History Characters / AgeOfEmpiresIII

!!The Circle of Ossus

* {{Greed}}: [[spoiler: He is never satisfied with the amount of gold he has to mine and is willing to murder to get more even though he's probably already filthy rich.]]

* BadassGrandpa: In ''Steel'' and ''Fire''. In the latter, he is still very skilled; he still has his wide line of sight and his hand attack is only slightly weaker.

%%* BadassGrandpa

* BadassGrandpa: He is old and a potent cavalry unit.

* OlderAndWiser: In ''Steel'' and ''Fire'', he's older and wiser.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: In his youth, unless he had to deal with cold weathers. Zigzagged when he is with Nathaniel (his fighting model is shirtless, but otherwise he wears a white shirt) and fully ditched when he becomes old.

* RichBitch: Male example.

* HeroAntagonist: [[spoiler:He's actually a good guy. He is fighting the Circle.]]

* WalkingShirtlessScene: In his youth, unless he had to deal with cold weathers.

* CoolOldGuy: Was Morgan's mentor and the leader of the Knights of St. John. Eventually subverted.

%%* NumberTwo

* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:He calls out Morgan for blindly following Alain Magnan's orders, before the reveal]].
-->''"[[spoiler:Open your eyes! The Circle wants the lake because they think it is the Fountain of Youth! All I have been trying to do is keep it out of the hands of the Circle! And Alain Magnan!]]"''

[[folder:[[spoiler:Alain Magnan]]]]
-->''“[[spoiler:You and your band of misfits will be wiped from the New World, Morgan!]]”''

%%* AmbitionIsEvil
%%* BadassBeard

%%* CoolOldGuy
%%* CoolSword
* EvilAllAlong: He was [[spoiler:the true enemy. He manipulated Morgan and the Knights to get the water of the fountain.]]
* GameplayAllyImmortality: [[spoiler:In his earlier appearance. Averted later, because of the truth about him.]]
* [[spoiler: TheMentor: Before he's revealed to be EvilAllAlong, that is]].
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:He was a member of the Circle of Ossus]].
* RunningBothSides: [[spoiler:He leadered both the knights of St. John and the Circle.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: See how much of this entry has spoilers on it?

%%* EvilAllAlong

%%* GameplayAllyImmortality

* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: In the original game his purpose is basically to allow the Black family to continue after John's HeroicSacrifice.

* AmbitionIsEvil: He wanted to [[spoiler:get the gold from Sioux terrains]]. He has no problem on [[spoiler:killing them fo getting that, even if they are innocent]].

-->'''-- Talking about Jinhai in the cutscene prior to the first mission. And not without reason.'''

%%* GameplayAllyImmortality

%%* TheLancer: To Huang.

%%* AmbitionIsEvil

%%* TheRival: To Morgan.

A spanish conquistador who wants the treasure of the natives for his own personal gain.

%%* TheMentor

* GoingNative: He joins [[the Sioux. He later changes his attire to a Sioux attire, only keeping his cape. He paints a hand in his face, wears feathers in his hair and forgoes almost all his clothing.]] At the ending, his fate is uncertain, since Amelia has not seen him ever since.

* GoodAllAlong: It turns out that [[spoiler:He was a hero]].

** [[spoiler:BackToBackBadasses]]: [[spoiler:Turns out he was GoodAllAlong, and he ends fighting alongside Morgan in the last mission]].

* RedBaron: "the Falcon"

* EnemyMine: She assists Morgan in the last two missions of ''Blood'' to get the Spanish treasure. All gets sunken

* PirateGirl: He became the leader of a group of pirates to escape from an ArrangedMarriage.

%%* ArcherArchetype

%%* OlderAndWiser: In ''Steel'' and ''Fire''.

!!!The Circle of Ossus

* HeyItsThatVoice: She's voiced by Tasia Valenza, a prolific voice actress who also played [[Valkyries: Regenlief]] in Age of Mythology.

* CoolShip: "Paris Burning". It's named for the city she hates the most. It can train Bucaneers.

* EnemyMine: She assists Morgan in the last two missions of ''Blood''.

%%* BeardOfEvil: The Boneguards.

* RichesToRags: He wasted the fortune given by the British as a reward to his father's HeroicSacrifice in the Independence war, building the fortresses in Saratoga, and supplying the troops at Valley Forge. Later, he was given a reward by the American because of his contribution in Independence War, and used it to create the Falcon Company, a railroad company, but he wasn't a businessman, thus all the money was spent and said company almost got bankrupted.

* AntiVillain: Unlike other opponents, he has no maliciousness on [[spoiler:leading an attack on the Sioux]].

* HeyItsThatVoice: She's voiced by Tasia Valenza, a prolific voice actress who also played [[Valkyries Regenlief]] in Age of Mythology.

* Sadist: He told Amelia that he would show her how does he like to kill when he was posing as an ally.

* BadassGrandpa: In ''Steel'' and ''Fire''. In the latter, he is still very skilled, with his wide line of sight and his hand attack is only slightly weaker.

%%* DaChief
%%* EvilAllAlong

* GoingNative: [[spoiler:He joins the Sioux. He laters changes his attire to a Sioux attire, only keeping his cape.]]

%%* HonorBeforeReason

* BadassBeard: He has a black, short one. He is also good with bombs and swords.

* BadassBeard: He has a black, short one.

%%* BaldOfAwesome

* BadassMustache:He has a short one.

%%* GoodAllAlong

* BadassGrandpa: He is old and a potent cavalry.

%%* BeardOfEvil

* BadassNative: He was part of the Independence war.

* BadassNative: He's part Iroquois, part Sioux, and has the Black family's blood in his veins.

* TribalFacePaint: He paints a hand in his face when [[spoiler:joined the Sioux.]]

%%* AmbitionIsEvil

* AntiVillain: Unlike other opponents, he has no maliciousness.
%%* BadassMustache

* DeadHandShot: In the final video, his hand is shown falling to represent his death.

* PunchClockVillain: [[spoiler: He's arrogant, patronizing, and kind of racist, but he's just as much a victim of Holme's manipulations as anyone and seems to want to solve the conflict without any violence, at least initially.]]

%%* GoodOldFisticuffs

%%* BadassMoustache

* DoomMagnet: They have a tendency to attract problems wherever they go, however...
** {{Determinator}}: ...they always find a way to solve said problems.

* DecapitationPresentation: [[spoiler:This is how he shows Stuart's body.]]

* [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy Someone To Remember John Black By]]: In the original game his purpose is basically to allow the Black family to continue after John's HeroicSacrifice.

%%* GameplayAllyImmortality

%%* MyMasterRightOrWrong

%%* WalkingShirtlessScene

* {{Jerkass}}: He mistreats everyone.

* AncientConspiracy: The "Religion of the Circle" is a common name for the ancient Celtic faith, or druids.

%%* AncientConspiracy

%%* EliteMooks: the Boneguard.

%%* SmugSnake

* HiddenVillain: [[spoiler: Of the ''Shadow'' arc, as he [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates]] Chayton into murdering innocent natives and ultimately ends up causing the conflict between them and the U.S. Army. All because he's a [[Greed greedy]] sack of shit.]]

%%* BigBadFriend

%%* PoisonousFriend

%%* HistoricalDomainCharacter

* KickTheDog: Attacks villages and colonies to capture John Black, who is away. When he sees that John isn't in Stuart's colony after all, he seizes the colony, [[spoiler:kidnapping Stuart Black in the process, only to later kill him,]] and attempts to burn Nonahkee's village to the ground.

* KickTheDog: Attacks villages to capture John Black, who is away. When he sees the John isn't in Nonahkee's village after all, he burns the village to the ground and [[spoiler:kidnaps, and later kills, Stuart Black.]]

* DamselInDistress: In the third mission of ''Ice'' and the second mission of ''Fire''.