Playable Units: Warriors | Snipers | Guards | Medics | Specialists
Others: Sanctifiers | Entropics | Agents
NOTE: Spoilers Off for Chapters 5.
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Entropics
A virus-like infestation that first made its presence known in the Pierides Sector, during the events of Chapter 5. Any agent that comes into physical contact with the Entropics finds that their neural cloud starts corroding away until they become effectively catatonic.Shared Tropes:
- Alien Kudzu: Their presence is often heralded by a black or purple corrosive sludge that sticks to everything and is just as deadly to neural clouds as the Entropics themselves. This sludge is also sometimes described as "veiny" in certain cutscenes.
- Combat Tentacles: Most Entropics that aren't infected agents are comprised of writhing masses of tentacles, which they effectively use in combat to inflict damage and debuffs.
- Eldritch Abomination: They mostly take on the form of deep sea creatures with a bizarre twist, like the aforementioned Combat Tentacles or creepy eyes on numerous parts of their bodies. Their motives are just as unknowable to most of the cast.
- Killed Off for Real: Entropy is capable of corroding Agents so thoroughly that even their base layer directives are infected. At this point, not even the Agents' usual Resurrective Immortality can return them to normal — the most anybody can do for them is put them down for good to free them from their suffering.
- Starfish Language: Chapter 6 reveals that they have their own incomprehensible language, which is always depicted as black squares whenever Demiurge speaks. Odile has an understanding of the Entropic language despite not originally being an Entropic herself, suggesting that the infection can pass down knowledge of their language if it doesn't outright fry their neural cloud first.
- Straight for the Commander: Antonina points out that they have a tree-like command structure, with High-order Entropics commanding mid-order Entropics, which command low-order ones. The Exiles quickly discover that killing an Entropic causes confusion amongst the ranks under their command. In-game, this translates to all lesser ranked Entropics getting stunned for a few seconds when their commander dies, which the player can exploit for a bit of free damage.
- Walking Spoiler: It's difficult to talk about the faction as a whole without spoiling massive amounts of information.
High-order Entropics
The Voice
A mysterious voice that has compelled a few characters into doing the Entropics' bidding.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Their text is always rendered in red letters.
- Deal with the Devil: Every time they appear, they're shown striking a deal with an innocent character, only for the deal to massively backfire in the voice's favor.
- They're revealed to be the reason why the Enigma Sector's operand black hole exists, having compelled Eniac into absorbing operands to earn her beloved Neumann's approval. This eventually results in her going berserk and losing control over the operands she's absorbed, causing the black hole.
- They're implied to be the reason why an Entropic infestation took hold of the Pierides Sector in Chapter 5. The sector's agents collectively became depressive after the Wipe-off Incident rendered the sector's art gallery inoperable, losing their purpose in life. One of Odile's Flashbacks reveals that a "mysterious outsider" planted an Entropy-spreading flower in their gardens, which granted them enough operands to get the gallery running again... at least until the flower started infecting everybody. Odile's sister, Odette, and the other infected agents speak with red letters, implying that the "mysterious outsider" is the voice from Chapter 4.
- Foreshadowing: They're introduced in Chapter 4 long before a single Entropic ever appears in the story, which happens partway through Chapter 5.
- My Name Is ???: A blank space shows up where the character's name would normally be in their dialogue boxes.
Demiurge
- Cute Monster Girl: Unlike the other Entropics, the half of her that isn't comprised solely of Combat Tentacles is a busty woman with long white hair and chalk skin, akin to some of the Sangvis Ferri ringleaders in Girls' Frontline. Taranum's experiment logs reveal that she "grew up" almost like a normal human would, and in these flashbacks Demiurge is depicted as a little girl.
- Hulk Speak: Most of her inner thoughts are comprised of simple sentence fragments, and her speech was initially this shortly after she stopped being The Unintelligible.
- It Can Think: First manifests as learning rudimentary speech after Taranum fed her enough of Copley's agents, much to her surprise. After she shows up on the ocean's surface, it's shown that she doesn't necessarily need to feed in order to learn, as she quickly adapts to the tactics of the Exiles and Sanctifiers attacking her all by herself.
- Line-of-Sight Name: She refers to other characters by their most obvious identifying features, such as calling Taranum "Bad Deep Blue" and Odile "Black Swan", both before and after her speech capabilities improved through experimentation.
- Tragic Monster: She spent most of her life cooped up in an electric barrier deep underwater, subject to painful experimentation from Taranum in order to study the Entropy, with her only joy in life being the agents Taranum fed her. The only other thing she got to experience in life was a taste of true freedom free from pain, thanks to Odile helping her breaking out of her underwater prison, only for Odile herself to kill her in cold blood.
Unknown Caller 1/Malkira
First introduced in The Stinger for Chapter 6 as a name-only appearance, she's revealed to be the mastermind behind Odile's attack on the Copley Sector.
- Affably Evil: She's introduced as a happy-go-lucky black goat skipping around a random Null Sector in Magrasea, and she talks to her partner in crime in a cutesy tone. She's also the leader of the Entropics as a whole.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Her name is always rendered in the dark purple text, like some of the other Entropics.
- There Can Be Only One: She sent Odile to Copley Sector to neutralize Demiurge and the Entropics under her command, as the Entropics' directives command them to have only one "Arbiter" at a time. Malkira and her business partner also feared unspecified reputational damage that would've occurred, had Demiurge broke out of Copley.
- You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: She expresses surprise at her business partner using her real name, claiming that they haven't done so in a long time.
Unknown Caller 2
Malkira's "business partner", introduced alongside her at the end of Chapter 6.
- No-Nonsense Nemesis: Their brief conversation with Malkira implies this, getting straight to the matter at hand regarding the Copley Sector incident and generally not having any of her playful tone. The two of them have somehow maintained a fruitful business relationship for a long time, despite their differences in personality.
"Poimandres"/Great Creation/False God
- Kaiju: Physically, it's the largest threat anybody in Magrasea has ever faced. Sueyoi even name-drops the trope when describing it.
- Meaningful Name: Poimandres
is the name of a mythical entity based in Hermeticism that is the "mind of God", according to its most common English translation. Rather fitting, considering it was created to replace the humans the Ascension sector considerd "God" after the Wipe-off Incident cut off all contact with them. - Yin-Yang Bomb: One of Elaugh's flashbacks reveals that Avram designed the False God around the core of an unnamed Intermediate Sanctifier infected by Entropy, with Crime and Punishment finding about this the hard way during their battle. Said flashback also reveals that Eucharist was the one who supplied the core, who did so mainly to cover up an unspecified wrongdoing she committed while under house arrest at the Reverse Tower of Babel.
Ptolemaea
- Defeat Means Friendship: How she ended up under Eucharist's command in the first place. She explains to the Professor that she subjugated Ptolemaea somewhere in Magrasea's borderlands and decided to make her one of her minions instead of outright destroying her. This is a nod to Eucharist's master Eosphorous, who himself freely wields Entropy against his enemies, as revealed at the end of the Perilous Advancement event.
- Cute Monster Girl: Much like Odile and Demiurge, she is one of these. In her case, she's an anthropomorphic jellyfish girl.
- Energy Absorption: Her speciality lies in this. In-game, she absorbs energy from Geyser Tiles that she spawns, increasing her own damage slowly while she absorbs operands from them. During much of Perilous Advancement's plot, the threat she presents to the Oasis is her Operand-siphoning powers taking down the sector's critical systems one by one while overwhelming the Exiles with her sheer numbers.
- Flat Character: There's not much to her other than the threat she poses to the Oasis, her personality quirks, and being Eucharist's underling.
- Flunky Boss: One of her skills, Hadal Summons, spawns up to three jellyfish minions that inherit a small portion of her stats.
- Mad Artist: She treats every battle as if it were a ballroom, with her allies and enemies both being its dancers.
- Me's a Crowd: The jellyfish minions she commands are technically clones of her. Lind finds out the hard way that "killing" what looks like her main body just forces her to take the place of one of her nearby mooks.
