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The Raven
The Dragon Commander
The main protagonist.
- The Corrupter: How the Elves or Undead can end up seeing him with regards to their respective princesses if you choose to challenge their cultural norms.
- The Blue Beard: It's completely possible for the Commander to sacrifice each and every single one of his wives to Corvus in exchange for power. All your allies will quickly piece together you are responsible and act appropriately disgusted.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": You can give your character a name, but everyone will call you simply "Commander", "Emperor" or "The Dragon." The only exceptions are the potential wives (who make use of pet names) and Henry and Edmund at the start of the game (who charmingly call you "bastard").
- The Good King: He can aim for this direction, but do note that being a good and strong ruler at the same time that manages to please everyone won't be an easy task.
- Half-Human Hybrid: His father was a human emperor, while his mom was a dragon.
- Heroic Mime: The Dragon Commander has a lot of dialogue, but their voice is never heard.
- Hidden Backup Prince: He was raised by Maxos in secret and emerged after his evil siblings turned on their father and deposed him.
- Kick the Dog: Offering terrible advice and cruel choices will ruin the lives of your generals, your wives, your advisors, and your empire.
- Lesser of Two Evils: The only feasible reason why your allies still support you if you make all the evil decisions is that your half-siblings are even worse.
- Perfectly Arranged Marriage: If you come to love your new wife and she loves you in turn.
- Royal Bastard: To Emperor Sigurd, who married a female dragon disguised as a noblewoman that gave birth to a child. Given she is referred as the Dragon Queen, that would make your claim legitimate.
- Sickeningly Sweethearts: Some dialogue with Lohannah and Ophelia suggests they and the Dragon Commander can end up this way.
- Villain Protagonist: You can turn into a pretty ruthless despot who rules with an iron fist, especially if you follow the Undead's advice.
- Youngest Child Wins
Maxos
- Ascended Extra: His research played an important role in Divinity II. The dragons eventually gave him the power to bestow the dragon transformation onto those he chooses, which eventually led to the events of the game unfolding.
- Glowing Eyes
- Horrible Judge of Character: In Divinity II, it is mentioned that for all his wisdom he was fairly naive when it came to people. He expected that his Dragon Knights would naturally take to their role as fair and just rulers, not accounting for the possibility that this power could corrupt people. Both of his last students, Lovis and Amdusias, gravely disappointed him in that regard. You can too if you decide to become a tyrant.
- Not So Above It All: Though stoic and professional, Maxos momentarily lets his guard down when the Dragon Commander chooses a wife. If selecting Ophelia, Maxos reacts with a baffled "Really?" before recomposing himself. If selecting Lohannah, he admits her elven beauty is the sort he desired when 500 years younger.
- Really 700 Years Old
- What the Hell, Hero?: Will rightly call you out like everyone else if you decide to sacrifice all four of your wives to Corvus, then decides that he's had enough and, until both Corvus and his influence on you are gone, there will be no more weddings on the Raven.
- Wizard Classic: About the only thing he's missing is the pointy hat.
Grumio
- Gadgeteer Genius: Played with, in that he's quite the skilled engineer, but some of his creations aren't entirely his own.
- Unwitting Pawn: To Corvus. The demon makes the wizard work for every advancement, but he gives revelations freely to Grumio in dreams so he can build even greater weapons of war.
Corvus (Unmarked Spoilers)
- Big Bad: He is responsible for starting the plot by driving the Commander's siblings to madness, but also for nearly every bad thing happening in his life.
- The Corrupter: Will try to tempt you to sacrifice those under your protection with the promises of power. Whether or not he accomplishes this is up to you.
- Deal with the Devil: You can allow him to feast on some of your subjects, make him improve relations with one faction at the cost of another and even hand over your wife to become his Blood Servant. Depending on what you offer, Corvus will reward your sacrifice with an appropriately. However, every deal you make will make Corvus more powerful as well, making him more dangerous when he turns against you in the final act.
- Dream Walker: In his dreams, Corvus can travel to other worlds and consume the souls of Rivellon's citizenry.
- Evil Sounds Deep: He has a chillingly deep baritone oozing with a morbid charm.
- Evil Laugh: Indulges in this at the start of the final act, taunting the protagonist over snatching victory away when it was within grasp.
- Faux Affably Evil: Is nothing but polite when he talks to the Dragon Commander, but he fully intends to make him suffer endless torment for no reason other than he can.
- Final Boss: Of sorts. You never actually get to fight Corvus himself due to him being bound to the Raven, but he takes command of and empowers all of your remaining enemies in the final act to keep the war going, becoming both your final opponent and every enemy unit before you can secure Rivellon.
- For the Evulz: Corvus has no motivation beyond wishing to cause even more destructive and bloody war.
- Graceful Loser: While he is not remotely happy about being defeated, he ultimately accepts that he has lost and awaits his impending death, hoping that Maxos will at least end him swiftly.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Imbuing the Dragon Commander's enemies with his essence ultimately causes him to lose almost all of his strength when they are destroyed, leaving him all but powerless.
- Killed Offscreen: After his armies are defeated, Maxos gets rid of Corvus and destroys all of the technology he inspired so the war cannot be repeated.
- Leaking Can of Evil: Although Corvus is bound to the Raven, he still offers aid to the Dragon Commander's murderous half-siblings and can consume the souls of others if the Dragon Commander gives him permission to do so. In the final act, he uses Blood Magic to empower the Dragon Commander's remaining enemies in a bid to extend the war.
- Me's a Crowd: Every enemy you fight in the final act is under Corvus' control through Blood Magic, who considers them all a part of him.
Corvus: "Hehehe! Have you come in search of my powers, dragon? O you are woefully too late! I have spent them all on myself, my every thousands of selves! Blood Magic... yes! I am the one who roams the many!"
- Nothing Can Stop Us Now!: Will quote this verbatim if you give him all four of your wives.
- This Cannot Be!: His defeat at the end of the game leaves him completely dumbfounded.
- Villain Respect: He admits that he can't help but be in awe of the Dragon Commander after his armies are slain.
- Walking Spoiler: It is difficult to talk about him without revealing his nature and role in the game's plot.
Princesses
In General
- Arranged Marriage: You are required to marry one of them in Act II to ensure political alliances. You can work it out and turn it into Perfectly Arranged Marriage.
- Gratuitous Princess: The four available love interests to the main character are all royal young ladies.
- Interspecies Romance: They all belong to a different species than the Commander, who is a human/dragon hybrid. Justified, since he doesn't need to secure an alliance with humans, but needs to form one with the non-humans.
- Hot Consort: To the Emperor of Rivellion (which is the player).
- Ms. Fanservice: They all qualify to a degree, since they are all very buxom as noted above and considered very beautiful In-Universe too if Scarlett drooling over them is any indication. Aida and Lohannah fit this trope more closely due to looking more conventionally attractive, but Camilla counts as a gorgeous Cute Monster Girl. Ophelia subverts this trope at first due to being a walking skeleton, but it's possible to gain more beautiful bodies if you pursue a relationship with her.
- Romance Sidequest: You can pursue a relationship with any of them that will develop their characters significantly.
- Significant Wardrobe Shift: All of the brides can have this at the end of the game, depending on how they've developed.
- If Lohannah becomes more pragmatic and less naive she will change out of her flimsy elven clothes into ones more dwarven in style. She keeps her outfit if she remains naive.
- Camilla will always change into a more queenly outfit, but the stricter path gives a more severe wardrobe while the freer path is slightly more relaxed in look.
- Aida has three options. The middle path has no change, the reconciliation with her father is a more conservative dress, and the revenge path is a more wild dress.
- Ophelia, with one exception, changes her whole look. She is normally topless and either a vampire, a robot, a robot with flesh covering that resembles a attractive flesh golem, or a human. Notably, one of these ( the uncovered robot) sees everything but her wardrobe change.
- Video Game Cruelty Potential: If you are feeling particularly cruel or sadistic, you can sacrifice your current wife to Corvus in exchange of power. This can come across as a really bad idea when it turns out to be your enemy you have been inadvertently empowering with your loved ones.
- World of Buxom: All four princesses have massive chests - including the lizard and undead princesses.
Camilla
- Abusive Parents: She mentions later into her arc that she lived a very strict life and was harshly punished for even the slightest infractions.
- Cute Monster Girl: Compared to other lizard characters in the game, she looks distinctly human-like.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: She's initially haughty and dismissive of her role as your Queen. If you marry her and then encourage her to rule on cases according to the spirit and not the letter of the law, she can soften to the point where she admits she may even love you one day.
- Karmic Jackpot: Should the Dragon Commander guide Camilla to the right path, she will establish a Supreme Court with her as the Supreme Judge.
- Lie Back and Think of England: If encouraged to be more rigid, she will say that if the issue of heirs ever comes up, she will close her eyes and "think of Justice."
- Non-Mammal Mammaries: She is quite stacked, despite being a lizard herself.
- Sexless Marriage: Camilla makes it clear early on in their relationship that she married the Commander for political reasons, and if he is looking for affection, he should find himself a concubine. Should you manage to soften her, she admits this may no longer be the case.
- Reptiles Are Abhorrent: While she is not really evil, she acts the coldest of all your love interests.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: She's the only one of the available brides that actually has a job.
- To Be Lawful or Good: Her Character Development essentially boils down to this: she starts out very inclined towards the side of the Law in the beginning, but depending on your interactions she may either soften up or become even more rigid than before.
Aida
- Big, Screwed-Up Family: She's not on good terms with her father, to put it mildly. Her plotline involves either reconciling her with her father or setting in motion the circumstances that lead to his death.
- Daddy Issues: One of the reasons why she pursues trying to get married off with you is just to get as far as possible away from the old man.
- Fiery Redhead: Naturally, for a hard-drinking dwarf.
- Tsundere
- Vengeance Feels Empty: If Aida allows her hateful father to die and takes his throne, she admits that she is left feeling empty.
Lohannah
- The Ageless: Elves do not die of old age.
- Blind Obedience: Her storyline implies she always approaches the Dragon Commander for every matter, trivial or important, and obeys his advice with little hesitation.
- Brainless Beauty: Played with. Lohannah possesses strong academic knowledge, but her lack of worldly experience results in bad common sense. However she is aware of this shortcoming and approaches the Dragon Commander to confirm her thoughts. Therefore when she does something misguided it is because her husband, who she trusts implicitly, told her it was the right thing to do.
- Can't Argue with Elves: Traditionalist elves believe themselves superior to all other species in lore and society.
- Fantastic Racism: If she becomes an elven traditionalist, she strongly dislikes dwarves and prefers the company of elves.
- Fate Worse than Death: Elves do not die of old age. Therefore a life sentence would last an eternity.
- Gilded Cage: If she is sentenced to life in incarceration for involuntary manslaughter, the Dragon Commander can have that sentence served aboard the Raven (and his palace after the war).
- Garden Garment: If she convinced to never break elven traditions, her attire will shift to a gown made of green leaves and decorative gold.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She has dirty blonde hair, but she comes across as the most naïve and innocent of all your available brides.
- Letting Her Hair Down: If encouraged to be more pragmatic, she adopts a more loose hairstyle.
- Living Emotional Crutch: If she adheres to elven traditions, she is comparatively more dependent on the Dragon Commander than other queens. Lohannah will lack self confidence and prefer to obey elven teachings, unless her husband advises otherwise.
- Sheltered Aristocrat: She has spent her life as one of these. Her storyline involves either making her more pragmatic by exposing her to other cultures or encouraging her to adhere more closely to elven traditions.
- Thinks Like a Romance Novel: Compares to her marriage to romantic stories she's read in books.
Ophelia
- Added Alliterative Appeal: Her speech is peppered with it.
- All of the Other Reindeer: She is treated as an outcast among her people especially because of the mysterious disease killing her, and the Undead are looking for an excuse to remove her from the court. The only way to make her accepted to her people is giving her a golden mechanical body, which makes her truly blessed among the undead for achieving immortality.
- Blind Obedience: Her storyline implies she always approaches the Dragon Commander for every matter, trivial or important, and obeys his advice with zero regret.
- Brain Uploading: The only way to save her life is to transfer her consciousness to another new body.
- The Dark Arts: Converses with demons and studies necromancy.
- Dem Bones: How she starts out. It doesn't last too long, depending on your choices.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Her vampire story arc. It might be overlooked, because she happily throws herself on the floor for the Dragon Commander's affection, but the living members of the Raven's crew are rightly terrified of the vampire queen.
- Godiva Hair: In her living human, vampire and flesh golem form at least.
- Hikikomori: She appears to keep herself confined to her quarters aboard the Raven, and only leaves to complete life or death errands... or to feed when a vampire.
- I Love the Dead: If the Commander choses her, their union will cause quite the scandal for him engaging in necrophilia.
- Monster Progenitor: Prospera comments that Ophelia's contagion is spreading if she becomes a vampire.
- Our Demons Are Different: If she becomes a vampire, everyone identifies her as a demoness. Yorick describes her as an undead blood drinking succubus. This is because she is the first vampire the world has ever seen, the term has yet to exist, and no one has any idea what she has truly become. Prospera even comments Ophelia's, "contagion is spreading," without realizing the full implication of what that heralds.
- Robot Girl: If you opt to transplant her soul into a mechanical body.
- Shrinking Violet: She is painfully shy and submissive due to her upbringing.
- Silk Hiding Steel: When she becomes the first vampire. Remains absolutely submissive to her husband, but is very vivid how she hunts prey for blood.
- Start of Darkness: Her vampire story arc.
- Stripperific: After losing her skeletal form, she remains partially nude in her quarters. While women are considered property and second class citizens in Undead society, their culture also frowns upon public nudity. Therefore Ophelia remaining shirtless is done to appeal to her husband in private.
- Undeath Always Ends: Zig-zagged to hell and back. Depending on your choices, Ophelia can become either a living human woman, a golden construct revered by her people, a Flesh Golem, a vampire or a painting made flesh.
- Vampires Are Sex Gods: She continues to prefer being topless as a vampire.
- Vampire Monarch: If she becomes an everlasting vampire queen.
Other Royalty
Sigurd
The first Emperor of Rivellon, and father of the protagonist.
- Clueless Boss: While Sigurd was an effective Emperor at one point, his rule became so weak in the last decade that his children were able to amass armies in secret with the intention of deposing him.
- Plot-Triggering Death: His death at the hand of his bastards is what begins the story.
- Posthumous Character
Theron
Aida's father, the Dwarven king.
- Abusive Parents: His daughter's treatment is truly appalling, he also constantly badmouths her in the tabloids.
- The Ghost: He never appears onscreen and he is only alluded in a relationship with Aida.
- Fed to Pigs: If Aida allows Theron to be killed, you can encourage her to dispose of his body in this way.
- 0% Approval Rating: So much so that his people will celebrate his death.
Generals
Lord Henry
- An Arm and a Leg: Henry lost his arm and eye trying to defend Emperor Sigurd. Sadly, his fellow generals deserted their posts and the Emperor was killed by his children.
- Artificial Limbs: As a result of the aforementioned battle.
- I Work Alone: As a result of his fellow generals' betrayal, Henry adopts an "every man for himself" outlook, which you can either encourage or discourage.
- Papa Wolf: When his daughter is targeted by assassins, he immediately takes off to defend her. He even threatens to destroy the Skeleton Spire — the undead race's most holy site — if she ends up being kidnapped.
- Old Soldier: Though he still has a couple decades of fighting left in him.
Edmund
- Deadpan Snarker: Oh, is he ever. Virtually every interaction with Edmund drips with caustic wit.
- High-Class Glass
- Insufferable Genius: His intelligence is his most prized virtue. Helping him grow beyond his bigoted views involves placing him in situations where he's forced to admit that prejudice clouded his rationality and insight.
- Interspecies Romance: With an elven beauty named E'Lhissabetha. Your advice can either ensure the relationship continues or ends when he challenges her dad to a Duel to the Death.
- Noble Bigot: You can either encourage him to set aside his bigoted views or encourage him to be even more of a racist ponce.
Scarlett
- I Have No Son!: Her parents encouraged Scarlett to keep her homosexuality secret or else they would disown her.
- The Alcoholic: She's already a hard drinker, but if you encourage her to keep her sexuality secret, she either enters a religious order or becomes a drunk.
- Transparent Closet: Between her salivating over your brides and championing every gay rights cause, her revealing that she's a lesbian doesn't come as much of a shocker.
Catherine
- Does Not Like Men: She really doesn't and it's clear she was always like this, saying that men in her kingdom did menial tasks as nature intended.
- Fallen Princess: Fallen Queen to be precise, but she fits the mold.
- Hypocrite: She is outraged when she hears Trinculo is going to marry off his twelve year old daughter to a forty year old man and demands the Emperor institute an age restriction and a requirement of consent for marriage. You have the option to point out that she did the exact same thing as Trinculo with her sons when she was queen. Unfortunately, if you want to pass the restrictions anyway, you'll have to pass up the opportunity to call her out on this since it is tied with blocking the restrictions.
- Hypocrite Has a Point: While (as mentioned) she is guilty of it as well, she is right that Trinculo is forcing his young daughter to marry someone several years older than she is.
- Jerkass: She is one of the most unpleasant people on your side, and that is saying something when next to Yorrick and Edmund.
- Matriarchy: She is the former ruler of one, at any rate.
- Straw Feminist: To put it mildly.
- Strawman Has a Point: In truth, many of the reforms proposed by Catherine actually make sense — equal pay for women, the end of misogynistic traditions that victimized dwarven brides, etc. But she comes off as such an overbearing man-hater, some players are tempted to deny her out of spite.
Councilors
Yorrick
- Everyone Has Standards:
- Despite being one of the nastier and unfriendly people on your side, he will be just as disgusted at the Commander as everyone else if he arranges the deaths of his wives.
- He is also completely horrified by what happened in Harrowridge. He may call for severe punishments for sinning, but the genocide is going too far.
Yorrick: "By the Seven, Commander, what has happened in the Town of Harrowridge is truly abominable. Such crimes committed by my kinsmen... I can hardly believe it."
- Expressive Skull: His eyeholes and teeth will sometimes move just like a face.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Among your council, he is not very well-liked because of his grumpy attitude and highly conservative policies. Even his own political ally Falstaff isn't very fond of him.
- The Fundamentalist: Like all Undead, he is hyper-religious and generally proposes religious-based edicts.
- In the Hood: Wears a black one that gives him a distinctive Grim Reaper look.
- Hypocrite: While medicine is explicitly forbidden by his religion and he votes against national health care, Yorrick is willing to... ahem... make an exception for the sake of fixing his brittle knee.
- Shout-Out: His name is a not-so-subtle reference to the character Yorick from Hamlet.
- Skeletons in the Coat Closet: He's a skeleton who wears skulls as part of his clothing.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: If you anger him by refusing to censor violent games and literature, he will go on a small tirade about you'll be the next person sitting under their bed with a candle with questionable content, accidentally set fire to the bed and that if you're not fortunate enough to come back as an undead... he decides to stop at that point.
- Unstoppable Rage: While his attitudes are probably one of the ones the player will oppose the most, if they refuse to make religious education mandatory, they will witness one of the few times Yorrick is well and truly furious.
Trinculo Shortfuse
- Artificial Limbs: Like many other imps, in fact.
- Heads or Tails?: At one point when commenting on the freedom of the press to print lies and sensationalist articles, a matter that the imps have no investment in, he decides his position by flipping a coin.
Falstaff Silvervein
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: If something can make money, there's very little he won't do to see it happen. Selling narcotics, getting children addicted to cigarettes. It's all fair game.
- Everyone Has Standards: Greedy as he is, the imps plan to lobotomize workers to make them more productive is where he draws the line.
- He's particularly wary when Yorrick proposes Indulgencesnote . While he does like the potential profit, the idea that you can bribe the gods and grease sacred spaces with material trading feels wrong to him.
- Fur and Loathing: There's a wolf pelt constantly draped over his shoulders.
- Our Dwarves Are All the Same: Falstaff embodies all the dwarfy tropes: a love of gold, ale and family traditions.
Oberon
- Not So Above It All: Despite being pretty liberal in his politics, Oberon is willing to bribe the Dragon Commander to cover up the crimes of an elven noble who murders suspected homosexuals under the guise of hunting necromancers.
- He also proposes limiting the number of children for imp families, which are considered "complete" once they hit twenty-two progeny.
- Rags to Riches: Oberon came from humble beginnings, but benefited from a scholarship that allowed him to pursue an education.
Prospera
- Only Sane Woman: While she still has her moments, she comes of as the most level-headed and pragmatic of your councilors.
- The Smurfette Principle: She's the only female members of your councilors.
- Your Normal Is Our Taboo: Prospera proposes a ban on public breast-feeding, a departure from her typically liberal views. From a lizard perspective, the sight is quite distasteful, akin to laying eggs in public. Aside from the issue of government scholarships, this is the only time where she and Yorrick will be in agreement while the other councillors are in opposition.
