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!!Viktoria
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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[ItHasBeenAnHonor "My good thief..."]]'']]


->'''Voiced by:''' Terri Brosius


-->''"Choice?! My choice is to avenge the death of a friend! You understand nothing of suffering and duty, pathetic manfool! In one moment I could... The past is the past, now we have an enemy in common. Even you must see that it is so."''

Viktoria returns in ''The Metal Age'', now effectively the leader of the Pagans after the Trickster's demise, helping to organize a resistance movement against Karras, the Mechanists and the corrupt City Watch, as well as forming a [[EnemyMine vital alliance]] with a certain Master Thief, despite their many misgivings towards one another.

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* AscendedExtra: After being more of a BitCharacter in ''The Dark Project''.
* BigGood: Despite her flaws she is arguably the closest thing to this in the Metal Age, organizing and leading the resistance and plot to investigate and put an end to the plans and genocide of [[OmnicidalManiac Karras]] and the Mechanists. She is also the one to bring [[TheHero Garrett]] into the fold, convincing him to stop being so apathetic and selfish and put his talents into aiding her in this goal, with him [[KnightInSourArmor reluctantly agreeing]] and eventually succeeding in saving the world and accepting his destiny, thanks to her. She is definitely this from the Pagan perspective.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She is highly polite and to-the-point in serious discussions, but whenever she shows her anger or powers, be afraid. She is legitimately terrifying and seriously powerful.
* BloodOath: [[spoiler:With Garrett in ''The Metal Age''. Being a nymph/dryad, it's more of a "sap oath" on her part...]]
* BrainyBrunette: While she shows signs of being [[HairTriggerTemper rather hot-headed in her decision making]], she's very intelligent and cunning, leading the Pagan agents in the City.
* TheBusCameBack: After [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse her whereabouts]] were LeftHanging since we last see her in ''The Dark Project'', she came back as a major character in ''The Metal Age''.
* CensorShadow: Is very clearly implied [[ItMakesSenseInContext to be completely nude throughout all her scenes]] in ''The Metal Age'', but her full body is only ever shown as a dark silhouette.
* CharacterDevelopment: Receives plenty of it in ''The Metal Age'', especially after she [[spoiler:allies with Garrett and slowly befriends him]].
* CooperationGambit: [[spoiler: It's heavily implied that Viktoria is the "contact" through which Garrett is given the Shoalsgate job, and all the information he's provided to help him are due to the fact that the Pagans have already infiltrated the station and are currently trying to wrestle the control of it out of Karras' hands, with the information provided by Lieutenant Mosley, who by then had joined their cause. Understandably, given their past, Viktoria decided to not hire Garrett directly, and instead seemingly decided to draw him towards her and into her cause from afar over time]].
* CuteMonsterGirl: The Wood Nymph fantasy variant on a good day. She can be significantly more alarming when she wants.
* DarkActionGirl: Represents an antagonistic version in ''The Dark Project'' and a more morally grey and borderline heroic version in ''The Metal Age''.
* DarkIsNotEvil: At least by the time of the Metal Age she isn't. Despite how sinister she looks and seems and her past actions and motivations, she is the leader of the primary active resistance working to investigate [[OmnicidalManiac Karras]] and put an end to his Metal Age and the Mechanist order once and for all. If done more to save her fellow Pagans and nature than caring for the City.
* DeadpanSnarker: Not competing with Garrett, but she has her moments. Some of her mild jabs at him even seem a bit playful.
* EasilyForgiven: In sequel, despite her former betrayal, cruel maiming of Garrett and leaving him for slow death, he is convinced to cooperate with Viktoria with a little effort, though remains bitter about it for a time.
* EnigmaticMinion: Her loyalties seemed pretty clear and straightforward in ''The Dark Project'', but it gets subverted after her reappearance in ''The Metal Age''.
* {{Expy}}: Think of her as [[Franchise/SherlockHolmes Irene Adler]], if Adler had nature-based superpowers. Some of her demeanour is also [[ShoutOut reminescent of]] Rachael from ''Film/BladeRunner''.
* FatalFlaw: Her anger and impatience are what ultimately lead her to her doom at Soulforge Cathedral.
* FemmeFatale: Somewhat present (but downplayed) in her characterization in ''The Dark Project''. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], because she's acting as an undercover agent of her faction and its leader.
* FriendlyEnemy: Becomes one with [[spoiler:Garrett]] in ''The Metal Age'', [[EnemyMine out of rather pragmatic reasons]]. Despite this, [[FireForgedFriends an honest friendship eventually forms between the two]].
* GreenThumb: Her ability to generate plant life from thin air is crucial to the final mission of ''Thief II'', since [[spoiler:the Rust Gas replicates itself upon contact with organic matter, so filling the cathedral with plants will result in it being flooded with the gas after the Masked Servants are redirected there. Unfortunately, creating too many plants too fast is lethal to her.]]
* HairTriggerTemper: She has a few justified {{Berserk Button}}s and doesn't shy away from insinuating what her opinion is of persons who have wronged her. Also, in terms of taking action against threats, she is rather happy-go-lucky. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, this second kind of behaviour is what brings her to her doom in ''The Metal Age'', after having a ConflictBall argument with Garrett over how to stop the Mechanists in time.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:In ''The Metal Age''.]]
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: [[spoiler:To Garrett in ''The Metal Age'', after she realizes her plan backfired and the only way she can give them them a fighting chance against the main villain is to sacrifice herself by tearing herself to pieces, covering the surroundings with plants. As usual, Garrett doesn't approve of her move and is furious, but he's powerless to stop her. The moment just before Viktoria commits suicide is followed by [[HowlOfSorrow Garrett's only anguished scream]] heard in the entire series.]]
* TheLancer: To [[spoiler:Garrett]] in ''The Metal Age''. An odder variation, since they don't work together on the spot and conduct their missions separately.
* MoralityChain: Subtly becomes this to Garrett over the course of the Metal Age, turning him away from his [[AntiHero cold, loner, selfishness and apathy]] and towards the [[KnightInSourArmor heroism he normally scorns]], as they grow closer working together to stop [[OmnicidalManiac Karras]], bringing out the best in him, making him start to care about what is happening to the world and to other people. When he panics over the prospect of storming Soulforge Cathedral, he tries to abandon her, but the mere word that she is in danger makes him [[ConscienceMakesYouGoBack change his mind and go back]] to try to save her. While he fails, she inspires him in her HeroicSacrifice to defeat Karras and the Mechanists once and for all, to save the world and [[ResignedToTheCall to stop fleeing from his destiny.]]
** She also becomes this to Dyan in Deadly Shadows posthumously, when she wants to have Garrett killed for stealing a Pagan artifact, but remembers how Viktoria felt about Garrett and offers him another way to make it up to the Pagans without violence.
* MysteriousWoman: Even when we learn she is a Dryad and she gets closer to Garrett, in many ways neither we nor Garrett ever get to find out who she really is or her past.
* NatureSpirit: Emphasis on the wild and chaotic aspects of nature, ''not'' the sweet and cuddly ones.
* OnlyOneName: Like all the Pagan faction characters in the series.
* OvercomeTheirDifferences: She's actually the one who proposes this trope to [[spoiler:Garrett]], so they could work together on saving The City from a new threat.
* ShipTease: With [[spoiler:Garrett]] in ''The Metal Age''. Some of their conversations are...well, thinly-veiled. But due to their mutually antagonistic history with each other and very different natures and personalities, they remain snarky friends at best and bickering allies at worst.
* SinisterSilhouettes: The way she's portrayed in cutscenes that show her whole body, especially during moments when she's using her powers.
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: She and Garrett engage in it all throughout Metal Age, and she proves just as talented at it as the master thief. Though it does ease up a bit, or at least become less biting and more flirtatious, as they bond steadily.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Occasionally spelled by some characters with a "c". Most of her appearances have her name spelled with a "k".
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Her basic set of powers [[spoiler:with a very plant-like quality to it.]]

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!! First Keeper Orland

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->'''Voiced by:''' Dan Thron

* EarlyBirdCameo: Along with Caduca and Gamall, he makes his single appearance in ''The Metal Age'' in one of the animated cutscenes. He'll become an AscendedExtra in ''[[VideoGame/ThiefDeadlyShadows Deadly Shadows]]'', becoming the First Keeper of the order by the time the third game's story picks up.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Shows off his distrustful stance towards Garrett already in his first brief appearance in ''The Metal Age''.
* {{Jerkass}}: He is well-meaning and just wants to preserve the Keeper order and its function, but frequently shows incompetence or comes across as abrasive and paranoid.


!! Interpreter Caduca
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->'''Voiced by:''' Esra Gaffin

* BlindSeer: She's blind, but can "read" the Keeper glyphs by touching them. Blindness isn't a requirement of the position, and her predecessor praised her for the unique clarity she had when reading the glyphs in this manner when he recommended her for promotion into his role.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: She might come across as this due to how extremely focused she is on her role within the Keeper order. However, if you meet her in-game character model personally in ''Deadly Shadows'', she'll talk and react like any other person (though with a more tired and elderly tone).
* EarlyBirdCameo: Along with Orland and Gamall, she makes her single appearance in ''The Metal Age'' in one of the animated cutscenes. She'll become an AscendedExtra in ''[[VideoGame/ThiefDeadlyShadows Deadly Shadows]]''.
* MeaningfulName: In RealLife, 'Caduc-' is a Latin root, standing for 'old', such as in the word 'caducous'.
* OddCouple: One half of the prophecy-reading team of the Keepers, the other being Gamall.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Though she looks like a really old, withered lady, it is implied that all Keepers who adopt her role within the order age at a far more rapid pace. This occurs presumably due to the far greater exposure to the Keeper's powerful [[spoiler:Glyph Magic]].

!! Translator Gamall
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->'''Voiced by:''' Nancy Taylor

* CreepyChild: Oh, ''yes''...
* CreepyMonotone: Her style of speech, even outside of her Translator trance.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Along with Orland and Caduca, she makes her single appearance in ''The Metal Age'' in one of the animated cutscenes. She becomes an AscendedExtra in ''[[VideoGame/ThiefDeadlyShadows Deadly Shadows]]''.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Is she ever... and a child example, at that.
* MeaningfulName: In RealLife, the word "gamall" is Scandinavian (and Tolkien-talk) for "old".
* OddCouple: One half of the prophecy-reading team of the Keepers, the other being Caduca.
* OracularUrchin: Subverted by the fact that she and Caduca need to work ''together as a team'' in order to read and translate prophecies. Gamall doesn't read the prophecies, she only translates Caduca's readings in ancient or secret languages in which the prophecies were written.
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* ArcherArchetype: Disregarding the magical ranged attack of Mechanist priests, the crossbowmen are the main ranged guard unit of the Mechanists. This is one of the things that distinguishes the Mechanists from the Hammerites even further, as the Hammerite tradition prefers melee-only guards.

* ArcherArchetype: Peculiarly, armed with a ranged instead of a melee weapon. They use the Mechanist pistol crossbows as their weapons.

* BigBad: Of ''The Metal Age''. Came from the ranks of the Hammerites, founded and leads their Mechanist offshoot, [[spoiler: plotting to kill every organic being the entire world and live surrounded by machines singing his praises]].

* CooperationGambit: [[spoiler: It's heavily implied that Viktoria is the "contact" through which Garrett is given the Shoalsgate job, and all the information he's provided to help him are due to the fact that the Pagans have already infiltrated the station and are currently trying to wrestle the control of it out of Karras's hands, with the information provided by Lieutenant Mosley, who by then had joined their cause. Understandably, given their past, Viktoria decided to not hire Garrett directly, and instead seemingly decided to draw him towards her and into her cause from afar over time]].

* MysteriousWoman: Even when we learn she is a Dryad and she gets closer to Garrett, in many ways neither we or Garrett ever get to find out who she really is or her past.

* DaChief: The Sheriff of of the City Watch during ''The Metal Age''.

* WalkingSpoiler: Their true nature is one of the first signs a player has that the Mechanists are not on the up-and-up, and any trope concerning them (as you can see) lets the cat of the bag.

* {{Mooks}}: The commonest Mechanist {{NPC}} and the main Mechanist melee unit.

* {{Mooks}}: Slightly less common than the Worker Bot, but otherwise the commonest and largest robotic minion of the Mechanists. Due to its size, durability and firepower, it can be a fairly [[BossInMookClothing formidable opponent]] if it catches you sneaking around.

* TheChick

* SniperPistol: Their {{weapon of choice}} is a crossbow pistol.

* ArcherArchetype: Peculiarly, armed with a ranged instead of a melee weapon. They use the Mechanist pistol crossbows as their WeaponOfChoice.

* TalkingToYourself: Garrett and Karras share the same voice actor, so interactions play out like this.

* MoralityChain: Subtly becomes this to Garrett over the course of the Metal Age, turning him away from his [[AntiHero cold, loner, selfishness and apathy]] and towards the [[KnightInSourArmor heroism he normally scorns]], as they grow closer working together to stop [[OmnicidalManiac Karras]], bringing out the best in him, making him start to care about what is happening to the world and to other people. When he panics over the prospect of storming Soulforge Cathedral, he tries to abandon her, but the mere word that she is in danger makes him [[ConscienceMakesYouGoBack change his mind and go back]] to try to save her. While he fails, she inspires him in her HeroicSacrifice to defeat Karras and the Mechanists once and for all, to save the world and [[ResignedToTheCall to stop fleeing from his destiny.]] She also becomes this to Dyan in Deadly Shadows posthumously, when she wants to have Garrett killed for stealing a Pagan artifact, but remembers how Viktoria felt about Garrett and offers him another way to make it up to the Pagans without violence.

* EvilGloating: He talks '''constantly''' throughout the final level, doing a combination of this trope, TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, and HannibalLecture.