History Characters / RIFT

* 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.

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* [[GodInHumanForm God in Dragon Form]]: He creates a Dragon Avatar by the time of Terminus.
* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Is the only Blood Storm whose ''true'' nature is two beings (one Dragon child of Azdah and the other being a reincarnating spirit) being half of one humanoid PhysicalGod.

* OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Not only does he not look like a Dragon but unbeknownst to the inhabitants of Telara he's ''not'' a Dragon and is only a Blood Storm due to taking over the Plane of Water when they took over their specific ElementalPlane.

* OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: The only Dragon child of Azdah who ''failed'' to become an actual Blood Storm due to the lesser breed of Akvan known Akylios taking over the Plane of Water as its god(s) and holding out against him. He's also seems to be the only one whose ''true'' form is an ''actual'' Dragon.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast

* LesYay: Lots of undertones ([[WordOfGod strongly implied]] to be deliberate) of this with her and Kira.

* LesYay: With Uriel, although there's a hint of VitriolicBestBuds (or ''[[{{Tsundere}} something]]'') on Kira's end of things.

* CrushKillDestroy: As does this.

* BadassBeard.
* BadassGrandpa: He's canonically both past his prime ''and'' still quite formidable.

* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler: Confirmed dead in the River of Souls Chronicle.]]

* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:Probably.]]

* TheAtoner: Depending on how canon you take Mathosia (the guardian starting zone), Orphiel fell to corruption and seems to have snapped out of it after Aedraxis fell, hence his attempts at making ascendant can be viewed as trying to make amends for his past misdeeds.

* VagueAge: He's hunched over most of the time like he's well up there, but he looks ''fantastic'', so it's hard to say. He was in Mathosia in the past, which would have to make him at least 40, but he hasn't visibly aged a day over the 20 year period between then and when players get into the main game world.

* NoNameGiven: "Do not ask my name, for I abandoned it long ago."

* {{Badass}}

The six Gods of the Elemental Planes that invaded Telara all at once. Five of them are counted among the seven greater Dragons while the sixth Akylios while mostly mistaken for a Dragon due to the fact that the other Blood Storm are Dragons is infact a herd of lesser Akvan swimming in the seas above Draumheim.

* [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn: In [[BadFuture the Defiant start zone]], she's sided with Regulos and is now called "Shyla the Fallen."]]
* GondorCallsForAid: And Shyla answers, creating the first break between her and Hylas.

* DropTheHammer

* [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn: He's also gone over to Regulos in Terminus, and is called "Frederic the Betrayer."]]
** He does this in the normal timeline as well and [[spoiler:gives Regulos's true form the flesh needed to create a shell to protect his true body.]]

* TheFaceless: [[{{Captain obvious}} ...yeah]].

Uriel is the daughter of Rahn Chuluun and a member of the Unseen's higher-ups, working directly with the faceless man. Her interests with the plane of death have led her to be at odds with her father. [[{{Lesyay}} Good friends with Kira Thanos.]] [[spoiler:At the end of a protracted quest chain, the player ends up having to [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity save her]] [[MoreThanMindControl from herself]] when she [[FaceHeelTurn almost goes over to the Endless Court]].]]

* RebelliousPrincess
* LesYay: lots of undertones ([[WordOfGod strongly implied]] to be deliberate) of this with her and Kira.
* [[spoiler: FaceHeelTurn.]]
** [[spoiler:HeelFaceRevolvingDoor:]] She's unequivocally [[spoiler:on the side of the good guys—or [[GreyAndGrayMorality at least the Defiant]]—again]] as of the canon story "Drowning in Snow."

--> *Kira leaves*
--> Uriel: [[{{Lesyay}} Yeah, she likes me. She just won't admit it.]]
* StoryboardBody: See her image. She's a bahmi; it kind of goes with the territory.

A higher up of the unseen with Faceless man and Uriel, Kira is the Kelari's deadliest assassin, going by the nickname "Azul Viper." [[{{LesYay}} Close friends with Uriel.]]

* DeadpanSnarker

** NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast

* CripplingOverspecialization: With the exception of Crucia the Dragon of Air(who uses every form her Element has), Maelforge the Dragon of Fire(who also uses every form of ''his'' Element) and Regulos the Dragon of Death(who's Element has only one form) all of them overspecialize in a specific form for their Element: Greenscale the Dragon of Life uses Plants, Akylios the Blood Storm of Water uses liquid Water, Izkinra the ''real'' Dragon of Water uses Ice and Laethys the Dragon of Earth uses Gold.
* 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), [[ExtraOreDinary Laethys is merely using a horde of gold as an avatar]], [[BodySnatcher Crucia's true form is a powerful mind controlling Greater Dragon that can ditch her true body should anyone kill it while possessing another one at a moment's notice]], [[HiveMind Akylios is the avatar of a herd of ravenous Akylios sharks and has no relation to the rest of the Blood Storm]] and [[TheDragon Maelforge is an avatar of the current King/Queen of the Flame's pet Dragon named Woragrath]].

Dragon of Death and the single greatest threat to Telara, Regulos wants nothing less than the total cessation of all existence. Called the 'Dragon of Extinction', he is last and mightiest of the Blood Storm and the most dangerous to the lives of those on Telara. Amongst the dragons, he alone was not imprisoned when they were first defeated over a thousand years ago. Instead, his physical form was outright destroyed, his spirit banished beyond the Ward into the void between the planes. For over a millennia, he has railed and screamed against the wall separating him and the world, until he was finally able to subvert the crown-prince of Mathosia; Aedraxis Mathos. The result of his corruption was a crack in the Ward and the creation of the rifts. If Regulos is able to succeed, he will unmake everything until the universe is oblivion. His followers, the Endless Court, delude themselves with fantasies of ruling the world, but their master will leave no world to rule. [[spoiler:His true form(Blood Storm of the Plane of Death AKA the God of Death) is killed in Endless Eclipse rendering him DeaderThanDead.]]

* [[spoiler:DeaderThanDead: After Endless Eclipse due to the destruction of both of his halves combined.]]

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Is the only Blood Storm who's ''true'' nature is two beings(one Dragon child of Azdah and the other being a reincarnating spirit) being half of one humanoid PhysicalGod.

* 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).]]

* [[spoiler:YouHaveFailedMe: Was devoured by Regulos upon her final failure at the River of Souls.]]

* TheCaligula: Was honestly so deluded as to believe he and Regulos were separate aspects of the same being.
** Judging from their FusionDance he was not only right but is infact half of the real Blood Storm of Death whom Regulos is the other half of....

!! Akylios, “Dragon” of Water/The Akylios Akvan 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 shark Akvan 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 Akvan sharks identical to his “dragon” form and ''aren't'' World Raid bosses).

** 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 them being capable of holding rulership over the Plane of Water despite the best efforts of the ''real'' Dragon of Water).

* 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."
** 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 Akvan that conquered the Plane of Water pushing out the ''real'' Water Dragon.

Dragon of Life, Greenscale personifies the phrase "survival of the fittest". To his mind, civilization is the subversion of nature, which should always be expressed in its purest form - kill or be killed. The forests that grow under his power are filled with relentless predation and unstoppable wildlife, usually at the same time. Those who find themselves lost in his woods are often forced to become a feral beast themselves just to survive, until they can find themselves killing their own families without realizing it. His cult, the Aelfwar, is really only the noble house of the High Elves who support his cause to tear down all remnants of civilization. True to his nature, Greenscale cares nothing for his followers, but instead is only interested in creating a world choked by the deadliest of jungles and where living minute to minute is the greatest of accomplishments. [[spoiler:The first of the dragons to die(of course another much kinder Dragon of Life named Tasuil takes his place as avatar of the Blood Storm of the Plane of Life).]]

* GreenThumb.

** LightIsGood: The [[spoiler:second avatar of the Blood Storm of the Plane of Life Tasuil not to mention the very Blood Storm he's an avatar of]] on the other hand... [[spoiler:His body is white, unlike Greenscale's, which is green.]]

Dragon of Fire, Maelforge has no greater motive beyond destruction. However, unlike Regulos who seeks to permanently unmake all of existence, Maelforge takes pleasure in the very act of destruction. To this end, he is always careful not to destroy something completely, but to allow enough to survive so that he can destroy it again in the future. He ultimately desires a world where he can fly from nation to nation, burning down each one before leaving to let it rebuild, as he destroys another that has just been rebuilt. The least subtle of the dragons, this mindset extends to his followers, the Wanton, who will destroy anything ranging from individual lives to entire nations. Maelforge predictably hates Greenscale, but also Regulos, who would leave him with nothing to destroy. [[spoiler:He has ties to his opposite element: the Plane of Water which hints that the Blood Storm he's an avatar of is the same as Akylios and Demogos which leads one to ask the question of who is the actual ruler of the Plane of Fire.]] It is later revealed on the official site that his boss the de jure ruler of the Plane of Fire Glasya Queen of the Flame is invading the Plane of Water to turn it into a ''second'' Plane of Fire.

Dragoness of Air, Crucia desires total control of the world. She sees individual minds and thoughts as a cacophonous bother, one that she will correct by erasing every song except her own. By using the power of air, Crucia erodes the mind and will of an individual, replacing everything within them with herself. Her cult, the Storm Legion, is exclusively made of such people. She is the most subtle and possibly the most dangerous dragon, and was able to subvert and infiltrate every major power during the Age of Dragons before her imprisonment. Unlike the other dragons, her cage is far from hidden: the combined power of a pyromancer and shaman sealed her away in a deep lake from which they banished all heat, creating an endless winter for miles around. Eternally frozen in place, [[spoiler: she is nonetheless fully awake and capable of stretching out her will. One of her minions claims that Crucia remains imprisoned on purpose, using the ice as a shield while she recreates her mind-controlled legions.]]

** [[spoiler:BigBadWannabe: Ends up being this to both Akylios and Demogos(and by extention his true form Arak.)]]

* [[spoiler:BodySnatcher: After her defeat in the Frozen Tempest she takes control of Queen Miela Aurentis's body. This is shown in the "A Hero Rises" - Chronicle]]
** Doesn't stop the Blood Storm of the Plane of Air from [[spoiler:attempting(and failing) to create a new avatar.]]

* [[spoiler:[[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist by Her Own Petard]]: Her attempt to invade the Plane of Water through the Infinity Gate she escaped her prison to obtain resulted in her being captured by the Akylios breed of Akvan who presumably seek to turn her into their minion.]]

** The only reason she hadn't left her temple until the Infinity Gate was rebuilt was because [[spoiler:she can control the Storm Legion just fine without moving a muscle(which would have and did destroyed her hideout) and her enemies think she's many meters under the unmeltable ice so she's quite safe inside her fortress.]]

* [[spoiler:SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains: The first thing she does after taking over Queen Miela Aurentis's body is change into skimpier clothing.]]

* {{Unishment}}: All attempting and failing(considering she had holed up in the roof of her own temple which was above the ice prison she practically avoided punishment entirely) to imprisoning her did was [[spoiler:give her an excellent fortress to serve as a RedHerring to distract he enemies giving her freedom to exercise her MindControl from her real fortress AKA her temple]].

** [[spoiler:YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: She attempts this on the Ascended. [[MistreatmentinducedBetrayal It backfires badly.]]]]

Dragoness of Earth, Laethys' one and only goal is to own ''everything''. From her point of view, all riches and wealth already belong to her - she is merely reclaiming them. This extends to all members of her cult, the Golden Maw, whose members extend through the rich and nobility. While she is one of the least destructive dragons, her influence can be far more damaging. It is through Laethys and her followers that entire nations can find their wealth gone, funneled into the bottomless gullet of the Golden Maw. Unlike other cults, her followers are the rich and the powerful, the wealthy merchant or the greedy noble. Whether it be a single copper coin or a pretty slave, Laethys will never be satisfied until everything in creation belongs solely to her. It is for this reason that she particularly despises Regulos, who would destroy what she would own, and her own sister, Crucia, who would replace heated lust for gold with passionless serenity. [[spoiler:She allies with her predecessor the Goddess of Fate and her Sinister Voices(not to be mistaken for the Sinister Presences) in the past just before becoming a SealedEvilInACan.]]

* FightingAShadow: Her Dragon form is gold under her control shaped into a Dragon. Her true form(that in all likelyhood is a real Dragon unlike her dragon form) is still in the Plane of Earth.

A rogue member of the Vigil who allied with the Blood Storm in order to stop [[spoiler:Arak Lord of Nightmares, His avatar Demogos and the Akvan]]. Her Sinister Voices(not to be mistaken for Demogos's Sinister Presences): Tyshe the Messenger of Fate and the Drekanoth of Fate travel back in time to aid the Dragons with their powers. She is also the original Goddess of the Plane of Earth before Laethys took over.

* BigBadEnsemble: With Matodraum, Glasya([[spoiler:[[TheStarscream and later Woragrath]]]]), and Arak though unlike either of the three only her minions will appear though it is certain that the Ascended will come after her once they have resolved the Akvan and Arak problems.

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: She attempts this to stop [[spoiler:the Akvan]].

The ''real'' Dragon of Water who failed to conquer the Plane of Water from Akylios(likely due to the sheer numbers of the God of Water's true form). He lies in wait on Mount Sharax where he seeks [[spoiler:to ressurect the first God of Water Draum.]]

* OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: The only Dragon child of Azdah who ''failed'' to become an actual Blood Storm due to the lesser breed of Akvan known Akylios taking over the Plane of Water as it's god(s) and holding out against him. He's also seems to be the only one who's ''true'' form is an ''actual'' Dragon.

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 to the physical plane of Telara and later [[spoiler:ensures that Akylios captures Crucia through help of his shadowy minions called the Sinister Presences to presumably convert her into Akylios's minion.]]

** BigBadDuumvirate: With Draum in the Nightmare Tide Expansion
** BigBadEnsemble: With Glasya and the Goddess of Fate in the Nightmare Tide Expansion.
** ClimaxBoss: As [[spoiler:the villain behind the attacks on Telara]] his boss fight in the Raid instance located in the city of dreams Draumheim is this for the Nightmare Tide expansion.

* 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(specifically a green reskin of the lesser Dragon known as Scarn) though one [[LivingDream with Nightmare manifesting abilities.]]
** [[spoiler:His second manifestation looks humanoid.]]

TheOldGods ''more'' powerful than the Blood Storm with the exception of their weaker members known the Akylios who count as one of the Blood Storm. Held back by Regulos they seek to return to Telara [[spoiler:and after Regulos's death]] they suceed.

* EldritchAbomination: All of them aside from the crab shaped ones(which include Matrodraum). Most are Akylios while others are more Eldritch(like Yrlwalach) or less Eldritch(like Izbithu) in appearence then the Akylios are regardless of power.
* SealedEvilInACan: Aside from the Akylios(who's avatar is one) all of them are.

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 forms include both the first of the Akvan but also the ruler of Draumheim.

* AlwaysABiggerFish: 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 the Akylios!]]
** He also has a more powerful Dragon serving him: Izkinra the ''real'' Dragon of Water spawned by Azdah.

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

** 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 them being capable of holding rulership over the Plane of Water despite the best efforts of the ''real'' Dragon of Water).

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: His Good Dream avatar Kondraum at the hands of Arak.

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 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 Glasya and the Goddess of Fate in the Nightmare Tide Expansion though will be the second of the three actively appearing of the four [[BigBad Big Bads]] to go down.

* EldritchAbomination: All of them. Most are Akylios while others are more Eldritch(like Yrlwalach) or less Eldritch(like Izbithu) in appearence then the Akylios are regardless of power.

* LiteralSplitPersonality: With Kondraum being good and Matrodraum being evil.

* 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 Matrodraum on the other hand.....

** Of course it's not his true form that's incomprehensible but his ''mind'' since it has gone [[BeyondTheImpossible beyond senile to just plain indescribable.]]

** BigBadEnsemble: With Arak and Draum in Nightmare Tide expansion.

* TheStarscream: To Glasya. He's [spoiler:more loyal to her father the previous king.]]

* 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), [[ExtraOreDinary Laethys is merely using a horde of gold as an avatar]], [[BodySnatcher Crucia's true form is a powerful mind controlling Greater Dragon that can ditch her true body should anyone kill it while possessing another one at a moment's notice]], [[HiveMind Akylios is the avatar of a herd of ravenous Akylios sharks and has no relation to the rest of the Blood Storm]] and [[FightingAShadow Maelforge is an avatar of Glasya Queen of the Flame]].

!! Maelforge, Dragon of Fire/Glasya Queen of the Flame

Dragon of Fire, Maelforge has no greater motive beyond destruction. However, unlike Regulos who seeks to permanently unmake all of existence, Maelforge takes pleasure in the very act of destruction. To this end, he is always careful not to destroy something completely, but to allow enough to survive so that he can destroy it again in the future. He ultimately desires a world where he can fly from nation to nation, burning down each one before leaving to let it rebuild, as he destroys another that has just been rebuilt. The least subtle of the dragons, this mindset extends to his followers, the Wanton, who will destroy anything ranging from individual lives to entire nations. Maelforge predictably hates Greenscale, but also Regulos, who would leave him with nothing to destroy. [[spoiler:He has ties to his opposite element: the Plane of Water which hints that the Blood Storm he's an avatar of is the same as Akylios and Demogos which leads one to ask the question of who is the actual ruler of the Plane of Fire.]] It is later revealed on the official site that his true form Glasya Queen of the Flame is invading the Plane of Water to turn it into a ''second'' Plane of Fire.

* BigBadEnsemble: With Arak and Draum in Nightmare Tide expansion with her being the first to go down.
* BloodKnight: "Destruction for destruct theion's sake" describes Maelforge ''perfectly''.

** His female true form [[DoubleSubversion on the other hand......]]
* {{Satan}}: Glasya Queen of the Flame sees herself as this and struck down the rule of her father [[spoiler:Azdah]].

* BigBadEnsemble: With Matodraum, Glasya([[spoiler:[[TheStarscream and later Woragrath]]]]), and Arak though unlike either of the three only her minions will appear.

* 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 avatar of a herd of ravenous Akylios sharks and has no relation to the rest of the Blood Storm]] and [[FightingAShadow Maelforge is an avatar of Glasya Queen of the Flame]].

Dragoness of Earth, Laethys' one and only goal is to own ''everything''. From her point of view, all riches and wealth already belong to her - she is merely reclaiming them. This extends to all members of her cult, the Golden Maw, whose members extend through the rich and nobility. While she is one of the least destructive dragons, her influence can be far more damaging. It is through Laethys and her followers that entire nations can find their wealth gone, funneled into the bottomless gullet of the Golden Maw. Unlike other cults, her followers are the rich and the powerful, the wealthy merchant or the greedy noble. Whether it be a single copper coin or a pretty slave, Laethys will never be satisfied until everything in creation belongs solely to her. It is for this reason that she particularly despises Regulos, who would destroy what she would own, and her own sister, Crucia, who would replace heated lust for gold with passionless serenity. [[spoiler:She allies with the Goddess of Fate and her Sinister Voices(not to be mistaken for the Sinister Presences) in the past just before becoming a SealedEvilInACan.]]

A rogue member of the Vigil who allied with the Blood Storm in order to stop [[spoiler:Arak Lord of Nightmares, His avatar Demogos and the Akvan]]. Her Sinister Voices(not to be mistaken for Demogos's Sinister Presences): Tyshe the Messenger of Fate and the Drekanoth of Fate travel back in time to aid the Dragons with their powers.

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: She attempts this to stop [[spoiler:the Akvan]].

** BigBadEnsemble: With Glasya in the Nightmare Tide Expansion though will be the second of the three [[BigBad Big Bads]] to go down.

!! 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.

* BigBad: Of the Nightmare Tide Expansion 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.]]

* AlwaysABiggerFish: Their stronger members are individually stronger than the Blood Storm are. Their weaker members known as the Akylios combined even counts as a Blood Storm due to their rulership over the Plane of Water.
* EldritchAbomination: All of them.

* AlwaysABiggerFish: 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!]]

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

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

* UnholyMatrimony: With the Akvan Izbithu who is frozen into a SealedEvilInsideACan...

** Those secrets include the secrets of the Akvan he or shoould we say they are members of and are infact named after.

** [[spoiler:BigBadWannabe: Ends up being this to Demogos and by extention his true form Arak.]]

* [[spoiler:[[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist by Her Own Petard]]: Her attempt to invade the Plane of Water through the Infinity Gate she escaped her prison to obtain resulted in her being captured by the Akvan and their master Arak who presumably seeks to turn her into his minion.]]

* [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice Job Breaking it Crucia]]: Crucia's arranging the death of [[spoiler:Regulos]] leads to the arrival of the [[spoiler:Akvan serving Demogos's true form Arak.]] What's more her attempts to [[spoiler:control the Akvan lead to them capturing and controling her for their master's purposes.]]

* OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: The only Dragon child of Azdah who ''failed'' to become an actual Blood Storm due to the shark herd Akylios taking over the Plane of Water as it's god and holding out against him. He's also seems to be the only one who's ''true'' form is an ''actual'' Dragon.