual has complications and Eryk is given the option to give up on having a son to make sure Aurelea doesn't die. Delilah tells Eryk he better have a name for a girl in mind. Of the three options, two are names of other members of the family.
- Missing Mom: One option if the ritual is botched is to get the Prince at the price of Aurelea's life, resulting in him growing up without a mother.
- Posthumous Sibling: To Lorsulia, regardless of sex, due to being born after her death. The girl can even be made her Dead Guy Junior.
Dusty
- Cruel and Unusual Death: In at least one route, Ivo sends King Eryk a scarf made from its fur.
- Present Absence: It's greatly missed by Cedani after it leaves alongside Lorsulia. She frequently mentions and wants to know how it's doing when given the chance to participate in a letter to Lorsulia. Her string of pets is in part an attempt to find a Replacement Goldfish.
Davern court
Audry
Eryk's advisor.
- The Good Chancellor: He always gives Eryk good advice, though whether it's actually listened to or not is up to the player.
- Loyal to the Position: According to one of the dialog options that shows up during a discussion about Eryk's heir, Audry is expected to be the advisor to whoever sits on the Davern throne. It doesn't keep him from wanting to see Eryk's family line continue.
General Stan
The general of Eryk's army, who can be sent out to scout or help those in need.
- Frontline General: Justified both by the time period and Eryk's court being a skeleton one.
Witch Alena
A witch hired over the course of the game, who can be sent to scout out or help those in need.
- Court Mage: Knows magic, works for a royal court.
- The Medic: For many quests involving very sick or badly wounded people, the options are "give that person money for a healer" and "send a witch".
Hunter Velek
A hunter hired over the course of the game, who can be sent out to scout or help those in need.
- Hunter of Monsters: Agents often need to be sent out to deal with monsters, and he's the hunter among the trio.
- Must Make Amends: He shows up in the throne room with Cedani's newest pet, after having killed it by mistake. He'll insist upon serving Eryk to make up for it.
Atana
King Talys
The King of Atana, a kingdom with a large army. It just so happens that his son has been recently pestering him to find him a wife and that he wouldn't mind having access to Eryk's library.
- Asshole Victim: He is more than a little arrogant and talks down to King Eryk, and ends up dying to a poisoned drink prepared by his son.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Well, he did want some peace after that last chalice of wine.
- Jerkass: Has a sour demeanor, and he's not shy about reminding Eryk that Atana is far more wealthy and powerful than Davern. In the game's good ending Ivo reveals that Talys only cared for his ailing wife and that everything he did was to win his father's approval, meaning that Talys is in-part responsible for the events of the game.
- Parental Neglect: Ivo rants about Talys acting like he doesn't exist in one of the last scenes of a properly completed game. This is confirmed by Talys' own behavior, as he shares only two pieces of info about Ivo when asked by Eryk: he has royal blood and has been taught by tutors. He also fulfills the bare minimum of parental obligations during the wedding itself.
Prince Ivo
The Prince of Atana. An incident during his wedding to Lorsulia causes his relationship with Eryk to start off on the wrong foot.
- The Chessmaster: He's remarkably quick to adjust his plans. When his initial plan to poison Eryk backfires and accidentally kills his own father, he accuses Eryk of being responsible and holds a trial hoping to have Eryk executed. When a scapegoat is executed, Ivo waits for the Radovian army to invade Davern intending to invade himself once they've taken care of Eryk for him. When Eryk's army wins due to a sudden avalanche wiping out the Radovian troops, Ivo accuses the Davernian royal family of witchcraft as a pretense to get rid of his wife and declare war.
- Cruel Mercy: In the good ending, if Eryk chooses to spare him, he still ensures that Ivo is punished for his heinous acts by tossing him in the dungeon to rot for the rest of his days.
- Disproportionate Retribution: If Eryk confronts him about his behavior to Lorsulia, he has Dusty, her cat, killed, and forces her to weave the fur into a scarf. If asked about it in the game's good ending, he complains that Dusty left cat hair literally everywhere and got what was coming to it. And will turn out to have killed Dusty for exactly that reason even if he didn't send the scarf.
- Does Not Like Magic: He becomes very militant against magic during the later part of the game.
- Domestic Abuse: Midway through Act 2 it's revealed that he beats Lorsulia and has been trying to cut her off from her family. Then he has her burned at the stake for witchcraft. If confronted by it in the game's good ending, he tries to justify his actions by saying that he had no other choice.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The good ending of the game reveals that Ivo was trying to poison Eryk rather than Talys, and had formulated a complex plan to usurp the throne of Davern — all to win his father's approval and out of desperation to save his ailing mother.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: In the good ending, Ivo suffers a mild Villainous Breakdown, unable to believe that his 5,000-strong army was defeated by a ramshackle force of greenhorns and peasant volunteers a fraction of its size (along with, possibly, a timely arrival by The Cavalry) and refusing to believe that Eryk's victory was the result of anything but sorcery and Divine Intervention, rather than careful planning, foresight, and luck, as Eryk points out.
- Heir-In-Law: It's explicitly stated that as long as Eryk and Aurelea don't have a son, he's the next-in-line for the Davern throne via his marriage to Lorsulia.
- It's Personal: After his horrible treatment of Lorsulia and cruelly executing her, most players will jump at the chance to execute him in turn.
- Knight Templar: Later in the game, Ivo becomes extremely religiously motivated and vows to eliminate magic from the land, and he readily accuses Davern of employing witchcraft as a pretext to declare war on them and burn Lorsulia at the stake.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: The good ending reveals that he never meant to kill his father, and actually wanted to win his father's approval by getting rid of his actual target.
- The Wrongful Heir to the Throne: At the end of Act 1, he becomes King after his father's death. He proves himself to be a cruel and petty man.
- You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: His reaction to finding out that his attempt on Eryk's life was foiled by a snail, of all things.
Radovia
King Beyran
The so-called "King" of Radovia. Thirteen years ago, in a desperate bid to get away from him with their lives, Eryk and Aurelea promised him he could marry their oldest daughter. He is now threatening to invade Davern with a 3000-strong army if the promise is broken.
- Evil Overlord: What Eryk and Aurelea believe him to be, and why they're so desperate to find a way out of the deal they made to marry Lorsulia to him. Subverted when you finally meet him; not only does he prove to be a completely reasonable figure, he had never even expected Eryk to honor his promise.
- Good All Along: While he has a Dark and Troubled Past as a highwayman, Eryk's desperate promise of Lorsulia's hand in marriage inspired Beyran to better himself and become a beacon of hope for his people, leading a group of refugees across the border into Davern. Unfortunately for him, Eryk sees him as an invading warlord and seeks to rally the nobles to oppose him.
- Irony: Eryk and Aurelea believe so much that Beyran is a villain that they desperately seek a way out of marrying Lorsulia to him. It pushes them right to King Talys, who demands her hand to his son, Prince Ivo. Beyran turns out to be a fairly decent man; Ivo, on the other hand...
- Open-Minded Parent: His daughter is a lesbian, and he wholeheartedly supports her.
- Poor Communication Kills: His letter-writing style is just the right mix of brief and factual to keep the misunderstanding between him and Eryk from being dispelled before they meet face to face.
- Shipper on Deck: In Act 3, he offhandedly remarks that Eryk's daughter Asalia and his daughter Maya make a nice couple.
Maya
- Action Girl: She's even more skilled than Asalia is with a sword, being the daughter of a merchant swordsman from Berravia — or so she claims. She's actually from Radovia, which causes Eryk to have a panic-induced fainting spell when he realizes this.
- Butch Lesbian: She's a warrior who can handle herself with a blade and can potentially become romantically involved with Princess Asalia.
- Free-Range Children: She states her parents let her roam freely while they're out on business, but there's more to it than that considering that her father is King Beyran, who at the time of her first appearance was leading a group of refugees from Radovia to Davern.
- Tomboy Princess: Maya is a short-haired swordswoman revealed to be Beyran's daughter in Act 3, though her father technically isn't actual royalty.
- Wild Card Excuse: The story about her parents being traveling merchants only manages to explain so much.
Lords
Jovan
A renown warrior and apprentice to Sir Friderick. He will come to Eryk refusing to join him unless his mentor does the same.
- Wife-Basher Basher: At some point, he kills an abusive husband because he can't bear to see the wife be abused anymore after years of letting it happen. It's up to Eryk whether to pardon him for the act or not.
Sir Friderick
A famous but aging knight who is looking for one final battle, mentor to Jovan. He's persuaded that Noaksey is a fraud and will join Eryk only if he helps him expose him.
- The Alcoholic: Both characters who know him agree that he's prone to drinking too much.
- Domestic Abuse: The fact that he beats his wife is apparently an Open Secret.
- Glory Days: His best days are behind him, and he's currently a faded celebrity.
- In Vino Veritas: His abusive side comes out when he's drunk.
Noaksey
Also called the Dragonslayer, Noaksey boasts that he is the most successful monster hunter the world.
- Hunter of Monsters: He's a famous monster hunter.
- The Magnificent: While he has many such titles, "the Dragonslayer" is the one most used by other people besides himself and the one that appears in the treasury log if he becomes an ally.
- Miles Gloriosus: Sir Friderick considers him to be a fraud, on the basis that nobody ever actually witnessed his accomplishments. Sir Friderick is telling the truth, but Noaksey considers people's troubles are frequently more manageable than they think, and that he's helping people by claiming to have slain monsters they only think they saw.
- The Scapegoat: He's one of the characters on whom the murder from the end of the first act can be pinned.
Lady Lena
A noblewoman who is very determined to find a wife for her son and thinks Asalia might make a good match.
- Outliving One's Offspring: At least one route will result in her son overdosing on Oracle Dust.
- The Scapegoat: She's one of the characters on whom the murder from the end of the first act can be pinned.
Etton
A merchant lord who specializes in the trade of the controversial Oracle Dust.
- Outliving One's Offspring: If no help is provided to his kidnapped daughter in the first act, she will turn out to be dead at the beginning of the second one.
- The Scapegoat: He's one of the characters on whom the murder from the end of the first act can be pinned. Evidence is slightly more stacked against him than the two other possible scapegoats, as he was the one who insisted that Talys have the drink that turned out to be poisoned.
Lurs
A merchant lord who specializes in the trade of spices and wants the sale of Oracle Dust banned.
- Gone Horribly Right: If Eryk cracks down on the Oracle Dust trade, Lurs gets what he wants. However, this serves to anger Etton and his clients, causing them to boycott Lurs' business in response. With no customers, Lurs is forced to do business with Radovia or request a subsidy from Eryk.
Via Lyt
A warrior woman who has a deep hate for Radovians.
- Fantastic Racism: Among the potential allies, she's the one the most obviously in it for the opportunity to kill a bunch of Radovians.
- Funetik Aksent: Many peasants have better pronunciation than she does.
- The Upper Crass: Saying she speaks like a peasant would be an insult to most peasants encountered during the game.
Ada
A merchant lord who is trying to track down a thief.
Grego
A well known artist who also happens to be an avid art collector. A few paintings on the castle walls may make nice additions to his collection.
Masha
A merchant lord who is looking for a debtor to collect an unpaid loan. Eryk can help her both by lending her money and keeping an eye out of for her debtor.
Pietro
A paranoid lord who is certain someone is out to kill him.
- Self-Restraint: If he's thrown into the castle's dungeons, it will dawn on him that there are now metal bars and a guard between him and whoever is trying to kill him. He'll show no sign of wanting to leave for the rest of the playthrough.
Other Kings
King Yedrick
A King who's had trouble with Radovians and will only assist Eryk in the final siege if he contributes to getting rid of them every chance he gets during the third act.
- Fantastic Racism: He has a deep hatred for Radovians and conditions his assistance on Eryk exterminating any Radovians he finds.
King Fabioun
A King who's compassionate towards Radovians and will only assist Eryk in the final siege if he helps them every chance he gets during the third act.
King Varid
An elderly King who is reluctant to help Eryk in the final siege until he sets his eyes on Asalia.
- Old Man Marrying a Child: Asalia is only twelve, and other characters mention he's old. This will hence happen if Eryk accepts his offer.
