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In General
- Badass Pacifist: Martin says they instilled this on him.
- Hidden Elf Village: They live in a shut off location that is conducive to their isolationist tendencies. It is a moving city.
- Interspecies Friendship: They take Martin in and teach him forging because of his determination to learn.
- New Skill as Reward: They give one of the four Pale-Moon Stones to Martin as a reward for his achievements.
- Ultimate Blacksmith: What the dwarf tribe is known and was created for.
Marvin Kahn
- Blood from the Mouth: Overusing his Pale-Moon Stone to control the Dwarf city on his own makes hurts him and makes him spit blood.
- Cast from Hit Points: Like all users of Pale-Moon Stones, he must pay with consciousness to forge.
- Early-Bird Cameo: His figure first appears in chapter 34 when Martin retells his travel to the Dwarf Tribe. He is formally introduced in chapter 221.
- The Good King: He is willing to give his life to protect his Kingdom.
- Magic Staff: His Pale-Moon Stone is on a staff that he uses to forge.
Marvin Barte
- Cast from Hit Points: Like all users of Pale-Moon Stones, he must pay with consciousness to forge.
- Curbstomp Battle: He gets easily defeated by Darkulo.
- Transhuman: He is equipped with mechanical parts that enhance his abilities.
- You Shall Not Pass!: He decides to stall the Demon Tribes to allow his subordinates to escape.
Marvin Lolan
- Ambition is Evil: His drive to be the king is just about his own agency, he doesn't care about the rest of his tribe, and will happily sacrifice 100 dwarves a month if it means he gets to sit on the throne.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Does a very good job of pretending to be a doting son and younger brother, but the moment he's alone, he spits and curses on their names. Then, the moment he gets his hands on the royal scepter, he turns on Martin's group.
- Break the Haughty: Every time he attacks Xiang Ye only to be smacked down, he responds to his public humiliation by becoming even haughtier.
- Cain and Abel: He plots the murder of his elder brother Barte.
- The Caligula: He showcases why he's not fit to be king in chapter 233, and it's not his lack of forging ability. He's impatient, irascible, unable to handle criticism or contrary opinions, and just wants to boss people around for its own sake. The fact that his little pact with the demon tribe required 100 dwarves a month to be handed over and killed "for peace" just shows how little respect he has for his nation.
- Did Not Think This Through: He expects the demon tribe to keep their agreement with him after they broke their agreement with Kahn and Barte, when Kahn and Barte can fight back but he can't.
- Driven by Envy: He's always been jealous of his older brother's talent with forging, and the fact that Barte was slated to inherit the throne, so he conspired with the demon tribe to take over.
- The Evil Prince: He plots to kill his elder brother Barte and immobilize his father Kahn to take the throne.
- Fantastic Racism: He thinks Dwarves, especially himself, are the master race.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He wears glasses and would happily sacrifice the dwarf tribe to die if it means he can sit on the throne.
- He Knows Too Much: He murdered all of Barte's guards when they returned to the Dwarven fortress to address the king about an incoming demon tribe attack.
- Ignorant of His Own Ignorance: Thanks to his inherent belief that he's the penultimate dwarf and dwarves are superior to all other races, he's repeatedly shocked, confused, and outraged when he throws everything he has at Xiang Ye and the latter shrugs it off with ease. For example, he reveals a Humongous Mecha and gloats that it's vastly superior to anything dwarves or humans could ever make. To Xiang Ye who responds with his own mecha, the former's is a valuable antique!
- Killed Off for Real: He winds up in a confrontation with Eli, thinking he could take the CQC specialist hostage against Xiang Ye. Eli uses his Super Mode to burn him to ash, leaving not a cell behind.
- Mana Drain: To power his forging ability with the royal scepter, he uses a potion that allows him to drain "mental energy" from his fellow dwarves, far in excess of what his body can hold.
- Manipulative Bastard: Looks like a shy nerd, is actually a conspirator who sabotaged his father's war machines so he could murder his family, seize power, and work under the demon tribe.
- Nobody Could Have Survived That: He crawls up out of the ground, having somehow escaped Raymond's "inner world" and Xiang Ye's black hole.
- Non-Action Guy: He has no talent for Forging and cannot fight.
- Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: When he tries to flee so as not to get caught between Xiang Ye and Rosso, Rosso reveals that the "save your life corpse implant" he agreed to is actually a pupeteer parasite and Lolan gets Eaten Alive.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Xiang Ye and Rosso start fighting, he tries to flee. It goes badly.
- Shadow Archetype: To Xiang Ye in many ways. Like him Marvin is ambitious and driven while lacking the natural talent his nation most values, in Marvin's case forging ability to Xiang Ye's lack of Boundary Force. While Xiang Ye compensated by finding he's great at Forging and leaning strongly into it, Marvin wasn't satisfied with his talent in pharmaceuticals and sought the Dwarven throne itself. While Xiang Ye is a moral person who uses his Forging talents to help people, Marvin used his talents in pharmaceuticals to poison his own father nearly undetected and usurp the Dwarven kingdom. Marvin could be considered a lesson in who Xiang Ye could've become had he allowed the constant claims that he was "Useless Lumber" to get to him and subsequently used his newfound Forging talents to try to dominate the world because of it.
- Tron Lines: Once he starts over-exerting himself in using the regal scepter and a "forbidden mental-energy-enhancing potion", he sports these all over his body.
- The Unfavorite: Despite his scientific talent in pharmaceuticals, his father considered him a useful servant to his older brother because he happened to be the second-oldest and a poor fighter. This drives him to villainy.
- The Victim Must Be Confused: He tries to claim that Barte is under human brainwashing the moment he shows up in the throne room and punches him in the face for attempting to have him killed and selling out the tribe so to sit on the throne.
- Villainous Breakdown: The instant Xiang Ye cures Kahn, he flies into a Motive Rant induced rage and starts to abuse the Pale-Moon Crystal Imbued Scepter.
- Virtue Is Weakness: When Xiang Ye briefly stops fighting for fear of the collateral damage, Lolan begins ranting that he has the upper hand against "the knock off mecha". Xiang Ye quickly proves him wrong by literally throwing him and his antique steam-powered mecha out of the city, and smacking him down some more once they're outside.
