Line #81 Characters/DarksidersMakers


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9	[[center: [-[[Characters/{{Darksiders}} Main Character Index]] \| [[Characters/DarksidersHorsemen The Horsemen of the Apocalypse]] \| [[Characters/DarksidersCharredCouncil The Charred Council]] \| [[Characters/DarksidersHeaven The Forces of Heaven]] \| [[Characters/DarksidersHell The Forces of Hell]] \| '''The Makers''' \| [[Characters/DarksidersDead The Kingdom of the Dead]] \| [[Characters/DarksidersSevenDeadlySins The Seven Deadly Sins]] \| [[Characters/DarksidersIndependents Independents]] \| [[Characters/DarksidersOthers Others]]]]-]
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11	[[foldercontrol]]
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13	!Makers
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15	[[folder:Makers in General]]
16	An eons old race, the Makers dwell in a Realm called the Forge Lands. The Makers are one of the Old Ones, surviving races which the Creator brought into being. They are charged with the creation of countless universes, where in each one the Creator tried to bring balance.
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18	* BizarreSexualDimorphism: Male Makers tend to have [[TinyHeadedBehemoth disproportionately small heads]] whereas females, while still massive have more balanced proportions.
19	* DyingRace: Their world is on the verge of the Abyss, much of it consumed by Corruption that has killed most of their race. Its implied that all its left of the Makers are the ones met in the Sanctuary in ''Darksiders II'', Ulthane (who is stranded on Earth) and the Mad Smith (who is implied to be undead/turned into a construct). The third game reveals that a few other accompanied Ulthane, but hardly enough to save their people.
20	* MightyGlacier: They're not known for their running speed, but when you're as big as them, you don't need much.
21	* OlderThanTheyLook: How long they live isn't stated, but Kharn (explicitly the youngest of them) talks about 500 years as though it were young. To emphasize that, if you speak to Thane right after the Tears of the Mountain quest, he'll imply that a two ''thousand'' year old is the maker equivalent of a small child.
22	* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: They fit almost every single Dwarf stereotype, except...
23	* OurGiantsAreBigger: They are at least twice the height of human-sized beings. Most enemies in both games are considerably smaller than them.
24	* StoutStrength: Justified given their size and that they are extremely muscular in addition to being big.
25	* TimeAbyss: They're so old, that their souls can't be drawn into the Well of Souls.
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27	[[/folder]]
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29	[[folder:Ulthane]]
30	!!Ulthane
31	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ulthane.jpg]]
32	!!!Voiced by: Creator/JBBlanc
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34	A member of the Makers, Ulthane is encountered by War while searching for the Griever. He fights with War until Uriel and her Hellguard appear. They join forces and beat Uriel and the Hellguard, and after which he directs War to the Griever's Lair.
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36	* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:For his part in causing the premature Apocalypse that ended with so many dead and humanity in danger of extinction]]. He chose to remain on Earth after the End War [[spoiler:in order to save as many humans as he could, and ultimately chose to aid War by reforging the Armageddon Blade to put an end to the Destroyer/Abaddon.]]
37	* BerserkButton: He does not like people touching his things without permission, uninvited people on his property, and strangers in general. One or all of those will most likely result in an ass-whooping, as the Hellguard (and almost War) learned the hard way.
38	* BigGood: Of ''Darksiders III'', where he actively shelters as many humans as he can [[spoiler:and creates a portal for them to leave Earth, ensuring that they survive in secret]].
39	* BloodKnight: He seemed to be enjoying himself during his duel with War (when you use his chaos form to attack him) and when they're competing against each other to see who can kill the most angels.
40	* BodyCountCompetition: Sparks one with War over who can kill the most "pigeons", and will reward you if you win.
41	* BoisterousBruiser: You know someone is one when they straight up turn a battle against angels into a contest to see who can kill the most.
42	* DeadpanSnarker: Calls the angels showing up "pigeons" and likens killing them to removing pests from his yard. Samael found this amusing. [[spoiler: Ironically, it's hinted he's friends with Azrael, an angel. Both of which were two of the three instigators of the premature End War.]]
43	* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: With War, and he got away with it.
44	* TheExile: Imposed this on himself for [[spoiler:his role in unleashing the apocalypse early.]]
45	* FieryRedhead: Red hair? Check. Fiery? Check.
46	* GracefulLoser: If you win the contest to see who can kill the most angels, he won't be mad about it.
47	* HiddenDepths: War is pretty quick to realize to he's hiding something.
48	* NotAfraidToDie: Even when War points his handgun Mercy directly at his face, he simply says...
49	-->'''Ulthane:''' Do I look like I'm afraid of death, boy?
50	* RedBaron: "The Black Hammer"
51	* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Ulthane also co-conspired with Azrael and Abaddon into triggering the End War early. He was the one who forged the Armageddon Blade, which was used to break six of the Seven Seals]].
52	* SuperStrength: Ulthane has so much raw power that he can easily tote around a warhammer so heavy even War initially couldn't hope to pick it up.
53	* ViolentGlaswegian: Loves a good brawl and has a thick Scottish accent.
54	* UltimateBlacksmith: [[spoiler: He created the Armageddon Blade, the one weapon that can kill the Destroyer and break the seals.]]
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56	[[/folder]]
57
58	[[folder:Eideard]]
59	!!Elder Eideard
60	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/darksiderseideard.jpg]]
61	!!!Voiced by: Creator/JamesCosmo
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63	The oldest Maker, and the leader of the survivors.
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65	* DespairEventHorizon: His monologue during his first meeting with Death is rather... ''depressing''.
66	--> '''Eideard''': Life? (laughs) This world is dying, lad. Choking on chaos and Corruption. We can do little to stop it. Soon, the great tree too shall perish, and with it, the last of my people.
67	** However, thanks to Death's arrival, he has a HopeSpot in the form of the Guardian, which was built to destroy the Corruption blocking the Makers' way to the Tree of Life. Cue the next four main questline dungeons...
68	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:He gives up his life force to purify the Guardian from the Corruption that drove it mad and resurrect it.]]
69	* HornyVikings: His appearance is much evocative of theirs. Bonus points as Makers are giant dwarves.
70	* MajorInjuryUnderReaction: Getting [[spoiler:crushed under the Guardian's hammer, leaving him highly bloodied, merely gets him to respond "Makers' bones, that hurt."]]
71	%%%* MadeOfIron: See above.
72	* NiceGuy: Is very personable and polite to Death in spite of being... well... [[GoodIsNotNice Death]].
73	* RankScalesWithAsskicking: He's the leader of the last Makers in the Forge Lands [[spoiler:and can shrug off a massive blow from the Guardian as if it was just a regular punch to the face.]]
74	* StaffOfAuthority: Carries around a big one and is the leader of the surviving Makers.
75	[[/folder]]
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77	[[folder:Karn]]
78	!!Karn
79	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/darksiderskarn.jpg]]
80	!!!Voiced by: Creator/AndreSogliuzzo
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82	The youngest Maker, treated as an impetuous whelp by the others.
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84	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He may not be the brightest (for instance, his "tip the construct" idea), but Karn is very strong and adept at combat.
85	* TheDitz: Three side quests he asks for Death to complete involve collecting memento items that he lost in various dungeons before Death goes into them.
86	* EmbarrassingNickname: "Pup", given to him by his fellow Makers. Naturally, [[DeadpanSnarker Death]] starts calling him that too as soon as he's informed of it. Karn doesn't mind though.
87	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:His reaction to he and Death accidentally corrupting the Guardian and sending it on a rampage.]]
88	* NonStandardCharacterDesign: He's bald and somewhat ugly. Death even lampshades the difference.
89	[[/folder]]
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91	[[folder:Thane]]
92	!!Thane
93	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/darksidersthane.jpg]]
94	!!!Voiced by: Creator/JBBlanc
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96	A warrior Maker who (according to the description of the helmet you find in the side quest "Lost and Found") is also Ulthane's brother. His function in the game is to sell you combat moves and to give you optional quests to powerful {{Superboss}}es: Gorewood, Bheithir, Achidna, and Argul.
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98	* BloodKnight: Eagerly accepts Death's challenge to a duel and even says that he imagines dying on the field of battle.
99	* DeadpanSnarker: Maybe it's just him being bitter about his whole realm being corrupted and a large portion of his race wiped out, but he's pretty sarcastic towards Death.
100	* MercyKill: When giving the quest to kill [[{{Treants}} Gorewood]], he explicitly states this is the goal, as while Gorewood was once a stalwart ally to the Makers, he's too far gone to Corruption to be reasoned with or left alone. When Death returns to inform him the deed is done, he expresses sadness at the necessity of the mission in contrast to the other {{Superboss}}es.
101	* MightyGlacier: In his duel, he is quite slow with highly-telegraphed attacks, but if you fight him when you first meet him, he can and will one-shot you. His health is quite a bit higher than any boss faced up to that point as well, and even with a powerful secondary weapon he'll take quite a few blows to whittle down.
102	* WakeUpCallBoss: If you haven't gotten a handle of how Death's dodging skills go and fight him at the first available opportunity, Thane ''will'' punish you heavily for it with how just one strike from his [[MightyGlacier slow and highly-telegraphed axe will take out most of your health bar]] while you chip away at his own massive one. Defeating him regardless at this early stage will make you a master dodger by the end.
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104	[[/folder]]
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106	[[folder:Alya]]
107	!!Alya
108	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/darksidersayla.jpg]]
109	!!!Voiced by: Elle Newlands
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111	One of only two female Makers that appear in ''Darksiders II''. Alya and her brother Valus run their own small forge, and later the Maker's Forge. Valus isn't that talkative, so his sister is in charge with selling his works.
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113	* UltimateBlacksmith: Not to the extent of her brother, but she still has impressive skills even for a Maker.
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115	[[/folder]]
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117	[[folder:Valus]]
118	!!Valus
119	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/darksidersvalus.png]]
120	!!!Voiced by: Creator/JBBlanc
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122	Alya's brother and fellow blacksmith.
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124	* ICallHerVera: One sidequest has Death looking for Valus' personal weapon (which Alya describes as a "friend") named Splinter-Bone.
125	* TheQuietOne: He hardly says a word, and merely grunts to communicate. Death takes note of this, stating that clearly its Alya's job to do the talking.
126	* SuddenlyVoiced: Sometimes, if you're walking away from the Forge, you can hear him speak up and say "Good luck, Horseman".
127	* UltimateBlacksmith: Just like his sister.
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129	[[/folder]]
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131	[[folder:Muria]]
132	!!Muria
133	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/darksidersmuria.jpg]]
134	!!!Voiced by: Creator/ClaudiaChristian
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136	A shaman of the Makers. Muria sell talismans and potions and even tasks Death with collecting three special items needed for her to make him the Grim Talisman. She also asks Death to slay Ghorn, a Construct she regrets creating due to the suffering it has caused to others and herself.
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138	* BlindSeer: She wears a blindfold around her eyes.
139	* DespairEventHorizon: Many of her conversations with Death seem to have an almost nihilistic tone to them.
140	* GreenThumb: If you approach her and ''not'' hit talk, you can see her using magic to grow plants.
141	* MyGreatestFailure: According to one of the side quests, Muria once tried to make a construct without a Maker's soul named [[PlayingWithFire Ghorn]]. It...didn't go so well, as it went insane and killed at least one other Maker before fleeing. She requests that Death destroy Ghorn, to both put it out of its misery and prevent it from hurting others.
142	* MysticalWhiteHair: Has long silver-hair and has magical powers, including visions and growing plants.
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144	[[/folder]]
145
146	!Constructs
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148	[[folder:Constructs in General]]
149	The creations of the Makers, they are stone or metal constructs animated by Heart Stones forged from the souls of deceased Makers, which are too old to pass through the Well of Souls and so choose to give themselves up to create new life. However, many of these Constructs have either been destroyed or subjected to Corruption, turning against their former people.
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151	* {{Golem}}: What they effectively are. Some are more sentient than others, even able to remember their past lives as Makers.
152	* MightyGlacier: Many of the larger ones don't move fast, but they ''will'' hit hard if their swings connect.
153	* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Not by choice in most cases, but many have become infested by TheCorruption, gone insane, or (in the case of the ones that went to Earth to fight in the End War) enslaved by the Destroyer.
154	[[/folder]]
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156	[[folder:Blackroot]]
157	!!Blackroot
158	[[quoteright:723:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/blackroot.jpg]]
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160	A Construct that has remained rooted to the same spot waiting for his master to return for so long that life has begun to grow over and inside him, leaving him with a hunger for special stones to sate it. He asks Death to gather special "Stonebites" scattered across the realm for him to eat, offering stat boosts for every three stones fed in combination to him.
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162	* BigEater: {{Justified}} though, as he needs to eat to feed the life growing on him, or it will consume ''him'' instead.
163	* CloudCuckooLander: He doesn't seem to be completely there, responding to Death's incredulous demand of wanting to know if he just seriously told him to bring him food with a cheerful "if it's not too much trouble!"
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165	[[/folder]]
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167	[[folder:The Guardian]]
168	!!The Guardian
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170	The largest and most powerful Construct ever created by the Makers, the Guardians was intended to fight the Corruption plaguing the Forge Lands, but the Makers were unable to awaken him before the way to the Foundry was destroyed. Death's main goal in the Forge Lands is to open the path to the Guardian and awaken it to make it fulfill its purpose.
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172	* ArmCannon: Can fire [[spoiler:massive Corruption bombs]] out of its left arm.
173	* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: They weren't kidding about it being the largest Construct; it's so huge that even a Warden would probably only come up to about its lower ''waist''. It requires no less than three Heart Stones to fully awaken when most only require one. The only bosses that surpass it in size are the Wailing Host and Straga, and the latter two need to add the unseen lower halves of their bodies to do so.
174	* MutualKill: [[spoiler:When the Corruption attempts to re-Corrupt it after taking several hits, the Guardian fights back long enough to slam its head into the Corrupted growth and destroy both of them, opening the path to the Tree of Life.]]
175	* OhCrap: It has one when it sees [[spoiler:Death in Reaper Form about to stab his scythe right through its final Heart Stone.]]
176	* ShockwaveStomp: It can do this as an attack if Death is too close to it.
177	[[/folder]]
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179	[[folder:Gharn]]
180	!!Gharn
181	A powerful Construct overtaken by Corruption, Gharn makes his home within the Cauldron and battles Death when the latter arrives to restore the lava flow to the Forge.
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183	* DegradedBoss: After killing Gharn, Death will come across Construct Champions, who are effectively Gharn recast as a MiniBoss with the same moves and appearance (even the Execution animation is the same), though in this case it's {{justified}} in that Gharn may simply had been Construct Champion with the privilege of a name.
184	* HavingABlast: Can blow itself up and reassemble itself afterwards. Notable in being the only move the Construct Champions don't have an equivalent of.
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187	[[folder:Ghorn]]
188	!!Ghorn
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190	A Construct created by the shaman Muria, who attempted to see if it were possible to create one without a Maker's soul. Using a fire elemental's soul, it was technically a success, but Ghorn went mad and escaped. Muria tasks Death with putting an end to Ghorn to stop his rampage and his own suffering.
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192	* AxCrazy: Oh yes. Almost every word out of his mouth is about how he wants to kill Death.
193	* FlunkyBoss: At around the half-way mark, he'll summon some other smaller Constructs to help him out.
194	* MagmaMan: What makes Ghorn unique from other Constructs is that he can manipulate lava, doing so by beating his fists into the ground and causing lava plumes to shoot up into the sky.
195	* MadBomber: Ghorn can make his body explode, doing heavy damage to Death if he's nearby, and then swiftly reform himself from the pieces.
196	* MercyKill: What killing Ghorn actually is.
197	* UndergroundMonkey: Ghorn is effectively Gharn with a red color scheme, albeit with a few unique moves of his own. Even the finishing cutscene is identical.
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