History Characters / PlanescapeTorment

* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: A gender-flipped example. Ravel's changeling/tiefling hybrid daughter Kesai-Serris, the result of a fling between Ravel and a cambion,[[note]]originally the AlwaysMale form for half-Tanar'ri, contrasting the AlwaysFemale alu-fiends, though that's changed slightly over editions[[/note]] is at worst a CuteMonsterGirl: a gorgeous-looking and [[GagBoobs massively busty]] woman with purplish-gray skin. As for Ravel herself...

* MsFanservice: In contrast to [[TokenWholesome Fall-From-Grace]], Annah's choice of outfit is very sexualized and characters are not afraid to lampshade it in-game. And its possible to give an even skimpier outfit that [[BareYourMidriff bares her midriff]].

%% * NoPronunciationGuide: Few of the voice actors are asked to pronounce his name out loud, but the ones that do can't quite manage to pronounce it the same way twice.

-->'''Dhall:''' Know you? I... I have *never* known you, Restless One. No more than you have known yourself. For you have forgotten, haven't you?

-->'''Voiced by:''' Rodger Bumpass

* AnAxeToGrind: One of the potential weapon types he can make use of is axes.

* AnAxeToGrind: A great big honkin' greataxe, fire enchanted and named '''Final Judgment'''. The description of it when you meet him for the first time even says that it would take immense strength just to wield it at all -- and Vhailor can wield it one-handed!

** Fall-From-Grace, a [[AscendedDemon redeemed]] [[HornyDevils succubus]] who is dedicated to the [[SenseFreak Society of Sensation]] but who's sworn a vow of celibacy.

Fall-from-Grace is an exercise in contradictions, a [[HornyDevils Succubus]] [[AlwaysChaoticEvil demon]] turned orderly and gentle, and the madame of a chaste brothel. She is a member of the Society of Sensation, who believe that truth and understanding can only come from personal experience and seeking out the unknown and unusual.

* AscendedDemon: Succubi are ChaoticEvil HornyDevils by nature; [[MadeOfEvil evil is literally in their bones]]. Grace constantly defies her very existence by acting like she does, and Ravel implies this may make her the most tormented member of your entire party (which is saying a great deal). %%InUniverse

* HornyDevil: One who's a CelibateHero. She's probably [[SubvertedTrope the biggest subversion]] of this trope you'll ever see. If you choose to believe Vrischika, she's simply being seductive intellectually rather than physically. Vrischika visibly dislikes her and likely says that out of spite, but... let's say that Grace doesn't have to ''do'' anything to be a tease.

* StereotypeFlip: [[invoked]] She's a chaste [[HornyDevils succubus]] who is LawfulNeutral.

* GoodOldFisticuffs: Her WeaponOfChoice is a good set of punch-daggers.

* KnifeNut: Punch daggers, to be precise.

* TheMagnificent: Trias [[spoiler:the Betrayer]].

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: [[spoiler:He knew that the portal to the Negative Material Plane was right next to the Mortuary slab you woke up on, but never told you until the very end of the game, a.k.a. after you've had to fight through multiple planes of existence against several powerful opponents in order to learn the same information. In his defense, the Practical Incarnation (Morte's original boss) kept a lot of information hidden from him.]].

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Anybody who could potential provide information on his movements or existence was summarily disposed of once they'd served the Paranoid Incarnation's purposes, typically by NeckSnap. He was particularly prone to this when it came to the [[ShootTheBuilder builders]] of the traps he commissioned to ensnare any incarnations who came after him (both in the sense of their [[BodySurf stealing his body]] and chronologically).

* TheChessmaster: To the point where spends years [[spoiler:setting up a romance with a woman he doesn't care for, ''just'' so he can kill her and use her ghost as a ''guide'' on the plane of entropy]].

* LackOfEmpathy: The only way in which he could ever be said to "care" for anyone was in them holding some sort of use to him. If they didn't, he would ''make'' them useful. If he couldn't do that, they were irrelevant.
** Interestingly enough, this is what made him 'Practical' and not 'Evil'. He may have manipulated people to his ends, but he never took any pleasure in it.

* AnimatedArmor: He looks like an armor made of barbed vines. Fittingly, when he rejoins the Nameless One, he is worn like one.
** It's implied, however, that he's merely wearing the armor in an attempt to slow down his body's decay.

* AndIMustScream: Casting him into the Plane of Fire is described as one potential way of killing him. However, from what is learned about how his immortality functions, it's possible that doing so wouldn't so much kill him as trap him in an endless loop of being burned to death, reviving, and burning again.

* DarkIsNotEvil: A non-evil Nameless One qualifies; many characters with all types of senses comment on the ominously strange, twisted and broken feel of his presence, but you don't have to live up to it. At least not consciously.
** Can take this up to eleven as a mage, because he can cast several [[BadPowersGoodPeople nasty spells]] like Abyssal Fury (which drags the victim to the abyss where they're [[AndIMustScream torn apart by demons]]) and still be wholly well-meaning.

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: As mortal, he did... [[NoodleIncident something]]... that most people wouldn't be capable of, and he travelled to the dangerous horrors of the Gray Wastes. As an immortal, [[spoiler: he's now potentially one of the most powerful beings in the multiverse, if his amnesia wasn't in the way. But you can fix that to a pretty surprising degree.]] For extra points, he can max out his stats to 25 even without magical assistance. Mortals cap at 18, +/- racial traits.

* IWorkAlone: Inverted -- Dhall the scribe implores the Nameless One not to travel with anyone else, since he's seen what happens to those that do.

* VideogameCrueltyPotential:

-->'''Annah:''' Are you tryin' to get us all carved to pieces? Don't you be TemptingFate like that, skull!
-->'''Morte:''' [[BadassBoast Fate shouldn't tempt]] ''[[BadassBoast me.]]''

* ChaoticGood: Official alignment. [[invoked]]

* StoneWall: Morte's offense is fairly poor compared to Vhailor and Dak'kon, but he has reasonable constitution, fighter HP and high resistance to physical damage. His taunt is there to make enemies attack him, which is good because he takes about the quarter of the damage your other characters do.

* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Dak'kon's FatalFlaw is doubt. This extends to a serious lack of self-worth. Comes up in banter with Fall-from-Grace:
-->'''Grace:''' Your combat skills are most impressive, Dak'kon.\\

-->'''Grace:''' Your mastery of discipline is impressive, Dak'kon.\\

'''Grace: '''Surely you are being too harsh on yourself.\\

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Can receive one from you if you point out that all his planning and manipulation of his allies still resulted in him getting his dumb ass caught in the Crystal Trap with no way of escape.

* DirtyCoward: You can accuse him as such, and it's not hard to see why. For all his proclaimed power and reality-shattering might, The Transcendent One never once personally confronts the the Nameless One, sending Shadows or corrupted party members in his stead. This is because killing the Nameless One actually harms ''him'', and he cannot leave the Negative Material Plane because he needs its energies to sustain his own existence.
* FinalBoss: The last boss fight of the game. [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath Or not.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: Inversion. You don't become stronger with experience because you take levels, as in nearly all [=RPGs=] - you become stronger because you remember skills and abilities of past lives (which were varied and countless in number), therefore slowly removing your amnesia. Notable is the insane level you are able to reach: 35 and possibly over, way past the usual for D&D and quite certainly at PhysicalGod level. This is actually explained in the manual that in his many lifetimes, the Nameless One has reached level 20 ''in every single class.''[[note]]Presumably with the exception of divine spell casters, since the gods have turned their backs on him.

* WhatTheHellHero: He can pull this on [[spoiler: Trias]] if you're a do-gooder trying to redeem him. Vhalior will proceed to kill him without your permission and ''you'' will receive alignment penalties if you promised not to harm him.

** Can take this UpToEleven as a mage, because he can cast several [[BadPowersGoodPeople nasty spells]] like Abyssal Fury (which drags the victim to the abyss where they're [[AndIMustScream torn apart by demons]]) and still be wholly well-meaning.

* PurposelyOverpowered: In a straight fight, he's one of the most powerful companions in the game. He's a LightningBruiser with a colossal health pool and a powerful default weapon you'll likely not want to change. Taken UpToEleven during the final battle: [[spoiler:with the right dialogue options, the Nameless One can incite him into an UnstoppableRage against the Transcendent One, giving him an absolutely gigantic stat boost -- often more than enough for Vhailor to strike down the final boss all on his own.]]

-->'''Voiced by:''' Mitch Pileggi

* KnifeNut: One of the potential weapon types he can make use of is knives and daggers. Due to the game's general aversion of HeroesPreferSwords, the two swords the Nameless One can wield (the Entropic Blade and Celestial Fire) are also lumped in with knives under a single proficiency.

-->'''Voiced by:''' Michael T. Weiss

* WillfullyWeak: It is heavily implied that Grace's inefficacy in combat is less about any inherent weakness and more due to her deliberately suppressing her demonic power and using skills that are antithetical to her nature. It would explain why she seems utterly unthreatened by many of the dangerous and powerful creatures you face throughout your journey. [[spoiler:When the party is separated at the final dungeon, she is the only one who manages to hurt The Transcendent One, when the others either don't even do any damage or just outright die without getting a shot off. The only other creature seen to be able to harm The Transcendent One was Ravel, which gives you a hint at Grace's true power.]]