History Characters / RIFT

* SealedEvilInACan: Aside from the Akylios all of them are.

* SealedEvilInsideACan: Aside from the Akylios all of them are.

The successor to the position of Lord of Nightmares to Draum the first God of Dreams/Water within the Plane of Water, his true form Arak, Lord of Nightmares sent his Dragon avatar Demogos(considered a false Dragon by the Atragarians and Demogos himself due to the fact that he was born from Nightmare rather than from [[spoiler:Azdah's eggs]] like the Blood Storm's Dragon forms) to bring Nightmares and his Akvan predecessors(TheOldGods ''more'' powerful than Akylios) to the physical plane of Telara and later captures Crucia through help of his shadowy minions called the Sinister Presences to presumably convert her into his minion.

!! Druam, 1st God of Water/Matrodraum, first of the Akvan.
The god who dreamed the Plane of Water into existance and now that [[spoiler:the Blood Storm's dragon forms are dead]] he's waking up which is causing water to disappear from the Plane of Water turning the ElementalPlane into an EldritchLocation where there are vertical water surfaces bordering the dry areas. His dream form is the first of the Akvan.

!! Akylios, “Dragon” of Water/The Akylios Shark Herd, 2nd God of Water

“Dragon” of Water, Akylios is a mystery. His original goal was the pursuit of knowledge, and to that end he absorbed all the thoughts and secrets that Crucia scoured from her followers. He spent endless eons crossing from world to world, learning every tragic secret, every evil spell, sipping the nightmares of dying worlds. It is said that while the motives of the other dragons can be understood - the desire to hoard, to consume, to destroy - Akylios is beyond understanding. He does not seek victory or riches or domination, but will one day kill everyone just to listen to their screams. [[spoiler: Second of the Blood Storm to fall.]] His true form is a herd of EldritchAbomination sharks that all look the same as his “Dragon” form. He'll be the third Blood Storm killed(at least partially considering he's literally a herd of EldritchAbomination sharks) in his true form.

* DegradedBoss: In his true form naturally(it's a herd of sharks identical to his “dragon” form).

** Those secrets include the secrets of the Akvan who's ally Arak he or shoould we say they are servants of and are infact named after.
** Those who realize that Akylios is actually a herd of sharks controlling one of their number as their avatar would in all likelyhood go more crazy than they would if they looked at a lesser shark's eyes to understand hunger.

** His true form is a herd of Eldritch Abomination sharks identical to his “Dragon” form which is infact extremely comprehensible(more so than whatever Regulos's human half Aedraxis Mathos really was ''before'' taking on human form) though ridiculous to the point where it becomes unsettling even for Dragons though what is likely unsettling to them is likely the fact that he's actually a herd of sharks that conquered the Plane of Water pushing out the ''real'' Water Dragon.

!! Druam, 1st God of Water and first of the Akvan.

* TheUnfought: You'll see his true form yet not fight him despite trying to stop him from draining the Plane of Water of all water. His Akvan avatar on the other hand.....

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: How they became Gods of their specific planes.

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: If one were to understand their true forms in the same way they would if they looked into a shark's eyes: [[LiteralSplitPersonality Regulos is two beings capable of merging into one(Regulos and Aedraxis Mathos)]] and can only be killed DeaderThanDead in that merged form(hence why anyone living ''before'' Aedraxis Mathos's birth would GoMadFromTheRevelation), [[HiveMind Akylios is the dragonic avatar of a herd of ravenous Akylios sharks]] and [[FightingAShadow Maelforge is an avatar of Glasya Queen of the Flame]].

* AnIcePerson: All his attacks are this.
* TheDragon: A literal example to Draum.
* OneSceneWonder: Only seen at Mount Sharax where [[spoiler:you kill him.]]

!! Akylios, Dragon of Water/The Akylios Shark Herd, 2nd God of Water

Dragon of Water, Akylios is a mystery. His original goal was the pursuit of knowledge, and to that end he absorbed all the thoughts and secrets that Crucia scoured from her followers. He spent endless eons crossing from world to world, learning every tragic secret, every evil spell, sipping the nightmares of dying worlds. It is said that while the motives of the other dragons can be understood - the desire to hoard, to consume, to destroy - Akylios is beyond understanding. He does not seek victory or riches or domination, but will one day kill everyone just to listen to their screams. [[spoiler: Second of the dragons to fall.]] His true form is a herd of EldritchAbomination sharks that all look the same as his "Dragon" form. He'll be the third Blood Storm killed(at least partially considering he's literally a herd of EldritchAbomination sharks) in his true form.

* DegradedBoss: In his true form naturally(it's a herd of sharks identical to his "dragon" form).

** Human standards of course see him or should we say them as a herd of bizzare looking sharks(though 'multiple'' bizzare looking sharks with tentacles and multiple eyes would probably unsettle the minds of Azdah's offspring due to the sheer absurdity of it all).

** Those who realize that Akylios is actually a herd of sharks controlling a dragon child of Azdah as their avatar would in all likelyhood go more crazy than they would if they looked at a lesser shark's eyes to understand hunger.

** His true form is a herd of Eldritch Abomination sharks identical to his "Dragon" form which is infact extremely comprehensible(more so than whatever Regulos's human half Aedraxis Mathos really was ''before'' taking on human form) though ridiculous to the point where it becomes unsettling even for Dragons.

The rival God of Draum the first God of Dreams/Water within the Plane of Water, his true form Arak, Lord of Nightmares sent his Dragon avatar Demogos(considered a false Dragon by the Atragarians and Demogos himself due to the fact that he was born from Nightmare rather than from [[spoiler:Azdah's eggs]] like the Blood Storm's Dragon forms) to bring Nightmares and his Akvan predecessors(TheOldGods ''more'' powerful than Akylios) to the physical plane of Telara and later captures Crucia through help of his shadowy minions called the Sinister Presences to presumably convert her into his minion.

** BigBadEnsemble: With Draum and Glasya in the Nightmare Tide Expansion though will be the second of the three to go down.

* LovecraftianSuperpower: His minions and his allies [[spoiler:TheOldGods known as the Akvan are even more Lovecraftian than Draum/Akylios's followers]].

!! Druam, 1st God of Water
The god who dreamed the Plane of Water into existance and now that [[spoiler:the Blood Storm's dragon forms are dead]] he's waking up which is causing water to disappear from the Plane of Water turning the ElementalPlane into an EldritchLocation where there are vertical water surfaces bordering the dry areas.

** BigBadEnsemble: With Arak, Lord of Nightmares in the Nightmare Tide Expansion.

* TheresAlwaysABiggerFish: Not only is he a more powerful God of Water than Akylios but one of his minions the Yrlwalach(who's face has been previously seen popping out of every Water Rift in the game) is ''more'' of an EldritchAbomination than [[UpToEleven Akylios himself!]]
* TheUnfought: You'll see his true form yet not fight him despite trying to stop him from draining the Plane of Water of all water.

** Those secrets include the secrets of the Akvan who's ally Arak he or shoould we say they are servants of.

** His true form is a herd of Eldritch Abomination sharks identical to his "Dragon" form which is infact extremely comprehensible(more so than whatever Regulos's human half Aedraxis Mathos really was ''before'' taking on human form) though ridiculous to the point where it becomes unsettling even for Dragons.

Dragon of Water, Akylios is a mystery. His original goal was the pursuit of knowledge, and to that end he absorbed all the thoughts and secrets that Crucia scoured from her followers. He spent endless eons crossing from world to world, learning every tragic secret, every evil spell, sipping the nightmares of dying worlds. It is said that while the motives of the other dragons can be understood - the desire to hoard, to consume, to destroy - Akylios is beyond understanding. He does not seek victory or riches or domination, but will one day kill everyone just to listen to their screams. [[spoiler: Second of the dragons to fall.]] His true form is a herd of EldritchAbomination sharks that all look the same as his "Dragon" form. He'll be the third Blood Storm killed(at least partially considering he's literally a herd of [[EldritchAbomination]] sharks) in his true form.

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: If one were to understand their true forms in the same way they would if they looked into a shark's eyes: [[LiteralSplitPersonality Regulos is two beings capable of merging into one(Regulos and Aedraxis Mathos)]] and can only be killed DeaderThanDead in that merged form(hence why anyone living ''before'' Aedraxis Mathos's birth would GoMadFromTheRevelation), [[LivingDream Akylios is the dream avatar of Draum]] and [[FightingAShadow Maelforge is an avatar of Glasya Queen of the Flame]].

!! Akylios, Dragon of Water/Druam God of Water

Dragon of Water, Akylios is a mystery. His original goal was the pursuit of knowledge, and to that end he absorbed all the thoughts and secrets that Crucia scoured from her followers. He spent endless eons crossing from world to world, learning every tragic secret, every evil spell, sipping the nightmares of dying worlds. It is said that while the motives of the other dragons can be understood - the desire to hoard, to consume, to destroy - Akylios is beyond understanding. He does not seek victory or riches or domination, but will one day kill everyone just to listen to their screams. [[spoiler: Second of the dragons to fall.]] His true form is Draum who dreamed the Plane of Water into existance and now that [[spoiler:his "dragon"/dream form is dead]] he's waking up which is causing water to disappear from the Plane of Water turning the ElementalPlane into an EldritchLocation where there are vertical water surfaces bordering the dry areas. He'll be the third Blood Storm seen in his true form.

* BigBad: Of the Nightmare Tide Expansion in his true form.
** BigBadEnsemble: With Arak, Lord of Nightmares in the Nightmare Tide Expansion.
* EldritchAbomination: [[UpToEleven Even]] by ''[[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragon]] standards'' no thanks to the secrets of Arak, Lord of Nightmares who's [[spoiler:Akvan]] are the basis for his name.

* ThatsNoMoon : He is the seashell moon of the Plane of Water and when he starts to wake the water of his DreamWorld gets carved out and goes to him for some unspecified purpose.
* TheUnfought: Is considered unlikely by WordOfGod to be fought in his true form despite appearing in a Raid in that form.

** The part of him seen while he's asleep is a big ''spiral'' seashell though what's [[EldritchAbomination likely sleeping inside that seashell.....]]

The rival God of Draum/Akylios, Blood Storm of Water within the Plane of Water, his true form Arak, Lord of Nightmares sent his Dragon avatar Demogos(considered a false Dragon by the Atragarians and Demogos himself due to the fact that he was born from Nightmare rather than from [[spoiler:Azdah's eggs]] like the Blood Storm's Dragon forms) to bring Nightmares and his Akvan(demons ''more'' powerful than Draum's Dragon form Akylios which was created from an egg laid by Azdah like the Dragon avatars of the other Blood Storm) to the physical plane of Telara and later captures Crucia through help of his shadowy minions called the Sinister Presences to presumably convert her into his minion.

* LovecraftianSuperpower: His minions the [[spoiler:demons known as the Akvan are even more Lovecraftian than Draum/Akylios's followers]].

* ScrewDestiny: His minions [[spoiler:the Akvan]] mocks the Goddess of Fate's actions as a cruel trick.

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* BadMoonRising: He is the seashell moon of the Plane of Water and when he starts to wake the water of his DreamWorld gets carved out and goes to him for some unspecified purpose.

Dragon of Water, Akylios is a mystery. His original goal was the pursuit of knowledge, and to that end he absorbed all the thoughts and secrets that Crucia scoured from her followers. He spent endless eons crossing from world to world, learning every tragic secret, every evil spell, sipping the nightmares of dying worlds. It is said that while the motives of the other dragons can be understood - the desire to hoard, to consume, to destroy - Akylios is beyond understanding. He does not seek victory or riches or domination, but will one day kill everyone just to listen to their screams. [[spoiler: Second of the dragons to fall.]] His true form is Draum who dreamed the Plane of Water into existance and now that [[spoiler:his "dragon"/dream form is dead]] he's waking up which is causing water to disappear from the Plane of Water turning the ElementalPlane into an EldritchLocation where there are vertical water surfaces bordering the dry areas. He'll be the second Blood Storm fought in his true form.

* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: What we see of his true form hovering under the Nightmare Rifts shows him as a disembodied multi-eyed head surrounded by floating mouths seperated from his lower body which looks like pieces of wood covered in eyes though it would seem his "dragon" form on the other hand looks like your stereotypical dragon though one [[LivingDream with Nightmare manifesting abilities.]]]]

* BloodKnight: "Destruction for destruction's sake" describes Maelforge ''perfectly''.

** BigBadEnsemble: With Draum in the Nightmare Tide Expansion.

* [[GodInHumanForm God in Dragon Form]]: He has one which has it's own mind and spirit which was banished until king Aedraxis Mathos AKA the other half of real Blood Storm of Death summoned it to Terminus in order for the king to merge with it to create the complete God of Death.

* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: As shown by Endless Eclipse you actually ''can'' comprehend his completed true form since it's the humanoid body seen in Terminus which while normally just walking around on it's own alongside his second Dragon Form is [[spoiler:embedded within an artificial body made from the flesh of his zombified servant Kain attached to the Plane of Death when you kill him in Endless Eclipse).]]
** You can also grasp his true nature as two beings who'd later merge with each other...

** Judging from their FusionDance he was not only right but is infact the real Blood Storm of Death whom Regulos is merely an avatar of....
* GodInHumanForm: Is revealed at the end of the Gaurdian starting experience to be the reincarnation of the Blood Storm of Death's true soul and will and merges with his Dragon avatar to obtain his complete form.

* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: "Like all the Blood Storm, Akylios’s true form is an expression of everything he represents, and can best be described as the best way to peel a man is in one long spiral strip, like an apple. So strange did Akylios become that even his cohorts found him unsettling, and his “dragon” form bears little resemblance to anything the sane would imagine."

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: If one were to understand their true forms in the same way they would if they looked into a shark's eyes: [[LiteralSplitPersonality Regulos is two beings capable of merging into one(Regulos and Aedraxis Mathos)]], [[LivingDream Akylios is the dream avatar of Draum]] and [[FightingAShadow Maelforge is an avatar of Glasya Queen of the Flame]].

** His female true form on the other hand......

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: If one were to understand their true forms in the same way they would if they looked into a shark's eyes: [[LiteralSplitPersonality Regulos is two beings capable of merging into one(Regulos and Aedraxis Mathos)]], [[LivingDream Akylios is the dream avatar of Draum]] and [[FightningAShadow Maelforge is an avatar of Glasya Queen of the Flame]].

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: If one were to understand their true forms in the same way they would if they looked into a shark's eyes: [[LiteralSplitPersonality Regulos is two beings capable of merging into one(Regulos and Aedraxis Mathos)]], Akylios is the dream avatar of Draum and Maelforge is an avatar of Glasya Queen of the Flame.

The rival God of Draum/Akylios, Blood Storm of Water within the Plane of Water, his true form Arak, Lord of Nightmares sent his Dragon avatar Demogos(considered a false Dragon by the Atragarians and Demogos himself due to the fact that he was born from Nightmare rather than from Azdah's eggs like the Blood Storm's Dragon forms) to bring Nightmares and his Akvan(demons ''more'' powerful than Draum's Dragon form Akylios which was created from an egg laid by Azdah like the Dragon avatars of the other Blood Storm) to the physical plane of Telara and later captures Crucia through help of his shadowy minions called the Sinister Presences to presumably convert her into his minion.

* Satan: Glasya Queen of the Flame sees herself as this and struck down the rule of her father [[spoiler:Azdah]].

His true form Arak, Lord of Nightmares sent his Dragon avatar Demogos(considered a false Dragon by the Atragarians and Demogos himself due to the fact that he was born from Nightmare rather than from Azdah's eggs like the Blood Storm's Dragon forms) to bring Nightmares and his Akvan(demons ''more'' powerful than Draum's Dragon form Akylios which was created from an egg laid by Azdah like the Dragon avatars of the other Blood Storm) to the physical plane of Telara and later captures Crucia through help of his shadowy minions called the Sinister Presences to presumably convert her into his minion.

* BigBad

Dragon of Water, Akylios is a mystery. His original goal was the pursuit of knowledge, and to that end he absorbed all the thoughts and secrets that Crucia scoured from her followers. He spent endless eons crossing from world to world, learning every tragic secret, every evil spell, sipping the nightmares of dying worlds. It is said that while the motives of the other dragons can be understood - the desire to hoard, to consume, to destroy - Akylios is beyond understanding. He does not seek victory or riches or domination, but will one day kill everyone just to listen to their screams. [[spoiler: Second of the dragons to fall.]] His true form is Draum who dreamed the Plane of Water into existance and now that [[spoiler:his "dragon"/dream form is dead]] he's waking up which is causing water to disappear from the Plane of Water turning the ElementalPlane into an EldritchLocation where there are vertical water surfaces bordering the dry areas.

His true form Arak, Lord of Nightmares sent his Dragon avatar Demogos(considered a false Dragon by the Atragarians and Demogos himself due to the fact that he was born from Nightmare rather than from Azdah's eggs like the Blood Storm's Dragon forms) to bring Nightmares and his Akvan(demons ''more'' powerful than Draum's Dragon form Akylios which was created from an egg laid by Azdah like the Dragon avatars of the other Blood Storm) to the physical plane of Telara and later captures Crucia through help of his shadowy minions called the Sinister Presences to presumably convert her into his minion and will be the second Blood Storm to be fought in his true form.]]