History Characters / GalacticCivilizations

* PredecessorVillain: [[spoiler:In the early days of Arnor history, during their first civil war, the Dread Lords were led by Kona, one of the first of their kind. Kona, the man that killed and enslaved most of his species, and grew so powerful only Draginol himself, who used to be his {{Dragon}} [[LoveRedeems and had a change of heart]], was able to stop him, banishing him to the far future, where they would meet again, and when they did, Kona would know his end was coming. Kona was reborn as the monstrous ruler of the Drengin,]]

* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Given that we know he was once human, this happened to him at some point. How this happened, and who he was prior to his ascension, are unknown. [[spoiler:WordOfGod has implied that he's a future version of Bradley, twisted through the power of the Bane, a piece of Dread Lord technology he found in their pocket universe. Confirmed as of the third game's fourth expansion by the last Dread Lord and the Thalans. If Bradley destroys Drengi with the Bane, the Arnor spirits of Vengeance and Retribution, Ra and Gino will be freed and fuse with him, turning him into the godlike Draginol, who would destroy all in his Crusade.]]

* {{Expy}}: As green-skinned criminals, they are a flanderised version of Orions from ''Franchise/StarTrek''.

* {{Expy}}: They are flanderised version of Orions from ''Franchise/StarTrek''.

* BrotherChuck: At the end of the second game, the Drengin Empire had just launched a "full-scale attack" on them and they had lost [[spoiler:the support of the Dread Lords.]] They were absent in the third game, until the Retribution expansion, that is.

* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens: Believed to have altered the very laws of physics to allow life to develop in the galaxy.

->Homeworld: Unknown, currently Arnor

->Leader: ?

* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: An entire race of them.

->Leader: ?

[[folder:Iridium Corporation]]

[[folder:Drath Legion]]

->Homeworld: Unknown

* GlowingEyes: Embryes Draken has glowing blue eyes.

!Background civilizations

[[folder:The Arnor]]
[[quoteright:128:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/racelogo53.png]]
->Leader: Draginol (originally), Tandis
->Homeworld: Arnor, unknown System
->Alignment: Good/Benevolent

The species of {{Precursors}} that held an enormous, space-faring civilization long before any other intelligent life existed. The Arnor believed in looking after and guiding the younger intelligences, which put them at odds with the Dread Lords. What happened to them is unclear, though quite a lot of their extremely advanced technology has been left lying around the galaxy.

* BenevolentPrecursors: Though it is noted that they used the Iconians for servants, they had a change of heart about this when they realized the Iconians were actually sapient. They're the ones who arranged for the sleeper ships that saved the Iconian race from extinction and they are also the ones who saved the Drath from extinction by moving them to Drathia.
* HumanAliens: They looked remarkably like humans. [[spoiler:Because their creator, Draginol, was an ascended human.]]
* IHaveManyNames: "Arnor" is actually the name of their homeworld. However, both groups referred to themselves by a different name. The good Arnor called themselves as the "Elas'nir", while the Dread Lords called themselves "Dred'nir".
* {{Immortality}}: Biologically, anyway. They did not age, and required little in the way of food or nourishment.
* OrganicTechnology: Much of their technology seems to have been at least partially alive.
** PowerCrystal: And if it wasn't alive, it was probably crystalline.
** PortalNetwork: [[spoiler:The Arnor had a network of portals known as the Subspace Streams, which they used to explore the galaxy.]]
* TimeDissonance: Arnor had a peculiar view of time, in that they seemed very much to live "in the moment" and gave little thought to the passage of time, as they were unable to perceive it. Mention is made of one Arnor entertaining himself by watching the movement of glaciers over many millions of years.

[[folder:The Dread Lords]]
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->Leader: [[spoiler:Lord Kona (Original ruler)]], Lord Dread
->Homeworld: Amalda, Amaldia System
->Alignment: Evil/Malevolent

The Dread Lords are a splinter faction of the Arnor society, who believe that they must exterminate all other intelligent life in the universe. This caused a civil war between them and the Arnor, which they eventually lost, and got sealed into a pocket dimension. In the second game's campaign, the Drengin accidentally let them out, and they begin their genocide anew.

The Dread Lords are unplayable, but have tremendous advantages in military power and technology. On the downside, they have an extremely low population and every single civilization is automatically and permanently at war with them when they appear.

* AbusivePrecursors: They want all other intelligent life to be extinguished, because it doesn't meet their standards for being allowed the right to live.
* BigBad: Briefly, when they're first released in the campaign, the Drengin decide to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere get the hell out]] and leave the allied civilizations to fight on their own. This results in a five-year, extremely bloody war that ends with the Dread Lords' defeat.
* EliteArmy: Their military power is, frankly speaking, completely insane. So much so that their ''noncombatant utility ships'' are more than a match for medium-size capital ships of other civs. On the other hand, their numbers are very low, and no planet they conquer will ever rise above a population of 20 million (compare to populations of 8 billion on even the least habitable worlds of other civs).
* GlassCannon: Relatively speaking. Their ships boast an unbelievable amount of offensive firepower (more than is even possible for the player to ever match), but their defenses are merely average and their hit point totals are surprisingly low. In terms of soldiers, they will almost always win when invading another planet, but their low numbers makes them almost incapable of resisting a counter-invasion.
* GreaterScopeVillain: After their stint as the BigBad ends in failure, they begin manipulating the Korath Clan and Yor to carry out their designs instead.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:The Terror Star killed almost all of them when it blew up Amaldia, and after revealing to Jenna the truth of the Bane, Altaria's past, and setting her on the way to end the Cycle of Draginol for good, the last surviving Dread Lord, Xoran, ended his own life. As they were technically Arnor, this leaves Tandis as the last survivor.]]
* HumanAliens: They look very much like humans, which is very disturbing to everyone in-game, not least the Terrans. [[spoiler:They were created by an ascended human, one of the Mithrilar.]]
* {{Immortality}}: Biologically so, like the rest of the Arnor. However, they are aware that they will still die when the universe ends in heat death, and would like to find a way to escape that fate, if possible.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Dread Lords" isn't really what they call themselves (that name was given to them by the Iconians), but they don't feel any need to correct other civilizations about it: after all, those other civilizations will soon be dead anyway. Other materials reveal they refer to themselves as the "Dred'nir".
* OrganicTechnology: Their ships are alive, being grown out of some form of coral that can heal itself when not in battle. Said ships also have tentacles on which their primary weapons are mounted.
* PredecessorVillain: [[spoiler:In the early days of Arnor history, during their first civil war, the Dread Lords were led by Kona, one of the first of their kind. Kona, the man that killed and enslaved most of his species, and grew so powerful only Draginol himself, who used to be his {{Dragon}} [[LoveRedeems and had a change of heart]], was able to stop him, banishing him to the far future, where they would meet again, and when they did, Kona would know his end was coming. Kona was reborn as the monstrous ruler of the Drengin,]]
* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:After their war against their Arnor siblings, they were sealed off within a pocket universe, along with the Bane, which contained their creator Draginol's power. The Drengin freed them, starting the events of the second game.]]
* TimeDissonance: They can see all of time at once, and are keenly aware of its passage. This seems to be one of the root causes of their evil, as they don't see the point of an intelligent life-form that barely lives a hundred years and then dies.

[[folder:Mithrilar]]
A group of five beings mentioned in the most ancient of creation stories, later confirmed through study of the Arnor to be the creators of all life as we know it, at least within the local galaxy. Very little is known about who they were, what happened to them, and what the extent of their powers was.

* AuthorAvatar: Of the five, we know two of their names: Mascrinthus and Draginol. Those happen to be the screennames of the games' two lead programmers.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Draginol was known as the "Dark Mithrilar" among them, but not because the others considered him evil, merely because they knew he was different from the rest of them. [[spoiler:He was known that way because there used to be only four Mithrilar, and he was originally a Terran that came from the darkness of the far future.]]
* PowerCrystal: The only known relic of theirs that survives to the present day are the shards of the Telenanth Crystal, believed to be the tool the Mithrilar used to alter physics. Even the Arnor could not make it work to their full power, though they were able to use then as a power source for some of their more impressive technological feats.
* RecursivePrecursors: The Arnor regarded them as {{Precursors}}, and in fact were themselves created by Draginol, one of the Mithrilar. So far, they are the oldest known intelligent beings to have ever existed.
* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens: Believed to have altered the very laws of physics to allow life to develop in the galaxy.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:Draginol and the first of the Arnor's attempt to tap into the full power of the Telenanth destroyed it, killing three of the Mithrilar and hurling him towards ancient Altaria. Only Mascrinthus, of the original four, remains alive and whole.]]

[[folder:The Xendar]]
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->Leader:Unknown
->Homeworld: Xendar, Xen System
->Alignment: Evil/Malevolent

One of the first alien species encountered by the Terran Alliance, with a homeworld quite near to Earth. The Xendar were a warrior race who were convinced by the Drengin to attack the Terrans. The Terrans responded by annihilating the Xendar race, claiming self-defense.

Though the Xendar are extinct, the Rise of the Terrans DLC for the third game features a campaign centered around their war with the Terran Alliance, marking their first appearance in the series.

* AliensAreBastards: The Xendar would've exterminated the Terrans if they'd had the chance to do so. For most of their history, the Xendar were in a constant arms race to develop better ways to kill each other, eventually culminating in the Spore Weapons' precursor, which they used with great effectiveness against Haven, killing both its Terran population and the Stone Age Pre-sentients that lived in the planet.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Xendar were just as, if not more evil than the Drengin, to the point both races grew fond of each other.
* CurbStompBattle: To say that the Terrans were not happy with what the Xendar did to Haven would be a massive understatement. Their fleets expunged every last trace of Xendar presence outside the Xen system.
* TheEmpire: By the time the Drengin made first contact with them, Xendar itself had been united under the rule of a single tyrant.
* FinalSolution: The Xendar are extinct by the "modern" timeframe of the games. The galaxy at large believe the Terrans performed the genocide, and having no convincing evidence to the contrary, the Terrans let them believe that, claiming they killed the species in self-defense of their colonies. In reality, the Terrans only fought the Xendar back to their homeworld; when they actually arrived, they found the Xendar already dead. [[spoiler:It was the Drengin who slaughtered them, in fear that the Xendar might reveal their involvement in the attack.]]
** Rise of the Terrans reveals [[spoiler:the Terrans DID kill the Xendar (albeit accidentally) when they used a Drengin-made Anti-Spore device to clean their world's atmosphere. A device delivered to them by none other than a young [[BigBad Kona]] himself.]]
* TheGhost: No Xendar is ever seen in person, not even in the Rise of the Terrans campaign, when they were still alive.
* HostileTerraforming: They used chemical weapons in their invasions, which they had an immunity to, which made it difficult for the Terrans to resist their invasions.
** Rise of the Terrans reveals that Xendar itself has a toxic atmosphere that's lethal to non-Xendar forms of life. They used a precursor of the Drengin/Korath Spore weapons to invade other worlds, as they did with Haven. The device's effects were temporary, but it took years for Haven to fully recover from the poison.
* NotQuiteDead: One random event in the third game is finding a small remnant of Xendar still alive and wandering around the galaxy. The major civilizations can then vote on whether or not to allow these Xendar to settle a new homeworld.
* PosthumousCharacter: They were only a background element until the third game's "Rise of the Terrans" DLC.
* ProudWarriorRace: How they appeared to the Terrans, with powerful warfare technologies and attacking Terran colonies unprovoked. If there was any more depth to their society, the Terrans never saw it, due to an inability to communicate with them.

[[folder:Minor Civilizations]]
A collection of other Civilizations randomly present on maps. While spacefaring, they will very rarely expand beyond their homeworld, and will concentrate entirely on building influence, trading, and occasionally producing a military. Usually they are conquered mid-game by the major Civs, but they can also provide unique trading opportunities while they're around.

Most of the minor Civs (with some exceptions) in the second game were interchangeable and forgettable, but the third game makes more of an effort to characterize them.

* AIIsACrapshoot: The Orphica Enclave, which is one planet-wide bio-mechanical computer called Orphic Prime. The brain matter of the civilization that created it was co-opted into more computational power, giving the machine an immense amount of information processing capability. Interestingly, it's not actually sentient; it's a genetic algorithm which has so much computational power at its disposal that the decisions it makes ''look'' like the actions of an intelligent being.
* BarbarianTribe: The Marauders, who are so anarchic and spend so much time fighting each other that they can barely make it into space.
* BrainInAJar: The [[PunnyName Brainy'aks]] are actually three brains-in-jars connected to one robot body.
* ButtMonkey: The Paulos in the second game, who had been working on Hyperdrive for 7,000 years and were a mere ''six months'' from a working design, when the Terrans broadcast their design instead. "Our civic researchers have officially concluded that 'it sucks to be them'."
* DepopulationBomb: The Gaulox suffer from infertility due to some errant space weather a while back, while the Klepart lost an entire generation of their population to slavers.
* EvilerThanThou: Unlike their siblings, who only dislike sentient life, and consider them inferior to themselves, the Dark Yor have a hatred of all organic life that rivals that of the Dread Lords.
* FatBastard: The Gaulox, who claim to be evil conquerors, but their infertility and severe obesity leaves them stranded on their homeworld for the most part.
* TheFundamentalist: The Burran and the Kaxx Collective are both kept from expanding by devotion to their respective religions. The Burran because they believe they must complete a "rigor" on their homeworld first (which will take many years), the Kaxx because they believe their planet is the cocoon of a giant space bug and they must protect it.
* GeniusLoci: The Kaxx believe their homeworld, Eudrao, is the cocoon of a massive creature and that they were placed in its surface to protect her.
* LoonyFan: The Marauders ''love'' the Drengin, thanks to their AliensStealingCable allowing them to see their BloodSports. They also use the Drengin ship set.
* SpacePirates: Present on most maps from the start, but with no homeworld to call their own. They basically exist to be an early-game obstacle and are usually wiped out the moment the major civs develop warfare technology.
* SpaceWhale: The "Space Monsters", a species of violent animals that dwell in deep space and pose a threat to ships travelling through it. Destroying their nests ("shipyards") will prevent any more from appearing.
* SterilityPlague: The radioactivity of Bowlea, the Gaulox homeworld has left nearly the entire species sterile.
* TheStoner: Lentzlandians in the second game and the Lantern in the third, who mostly just want to lounge around smoking drugs.
* StrawNihilist: The Odair Conclave, who believe there's no point in anything, so why bother expanding beyond the homeworld? They also like chucking elaborate constructions into a nearby black hole, which they call "The Mouth of God".

!Important Individuals

[[folder: Alan Bradley]]

Leader of the Terran Alliance, remained on Earth after the Precursor shield went up.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse?: It is unknown what happened to him after the Precursor shield was deployed.

[[folder: D.L. Bradley]]

Commander of the Terran Alliance's First Fleet, and the ''de facto'' leader of the alliance against the Dread Lords and Drengin. At the end of the second game's campaign, he took his fleet into the pocket universe the Dread Lords came out of, hoping to obtain some of their technology.

A decade later, in the third game, Bradley and his fleet have returned from the pocket universe and are ready to begin the counter-strike against the Drengin... or, as he calls it, the "Crusade".

* CoolStarship: The T.A.S. ''Crusader'', the most powerful ship ever built by the human race, empowered by the Dread Lord artifact known as "The Bane", and capable of destroying anything it encounters. [[spoiler: Even the universe itself if its power is overused.]]
* FourStarBadass: Given that the Terrans were at the head of the alliance against the Dread Lords, and he leads the Terran Alliance, it means that it's mostly due to his military leadership that the Dread Lords were defeated, which is quite an accomplishment any way you look at it.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: It's been suggested he's heading down this path. Nobody questions that the Drengin need to be overthrown, but his attitude and use of the word "Crusade" to describe the war against the Drengin is beginning to make the other civilizations think the Thalans may have a point about humanity being the ''real'' threat to galactic civilization. [[spoiler:The Bane's power and the evil beings sealed within it are corrupting his mind, so that the StableTimeLoop can continue.]]
* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler:Using the Bane's power to blow up Drengi frees Ra and Gino from the Bane, they possess him and turn him into Draginol, the Dark Mithrilar. His quest to destroy anything he considers evil implodes the universe and forces him to travel to the far past. The Thalans referred to it as the "Cycle of Draginol".]]
* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:The genocide of the surviving Drengin by obliterating Drengi led to the Bane and its revenge-obsessed Arnor spirits merging with him, turning him into Draginol.]]
* {{Warhawk}}: In the third game, he is entirely focused on freeing Earth and wiping out the Drengin. When asked about the other civilizations of the old alliance, his response is basically "If they'll help us, great. But if they get in our way, remove them as a threat." It's disturbingly far from his attitude during the Dread Lord War, which was more "Get us as much help as we can, we can't win this alone."
* YouCantFightFate / ScrewDestiny: [[spoiler:Depending on the final choice of the third game's Retribution campaign, Bradley can either use the Shard of the Telenanth to neutralize the Bane and break the Cycle of Draginol, or use the Bane to destroy Drengi, become Draginol, and continue the Cycle once more.]]

[[folder: Draginol]]

A mysterious figure who approaches the Terran Alliance and offers guidance following the Dread Lord War and the Drengin Invasion. It's thanks to him that Earth was surrounded by an impenetrable shield and Bradley managed to enter the Dread Lord's old pocket universe. Near the end, he's revealed to be the "Dark Mithrilar", and the creator of both the Arnor and the Dread Lords.

* ArtifactOfDoom: [[spoiler:The Bane, the most infamous of his creations, and the reason of his existence. Its power can destroy worlds, and even the universe itself if misused.]]
* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Given that we know he was once human, this happened to him at some point. How this happened, and who he was prior to his ascension, are unknown. [[spoiler:WordOfGod has implied that he's a future version of Bradley, twisted through the power of the Bane, a piece of Dread Lord technology he found in their pocket universe. Confirmed as of the third game's fourth expansion by the last Dread Lord and the Thalans. If Bradley destroys Drengi with the Bane, the Arnor spirits of Vengeance and Retribution, Ra and Gino will be freed and fuse with him, turning him into the godlike Draginol, who would destroy all in his Crusade.]]
* AxCrazy: He was driven insane by the destruction of his universe and his ability to perceive time, something the other Mithrilar did not have.
* CreatingLife: He's the only known Mithrilar who actually directly created living beings. The [[spoiler:Elas'nir]], also known as the Arnor were one of his creations, [[spoiler:as were the Dred'nir (Dread Lords), and accidentally, the Drath and the Humans of Elemental, who would evolve into the Altarians.]]
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Back in the days of the Dread Lords, he acted as Kona's right hand, while manipulating him from behind to create the Bane with the Arnor's lifeforce. He dropped the facade once Kona tried to kill Amanda.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: He refused to allow Kona kill Amanda, and Kona's attempt to do so drove Draginol into a HeelFaceTurn, using the Bane, back then known as the Orb of Dominion, to banish Kona into the far future.]]
* InTheHood: This is how he initially disguises his appearance when meeting with the Terrans. Rather mundane, given what he is.
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:D-Ra-Gino-L, The combined form of D.L. Bradley, and the two Arnor souls sealed within the Bane, Ra and Gino, the spirits of Vengeance and Retribution.]]
* MysteriousStranger: Even after his identity is revealed, we know next-to-nothing about what the hell he is up to. Is he good? Evil? Insane? Why is he doing anything that he's doing? The Terrans are willing to trust him (at least to a point, given how much he's helped them against the Drengin), but the Thalans seem to consider him Evil Incarnate [[spoiler:due to the StableTimeLoop he created with the Bane]].
* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler:The end result of the eponymous "Cycle of Draginol", merged with the Bane when he destroyed the Drengin with it.]]
* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:Twice. When the Telenanth was destroyed, Draginol was sent tumbling across time and space, eventually crashing into the planet of Elemental and ending up deep beneath the continent of Anthsys. For millions of years, he influenced the rise and evolution of life on its once-barren surface, subconsciously creating a race of human-like beings and a race of sentient dragons. Five hundred thousand years before the series, when the Dread Lords and the Arnor brought their war into that world after detecting his power, they ended up reawakening him, which devastated the planet and killed most of its population. The Arnor were able to stop him at a heavy cost, sealing him within one of his creations, and sealing the device within the pocket universe that served as the Dread Lords' prison. Elemental and its people survived the incident, and they eventually evolved into Altaria and the Altarians.]]
* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: As one of the Mithrilar, the five creators of all life in the galaxy. Given that he started out as a Terran, this also implies he's capable of TimeTravel as well.
* WalkingSpoiler: It's not easy to talk about him without mentioning [[spoiler:the link between the Elemental series and Altaria, and who he really is.]]
* WasOnceAMan: He was Terran, and he still looks it, but he is practically a RealityWarper and capable of feats even the whole of Terran civilization cannot match.

[[folder: Elyes Mue]]
The leader of the Altarian Republic after Netro Mancer's retirement, Elyes Mue was a brilliant leader and commander who had the terrible misfortune of enduring the rise of the Drengin and the Dread Lords. After the Republic and the Grand Coalition were defeated by the Drengin/Yor armada, a desperate Mue led a diplomatic mission to Drengi itself, begging them to spare Altaria. [[TooDumbToLive She ended up as dinner for Lord Kona himself]]

* KilledOffForReal: Died at the hands of the Drengin during the TimeSkip between 2 and 3, leaving Akari to take her place.
* TooDumbToLive: Really, Eleys? What were you expecting when you tried to reason with the [[ImAHumanitarian Drengin]]?

[[folder:Lord Kona]]
The leader of the Drengin, and effectively the BigBad of the series.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Justified. The Drengin are firm believers of the KlingonPromotion and in eating those who aren't fit for their positions. Kona ''has'' to be one, or he wouldn't have ruled as long as he has.
* BigBad: Leads the most proactively evil faction in the entire game, aside from the Dread Lords and Snathi. [[spoiler:He's ultimately superior to both by dint of being their creator]].
* EvilOverlord: He rules the Drengin Empire with an iron fist. [[spoiler:And he did the same with the Arnor, slaughtering most of his own kin alongside Draginol to create the Orb of Dominion, known in modern times as the Bane.]]
* TheExile: [[spoiler:He was banished from Arnor for crossing the one line his creator Draginol refused to let him do: he attempted to sacrifice Draginol's beloved, Amanda the Morningstar. As punishment, he took the completed Bane away from Kona, wiped his memories and exiled him to Drengi.]]
-->'''Draginol:''' [[spoiler:You fool. Do you really think that the Orb was created for you? Do you really think that this is your place of power? Behind your every decision and behind your every thought I lurked. Here it is I that stands supreme, not you. I would have given you all, but the murder of this girl I would not permit. There are events yet to unfold that require her and you. I will banish you to a place far beyond Arnor. Do not think it a mercy, as we shall meet again and when that time comes, you will know that your end has come.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:He was trapped in a StableTimeLoop by Draginol, doomed to die by his hand at the moment of Bradley's [[DeityOfHumanOrigin apotheosis]] and StartOfDarkness, when he destroyed Drengi and absorbed the Bane's power into himself to become Draginol. It seems the loop was finally broken by Jenna and Mascrinthus in the third game.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:He was one of the original 100 Arnor, he created the Dread Lords, and later was reborn as Leader of the Drengin Empire. His actions created Draginol as he is known now, and effectively started the mess that is the entire series.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler: Draginol wiped his memories of his original Arnor/Dread Lord self when he banished him.]]
* LastOfHisKind: [[spoiler:Due to his true identity and nature, he's now the very last Dread Lord.]]
* OlderThanHeLooks: Kona may look old by Drengin standards, with his grayish hairs and yellowed teeth, but he's much older than he seems. [[spoiler:Being one of the first Arnor, he's billions of years old.]]
* PredecessorVillain: [[spoiler: Due to Draginol, he's this to himself. Kona used to be the leader of the Dread Lords, who devastated Arnor and nearly wiped out their own people. After his banishment, the Dread Lords would bring untold suffering across the universe during their war with their kin and with the Grand Coalition.]]
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Say what you will about Kona, but he's not a coward in the slightest. He's personally led his armies on several occasions and is also an avid explorer, if only for the desire of having an edge against his enemies.
* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:He used to be an Arnor, one of the first 100 that Draginol created. Those 100 would later become the first Dread Lords.]]

[[folder: Tandis]]

An Arnor imprisoned by the Dread Lords, but found and released by the Terrans under Jenna Casey. He then directs them toward the artifacts and technology they need to finally defeat the Dread Lords.

* PowerCrystal: And if it wasn't alive, it was probably crystalline.