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See his character entry on the [[Characters/StarWarsParanormalities/Seferite Order]] page.

Younger sister of Ze'grein'aradi (Grein) and by extension, Seferin Vaelor's (Maesterus) sister-in-law and Zolph's distant aunt. She was kidnapped and possessed by the Forceless Archfiend Facadma more than 3000 years ago. Was believed to be dead until the Battle of Christophsis, in which Valkor used her (or rather Facadma), to [[KillEmAll annihilate the entire planet]].

* SamusIsAGirl: Horrifically deconstructed. To Zolph, her gender wasn't immediately obvious until Maesterus pointed it out, but according to her sister, Grein, Emilin wasn't androgynous or flat-chested and her breasts were cut off sometime after her possession.
* [[SinisterScythe Sinister]] [[LaserBlade Laser]] [[SinisterScythe Scythe]]: Her weapon of choice is a lightsaber scythe with a metal blade that coats itself in superheated plasma. The purpose of the metal is to give the blade a specific shape. It's also based on the plasma-coated blades from Muriga.

* PurpleEyes: Has them just like her sister, Grein.

* AntiVillain: Most of them can be all over the [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains scale]]. [[PsychoSupporter Other]] [[SociopathicSoldier ones]] however are a bit more self-interested or dogmatic.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: They don't seek to rule the galaxy. They mostly seek to repair it more effectively after the damage the Yuuzhan Vong did and trim down the number of galactic wars. Unfortunately, they are [[UnwittingPawn Unwitting Pawns]] to the Forceless Collective and many of them are subscribing to cult-like dogma.

See his character entry on the [[Characters/StarWarsParanormalities/Seferite Order page.

A female Quarren interrogator stationed on Kratzar. She interrogated Menbar Mun when he was captured. Killed shortly after she was introduced.

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The recognized leader of the Valkoran Empire. However, He's using the Valkoran as a proxy cult for the Forceless Collective, his ultimate empire.

* AGodAmI: As part of his promises to end all pointless conflict, he wants the entire universe to recognize him as the only deity it needs. Considering [[EldritchAbomination what he is]], he could almost pass for a god. This may also stem from his creator, Hazral Vangeli, trying to pass him off as one of Muriga's gods taking physical form.
* AxCrazy: He's usually very reserved, but if he gets agitated enough and his eyes become visible, he can get rather sadistic. He even tries to torture Zolph before killing him, including [[OffWithHisHead trying to have Mortaqa cut his head off]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath slowly]].
* BadassCape: He wears a cape all the time [[spoiler: until his robotic body is cut in half]].
* BadBoss: After a failed attempt to execute Zolph, he snaps and [[IHaveYourWife threatens to eat one of his generals' family]] if he doesn't try to capture or kill Zolph. When said general dies trying to kill Zolph, Valkor tries to order the family to be eaten anyway, but Maesterus persuades him not to lest [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating he lose even more popularity]] after [[MoralEventHorizon killing everyone on Christophsis]]. After that incident, he's trying to avoid that behavior to keep his troops on his side but it's too little too late and he loses half his empire.
* BigBad: For the entire ''Paranormalities'' trilogy. However, the prologue of Episode III suggests that the real Valkor Vangeli is just a decoy Herald and his name is being used as an alias by an entity known as Yalbdalaoth, possibly the symbiote.
* BishonenLine: Zigzagged when it comes to his form progression in the Battle of Ockla Prime. His first form is a moderately menacing robotic humanoid form that occasionally oozes Black Matter and does something gross. His second form is a grotesque, formless BlobMonster with incredibly chaotic anatomy and uses half his first form as an interactive puppet. His final form, the colossus, is a bit more elegant but still lovecratian in appearance, and with a base that takes up the entirety of the capital's lowest levels.
* BlackHoleBelly: In fact, his "stomach" seems to be another dimension entirely, [[AndIMustScream where the life-forces of every person he's eaten is stored]], and that falls into the millions range. In fact this stomach, the Pool of Souls, is connected to his Forceless Collective as a whole, which eats any possession victims who have died while being possessed.
* BodySnatcher: According to Admon Onae, Valkor [[spoiler: Vangeli is not the one really in charge of the Forceless Collective. The real Valkor is being used as a decoy Herald by [[AbusiveParents Hazral Vangeli]] and the lead symbiote, Yalbdalaoth. In other words, all those avatars he's used were really all avatars of Yalbdalaoth.]]
* BrokenPedestal: He was once heavily revered thoughout the Valkoran Empire, but after the annihilation of Christophsis, half of the Valkoran Empire defected in disgust and under Maesterus's leadership, founded what would eventually become the Seferite Order.
* TheCaligula: Subverted, as [[DefiedTrope Valkor deliberately tries to avoid coming off as one]], but after [[spoiler: killing everyone on Christophsis to psychologically torment Zolph]], having a VillainousBreakdown and threatening to eat one of his generals' family, he starts playing this trope almost straight. After the campaign, Maesterus advises him not to take it further lest he [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating lose any more public approval]] (even lampshading his descent into madness by comparing him to Masochus), to which Valkor ultimately agrees, as he tries to avoid killing any more civilian populations when achieving victories through Mortaqa, not that it does anything to win their favor back. Suffice to say, while he is undoubtedly insane, he's still far more functional and competent than Masochus.
* CastingAShadow: Not exactly shadows, but the Black Matter coming from his body can work like this.
* ColdBloodedTorture: He decides to inflict a bit of this on Zolph before trying to kill him, as Zolph has been nuisance to him for years now that it would be unsatisfying for him to just kill outright.
* CombatTentacles: One way he uses the Dark Matter coming from his body.
* CombatPragmatist: He has lightsaber-resistant claws, and he defeats General Ven Choi in a duel the General initially seems to be doing well in by simply ripping his respirator mask off his face. He's also [[DefiedTrope not above attacking people]] [[TalkingIsAFreeAction while they are conversing with him or anyone else over comlink]].
* CoolMask: His face underneath his mask is made completely of Black Matter while his head is a blank robotic head module.
* TheDreaded: When he's about to show up, most people react with fear.
* EldritchAbomination: Don't be fooled by [[HumanoidAbomination his initial shape]]. That's just a robotic shell containing his true form, which could be described as an infinitely expanding pool of Black Matter. He heavily emphasizes the Eldritch part after Maesterus cuts his shell in half and when he turns himself into a colossus. [[spoiler: And the avatar on Ockla Prime was one for Yalbdalaoth, the lead symbiote of his Forceless Collective.]]
* EvilerThanThou: Gestroma learned this the hard way.
* ExtraEyes: He can generate lots of these, especially outside his robotic body.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Being EatenAlive by him and trapped in the Pool of Souls can be considered this.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's very soft-spoken and polite, but inside, he's a remorseless sadist. For example, he tauntingly commends Zolph for resisting his attempts to bring him over the DespairEventHorizon.
* FemmeFatalons: A male example ([[EldritchAbomination if you consider him male]]), and on a mechanical body.
* GalacticConqueror: He doesn't rule the main Star Wars galaxy, but he has already conquered several others in the course of a thousands of years.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Maesterus diagonally bisects his humanoid body. However, since said body is just a shell, it hardly fazes him.
* ImAHumanitarian: He may be about the size of human being, but he's capable of devouring other people his size. Unfortunately, [[AndIMustScream those eaten alive by don't become one with the Force]], but are kept in a pseudo-afterlife he calls the [[{{Room101}} Pool of Souls]]. It's also suggested that [[ForTheEvulz he doesn't eat people for nourishment and prefers to eat them alive, when they haven't become one with the Force yet]].
-->'''Valkor:''' Don't give me that look, dear. It isn't cannibalism if we're not the same species.
* KickTheDog: He was the one who ordered Dynn Manthis's [[BodyHorror mutation]]. He also murders an entire planet just to psychologically torment Zolph and let him know how he's going to kill him, and he kills Maesterus in a disturbingly elaborate fashion for all on Ockla Prime to see.
* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** Subverted when he ordered the genocide of the Kur'Ada Equalists and then devoured their leader alive. Sure, the Kur'Ada were a group of [[ANaziByAnyOtherName anti-Force sensitive terrorists]], but they began to realize how evil Valkor was, and [[AndIMustScream what he did to Mursama]] is [[FateWorseThanDeath far worse than killing her]]. Then he tries to order Maesterus to bring the rest of the survivng Kur'Ada over to him to be eaten, including the civilians.
** However, he plays it straight when he assimilates Gestroma into his Forceless Collective. He also plays it straight again when he places a sleeper symbiote inside of Masochus and refuses to help regenerate his body when Grein and Armogeist are about to kill him.
* KnightOfCerebus: Even though he didn't make an appearance yet, his name being mentioned in the last chapters of Episode I makes it pretty clear that not only is Maesterus not the BigBad, Valkor is an even bigger threat. When he first appears in "The Enforcer", he greatly demonstrated that not everyone in the Valkoran Empire is an AntiVillain. He then takes it up a notch in "The Weapon".
* LovecraftianSuperpower: Just having Black Matter for most of your abilities qualifies for this.
* MalevolentMaskedMan: A mask that also doubles as a face of sorts.
* MoralEventHorizon: Deconstructed in-universe. Several Valkoran soldiers grow disillusioned with their loyalty to him after they witness him order the annihilation of Christophsis. Even Maesterus tells him he's crossing a line (for specifics, this is the first time the Valkoran Empire has committed planetary genocide in its four-thousand-year history), and it's confirmed one month later at the end of "Facade" that half the Valkoran Empire has defected.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain:
** If he had just ordered Mortaqa to kill only the Galactic Alliance forces on Christophsis and not the civilian population as well and [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim just killed Zolph quickly]] instead of [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing him]], he wouldn't have lost half his empire's loyalty and Ockla Prime wouldn't be vulnerable to a full-scale invasion from the Alliance.
** As Maesterus points out, had Valkor not sent him to kill his own descendants (banking on the hope that Maesterus forgot who he was over four-thousand years) and sent someone else to do the deed, Maesterus might not have actively conspired against Valkor and started a war to get the Galactic Alliance and Jedi Order's attention and get the Valkoran Empire's activity on the galactic radar.
* NightmareFace: Concept art shows he doesn't actually have a physical face, but rather one made from Black Matter. When he does take his mask in front of Maesterus, he's deliberately trying to invoke this.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Suffice to say, a lot of people in-universe are scared of this guy, even without knowing exactly what he's capable of.
* NotSoStoic: He's usually calm, but when he snaps, [[ChewingTheScenery he can be shouting at the top of his lungs]].
* ObviouslyEvil: Even when most of the Valkoran are sympathetic, this guy just screams bad news from the get go.
* OhCrap: He has a very subtle one when Zolph is able to properly control his Force channeling for once and fails to stop Zolph from completing the transformation, as Zolph now has the power to destroy him.
* OneWingedAngel: He does this twice in the Battle of Ockla Prime. First, after his robotic body gets cut in half, revealing his true form. Then, he assimilates the severed head of the Ragnirathan and a few other Forceless to turn himself into a Black Matter colossus with a base that floods the surface level of the capital.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Lampshaded by Maesterus and defied when he comes to Alpheridies. Just to note, if he ever gets off his throne, terrible things happen.
* PsychopathicManchild: He sometimes treats his actions like he's playing a game, which often leads him to drawing out the pain he inflicts on people. He'll only take the practical route if he realizes his own vices are causing problems for him. Also, if something doesn't go his way, he'll break his cool demeanor and lash out.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Just like most Forceless. In fact, if his eyes become visible at all... RUN!
* SlasherSmile: Some of the Black Matter coming out of him sport these.
* SmugSnake: He's very arrogant and condescending, but when you are commanding one of the biggest armies in the universe and are a near-unstoppable demigod, you can't blame him for being smug. This is also subverted in that he acknowledges that he can and has made mistakes before, and he acknowledges the power and resolve of certain individuals. He's also more competent than most examples of this trope.
* TheSociopath: LackOfEmpathy? Check. [[ItsAllAboutMe Self-serving]]? Check. [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative and influential of others]]? Check. Sadistic? Check. He's a high-functioning example of this.
* SoftSpokenSadist: When he's not visibly angry, he can off as this.
* TimeAbyss: He's even older than the Infinite Empire.
* TooManyMouths: He doesn't have a visible mouth on his robotic body, but he can generate mouths from the Black Matter.
* {{Troll}}: He really loves to push the buttons of any enemies he's emotionally tormented for a long time, such as his various attempts to break Zolph and treat them like something [[ButForMeItWasTuesday he does every day]]. During the Battle of Ockla Prime, he deactivates the elevator to his throne room (which is set atop the tallest building on the planet) just to make Zolph and Maesterus "tour the palace" (for the first time in four-thousand years in the latter's case).
* VillainousBreakdown: He has a rather notable one after a failed attempt to execute Zolph Vaelor.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: According to Juganak, he has some followers that are [[PsychoSupporter fanatically loyal]] to him, especially if they were ''born'' in the Valkoran Empire. This changes after the annihilation of Christophsis, putting him between this and ZeroPercentApprovalRating and causing half the empire to defect.
* WouldHurtAChild: He tried to have Zolph killed when he was only thirteen years old, all because he was one of the few beings in the universe to have an immunity to Forceless possession, and thus could not be forced to serve him. He also undoubtedly killed a lot of children by ordering Mortaqa to LifeDrain all of Christophsis.

** This gets deconstructed in "The Weapon" after Emperor Valkor orders the destruction of all life on Christophsis and tries to execute Zolph in the most torturous way possible. When the Emperor orders General Isen Kosar to have Zolph removed (dead or alive), most of his troops are reluctant to kill Zolph due to losing faith in their loyalty Valkor and try to miss their shots on purpose.

[[folder: Valkoran Empire (General)]]
The main antagonists of ''Paranormalities.'' What appears to be an anti-GFFA terrorist group at first, they are actually a theocratic empire based in the Unknown Regions named for the enigmatic Emperor Valkor, with Maesterus being the public face of the Empire for the first part of the Valkoran War.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Discussed in Episode II - Chapter 15. Even after the Valkoran Empire splits in two and Maesterus's faction made the HeelFaceturn, the latter is still guilty of several war crimes and acknowledge that they probably aren't going to get off scot-free just because they had an EnemyMine with the Galactic Alliance. However, Zolph Vaelor and Admiral Cephal discuss trying to get them some degree of amnesty, as they can't afford to have one of their potential allies bad crippled in the wake of the Forceless Collective.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: They don't seek to rule the galaxy. They mostly seek to repair it more effectively after the damage the Yuuzhan Vong did and trim down the number of galactic wars. Unfortunately, they are [[UnwittingPawn Unwitting Pawns]] to the Forceless Collective.

!!Seferin Vaelor (Maesterus)
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This Force-user led the attack that orphaned Zolph and is the public face of the Valkoran Empire. He served as the main antagonist for Episode I. He is also a long-lived ancestor of Zolph Vaelor's.

* AffablyEvil: A subversion. Throughout Episode I, he frequently asks for his enemies to stand down and actually attempted to ask for Alec's consent to train Zolph, and he tries to avoid killing people as much as possible. The subversion comes from him not really being so evil to begin with.
* AntiVillain: [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains A mix of Type I, III and IV]]. He is not even interested in ruling the galaxy. He only wishes the galaxy to have a more efficient government. And he's very suspicious of Valkor now.
* BadassCape: Which he continues wearing even after he grows his wings.
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Possibly because of the Forceless symbiote.
* BenevolentBoss: He's very caring towards his men as well as his prisoners, but according to Doctor Thilid, he'll only kill his own men if they are posing an active threat from within or kill prisoners for no practical reason.
* BerserkButton: Killing prisoners or other BadBoss behavior. Also, DO NOT threaten those related to him either.
* BlackKnight: He's Valkor's top enforcer and wears a black suit of armor.
* BodyHorror / LovecraftianSuperpower: He can shoot spikes made from bones out of his palms, and the coverart typically shows his own blood running down these spikes. He also grows four pairs of wings by having them rip out of his back, and the second two out of his other wings. This is because of his Forceless symbiosis.
* CassandraTruth: Despite dressing as such, he's not really a Dark Jedi, but nobody affiliated with the Galactic Alliance or Jedi Order initially believes him when he insists that he isn't. When he tries to explain the circumstances of Alec Vaelor's death to Zolph, the latter doesn't initially believe that Maesterus had no intention of killing Alec. However, he is able to successfully relay this truth later.
* CoolHelmet: With a red visor, and it conceals the fact that he's related to Zolph.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: After getting skewered through his arms, Valkor cuts off all of his wings before impaling him with multiple tentacles.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Despite looking like a stereotypical Sith Lord and being the most prominent villain in Episode I, he's not very Dark-Sided for a Force User nor is he really that evil to begin with.
* DarthVaderClone: Let's see... black armor? Check. Most prominent villain in the first part of the trilogy? Check. Blood ancestry to TheHero and very protective of them? Double check.
* DeadpanSnarker: [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like ancestor, like descendant]].
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: He not only killed an Archfiend, he also defeated Zolph's dark Force Channeling form by waiting for it to wear off.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: He's also willing to backtalk Valkor.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: He seems to be the main villain for Episode I, but he's really a pawn of Valkor's, and is now working on a HeelFaceTurn.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: To Valkor, although you wouldn't think this initially [[TheHeavy since he's the most prominent villain in Episode I]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He finds [[BrainFood Doctor]] [[TortureTechnician Thilid]] disgusting, making sure to point out that ''he'' didn't recruit her. He is even appalled by the idea that he would molest Zolph. He's also against mutating people, attaching symbiotes to them (even though he's a Forceless host himself), genocide and condemning people to [[AFateWorseThanDeath Fates Worse Than Death]]. These last few standards push him towards a HeelFaceTurn.
* AFatherToHisMen: And if you murder them, you will regret it, even if you're a [[EldritchAbomination Forceless Archfiend]].
* TheHeavy: The most active villain in Episode I, with most of his actions driving the plot.
* HeelFaceTurn: He still works with the Valkoran, but he does what he can to oppose Valkor without getting his attention. It comes full circle after the Valkoran Empire splits.
* HeroicSacrifice:
** Subverted in the climax of Episode I, where he flies Belluzub [[HurlItIntoTheSun into Krantisi's star]] [[PapaWolf after he threatened Zolph]]. However, he just launches him into the sun when he gets close enough and flies away.
** Played straight at the end of Episode II, where he leaves himself open to being skewered by several CombatTentacles when he saves Zolph from being crushed to death by Valkor, eventually resulting in his own death.
* HumanoidAbomination: He's not an abomination himself (he's just a possessed and altered human), but he's bearing a Forceless symbiote. Thankfully, he still has control of his body and isn't subservient to the Collective.
* LaserBlade: His lightsaber.
* LightningBruiser: Not only is he incredibly fast (especially with wings) and strong enough to lift an Archfiend a few times his size, he has survived a lot of punishment.
* LukeIAmYourFather: He is actually a distant ancestor of Zolph's.
* MadeOfIron: Every encounter Zolph's had with him, he's proved almost impossible to kill. He has survived getting thrown through a wall, hit by a piece of a large statue, thrown out a stories-high window, drenched in acid rain, shot by ship blaster fire and knocked into a lava pit, exposure to the vacuum of space and flying close to a star. He lampshades his tendency to survive things that would kill most people after Harphscor tries to kill him with a strong wind and Maesterus attacks him. However, Valkor manages to pierce his defenses and [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice do some fatal damage]].
* ObviouslyEvil: A deconstruction and subversion. Because he dresses so similarly to a Sith Lord, a lot of the Jedi and Galactic Alliance are quick to attack him on instinct despite not actually being a Sith (he'd rather negotiate peacefully with them). The subversion comes from the fact that he isn't really as evil as his appearance suggests.
* OneWingedAngel: Sprouts two pairs of [[WingedHumanoid wings]]. The first pair out of his back, [[SerialEscalation the second pair out of his first pair]].
* PapaWolf: Belluzub learned this the hard way about trying to kill Zolph. Also, don't try to harm Arcidus in front of him.
* ParentalSubstitute: To Arcidus, as not only did Aiken lose his parents at an early age, Seferin was the only Jedi to really understand the difficulties he was going through..
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His helmet has a red visor. Underneath his helmet, he has red eyes due to being a Forceless host.
* SpikeShooter: He can fire spikes made from bone out of his palms.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: He seems pretty obsessed with capturing/recruiting Zolph Vaelor. May have to do with their blood relationship.
* TheStarscream: A more benevolent example of this in that he's trying to overthrow Valkor because he knows he's dangerous.
* SuperStrength: He's apparently capable of lifting (and flying with) a Forceless Archfiend several times his size and capable of swallowing him whole.
* WingedHumanoid: Becomes one in Chapter 7 of Episode I. Grows two more wings on them in Chapter 10.

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The son of farmers on Saleucami, Arcidus was the personal enforcer and apprentice of Maesterus.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: When his face is revealed for the first time in "The Messenger", his skin is described as light brown.
* AntiVillain: Type IV. "The Enforcer" reveals that not only does he have a traumatic past, he doesn't like Valkor very much and is just a guy following Maesterus's orders (orders that even Maesterus himself doesn't want to carry out).
* ColdSniper: As a trained assassin, one of his weapons is a sniper rifle.
* CombatPragmatist: Like Zolph, he's also willing to use blasters in combat.
* CoolMask: He's very rarely seen without his mask on.
* CoolStarship: The ''Phantom Razor''.
* DeadpanSnarker: Shows signs of this when Zolph asks him about the [[ArtisticLicensePhysics color-physics]] of his lightsaber. He simply responds with [[SpaceIsNoisy "How does sound travel through space?"]]
* DelegationRelay: The only way anyone higher in the chain of command (including [[BigBad Valkor]]) can give Arcidus orders.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: He flipped off [[BigBad Emperor]] [[HumanoidAbomination Valkor]] of all people. He continues flipping him off when he threatens to eat him.
* TheDragon: To Maesterus in Episode II. Taken to the extent that he won't be a Dragon to Valkor, who Maesterus is a Dragon to. Of course, he was also CoDragons with Dynn Manthis before she died.
* FakingTheDead: From Zolph's experience, he's pretty good at this. He even leaves fake corpses behind sometimes. He can even pull this off with his starfighter and with other people.
* HeelFaceTurn: Unsurprisingly, he sided with Maesterus when the Valkoran Empire split.
* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: [[LaserBlade Lightsabers]] are already this, but his is black, and also referred to as a Darksaber or Stealth Lightsaber.
* LetsFightLikeGentlemen: He prefers to fight his enemies on even skill levels. That won't prevent him from using his [[CombatPragmatist other tricks]] though.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: He has some burn scars on his face from back when he had no control over his ignition powers. He's also one of the nicer people in the Valkoran Empire.
* TheMusketeer: Like Zolph Vaelor, he also uses a blaster.
* PlayingWithFire / KillItWithFire: He knows a Force power called Ignition, which allows him to set things on fire.
* PowerIncontinence: He had very little control over Force Ignition as a child, [[SelfMadeOrphan accidentally killing his parents and destroying his home when he first used it.]] Most of his Jedi training amounted mostly to learning how to suppress it and once he followed Maesterus into the Valkoran Empire, how to actually control it as a weapon.
* PunchClockVillain: He'll only follow orders from Maesterus. He warns Zolph about Valkor's secret weapon on his own volition when Maesterus worries about Valkor being aware of his treachery.
* TheQuietOne: He rarely speaks if there are other people carrying out a conversation.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: If those goggles flash, [[KillItWithFire something is going to combust or explode]].
* RefugeInAudacity: While outright trying to defy Valkor almost got him eaten, lighting Valkor's cape on fire after deciding to follow his order didn't (Valkor did try to goad him into doing so before Maesterus ordered him to follow orders).
* SelfMadeOrphan: He accidentally killed both of his parents in a fire when he was two-years old.
* ShadowArchetype: To Zolph Vaelor. While Maesterus is Zolph's legitimate distant ancestor, he is Arcidus's surrogate father. They also have their own starships with design traits from their own respective factions' starfighters and astromech droids to go along with them. Also of note is that while Zolph's astromech droid R9-C4 is an AxCrazy HeroicComedicSociopath, Arcidus's - V7-L20 - is somewhat compassionate and restrained by comparison.
* TheStoic: He's not very talkative.
* TooDumbToLive: Downplayed. It's more accurate to say "too loyal to Maesterus to live". Lampshaded by Valkor when he's attacking him. After that incident, Maesterus makes a point to inform Arcidus that he doesn't need his say-so to defend himself. Arcidus justified it by claiming he didn't want to give Valkor the satisfaction of giving him what he wants.
* {{Troll}}: Towards Valkor. When he taunted Arcidus to burn him while attacking him, he did so when Maesterus ordered him to [[ExactWords do as he said]].
* UndyingLoyalty: To Maesterus, to the point that he won't even take orders from those higher than him in the chain of command.
* WhereIWasBornAndRazed: He burned his own home down when he accidentally killed his parents.
* YouAreInCommandNow: After Maesterus is killed by Valkor, he is made the new leader of the Valkoran separatists, later renamed the Seferite Order in Maesterus's memory.

Another one of the Force Sensitive Valkoran leadership, this hulking Miraluka possess inhuman strength.

* AntiVillain: [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains Type IV]]. He's secretly conspiring against Valkor. Not to mention he also saved Zolph from being killed by a Force apparition.
* BaldOfAwesome: His head is completely shaved, exposing some tattoos on his scalp. He avoids being BaldOfEvil despite being with the Valkoran in the fact that he is one of the few secretly conspiring against Valkor.
* {{BFS}}: His [[LaserBlade lightsaber]] is essentially a club.
* BlindSeer: Miraluka don't have eyes, so he sees with the Force.
* CoolOldGuy: According to his character profile, he's biologically in his 50's.
* EnemyMine: He temporarily (temporary because he has to keep his true agenda hidden) teams up with Zolph to kill Mandoculus.
* EyelessFace: Underneath that mask.
* GeniusBruiser: He was also Maesterus's mentor.
* HeelFaceTurn: He sided with Maesterus when the Valkoran Empire split. That said, he was always wary of Valkor.
* HumanAlien: Miralukas are essentially humans born without eyes, but can "see" with the Force.
* LargeAndInCharge: He's big, well-toned, and commands a lot of respect from his troops.
* LightningBruiser: Really big, can take more punishment than most beings without armor, pretty fast, and strong enough to dismantle a vehicle with his bare hands.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Defied. Despite once being Jedi Council member, he's surprisingly moderate when it comes to Jedi falling in love. He's aware of the negative temptations that can come with love, but he knows those temptations can be kept in check if the relationship is handled responsibly. That, and he's probably aware of [[LoveRedeems the opposite]] happening throughout galactic history.
* MadeOfIron: He has been shown to survive lightsaber slashes with just his muscles alone.
* OnlySaneMan: Compared to the other Valkoran leaders, he doesn't have any notably freakish traits (aside from SuperStrength) nor does he have lingering mental issues, aside from being Maesterus's mentor in the Jedi Order. This gets lampshaded by Armogeist.
* ReverseMole: Subverted. He still works directly for the Valkoran, but he's secretly suspicious of Emperor Valkor himself.
* ScaryBlackMan: [[HumanAlien Near-human]] example. He's calm and collected most of the time, but that doesn't change the fact that he's strong enough to rip an [[HumongousMecha AT-AT's]] leg off and bludgeon you with it.
* SuperStrength: Unknown whether this is Force-enhanced strength or [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower he's naturally that strong.]] Still he can dismantle an AT-AT with his bare hands, and that is nothing to sneeze at.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: According to General Choi, he was also dressed like this on Hoth and [[LethalLavaLand Mustafar]].

A Twi'lek-Human hybrid from Dathomir suffering from severe brain damage since childhood, she had her lekku (her head-tails) replaced by Machinus and became his surrogate daughter. She has two different personalities.

* AbusiveParents: The Nightsisters. They are responsible for her forced lobotomy and they made her childhood really miserable.
* AffablyEvil: When her brain's working properly, she's pretty pleasant.
* AmazonBrigade: She was raised among the Nightsisters, but it's implied they never truly accepted her.
* AntiVillain: Type II. It's her abusive childhood with the Nightsisters that has made her mentally unstable without her prosthetic lekku. When she does have them, she can be really friendly.
* BadassAdorable: She's got a very bubbly personality ([[CuteAndPsycho at least when her lekku are working]]), but she's just capable of giving Zolph a challenge as the other Valkoran leaders.
* BareYourMidriff: The only not-so-modest thing about her attire.
* BreakTheCutie: Her backstory amounts to probably having her father killed, being lobotomized by her people under the pretense of having [[AlienHair "brain tumors"]], and being abused for being a half-breed.
* CloudCuckoolander: In both mental states, she can come off as very eccentric.
* CoolSword: Her lightsaber has a curved hilt like [[Film/AttackOfTheClones Count]] [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith Dooku's]].
* CuteAndPsycho: She's normally enthusiastic and socially upbeat until her lekku get damaged. [[AxCrazy Then she goes berserk]].
* {{Cyborg}}: Her lekku (the head-tails on Twi'leks) are cybernetic. For specifics, they are part of her brain and she needs them to stay mentally stable.
* DelayedReaction: When she's insane, she won't react to injuries recent received until minutes later, and it goes even further than that: she even reacts to all the previous injuries she's received throughout her life. Again, this a result of her brain damage.
* EvilAlbino: Due to being half Dathomirian, she's very pale compared to pure-blooded Twi'leks. Downplayed in that, violent split-personality aside, she's not really that evil, and drops the villain part completely when she sides with the Seferite Order.
* FacialMarkings: She has Nightsister cultural tattoos on her face. Among the earlier injuries she [[DelayedReaction experiences]], the tattooing is one of them.
* {{Fangirl}}: Of Zolph, particularly when she's sane. [[{{Yandere}} But when she's insane...]] She eventually tones this down after the Valkoran Empire splits.
* FriendlyEnemy: When she's sane, she's even hoping Zolph would join their side.
* GenkiGirl: Deconstructed. She's only really cheerful when her head-tails are functioning, but is very unstable when they're broken, and a result of having a very hellish childhood until Machinus found her.
* HalfHumanHybrid: She's half-human half-Twi'lek. This is what led to her brain damage when she was young.
* HandicappedBadass: She's not physically crippled, but she does have brain damage only kept in check by her replacement lekku.
* HeelFaceTurn: She sided with Maesterus after the Empire split, but according to her, she didn't just do it just because Machinus did.
* LargeHam: When her lekku gets damaged and [[CuteAndPsycho her other side]] crops up, she can milk the scenery for all it's worth. This is especially true in the Battle of Ockla Prime.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Inverted. Neur is her real name, and unlike the other members of the Valkoran leadership (barring Dynn Manthis), she's the only one not to have a codename.
* TheSouthpaw: She's one of the only characters stated to be left-handed.
* [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe White Skinned Space Babe]]: Her skin's chalk-white unlike most Twi'leks (but then again, she's half-human, and she was raised with the Nightsisters).
* WomanChild: Deconstructed. She's biologically 21 years old (chronologically [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld 400+ years]]), but due to the fact that her own people were violently abusive towards her and lobotomized her when she was little, she acts like a teenager to make up for her lost childhood under Machinus, and she turns into a PsychopathicWomanchild whenever her lekku is damaged or malfunctions. It is reconstructed after the Valkoran Empire splits in half and Neur confesses her reasons for acting this way to Zolph, resulting in her showing a degree of maturity when the Battle of Ockla Prime comes (however, her psychotic side is still around).
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Considering her backstory, she definitely qualifies.
* {{Yandere}}: She is this towards Zolph when she's in psycho mode. She thinks Grein is taking advantage of him [[InsaneTrollLogic just because she's there]]. Of course, this is partially justified due to the fact she grew up in a society of abusive misandrists. By the time the Valkoran Empire splits, she started to deviate from this behavior through therapy.

Formerly a Nautolan Jedi engineer, this droid is the head of the Valkoran R&D department and created a lot of the Valkoran Empire's technology.

* AntiVillain: Type IV. Once Fafniros is summoned, it is explicitly revealed that he is working against Valkor.
* ArmCannon: He has two-repeating blasters on his wrists.
* BroughtDownToBadass: His backstory: He used to be a Jedi, but lost his Force Powers when he became a droid. His upgrades compensate for his loss, however.
* CombatPragmatist: He has a bunch of other systems to compensate for the Force Powers he lost when he became a droid.
* DeadpanSnarker
* EnemyMine: Has a very brief one with Zolph to kill Fafniros. They don't make much progress together.
* TheEngineer: He's designed and invented a lot of the Valkoran's weapons.
* FishPeople: He used to be a Nautolan. His current body even resembles one except with digitigrade feet.
* GadgeteerGenius: He is responsible for most of the Valkoran's technology, including the creation of a large ship-mounted [[GravityMaster artificial gravity controller]].
* GlowingMechanicalEyes: He received these when he became a droid.
* HeelFaceTurn: He sided with Maesterus when the Valkoran Empire split.
* JetPack: A built-in one.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's a little condescending towards Zolph (especially when he does something reckless), but he's willing to defend him and he's very protective of Neur.
* JustAMachine: He dislikes this mentality towards droids, especially since he himself is living proof that droids can have souls.
* LargeHam: He can be dramatic when he wants to. Possibly justified by the fact that he wants to emphasize that he used to be a living creature.
* LaserBlade: Has a lightsaber.
* MoreDakka: He can fire a spray of blaster fire from his wrists.
* NoSell: The [[AlienHair tentacles]] on the back of his head are used to absorb electricity and keep him from being disabled by [[{{EMP}} eletro-magnetic pulses]], [[KryptoniteFactor a common weakness for droids]].
* PapaWolf: To Neur. He especially gets pissed if anyone breaks her prosthetic head-tails (since she really needs those to think straight). He also doesn't trust any of the more psychotic Valkoran leaders like Masochus to take care of her when he has to leave her.
* ReluctantMadScientist: Subverted with the use of the gravity controller ship on Christophsis. Not only was the gravity controller not supposed to be a superweapon in the first place (in fact, he thinks doing so is [[AwesomeButImpractical incredibly reckless]]), Valkor sent the ship to Christophsis before it was finished without his notification.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Justified because he used to be an organic being that had his consciousness implanted.
* RobotHair: The mechanical tentacles on the back of his head are modeled off the [[AlienHair head-tentacles]] of a Nautolan. Unlike the head-tentacles on organic Nautolans, [[PrehensileHair these tentacles can move with Machinus's neural input]].
* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: Mostly averted since he used to be organic, but because he has no lungs to breathe with, he can't make an actual sigh and just says "sigh" as if he were actually sighing.
* WasOnceAMan: He was a Nautolan before he transferred his consciousness into a droid.
* WeCanRebuildHim: Or more accurately, he can also rebuild himself.

!!Balos Oiren (Armogeist)

A former Sith Lord (and former apprentice to Masochus) that had his spirit bound to an archaic suit of armor.

* AffablyEvil: He's very polite for an ex-Sith Lord (especially compared to [[FauxAffablyEvil his former]] [[AxCrazy master]]).
* AndIMustScream: According to Grein, Masochus bound his spirit to an inanimate figurine (preventing from killing himself and saving himself from further torture) before the rest of the Valkoran saved him from his teacher's abuse and had his spirit transferred over to the suit of armor.
* AnimatedArmor: He wasn't always like this.
* AntiVillain: Discussed by the protagonists, saying that his life wouldn't have been such a mess if he weren't born in the [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Sith Empire]].
* BeingEvilSucks: He's developed this attitude from not only having a life-ruining psychopath as a Sith master in his early life, but having former Jedi who haven't fallen to the Dark Side treat him much better.
* DarkIsNotEvil: With his personality, you'd have trouble believing this guy was a Sith. That said, he still has some pent up hatred for Masochus.
* DeathSeeker: Unlike most Sith, he actually seeks to die a dignified death, but he's been forbidden from becoming one with the Force because [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou Valkor still has uses for him]] (and being smashed into multiple sheets of metal wouldn't allow him to die either since [[AndIMustScream he'd still be bound to them]]). [[spoiler: Even after siding with Maesterus following the Empire's division, it's implied he's still staying in the material world by choice so he can get rid of Masochus and stop the Forceless Collective.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: Sided with Maesterus after the Empire split.
* InsaneTrollLogic: He tries to stop Zolph's party from getting to Xixixix on the logic that the Archfiend will drive them insane (which it does) and then kill them, ignoring the fact that he's killed several Archfiends before. However, this is justified as [[IdiotBall Xixixix was already driving him mad]] even before he started having hallucinations of [[SadistTeacher Masochus]]. And he admits what he tried to do was stupid later (as he is now free of Xixixix's influence).
** He himself is a victim of this in his backstory. When Masochus was exiled from the Sith Empire, Armogeist was exiled along with him due to being his apprentice, even though he is clearly not as insane as him.
* [[LaserBlade Laser]] BladeOnAStick: His weapon of choice is a lightsaber pike.
* LeeroyJenkins: During the Battle of Ockla Prime, he goes directly after Masochus despite being ordered to take the upper levels of the capital with Neur. This gets subverted later, as he waits to team up with Grein to take Masochus down.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Also carries around a blaster/lightsaber-resistant shield.
* MeaningfulName: Justified in that, like the other Valkoran leaders, it's only a codename. Lampshaded by Zolph.
* NoSell: Since he no longer has an organic body, electrocution barely affects him, if it affects him at all since he has no nerves to fry. Not even Force lightning works, as Masochus learns.
* {{Revenge}}: He ''very much'' desires this against Masochus. He and Grein both get to share it.
* SanitySlippage: He fell victim to this while inside Xixixix's temple. He broke out of it once [[EldritchAbomination Xixixix]] was killed.
* SuperToughness: He seems to be all about defense since he fights with a large shield.
* TokenHeroicOrc: For a former Sith apprentice (and one who was raised in their Empire) who's still having troubles with the call of the Dark Side, he's actually a very noble warrior and is actually trying to reject the call as much as he can due to the trauma it's caused him already.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Not really evil (see above), but when he sides with Maesterus after the Valkoran Empire splits, he's still suffering the taint of the Dark Side and still desires to put Masochus's head on his pike for what he did to him. He's still pretty mellow compared to the stereotypical Sith Lord, and he calms down after Masochus dies.
* TrainingFromHell: He had [[TheCaligula Masochus]] as his [[SadistTeacher teacher]]. Do we need to say more?
* WasOnceAMan: Had his body taken away from him by Masochus.
* YouShallNotPass: Anti-villainous example. He tried to keep Zolph and his company from going further into Xixixix's temple to keep them from falling victim to Xixixix's madness effects. And it was also counter-productive for both parties as he notes later.

A high-ranking admiral in the Valkoran Navy and former member of the Imperial Remnant. The first villain Zolph deals with at the beginning of the war. Supposedly died during the Battle of Ithor, but it turns out he survived.

* AffablyEvil: He's very polite to Zolph during their encounters, even when he threatens to incapacitate him.
* AnArmAndALeg: In fact, both arms and legs.
* AntiVillain: He lets Zolph leave when defeated and only seems to do the things he does out of loyalty to Maesterus. He also regrets some of the more questionable things he's done under both Maesterus's and Valkor's orders.
* BadassNormal: He uses an exo-skeleton, but still...
* BadassTransplant: See {{Cyborg}} below.
* BodyHorror: When he's reconstructed as a cyborg, the only things left of his organic body are his head, spinal chord, vocal chords and vital organs.
* CoolOldGuy: He's in his fifties.
* {{Cyborg}}: Gets rebuilt as one after Ithor. The organic parts he has left are his head, spinal chord, vocal chords, and vital organs. His eyes got replaced after Zolph infiltrated the ''Doomsayer''.
* DeadManSwitch: Getting injured in any way caused the engines on the ''Conqueror'' to explode.
* DefectorFromDecadence: He deserted from the Imperial Remnant after serving one-too-many would-be tyrants.
* {{Determinator}}: He tries to fight back even after getting one of his arms cut off. He even alerts the ''Doomsayer'''s crew to Zolph's infiltration after being blinded.
* EmergencyTransformation: How he survived the ''Conqueror'''s crashlanding.
* ElectronicEyes: In Episode II, after getting his eyes melted out.
* EyeScream: In his second battle with Zolph, he gets his eyes melted out with a shot from his own plasma pistol.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: He decides to go down with the ship when defeated. Subverted in that he survives the crash.
* FourStarBadass: He's not only in charge of the biggest ship in the Valkoran fleet, he's also not a bad fighter himself.
* HandicappedBadass: When he's rebuilt as a cyborg and when he [[EyeScream gets his eyes melted out]].
* HeelFaceTurn: Sided with Maesterus after the Valkoran Empire split. This means the ''Doomsayer'' also became part of the Valkoran resistance.
* HeroicSacrifice: He sacrifices himself with the ''Doomsayer'' to kill the [[WaveMotionGun Ragnirathan]].
* LetsFightLikeGentlemen: He takes Zolph one-on-one despite letting his guards on the bridge provide some warm-up. [[CombatPragmatist Of course, anything is fair game when fighting Jedi]]. This even applies to their second duel.
* MightyGlacier: His ''Minotaur''-class PoweredArmor is pretty powerful, but slow-moving. However, this armor has repulsor sleds for quick transportation across battlefields, but it takes a while to both start up and come to a stop, making this feature unreliable for close combat.
* NotQuiteDead: He was thought to have died on Ithor until Zolph infiltrated the ''Doomsayer''.
* PoweredArmor: Uses this when he fights Zolph Vaelor, but only the first time. The ''Minotaur''-class exo-skeleton eventually got mass-produced for the Valkoran Army.
* RammingAlwaysWorks: He kills the Ragnirathan by impaling the ''Doomsayer'' through its neck before overloading its plasma cannons and self-destructing.
* StealthMentor: An antagonistic variant combined with SinkOrSwimMentor, in that he acts like the situations he's putting Zolph in are tests.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: What he thinks of what he did in the Battle of Ithor and what Valkor did to Dynn Manthis.
* TookALevelInBadass: Not only did he gain command of the ''Doomsayer'' - the largest ship in the Valkoran Navy and Maesterus's personal flagship - he also became a better combatant thanks to his upgrades. He wasn't a slouch when he was just using PoweredArmor, but that [[MightyGlacier traded speed for fire-power and armor]]. With the cybernetic upgrades, he has agility compared to a Jedi.

!!Private/Sergeant/Lieutenant Will "Phoenix" Helms

A Valkoran private that has shown up almost every mission Zolph has had to deal with the Valkoran. Notable for dying every time he encounters him. He has been promoted to Lieutenant as of Episode II - Chapter 8.

* AbusiveParents: Averted according to him. Even though he claims that an attempt to abort him was made before he was born (whether by his parents or not remains to be seen), his parents genuinely loved him as their son.
* BlackComedy: His existence is essentially dying over and over again.
* ButtMonkey: Some of his deaths can be attributed to his fellow soldiers despite being comrades in arms. This is only because they know he keeps coming back. He's also [[MadScientist Masochus's]] only repeat test subject.
** TheChewToy: Sometimes literally if his deaths involve getting eaten or chewed on.
** CosmicPlaything: While it's pretty obvious the whole galaxy is out to kill him, Zolph just assumes that the Force keeps killing him (sometimes to keep him from saying anything about it) and bringing him back for its own amusement after giving up on figuring it out.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: He fills in for a squad of Skakoan Commandos to blow up a [=HyVel=] cannon full of Forceless, knowing that, unlike the Skakoans, he can always come back.
* HeelFaceTurn: He sided with Maesterus after the Empire split.
* MeaningfulName: The nickname "Phoenix", which he got after being promoted. Phoenixes can die as many times as they'd like and still rise from the ashes, [[TheyKilledKennyAgain just like Helms does]]. It's debatable whether it's an awesome name or an UnfortunateName.
* MookPromotion: Gets promoted to Sergeant sometime before Episode II for surviving Krantisi. He then gets promoted to Lieutenant after the Battle of Alpheridies.
* ProperlyParanoid: Considering [[CosmicPlaything what his life is like]], can you blame him?
* PunnyName: [[StockScream Will Helms]]. The story implies that he has the Wilhelm Scream as his actual death scream.
* RankUp: He's gone from Private to Lieutenant (and he went to that last one from Sergeant very quickly) throughout the course of the first two Episodes.
* RedemptionPromotion: As the Valkoran Empire (or at least those loyal to Maesterus) started becoming more sympathetic, Helms was not only getting literal promotions over time, he started [[TookALevelInBadass taking levels in badass]] and died a lot less.
* RunningGag: His deaths almost every time he appears.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Taking it further, he even reincarnated from [[BlackComedy abortion]]. He and everyone that knows him is aware of his repeated deaths.
** Masochus abuses this in "Defector", going so far as to make an [[NightOfTheLivingMooks undead army]] out of his corpses.
** During the Battle of Ockla Prime, he takes advantage of this trait to perform a HeroicSacrifice instead of having the one-lived Skakoan Commandos enact a suicide bombing on a hypervelocity cannon infested with Forceless. He reincarnates not long after.
* ThrowTheDogABone: Him surviving Krantisi and getting promoted.
** He gets another bone for not dying once on Alpheridies and getting promoted again.
* TookALevelInBadass: In Episode II, he got promoted twice. During the Battle of Ockla Prime, he takes advantage of the fact that he can't stay dead to perform a SuicideAttack against a swarm of Forceless.
* TooDumbToLive: Some of Helms' deaths can fall into this, such as coming to Masochus despite refusing to provide him another corpse for his undead army. He also describes his childhood self as being this.
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: When he got eaten by a Sarlacc on Tatooine, it simply regurgitated him at high velocity and killed him afterward. Of course, [[AndIMustScream he wouldn't be able to reincarnate if it could digest him.]]
* YankTheDogsChain: Almost got eaten by [[FluffyTheTerrible Pipsqueak the cyborg rancor]], only to get stepped on by him.

A male Lethan (red-skinned) Twi'lek medical officer. Worked with Juganak on Dagobah and Dynn Manthis, who he gave a standard cybernetic arm before it was replaced with the Forceless arm by Masochus.

* AntiVillain: Type IV. He's really a decent guy and cares for his allies' health, and he helps Zolph recover after almost suffering from a fatal hallucination. He's just happens to be working with a bunch of wacky cultists.
* BerserkButton: Do NOT compare him to [[MadScientist Masochus]]. He really hates the guy, especially after what happened to Dynn.
* CombatMedic: He participates in the Battle of Ockla Prime, working alongside Neur and Lieutenant Helms. He also reconnects Neur's lekku before she suffers another breakdown.
* HeelFaceTurn: He was revealed to have sided with Maesterus after the Valkoran Empire split.
* RubberForeheadAlien: He's a red-skinned Twi'lek.

A human Valkoran trooper that served under General Ilen Kosar until [[spoiler: the Annihilation of Christophsis]]. After that battle, he serves under Lieutenant Will Helms.

* DrivenToSuicide: After General Kosar is killed and Zolph Vaelor demands the remaining troops under his command to flee, Varson tries to blow his own brains with a blaster, guilt-stricken by the idea of serving under a monster like Valkor. However, [[DefiedTrope Zolph takes the blaster away from him and tells him to make up for his mistake and move on.]] Varson's ultimately thankful for this, as he joins Maesterus's faction when the Valkoran Empire splits.
* HeelFaceTurn: Following Christophsis, he and several others that were serving under Kosar side with Maesterus when the Empire splits.
* PunchClockVillain: He's not shown to be particularly malicious at all. Just an ordinary soldier following orders until Valkor's actions shake his loyalties.

A Twi'lek-Human hybrid from Dathomir suffering from severe brain damage since childhood, she had her lekku (her head-tails) replaced by Machinus and became his surrogate daughter.

* BadassAdorable: She's got a very bubbly personality (at least when her lekku are working), but she's just capable of giving Zolph a challenge as the other Valkoran leaders.

* BreakTheCutie: Her backstory amounts to probably having her father killed, being lobotomized because her people thought she had tumors (said tumors are actually part of a Twi'lek's anatomy), and being abused for being a half-breed.

* EvilAlbino: Due to being half Dathomirian, she's very pale compared to pure-blooded Twi'leks.

* ManChild: Deconstructed. Due to the fact that her real parents were violently abusive and lobotomized her when she was little, she's more or less trying to make up for her lost childhood under Machinus. It is reconstructed after the Valkoran Empire splits in half and Neur confesses her reasons for acting this way to Zolph, resulting in her showing a degree of maturity when the Battle of Ockla Prime comes (however, her psychotic side is still around).
** PsychopathicManchild: If the cybernetic head-tails malfunction or come off, she becomes violently unstable.
* NightmareFace: She sports one when her lekku malfunction.

* RubberForeheadAlien: Half-human example.

* AntiVillain: Most of them can be all over the [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains scale]]. [[PsychoSupporter Other]] [[SociopathicSoldier ones]] however...

* WellIntentionedExtremist: They don't seek to rule the galaxy. They mostly seek to repair it more effectively after the damage the Yuuzhan Vong did and trim down the number of galactic wars. Unfortunately, they are [[UnwittingPawn Unwitting Pawns]] to Forceless Collective.

* AntiVillain: Type I and IV. He lets Zolph leave when defeated and only seems to do the things he does out of loyalty to Maesterus.

* FourStarBadass

* HeroicSacrifice: He sacrifices himself with the ''Doomsayer'' to kill the [[EldritchAbomination Ragnirathan]].

* LoadBearingBoss: Getting injured in anyway caused the engines on the ''Conqueror'' to explode.
* MightyGlacier: His ''Minotaur''-class PoweredArmor is pretty powerful, but slow-moving.

* TookALevelInBadass: Not only is he now in command of the ''Doomsayer'' - the largest ship in the Valkoran Navy and Maesterus's personal flagship - he's also a better combatant thanks to his upgrades.

* PunchClockVillain: He'll only follow orders from Maesterus. [[spoiler: He warns Zolph about Valkor's secret weapon on his own volition when Maesterus worries about Valkor being aware of his treachery.]]

** This gets deconstructed in "The Weapon" [[spoiler: after Emperor Valkor orders the destruction of all life on Christophsis and tries to execute Zolph in the most torturous way possible. When the Emperor orders General Isen Kosar to have Zolph removed (dead or alive), most of his troops are reluctant to kill Zolph due to losing faith in their loyalty Valkor and try to miss their shots on purpose.]]

* WeCanRebuildHim

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: He fills in for a squad of Skakoan Commandos to blow up a [=HyVel=] cannon full of Forceless, knowing that, unlike the Skakoans, he can always come back.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: He sided with Maesterus after the Empire split.]]

* RedemptionPromotion: As the Valkoran Empire (or at least those loyal to Maesterus) started becoming more sympathetic, Helms was not getting literal promotions over time, he started [[TookALevelInBadass taking levels in badass]] and died a lot less.

* TookALevelInBadass: In Episode II, he got promoted twice. [[spoiler: During the Battle of Ockla Prime, he takes advantage of the fact that he can't stay dead to perform a SuicideAttack against a swarm of Forceless.]]

* KnightOfCerebus: When he first appears in "The Enforcer", he greatly demonstrated that not everyone in the Valkoran Empire is an AntiVillain. He then takes it up a notch in "The Weapon".

* TokenEvilTeammate: And unusually for examples of this, he's the leader of the team.

* RobotHair: The mechanical tentacles on the back of his head. Unlike the head-tentacles on organic Nautolans, [[PrehensileHair these tentacles can move with Machinus's neural input]].

* AlienHair: The tentacles on the back of his head.
** PrehensileHair: Unlike the head-tentacles on organic Nautolans, these tentacles can move with Machinus's neural input.

* GlowingMechanicalEyes: He recieved these when he became a droid.

* LaserBlade: Has a lightsaber

* WasOnceAMan: He was a Nautolan Jedi before he transferred his consciousness into a droid.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Discussed in Episode II - Chapter 15. [[spoiler: Even after the Valkoran Empire splits in two and Maesterus's faction made the HeelFaceturn, the latter is still guilty of several war crimes and acknowledge that they probably aren't going to get off scot-free just because they had an EnemyMine with the Galactic Alliance. However, Zolph Vaelor and Admiral Cephal discuss trying to get them some degree of amnesty, as they can't afford to have one of their potential allies bad crippled in the wake of the Forceless Collective.]]

* UndyingLoyalty: If they're working with [[BenevolentBoss Maesterus]]. When it comes to Valkor, [[spoiler: the loyalty of some of the troops gets shaken after the massacre of Christophsis, and the Empire gets split into two factions as a result: one that follows Maesterus and the other follows Valkor.]]

* AGodAmI: [[spoiler: As part of his promises to end all pointless conflict, he wants the entire universe to recognize him as the only deity it needs. Considering [[EldritchAbomination what he is]], he could almost pass for a god. This may also stem from his creator, Hazral Vangeli, trying to pass him off as one of Muriga's gods taking physical form.]]
* AxCrazy: He's usually very reserved, but if he gets agitated enough and his eyes become visible, he can get rather sadistic. [[spoiler: He even tries to torture Zolph before killing him, including [[OffWithHisHead trying to have Mortaqa cut his head off]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath slowly]].]]

* BadBoss: After a failed attempt to execute Zolph, he snaps and [[IHaveYourWife threatens to eat one of his generals' family]] if he doesn't try to capture or kill Zolph. When said general dies trying to kill Zolph, Valkor tries to order the family to be eaten anyway, but Maesterus persuades him not to lest [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating he lose even more popularity]] after [[spoiler: [[MoralEventHorizon killing everyone on Christophsis]].]] After that incident, he's trying to avoid that behavior to keep his troops on his side [[spoiler: but it's too little too late and he loses half his empire.]]
* BigBad: For the entire ''Paranormalities'' trilogy. [[spoiler: However, the prologue of Episode III suggests that the real Valkor Vangeli is just a decoy Herald and his name is being used as an alias by an entity known as Yalbdalaoth, possibly the symbiote.]]
* BishonenLine: [[spoiler: Zigzagged when it comes to his form progression in the Battle of Ockla Prime. His first form is a moderately menacing robotic humanoid form that occasionally oozes Black Matter and does something gross. His second form is a grotesque, formless BlobMonster with incredibly chaotic anatomy and uses half his first form as an interactive puppet. His final form, the colossus, is a bit more elegant but still lovecratian in appearance, and with a base that takes up the entirety of the capital's lowest levels.]]
* BlackHoleBelly: In fact, his "stomach" seems to be another dimension entirely, [[AndIMustScream where the life-forces of every person he's eaten is stored]], and that falls into the millions range. [[spoiler: In fact this stomach, the Pool of Souls, is connected to his Forceless Collective as a whole, which eats any possession victims who have died while being possessed.]]

* TheCaligula: Subverted, as [[DefiedTrope Valkor deliberately tries to avoid coming off as one]], but after [[spoiler: killing everyone on Christophsis to psychologically torment Zolph]], having a VillainousBreakdown and threatening to eat one of his generals' family, he starts playing this trope almost straight. After the campaign, Maesterus advises him not to take it further lest he [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating lose any more public approval]] (even lampshading his descent into madness by comparing him to Masochus), to which Valkor ultimately agrees, as he tries to avoid [[spoiler: killing any more civilian populations when achieving victories through Mortaqa, not that it does anything to win their favor back]]. Suffice to say, while he is undoubtedly insane, he's still far more functional and competent than Masochus.

* CombatPragmatist: He has lightsaber-resistant claws, [[spoiler: and he defeats General Ven Choi in a duel the General initially seems to be doing well in by simply ripping his respirator mask off his face.]] He's also [[DefiedTrope not above attacking people]] [[TalkingIsAFreeAction while they are conversing with him or anyone else over comlink]].
* CoolMask: [[spoiler: His face underneath his mask is made completely of Black Matter while his head is a blank robotic head module.]]

* EldritchAbomination: Don't be fooled by [[HumanoidAbomination his initial shape]]. That's just a robotic shell containing his true form, which could be described as an infinitely expanding pool of Black Matter. [[spoiler: He heavily emphasizes the Eldritch part after Maesterus cuts his shell in half and when he turns himself into a colossus. And the avatar on Ockla Prime was one for Yalbdalaoth, the lead symbiote of his Forceless Collective.]]
* EvilerThanThou: [[spoiler: Gestroma learned this the hard way.]]
* ExtraEyes / EyesDoNotBelongThere : He can generate lots of these, especially outside his robotic body.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Being EatenAlive by him [[spoiler: and trapped in the Pool of Souls]] can be considered this.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's very soft-spoken and polite, but inside, he's a remorseless sadist. For example, [[spoiler: he tauntingly commends Zolph for resisting his attempts to bring him over the DespairEventHorizon]].

* GlowingEyesOfDoom / RedEyesTakeWarning: Just like most Forceless. In fact, if his eyes become visible at all... RUN!
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler: Maesterus diagonally bisects his humanoid body. However, since said body is just a shell, it hardly fazes him.]]
* ImAHumanitarian: He may be about the size of human being, but he's capable of devouring other people his size. Unfortunately, [[AndIMustScream those eaten alive by don't become one with the Force]], [[spoiler: but are kept in a pseudo-afterlife he calls the [[{{Room101}} Pool of Souls]]]]. It's also suggested that [[ForTheEvulz he doesn't eat people for nourishment and prefers to eat them alive, when they haven't become one with the Force yet]].

* KickTheDog: He was the one who ordered Dynn Manthis's [[BodyHorror mutation]]. [[spoiler: He also murders an entire planet just to psychologically torment Zolph and let him know how he's going to kill him, and he kills Maesterus in a disturbingly elaborate fashion for all on Ockla Prime to see.]]

** However, he plays it straight when he [[spoiler: assimilates Gestroma into his Forceless Collective. He also plays it straight again when he places a sleeper symbiote inside of Masochus and refuses to help regenerate his body when Grein and Armogeist are about to kill him.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: Deconstructed in-universe. [[spoiler: Several Valkoran soldiers grow disillusioned with their loyalty to him after they witness him order the annihilation of Christophsis. Even Maesterus tells him he's crossing a line (for specifics, this is the first time the Valkoran Empire has committed planetary genocide in its four-thousand-year history), and it's confirmed one month later at the end of "Facade" that half the Valkoran Empire has defected.]]

** [[spoiler: If he had just ordered Mortaqa to kill only the Galactic Alliance forces on Christophsis and not the civilian population as well and [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim just killed Zolph quickly]] instead of [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing him]], he wouldn't have lost half his empire's loyalty and Ockla Prime wouldn't be vulnerable to a full-scale invasion from the Alliance.]]

* NightmareFace: Concept art shows he doesn't actually have a physical face, but rather one made from Black Matter. [[spoiler: When he does take his mask in front of Maesterus, he's deliberately trying to invoke this.]]

* OhCrap: He has a very subtle one [[spoiler: when Zolph is able to properly control his Force channeling for once and fails to stop Zolph from completing the transformation, as Zolph now has the power to destroy him.]]
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler: He does this twice in the Battle of Ockla Prime. First, after his robotic body gets cut in half, revealing his true form. Then, he assimilates the severed head of the Ragnirathan and a few other Forceless to turn himself into a Black Matter colossus with a base that floods the surface level of the capital.]]

* {{Troll}}: He really loves to push the buttons of any enemies he's emotionally tormented for a long time, such as his various attempts to break Zolph and treat them like something [[ButForMeItWasTuesday he does every day]]. [[spoiler: During the Battle of Ockla Prime, he deactivates the elevator to his throne room (which is set atop the tallest building on the planet) just to make Zolph and Maesterus "tour the palace" (for the first time in four-thousand years in the latter's case).]]

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: According to Juganak, he has some followers that are [[PsychoSupporter fanatically loyal]] to him, especially if they were ''born'' in the Valkoran Empire. [[spoiler: This changes after the annihilation of Christophsis, putting him between this and ZeroPercentApprovalRating and causing half the empire to defect.]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: After getting skewered through his arms, Valkor cuts off all of his wings before impaling him with multiple tentacles.]]

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: He not only killed an Archfiend, he also defeated [[spoiler: Zolph's dark Force Channeling form by waiting for it to wear off.]]

* TheDragon / DragonWithAnAgenda: To Valkor, although you wouldn't think this initially [[TheHeavy since he's the most prominent villain in Episode I]].

* HeelFaceTurn: He still works with the Valkoran, but he does what he can to oppose Valkor without getting his attention. [[spoiler: It comes full circle after the Valkoran Empire splits.]]

** [[spoiler: Played straight at the end of Episode II, where he leaves himself open to being skewered by several CombatTentacles when he saves Zolph from being crushed to death by Valkor, eventually resulting in his own death.]]

* MadeOfIron: Every encounter Zolph's had with him, he's proved almost impossible to kill. He has survived getting thrown through a wall, hit by a piece of a large statue, thrown out a stories-high window, drenched in acid rain, shot by ship blaster fire and knocked into a lava pit, exposure to the vacuum of space and flying close to a star. He lampshades his tendency to survive things that would kill most people after Harphscor tries to kill him with a strong wind and Maesterus attacks him. [[spoiler: However, Valkor manages to pierce his defenses and [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice do some fatal damage]].]]

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Unsurprisingly, he sided with Maesterus when the Valkoran Empire split.]]

* YouAreInCommandNow: [[spoiler: After Maesterus is killed by Valkor, he is made the new leader of the Valkoran separatists, later renamed the Seferite Order in Maesterus's memory.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: He sided with Maesterus when the Valkoran Empire split. That said, he was always wary of Valkor.]]

* {{Fangirl}}: Of Zolph, particularly when she's sane. [[{{Yandere}} But when she's insane...]] [[spoiler: She eventually tones this down after the Valkoran Empire splits.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: She sided with Maesterus after the Empire split, but according to her, she didn't just do it just because Machinus did.]]
* LargeHam: When her lekku gets damaged and [[CuteAndPsycho her other side]] crops up, she can milk the scenery for all it's worth. [[spoiler: This is especially true in the Battle of Ockla Prime.]]
* ManChild: Deconstructed. Due to the fact that her real parents were violently abusive and lobotomized her when she was little, she's more or less trying to make up for her lost childhood under Machinus. [[spoiler: It is reconstructed after the Valkoran Empire splits in half and Neur confesses her reasons for acting this way to Zolph, resulting in her showing a degree of maturity when the Battle of Ockla Prime comes (however, her psychotic side is still around).]]

* {{Yandere}}: She is this towards Zolph when she's in psycho mode. She thinks Grein is taking advantage of him [[InsaneTrollLogic just because she's there]]. Of course, this is partially justified due to the fact she grew up in a society of abusive misandrists. [[spoiler: By the time the Valkoran Empire splits, she started to deviate from this behavior through therapy.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: He sided with Maesterus when the Valkoran Empire split.]]

* BerserkButton: Just say "Moraband" or any other name for Korriban in front of him or challenge his philosophy on who can use the Force, and he'll just lose any marbles he didn't lose before. [[SubvertedTrope However]], seeing as [[ThePowerOfHate he needs his hate to keep him alive]] and [[HatesEveryoneEqually he hates everyone]], these could just be [[BlatantLies blatantly-made-up pretenses]] for satisfying his blood lust.

* CountryMatters: [[spoiler: He almost calls Grein by the c-word when he attempts to [[BreastAttack cut her breasts off]], but [[CurseCutShort he's unable to finish saying it when Armogeist interrupts by cutting his arm off by surprise]].]]

* EunuchsAreEvil: After seeing him [[BrainBleach "in his lack of a birthday suit"]], Gahmah Raan describes him as "infertile". [[spoiler: It's implied that Grein [[GroinAttack castrated him]] in retaliation for raping Emilin after she was possessed by Facadma. Unfortunately for Grein, this led Masochus to [[BreastAttack cutting off Emilin's breasts]] [[RevengeByProxy in retaliation]] and try to do the same to Grein once he got the opportunity.]]

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: By both Grein and Armogeist at the same time, also resulting in him [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe getting cut in half.]]
* InsaneTrollLogic: He tries to claim that [[spoiler: Emilin herself and Grein are at fault for the former's possession by Valkor, even though Masochus sold her out and later he claims Grein to be a terrible sister for being unable to MercyKill Emilin herself, when Emilin as Mortaqa would have killed her very easily if within a certain proximity of one another]]. Fittingly, this warped logic is justified as Masochus is both very insane and he's a massive {{Troll}}.

* KarmaHoudini: Played with. He got away with most of his atrocities scot-free throughout his life, but the only times before the war he's suffered LaserGuidedKarma are when the Sith exiled him for being StupidEvil and [[spoiler: when [[GroinAttack Grein castrated him in retaliation for cutting Emilin's breasts off]]]]. [[spoiler: When it seems he suffers what would be a KarmicDeath at the hands of both Armogeist and Grein, he's a Houdini from his own perspective because being devoured by Valkor's Black Matter is just free immortality (for everyone else, it's a FateWorseThanDeath). Armogeist laments this, but Grein reminds him that at least he can't harm anyone anymore.]]
* KickTheDog: He's quite prone to this, such as [[spoiler: cutting off Emilin's breasts]] and taunting Grein over her [[spoiler: not [[MercyKill Mercy Killing]] Emilin herself and only communicating with her one last time via hologram]].
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: He quickly fled from Guaymar once Stythanyx was killed and [[spoiler: he learned more about Zolph's transformation properties.]]

* MoralMyopia: [[spoiler: He thinks he did nothing wrong by raping Emilin, but he feels like he was wronged when [[GroinAttack Grein castrated him]] and that she and Emilin deserve to have their breasts cut off in retaliation.]]

* ObviouslyEvil: A former Sith Lord that looks like a flayed zombie perpetually sporting a SlasherSmile, reanimates corpses and takes perverse joy out of torturing people? [[spoiler: It's not much of a surprise that he's still sided with Valkor after the Empire splits.]]

* TheStarscream: Subverted. Valkor suspects him of being this to him due to the Sith's ChronicBackstabbingDisorder tendencies, but it hasn't been confirmed if Masochus actually planned or is planning to backstab Valkor. As a countermeasure, [[spoiler: Valkor places a Forceless sleeper symbiote inside his body to ensure his loyalty. However, Masochus confirms to Grein that he has no such ambitions and is only drinking Valkor's Kool-Aid because he just wants to satisfy his own bloodlust]].
* StupidEvil: For how vicious he is, Masochus's love for inflicting pain on his own allies can - in addition to making nearly everyone he's met hate him - be counterproductive for Valkor's long-term goals, [[spoiler: especially after the Empire splits in half and he needs to be extra careful about [[WeHaveReserves casually wasting minions]]]]. Some of these actions are partially justified in that [[ThePowerOfHate he needs to be evil just to keep himself alive]].
* SycophanticServant: [[spoiler: In contrast to the common Sith Lord, Masochus mindlessly follows Valkor solely as an excuse for [[ForTheEvulz satisfying his desire to inflict pain]]. However, given his history as an ex-Sith Lord, most suspect him of [[ProfessionalButtKisser trying to butter up Valkor]] before [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder backstabbing]] him. And since Valkor has very little patience for both backstabbers and sycophants, he puts a sleeper symbiote in him to keep him in check.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Sided with Maesterus after the Empire split.]]

* LeeroyJenkins: [[spoiler: During the Battle of Ockla Prime, he goes directly after Masochus despite being ordered to take the upper levels of the capital with Neur. This gets subverted later, as he waits to team up with Grein to Masochus down.]]

* NoSell: Since he no longer has an organic body, electrocution barely affects him, if it affects him at all since he has no nerves to fry. Not even Force lightning works, [[spoiler: as Masochus learns.]]
* {{Revenge}}: He ''very much'' desires this against Masochus. [[spoiler: He and Grein both get to share it.]]

* TokenEvilTeammate: Not really evil (see above), but [[spoiler: when he sides with Maesterus after the Valkoran Empire splits, he's still suffering the taint of the Dark Side and still desires to put Masochus's head on his pike for what he did to him. He's still pretty mellow compared to the stereotypical Sith Lord, and he calms down after Masochus dies.]]

* ExtraEyes: Her mask has three eyes on it [[spoiler: but she only has two underneath]].

* [[SinisterScythe Sinister]] [[LaserBlade Laser]] [[SinisterScythe Scythe]]: Her weapon of choice is a lightsaber scythe with a metal blade that coats itself in superheated plasma. The purpose of the metal is give the blade a specific shape. It's also based on a weapon from Muriga.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Sided with Maesterus after the Valkoran Empire split. This means the ''Doomsayer'' also became part of the Valkoran resistance.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: He sacrifices himself with the ''Doomsayer'' to kill the [[EldritchAbomination Ragnirathan]].]]

* ThisIsUnforgivable: [[spoiler: What he thinks of what he did in the Battle of Ithor and what Valkor did to Dynn Manthis.]]

** [[spoiler: During the Battle of Ockla Prime, he takes advantage of this trait to perform a HeroicSacrifice instead of having the one-lived Skakoan Commandos enact a suicide bombing on a hypervelocity cannon infested with Forceless. He reincarnates not long after.]]

* CombatMedic: [[spoiler: He participates in the Battle of Ockla Prime, working alongside Neur and Lieutenant Helms. He also reconnects Neur's lekku before she suffers another breakdown.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: He was revealed to have sided with Maesterus after the Valkoran Empire split.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: After General Kosar is killed and Zolph Vaelor demands the remaining troops under his command to flee, Varson tries to blow his own brains with a blaster, guilt-stricken by the idea of serving under a monster like Valkor. However, [[DefiedTrope Zolph takes the blaster away from him and tells him to make up for his mistake and move on.]] [[spoiler: Varson's ultimately thankful for this, as he joins Maesterus's faction when the Valkoran Empire splits.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Following Christophsis, he and several others that were serving under Kosar side with Maesterus when the Empire splits.]]
* PunchClockVillain: He's not shown to be particularly malicious at all. Just an ordinary soldier following orders [[spoiler: until Valkor's actions shake his loyalties.]]

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* AmbiguouslyHuman: His lack of skin makes it hard to tell what species he is and his species isn't explicitly stated, but considering his background and his [[FantasticRacism specieism]], he can be assumed to be either a human or a Sith Pureblood.

* TechnicallyLivingZombie: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed.]] He looks very skeletal due to skinning himself, but he never actually died to begin with. [[RealityEnsues However, since he got rid of muscles too, he's essentially an invalid without the Force to move his body]] and [[AWizardDidIt only hasn't died from his self-mutilation because of the Dark Side]].

* TooDumbToLive: Some of Helms' deaths can fall into this, such as coming to Masochus despite refusing to provide him another corpse for his ArmyOfTheDead. He also describes his childhood self as being this.

** Masochus abuses this in "Defector", going so far as to make an ArmyOfTheDead out of his corpses.

* BadAss

%%* BadAss

* BadAss: According to General Choi, he ripped an [[HumongousMecha AT-AT's]] leg off with his bare hands and walked through harsh climate shirtless.

* MoralEventHorizon: Deconstructed in-universe. [[spoiler: Several Valkoran soldiers grow disillusioned with their loyalty to him after they witness him order the annihilation of Christophsis. Even Maesterus tells him he's crossing a line, and it's confirmed one month later at the end of "Facade" that half the Valkoran Empire has defected

** [[spoiler: Played straight at the end of Episode II, where he leaves himself open to being skewered by several CombatTentacles when he saves Zolph from being crushed to death by Valkor.]]

* BreakTheCutie: Goes through a [[AndIMustScream severe]] case of this once her symbiotic arm decides to torture her.

* {{Troll}}: Towards Valkor. When he taunted Arcidus to burn him while attacking him, he did so when Maesterus ordered him to do as he said.

* WhereIwasBornAndRazed: He also burned his own home down when he accidentally killed his parents.

* OnlySaneMan: Compared to the other Valkoran leaders, he doesn't have any notably freakish traits (aside from SuperStrength) nor does he have lingering mental issues. This gets lampshaded by Armogeist.

* FishPeople: He used to be a Nautolan. His current body even resembles one.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Justified because he used to be a Nautolan.
* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: Mostly averted since he used to a Nautolan, but because he has no lungs to breathe with, he can't make an actual sigh and just says "sigh" as if he were actually sighing.

* NightmareFetishist: According to him, he found [[spoiler: Dynn Manthis to be more beautiful when she was [[BodyHorror transformed by her arm]].]]

* PsychopathicManchild: He will act like a spoiled child to get whatever he wants or when he doesn't, and will kill people [[CruelAndUnusualDeath horribly for the most trivial of reasons]], such as the name of the Sith homeworld.

* SadistTeacher: Towards Armogeist.

* SquishyWizard: Thanks to his self-mutilation, his body his very frail and relies on the Force to do everything, including moving his own limbs since he doesn't have the muscle strength to move them naturally.

* TechnicallyLivingZombie: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed.]] He looks very skeletal due to skinning himself, but he never actually died to begin with. [[RealityEnsues However, since he got rid of muscles too, he's essentially an invalid without the Force to move his body]] and [[ThePowerOfHate only hasn't died from his self-mutilation because of the Dark Side]].

* DeathSeeker: Unlike most Sith, he actually seeks to die a dignified death, but he's been forbidden from becoming with the Force because Valkor still has uses for him (and being smashed into multiple sheets of metal wouldn't allow him to die either since [[AndIMustScream he'd still be bound to them]]). [[spoiler: Even after siding with Maesterus following the Empire's division, it's implied he's still staying in the material world by choice so he can get rid of Masochus and stop the Forceless Collective.]]

* DeathSeeker: Considering that she's been possessed by an Archfiend for at least three-thousand years, you can't blame her.

* [[SinisterScythe Sinister]] [[LaserBlade Laser]] [[SinisterScythe Scythe]]: Her weapon of choice is a lightsaber scythe with a metal core in the blade.

* TheCaligula: According to Will Helms, he also kidnapped and killed him just so he could use his corpse to [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext make an organic astromech droid]]. When he's finally introduced in the story, he also killed Helms over and over again just to make an ArmyOfTheDead from his corpses. This is [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] in his backstory, where he was this even during his time as a Sith Lord, to the point that the rest of the [[EvenEvilHasStandards Sith took action against him and exiled him]].

* BadBoss: According to Will Helms, he has Mind Tricked other Valkoran soldiers into committing suicide. He's also experimented on his own allies, dead or alive.

* TheCaligula: According to Will Helms, he also kidnapped and killed him just so he could use his corpse to make an organic astromech droid. When he's finally introduced in the story, he also killed Helms over and over again just to make an ArmyOfTheDead from his corpses. This is [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] in his backstory, where he was this even during his time as a Sith Lord, to the point that the rest of the [[EvenEvilHasStandards Sith took action against him and exiled him]].

* EvilIsPetty: He dipped a pregnant woman into an acid pool just for calling Korriban by one of its other names. And he tries to kill Gahmah Raan for mentioning that trees can use the Force.

* LaughablyEvil:He can seem hilarious one moment [[MoodWhiplash before he reveals his true colors]].

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's shown to be explicitly racist towards other species that aren't human or Sith. However, [[HatesEveryoneEqually he hates everyone anyway.]]

* TheStarscream: Subverted. Valkor suspects him of being this to him due to the Sith's ChronicBackstabbingDisorder tendencies, but it hasn't been confirmed if Masochus actually planned or is planning to backstab Valkor. As a countermeasure, [[spoiler: Valkor places a Forceless sleeper symbiote inside his body to ensure his loyalty.]]

* {{Troll}}: He really gets off on tormenting people emotionally, especially Zolph and Grein. Gahmah Raan [[HoistByHisOwnPetard turns this against him]] when he says "Moraband", and as Raan points out to Grein, this is a common tactic to [[IShallTauntYou throw opposing Force users off balance]].

* NoSell: Since he no longer has an organic body, electrocution barely affects. Not even Force lightning works, [[spoiler: as Masochus learns.]]

* TokenGoodTeammate: Judging by his demeanor, he was one for the Sith.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Not really evil, but [[spoiler: when he sides with Maesterus after the Valkoran Empire splits, he's still suffering the taint of the Dark Side and still desires to put Masochus's head on his pike. He's still pretty mellow compared to the stereotypical Sith Lord, and he calms down after Masochus dies.]]

* SamusIsAGirl: Horrifically deconstructed. To Zolph, her gender wasn't immediately obvious until Maesterus pointed it out, but according to her sister, Grein, Emilin wasn't androgynous and her breasts were cut off sometime after her possession.

** FacelessMooks: Most of them.

* WeHardlyKnewYe: She's only around for one scene, only to be killed by Zolph not long after she's introduced.

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: He predicted that Zolph would bring an EMP grenade to try to take him out in one shot. His body was made to counteract this.

* AnArmAndALeg: Zolph cuts her right arm off on Tatooine (when he learns of her betrayal). It then gets replaced with a Forceless symbiote.

* DatingCatwoman: Between her and Zolph Vaelor.
%%* DeadpanSnarker

* DyingAsYourself

* HeroesWantRedheads
** [[EvilRedhead Anti-Villainous Redhead]]

* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: [[LaserBlade Lightsabers]] are already this, but his is [[BlackBladesAreCooler black]], and also referred to as a Darksaber or Stealth Lightsaber.

* ScarsAreForever: He has some burn scars on his face from back when he had no control over his ignition powers.

[[folder:Dynn Manthis]]

* AntiVillain: [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains A mix of Type I, III and IV]]. Like Maesterus and most of the Valkoran, she's only interested in bringing the galaxy out of its state of disrepair. [[spoiler: Subverted later when General Choi reveals that she was sent as a ReverseMole [[GoodAllAlong to get a better understanding of the Valkoran Empire early in the war]], but she was unable to contact him after she got the Forceless arm.]]
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: She was resurrected by Valkor sometime after the Battle of Krantisi, but it happened so far away from the galaxy that nobody knows about this for months. When Valkor tells Zolph about this at the end of Episode II, he only does so just to torment Zolph further (because Zolph suspects he's most likely [[BlatantLies lying]] [[HopeSpot just to crush his spirit later]] or [[CassandraTruth telling him the truth]] but taunting him with the unlikelihood he'll ever see her again (or if he does, [[YanktheDogsChain lose her again]]). Episode III's prologue reveals that the Forceless Collective revived her one month after Krantisi with the intent of using her as a psychological weapon against Zolph again. However, she wasn't letting it happen that time and escaped with Admon Onae and few other Sleheyron victims.]]
* BadassTransplant: Her Forceless arm gives her a whip. Unfortunately for her, it also has a mind of its own. [[spoiler: When the Forceless Collective resurrects her with the arm, she wastes no time trying to get rid of it before it can mutate her again]].

* DeathEqualsRedemption: She and the Valkoran weren't really all that evil in the first place, but their actions were [[WellIntentionedExtremist kind of extreme]]. As she's dying, she tells Zolph to make sure the Valkoran understand the errors of their ways. [[spoiler: Subverted in that [[FakeDefector not only was she actually working undercover for the Galactic Alliance the whole time]], the Forceless Collective resurrected her and she is now working with a small resistance movement on their homeworld.]]

The personal enforcer and apprentice of Maesterus.

* AntiVillain: Type IV. Revealed in "The Enforcer".

This Force-user led the attack that orphaned Zolph and is the public face of the Valkoran Empire. He served as the main villain for Episode I. He is also a long-lived ancestor of Zolph Vaelor's.

* AGodAmI: [[spoiler: As part of his promises to end all pointless conflict, he wants the entire universe to recognize him as the only deity it needs. Considering [[EldritchAbomination what he is]], he could almost pass for a god.]]

* BigBad: For the entire ''Paranormalities'' trilogy.

* EldritchAbomination: Don't be fooled by [[HumanoidAbomination his initial shape]]. That's just a robotic shell containing his true form, which could be described as an infinitely expanding pool of Black Matter. [[spoiler: He heavily emphasizes the Eldritch part after Maesterus cuts his shell in half and when he turns himself into a colossus.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: Deconstructed in-universe. [[spoiler: Several Valkoran soldiers grow disillusioned with their loyalty to him after they witness him order the annihilation of Christophsis. Even Maesterus tells him he's crossing a line, and it's confirmed one month later at the end of "Facade" that half the Valkoran Empire has defected.]]

* {{Troll}}: He really loves to push the buttons of any enemies he's emotionally tormented for a long time, such as his various attempts to break Zolph and treat them like something [[BuForMeItWasTuesday he does every day]]. [[spoiler: During the Battle of Ockla Prime, he deactivates the elevator to his throne room (which is set atop the tallest building on the planet) just to make Zolph and Maesterus "tour the palace" (for the first time in four-thousand years in the latter's case).]]

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