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Protagonist and harem

Alyssa Gillespie

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The protagonist. Formerly a (supposedly) psychopathic woman from post-soviet Russia, she died when a car gave her a nice "fender massage" sending her head-first into the curb. Her soul reincarnated into the character of Alyssa Gillespie, the designated villainess of an otome game she played shortly before the accident. Desperate to avoid all the "bad endings" the game routes have in store for her, she seeks out a "third option." In the process, she learns why OG Alyssa always ends up an old maid; closet lesbian, which she discovers by skimming through the original's memories and then meeting Closet Key Moon Unit. She eventually ends up with four wives and a daughter, as of the most recent chapters.

Accidental Discovery: She once accidentally cut off some fingers when she was working on the king's commission, as she was in a foul mood and wasn't as focused as normal. The fingers in question transformed into spiders and skittered off due to her rather urgent desire not to let Bridgit know about this accidental self-mutilation. This gave her... ideas.
Angrish: Whenever she goes "Arglbargl!" it means she's angry or frustrated enough to bite someone's head off. Sometimes literally, though usually the line is uttered when biting the head off is unavailable for some reason.
Antihero: She genuinely wants the world to be a better place - out of consideration that better world equals better commodities. She is not squeamish about the means necessary to achieve better world, and gods help you if you target one of the individuals she considers important on personal level.
Awesome by Analysis: She can reverse engineer spells by studying the magic formula. In fact, she reverse engineered the very same transport spell the Sultanate crown prince used to kidnap princess Nortrop-Cullen and has been using teleport magic to move goods around ever since. Being a shoggoth, she can teleport herself just fine, as the Go Mad from the Revelation stuff only happens to humans.
Badass Boast: When Salaadin makes the mistake of threatening Alyssa's country, friends, and family as a result of daring to refuse to marry a man of his choosing, she invokes manifestation of Tuonela (also known as "River of Death") to spawn corpse-animating bees throughout the entire Sultanate and then declares that she had done "something horrible" and that it will take more than apology to settle this. She makes a point of telling Salaadin she believes him to be too prideful to concede right off the bat, and therefore he will suffer along with his country until his pride is whittled down enough for him to bend knee and offer up a part of his lands to save the rest of them of his own volition.
Berserk Button: Don't. Be. Wantonly. Stupid. A momentary lapse is fine, nobody can be a mensa-level genius 24/7, but if you go out of your way to be Too Dumb to Live and/or Lethally Stupid, she will do the universe a favor and remove you from the gene-pool first chance she gets, and if you're dumb enough, she removes your entire bloodline with you.
Bizarre Alien Reproduction: She went to bed one night, had a strange dream, and woke up the next morning to find she now has a daughter Cy greeting her "good morning, Mom" and a note from the gods saying "keep up the good work." Fortunately for her, there is precedent for this kind of thing, called a "wizard's nightmare". A moment of intense stress can cause a wizard to spontaneously bring something into existence, though usually what comes out is malevolent...
Bizarre Alien Sexes: For simplicity, she identifies as a female, especially since she disguises herself as a human woman, but the truth is more complicated. For brevity, let's just say she's intimately familiar with tentacle play in the bedroom, and yes, it's off-screen.
Blue-and-Orange Morality: Which she frequently lampshades. Her unique shoggoth neuro-chemistry leads to having a moral compass that is, at best, odd.
Breaking the Cycle of Bad Parenting: Alyssa Prime had horrid parents. She strives to dote on her daughter Cy, leaving the little girl wanting for nothing, especially affection.
The Chosen One: By the time the story reaches chapter 6, and she's upgrading the country's infrastructure with roads of primitive asphalt, she learns that her actions match up with the prophecy of the high-priest of Argyl on his death-bed given shortly after the catastrophic volcano eruption devastated dwarven polity of Azul Tal, turning it into modern Ashenvale. Her response was an epic Cluster F-Bomb.
"Seven dark years will be endured by sons of Dorn, and much will be lost. Our salvation comes from the land of long nights and long snow. The secrets will be revealed, the kin will be gathered and the city will be built. A city that will eclipse the sky and straddle the earth, a city where rivers of metal will run on the shores of clay."
Alyssa: Shit. Fuck. Shit. FUUUCKING SHIT! This realm has goddamn destiny.
Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: She does not take mockery lightly. People who pick a fight and refuse to stand down will be hunted down, and if need be, their entire bloodline is going with them.
Eldritch Abomination: She is actually a shoggoth and her true form causes severe sanity damage in unprepared.
Even the Girls Want Her: Her human disguise is very attractive, and she winds up married to four women because the women in question sought her hand in marriage, not the other way around.
Exotic Weapon Supremacy: To most effectively leverage her super-human strength, she wields a Bec De Corbain, an unholy love-child between a halberd and a war-hammer, with the hammer-head filled with mercury for maximum effectiveness and weapon balance. Tends to make those heads she doesn't chow on go splat...
Gone Horribly Right: When she was set upon by assassins in chapter 99, she commandeers Sir Jerome's sword to deal with them. Feeling a bit guilty about the gore on the blade, she etches a permanent cleaning enchantment onto it. When Sir Jerome uses it to deal with a particularly uncooperative survivor (hashishins are notoriously resistant to interrogation owing to a mix of fanaticism and being kept in dark about every detail not directly relevant to the hit they are to carry out), the enchantment reacts to the blood on the blade by boiling away ALL of the blood in question including what is still within the hashishin, giving him a Cruel and Unusual Death. This gives sir Malachi (leader of the Inquisition, folks that deal with obviously supernatural threats like ghouls and vampires) ideas, and he asks for a copy of the cantrip to arm his monster-hunting squads with swords enchanted thusly.
Harem Seeker: Somewhat subverted in the fact that in her own words "I did not choose harem, the harem chose me.".
I Am a Humanitarian: She has no issues with literally eating people, though she is also wary about falling into a habit of doing this. Eating someone`s brains allows for a limited understanding of their thoughts and plans immediately prior to being eaten.
Inventor of the Mundane: Using modern Earth knowledge and "shoggoth bullshit" she invents stuff modern society takes for granted: cold medicine, ripple steel, processed sugar, distilled alcohol, you name it.
Involuntary Shapeshifting: Once the Power Incontinence sets in, or she gets sufficiently agitated emotionally, her human disguise starts to fray, often sporting scales, tentacles, or otherwise showing little bits of her eldritch nature. Her parents had been spooked by her tendency to "dragon up" if she were upset as a toddler, but since then came to accept it as just another quirk of having a magically powerful child.
Mama Bear: Messing with any of her relatives is already a bad idea, but it's especially bad going after her daughter Cy. Cy outright refused to visit the elf country, stating that if she did, Alyssa would respond with the total genocide of the elf population. Alyssa wisely did not force the issue, and Cy is proven right when she and her elf bride almost immediately come under fire from both the Capulet and Montague clans, to which Alyssa calls a blood-feud and annihilates them.
Me's a Crowd: Once she discovered that she can leave behind little pieces of herself, and can swap consciousness between them, she can, and does, have far-reaching influence, and can appear in countless places very quickly.
Must Have Caffeine: To the point that she fashions several long term plans to take an archipelago away from Ouji Sultanate so she can grow her own cava beans, as importing it costs its weight in gold, literally, and she loves the stuff.
My God, What Have I Done?: Played for laughs. Prelate Iohann of the church suggests she undergo the "Rite of Builder" to alleviate her ennui and leaves her alone in the chapel with oodles of assorted materials. She goes into a trance and when she wakes up, she learns that not only did she build some kind of abomination that looks like a player piano, pipe organ, and several string instruments went and had an orgy, and it's all in perfect tune, despite the fact that she can't play worth a damn, but she learns, to her befuddledment, that she somehow turned the local housecats infesting the church into cat-clergy! Yes, house-cats with frocks holding church services. Everybody just goes "Why... just... WHY!!???"
King Abraham: ""Iohann, if there is something I learned this autumn, is that you do not ask lady Gillespie to just 'make something'. Because she WILL."
One-Woman Army: Sultanate learns this first-hand when an ill-considered duel instigated by emir Abbas first results in the death of his bodyguard, then in the whole country being cursed with death-aligned spell that designates anyone who holds weapon or flower within the Sultanate as a target for magical bee swarms. The prince, not learning his lesson, captures the first princess of the Champagne kingdom to use as a hostage, trying to force the king to go after Alyssa. Alyssa reverse engineers the Sultanate's teleport magic and storms the castle by herself, taking the princess back, one of the sultan's own brides, captured in a raid, and the sultan's own daughter ask to go with her back to the Champagne kingdom, and she obliges. Still not learning his lesson, the crown prince uses his father's name to unleash all his kingdom's assassins at Alyssa, and she responds by tracking them back to their secluded retreat and completely annihilating the place... and the crown prince still thinks she's just a haughty woman that doesn't know her place.
One Woman Industrial Revolution: Started simply as a low-key effort at securing some basic comforts and luxuries, but quickly snowballed into rediscovering lost dwarven metalworking arts, laying roads and setting up the foundation for industrialization.
Rape as Backstory: Alyssa Prime suffered a horrifying near-rape experience. The particulars are left vague, but there was a huge fight with a lot of struggles, knives, and a scar on her arm that required the use of long-sleeved blouses any time she had to be in public. When Vole Konistan makes the mistake of sending in known Orc Serial Rapist Uz to rape her into submission, she's triggered, and the poor guy gets so horribly mangled that the only remedy she can offer is a swift Mercy Kill.
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Alyssa has huge issues with rape in general, and rape towards her and hers in particular. Whenever she finds herself dealing with a rape fanboy or fangirl, or worse, an active participant, she will be compelled to give them graphic deaths out of sheer and total disgust.
Relative Button: Messing with her family, by blood or marriage, practically guarantees a response with lethal force. Those rare few who manage to escape with a warning tend to be too stupid and arrogant to believe the threat, and so go on to get the lethal response she promised them. Be belligerent enough and she will retaliate with a Blood-feud, legally sanctioned genocide, and once it's on, it can't be called off...
The Sleepless: She doesn't technically sleep. She can go into a sort of dormancy, during which she does not dream. So, if she starts dreaming about something, she knows it's serious.
Tranquil Fury: Alyssa does not go into berserker rages when she's mad, unless it's part of an act. No, she goes cold, calculating, and very sadistic.
Unwanted Harem: Which she lampshades whenever she's asked. Her response is "I didn't choose my harem. My harem chose me!"
Workaholic: She loves to invent new tech so much that she gets antsy if she's asked to go on a vacation, often waking up from a fugue looking over some device she was making in her sleep.

Bridgit Baumhoff

Introduced as Alyssa's maid, winding up becoming her first bride. She chafes when she's being waited on as opposed to the other way around.

Fake Defector: When a man with a self-righteous grudge against Alyssa tries to recruit her to help him, she plays along until he reveals the implements of assassination and then knifes him and dumps the body in a river. The poison is then taken to Alyssa for analysis.
Magnetic Girlfriend: She's the reason Alyssa has a harem, as several of the others signed on as a result of her actions. She even sexed up the elf who was hanging around Alyssa first before Alyssa even decided that having a harem is viable!
Me's a Crowd: Downplayed. She can enter a quantum state where multiple copies of her appear at once, but her physical abilities are split evenly between all copies. She even first activated this ability by pure accident bustling around catering food on an airship banquet. She can end this state at will, thus "teleporting" to a new location. This power is not something easily reproducible or teachable, yet still remains an object of envy from other servants of Gillespies.
Ninja Maid: Not at first, but as she's been training under Alyssa, she's become quite adept at fighting for a servant, taking down the guy who tried to poison Alyssa with disturbing ease.
Sole Survivor: Of the Baumhoff family, she's the only one to survive.
Undying Loyalty: Alyssa is her one and only master, end of story. She even begged Alyssa to run when Klaus had her beaten and enslaved. This made Alyssa even more murderous against Klaus's smug arrogance.

Moon Unit

The first elf Alyssa met, and the girl slated to be Protagonist in the game, but another reincarnator took the title in this world.

All Women Are Lustful: Ever since meeting Alyssa, she's been incredibly horny, and she's the one who pushes for their relationship to get sexual, and when Bridgit complains about "skinship" being her prerogative, Moon Unit goes and beds her first.
Beauty Equals Goodness: She's a good, kind woman and Alyssa describes her as an ethereal beauty.
Beware the Nice Ones: Sweet girl she may be, but she won't take crap from anyone, not towards herself nor towards Alyssa.
Closet Key: She drags Bridgit into the harem by proposing a three-way, and then just bedding the poor girl herself while Alyssa was out shopping for pick-me-up treats after the first Klaus fiasco.
Crash-Into Hello: When she and Alyssa happen to round the same corner, she crashes into Alyssa's breasts and gets knocked over by the impact. Alyssa is notably apologetic.
Girl of My Dreams: Invoked. She uses her Dream Walk ability to try and pry into Alyssa's dreams, out of idle curiosity of what Alyssa is. Let's just say she gets more than she bargained for.
Living MacGuffin: In the Elf Forest arc, several elf tribes fight over her in a misguided assumption she is the easiest way to obtain leverage against clan Zappa.
My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Most of the surviving elves act like they're locked in near permanent adolescence, and male human teens at that. Despite being a teen herself, she is very mature and levelheaded. One of the elven elders outright mentions that realizing most elves are locked into permanent teenagehood is the prerequisite for becoming a member of Spinners (elven analogue of historians).
Nice Girl: Sweet, polite, friendly, there's plenty about her character to admire.
The Tease: She's hot, she knows it, and she was well aware Alyssa was into her from the start.

Lily-Anne Nortrop-Cullen

The first princess of Champagne

Altar Diplomacy: Marrying Alyssa allowed both Alyssa and Edward to save face, tied Alyssa to Champagne royalty via marriage, as was originally intended, and both Alyssa and Lily get to enjoy the sexy-fun times, it's a win for everybody.
Childhood Friend Romance: Combined with Rescue Romance. She's always had a crush on Alyssa since childhood. Alyssa rescuing her from the Sultanate clinched it.
Innocent Fanservice Girl: Alyssa remarks on Lily-Anne's lack of body modesty.
Princess Classic: Her role as princess was mostly about looking pretty and off-screen paperwork. This serves her poorly when Abbas decides she'd be the perfect leverage to go after Alyssa.

Roxolane

Formerly one of Salaadin's harem, captured in a slave raid. She begs Alyssa to save her as the latter is raiding the Sultanate to rescue Lily-Anne.

Awful Wedded Life: Her "marriage" to Salaadin was a living nightmare of near constant abuse, trying to break her will. This no longer applies once she joins up with Alyssa.
Rescue Romance: She falls for Alyssa as a result of being rescued from the Sultanate's extreme sexist culture, Salaadin in particular. Alyssa considers informed consent, emphasis on informed mission critical, so gives her a few weeks cooling off period. When Roloxane still says she wants in on the harem, and the rest of the harem agrees, Roxolane becomes wife #4.
Sole Survivor: Subverted. She spent all her time in Salaadin's harem believing her entire home town, especially her family, were slaughtered in the slaving raid which got her there. She later learns that they're all alive and well, though not without several new scars.
Too Desperate to Be Picky: Elected to try and attract "demon"'s attentions to be "kidnapped" out of harem, disregarding the mobbing from "fellow wives" to keep her quiet. Outright stated that she would prefer to be taken by "demon" rather than remain being sultan`s property.

Alyssa's daughter by "Wizard's nightmare."

Cheerful Child: She's very happy and upbeat. When she's not being unnerving, she's great fun to be around.
Creepy Child: She is a sweetheart, but because she's part (if not all) shoggoth, she can be quite unnerving at times.
Does Not Like Spam: She hates artificially sweetened food because it causes her teeth to hurt. She prefers fresh fruits and sour things.
Precognition: Unlike Alyssa, who has focused her shoggoth powers in other ways, Cy gets brief glimpses of the future and loves to drop cryptic hints to guide her friends and family towards the best result.
Protectorate: To date, she's the only one in Alyssa's core harem that didn`t obviously fend for herself in some capacity. That is not to say she can not, but Alyssa would be righteously angry if she ever had to.
Telepathy: She can communicate with Alyssa by thought, being essentially a part of her in certain fundamental ways.

Gillespie family

Elena Gillespie nee Bradford

Alyssa's mother.

Bit Character: Her appearances are few and her role is small.
Doting Parent: When she and Alyssa are in the scene together, she comes just shy of smothering the latter with affection.
Alyssa: "Moms gotta mom!"
An Entrepreneur Is You: She takes Alyssa's experiments with extracting flower oils and proceeds to not only make perfumes out of it but uses messenger pigeons to deliver it to clients who place an order and send a one gold coin pre-payment. Her husband was forced to build an additional pigeon coop to handle the mail traffic increase.
Sweet Tooth: Although the Gillespie territory is famed for its honey, it's not enough for her. Getting a taste of processed beet sugar affects her so strongly, Alyssa compares the reaction to powdered orgasm.
"The moaning is amusing but exaggerated, clearly. It's just sugar, not powdered orgasm."
The Gunslinger: Surprises Alyssa by carrying around pistols after Alyssa invents them and cajoling the harem to do the same. Her rationale is that pistols are more convenient to keep on you than a crossbow.

Gerard Gillespie

Alyssa's father.

How Did You Know? I Didn't: Experiences this during the trip to Parsee, when Alyssa rolls natural twenty on intimidation. Apparently, there was a spy hiding in the bush she set on fire to spook the would-be brigands.
Papa Wolf: While it is completely unnecessary, seeing as he and king Abraham Cullen are very close and on good terms, and Alyssa can stomp the country if she's ever sufficiently wronged, he'd be willing to outright rebel if Alyssa is wronged by the crown. He does mention he`d rather not, as it would be very expensive, but if it becomes necessary... Alyssa is touched but strives to be a good citizen regardless.
Parents as People: He does love his only surviving daughter a great deal. (There were several others before Alyssa, but all were stillborn.) He also loves how much her tech upgrades fill his coffers and boost the family name.
Rank Up: Started as a count. With his support of Alyssa's skills and his investments, the King takes notes of his achievements and elevates him to a Duke.
So Proud of You: He never hesitates to sing Alyssa's praises whenever he gets a chance for all her wisdom and accomplishments.

Champagne Kingdom royalty

King Abraham Cullen

The ruling monarch of Champagne Kingdom

Enlightened Self-Interest: He gives favor to Alyssa Gillespie because she's extremely powerful and her tech upgrades give his kingdom a major advantage.
The Good King: He's a wise ruler who manages the kingdom with a soft but firm hand.
Papa Wolf: When he learns someone put a brainwashing spell on his son Edward, he would have declared war if he knew who the perpetrator was. When agents from the Sultanate move in force to kidnap princess Cullen he rallies the troops and has Alyssa give chase.

Queen Monika Cullen

Edward's mother.

The Ghost: Her name is mentioned long before she makes an actual appearance with spoken lines.

Edward Cullen

Third Prince of Champagne, Alyssa's fiancé at the start of the story. They manage to break off the engagement on cordial terms when the reincarnator who was shoved into the role of Protagonist hooks up with him instead, and Alyssa hooks up with his sister.

Amicable Exes: He and Alyssa get along just fine after their breakup.
Brainwashed and Crazy: His early antagonism was largely in part due to a brainwashing spell and a poorly worded command that he was magically compelled to follow.
Improperly Paranoid: Invoked. He was the victim of a brainwashing spell with a command that some vague calamity would befall him if he ever got too close to Alyssa, forcing him to treat her as if she were the devil herself. It's not until the two of them are forced to be in the presence of King Abraham, he's magically sedated, and his head is shaved after Alyssa notices something's odd about the back of his head that this comes to light. The king and minsters are all duly horrified and enraged.
Poor Communication Kills: The other reason he was somewhat aloof to Alyssa is that she was uncannily polite when they were introduced to each other as children. She was trying too hard to make a good impression. He never bothered to communicate that he found that creepy, and so they grew distant, which somebody took advantage of with a brainwashing spell carved into his very scalp.

Constantin Cullen

Second Prince of Champagne.

Ambassador: Literally, he is the primary ambassador of Champagne.
Cool Airship: Immediately latches on to Alyssa's offer to build him a zeppelin with great enthusiasm.

Alexander Cullen

Crownprince of Champagne.

Happily Married: In spite of his wife actually being two reincarnees stuffed into one body, even.
Officer and a Gentleman: Has shown an avid interest in firearms and ways of using them. Immediately starts brainstorming with The Brigadier Buonaparte on the best ways to use them and to counteract them right after the demonstration.

Jeanette-Thereze Cullen nee Voerman

Alexander`s wife, crownprincess of Champagne. Actually twin sisters reincarnating in a single body.

Tag Team Twins: Jeanette and Thereze are actually separate reincarnations of twin sisters with separate cheats who happen to share the same body and they make the best of their circumstances.

Champagne Court

Lord Ambercrombe

Courtier. Gold Digger. Moron.

Accidental Truth: Downplayed. He is not wrong that Alyssa is a monster in disguise, but his guess of what species of monster she is is hilariously off the target.
Bring Me My Brown Pants: Getting punched head-first INTO the stone floor terrifies him enough to lose control of his bladder.
I Was Beaten by a Girl: He seethes with unjustified fury after he lost a duel to Alyssa by humiliation (loss by humiliation in the context means being subdued without receiving any visible injury).
Lethally Stupid: Trying to extort a count using his own clumsiness as a pretext is just stupid. Trying to get a dim kid crushed by zeppelin, however? Ambercrombe is a sore loser and he neither understands nor cares about the consequences that his actions may have for other people.
One Degree of Separation: He is the nephew of Mage Academy's dean.
Pride Before a Fall: He tries to strong-arm Alyssa, all full of himself. He winds up literally stomped and wetting himself in public.
Reassigned to Antarctica: King Abraham has enough of his badgering of Alyssa after a while and assigns him as a fishing inspector to Albic Isles - a post that endows him with the royally-ordained duty to tour fishing docks in the coldest part of the country without any authority to change anything about them.
Revenge Myopia: He is very sore that Alyssa is not "deferring to her betters" as he expects her to, and in fact has the gall to prove him nowhere near being her better. Escalation does not go well for him.
Small Name, Big Ego: Ambercrombe is referred to as "lord" because he holds no land, his greatest claim to importance is being admitted to court. He acts as if he`s only second to the king.
Stay in the Kitchen: He openly mocks Alyssa's gender just before their duel. The instant the referee declares "start," Alyssa punches him off his feet, than slams his head through the stone floor. He has an "accident" as a result.
Sunk Cost Fallacy: When Alyssa asks to write the alchemical recipe for getting sugar out of beets in secret, to hand directly to the king, he "volunteers" to escort her to the secret chamber, hoping to be able to look over her shoulder as she's writing it down, crashing into a statue of knight's armor. In the aftermath, he proclaims that Alyssa assaulted him, demanding the recipe as compensation, the testimony of two royal knights concur that no such thing happened. He demands a duel over his impugned honor, targeting Gerard Gillespie. Outraged Alyssa demands he duel her instead. He gets stomped, losing the duel via humiliation (he wets his pants). Alyssa demands as a result of her victory that he have no contact with her, nor attempt to profit from any of her businesses, and specifically spells out both the sugar and ripple steel recipes to the crown. He grudgingly swears the oath, which he'd be demoted to commoner if he breaks. He then goes running to his uncle, the dean of Mage Academy and tries to malign Alyssa by accusing her of being a monster and trying to discredit him unjustly... Alyssa very, very nearly declares a blood-feud against the house...
Upper-Class Twit: A token example of.

Sir Louis Pasteur

Royal physician.

Big Fun: Sir Pasteur is rotund and jovial.
Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Specializes in medicine and biology but is enthusiastic in other fields too. Fascinated by microscope.
The Medic: Royal physician and a ranking member of Medical Guild. Competent, progressive and willing to innovate in his field.

Champagne Inquisition

Sir Malachi

Head of Champagne Inquisition and the spymaster of Champagne.

Combat Pragmatist: Has zero compunctions about letting a powerful witch take point during anti-ghoul operation, despite the witch in question not being employed by Inquisition. Insists on proper teamwork and covering each other. Dislikes Glory Seeker behavior and punishes people for it severely.
Da Chief: He heads the Inquisition. Inquisition being the fantasy analog of SWAT teams primarily dealing with supernatural predators and magical crime. He also oversees Champagne counterspying and security.
Lead Police Detective: Personally investigates high-profile murders and the like. Mentors sir Zade while at it.
Only One Name: Malachi is his given name. As the first generation noble with no plans of ever having a heir, he never bothered figuring out a family name for himself.

Sir Clovis Zade

The mage who tests the allegation that Alyssa is actually a talbot, as pressured by Dean Abercrombe.

Beleaguered Bureaucrat: He feels put upon by Ambercrombe's actions and paperwork that results and makes no secret of it.
Light 'em Up: He is introduced using powerful light magic on Alyssa.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Handed these out to both Squire Leeroy Jenkins for attacking Alyssa with a dagger and to Dean Abercrombe for accusing count's firstborn of being a creature without any proof beyond the disgruntled complaining from the relative.
The Watson: When investigating Konistan&Hardlock murders with sir Malachi.

Squire Leeroy Jenkins

Participates in the ill-conceived raid on Alyssa instigated by dean Ambercrombe. Makes a poor showing while at it.

Attack! Attack! Attack!: His response to any situation is to go in weapon swinging, not caring for the consequences. He's apparently been called out on it repeatedly, which is why he remains a squire way, way after most squires have already become knights in their own right.
Failed a Spot Check: He tries to justify his attack on Lady Alyssa Gillespie by citing the fact that she cast magic without a flower. Sir Zade points out that if Squire Jenkins had been a bit more sharp-eyed, he would have noticed the huge assortment of flower embroidery she's got on her person, allowing her to cast every possible cantrip known to man and still have embroidery left over.
Leeroy Jenkins: When light magic fails to make Alyssa flinch, he grabs a dagger and attacks her without plan or preparation. Alyssa could have killed him in legit self-defense and sir Zade gleefully points that much out while he is stuck in a submission hold.
Meaningful Name: His name is Leeroy Jenkins and he's a .... Leeroy Jenkins
What Were You Thinking?: Literally said to him immediately after his ill-conceived attack.
Sir Zade: "What were you THINKING, pulling a dagger on count's firstborn daughter!? It was bloody obvious she's NOT a talbot the moment she ignored my spell. So why in the name of all that is sane and just did you decide that dagger is in any way the right idea?"

Champagne Magic Academy

Dean Abercrombe

The dean of Mage Academy and uncle of Lord Abercrombe.

Body Horror: Played for laughs. When Alyssa has finally had enough of his shenanigans, and threatens him with a legit blood-feud, she's angry enough to use [conceptual language], not enough to defile him, but it does kill the tape-worm parasite he's carrying around. The next time he goes to the toilet, he gets a rather nasty surprise.
Bullying a Dragon: After knowing Alyssa is pointedly not a talbot and has the crown's backing, he still goes out of his way to antagonize her because she had the gall to call him to task for antagonizing her in the first place, as a result of taking his nephew's slander as fact.
Did Not Think This Through: Played with. On the one hand, he didn't prepare a Plan B in case Alyssa managed to get past Zade's magical screening. On the other hand, he managed Plan A well enough that he was able to shrug off intentionally delaying Alyssa's packages, even one with the Royal Seal by having the footmen claim that since they arrived at night, the students were to be notified in the morning. The last part spares him from facing possible beheading for the affront to the crown.
Failed a Spot Check: He also protests Alyssa's use of magic without flowers but catches himself when he spots her embroidered sleeves and face-palms.
It Runs in the Family: He does share his nephew's boorishness and unpleasant demeanor to a degree, though dean at least has some brains to back up his attitude.
Lean and Mean: Thanks to being infested with a particularly large tapeworm, he's thin as a stick and particularly vicious.

Gileas Hardlock

Vainglorious professor of "Dueling". Wholeheartedly believes that magical power is directly correlated to one`s rank of nobility and teaches accordingly. Considers actual combat tactics to be a refuge of commoner rabble incapable of manifesting proper magical power of nobility.

Anti-Mentor: His idea of a combat is to wait for the opponent to cast a spell and then counterspell it. He has no meaningful advice on what to do if the combat deviates from the prescribed magical slugfest and scoffs at the very idea that resorting to "commoner tricks" would avail anything.
Combat Aestheticist: Believes that overwhelming magical power is the only possible way to be victorious and scoffs at any notion of evasion, mobility or actually getting physical with opponent.
Miles Gloriosus: Boasts to be the victor of a hundred duels without a single defeat. Technically true, but only through a combination of blatant potion abuse and memetic hazard.
Embarrassing Nickname: Students nickname him "Peacock".
The Dandy: Nobility is everything to him, and it concerns his appearance too. There is a reason students call him "Peacock".

Serenity Selene, lady Daybreaker

A fellow reincarnator who appeared in the world as [Protagonist], using the fan translation and officially modified version of the same game that Alyssa Prime loved to play. She initially viewed Alyssa as the villain of her story and was quite confused that Alyssa and the setting didn't act at all like the game she's used to. She grows out of it when Alyssa intentionally lets it slip that she's also a reincarnator. The two became fast friends afterwards.

Ambiguously Bi: She agrees to marry Edward because she is sexually attracted to men, and she likes him romantically, but there's a great deal of ship tease with Alyssa, and she's expressed interest in tentacle play...
Chuunibyou: Prone to it when insecure. Alyssa is not impressed.
Deadpan Snarker: Selene`s usual reaction to Alyssa's shenanigans when she is not stuck staring in awe.
Hero Antagonist: At first. Due to misunderstanding her situation, she was hostile to Alyssa, but once she realized they both reincarnated, the two became good friends.
Light Is Good: She specializes in light-based magic and is very morally upright.
Morality Chain: It doesn't come up often, but she keeps Alyssa from going too deep into her eldritch nature. Case in point, when Alyssa sent "Mrs. Konistan" to a brothel, Selene was able to figure out what bothered Alyssa about it. The act had too much rape context, so the scam artist was given a choice, waitress or prostitute. The woman took the latter so she could appear wealthy, rather than appear to be a servant.
Must Have Caffeine: Selene is fond of coffee. Selene is VERY fond of coffee.
Wrong Genre Savvy: Which fortunately doesn't last long. When she first met Alyssa, she thought she was literally sucked into her favorite otome game, and was shocked that none of the scenarios played out like in the script. Fortunately, when she learns she's not alone as a reincarnator, she gets better.

Lemand Lemarchand

A very gifted schoolmate of Alyssa in the Academy. While he is remarkably intelligent even by her standards, his stay at the Academy is imperiled by his martially-inclined father, who despises his intellectual pursuits and wants him to distinguish himself in combat.

I Owe You My Life: Even moreso, as it isn't his life that is saved, but his beloved mother's, when Alyssa develops and successfully tests a cure for consumption.
Jock Dad, Nerd Son: It is mentioned his father is an exceptionally strong duelist, but he himself has little interest in fighting and prefers to make a living as an assistant to Alyssa, helping her generate and develop new ideas.
Mama's Boy: Definitely takes more after his mother, who suffers from consumption.
My God, What Have I Done?: Preemptively, so it's more My God, What Did I Almost Do? He was starting research into clockwork devices known as Configurations, which terrify Alyssa and him even more when she shows him what one of them could do. He prefers more stable work with Alyssa rather than venture into the mere possibilty he may in the future construct something as horrible as the Lament Configuration.

Champagne Others

Rory

The first dwarf Alyssa met. In the beginning of story, he runs a smithy near Gillespie estate. Alyssa visits him to put in orders for some fine metalworking and he is forced to say it will be delayed due to his apprentice botching the smelting and producing pig iron. Alyssa suggests using the remaining ingot of steel and the pig iron to fashion a pattern-welded alloy. Which turns out to be legendary dwarven "ripple steel". When Rory came to the estate two days later, peppermill in hand, made of ripple-steel, asking how she knew the secret, Alyssa brings out the tome holding the story of Throm, the dragon-slayer. The story does contain some basics of making the steel in question, serving as a convenient source of the idea.

Funetik Aksent: His accent is an odd mix of irish and welsh, which tends to roam about a bit.
Only Known by Their Nickname: As with all dwarves, he goes by a common serviceable name. His true birth-name is supposed to be kept secret.
Our Dwarves Are All the Same: Loves to work in a forge? Check. Loves to drink? Check. Short with long beard? Check and mate.
Undying Loyalty: When Alyssa gives him the secret to the lost recipe of ripple-steel, and is promised a place for his people, now all refugees from a volcanic eruption, to settle down, he swears loyalty to the Gillespie estate, for life.

Marquis Roland De Brege

Hereditary noble. Product of multigenerational incest. Clinical moron.

Everybody Calls Him "Barkeep": He's usually only addressed by title. It's only in chapter 101, as he's being demoted from Marquis to Baron for being an unwitting pawn to Hashshin assassins targeting the royal palace that his name Roland is mentioned.
Failed a Spot Check: He frequently fails to notice the king in his own castle. The one time he did, on-screen, he failed to notice Alyssa as he was badmouthing her.
Too Dumb to Live: And it's apparently genetic! Not only is he a moron who frequently fails to notice the king, but his son Julien went with a hair-brained scheme to run and stand under Alyssa's blimp, screaming as it's in final descent, and when knights remove the boy, he wriggles free and runs under the blimp again, for a promised sweet-roll, that Lord Abercrombie wasn't likely to provide, since Julien would have been squashed into the ground had the blimp landed on him.
Unwitting Pawn: To a whole lot of people, owing to his gullibility being common knowledge among Parsee beaumonde. So far, he was taken advantage of by lord Ambercrombe, madame Konistan, hashishins and Klaus in assorted ways. All of it in misguided attempts to influence Alyssa. In fact, the very reason why he remains unmurdered is because Alyssa considers him to be a weak link in any plot against herself.
You Have Failed Me: When Alyssa reveals his latest blundering, the King finally has enough of him and bumps him down from Marquis to Count, sending him back to his estate and away from the court.

Vole Konistan

A particularly arrogant conman who loves to flaunt his self-perceived superiority and ill-gotten wealth. He makes the mistake of thinking Alyssa Gillespie is an easy mark, just devastated after a public break-up with Prince Edward Cullen. He barely lives long enough to regret it.

Aggressive Negotiations: He is used to being on the giving end but finds himself on the receiving end when Alyssa kicks his pet Orc rapist to the brink of death with one strike and then threatens to teleport him to planet Xen with no way back.
Con Man: How he approaches wealthy nobles, especially those he thinks are naive or emotionally vulnerable.
Leonine Contract: He's fond of drawing these up but gets hit with one in chapter 45 from Lady Alyssa Gillespie. She buys him out at fair market value and then some, and he leaves the country of Champagne in voluntary self-exile. The alternatives are being hurled through a portal to another dimension. He signs the contract, but the moment he thinks he's out of sight and meets up with other members of Alyssa's rogue's gallery and his own criminal syndicate, he tries to welch on it. Alyssa makes his death look like a bandit attack gone wrong.
Loan Shark: How he built up his wealth. He offers loans at usurious rates to people in dire straits with no alternative and then moves in to collect and quite literally takes his pound of flesh.
Make It Look Like an Accident: Alyssa gives him a week to vacate Champagne as part of her contract with him. This is just a ploy to get him out of the city,. She also discreetly follows him by sneaking an eye-spider into his belongings in order to dispose of him and make it look like a robbery gone wrong.
Mugging the Monster: He sicks Uz on Alyssa, thinking he's dealing with a sheltered noble, unaware he's dealing with, at best, a certified war-witch, who is actually a shoggoth in disguise.
Villainous Legacy: His death leaves behind a huge criminal network that Alyssa has to clean up and inspires at least one scam artist going after Alyssa herself.

Madame Konistan

A scam artist that manages to fool a clerk at the merchant's guild into thinking she's Alyssa Gillespie but got married to Vole Konistan and then widowed by his sudden death "to bandits." Then uses her stolen ID to try and make it rich by stealing and selling Alyssa's pastry shop Sweet Dream to one Roland De Brege. Alyssa herself is most displeased to have any Konistan legacy coming for her belongings and her name, retaliating with extreme prejudice.

Con Man: She tricks a particularly gullible clerk at the merchant's guild by using a convincing sob-story while the clerk is in a restaurant, away from any possible means of confirming the woman's true identity.
Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Played with. Alyssa dunks her into a bucket of water repeatedly, but admits to witnessing Malachi that she does not expect madame Konistan to actually know anything worthwhile and does so simply to put a fear of her into the madame in question.
Made a Slave: Legally. Sir Malachi explicitly mentions that attempting to impersonate a noble is punished by giving the noble in question full authority over the punishment to be rendered. Alyssa decides that only a whore would "marry" a dead man, and therefore Madame in question is passed over to a brothel Alyssa patronized recently to be put to work as brothel matron sees fit.
No Name Given: Her actual name is never revealed.
Sex Slave: By choice. After being sold to a brothel, she's given the choice of being one of the prostitutes or waiting tables. She chooses the former, purely to have the trappings of luxury, even if she can't actually enjoy them.
Unwitting Pawn: In the end, she was just a disposable pawn in the schemes of one or more disgruntled nobles who thought Alyssa is elevating the world tech way, way too fast for them. She can't even give an honest answer as to whom.

Marquis Sadoux

A Champagnan noble, and Lemand's uncle through his sister.

Benevolent Boss: Treats his servants very kindly and is fairly chummy with them.
Big Brother Instinct: Is devoted to his sister, to the point of developing a system to keep himself and his staff protected from consumption and keeping her well cared for. He is also deeply impressed with Lemand's abilities.
Blackmail: Alyssa found a few letters he earlier penned and which Konistan was blackmailing him with. Finding them rather harmless after making sure the Marquis strictly adheres to Safe, Sane, and Consensual, she returns them with no fuss, just so the Marquis knows he no longer has Konistan looming over him.
Covert Pervert: He tried to conceal his interests after Konistan found his correspondence. Alyssa suggests he can more constructively unleash his creativity with written specialized erotica, which is easier to distribute and spread through dealers while remaining comfortably anonymous.
Expy: A fairly harmless one of the Marquis de Sade.

Brimir le Reimir Nidavellir

He appears in chapter 122 going at the gates of the La Vallieres estate with an axe, utterly refusing to explain himself. It's only when Alyssa greets him as "Thanos" that he snaps out of his single-minded pursuit of trying to act like the main antagonist of The Shining and actually explain himself. It is only after a great many attempts at reasoning with hard evidence that he is not in The Familiar of Zero have failed that Alyssa comes to the conclusion a summary execution is the only way to deal with him, as he's demonstrated the ability to simply [deny] being imprisoned, fatigued, or harmed by conventional means.

Achilles' Heel: Exploited. He has to actively and consciously deny whatever it is he doesn't want to affect him. If he's hit with an attack that is fatal and is too fast for him to react, like having enough octaazacubane in his gut to explode with the force of kilograms' worth of TNT, it won't help.
Casanova Wannabe: It's only after he's dead that Alyssa learns of it, but he tried to [deny] her not being attracted to him. Fortunately for Alyssa, his cheat power is not entirely effective against shoggoths so he only succeeds in making Alyssa horny for her wives. She strongly considers learning resurrection magic just so she could get the chance to kill him again for that.
Death by Irony: He used his [denial] power to make himself immune to poison, wounds, fatigue, and all kinds of threats, but he did not [deny] hunger, and ate cookies that only existed because Alyssa wanted them to, so when he said "I accept the cookies, but deny the poison," she changed them back into the nitrogen they came from, and BOOM!
Did Not Think This Through: Repeatedly. First he antagonizes la Vallieres by refusing to even try talking until they hand Louise over. Then he foolishly pilfers food from Alyssa. The pizza is simply a test to see if he is fullhardy enough. He is, so the cookies come out next, along with arsenic dusting as the red herring. Claiming that he accepts the cookies out loud was a fatal mistake he did not live through, as the cookies were transformed from the atmospheric nitrogen. Letting them revert to nitrogen in a different molecular arrangement is trivial for Alyssa, but a cubic meter of nitrogen converted to octaazacubane has energy comparable to roughly five kilograms of TNT going off.
Heroic Wannabe: His main motivation for trying to grab Louise is to go off on adventures and save the world, as he's seen in his favorite isekai anime. He utterly refused to believe the fact that he's not in his anime, and was quite belligerent to anyone who got in his way. Alyssa had no choice but to end his miserable existence to save her friends, family, and allies.
Hulk Speak: Mocked. He impugns Alyssa's intelligence by grunting at her like a cave-man because she refuses to share his delusions. This makes Alyssa even more willing to kill him.
I Reject Your Reality: Weaponized. Not only is he so delusional that he utterly refuses to believe he's not in Halkeginia despite being shown every possible form of hard evidence, including the fact that people can use more than one element in their magic, as demonstrated by Alyssa using earth magic on him, conjuring fire, and then putting it out with a micro-blizzard, which is wind and water, but he can "deny" anything and everything inconvenient to him and it simply ceases to affect him. If he's stabbed with a knife, he can deny the knife and the wound will go away like it never happened.
It's All About Me: At the end of the day, all that mattered was his own fame and glory, he truly didn't care about the fate of the world, or anybody else.
Kill It with Fire: Genre Savvy Alyssa suggests this as a method of disposing of his remains, pointing out that he was a lunatic and had odd magics so it is better to be thorough. Of course, Alyssa`s idea of thoroughness is along the lines of There Is No Kill Like Overkill and instead of lit firewood, his remains are treated with stellar-grade heat.
Moral Myopia: Which Alyssa calls him out on. He protests that she's a psycho and should be arrested for threatening him with lethal force, after she partially buries him alive, to try and stop him from perpetrating an aggravated kidnapping of her family's allies, and he refuses to stop when presented with hard facts that he is pointedly not in Halkeginia.
Too Dumb to Live: Or rather, too delusional to live. If he had been willing to admit that he's not in Halkeginia, and he had not been isekai'd into his favorite anime, he might have been saved. Instead, he suffered from a terminal case of "Main Character Syndrome." Unable to be apprehended, Alyssa's only option was to make him Deader than Dead.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Shows up and is killed in the same chapter, And There Was Much Rejoicing.
Wrong Genre Savvy: To the point of Lethally Stupid. Beyond all reason, he insisted that he was in Halkeginia, and became belligerent to anyone who said different. If he had his way, he would have gotten Louise killed by dragging her into elven lands, with elves shooting trespassers on sight...

Kraut Royalty

King Alphonse Hohenzollern

The sovereign of Kraut

Abdicate the Throne: He knows his mental faculties are failing, so he's trying to transition peacefully to Hiram before everything goes sideways.
Bumbling Dad: He means well, he really does, but old age has started catching up with him, and his mental faculties have started to fade, so he's not as good a king or father as he'd like.
The Peter Principle: He used to be an excellent king, leading the country to prosperity and making an ally of the nation Champagne, but lately, age has started catching up to him, and he's not as mentally sound as he once was. He is well aware of this.
Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Subverted. He and Hiram get into a heated shouting match over Klaus's antics, where he points out that a certain amount of skullduggery is needed to run a nation. Hiram replies that if Klaus's actions were a net positive, he'd pinch his nose and hold his tongue, but Klaus was foolish enough to be caught red-handed, using slavery implements on a foreign country's noble, one connected closely to the crown, after breaking into her house himself. The king stops for a second, going from angry, to confused, to enlightened, as he realizes Hiram's right, and maybe it's finally time to retire the ancient spymaster.

Kronprinz Hiram Hohenzollern

Introduced entering Mage Academy in Champagne as a student. He has the grim task of being the contact point when one Alyssa Gillespie is delivering a complaint regarding a certain Klaus...

Gentleman Wizard: People point him out whenever they want to say "This is what the gentleman should be.". He studies magic in Parsee Academy. Nuff said.
Honor Before Reason: Subverted. He is very noble and upright, but admits he would be willing to condone Klaus doing something underhanded if it was of benefit to the kingdom. But since his efforts towards Alyssa so far only serve to undermine Kraut bargaining power, Hiram is quite righteously irritated about it.
The Paragon: He is well known as a beacon of moral virtue by all. This is the only reason why Alyssa chose to drop off Klaus's head and slave tools at his desk, rather than going to her own king. If there had been someone else at Champagne acting as liaison, Kraut would have started the story scrambling to avoid open warfare.

Princess Katherine Hohenzollern

The second princess. She is first seen having an icy relationship with her father, King Alphonse Hohenzollern. Turns out her governess had stolen the former queen's earrings and successfully fooled everyone that this princess foolishly dropped them in a lake, with the princess in question ignored and getting reamed for losing a national treasure.

Affectionate Nickname: She allows those she's friendly with to call her Kathy.
Harbinger of Impending Doom: She stows away on Alyssa's zeppelin to warn the latter that Count (Graf) Norn was scheming to kidnap Cy.
In-Universe Catharsis: In chapter 135, her plans to bring Governess Ilza Hershbukh to ruin and get back her mother's stolen earrings bear fruit, especially since the governess's accomplices all went afoul of one Duke Alyssa Gillespie. When Katherine's brother Hiram points out that the "esteemed" governess would very likely be hurt in the collateral damage of going after Count Norn, she lets the vitriol flow. Alyssa can only go "Oh my. Oh my indeed. That's some impressive spleen venting. Industrial strength bile there."
"My governess of six years. The person whose face comes up in my mind whenever I hear the word hypocrisy. The person I can without reservation claim to be the one I loathe the most in the whole world. The person who successfully stole mother's earrings and gleefully persuaded everyone that I dropped them in the lake. That frau Hershnbukh." - Katherine bites out - "Why yes, my brother dearest, I truly want that harridan to suffer. Goodness gracious, you might even say that I was diligently scheming to bring about her utter demise for years, by now. Years listening to her utter tripe about what is "womanly" or not so much. Years spent watching her eat my sweets, wear my jewels, tear my books, cause me grief. Goodness, I do believe I DO want her to suffer ever so slightly, indeed! Why, I just might ask the eminently praised lady Gillespie to give me some much-appreciated guidance on how to disembowel a bitch in the slowest and most painful manner possible if you pardon the crudeness, brother dearest."
Runaway Princess: She specifically flees her attendants, bodyguards, and governess to sneak onto Alyssa's zeppelin to warn her about Cy's impending kidnapping and to stick it to said governess, with whom she has an ages-long grudge that the latter constantly exacerbates.
Smarter Than You Look: Governess Hershnbukh did her best to make this princess look like a Brainless Beauty, precisely because that's what she thinks the "perfect" Queen should be. But this princess spent years scheming to steal back the earrings the harridan stole and managed to fool the crown into thinking were lost in a lake.
Sour Outside, Sad Inside: After years of being made to look stupid and flighty by her governess, and being the object of chagrin from her father, King Alphonze, she's quite bitter and angry, quick to vent intense vitriol the moment she has the chance.

Kraut Others

Spymaster Klaus

The first antagonist Alyssa encounters. He wanted to steal the credit for Alyssa's revival of the ripple steel tech by forcing her to claim it was a Kraut technology, not her own achievement. To do it, he broke into her Mage Academy "summer home," beat up and enslaved her maid Bridgit Baumhoff to a lackey, and demanded Alyssa allow herself to be enslaved to him. Alyssa responds to that by shredding the lackey to thin strips of meat and blowing up his slave-control bracelet in such a way that it disembowels him, then beheads him, and takes both his head and the remains of the slave implements to visiting prince Hiram, who is rightly aghast at the situation, as had King Cullen been given this evidence instead, both countries (Champagne and Kraut) could well be at war. Hiram would have loved for that to be the end of Klaus, but he just keeps coming back...

Actually A Doom Bot: The secret to his constant revivals is that the original Klaus actually died centuries ago, but despite his objections, some "brilliant" court mages backed up his brain and copied it into homonculi. Unfortunately, these homonculi have a fatal flaw, keeping them from actually internalizing any new information, and whenever a clone bites it, the new decanted one has no knowledge of what happened before, aside from a diary he prepared in advance.
Body Backup Drive: Deconstructed. All Klaus clones only know what OG Klaus knew. They can acquire new information, but never internalize it, and there is no instantaneous transfer. So when one bites it, the new one has to try and back-track or reverse-engineer what the previous one did.
Demoted to Comic Relief: His very first exploit, breaking into Alyssa's dorm, brutalizing her maid, and playing around with magical slave collars, is a very serious threat to any non-shoggoth, and he still remains quite dangerous when his plans don't involve Alyssa. But since the story focuses on her, and his interactions with her primarily involve trying something to one-up her, and failing, miserably, it's hard to take him seriously.
Entertainingly Wrong: Because he lacks context on what Alyssa is, and can't internalize it even when people tell him, not to mention that his entire world view is centuries out of date, he comes up with some ridiculous, yet logically sound conclusions. For example, when he innocently eats the cookie that came from the game Cookie Clicker, he presumed he found the reason for Alyssa's tech marvels, a reagent that allows people to go without sleep. Naturally, this is all wrong, and he drove himself mad trying to learn it. Poof, there goes Klaus 2.03...
Even Evil Has Standards: He exiled the guy who tried to eliminate the Baumhoff merchant family, because it was counter-productive to the goal of a strong and unified Kraut kingdom and caused a permanent rift in the merchant community.
Fish out of Temporal Water: Because Klaus clones can only truly comprehend things as they were when OG Klaus was alive, all their POV and knowledge is centuries out of date.
My Country, Right or Wrong: As Alyssa lampshades in chapter 1, by name, Klaus will do anything he has to, no matter how nasty, to prop up his country, even if that means betraying his king when he thinks the king is on the wrong path.
Nothing Personal: When he had Bridgit beaten and was trying to force Alyssa into a slave collar, he proclaimed "it's just a bit of statecraft, it's nothing against you." Was that ever the wrong approach.
Omniglot: He can speak at least four languages fluently enough to pass as a native, Albian, Champagnang (old and new), Oijan, and Pharocese. He prefers to fake a Kraut accent for fun and to try and mislead enemies.
Plausible Deniability: He intentionally keeps himself in the dark between clones regarding ongoing acts of skullduggery so he can legit claim ignorance if the plan fails and tries to come home to roost.
Recurring Boss: He and Alyssa just keep on clashing over and over again, because for all Klaus knows, Champagne kingdom are not allies, but rivals that he has to find a way to hobble or collar, without jeopardizing his nation in the process. The fact that the two countries are allies, and his actions jeopardize this is something he just can not internalize, no matter who tells him, as a result of being a homunculus.
Resurrection Sickness: Invoked. New clones have no idea what the previous clone was doing before it died.
Sore Loser: Klaus is utterly obsessed with winning the spy game and will not stop trying to one-up whoever he decides to target until he succeeds. If he's simply allowed to win, he will know it and still go after that guy until he wins legitimately. Unable to comprehend how Alyssa keeps foiling him, he just keeps going at her over and over again like a wind up toy that keeps smacking against a wall.
Starter Villain: The first antagonist Alyssa needs to face, and the most annoying, because she has yet to find a way to keep him dead.
They Just Dont Get It: Invoked. The process that created the Klaus clones has a fatal flaw. Clones created in the way these clones were only know what the original did, they can't internalize new information. Klaus could be shown a shot-gun, have one demonstrated in action, with a ballistic dummy showing the wounds, but if he afterwards independently finds a victim of a shot-gun attack will puzzle out "what kind of spell could do this? And what are these metal slugs doing here?"
Wrong Genre Savvy: His spymaster tricks and tactics would be very dangerous and effective against human opponents, even with his knowledge and world-view being centuries out of date. Unfortunately for him, he's biologically compelled to keep throwing himself against a shoggoth, who is completely alien to the way humans think and act. Naturally, he keeps tripping over himself and just winding up and banging his head against a wall, both figuratively and literally.

Maximilien Verwaand

Formerly Klaus's second in command, he was exiled to Champagne and made a lackey of a criminal organization as a result of unilaterally deciding to murder Bridgit's family for being too successful as merchants and "uncooperative."

Call It Karma: When Alyssa is going after Vole's organization, she finds him as the guy second in command to the Konistans, assumes his form, and cleans out the coffers just enough to make it look like he's taking off for the hills in a panic, all as a cover for Bridgit's eventual vengeance.
Gone Horribly Wrong: On his own initiative, he goes after Bridgit's family for being "uncooperative" to Klaus's agenda. This causes the merchant union to fracture and enter a cold war that even to the present remains unresolved.
Karmic Death: He wiped out Bridgit's entire family for politics. Politics in a crime syndicate are used to stage his death as infighting.

Baron Hanslich

A baron from a back-water province of Nornburg who extends a "gracious" invitation to Alyssa. Turns out the guy's son was butt-hurt that Alyssa upstaged his little lark and tried to go after one of her "maids" in revenge. This goes very, very poorly.

Deliberate Values Dissonance: In his eyes, commoners are supposed to be eager to serve, no matter what, even in sexual matters, so his son going after "the maid" Bridgit is, at worst, a minor insult equivalent to accidentally stepping on Alyssa's toes. As such, he finds Alyssa's outrage exaggerated and tried to soothe her by offering three of his maids in exchange. It's not until he's informed that his son was trying to cuckold Alyssa that he realizes just how big a faux-pas his family's guilty of.
Sunk Cost Fallacy: He gets away with a cuckold attempt on Alyssa by taking a minor hit to his reputation, ie it being known far and wide that he tried to court a duke's daughter and not having enough oomph to satisfy her needs. Under normal circumstances, cuckoldry is so dire an outrage that it demands a blood-feud. Rather than be content with the retively minor hit to his rep, he runs to his liege, Graf Norn, and goes with the "brilliant" plan to kidnap Cy as part of a ploy to get at Princezin Katherine. This prompts Alyssa to give him that blood-feud he's deserving, with the princess in question pre-emptively signing the paperwork to make it all legal.

Hanslich Junior

The baron's son.

Attempted Rape: Twice, on screen, and who knows how many times he just refused to heed a maid's "no." He barges into Brigit's guest quarters and tries to pin her down, only for Brigit to teleport away and one enraged Alyssa stomping down the corridor at him, lifting Baron Hanslich into the air when the man tried to protest. Alyssa catches him in the act 'again when she's infiltrating a den of Kraut traitors and sees him and a bunch of his buddies ripping off the maid outfit of a local wench who was ordered to tend to him and his fellows, not knowing she was being sent to be their sexual tool. The second time, she doesn't even give him the chance to speak and just neck-snaps him to death.
Alyssa: "What is it about maids? And why is it that you can't accept 'no'?" (Neck Snap)
Beat Them at Their Own Game: He and his fellows decide to do some "busking" as a lark outside the royal castle as Alyssa and quite a few dignitaries are in a meeting, with the music being very loud, ill-timed, and annoying, and it's a local custom for the local youths to try and drown each other out with music. Being a duke, with the king's sanction, she could have legally ordered him and his band out of the area, but she instead drowned him and his bunch out with conjured modern speakers and the equivalent of modern music. While for modern readers the music was quite tame, for the locals, it was quite risque.
Did Not Think This Through: In the wake of having his little panhandling prank broken up by one Alyssa Gillespie, he thought the best way to retaliate was to lure her to his father's home with a formal invitation, by pinching some of his father's stationary with the house seal, and once Alyssa is present, go after at least one of Alyssa's maids, sexually, to stick it to her, believing there's nothing Alyssa can do without violating Sacred Hospitality. Problem is, the "maid" he went after was Brigit, one of Alyssa's wives, and even ignoring the fact that his house is a Baron, while Alyssa's a Duke, if word got out that he tried to gift Alyssa a pair of horns, Alyssa would be required by the unwritten rules of genteel society to respond with a blood feud to restore the family's honor. He and his father should have counted themselves lucky to have gotten off relatively lightly as being known for trying and failing to suck up to a duke.
Neck Snap: Alyssa kills him by rotating his head about 200 degrees with a sickening "CRACK!"
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Because he tried an ill-advised plot to lure Alyssa to his father's demesne for the express purpose of bedding one of Alyssa's maids to spite her, this caused his father to go to Graf Norn for succor, which drew the Hanslich's into Norn's mess, spitting on Alyssa's mercy and getting the family the blood-feud they deserve, ending the Hanslich line with his own generation.

Count (Graf) Norn

The self-proclaimed guardian of [Kronprincezzin] Katherine and the one who kidnapped Cy. He foolishly challenges Alyssa head-on to let herself be arrested for a non-existent kidnapping. He literally gets spread across the walls of his own castle like butter on bread.

Fat Bastard: He's so obese Alyssa calls him a lard-ball and when he's smeared across the walls of his castle, there's far more fat than flesh or blood.
Serial Rapist: He is well-known as a man who grabs women and rapes them to death, and has faked his mother's death so he can keep her limbless form hidden away to sexually abuse whenever the mood hits him.
Smug Snake: He's nowhere near as clever, competent, or cunning as he believes himself to be. It was only his noble rank that spared him consequences, until he antagonized Alyssa who doesn't care.
Too Dumb to Live: He challenges Alyssa head on after she literally blew her way through his castle, in the rescue of her daughter, ripping through stone walls and heavily reinforced doors in her wake. In fact, kidnapping Cy to use as a hostage, under a flimsy pretext of a non-existent princess kidnapping, qualifies in its own right, seeing how Alyssa reacts to any threat to her and hers, which should have been quite public by that point.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Introduced and turned into a literal smear on his own castle's walls in less than a paragraph.

Ferdinand von Flotow

The burgmeister of Castle Norn.

Know When to Fold 'Em: After Alyssa yeets him over the castle walls and into the nearest river, so he survives the rampage, he and his guards meet her on her way out. He stops them from antagonizing her further, confirms that anyone who gets in her way would meet a gruesome death and wisely steps aside.
Only Known By Their Nick Name: He's addressed only as "Impressive Moustache Guy" in the story proper. His name only appears in the comments section below chapter 134.
Skewed Priorities: On the receiving end. Alyssa makes a concerted effort to spare him because she's impressed by his moustache, not because she's going out of her way to spare innocents.

Governess Ilza Hershnbukh

The governess and nanny of many years to princess Katherine. The princess rightly hates her guts.

Baby Sitter From Hell: She's Katherine's governess and she's so toxic, the princess in question would love for Alyssa to teach her how to disembowel someone as slowly and painfully as possible, so this harridan could be put through it.
Crack Pairing: In-universe. She thinks the "perfect" husband for Princess Katherine is Count Norn, a well-known Serial Rapist, and as Katherine puts it "a literal mother-fucker" since the guy has his intentionally hobbled mother hidden away to use as a sex-toy whenever the mood hits him.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Her own scheming to use anti-magic wards as a counter-measure against Alyssa is what allows Katherine to steal back her mother's earrings from right under the governess's nose.
Hypocrite: Which Katherine loudly lampshades to anyone who will listen. She constantly harps about what it means to be a "proper" woman, which includes "it's against the will of the gods for women to be involved in politics." Yet this harridan is utterly shameless in trying to meddle in politics to set up "the perfect Queen" for the kingdom of Kraut.
Principles Zealot: She and her group of Old Maid nannies are so fixated on setting up the "perfect" Queen, as they see it, that they're willing to face charges of treason, or Klaus's "tender mercy" to try and pull it off.
Refuge in Audacity: She swipes the former Queen's earrings and then turns around to claim princess Katherine dropped them in a lake and is believed beyond question because of how audacious the act is. She also openly takes and wears Katherine's jewelry, eats her sweets, and destroys her books, and completely gets away with it, trivializing or redirecting the blame back to Katherine herself.
Romanticized Abuse: In-universe. Despite never being married herself, she honestly believes that the "perfect" Queen is someone who is pretty, stupid, frail, and constantly beat around by her husband because "he only beats you because he loves you." Per Word of God.

Schwagerin von Norn

Count Norn's aunt who sends Alyssa an invitation to visit her estate, despite knowing full well that Alyssa has an ongoing and legally sanctioned Blood Feud with her family. At first, Alyssa is taking great joy in breaking her by talking until her mental gears finally progress from "HOW DARE YOU!!!" to a scathing unwritten Motive Rant where she goes on to proclaim the joys of Romanticized Abuse including Marital Rape License so vile, it makes what Mama Norn, her own sister, went through look positively benign by comparison, leaving Alyssa so viscerally disgusted that she sets the very hand used to corral this harridan on fire to burn off the very notion of having touched this rotten thing and the moment Herrin Schwagerin stops to catch her breath hits her with a screeching Brown Note attack that compels her to spend the last few moments of her life confessing all her crimes and sins before she suffers strokes to death.

Conspicuous Consumption: Just to flaunt her wealth, she employs at least 27 maids (which is what Alyssa saw when she walked in the door and up the steps to confront the old crow), despite living alone. Alyssa internally posits that if von Norn was infirm to the point she's bed-ridden, she could reasonably have 6 maids, 12 to have back-ups for emergencies, at most, but what is she hoping to accomplish by having 27? Purely to stand around and look pretty?
Female Misogynist: Of the Driven by Envy variant. Per word of god, she and the rest of the old-maid conspiracy, despite being ranked nobles and well-educated, found themselves unable to land themselves a marriage, and desperately wanted to get married to a man, as opposed to some old-maids that either avoided marriage due to sexual orientation issues or being displeased with their prospective partner. As such, not even able to experience marriage vicariously, add a bit of tradition, ossify it with a dash of Honor-Related Abuse to taste, and voila! A recipe for a group of vicious old crows who want all women everywhere to suffer the most domestically abusive marriage possible, and rape experiences so vile, it's Not Safe For Life to even write them down!
Moral Myopia: Subverted. When she can finally get her mouth to stop flapping like a fish out of water, but just before her brain catches in a "How dare you!" rut, she condemns Alyssa as a foul murderess for killing Graf Norn after the latter kidnapped Cy to use as a hostage, and knowing full well how her sister (or sister-in-law, it's never made clear) that was Norn's mother was treated. Then it turns out that she sees all of Norn's actions as virtues because she's a Female Misogynist who beautifies spousal abuse of all forms and has a rape fetish so vile, even hentai won't touch it, and that's saying way, way too much.
Motive Rant: When she can finally get her brain to go past an outraged "How dare you!" as she's being badgered by Alyssa, instead of accidentally revealing crucial intel, goes into a scathing unwritten rant proclaiming that all her sins, crimes, conspiracies, and other illicit actions are purely for the sake of turning the country of Kraut into a misogynistic hell-hole where women would all be compelled to enjoy the glorious "pleasures" of romanticized Domestic Abuse and Marital Rape License to the extreme of extremes. The moment she stops to catch her breath, Alyssa retorts "now it's my turn to scream, and for the duration, my name will be Sigmurgh!" With a lovely link to a youtube video for the reference.
Nice to the Waiter: Implied. One of the commoner maids was sufficiently insulted by Alyssa berating her mistress that she foolishly forgets her station and not only demands Alyssa stop, but tries to drag her off. She gets a backhand that sends her comically flailing and falling down the stairs.
Romanticized Abuse: To the point she proclaims, when pressed, that for women, the greatest joy of marital life is to suffer unending rape so vile, even the worst possible hentai can't possibly describe it, nor her fascination for the subject.
Too Dumb to Live: Too arrogant to live, to be precise. Knowing full well Alyssa has a blood feud sanctioned by not one but two royals of her country against her, she invites Alyssa over to her own estate, greets her personally in the foyer, and is honestly shocked that Alyssa marches right up the stairs to demand what she has to say that would be so important it merits risking certain death, with a couple dozen each of maids and soldiers to serve as a deterrent. And the back-up plan? A group of mages with fresh chrysanthemums to try brainwashing magic, which, naturally, doesn't even remotely work.

Oija Sultanate

Sultan Salaadin ibn-Assam

The titular ruler of Oija Sulanate.

Badass Boast: Which backfires. When Alyssa pointedly refuses to go with his ridiculous demand to marry a man of his choosing, he retorts "I know all about you, and you can not escape me, wench! Your country, your knights, and even your family will not be able to protect you! You can commit suicide, I suppose that is a way to escape your fate!" Alyssa retorts "Why I do believe I've had war declared on me!" King Abraham insists on neutrality. Then Alyssa locks down the entire Sultanate and declares a Badass Boast of her own.
Break the Haughty: It takes months, but his vaulted macho pride gets torn apart piece by piece as all his schemes to subdue or kill Alyssa Gillespie backfire, with his arrogant son not helping matters with his own ill-advised plots.
The Caligula: He rules his country with fear, runs frequent raids on his country's neighbors for spoils and slaves, and runs roughshod over the women of his country, treating them like cattle, at best.
Digging Yourself Deeper: After Abbas has lost the duel with Lady Alyssa Gillespie, he foolishly has the gall to demand she head to the Sultanate and marry a man of his choosing, so she can be "disciplined." When she utterly refuses to heed such a ridiculous demand, he responds by threatening her country, her home, and her family. She takes that as a declaration of war and responds in kind, locking down the Sultanate with a curse what would turn anyone who wields weapon or flower in Salaadin's name into a lifeless husk, and boldly proclaiming that simple respect, like what she wished of Abbas, won't cut it, he'd have to hand over lands, goods, and his pride, begging on his knees for succor. After a while of trying his best to work around this curse for a while, he grows desperate and goes to the country's assassin order to try and claim Alyssa's life. This proves the worst idea, to date, as she tracks the assassins back home and completely annihilates the entire order.
Everybody Has Standards: Even he realized that Abbas was getting too arrogant and needed to be taught humility by losing a duel sometime, and would have been happy if it was someone other than Alyssa because in his culture, it's simply not acceptable for a woman to defeat a man in battle, and it would be an insult to his bloodline if Alyssa beating Abbas went unchallenged. Unfortunately, he went and tried to force her to marry a man of his choosing and threatened a crusade against her country and family when she refused. This gave her the perfect Pretext for War that she wanted.
Parental Neglect: A big part of the reason Abbas grew to be such a jackass is that Salaadin only spared one hour a week, on average, for each of his four sons, often with all four sons in the same room. The rest of the time, they were raised by servants and nannies who were too terrified of the consequences to say "no", especially to Abbas, the first born.

Emir Abbas ibn-Salaadin

The crown prince of the Oija Sultanate. He has the distinct (dis)honor of pinging Alyssa's ire by trying to force himself on Bridgit. He demands a duel with Alyssa, using his batal as a proxy. Abbas is a sore loser and demands a fight to the death once it becomes obvious his champion lost the duel, but quickly loses his nerve when Alyssa promptly delivers. He utterly refuses to see Alyssa as anything other than an upstart (snort) woman who needs to be taught her place, no matter how often he gets smacked down.

Bad Boss: His father Salaadin has ordered all services to be performed out of his eyesight when Abbas orders facial mutilation of a servant for the "crime" of having a face superficially reminiscent of king Abraham`s appearance. Abbas, of course, can't see why it's his fault.
Did Not Think This Through: Which Salaadin calls him out on, in Albish, so that anyone listening can comprehend. The plan was to take Princess Lily-Anne hostage, to force King Abraham to go after Alyssa, since the Sultanate can't. Instead, Alyssa not only takes the Champagne princess back home, she tears through the castle guards, absconds with Roxolane, one of Salaadin's own harem, taken by slave-raid, and Salaadin's daughter. AND now all of Sultunate's neighbors are going on war footing, as slave raids is one thing, but laying hands on the country's sovereign family? Oh, no, no, no, that's not going to fly.
Fatal Flaw: Arrogance. He thinks he's superior to everybody on everything. This blinds him to obvious pitfalls or drawbacks to his plans and schemes, forces him to constantly go against Alyssa, despite the fact that she doesn't even have to try to clean his clock, and causes him to fly into uncontrolled rages when things don't go his way, or he feels "disrespected" which could be so much as him seeing you walking down the street out of the corner of his eye when he's in a particularly bad mood, or being a prostitute unlucky enough to have him as a client and he's not sexually satisfied fast enough...
Hair-Trigger Temper: He flies into uncontrolled rages with alarming ease, and they're not even rational. Him simply seeing someone walking on the opposite side of the street going the other way at a random time of day can and has sent him into a murderous fury where he chases the poor guy down and stabs him to death.
He-Man Woman Hater: His culture is extremely patriarchal, with very, very strict gender roles, but he takes it to the extreme. Any woman who doesn't immediately bow and scrape to him, and even a few that do, deserve to be smacked down until they're broken or dead.
Never My Fault: He is completely detached from the concept of consequences. So, he can't understand, for the life of him, why every despicable thing he does blows up in his face, even when it's spelled out to him. He is the instigator in giving Alyssa a sweet Pretext for War by trying to force himself on her maid and putting his father Salaadin in a tight place because if he lets Alyssa go without retort all the other nobles his country's been pushing around are going to object, and if he does rebuke her for daring to defend herself, she can, and did, retaliate. He blames the servants for beating them up even when they've done nothing wrong. And lastly, he gave the entire country of Champagne the perfect cassus belli by kidnapping princess Lily-Anne Cullen and threatening her as a hostage, which now means in addition to having all the neighboring countries want to retaliate for untold decades of slave hunting, can now ally with Champagne in total war because no country can stand letting another nation lay hands on the sovereign's family and expect to last. With all the above, he genuinely believes he did nothing wrong and is being unjustly oppressed by... pretty much everyone.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: In trying to corner and pressure Bridgit into sex with himself, he gave Alyssa an excellent pretext to go after the Sultanate, both to bring them to heel for their raiding and slaving culture and to try and gain the archipelago where she can grow cava beans for coffee. Then he helps her again when he uses mages who know teleport magic to kidnap Princess Lily-Anne because by reverse-engineering the spell, now Alyssa can move inanimate goods over incredible distances without having to worry about countless logistics headaches.
Open Mouth, Insert Foot: After Alyssa confronts him in the act of trying to corner her maid, addressing him by his full title, he reflexively yells out "Do you know who I am?!" and trails off as he realizes he just made himself look like a total tool.
Psychopathic Manchild: Believes himself to be above consequences and throws temper tantrums whenever the world fails to meet his expectations. Which happens with remarkable frequency.
Royal Brat: Because he's the crown prince, he thinks he's superior to everyone and completely above the law, even in other countries.
Shout-Out: As his mind degrades, one word becomes entrenched in his thoughts: UNACCEPTABLE!
The Sociopath: And a very low-functioning example. Even being warned off from doing things with obvious consequences doesn't deter him from doing them and he's honestly shocked that the consequences he was warned of actually happened. He can't, for the life of him, understand why it's his fault when he's called out on it, and he's so arrogant, he thinks the gods of the world answer to him, not the other way around.

Emira Rafiqa bint Salaadin

Salaadin`s one and only daughter. Princess of Oujan Sultanate.

Authority in Name Only: Rafiqa`s title is emira, and technically she has equal authority to her brothers. However, since she is a woman, and Sultanate is No Woman's Land the title is literally in the name only and even her own personal servants formally obey Salaadin and not her.
Defector from Decadence: Asks to be "kidnapped" because she can`t stand the idea of living in Sultanate any longer.
Gilded Cage: What her life in Sultanate essentially is.
Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Ostensibly. Rafiqa states this as her eventual goal, as she is enamored with the northern ideals of romance. Alyssa sets her up with Hiram, who is a quintessential Gentleman Wizard
Star-Crossed Lovers: Normally, Rafiqa would never even see Hiram in her whole life, given their respective positions in political hierarchies of rival polities and social mores of Sultanate.

Elves

Elsimore clan

Polonius

Clan elder and adviser to the head (also, the actual shadow ruler of the clan).

Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He did genuinely love Gertrude, despite literally being an evil monster.
Horror Hunger: He has to feed on life energy from sentient beings to survive.
In Love with the Mark: He's actually a doppleganger that was using Gertrude as a tool for brainwashing the clan, but he grew to love her for real.
Kill and Replace: He assumed the form of the real Polonius, who was killed in an ambush, years ago.
Life Drinker: He replaced the form of Polonius and had Gertrude brainwash the clan so he could quietly sit back and feed on their life energy in the background.
Pragmatic Villainy: He methodically cultivated the clan head Claudius and his closest relatives into becoming a permanent feeding trough for himself by making them believe in the absolute power of law.
Tragic Villain: He didn't really have a choice in his actions. He needed to suck up the Elsimore clan's life energy to survive and he genuinely did love Gertrude, who accidentally immolated herself after trying to invade Alyssa's mind-space.

Gertrude

Claudius's wife and the clan's [Dream Walker]. She's responsible for brainwashing the clan to Lawful Stupid Black-and-White Insanity.

Death by Irony: She winds up torching herself to death in her sleep while trying to fight phantoms in a nightmare brought about by her own invasion of Alyssa's dreams through [Dream Walk].
Good Adultery, Bad Adultery: Clearly bad. She married Claudius for power and clan position but still had sexual relations with Polonius, which she kept hidden. Alyssa learns of it from Polonius, the doppleganger, as those were his thoughts at the time she caught up to him and ate his head.
Hoist by His Own Petard: She had the "brilliant" idea to try and use [Dream Walk] on Alyssa to try and dominate the latter's mind. While this ploy worked great with other elves, against a shoggoth like Alyssa, it lead to her tossing, turning, and hurling fire-based attacks in her sleep, fighting against the nightmares that Alyssa "remembered" from a video game. She would up killing herself in a blaze.

Claudius

The titular head of the clan.

Bothering by the Book: During the entire elf arc, he was nothing but a pain in the neck to Alyssa and harem because he'd pull obscure laws out of a hat, or out of his ass, just to inconvenience them all.
Lawful Stupid: Invoked. Alyssa later learns that he has been brainwashed to believe that being law abiding and being righteous are synonymous. So he stubbornly clings to the law, even if it only exists in his own head, to virtue signal, even as he's repeatedly warned that it's not going to matter as he has angered a being that cares not a whit about elf law and can't be punished by such laws without consent, which is no longer forthcoming.
Moral Myopia: After several chapters in the elf arc, and analyzing his behavior, Alyssa comes to the conclusion that whenever the Elsimores do anything at all, it's the height of elf tradition, but when another clan does the exact same thing, in the exact same manner, with the exact same context, it's nothing but an act of pure villainy as far as Claudius is concerned.
More than Mind Control: Even without the brainwashing that warped his mind being active, he remains the epitome of Lawful Stupid and goes out of his way to provoke Alyssa, thinking the law is some kind of magic shield that makes him completely impervious to physical or magical attack.
Nobody Calls Me "Chicken"!: When an enraged Alyssa, in the form of a goose, (It Makes Sense in Context), challenges him "come on, goose vs chicken, may the best fowl win!" He suicidally storms into the arena where she is, chafing that he "will not stand for the insult." Well, he's not standing for anything after goose-Alyssa chomps his head. [HONK!]
Off with His Head!: Dies to a terminal case of "head got eaten by angry shoggoth."
Oh, Crap!: Only when Alyssa declares a blood-feud, and lays out that even his own laws give her that right after everything he put her and her harem through, does he realize that trying to claim the resident shoggoth as clan property was a bad idea, but it's way, way too late for him by then.
They Just Dont Get It: After being warned countless times by other members of the elf counsel and Alyssa herself that she does not brook other people demanding who will get her affections or that of the ladies of her harem, and has no problem retaliating with extreme violence to whomever tries, damn the elf law, Claudius smugly and angrily retorts that the law is on his side and acts as if that somehow will magically shield him. His clan winds up on the wrong end of a blood-feud.
Wrong Assumption: When both his grandsons, Hamlet and Laertes, were on the piste, gravely poisoned with his own powerful enchanted gladius, he presumed Moon Unit would have only three options, leave the piste and forfeit the duel, move in to deliver the coup de grace and endanger herself with the conceptual poison, or sit and watch over them for days, hearing them howl in agony, since the terms of the duel forbid the use of either light magic or bows, and there's no telling how any other spell would react to a poison that specifically feeds on magic power. Unfortunately for him, Moon Unit was armed with pistols Alyssa built for her in advance, and she shot the two loons through the head, killing them instantly, officially winning the duel, and now Claudius has to deal with an utterly enraged Alyssa who wants his entire clan dead.

Hamlet

Chosen by Claudius as the clan's champion in a duel forced upon Moon Unit to force Alyssa to be married to a "more worthy elf" than the "exile" Moon Unit.

Assumed Win: Without knowing anything about how Moon Unit fights, or her abilities and talents, he presumed his presence at the duel was just a mere formality, Moon Unit certain to lose. He learns first hand that this is just not so.
Entitled to Have You: To Alyssa. To the point that he ignores Alyssa's protests until she tells him, to his face, that regardless of the outcome of the duel forced on Moon Unit, his entire clan will be wiped out, all he can do is say "But Why?!"
Insane Troll Logic: He genuinely believes that the best way to win over Alyssa's affections is to insult her harem and beat up Moon Unit in a forced duel. When Alyssa disagrees, he's stunned and can't comprehend it. Alyssa wonders if he's only Obfuscating Insanity like his namesake or if he's really that loopy.
Revenge Before Reason: When he's accidentally stabbed in the butt by his brother with a powerful magically poisoned weapon, he grabs the weapon and stabs his brother Laertes in his butt, to see how he likes it. Now both brothers are in a state where no remedy exists save a nice Mercy Kill, or they would take days to die, painfully.
Half the Man He Used to Be: Annoying Alyssa deprived him of bootlaces. Angering Moon Unit right afterwards cost him his legs.

Laertes

Hamlet's closest friend.

Fantastic Racism: To the point he thinks laying with Bridgit, Roxolane, or Lily-Anne would be bestiality, which makes Alyssa want to personally give him a gruesome death.
Gone Horribly Wrong: He charges the piste where the duel between Moon Unit and Hamlet is taking place, looking to avenge the latter only to trip over his now lace-less shoes and wind up stabbing the guy he was trying to rescue in the butt.
Revenge Myopia: When his brother Hamlet lost the duel he forced on Moon Unit, in all but name, and was grievously injured in the process, he grabs his father's gladius, with a [conceptual] poison strong enough to actually harm Alyssa, and has no antidote, and charges the piste where the duel is taking place.

Elven Elders

Tamaya

One of the clan heads. Current head of the Counsel - the ruling conclave of elves.

I Warned You: She repeatedly tries to get Claudius to back off from antagonizing Alyssa, by trying to legally claim her as clan property, and force her into an Arranged Marriage. Claudius remains pigheaded and unmoved until Moon Unit wins the duel against Hamlet, even with Laertes trying to interfere on Hamlet's behalf, and Alyssa declared a blood-feud, at which point, she spells out that she warned him it would happen and he shouldn't go running to her for help.
Women Are Wiser: All the male members of the council act like they're perpetually stuck at the start of puberty and all the angst that goes with it. She and the female members are more mature.

Juliette

Elven spinner. Over 700 years old. The initial reason for feud between Montagues and Capulets.

Abhorrent Admirer: Both Romeo and Tybalt are this to Juliette. She considers both of them impertinent milksops with delusions of adequacy.
Deadpan Snarker: She has (snarky) opinions about her people and their struggle with the concept of maturity.

Transbalkan Republics

Orc Tribes

Part of the DLC for the unnamed otome game, he's the chieftain of an orc tribe met by [Protagonist] in one of the bonus routes. In both the Fictional Videogame and the narrative proper, he's a particularly repulsive Serial Rapist. Vole Konistan used this guy to try and rape Alyssa into obedience, and apparently has done this with many other "stupid" women who dared refuse his "benevolent offers."

Mercy Kill: Subjected to one. When a triggered Alyssa kicked him in the gut, the internal injuries were so severe, that even the strongest healing magics would only slow down his excruciating death, so Alyssa takes her dagger and shoves it up through the part of his skull that connects to his spine, killing him instantly.
"Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization: Implied. When he's told to go rape Alyssa, he looks at her and goes "hey, pretty slut!" This was the worst possible approach.
Serial Rapist: Even he doesn't know how many women he's raped, nor does he care.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Introduced just to get killed off in less than a paragraph.

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Kraut Others

Oija Sultanate

Elves

Elsimore clan

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