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!Current Touden (Main) Party Members

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A group of dungeon crawling adventurers originally consisting of Laios Touden the knight, his sister Falin Touden the cleric, Marcille the mage, Chilchuck the rogue, Namari the fighter, and Shuro the swordsman. After a disastrous encounter with the Red Dragon ended with Falin being eaten, Namari and Shuro left (the former due to their lack of resources, the latter to gather his own party to rescue Falin). Laios, Marcille, and Chilchuck prepare to embark on their own rescue mission, joined by newcomer Senshi, an expert in cooking monsters. Come Volume 5, SixthRanger Izutsumi increases their numbers to a party of five.
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* BadassCrew: There's absolutely no denying the skill and strength of the entire party, which is doubly impressive because they're lacking one of the most critical things for a party - a cleric. Their original party would've killed the Red Dragon had it not been for severe hunger, and ex-member Namari outright admits to having killed dragons before.
* BreakingTheFellowship: [[spoiler:After the party permanently save Falin and destroy the dungeon, the party agrees to split and choose their own paths in the future. Laios is made king of the new Golden Kingdom, with Marcille as his chief advisor, Chilchuck starts a lockpicking store and helps the halfling adventurers who no longer have a job, Senshi travels the countryside, and Izutsumi, while unsure of what she wants to do, feels content that she now has a choice.]]
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Team Touden will always stop to help other adventurers in distress despite the severe time limit of getting back to the Red Dragon in time to save Falin before she is digested. [[spoiler: Turns out it wouldn't have mattered anyway since the dragon has been on the move rather than sleeping, meaning its metabolism has been sped up far more than normal.]]
* CurbstompBattle: Their very brief fight with [[spoiler: the Lunatic Magician]] consists of the team getting completely overwhelmed almost immediately and getting thrown into a deathtrap with little effort from their opponent. While [[spoiler: Marcille]] manages to hit back (much to [[spoiler: the Magician's]] own surprise) the party is still hopelessly outmatched.
* ExperiencedProtagonist: The protagonists are definitely not newbies. They are very experienced people capable of surviving and telling the readers the lore behind the great dungeon, even having experience with killing dragons and descending to the lower levels of the dungeon.
* EnsembleCast: Initially, Laios seems like the obvious main character, having the closest and most personal connection to the quest as well as being one of the two characters that drive the food angle, but in truth he gets no more of the spotlight than the other team members. Most chapters feature the entire team with similar screentime and the [[ADayInTheLimelight ones more focused on a singular one]] are very even. That being said, Senshi tends to have less of a role overall since he isn't as prominent unless food is around.
* FighterMageThief: The party at the start of chapter 2 fits the description perfectly with Laios the swordsman, Marcille the magician, and Chilchuck the trapmaster. Senshi is a mix of Fighter and woodsman/ranger.
* InconsistentSpelling: Before their names were officially confirmed by the ''Explorer Guide'', there were some variations on the exact spellings, particularly Chilchack/Tirchac and Laius/Laios. The official releases use Laios, Falin, Marcille, and Chilchuck.
* MrExposition: The series often has Laios info dumping on monsters, Senshi on cooking and proper nutrition, and Marcille on magic.
* PersonaNonGrata: Their plan to return to the surface to resupply after dealing with the Red Dragon is cut short after meeting up with Kabru and Shuro's parties due to [[spoiler:the understanding that their use of TheDarkArts will be reported and that they'll be arrested at best upon arrival.]]
* TechnicianVersusPerformer:
** Senshi as the Performer, to Laios', and Marcille's to a lesser degree, Techinician. The dwarf, having spent years in the dungeon, understands it, and the monsters in it better than the latter two, despite Laios' book about monster eating and Marcille's years of study. However, it's still shown that the technical knowledge the other two have is important and Laios' deep knowledge about monster biology and habits on a technical level makes him great at strategizing in their battles.
** Falin is the Performer to Marcille's Technician. When the two met at the magical academy, Marcille is a grade A student type of person that gets everything done correctly by the book, however, she ends up learning more from Falin, whose actual experience with real dungeons make her small dungeons far superior to Marcille's.
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[[folder:Laios]]
!!True Name -- Laios Touden
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KentaroKumagai (Japanese), Creator/DamienHaas (English) [[labelnote:'''Other Languages''']]Jim Redler (French)[[/labelnote]]
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->'''Age:''' 26 years old\\
'''Gender:''' Male\\
'''Race:''' Tallman\\
'''Birthplace:''' Northern Continent\\
'''Family:''' Father, mother, little sister (Falin)\\
'''Height:''' Around 185cm / 6'1"\\
'''BMI:''' 26\\
'''Likes:''' Dairy products\\
'''Dislikes:''' Cephalopods

The leader of the party, and an experienced human fighter. He is extremely knowledgeable in monsters and the like, which in turn has fueled a lifelong desire to... eat them. Which is exactly what he gets a chance to do due to the critical circumstances at hand.
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* AnimalMotif: He has a dog motif. Besides his friendly, straightforward and trustworthy personality, he knows their behaviors and can mimic their calls perfectly since he grew up with several of them. [[spoiler:When in Marcille's nightmare, he turns into a dog to do some digging. When Marcille remembers the dream after waking up, she remembers being with a dog (Laios had already already returned to his normal form by the time he met her in the nightmare.)]]
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Has a lot of intel about monsters, down to their anatomy, behavior and varieties, which proves to be a valuable asset on several occasions in the dungeon.
* AdmiringTheAbomination: Laios is quicker to awe at the dangerous monsters of the dungeon than be wary of them. Upon laying eyes on [[spoiler:Falin's chimera transformation for the first time (which he has just seen kill several people)]], his first thought is to admire how cool it looks.
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:He sacrifices his left leg just below the knee to deal a fatal blow to the Red Dragon, but thankfully Marcille reattaches it.]]
* BadLiar: When confronted by [[spoiler:the Canaries]], he tries lying to them but gives away what he's trying to hide completely.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: One of Laios' greatest wishes is a peaceful kingdom where humans and tamed monsters coexist. [[spoiler:He gets the kingdom, but the Winged Lion's curse makes it so that all monsters are ''repelled'' by him and basically act as a natural guard against invaders. Not to mention Laios winds up ''in charge'' of the kingdom, when the last thing he ever wanted was political responsibility, let alone on a country-wide scale.]]
* BigEater: When the adventure is over and everyone else is stuffed full from days of feasting, Laios is still hungry enough to polish off an entire pot of stew and says he still doesn't feel full. [[spoiler:They theorize that eating the Demon's appetite imparted some of its insatiable hunger to him, and decide to monitor his intake to keep him from overeating. As king he becomes known for researching many agricultural innovations, both mundane and magical.]]
* BlackSheep: Aside from his sister, Laios never got along with his parents or anyone else in his hometown. Because of this — and further exacerbated by witnessing the prejudice that Falin herself faced, exposing Laios to the cruelty of humans at a tender young age — he left his home while still a teenager and became a soldier, only to find that he couldn't fit in there either. Afterwards, he found work as a caravan guard as well as stripping gold in a dungeon and was later joined by Falin, with both of them eventually becoming skilled adventurers on the Island.
* BrokenPedestal: Laios was given a guide to eating monsters as a child and he fell in love with it, reading it over and over as he grew up. When he starts eating monsters himself, he realizes that their tastes are completely different from what the guide said about them, meaning the guide was essentially made up whole-cloth. This severely disappoints him.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Laios is a skilled professional who is well versed in monsters, a pretty competent warrior, and has surprising aptitude for magic, though he hasn't had the chance to really learn any since finding this out with the party being in an extended dungeon crawl and all. However, he is unflappably cheerful to the point of unnerving the rest of the party and everyone he meets and has a bizarre fascination with eating every monster they come across, to the point of having no real lines for what's acceptable to eat and what isn't (he's okay with eating [[spoiler:sentient mermaids eggs; needless to say Chilchuck and Senshi are not happy when they find out what they're eating and they chose to hide it from Marcille who is generally the most averse to eating monsters]]). He's also a ditz when it comes to things outside his specialty, making people generally nervous about his competence even when it involves things he ''is'' competent in.
* CasualKink: Downplayed. It's implied many times during his dialogue that may be into ''Vorarephilia'' (or Vore fetish, as it's more commonly referred to) since he's very interested in eating monsters despite knowing some of them could be sapient, but this is never explicitly stated in the manga.
* CreepyGood: Laios is a NiceGuy, but his fascination with monsters (especially eating them) and odd perpetual relaxed mood can be downright offputting.
* CripplingOverspecialization: A lifetime of sketching monsters out of books has left him able to draw ''monsters'' decently, but not much of anything else.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Laios may be an oddball sometimes, but when it comes to action he knows what to do (most of the time) and how to win.
* CursedWithAwesome: [[spoiler:The Winged Lion's curse ultimately makes Laios unable to live his dream of living with monsters, since every monster will have the natural drive to stay miles away from him. While this sucks for him, it makes the capital of his kingdom incredibly peaceful, as monsters never attack the city, but surround it enough to stop invaders and serve to be hunted for resources.]]
* DarkSecret: He reflects at one point that it took Falin's fate at the Red Dragon's hands for him to be able to show his true monster-curious self to his friends, implying that he'd kept it hidden all his adventuring years until this point. Considering how badly people tend to react to his curiosity about/desire to eat monsters, it probably counts as one of these.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: Despite being an ExtremeOmnivore for the most part, Laios refuses to eat squid or octopus after contracting a parasite from a larger parasite that was living inside a kraken and getting stabbed by a spermatophore. This notably remains as the only kind of food Laios dislikes entirely and absolutely refuses point blank to eat again.
* DitzyGenius: Has a great deal of knowledge about monsters, but seems to be severely lacking in common sense sometimes. The shapeshifter incident is a good display of this. He knows a lot about shapeshifters, but his memory of how his teammates look is questionable at best. He does manage to solve the incident in the end, but not without his teammates questioning every second of his efforts.
* DreamWeaver: His "Idea of a Cool Monster" shown when discussing the merits of chimerae [[BrickJoke returns nearly forty chapters later]] as a summoned monster within his dreams to defend himself from a [[DreamStealer shin]]. Shortly afterwards, he rips himself open to transform into a dog to dig his way into Marcille's dream.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Everyone in the party, except Laios, is aware that Shuro has feelings for Laios's sister; he's a little embarrassed to learn about it. An embarrassing flash-back even shows Namari and Chilchuck trying to stop Laios from inviting himself to Shuro's dinner-date with Falin.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** He thinks monsters are cool [[spoiler:including chimaera Falin]], but he (mostly) knows not to trust them. This is the case with a kelpie named Anne that Senshi believes he has befriended, whereas Laios tries pointing out to the former that there is a serious difference between "befriended" and "has not attacked yet". Sure enough, after luring Senshi underwater by allowing him to ride her, the first thing she does is try to murder Senshi where he struggles to defend himself.
** In an omake about chimaeras incorporating humans he points out that [[spoiler:the chimaera of his sister is awkwardly designed - it can't fly so much as glide and fall slowly, has a fuel sack but can't breathe fire, struggles to talk with compressed vocal chords, and will probably starve or lose organ function instead of living very long. Then he starts an ImagineSpot about a better design before going "If there were males and females they could breed-" and snapping out of it.]]
** Even he had his limits on what he'll eat: the thought of contracting a parasite from eating squid or octopus terrifies him, and his reaction to hearing that squid sashimi gets around them by cutting the squid thinly is to consider the people who thought of it insane.
* ExtremeOmnivore: It's easier to list things Laios won't eat. He even wants to eat ''animated armors''. He kind of manages to do it, for it turns out that the animated armors are actually a group of clam-like molluscs who use the armor as their "shell". [[spoiler:This isn't even getting into the kinds of stuff he's willing to try in the second half of the series (albeit for well-intentioned reasons), like the chimera parts of his sister and his own human body.]]
* ForScience: A lot of his decisions about monster cuisine seem to boil down to "let's find out if this is edible".
* GeniusBruiser: The ''Adventurer's Bible'' gives him a 4/5 in Intelligence, and he ''is'' actually very observant, knowledgeable (particularly about monsters), and thinks quickly on his feet. Unfortunately, his nigh-complete lack of social skills tends to make him look like a fool when dealing with others.
* TheGoodKing: [[spoiler:For all the gripes he has about taking a leadership role, the ending tapestries show that he becomes a well respected and appreciated king among his people. His agricultural exploits greatly benefit his new country, and he seems to get along fine with the child residents.]]
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: He's very friendly, well-intentioned and selfless, and his hair is dirt blonde.
* HealThyself: [[spoiler: By the time he fights with the Lunatic Magician, he is capable of casting healing magic on himself in the middle of combat. It's not very dramatic, but it ''greatly'' extends his ability to stay in a fight solo and is credited alongside his monster knowledge as one of only reasons he survives the gauntlet of multiple dragons that Thistle summons to kill him.]]
* HiddenDepths: As the series goes it's slowly revealed Laios' infatuation with monsters actually carries a little more weight behind it beyond just being a goofy trait. Near the end of the series, [[spoiler:the Winged Lion points out to him that he has always had resentment and indifference towards his fellow humans for how his sister was treated back when they were younger, and that he was always glued to any book that showed the fantastic and varied world of other races and monsters. Laios tries to deny it, but the Lion continues to interpret it as him liking monsters ''because they kill humans'', and points out that as a child he thought human-devouring monsters were beautiful and cool, and even fantasized that monsters would maybe come and destroy his village. Ultimately, the Lion makes the plausible argument that perhaps Laios decided to go into dungeon-delving because he heard a rumor that in there, even a human could become a monster, and a small part of him believed it. It is this, combined with the Lion reassuring Laios that his friends will remain safe, that tips Laios over the edge]].
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Laios, as part of his characterization as TheDitz.
** Ironically, [[spoiler:he is the one to warn Senshi about trusting the kelpie Anne, who tries to kill him, as it turns out Laios is much better figuring out monsters and animals in comparison to people]].
** Similarly to the above, [[spoiler:Laios is the one to figure out who the impostors in the party are when they are infiltrated by shapeshifters, deducing his friends' true identities by comparing their actions with their demonstrated behavior over their adventure thus far]].
* HumansAreAverage: Laios considers tallmen like himself to be "boring" physically, as they lack the attributes other races and monsters have. When he sees a monster he admires, he often expresses he wishes he could turn into it. Narrative-wise, however, he's anything but the average one of the team due to his unusual solutions to problems and his monster enthusiasm.
* HumansAreBastards: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. While Laios is a NiceGuy, he is personally troubled by the extreme cruelty, hatred and selfishness that people often display, such as the prejudice that Falin received as a child due to her affinity for magic and the mistreatment he received from the villagers as well due to not fitting in well with them. This is part of the reason for Laios' fascination with monsters and his social awkwardness with people. [[spoiler:The Winged Lion is able to play on this.]]
* HumansAreLeaders: Combined with TokenHuman after the first encounter with the Red Dragon.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He disagrees with Senshi about bonding with a monster because people cannot know exactly what's inside a monster's mind, all while [[spoiler: keeping a living sword and hiding it from the rest of the party. Although his living sword is too weak to physically harm him and seems incapable of independent thought, he still doesn't practice what he preaches. This bites him hard when his living sword runs away during the fight with the Red Dragon.]]
* IAmNotMyFather: An {{omake}} shows he used to have longer hair and a beard because he thought it was too much work to trim it, but when Falin said it made him look like their father, he ''immediately'' cleaned himself up.
* ICallItVera: Names his [[spoiler:living]] sword Kensuke.
* IdiotHero: Laios is an odd mix of dependable and undependable, being rather idiotic when dealing with people and knowledgeable yet far too enthusiastic about monsters, which causes issues. Later on he sobers up on the monster obsession (at least in combat) and works as a better leader and planner, but he still has his moments.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: His love for everything monster-related leads him to do questionable things. In one chapter where everyone is stripping down out of their wet clothing, he wants to see a naked Itsuzumi. Not for any sexual reasons, but to see how her fusion with an animal soul has affected her body. He's still forced to wear a blindfold by the others for the rest of the chapter. Apparently, even in the past his air-headed personality caused Shuro to secretly dislike him (not that Laios ever noticed).
* IntimateHealing: His abilities as a healer are ''very'' basic and he doesn't have a tool like Marcille's staff, so if he's gonna perform any cures he has to touch ''alllll'' over his target with those big hands of his. Laios is embarrassed by this, though Marcille explains it's an understandable common issue for rookie healers.
* {{Irony}}:
** Despite his obssession with eating every single monster he comes across being one of the main aspects of the manga, when asked what his favorite food is, it's not even a meat of any kind. It's [[spoiler:cheesecake]].
** Laios left his village after years of enduring the prejudice aimed at his sister for her magical abilities and Laios not wanting to become the village's chief. Instead, he pursues the life of an adventurer. [[spoiler:The end of his journey has him become king of an entire country, with his sister becoming more monstrous but accepted by everyone.]]
** Laios above all things loves monsters and wants to live in a world full of them. [[spoiler:As the new King of the Golden Kingdom, he gains a land teeming with monsters. However, as a spiteful last act from the Winged Lion, it curses Laios to not have his greatest desire granted: as a result, all of the monsters of the Golden Kingdom avoid Laios, meaning he'll never interact with them again. While this is actually great for the kingdom, since it means the monsters are far enough away from the kingdom's denizens, yet also fend off intruders, it's upsetting for Laios.]]
* ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler:After hearing the story behind Marcille's desire to make all lifespans equal, he remembers the time he entered Marcille's nightmare and believes he is responsible for her falling prey to the Winged Lion, as he encouraged Marcille to overcome her fear of losing the people she loves by any means, and even put the demon's book in her hands. Though Chilchuck quickly assures him that no one thing or person can be blamed for how events transpired.]]
* {{Keet}}: Laios has his moments, usually while nerding out on monsters.
* KillTheOnesYouLove: [[spoiler:He assassinates his resurrected sister turned violent chimera by suffocating her with a wet piece of cloth [[MoodWhiplash after she falls asleep from happily eating a gourmet meal.]]]]
* TheLeader: Officially, he's the head of the party, which even has his surname. Functionally however, the party is small enough to not actively need a commander and they all follow the main quest without much complaint. Additionally, Laios doesn't realistically have the authority (nor the intension really) of ordering his teammates around besides tactical planning where his monster expertise is actually well regarded. If anything, Chilchuck of all people serves as something closer to this due to his people skills and charming nature.
* LivingWeapon: [[spoiler:The sword he takes from the living armor still has a living parasite in it, and it reacts to potentially dangerous monsters. This is both useful since it lets Laios get a heads-up to an incoming threat, but can also be a problem if the sword is too scared of a powerful enemy.]]
** Later, [[spoiler:becomes more problematic when the Winged Lion reveals his [[BitchInSheepsClothing true]] [[ConsummateLiar nature]], allowing him to take control of the sword and forcibly bond it with Laios's right hand so that he cannot sheathe it and cut off the Winged Lion's communication. Marcille manages to temporarily silence the Winged Lion — giving some control of the sword back to Laios — by covering the handle and cross-guard portions with the book that initially sealed half of the Winged Lion's power]].
* LargeAndInCharge: He's the leader of the party, and while not unnaturally large, Laios towers over every other adventurer introduced so far, including several humanoid beings. It does help that the other two men in his party are a half-foot and a dwarf.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Doesn't have one as part of his usual equipment, but sometimes dons Senshi's [[spoiler: adamantine pot]] as a very effective one.
* MadeOfIron: The ''Adventurers' Bible'' give his constitution as a 5/5 and he's survived things like being noshed on by a dragon or absorbing large amounts of tentacle venom without being paralyzed.
* MagicKnight: He has tried to learn magic in the past several times, however his sister ended up being a very lousy teacher, going mostly by "instinct" that he couldn't understand at all. Marcille is more by the book, which proves to be far more successful since he learns to conjure basic healing and maybe even petrification curse removal in under a week of training. The ''Adventurers' Bible'' gives him a Magic score of 3/5.
* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Strangles his chimera sister to death in Chapter 67 due to her being under Thistle's control and a mockery of herself, swearing to find a way to fix her before taking Thistle on.]]
* MisanthropeSupreme: According to the Winged Lion, Laios when he was younger would actively [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior fantasize about his town being attacked by monsters that would kill everyone but him and his sister]], solely out of disdain for people and love for monsters. Though he understands objectively that this is wrong, Laios admits that he's never quite gotten rid of that part of him.
* NeverMyFault: He develops a fear and hatred of cephalopods after having a kraken parasite painfully burrow into the walls of his stomach, but that only happens after he foolishly eats a piece of the larger parasite raw.
* NiceGuy: The most friendly character in the series by a long shot as well as selfless and helpful. Any ulterior motives he might have don't go over wanting to eat something unusual. As a result, when [[spoiler:the Canaries announce (erroneously) that he's become the new lord of the dungeon and a threat to the world, nobody believes them because they've all met Laios and know he would ''never'' put everyone in danger like that.]]
* NightmareFetishist: He's fascinated by monsters and had been curious about their flavor for quite a while before the events of the series. Still, he fully understands how dangerous they can be. He also cheerfully admits to an attraction to orc women.
** Amongst all known monsters, [[MixAndMatchCritters chimera]] are the most fascinating to him. In addition to [[spoiler: his enthusiasm toward Falin and Izutsumi's conditions,]] he notes that he used to believe a monster was best composed of as many creatures as possible before coming to appreciate how just two creatures in one heighten each other's charms.
** When a succubus takes the form of Marcille to seduce him, Laios is completely unaffected... until it takes the form of Marcille ''as a monster'', and claims to have a bite that will turn him into one as well. After that, it's all over for him.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: He has been known to "design" his own monsters, which invariably fall into this; he likes to simply take as many cool traits he can think of and then mash them together. In particular, he seems to have developed a fondness for two-headed creatures that have one fire-breathing head and one ice-breathing head.
* NoSocialSkills: His radar chart in the official World Map book is very well-rounded, with the exception of his social attribute at a pitiful 1/5, and in-universe, he's constantly misreading social situations, putting his foot in his mouth, or giving people the wrong impression about his intentions.
* NotQuiteBackToNormal: [[spoiler:The lingering effects of his experience with the Winged Lion consist of a curse which keeps monsters away from him, and (due to consuming the demon's appetite) the constant feeling of only being about 40% full. The others note that they'll have to keep an eye on his weight and diet from now on to make sure he doesn't get obese]].
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Though he is perfectly professional when the situation calls for it in combat (and sometimes not even then), he is rarely truly serious. This makes it rather jarring in Chapter 67 when he is ''100%'' serious. [[spoiler:Considering the business of the chapter is strangling his chimera sister to death, it's understandable.]]
* ThePollyanna: He's perpetually cheery and relaxed, which can be jarring as he casually talks about how he cooks and eats monsters from the underworld and plainly comments how [[spoiler:his sister was resurrected using extremely dangerous dark magic]]. It's not that he doesn't worry or understand the gravity of the things he's talking about, it's just that his near-unshakable demeanor clashes horribly with the mood.
* RedBaron:
** When The Canaries mistake him for being the ruler of the Dungeon, they call him "The Lord of Monsters" and "Dark Lord Laios". While he assures Chilchuck they'll clarify the mistake shortly, he is blushing and enjoying the names.
** [[spoiler:Once he takes the title of king, the public (many of whom are his friends) give him several names: Namari calls him "The Demon Eater", Kabru calls him "Laios of the Three Heads", the general public uses "The Vegetable-Armored", "The Dragon Slayer", "Demon King Laios", and finally seem to focus on "Devourer of All Things Horrible".]]
* SayingTooMuch: When asked by Zon whether or not Laios feels that his wives are attractive, Laios points out the qualities both humans and orcs appreciate, full lips, straight teeth, large eyes... [[NoSocialSkills he probably should have shut up before also mentioning large breasts and curvy backsides]]. From his point of view Laios is innocently pointing out attractive similarities, but Zon doesn't see it that way.
* TheSmartGuy: Laios tend to fit into this role in combat. Due to his encyclopedic monster acknowledge and tactical mind he plans the vast mayority of engagements. In a fight, he's by no means weak, but the raw power he brings into combat is lesser compared to that of Marcille, Senshi and Izutsumi.
* SkewedPriorities: He often faces a dilemma on how to cook or eat something when the rest of his party (sans Senshi) tends to debate the moral implications instead. Such as what type of monsters would be considered too close to sapient beings to eat.
* SuperSenses: Not to the extent of Chilchuck, but he can hear the difference between the footsteps of multiple types of undead and living beings.
* TastesLikeChicken: [[DefiedTrope Defies]] this while the party [[spoiler:eats the Red Dragon's meat]] and tries to compare it to things they've tasted previously, wondering why it has to be compared to anything and that it should just stand on its own.
* TheSecretOfLongPorkPies: He tries ''really'' hard to test the definition of [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman what is DemiHuman and what isn't]].
** He once puts demi-human eggs in his friends' lunch without them knowing. Chilchuck is horrified and later confronts Laios about this, but they both agreed to keep Marcille in the dark (who is also strictly against eating anything demi-human).
** He gets to push that boundary again in chapter 46 by [[spoiler: both milking a minotaur cow and getting a taste of minotaur meat.]]
* TokenHuman: After his party's encounter with the Red Dragon in the beginning of the first chapter leading to his sister being eaten and Shuro leaving, he becomes the only tallman. While elves, halflings, dwarves, etc. are all considered "human", tallmen are the equivalent of humans in real life.
* WhatTheHellHero: Many of his comrades call Laios out on his obsession of eating almost anything monstrous in the dungeon rather than focusing on rescuing his sister. Chilchuck gives a vicious one to him for almost crossing the line of trying to eat demi-humans like mermen, then going so far as to eat their eggs. Laios [[DefiedTrope defies]] this however, pointing out that eating proper nutrition is important for surviving in a dungeon, not to mention they cannot be picky about their choice of food given their need to conserve resources.\\
Case in point, when Shuro's patience and politeness with Laios [[RageBreakingPoint finally snaps]] due to believing he isn't taking the dire situation with Falin and the Lunatic Magician seriously enough, the former attacks the latter. However, Laios defeats Shuro in a fist fight despite Laios believing Shuro is normally stronger between them, declaring that Shuro's refusal to take care of his personal health by not getting proper sleep and not eating enough nutritious meals — all because he's too worried about Falin and can't keep her out of his mind — have led to his body's health declining. Laios then states he's far more serious about the situation than Shuro because at least he's keeping himself in good condition to stand a better chance at defeating the Lunatic Magician.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Laios initially has a fear of animated armor due to these being responsible for his first death.
* YoungAndInCharge: The youngest member of the party after their encounter with the Red Dragon in the first chapter.
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[[folder:Marcille]]
!!True Name -- Marcille Donato
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SayakaSenbongi (Japanese), Creator/EmilyRudd (English) [[labelnote:'''Other Languages''']]Marie Nonnenmacher (French)[[/labelnote]]
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->'''Age:''' 50 years old\\
'''Gender:''' Female\\
'''Race:''' Elf [[spoiler: (actually Half-Elf)]]\\
'''Birthplace:''' Northern Continent\\
'''Family:''' Mother\\
'''Height:''' Around 160cm / 5'3"\\
'''BMI:''' 20\\
'''Likes:''' Seafood, nuts\\
'''Dislikes:''' Any sort of weird food

A powerful, albeit skittish, elven mage. She is a very close friend of Falin and insists on following Laios into the dungeon to save her. Unfortunately, she isn't as... thrilled to eat abominations from the depths of the underground.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Marcille has a very close relationship with Falin, and is willing to risk diving into a dungeon, eat monsters, and [[spoiler:use forbidden magic]] to rescue her. They have no problem bathing together or sleeping in the same bed, and when [[spoiler:the transformed Falin rips her top apart]], we see Marcille getting flustered the same way as Shuro, who is outright stated to be in love with Falin. When Marcille first met Laios, she treated him with great hostility under the impression that he "took [Falin] away from her" when they became adventurers. The ''World Guide'' describes her relationship with Shuro as "[angry] he's courting Falin" for some reason, which is especially notable given that she's normally a LoveFreak.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Her way of harvesting mandrakes. Since she can't use a dog, she ropes a giant bat to pull out the mandrake while she is far enough to not hear the scream. The problem is that since the bat gets killed, it crashes into her and she still heard the scream. However, mandrakes harvested her way turn out to be better tasting.
* BadassBookworm: A high powered mage and the party's magical [[TheHeavy heavy]] who was top of her class at magic school, and loves to read and study. Heck, even her dreamscape is a library.
* BerserkButton: [[spoiler:She hates it when full-blooded elves assume that just because she's a half-elf she envies full-bloods and wants to be like them, seeing it as another example of the sort of arrogance the divide between long-lived and short-lived races fosters]].
* BlackMage: Her magic is mostly combat-oriented and explosive, but she also knows healing and revival magic as well. It's hard to say if she's more of TheRedMage, or if healing magic is just more common in this world.
* BlessedWithSuck: [[spoiler: On paper, human-elf hybrids having double an ordinary elf's lifespan sounds like a win. In practice Marcille is [[WhoWantsToLiveForever deeply upset that she'll outlive all her friends and loved ones]].]]
* BloodMagic: [[spoiler:It is later revealed this is her true specialty. She can draw from an "infinite" pool of power and perform very complex, potent ancient magic, but the spells require varying amounts of blood, are very taxing in terms of mana usage and might take a light toll on her sanity (though the latter is up for discussion since rapid mana drain tends to do this anyway).]]
* ButIReadABookAboutIt: It's shown a few times that while she has encyclopedic knowledge of dungeon monsters, it doesn't match up to actual experience of being in dungeons, since a lot of information in her studies tends to be outdated or incorrect. For example, it's taught that the best way to uproot a [[BrownNote mandrake]] safely is by tying it to a dog and calling the dog to you (which kills the dog), but Senshi [[MundaneSolution simply cuts the head off before it has time to scream]]. It's also how she originally befriended Falin, in a magic class where they were cultivating sprite jars, Falin's sprite jar turned out to be far superior to Marcille's despite Marcille being considered the ace student, because Falin based her jar after an actual dungeon she liked to frequent, while Marcille's was completely by the book.
* ButtMonkey: Though all of Laios' party members tend to have moments when they suffer humorously, Marcille is the most likely to go through some manner of slapstick or hardship. She's usually the first to complain or get grossed out when Laios or Senshi try to cook up the next weird monster, making her one of the prime sources of comedy of the series.
* ChekhovsHobby: Early chapters have her offer to heal and revive people, but is always turned down in favor of just waiting for an actual healer to do the job, and she mentions knowing how to create golems. As the party makes it deeper into the dungeon she begins actively healing, [[spoiler: and golem creation is revealed to be [[TheDarkArts forbidden magic]] hinting at the [[BloodMagic dark nature of her knowledge]].]]
* ChildOfTwoWorlds: [[spoiler:As a half-elf, she found she had trouble fitting in with either tallmen or elves. As a child, she developed slower than tallmen, resulting in her having more childish interests than tallmen children her physical age, but she developed faster than pure elves, leaving her mentally more developed and more mature than elves her chronological age.]]
* TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: Every time the party decides to eat something she will complain about how weird and disgusting it is, then be proven wrong when it turns out to be delicious. Later on, she starts to ease up on the food with little if no complaining at all.
* CourtMage: [[spoiler:Laios uses his influence as newly crowned King of the Golden Kingdom to pressure the Canaries into letting Marcille stay in this role instead of being taken back to the elf kingdom to stand trial for use of dark magic. She also serves as a liason to the kingdom of the elves.]]
* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: Sports these for the back half of Chapter 65, where her confidence is shattered after being forced to stop the Dungeon Rabbits by using the animated corpses of her friends. Even after they're revived, she's still too depressed to immediately lighten up.
* CryIntoChest: She's prone to doing this with Laios whenever she thinks he's dead, [[DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist or he actually dies]], as seeing close friends and family die is traumatising to her.
* CuteClumsyGirl: She doesn't ''quite'' have the kind of grace you'd expect from an elf.
* TheDarkArts: [[spoiler:She dabbles in forbidden magic, believing that magic is inherently neither good nor evil, and only man can be both. Could also be terribly, terribly wrong about this - when she's using forbidden magic to cast DispelMagic on the Lunatic Magician's dragonblood minions, she starts chuckling and smiling as she's spattered with blood, bleeding from the nose, and her eyes are unclear and distant. However, those are also symptoms of large usage of mana, which BloodMagic requires, so it might just be that.]]
* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: [[spoiler:The Winged Lion eats her desire to take care of her hair after she contracts with it.]]
* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:Makes a pact with the Winged Lion, in part to repel the attacking Canaries and save Falin, and in part to grant her wish of extending everyone's lifespan to match hers.]]
* {{Determinator}}: What her philosophy as revealed in Chapter 44 boils down to. She ''does not'' like eating monsters, and using magic while on her last dregs of it is utterly exhausting and painful, but she feels like if she tries to avoid every problem she comes across, she'll lose sight of her goals, so she grits her teeth and powers through.
* DisappearedDad: [[spoiler:Her father was a tallman. As a result, he died while she was still a young girl (although, for a human, he lived to a ripe old age). Marcille still dearly misses him and wishes they had could've had more time together.]]
* DispelMagic: Uses this trick against [[spoiler: the Lunatic Magician, surprising herself, the party and even the wizard]], instantly destroying otherwise-invulnerable magic constructs. She is only able to do this due to the fact that both her magic and [[spoiler: the Magician's are the same type of ancient, forbidden blood magic]].
%%%* ExpressiveEars
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Based on her surname, Donato, and the types of dishes mentioned from her homeland (pasta and porchetta), it's likely that Marcille comes from the equivalent of Italy.
* FishEyes: Happens to Marcille after she hears the scream of a mandrake. Fortunately it's only temporary.
* GlassCannon: She's easily taken out and vulnerable to damage, but the strategies for many of the party's encounters basically revolve around her, and she's capable of going from complaining about food to ''golfing sea monsters out of the water.'' Not to mention, [[spoiler: when she starts using BloodMagic, she becomes capable of standing toe-to-toe with the Lunatic Magician, the creator of the dungeon, for a brief period of time before overexerting herself. Keep in mind, she's the ''only'' person in the party capable of even slowing the Magician down.]]
* HalfBreedAngst: [[spoiler: Marcille is visibly shaken when Thistle reveals her HalfHumanHybrid nature, even as she points out the perks of being a hybrid. Her unstable life-span and her sterility that result from her mixed lineage -- which may condemn her to a life of loneliness after all her current friends have passed -- are likely the cause of her angst. Notably, whenever someone assumes she envies full-blooded elves she firmly denies it, and never demonstrates any such inclination, even by implication]].
* HalfBreedDiscrimination: [[spoiler: As a half elf, she is heavily discriminated by elves, with the elvish court even refusing to allow half elves in their ranks, as they are seen as an untrustworthy group who hate all pure elves out jealousy of not being full blooded themselves. Ironically, Thistle and later the Canaries incorrectly assume Marcille wants the power of the dungeon to get revenge against elves or become a full blooded elf when in reality she has no such desires and really has good intentions like saving her best friend.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: It is revealed in chapter 68 to the reader (and 69 to the rest of the party) that Marcille is a half-elf with a human father. [[spoiler: Notably, unlike most examples of half-human hybrids in fiction, Marcille is stated to be sterile because of her lineage, unable to have children of her own despite the fact that her lineage also gives her the best of both worlds physically.]]
* HatesBeingAlone: It becomes clear that her biggest fear is being left alone after all of her friends die. Beyond the obvious element of the risk of everyone else dying in the dungeon, she is also scared of the fact that as an elf, she will long outlive everyone else due to elves living much longer than other races. [[spoiler:This fear leads to her wanting to strike a deal with the Winged Lion.]]
* TheHeart: According to the ''World Guide,'' at the time she joined the party, tensions were high after their previous mage left them on bad terms, and the remaining party members were starting to question Laios's leadership. It was thanks to Marcille's efforts to befriend everyone and integrate herself into the group that they were able to mend their relationships and stay together. [[spoiler: Ironically, the whole reason Marcille was acting so friendly was to get them to lower their guards enough to spill all the not-quite-as-lurid-as-she-was-expecting details about her predecessor]].
* HeroicSacrifice: It's thankfully temporary, but she takes the opportunity while her arm is bitten by a cockatrice to cast an explosion spell on its snake neck at point blank range, blowing off the snake head and giving Senshi a chance to attack the cockatrice's head before turning to stone.
* HiddenDepths: Marcille knows how to make soap using animal fat and she was also top of her class in magic school. [[spoiler: Even bigger is her magic specialty: ancient forbidden magic]].
* HybridPower: [[spoiler: Elf-human hybrids have an average lifespan of 1000 years, twice that of pure elves. To Marcille however, this is definitely a case of BlessedWithSuck because it means she'll outlive all her friends and loved ones.]]
* HybridsAreACrapshoot: On the flip side, [[spoiler: her mixed blood also comes with a variety of problems. She didn't age steadily or synchronously as a child, and she's sterile too.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: She detests and complains about the rest of the party's bizarre and outlandish combat tactics and eating habits but she herself [[spoiler:is a specialist in forbidden blood magic, which is far more outrageous and unacceptable than simply eating something a bit weird]].
* ICallItVera: Named her staff Ambrosia. Apparently she handcrafted it herself.
* InconsistentSpelling: Early translations spelled her name as "Marshill" or "Marsilla" before settling with "Marcille", which was later officially confirmed by the ''Explorer Guide''.
* InsistentTerminology: Her field of study is not dark arts! It's "ancient magic"!
* LettingHerHairDown: When Marcille needs to cast a high-level spell complete with a runic circle, she undoes her hair first. Apparently proper hair maintenance is key to magic usage.
* TheLoad: Early on, she seems to be this (and seems to fear it being the case even), what with her constant whining and complaining about eating monsters and mostly just following the party along without doing any magic. Becomes a bit justified since Senshi pretty well forbids her from using magic for a large part of the early chapters, but once she let loose...
* LoveFreak: She's a big romantic at heart and loves to pry into her party members' love lives. When [[spoiler:Chilchuck reveals that he's estranged from his wife]], Marcille immediately deduces the exact reasons why his wife left, why he never brought it up, and that he's not actually in trouble with her, all by using her experience with gossip and romance novels. It's to the point where the party's encounter with succubi reveals that her ideal partner is an unbelievably outlandish caricature of a romance novel hero.
* MagicHair: Proper hair maintenance is a basic rule of magic, as sufficiently messy hair can interfere with it. The only times her hair isn't braided are when she sleeps or [[spoiler:when she's [[SlipknotPonytail turning to forbidden magic to revive Falin]].]]
** [[spoiler:After the Winged Lion is defeated and everyone's preparing for the feast, it turns out that due to her DealWithTheDevil, Marcielle has not only forgotten how to braid her hair, but ''forgotten she ever did so at all''. She seems fine with it at first, despite the issues it may cause her as a mage, but Chilchuck braids it for her out of pity, and she's delighted with the result.]]
* MagicPants: At one point she gets turned into an Ogre, which somehow just causes her clothes to become extremely tight-fitting. This stands out because at the same time Chilchuck is turned into a Dwarf (he was previously a half-foot) and his clothes got torn lengthwise despite his change being less drastic in comparison. Knowing Marcille though, her clothes could literally be magical (especially since this is the second time this happens).
* MayflyDecemberFriendship: Apparently one of Marcille's greatest fears is the fact that as an elf, she has a much longer lifespan than those closest to her, such as Falin. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that as a half-elf, Marcille has a projected lifespan of ''twice'' that of even elves. No matter where she goes she will outlive the vast majority of other people around her.]]
* TheMedic: She knows healing magic and thus is the reduced party's go-to mage for healing, but not being a cleric like Falin ensures a vastly reduced effect. Unlike Falin, she's more like a [[MeatgrinderSurgery meatgrinder surgeon]] rather than a nursing healer. She heals wounds really fast but her patients will experience extreme pain as their damaged organs, torn flesh, and cracked bones correct themselves.[[note]]It's noted in an omake that Falin is able to use magic to temporarily nullify the sense of pain while healing, but Marcille doesn't want to mess around with mental magic on people, even more so because its not her area of expertice.[[/note]] On top of that, it only heals it to immediate working order, there are quite a few shots of Laios in particular still having nasty gashes that have to recover naturally after her healing.
* {{Necromancer}}: After a near total-party-kill occurs against a group of [[KillerRabbit dungeon rabbits]], Marcille reveals that she's knows necromancy ...by basically turning all her dead friends into puppets that follow her movements.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Not as severe as most examples, but Marcille's main way of showing affection is to glomp people. This is particularly apparent with Izutsumi once they grow close, but she'll readily hug all team members in an emotional moment.
* OlderThanTheyLook: An inevitable side effect of being an elf. Laios assumed that Marcille was Falin's fellow student since they look similar in age. She's actually a researcher at the school and was Falin's ''teacher''.
* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: She's the only one to point out how outlandish or dangerous Laios and Senshi's plans are. Chilchuck is more resigned and goes along with it.
* RitualMagic: Most of her spells can be cast on a whim, but her supremely powerful, rule breaking [[spoiler: blood magic resurrection]] requires a very complex and sinister magic circle to be drawn, [[spoiler: a large source of flesh and blood]] as well as reciting incantations in an odd tongue.
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Making a contract with the WingedLion is quickly taking a toll on her sanity, much like it did with the previous Dungeon Lord. She is still friendly to her party, but is now willing to lock them up so they won't interfere with her plans, even as she tries to give them as much comfort and friendship as possible.]]
* SelflessWish: Marcille believes that the differing lifespans between races forces a barrier between them, so her greatest wish is that everyone would live and age at the same pace. [[AmbiguouslyEvil The Lion]] may not have been the best person to express this wish to, however.
* TheSmartGirl: Graduated at the top of her class. She joined an adventuring party to acquire some practical knowledge to go with her theoretical learning. Her magical knowledge regularly keeps the party ahead of the game, and lets them circumvent a lot of problems.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Fallin is eaten on the first chapter and Namari leaves the party immediately, leaving Marcille as the sole female member of the team until Izutsumi joins roughly halfway through the story.
* StuffBlowingUp: Her standard offensive spell is to conjure a localized explosion. She can also use stronger versions of it with some cast time.
* SquishyWizard: Nearly as frail as Chilchuck, and with none of the agility to compensate, her Constitution is a mere 2/5. However, she is a high class offensive spellcaster and can reliably oneshot lots of opponents with ease once she's protected. The fact that the party actually needs monster corpses to be in a decent state for consumption does limit her usage of the most destructive spells though.
* WalkOnWater: One of her available spells. Absolutely key in Level 4 due to the presence of a large lake and water monsters.
* WeAreAsMayflies: Well not her specifically, but nearly everyone around her is short lived in comparison, due to elves having very long lifespans. Throughout the story, she is troubled by the fact that she'll outlive those close to her who aren't elves and [[spoiler:it eventually leads her to make a deal with the demon in charge of the dungeon in hopes of making all beings' lifespans equal.]]
* WrongContextMagic: [[spoiler: Her actual speciality is ancient blood magic, later revealed to be full blown ''demon magic''. It allows for advanced spellcasting and breaking the usual hard rules the normal schools of magic have, including an extremely high level form of resurrection and necromancy. However, this comes with its own slew of issues, such as very long or difficult casting styles and soulmeld.]]
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[[folder:Chilchuck]]
!!True Name -- Chilchuck Tims
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Asuna Tomari (Japanese), Creator/CaseyMongillo (English) [[labelnote:'''Other Languages''']]Thomas Sagols (French)[[/labelnote]]
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->'''Age:''' 29 years old\\
'''Gender:''' Male\\
'''Race:''' Half-foot\\
'''Birthplace:''' Eastern Continent\\
'''Family:''' Mother, wife, older brother & sister, 2 younger brothers, 3 daughters\\
'''Height:''' Around 110cm / 3'7"\\
'''BMI:''' 18\\
'''Likes:''' Alcoholic beverages (in particular, ale)\\
'''Dislikes:''' Sweet side dishes

A half-foot rogue and master lockpicker with very advanced knowledge of traps and their mechanisms. While he says he prefers not to mix his private life with his work, he is a good friend of Laios and follows him to rescue Falin. He is not as enthusiastic about eating monsters, and might be grossed out over some species, but usually agrees and enjoys eating the well made monster dishes.
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* TheAlcoholic: A heavy drinker, although he doesn't let it interfere with his job. His father died of drink, but Chilchuck feels going out doing what you love isn't so bad.
* ArcherArchetype: He served as the Touden Party's archer until he lost his bow when they were emergency warped out of the dungeon. For a large portion of the series, he uses a knife instead. But shortly after [[spoiler:Izutsumi joins the party]], they return to where they had initially reached and Chilchuck gets his bow back.
* AngerBornOfWorry: Gets pretty damn pissed off at Laios's insistence on continuing deeper, despite [[spoiler: the party being very worn down in every possible sense after the fight with the Lunatic Magician]]. However, Chilchuck is simply worried about losing his friends.
* AnnoyingArrows: Chilchuck is not a strong person, nor a fighter of any sort as he'll often remind people. Even when using his bow it does little more than slightly chip some ice, with the implication that its primary use from him has always been to just point out weaknesses he spots.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: He's the party's expert on all things pertaining traps and the like.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Played with. Chilchuck is treated this way by the rest of the party because of how young he appears, much to his annoyance. In reality, he's actually older than Laios, though Senshi and Marcille still consider him a baby because of the long lifespans of their respective species.
* BadassAdorable: Expert thief and capable of ''[[spoiler: nailing the dragon in the eye with a thrown mythril chef's knife]]'', all while looking like a cute, 12yr old boy. [[spoiler: Hilarity ensues when [[TheReveal he finally admits his age of 28]], making him essentially the oldest member comparatively due to the average lifespan of a half-foot being about 60]].
* BerserkButton:
** Not following his orders when it comes to traps, due to the nature of how they work and can go off in tandem - which usually results in him getting killed.
** To a lesser extent, being treated like a kid will annoy the piss out of him
* BoyfriendBlockingDad: One side comic has Chilchuck telling the rest of the party about his daughters, one of whom is actively looking for a dwarf boyfriend. When he sees Senshi smiling along with the others at the idea of one day all having dinner together, he angrily tells Senshi that he's not allowed to go near his daughters (accompanied by an ImagineSpot of two of his daughters demanding to meet him while the third looks completely disinterested).
* CharacterDevelopment: At first Chilchuck was very honest about his idea that a party is merely a temporary job, forming real friendships and opening up your personal life was unnecessary, one should just stick to their role in the group by doing their jobs properly; he breaks out of his shell as the series progresses, Chilchuck opens himself to the party, bonding with them. His development is then put on display when Izutsumi joins the party, her initial distant and sometimes uncooperative behavior puts Chilchuck at odds with her at first.
* CunningLinguist: His profile mentions that he knows how to speak several languages.
* EveryonesBabySister: Senshi treats him like a young child, despite him being an adult, much to his displeasure. At one point, Senshi even tried to teach him about "pistil and stamen", which horrifies Chilchuck.
* DeadpanSnarker: When one of his teammates screw up, he'll be the first to call them an idiot. Usually the victim is [[CloudCuckoolander Laios]], but Marcille's whining and Senshi's lack of logic get their fair share too.
* HasAType: When the party is attacked by succubi (monsters which take the form of something irresistibly alluring to their prey), all of them that target Chilchuck have long, blonde hair, leading Marcille to guess (correctly) that his wife also has blonde hair.
* ItsAllMyFault: After [[spoiler:the battle with the Red Dragon]], he mentions that he hadn't stuck with the party the rest might have given up early rather than risking their lives.
* {{Irony}}: He looks like a kid or teen and Marcille and Senshi sometimes treat him like one, but he is surprisingly protective of the rest of the team, usually has the most mature and levelheaded words and is the most socially adept by a mile. [[spoiler:He's also the only one in the party who has actually gotten married and had kids.]]
* KnightInSourArmor: This is the reasoning behind him being OnlyInItForTheMoney. He sees people who claim to work for free as the least deserving of trust as there is nothing in place to ensure it, and the way things are set up for adventurers jumping from one job to the next based solely on pay and not completion is the fastest way to end up with no jobs other than potentially criminal ones. Things just do not work out well for anyone but those who approach the matter as anything other than employment.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In one chapter he constantly complained about how the party's behavior will get them all killed someday and how he is willing to lie to them so they won't make him go further. But then he got speechless when it's pointed out he just didn't want his friends to die. He has a habit of pretending that his motives are darker than they actually are, such as claiming that he only stuck with the party to get paid when he's clearly more worried about his friends' safety, or [[spoiler:pretending that he cheated on his wife to hide the fact that he doesn't know why she left him]].
* TheLancer: He more or less fits this role to Laios's leader, having a good mix of common sense (which Laios and Senshi lack) but also tolerance (which Marcille lacks) and his advice is usually the one best considered by both Laios and Marcille. Additionally, any order pertaining his area of expertise is taken with utter obedience and respect.
* LargeRunt: Inverted. He's a half-foot, which are the shortest of the races and he barely comes up above Laios's waist, but it's shown and told in concept sketches he's actually tall for a half-foot.
* NonActionGuy: As a thief, his expertise lies in disarming traps and picking locks, not fighting, although he can hold his own. In fights he also tends to retreat in part because half-foots often get caught underfoot from their other party members.
* OlderThanTheyLook: He's 28, but since he's a [[{{Hobbits}} half-foot]] one can't know from looks alone, being evocative of a kid or teenager. This surprises Laios, but to [[LongLived Marcille and Senshi]] he's still basically as young as he looks. It's implied as well that, by half-foot standards, he'd be considered middle-aged and his profile in The Adventurer's Bible says he's the equivalent of a 50-year-old human. [[spoiler:He is even married with three daughters, all old enough to live on their own, though he hasn't seen them in a while due to circumstances. When he’s turned into a human, his appearance better fits his actual age. Although everyone is a bit disturbed by the drastic difference.]]
* OneLastJob: Sort of. Before meeting Laios, he was planning on retiring from dungeoneering and becoming a locksmith. However, he felt that no other half-foots had as much experience as he did with the deeper areas of the dungeon and agreed to join up with Laios's group.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: He ''says'' that his only reason for following Laios and Marcille back into the dungeon is that he agreed to complete the 'job' and was paid in advance; since they didn't slay the Red Dragon, his job isn't complete, and he's bound to Laios via his own terms. In truth, he values the party as more or less his closest friends, but he has a lot of trouble showing affection.
* OnlySaneMan: ''Usually''. Marcille says he's normally the most level-headed person in the group, but he's not above having a FreakOut on occasion (usually due to [[CloudCuckoolander Laios's behavior]]).
* {{Protectorate}}: As one of the oldest and most experienced half-foots on the island Chilchuck sees himself as responsible for others of his race, to the extent that he formed a trade union for them as well as looking out for their welfare in general.
* {{Tsundere}}: Platonically, for the rest of the party. He can be a bit of a jerk and has a temper, but most of it is due to concern and he genuinely cares. [[{{Deconstruction}} However, it's also this attitude]] that was what [[spoiler: caused his wife to become estranged from him, since his jerkish facade and tendency to avoid showing outward affection made her question if he really loved her]].
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: He throws Senshi's [[spoiler: mithril]] knife - the only weapon that so far had any success - with perfect accuracy and ''devastating results'' into [[spoiler: the eye of the Red Dragon]]. This move is a key factor in the victory, but he gets taken out of commission soon thereafter.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After he learns that [[spoiler:killing the Red Dragon]] put a giant target on his and the party's backs, he briefly tries to find some way to trick Laios and Marcille into giving up on Falin and leaving the dungeon for their own good.
* StopBeingStereotypical: It's stated in his character profile he dislikes when half-foots use their cute and child-like appearances to try and manipulate people of other races, either to gain their trust or ultimately deceive them, because it just continues discriminatory prejudices of their race.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: An {{omake}} shows that his oldest daughter looks ''exactly'' like a GenderFlipped version of himself.
* SuperSenses: A trait of the half-foot race.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: He's so terrified of the Canaries suspecting his group that he tells them that they are ''normal'' adventurers who perform ''normal'' magic and have done nothing to warrant torture, to the Canaries' confusion. [[HypocriticalHumor This is just after he says he wants to make sure Laios doesn't blab.]]
* WeirdTradeUnion: After barely escaping an incident early in his career when a group who'd hired him planned to use him as succubus food, he founded a guild of half-foot adventurers, of which he's still the chairman. Some half-foots such as Mikbell work independently, however, due to both not trusting Chilchuck and/or not wanting to abide by the bylaws of a guild.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He detests mimics, which have killed him several times in the past and are very difficult to deal with, so when he notices one he of course ends of screwed. Due to the nature of his job he can recognize them easily, but he is not infallible. Much to his annoyance - as a master lockpicker and trap disabler - many parties expect him to open and deal with mimics, which is almost always a supremely dangerous waste of time.
* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: Although at first horrified when Senshi tries to give him TheTalk by explaining the details of plant reproduction to him, judging the way he contemplates the Jack-o'Lantern fruit at the end, he seems to have come away from it with a new appreciation for the complexity of life.
* YourSizeMayVary: How short he is changes slightly between chapters. Sometimes he looks to be about chest-level to Laios, but other times only barely comes up to his waist.
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[[folder:Senshi]]
!!True Name -- Senshi of Izganda
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HiroshiNaka (Japanese), Creator/SungWonCho (English) [[labelnote:'''Other Languages''']]Gérard Surugue (French)[[/labelnote]]
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->'''Age:''' 112 years old\\
'''Gender:''' Male\\
'''Race:''' Dwarf\\
'''Birthplace:''' Izganda, Eastern Continent\\
'''Family:''' None\\
'''Height:''' Around 140cm / 4'7"\\
'''BMI:''' 36\\
'''Likes:''' Monster cuisine\\
'''Dislikes:''' Food lacking in nutrients

A weird but friendly dwarf encountered early on the first level of the dungeon. He is a veteran in the art of consuming and cooking monsters, but also has a deep sense of responsibility with the ecosystem and the well-being of the people. He is the main enabler of Laios's monster obsession and usually cooks for the party, being a master chef.
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* AchievementsInIgnorance: One of the original ten golem cores had been lost due to Senshi dropping it down a drain when washing it. The core eventually reached the sixth floor and once it froze over accidentally created an ice golem.
* AncestralWeapon: His pot used to be a heirloom shield, but since he doesn't need the shield he repurposed it into a pot. Oh, and it's made of adamant capable of withstanding an undine's water jet (easily capable of cracking stone and punching through flesh like a knife) - not to mention that it's an unbelievably excellent metal for cooking with. [[spoiler: He also moulded the fabled mithril into a ''cooking'' knife, an... underutilisation which would probably get him killed by Namari]].
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: He's the party's expert on all things pertaining foraging, cooking, and survivalist skills.
* BerserkButton:
** Do not be a PickyEater. More importantly do not be a picky eater with poor table manners, [[SeriousBusiness or you will receive a lesson on proper etiquette regardless of whose lives are on the line.]]
** Treat the ecosystem of the dungeon with respect. Don't kill more than you need to survive.
* BigBeautifulMan: Though he's normally drawn as something of a {{Gonk}}, he's good-looking whenever drawn realistically. [[spoiler: When the party falls victim to a Shapeshifter, none of the party is able to tell the difference between his usual look and an extremely handsome, chiseled version created by the Shapeshifter, showing that the {{Gonk}} is just artstyle.]] At one point, the characters even lampshade his growing attractiveness and conclude that he's just always been handsome. In an omake, Chilchuck doesn't want his younger daughters to meet Senshi because he knows they would fall for him at first sight.
* BookDumb: Senshi is StreetSmart, but he doesn't read books much and distrusts magic. [[spoiler: He's even unaware that a red dragon carcass is very flammable due to its fuel-producing innards and tries to start a fire nearby.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: He is initially strongly resistant to using magic for any reason, but by chapter 43 he asks Marcille whether she has a spell to cut through ice.
* ChefOfIron: He has to be since he lives in the dungeon full time.
* CrazySurvivalist: He has elements of this, and his sanity is rather suspect although stable. He doesn't live in a monster-infested dungeon because he wants to survive some crisis, he does it because he's good at it and enjoys the lifestyle. [[spoiler:Justified as he has been living inside of the dungeon for 10 years, and as the rest of the party realizes after he gets grabbed by a hippogriff, the rest of the world has only known about the dungeon for ''six'' years.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:He is the [[SoleSurvivor only survivor]] of a group of dwarven prospectors that tried to mine for gold when the dungeon first appeared. Trapped within the dungeon, [[DwindlingParty the group was slowly killed off by a griffin]], resulting in them eventually running out of food. A loud argument between Girin and Briggan, the remaining survivors aside from Senshi himself, eventually resulted in only Girin returning, who claimed to have slain the griffin and taken its flesh for food. Desperately hungry, Senshi ate the meat while Girin mysteriously disappeared. Senshi eventually found his way back to the surface, but [[IChooseToStay chose to stay because of his acquired dungeon experiences]]. Later realizing the dreadful possibility that he could have [[ImAHumanitarian eaten meat from Briggan's corpse]], Senshi is absolutely terrified at the prospect of eating griffin meat, which could either confirm or disprove his years-long suspicions. As it turns out, what he ate in the past was hippogryph meat, which puts those concerns to rest.]]
* DitzyGenius: He's an expert chef and fighter, but the fact that he tries to set off every trap in a room after being told they are all unique (and then uses them to ''cook'') probably says it all.
* DoesNotLikeMagic: The times he has supported the use of magic over more mundane methods of achieving a goal are incredibly rare, putting him at odds with Marcille regularly. It seems to be a common trait amongst dwarves, and is at least partly influenced by the fact they are a naturally magic-resistant race.
* FitnessNut: Downplayed. He's firmly aware of the importance of balanced diets and plenty of exercise, certainly more than anyone else we see in the setting, but in our era he'd probably come across more as simply a health-conscious individual.
* FreudianExcuse: Why is he so insistent on making sure the party is eating well? Because many years ago when he was younger, [[spoiler: his old party became trapped in the dungeon and at the end nearly starved to death when they ran out of food. Senshi himself was TheLoad at the time because he was only a child, but he never wants anyone else to go through what he had to.]]
* LoopholeAbuse: When Senshi buries the magic cores to reactivate the golems, Marcille states that activating magical creatures is a crime. Senshi replies he's not activating them; he's just digging up dirt and putting it back.
-->'''Senshi:''' I know where the loopholes are...
* MagicHair: Or in his case, Anti-Magic Hair. His hair is initially so poorly maintained and so heavily caked in monster blood and fat that magic has little effect on him, a water walking spell only succeeds in making him sink slowly. Only after that failure and the failure of his own attempt at crossing the lake does he allow Marcille to help him wash it so he can join the rest of the group in simply walking across.
* MeaningfulName: His name translates into "seeker" in dwarven. His name can also mean "warrior" in Japanese, [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep leading to some brief confusion on Falin's part]].
* MorphicResonance: His big and very bushy beard that completely obscures his mouth stays on him regardless what form he assumes. It's not just because he's a dwarf, either -- Senshi's beard is such a part of him that he keeps it even when changed into other races that don't normally have facial hair; after being turned into a half-foot, he looks like he just shrunk, and his elf form has a wispy little mustache. Supplementary art by Ryoko Kui confirms [[https://i.imgur.com/z4tGX9A.jpeg he'd pretty much have his beard no matter what]].
* MistakenForProfound: [[spoiler: In chapter 94, Senshi mishears Mithrun relating his own condition as being the vegetable scraps left behind on a plate and takes it as him literally talking about vegetable scraps, and gives a lecture about how scraps can be used for a lot of things and shouldn't be thrown away. This helps inspire Mithrun to commit to finding a new purpose in life now that the Winged Lion is gone.]]
* MysteriousPast: A lot of the few details known about Senshi's backstory aren't really all that informative and are rather cryptic. He eventually reveals his whole past after the party realizes they know nothing about him.
* NatureHero: Senshi lives alone and prefers spending time with the fauna than with other people. However the monsters of the dungeon still want to kill him. He admires them all the same.
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: [[AvertedTrope Averted]], at least with him. He has no interest in blacksmithing, and he's not good at telling ores apart, instead his specialty is hunting, farming and cooking. He mentions this would put him at odds with his old group, implying that smithing and mining skills are commonplace among dwarves.
* RaisedByOrcs: [[spoiler:Soon after his original companions died,]] he was captured by the same band of orcs presently living in the dungeon. The young Senshi got on their good side by teaching them to read dwarven runes, helping them navigate the dungeon, and before long he was being treated as a guest rather than a prisoner. (Living among orcs was how he got started on monster cuisine.) However, as he grew older, he sensed their attitudes changing again since he was not properly a part of their clan. At that point, his options were to take one or more wives and begin participating in raids, cementing him as a member of the ingroup, or to stop living off their hospitality and leave. The former obviously not appealing to him, he chose to leave while they would still be sad to see him go, and remained friends with their chief as a plus.
* ShipperOnDeck: Senshi makes a wistful comment about, "youth", when watching Marcille teach Laios magic.
* SkewedPriorities:
** When another adventurer is dying from a basilisk's poison, he is leery of giving him the antidote herbs because he was planning on using them to cook and it's too early for lunch.
** His first reaction upon encountering a flame-thrower trap is to wonder whether the oil which fuels it would be good for frying. After Chilchuck disarms a boiling oil trap shortly after, he asks the halfling to set it off while holding his pot ready. Turns out that it's olive oil, and (as he calmly notes with his thumb in the stuff) that it's just the right temperature for frying, too. Chilchuck asks if he's actually a monster of some sort.
* SupremeChef: Senshi is an expert at cooking, although he too learns more tricks along the way.
* TakeAThirdOption: During his existence among the orcs, he was very low on the social hierarchy because he was an unmarried outsider. He had the option to marry into the group to increase his standing amongst them, but then he would've had to participate in raiding parties on dungeon divers. He didn't like either option so he reluctantly left to set out on his own.
* TeamDad: He views himself as one. In Japanese he has speech patterns associated with older men (in particular he uses the [[UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns personal pronoun]] "''washi''"). When the party runs low on food, he blames himself for "not being able to provide food for the youngsters". Ironically, he seems to be very young by dwarf standards -- he was 36 when he entered the dungeon, considered a growing teen by his companions, and stayed for "over 10 years", making him a dwarven young adult at the absolute oldest. His character profile clarifies that "over 10 years" actually meant 76 years (because he's spent so long in the dungeon, he's lost his sense of time and just made a number up) and he's actually over one-hundred.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Terrified of griffins. See DarkAndTroubledPast above for the context.
* WildHair: Senshi lives in the dungeon full time and has definite elements of a CrazySurvivalist. His hair and beard are so wild and caked with monster blood that they actually repel magic.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Izutsumi / "Asebi"]]
!!True Name -- Unknown
[[quoteright:160:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dungeon_meshi_izutsumi.png]]
->'''Age:''' 17 years old\\
'''Gender:''' Female\\
'''Race:''' Tallman (beastkin)\\
'''Birthplace:''' Eastern Archipelago\\
'''Family:''' None\\
'''Height:''' Around 150cm / 4'11"\\
'''BMI:''' 17\\
'''Likes:''' Fish, meat, crab\\
'''Dislikes:''' Vegetables, mushrooms

A cat beastkin and former member of Shuro's party who later joins Team Touden. She hopes travelling with Team Touden will help her find a cure for the curse that has made her into a chimera. Standoffish and self-centered at first, she soon thaws and begins to bond with the other members of the party.
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* ActionGirl: Is able to easily get the drop on the party, and apparently knows ways of assassinating people quickly and effortlessly. [[spoiler: She gets the chance to put her money where her mouth is in Chapter 43, felling an ice golem with minimal help from Chilchuck.]]
* AdaptationalLateAppearance: She was a member of the group well before reaching the Red Dragon in the one-shot. The series proper introduces her alongside Shuro's party and keeps her disguised until the concept of artificial chimeras is brought up, both [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight providing explanation on why there would be a catgirl ninja in an otherwise]] [[MedievalEuropeanFantasy fairly western styled setting]].
* AndThenWhat: Gets hit with a hard case of this at the end of the manga. [[spoiler:With the demon defeated, the dungeon neutralized, and having come to terms with her own half-human nature, she's finally free to live her own life and do whatever she wants. Then she realizes she doesn't know what she wants to do, because everything she ''really'' wants is tied up with the friends she's made as part of the Touden party, and they've all resolved to split up and move on with their own, separate lives. Ultimately, she realizes this uncertainty is a good thing: not knowing what to do with her life means she gets to ''choose'' what to do with her life.]]
* AnimalEyes: Izutsumi has cat eyes thanks to her being a chimera.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Her character profile reveals she's only 17, making her the youngest member of the party by far, and the other members of the party often have to teach her common courtesy and not to be so self-centred all the time. She seems to have a particular rapport with Chilchuck, who has experience raising daughters.
* BarbieDollAnatomy: Downplayed, due to her transformation into a beastkin, she no longer has breasts or visible nipples (presumably due to fur), but the rest of her body is more or less normal.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Shuro's household was never able to keep her in check, and she manages to give them the slip even after having a magical ExplosiveLeash tattooed around her neck. Conversely, she insists that she doesn't care about the Touden party and is only sticking with them in the hopes of finding a way to dispel her curse, only for her to ''continue'' sticking with them after finding out this is probably impossible, and even after deciding being half cat isn't so bad after all.
* CatGirl: Izutsumi is a beastkin (a human/animal chimera) of the cat variety. She has kitty ears and a tail, pointed teeth, and her body is covered in fur. She also tends to have rather catlike mannerisms.
* CatsAreMean: When she first meets Team Touden she's pretty rude and selfish, but does start to improve and treat the other members better fairly quickly.
* ClingySleepers: Befitting her catlike nature, despite her standoffishness while awake, she likes having someone to share body heat with in her sleep.
* CursedWithAwesome: She hates being a chimera and wants to be made fully human, even though the superior senses, reflexes and jumping ability of her cat side get her out of a lot of trouble. From her point of view, her feelings on the matter make a lot of sense, since being a chimera is responsible for her DarkAndTroubledPast.
* CuteLittleFangs: Comes with being part feline.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:She was a freak show exhibit and [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman treated like an animal by multiple owners]] for most of her early life before she was taken in by Shuro's household. Maizuru went to considerable lengths in teaching Izutsumi how to behave like a human again, eventually using a [[ExplosiveLeash curse]] to keep the worst of her behavior in check. While Izutsumi eventually stopped acting like a feral animal, she remains quite selfish and rebellious. Her traumatic past is also the reason why she is slow to trust and rely on others.]]
* DireBeast: According to ''The Adventurer's Bible'', the cat-half of her actually comes from a monster known as a giant cat, which is common in the East and apparently resembles a panther (although possibly with domestic cat coat patterns, given Izutsumi's fur colouration).
* ExplosiveLeash: She was subjected to a curse, written around her neck, that would summon a [[{{Youkai}} Yamanba]] to kill her without regular contact being made with Maizuru. Marcille attempts to dispel the curse, but due to Izutsumi's movements the summoning is triggered instead [[ItMakesSenseInContext with Laios and Senshi killing it in the middle of a lesson on the proper way to hold a spoon]].
* FurryReminder: She ''is'' part cat. She licks herself to groom, and she can sense ghosts (referencing the supernatural beliefs surrounding cats). In an omake she coughs up a hairball. When she's preparing the succubus milk, she can't tell which powder is sugar and looks disappointed after trying what she's made: cats can't taste sweet.
* HopeBringer: Meeting her and learning what she is restores Laios's hope that Falin can be restored from her chimera form and regain her sanity, despite the fact that defusing souls is considered impossible.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: She casually strips down to nothing but a lower bit of underwear, stating that nobody would actually be interested in seeing a naked beastkin. Meanwhile Laios is subdued by Senshi and Chilchuck in the background while he asks to at least get to count her nipples or examine the base of her tail.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Due to years of being treated as a sideshow spectacle, she has an attitude of only depending on herself and not being a "team player". Whenever the party's inner thoughts are represented, Izutsumi's thought bubble is always filled by another, identical Izutsumi. Her RelationshipChart even shows she has no opinion of any other member of the party at all (she also sees both Shuro and Maizuru negatively, and Tade simply as "the one with horns"). Her CharacterDevelopment is based primarily on being less selfish and more trusting of others.
* LittleBitBeastly: She's a beastkin, essentially an artificial chimera that includes a human component, and more specifically is a combination of some form of cat and human. She begins traveling with the Touden party to find a way to break the curse that is keeping her beastly.
* MyInstinctsAreShowing:
** When the party enters the Golden Kingdom, she's overcome by her cat-half due to the monster-taming magic saturating the land, and acts like an overly-affectionate kitten. She's incredibly embarrassed when they leave and the magic wears off.
** During the fight with the dungeon rabbits, she ends up reverting to a feral state, treeing herself with hackles raised and having killed the rabbits with her ''teeth''.
** [[spoiler:During an epilogue chapter, Laios notes that she pretty regularly brings him back dead monsters as a cat is known to bring their humans dead animals they have caught. Though she demands payment for it.]]
* MysteriousVeil: Wears one in her first appearances.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: At least within Shuro's party, she's only known as Asebi.
* OnlyOneFindsItFun: PlayedForLaughs in an {{omake}}, when a nightmare releases an epic dream of an elven romantic comedy. The rest of the party start to lose interest around Season 2 (Senshi loses interest halfway through Season 1), but Izutumi is still completely enraptured late into Season 3, her awed expression unchanged since the beginning, except with bags growing under her eyes.
* PetsAsAPresent: It's revealed in a flashback {{omake}} that Shuro's father, in an extremely inebriated state, purchased Izutsumi in an attempt to impress Maizuru. She was much less impressed to discover the so-called "kitten" he got her was a mangy, dirty, half-monster human child.
* PickyEater:
** When Senshi first offers to cook something for her, she immediately insists she'll kill him if it includes any monster, which limits him to cooking with mushroom, rice, garlic, cheese, and butter. She quickly goes out of her way to pick out the mushrooms and dump them on the ground.
** When Maizuru organizes Shuro's party to cook for him, she specifically leaves Izutsumi out of it because she "wouldn't want anything strange getting mixed into the food". Combined with her initial refusal to eat what Senshi is cooking (until the smell of it reaches her) and her unfamiliarity with regular table manners, this suggests some really odd eating habits.
** She's indicated to not be fond of vegetables, as well. Whether it's the cat physiology or just regular old finickiness is hard to place.
* TheRunaway: In her backstory, it's noted she continuously attempted to run away from the Nakamoto household despite them taking her in because she hated constantly having every aspect of her life controlled. Eventually, Maizuru resorted to placing a curse on her as an ExplosiveLeash to keep her in line.
* ShortTeensTallAdults: At 17, she's one of the youngest characters in the story and also by far the shortest of the normal human (tallman) race.
* SignificantWardrobeShift: After the fight with the ice golem, her default outfit changes from full-coverage ninja garb to some light armor consisting of solely of a bow, breastplate, loincloth, and bracers, putting her cat-like features on full display. The color distribution of her fur makes her look more dressed than she is.
* SixthRanger: Well, fifth, but as the team already has the other archetypes for party members (with Laios being a combination of TheBigGuy and TheLeader) she fits squarely in this role.
* StockAnimalDiet: She likes meat, especially seafood (a flashback to her DarkAndTroubledPast even shows her eating a rat), as befitted her feline chimera half, although it's not specified whether it's anything to do with her food preferences, or is just a coincidence. There's even a point where she's shocked and outraged when Laios tells her that kraken flesh tastes bad.
* SuperSenses: Due to being part cat. Her hearing at least seems to be much better than a normal human's.
* TooHungryToBePolite: Her table manners are shown to be pretty awful, usually holding her utensils wrong or shoveling food into her mouth. It's unsurprising, since she didn't just grow up poor, as a child she was literally caged for display and had food flung at her now and then. Maizuru sternly drilled the absolute basics of table manners into her - as in, using a bowl and implements to eat at all. Under Senshi's slightly more forgiving style of instruction her manners do actually start to improve... slightly.
* UndignifiedDeath: Her first death happens when the Touden Party encounters the Dungeon Rabbits -- though instead of falling to the monsters like her party members (bar Marcille), she instead dies out of shock after falling into the arms of Laios' reanimated corpse.
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Definitely. She can't even be talked about without giving away the fact that Shuro comes back or that Team Touden gets an extra member later in the series. That's not even going into all the plot points involving chimeras.]]
* WomenPreferStrongMen: When confronted by succubi, she's rather impressed by her cat half's ideal partner, an absolutely savage black panther.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kensuke]]
!!Kensuke
[[quoteright:302:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kensuke.png]]

A living armor mollusc monster who lives in the handle of Laios's sword. It came from the "chief" living armor, which had laid the eggs for their group. It rattles when dangerous monsters are near.
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* AmbiguousGender: It has a male name, but it was part of the suit of armor that laid the group's egg sac, suggesting it might be female. Then again, it ''is'' a mollusc, and Laios wonders if the living armors are hermaphrodites for this reason.
* AnimatedArmor: The sword of one of the living armors that Team Touden encounters.
* CoolSword: Particularly after it [[spoiler:grows the lion head between its wings. It may have something to do with a certain prophecy]]...
* DirtyCoward: It flees during [[spoiler:the battle with the Red Dragon]].
* ADogNamedDog: Close enough, anyway. "Ken" means "Sword" in Japanese, and "-suke" is a common generic masculine name-ender. A direct translation would probably be something like "Swordey".
* EquippableAlly: Kensuke the sword, half ally and half LivingWeapon.
* EvilDetectingDog: As a monster itself it's able to sense other monsters nearby, vibrating to warn Laios. Of course, it's also still a wild animal and when faced with the Red Dragon [[spoiler: it just runs away]].
* LivingWeapon: Yep; it's a mollusk monster after all.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: During the second fight with the Red Dragon, when things aren't going great, Kensuke leaps out of Laios's hands and tries to get away. This simultaneously disappoints Laios, who thought they'd formed a bond, and outrages Chilchuck, who had been unaware until that point that Laios was carrying a monster around. Later it tries to stick itself to the ground and stay out of the conflict, but Senshi's strong enough to pull it up.
* SeeingThroughAnothersEyes: [[spoiler:The Winged Lion has been using Kensuke to observe the Touden Party's progress through the dungeon. Later, this becomes a full-on VillainOverride, as the Lion begins speaking through Kensuke directly and controlling its actions (as far as a sword can do anything, anyways).]]
* UncertainDoom:
** [[spoiler:When Falin is revived in the ending, she mentions wanting to eat living armor. The next panel shows Laios's sword among the items his party retained from their journey, and it's later mentioned that Laios's curse makes monsters keep their distance from him. Since Kensuke is the only living armor in the vicinity...]]
** [[spoiler:Averted in Monster Tidbits #14; a year after the ending, Laios, Marcille, and Falin explore a dungeon for old times' sake. After narrowly saving Senshi from a cockatrice, Laios decides to retire from adventuring to focus on being a king. Believing Kensuke to be dead, he leaves his sword and armor in the dungeon. However, Kensuke rewakens and reproduces using Laios' armor. This incidentally creates a legend a hundred years later about the late king of the Golden Kingdom's spirit roaming around dungeons for monster flesh.]]
[[/folder]]

!!Former Touden Party Members

[[folder:Falin]]
!!True Name -- Falin Touden
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SaoriHayami (Japanese), Creator/LisaReimold (English) [[labelnote:'''Other Languages''']]Valérie Bachère (French)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/falin_anime.png]]
->'''Age:''' 23 years old\\
'''Gender:''' Female\\
'''Race:''' Tallman\\
'''Birthplace:''' Northern Continent\\
'''Family:''' Father, mother, older brother (Laios)\\
'''Height:''' Around 170cm / 5'7"\\
'''BMI:''' 24\\
'''Likes:''' Fruits, cream\\
'''Dislikes:''' Nothing in particular

Laios' younger sister, she [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices]] herself to save the rest of the party and is subsequently eaten by the Red Dragon, kickstarting the plot. Before being eaten, she was a skilled mage and cleric and Team Touden's main healer. She and Laios are very close and she's also close to Marcille, who she attended school with.
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* AnimalsHateHer: One of the "[[AllThereInTheManual Daydream Hour]]" books reveals that the dogs owned by the Touden family didn't really respect Falin, frequently knocking her down and biting her things. One illustration shows one of the dogs thinking of the hierarchy of the family [[ButtMonkey with Falin at the very bottom, below two other dogs.]]
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:She's resurrected by Marcille using forbidden magic combined with dragon meat in order to reform her completely, as only her bones were left after the Red Dragon digested her.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She is normally very kind and even tempered. [[spoiler:But during an epilogue chapter, when she, Laios, and Marcille get surprised by a cockatrice, she, without any prompting, proceeds to bludgeon the cockatrice to death as Laios and Marcille just watch. She reverts back to her normal demeanor immediately after.]]
* BigEater: Justified. [[spoiler:In her chimera form, she only has her human mouth as a way to eat, but her body is massive, which means she's constantly malnourished and has to be munching on something all the time to get enough nutrients to do anything. The party eventually weaponizes this to defeat her, luring her away from the Lunatic Magician with a massive plate of curry and letting Laios get the drop on her during the resulting FoodComa.]]
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: Falin's transformation into a monstrous dragon chimera is pretty icky, involving a lot of liquefying dragon flesh. When complete she's been fused at the waist, centaur style, to a giant dragon/harpy type body. Everyone is horrified...except [[NightmareFetishist Laios]], who naturally thinks she looks awesome.]]
* CameBackStrong: [[spoiler:After being resurrected with dragon meat through forbidden magic, Falin should not have had much, if any mana at all. Despite this, she was not only able to drop a protection spell strong enough to leave Senshi undamaged from a point blank gas explosion, she did so instantly, without any incantation or preparation whatsoever.]]
* CameBackWrong:
** [[spoiler: Chilchuck suspects her to be this, he doesn't like the forbidden magic Marcille used to resurrect her. Also the fact that the living sword hides itself and jumps out of Falin's hands might be a hint. This is confirmed later, with the Red Dragon's soul being mixed up with hers.]]
** [[spoiler: When she is resurrected in the final chapter, she comes back with most of her body still covered in feathers. However, since she's otherwise completely human, she's fine with it, and in fact thinks it's pretty cool.]]
* ChildProdigy: As a child, she was capable of taking on a spirit with no training whatsoever while resisting possession and communicating with it. A rare trait that set her towards the path of being a cleric when combined with her endless compassion.
* CuteMonsterGirl: [[spoiler: Even as a big dragon-harpy creature, she's still quite adorable and expressive. Even the monster half is all fluffy and feathery.]]
* DamselInDistress: The story is driven by Laios and the others trying to rescue her from the depths of the dungeon after she's eaten by the Red Dragon. [[spoiler:They partly succeed, but in the process of resurrecting her, Falin's soul is mixed with the dragon's, and this allows the Mad Sorcerer to turn Falin into a chimera, so now Laios and the others have to rescue Falin ''again'' and also find a way to turn her back into a human.]]
* DontThinkFeel: Falin's approach to magic. It works really well for her, but it turns out that it isn't the best method for teaching magic. She tried to teach Laios magic in the past this way with little success while when Marcille later uses a more explained approach, he is able to pick it up relatively fast.
* EpicFlail: A single-panel flashback showed her swinging a flail while she chased after Laios who was charmed by a kelpie.
* EyesAlwaysShut: Highlighting her relaxed nature. They open when she gets intense. The ''World Guide'' says it's because she's nearsighted and squinting constantly. [[spoiler:When she's turned into a chimera she gains the dragon's superior eyesight and stops squinting as much.]]
* FaceMonsterTurn: [[spoiler: Has been mutated into a harpy-like monster, and can likely never be human again. She can, however, be as close as possible... maybe.]]
* FacialDialogue: [[spoiler: After her throat is cut, she no longer speaks out loud but is very expressive facially and with her hands to the Lunatic Magician, not that he pays attention.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: Setting off the events of the manga, in the first chapter she shoves Laios out of the way of the dragon's attack and teleports the party to safety while clutched in its jaws.
* TheHeart: She was this to Team Touden, being the peacemaker between party members who otherwise disliked each other, particularly for [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} her brother]], [[ChildhoodFriends Marcille]] and [[HeartbrokenBadass Shuro]]. Her death is the reason why Namari and Shuro leave Team Touden in the first place.
* InconsistentSpelling: Before "Falin" was officially confirmed by the ''Explorer Guide'', "Farlyn" was one other translation of her name.
* JustFriends: Regarding Shuro. She knows he's in love with her, but she just doesn't feel the same way about him, and is only considering his proposal because she isn't sure if she'll ever get another.
* LittleBitBeastly: [[spoiler:At the end of the manga, her final resurrection has her human again, albeit with slit pupils, small fangs, and her midsection still covered in feathers.]]
* TheLostLenore: To Shuro and, to a more platonic extent, Marcille.
* TheMedic: Way more proficient than Marcille in healing magic.
* NatureLover: Enjoys spending time outside and finding interesting things like bugs.
* NightmareFetishist: Falin isn't ''as'' monster-crazy as her brother, but she's not far behind, treating it with complete and gleeful enthusiasm.
* NoodleImplements: Her character profile states she carries random items like unidentified leaves and a snakeskin around with her. Whether they're actual magical items or just sentimental knickknacks is left intentionally unexplained.
* NoSocialSkills: To a lesser extent than Laios. While a kind and gentle person, she never fit in at school due to her odd habits, and as a child she never noticed her home village was ostracizing her for fear of her magic -- which even Laios could pick up on.
* NotQuiteBackToNormal: [[spoiler:It's necessary to leave a portion of dragon on Falin's lower body so the resurrectionists have some meat to reconstruct her with. This results in both some draconic physical features (which she loves) and a bit of her soul still consisting of red dragon (which she also seems cool with)]].
* OnlyFriend: She was Laios' only true friend for most of his life because his [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} odd personality]] tends to annoy almost everyone else.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: It's her sacrifice that saves the party and inspires Laios, Marcille, and Chilchuck to delve into the dungeon in a hurry. An interesting spin on the trope, since the party is quick to accept that she died in the process; it's resurrecting her that is their goal. However, they have to do it quickly before her body is digested to the point of being unrecoverable.
* QuietingTheUnquietDead: Falin's specialty (besides healing) is in compassionately putting TheUndead back to rest. She even had a job lined up as a gravekeeper after graduating from school, if she hadn't decided to join Laios as an adventurer instead.
* SharedFamilyQuirks: In personality she's basically Laios if he was dialed down a notch or two. She's kind and cheerful but not as blithe as Laios; she has interests others find strange but isn't as obsessive as Laios; and most notably she has zero problems with eating monsters.
* TheSecretOfLongPorkPies:
** She's pretty much exactly like her brother Laios in this regard. Her response to the fact Laios and Co. had to eat monsters to survive is "A-amazing!!" and she even asks if they ate any merfolk outright!
** She's also the first person to bite into the red dragon's meat when everyone else is having last-minute misgivings about eating something that had eaten her.
** [[spoiler:She's on the receiving end in the finale, where Laios gets everyone in the dungeon to cut up and feed on her chimera half in order to properly revive her.]]
* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler: Recieves one from Kabru. It's not lethal to her, but where before she sometimes spoke a few words, afterwards even when there's no mark of injury she doesn't say anything.]]
* SuperToughness: [[spoiler:As a chimera, she shrugs off damage that would normally kill any of her components. In her case, a slashed throat and stab wounds where her heart, right lung, and kidney would be if she was still human-shaped. Either because they're no longer vital organs for the whole, or because she has redundancies.]] That said, she does stagger and pull a fast retreat at that point.
* TouchedByVorlons: [[spoiler:The Final Chapter shows that while the Red Dragon's essence is much much smaller after the feast, it is still a part of Falin and will be for the rest of her life.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Her dark arts resurrection that ends with Falin turning into a chimera is a pretty big turning point of the series. Thus, it makes it quite difficult to discuss things about her character without spoiling anything after this point]].
* WeaksauceWeakness: [[spoiler:As a chimera, Laios can't figure out which spot to aim at to kill her, this leads him to realize that while she is resistant to getting stabbed or attacked, her single, small mouth and nose makes her an easy target for asphyxiation.]]
* WhiteMagicianGirl: The original party's cleric, capable of everything from spirit possession wards to escape magic and exorcism.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Namari]]
!!True Name -- Namari of Kahka Brud
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Akira Miki (Japanese), Creator/MarinMiller (English)
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/namari_anime.png]]
->'''Age:''' 61 years old\\
'''Gender:''' Female\\
'''Race:''' Dwarf\\
'''Birthplace:''' Eastern Continent\\
'''Family:''' Father\\
'''Height:''' Around 130cm / 4'3"\\
'''BMI:''' 34\\
'''Likes:''' Spare ribs\\
'''Dislikes:''' Raisins

A dwarf who left Laios' party and opted out of rescuing Falin due to said party's lack of resources, Namari can still be found in and out of the dungeon as a recruit of the Flokes.
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* DeathIsCheap: Firmly against thinking like this. While it's established dungeon keeps souls tethered to their bodies and allows for simple resurrection, Namari is fully aware of all its shortcomings and restraints, and that having such a mindset is what will end up getting you killed for good.
* FallenPrincess: Her family served the Island's lord before her father ran away and stole money. Her father's action not only ruined the family name but also made the lord hate dwarves.
* HasAType: On numerous occasions, her fascination with tallmen legs is pointed out, particularly with clothing made specifically for their long legs. She gets rather flustered and downplays it whenever it's mentioned. When Kiki asks if she wants to see her and Kaka wearing leg pouches Namari instantly gets sweaty and turns full red.
* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: She gets mistaken for Kaka's girlfriend at one point.
* HumanShield: She tends to get used as one by Mr. Floke pretty often. He does at least heal her when she gets healed and pays generously as a result.
* TheLadette: Somewhat downplayed, but she's a capable fighter and likes drinking ale, implying she's not exactly all that feminine.
* MultiMeleeMaster: She is knowledgeable of melee weapons, but she can't really handle projectile ones.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: She joined Laios's party to try and ease prior financial troubles, but since she wasn't getting ''paid'' to rescue Laios' sister (an incredibly dangerous mission), she leaves the party. She does feel bad about it and liked being in the party, however. She ends up joining the Flokes' expedition because they paid well. Her character profile goes a little deeper into her motives; her father embezzled a ton of money and ran away, and she took part of the blame just for being his family. She hopes to collect the amount of money stolen so she can buy back her honour and be restored to their clan.
* OptOut: Opted out of returning into the dungeon to save Falin. Later chapters show she does seem to feel bad about this, though upon meeting the group in a chance encounter later, she sticks to her decision, even when Mr. Floke tells her she is free to return to the Touden's party.
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: She drinks and wields an axe. Give her a beard and put her in a mine and she'd be any other dwarf. That being said, she is shown to use more than just the axe. Unlike the atypical Senshi, she also has a keen eye for blacksmithing and is immediately horrified at how he's let his axe degrade without maintenance.
* SinsOfOurFathers: Her backstory had her banished from her clan due to her father stealing everyone's money and running away, and ostracized by every other dwarf to boot.
[[/folder]]

!Kabru Party Members

[[folder:In general]]
Another group of adventurers exploring the dungeon at the same time as Team Touden, consisting of Kabru the swordsman, Rin the mage, Dia and Kuro the fighters, Holm TheBeastmaster, and [[WhatExactlyIsHisJob Mikbell]]. They run into various [[ButtMonkey misfortunes]] that require them to be saved by Team Touden. Nonetheless, they're quick to assume the worst of their rescuers.
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* LowerDeckEpisode: Kabru's party appears when we take a break from the adventures of the main cast and check in on an lower level party. Though they eventually meet up and merge into a single story line.
* OutOfFocus: Since the confrontation with [[spoiler:monster Falin]], Kabru's party sans himself has seen little screentime. They get some more focus in omakes though.
* PoorCommunicationKills: They initially consider the Touden Party to be enemies because they stole their treasure while they were knocked out. In reality, the "treasure" were [[ChestMonster deadly insects that mimicked coins and jewelry]] which were the ones which knocked them out. However, a corpse hunter who helps revive them deliberately withholds this information because more bodies means more business.
* TooDumbToLive: The main characters find them all wiped out by monsters in the dungeon a few times, long before they even meet them alive. They're essentially novices at dungeoneering and tackle depths they aren't prepared for.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kabru]]
!!True Name -- Unknown
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Wataru Katou
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kabru_anime.png]]
->'''Age:''' 22 years old\\
'''Gender:''' Male\\
'''Race:''' Tallman\\
'''Birthplace:''' Utaya, Western Continent\\
'''Family:''' Adoptive mother (Milsiril)\\
'''Height:''' Around 170cm / 5'7"\\
'''BMI:''' 21\\
'''Likes:''' Tomatoes\\
'''Dislikes:''' Monsters, elven cakes

A human warrior and leader of his own team. Kabru is very skilled with people but is not as strong in combat as the likes of Laios or Shuro. He and his party have a bad habit of getting wiped out.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: All the people in his village had the same dark skintone.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: When it comes to monsters he's far below Laios but he's pretty clever and is able to put things together with only a few details. For example, figuring out Team Touden put the protection charm on his party when they were wiped out, and then estimating what had happened to their party recently, all via the type of magic Marcille had used.
** One trait he has over Laios is that he appears to have a picture perfect memory. When he and Mithrun run into another doppleganger creating dog, the Mithrun doppleganger made from Kabru's memory is an exact replica of the original, down to the leaves on his head.
* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: Early in the story Kabru seems an antagonistic figure, with very strict ideas about good and evil and coming to some quick conclusions. He heard that Laios and Falin would bring money to support their former teammates who were injured. But the former teammates went into shady business in the black market using that money. So in Kabru's eyes, Laios and Falin are responsible for perpetuating the black market on the island and are thus evil and not to be trusted. He also considers anyone who seeks to profit from the dungeon rather than focus on destroying it to be evil as well. [[spoiler: The second part becomes a lot more understandable when we find out his past; his entire village was slaughtered when the monsters from a nearby dungeon spilled out and attacked them. So now he sees anyone who wants to do anything with the dungeon that isn't destroying it as putting their own material gain over the lives of others.]]
** However, he's willing to take more things into account and change his initial opinions, off screen realizing that the siblings didn't know their teammates were scummy and letting that go. [[spoiler: He's horrified by Laios's monster obsession but the fact that Laios ''listens'' to his JerkassHasAPoint moment and takes it to heart clearly carries a lot of water with Kabru.]]
* CantArgueWithElves: After being brought up by elves after the destruction of his village, Kabru was firmly of the opinion that the Elves were the most suitable caretakers for dungeons and had everyone's best interests in mind. By Chapter 54 he finally starts questioning the staus quo and demands answers from Captain Mithrun about the blanket prohibition on ancient "black" magics.
* CharacterTics: Touching his chin or face when he gets excited.
* TheCharmer: His handsome face and smooth behavior charms many girls. When he met Shuro's new party, two female members are immediately charmed by him. Marcille gets briefly flustered when he smiles at her.
* ChocolateBaby: Alluded to in an omake. Unlike his relatives, he had blue eyes, which resulted in his mother being kicked out of her family (presumably believing infidelity). We never really find out why his eyes are blue, although Milsiril suggests it might have been a recessive gene that skipped a few generations or simply a chance mutation, while Laios suggests perhaps his mother was impregnated by a parasitic wasp monster.
* TheConsigliere: [[spoiler:He chooses to become this after Laios is crowned King of the Golden Kingdom. While he has a level of respect for Laios, he also trusts him on non-monster matters about as far as he can throw him. In the epilogue, he is seen fuming over a Laios who is suffering from food poisoning due to eating a mushroom monster.]]
* CripplingOverspecialization: In contrast to Laios, he's very good at dealing with other people both in combat and conversation, but is severely out of his depth when it comes to monsters, owing to [[spoiler: trauma from what he went through in Utaya]]. As he's the leader of a dungeon-crawling adventuring party, this often results in a TotalPartyKill whenever they're taken by surprise by a monster. This shortcoming is best shown during [[spoiler: the fight with Falin's chimera form, where he's able to close the distance and strike all the vital areas on the humanoid part of her body in rapid succession, but it barely even slows her down]].
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Hinted at in Chapters 32 and 38. Later confirmed in Chapter 45: He was a survivor of a village that was destroyed by a dungeon.
* DefectorFromParadise: After [[spoiler: his village was wiped out by monsters]], he was raised by an elf who promised him warmth and comfort for the rest of his life. Kabru refuses the offer and is instead subjected to TrainingFromHell to at least make him someone who can survive in a perilous world.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: He has become something of a second main character to the main party. Initially, the story would switch over to show us what his party was doing, with him looking for Laios's group. After his party, Laios's party, and Shuro's party all meet up, with most of them returning to the surface, Kabru gets caught up with the plans of the Canaries, a group of elves who want to destroy the dungeon. Now Kabru works with the leader of the elves while trying to come up with a plan that doesn't end with Laios's party in chains or dead from [[spoiler:what they did to Falin]]. It is also notable that he and Mithrun are the only characters outside of the Touden Party (including Falin, but curiously not Namari or Shuro) to have a dedicated section in the ''World Guide.''
* DisappearedDad: We never find out what happened to his father. Given that an omake revealed that his mother was kicked out of her family as a result of Kabru being born with blue eyes, it's likely that he assumed infidelity and abandoned them.
* ExtremeDoormat: Not all the time, but he's so dedicated to making nice and winning people's trust that when Laios offers him a harpy-egg omelet, even though Kabru graphically flashes back to his village being slaughtered and eaten by monsters, he still ''eats it''. His party, who declined this delicacy, is not surprised.
* TheFace: He's the one in the party who deals with others.
* FantasticRacism: In one short he says that while Kuro seems gentle kobolds as a people are savage and untrustworthy, due to the harsh environment they're native to. He does definitely object to slightly ''less'' fantastic racism, as in the same short he's horrified by Laios and Falin relating this to their situation back home with 'mountain people', who are killed on sight.
* {{Foil}}: To Laios. Kabru is a cynic who tends to believe the worst about people while Laios is a NiceGuy who is rather trusting. Furthermore, Kabru is a talented fighter against humans and an [[TheSocialExpert expert on people]], but lacks experience fighting monsters, while Laios, despite being rather awkward and off-putting around other people, is an experienced adventurer and an expert on monsters. Kabru even gets excited about and expresses his love for getting to know how other people work, much like Laios' own love for monsters.
** Their stats in the ''Adventurers' Bible'' are almost mirror images of each other (Intelligence 4/5, Constitution 5/5, Magic 3/5 Strength 4/5), save that in the spot where Kabru has an Observation ability of 5/5, Laios has a Social stat of 1/5 instead.
* HappilyAdopted: He has some issues with Milsiril, but in the world guide Kabru also feels overall grateful to her and how readily she would help him learn anything he had questions about.
* HappyPlace: When forcing himself to eat a pudding made out of monster products, he mentally recites the world capitals to keep his mind off the fact he's eating something so horrible.
* HeroicBSOD: He has a quick one when Laios offers him some harpy eggs, due to getting a flashback to what happened to his village.
* HiddenDisdainReveal: Inverted. [[spoiler:After spending most of the series deriding Laios to others, in Chapter 76, Kabru (in an attempt to stop Laios from leaving) admits that he wanted to be friends with him.]]
* JerkassHasAPoint: He's rather judgemental at times, and his claim that [[spoiler:Falin's chimera form is just another monster and not really her]] is harsh, but Laios reluctantly admits that Kabru is right about that remark.
* LifeSavingEncouragement: In Chapter 94 [[spoiler: the demon has been defeated and Mithrun, with no more reason to live, becomes an EmptyShell. Kabru kneels to emphatically tell him that he doesn't believe the demon really ate all his desires, because new desires are formed all the time. Mithrun can and will have new reasons to live and act. The captain's Canaries enthusiastically agree and make suggestions - and Mithrun says "Okay" and allows himself to be pulled to his feet.]]
* MasterSwordsman: Received extensive, brutal training in combat from his adoptive mother Milsiril, who was considered a peerless swordslady among the Canaries.
* MissingMom: Kabru's single mother died when his village was destroyed.
* MultipleChoicePast: PlayedForLaughs. As a child he worried if he was a succubus demon-spawn due to his unusually distinct eye colour, which his relatives didn't have. His adoptive elf mother thinks it's more likely either a genetic trait that skipped a generation or a harmless medical condition. Laios suggests that he might be an ''incubus'' demon-spawn or the product of a parasitic wasp monster.
* OddFriendship: He and Mithrun, inasmuch as Mithrun can consider anyone a "friend".
* OnlySaneMan: At least compared to Laios and his party. Kabru realizes that Laios is likely the island's best chance at being rid of the dungeon without bringing the wrath of the elves upon the island. This thought horrifies him to no end.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: His expression is usually mild or friendly and he's very good at hiding how he feels - when he lets others see disgust or hatred it's serious.
* PetTheDog: Even though he's got some definite FantasticRacism towards kobolds in general, he does know their language and at night, when Mikbell is asleep and can't object, he tutors Kuro in the human language. They seem to have a good rapport.
* PVPBalanced: Oddly, Kabru seems to be optimized for PlayerVersusPlayer, as he is quite skilled at killing humanoids, but not so good at PlayerVersusEnvironment, as he doesn't know where the vitals are on the monsters in the dungeon.
* RenaissanceMan: With Milsiril as a tutor, he learned all about history and genealogy, the various cultures of the world, biology including humanoid anatomy, various languages and more in addition to combat.
* TheSocialExpert: He has uncanny abilities to remember minor details about other people, to the point where when an illusion spell is placed on his party making them all resemble monsters he's quickly able to identify them by how they move and react. [[spoiler:He's so good at reading others that he's able to identify a disguised Lunatic Magician among a crowd based purely on body language. Inversely, he's bewildered by Mithrun's ''lack'' of social skills speaking with Thistle, and wishes that ''he'' could be one talking instead.]]
* TheOneThatGotAway: A late chapter reveals that [[spoiler: his preoccupation with Laios, and his early-series negativity towards him, stems from the fact that Kabru's tried repeatedly to befriend him but got nowhere. Laios didn't even remember his name!]]
* TrainingFromHell: As a young boy, after expressing his desire to go into a dungeon to his adoptive mother Milsiril (as opposed to sitting in bed and being pampered all the time) and requesting that she train him, the slighted elf [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor agrees to show him just what he can look forward to in a dungeon]], using her animated dolls and mastery of the sword. Not only did this not discourage him as she had hoped, he ultimately came out of this training as an expert fighter.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rin]]
!!True Name -- Rinsha Fana
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RieTakahashi
[[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rin_anime.png]]
->'''Age:''' 24 years old\\
'''Gender:''' Female\\
'''Race:''' Tallman\\
'''Birthplace:''' Northern Continent\\
'''Family:''' None\\
'''Height:''' Around 165cm / 5'5"\\
'''BMI:''' 18\\
'''Likes:''' Dried fruit\\
'''Dislikes:''' Sweets with no tartness

A human mage and member of Kabru's party. She seems to be the closest to him, though the two bicker a lot.
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: She has a crush on Kabru but on the RelationshipChart, it states he sees her like a sister.
* BlackMage: Appears to be the combat-oriented magic user. Though she does seem to have some healing abilities.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: She was raised alongside Kabru since they were both little kids and by the present, developed obvious romantic feelings for him, but he only sees her like a sister.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Rin towards Kabru. She rarely leaves his side and constantly gets angry and admonishes him for looking at other women, even if that wasn't his intention.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She was orphaned at a young age when an angry mob killed her parents for being magic users and burned down her house. When the Canaries arrived following rumors of forbidden magic, they dragged Rin away for interrogation and treated her more like a curiosity than a traumatized child, which only worsened her mental state. She only started to recover after being introduced to Kabru, who was also being taken care of by the Canaries at the time, but while Kabru was raised by Milsiril who was [[MyBelovedSmother overbearing but supportive]], Rin didn't have that kind of care and attention and has a worse opinion of elves.
* InconsistentSpelling: Early fan translations often went with "Lynn", but the official ''Explorer Guide'' confirms it to be "Rin".
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Discussed and averted. Rin is "Eastern," and so even her own party members assume she might know other Eastern characters (such as Shuro). In actuality, there are different countries in the East, and Rin wasn't even born in any of them, as she is native to the island the dungeon is on.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Commonly called Rin rather than her full name. In fact, only Kabru has been shown using her full name, and only in times of distress.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Dark hair, on the tall side, and definitely has some snark to her.
* {{Tsundere}}: She certainly is showing all the signs towards Kabru, including assuming he's always trying to flirt with other women.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dia]]
!!True Name -- Diamond of Sadena
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Kei Kawamura
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/daya_anime.png]]
->'''Age:''' 58 years old\\
'''Gender:''' Female\\
'''Race:''' Dwarf\\
'''Birthplace:''' Sadena, Eastern Continent\\
'''Family:''' Father, mother, little sister and brother\\
'''Height:''' Around 130cm / 4'3"\\
'''BMI:''' 38\\
'''Likes:''' Boar meat\\
'''Dislikes:''' Garlic

A dwarven member of Kabru's party. She fights with an axe.
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* BirdsOfAFeather: She and Holm are older than the rest of the group and so tend to hang out, though they aren't very close.
* ChildMarriageVeto: She was part of a dwarf clan where she was told she had to marry a much older, distant relative from within the clan. She refused and left the clan to become an adventurer instead.
* EyesOutOfSight: So far we've never seen her eyes other than in splashes that show what she and other characters would look like if exposed to Changeling spores and turned into different races.
* FantasticRacism: Was the victim of it after Namari's father made the governor of the Island turn against dwarves with his crimes of embezzlement.
* FishOutOfWater: She was raised outside of civilization as part of a family dedicated to guarding a dungeon. Although she's adapted well since leaving home, her personality can seem a little detached sometimes.
* MafiaPrincess: Of a sort. The "shadow governor" who controls the underworld of the island happens to be the cousin of one of her parents. He, like Dia, had run away to the island and he helped Dia out by introducing her to Kabru and his party.
* MarryForLove: She left her clan due to having had a marriage arranged for her, and apparently found love with another dwarven man whom she plans to marry.
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Including the axe.
* SeekerArchetype: She was born into the dwarven clan somewhere off the Island to guard its blocked off dungeon from intruders. Eventually, she wanted to know ''why'' they were guarding it, left home, and became an adventurer.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Holm]]
!!True Name -- Holm Kranom
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuyaHirose
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/holm_anime.png]]
->'''Age:''' 76 years old\\
'''Gender:''' Male\\
'''Race:''' Gnome\\
'''Birthplace:''' Southern Continent\\
'''Family:''' Father, mother, older sister\\
'''Height:''' Around 140cm / 4'7"\\
'''BMI:''' 21\\
'''Likes:''' Fruit\\
'''Dislikes:''' Meat (for religious reasons)

A gnomish mage and member of Kabru's party.
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* AgainstMyReligion: The ''World Guide'' notes that he's a vegetarian for religious purposes. This comes up in-story when Laios [[spoiler:asks everyone to eat Falin]].
* TheBeastmaster: Although he has other sorts of magic, his specialty is his "pet" elemental spirits, whom he raised with love and care.
* BirdsOfAFeather: He and Dia are older than the rest of the group and so tend to hang out, though they aren't very close.
* ElementalMagic: A lot of his value to the team comes from the multiple elemental spirits he has under his control. Only an Undine (water) and a Gnome (earth) have been seen so far, but the World Guide says he has a Salamander (fire) and a Sylph (air) too.
* DeerInTheHeadlights: Has a tendency to freeze up in unexpected situations.
* TheMedic: Knows healing magic.
* MySisterIsOffLimits: He gets angry at Kabru in an {{omake}} when he finds that Kabru's been in repeated contact with his older sister and that she's clearly interested in him.
* OurGnomesAreWeirder: Seems to be the size of half-foots, but with magic. Apparently as magical as the elves.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mikbell]]
!!True Name -- Mikbell Tomas
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MiyuTomita
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mickbell_anime.png]]
->'''Age:''' 22 years old\\
'''Gender:''' Male\\
'''Race:''' Half-foot\\
'''Birthplace:''' Eastern Continent\\
'''Family:''' Unknown\\
'''Height:''' Around 105cm / 3'5"\\
'''BMI:''' 18\\
'''Likes:''' Egg dishes\\
'''Dislikes:''' Bitter foods

A half-foot member of Kabru's team. He is the employer of Kuro.
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* AmbiguousGender: The official translation refers to him as a girl, his appearence doesn't aid the confusion.
* BadBoss: See FoodAsBribe. That said, he really does seem to care about Kuro.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He grew up on the streets, with cheating and scamming people the only way to get by. One day Mikbell decided to tail a guy who's been rude to him and make him pay by robbing his house. When he broke in he found Kuro in a cage and decided to set him free and take his muzzle off. Kuro saved Mik when his erstwhile captor showed up and the two have been inseparable ever since.
* {{Halfling}}: The token half-foot to Kabru's team. Just like Chilchuck.
* FoodAsBribe: It's terribly clear he's abusing Kuro's loyalty. All he sees in being a "Good Boss" is giving him food instead of actually paying him properly. Fortunately for him, Kuro stays with Mikbell not because of the food, but because he realizes Mik's lonely and had a hard life, and needs a good friend by his side.
* EveryoneHasStandards: When he stole Kuro it wasn't to sell him or get his loyalty, he set the kobold free and told him "Just go whereever you want". Being attacked by the slaver and defended by Kuro seems to have really rattled him.
* InSeriesNickname: Most people call him Mik.
* HatesBeingAlone: He is so clingy towards Kuro and "pays" him in food rather than money because he is terrified that Kuro might abandon him for better things.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: According to his character profile, his first death was because he accidentally pricked himself on his own poison darts.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Although he doesn't treat Kuro all that well, in an omake when he sees the kobold has been bitten by a sea serpent and has a swollen face he's quite upset, and furious about the party members who laugh at the bee-stung dog look of him. Later Mikbell is pretty distraught when [[spoiler:Falin's chimera form]] nearly kills Kuro. His profile states he sees Kuro as the closest thing to a family he has and treats Kuro so poorly to discourage him from becoming independent and leaving him.
* SlaveLiberation: He became Kuro's caretaker after freeing him from a demi-human merchant. Although he didn't do it for any altruistic reason; the merchant punched him earlier and that made Mikbell so mad that he decided to sneak into his house and steal something as payback.
* LovableCoward: Mik often focuses on getting out of the way when danger threatens the party. Although no one on the team seems to hold this against him.
* WeirdTradeUnion: Mik refuses to join the guild, in contrast to the advice Chilchuck gave him.
* WhatExactlyIsHisJob: Presumably Mikbell's function in the party is similar to Chilchuck's, as being the only Half-foot in the party implies that he's the group's trapmaster. However, he's never shown contributing to the group outside of bullying Kuro, so it's still up in the air what his actual role is.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kuro]]
!!True Name -- Yodan
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Tooru Nara
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->'''Age:''' 18 years old\\
'''Gender:''' Male\\
'''Race:''' Kobold\\
'''Birthplace:''' Western Continent\\
'''Family:''' Father, mother, older brother, 2 younger brothers, 2 younger sisters\\
'''Height:''' Around 145cm / 4'9"\\
'''BMI:''' 24\\
'''Likes:''' Poultry, pork\\
'''Dislikes:''' Fruit

A kobold member of Kabru's party who resembles a shiba inu. He is Mikbell's employee, though he only seems to pay him in food. Despite this, he seems loyal to him rather than Kabru.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Mikbell became his owner when he rescued Kuro from a slaveowner who had him chained up and caged and then [[FoodAsBribe promised him food]] as his new employer. However, it turns out he also largely stays because he feels bad for Mikbell, feeling he has had a hard life and needs a good friend, and he wants Mik to feel safe around him.
* BerserkButton: [[spoiler: Dark magic and chimeras make him snarl. At the moment it's unknown whether he also disliked Izutsumi because she was a cat as well as being a chimera.]]
* BigFriendlyDog: So long as someone isn't [[spoiler: a cat or a chimera]] he seems pretty relaxed. An omake in the Adventurer’s Bible reveals that his loyalty to Mikbell isn’t actually because of the food, it’s because he thinks Mikbell’s had a hard life and deserves a friend.
* ClarkKentOutfit: In Daydream Hour 4, an omake reveals that he’s incredibly ripped under his fur. His musculature is uncannily human-like.
* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: He is not very proficient in the common language spoken by everyone else, only capable of talking in very fragmented speech. However, a supplementary short reveals that he is not unintelligent and is a much smoother speaker in his native kobold language.
* EvilDetectingDog: Kuro the kobold has chimeras, soul fusions made with TheDarkArts, as a BerserkButton. Whenever one is near, he snarls and bares his fangs. Which turns out to be early {{foreshadowing}} that Izutsumi is a chimera.
* FurryReminder: Aside from having a very canine-like personality, one of the character sketches shows he swims by doggy paddling.
* HiddenDepths: Everyone thinks of him largely as Mikbell's servant/pet, but Kuro is a lot more intelligent than his fragmented speech implies. He is a lot more eloquent in his native tongue and despite everyone thinking he stays with Mikbell because he likes getting fed, the truth is he could have left any time, but feels sympathy and gratitude toward Mikbell enough that he sticks around for his sake.
* HulkSpeak: He talks rarely and in small, fragmented sentences, but there's no sign he's unintelligent. Daydream Hour 4 reveals he's EloquentInMyNativeTongue, and gives Kabru (who's conversant) the details on exactly why he's bothered by Izutsumi's scent. He apparently is also being tutored by Kabru every night. Another omake states the kobolds' differing vocal chord shape makes it more difficult for them to speak common.
* MadeASlave: In his character profile, it's stated that he left his homeland with dreams to see the world, but ended up getting captured by slave traders. He was eventually freed by Mikbell and has been his loyal companion ever since.
* ObsessedWithFood: So long as he's fed, he's happy. He'll even accept food over being properly paid.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Everyone calls him Kuro because he got the name before he could speech common, but according to his character profile, his real name is Yodan.
* SuperSenses: Much more heightened than a human's. Being a dog, his sense of smell is especially acute.
* TokenHeroicOrc: According to Kabru, kobolds as a whole tend to be cruel and warmongering; Kuro is a rare exception. Then again, Kabru's a biased source, as he was born in a region where scarce resources forced humans and demi-humans into constant conflict. Kuro himself seems a little surprised to be told most other members of his race don't have personalities like his.
* WolfMan: He's a kobold, which appears to be primarily dog based in this universe (he specifically appears to be based on a black shiba inu).
[[/folder]]

!Floke Party Members

[[folder:Mr. Floke]]
!!True Name -- Tansu Floke
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->'''Age:''' 210 years old\\
'''Gender:''' Male\\
'''Race:''' Gnome\\
'''Birthplace:''' Eastern Continent\\
'''Family:''' Wife (Yarn), 2 sons, 2 adopted children (Kiki & Kaka)\\
'''Height:''' Around 130cm / 4'3"\\
'''BMI:''' 21\\
'''Likes:''' His wife's cooking, oysters\\
'''Dislikes:''' Radishes

A gnomish scholar and mage. He works for the lord by studying the magic of the dungeon as well as acting as his advisor. He does not want the dungeon to fall back into elvish hands.
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* DrJerk: His main function is a healer, and this means that he has no qualms using his recently-acquired teammate Namari as a HumanShield since he can just heal/resurrect her afterwards. He also refuses to help heal injured strangers without compensation.
* EmptyNest: Implied. It's noted on his character profile he had two biological children, now old enough to have their own children, before Kiki and Kaka.
* TheFace: He's the leader and all the other members of his party are pretty quiet so he deals with anyone they encounter.
* HappilyMarried: Implied. The first of his favorite foods is his wife’s cooking.
* InterspeciesAdoption: He and his wife, both gnomes, adopted Kiki and Kaka, human twins, after their biological parents abandoned them.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Harsh, abrasive and not particularly concerned about how many times Namari dies, he still cares deeply for his family and even offered to let Namari stay with Team Touden if she chose. He also pays Namari pretty well after one of their explorations where she gets killed.
* TheMedic: His job in the party is healing the others with white magic.
* NotSoStoic: Although he comes across as a somewhat cold-hearted academic at first, when Kiki is captured by the tentaculus, he immediately starts panicking and pleading for the others to help.
* OldSoldier: Old ''Adventurer'' more like; he's pretty old at over two hundred but is still DungeonCrawling like nobody's business.
* SteppingOutForAQuickCupOfCoffee: A variant. When he sees how concerned Namari is about Team Touden (who are about to perform a risky operation which might not succeed without her dwarven strength), he mentions that return-to-the-surface spell he was casting could take a while and suggests she ought to go for a walk or something, even knowing her helping them might lead to her rejoining the other group.
* WhiteMage: Knows and is proficient at healing magic. He can also perform resurrections.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mrs. Floke]]
!!True Name -- Yarn Floke
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->'''Age:''' 204 years old\\
'''Gender:''' Female\\
'''Race:''' Gnome\\
'''Birthplace:''' Eastern Continent\\
'''Family:''' Husband (Tansu), 2 sons, 2 adopted children (Kiki & Kaka)\\
'''Height:''' Around 125cm / 4'1"\\
'''BMI:''' 20\\
'''Likes:''' Creamy chicken stew\\
'''Dislikes:''' Oysters

Mr. Floke's wife who accompanies him on his DungeonCrawling and business trips.
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* EmptyNest: Implied. It's noted on her character profile she had two biological children, now old enough to have their own children, before Kiki and Kaka.
* InterspeciesAdoption: She and her husband, both gnomes, adopted Kiki and Kaka, human twins, after their biological parents abandoned them.
* TheMedic: Implied. When Mr. Floke (the group's primary medic) goes to investigate one of the towers, he tells his wife to stay behind in case anything happens to him, suggesting that she's capable of using white magic as well.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kiki & Kaka]]
!!True Names -- Kiki Floke, Kaka Floke
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[[caption-width-right:280:Kaka (left), Kiki (right)]]
->'''Kiki:'''\\
'''Age:''' 20 years old\\
'''Gender:''' Female\\
'''Race:''' Tallman\\
'''Birthplace:''' Unknown\\
'''Family:''' Foster parents (The Flokes), brother (Kaka)\\
'''Height:''' Around 180cm / 5'11"\\
'''BMI:''' 21\\
'''Likes:''' Pickled fish\\
'''Dislikes:''' Brussel sprouts\\\
'''Kaka:'''\\
'''Age:''' 20 years old\\
'''Gender:''' Male\\
'''Race:''' Tallman\\
'''Birthplace:''' Unknown\\
'''Family:''' Foster parents (The Flokes), sister (Kiki)\\
'''Height:''' Around 190cm / 6'3"\\
'''BMI:''' 23\\
'''Likes:''' Creamy chicken stew\\
'''Dislikes:''' Brussel sprouts

A pair of twin siblings, and the Flokes' adopted human children. They accompany their parents when they go DungeonCrawling.
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!!!Tropes applying to both:
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Similarly to Kabru. It's possible they originated from the same general area.
* HappilyAdopted: By the Flokes. [[AllThereInTheManual Ryoko Kui's artbook]] shows they are a close and loving family.
* ParentalAbandonment: The two of them were left behind at a tavern while their clan was fleeing from a war. They were told that someone would return to get them but it never happened. Eventually they were found and adopted by the Flokes.

!!!Tropes applying to Kiki:
* NiceGirl: Very friendly and easy going. After going to a resurrection center with Namari, she asks her how old she is so she can find her there again if need be.
* {{Troll}}: She teases Namari about her fetish for tallmen (specifically tallmen legs) rather casually.

!!!Tropes applying to Kaka:
* AppearanceAngst: He's a little flustered when Namari points out his and Kiki's long legs because they were raised among the much shorter gnomes and he's still self-conscious about their difference.
* NotSoStoic: He's normally pretty quiet, but he can be seen blushing when the pub worker teases Namari.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Like Namari's example, he gets mistaken for her boyfriend at one point.
* TheQuietOne: Even moreso than his sister and adoptive mother. Of all the Floke Party, he speaks the least.
[[/folder]]

!Shuro Party Members

[[folder:In general]]
When Falin was eaten by the Red Dragon, Shuro left Team Touden to gather his own party to rescue her. When he's finally encountered in Volume 5, he is way behind Team Touden in terms of dungeon progress, due to re-entering the dungeon later and driving himself (and by extension, his party) to the point of exhaustion, thus slowing them down.
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* AmazonBrigade: With the exception of Shuro. See BadassCrew.
* BadassCrew: They keep up with Team Touden easily enough and their introduction shows them smashing through a sea serpent with minimal effort.
* FantasticRankSystem: The mole-like markings on the retainers' faces are tattoos used to signify their ranking among the group. Maizuru, Hien and Benichidori each have two as a result of their high skill, while Tade only has one, as while she's hardworking and strong, her huge body makes her an ill fit for covert ops. Izutsumi, who was an uncooperative slacker during her time with the group, has none.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Inverted: Shuro is the only man in an otherwise all female group.
* ThemeNaming: Aside from Shuro, all of them are named after flowering plants in Japanese, though technically speaking these are only aliases.
** Maizurusou is the false lily of the valley.
** Hiensou is the rocket larkspur.
** Benichidori is the Japanese plum/apricot.
** Inutade is the tufted knotweed.
** Asebi is the Japanese andromeda.
** Interestingly enough, Shuro/Sureau is also a plant, elderberry. It's not clear if that was intentional though.
* {{Wutai}}: A pretty standard example; they hail from "the East", which seems to basically be Japan. The party is made up of a samurai, three ninja, an oni, and an [[{{UsefulNotes/Onmyodo}} onmyōji]], all Japanese cultural touchstones.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Shuro]]
!!True Name - Nakamoto Toshiro
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShinjiKawada (Japanese), Creator/MickLauer (English)
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->'''Age:''' 26 years old\\
'''Gender:''' Male\\
'''Race:''' Tallman\\
'''Birthplace:''' Isle of Wa, Eastern Archipelago\\
'''Family:''' Father, mother, two younger brothers\\
'''Height:''' Around 180cm / 5'11"\\
'''BMI:''' 23\\
'''Likes:''' Soba\\
'''Dislikes:''' Cheese

A swordsman from the East who left Laios's party to muster up his own entourage to save Falin. He comes from a noble family. He had fallen in love with Falin and proposed to her before she was eaten by the Red Dragon. She had yet to give him an answer, saying she needed more time to think it over.
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* BattleHarem: His new party consists of female warriors from his home country. They're not quite a "harem", given that he's in love with Falin, but they're quite loyal to him.
* BeardOfSorrow: Grows one while he's searching for Falin.
* CruelToBeKind: Plans to report [[spoiler: Marcille's use of the TheDarkArts to the town on the surface, effectively getting them banished but permitting Laios to immediately focus on rescuing Falin rather than wasting time returning to the surface. Maizuru provided Senshi the cooking supplies they would have returned for, and Shuro himself provided a [[EscapeRope magic bell]] to be used when they succeed that will get them safely to the east.]] Ultimately though, he's not the one that reports [[spoiler:Marcille's use of the dark arts]] and the Canaries only learned about [[spoiler:Falin being a chimera]] because they witnessed it themselves.
* ExhaustedEyebags: He gets these when he returns later, due to how much he's been pushing himself.
* HeroicSafeMode: Has gone into one after Falin's loss, neglecting food and sleep in his single-minded efforts to save her.
* HiddenDisdainReveal: When he and Laios gets into a fistfight, Shuro reveals just how irritating he finds Laios, showing his side of the story during moments Laios used before to describe their friendship. Although after the fight, it’s clear that while Shuro hates how dense Laios is, he doesn’t actually hate Laios himself and does consider him a friend.
* HintDropping: Shuro's fantasy-JapanesePoliteness meant that when he was in the same party as Laios he was constantly trying to suggest a little distance and time to himself or with Falin, and the cheerfully oblivious Laios didn't catch one of them.
* HypocrisyNod: [[spoiler: Admits he probably would have used TheDarkArts to revive Falin if he was in the same situation as Team Touden had been. See ThisIsUnforgivable.]]
* InconsistentSpelling: Fan translations had his name as Sureau, while the official translation and the ''Explorer Guide'' went with Shuro. His full name is Toshiro.
* TheLostLenore: Falin is this to him. He even planned on proposing to her.
* OptOut: Like Namari, he chose not to return to the dungeon after barely escaping the dragon. According to Namari, he's in love with Falin and has been pursuing his own lead on saving her. Confirmed when he is later encountered by Kabru's party with a new party of his own within the dungeon.
* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:Despite his hatred of Laios and his intention to report them for using forbidden magic, he gives Laios a bell that, if used, will allow them to escape capture and flee to the East when they return to the surface.]]
* {{Samurai}}: He looks the part. Later chapters confirm he hails from the East.
* TheSmartGuy: Laios describes him as this, saying that Shuro is pretty knowledgeable about the outside world and that his smarts had helped the party a lot before.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: [[spoiler:Although he doesn't say it aloud, he goes from friendly to ready to kill Laios after learning they used the dark arts to revive Falin. After he explains the potential consequences for everyone involved, it's kind of hard to blame him. Though he admitted that in the same situation, he probably would have done the same thing. It's mostly Laios's blithe attitude about it that infuriates him.]]
* WorfHadTheFlu: There's many remarks to the effect that he's a better fighter than Laios, which is why it's a good thing that the only time the two actually come to blows, Shuro has been [[HeroicSafeMode running himself ragged for days]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Maizuru]]
!!True Name -- Iyo
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->'''Age:''' 41 years old\\
'''Gender:''' Female\\
'''Race:''' Tallman\\
'''Birthplace:''' Isle of Wa, Eastern Archipelago\\
'''Family:''' None\\
'''Height:''' Around 165cm / 5'5"\\
'''BMI:''' 21\\
'''Likes:''' Taro\\
'''Dislikes:''' Foreign foods

One of Shuro's retainers. She raised him from a young boy and cares deeply for his wellbeing.
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* ActionGirl: She is a powerful and capable warrior.
* AnimalMotifs: Her attire has an unmistakable red-crowned crane theme.
* BattleButler: Of the mage variety.
* BrokenPedestal: In Shuro's biography page, it is noted that growing up, he had a great admiration for Maizuru. But that all changed after he stumbled upon the fact that she was in an intimate relationship with his father. He's been much more distant with her ever since.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Platonic version. She doesn't seem to approve of Shuro's attraction to [[spoiler: Falin]], but helps him on his quest to find her as best she can even so.
* TheMistress: Shuro's father has been cheating on Shuro's mother with Maizuru. Shuro lost a lot of respect for her after finding out and his mother (unsurprisingly) hates her. Despite this, she doesn't seem to have much respect for Shuro's father.
* SummonMagic: Put a curse on Izutsumi that would [[ExplosiveLeash summon a Yamanba if she did not regularly have physical contact with the markings on her neck]].
* WhiteMage: Has some knowledge of healing magic and resurrection spells.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Inutade (Tade)]]
!!True Name -- Hijouhi
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->'''Age:''' 17 years old\\
'''Gender:''' Female\\
'''Race:''' Ogre\\
'''Birthplace:''' Eastern Archipelago\\
'''Family:''' None\\
'''Height:''' Around 195cm / 6'5"\\
'''BMI:''' 28\\
'''Likes:''' White rice\\
'''Dislikes:''' Nothing in particular

One of Shuro's retainers. She is a sweet if simple seeming woman of the Ogre race.
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* ActionGirl: A powerful fighter and possibly the adventurer with the greatest physical strength in the series so far.
* BigEater: She's often hungry and eats huge portions of food. Makes sense for someone of her large stature.
* TheBigGirl: Easily the biggest member in Shuro's group and it's heaviest hitter too.
* CarryABigStick: Her main weapon is a huge spiked club. It's most likely a reference to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanabo kanabou]], a weapon often used by {{Oni}} in folklore.
* ChildishToothGap: One of her teeth on the left side is shown to be chipped from battle, which makes her smile look even more innocent and friendly.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: It's alluded to that she came from a harsh environment before being taken in by Shuro's father and she reveres him for that reason. This is on top of ogres being a DyingRace.
* {{Foil}}: Both she and Izutsumi are 17-year-old girls who found themselves living in harsh conditions after being seperated from their parents when they were young (Tade was raised to become a prizefighter, while Izutsumi was turned into a beastkin and locked up in a cage) and were later taken in as servants by the Nakamoto household. However, while Izutsumi couldn't stand having someone else in control of her life and would constantly attempt to run away, Tade is just happy to have a roof over her head and food on the table, and often puts in extra work to show her gratitude.
* GenkiGirl: Oh heavens yes. Even when in combat she never lets up her perky persona.
* HornedHumanoid: Has a pair of small horns. See {{oni}}.
* MadeOfIron: She's {{Tail Slap}}ped by the [[spoiler:Falin-Dragon chimera]] hard enough to smash her right through a brick wall. It only briefly knocked her out though.
* NiceGirl: Definitely the friendliest of Shuro's group.
* {{Oni}}: Her horns and massive stature definitely gives her the appearance of one, and her use of a [[CarryABigStick spiked club]] also ties into folklore about oni wielding them. She is at least an Ogre (which is what Oni generally translates into), as Marcille is briefly turned into one and not only gains the stature but also the exact same horns.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hien]]
!!True Name -- Naka
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->'''Age:''' 26 years old\\
'''Gender:''' Female\\
'''Race:''' Tallman\\
'''Birthplace:''' Isle of Wa, Eastern Archipelago\\
'''Family:''' Father, mother, younger sister\\
'''Height:''' Around 170cm / 5'7"\\
'''BMI:''' 24\\
'''Likes:''' Spicy food\\
'''Dislikes:''' Dried sweet potato

One of Shuro's retainers, and the one directly below Maizuru in the chain of command. She hails from a family dedicated to serving the Nakamoto clan, and has known Shuro for as long as she can remember.
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* ActionGirl: Of the ninja variety. She is capable of taking down tough monsters.
%%* HartmanHips: She displays them proudly with her ZettaiRyouiki fashion.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: In her {{omake}}, she repeatedly denies any romantic interest in Shuro but was perfectly fine with the idea of becoming his wife and is flustered when he admits his love for a woman who is not her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Benichidori]]
!!True Name -- Matsu
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->'''Age:''' 23 years old\\
'''Gender:''' Female\\
'''Race:''' Tallman\\
'''Birthplace:''' Isle of Wa, Eastern Archipelago\\
'''Family:''' None\\
'''Height:''' Around 160cm / 5'3"\\
'''BMI:''' 20\\
'''Likes:''' Natto\\
'''Dislikes:''' Myoga

Another of Shuro's retainers, who prefers to quietly observe people from a distance so she knows how to avoid upsetting them. She's also extremely self-conscious about her appearance.
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* ActionGirl: Of the ninja variety. She is capable of taking down tough monsters.
* AppearanceAngst: Her backstory has her being extremely self-conscious about her appearance, often spending hours burying her face in makeup.
* BerserkButton: When Hien points out she's not ugly at all, it hits a sore sport for Benichidori and she immediately lashes out irrationally, insulting Hien's appearance. She instantly regrets it, but thankfully Hien takes it in stride.
* IAmNotPretty: She has severe body dysmorphism and spends long hours burying herself in heavy makeup every day. When Hien tells her she looks fine without it, she immediately gets irrationally furious at her.
* MasterOfDisguise: One side-effect of her refusal to be seen without makeup is that she's gotten very good at using it to conceal her identity. However, since she's a character in a manga about dungeon-crawling and not about espionage, [[InformedAttribute she never gets a chance to show it]].
[[/folder]]

!The Island

[[folder:The Lord of the Island]]
!!The Lord of the Island
The human lord of the Island. After the dungeon was discovered, he became very wealthy. His people don't seem to have much faith in his political abilities.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Downplayed, as nobody really seems to have a high opinion of him. The only reason anyone likes him at all is that he's the only reason the elves haven't reclaimed the Island for themselves.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: He's only ever mentioned by other characters as the Lord of the Island.
* ExtremeDoormat: He doesn't have much of a spine, instead relying on Mr. Floke to tell him how to handle his problems.
* FantasticRacism: Namari's father embezzled a lot of money from him, which left him wary of all dwarves. He doesn't seem particularly fond of elves, either.
* FatBastard: Some of his citizens certainly seem to think so. Mikbell wonders out loud if "that stupid lord" will just keep eating until he bursts.
* RagsToRiches: Before the discovery of the dungeon, he wasn't very rich, despite being a lord. Now he's obviously loaded and lives an extravagant lifestyle.
[[/folder]]

!The "Canaries"
[[folder:In general]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: Otta, Captain Mithrun, Cithis, Fleki, Lycion, and Pattadol]]

When dungeons reach a critical point of oversaturation that risks monsters spilling out and slaughtering nearby settlements, particular groups of elves are called to prevent this from happening. The Dungeon Investigation Squad, more commonly known as the Canaries to the layperson, consists of various criminals and their handlers, who are often the unwanted children of nobility. Despite their alturistic job description, they have less than savory reasons for their dungeon incursions.
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* AllThereInTheManual: The omakes give more information on the Canaries, including what crime they committed to be placed on the team.
** Mithrun is an illegitmate child and secretly resented the other Canaries and his older brother.
** Cithis received a life sentence for the use of forbidden magic (particularly hypnosis/mind control), incitement to murder, and fraud. She was assigned to look after Mithrun due to the "dungeon incident" and abused his EmptyShell nature to humiliate him until he earned her respect by refusing one of her orders.
** Fleki was sentenced 240 years for the possession and trade of ancient items. She spends her salary on [[TheStoner hallucinogenic mushrooms]] but this also allows her to control her familiars.
** Lycion was sentenced to life for body alteration (using ancient magic to shapeshift), assault, and murder, and is implied to have a narcissistic streak. He and Fleki are close friends.
** Otta was sentenced for human(oid) trafficking and the illegal trade of ancient items. She has a preference for half-foot lovers, which some elves find akin to pedophilia.
** Pattadol is the only one to not be a criminal, and was instead appointed to the party at the request of her noble parents.
* CantArgueWithElves: Securing control of late-stage dungeons is a dangerous and important job, but they don't think much of the short-lived races -- elves are repeatedly described as treating them like children. The featured Canary team in particular hatches a plan that ''requires'' placing dozens of civilians in harm's way to convince everyone else that the dungeon is becoming too active. It's almost like how humans deal with an animal pandemic by slaughtering a few hundred cattle to save the majority, believing that there's no need to consult the opinions of the cattle. [[spoiler:This prejudice ultimately proves to be the reason why Marcille becomes the new lord of the Island's dungeon out of desperation, since the Canaries have neither the mood nor the patience to peacefully deal with non-elves caught up in the situation.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: One omake features the squad bantering about the "politically correct" way to refer to the short-lived races such as tallmen and half-feet. When they ask for Mithrun's opinion, his response is along the lines of "inferior" or "lesser", horrifying everyone else. Apparently, that kind of attitude wasn’t uncommon in older times.
* GodzillaThreshold: They are brought in should a dungeon reach sufficiently dangerous levels, with the potential end result being the entire area being wiped out by a flood of powerful monsters. Utaya, Kabru's home, was one such area. However, it's implied that their concerns are only a pretext for taking over dungeons in order to hoard whatever arcane knowledge is concealed inside them.
* InconsistentSpelling: Fan translations went with "Misurn", "Sishys", and "Pattdohl", while the official translation went with Mithrun, Cithis, and Pattadol.
* MeaningfulName: "Canary in a coal mine" is an idiom for someone or something who serves as an early warning for an upcoming crisis, referring to a time when canaries were used by miners to detect toxic gases. One omake shows that this is not their official name, [[AppropriatedAppellation but it stuck due to fitting so well.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Mixed with PoorCommunicationKills, [[spoiler:their approach to dealing with Team Touden once they defeat the Mad Sorcerer is to try to brute force the sealed books out of them instead of explaining the situation with the demon, this freaks the party out, who sees them as enemies trying to stop them from saving their friend, and, never being told what the Winged Lion really is, Marcille releases him in an act of desperation when they hunt her down.]]
* NominalHero: Most of them are technically criminals who specialize in TheDarkArts, with secretive and suspicious motives that are definitely far from benevolent, but their actions ''do'' prevent overgrown dungeons from spilling into the towns above.
* NoNameGiven: Only the dark elf (Cithis), Captain Mithrun, and the elf with fairy familiars (Pattadol) have been named in story. [[AllThereInTheManual Supplementary material]] names the blonde-haired elf Fleki, the short-haired elf Otta, and the tattooed elf Lycion.
* NonUniformUniform: Their pleated clothing is actually armor made from silk from a GiantSpider, but each of them wears it differently. Only Mithrun and Pattadol wear the full set, but even they have different pants. Otta and Fleki go without sleeves or any pants at all, Lycion wears a skirt and nothing else (in his defense, he’s a shapeshifter), and Cithis’ is a low-cut, floor-length dress.
* OutOfFocus: Besides Mithrun none of them get much screentime or characterization, and most of their information is given out in supplementary material.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Canaries" is not officially what the group is called, it is simply what people have taken to calling them.
** This is discussed in one of the omakes, with Fleki and Lycion grumbling about how insulting the squad's namesake is, only for Pattadol to angrily correct them as their ''official'' title is "The Dungeon Investigation Squad".
* OurElvesAreDifferent: Mostly composed of normal elves, they also include at least one dark elf, Cithis, among them.
* TradingBarsForStripes: About half of all Canaries are criminals convicted of dabbling in the forbidden ancient magic. They seem to be given free rein with their skills within the scope of their duties.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Captain Mithrun]]
!!True Name -- Mithrun of the House of Kerensil
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->'''Age:''' 185 years old\\
'''Gender:''' Male\\
'''Race:''' Elf\\
'''Birthplace:''' Central North Continent\\
'''Family:''' Father, mother, older brother\\
'''Height:''' Around 155cm / 5'1"\\
'''BMI:''' 21\\
'''Likes:''' Nothing in particular\\
'''Dislikes:''' Nothing in particular

Captain of the Canaries. A strange, stoic man with no sense of direction and powerful teleportation magic.
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* AscendedExtra: Introduced as one of the Canaries group, and he doesn't even partipate much in the introductory meetting either. However, after he makes it clear he's the squad's head and [[spoiler: spearheads the operation to draw out Thistle]] he effectively joins the main cast as one of the central characters in the second half of the story, while all of the other Canaries remain OutofFocus.
* BastardBastard: The ''World Guide'' reveals both that he was an illegitimate child, and that Kabru's claims that prior to becoming an EmptyShell he was a "perfect young man" were wrong, as while he was good at putting on a friendly face, [[BitchInSheepsClothing behind that he treated the people around him with nothing but disdain]].
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Mithrun wanted the life he could have had if he never joined the Canaries. [[EmptyShell Now he doesn't want for anything at all.]]
* ConfusionFu: Use of teleportation magic in a small area plus no sense of direction equals a room full of people displaced into walls and the walls displaced to where the people were. His fighting style is wild, dangerous, easily mistaken for other kinds of magic, and yet exceptionally effective.
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler: In a sense! Everyone, including him, believed his only remaining desire was to take revenge on the demon, but after the demon was finally defeated he realized that he'd really wanted it to finish its meal and consume that last scrap of him.]]
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: He was born with silver eyes. They turned black after [[spoiler:his desires were consumed by a demon. Chapter 83 shows them fading back to silver as he becomes more spirited fighting Marcille, up until she blows his head off. He gets better.]]
* DungeonMaintenance: [[spoiler: Was previously the lord and caretaker of a dungeon much like Thistle. He's able to use the knowledge from this time to find shortcuts through Thistle's dungeon.]]
* {{Elfeminate}}: Looks the same as his female companions, and his gender isn't confirmed until chapter 61. When turned into a human by changeling mushrooms, he looks like a character from ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' or the earlier chapters of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', suggesting he’s actually quite rugged and muscular by elf standards. The World Guide, showing the Canaries' quarters, has him doing push-ups in his berth with the author's note, "My, what a muscular back."
* EmptyShell: As a result of his past experiences, he is unable to feel any bodily urges except [[spoiler:a drive to destroy demons and the dungeons that contain them. He is unable to muster any drive to do anything else, including to eat, sleep, or do any other basic functions unless someone else reminds him. This is because the goat demon devoured all of his desires except for his desire for revenge against said demon]].
** In chapter 94 [[spoiler: with the demon defeated Mithrun goes unresponsive, having no further reason to live. Kabru brings his people skills to bear and tells him that there's no way ''all his desires forever'' could be gone because people form new desires all the time, and says Mithrun can find new ones - and Mirthrun says "Okay" and allows himself to be pulled to his feet. A few chapters later, we see him eating food on his own for the first time (to the point of ignoring Laios to continue eating when the rest of the Canaries are focused on him.)]]
* EyeScream: [[spoiler: His right eye was crushed by the demon goat as it devoured his emotions. The ''World Guide'' confirms that his new right eye is a fake, and not the result of healing magic.]]
* FantasticRacism: In an omake, when the other Canaries what he might refer to the short-lived races as, Mithrun outward states them to be "lesser". The other (younger) elves are shocked by such offensive language, but he says [[DeliberateValuesDissonance that's just what elves called them back in the day]].
* FeelNoPain: In an omake, he eats a mouthful of extremely hot food without a second thought. It ends up burning his mouth but he barely reacts.
* FictionalDisability: His complete lack of direction and, more pressingly, his inability to feel desires mean he has to rely on the support of others to function. It's not that Mithrun can go without sleep or food but he will falter and pass out without them, and he actually needs to be bespelled - or have Kabru give him a foot massage - in order to sleep. The world guide states that he's developed habits and a routine so he can handle everyday life on his own but loses track of those while pursuing his only active interest.
* FishEyes: Has a lazy right eye he occasionally keeps closed [[spoiler: it's actually artificial and purely cosmetic]], and as a result, he has no depth perception.
* HeroicSafeMode: Enforced. The only feeling he has left to him is the desire to avenge himself on the goat demon, to the extent of neglecting everything else.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: When he gets serious, he [[TheCoatsAreOff takes off his cape]] and uses teleportation magic to turn it into a cutting weapon via TeleFrag.
* LackOfImagination: His lack of desires extends to his methods of thinking, and he literally cannot think of things and people beyond their useful purpose to him, including any emotional connections to them. When a shapeshifter brought his mental image of Kabru into being, it was just a crude scribble incapable of speaking.
* MadeOfIron: His Constitution score is an impressive 4/5. That would be impressive even if he ''wasn't'' an elf.
* MundaneUtility: At points he uses his teleportation magic to teleport very short distances instead of just walking. Kabru and the Canaries realize this is a really bad idea for someone with NoSenseOfDirection and no depth perception.
* NoSenseOfDirection: Cithis corrects him when he starts wandering off the wrong way, such as leaving the dungeon instead of trying to go deeper. Kabru is understandably confused by such an odd trait among the dreaded "Canaries", right up until he sees [[ConfusionFu how he can weaponize this]]. On the other hand, [[spoiler:his time as a dungeon master]] left him with an uncanny intuition for dungeon layout, such as being able to locate secret passages because ''he'd'' put one there if he was in charge of the dungeon. For some reason strangers have a tendency to ask him for directions though. On Mithrun's character profile, it's suggested that his lack of directional sense may be lingering subconscious trauma from [[spoiler:his time as a dungeon lord]] still affecting his body.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler: Despite his oddities, he’s the only one of the elven officers present who is grounded enough to realize that threatening Marcille with punishment or execution for what she did is completely self destructive, since she would then have nothing to lose in siding with the Lion. Instead he convinces the other canary squads that it’s better to cooperate with Team Touden if it means possibly saving the world.]]
* SiblingRivalry: One-side towards his older brother. Mithrun used to look down on his brother who looks different from everyone in the family (leading to rumor that he was an illegitimate child), is sickly, and had affection for the same girl as him. After Mithrun's experience as a dungeon master (and his discovery that he ''himself'' was the illegitimate child, not his brother), their relationship got better and Mithrun visits his brother once every few years--a pretty short interval for a race which lives in centuries.
* SwapTeleportation: Mithrun's favorite spell switches the locations of two objects. This can be used to extreme violent effect as he doesn't have to teleport anything ''whole'', and can in fact just tear things to pieces while swaping them around.
* TheOneThatGotAway: He was constantly haunted by the fact that the brother he hated ended up with the girl ''he'' loved while he had to join the Canaries. That was what allowed the goat demon to control him, giving Misurn the chance to live out the life he wished he had.
** In Chapter 94 he voices his realization that [[spoiler: his one remaining desire hadn't been ''revenge'' but for the demon to ''[[DeathSeeker finish eating him]]'', as he felt like the last scraps abandoned on a plate.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Usually he looks blank or, if facing a demon, furious. With only that one desire left he seems to have very limited emotional affect. However, while trying to persuade [[spoiler: Marcille]] not to become a dungeon master he was briefly very earnestly concerned about what would happen.
* TeleFrag: Misurn uses teleportation magic of the "swap locations" variety to fight. Non-lethally, he can teleport people halfway into walls, leaving a partial person-shaped statue where they were standing, both giving the impression that he has petrifying magic while explicitly keeping his foes alive, albeit trapped in the wall. Lethally, he can do things like replace part of your cranium with a rock or teleport himself ''into'' a monster.
* TheUnfettered: Because [[spoiler:the Goat ate all of his other desires,]] Mithrun refuses to do ''anything'', even eat or sleep, if it doesn't get him closer to his single goal of [[spoiler:destroying as many demons as possible]]. That said, he's still practical about it, and plays by the rules of the Canaries because he knows his chances of accomplishing anything are much higher if he can be part of a squad.
* WaifFu: Besides his teleportation magic, his fighting style is made up of kicks, flips, dodging, and using his enemies' size against them.
* AWolfInSheepsClothing: In an {{omake}} he tells Kabru that before [[spoiler:having his desires consumed]], he was outwardly kind and outgoing, but actually looked down on everyone he knew, even his own brother, for often very petty reasons. He kept his personal feelings bottled up inside however, making it all the more easy [[spoiler:for the demon that consumed his desires to take advantage of his festering insecurities]].
* WorldsBestWarrior: The strongest fighter seen on the series, being a specialist in a type of teletranspotation spellcasting that instantly kills almost everything as well as granting unparalleled mobility and utility, and he is extremely skilled on close quarter combat and body agility as well. As the head of a squad meant to invade, take over dungeons and slay their masters, he's stated to be strong enough to match a ''Dungeon Lord'' in direct combat, [[spoiler: which he does, almost defeating both Thistle and Marcille with ease. Makes sense, as he is in fact a former Lord himself]]
* YourSoulIsMine: A variant, and partially. Ever since [[spoiler: a demon ate his desires, which can be seen as extension of one's soul,]] he's practically been an EmptyShell, with not even basic bodily desires such as food and rest.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Cithis]]
!!True Name -- Cithis Ofri
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->'''Age:''' 149 years old\\
'''Gender:''' Female\\
'''Race:''' Elf\\
'''Birthplace:''' Central North Continent\\
'''Family:''' Father, mother\\
'''Height:''' Around 165cm / 5'5"\\
'''BMI:''' 20\\
'''Likes:''' Shrimp\\
'''Dislikes:''' Sloppily-prepared foods

The second in command of the Canaries, and responsible for taking care of Mithrun's needs. A beautiful and reliable woman, she is also a criminal of the group.
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* AlmightyJanitor: Due to Mithrun's aloofness, she essentially acts as the captain of the team despite being basically Mithrun's assistant. Given that the notches in her ears means she's one of the criminals, this means her actual rank is probably the lowest among the Canaries, yet even the other guards listen to her without fail.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: So far, her primary role has been to keep Mithrun pointed in the right direction, and also reminding him to eat, sleep, and go to the bathroom.
* EnigmaticMinion: It's noted she was constantly trying to escape the Canaries until Mithrun came along and in the character relationship chart, it's stated she only respects him "for now". Of the criminal elves among the Canaries, her crimes are also completely unmentioned.
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Once Mithrun actually resisted one of her orders, even after she used her powers on him, she developed a degree of respect for him.
* InformedAttractiveness: Supplemental and extra-canonical material drawn by Kui put forth the idea that she is considered exceptionally beautiful, even by elven standards, with one image having her mistaken for a movie star.
* LivingLieDetector: Among her myriad of mind magics this is apparently one of them, though she seems to be pretty sharp without the boost.
* LogicalWeakness: Cithis's MindControl is a mental illusion, and can be disbelieved away by sufficient will and effort.
* MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll: Before Mithrun was captain, she used her abilities to wrap her old warden around her finger and do as she pleased. However, after gaining respect for Mithrun, she pretty much toes the line.
* MindControlDevice: Cithis's bells allow her to hypnotize other people. She also uses this on Mithrun, as it's the only way to convince him to do mundane tasks.
* NumberTwo: Although Captain Mithrun is unquestionably in command (when he chooses to command), Pattadol and Cithis seem to both share this position, Pattadol officially and Cithis unofficially. The others in the group follow the orders of either.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: According to the ''World Guide'' she holds a bitter resentment towards the nobility, so it's unsurprising that she hates Pattadol. In her earlier days with the squad, she tried to take advantage of Mithrun's suggestible nature to make him injure her, and a relationship chart focused on the Canaries notes that she hopes to kill her someday.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Even among the criminal members of the Canaries, she's one of only two who committed homicide, albeit indirectly, by using her hypnosis powers to whammy someone into doing the deed, and she tried to compel Mithrun into harming Pattadol.
* TradingBarsForStripes: Kabru explains that members of a Canary team are made up of a number of reformed criminals and their guards; the criminals are the ones with notched ears. Cithis, despite being Mithrun's handler, is noted as one of the criminals by the fact that she has notches in her ears.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Pattadol]]
!!True Name -- Pattadol of the House of Vari
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->'''Age:''' 82 years old\\
'''Gender:''' Female\\
'''Race:''' Elf\\
'''Birthplace:''' Central North Continent\\
'''Family:''' Father, mother, older and younger sisters\\
'''Height:''' Around 160cm / 5'3"\\
'''BMI:''' 20\\
'''Likes:''' Tomatoes\\
'''Dislikes:''' Liver

One of the noble elves to be a member of the Canaries, currently taking part in her first mission. Pattadol is a mage with the power to communicate with others through pixie companions and summon barriers.
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* TheBabyOfTheBunch: She's significantly younger than the rest of the Canaries, being the only one below 100 years old. As a result, most of her squadmates consider her to be immature and unreliable.
* BarrierWarrior: She can set up barriers on the fly to protect people. Interestingly, people within the barrier can reach out to grab people outside the barrier and drag them in, but the reverse does not hold true.
* ButtMonkey: Occasionally seen being harassed by Tansu and the dungeoneers who want her money. Her fairy also gets abused by the leader too.
* CharacterDevelopment: In the past, she despaired that she had been chosen to join the Canaries by her parents, and wondered if they loved her less than her sisters, becoming gloomy and sad all the time to an extent that irritated her colleagues. However, one day, she realized that she might have been picked because her parents thought she was the most capable, and so decided to devote herself to doing her best!...to an extent that irritates her colleagues.
* FairyCompanion: She has a couple of fairies that are used to keep in touch with Mithrun when separated.
* GagNose: Her most notable physical feature is her large round nose.
* MiddleChildSyndrome: She's the middle child of three sisters, and sees the fact that she was the one her parents sent to join the Canaries as proof that they loved her the least.
* MorphicResonance: The faces of her communication pixies will change to match whoever's words they're currently relaying. Best illustrated in chapter 61 where the rest of the Canaries all try to talk to Mithrun through one, causing it to cycle through Fleki, Otta, and Lycion's faces over the course of a single panel.
* NumberTwo: Although Captain Mithrun is unquestionably in command (when he chooses to command), Pattadol and Cithis seem to both share this position, Pattadol officially and Cithis unofficially. The others in the group follow the orders of either.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fleki]]
!!True Name -- Fleki
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->'''Age:''' 130 years old\\
'''Gender:''' Female\\
'''Race:''' Elf\\
'''Birthplace:''' Central South Continent\\
'''Family:''' Father, mother, older brother\\
'''Height:''' Around 140cm / 4'7"\\
'''BMI:''' 18\\
'''Likes:''' Spicy foods\\
'''Dislikes:''' Carrots

A criminal who was drafted into the Canaries after she was caught trying to sell forbidden magical artifacts. She's able to summon and control a familiar resembling a crow.
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* AchillesHeel: Her crow summon may be powerful and versatile, but it has one glaring weakness; should it die while she's controlling it, she'll suffer brain damage severe enough to put her in a lifelong coma. Revival magic does provide a workaround, but it also requires someone to kill her first.
* DeathByIrony: She's a drug addict who constantly spends her pay on hallucinogenic mushrooms. Her first death was by a walking mushroom.
* TheFoodPoisoningIncident: As mentioned, her first death was due to eating the wrong kind of mushroom, most likely due to her addiction.
* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: Taking control of her familiar while high allows her to see what she considers the "real world"; one far more vibrant and beautiful than the miserable existence she's stuck in while sober.
* TheStoner: Just about all the money she makes is spent fuelling her addiction to hallucinogenic mushrooms.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lycion]]
!!True Name -- Lycion
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->'''Age:''' 126 years old\\
'''Gender:''' Male\\
'''Race:''' Elf (beastkin)\\
'''Birthplace:''' Central South Continent\\
'''Family:''' Mother\\
'''Height:''' Around 170cm / 5'7"\\
'''BMI:''' 24\\
'''Likes:''' Meat\\
'''Dislikes:''' Leafy greens, particularly their stems

Another criminal member of the Canaries. A good-looking man with no shirt and marks all over his body. Due to ancient magic cast on him, he has the ability to transform into a humanoid wolf.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: He briefly becomes the last Canary standing in Chapter 76, and gets to show off more of his personality as well as the full strength of his beastkin form.
* AppearanceAngst: In his backstory, he was constantly disgusted by the appearance of his own body, so much so he let himself got battered in GladiatorGames without caring whether he lived or died until he found someone to use TheDarkArts to turn himself into a beastkin. It made him much happier, although as Fleki notes, he still kept on fighting in the arena.
* AttentionWhore: After being turned into a beastkin, he kept on fighting in bloodsports because he wanted to show off his new body as much as possible. This is how he ended up getting caught and jailed.
* CartoonCreature: He's a type of beastkin known as a werewolf, but he has a rather strange appearance compared to other werewolves seen in supplementary sketches (which are more obviously wolf-like), particularly his long, rabbit-like ears. In an {{omake}}, Laios asks him what sort of canine he's been fused with and Lycion says he doesn't even know.
* {{Foil}}:
** He serves as one to Izutsumi. While she was transformed into a beastkin against her will and sees it as a horrible defect she needs to get rid of, Lycion became one by choice and considers it a mark of pride, while being disgusted by his original unaltered body.
** He's also one for Laios, a monster fanatic with an interest in becoming a monster himself. They get to talking in a Volume 11 omake, but things go sour when it turns out they have very different viewpoints: Laios feels like Lycion is a fake because his transformation only goes "skin deep", with no change to his underlying physiology or behavior, while Lycion is disgusted by Laios's {{otaku}}-like monster obsession.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Although he's described as having a gentle demeanor, he's the only member of the Canaries to have directly committed homicide (in his arena fights), and has a rather bleak outlook on life.
* GladiatorGames: Threw himself into illegal arena fights because he didn't care one way or the other what happened to his self-perceived ugly body, and after he found someone to turn him into a beastkin [[TheNarcissist kept fighting to show it off]], eventually getting busted and forced to join the canaries.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: When he meets Izutsumi, he asks her how she found someone to transform her into a beastkin, unaware that it’s a sore point for her.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: It's noted in his profile he has a deceivingly feminine appearance, despite a personality that is closer to being manly.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: He's able to turn from a wolf-like humanoid form and his default elf form at will, which his profile compares to a werewolf, as a result of having BlackMagic performed on ''himself''. Uniquely, his wolf form appears to work on a scale: the low end is basically just him with fur and a canine head, but when he goes all out he becomes huge and hunched, almost ape-like in physique.
* ShipTease: In one of the {{omake}}s from the ''World Guide'', he finds Fleki sprawled out on her bed in a drug-induced stupor, and moves her body into a more comfortable resting position while hoping she'll come to soon, as having her around to talk to makes the world feel more bearable.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Rarely wears more than a kilt, partly because he can shapeshift at will and wants to show off his beastkin body.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Otta]]
!!True Name -- Otta
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->'''Age:''' 137 years old\\
'''Gender:''' Female\\
'''Race:''' Elf\\
'''Birthplace:''' Central North Continent\\
'''Family:''' Father, mother\\
'''Height:''' Around 130cm / 4'3"\\
'''BMI:''' 20\\
'''Likes:''' Grapes\\
'''Dislikes:''' Meat

A former merchant serving with the Canaries after being convicted for her black market dealings. She has a limited ability to reshape dungeons by controlling spirits.
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* ButchLesbian: Has a very masculine appearance and personality, and has only ever shown a romantic interest in other women.
* HasAType: She exclusively dates young half-foot women, something she catches no end of flak from her squadmates for due to the [[MayflyDecemberRomance huge age gaps involved]].
* LadyLooksLikeADude: Her hairstyle, fashion sense and personality often cause her to be mistaken for a man, even by other elves.
* MayflyDecemberRomance: Despite being an elf, she's only ever dated half-foots, the shortest-lived race. According to her, it's because their short lifespans mean they value the days they do have, making them more mature than someone who'd live longer. However, the fact that none of her relationships have lasted past her lover's 30th birthday suggests that has other motives for this.
* TattooedCrook: She's a convicted criminal drafted into the Canaries, and her arms are covered in tattoos.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Milsiril]]
!!True Name -- Milsiril of the House of Tol
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->'''Age:''' 189 years old\\
'''Gender:''' Female\\
'''Race:''' Elf\\
'''Birthplace:''' Central North Continent\\
'''Family:''' Father, mother, older brother and sister, many adopted children (Kabru and others)\\
'''Height:''' Around 150cm / 4'11"\\
'''BMI:''' 21\\
'''Likes:''' Fruitcake\\
'''Dislikes:''' Beans, carrots, mushrooms, organ meat, shellfish, strawberries, etc.

A vice commander of the Canaries who retired from the organization following the disaster in Utaya. Since then she's focused on taking care of children from short-lived races with nowhere else to go, such as Kabru.
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* BoomerangBigot: A lifetime of being mocked by other elves due to her deeply introverted nature led to her disliking elves in general.
* BrokenPedestal: {{Inverted|Trope}} with how she saw Mithrun. Back before he became an EmptyShell, she thought of him as a perfect, flawless man who was LovedByAll and [[PerpetualSmiler never had a frown on his face]], and had always secretly resented him for it. It was only after [[spoiler: exploring the dungeon he'd created]] that she learned of [[BitchInSheepsClothing his bitter, jealous side]], but this finally allowed her to empathise with him and admit that they probably would have gotten along if she'd ever tried talking to him.
* CommonalityConnection: As mentioned, after seeing his dungeon firsthand, and how it was filled with jealousy and feelings of inferiority, she feels that she might have had a lot to talk to talk about with Mithrun after all.
* CoveredInScars: They’re faint but present all over her body, emphasizing her veterancy. Notably, despite this, her character profile states that she's never died even once.
* {{Hikikomori}}: Her character profile indicates she has a very introverted personality and eventually retired from the Canaries and isolated herself far from other elven settlements. Ironically, she ends up becoming an adoptive mother for ''many'' orphans afterwards.
* InSeriesNickname: "Milsiril the Gloomy", due to her quiet, introverted nature, a nickname that she really didn't appreciate.
* InterspeciesAdoption: Milsiril likes to raise children from short-lived races.
* MarionetteMaster: She has the power to control dolls. Apparently, she prefers their company to that of other elves.
* MasterSwordsman: When she was a member of the Canaries, the others apparently considered her the best with swords.
* MercyKill: Was prepared to kill Mithrun when she found him discarded and mostly demon-eaten until he spoke and she realized he had one desire left.
* MyBelovedSmother: She can be more than a little overbearing with her adoptive children, to the point where Otta has accused her of seeing them more like cute pets than as actual people.
* ParentsAsPeople: To hear Kabru say it she ''is'' smothering but also very supportive, willing to put major effort into raising her adopted children and treating all their questions and interests seriously. A bit of extra context comes from seeing how the other elves treated another orphan tallman, Rin, as much more like an animal and a source of entertainment.
* PickyEater: Her character profile in the ''World Guide'' includes a LongList of foods she doesn't like where most characters only have one or two.
* SilkHidingSteel: While she has a demure and motherly personality, she comes from a military family and before her retirement, was considered among the strongest of the Canaries; her character profile notes she's never died even once. Even after her retirement, she and her dolls put Kabru through TrainingFromHell once it became clear she needed more than words to show him how dangerous the life of an adventurer was.
[[/folder]]

!!Orcs

[[folder:Chief Zon]]
!!True Name -- Zon
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->'''Age:''' 21 years old\\
'''Gender:''' Male\\
'''Race:''' Orc\\
'''Birthplace:''' Golden Dungeon\\
'''Family:''' Four wives, two younger sisters (Leed), younger brother, son\\
'''Height:''' Around 175cm / 5'9"\\
'''BMI:''' 39\\
'''Likes:''' Barometz\\
'''Dislikes:''' Nothing in particular

The chief of a band of orcs who live in the dungeon.
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* BerserkButton: When he asks whether or not Laios regards his wives as attractive, Laios notes that they actually have properties like large eyes, full lips, and fine straight teeth which humans find agreeable...then Laios innocently goes on to describe their large breasts and curvy buttocks by way of other appealing features, enraging Zon.
* FantasticRacism: Does not like other races. Seems to particularly dislike elves, whom orcs in general apparently regard as deeply unattractive.
* MonsterFacade: His character profile states he tries to hate adventurers, but finds it hard to do so deep down and is generally reluctant to fight.
* MoralMyopia: He sees no problem of attacking and pillaging other races yet gets mad when those races fight back for orcs attacking them in the first place.
* PapaWolf: Very protective of his son.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: He seems the type.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: He talks tough and merciless in combat, but relents when his child calls him out on taking the bread the protagonists' cooked without reward.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Zon's son]]
Zon's young son. He lives in the orc village in the dungeon.
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* ChildrenAreInnocent: Being so young, he lacks any of the prejudices and resentments held by his father.
* MoralityPet: Acts as one for his father. It was him who shamed Zon into sharing the bread they made with Team Touden.
* NoNameGiven: Not yet at least.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Captain Leed]]
!!True Name -- Leed
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->'''Age:''' 14 years old\\
'''Gender:''' Female\\
'''Race:''' Orc\\
'''Birthplace:''' Golden Dungeon\\
'''Family:''' Older brother (Zon), older sister, younger brother\\
'''Height:''' Around 150cm / 4'11"\\
'''BMI:''' 41\\
'''Likes:''' Walking mushroom\\
'''Dislikes:''' Cabbage

A captain of a band of orcs from their dungeon village. She is Zon's little sister.
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* ActionGirl: She is the leader of a group of warriors and wargs who venture down into the most dangerous parts of the orcs' territory.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: [[spoiler: She's easily able to tell that Chilchuck's cowardice for pursuing the Lunatic Magician and Farlyn isn't due to his concern for himself, but for his friends, and bluntly tells him to be honest with himself about it, shaking him deeply]].
* ArrangedMarriage: The World Guide notes that she's at an age where she would normally be married off, but she's been resistant to the idea. [[spoiler:Parodied in Chapter 95, where Zon regretfully informs her she must become a consort to ''Laios'' for the good of the orcs, an idea both Zon and Leed are appalled by, knowing what Laios is like.]]
* BrutalHonesty: Has no problem telling Chilchuck that she considers him a disgusting coward when he talks about finding some way to deceive his friends into going back to the surface and giving up on Falin, and when he says he probably should've left with Shuro and Namari. When she realizes that his feelings are based upon his concern for his friends rather than for himself, she softens up.
* CuteMonsterGirl: Her only really monstrous features are her pointed ears and pig-like nose.
* EurekaMoment: As mentioned above, she thought that Chilchuck was a selfish coward until he mentions that if he hadn't stayed with the group, they might have given up instead of continuing to risk their lives against near-impossible odds. Once she realizes his real motivation, she suggests that he simply tell his friends about how he's worried they'll get themselves killed.
* ImprobableAge: She's just barely an adult [[ProportionalAging for an orc]], and already captain of a band.
* NoNameGiven: So far we know her only as "captain". It's later revealed in her character profile her name is Leed.
* PeltsOfTheBarbarian: Wears patchy hide armor with what appears to be a large antler on the chestpiece.
* PieEyed: The only character in the series to have eyes stylized like this, lacking even pupils.
[[/folder]]

!The Golden Kingdom

[[folder:Thistle, the Lunatic Magician]]
!!True Name -- Unknown
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuuKobayashi (Japanese)
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->'''Age:''' Unknown\\
'''Gender:''' Male\\
'''Race:''' Elf\\
'''Birthplace:''' Unknown\\
'''Family:''' Unknown\\
'''Height:''' Around 130cm / 4'3"\\
'''BMI:''' 17\\
'''Likes:''' Nothing in particular\\
'''Dislikes:''' Nothing in particular

A magician of legend, stated to be the one who sunk the entire kingdom into what it is now the dungeon. The legend has it that whoever defeats him will have the underground kingdom as a reward. Long thought to be a myth, the Lunatic Magician has seemingly resurfaced, stirring dungeon denizens and local overground population alike.
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* AmbiguousGender: The Magician's gender was kept ambiguous for a while. Laios assumes they were female on their first encounter in Chapter 12, as do the orks as they've [[{{Elfeminate}} only seen the Magician briefly]]. He's not corrected until Chapter 47 from Yaad.
** Kabru immediately identifies the Magician as male on sight in Chapter 54, but he has much more experience with elves.
* AxCrazy: He wants to preserve the Golden Kingdom and its people for eternity, but it's clear to everyone he's completely insane and his goal is nothing more than a child's fantasy. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, he's also a lunatic with incredible magical power that he uses to try and force his fantasy into reality without concern for anyone else. The former citizens of this kingdom made immortal by his spell consider it a FateWorseThanDeath and he violently kills anyone he catches within the ruins of the kingdom (almost all of whom are just adventurers who believe the site to have been abandoned for centuries and therefore free to plunder just like any other dungeon).]]
* TheBeastmaster: The Red Dragon seems to be the Lunatic Magician's favored pet, having specifically ordered it to find and rescue [[TheLostLenore King Delgal]] at all costs. [[spoiler:[[FaceMonsterTurn The chimera Falin]] has become the Magician's new favorite pet, having specifically commanded her to come up to the dungeon's first level to help the Magician fight off the Canaries.]]
* BigBad: Set up as us this in the first couple of pages, but seems to simply be a myth or legend, with the Red Dragon taking the spotlight. [[spoiler: However, after its revealed he very much exists and is behind the Red Dragon, he solidly takes this role in the story.]]
* BadBoss: His total lack of empathy for anyone that isn't of the Golden Kingdom makes him this towards the monsters of the dungeon. [[spoiler:His lack of understanding of dragons instincts and necessities leads to him constantly yelling at them, and keeping Failin malnourished since he doesn't understands that her chimera form presents unique difficulties for her to get the food she needs.]]
* BadPowersBadPeople: He uses TheDarkArts. He's also murderously insane.
* BloodMagic: Mixing with SummonMagic, he can summon minions made out of blood. [[spoiler: It's the same kind of ancient blood magic that Marcille can use. Later on its actual nature is revealed in full, its ''demon'' magic, blood is just a conduit for it.]]
* ClimaxBoss: [[spoiler: He's finally fought directly when the party gets to the deepest part of the dungeon, however, this takes place only ~2/3 into the story and he ultimately falls short of being the FinalBoss of the series proper, as the source of his power hijacks the story from then on]]
* CurbstompBattle: While [[spoiler: Marcille]] manages to hit back (much to the Magician's own surprise) the party is still hopelessly outmatched. [[spoiler: The rematch doesn't go much better, and Laios is only barely able to get the drop on him through stealth.]]
* TheDarkArts: The BloodMagic mentioned above is this. It's also far more powerful than anything else seen to that point, granting him a very tight hold on the dungeon monsters and structure as well as large, sheer firepower that is difficult to fight off. [[spoiler: Marcille has access to the same type of magic which gives the party the ability to actually fend off his attacks. However, the difference in experience and ability is staggering, with the Magician completely outmatching Marcille by a landslide, just barely allowing Team Touden to survive a short encounter. Better than nothing though.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler: What ultimately causes Thistle to lose against Laios during the party's rematch with him: while summoning a small army of dragons allows him to easily wipe the rest Laios's party, each dragon's strong power and will prevents him from suppressing their instincts, which results in them getting distracted or attacking each other. Laios is able to use their inability to cooperate and his own encyclopedic knowledge on monsters to create an opening and successfully subdue Thistle]].
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:He dies being consoled by Yaad, who gives him one last apology while acting as Delgal.]]
* DrivenToMadness: A thousand years underground in his own little secluded world [[spoiler: while a demon was gnawing at his mind]] has taken a massive toll on his sanity. This is made particularly apparent on his point of view chapters, where you can kind of see his thought process, it seems normal at first glance but then he jumps around conclusions and shrugs off his own stated purpose and motivations on a whim.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Laios tries to explain that the survivors of the Golden Kingdom are [[WhoWantsToLiveForever miserable]] because the curse of immortality deprives them of things that make life worth living, using their ability to survive without food to try to push the point. Unfortunately, Thistle misinterprets this to mean that he has been neglecting their basic needs and plans to restrain and force-feed his countrymen to keep them more docile.
* TheDreaded: To those aware of his existence, the Lunatic Magician is rightfully feared to be as powerful as he is insane. Even the Golden Kingdom survivors within the dungeon fear him because he would harm or kill them if he considers them a threat to the Kingdom itself. In fact, the Magician already killed those who helped King Delgal escape the dungeon.
* EmptyShell: [[spoiler:Reduced to this in chapter 72 when the Winged Lion ambushes him and eats all of his desires. He's even worse off than Mithrun since Mithrun still at least has the desire for revenge to keep him moving. Thistle by contrast is a catatonic listless shell. Though he does briefly come out of to speak to Yaad (in Delgal's body)]].
* EvilFormerFriend: It's implied that he and the former king Delgal were close a thousand years ago considering his unhinged devotion to the king, and the king being the one to suggest Thistle try magic in the first place, but by the present, Delgal's last words before his death were begging anyone to defeat him.
* EvilSorcerer: Serves as the BigBad of the manga.
* FantasticRacism: Derides [[spoiler:Marcille]] for being a half-elf, calling her an "inferior being" and assuming her goal is to make herself a "full" elf. However, its averted in other ways as he's fiercely loyal to the royal family despite them all being tallmen. Who many other elves will see as lesser.
* FisherKing: [[spoiler:Turns out that when he sunk the kingdom, he sunk most of the continent alongside it, and with his defeat, the entire everything his spell sent underground starts returning to the surface]].
* FluffyTheTerrible: His real name is Thistle.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler: Was brought to the royal court to be a jester. Then Delgal suggested he try learning magic...]]
* GlassCannon: As godlike as he is, his body is ultimately is just that of a completely normal elf, so he's not any faster, stronger or more durable than a regular person. [[spoiler: Mithrun almost kills him on the spot with just 2 hits of his spells and Laios is able to disable him entirely... with a grapple.]]
* GameFace: He looks normal, unless he uses magic, which happens to be whenever he's [[HairTriggerTemper furious]]. Then he pulls off scary faces like the image above.
* HellishPupils: The irises of his eyes are oddly shaped like keyholes. The cover of the Magician's spellbook also prominently displays an eye with a keyhole-shaped iris in the center.
* InconsistentSpelling: The official English release has his name spelled as "Sissel", while fan translations have gone with "Thistle". The official ''Explorer Guide'' also uses "Thistle" in actual English.
* IRejectYourReality: When Mithrun tells him in a cold matter-of-fact tone that the Golden Kingdom is truly finished and King Delgal has been DeadAllAlong, the Lunatic Magician goes into a violent state of denial, complete with a MadnessMantra of "It's a lie. It's a lie! IT'S A LIIIEEE!!!"
* KnightTemplar: ''Very'' big on [[spoiler: burning whom he considers usurpers and outsiders]]. That is, ''anyone who dares stepping into the dungeon or touching anything left in it.'' Indeed, the Magician isn't quite right in the head.
* LivingLegend: As mentioned above, the Lunatic Magician is an entity of legend and many don't even think he exists. Too bad he very much does.
* LoadBearingBoss: [[spoiler:Inverted. When he passes away, his spell is lifted, causing the ''entire country'' of the Golden Kingdom to rise from the earth. Laios is utterly shocked that the Golden Kingdom he inherited was a '''continent'''.]]
* TheLostLenore: Platonic/familiar version: He's desperately searching for the king of the Golden Kingdom [[spoiler: [[DramaticIrony who we saw crawling up to the surface and promptly crumbling into dust.]] ''On the first page of the series.'']]
* MasterOfIllusion: He's first encountered inside the [[PortalPicture living paintings]] [[spoiler: that tell the life story of the last king.]] Laios needs the rest of the party to pull him out of one - and he ''remembers'' seeing Laios inside them when they turn up later.
* MeaningfulName: Delgal named him Thistle for the color of his eyes.
* MoodSwinger: Turns from [[spoiler: dropping Laios and company into a TheWallsAreClosingIn style trap]] to [[WhenSheSmiles cheerfully reassuring]] [[spoiler: the spirits of the long-dead royal family]] in an instant.
* MotiveDecay: The starting point of becoming the lord of the dungeon was Delgal's son, Eodio, coming down with a fatal illness, and he used the dungeon's mana to save his life. Later on, he turned Eodio into an EmptyShell in a fit of rage when he got sick of being trapped in the dungeon and tried to leave and never turned him back, much to his family's horror.
* ObliviouslyEvil: Genuinely believes that he's protecting and preserving his home, when in reality he's been [[AndIMustScream trapping spirits in unwilling stasis]] and killing adventurers to save empty ruins.
* OnlyOneName: According to [[AllThereInTheManual the guide book]], because Thistle was taken from his family at a young age, he can't remember what his surname or title was.
* OurElvesAreDifferent: Is a dark elf. How that distinguishes him from the other elves we've seen ([[VisualPun apart from literally having darker skin]]) hasn't been explored.
* PlayingWithFire: When he finds out Laios is from outside the paintings, he threatens to burn him to cinders.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: [[spoiler:The Lunatic Magician is a very powerful dark mage who also has total control over the titular dungeon, allowing him to shape it as he pleases and control the monsters there. Bad news for anyone inside the dungeon at the time.]]
* PsychopathicManchild: He wants to protect King Delgal and their kingdom but has a childishly brutal and rigid way of trying to go about it. Forcing everyone to remain in unchanging purgatory for a millennium and killing anyone who falls out of line, sometimes with gleeful pride. Despite being a powerful wizard well over one-thousand years old, he still keeps his diaries (with embarrassing poetry) hidden under his bed and gets really mad when Laios' party finds them.
* Really700YearsOld: He was the court jester to the last king of the Golden Kingdom 1,000 years ago and he hasn't aged since. His true age remains unknown although it's noted that it's very unusual for regular elves to live that long. It's later stated that Dungeon Lords possess an extended lifespan, which explains his age.
* RealityWarper: He has complete control over the dungeon environment of the former Golden Kingdom, being able to alter its layout at will, repair any damage to it, control all the non-sentient monsters within and be aware of almost everything that happens within its confines. The Lunatic Magician has also cursed the entire dungeon with a twisted form of immortality so that spirits remained confined within. While this has enabled the resurrection of adventurers who die within the dungeon, it has also resulted in countless spirits [[FateWorseThanDeath unable to move on to the afterlife]]. The Magician also succeeded in creating a SmallSecludedWorld within the dungeon where the survivors of the Golden Kingdom live to this day, [[WhoWantsToLiveForever if unwillingly]].
* RedBaron: ''The Lunatic Magician''.
* SecretDiary: What really sets off his rage at Laios and the others is not only did they kill his monsters, tidy up his house, and wash his dishes, they also found his collection of personal diaries with embarrassing poetry that he had hidden under his bed.
* SquishyWizard: Through his magic, Thistle is able to easily kill [[spoiler:all of Team Touden besides Laios, but as soon as Laios outwits and restrains him, Thistle is helpless.]]
* StillWearingTheOldColors: Although he stopped being the court jester when he became the court wizard, he still dresses like one, right down to the jingly bits.
* TomTheDarkLord: While not quite as mundane, "Thistle" is an oddly... adorable name for a Dungeon Lord known as The Lunatic Magician.
* TwitchyEye: Helpfully [[WrittenSoundEffect subtitled]] as such [[spoiler: when Marcille dispels his BloodMagic minions.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Well, thanks to being an elf surrounded by humans his youngest appearance doesn't look any different, but he genuinely loved Delgal and wanted to do his best for the kingdom once. His initial 'wish' was for everyone in the kingdom to live their lives in peace, to not suffer from disease, disaster, or hunger. A flashback of he and his king having grand idealistic plans is then cut with a panel of the winged lion licking his hand, and then Thistle realizing he can't remember what their plans were, which heavily suggests the demon is taking away desires and making his motives decay.
** Judging from an omake conversation between Mithrun and Kabru it's very common for dungeon lords to start out with good intentions and try to solve their problems peacefully, but then to slide into cruelty and paranoia over time - and Thistle's been the dungeon lord for a very long time.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: He wants to protect the inhabitants of the Golden Kingdom by ''any'' means necessary, trapping them underground for a thousand years, executing any dissenters, and killing any outsiders caught trespassing. In the end, he even intends to [[AndIMustScream attach everyone to magical feeding machines forever]] so they can't put up any more resistance to his "protection".
* VillainRespect: Although he's not at all pleased about it, he acknowledges that Laios's feat of [[spoiler:thwarting his room of dragons by exploiting their instincts and weaknesses]] was impressive.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: The entire dungeon is the result of his insane, self-appointed mission to preserve and restore his beloved Golden Kingdom in some form and he will kill anyone who gets in his way. He sees adventurers in the dungeon as intruders and enemies of the Kingdom, with death being the only fitting punishment.
* YourSoulIsMine:
** [[spoiler:In the past, after King Delgal's son Eodio protested being forced to stay in the dungeon forever and resolved to go to the surface and take his family with him, Thistle yanked his soul out, leaving his body a living husk. It's unclear what happened to his soul after that, but Delgal was able to transfer ''his'' soul into his son's body and reach the surface]].
** [[spoiler:As punishment for enlisting the aid of Laios's party in stopping him, Thistle pulls Yaad's soul out of his body and puts it into a doll]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:King Delgal]]
!!True Name -- Delgal Melini
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dungeon_meshi_delgal.png]]
->'''Age:''' Unknown\\
'''Gender:''' Male\\
'''Race:''' Tallman\\
'''Birthplace:''' Melini, Eastern Continent\\
'''Family:''' Wife, son\\
'''Height:''' Around 175cm / 5'9"\\
'''BMI:''' 25\\
'''Likes:''' Venison\\
'''Dislikes:''' Celery soup

The late king of the Golden Kingdom. He appeared at the mouth of the dungeon and promised his kingdom to anyone who could defeat the Lunatic Magician before crumbling into dust, kicking off the craze for DungeonCrawling on the Island. He and the Magician were raised together from childhood. After the Sorcerer cursed his people with immortality, he escaped and somehow managed to make it to the surface without losing his mind and becoming a wandering spirit.
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* DeathOfPersonality: [[spoiler:His body is still intact but he transferred his soul into his son's empty body in order to escape, and his soul died when that body crumbled to dust.]]
* TheGoodKing: He wanted to do right by the kingdom but it was beset by enemies and penniless to the point where he couldn't even get medicine for his son.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: His journey to the surface to beg its people to defeat Thistle ultimately killed him due to leaving the space the latter's immortality magic works, but did it anyway because it was the only way his people, and Thistle himself, could be saved]].
* TheLostLenore: A platonic case for the Lunatic Magician, who is still looking for him years after he died.
* Really700YearsOld: He and his people were cursed with immortality so it's entirely possible that his crumbling away was [[NoImmortalInertia simply his body returning to its true age.]]
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler: It was him who encouraged the Lunatic Magician to begin studying magic back when he was a simple court jester, and urged him to become the lord of the dungeon to protect the kingdom in a time of untold crisis, ultimately leading to his people and their souls getting trapped inside the dungeon for centuries]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Yaad]]
!!True Name -- Yaad Melini
[[quoteright:170:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dungeon_meshi_yaad.png]]
->'''Age:''' Unknown\\
'''Gender:''' Male\\
'''Race:''' Tallman\\
'''Birthplace:''' Golden Dungeon\\
'''Family:''' Father, mother\\
'''Height:''' Around 150cm / 4'11"\\
'''BMI:''' 19\\
'''Likes:''' Nothing in particular\\
'''Dislikes:''' Nothing in particular

The grandson of King Delgal and current ruler of the Golden Kingdom. Like the rest of his people, Yaad was cursed with immortality by the Lunatic Magician.
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* AChildShallLeadThem: He looks to be about a teenager at best but is the current ruler of the Golden Kingdom after the death of his grandfather and the absence of his father. That said, the majority of the kingdom itself now only has "young" (so to speak) citizens after the older people attempted to flee and were turned into ghosts.
* LetThemDieHappy: [[spoiler:Sensing that Thistle is about to die in his arms, Yaad makes use of Delgal's body to console Thistle in his last moments and apologize for his (that is, Delgal's) selfishness.]]
* OhCrap: Has this reaction when the Lunatic Magician appears and asks him just who he was just talking to, just after Team Touden leaves.
* Really700YearsOld: He looks like a young teen at most but he's really centuries old.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Very courteous and helpful towards Team Touden, even helping them on their quest to find the Lunatic Magician and suggesting how they could protect themselves.
* ToyTransmutation: For helping Laios and his friends, Thistle transfers his soul into a doll as punishment, leaving his body an EmptyShell.
[[/folder]]

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* InconsistentSpelling: Before their names were officially confirmed by the ''Explorer Guide'', there were some variations on the exact spellings, particularly Chilchack/Tirchac and Laius/Laios.

** The official releases use Laios, Falin, Marcille, and Chilchuck.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KentaroKumagai (Japanese), Creator/DamienHaas (English)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SayakaSenbongi (Japanese), Creator/EmilyRudd (English)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Asuna Tomari (Japanese), Creator/CaseyMongillo (English)

* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Played with. Chilchuck is treated this way by the rest of the party because of how young he appears, much to his annoyance. In reality he's actually older than Laios, though Senshi and Marcille still consider him a baby because of the long lifespans of their respective species.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HiroshiNaka (Japanese), Creator/SungWonCho (English)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SaoriHayami (Japanese), Creator/LisaReimold (English)

Laios's younger sister, she [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices]] herself to save the rest of the party and is subsequently eaten by the Red Dragon, kickstarting the plot. Before being eaten, she was a skilled mage and cleric and Team Touden's main healer. She and Laios are very close and she's also close to Marcille, who she attended school with.

* AnimalsHateHer: One of the "[[{{AllThereInTheManual}} Daydream Hour]]" books reveals that the dogs owned by the Touden family didn't really respect Falin, frequently knocking her down and biting her things. One illustration shows one of the dogs thinking of the hierarchy of the family [[{{ButtMonkey}} with Falin at the very bottom, below two other dogs.]]
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: She's resurrected by Marcille using forbidden magic combined with dragon meat in order to reform her completely, as only her bones were left after the Red Dragon digested her.]]

* CameBackStrong: [[spoiler: After being resurrected with dragon meat through forbidden magic, Falin should not have had much, if any mana at all. Despite this, she was not only able to drop a protection spell strong enough to leave Senshi undamaged from a point blank gas explosion, she did so instantly, without any incantation or preparation whatsoever.]]

A dwarf who left Laios's party and opted out of rescuing Falin due to said party's lack of resources, Namari can still be found in and out of the dungeon as a recruit of the Flokes.

* EveryoneHasStandards: One omake features the squad bantering about the “politically correct” way to refer to the short-lived races such as tallmen and half-feet. When they ask for Mithrun’s opinion, his response is along the lines of “inferior” or “lesser”, horrifying everyone else. Apparently, that kind of attitude wasn’t uncommon in older times.

* BoyfriendBlockingDad: One side comic has Chilchuck telling the rest of the party about his daughters, one of whom is actively looking for a dwarf boyfriend. When he sees Senshi smiling along with the others at the idea of one day all having dinner together, he angrily tells Senshi that he's not allowed to go near his daughters (accompanied by an ImagineSpot of two of his daughters demanding to meet him and the third looking rather interested).

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KentaroKumagai

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SayakaSenbongi

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Asuna Tomari

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HiroshiNaka

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SaoriHayami

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Akira Miki

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShinjiKawada

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: There are some variations on name spelling, particularly Chilchack/Tirchac or Laius/Laios.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Early translations spelled her name as "Marshill" or "Marsilla" before settling down on "Marcille", which was later officially adopted.

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: He ''says'' that his only reason for following Laios and Marcille back into the dungeon is because he agreed to complete the 'job' and was paid in advance; since they didn't slay the Red Dragon, his job isn't complete, and he's bound to Laios via his own terms. In truth he values the party as more or less his closests friends, but he has a lot of trouble showing affection.
* OnlySaneMan: ''Usually''. Marcille says he's normally the most level-headed person in the group, but he's not above having a FreakOut on occasion (usually due to [[CloudCuckoolander Laius's behavior]]).

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is it Falin, or Farlyn?

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Early fan translations often went with "Lynn" instead of "Rin."

** Interestingly enough, Shuro/Sureau is also a plant, Elderberry. It's not clear if that was intentional though.

* PetTheDog: [[spoiler: Despite his hatred of Laios and his planning on reporting them for using forbidden magic, he gives Laios a bell that, if used, will allow them to escape capture and flee to the East when they return to the surface.]]

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Fan translations had his name as Sureau while the official translation went with Shuro. His full name is Toshiro.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Downplayed, but nobody really seems to have a high opinion of him. The only reason anyone likes him at all is because he's the only reason the elves haven't reclaimed the Island for themselves.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: No name is ever given to him, so he's constantly referred to as The Lord of the Island.
* ExtremeDoormat: Doesn't have much of a spine, instead relying on Mr. Floke to tell him how to handle his problems.
* FantasticRacism: After Namari's father embezzled a lot of money from him, he took a hard dislike to all dwarves. He doesn't seem particularly fond of elves, either.

%%* NoNameGiven: Not yet.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Fan translations went with Misurn, Sishys, and Pattdohl while the official translation went with Mithrun, Cithis, and Pattadol.

* CurbstompBattle: While [[spoiler: Marcille]] manages to hit back (much to the Magician's own surprise) the party is still hopelessly outmatched. [[spoiler: The rematch doesn't go much better, and Laius is only barely able to get the drop on him through stealth.]]

* GlassCannon: As godlike as he is, his body is ultimately is just that of a completely normal elf, so he's not any faster, stronger or more durable than a regular person. [[spoiler: Mithrun almost kills him on the spot with just 2 hits of his spells and Laius is able to disable him entirely... with a grapple.]]

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The official English release has his name spelled as "Sissel", while fan translations have gone with "Thistle", coupled with the fact that the official Explorer Guide in Japan also uses "Thistle" in actual english.

* AChildShallLeadThem: He looks to about a teenager at best but is the current ruler of the Golden Kingdom after the death of his grandfather and the absence of his father. That said, the majority of the kingdom itself now only has "young" (so to speak) citizens after the older people attempted to flee and were turned into ghosts.

* BoyfriendBlockingDad: One side comic has Chilchuck telling the rest of the party about his daughters, one of whom is actively looking for a dwarf boyfriend. When he sees Senshi smiling along with the others at the idea of one day all having dinner together, he angrily tells Senshi that he's not allowed to go near his daughters (accompanied by an ImagineSpot of two of his daughters demanding to meet him).

* FantasticRacism: In an omake, when the other Canaries what he might refer to the short-lived races as, Mithrun outward states them to be "lesser". The other elves are shocked by such offensive language, but he says [[DeliberateValuesDissonance that's just what elves called them back in the day]].

* SiblingRivalry: One-side towards his older brother. Mithrun used to look down on his brother who looks different from everyone in the family (leading to rumor that he was an illegitimate child), is sickly, and had affection for the same girl as him. After Mithrun's experience as a dungeon master (and his discovery that he ''himself'' was the illegitimate child, not his brother), their relationship got better and Mithrun visits his brother once every few years.

* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: One of her crimes is human trafficking.

* CoveredInScars: They’re faint but present all over her body, emphasizing her veterancy.

* SilkHidingSteel: While she has a demure and motherly personality, she comes from a military family and before her retirement, was considered among the strongest of the Canaries. Even after her retirement, she and her dolls put Kabru through TrainingFromHell once it became clear she needed more than words to show him how dangerous the life of an adventurer was.

* TokenHeroicOrc: According to Kabru, kobolds as a whole tend to be cruel and warmongering; Kuro is a rare exception. Kuro himself seems a little surprised to be told most other members of his race don't have personalities like his.

* MagicHair: Proper hair maintenance is a basic rule of magic, as sufficiently messy hair can interfere with it. The only times her hair isn't braided is when she sleeps or [[spoiler:when she's [[SlipknotPonytail turning to forbidden magic to revive Falin]].]]

** [[spoiler:After the Winged Lion is defeated and everyone's preparing for the feast, it turns out that due to the DealWithTheDevil, Marcielle not only forgot how to braid her hair, but ''forgot she ever did it at all''. She seems fine with it at first, despite the issues it may cause her as a mage, but Chilchuck braids it for her out of pity, and she's delighted with the result.]]

* TheMedic: She knows healing magic and thus is the reduced party's go-to mage for healing, but not being a cleric like Falin ensures a vastly reduced effect. Unlike Falin, she is more like a [[MeatgrinderSurgery meatgrinder surgeon]] rather than a nursing healer. She heals wounds really fast but her patients will experience extreme pain as their damaged organs, torn flesh, and cracked bones correct themselves.[[note]]It's noted in an omake that Falin is able to use magic to temporarily nullify the sense of pain while healing, but Marcille doesn't want to mess around with mental magic on people, even more so because its not her area of expertice.[[/note]] On top of that, it only heals it to immediate working order, there are quite a few shots of Laios in particular still having nasty gashes that have to recover naturally after her healing.

* ShipTease: With both of the Touden siblings albeit the interactions with Laios tend to be more one sided on her end.
** The Toudens know the most about her personal history and past.
** Following Fallin's [[spoiler:initial resurrection]], Marcille gets incredibly excited and they even ''bathe together'', during which Fallin arguably makes a pass at her (which Marcille kind of clumsily stumbles away from).
** Marcille blushes when she thinks Laios is going to compliment her appearance in a noble woman's dress after Chilchuck laughs at it.
** Chapter 85 has Laios follow a textbook example of saving Marcille in a DamselInDistress scenario: he scales a tower wall, heroically vaults over the balcony, and frees Marcille [[spoiler:[[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity from herself]]]]. Cue CryIntoChest.
** Several of Marcille's life changing choices have been motivated by her attachment to Fallin and she puts a large portion of her value as a person on this relationship. Part of her character arc involves attempting to grow beyond it.
** In chapter 92, [[spoiler:when she thinks she's going to drown, her last thoughts are of Fallin and Laios]].

* LittleBitBeastly: [[spoiler:At the end of the manga, her final resurrection has her human again, albeit with slit pupils, small fangs, and her midsection still covered in feathers,.]]

* StockAnimalDiet: She likes meat, especially seafood (a flashback to her DarkAndTroubledPast even shows her eating a rat), as befitted her feline chimera half, although it's not specified it has really anything to do with her food preferences, or is just a coincidence. There's even a point where she's shocked and outraged when Laios tells her that kraken flesh tastes bad.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: She is normally very kind and even tempered. [[spoiler:But during an epilogue chapter, when she, Laios, and Marcille get surprised by a cockatrice, she, without any prompting, proceeds to bludgeon the cockatrice to death as Laios and Marcille just watch. And she reverts back to her normal demeanor immediately after.]]

** [[spoiler: When she is resurrected in the final chapter, she comes back with her legs covered in feathers. However, since she's otherwise completely human, she's fine with it, and in fact thinks it's pretty cool.]]

* LittleBitBeastly: [[spoiler:At the end of the manga, her final resurrection has her human again, with the exception of legs covered in feathers, slit pupils, and small fangs.]]

* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:When Falin is revived in the ending, she mentions wanting to eat living armor. The next panel shows Laios's sword among the items his party retained from their journey, and it's later mentioned that Laios's curse makes monsters keep their distance from him. Since Kensuke is the only living armor in the vicinity...]]