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Character sheet for TEVI.

Note: After a certain point the entire plot gets turned on its head, so BEWARE OF SPOILERS!

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Tevi

Voiced by: Lynn

The main protagonist of the game, Tevi is a bunny-eared beastkin, a self-proclaimed genius engineer, and a proficient explorer in her own right. She sets off on a journey through Az in order to help her father's research into the Astral Gears, meeting many friends and foes along the way.

Armor-Piercing Attack: Most of Tevi's melee attacks will have their damage massively reduced if the target is on guard in their dominant state, but certain denoted attacks will be able to pierce that protection, like Spanner Bash and bonus attacks from various sigils.^note Collecting Red Bunny Potions and equipping sigils like Weak Dominance allow Tevi to gradually start ignoring greater portions of dominance's damage reduction.
Break the Cutie: Tevi is introduced as a smug, unflappable, sugar-obsessed weirdo who is perpetually in control of the situation and not afraid to boast about it. As the game progresses, she becomes more dour and serious as she and her loved ones get pulled into more and more crises beyond her control, culminating in being pulled into a plot for the fate of Az itself which leads to her father figure being murdered, after which she spends most of her screentime alternating between dour depression and violent rage. Even after the game, as she resolves to forge onwards and honor the wishes of those left behind, it's clear that the trauma she's gone through has taken a toll on her.
Charged Attack: Her Mana Pillar has her raise her spanner to create a pillar of magic that damages everything in range, dealing double damage the first time it hits in a combo. The longer the pillar is charged for, the wider it becomes. Certain sigils can augment it to make it stronger, such as increasing its potency or letting it clear out bullets by consuming core crystals.
Close-Range Combatant: Tevi entirely specializes in melee combat, with virtually no ranged attacks of her own. Those instead fall to her orbitars.
Doppelgänger Attack: The Style Combo: Afterimage S sigil allows Tevi to summon an afterimage clone of herself when striking a grounded enemy from behind while her combo rank is S or higher, which performs a coordinated attack with her before vanishing. The duration of the clone scales up with further combo rank, and it cannot be resummoned for 30 seconds after.
Expressive Ears: Her ears being expressive wouldn't be much of a surprise, being a beastkin. Except she's not a beastkin and her ears are part of her hat. Professor Zema gave her that hat and designed the ears to be as realistic as possible.
Flash Step:
- The Style Combo: Flash A sigil turns her air dash into Flash if her combo rank is above A, a dominance-piercing instantaneous dash which slices through everything in its path. It can be used up to two times, with each charge having a 30 second cooldown.
- Style Combo: Triple Flash S allows Tevi to unleash three consecutive Flashes if she air dashes into a target at combo rank S or higher, with a 30 second cooldown. If her rank is SSS or higher, this instead becomes a quintuple flash.
- The Shooting Star sigil grants extended invulnerability frames whenever a flash attack is triggered, and also raises their damage.
Flechette Storm: At a certain level, Tevi will become able to throw a dagger as a follow-up immediately after a backflip slash, but what really makes it this are the sigils that augment the dagger toss. Slash Quartet adds four more daggers to the original burst, while Style Combo: Trickshot throws additional daggers which inflict the Lacerate debuff on hit, with the number scaling with her combo count and the time since the last throw. With both, the dagger toss goes from a single tap of bonus damage to a veritable shotgun blast.
Genius Bruiser: She's adept at magical and mechanical engineering as well as culinary arts, and is also an extremely nimble and capable fighter who can take down monsters without breaking a sweat.
Happily Adopted: Tevi loves Zema enough to consider him as her true father.
I'm Taking Him Home with Me!: While she's somewhat hesitant to take Celia along, she takes to Sable pretty quickly, even if she just wants to keep him as a pet.
Insufferable Genius: She's aware of her intellect and will gleefully boast about it at any opportunity.
Invulnerable Attack:
- Soul Burst, which charges from charged shots, allows Tevi to unleash a strong AoE attack which grants her brief invulnerability. She can store up to 300 points of the burst gauge, with each Soul Burst consuming 100. The Overdrive sigil removes the invulnerability to make it charge faster, while the Supernova sigil drastically increases its damage.
- After obtaining the PK Recon Badge from Lunessa, Tevi can charge a Golden Dodge with her melee attacks which, when fully charged, allows her to evade through attacks by backflipping through them at the right moment. Certain sigils can augment the dodge or let other moves trigger it (like slide, upper/spiral slash, or spanner bash), and the Shining Bangle also unleashes a swarm of Strip-inflicting arrows whenever a successful dodge is pulled off. The badge also gives her a small chance to trigger the dodge even when not using an evasion move, which increases as Tevi loses health.
"Just Frame" Bonus: The Flash Point sigil significantly increases the damage of Tevi's Alt Combo IV (her heavy spanner swing) if she presses the attack key at the moment that the spanner flashes. This is limited to once per combo reset.
Lightning Bruiser: A fully geared Tevi is incredibly nimble while being just as damaging, and can take a decent punch as well. Sigil builds can tweak this in the direction of Stone Wall or Glass Cannon, but her agility is the one thing that remains consistently exceptional.
Magic Knight: While she's a fairly competent physical fighter, her ability to use magic and attune to Astral Gears is especially notable, given that beastkin can normally only use magic through sigils, and even then not at the level Tevi can. This is because Tevi's actually a human.
Mysterious Past: Not much is known about where Tevi came from or what happened to her before Zema adopted her. Her own recounts are limited to her living in an Ulvosan orphanage with Fray and other children, and being rescued by Zema as the orphanage was destroyed. The truth is a bit more complicated: Ulvosa was destroyed because Zema awakened the Eidolon and tried to research it, with him saving Tevi and raising her as an act of penance, and she's actually the daughter of the royal Tasha who was left in Ulvosa.
Orbiting Particle Shield: The Vortex Gloves let Tevi break white-cracked blocks with her Spanner Bash or Tornado Spin and, when upgraded, causes said moves to each summon a temporary ring of orbiting energy flares to damage nearby enemies.
Playboy Bunny: It's harder to notice compared to Erina, but Tevi's getup does resemble the standard uniform, albeit more stylized and much less revealing.
Rage Breaking Point: In Chapter 6, when she goes to warn Seraph Amaryllis of an apparent plot between Vassago and Charon to plunge Valhalla to the surface of Az, Amaryllis completely dismisses her concerns, and outright states that both Charon and Empress Dahlia are dead. By this point Tevi has seen Empress Dahlia, done battle with Vassago, and watched Sable nearly die in the fight. And she's had just about enough of Amaryllis and calls her a liar, causing them to come to blows.
Really Royalty Reveal: She turns out to be the daughter of Tahlia and Charon's child Tasha, making her not just the last of the human royal bloodline, but the grandchild of the strongest magic user known to Az. However, when Tahlia tries to use this as leverage to make her join her, Tevi doesn't buy it for a second.
Shorter Means Smarter: Tevi's short stature is noted multiple times over the course of the game (much to her chagrin), and she's one of the smartest named characters.
Spin Attack: Spiral Slash has her spin with her dagger while in midair to deal area damage, also delaying the target's dominant state.
Sweet Tooth: She's a massive sweets (mostly waffles) afficionado and knows how to create her own desserts and where to find the best stores. One of her Sigils even describes her as a "dessert VIP".
Tornado Move: Tornado Spin has her spin her spanner around her to deal continous damage to enemies nearby, which can deal massive damage at the cost of being relatively slow and locking her in the animation until it ends or she's hit. The Style Combo: Tornado A sigil allows Tevi to follow it up with a Tornado Slam at combo rank A+, which is a heavy dominance-piercing AoE usable every 20 seconds.
Trademark Favorite Food: Waffles, to the point where the reason she gets involved with the Peacekeepers in the first place is Guthrie mentioning that continued unrest in Morose will cause Morose Wafflehouse to close down.
Throw Down the Bomblet:
- Her blue Cross Bombs can be used to break terrain, while also damaging enemies and, if charged up, can dispel Defense Up. Later, she also gets red Cluster Bombs which can be thrown in an arc and dispel Offense Up instead. Upgrading either bomb will let it dispel the opposite debuff as well.
- The Style Combo: Backbomb S also lets her toss three green bomblets when backflipping while her combo rank is above S. These bomblets don't dispel Offense or Defense Up, but can dispel the target's dominant state if Tevi has a spare bomb slot available.
Wrench Whack: The fourth attacks of her ground combos, her Tornado Spin, and her aerial Spanner Bash have her swinging a magic spanner. It's generally much slower than her dagger, but deals higher damage and knockback.
Wounded Gazelle Gambit: In the prologue to the game, she intentionally feigns unconsciousness and injury to make the Golden Hands kidnap her, then pretends to be a helpless girl begging for mercy in order to get them to reveal details about their base and where their Astral Gear is. Fortunately, her kidnapper is Ribauld, who falls for Tevi's ploy immediately and then leaves her free to (easily) escape and steal the Gear.

Celia

Voiced by: Yōko Hikasa

An angel from Valhalla whose job involves intel collection. After being impressed by Tevi's abilities, she proposed a partnership to further research on the Astral Gears, seeking to use the journey to further her own ambitions and earn the recognition of her peers.

Ambiguously Bi: Her fondness for Seraph Amaryllis borders on romantic, and Tevi outright questions if she's in love with her, with a vision Tahlia sends her at the end of the game implying she indeed is. Meanwhile, she finds Cyril very handsome despite him being a demon.
Broken Pedestal: She doesn't take it well when it's revealed that Vallhalla's perfection is built on Tybrious' kidnapping and execution of "defective" angels, and that Amaryllis actively sanctions his behavior.
Combat Stilettos: Wears full blown ballet heels.
Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears: Does this to Sable when Tevi rummages around Lily's body for her interference device.
Deadpan Snarker: In contrast to what her refined appearance may suggest, she's sassy, irritable, and very prideful.
Don't You Dare Pity Me!: A variation. She describes herself as a "card-carrying workaholic" and is insistent on earning accolades through her own efforts, and dislikes being handed things on a platter, which is why she gets upset when Tahlia's illusion to tempt her involves just giving her everything she's ever wanted, something which offends Celia enough that she's able to break free from it relatively easily.
Fantastic Racism: While she sees surface dwellers as inferior, she especially hates demons, and objects to Sable's presence almost immediately, only relenting when Tevi threatens to leave her behind if Sable doesn't come along. That said, she does find Sable's brother Cyril very handsome, even if she doesn't want to admit it, and gets an appreciation for Tartarus' culture of indulgence even if she absolutely refuses to acknowledge it.
Fire-Forged Friends: While she's extremely distrustful and rude to Sable at the start of the game, over time she becomes more and more friendly towards him. By the end of the game, she considers him a true friend and is deeply saddened to see him dying, to the point of insisting on carrying him even as Sable begs them to leave him and escape.
Hypocrite: She insists that Sable, being a demon, is trying to trick Tevi. Ironically, she acts much more like a demon than Sable, as she barely hides her intentions to use Tevi to get the Astral Gears. There's also the fact that she chides Sable for his naivete, but she herself is all too willing to buy Rulan's stories that he's doing important work on the surface rather than slacking off, something even Sable figures out.
Limit Break: Her Core Expansion consumes blue orbitar crystals and summons her to directly help Tevi, projecting a bullet-erasing barrier and unleashing a counterattack.
- Core Expansion N locks on to up to three targets with explosive orbs that deal constant damage to and immobilize targets hit, while giving Tevi two stacks of Resilience that reduce the damage of the next two hits taken.
- Core Expansion U locks onto a target and calls down a barrage of light spears, with the amount of spears summoned increasing each time the move is activated. This stacks up to three times, after which the count is reset.
- Core Expansion D releases shockwaves that hit every enemy in the room and steal their life, restoring some HP to Tevi in the process. The attack's damage also scales with Tevi's maximum HP.
My Master, Right or Wrong: While she does come to dislike some of Seraph Amaryllis's methods and her sanctioning of Tybrious's culling of imperfect angels, and while she is willing to question and disobey her more suspicious orders when she sees fit, she is still very devoted to her, and remains so throughout the game, up until the end where she becomes one of Amaryllis's valkryies.
Noblewoman's Laugh: She belts one out in her first appearance when meeting Tevi.
Support Party Member: One of Tevi's two Orbitars that provide her with ranged attacks, with hers leaning more towards individually powerful attacks for nuking single targets.
- Her Type-A shot is a high damage, single shot attack that can be charged to simply fire stronger blasts.
- Her Type-B shot is a Spread Shot of lasers which, when charged, produces a larger spread of bouncing beams. The beams do increased damage after a bounce and can penetrate targets if Tevi's mana is above 200.
- Her Type-C shot is a rapid fire homing bolt, which can be charged to fire a spread of homing blasts that can even pierce terrain once they're locked on.
Straight Man: Often has to balance out Sable's cluelessness and Tevi's overall weirdness, which more often leads to her being dragged along with their antics whenever she tries to rein them in.

Sable

Voiced by: Natsumi Fujiwara

A small demon from Tartarus who got hopelessly lost on the way to Ana Thema when venturing out of home for the first time, seemingly searching for something or someone. After meeting Tevi, he decided to follow her on her journey and support her in whatever way he can.

All of the Other Reindeer: He's probably the least demon-like demon you'll ever meet. He's clumsy and small, and his innocence is at odds with the hedonistic nature of demons. He gets bullied by other demons because of this, with them not going further solely because of his connection to Cyril.
The Baby of the Bunch: His actual age is unclear, but he's the visibly youngest of the main trio, and is noted to be quite sheltered and naive compared to Tevi or Celia.
Break the Cutie: On top of his naivete being challenged by all the conflict he encounters on his journey, in the span of about two and a half chapters, he instinctively takes a mortal injury for his best friend, is saved by a person who turns out to be a wicked queen, finds out his brother is serving said queen and killed said friend's father, had to fight him and watch him kill himself for his sake, has to swallow his trauma of Cyril's death while Tahlia is tempting him with illusions of his restored family, and then fight Tahlia and Revenance while still traumatized - and all of this while knowing he's doomed to die sooner or later, and hiding his impending demise from his friends. Seeing the matured, jaded state he's in at the end of the game in contrast to his innocent self at the start is jarring, to say the least.
Broken Pedestal: Considering how much he respects his brother Cyril, he nearly breaks down when it's revealed that he's working for Tahlia, and has killed many people (including Zema, his best friend's father) in both his name and Sabrina's. This ultimately leads to him turning against Cyril when they eventually come to blows.
Combat Stilettos: Like Celia he wears ballet boots, though with a wedge design rather than the traditional heel.
Dude Looks Like a Lady: You'd be forgiven in assuming that Sable is a boyish looking girl until told otherwise.
Heroic Sacrifice: Is mortally wounded after taking one of Vassago's attacks meant for Tevi, and is only kept alive after by Tahlia (disguised as Dahlia) using an Astral Gear and her mana to sustain his omphalos. However, when Tahlia is killed in the final battle, her magic gives out and Sable seemingly dies for real shortly after.
Lethal Chef: His attempts at cooking are disastrous, to say the least. This even translates into gameplay: the Burnt Dessert is one of Sable's attempts which actually damages Tevi for more than the health restored, but also grants a buff that turns all her moves into free dodges for the duration.
Limit Break: His Core Expansion consumes red orbitar crystals and summons him to directly help Tevi, projecting a bullet-erasing barrier and unleashing a counterattack.
- Core Expansion N fires multiple homing shots and gives Tevi a Magic Bomb buff which lets her use a charged bomb for free.
- Core Expansion U summons a pillar of flame under the nearest target, dealing massive area damage which is increased against aerial targets. The pillar also inflicts them with stacks of Hellfire reduced by the number of unique statuses they currently have, with each one causing them to take Damage Over Time and recieve increased damage while preventing Tevi from losing combo against them.
- Core Expansion D has Sable fire a Wave-Motion Gun directly in front of him, which is capable of stunlocking targets not in the dominant state.
Living on Borrowed Time: After Tahlia reveals herself and the final act of the game begins, he's well aware that stopping Tahlia will likely mean killing the person whose magic is sustaining his life after his mortal injury from Vassago. Sure enough, once Tahlia is gone, Sable's body gives out almost immediately after, much to Tevi and Celia's horror. He deliberately kept this a secret as to not distract them from their task.
No Sense of Direction: He got hopelessly lost trying to get to Ana Thema. Even the act of reading a map is beyond his grasp.
Support Party Member: One of Tevi's two Orbitars that provide her with ranged attacks, with his leaning more towards multi-hit attacks for clearing out crowds.
- His Type-A shot fires piercing beams and can be charged to produce a lingering explosion on the first target hit.
- His Type-B shot is a rapid shot that can be charged to fire a linear laser that pierces everything in its path for multi-hit damage.
- His Type-C shot is a Spread Shot whose charged attack lobs a gravity-affected bomb that explodes on impact. If Tevi has charged bomb slots at the ready, the shot also produces a shower of bomblets that can dispel dominant state and inflict Fragile.
Uncertain Doom: The ending reveals his body has been thrown to the Gurun Desert, where Voodoo collects it for an as of yet unknown reason.

Allies

Professor Zema

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Voiced by: Tomokazu Sugita, Shogo Batori (younger self)

Tevi's adoptive father, an eccentric animal-loving (mostly bunny-loving) inventor who obsesses equally over his research and doting on his daughter. He's particularly interested in the mysterious objects known as Astral Gears.

The Ace: In the past, he was an accomplished explorer and such a brilliant researcher that he managed to swiftly finish a translation job for Charon that the Archmage thought would take several more months, and was noted to have such emotional clarity that Charon explicitly trusted him to be his Morality Chain. Lunessa also notes that during his time as a Peacekeeper, he was also a top-of-the-line soldier, and she was always getting complaints that he was instantly cracking all their ciphers and beating everyone in board game tournaments.
Absent-Minded Professor: He's a highly eccentric bunny lover and a bit of a laid-back goofball despite his profession.
Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: It's hard to find a moment where he isn't embarassing his daughter.
Chick Magnet: Flashbacks reveal that he was quite the charmer within the royal court during his past as Charon's assistant, although he did grow tired of the attention sometimes. As a Peacekeeper, Lunessa also ended up developing unreciprocated feelings for him.
Dirty Old Man: Some of his behavior regarding bunnies is a little suspect. Tevi outright calls him a pervert.
Establishing Character Moment: In the first minute of his screentime, he showers Tevi in affection and embarasses her with his rabbit obsession, while also immediately sniffing out not just Celia and Sable's presence in Tevi's orbitars, but also specific details about their models that he should have no way of knowing from a glance. This establishes that he may be extremely eccentric and odd, but he's uncannily observant and extremely intelligent when it comes to magitech.
Hidden Depths: His profile mentions that his cheerful disposition sometimes hints that he's hiding something, and he's also much more capable than his goofy personality would suggest. In truth, Zema is a guilt-ridden man who desperately wanted to live up to his reputation as Charon's assistant, only to unleash calamity upon Ulvosa while trying to make a difference. He initially saw raising Tevi (the Sole Survivor of the incident) as a means of penance, but Zema truly has nothing left but her and his research.
My God, What Have I Done?: In an attempt to continue Charon's research into purifying decay, Zema unsealed the corrupted Eidolon from its prison in Ulvosa to research it, leading to it devastating the entire region and killing everyone except for a young Tevi, something he deeply regrets to this day.
Obfuscating Stupidity: There's more than a few hints that his bumbling, goofy personality is all an act. Notably, when you see him in flashbacks at the end of the game, he acts dead serious in pursuing his goals. Considering all that the poor man has been through, it can easily be seen as a coping mechanism.
Old Soldier: He used to be a member of the Peacekeepers, but retired after saving Tevi from Ulvosa.
Rags to Riches: According to Charon, Zema used to just be a Morosian street urchin before being taken in as his assistant, but his talents let him shine to the point where he was effectively treated like an honorary member of the royal court. Why Charon chose him specifically is unknown.
Spanner in the Works: By the time Cyril kills him, Zema had already managed to finish his research and perfect the transformation of the Astral Gears he had on him into powerful alembics, anticipating that Tahlia would both try to absorb them and ultimately be taken over by the Decay released by Elysium. Sure enough, when Tahlia absorbs the Astral Gears to try and kill Tevi with their immense power, the transformation prevents the Gears from responding and lets Tevi overpower her in turn, and when the Revenance fully manifests using Tahlia's body, the alembics' purification kicks in, weakening it enough for Tevi to fight on equal footing and eventually destroy it.

Vena

Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya

A cat beastkin inventor and "rival" of Tevi who constantly follows her around with the intent of finally besting her in a battle of engineering (and actual battles), but is also suspiciously willing to lend her help.

Achievements in Ignorance: At one point, Vena randomly got an urge to go to Tartarus and sell her goods there. Without a VIP pass for the train, she walked through the Gothera Swamplands to Tartarus, not even aware that doing so is considered a remarkable feat for even a seasoned adventurer. By the time she gets to Tartarus, the guards are impressed she got there on foot and take her to see Vassago, who gives her the business license she wants and some cash. Celia is amazed at how casually Vena seems to talk about the experience.
Always Someone Better: Tevi is this for her, being not only a better engineer but being able to use mana far more efficiently than her. The fact that Tevi's a human and not a beastkin means she has more of an advantage in the latter department.
Attack Drone: She wields an orbitar of her own that she uses to shoot most of her bullets, which can also detach and fire independently. She can also throw out mechanical cat dolls to serve as a meat shield and electrocute Tevi if she gets close.
Battle Theme Music: "Technomania".
Contractual Boss Immunity: Vena's Void Bomb and Cloud Bomb deal massive full-screen damage when used, but their damage is hard-capped to a small percentage of maximum HP against bosses (2.5% and 4.5% respectively) to prevent Tevi from erasing a massive chunk of their health bar for free. However, this doesn't apply to enemies summoned by bosses, meaning they can severely wound or instantly kill minions some bosses use to protect themselves.
Gadgeteer Genius: The game doesn't elaborate on it much due to how Vena tends to be a Butt-Monkey for Tevi, but she's genuinely very talented at engineering, just not as much so as Tevi. She's able to efficiently use orbitars and magitech drones despite not having innate magic, and Celia notes that the bombs she makes are actually very powerful. Tevi can also buy blueprints from her and use her bombs to help her quest.
I Owe You My Life: Her admiration and near obsession with Tevi stems from how she nearly froze to death in the past, and only survived due to Tevi rescuing her.
Perpetual Poverty: She always spends her earnings on upgrading her gear to try and overtake Tevi, only to lose anyways and leave herself both defeated and broke, to the point of regularly eating weeds. Almost every time she shows up in a place besides Morose, it's at least partially for moneymaking reasons.
Ship Tease: Her constant Tsundere act, complete with incessant stammering and blushing whenever Tevi calls out some of her suspicious kindness, heavily implies that Vena's obsession with Tevi is just a bit more than mere rivalry. In the official comic released for White Day, she even has an Imagine Spot where Tevi kisses her on the cheek after recieving her White Day chocolates. Tevi, on her own part, seems totally oblivious to this.
Spanner in the Works: Her visiting Valhalla and getting in trouble with the guards because of property damage from her new bombs becomes relevant once Tevi and Sable are captured by Amaryllis, as Vena ends up providing Celia with the explosive power to blow a hole in their prison.
Status Effects: Any of her craftable bombs that don't simply deal massive damage will specialize in these, from the BB Rabbit's ability to stack Defense Down, the Calico Bomb's ability to inflict Strip, and the Tabby Bomb's ability to inflict Trauma.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Cocoa from Rabi-Ribi, with both of them being Cat Girl engineers in Perpetual Poverty who serve as each game's respective Warmup Boss.
Throw Down the Bomblet: Will throw out grenades in her battle which will either be proximity mines that produce a wave of lasers, or incendiaries that produce lingering flames that inflict MP Burn.
Trademark Favorite Food: Pancakes, which is one of the reasons for her rivalry with the waffle-obsessed Tevi.
Tsundere: She's always yelling at Tevi and belittling her, but is known to go out of her way to help her and follow her, then suspiciously claim it was for her own benefit later. This even happens in the trailer for the game's release date. As the story progresses and Vena notices Tevi getting more dour, the "tsun" part becomes less pronounced as Vena realizes how serious she is, with her then offering Tevi her wholehearted support.

Voiced by: Madoka Asahina

A fox beastkin apothecary who sells potions and other alchemical implements.

Adam Smith Hates Your Guts: Downplayed, but her potions tend to increase in price whenever you reach a new city, though not by much.
Foxy Vixen: She's a fox beastkin and she's gorgeous.
Lipstick Lesbian: She gives you an item once held by a deceased lover of hers who was a lady.
Multiple-Tailed Beast: She has two tails, giving her an Asian Fox Spirit adjacent appearance.

Ian

Voiced by: Toshinari Fukamachi

A cat beastkin shopkeeper who works with CC. He loves to collect trinkets, shiny objects, and equipment.

Inexplicably Identical Individuals: He (and CC) is somehow a shopkeeper in every town at the same time, which Tevi questions when he mentions he's been working at the Snowveil Outpost for a decade, despite the fact that he's been seen everywhere else. When Tevi calls him out on it, he dodges the subject.

The Mysterious Traveler

A mysterious figure who appears in certain spots, giving Tevi challenges whenever her level reaches a certain threshold.

Ambiguously Human: They're almost unnaturally shorter than the known standard for the three races, and their body is completely covered up, making it impossible to tell whether they're a human, beastkin, magitech, or something else entirely.
Ambiguous Situation: They look almost identical to the mysterious people seen running the Colosseum and Circus, but it's uncertain as to whether they're the same person, a group of related individuals, or just completely unrelated besides using a similar portrait.
Gladiator Subquest: What their six Elite Challenges essentially boil down to, leading Tevi to a closed-off room in an area where she has to fight waves of strengthened local enemies while being weakened herself. Clearing each of them rewards Tevi with a unique sigil apiece.
Obvious Rule Patch: Enemies in the Elite Challenge have a Vital Strike buff that turns their blows into Percent Damage Attacks, while Tevi is also inflicted with Challenger which reduces her healing and caps her number of Last Chance Hitpoints to 1, to make sure the event poses a decent challenge even if you came back to it far later than the point you were supposed to do it at.

The Golden Hands

A notorious organization of beastkin bandits. For an unknown reason, they're also collecting Astral Gears.

Jethro

Voiced by: Gen Satō

A tiger beastkin and the leader of the Golden Hands.

A Father to His Men: Many of the Golden Hands were veterans of the Magitech rebellion and other victims of the war who were horrifically wounded in the battle. Jethro took them in, gave them new magitech prosthetics to replace their lost limbs, and treats them like family. As a result, all of them are totally devoted to him.
Battle Theme Music: "Hypermania", a reprise of the lower-ranked members' Kleptomania, befitting of his status as their leader.
Deflector Shields: He'll periodically apply stacks of Mana Shield to himself, which all but nullifies attacks dealing over 20 damage at the cost of one stack each.
Gadgeteer Genius: He's an expert in the use of magitech, and he created the prosthetics that many of the Golden Hands use. He's also skilled enough to do most of the maintenance on his own body without a need for external help. In battle, this is reflected as him frequently activating gadgets to give himself buffs and inflict debuffs on Tevi, far moreso than most other bosses.
Handicapped Badass: Early in the fight, Zema's Alterscope begins acting up and interfering with the transfigured heart Charon placed in Jethro's body, causing him to gain the debuff of the same name, dealing Damage Over Time and impairing his abilities. He doesn't put up any less of a fight after that, and in fact continues to fight even more fiercely as he loses health, just like any other boss.
Talk to the Hand: After the first phase of his fight, he summons a pair of giant hands that assist him in battle. They can be disabled with enough damage, but he'll fully heal them after enough time has passed.
I Owe You My Life: He and the other Hands were about to die in Snowveil before Erasmus saved them. As a result, the entire organization is loyal to Erasmus, and even agrees to help shelter his ward Fray during her recovery from Barados' experiments.
Noble Demon: While their actions are lawless, Jethro formed the Golden Hands to help impoverished beastkin in the aftermath of the Magitech rebellion, and he works closely with the greater powers of Az to stay out of trouble.
Older Than They Look: He looks to be a young man in his twenties, but he was alive during the Magitech Rebellion and very knowledgeable about what happened, implying he's at least in his forties.
Playing with Fire: One of his attacks places down teal flames which linger as hazards for a lengthy amount of time.
Restraining Bolt: He had a transfigured heart implanted in his cybernetics without his knowledge. While it didn't control him like the one Lily had, it did cause him immense pain whenever he thought about Dreamer's Keep. It was put in him by Charon to make sure no one bothers him until the time is right.
Stance System: Starting from his second phase, he'll assume a Guardian Stance which decreases his damage taken and increases in potency the more hits he takes while in the stance, making him increasingly durable. After enough time has passed, he'll switch to Fighter Stance, which converts all of the accumulated defense buffs from Guardian Stance into damage buffs instead, causing him to hit like a train but become comparatively vulnerable. He'll switch back after some more time, repeating the cycle until he's defeated.
Status-Buff Dispel: Some of his attacks inflict Buff Impair, causing Tevi's buffs to expire quicker and debuffing her stats if she has none to begin with. On the other hand, he can also give himself Embolden when switching to Fighter Stance, which purges his debuffs while making it impossible to purge his buffs in turn.
Unwitting Pawn: He and the Golden Hands are being used by Charon to gather Astral Gears for him, so that he can reconstruct the Key of Dust and activate Elysium.

Jezbelle

Voiced by: Iori Saeki

A cattle beastkin and a high ranking member of the Golden Hands, left in charge of the Golden Hands HQ.

Affably Evil: She's friendly to Tevi despite all the trouble she's caused the Golden Hands, and only fights her because of her Blood Knight tendencies. After her defeat, she develops respect for her strength and immediately tells the heroes everything she knows about Jethro and his knowledge of the Dreamer's Keep.
Amazonian Beauty: She's got muscles to rival Ribauld, and she's drop dead gorgeous.
Battle Theme Music: "Kleptomania", shared with the rest of the Golden Hands.
Berserk Button: Do not suggest that she needs help or that she needs to step back and let someone else take care of an opponent. Ribauld tries this. Jezbelle just blows him away with a shockwave for his insolence.
Big Fun: She's a big, buff, boisterous cowgirl who loves a good fight, is usually always in high spirits, and is very friendly and a little flirty towards Tevi. Notably she's the only boss fight among the Golden Hands that is never hostile to her or vice versa, and only fights her to test her strength.
Blood Knight: She loves a good fight, and challenges Tevi just to see what she's capable of.
Cowgirl: In every sense of the word. She's a cattle beastkin and dresses like a stereotypical cowgirl, complete with a cowboy hat and bionic legs that resemble chaps. She also uses a lasso as a weapon.
My Rules Are Not Your Rules: The Ring Out debuff doesn't apply to her. In fact, if she's knocked out of the ring, all damage dealt to her is reduced to 1 until she gets back in. She never voluntarily leaves the ring, but this can easily waste a window to attack if you accidentally knock her out of it when she's staggered.
Ring Out: A mechanic in her boss fight. If you get knocked out of the ring or leave voluntarily, you get hit with a nasty debuff that reduces the damage of every hit you make to 1 and causes you to take more damage. It goes away if you stay in the ring long enough.
Wrestler in All of Us: She fights you in a wrestling ring and wouldn't look out of place in one. While she doesn't have any throws, she does use kicks commonly seen in wrestling, such as a rolling sobat.

Roleo

Voiced by: Kazuma Horie

A lion beastkin member of the Golden Hands fought in the Misty Forest. Quite the Casanova.

Abhorrent Admirer: Towards Tevi after she defeats him, who unlike Amaretto is not receptive at all and is in fact extremely disgusted, which naturally only causes him to take it as a challenge. Although judging from Celia's observation of her reaction, at least some of his sweet-talking gave her pause.
Affably Evil: Compared to the thuggish Ribauld and especially the capricious Caprice, he's a serial flirt and shameless pervert, but is also way more friendly. In fact, his method of taking the Astral Gear from Merry Village involved simply asking for it rather than any sort of violence or thievery, and while it looks like he's got something nefarious planned for Amaretto, it turns out he was only keeping them safe (while flirting with them), and Amaretto was only fearful of returning his advances because they were unsure of how Roleo would respond to them concealing their real gender. When Tevi allies with the Golden Hands, the "evil" part gets dropped completely, and he even helps destroy one of the Terraspheres protecting Dreamer's Keep so Tevi doesn't have to.
Ambiguously Bi: The only thing ambiguous about it would be whether you interpret Amaretto as a cross dresser or a trans woman. Either way, he's smitten with them, even after the reveal. He also flirts with all three members of the trio (albeit mistaking Sable for a girl), but describes Jethro and even Ribauld in flattering terms.
Battle Theme Music: "Kleptomania", shared with the rest of the Golden Hands.
Chivalrous Pervert: He's a love-obsessed womanizer, but surprisingly civil and willing to lend a hand when it matters.
Expressive Mask: He wears a gold Domino Mask with eyes that move in accordance with his expressions.
Hidden Depths: He's introduced as a hopelessly shallow womanizer, and Amaretto revealing themselves to be biologically male seems like the setup to an Unsettling Gender-Reveal. Instead, Roleo reveals that he knew the truth from the start, and that he isn't concerned with trivial labels and finds Amaretto beautiful all the same.
Large Ham: He doesn't have a single line in the game where he isn't acting like a melodramatic showman.
Meaningful Name: Roleo is a portmanteau of Romeo and Leo. He's a lion beastkin who's quite the loverboy.
Orbiting Particle Shield: Will periodically summon three roses during his fight which orbit him and block shots. While any of the roses are active, Roleo will also gain the Physical Reflect buff, dealing damage to Tevi if she tries to hit him directly.
Something about a Rose: He's seeing carrying roses and uses them in his fight.
Too Kinky to Torture: His battle lines suggest that he's getting a bit too excited at Tevi beating him up - notably, when staggered, he blushes and practically screams with elation instead of anger or pain. When Tevi threatens to do it again when Roleo starts trying to woo her, Celia warns her that it's likely exactly what he wants.

Caprice

Voiced by: Sayumi Suzushiro

A raccoon beastkin member of the Golden Hands fought in the Relicts.

Battle Theme Music: "Kleptomania", shared with the rest of the Golden Hands.
Electronic Eyes: One of her eyes is a cybernetic eye. It doesn't seem to do anything special, though, and was likely created to replace a lost eye like most of the prosthetics the Golden Hands use.
Enemy Mine: Unlike Jethro, Roleo or Jezbelle who are fairly friendly with Tevi, Caprice still despises her for her defeat back at the Relicts, and Tevi hates her for killing her friend Greasetrap. Jezbelle has to essentially threaten her to make her work with Tevi to explore the Dreamer's Keep.
Fangirl: Has a big time crush on Jethro, and her motivation is to get his attention so that he'll give her a few scratches behind the ears. She also gets very jealous later on in Dreamer's Keep when she thinks Tevi's trying to get close to Jethro.
I Call It "Vera": She named her jackhammer Jackie.
Improbable Weapon User: She uses a jackhammer to dig, bounce, and shoot. Most jackhammers can't be used as guns like hers can, though.
Knight of Cerebus: She's probably the first instance of the story taking a darker turn when it's revealed she killed Greasetrap.
Land Mine: She can plant racoon bombs that act as stationary hazards, exploding to damage and Paralyze Tevi if she steps on them. The mines can be destroyed with bombs, but this will also cause them to release long-lived bouncing bullets.
Meaningful Name: A capricious girl named Caprice.
Rascally Raccoon: She's a raccoon beastkin and a thief, though she's much nastier than the stereotype.

Ribauld

Voiced by: Daiki Hamano

A bear beastkin member of the Golden Hands and the first boss in the game.

Arm Cannon: He has a prosthetic arm that functions as a cannon. It can fire bullets and launch blastorbs.
Battle Theme Music: "Kleptomania", shared with the rest of the Golden Hands.
Bears Are Bad News: He's a big bear beastkin and a bandit.
Butt-Monkey: Tevi doesn't take him seriously for a second. Even his fellow Golden Hands don't think highly of him. And when he tries to go over Jezbelle's head to fight Tevi, Jezbelle just blows him away with a shockwave.
Dumb Muscle: He's not the brightest, to say the least. He falls for Tevi's Damsel in Distress gambit hook, line, and sinker, blurts out the location of the Astral Gear she was planning to steal, and later in the game falls for Tevi's trick to get him to explain how to find Jezbelle.
Hoist by His Own Petard: One of his attacks is to throw out a blastorb, which Tevi can send back to damage him and inflict a debuff.
Lantern Jaw of Justice: He has an impressive cleft chin, though in his case it's more of a Lantern Jaw of Evil.
Small Name, Big Ego: He claims to be a high ranking member of the Golden Hands. Tevi later finds him bossing around the cleaning crew in the sewer.
Villain Forgot to Level Grind: Despite his claims to the contrary, when you encounter him much later at the Golden Hands HQ, he's exactly the same as he was at the start of the game. He doesn't even get a proper boss battle, being relegated to being an Elite Mook (humorously, since he's now a normal enemy, he can actually spawn with the Elite modifier as well). The problem is that even if you beat him, he'll just show up up again immediately after, and he'll continue to pursue you through the Golden Hands HQ until you find Jezbelle.
Warm-Up Boss: As the first boss in the game, he has simpler attack patterns than later bosses.

Phantom

Voiced by: Yuuhi Asagiri

A high ranking member of the Golden Hands and Jethro's close assistant.

The Unfought: The only named member of the Golden Hands to not have a boss fight.

Morose

Greasetrap

Voiced by: Shogo Batori

A Morosian Magitech and long-time friend of Tevi, who shares her enthusiasm for waffles.

Knight of Cerebus: Not exactly Greasetrap himself, but his death is the first time in the game where Tevi's happy-go-lucky shell cracks and she curses her inability to protect people she cares about, while also hinting that her past isn't as happy as it seems.
Magikarp Power: His Whimsical Waffle of Wonder cannot be directly created after his questline, and needs Tevi to craft ten attempts which produce flawed products providing only a small heal each. Each attempt will cost an increasingly large number of resources, up until the tenth, where Tevi finally creates the waffle proper, which fully heals her and raises her attack speed by 15% for one minute, but increases her damage taken by 50% for the same time.
Supreme Chef: Implied; even though he can't taste food himself, he's shown to be an easily qualified chef. In particular, his final invention, the Whimsical Waffle of Wonder, takes even Tevi ten attempts to create it...and then becomes one of the strongest healing items in the game.
Tragic Dream: He wants to become a renowned waffle chef and create his own flavors of waffles, even though as a depreciated Magitech, he can't actually taste food. Taken a step further when Caprice kills him and denies him even that, although Tevi can fulfill the dream in his place by recovering his notes and using them to craft the Whimsical Waffle of Wonder.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Dies at the end of his questline, having been murdered by Caprice for his Astral Gear.

The Peacekeepers

An organization of law enforcers centered in Morose, who helped suppress the rogue magitech in the Rebellion. They now help to maintain order and rebuilding what was lost in the war.

Lunessa

Voiced by: Satomi Akesaka

The dog beastkin leader of the Peacekeepers. She played a major part in helping mend the relationships between humans, beastkin, and magitech following the Magitech Rebellion, and is a well-known hero to the beastkin as a result.

Big Good: In the absence of Empress Dahlia, Lunessa is now one of the largest players in maintaining peace between the races of Az and a reliable force for Tevi to fall back upon.
Even the Girls Want Her: In a flashback where she's trying to woo Zema, she mentions she doesn't often have her affections refused by others, men and women alike.
Hopeless Suitor: A flashback reveals she was quite fond of Zema. Unfortunately, Zema was too focused on his goals in Ulvosa to reciprocate her feelings.
Lady of War: While we never see her in action, she gives off this vibe. She's very noble and refined, and the scar on her face as well as her history as a war hero suggests she's seen her share of combat.
Older Than They Look: She was a hero of the Magitech Rebellion which happened thirty years ago. This would put her age in the late forties at minimum, and likely in her fifties, yet she looks much younger.
Pimped-Out Dress: She wears a rather impressive one with a Showgirl Skirt.

Lily

Voiced by: Haruka Michii

A Peacekeeper Sentry who Tevi finds in a malfunctioning state in the Oasis. She mistakes Tevi for an intruder and attacks her, only to be fixed soon after her defeat.

A.I. Is a Crapshoot: She's malfunctioning and attacks the trio on sight, mistaking them for intruders. It turns out she has a transfigured heart implanted in her, causing her to demonstrate errant behavior and fall under the control of an external force.
Battle Theme Music: "Klazomania", shared with most of the early bosses.
King Mook: She's technically this to the regular Peacekeeper Sentries, but she's also the only non-controlled Peacekeeper sentry that is fought at all. It's not implied anywhere that she's any stronger than a normal Sentry either - she's just the only one that attacks Tevi thanks to her malfunction, and the ones under Frankie's thrall are heavily decayed and implied to be weakened from both the forceful control and imperfect use of his flute.
Macross Missile Massacre: She often uses missiles in battle. One particular attack has her fire a ton of missiles into the air, which then rain down afterward.
Robot Girl: Complete with a synthetic, monotone voice not unlike that of an automated announcement.
Wave-Motion Gun: In addition to energy blasts and rockets, her weapon can fire sustained beams which can bounce and sweep around the map.

Moxie

Voiced by: Yoshiko Ikuta

The mouse beastkin leader of the Peacekeeper unit that finds Tevi and Lily in the Oasis. They initially attack the heroes, believing them to be responsible for Lily's predicament.

Battle Theme Music: "Klazomania", shared with most of the early bosses.
Call-Forward: The attacks and general patterns of the mech she uses in her fight will be seen again when Frankie commandeers one for his own fight.
Hero-Worshipper: She has immense respect for Lunessa as the revered Beastkin Hero of the Magitech Rebellion, and speaks her with nothing but the most glowing praise, which actually bothers Lunessa a bit. Lunessa even has to order Moxie not to kneel to her when introducing Tevi to her.
Mini-Mecha: Uses one alongside Guthrie and Frankie to fight.
Scripted Battle: She and the rest of the PKOA come hot off the heels of the fight with Lily without any breathing room, but fortunately, the player only has to hold out for long enough for Lily to reawaken and the misunderstanding to be cleared up. She's effectively impossible to defeat before then due to the mech's massive defenses, but also deals very little damage compared to Lily to make it less likely to die during the sequence.

Frankie

Voiced by: Kazuma Horie

A cat beastkin member of the Peacekeepers. He is behind the transfigured heart found in Lily and the recent upsurge of disappearing Magitech.

AB Negative: He has a special blood type that somehow grants heavy resistance to Decay, which he donated to Ulskan Village at one point. Hearing the story of their anonymous donor from Anton and seeing Frankie seemingly unaffected by the ambient Decay in the Palace of Ana Thema causes Tevi to piece things together.
Bad Boss: He'll regularly sacrifice his Peacekeeper Sentry minions and cause them to self-destruct to try and harm Tevi. Considering his opinion on the Magitech, this is only appropriate.
Battle Theme Music: "Monomania", shared with Fray.
Berserk Button: He instantly goes from just antagonistic to viciously vindictive once Tevi reveals that she's a human and not a beastkin.
Chekhov's Gun: The flute he uses to control Magitech is collected by Tevi after his death and brought to Lunessa for safekeeping. This turns out to be Empress Dahlia's Starsong, one of the Royal Virtues and an artifact of immense power, which Dahlia eventually retrieves and uses to find her sister's Bloodsnare and save Tevi and her partners from the collapsing alter-space generated by the Revenance. How he even found it is left ambiguous, but given the nature of the artifact, he likely uncovered it in the ruined palace of Ana Thema given that Dahlia tried to lock it away.
Fantastic Racism: He has a deep hatred of humans due to their innate magical talent and tendency to use it to dominate others, and believes that they're inherently unequal and unable to live in peace. His goal was to kick-start a second Magitech Rebellion to eradicate them and let the beastkin dominate. He's also extremely prejudiced against Magitech as well, seeing them as tools that are only capable of destruction.
Flechette Storm: Outside of his mech, he mostly attacks with spreads of knives.
Flunky Boss: Will periodically summon Peacekeeper Sentries in his fight, which are thankfully less aggressive than usual. Once he gets directly involved in his second phase, he'll summon them a lot more frequently and buff them.
Freudian Excuse: At least part of his hatred of humans stems from being a survivor of the Magitech Rebellion, which saw his family killed and him forced to personally put their Decayed spectres out of their misery.
Hypocrite: Among the reasons he detests humans is because they treat beastkin as inferiors. However, Frankie himself has a similar view towards Magitech, seeing them as tools and nothing else, up to and including Celia and Sable.
Immune to Flinching: While in his mech, unlike any other boss in the game, depleting his Break Meter only applies a defense debuff to him instead of impairing him in any way. This changes once he dismounts, where he can be staggered as usual.
Knight of Cerebus: Up to the point where you fight him, the plot was mostly lighthearted and comedic, aside from the presence of the Malphage. He signals the turning point where the story gets darker.
Mighty Glacier: When he's in the PKOA's mech, he has a decent amount of health, a shield which greatly reduces damage from the front (or outright reflects magic if his guard is up), and immunity to the stagger caused by Break, balanced out by his slow attack rate and telegraphing every movement with a burst of steam. Once he dismounts, he instead becomes a Fragile Speedster who is very mobile and damaging, but has much less health and can now be staggered, although he also gets the Strong Will buff to reduce incoming Break damage.
Mini-Mecha: Reuses the one used in the first (scripted) Peacekeepers of Az fight, but with many more attacks. His last two health bars have him discard the wrecked machine (launching it at Tevi as an explosive projectile) and fight on foot.
Phlebotinum Overdose: The crystal flute he uses to control the Magitech takes so much magic to use that Frankie has to sacrifice his life force to wield it, and overuse of it eventually kills him.
Walking Spoiler: He's introduced as a seemingly unimportant subordinate of Moxie. As the sheer number of hidden tropes in this section suggest, there's more to him than meets the eye.

Travoll Industries

One of the largest mining conglomerates on Az, specializing in the industrial production of mananite and magitite.

Small Role, Big Impact: The company as a whole is barely relevant in the main story, but their actions are the reason why Tevi has all of the materials at her disposal, as well as serving as setup for the general situation Az and especially Morose find themselves in.

Valhalla

Amaryllis

Voiced by: Sakura Nakamura

The Seraph of the the Amary Faith, and the founder and highest power of Valhalla. She embodies all the values of the faith - piety, strength, and perfection.

A Lighter Shade of Black: Although Amaryllis is certainly reprehensible in her desires to enforce angelic superiority and perfection even at the cost of countless lives, she's more preferable to the person she helps the heroes oppose - Tahlia, who wants to rewrite all of reality in her image.
Battle Theme Music: "Angelomania".
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She at first appears to be a reasonable, if not haughty ruler who embodies the perfection the angels seek, especially since she keeps the much more abrasive Tybrious in line. However, she's also willing to let Tybrious kidnap and exterminate any "imperfections" to Valhalla to maintain this superiority, and doesn't take it well whenever anyone so much as questions her orders.
"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: When Tevi comes to her to warn her of Charon and Vassago's plan to bring Valhalla to the ground, she knows full well that it's not true because she's been working with Charon. Rather than tell Tevi the truth, however, she insists Charon and Empress Dahlia are dead and tries to stop Tevi from making any further investigation into the matter. While it's possible (and likely) she lied to protect Charon, her complete dismissal of Tevi's concerns and the haughty way she words her argument (which involved her almost smugly insinuating that humanity had permanently lost their best heroes) only strengthens her resolve, leading to them coming to blows and ultimately resulting in Tevi leading Tahlia right to Charon. To be fair, Tevi didn't tell Amaryllis about the "Empress Dahlia" found in Tartarus (because she was told not to tell anyone but Lunessa), and if Amaryllis knew about it, she'd likely known the gravity of the situation, because she knew exactly where the real Dahlia was.
Drama-Preserving Handicap: In the first two phases of her fight, Tevi will be unable to use Celia's orbitar and has her Core Expansions disabled, representing how Celia can't bring herself to defy Amaryllis' will. This is undone when Amaryllis practically orders Celia to actually try and help her collaborator, as an insulted Amaryllis interprets Celia's inaction as her thinking she could actually lose if all three of them fought.
"Get Back Here!" Boss: Her battle has her flying and teleporting around a battlefield made of many floating platforms, forcing players to pursue her while weathering her attacks.
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Once Amaryllis is reduced to her last health bar, she unleashes an unavoidable attack which instantly paralyzes the trio, causing a scripted "defeat" as she imprisons Tevi and Sable.
One-Winged Angel: When she's raring for a fight, she'll shed her mask and take on a new form where her clothes turn brighter, her wings become shrouded in blue light, and she gains a halo behind her head.
Praetorian Guard: The Valkyries are an elite unit that directly answers to Amaryllis herself and may only consist of seven members at any given time, and act as her sword-arms with authority only surpassed by herself and the Archangel. The only one shown on-screen is Kyria, but Celia is eventually promoted to one for her service after the events of the game.
Rank Scales with Asskicking: The leader of the angels is the strongest fighter in their ranks, to the point where once she decides she's had enough, she unleashes an unavoidable spell that instantly neutralizes the trio, only having not used it until then because of her pride as an angel.
Shielded Core Boss: Downplayed, as the cores she summons will give her a Hallowed Aegis buff that makes her Immune to Flinching and reduces damage taken, while also inflicting severe offensive debuffs on Tevi if she's near them. The damage reduction isn't absolute, though, and she can still take damage or even be staggered even with full shields.
Undying Loyalty: She's Charon's most trusted magitech creation and is fiercely loyal to him as a result. She helped Charon bring Dahlia to the Dreamer's Keep following the Magitech Rebellion and keep tabs on the outside world, and even after his death, she continues to help Dahlia and even Tevi (whom she is at odds with) to deal with Tahlia.

Tybrious

Voiced by: Daiki Hamano

The prideful and severe Archangel of Valhalla who serves as Amaryllis' second in command.

Battle Theme Music: "The Awakening", or "Xiphosmania" if Streamer Mode is enabled.
Blood Knight: Although he sees his killing of defective angels as his duty, he admits to enjoying the bloodshed and battle that comes with it. During his fight with Tevi, he's also clearly reveling in the thrill of combat, and looks back on the bloody Violet War with fondness.
Fantastic Racism: On top of his severe attitude towards his own kin, he's known to be highly intolerant of outsiders.
Glass Cannon: He's somewhat squishy and has no defensive measures outside of a heal on his last phase, but uses extremely fast attacks that deal huge amounts of damage. This is enforced by the buffs he gives himself later in the fight: Tempest of Blades buffs his damage and consumes stacks to summon Sacral Blades to supplement his attacks, but will give him a crippling defense debuff once it's used up, while High Velocity increases his speed further at the cost of making his Break Meter easier to deplete.
Karma Houdini: He faces no punishment for what is effectively genocide due to Amaryllis sanctioning his behavior, and at the end of the game gets away with everything he's done. That said, the ending does state that Celia is gunning for his position as Archangel.
Shout-Out: Him being a white-haired, katana-wielding swordsman with a profoundly Social Darwinist attitude brings Vergil to mind (albeit being angelic instead of demonic), with several of his moves also being own versions of Judgement Cut, Judgement Cut End, and Spiral Blades.
Social Darwinist: In his eyes, only "perfect" angels are true denizens of Valhalla, and he cannot tolerate any defects or imperfections, leading to him routinely rounding up and exterminating all defective angels to achieve his ideal Valhalla. To further twist the knife, he preaches his culling as a mercy, and claims the imperfect should be honored to die for Valhalla's sake.
Worthy Opponent: Sees Tevi as this after his defeat, as he's astounded that a human can match the strength of the demons he fought in the Violet War (specifically mentioning a particular one who is implied to be Cyril). He then promptly extends an invitation for her to join him in his quest to achieve perfection for Valhalla, which she flatly turns down.

Erasmus

Voiced by: Toshinari Fukamachi

A high ranking angel of Valhalla who is also Celia and Fray's superior.

Big Damn Heroes: Was responsible for saving Jethro and the Golden Hands from certain death in Snowveil, and unlike other angels, helped them with no strings attached instead of trying to force their faith onto them. Jethro and his underlings are extremely loyal to him as a result.
Defector from Decadence: He used to believe in Valhalla's ideals of purity and perfection at any cost, but meeting Fray (an "imperfect" beastkin) caused him to have a change of heart and begin operating on his own terms separate from those of Valhalla.
Parental Substitute: He technically is Fray's official superior, but he clearly sees her as his adopted daughter.

Fray

Voiced by: Yumiri Hanamori

Tevi's childhood friend. A beastkin who was rescued by angels after her orphanage was attacked and inducted into the Amary Faith.

Battle Theme Music: "Monomania", shared with Frankie.
Brainwashed and Crazy: She's turned into a demon by Barados and fights Tevi after going out of control. Fortunately, they manage to snap her out of it in time for Erasmus to rescue her.
Childhood Friend: With Tevi when the two of them were orphans. She's surprised to see Fray is still alive after so many years.
Cyborg: She was born a beastkin, but had angelic magitech integrated into her in Valhalla as a means of acceptance into the Amary Faith. Unfortunately, she's not compatible with the tech, which causes Tybrious to mark her as a defect and arrange for Barados and his demons to capture her, upon which the angelic parts are forcibly removed and she's transformed again into a partial demon magitech.
Delicate and Sickly: She's left in a crippled and extremely frail state following her incomplete demonification, and Tevi is required to acquire sapphrene from Ulvosa to save her from perishing outright. Even afterwards, she's still considered weak enough that Erasmus sends her to the Golden Hands at the Snowveil Outpost to recover, knowing that their loyalty to him will ensure her safety.
Fan Disservice: Her outfit in her boss fight amounts to a few wrappings that leave her otherwise naked. However, this wasn't done for Fanservice, but to show just how horrific the hack job Barados did to her body was.
Limit Break: During her fight, she will gradually build up stacks of Pyrexia which increase her attack power and, if reaching 10 stacks, will cause her to unleash a nearly unavoidable attack that deals massive damage. The Strip debuff, like from the Shining Bangle's arrows on dodge, can get rid of Pyrexia before it triggers, and Fray also just so happens to drop yellow pickups that buff your dodge...
Vapor Wear: In her boss fight, the only thing keeping her modesty is a few strips of cloth.

Memine

Voiced by: Yuuka Aisaka

One of Celia's colleagues and a Valhallan data collector. Despite her alleged strength, her eccentric and perverted demeanor means that her more straight-laced colleague seldom takes her seriously.

Assist Character: Memine will show up in the tail end of the Boss Rush in a special encounter, where she can be attacked for healing drops and also spawns a field that can regenerate Tevi's health before fleeing. Although, being Memine, the healing field shoots bullets, and she also spawns an equally large field that poisons Tevi instead.
Cloudcuckoolander: She's...not exactly all there compared to even the other lighthearted characters. She speaks in a slang-riddled dialect that is completely out of place with the general atmosphere of the game, goes on random and often inappropriate tangents whenever you approach her for a challenge, seems to lack common sense or self awareness, and openly admits to enjoying watching Tevi suffer. As if to reflect this, her bright, cartoonish attire completely contrasts all the known angels and most of the characters in general (except for maybe the Mysterious Traveler), further accentuating just how strange she is.
Depraved Bisexual: She hits on both Sable and Tevi in her first scene. If you complete all her challenges, it's revealed she's been punished for slacking off on her duties as a data hunter and suggests offering "special" favors to both Erasmus and Celia to try to get out of it. Celia is having none of it.
The Peeping Tom: Her idea of "data hunting" involves looking through people's windows. Given her perverted nature, one can get a good idea what she's actually doing.
Time Trial: Offers six of these after reaching Valhalla, requiring the player to travel from one point to the other within a certain time limit, without using fast travel. Higher difficulties tighten this limit and also enforce a maximum number of hits that Tevi can take before being disqualified. Completeing each trial will reward Tevi with a Rainbow Bunny Potion apiece; clearing three will unlock the upgrades for the Explorer's Compass early, while clearing all six will provide an additional Rainbow Bunny Potion and the Electric Wind sigil.

Rulan

Voiced by: Takuya Masumoto

A minister of Valhalla whom Celia greatly admires, seemingly oblivious to his extreme laziness and tendency to slack off on working hours.

"Begone" Bribe: The bunch of zennies and crafting materials you get from him when finding him on vacation at Solonda Beach is all but directly stated to be a bribe to get Tevi off his case, given that Celia still buys into his story of being on official business too much to snitch.
The Slacker: He's known to abuse his high position to sneak out of Valhalla and go on vacation whenever he pleases, and he's first seen in Ana Thema going on a Witchpeak shopping spree under the guise of official business, then on an outright vacation in Solonda Beach.

Kyria

Voiced by: Haruka Michii

A Valkyrie of Valhalla who is searching for Rulan.

Cuteness Proximity: Has a soft spot for cute creatures like mochibuns, and Tevi and the others find her taking time off her search in Blushwood to pet some, only for her to hastily tell them to never speak of it to anyone. Rulan even considers buying her a cute souvenir to get her off his back regarding his slacking.

Eunoia

Voiced by: Natsuko Hara

A high ranking angel of Valhalla who is searching for Rulan.

The Ditz: She's somewhat airheaded, and her idea of finding Rulan involves superstitions like astral projection and divination without any actual leads to go off of, something that even Celia (who normally sucks up to higher ranking angels) finds absurd.

Tartarus

Vassago

Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu

Founder of Tartarus and lord of the demons. Although he rules the land with an iron fist, he encourages fulfilling personal desires above all else, and has transformed his kingdom into a hub of hedonistic pleasure.

Assist Character: Not Vassago himself, but during his fight, the freed Empress Dahlia will cast a spell during each phase, either debuffing Vassago or buffing Tevi to give her more of a fighting chance.
Battle Theme Music: "Claustromania".
Blood Knight: Despite his idea of pleasure including more normal things like entertainment and material goods, Vassago loves violence and will seldom pass up a chance for a good fight. He's absolutely delighted for the entire fight with Tevi, even as he's being staggered or knocked around, and even more so when Tevi actually lasts long enough for him to start going all out. This is even reflected in the fight: he will frequently apply buffs to both himself and Tevi that cause them to deal and take more damage.
Card-Carrying Villain: He knows his reputation as a brutal tyrant of a kingdom of debauchery, and milks it for all he's worth.
Cassandra Truth: When Tevi finds Empress Dahlia imprisoned in his chambers, Vassago immediately denies putting her there, claiming that he'd have instantly taken credit for such a nefarious act if he actually did it. Naturally, nobody believes him...until it turns out that "Dahlia" is actually Queen Tahlia in disguise, and someone (implied to be Cyril) had seemingly placed her there without his knowledge, knowing that Tevi would try and rescue her.
Casting Gag: Has a hidden attack which has him stopping time and throwing a steamroller at Tevi (complete with a variation of DIO's infamous one-liner) if she hits him enough times with Alt Combo III (flurry stab), and an Easter Egg in the Catacombs lets you come across an entire room full of steamrollers presumably in reserve. Also, his use of corpse paint mimics a certain other vampire who did the same.
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Once Vassago is reduced to his last health bar, he decides to get serious and unleashes an attack that would have instantly killed Tevi if Sable didn't push her out of the way, sustaining mortal injuries in the process. Dahlia then teleports them out of Tartarus before Vassago can attack again.
The Hedonist: Enough that the main principles of his entire domain revolve around indulgence, which is the reason for Tartarus' surprising popularity among foreigners. In fact, when Tevi and the others are first brought before him, the first thing he does after jokingly threatening them is give them a sack full of money and tell them to let loose.
It Amused Me: Almost everything he does is driven by spur-of-the-moment whims and what seems amusing at the time, which according to Cyril makes him highly unpredictable as his whims can range from joking and goodwill to mutilation and murder at the drop of a hat.
Limit Break: In the last phase of his fight, Vassago will get an Underworld Tyrant buff that increases by one each time Tevi leaves the ground. Once he has ten, he will unleash a devastating (but avoidable) attack that deals 666 damage if it lands, mortally wounding or killing Tevi instantly unless she still has Dahlia's buff, which will negate the hit.
Mighty Glacier: Vassago's strength and stamina is only offset by his relatively slow gait, although he can mitigate this with teleportation. In fact, he's so heavy that the screen shakes when he walks and he can cause stunning tremors by stomping, and he takes noticably less knockback from Tevi's attacks and can't be slammed into walls, even in a Break state.
Rank Scales with Asskicking: He's the lord of the demons and the strongest warrior in Tartarus, to the point where his entire boss fight is basically him toying with Tevi until he decides he's bored. The one time he actually puts effort into an attack, it fatally wounds Sable, and would have instantly killed Tevi if Sable hadn't taken the hit for her.
Try to Fit That on a Business Card: According to Vena, some of Tartarus' denizens refer to him as "The Marvelous Morbid Monarch of Macabre Majesty and Tyrant of Tartarus".
Villains Never Lie: Vassago is so outrageously depraved that he never tries to act innocent or hide any of his ill deeds, resulting in him bluntly stating or even boasting about any questionable acts he performs. This is in contrast to Amaryllis, who is much more accomodating but also far more elusive about her and Valhalla's dark secrets. This is best demonstrated by how despite how suspicious his claims sounded, Vassago indeed had no desire to kidnap Dahlia nor decimate the surface, inadverdently leading to Tevi playing right into Tahlia's hands by immediately suspecting him (although in her defense, he did try to kill her for fun).

Cyril (Massive Spoilers!)

Voiced by: Tomoaki Maeno

Sable's older brother and Vassago's right-hand man.

Battle Theme Music: "Banshee", or "Replica" if Streamer Mode is enabled.
Call-Back: Not only are some of his attacks reminiscent of Sable's own shot types, he also shares a few moves with Tybrious, fittingly as they're both the second-in-commands of the angels and demons respectively.
Chick Magnet: He's noted to attract attention from many of Valhalla's angels whenever he visits as the Tartaran missionary, although it's unknown if he's fully aware of this.
Deal with the Devil: Ironic for a high ranking demon, he made a deal with Queen Tahlia when Sabrina first fell ill, where Tahlia would preserve her life with her magic at the cost of Cyril becoming her servant.
Drama-Preserving Handicap: In the first two phases of his fight, Tevi will be unable to use Sable's orbitar and has her Core Expansions disabled, representing how Sable is unable to accept his brother's depravity and him being unwilling to strike him. This is undone when he finally musters up the courage to face him (and actually inverted as Sable will briefly stun Cyril and activate a free Core Expansion-N), saying that if Cyril really wanted the best for their family, he wouldn't shed so much blood in their name.
Driven to Suicide: Forced to fight against Tevi and her crew under Tahlia's spell, but ultimately being unwilling to kill his brother when he makes it clear that he'll protect Tevi and Celia with his life, Cyril ends up committing suicide in order to let them pass.
Gadgeteer Genius: He's intensely interested with tinkering and upgrading magitech. He and Tevi hit it off well as a result.
Grapple Move: He has a particular dash attack that, if it connects, will result in him punching Tevi into the ceiling and slamming her into the ground for heavy damage. Notably, he's the only boss in the game that has some kind of grab.
Mysterious Past: Not much is known about what happened to Cyril before the present day, nor how he became Vassago's right hand. Various tidbits hint that he knew a person named Robin in the past who "gave him everything" and may have been the inspiration for him to break magitech tradition and start a family with Sable and Sabrina. In fact, certain dialogue lines hint that Robin might actually be Sable after a transformation, or that Sable might have been created in Robin's image.
Noble Demon: He doesn't particularly like hurting people, but is desperate for a way to save Sabrina and prevent his family from falling apart, hence his deal with Tahlia. Bonus points for being an actual demon.
Noodle Incident: He notes that a long time ago, Vassago devoured his arm and forced him to replace it with a full prosthetic. Despite Celia's horror, neither him nor Vassago remark on it or consider it particularly unusual.
No-Sell: His Shadow Armor will almost completely negate damage if Tevi's combo count is below 15, and in fact will heal him each time he's hit. He has certain mechanics that interplay with this, as he'll periodically inflict Backlash, which causes him to heal and gain stacks of Evanesce both scaling with Tevi's combo count, effectively forcing her to either drop her combo early or lose it once he starts dodging everything with Evanesce.
Red Baron: He's known as the Hellhound of Tartarus, and his reputation apparently precedes him in Valhalla.
Villainous BSoD: He's regretful but ultimately okay with killing Tevi, Celia, and Zema, but his motivation takes a severe hit when Sable decides to fight against him, as he is now forced to fight or kill one of the very people he's convinced himself he's doing all of this for. This is ultimately what leads to his suicide, as he is no longer able to resist Tahlia's blood oath that would force him to kill all of them, Sable included.
You Killed My Father: Tevi is enraged to find out he was the one who killed Zema under Tahlia's orders. Cyril wasn't aware of their relationship and is shocked when he finds out, but he can only offer a half-hearted apology and accept her revenge head-on.

Sabrina

Voiced by: Yoshiko Ikuta

Sable's younger sister, who suffers from terminal omphalic dissolution. The reason Sable snuck out of Tartarus in the first place was to search for something that could help her condition.

Delicate and Sickly: Her body has been severely deteriorated by her condition, and she can't even stand properly.
Uncertain Doom: Given that Tahlia's magic was what sustained both her and Sable, and how Sable seemingly died along with Tahlia as a result, her ultimate fate is left ambiguous but likely dire considering both the circumstances and how all her family members who could help are all dead.

The Hostesses (Unmarked Spoilers!)

Voiced by: Haruka Shiraishi (Erina), Madoka Asahina (Ribbon)

The casino hostesses, Erina and Ribbon. Yes, that Erina and Ribbon.

The Cameo: Despite being from a different game, both of them appear as hostesses at the Tartarus casino, with no further explanation as to how or why they're here. Erina can at least be explained as a rabbit beastkin who coincidentally has the same name as the Erina from Rabi-Ribi, but Ribbon is especially odd since no other faeries appear in Az.
Guest Fighter: Sort of. Erina is playable in the "Rabi-Smash" minigame in Tartarus' casino, which lets the player fight waves of bunny slimes and slime-versions of Pandora, Ashuri, Lilith, Saya, Cicini/Syaro, and Rita. Rumi, Miriam, Miru, Cocoa, and Irisu will also make cameos as background characters.

Barados

Voiced by: Yuuhi Asagiri

A human scientist who works in Tartarus as one of the leading figures of the Omphalos Laboratory, a magitech research compound. He is obsessed with the "beauty" of demons and is experimenting with "demonification", a way to transfigure any lifeform into demon magitech.

Actually a Doombot: A demon fashioned in Barados' image can be found in the Travoll Mines, kidnapping miners and subjecting them to experiments until Tevi beats him and takes his Astral Gear. A similar dead demon clone (or possibly the same one) can be found in the Sinner's Oath. The actual Barados is in Tartarus.
Ambiguous Situation: It's unknown what his history with Sable and his family are, given that Sable knew about him from before, and Cyril specifically warned him to avoid Barados and anyone associated with him. Barados mentions last seeing Sable over a decade ago in the Omphalos Laboratory, raising further questions.
Attack Reflector: Demon Barados will occasionally give himself several stacks of Defense Up and an Armored Ultion buff that partially reflects melee damage as long as he has Defense Up, which is the game's way of teaching the player how to dispel Defense Up using Tevi's newly-upgraded Cross Bombs.
Battle Theme Music: "Klazomania" for Demon Barados, shared with most of the early bosses.
Karma Houdini: After fleeing from the Omphalos Laboratory after Erasmus intervenes to save Fray, Barados is never seen from again outside of a dead demon clone in the Sinner's Oath, with the implication being that he got away and is still continuing his experiments relatively unhindered.
Large Ham: Both himself and his demon clone chew the scenery with every line they're given.
Mad Scientist: A textbook example, as he sees demons as beautiful creatures and wants to transform other species into demons. Fray is one of his more recent victims, and he's even implied to have a hand in Sable's creation or demonification.
Tactical Suicide Boss: Demon Barados will frequently throw explosive shots which cause boulders to fall from the ceiling, stacking up at the edges of the arena. The piles are normally too tall to be jumped on, but they can be cut down to size using Cross Bombs and then stood on to avoid some of his moves or reach his summoned minions. In fact, his strongest attack can only be feasibly avoided by doing so.

Voodoo

Voiced by: Shiori Izawa

A mysterious cat-like figure who has been following Tevi throughout her journey.

Ambiguous Situation
- It's not exactly certain what Voodoo is or what their intentions are. They initially seem to be Vassago's familiar, but Vassago notes that Voodoo keeps secrets from him and has done so before in the past, and Voodoo themselves claim no allegiance to him. Then there's their seeming history of walking through Az for an untold period of time, unnatural powers and knowledge, and interest in Tahlia's Bloodsnare.
- Did he truly intend to abandon Tevi in the alter-space created by Elysium to get the Bloodsnare, as Celia suggests in the ending? The fact that the silver bell that he gives Tevi works normally anywhere else in the final area suggests otherwise. Additionally, after the battle, he's seen collecting Sable's body for an unknown purpose.
Because You Were Nice to Me: The reason why they help Tevi find Zema's killer and locate Tahlia in the Sinner's Oath is because they're fond of Zema, who would always leave milk and cookies out for them whenever they passed by.

Other Locations

Ana Thema

Memloch

Voiced by: Kouki Koyasu

An ancient anima bound to the royal family and shrouded in myth, capable of purifying decay.

A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Not exactly as Memloch is very much sentient, but his previous stasis and sudden reawakening causes him to temporarily revert to his most basic function, which is to find and eliminate sources of Decay - like the one that Tevi happens to be carrying at the time.
Battle Theme Music: "Mythomania", shared with Thetis.
Dude Looks Like a Lady: Appearance wise, he's very androgynous looking, but he speaks in a very deep voice.
Laser-Guided Amnesia: His memories were damaged during his most recent battle alongside Dahlia, forcing him into stasis to recover. Given later revelations, he may have partaken in the fight against Tahlia.
Restraining Bolt: He is bound to the Palace of Ana Thema by royal magic, and only one who wields royal magic themselves can override this.
Shielded Core Boss: Memloch has a Steelclad buff which almost negates all damage and poise damage taken if his Break meter isn't empty. However, attacking the rings he uses to attack will gradually deplete his Break meter, eventually making him vulnerable and toppling him - and unlike other bosses, Memloch will never recover from a Break state until he's pushed to his next phase.

The Library (Unmarked Spoilers!)

By finding a hidden key in Ana Thema, Tevi can enter the city's library, which turns out to be a Developer's Room where she can talk to (and fight) the Author Avatars of the game's developers: Gema/Yue, Waero, and Ein Lee.

Early-Bird Cameo: They can show up in the Boss Rush before you've even faced them properly in the Library, albeit with only a fraction of their stats and considerably tamer patterns to make up for the length of the rush.
Call-Back: Gema and Yue's cut-in attack is a carbon copy of Irisu's fifth attack from Rabi-Ribi, complete with changing the background and using the exact same visual and audio effects. According to the Rabi-Ribi artbook, it's actually the real GemaYue's favorite attack.
Power Nullifier: In their strongest fights in the Library, most of their attacks will inflict the Vanish Curse debuff, which causes Tevi's next Core Expansion to consume an increased number of crystals equal to the debuff's stack, greatly limiting their usage.
Superboss: They can only be fought after the main game is cleared and are far stronger than even the Final Boss, with each of them having health rivaling or surpassing even the latest bosses while dealing enough damage to kill a fully geared Tevi in a single-digit number of hits. On top of this, the Library Boss Rush forces you to fight all three consecutively with only marginally lowered stats. Defeating them isn't needed for anything outside of achievements, but taking them down will increase Tevi's level by 1 each, albeit at a point where there probably isn't a lot left to put the bonus stats to use against.

Merry Village

Granny Bourbon

Voiced by: Naoko Nokubi

The matriarch of Merry Village who is searching for a lost Anisette and Amaretto.

The Alcoholic: Is just as fond of drinking as the rest of the village despite her old age.
I Was Quite a Looker: She claims that she used to draw attention from lots of men back in the day, and even jokes that if she were a bit younger, she would have given Roleo "more than" just the Astral Gear he was looking for.

Anisette and Amaretto

Voiced by: Reina Kondo (both)

Granny Bourbon's adopted twins, who got lost in the Misty Maze after following a troop of Magitech into the maze. Bourbon tasks Tevi with rescuing the two of them.

Dude Looks Like a Lady: Amaretto is actually a boy, but dresses like Anisette and tries to look like her.
Parental Abandonment: Their real father abandoned them both in Merry Village at a young age, and Granny Bourbon raised them in his stead. Amaretto suspects that he hated how his son was meek and feminine insead of strong and proud as he expected, although he also abandoned Anisette just as readily.

Ulskan Village/The Plagued Forest

Anton

Voiced by: Yuu Maeda

The head doctor of Ulskan village and a decay researcher. He commissions Tevi to venture into the forest and slay the dreaded Malphage so that its heart can be used for a more potent decay antidote.

My Greatest Failure: Considers this to be not being brave enough to face and slay his mutated wife Coda, forcing her to suffer for 30 years as the Malphage.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: His village sent out parties to rescue and shelter humans during the Magitech Rebellion, only for them to turn on them and violently loot the village, leaving them at the mercy of the oncoming storm of decay.
Plague Doctor: He and the other Ulskan Villagers wear beaked masks giving them this impression, matching their status as decay researchers. The masks both protect against Decay and conceal the Decay-scarred faces of the villagers.

Malphage

Voiced by: Haruka Michii

A massive spectre and a grotesque fusion of plant, person, and plague, seemingly the nerve center of the spectres prowling the Plagued Forest. Malphage was once Dr. Anton's wife Coda who was killed when humans betrayed the village, before her corpse was mutated into a decay abomination.

Battle Theme Music: "Aboulomania", shared with The Eidolon.
Combat Tentacles: Its preferred method of attack outside of Bullet Hell.
Plant Person: Malphage has a humanoid body embedded within an enormous Meat Moss flower, although "person" is an overstatement considering how much the flower dwarfs the humanoid.
Shielded Core Boss: Malphage takes virtually no stagger damage, and will periodically summon cysts that launch attacks and protect Malphage with a Cystic Hardening buff that reduces damage further and heals it when it gets hit, making it nigh invulnerable. Breaking a cyst will produce orbitar crystals and take a fat chunk off of Malphage's stagger bar, and breaking enough will cause the boss to enter a full Break state and become a sitting duck.
Spikes of Doom: Later phases of the fight will have the floor covered in lethal spikes as Tevi is forced to jump between elevated platforms to dodge Malphage's attacks.
Stationary Boss: Can't move.
Was Once a Man: Used to be Anton's wife, claimed by the decay.

Solennian Ruins

Katu

Voiced by: Reina Kondo

An anima being sworn to defend the ruins of the Kingdom of Solennia with her life.

Battle Theme Music: "Klazomania", shared with most of the early bosses.
Only the Worthy May Pass: Protects the Astral Gear in the Solennian Ruins under a directive given to her by her creators, saying only the worthy may wield the power of an Astral Gear. She only relents once she realizes Tevi is a human, as her creators only wished to pass on their legacy to another human.
Super Prototype: Anima are ancient magitech precursors described as a perfect fusion of life and machinery with unique powers and effective immortality, with the secrets of their creation being lost to history. As an anima created by one of the greatest civilizations in Az's history, Katu's abilities far surpass that of most modern magitech, and she looks down on them as pale imitations.
Wolfpack Boss: You fight Katu with one of her body doubles, with her summoning two more in her second phase. Their attacks get less aggressive when there's multiple alive, but the game still encourages you to take out the extras as fast as possible, since the real Katu will take massively reduced damage for every living one.

The Forgotten City

Thetis

Voiced by: Naoko Nokubi

The queen of the Nerei, an undersea race of siren-like humanoids that inhabits the oceans of Az. She attacks Tevi after Serulea mistakes the trio for invaders trying to steal their treasures.

Battle Theme Music: "Mythomania", shared with Memloch.
Dual Boss: While Thetis is the only target in her fight, she's assisted by an invincible Serulea who will put up auras that buff and debuff both Tevi and Thetis alike, while supplementing Thetis' attacks with her own.
Poor Communication Kills: She attacks the trio on sight after Serulea labels them as intruders, and is only willing to listen to reason once they fight Thetis and Serulea to a standstill. Once she learns the truth that they were trying to rescue Friedman (who had been effectively kidnapped by Serulea), she immediately scolds her daughter, who is unable to come up with an appropriate response until Friedman himself jumps in to defend her and explain his side of the story.
Underwater Boss Fight: Where else would you fight a mermaid queen?

Serulea

Voiced by: Iori Saeki

The princess of the Nerei whom Tevi has linked to the disappearance of a Travoll engineer from Solonda Beach.

I'm Taking Him Home with Me!: When Tevi finds Friedman, her initial conclusion is that Serulea kidnapped him to add him to her collection of things from the surface. Turned out this wasn't the case, though she does welcome the idea of becoming Friedman's bride.
Our Sirens Are Different: She gives off this vibe, given her apparent kidnapping of Friedman, and her use of singing as a weapon.

Ulvosa

The Eidolon

Voiced by: Yuu Maeda

A monolithic spectre of horrific power, the Eidolon was responsible for the near complete annihilation of Ulvosa and its transformation into a decayed wasteland. It has since been sealed within Ulvosa, but Tevi and her allies are forced to directly confront it while looking for a cure for Fray's condition.

Action Bomb: Will periodically summon soul-like blobs that chase Tevi and explode into shots, or lie on the ground to act as delayed mines. Tevi can destroy them to make them explode early, which also makes them not shoot bullets.
Battle Theme Music: "Aboulomania", shared with Malphage.
Body of Bodies: Inside its casing is a mass of amalgamated green faces fixed in a perpetual scream, although the exact reason for this is unknown.
Broken Armor Boss Battle: The Eidolon generates a Ravenous Aura whenever each of its health bars reaches about half, which almost completely negates damage and in fact heals it for what it should have taken, but it can be overloaded by launching enough blastorbs at it...which the Eidolon conveniently summons a steady stream of. Do this enough times, and it will shatter the shield, interrupting the Eidolon's attack and inflicting System Overload until its next phase, which crimps the Eidolon's attack rate and lets it take Break damage.
Clipped-Wing Angel: If the Eidolon's Break meter is fully depleted, it will permanently cripple its attack and defense while preventing it from deploying its Ravenous Aura again. However, the decay overflow will also reduce Tevi's healing and cause her to take continuous damage, and this is also usually the point when the Eidolon starts busting out its toughest moves, as well as becoming immune to System Overload now that it has no shield to break.
Death Equals Redemption: Of a sort. Memloch notes that after its defeat and conversion into a decay crystal containing its consciousness, the Eidolon remembered its original purpose and hijacked an aetherlift, sending Tevi's party to Memloch to get his help.
Flunky Boss: Periodically summons plagued robots with reduced defense in its fight. These can be dispatched fairly easily and will sometimes drop healing items, but they will also give the Eidolon stacks of Reassimilate on death, which will buff its attack, defense, and healing once it stacks ten times.
Psycho Prototype: After his defeat, Memloch reveals that the Eidolon was a prototype anima and his predecessor, but due to only having the ability to contain decay instead of purifying it, it eventually reached its limit and was sealed away, only to be resurrected as a spectre after.
Sealed Evil in a Can: After reaching its capacity for Decay, the Eidolon was decommissioned and sealed in stasis within Ulvosa. It's only after Zema purposely reawakens it to try and grab data that could help him with purifying Decay that the Eidolon unleashes hell upon Ulvosa. The Peacekeepers sacrificed quite a few lives to procure a barrier to keep it inside Ulvosa following its rampage, but Celia notes it's only a matter of time before the Eidolon breaks free, and that it's a miracle the barrier has even held for so many years.
Sinister Geometry: Until it opens up, it's a relatively nondescript octahedron that is often identified solely by its diamond shape, and it is very much sinister.
Stone Wall: The Eidolon has a lot of health and its abilities makes it very good at resisting or even healing off damage taken, but it'll also generally hit you pretty infrequently.

Other and Spoiler Characters

Do note that due to the nature of these characters, the entries below contain unmarked spoilers. You Have Been Warned.

The Empress

Empress Dahlia

Voiced by: Rie Tanaka

The former empress of the human empire who presided over her domain from the Palace of Ana Thema. Unlike her predecessors, she was willing to show lenience to all regardless of their race, and was beloved by many beastkin as a result. However, she went missing following the Magitech Rebellion, causing the human monarchy to collapse.

The Archmage: Despite not having the actual title, she was said to be Charon's rival and possible equal in terms of magical prowess, and more notably was known to only use her powers for the benefit of the people despite her vast might.
Big Damn Heroes: Shows up at the end of the final battle against the Revenance to shatter her alter-space using the Starsong, rescuing Tevi, Celia, and Sable (or what's left of him) before the dimension collapses.
Dismantled Macguffin: She's the one responsible for shattering the Key of Dust back into Astral Gears 30 years ago, as Tahlia's bid for Elysium only solidified her stance that Elysium is far too dangerous to see the light of day.
Fountain of Youth: When seemingly rescued from Tartarus, the first thing that's noted is that she seems far younger than the Dahlia remembered by history, which Tahlia writes off as Vassago's device draining her power and age. When the real Dahlia is found, it turns out that she actually does look far younger than remembered, due to a side effect of Tahlia's botched attempt to use Elysium reverting both of their bodies back into teens. Dahlia muses that it could be due to Tahlia's longing for the past, but admits that even she can only guess.
The High Queen: She's revered as a paragon of goodness and strength for her generosity and leadership, as well as for uniting the races of Az. Her reign was known as the Golden Age of Az until the Magitech Rebellion that led to her disappearance, causing the collapse of the human empire nearly overnight.

The Archmage

Archmage Charon / Elizar Zostra

Voiced by: Takaya Hashi, Yuu Maeda (past self)

One of the most powerful magic users in Az who served at Dahlia's side and pioneered countless advancements in Magitech, as well as Zema's savior and mentor. He has disappeared along with the empress, yet is suspected to be the very instigator of the Magitech Rebellion. He is the creator of not just what would become the prime magitech, but also the reality-warping spell Elysium and the Key of Dust used to activate it, and seems to have plans for the latter even thirty years after the rebellion...

Ambiguous Situation: In a flashback, when Zema asks him about what he intends to use Elysium for, Charon refuses to admit his wish out of shame, even though he also admits he has no desire to hurt people with it. Given that he never actually mentions his wish, it brings into question just why he decided he wanted to make a reality-warping spell in the first place.
The Archmage: Said to be one of, if not the single greatest magic user in all of Az, which he used to create marvels of magic and engineering, with his work being considered the basis for all high-intelligence Magitech in the present day. It's also his title, and as the human empire valued individual talent above all else, only he was allowed to carry that title.
Battle Theme Music: "The Great Magician".
Disc-One Final Boss: He's built up to be the most powerful opponent Tevi has faced thus far and the Big Bad who wants to Colony Drop Valhalla onto Az alongside Vassago. Then Tahlia ambushes him and kills him after his fight to absorb his mana, and things only get worse from there.
Hidden Depths: In addition to a peerless mage, he was also a proficient musician, and was known as The Composer in the royal court. Zema having a conspicuous violin in the middle of all his lab equipment is the first hint of the relationship between the two.
Just Think of the Potential!: While Dahlia was adamant that Elysium was too dangerous to use, and the realities it would create would be false, Charon saw infinite potential in Elysium and its power to benefit Az. To that end, he was willing to secretly continue work on Elysium behind Dahlia's back, with the help of both Tahlia and Zema.
Master of Illusion: One of his more powerful arts was the ability to cast hyper-realistic illusions, such as those seen in the Dreamer's Keep.
The Scapegoat: Charon is believed to be the instigator of the Magitech Rebellion and is appropriately a controversial figure in the present day. In truth, the Rebellion was caused by Tahlia, having taken advantage of Charon's trust in her to seize his Magitech and unleash them as a distraction.
Shielded Core Boss: The massive magitech he fights with, Magna Legacy, will continously provide Charon with defensive buffs and performs many of his attacks for him, along with draining Tevi's mana if she's on the ground in later phases. Attacking it enough will disable it and make Charon take full damage, although he'll periodically reactivate it as the fight goes on.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: In the past, he had only good intentions for Elysium to the point where he'd go behind Dahlia's back to keep up research on it, though he did worry to Zema that such power would corrupt him. In the present day, he still has Elysium as his primary goal. His reasons for it are unknown, but it's heavily implied he intended to use it to undo the damage caused by the Magitech Rebellion thirty years ago.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Non-fatal version. Once Jethro brings him the Astral Gears, Charon leaves him to wander the mazes of Dreamer's Keep after Jethro attempts to attack him. It doesn't hold him for long, although it certainly discourages him from trying to keep fighting.

The Mirror Image

Illusion Alius

Shadowy copies of Tevi, Celia, and Sable found in the depths of Dreamer's Keep, materialized by Charon's illusory magic.

Battle Theme Music: "Sudden Death.T", a remix of Sudden Death from Rabi-Ribi, which was Illusion Alius' theme in that game.
Glass Cannon: Although downplayed compared to the original Alius, she only has three health bars at a point in the game where the bosses fought before her have at least four, and her first two are much more fragile than her last. In exchange, her attacks don't proc Mercy Invincibility and can tear off a third of your health in one combo.
Immune to Flinching: Downplayed, as although she recovers from Break nearly instantly, it will still interrupt her attacks and often provide enough time to send her airborne and unleash an extended combo before she falls back down.
Legacy Character: Its name, nature and fighting style are a direct copy of the Illusion Alius from Rabi-Ribi, except now using Tevi, Celia, and Sable's movesets instead of Erina and Ribbon's.
Mirror Boss: Fights using all of Tevi's moves, including her Soul Burst, can use any of Celia and Sable's charged shot types, and can use its own versions of their Core Expansions. However, it's unable to copy any moves that are granted by Sigils instead of being part of Tevi's base kit, such as Flash, Lock-On, or Tornado Slam.

The Necklace Bearer

Tasha

Tevi's real mother and the daughter of Tahlia and Charon. She was the original owner of the mysterious necklace Tevi wears, which was given to her by Dahlia as a gift.

Missing Mom: Nothing is known about what happened to her after she gave birth to Tevi and left her in Ulvosa.

The Mastermind (Massive Spoilers!)

Queen Tahlia

Voiced by: Rie Tanaka

Dahlia's younger sister, who chafed in her elder sister's shadow. She is the true instigator of the Magitech Rebellion, seeking to use the chaos to seize Charon's Elysium and rewrite the world to her liking. Seemingly killed in the aftermath, Tahlia has been alive the whole time, quietly plotting her vengeance...

Abusive Parents: She saw her daughter Tasha as a mere distraction to keep Dahlia occupied as she schemed with Elysium in the shadows, and was completely willing to toss her aside and let her die once she served her purpose. When she finds out that Tasha survived to give birth to a child, she only reacts with mild amusement.
Always Second Best: She hates the fact that Dahlia recieves all of the attention and praise of Az while she's left behind just for being the less talented younger sister, to the point where her obsession with obtaining Elysium and recreating the whole world is at least partially just to upstage Dahlia.
Battle Theme Music: "Megalomania".
Combat Pragmatist: Her actual magical power isn't particularly high (especially compared to heavy hitters like Charon or her sister), so she generally resorts to trickery or foul play in order to get an advantage. She exploited Dahlia's compassion to scheme behind her back and catch her off guard with Elysium (albeit still being stopped in the end), and took advantage of Charon being distracted by Tevi to literally backstab him and drain his mana with the Bloodsnare before he could fight back. When facing Tevi directly, she even absorbs all of the Astral Gears before the encounter even starts to give herself an advantage and deny Tevi the option of taking them back, although this in turn backfires on her due to Zema tampering with the Gears knowing she'd try to pull a stunt like that.
Damage-Sponge Boss: She has seven health bars while every boss fought immediately before her has only five, constantly stacks defensive buffs every time she loses a bar, and fully heals on her last one after her cut-in attack. The only boss that also has seven is the Revenance, who is the only boss that actually surpasses her bulk, but will also instantly lose 1-2 of her health bars as part of a scripted event early on in the fight.
Green-Eyed Monster: Her entire motive stems from jealousy towards her sister, and part of her reason for her animosity against Charon despite their work together is that Charon chose to save Dahlia instead of Tahlia during the rebellion, and that Charon always cared about Dahlia more than her despite them working together and even having a child. Charon retaliates by saying that Dahlia would never willingly hurt her own sister, so he had a feeling that Tahlia was to blame anyways.
Hoist by His Own Petard:
- By absorbing all the decay left behind by Elysium and granting it a consciousness, she created the Revenance and gave it the capacity to think, causing it to eventually turn on her and try to upend her plans by plunging all of Az into decay. Even if Tevi hadn't defeated her, the Revenance had likely gained enough sentience and power to override any victory Tahlia would have obtained, rendering her efforts All for Nothing.
- She could have realistically waited until Charon actually activated Elysium, then seize it from him and immediately use it to reshape reality. Instead, she kills him early out of seeming impatience and/or spite, and has to spend time gathering more of the Astral Gears, which reveals her plans to the higher-ups of Az, puts her in the crosshairs of the protagonists, and eventually leads to her ultimate demise.
Hypocrite: She justifies her actions with spiels about how she never got the love and attention she wanted in life, and is angry at Charon for choosing to save Dahlia instead of her. This is in spite of how she herself never shows care for anyone other than herself: the only reason she entered a relationship with Charon in the first place was to get her hands on Elysium and his magitech, she had a child with him just to exploit Dahlia's guilt and distract her from Elysium, and she certainly didn't show Tasha any love when she abandoned her once her role was finished. Even when she claims Elysium will grant the wishes of all people, it's painfully clear that she's only dangling the prospect in front of others in order to manipulate them, and that her sole intention is to create a world that suits all of her own wishes.
Luke, I Am Your Father: Before the battle with her, Tahlia reveals that she's Tevi's grandmother, in an effort to convince Tevi to join her. Given all the horrible things Tahlia has done and the fact that she led to the death of Tevi's adoptive father, Tevi doesn't buy this for a second.
Tahlia: I may very well be the last of your family. You'd still take a hand against me?
Tevi: The last of my family...was already taken by you.
Mana Drain: She uncovered and wields the Bloodsnare, one of the Royal Virtues and the counterpart of Dahlia's Starsong. It's a ravenous dagger that can absorb the blood and mana of anything it cuts, which she uses to absorb Charon's mana and the Astral Gears. In her battle, she can use it to steal Tevi's stats with the Pillage debuff, and will also sometimes attempt to directly stab her and inflict her with several crippling debuffs.
Shout-Out: A lot of her attacks are almost directly taken from the fights with Miru, Noah, and Irisu, and most of her attacks use the red-and-black color scheme most commonly associated with Miru. In fact, the premise of the fight seems to reference the scrapped original ending of Rabi-Ribi, where Miru was meant to be the final boss and her inner darkness the last phase, replicated here with Tahlia and the Revenance.
Taking You with Me: As the Revenance attempts to escape purification by shedding Tahlia's body in the final battle, Tahlia regains control for a second and traps them together, declaring that the Revenance will not destroy the world unless it's on her terms. This gives the heroes the opening needed to finish the two of them off.
Walking Spoiler: Her very existence is a major spoiler, especially since she was never mentioned up until her first appearance in the game, with only vague hints as to there even being another antagonistic force beyond Charon, and even vaguer hints that she even existed at all, such as one Ulskan villager's insistence that they saw "Dahlia" commanding the magitech in the magitech rebellion.

The Final Boss (Massive Spoilers!)

The Revenance

Voiced by: Rie Tanaka

The embodiment and reservoir of decay, once a mindless force kept in check by the mana of the world, but given consciousness by Tahlia absorbing it following her bid to activate Elysium. It has been feeding on Tahlia's obsession for decades, and following her defeat by Tevi, finally manages to manifest through her body and seize Elysium, intent on using it to consume all of Az and plunge it into an abyss of decay.

As Long as There Is Evil: Particularly egregious as it's not just "evil" but existence itself, but the Revenance claims that as long as humans continue to spread chaos (read: simply existing and changing), decay will always be there to oppose them.
Battle Theme Music: "AKROMANIA", then "ULTIMA·AKROMANIA" in its second form.
Body Surf: Once it realizes that Tahlia's body is doomed to be purified from the inside out, it becomes dead-set on killing Tevi and taking her body instead. Unfortunately for it, Tahlia isn't about to let it escape so easily.
Damage-Sponge Boss: The Revenance is by far the tankiest boss in the main story despite the various advantages you'll get over the course of the fight - it has seven health bars like Tahlia but with considerably more numerical health in each, takes halved damage for the first bit of its fight, and will generally float out of reach for most of the battle, in addition to being highly resistant to staggering.
Demonic Possession: As it lacks a form of its own, it seizes Tahlia's body and transforms it into a towering humanoid monster.
Evil Is Bigger: It's the final boss of the game and the incarnation of decay, and it towers over every other boss in the game, even Malphage and the Eidolon.
Final Boss: Of the entire game, stealing the position from Tahlia.
Generic Doomsday Villain: Little is known about its motivations, besides its hatred of the chaos of life and a desire to consume the world in decay to achieve a twisted semblance of peace and balance. As an embodiment of decay, the Revenance's will likely extends to that of decay as a whole, opposing mana and the change it brings.
Giant Eye of Doom: Although it has a humanoid form from taking over and corrupting Tahlia's body, its portrait is just a massive green eye within a cloud of decayed smog, which is likely as close to its true form as the game shows.
Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: Although the connection with mana and decay has long since been established as well as the risk of unleashing an untold amount of decay with Elysium, nothing in the game hints at the Revenance's existence until it shows up to hijack Tahlia's body after her fight and begin the final encounter.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Neither Tahlia nor the Revenance knew that Zema had managed to reconfigure the Astral Gears into agents of decay purification right before his death. When Tahlia absorbed them and tried to draw power from them, this crippled her powers and let the trio get the upper hand, but when Revenance, an embodiment of decay, takes over Tahlia's body with the Gears still fused with her, the Gears end up severing their connection with Elysium and disintegrating them from the inside out.
- In combat, this is represented as it having a Paradise buff in the first phase which makes it much more powerful,^note but once half of its first health bar is depleted, the Gears kick in and replace Paradise with Purification, causing it to take Damage Over Time that increases in severity as the fight drags on.
One-Winged Angel: Once it's brought to its last three health bars, it will land and visually crack apart as it goes all out, changing the battlefield to a more traditional grounded battle.
Sealed Evil in a Can: Applying to decay as a whole, which is usually kept in check by the world's natural mana and the royal family's alembics. Using Astral Gears to draw mana from the earth will weaken this suppression and cause decay to surge forth, with Tahlia's attempt to summon a spell as large as Elysium unleashing so much decay that it eventually became the Revenance when Tahlia absorbed it in a bid for revenge.
Shielded Core Boss: In its final form, the Revenance will hold up four orbs that perform attacks and make the main body invulnerable until destroyed, with the orbs reappearing each time it fully recovers its break bar; in later phases, the body will also regenerate if any orbs are still alive. Just don't let the Revenance recover too many times, or it'll unleash a devastating Limit Break.

Characters / Tevi

Main Trio

Allies

The Golden Hands

Morose

Lunessa

Lily

Moxie

Frankie

Valhalla

Tartarus

Other Locations

Ana Thema

Merry Village

Ulskan Village/The Plagued Forest

Solennian Ruins

The Forgotten City

Ulvosa

Other and Spoiler Characters

Empress Dahlia

Archmage Charon / Elizar Zostra

Illusion Alius

Tasha

Queen Tahlia

The Revenance

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Main Trio

Allies

The Golden Hands

Morose

Lunessa

Lily

Moxie

Frankie

Valhalla

Tartarus

Other Locations

Ana Thema

Merry Village

Ulskan Village/The Plagued Forest

Solennian Ruins

The Forgotten City

Ulvosa

Other and Spoiler Characters

Empress Dahlia

Archmage Charon / Elizar Zostra

Illusion Alius

Tasha

Queen Tahlia

The Revenance

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