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As a hero collection game, Sdorica's got LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters. Characters related to the metaplot are described here, while playable characters are divided into their positions, or into "Other" based on their country of origin.

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As a hero collection game, Sdorica's got LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters.numerous characters. Characters related to the metaplot are described here, while playable characters are divided into their positions, or into "Other" based on their country of origin.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Most humans on the continent have normal hair colors. Rei's hair is a neon blue.
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* IAmWho: [[spoiler:According to Rei, the player was Vendacti. However, this is ultimately a lie made by Vendacti... a.k.a, Rei.]]

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* IAmWho: [[spoiler:According to Rei, the player was Vendacti. However, this This is ultimately eventually revealed as a lie made by Vendacti... a.k.a, Rei.lie... because Vendacti is ''Rei''.]]
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* IAmWho: [[spoiler:According to Rei, the player was Vendacti. However, certain dialog choices hint that this is a lie.]]

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* IAmWho: [[spoiler:According to Rei, the player was Vendacti. However, certain dialog choices hint that this is ultimately a lie.lie made by Vendacti... a.k.a, Rei.]]
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* IAmWho: [[spoiler:According to Rei, the player was Vendacti.]]

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* IAmWho: [[spoiler:According to Rei, the player was Vendacti. However, certain dialog choices hint that this is a lie.]]



* RelationshipValues: Finishing ''Sunset'' or starting ''Mirage'' opens a daily conversation system. Rei has several branching dialogues that expound on characters, locations and the story. [[spoiler:Interestingly, your relationship ''starts'' maxed out, and you unlock new conversations by intentionally worsening your relationship with her.]]

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* RelationshipValues: Finishing ''Sunset'' or starting ''Mirage'' opens a daily conversation system. Rei has several branching dialogues that expound on characters, locations and the story. [[spoiler:Interestingly, your relationship ''starts'' maxed out, and you unlock new conversations by intentionally worsening your relationship with her.]]]] Similarly, your dialog choices in ''Eclipse'' determine how she feels about you.
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* IAmWho: [[spoiler:Rei implies that the player was Vendacti.]]

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* IAmWho: [[spoiler:Rei implies that [[spoiler:According to Rei, the player was Vendacti.]]



* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Selecting dialog options that upset her may cause her to give you less valuable items (instead of crystals) or worse, nothing at all.

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* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Selecting During Season 2, selecting dialog options that upset her may cause her to give you less valuable items (instead of crystals) or worse, nothing at all.

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* IAmWho: [[spoiler:Rei implies that the player was Vendacti.]]



* WeUsedToBeFriends: Rei laments the barrier between you if your relationship drops low enough. It's no barrier to raising it back to the highest level. Or dropping it further down.

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* WeUsedToBeFriends: In Season 2, if the relationship value between Rei laments and the player drops low enough, she'll start lamenting that there is a barrier between them. In Season 3, the player's dialogs to Rei tend to be hostile on account of what happens late in Season 2.
* WhamLine: In Season 3 chapter 2.
-->'''Rei''': [[spoiler:It started 1000 years ago, when
you if your relationship drops low enough. It's no barrier to raising it back to the highest level. Or dropping it further down.were known as Vendacti.]]

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The Watcher's [[TheMentor mentor]] and [[TheCaretaker caretaker]]. With gentle smiles and encouraging words, she encourages the Watcher to experience the stories presented in the Book of the Bequeathers, and handles the in-game item shop. She freely admits to having secrets she can't share but looks forward to the day she can. [[spoiler: And the end of ''Sunset'' suggests some of those secrets are bloody indeed.]]


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The Watcher's [[TheMentor mentor]] and [[TheCaretaker caretaker]]. With gentle smiles and encouraging words, she encourages the Watcher to experience the stories presented in the Book of the Bequeathers, and handles the in-game item shop. She freely admits to having secrets she can't share but looks forward to the day she can. [[spoiler: And the end of ''Sunset'' suggests some of those secrets are bloody indeed.]]
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[[caption-width-right:250:Although the Book of the Bequeathers can show what's happening everywhere in the world, there's no guarantee that what you see is the absolute truth. My truth may be different from your truth. It depends on how you, as a Watcher, interpret the text.]]

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The PlayerCharacter. This FeaturelessProtagonist watches events happening on the continent Vendacti through the Book of the Bequeathers. They've recently lost their memory, but are being guided through their duties by Rei. The Watcher has the rare ability to awaken Character Minerals, the exact nature of which are extremely vague.

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The PlayerCharacter. This FeaturelessProtagonist watches events happening on the continent Vendacti through the Book of the Bequeathers. They've recently lost their memory, but are being guided through their duties by Rei. The Watcher has the rare ability to awaken Character Minerals, create Soul Bookmarks, a process that involves manipulating the exact nature of which are extremely vague.
flow Soul Energy.



* AmbiguousSituation: Exactly what's going on is called into doubt when the game [[spoiler:"crashes"]] during the end of Sunset.



* LoveConfessor: Rei asks the player what their relationship is in one of her daily conversations. You can offer a LoveConfession, but it ''lowers'' her affection.



* BigNo: Rei is extremely upset by what you see in ''Mirage'' chapter seven, and [[MakingTheChoiceForYou forces the Book to start the next chapter]] without your input.

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* BigNo: Rei is extremely upset by what you see in ''Mirage'' chapter seven, and [[MakingTheChoiceForYou forces the Book to start the next chapter]] without your input.


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* KeepingSecretsSucks: She openly admits she's keeping a number of secrets from the Watcher and asks that you wait until she can share them with you.


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* MysteriousBacker: Her self-introduction in the original Chinese is much more ambiguously worded than in English.
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* GuideDangIt: Triggering the optional scene in Rei's ''Mirage'' chapter 10 dialogue is nearly impossible to do intentionally.
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* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Selecting dialog options that upset her may cause her to give you less valuable items (instead of crystals) or worse, nothing at all.

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* BigNo: Rei is extremely upset by what you see in ''Mirage'' chapter seven, and [[MakingTheChoiceForYou forces the Book to start the next chapter]] without your input.
* BeneathTheMask: Successfully using a Bookmark on her shows that she's [[spoiler:weeping uncontrollably about her mentor's actions]].
* BrokenPedestal: Finding out that her mentor, who inducted her into the Watchers [[spoiler:stole the body of High Priest Devious to interfere with history]].



* MakingTheChoiceForYou: Rei is ''very'' upset after one chapter of ''Mirage'' and forces the player into the next chapter without warning.



-->'''Rei''': Huh, wait, why do you suddenly look so pale?

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-->'''Rei''': Huh, wait, Huh? Wait, why do you suddenly look so pale?



* WeUsedToBeFriends: Rei laments the barrier between you if your relationship drops low enough. It's no barrier to raising it back to the highest level.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Most humans on the continent have human hair colors. Rei's hair is a neon blue.

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* TryingNotToCry: The pre-chapter 10 conversation with her can reveal that she's feeling an extreme sorrow. [[spoiler:Or, given the circumstances and accompanying picture, remembering it.]]
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Rei laments the barrier between you if your relationship drops low enough. It's no barrier to raising it back to the highest level.
level. Or dropping it further down.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Most humans on the continent have human normal hair colors. Rei's hair is a neon blue.
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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The PlayerCharacter is a Watcher of the Bequeathers, and also TheWatcher (see that entry for details).
* TheWatcher: As a Watcher of the Bequeathers, their job is to use the Book of the Bequeathers to be a passive observer of history. Leaving their room or interacting with anyone other than Rei is strictly forbidden.
** This is not, however, standard procedure for the Bequeathers, suggesting there's more to the rule than what Rei can or will say.

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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The PlayerCharacter is a Watcher of the Bequeathers, and also TheWatcher (see that entry for details).
TheWatcher. They are a passive observer of history and leaving their room to interact with anyone other than Rei is strictly forbidden.
* TheWatcher: As a Watcher of the Bequeathers, their job is to use the Book of the Bequeathers to be a passive observer of history. Leaving their room or interacting with anyone other than Rei is strictly forbidden.
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forbidden. This is not, however, standard procedure for the Bequeathers, suggesting there's more to the rule than what Rei can or will say.

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The character is referred to as a capital-W Watcher in-universe while also embodying that trope.


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TheWatcher: Yup.
As a Watcher of the Bequeathers, their job is to use the Book of the Bequeathers to be a passive observer of history. Leaving their room or interacting with anyone other than Rei is strictly forbidden.
** This is not, however, standard procedure for the Bequeathers, suggesting there's more to the rule than what Rei can or will say.


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* StepfordSmiler: One pre-chapter conversation has a unique cut in of Rei smiling at the Watcher if your relationship drops very low. Unlike her normal smile, this one is downright alien.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Rei laments the barrier between you if your relationship drops low enough. It's no barrier to raising it back to the highest level.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Most humans on the continent have human hair colors. Rei's hair is a neon blue.

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quick ZCE cleanup + more typical-to-other-character-pages layout that fixes the index. Definitely not Exactly What It Says On The Tin as someone unfamiliar to this.


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[[index]]
* [[Characters/SdoricaGoldOrbCharacters Gold Orb Characters]]
* [[Characters/SdoricaBlackOrbCharacters Black Orb Characters]]
* [[Characters/SdoricaWhiteOrbCharacters White Orb Characters]]
* [[Characters/SdoricaOtherCharacters Other Characters]]
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The PlayerCharacter. This FeaturelessProtagonist [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin watches]] events happening on the continent Vendacti through the Book of the Bequeathers. They've recently lost their memory, but are being guided through their duties by Rei. The Watcher has the rare ability to awaken Character Minerals, the exact nature of which are extremely vague.

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The PlayerCharacter. This FeaturelessProtagonist [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin watches]] watches events happening on the continent Vendacti through the Book of the Bequeathers. They've recently lost their memory, but are being guided through their duties by Rei. The Watcher has the rare ability to awaken Character Minerals, the exact nature of which are extremely vague.



* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Is TheWatcher. And more importantly the PlayerCharacter.
* TheWatcher: Yup.

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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Is TheWatcher. And more importantly the PlayerCharacter.
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->'''Rei''': Huh, wait, why do you suddenly look so pale?

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*** [[Characters/SdoricaGoldOrbCharacters Gold Orb Characters]]
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*** [[Characters/SdoricaWhiteOrbCharacters White Orb Characters]]
*** [[Characters/SdoricaOtherCharacters Other Characters]]

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* AmbiguouslyHuman: The one first-person POV the player sees [[spoiler: seems to be from Rei's point of view]]...



The Watcher's [[TheMentor mentor]] and [[TheCaretaker caretaker]], this blue-haired woman is your constant companion from the moment you open your eyes. Always wearing a gentle smile and encouraging words, she encourages you to experience the stories presented in the Book of the Bequeathers and handles the in-game item shop. She freely admits to having secrets she can't share but looks forward to the day she can. [[spoiler: And the end of ''Sunset'' suggests some of those secrets are bloody indeed.]]

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The Watcher's [[TheMentor mentor]] and [[TheCaretaker caretaker]], this blue-haired woman is your constant companion from the moment you open your eyes. Always wearing a caretaker]]. With gentle smile smiles and encouraging words, she encourages you the Watcher to experience the stories presented in the Book of the Bequeathers Bequeathers, and handles the in-game item shop. She freely admits to having secrets she can't share but looks forward to the day she can. [[spoiler: And the end of ''Sunset'' suggests some of those secrets are bloody indeed.]]
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* [[spoiler:OminousVisualGlitch]]: [[spoiler:The preceding dialogue from Rei to chapter 17 turns into this. Her lines become distorted and the entire game glitches out to reveal an image of Rei in armour glaring at the player. The game returns to normal and Rei seems none the wiser.]]

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* [[spoiler:OminousVisualGlitch]]: [[spoiler:The preceding OminousVisualGlitch: [[spoiler: Rei's dialogue from Rei to during chapter 17 turns into this. Her lines become distorted and the entire game glitches out to reveal out, revealing an image of Rei in armour glaring at the player. The game returns blinks back to normal and as Rei seems none the wiser.finishes her explanation.]]
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* [[spoiler:OminousVisualGlitch]]: [[spoiler:The preceding dialogue from Rei to chapter 17 turns into this. Her lines become distorted and the entire game glitches out to reveal an image of Rei in armour glaring at the player. The game returns to normal and Rei seems none the wiser.]]
->'''Rei''': Huh, wait, why do you suddenly look so pale?

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Sdorica's playable characters are divided into their positions if they're playable, or into "Other" based on their native country. Characters related to the metaplot go here.

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As a hero collection game, Sdorica's got LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters. Characters related to the metaplot are described here, while playable characters are divided into their positions if they're playable, positions, or into "Other" based on their native country. Characters related to the metaplot go here.
country of origin.

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* RelationshipValues: After the player finishes ''Sunset'' or begins ''Mirage'' a conversation system opens. Rei has several branching dialogues that expound on characters, locations and the story. [[spoiler:Interestingly, your values ''start'' maxed out, and you unlock new conversations by intentionally worsening your relationship with her.]]

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* RelationshipValues: After the player finishes Finishing ''Sunset'' or begins starting ''Mirage'' opens a daily conversation system opens.system. Rei has several branching dialogues that expound on characters, locations and the story. [[spoiler:Interestingly, your values ''start'' relationship ''starts'' maxed out, and you unlock new conversations by intentionally worsening your relationship with her.]]
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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Sees a vision of Angelia, Naya and Pang pursuing Uzziah--an event years away from happening in the game's timeline.
* EasyAmnesia: Has no memories of anything outside their room and duty. Rei says that it's simply strain from overusing their abilities, but doesn't seem particularly concerned about it happening again...
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Is TheWatcher. And more importantly the PlayerCharacter.
* TheWatcher: Yup.


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The Watcher's [[TheMentor mentor]] and [[TheCaretaker caretaker]], this blue-haired woman is your constant companion from the moment you open your eyes. Always wearing a gentle smile and encouraging words, she encourages you to experience the stories presented in the Book of the Bequeathers and handles the in-game item shop. She freely admits to having secrets she can't share but looks forward to the day she can. [[spoiler: And the end of ''Sunset'' suggests some of those secrets are bloody indeed.]]

* FantasticRacism: She doesn't like Puggi, or the idea of an entire island of people like him.
* MysteriousPast: She can't talk much about herself. [[spoiler:Is extremely distressed if you bring up the vision involving her.]]
* OddlySmallOrganization: Mentions in one optional dialogue that she hasn't seen any other Watchers since she started working with you, but alludes to unseen "superiors" in another one.
* RelationshipValues: After the player finishes ''Sunset'' or begins ''Mirage'' a conversation system opens. Rei has several branching dialogues that expound on characters, locations and the story. [[spoiler:Interestingly, your values ''start'' maxed out, and you unlock new conversations by intentionally worsening your relationship with her.]]
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Sdorica's playable characters are divided into their positions if they're playable, or into "Other" based on their native country. Characters related to the metaplot go here.

!!The Watcher

The PlayerCharacter. This FeaturelessProtagonist [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin watches]] events happening on the continent Vendacti through the Book of the Bequeathers. They've recently lost their memory, but are being guided through their duties by Rei. The Watcher has the rare ability to awaken Character Minerals, the exact nature of which are extremely vague.

The Watcher's true identity and purpose is a major ongoing mystery.

!!Rei
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*** [[Characters/SdoricaGoldOrbCharacters Gold Block Characters]]
*** [[Characters/SdoricaBlackOrbCharacters Black Block Characters]]
*** [[Characters/SdoricaWhiteOrbCharacters White Block Characters]]

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*** [[Characters/SdoricaGoldOrbCharacters Gold Block Orb Characters]]
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*** [[Characters/SdoricaWhiteOrbCharacters White Block Orb Characters]]
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*** [[Characters/SdoricaGoldBlockCharacters Gold Block Characters]]
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*** [[Characters/SdoricaGoldBlockCharacters [[Characters/SdoricaGoldOrbCharacters Gold Block Characters]]
*** [[Characters/SdoricaBlackBlockCharacters [[Characters/SdoricaBlackOrbCharacters Black Block Characters]]
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*** [[Characters/SdoricaBlackBlockCharacters Black Block Characters]]
*** [[Characters/SdoricaWhiteBlockCharacters White Block Characters]]
*** [[Characters/SdoricaOtherCharacters Other Characters]]

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