History Characters / CultistSimulator

* ArchenemesisDad: The Foe is heavily implied to be the Exile's own father, as the last of the Antaean Initiates informs you. He fell in love with the Exile's mother and abducted the baby after she died during childbirth despite her categorically refusing to have him raise the child. It's implied the Exile hates the Foe too and that it was destined for him to betray the Foe at some point as he was "born under the shattered sword" and thus marked by the Lionsmith, which is the rival of the Foe's patron Hour, the Colonel.

* GenderNeutralWriting: The main character's gender is never assumed - not while they're alive, at least.

* FeaturelessProtagonist: Averted for the first time. While [[GenderNeutralWriting many details of your characterization are still up in the air,]] you still have clearly expressed preferences and an extensive personal history.

* UndyingLoyalty: To the Forge (not yet of Days), despite his disapproval for her relationship with the Sun-in-Splendour.

* MisanthropeSupreme: Of a sort. She doesn't seem to hate anyone specifically, and can be [[MercyKill compassionate]] [[JediTruth from a certain point of view.]] But she seems to think there are too many people in the world, and that killing anyone is a mercy.

Formerly Lars Westergren, the Diarist is an adventurer, interviewer of spirits, collector of people’s stories, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and notorious murderer.]]

* PoisonIsEvil: Glassfinger Toxin is sacred to the Meniscate. Glassfinger Toxin kills painlessly. The victim [[FadingAway simply sublimates away]] [[NoBodyLeftBehindinto a Winter influence.]]

* PoisonIsEvil: Glassfinger Toxin is sacred to the Meniscate. Unlike [[CruelAndUnusualDeath Sthenic Venom,]] which is associated with the Mother of Ants, Glassfinger Toxin kills painlessly. The victim [[NoBodyLeftBehind simply sublimates away into a Winter influence.]]

%%* ColonelBadass

* SelfHarm: [[spoiler: Victory requires you to eat [[{{Autocannibalism}} a piece of your own decaying body,]] in the form of Decrepitude, while you are still alive.]]
** Additionally, [[spoiler: Descending to Nowhere requires feeding your attributes to the painting one by one, draining away your life. It has to be done deliberately, the Elegiast will ''not'' just take your life without permission.]]

* CatsAreLazy: If imprisoned.
-->"The woman who used to call herself 'Cat Caro' sleeps whenever she can."

* TakeAwayTheirName: If imprisoned.
-->"The woman who used to call herself 'Cat Caro' sleeps whenever she can."

* EmotionlessGirl: They are quite certain Valciane is not, in fact, a machine, because she occasionally makes mistakes. Otherwise, it is difficult to tell.
** If she becomes a Rival, she deals with her enemies "With the remorseless brio of a youth smashing bottles".

** ShownTheirWork: These are all things used in elaborate metalwork and jewelry craft.

* NoSocialSkills: Quoting his Believer description: "He has almost learnt not to pick his teeth with his knife. He has not yet learnt to keep his knife in his boot."
** Improves dramatically by the time he is Exalted, at which point he is ''never'' seen with blood on him, no matter what he's been up to.

* TranquilFury: If imprisoned.
-->"Victor's eyes are wells of rage."

* MagicDance: Of course

* EmotionEater: Implied, given how all his partners leave him 'a little less'.
** [[spoiler: This is also a hint that taking a romance ending with him as a very, very bad idea. While this still counts as a minor victory, you are implicitly drained away to nothing.]]
* {{Expy}}: Resembles an older Bela Lugosi in appearance - especially given Saliba's association with blood and Lugosi's famous Dracula role.

* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Romance with her is described as including this, as well as her [[ClothingDamage cutting off both of your clothes.]]

* DespairEventHorizon: If imprisoned.
-->"Neville is weeping."

* DespairEventHorizon: If imprisoned.
** "Enid doesn't speak any more."

* DealWithTheDevil: The first time you meet her, she promises to give you support so long as you introduce her to someone who will "end things properly." If you accept her bargain, she'll give you a whopping ''ten'' Funds, along with a Silver Spintria, but after a certain period of time, you'll need to give her one of your cultists as a sacrifice. Otherwise, you'll get a NonStandardGameOver.
** Once you do that, however, she becomes like all the other patrons, exchanging Commissions for Spintrias.

* TheUnblinking: Like her sister.

* SnakesAreSinister: Despite her name, she is also closely associated with monstrous serpents - her "Younger Sisters" - that appear throughout the game, impeding your path.
** Subverted - if you invoke enough Knock, you can defeat Younger Sisters by [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath reminding them of the Mother of Ants and making them cry.]]

* ALessonInDefeat: [[ArcWords "All scars are weapons."]]

* ArrogantGodVsRagingMonster: The Arrogant God

* ChevalierVsRogue: The Rogue
* ColonelBadass

* ImplacableMan

* TigerVersusDragon: The Dragon

* WarGod

* ArrogantGodVsRagingMonster: The Raging Monster

* ChevalierVsRogue: The Chevalier

* ForceAndFinesse: Force

* MonsterProgenitor: He has created countless deadly beasts, and many still survive.

* SoldierVsWarrior: The Warrior to the Colonel's Soldier
* TheStarscream: The Lionsmith knows the secrets of betrayal.
* TigerVersusDragon: The Tiger. Well, Lion.

* WarGod

* TheGrimReaper: The closest figure in the setting in any case.

* BalancingDeathsBooks: In a completely amoral fashion. The Madrugad is the Hour that [[TheSyndicate Reckoners]] invoke to work their trade [[CastFromLifespan in stolen years.]]

--> ''"The Flowermaker cannot touch you; he cannot find you; he always has what you desire."''

--> ''"We call upon the Forge of Days, who remakes with fire; who ends what will not change; who will end all nights."''

--> ''His the power of lust and disease, his the will to infect and become. Do not permit him to touch you.'' '''''[[ParanoiaFuel Do not even look upon his face.]]'''''

--> ''"O Demeter, who dwelleth in the earth; who sends up gifts; who art the mare who destroyeth in mercy..."''

[[folder:The Baldomerian/[[spoiler:Teresa Galmier]]]]

-> ''The growths of the Wood have encompassed the corpse's organs, swelled its skull like a gourd, twined around its heart. It eyes are moist with cunning, and it moves with jerky puppet grace. Its bones are rotten wood, and soon it will take root, but until then it will be a swift and subtle servant.''

-> ''At the corners of the Forge, in the bounds of the Mansus, the Glory's fire meets baser elements. Here is a cunning vapour to infect your enemy's dreams.''

-> ''"Change me. Change me. Change me harder. Now:'' '''''my''''' ''turn."''

-> ''The Hinter are most comfortable behind. Behind the scenes, behind the mirrors, behind you. They can slide under doors and can kill with glass, but they cannot survive the gaze of a living mortal.''

-> '''''"[[IncomingHam IN THE DESERT I WAIT IN THE RUINS I BURN - METAL IS WATER - STONE IS WAX - FLESH IS SMOKE - ENTER ME AND BE NO LONGER.]]"'''''

-> ''"The ascent is glass. The walls are knives. Each step is blood." The Dead who rest before a new-cracked mirror, who pass through the Peacock Gate, who master the Sharp Stair: those Dead enter the service of the Sun-in-Rags.''

-> ''The Percussigant! It loves the sistrum's shiver, it loves the thrum of the tympanos, it recalls with fondness the flaying of Marsya, and so it will not''
-> ''will not''
-> ''will not stop dancing.''

-> "EPPUR SI MUOVE"

-> ''Sometimes it divides, sometimes it unites, sometimes she speaks words of warning, sometimes he advises on appetite. Its prophesies are confusion, their whispers confound.''

-> ''A rending force has dragged this corpse back to near-life. When it moves, it crunches like broken glass. Its fists are claw-nests of bone-shards. It won't hold together for long.''

-> ''Sometimes the Dead enter the Mansus by the White Door. At its threshold they lay down their power of speech forever. Call them back to the world, and they will have no voice, but their skins of dust are yours to command.''

-> ''A painting of a dark-skinned woman with snow-coloured eyes and close-cropped ivory-coloured hair. She stands before a small marble tomb overgrown with star jasmine. The painting is signed 'Jonas B. Munch, 1811'.''

-> ''"I am Vak, both the tongue and the Goddess. I am the only entrance into secret light. I was worshipped before you upright apes, and I will be still when all of you are ugly ash. Listen, and I will prove it."''

* HorrifyingTheHorror: Even the Lionsmith, MonsterProgenitor and Hour of [[ChallengeSeeker self-empowerment through conflict]], wants nothing to do with them and allows his ArchEnemy the Colonel the duty of keeping them penned in.

* ParanoiaFuel: On a few levels, even beyond [[PuppeteerParasite the obvious.]] For a start, Worms stalking through a city leave mystics seeing them as things that look exactly like eye floaters.
** There is a book that describes how to fight them, and remove them from bodies. It is completely impractical, and the techniques would kill the person you're trying to save. Is this incompetence, is it a consequence of how hard the Worms are to deal with... or is it SchmuckBait put out by the Worms themselves? Most evidence suggests the later.

-> ''"This is no Noble Endeavour. We'll have no Jack-come-quickly jumping up the House ranks."''

-> ''"Your pretender is going to make a damned good footnote. But I wouldn't expect anything more than that."''

-> ''"No more Names. That's it; I'm sorry; I don't have time to make conversation."''

-> ''"No, He cannot harm you; He cannot find you. But I suffer no such circumscription."''

* ImAHumanitarian: She followed the Grail ascension path, and ''The Rose of Nuriel'' mentions that in the process she ate both corpses and living people.
** Additionally, the method she offers you for betraying your mentor involves eating a small fragment of her corpse.

* WomanOfWealthAndTaste: When not preventing the rise of new Names, she spends most of her time travelling across Europe and staying in luxurious hotels...with no end of companions, of course. Also has killer nail game.
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* HornyDevils: As an emanation of the Grail, Ezeem is a master of seduction, with the highest Grail score in the game.

* HornyDevils: Their Grail aspect allows them to ''seduce'' potential threats on expeditions. It's unclear whether they play the ShapeshiftingSeducer role to do it, or if they have a supernatural ability to instill desire despite being horrifying in appearance.

* MysticalWhiteHair: [[DarkSkinnedBlonde Which forms a stark contrast with her dark skin.]]

* AnIcePerson: While she lacks any special magic powers, as far as we can see, she appears to venerate the Sun-In-Rags, and leaves behind a Winter-Aspected Influence wherever she goes.

* BoringButPractical: He doesn't specialize in an attack method, and just focuses on increasing his stats. This means you can't predict how he will attack you, and you don't have much control over when.

--> ''"We call upon the Forge of days, who remakes with fire; who ends what will not change; who will end all nights."''

* StarCrossedLovers: When she was simply the Forge she loved the Sun-in-Splendour. She ultimately killed him, which is stated to be the one thing she would regret [[BlueAndOrangeMorality were she capable of the emotion.]] It was likely to prevent them from [[EatsBabies becoming]] [[HorrorHunger Alukites]] when they [[KillTheOnesYouLove consummated their love.]]

* StarCrossedLovers: With The Forge (not yet Of Days, [[KillTheGod which tells you how this ended]])

* MaliciousSlander: she makes effective use of social attacks, including spreading rumors of things [[NotMeThisTime even you haven't done yet.]]
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* WickedCultured: When not preventing the rise of new Names, she spends most of her time travelling across Europe and staying in luxurious hotels...with no end of companions, of course. Also apparently has "well-manicured nails".

* BreadEggsMilkSquick: We know him as an adventurer, an interviewer, a collector of people's stories...and a notorious murderer.

* GenderBender / GenderFlip: She's a female version of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryphon,_Respicius,_and_Nympha Saint Tryphon of Campsada]]. However, it's unknown whether she was born female in her native History, or if she used the Grail's power to [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} transition]] after ascending as a Long.

* ILoveNuclearPower: An alchemical nuclear bomb, set off in the right place, makes your Shaper a PhysicalGod.

* NuclearNasty: As the Formula Fissive and Blue Gold indicates, she's the goddess of splitting the atom and nuclear explosions. Her destructive power is unrivaled.

* AwesomeMcCoolName: It is entirely appropriate to refer to her as ''Doctor Dragon.''

* HorrifyingTheHorror: The Worms are scary enough that even the Lionsmith, as much as he hates the Colonel, will not challenge the Colonel for the job of guarding the Worm Museum.

->''"The nature of the Lionsith is to be stronger; to be seamless; to make monsters."''

* HorrifyingTheHorror: Even the Lionsmith, MonsterProgenitor and Hour of [[ChallengeSeeker self-empowerment through conflict]], wants nothing to do with them and allows his ArchEnemy the duty of keeping them penned in.

* ProfessionalKiller: One ending allows you to become [[TheDreaded THE professional killer]], even among [[NighInvulnerable the Long.]] Your rap sheet includes several powerful monsters, [[WorthyOpponent your foe]], an [[EatsBabies Alukite]] Forge [[UnPerson Obliviate]], and [[DestroyerDeity King]] [[UpToEleven Crucible]].

* TailorMadePrison: Considering the capabilities of your cultists, this is a given. Described precautions include avoiding locks, which would just be disassembled, and not giving them anything [[ImprobableWeaponUser that could conceivably be a weapon.]] [[UpToEleven Down to the wrong vegetables.]]

* ZombieApocalypse: It has on occasion been known to cause this [[UpToEleven among the dead at the White Door.]] The teeming spirits become infectious avatars of its power and presence, even if the Horned-Axe, the Velvet, and other older Hours keep it from fully escaping the House.

* FantasticReligiousWeirdness: [[UpToEleven Even for this game.]] There is a story of someone who became a Saint by being made into a Burgeoning Risen as a means of redeeming their sins after death.

* OrificeInvasion: The Centipede is described as finding her way in ''anywhere'' there is a path, with eyes ears and mouth specifically mentioned and others are delicately alluded to.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Or rather, far younger than you'd expect of a Name. Most immortals mentioned have a provenance of centuries, while Teresa was publishing books and apparently mortal as recently as 1926. This implies a positively meteoric rise in the Mansus, [[NotSoDifferent much like the player.]]

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Or rather, far younger than you'd expect of a Name. Most immortals mentioned have a provenance of centuries, while Teresa was publishing books and apparently mortal as recently as 1926.