History Characters / OgreBattle64

* SecretTestOfCharacter: Pulls one on both Magnus and Dio.

* ShipTease: With Katreda.

* ShipTease: With Troi.
* UselessItem: Her Angel Brooch, which doesn't do anything.
* StaffChick

* GoodParents: To Katreda.

* WolverineClaws: His weapon of choice.

* CosmicMotifs: Stars. Her name was given to her "by the stars", Odiron tells her to "follow her stars" when she joins the Blue Knights, and then there's the Starry Sky.

* OrphansPlotTrinket: The Starry Sky.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: Dolls.

* ItsAllMyFault: Since he apparently summoned the Gorgon who...

* TakenForGranite: ...does this to his best friend.

* {{Bishonen}}: Has a handsome face and a long ponytail. In Chapter Four he gets a portrait change that downplays this somewhat.

* {{Bishonen}}: A slender young man with MysticalWhiteHair. A GorgeousGorgon in the Temple of Berthe even flirts with Paul before giving him the Robe of the Abyss special item.

* BladeOnAStick: Wields a spear.

* BladeOnAStick: Fights with a spear.

* TheChick: Surprisingly averted. Yes, Leia is a woman, but she displays none of the trope. She's a soldier, who just happens to be a woman.

* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader: [[BigGood Destin]]
** TheLancer: [[TheBeastmaster Gilbert]]
** TheSmartGuy: [[WizardClassic Saradin]]
** TheBigGuy: [[MasterSwordsman Debonair]]
** TheChick: [[StaffChick Aisha]]

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Eventually becomes general of the Revolutionary Army [[spoiler:and possibly King of Palatinus in the best ending]] because he's such a fantastic fighter. [[spoiler:[[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in the bad ending, where it's brought up that Magnus' ability to win battles doesn't necessarily make him a good leader, or even a good person]].

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: [[InvokedTrope Invoked.]] Amrius believes strength makes a good king, which is part of the reason why he thinks his dad's a terrible one.

* AnAxeToGrind: Or a hammer.

* AnAxeToGrind: His signature weapon is Boreas, a wind-element axe.

* AnAxeToGrind: His Udarbruun axe.

* DifficultySpike: ''Much'' tougher than any other opponent the player faces.

* GoodBadBugs: Benefits from a unique glitch. Though Meredia is intended to join at level 17, it's possible to recruit her as low as level 3. This allows the player to exploit stat-increase-upon-level-up items in addition to her already good base stats and Siren level-ups to make Meredia incredibly powerful.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: One of two named characters in the game to have blue hair, along with [[HotWitch Meredia]].

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: The only named character besides Magnus to have it.

* WolfMan: Ogre Battle's take on a werewolf is a man who transforms [[InUniverseGameClock every night]] into a muscular, bipedal wolf. With [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair blue hair.]]

* {{Bishonen}}: Complete with [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair silver hair]].
* ChildhoodFriends: With Magnus.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Vapula, though his sprite doesn't show it.

** If you said "I can't do it" at Frederick's execution, [[spoiler:Yumil refers to himself as "King Yumil the Chosen," is more rude and [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity unhinged]], and fully intends on using the Forbidden Spell against everyone who defies him]].
** If you said "..." at Frederick's execution, [[spoiler:Yumil still refers to himself as "prince" and lets his father stay king (while he's alive), is more polite and reasonable, and refuses to use the Forbidden Spell against the Revolutionary Army]]. He comes off as more of a WellIntentionedExtremist, planning to [[spoiler:destroy the netherworlders, along with Winnea, and [[TheAtoner atone for the sins of the Royal Family]]. Any conflict between him and Magnus is more of [[NiceJobBreakingItHero a misunderstanding]], and ultimately Zeda decides she'd be better off if he was dead and [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kills him herself]]]].

* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: If Magnus or Europea confront Amrius at Fort Romulus, he counters their ReasonYouSuckSpeech with two reasonable [[MotiveRant Motive Rants.]] For Europea, he'll point out that if his father [[WeHaveBecomeComplacent hadn't focused as much on peace, art, and philosophy]] Palatinus wouldn't have been conquered. For Magnus, he talks about how [[VillainHasAPoint good ideas alone]] won't save them from [[TheEmpire Lodis]], saying [[NotSoDifferent Magnus knows this]] because it's his military success, not his goals, which have brought him this far.

* FuryFueledFoolishness: Amrius gets slowly more and more heated as Richard delivers his decree in Chapter Three. When Richard turns to leave, Amrius rushes the Death Templar [[BodyguardingABadass with three bodyguards]] from behind with a sword. RealityEnsues.

* DeadpanSnarker: The snarkiest of the PowerTrio.

* MagicKnight: After his class change.
* TheGoodKing: [[spoiler:In the high Chaos Frame ending]].

* ADayInTheLimelight: The battle at Argent.

* BraidsOfAction

* TheChick: Surprisingly averted. Yes, Leia is a woman, but she displays none of the trope. She's a soldier, who just happens to be a woman.
* TheNotLoveInterest: Another surprising aversion. Despite being one of the most prominent female characters in the story, she isn't explicitly paired up with anyone by the end of the game. Besides a brief moment of insecurity when [[spoiler: she's worried about possibly having to fight her father]], her relationship with Magnus and the others is always platonic and usually professional.

* AnnoyingVideoGameHelper: Downplayed. Some of his comments given in-battle come off as this, like warning the player of [[spoiler:Yumil]]'s Forbidden Spell about an hour of playtime before it actually goes off.

* IntergenerationalFriendship: He and Magnus are not often separated. In fact, Hugo is the one character who ''will'' be by Magnus' side the entire game regardless of playthrough. [[spoiler:Even on low Chaos Frame routes, when even ''Destin'' goes against Magnus]].

* RetiredBadass: Was said to serve with Magnus' father years ago, before retiring to become a tactician.

* TheJailBaitWait: Implied. In the stronghold of Frattelli in the Azure Plains, the player can meet a young girl who Sheen said he'd return and visit in a few years; there is another young girl in Dardunelles who gives Sheen the Decoy Cap. Whether or not he's serious isn't clear, but presumably he's waiting for them to grow up a bit, knowing that as a Hawkman he'll still look young, [[MayflyDecemberRomance despite being 70 years older]].

* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: If you follow orders, Ankiseth asks Magnus if his wife, Magnus' mother, ever resented him for not telling the truth about his "murder". Magnus replies she loved him to the end, implying the two were estranged and he wasn't present for her death.
* ParentalSubstitute: To Yumil, whom he advises and protects [[spoiler:even from his real father]].

* SecretKeeper: Played with. Ankiseth is called "The Murderer" because he supposedly killed a nobleman in cold blood. Actually, the nobleman was trying to kill Yumil and Ankiseth was just doing his job protecting the prince. So why's Ankiseth never said this? [[spoiler: Because the assassin was sent by [[OffingTheOffspring the king himself]]]]. Since Ankiseth's kept his mouth shut, he's been able to keep his position and still protect Yumil.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Even when explaining to Magnus the above truth, and even with how the event damaged his life, Ankiseth is careful to explain [[spoiler:the king [[NotHimself wasn't in his right mind]] at the time when he ordered the hit on his own son]].
* TheDragon: To Yumil, during Chapter Two. Yumil is technically in command but [[HypercompetentSidekick Ankiseth is both the fighting skill and military know-how]] of the operation. People only listen to Yumil because ''Ankiseth'' listens to Yumil.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Him and Magnus have a difficult relationship to say the least. And Ankiseth is a man of few compliments.

* ThePollyanna: Played straight and invoked. Meredia is the single happiest and most friendly character in the story and has been this way since childhood, but she explains to [[OurLichesAreDifferent Reucharle]] that once she had this pointed out to her by [[ParentalSubstitute Count Silvis]], she deliberately tried to make everyone around her as happy as possible.

* ThePaladin: [[GameplayAndStorySegregation Not literally,]] but she is the commander of the Berthan Sentinels, fights to do the right thing even if it gets her in trouble politically, and is one of the most religious people in the game.

* InformedAbility: Supposedly a warrior, but you never see him fight and he certainly doesn't look tough. In fact, the one time he's in a battle, [[spoiler: he dies, in all the Chaos Frame endings]].

* TheIdealist: So much so, that at least one group of the Revolutionary Army attempts a mutiny because they think Frederick's out of touch with reality.

* FaceHeelTurn: In most playthroughs, in Chapter Four Xevec will [[spoiler: betray the Revolutionary Army, due to thinking Prince Amrius has gained the ultimate power and become unbeatable]].
* HufflepuffHouse: His Southern Tigers are presumably a big and influential enough fighting group to earn Xevec a spot at the top of the Revolutionary Army. They're never once seen in action. The only mention of them fighting is some skirmishes with the Central Division at the start of Chapter Four, right before [[spoiler: Xevec betrays the Revolutionary Army]].

* AristocratsAreEvil: Though not as blatantly nasty as Rhade, Godeslas is still a very selfish man, and in a pinch will [[spoiler: sacrifice his own family]] to save his skin.

* {{Jerkass}}: Is he ever. Even Richard and Baldwin come off as benign compared to him.
* KickTheDog: His [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introductory scene]] has him killing a peasant in cold blood, and his second scene has him kicking a prisoner in the face multiple times. It only gets worse from there.

* TheGenericGuy: He doesn't even get his own unique portrait in the Hugo Report.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Shows up prominently in the prologue and is apparently high-ranking in the Central Division, but is never seen or mentioned again until his death in Chapter Three. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Jeal himself, who's honestly surprised Magnus still remembers who he is when they finally meet again.

* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: If the player goes to Argent after liberating Latium.]]

* IncorruptiblePurePureness: If the player visits Argent before Winnea, they'll find out that Count Silvis has died rather than succumb to the Infernal Aura, and even beyond that he's such an honorable man the lich Reucharle can't bring him back as an undead. [[spoiler: Subverted if the player visits Argent after taking Winnea, in which case Count Silvis has turned evil.]]

* TheMole: Was sent to the Eastern Orthodox Church by Procus and Amrius to find out about the Ultimate Power. Once there, he decides it would be more beneficial to use his position (and knowledge of Amrius' plans) to help Lodis.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In most playthroughs, he [[VillainExitStageLeft slinks off-screen]] after the Blue Knights beat him and is never seen again. In the [[spoiler: Low Chaos Frame Ending]], though, he happens to run across [[spoiler: a reincarnated Rashidi]] and gets [[spoiler: brutally disintegrated.]]

* AuthorityInNameOnly: Yumil's whole life is an attempt to escape this. Physically frail and soft-spoken, as well as being the second, hated son of a powerless king, few people take him seriously. Rhade ignores his order to spare Qad, and even his appointment as General of the Western Division is seen as a formality, since Ankiseth has both the muscle and the commanding experience.

* FaceHeelTurn: Though it's debatable how much of it was really his fault, what with [[spoiler:getting force-fed a mind-altering demon fruit and all]]. To make it more complicated, how much of a turn it is can vary on playthrough.
* FlunkyBoss: Though most bosses in the game are this, Yumil gets special mention for having two (four, under certain conditions) very powerful Knights of Danika fighting alongside him.
* ForgottenChildhoodFriend: Played with. He has a feeling he knew Mari, his lover, in his youth. He didn't. Mari's father [[spoiler: is Rashidi, who specifically manipulated the entire situation so that the two would meet.]]
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: In-universe, his "forbidden spell" is apparently able to kill every single person in the world who defies him, and his "ultimate power" ''should'' be unbeatable. In reality, all this means is he can cast the combination spell "Blue Spiral" by himself.

* RoyalRapier: He only uses it in combat in Chapter One.

* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The sensitive to Magnus's manly.

* TheChosenOne: [[spoiler:The prophesied Child of the Covenant]]. Due to a bit of tampering by the Caliginous Order and a few other factors, he becomes [[spoiler:ThePoorlyChosenOne, wanting to destroy the world]].
* TheIdealist: Has grand ideals of making a world of equality and peace.
* TheUnfavorite: Hated by his father, since his mother died in childbirth. Due to his odd hair and eye color, his father suspects he's not really his son anyway.

* IdiotBall: Happens twice in most playthroughs. First, Mari's fear of losing Yumil [[spoiler: causes her to ''[[InsaneTrollLogic kill him]]'']]. Secondly, after Zeda tells her she's been an UnwittingPawn all along and orders her to [[spoiler:stab and break the seal on Danika's prison]], Mari decides to vent her frustration by randomly stabbing the ground, [[spoiler:which is the seal on Danika's prison.]] The story only continues after the Revolutionary Army takes Winnea because of Mari.

* LadyOfBlackMagic: Not at first, but becomes one after [[spoiler: getting her power unlocked by Zeda]], and uses it to great effect against Baldwin in many playthroughs. Her magic comes from [[spoiler: being the daughter of Rashidi, the BigBad of the first Ogre Battle game.]]
* LineageComesFromTheFather: Gets her magical power from her father, [[spoiler: Rashidi]].
* ScrewDestiny: Attempts to do this after Zeda gives her TheReveal, [[spoiler: killing Zeda and refusing to release Danika.]] [[spoiler: Doesn't work. Danika's released anyway, and Rashidi is still incarnated.]]
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: With [[spoiler: Yumil]], as seen in the [[spoiler: Low Chaos Frame Ending.]] Unfortunately, her child [[spoiler: is the reincarnation of Rashidi, the BigBad of the Ogre Battle series.]]
* StrangledByTheRedString [=/=] TokenRomance: Downplayed, invoked, and justified. Yumil and Mari fall in love over the course of the story (a little more heavily on Mari's end), but basically all their onscreen interactions are either Yumil being upset, craving power, or going crazy; they never are shown getting to know each other or doing things together. This makes it seem like Yumil only likes Mari because she's good-looking, and Mari's love for Yumil is pure infatuation with no real basis. It all makes sense later on when it's revealed [[spoiler: both Yumil and Mari have been manipulated by Rashidi to fall in love with each other, all so that Mari will get pregnant by Yumil when he's become TheChosenOne, and give birth to a divine child Rashidi can then possess to obtain godlike power.]]
* TheDogBitesBack: After getting manipulated (and later mind-controlled) by Zeda for almost the entire game, once Zeda gives her TheReveal Mari has enough and [[spoiler: runs Zeda through with her own sword.]]
* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: Sure seems like it was.

* AGodAmI: Not to the extent of his son Amrius--[[spoiler:for one thing, Yumil shows him pretty quick who's got the real divine power]]--but he has his moments.

* TookALevelInBadass: Though his magic isn't quite as powerful as Amrius', once he's been powered up by the Infernal Aura he can still cast the combination spell Lava Flow by himself.

* BigDamnHeroes: Destin, Debonair, Aisha, and Saradin all first appear in the prologue, rescuing Qad. [[spoiler: Destin and Gilbert later show up at the Temple of Berthe [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome to stall Richard and Baldwin]]]].

* HeroAntagonist: For about half of Chapter One they are enemies of Magnus before he joins the Revolutionary Army. [[spoiler: They reprise this role in a low Chaos Frame story under certain conditions]].

* AxCrazy: Amazeroth and Vapula have become this by the time you first see them. [[spoiler: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in Amazeroth's case if the player visits Winnea before going to Ptia. He's still succumbed to the Infernal Aura to some extent because he turned on Baldwin and Richard earlier, but Carth has as well, and Amazeroth tells him this before getting killed.]]

* CainAndAbel: Has a strained relationship with his older brother Richard. He tries to earn his approval while Richard treats him like dirt, but secretly care about him. [[spoiler: Eventually Baldwin has enough and kills him right before Danika's revival, hoping to take whatever power he can from her for himself.]]
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Ends up betraying or abandoning Godeslas, Rhade, [[spoiler:Yumil]], and even [[spoiler: his own brother Richard]]. Also ''literally'' stabs [[spoiler:Ankiseth]] in the back in one route.

** When surprised by [[spoiler:Mari's]] magic, he knocks her out before she can cast a second spell.

* EasilyForgiven: Punches out and kidnaps Yumil in Chapter Two (and in some playthroughs, doing this right after [[spoiler: he kills Ankiseth]]), yet Yumil doesn't mention this at all when they next talk in Chapter Three.
* {{Irony}}: In order to gain the ultimate power, he spends the whole game [[spoiler: trying to meet Danika]]. He finally does...[[spoiler: and she promptly kills him.]]
* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: Baldwin encounters the heroes more often than Richard does, so Magnus (and the player) has more reason to want to see him get taken down. Especially in routes where he [[spoiler: kills Ankiseth]].
* KillTheGod: [[spoiler: He plans to do this to Danika after getting her blessing]]. [[spoiler:It doesn't work]].

* TheDragon: To Richard. [[spoiler: Later becomes a DragonAscendant when he offs Richard.]]
* TheHeavy: Is the most frequently fought character in the game, appears as early as Chapter One, and shows up frequently after that, all the way until [[spoiler: the final level.]] Most of the Caliginous Order's schemes are carried out by him, and he has something to do with just about every bad thing that happens in the story.

* AloofBigBrother: He's shown to care about Baldwin, but never shows it around him and is extremely cold towards him in hopes of pushing him to work harder. [[spoiler: This treatment eventually leads to Baldwin killing him, and Richard is actually proud of him for it.]]

* BigBadEnsemble: Is the de-facto ruler of Palatinus and would have served as the game's BigBad if not for the fact that [[spoiler: Yumil's brother Amrius starts gaining more power from the Netherworld than him, and then gets usurped as a threat by Yumil before making a last ditch effort to make a deal with Danika.]]

* KnightTemplar: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Well, obviously,]] but unlike Baldwin, who just seems to be after power, Richard seems to genuinely believe his actions are just and will make the world a better place. His ideal of utopia, however, requires killing lots of people.
* MagicKnight: At the end of his and Baldwin's 2v2 with Destin and Gilbert, he uses the Infest combination spell to incapacitate Gilbert and escape.
* NervesOfSteel: Doesn't even flinch when Amrius rushes him with a sword, knowing one of his men will stop the attack.

* ReligiousBruiser: Appears to sincerely believe in Lodisism.

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Though "creepy woman who covers her face" is still pretty suspicious, it's a lot better than her true form, which is [[spoiler: a Gorgon.]]
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Turns on Richard and Baldwin at the soonest opportunity. [[spoiler: Also kills Yumil in low Chaos Frame playthroughs]].

* MouthOfSauron: Zeda isn't the most powerful or highly-ranked netherworlder, but she represents their faction in-story, and her goals can generally be considered theirs. [[spoiler: She's also helping to carry out Rashidi's posthumous EvilPlan]].

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Depending on some routes, [[spoiler: does this to Yumil.]]

* GardenOfEvil: [[spoiler: Turns Mt. Keryoleth into a demon-spawning "Malefic Woods" after she transforms.]]

* FinalBoss: The last enemy the player faces. [[spoiler: Unless you have a Low Chaos Frame and no Zenobians, in which case it's Destin.]]

* TheKingslayer: [[spoiler:If he goes back to Yumil in Chapter Three and you have a low Chaos Frame, he ends up killing Procus]].

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* {{Irony}}: Invoked by Biske if he fights Ankiseth, pointing out how the first time they fought, Biske was the rebel and Ankiseth worked for the Central Division, and now the positions are reversed.

* ShipTease: With [[spoiler: Liedel]], in neutral or high Chaos Frame endings.

* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Is one of the few knights of Lodis to not succumb to the Infernal Aura, and can possibly join Magnus to fight against it. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] if the player goes to Ptia after liberating Latium, where he ''will'' have succumbed and replaces Amazeroth as the stage boss.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Dear god is he ever. Even Richard and Baldwin come off as benign compared to him.

* HateSink: Has little or no redeeming qualities, mainly so the player won't feel bad betraying the Palatinean Army. Killing him in Chapter Two [[spoiler: or seeing him get murdered by Dio]] is very satisfying.

* TookALevelInBadass: Thanks to a little help from [[spoiler: the Infernal Aura]], goes from sniveling in the presence of the Knights Templar and unable to beat a single one of their Mooks, to [[spoiler:apparently ordering Temple Commands]] and being one of the most powerful opponents the player will face.