Character sheet for Rose Princess Hellrage. Currently under construction and current to the translated novel. Untranslated parts have spoiler warnings.

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Protagonist:

Satou Chojiro —> René; “Rosy as the flower itself”, Ruvia Ciel-Terra —> Rose Princess Hellrage

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I'm not going to delude myself with any fancy notions of "justice" or the like! I will give back the same treatment to those who stole my life, especially that rotten usurper and that shitty god!

The titular character. In chapter 1, she is celebrating her 10th birthday with her mother, eating a roast pheasant dinner when heavily armed knights kick her home's door in, angrily throw the meal to the ground, and then proceed to drag both her and her mother to the royal capital of Ciel Terra, torturing them all the way, an ordeal she originally doesn't remember, then she finds herself and her mother on the execution block. Once her head is severed, that's when her past life memories kick in, and she meets the self-proclaimed god of evil who offers her a second chance, to get her vengeance, for a price that is left unsaid. Full of rage and seeing no other viable alternative, she agrees and rises again as a powerful undead, initially mistaken as a Dullahan, but is actually something much, much more powerful and vengeful.

Achievement In Ignorance: When she comes to Miriam's aid to get vengeance on Night Python, she's just doing so to collect Miriam's soul as a power-up. A bit later, she learns Night Python happens to be deeply connected to the prime target of her own revenge, her Evil Uncle who had her father murdered, her and her mother exiled and then hunted down for his own convenience.
At Least I Admit It: Unlike the self-righteous "Knights" who murdered her, she knows her actions are anything but just, and she just cares about her own goals and feelings and will use whatever or whoever she has to.
Being Tortured Makes You Evil: Not an entirely straight example. Her torture under the knight order didn't turn her evil, but the memories of the acts she endured and the resulting trauma keep her evil and make her very, very reluctant to turn away from the path of vengeance.
Benevolent Boss: She may be evil to the core, by her own admission, but she treats her subordinates with dignity and respect, treasures them, looks out for their well being, and listens to their input whenever possible, even if she's not expecting immediate profit from doing so.
Berserk Button: She loathes condescending compassion with a passion, and if you think you can buy her forgiveness, especially by buying cheap trinkets insincerely, be prepared for a cruel and unusual death.
Best Served Cold: Since she can't take Lawrence in a straight-up fight, at least not while he's got a small army of healers in heavy, magic shielded armor protecting him, she escapes to come back later when she's good and ready and has as many factors in her favor as possible.
Body Backup Drive: One of her most dangerous powers is the ability to send her spirit form into a female child near her age and possess it, reforging the girl's body into her own.
Broken Aesop: Discussed. At the very start of her rampage, she spouts the aesop "They say the best revenge is living well." then goes on to add "Bullshit! The best revenge is leaving your enemies so utterly broken that they never try to steal your happiness again!" or something in that vein.
Byronic Hero: She's moody, withdrawn, and is very, very difficult to approach and sympathize with, but those rare few who can tend to get doted on and treasured. She also has an internal "hard cap" to the level of atrocity and suffering she can inflict. In fact, her internal monologues frequently point out that she doesn't enjoy the atrocities she commits, despite her public declarations otherwise. In fact, she's only lashing out and doing heinous things because she is scared, and if she could be assured that those loathsome individuals who wronged her would be properly dealth with, she'd happily leave the world alone. Because she's under near-constant threat instead, she's driven to give those gruesome villains and their supporters graphic treatment that makes them beg for death.
Combat Pragmatist: After seeing Lawrence fight dirty, she has no qualms responding in kind.
Crippling Overspecialization: Her army's composed almost entirely of undead, by necessity. This is something her enemies learn to start exploiting.
Curtains Match the Windows: Silver hair and eyes.
David vs. Goliath: In just about every conflict, she's vastly outnumbered, outgunned, or both, so she has no choice but to fight dirty.
Deal with the Devil: On both ends. First, she enters into a month-long "trial period" with the divine blessing of the god of evil, in order to exact her vengeance upon the country that murdered her mother, took away her joy, childhood, and life, throwing a party over her corpse. Then she's the devil in the deal, helping a prostitute gain vengeance over the criminal organization that forced her into prostitution to clear her family's debts, but not only dumped all the most repulsive and abusive Johns on her, but also went back on their side of the deal and murdered her parents and siblings, then murdered her too, and René offered vengeance for the poor woman at the cost of her soul!
Defensive Feint Trap: After taking control of Iris' body, she pretends to be Iris, including only being as strong as Iris, not only to hide her whereabouts from Lawrence, until she's ready to take him and his xenophobic fanatics down, but to lure her enemies into a vulnerable situation, away from prying eyes, and then preying on them, driving them to despair when they realize just how screwed they are.
Driven to Villainy: Satou and then René were very noble, kind, and decent people, wanting to make the world a better place, either on Earth or this new world. Satou even dreaming of becoming a hero as part of the package of reincarnating in this new world. Then René is unjustly taken from her home, she and her mother horribly tortured, unjustly executed, and a bunch of random capital citizens dancing on her mangled and stripped naked corpse, just for fun. So when the god of evil says "would you like to help me destroy the world?", she jumps at the chance.
Even Evil Has Standards: She may care about nothing but vengeance, even possessing and stealing the body of Iris for her goals, but there are still some lines she won't cross.
- She won't kill indiscriminately. She only targets those who have bared their fangs at her first, or she has reason to believe will bare their fangs at her.
- She feels guilty for stealing Iris' body, and the affection of Iris' friends, and actively tries to leave them out of her revenge schemes, even protecting them secretly on occasion.
Evil Genius: She's a quick study and proves herself a tactical and strategic genius, able to move armies like most people move their fingers.
Evil Virtues: Charity. She helps the helpless and spares the innocent, for a very, very narrow definition of "innocent," but her motives are far from altruistic.
Faking the Dead: She escapes the knight order under Lawrence by leaving her body behind and slinking off as an invisible spirit. She stays as a spirit for a while until she comes across Iris, who foolishly wanders a dark alley alone and then launches a spell at her, with Iris getting her body possessed as a result.
From Nobody to Nightmare: She started the story as a simple, ordinary, 10-year-old girl. After being unjustly tortured and executed, she rose again as the most powerful undead, ever, and keeps getting stronger until she's stronger than a bona-fide Demon King and destroys the world.
Gender Bender: Was a male salaryman in Japan, was a 10-year-old girl at the time of her murder in this new world.
His Story Repeats Itself: One of her greatest problems, and the reason she keeps flinching away from Catherine's offers of friendship, is that whenever she finds someone, or some group of people, sympathetic and reaches out to them, they turn on and attack her, forcing her into a battle to the death.
Hope Is Scary: When Catherine reaches out the hand of friendship to her, and it's genuine, even though Catherine has a very legitimate grudge, the death of every last member of her family, René is shell-shocked, horrified, and flees in terror, even abandoning her most recent puppet body.
I'm Not a Hero, I'm...: She never takes it well when others say she's the embodiment of justice, even if they are sincere. She sees herself as a vengeance machine, no more, no less.
The Insomniac: While her undead form doesn't need sleep, the body of Iris, that she possesses, does. This causes problems because every time she closes her eyes and tries to rest, the horrors of the tortures she endured at Lawrence's orders resurface in her mind, waking her up in a cold sweat and literal bet-wetting terror.
Interrogated for Nothing: Her captors tortured her for intel she didn't have but refused to believe her when she told them the truth. The only reason she wasn't tortured to death is that her self-righteous captors had a party planned where her execution was the main event.
Karmic Jackpot: Unusual for a villain protagonist, but she is one. Treat her fairly, at a minimum, and your chances of long-term survival increase exponentially. Treat her poorly, especially if you call yourself "righteous" for it, and consider yourself lucky if you find that you're just digging your own grave.
Know When to Fold 'Em: Volume three. There's an army of over 50,000 marching on the capital against the local 8,000? Meh, faced worse odds. They're elite clerics, paladins, and other holy knights while we field troops almost exclusively undead? Okay, that's a bit tough, but we've beaten that too. They're all decked out in gear that completely counters all our tricks? Pack light, everyone, we're leaving the capital.
A Lighter Shade of Black: She's evil, she knows it, she admits it, but her enemies are so vile and self-righteous that, by comparison, her actions are benevolent.
Love Makes You Evil: It's not the torture, the jeers, the stone throwing, and/or her execution that made her evil, it's the fact that a weak-willed usurper king and his army of fanatics stole her mother's love away from her, leaving her alone, hated, and feared that makes her murderous to the hilt, and it doesn't help that every time she finds a suitable replacement, events conspire to take that away.
Madden Into Misanthropy: The horrors of the knight order beating her around for their sick giggles, watching her mother get executed for a laugh, and having stones thrown at her head for things beyond her control, and then having the citizens throw a party over her defiled corpse made her come to believe people in this new world deserve killing and the god of evil is right to want to destroy the world.
Magic Knight: In her (temporary) Dulluhan form, she was powerful with both swords and magic, but lacked the experience to fully leverage her abilities.
Mook Maker: She can turn corpses into undead.
Multiform Balance: Her powers depend greatly on the form she sports.
- In her Dullahan form, she's a powerful Magic Knight.
- In her lich form, she's a Glass Cannon with even greater magical power but incapable of taking a hit.
- In her undead wyvern form, she's a mighty Lightning Bruiser, fast, strong, does plenty of damage, but in exchange for being a Magically Inept Fighter.
- Her vampire form is a Jack of All Trades with Voluntary Shapeshifting, Hypnotic Eyes, and the ability to become intangible by becoming a fog, but all her stats are considerably lower.
Mystical White Hair: Her silver hair and eyes mark her supernatural nature.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: With very, very rare exception, whenever she reaches out to aid someone with genuine good will, they go and force her into a battle to the death with them, making her more bitter and jaded.
Not Allowed to Grow Up: As a result of becoming an undead, she'll be a 10-year-old girl until she's killed, and that's not easy.
Off with His Head!: Executed via guillotine.
Past Experience Nightmare: After possessing Iris' body, every time she lies down to sleep, the memories of the tortures she endured manifest as nightmares, and she wakes to find that she had wet the bed in her terror.
Plot Armor: Discussed. When the god of creation promised Satou the chance to reincarnate in the new world, he promised the Divine Blessing "Heavenly Luck." God promises all other benefits depending on the situation, but according to the god of evil, this blessing is extremely weak. If a carriage was about to crash into René, then some pebble, pothole, or other random occurrence would push the carriage aside. Against an angry mob, however, this would do nothing.
Pragmatic Villainy: She does good and righteous things to sow chaos among her enemies, gain and keep the loyalty of her living subordinates, and to wield the most dangerous weapon of war known to man, legitimacy.
Really Royalty Reveal: The knights who dragged her back to the capital, torturing her along the way, were the ones who informed her that she was the daughter of a deposed king. She grew up not knowing.
Revenge by Proxy: She has few qualms about dragging in the close relatives of her revenge targets to make them suffer, either as a direct attack on her targets or to traumatize said relatives directly, sometimes both. In her defense, she was shown by Lawrence, King Hilbert II, and is still being shown by her enemies that this is a perfectly "righteous" tactic to use in battle, or afterward.
Right for the Wrong Reasons: When she gets a chance to visit the house she grew up in, she finds that the self-righteous knights who seized her and her mother had burned it down, but the local lord did not dare to try and clear the land, nor sell it to others, for fear of her wrath. At the ruins, she finds that the locals who treated her with contempt her whole life had set up a memorial to try and buy her forgiveness. Enraged, she tracks down the merchant selling the snow roses used in said memorial and corners him. Turns out that the merchant involved is a con-man who was fleecing fleeing refugees, promising the roses had magic powers that would repel her, running a smear campaign to try to make himself rich, and supported King Hilbert's coup out of resentment towards the Federation's exclusive ore-trade/mining rights. When René finds all this out, she gives him a grisly death and then makes his corpse a mockery of the memorial she found.
Rightful King Returns: Once Hilbert's faction has been soundly defeated, she goes into the dreams of all the refugees and survivors and proclaims herself the rightful heir to King Albert, the man King Hilbert murdered for the throne. This is actually a legitimate declaration, as she's got centuries of legal precedent to back her, both among human kingdoms and the "demon" countries.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Her rampage started in a terrifying Dissonant Serenity, just wiping out people left and right while making verbal notes regarding her actions, when she clashed with Lawrence and his army of heavily armored anti-magic healers, she went apoplectic with rage, repeatedly shouting how she's never going to forgive him, but once she escaped, she started to plot and plan with an eerie Tranquil Fury, making sure she masters and best leverages her strengths during the rematch, or at least killing the guy ultimately responsible, the Evil Uncle who murdered her father in a coup and then gave orders to steal away her very life for his own convenience.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: A victim of it. In Ciel-Terra, an oracle 100 years ago prophecied that a child with silver hair and eyes would destroy the country. Children with silver hair and eyes were hunted and executed as a result for all those years. Subjecting her to this fate is precisely what brings René to actually make it come to pass, once she's gotten a Divine Blessing from the god of evil.
Soul Eating: One of her inherent abilities given to her by the evil god.
Sympathetic Murderer: Even though she's officially listed as a monster, the population at large believes her murderous rampage, arising as an undead, is perfectly justified, with the major anti-undead organization, the church of the god of creation, condemning the manner in how she was tortured and executed without trial, and her execution grounds left unsanctified, with no memorial service given to her, defiling her corpse instead. She appreciates the gesture, but because she will never be given back what was stolen, her childhood, joy, and peaceful life, she believes this is too little, too late.
A Taste of Their Own Medicine: The first knight order under Lawrence thought it's a fun game to horribly torture a 10-year-old child for a month, until René rounded up their daughters and explained to the little girls what "daddy" does for fun...
Took a Level in Cynic: She is so broken that she no longer thinks she's capable of holding love. She constantly compares herself to a shattered tea-cup, and love as the water. You can pour as much water into a broken tea-cup as you want, but the cup will never hold it, just feel the moisture as the water leaks away...
Tragic Keepsake: All she has to remember her mother is some cheap silver jewelry that was smashed to bits when she and her mother were grabbed by King Hilbert's knights. Hermenio makes the mistake of stealing it...
Tragic Monster: Combined with Tragic Villain. She's become a horrific undead that has to eat souls to survive, and all she really wants is to be loved and comforted, but since that's impossible, she's going to bring the world to an end.
Trauma Button: As powerful as she has become, anything that reminds her of the unspeakable torture she endured, anything at all, triggers a panic attack, and she lashes out without any control. A corrupt orphanage director chooses to "train" one of her hosts to be a sex toy for the local corrupt aristocrat who funds the orphanage in exchange for using the little girls within as sex toys. The moment he orders her to strip, it triggers her and BLAM, he's a stain on the orphanage wall.
Übermensch: She cares not a whit, or precious little, about the local laws and customs, because they suck. She lives by her own moral code that treasures those few who treat her kindly, rewards loyalty, spares the innocent and helps the helpless, even if it is for pragmatic reasons, and delivers graphic and brutal retribution on those she considers her enemies, and she will do whatever she has to to ensure her survival and that of her close allies.
Underestimating Badassery: Since she was 10 when she was executed, and most undead quickly lose all traces of their sanity, becoming mindless grudge monsters that act only on instinctive hatred of the living, many of her enemies completely delude themselves that if they just simply throw enough force at her, they can easily take her down. In reality, she's a very, very competent and skilled army commander who doesn't hesitate to get her hands dirty and never takes an overwhelming enemy head-on if she can help it. She employs information warfare to demoralize popular support for her enemies' armies, hit and run attacks to destroy their supply lines, and cleverly uses both false-flag operations and entrenched moles to make her enemies suspect and fight each other, rather than focus all their efforts on her. She also won't hesitate to engage in quick and quiet assassinations on enemy commanders to throw the enemy troops into chaos. As for the citizens? She frequently offers to spare them if they will hand over their corrupt rulers before she has to send her armies at them, and fleeing refugees are left alone.
Unskilled, but Strong: From the moment she rose from the dead, she has immense magic power, and could have beaten Lawrence if they fought one on one, but the self-righteous Knight Templar had an army of healers with him that kept him in the fight by healing him up over and over again. Her lack of combat experience didn't leave her any viable alternatives other than a long, drawn-out battle of endurance, that she wasn't likely to win, or faking her death to escape.
Used to Be a Sweet Child: While her childhood is not seen, prior to being tortured and executed in the royal capital, she was a well-loved child in the village where she grew up.
Vengeance Feels Empty: Played with. While she does gain fleeting pleasure at the gruesome deaths, or worse, of the people who traumatized her, and continue to insist on doing so For Great Justice, this does absolutely nothing to address the trauma or the emotional and psychological scars she bears, so no matter how gruesomely she traumatizes her foes, she herself still can't sleep sound at night.
Villain Protagonist: After rising again as an undead, all she cares about is vengeance.
Yank the Dog's Chain: Every time she thinks she might have found happiness, it gets taken away from her.
You Can't Go Home Again: With her home burned down, her mother dead, and her path to the afterlife closed by her own two hands, she has no choice but to be a raging engine of vengeance.

René's retainers. Warning. All spoilers are unmarked.

Miarazne

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"The kingdom of Ciel Terra deserves to be destroyed! The army of undead rampaging in revenge make more sense, you monsters wearing human faces!"

The first of René's living retainers.

Admiring the Abomination: When she sees René for the first time, she looks upon the latter with religious fervor. René is rightly baffled by this.
Birds of a Feather: She's every bit as vengeful towards the country of Ciel Terra as René. When the latter learns of it, she asks the former to stay by her side until she can figure out some way to make her tactically and strategically useful. Miarazne breaks down in Tears of Joy at the declaration.
Cat Girl: She has cat's ears atop her head and cat pupils.
The Dog Bites Back: The instant René grabs the remote and cancels all orders, she retaliates against Marquis Seebach, pins him to the ground and stabs him in the chest repeatedly with her bare hands, stating that he deserves to die at least three times, once for her mother, once for her father, and once for her life of pain and humiliation.
Fantastic Racism: From both sides of her heritage. Her beast-man half of the family threw them out into the forest because her father married a human. Her human side of the family sold her into slavery and killed her parents.
The Farmer and the Viper: She helps a lost, hurt, and very ill human, saving his life. This adventurer then turns around and sells her out, dooming her father and mother to be killed and she herself sold into slavery.
Half-Human Hybrid: Her father was a beast-man but her mother was human, which is why they were killed. A male cat-boy wouldn't sell as a slave and a human woman as a slave wasn't worth the trouble.
Heroic Sacrifice: At one point, her body breaks down to ash trying to keep René alive after she was betrayed by some elves who asked for her help in the first place. René was not pleased and just barely accepted their surrender, and even then because she had bigger fish to fry at the time.
I Owe You My Life: As thanks for being rescued from slavery under Marquis Seebach, she offers her eternal servitude to René and won't take "no" for an answer.
Made a Slave: As a child, her parents were killed and she was sold into slavery under Marquis Seebach, which she's had to endure for 10 long years.
Monster Progenitor: Near the mid point of volume 2 René, trying to find some way to make her tactically or strategically valuable, before Miarazne hurts or kills herself trying to make herself useful first, unlocks the ability to spawn vampires, and with her fully informed consent, Miarazne gets transformed into a Nosferatu vampire lord, making her far, far more dangerous to any of René's enemies.
Ninja Maid: What she wants to be, but she has yet to get combat training.
Property of Love: René frees her from slavery under Marquis Seebach, even taking her Slave Collar away, planning to use it on someone else to prevent betrayal. When the collar is returned, she puts it back on herself.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: When her irises turn red, that's when she's most pissed off, especially once she becomes a Nosferatu, as her eyes turning red means she's about to do some serious blood letting.
Right-Hand Cat: Although Everis was able to save her life, her human form was lost after the elves' little stunt. As of the most recent available chapter of Volume 3, she's stuck in the form of a house-cat.
Slave Collar: She's introduced with one that magically compels her to obey any order spoken into a remote. While she keeps the collar as a sign of loyalty to René, the rose princess destroys the remote, so no-one can ever abuse it against her.
Undying Loyalty: To René, which confuses her.
Unskilled, but Strong: Her beastman heritage gives her great stats, but she has no combat training nor teaching in martial arts. René's trying to find her a tutor to fix that.
You Can't Go Home Again: René tries to shoo her away, stating that there must be somewhere she can call home. She responds by saying that with her parents long dead, her beast-man relatives considering her a pariah, and the humans of Ciel Terra seeing her as nothing more than a rare commodity to buy and sell, she's got nowhere to go but be in René's service.

Everis

I'm sick and tired of this eon's old stalemate. I'll lend you my hand to destroy the world. What do you say, Rose Princess Hellrage?

One of the few surviving top lieutenants of the Demon King.

Affably Evil: Jovial and polite, but wants to destroy the world as much as René, for her own amusement.
Alchemy Is Magic: She brews potions and agents through magical means.
Antivillain: Her methods are horrific, but her goals are indeed truly benevolent. Pointing to Miarazne as a prime example, she states that the "demon" races are victims of horrible persecution, oppression, and abuse and the only mechanism they have open to them for their survival is to side with the god of evil, and wage war on the humans.
Bat Deduction: Without any on-screen explanation, she's able to puzzle out that Tracy is a Mercurim, a custom-order artificial human and that René is a gender-bent reincarnator, former male to female from another world.
Curtains Match the Windows: Purple hair and eyes.
Flying Broomstick: She flies around by riding a broom.
Hot Witch: She's a witch and is very attractive, as seen in the page image.
It Amused Me: She joins René's efforts because she finds it entertaining.
Loophole Abuse: Discussed. She points out all the ways Tracy could wiggle out of René's control if trust is placed on the old slave collar Miarazne provided. So she gifts René an improved version, as an investment against future research opportunities.
Mad Scientist: She pursues scientific knowledge and technology purely for its own sake. She not only made the slave collar Miarazne is wearing but provides René an upgraded version to use with Tracy.
Mark of the Supernatural: She's a succubus with purple hair and eyes.
Purple Is Powerful: Her hair and wardrobe is almost all purple and she's one of the top lieutenants of the demon army.
Stripperific: Her clothes barely cover anything.
Was Once a Man: She used to be a top royal human sage and researcher, but after an unstated incident, she was chased into the demon army, became a succubus, and rose the ranks to be one of the demon army's top generals.

Tracy

What are your orders, René-sama?

An adventurer who specializes in stealth, but was caught by René. Needing living subordinates, especially for gathering intel, which is where Tracy excels, she's enslaved in lieu of death.

Artificial Human: Custom ordered too! Using arcane rituals and unidentified potions, she was "grown" into the form she sports and sold to a buyer with... unusual tastes.
Forced into Evil: She's a spy for René upon pain of death for betrayal. What's worse, she was sent at René by force of arms in the first place.
Happiness in Slavery: In the "lesser of two evils" manner, as slavery under René is infinitely preferable to being killed.
Hoist by His Own Petard: As she was spying on René, the rose princess detects the magic coming from her invisibility cloak, so grabs her and drags her back to her palace to be given a Join or Die proposal.
Join or Die: Serve as René's intel officer or become an undead. And to ensure loyalty, here's an upgraded Slave Collar that will kill you on betrayal.
Loophole Abuse: Played with. In order for her slave magic to kill her for betrayal, she has to believe she's betraying René, but because she's The Mole, she has a lot of leeway in what she can divulge.
Resignations Not Accepted: She goes to Marquis Seebach to refuse having anything to do with René, but the other adventurers with him draw blades and force her to be a target-spotter for the new "sacred beasts" the Nocturne land troops are fielding to attack her.
The Mole: She pretends to be a spy for René's enemies but is actually spying for her instead.
Stealth Expert: She's a specialist at sneaking around and spying. Unfortunately for her, the magic properties of her own stealth gear are what tips René off.
Stockholm Syndrome: She quickly begins to sympathize with René after working under her for a while. René herself doesn't like it.
Your Days Are Numbered: Introduced with 5 years, or less, left to live and whatever life-extending potions and reagents are way, way too expensive for her to buy on her own. René gives her the drugs she needs to extend her life in lieu of a salary, for a job well done, to her confusion since René had already enslaved her.

Gods:

The God of Creation

The self-proclaimed god that promised Satou a blessed life in a new world.

Above Good and Evil: Although Morgana's <Sacred Baptism> tattoo is a corrupted version of his will, it is still his will. When René gets paralyzed by his gaze through said tattoo, she realizes that this being is so, so powerful and actually superior to humans that he just sees people as cogs in his well-oiled machine, as such, he doesn't see his Bait-and-Switch as a betrayal. People who don't do their jobs and follow his oracles get "corrected" and people who turn on him, regardless of the reason, are seen as "defective" and get targeted for "removal" and "disposal."
Bait-and-Switch: He promises to send Satou to the new world as his champion, slated for praise, glory, honor, etc. When Satou's memories awaken, René finds herself as nothing more than a severed head about to die for the "crime" of being a princess who was sired in a Maligned Mixed Marriage by a king that soon after got deposed in a violent coup.
Big Bad: The vast, vast majority of the problems in the world can be laid at his feet, and the rest can be chalked up to Humans Are Bastards... which can also be laid at his feet since he's the one who made them the way they are in the first place.
Control Freak: Whenever he's seen interacting with his faithful, he always takes complete control of their bodies and makes them go full-tilt fanatic, always far, far more interested in wiping out disobedience, demons, and "selfishness" than actually caring for their long-term survival.
Did Not Think This Through: While reincarnating Satou as a princess and keeping her past life memories sealed, so René can be a hidden trump card, has a great deal of merit, the fact that René was born with silver eyes and hair in a country that has intense Fantastic Racism against those very traits completely undermines the god's own stated goals.
Everyone Has Standards: While exterminating René is his ultimate goal, he is still quite miffed at all the horrible corruption going on in the human kingdoms that are supposed to be his followers, especially those that are acting in his name. He calls them out on it every chance he gets, and if he had his way, he would happily exterminate them all for their selfish and evil acts.
God's Hands Are Tied: Once he guides a soul to the world, he can not interfere with it directly, asides from divine blessings and visions.
Exact Words: He said that Satou can receive many blessings and become a mighty warrior, rewarded with honor, praises, and glory, depending on the situation. The situation René found herself in didn't have any of this come to pass because god's side of the fight was so dominating that humanity had the leisure of fighting among themselves.
Light Is Not Good: He's the source of all the healing and sacred magic in the setting, and on a good day, he's an extremely deceptive petty tyrant.
Metaphorically True: He technically did meet his end of the bargain by giving Satou a blessing and reincarnating him as royalty in a wealthy kingdom, but by the time he got his previous life memories, René was already a Fallen Princess and on the execution block, just recently beheaded.
Never My Fault: It was his oracle/prophecy that led to Fantastic Racism against children with silver hair and eyes in Ciel Terra. He put Satou's other world soul in René's body with silver hair and eyes, and he doesn't even deign to give any oracles to say, "do not harm the girl with silver hair and eyes born of royalty." Yet, when she turns on the people who abused her, him alongside the rest for letting it happen, he places all the blame on her and commands his faithful to exterminate her and everyone she cares for, at all costs, every chance he gets!
An Offer You Can't Refuse: Already a disembodied spirit, the chance to reincarnate in another world, with the opportunity to earn great wealth, honor, praise, and glory would be very hard to turn down.
We Have Reserves: According to his most faithful, he has no issues sending over 90% of the human population to their deaths if that means he manages to exterminate the "demon" influence in the world he governs.
You Can Not Grasp The True Form: René tries to use her "emotion sense" powers to pinpoint the location of enemies as she's trying to sneak away from an assassination site. She accidentally manages to detect someone wielding a fragment of his power. The feedback paralyzes her and nearly causes her to meet her end at the hands of an opportunistic Glory Seeker adventurer.

The God of Evil

The self-proclaimed antithesis of the god of creation who brought Satou's soul to this new world and reincarnated him as princess René. She greets René's severed head and offers René the chance to be her champion and gain vengeance, hopefully destroying the world in the process.

Card-Carrying Villain: Deconstructed. Normally, she's ecstatic when she's blamed for everything going wrong in the world, but when René's severed head is blaming her for her suffering, this somewhat undermines the god's credibility while in negotiations to get René as her new champion.
The Corrupter: She doesn't create her own races from scratch. She just twists and converts the races The Greater God introduced to the world. To date, aside from undead, all her efforts are generally an improvement, in ability and morality.
Dark Is Evil: Her clothes eyes and hair are pitch black and she's the god of evil.
Deal with the Devil: She offers René the chance for vengeance at a price that remains unstated, but to gain René's trust offers a 30-day "trial period" for René to learn the pros and cons of her Divine Blessing.
Evil Virtues: Honesty. She doesn't play word games, lie, obfuscate, or trick people with cheap semantics. She's honest and up-front so that it's easier to get people to sign on with her deals with the devil that she offers.
- Self-determination: She treats people as people and respects their will, but only so she can both gain something tangible by offering a Deal with the Devil and because she finds it more amusing to just sit back and watch their daily struggles.
God of Evil: Self-proclaimed.
God's Hands Are Tied: She can not interfere with the world directly aside from oracles and divine blessings.
Made of Evil: Originally, she and the god of creation were one being, but they split into two halves, with the creation god getting the "good" attributes, and she being stuck with all the evil ones.
Not Me This Time: While speaking with René, she mentions that she's normally tickled pink when she's blamed for everything wrong with the world, but René's torture and unjust execution had nothing to do with her, and the perfectly valid logical accusation was harming her negotiating prospects.
Villain Has a Point: She's right to try and smash the Great God's little pet project. He's a tyrannical control freak who would micromanage the world's entire population if he could, seeing as he has absolute zero respect for their sovereignty. Humans Are Bastards is also very, very strongly in play, so she's perfectly justified in watching such scoundrels suffer. Furthermore, the "monsters" shown to date are just fantastic animals and bear no malice. The "demons" also happen to be far, far more noble than just about any human shown.

Ciel Terra:

Royal Faction:

Karle, the executioner

The unlucky sod who found himself being René's first victim.

Child Soldier: Deconstructed. He was forced to perform his first execution at age 14, and spent the night tossing, turning, convulsing, and retching in terror.
Ignored Expert: He is accustomed to having executed prisoners rising as undead if the execution platform hasn't been properly sanctified first, the targets don't have a memorial service, or both, and warned the knights turning over René and her mother about it. His warnings were ignored, and he was ordered to behead them anyway. He was hardly surprised that René did indeed rise as an undead due to her rightful grudges, but he was clearly not prepared for how powerful she became.
It Gets Easier: His first ever execution, pushed onto him by his father, who was also an executioner, had him horrified and tossing in his bed for days, even though the guy was a confessed and duly convicted serial killer. After many years of being an executioner, he holds no feelings towards his intended targets and just views his gruesome work as Necessarily Evil, and takes pride in his work.
Karmic Death: When René rises again as an undead, and he foolishly comes at her with an axe, she retaliates by separating his head from his body, at which point, his last thoughts are "so this is what it's like to be beheaded."
Moral Myopia: He saw nothing wrong with beheading a child that even he realized could not possibly merit the death penalty, but when she rose as a vengeful undead, he got mad and cursed at her.
Nothing Personal: He cares not a whit about politics or the circumstances of the people he's scheduled to execute. It's just a job to him and when he was informed of René and her mother, he just goes "ah, the Imperial Court's just doing some stupid shit."

Imperial Captain Manfred

The lead imperial knight in charge of local security.

By-the-Book Cop: Ran the local law enforcement honestly and fairly.
Locked Out of the Loop: He was unaware of the actions of the self-righteous knights on how they were throwing a party over René's death and how they had tortured her beforehand, so when René rose as an undead, he was completely taken aback and had no reliable information on what was happening, aside from the fact that some kind of powerful undead arose at what was supposed to be the execution of a wanted criminal, at least, if what he told Chimes of Dawn is true.
Red Shirt: He shows up at the execution grounds just to die.
The Worf Effect: He's described as being a competent warrior at least on par with an Adept class adventurer. The moment he gets within range of René, he's dead without fanfare faster than he can even draw his sword.

Knight Captain Lawrence

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Destroy the spawn of the false king!

The captain of the knights who hunted down René and her mother, had them tortured and starved en route to the capital, in the middle of winter almost nearly naked, kept alive with healing magic, only to execute them in a grand festival.

Absolute Xenophobe: He views any government official who has any relations with foreign countries above the absolute minimum as a rotten cur that has to be struck down, and will happily do it at the first opportunity. If he finds that a government official has friendly relations with a foreign power, he goes postal and accuses them of selling their souls before torturing them like crazy and giving them graphic executions then defiling their bodies, and doing the same to their close relatives.
Bad Boss: His loyalty is fleeting not only to his superiors but also to his subordinates. At the slightest hint of insubordination or betrayal, real or imagined, he completely loses his shit and drags them off to be horribly tortured until he can extract a confession, or tortures them to death. The captain of the Second Knight order learned this lesson, painfully, even though he's the one who gave Lawrence the best strategy to fight René and come back with the least losses.
Beauty Is Bad: The narration describes him as so handsome that all the women in Ciel Terra dream of being pierced by his gaze, but he's a self-righteous asshat who will betray his king the moment it suits him, holds contempt for a 10-year-old child, not for anything she's done, but who she's the daughter of, and sees nothing wrong with torturing children horribly and then executing them in a grand spectacle, purely to delude himself into thinking he's fighting for justice and the good of the kingdom.
Berserk Button: Using the term "princess" to describe René anywhere around him drives him nuts, despite the fact that she is a princess in fact and title.
Bodyguard Betrayal: As "the shield to the nation," the biggest part of his job is being the king's bodyguard. He faked his allegiance to the previous king and then sided with the usurper to betray and murder him.
Broken Pedestal: He was admired and idolized by all the children of Ciel Terra, René included, until she faced him in the royal capital and she realized he's the one who self-righteously gave the orders leading to her torture and murder, along with her mother, not to mention faking his allegiance to the king to then side with an usurper. Once word of his heinous crimes get out, the public trust in him plummets, and he's universally condemned by the church, the adventurer's guild in its entirety, and all the children who looked up to him, even this in his own Anti-fed faction. He is so self-righteous that he doesn't care.
Circular Reasoning: He moves against his former king not just because he's a xenophobic fanatic opposed to the influence of the Federation -and the king wasn't-, but because the king's daughter and only child just happened to be born with silver hair and eyes, so when the king is dead, he hunts down the widow and child, tortures them horribly, and then has them executed at a public celebration staffed entirely by people equally fanatic, on an unsanctified execution platform and refused to have any memorials performed or allowed on behalf of the spirits of the dead women. When René rises up as an undead as a direct result of his crimes, he points to the fact that she rose up as an undead to proclaim that he was right to torture and murder her because she's "cursed" and inherently evil.
Combat Pragmatist: He doesn't face René alone. He brings an entire army of heavily armored healers to keep him in the fight and the healers are also equipped with powerful anti-magic armors to mitigate if not negate René's magical area of effect attacks, then keeps René pinned with his powerful holy sword until she goes down.
Dirty Coward: Much like the treacherous king he backed. A traitor, a brutalizer and an all around irredeemable pile of self-deluded garbage whose exploits; given prior actions in story, were hideously overrated and overblown. His fighting style consists of hiding behind his men while soaking up enhancement & recuperation spells coupled in privately vetoing the rightful king on the grounds of his support for those whom Lawrence despised. The fact that he seldom ever did his own fighting without an entourage to back him up whilst venting his hatred for anything differing from his worldviews on helpless woman and children serves to further tarnish his questionable knighthood.
Dumb Muscle: He is utterly incapable of designing battlefield tactics or strategies on his own. The only "strategy" he can understand is heading straight at his enemies and trying to chop them to bits with his sword.
Evil Redhead: He's illustrated as having vermilion hair and is a self-righteous asshat who will happily betray his king the moment it suits him and sees it as "justice" to hunt down, torture, and execute children, not because they've actually done heinous things, but simply because he doesn't like who their parents are.
Fate Worse than Death: He openly begs for death, and is denied, once René gets done with him.
For Great Justice: He proclaims that he's in the right because his crimes are done on behalf of what he sees as "justice."
Hair Color Dissonance: He's described as having ginger hair but illustrated as having vermilion.
Hate Sink: Lawrence, by all accounts in and out of story. Is an inimitable scumbag admonished and despised by one and all, especially after word gets around about what his faction, the king and their capital cities dumbass subjects put a small child through for their fanaticism. An unrepentant hypocrite, a fascist racist bully whom even has his own men brutalized should they seemingly displease him, a tactically inept moron who assumes his dominance is assured, a whiney Slime Ball who unreasonably makes petty demands of others. It's little wonder why the Adventurers Guild (amongst others) came to detest him for everything he did.
Never My Fault: Even as his body was being grotesquely modified. Lawrence's foolish roundabout thinking made him refused to believe it was his fault that René came back as a powerful, dangerous necromantic force of destruction hellbent on avenging herself upon him and all of Ciel Terra. Still blaming the federation for his problems even as his externals are made to mirror the hideousness of his warped ideals.
Hated by All: It wasn't long till Captain Lawrence came under severe scrutiny by the less xenophobic citizens of the Wretched Hive he served and beyond. Even the king who usurped his brother's throne was warry of him due to his extremely contingent loyalties. By all accounts though, he's so full of himself that the delusional fool just brushes it off. Proclaiming his just and vindicated actions on account of blind racism.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Knowing he'd be facing an undead army, he has himself sanctified so he can't be raised as an undead. This only serves to give him a fate worse than death.
Irrational Hatred: His father was an alchemist who forged pickaxes out of mithril, but couldn't keep up with the new higher standard of equipment the Federation demanded for miners, drove himself into debt and drink and died. Needing to blame somebody, Lawrence deluded himself into thinking that the people of the Federation are devils in human skin and spent the rest of his life training his sword skills to seek vengeance for his father's death.
Knight Templar: He's got very, very rigid views of "justice" that demand killing everyone he sees as a criminal, but not just them, but including their entire immediate family, spouses and children. His own men seem to follow his dogmatic creed, given what they did to poor Captain Bertil per his doctrine.
Laser-Guided Karma: Man did he get what he had coming. Assuming he had another easy victory when destroying one of many replacement bodies whom was one of his men's daughters René had prepared, but missed the chance to purify her vindictive spirit only served to turn the knights order Lawrence ran against him. With his precious turtle formation used to subdue Rose once upon initial revivication disrupted. Nothing would protect him from the hoard of waiting undead to swarm over him and his cronies, double blasting himself in the foot by setting enemies both at his front and back with his high and mighty antics. To top off his insult to injury, captain nazi got his sword hand lopped off by the very same hapless child turned genocidal revenger he and the debouched kingdom created and originally vilified, so she could claim a royal family heirloom said same Fake Ultimate Hero took to brandish in his battle against the undead as her own due to her birthright. All before his still intact upper body was remolded into an expendable kaiju like abomination only to be cut down and purified by a false saintess's magic beasts, what's left of his mortal remains were gathered in an urn so said ashes could be used as fertilizer to help particularly despised classes of plants grow. As per his initial victim, and ultimate punisher's, final intent to insult his dastardized memory.
Light Is Not Good: He dresses in white, wields a holy sword, and is a self-righteous asshat who happily murders women and children and then calls it "justice."
Madness Mantra: He gains several:
- Just before he's bested and overwhelmed by René's forces, he repeatedly curses her for existing before attacking in a blind flight before losing his sword hand.
- After he was forcibly converted into some kind of horrific flesh golem. Lawrence repeated shouts, in a tongueless verse, for someone to kill him after he'd been unleashed by his victim turned tormentor on the very city he once stood guard over to combat enemy forces.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Captain Lawrence really should have heeded his bastard of a new boss's advice and NOT gone after the kin of the former liege whom he had betrayed. He literally created the epicenter of his own destruction that brought down Ciel Terra and it wasn't even the very foreign faction he spent his formative years hating for his father's demise.
Pay Evil unto Evil: Invoked; he subjected a ten year old girl and her mother to horrific conditions before having them cruelly executed on the grounds of an accursed bloodline built of treachery and prophetic telling's with intent to violate their remains upon their deaths. Such actions gets him and the whole country on the receiving end of this when his subject of inquisition revives as an Abyssal Spirit in the form of a mutant Dullahan and has him, his men, the false king and most of the citizens either killed, converted into mindless corpses or chased out into the wilderness to be preyed upon by horrors beyond their borders.
Reforged into a Minion: When one of the four great powers sends an army and a powerful band of adventurers at her to retaliate for the death of their king, who foolishly attacked René head on, she sends his new abomination kaiju form back at them, and this would have annihilated them if they didn't somehow start summoning a bunch of "sacred beasts" that sliced away the undead parts of his body and gave him Final Death.
Shoot the Hostage: When René takes the daughters of the first knight order hostage and points out to the little girls how the knight order made a sport of torturing her, in graphic detail, Lawrence slices them to bits, right in front of the knights, both to keep the details of their sins secret and to prevent René from body-hopping. The knights turn on Lawrence as a result. What's worse is that the act was totally meaningless, as the hostages he cut to pieces were only the first group that René had rounded up, and even if he had somehow managed to cut his way through all the hostages, she still had one girl hidden away that she used as a backup body to finish him off.
Skewed Priorities: He is not bothered in the slightest that the church, adventurer's guild, and over half the population of his home country completely condemn the way he treated René, an innocent 10-year-old child who didn't even know her father was a deposed king. What does piss him off is that the undead she turned into had the term "princess" in the title, and he filed an official protest. The adventurer's guild declined his protest as meritless, since she's hardly the first monster with "princess" in the title, many of whom were never human to begin with.
Spotting the Thread: He realizes that René's "death" was faked and reports it to his new king, the adventurer's guild, and the church.
The Starscream: Though he's always singing King Hilbert's praises, and the usurper lets himself be flattered by it, King Hilbert knows this guy can, and will, turn on him in a heartbeat if it suits him, as he faked his loyalty to King Albert and then led the charge to kill the guy.
Tautological Templar: He believes that his stated goals of vengeance against the Federation and elimination of Albert's bloodline, especially René, are beyond reproach. As such, anything and everything he does to try and attain those goals is noble. Even the rest of his knight order disagrees once they see it in action.
Ultimate Job Security: King Hilbert may let himself be flattered by the guy's praises but does not trust him, seeing as he knows this guy's a traitor who betrayed his predecessor, and would betray him in a heartbeat when it suits him. Still, he can't afford to sack him for several very good reasons. 1.) Popular support is, or was, firmly behind him, at least prior to the whole Rose Princess of Hellrage thing. 2.) If he doesn't agree with being sacked, which is very likely, he'll turn his sword on the "false" king that's trying to get rid of him, and there's no way Hilbert would survive that. 3.) Lawrence is the only knight in his armed forces that has ever clashed with René and come back alive, so he's the king's best hope of stopping the monster that the poor girl has become while he still has a country to rule, and his own life.
Villainous Breakdown: Lawrence really loses his shit after René's string of successes outsourced him during their final confrontation. Particularly after her having forced his hand when he killed some of his own men's daughters whom the monster had taken as hostages. Pushing his precious turtle formation out of synch, leaving both him and the knights at the mercy of the the Hellrage's forces. His last moments see him pathetically shrieking curses at the problem he foolishly created as he panickedly attacked her out of desperation before he's overwhelmed by her zombie hoard.
Would Hurt a Child: As far as he's concerned, children of people he sees as criminals are fair game to torture, abuse, and execute, and when that's all done, by all means defile the bodies, as giving a criminal a proper burial and memorial is blasphemous in his eyes.

King Hilbert ‘Lionheart’ Nicolas

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René, huh. Please, don’t resent me for this… Well, it’s an impossible request to make at this point regardless.

The new king that took the throne after launching a bloody coup against his own brother, purely to gain the power of the position.

Arch-Enemy: In the first volume, and a significant part of the second, René considers him the prime target for her revenge, second only to the extremely deceptive Great God that lured her to the new world with half-truths and what turned out to be empty promises.
Cain and Abel: The Cain to his now dead brother.
Defiant to the End: When he's captured, René gives him the chance to surrender and beg forgiveness, not that she was planning to forgive him. That's when he has a suicidal onset of "Royal Pride" and tries to charge her with a sword. It doesn't go well.
Despotism Justifies the Means: He engaged in a great deal of villainy to get the crown for himself, without caring what came after, until he's actually on the throne and realizes just what a mine-field he's set up for himself.
Dirty Coward: Literally. In the final fight for the capital, he ordered all his troops to fight, but snuck down a rathole to hide deep underground. René found him and had the earth spit him out, right at her feet, at which point he foolishly attacked her in a panic, getting stabbed by her army of undead.
Evil Redhead: He's got red hair, that he loves to keep fluffed up like a lion's mane, and he's a total asshat who sees nothing wrong with murdering his brother, using his own niece as a pretext for launching a coup run by fanatics, and only "regrets" sending Lawrence against René and her mother because René is now a powerful undead that Lawrence and his elite knight order barely stopped, and then only because she was still coming into her powers and lacked the combat experience to deal with Lawrence hiding behind a heavily armored healing unit that just kept adding more healers every time healers fell or were exhausted.
Fashion-Victim Villain: In universe. He's well aware that his fluffed up hair and thin frame makes him look like a caricature when he's dressed in the official king's wardrobe, so he shoves padding in his shoulders and on his belly to at least try to look like the clothes fit him, and he's not a total joke.
Fate Worse than Death: René thinks death's too lenient a punishment for his crimes and cowardice. His final fate is so graphic, he can't even beg for death.
Gone Horribly Right: He manages to win the crown by murdering his brother, but the cost is truly unpalatable. He now has enemies in every shadow, one false step and his rule will blow up in his face and since he eliminated his brother, brother's widow, along with his niece. His final relative is now a powerful and vengeful undead that wants his life and is completely irreconcilable, he can't even step down from his throne to save his life.
Hair Color Dissonance: He's described as having red hair, but is illustrated with auburn.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Same as with Lawrence, he has himself sanctified so René can't make him into an undead to play with, so she instead gets creative and inflicts him with body horror, forcing him to stare into a mirror and kept alive in perpetual suffering, and he's so warped, he can't even speak to beg for death.
Insufferable Imbecile: What the usurper really was at his core. A terrible leader, a weak-willed simpleton, a selfish idiot and a general incompetent whose entirely selfish actions only proved to compound a litany of mistakes atop of the ones and his cronies had already made.
Malicious Slander: How he was able to get popular support for his coup, to levels that surprised even himself. He not only decried his brother as selling out his people to the Federation, but decried him for marrying a commoner and proclaimed that siring René as a "cursed" child with silver hair and eyes was solid proof of the man's corruption and hedonism, despite not actually believing such garbage. Of course, this quickly got out of control, and too late, he realizes just how hard it is to actually run a country like Ciel Terra...
Nothing Personal: The only reason he feels bad about ordering the hit on René and her mother is that René has returned as a powerful undead and is coming after him, so when he's alone in the throne room he sighs and quietly says to himself "René, huh. Please, don’t resent me for this… Well, it’s an impossible request to make at this point regardless."
Pyrrhic Victory: His villainy managed to win him the throne, but now his rule is a minefield that could blow up in his face at any moment. The reasons are listed on the main page.
Real Politik: In his POV chapter, he states that he was pressured by the anti-fed fanatics, Knight Lawrence at the lead, to purge his brother's bloodline, both for being on friendly terms with the Federation, and for the fact that René had silver hair and eyes. Fearing that popular support would turn on him, he half-heartedly gave the order that led to René and her mother being tortured, dragged back to the capital, and executed. Now he's got René reviving as an undead with an irreconcilable grudge coming after him and everyone on his side, and he's still got the most unpleasant task of keeping his fanatical followers reined in, trying to keep the Federation from retaliating, and he's also got to worry about his so-called allies, the four Great Powers, taking the Federation's place in demanding mining rights in exchange for protection.
Reforged into a Minion: His head is placed atop a giant abomination composed of a mass of undead flesh. He happily repeats the same base propaganda that got him the support he needed to mount his coup as René is having him attack the very people who supported him.
Stupid Evil: Rather than sending Lawrence to murder René and her mother, whom he knew weren't threats, which he knew in advance would alienate quite a few world powers, there were so, so many ways he could have placated his base, like for example pointing at Night Python or the Federation as bigger threats, or even made the claim that killing René would have run the risk of making her an inspirational martyr. Instead, he goes with the easiest option and has the gall to be shocked when it turns around on him.
Tyrant Takes the Helm: After murdering his brother and taking the throne, he clamps down on criticism, quietly supports a heinous criminal syndicate and their many heinous crimes, and the only reason he doesn't crack down on the miners whose grudges he instigated and manipulated to catapult him to the throne by buying favor with the four great powers that back him is that he's aware they will turn on him even faster and Knight Lawrence would have no qualms backstabbing him and then calling himself a "hero."
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: It was his orders that brought a new "named" monster, the Rose Princess of Hellrage into existence by killing René and her mother unjustly, and now his country's the first to suffer her wrath.
Villain with Good Publicity: At first, he was heralded to the throne by the popular opinion of miners and other people in his country who have a grudge against the Federation, the most common complaint being that the Federation keeps giving the country the short end of the stick in regards to mining rights, or so they claim. In reality, he doesn't actually believe in the so-called cause and just pushed for the crown purely for the sake of being in charge because he simply believes he was suited for it better than his brother, Albert.

Duke Gerald. Warning! Spoilers.

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Dear lady, this route is the best way to weaken the crown's defenses.

The aristocratic backer of Night Python

And Then John Was a Zombie: Killed and then turned into an undead by René.
Aristocrats Are Evil: His story arc proves that at least part of the commoner's hatred against the Federation is misplaced. He is on-screen shown paying the boss of Night Python to oppress and quash the protests of the miners in his territory, protests based on working conditions and insufficient pay to match the hazard of their jobs.
Corrupt Politician: He allows Night Python to operate in his territory in exchange for large bribes of gold, and also pays them as "cleaners" to deal with all his Dirty Business.
Reforged into a Minion: Once turned into an undead, he has no choice other than to be René's completely loyal pawn.
Villain with Good Publicity: He keeps his own hands clean with the public by using Night Python's agents to crack down on protesters but is a petty tyrant in his territory.
Walking Spoiler: Though he is mentioned in meetings between Dragon's Throat and Earl Keely, discussing him results in revealing parts of the novel that have yet to be translated as of this entry.

Marquis Marks Edfeld

The leading noble of the pro-Nocturne faction. He arranges to use Gislan as a puppet king after the supposed death of King Hilbert.

Aristocrats Are Evil: He's a marquis and there's no crime he'd overlook for his own prosperity.
Eaten Alive: He gets swallowed by "sacred beast" Gislan.
Greater-Scope Villain: He's directly responsible for many of he acts of evil Hilbert's supporters engaged in, both in the coup that put Hilbert on the throne and in trying to fight René when she retaliated.
Pyrrhic Victory: All his machinations came home to roost and not only resulted in his death but left the entirety of his territory in a shambles, buildings destroyed and lands made barren, with his citizens fleeing as refugees!

Others:

Earl Oswald Keely

An aristocrat who hires the party Dragon's Throat to help rid his territory of Night Python.

Bystander Syndrome: Justified. He sat out the coup, not because he's disinterested, but because he lacked the power to actually do anything meaningful in the fight. In fact, he spent every waking moment terrified that the fanatical Anti-fed faction would come at him. The only thing he can do to atone is drive Night Python out of his territory as he can justify moving to protect his people from a crime syndicate.
Eaten Alive: Unlike the rest of his family, save Cathrine, who died in battle with René after they attacked her first, he gets swallowed alive by the "sacred beast" possessing the corpse of Gislan.
La Résistance: He works against the usurper's rule as much as he can get away with, as he finds the way René's Evil Uncle treated the girl utterly repulsive. The fact that the red-haired bastard invited criminal elements into his territory and secretly backs them makes him determined to oust the guy if he ever gets the chance.
Laser-Guided Karma: Since he helps René both directly and indirectly, as much as he can get away with, she leaves his territory completely unmolested, and allows him to prosper, wipes out his enemies, and keeps his people safe. She even returned Catherine home, unharmed, after the little girl wound up in the capital, dragged there as a hostage by King Hilbert II.
My Country, Right or Wrong: Though he was suspicious of Marquis Edfeld, he sided with the guy because Gislan was the country's best hope of restoring order. This puts him and his adventuer sons and daughters at odds with René.
Virtue Is Weakness: He's almost constantly scoffed at by his fellow nobles because he wisely refuses to send troops at René or allow "allied" troops into his territory. He and his people live with a fair degree of autonomy. The other nobles have to suck up to the occupying army in the hopes that they can deal with René and will have to pay a heavy price even if the foreign troops do win the fight.
Wrong Assumption: He presumed René was avoiding harm to non-combatants and other civilians to try and minimize bloodshed. Unfortunately, she was keeping them alive because she wanted them to suffer like she suffered for their convenience. When he finds out, he orders his entire family, save Catherine who was elsewhere, to attack her, even after she offered to spare them if they turned over the latest usurper wannabe. This would prove the worst possible decision of his life.

Catherine Keely

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Iris (René) playing as the body-double on the left with Catherine on the right.

Earl Keely's daughter.

Admiring the Abomination: Despite knowing that René is an undead terror, she actively seeks out friendship with her. René appreciates the gesture deeply.
Animal Motif: René often compares her to a puppy.
Awesome by Analysis: She has promise to be the best detective in the world. While everyone else runs around thinking Rose Princess Hellrage is some kind of mutant Dullahan, she dug a bit deeper. She went to the local adventurer's guild, spoke with the guildmaster to peruse the archives, paid for the witness testimony of the surviving daughters of the first knight order, and perused her own memories to realize René is actually an Abyss Spirit, something much, much more dangerous than a Dullahan and has no inherent weakness. She then proceeds to inform her family, which includes a priestess and an adventurer, of her findings, thus swaying them all from foolishly joining the call to try for a subjugation.
Badass Adorable: She is no pushover. By the end of volume 2, she's shown taking down swarms of vampires by herself.
The Bus Came Back: Absent for all of volume 3, she returns to the story at the start of volume 4, working as a receptionist and librarian in the adventurer's guild, stripped of her noble title and territory thanks to the foolish actions of the rest of her family in supporting the Dietrich Theocracy's Puppet King back in volume 2.
Children Are Innocent: A child near Iris' age and a sweetheart without a trace of malice in her body.
Fallen Princess: Thanks to her family foolishly supporing Ghislan and opposing René, the Federation didn't take any chances and stripped her title and territory from her, leaving her no choice but to take up the role of being a receptionist in the adventurer's guild, treated horribly.
For Want Of A Nail: What she thinks about René. Catherine can fully comprehend where the latter is coming from as she also had her mother die under horrible circumstances, but while Catherine had a happy family to help support her and keep her safe, René had nobody who would sympathize with her, at least not in any way that would actively help, until she lashed out in grief, pain, and rage, and then most people either try to buy her forgiveness with cheap memorials out of sheer terror, or attack her, at best deluding themselves that destroying her will grant her peace.
Girlish Pigtails: She has twin-tails and both the cheer and innocence of the trope.
Good Is Not Dumb: She is actually scarily intelligent. She can read René like an open book, and did we mention that the latter is a tactical and strategic genius?
Green-Eyed Monster: She's deeply jealous of Iris' magical talent.
Improvised Weapon: When the head priest panics and produces holy water, weakening his church's defenses in the process until a swarm of vampires swarm in, she takes off her belt, grabs a teacup and fills it with the holy water to use as a make-shift flail. It's supremely effective, allowing her to buy enough time for the remaining refugees to open a secret passage and allow escape.
Inferiority Superiority Complex: She acts all haughty and superior around Iris because she's jealous that Iris is a magical prodigy while she can't use magic, at all, despite coming from two powerful adventurers, her mother and father.
Morality Chain: Foregone Conclusion. It is stated early in the story that she will eventually manage to forge a friendship with René and will receive a historical title making it clear that she's responsible for guiding the Rose Princess to being a good and wise queen instead of a rampaging vengeance machine, but that hasn't happened yet, even by the end of Volume 2.
Morality Pet: René is actually very fond of Catherine and dotes on her, seeing Catherine as a kind of pouty puppy.
The Ojou: She's the daughter of an aristocrat and is a very high-class lady.
The Pollyanna: She repeatedly offers René the hand of friendship, and it's genuine, but not because of foolishness or naïve idealism. Cathrine has very, very sound reasons. 1.) Attacking René is suicidal. 2.) She is probably the only character in the series that realizes René is actually a very scared and lonely child and is lashing out in grief, rage, and pain. Genuine friendship and a shoulder to cry on is actually the most viable way to get her to disarm and stand down while attacking her is only going to make her even angrier and more vicious.
Pragmatic Hero: She repeatedly advises her family to side with René, or at least stay out of her way, not just because she actually likes René and believes in her cause, but because she's aware that anyone and everyone who goes up against the Rose Princess Hellrage is going to suffer horribly and being on the princess' good side is ultimately in the best interests of her people. If only they listened.
Wise Beyond Their Years: It is she, not Dragon's Throat, who lived with Iris her whole life, to realize that "Iris" was behaving strangely, and made friends with her. She then recognizes René in the royal capital when the undead armies mistakenly grabbed her with the hostages and realizes that René was the girl she befriended, not Iris, so it doesn't bother her at all when she's informed that Iris is dead.

Second Knight Captain Bertil

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I would not offer you this sword if I thought you would betray me.

Leader of the second order of knights.

An Arm and a Leg: Both his arms were chopped off by Lawrence's men.
Artificial Limbs: René gives him artificial extremities, for free, as thanks for his loyalty to his kingdom, without a personal attack on her.
Big Damn Heroes: Catherine did great in fending off a swarm of vampires, but would have been no match for an undead knight that still had its skills that it had in life. So when she finds herself facing one, Bertil shows up and strikes the undead knight down in her defense.
The Farmer and the Viper: He did everything in his power to prove his loyalty to the kingdom, even giving Lawrence the strategy to deal with a rampaging René with the fewest casualties. How is he rewarded? A man under Lawrence chops his arms off, locks him in a dungeon, and has him horribly tortured moments before undead breech the royal palace's defenses.
My Country, Right or Wrong: He will always work in the best interests of Ciel Terra, even if that means siding with an undead horror.
We Can Rule Together: On the receiving end from René after the fall of the capital, when she finds him in the castle dungeons. When he turns her down, she lets him go, and even replaces his severed arms, to his surprise.

From Volume 2. Beware spoilers.

Marquis Frank Rupert Seebach

One of King Hilbert's closest noble backers, and one of the first to flee the capital when René stormed the city, taking his cat-girl slave Miarazne in tow.

Aristocrats Are Evil: He is among the loudest to push for René's initial execution and is the most vindictive at her retaliation. He also abuses his cat-girl slave horribly.
An Arm and a Leg: Sensing the magic in the remote control he used to order Miarazne to attack her, René chops off the arm holding it, and then states into the remote "cancel all orders" which immediately frees Miarazne from his control, and she retaliates to the hell he put her through, the death of her parents, and untold years of humiliation and abuse at his hands.
Bad Boss: Miarazne isn't the only target of his abuse. He also shouted down, smacked around, and was never, ever satisfied with the efforts of his retainers and hired guards. In return, they have absolutely no loyalty to him and fled the moment René showed up. Having no grudge with any of them, she lets them flee.
Kick the Dog: As he's fleeing the capital, he beats up on Miarazne because she wasn't loading his very heavy belongings fast enough.
Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Not only does he use his adventurer underlings to hunt down and kill Miarazne's parents, but once she's enslaved, abuses the hell out of the poor girl too and has the gall to be offended that she hates him for it.
Villain Ball: When he's using Miarzane as a chair, because he found the chairs of the hut he was hiding in unsatisfactory, she complains about how heinous he is. He responds by beating her unconscious and screaming at her for how "useless" she is as her slave collar continues to move her unconscious body to try and put her on all fours. These cries draw René's attention, dooming him.
Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: As Miarazne turns on him and retaliates for the crap he put her through, he tries to claim that she still owes him a favor for buying her as a slave and providing food, clothing, and shelter for 10 years, taking her in as a small, helpless child. She retorts that he wouldn't have had to do any of that if he hadn't sent his private army to kill her parents and enslave her in the first place and proceeds to stab him in the chest left lung, right lung, left lung, right lung, left lung, right lung, screaming that he deserves to die at least three times, then punches him in the stomach with enough force to make him cough up blood before finally stomping on his face and looking up at René, waiting for the order to finish him off.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: He uses his slave magic remote control to order Miarazne to attack René just so he can escape. This fails spectacularly.

Yulin

A famous mage heading to the market with his son. When the "allied" troops spot them approach, the soldiers angrily accuse the boy of "glaring" at them and then proceed to try and beat the boy to death. Being a good father, he fought back, killing one of the soldiers. The local Viscount put him through a Kangaroo Court and had him executed to keep the occupying soldiers happy, then try to make him look like a cold-blooded murderer through information manipulation, but this backfires spectacularly because René got involved.

Crime of Self-Defense: Because he fought back as his boy was being beaten to death by corrupt knights from the Kingdom of Nocturne, he was framed for murder and executed.
Deal with the Devil: René promises him vengeance against the corrupt noble involved in framing him for murder in exchange for his soul.
Face Death with Dignity: Once René has carried out the end of her agreement, clearing his name and killing Viscount McGregor, he thanks her, fully prepared to be yanked free of the cycle of reincarnation, lost forever, as long as René swears to leave his living relatives alone. She retorts that it depends on them, because if they come at her, she'll kill them. He retorts to that "fair enough."
Inspirational Martyr: His execution on false charges of murder becomes a major source of unrest in the territory of the Viscount who ordered it, to try and keep the foreign troops happy so the Viscount can move against René out of greed and self-righteousness. Public opinion also turns on the knights in a hurry.
Kangaroo Court: All evidence of his innocence was ignored and he was executed without even a chance to defend himself.
Made Out to Be a Jerkass: His name was slandered as a murderer for daring to fight back when corrupt knights were beating his son to death. This completely unravels once his "ghost" starts showing up and wailing about the sham trial and the evidence starts coming to light, thanks to René's machinations.
Papa Wolf: He hurls magic at the knights trying to beat his son to death for the "crime" of glaring at them, which he never did. He winds up executed unjustly as a result.

Wilbert

Yulin's son. As a result of his father's execution, he becomes an orphan.

Fighting Back Is Wrong: He briefly considers taking up a sword and going on a murder crusade against the corrupt knights and the even more corrupt noble responsible for his father's death, but then backs off, afraid of becoming an even worse monster, though he still takes up the sword as these are dangerous times. René doesn't agree with his mindset, but does respect him for it, and guides him to safety away from her machinations.
If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: What he fears about himself if he were to take up the path of vengeance against his father's murderers.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: On the advice of René in disguise, he quietly leaves the territory of Viscount Ralph Bread McGregor to avoid the coming shit-storm that she had planned.

Viscount Ralph Bread McGregor

The aristocrat responsible for Yulin's unjust execution.

Corrupt Politician: Not only does he happily execute people on false charges, he also has a habit of going to the local orphanage to use the orphan girls as sex toys in exchange for providing the orphanage the funds needed to operate.
Cruel and Unusual Death: René bashes him to death with a large and heavy stone statue. She was planning an even more graphic death for him but because of an earlier incident with a certain orphanage director, she was in a hurry.
Hypocrite: When René catches up to him, he demands a fair trial before she kills him. She reminds him that he executed people without trial himself.
Pædo Hunt: He goes to an orphanage and has the director provide him orphan girls for his sexual pleasure.
Real Politik: He has Yuin executed on false charges of murder to keep the occupying Nocturne army happy, but this turns around to bite him because he can't keep the truth of the incident quiet, and public opinion was already sour on the soldiers, who are stripping their supplies like a swarm of locusts, are pushing them around, violently, and angrily complain that the treatment they're getting is not "good enough" to showcase the commoner's "gratitude for rescue from the named monster Rose Princess Hellrage."
Taught by Experience: After the incident with Rose Princess Hellrage, when he planned to execute Yulin, he had a priest on standby, the execution platform was sanctified, the corpse was destroyed by fire, and a memorial was held. Unfortunately, none of this helped as René had already secured his soul, which she used in "ghost sightings" that completely undermined the Viscount's agenda.
Villains Want Mercy: As René is bearing down on him, nailing him to the ground, literally, and preparing to kill him, he starts screaming and begging for his life. She reminds him that he ignored the pleas of his victims when they were about to die.

Gislan

King Hilbert's younger brother, who sat out the original coup. Not interested in politics, he would have sat out the fight between Hilber's faction and René too except Marquis Edfeld dragged him into the conflict and then Morgana killed him to make his corpse a "sacred beast" to use as a puppet for Nocturne.

Bookworm: He spent his days reading every book he could get his hands on.
Killed Offscreen: His death isn't even alluded to until he reveals himself as a "sacred beast" and starts going around murdering people.
Puppet King: What he would have become if Morgana had her way.
Rasputinian Death: In order to stop his "sacred beast" form, René had to send an army of undead at him and then Miarazne had to impale him with a near infinite number of spears of darkness.

Adventurers:

Chimes of Dawn

An adept class party that operates in the Ciel-Terra capital.

Common To All:

Cruel and Unusual Death: Not that René was trying to give them graphic deaths, she just had so much raw power that when she retaliated to their attacks, they were literally torn apart without her even trying to kill them.
Curbstomp Battle: On the wrong end when they were hired by Manfred to deal with a newly risen undead at the execution site of "a criminal." Nothing they did had any lasting effect.
Hero Antagonist: They have a long history of good works in the capital, capturing heinous criminals, defending the innocent, fighting monsters, etc. They just happen to be at odds with René because Imperial Guard Captain Manfred hired them to deal with René's rampage, but didn't give them the specifics of what the royal knights did to René beforehand, aside from the fact that she was executed and arose as an undead, presumably a Dullahan.
Punch-Clock Hero: They fight for monetary rewards, but they don't usually care too much about the morality of their requests.
Sacrificial Lion: Their "fight" with René served as a wake-up call to how dangerous René actually is.
We Have Become Complacent: They have been so successful for so long that they figured René's rampage was just more of the same and went in half-cocked. When their priest hit René with his most powerful purifying magic and she no-selled it, the party barely had time to realize just how over their heads they were, but by then it was already too late for them.
The Worf Effect: They're well-known as a powerful and well-balanced party. René not only completely no-sells their attacks but takes them out with ridiculous ease and wasn't even really trying.

Eldio:

The Face: He's the one of the party that most makes contact with the world, the client, etc.
Fighter, Mage, Thief: He's the fighter.
The Leader: He's in charge of the party.

Pierre:

Fighter, Mage, Thief: The thief of the party.
Good is Not Nice: He's described as a rude hot-head with a sharp tongue, quick to blow his stack, without discrimination, but he's still a decent man who does his job well and listens to Eldio's orders, if only him.
Hair-Trigger Temper: He's quick to lose his temper, and he doesn't discriminate, young, old, low-born or noble, none of it matters.
Vetinari Job Security: If he wasn't the best Thief around and both skilled and dedicated, no party would tolerate him.

Pops:

Entertainingly Wrong: When he's asked if a Dullahan can spontaneously arise at the site of an execution, of course referring to René, he posits that such a thing would normally be impossible, but stipulates that it's plausible for a previously cursed victim filled with grudges and resentment caused by the execution itself and prior treatment. He makes this stipulation not taking into account the possibility that the god of evil intervened, personally.
Fighter, Mage, Thief: One of the two mages, a wizard.
Mercy Kill: What he thought he was doing by hurling a fireball at René. She disagreed, violently.
Nothing Personal: Despite René being his granddaughter, he tries to forcefully end her rampage by hurling a huge fireball her way. This proves the worst possible idea as she blocks the fireball with a blizzard which also accidentally tears him to pieces.
One Degree of Separation: He's René's grandfather.
Only Known by Their Nickname: His real name is never revealed, he prefers to go by "Pops."
You Remind Me of X: He states that René is the spitting image of her mother before hurling a fireball at her along with the words "go back to your slumber in peace." René was not amused and destroyed him with complete disinterest.

Viisa:

Badass Preacher: He may be a priest, but he's built like a fighter and can beat people down with a Khakkhara that he uses like a makeshift mace, should his magic fail to suffice.
Fighter, Mage, Thief: The second mage, a priest.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When his spell hits René and she just shrugs it off, he panics. This is the first clue the party has that they're in trouble as he's normally very stoic and rational.
Scissors Cuts Rock: On the wrong end when he tried his holy attack magic against René. While his magic did do visible damage to her, it was so minor that she didn't even have to dodge or block it, she just healed right back up again like he didn't do anything at all.
The Stoic: He is the one in the party least likely to show emotion.
This Cannot Be!: When the buffs he cast on his party and Imperial Captain Marfred had absolutely no effect on the battle, he yells out "Impossible!" with panic in his voice.
Warrior Monk: He's not a strict member of the church, but he's a priest well built for both priestly magic and close-quarters-combat.

Dragon's Throat

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The group having a meal while considering taking on Earl Keely's request to oust Night Python

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While inside Earl Keely's estate. From left to right is Catherine, Benedict, Hugh, René, and Diana is hugging Iris from behind.

The adventurer's party of which Iris is a member and is therefore among the very, very short list of people to which René is genuinely kind.

Common to all:

Ideal Hero: The pay is nice, of course, but they only take on requests that are genuinely heroic, purely because it's the right thing to do.
Morality Pet: René actually likes and sympathizes with them. As such she, genuinely treats them kindly, for free, and does her best to keep them out of her schemes.
"Shaggy Dog" Story: No pun intended. They track down Iris to try and rescue her from being held hostage by Night Python, only to find René had wiped out Night Python's boss and Duke Gerald, using spells Iris can't possibly know. They fight, and Dragon's Throat is wiped out, their spirits ascend to heaven with Iris giving her a "The Reason You Suck" Speech, leaving René devastated.
True Companions: They've been together for a long time and are truly devoted to each other. René actually feels guilty that she has stolen Iris' place in the party because of this.

Diana:

A priestess from the church and the party healer.

Combat Medic: She's both the party healer and fights from the rear with magic.
Fighting Your Friend: Volume 1 illustrations show that she winds up getting in a fight to the death with René despite being a Friend to All Children. Neither of them is happy about it.
Friend to All Children: She's fond of children and dotes on them, even René.
Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: She's almost always smoking from a pipe and is a good, kind woman.
Hair Color Dissonance: Different illustrations have her hair at different colors. Although the narration states she's blonde, her hair can vary from strawberry blonde to bubblegum pink.
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Blonde, and a good, kind woman who dotes on children, especially Iris.
Sympathy for the Devil: She is very sympathetic to René's circumstances and states, aloud, that were she to go through even half of what René did, she'd also rise up as an undead and go on a rampage, despite being a member of the church sworn to destroying undead. When René hears it, she cries Tender Tears in response.

Hugh:

Party Tank: He is the tank of the party, and is heavily armored as a result.
Stone Wall: As the tank, his role is to be able to absorb as much damage as possible, so his gear is almost exclusively tailored to defense.

Benedict:

The party leader and an in-universe Kobold.

Beast Man: As a Kobold, he looks like some kind of anthropomorphic wolf the size of a man.
Benevolent Boss: Whenever possible, he gathers the party together and gets everyone's opinion and options before making a decision.
Large and in Charge: He towers over everyone else in the party (as seen in the page image) and is the undisputed boss.
The Leader: He leads the party.
Token Non-Human: He is the first non-human introduced in the story, ignoring René herself.

Iris:

The mage of the party despite being only 11-years-old.

An Aesop: "Killing indiscriminately in the quest for vengeance will cost you someone precious to you."
Berserk Button: Although she is a child, she doesn't like being treated like one.
Bratty Half-Pint: Eleven years old and being an unrivaled genius in magic, her ego's a bit too big for her britches.
Child Prodigy: She's an unparalleled mage at age 11.
Did Not Think This Through: It's only after she's gone down the alley that she starts to ponder what's she's going to do if she encounters problems. She originally thought that she could just brute force her way with her magic but then started to ponder about the consequences. Unfortunately, this all comes too late once she finds herself in René's trap. She manages to send off a signal flare, but by the time Diana gets to her, she's already René's vessel.
Expy: In terms of appearance, she's got a striking similarity to Tanya Degurechaff.
Fighting Back Is Wrong: She repeatedly tries to talk René out of her Roaring Rampage of Revenge by stating that she'll gain nothing by it and there's still plenty for her to lose. René retorts that she's got no choice as her self-righteous enemies will hunt her down regardless, so she has to take the battle to them in order to have any kind of chance, at all.
Grand Theft Me: She gets her body stolen by René.
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She may be a bit bratty, but she's still a good kid, and she's blonde.
Sharing a Body: Later chapters show that her consciousness is still active in her body, but René is the one in charge.
Teen Genius: Only 11, and she's an unparalleled talent in magic. She's still no match for René though.
Too Dumb to Live: She breaks off from the party, just after they decide to take on a long-term bodyguard job against a criminal syndicate, and wanders off into a dark alley, alone. She gets her body stolen by René as a result, but she could have suffered an even worse fate.

Decisive Drawer

Hermenio:

The leader of the party.

Aristocrats Are Evil: He's the son of an one of the top echelons in the Dietrich Theocracy, and he's an arrogant glory seeking sot who cares not a whit about the commoners his quests have to deal with. In fact, he will initiate a battle in a heavily populated area, without concern for any possible collateral damage, just so everyone can see him take down "the boss monster." The only reason he's still an adventurer is that he's technically not breaking the rules...
Bribing Your Way to Victory: The only reason he's any good as an adventurer is that he's constantly running to his father who uses the resources of the Dietrich Theocracy to give him and his party the best tools and gear.
Fighter, Mage, Thief: The fighter of the party.
Glory Seeker: The only things of importance in his mind are his own wealth and his own glory. Everyone else can go hang themselves as far as he's concerned.
Helping Would Be Kill Stealing: He pointedly does not want help from the church or Sacred Beasts in fighting René. He sees that as them trying to steal his rightful glory.
Miles Gloriosus: He's an arrogant blow-hard who isn't anywhere near as strong or skilled as he makes himself out to be. He even deludes himself in this regard.
Punch-Clock Hero: He's only willing to take on "heroic" quests if the pay is good enough. If not, don't bother him or he might attack you.
Revenge Myopia: He breaks into René's castle while she's away, cuts a path through most of her forces, looking to rob her blind, and kill her if he can find her, getting himself blasted dead by the castle's automated defenses. When he gets himself revived thanks to his party members having prepared precautions, he swears bloody vengeance on René and tries to carry it out when the two meet.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: When he gets into trouble, he starts boasting and bragging how his father is one of the top people of the Dietrich Theocracy, and there will be hell to pay if he's harmed. He tries this on René, but she read his emotions and noticed that if she let him go, he'd run back to daddy and bring back an army, so she kills him in a rage.
Suicidal Overconfidence: He walks around as if he's invincible and honestly believes he can take down René with ease. The only reasons he did well the first time they clashed are because he managed to catch her as she was paralyzed by Morgana's tattoo and because a flock of Sacred Beasts and some holy knights ran to back him up.
Would Hit a Girl: He is on-screen beating up his team-mate Loraine whenever he's in a bad mood, which is often.

Loraine:

Fighter, Mage, Thief: The mage of the party.
Half the Man He Used to Be: When a pissed off René catches up to the party, she's torn in half like a piece of wet tissue paper.
Hammerspace: She's got a magic ability that allows her to store things in an alternate dimension. As such, she's the party's porter.
The Smurfette Principle: She's the only female member of the party.

Edgar:

Fighter, Mage, Thief: The thief of the party.
Only in It for the Money: He only adventures with Hermenio for a share of the rewards. In truth, he can't stand the guy, rightly so.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: He absolutely can not stand Hermenio. If the job didn't pay as well as it did, he'd dump the guy like a hot potato, especially as he's got a thing for Loraine, who Hermenio is fond of slapping around.

Night Python:

Miriam

One of many prostitutes in their ranks. She sold herself into prostitution to cover her family's debts, debts they collected by dealing with a moneylender who was backed by the syndicate, and the debts were for her mother's life-saving medical treatment, among other such dire emergencies. After being treated like a slave for years, and realizing her value as a prostitute was coming to an end, thanks to having the most problematic of "customers" being shoved her way, she quietly sneaked out and went back home only to learn that Night Python never cleared her parent's debts, and instead killed her entire family, finding her parent's skulls at her family home, but before she could even cry out in grief, a nameless assassin took her life. It is at this point that René shows up and offers her a Deal with the Devil to get her vengeance.

Deal with the Devil: René speaks with her ghost promising revenge on Night Python, in exchange for her soul, to use as a power-up.
Hooker with a Heart of Gold: She sold herself into prostitution to clear her family's debts. Night Python went back on their word.
Loophole Abuse: On the wrong end. Night Python promised to clear her family's debts if she sold herself into prostitution and gave them a certain amount of money in a very short time frame after she started her work. She was never informed of the second part, thus spending her early pay on the requisite tools of the trade. By the time she found out, her family was long dead.
Make an Example of Them: She and her family are the examples. When her family realized that Night Python welshed on their deal to clear their debts, they tried to flee but were hunted down and the parent's skulls were made into sick trophies in the family home, while the younger siblings' fate remains unknown. Miriam herself was killed by an assassin, but before anything else could take place, René killed the assassin and offered Miriam a Deal with the Devil.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When she overhears her Madam offer to sell her to a Night Python laboratory as the lab-rat, she flees to her home, planning to smuggle herself and her family out of the country. At this point, she sees her parents' moldy skulls on display at the family home, her siblings nowhere to be found.
Too Desperate to Be Picky: She agrees to René's offer because otherwise her disembodied soul was slated to come back as a wraith, losing all manner of sentience and lashing out with wild abandon, guilty or innocent alike, and even if by some miracle her intended victim was a member of Night Python, a low-level undead like herself would be easy to deal with.
You Said You Would Let Them Go: She sold herself into prostitution to clear her family's debts, but Night Python went back on their end of the deal, and also at least killed her parents and killed Miriam herself when she objected.

Udenosuke

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If you want to live, follow me! (With all these meat-shields, I might just escape the Rose princess... Oh, Crap!)

One of Night Python's enforcers in the capital. In his attempt to escape, he does briefly manage several heroic feats, by accident, but is then captured by René.

Accidental Hero: As he's desperately trying to flee the royal capital when René shows up with an army of undead, he does manage several actual heroic deeds, completely by accident, which leads to a large group of innocents managing to escape the city unharmed.
Master Swordsman: Though he was an enforcer for a criminal organization, his sword skills are the real deal.
Unwitting Pawn: René fights him without using her magic so she can learn how to wield a sword from him. He only realizes this once he "passes the audition."
Was Once a Man: He's one of the first people René turns into her undead lieutenants.

The four great powers. Spoilers for Volume 2 and beyond below.

Nocturne Kingdom:

Morgana

According to a scroll Everis provides to René, she was a street urchin in the holy kingdom of Dietrich, one of the four great powers René wants to destroy. Unfortunately for her, an extremely unscrupulous "holy researcher" grabbed her off the street, tied her down to an operating table and then put her through an extremely dangerous procedure against her protests, branding her with a <Sacred Baptism> tattoo. Her body survives. Her consciousness, not so much.

Brainwashed and Crazy: The procedure that gave her the <Sacred Baptism> tattoo has irreversibly made her a wild-eyed creator god fanatic who will do anything, no matter how vile, to carry out his will.
Brainwashing for the Greater Good: What she thinks she's doing. When she shows up in the story, she grabs movers, shakers, and powers that be, and uses the procedure she was put through to "judge" them. If the technique works and they get a <Sacred Baptism> tattoo, great, welcome "new servant of god." If not, well, become Human Resources for the Sacred Beasts we need to defeat that "naughty child" The Rose Princess Hellrage.
Dissonant Serenity: She is completely unflappable in the middle of battle and when she first meets René, talks to the undead terror the way a nanny speaks to a small, unruly child.
Driven to Villainy: Morgana never wanted to become the Creator God's mouthpiece. In fact, she strongly opposed it, kicking and screaming. She was forced into the role by an unethical "researcher" in her home country, and she's paid the price ever since.
The Exile: Because her "judging" rampage wound up purging a lot of corrupt but very influential people in Dietrich, she was banished from the country and wound up in Nocturne, who then went on to steal her technology and would later put her on the front lines to deal with René.
Gone Horribly Wrong: She sets up a grand plan to have "sacred beasts" win over the populace and take over Ciel Terra so Nocturne could install a puppet king, but said puppet goes completely off the rails and starts eating the people the "sacred beasts" were supposed to be protecting.
Kill and Replace: As part of her plans to take over Ciel Terra involves kidnapping certain officials, killing them and then having their corpses possessed by "sacred beasts."
Knight Templar: Invoked. Her <Sacred Baptism> tattoo forces her to believe she's actually doing the work of The Greater God of creation. In reality, she's afflicted with an extremely corrupted version of his will. The analogy used is like someone taking a large book of scripture, ripping out most of it for size and then filling in the missing parts with an original interpretation.
Mook Maker: She's fond of turning people into hosts for "sacred beasts."
Obliviously Evil: Thanks to being afflicted by an extremely corrupted version of god's will, she truly doesn't know how evil her actions are.
Principles Zealot: She is obsessed with obeying what she sees as "the will of god" and will brook no argument.
A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Immediately after getting her <Sacred Baptism> tattoo, she went through the researchers that grabbed her off the street and started using the procedure that was used on her on them to "judge" them. None of the corrupt researchers and nobles involved survived the experience.
Tautological Templar: Since god's will is the very definition of "righteousness," then everything she does in fulfilling that will must be inherently righteous. The end of Volume 2 proves her wrong.
We Have Reserves: She has no qualms going through soldiers like water if she believes that will end René.

Knight Commander Patrick

The top army commander of the Nocturne reinforcements sent to help King Hilbert II.

Know When to Fold 'Em: With the supply train having been destroyed, the local supply depot burned to the ground, and his troops deserting, he realized his standing army had no choice but to return to their home country before they starve to death.
You Are Too Late: By the time he and his troops arrived at the capital, King Hilbert II and his government had already fallen. His government still had him try to "rescue" Gilsan and put him on the throne to install a puppet government to their own nation.
You Have Failed Me: On the receiving end when Morgana realized he was ordering his troops to withdraw, because under her interpretation of Greater God's will, he and his army were "selfish" to retreat in the face of certain death when humans so, so outnumber the demon territory that the lives of every man in the army could easily be replaced.

Dietrich Theocracy:

Gadio

The researcher responsible for Morgana's "conversion."

Corrupt Church: He got into this "research" program as a deacon, but according to the knowledge Morgana gained after the <Sacred Baptism> tattoo was placed on her chest, he embezzled research funds to go frequent prostitutes, something against his church's teachings.
Hoist by His Own Petard: After he finished subjecting Morgana to the <Sacred Baptism> ritual, he started celebrating the fact that she managed to survive it. As he was doing so, she grabbed him, strapped him down to his own examination table and put him through the experience too, but he didn't survive it.
For Science!: The test subjects' rights, complaints, and well-being don't matter, only his own scientific results do.
Mad Scientist: Completely without scruples or ethics.
Playing with Syringes: Despite Morgana's loud protests that she didn't want any part of his experiment, he shouted her down, stating that his experimental ritual was the only way she could be "useful to god." When she comes out of the experiment, she throws this right back at him and puts him through the same experience.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: By putting Morgana through the ritual, he turned her into a zealot obsessed with "god's will" as she sees it through the corrutped lens of her tattoo. This results in the deaths of many high-ranking but corrupt people in the Theocracy.
Villains Want Mercy: When it's his turn on the examination table, he starts pleading for his life and freedom. Morgana turns his own "this is the only way you can be useful to god" ranting back on him and carries the ritual out. Unlike Morgana, he doesn't survive.

Christophoro da Droette

Hermenio's father and "Chief Cardinal" of the nation, both the head priest and the king, in all but name.

Corrupt Church: During his tenure as the "Chief Cardinal," he turned a blind eye to a great deal of his country's nastiness, especially the case of Morgana, until she started doing his Dirty Business and then he had her run out of the country.
Fat Bastard: Slightly obese and a man who spoiled his son Hermenio rotten, to the point he arrogantly picks fights and gets into frequent trouble because his dad would always bail him out.
Percussive Therapy: When he sees that Hermenio is dead for good, he slams his fist on the table of his very large and luxurious cathedral.
Revenge Myopia: Even though he knows his son Hermenio is the aggressor and attacked René twice, he screams for bloody vengeance, swearing before the god of creation that he would reduce her to ashes and scatter them to the wind the moment he realizes Hermenio is dead for keeps.

Kenis Empire:

Ryubuchi

The emperor.

All Your Base Are Belong to Us: His national policy is to try and assimilate all the human territories under his command, by conquest.
Blood Knight: Fighting and defeating strong enemies is the only thing he lives for.
Crime of Self-Defense: It is his national policy to punish those nations who dare defend themselves from his soldiers' aggression, and then try to surrender when they lose.
Victory Is Boring: Conquering other nations has become so easy for his army that he considers it a chore. When René managed to not only repel an invasion into elven lands, but lure him into such bad relations with the Dietrich Theocracy that it's just a small spark away from open warfare, and destabilized his bureaucracy so much, all the countries he's already conquered and treated like second class citizens revolt, after he left them to their own devices against a plague of unknown origin, he laughs with glee at finally facing a real challenge, looking to crush her with what he sees as overwhelming might.
Worthy Opponent: He thinks he found one in René.

Star Ring

The imperial minister of warfare.

Les Collaborateurs: He sold out his people, the elves, to the Kenis Empire in exchange for being one of the top ministers.

Stone Pillow

The imperial soldier the elves want vengeance on the most.

Bare-Fisted Monk: He doesn't need weapons. His name is based on the fact that his fists hit with the force of boulders.
Blood Knight: He is always seeking out enemies to "become his food" and make himself stronger.
Fighting Your Friend: He gets locked in a fight to the death with Chesier, a girl he knew as a child, but which got turned into one of René's undead lieutenants as part of the fight in Ciel Terra.
Mutual Kill: He and Chesier wind up killing each other in battle.
Nothing Personal: As he's punching the Elven spirit maiden to death, as part of a cowardly sneak attack, he says he has no grudge against her, but she will "become his food" for the next fight.

Republic of Faraya:

Elves:

As a whole

Crime of Self-Defense: They are seen getting smacked down and killed in a rage for attempting to surrender after they were unjustly attacked by the Kenis Empire.
Nature Lover: They are one with the forest they live in.
Our Elves Are Different: Their moral compass is almost identical to the humans of the setting.
Unwitting Pawn: They learn, to their horror, that when they commit the spirits of their ancestors to the ley-lines of the forest, those spirits are enslaved by The Great God, after one of their spirit maidens gets taken over by them and they turn on their benefactor René, earning her ire, and drowning their forest in deadly miasma when she was broken out of the deadly cage she was shoved into.

Sale Saya

The former shrine maiden who was murdered by a completely unprovoked armed invasion coming from the Kenis Empire.

Barrier Warrior: She is able to withstand Stone Pillow's assault for a while with a powerful barrier, but with the rest of the tribe pinned by cannon fire, he manages to punch his way through the barrier, grab her by the throat and literally punch her skull in.
Deal with the Devil: She offered up her soul to René in exchange for the latter's aid to deal with the Kenis Empire's armed invasion. She also happens to be the first to have René in the subordinate position, as every time René has to ask advice for a favor, the price of Saya's soul climbs.

Riller Mills

One of the top generals of the elf nation.

My God, What Have I Done?: When the ritual to trap and destroy René's soul starts falling apart, too late, he realizes he and his tribe are making a fatal and irreversible mistake.
Please Spare Him, My Liege!: When René has broken out of the Lotus-Eater Machine Cruz Salina put her in, as part of the attempt to murder her, René brings a sword to Cruz's neck, and he begs she stay her hand.
Punny Name: His name is Mills, and he's a general. So his title is General Mills, a well-known brand of breakfast cereal.

Cruz Salina

The most recent shrine maiden.

Brainwashed and Crazy: She prays for guidance to "the ancestors" when the Kenis Empire is marching on elven lands and René is offering her hand to repel the invaders. The great god exploits her emotional vulnerability to take control and compel her to order René's execution.
Cruel Mercy: On the receiving end. René is under a contract with her predecessor to spare her life, but that doesn't mean René has to treat her kindly...
The Fundamentalist: The "will of the ancestors" is absolute. They must be obeyed, no matter the immediate or long-term cost.
Good Is Dumb: She means well, she really does, but because she's too hung up on the "holiness of her ancestors" and Fantastic Racism, she nearly dooms her people to extinction, twice and in the exact same way both times.
Lotus-Eater Machine: As part of the effort to execute René, she crafts a custom-tailored one. The girl's memories were sealed away so she couldn't call for help and then she was placed right at the site of her ill-fated birthday party. Unsurprisinlgy, the ensuing lethal force attack and watching Miaranze disintegrate to dust coming to her rescue completely reignites René's trauma and drives her into an apoplectic rage.
They Just Dont Get It: She goes into a trance praying to "the ancestors" and gets hijacked by the greater god. So when she becomes aware of the consequences, and how her people are forced to fight as René's subordinates as a direct result, she goes and starts praying again!
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: As a direct result of her well-meaning prayers for guidance, her sacred tree and lands are drowning in the miasma of the evil god, her people had to "fall" to dark elves to survive it, and she almost doomed every one of her fellow elves to extermination at the hands of the Kenis Empire... THEN SHE DOES IT AGAIN while in the middle of battle between René and the Kenis Empire "Blue Knights." The only reason René bothers to try and save her from her own stupidity is that she's under a contract to keep Cruz alive.

Characters / Rose Princess Hellrage

Protagonist:

René's retainers. Warning. All spoilers are unmarked.

Gods:

Ciel Terra:

Royal Faction:

Others:

From Volume 2. Beware spoilers.

Adventurers:

Common To All:

Eldio:

Pierre:

Pops:

Viisa:

Common to all:

Diana:

Hugh:

Benedict:

Iris:

Hermenio:

Loraine:

Edgar:

Night Python:

The four great powers. Spoilers for Volume 2 and beyond below.

Nocturne Kingdom:

Dietrich Theocracy:

Kenis Empire:

Republic of Faraya:

Elves:

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Protagonist:

René's retainers. Warning. All spoilers are unmarked.

Gods:

Ciel Terra:

Royal Faction:

Others:

From Volume 2. Beware spoilers.

Adventurers:

Common To All:

Eldio:

Pierre:

Pops:

Viisa:

Common to all:

Diana:

Hugh:

Benedict:

Iris:

Hermenio:

Loraine:

Edgar:

Night Python:

The four great powers. Spoilers for Volume 2 and beyond below.

Nocturne Kingdom:

Dietrich Theocracy:

Kenis Empire:

Republic of Faraya:

Elves:

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