Characters / Tower Of God: Great Warriors

aka: Tower Of God Zahard Rulers

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Tower of God Main Character Index
Main Characters (Twenty-Fifth Bam) | Organizations (FUG (Canines), Wolhaiksong) | Regulars (First Batch, Second Batch, Third Batch, Fourth Batch, Fifth Batch, Sixth Batch) | Rankers | Irregulars | Jahad Empire (Great Warriors, Princesses of Jahad, 13 Month Series) | Floor Guardians | Others

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Do you know what it means to become a king? Becoming a king means erasing the people around you. Starting with the people who are the most distant and hostile towards you. Ultimately, you erase people who are closer to you. Then finally, when you have erased the person you love the most, you are alone in the world, and only the one who shines alone can become a king in the end.

—Jahad's Hidden Floor Data

At the top of the Tower's ruling class are Jahad and the Great Warriors, who conquered the Tower and gained control of the first 134 Floors from the Guardians. After Jahad stopped climbing the Tower, ten of the Great Warriors ultimately became the Heads of the Ten Great Families of the Tower, being treated somewhere between nobles and deities by the residents of the Tower. An additional two members of the initial group are revealed to be a woman named Arlene Grace and a man known only as "V", both of whom seem to have been wiped from the history of the Tower. Jahad and the Great Warriors founded the Regular/Irregular system, and would technically be classified as the first known Irregulars.

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In General

• The Ageless: Climbing The Tower gave them eternal youth, with the exception of Hendrock.
• Balance of Power: As revealed by Ha Jinsung, the Family Heads are what keeps the station among the 10 Great Families well-balanced, as their overwhelming power is capable of balancing out any particularly powerful member of another Family who isn't a Family Head. Although the Khun, Arie, and Ha Families are stronger than the others, and so is their Family Heads, for the lesser families, if there were to be a conflict between them, it would take another person who can be on par with them to break the balance and ensure victory, as the balance of power are too well-matched for wars between two families to be concluded decisively. This is apparently why the Family Heads had been growing more interested in Bam, because he is the only other Irregular currently with the potential to be what they need to overthrow the balance.
• Complete Immortality: With the exception of Hendrock Bloodmadder, who struck a special deal, all of them have been granted immortality by the 100th Floor Guardian.
• The Dreaded: Considering they are the strongest inhabitants of the Tower, they are widely feared. Thus far, whenever a Family Head is put in the picture, the characters tend to panic and desperately try to find a way to survive while avoiding an encounter with them.
• Drunk with Power: Most of them didn't start out as the jerks they are now. The data version of Khun Edahn notes that the stronger they grew, the less and less they cared about other people. Gustang dismisses regular people as irrelevant bugs. Traumerei calls even his strongest descendants with creature-like names and believes if he can't control, he can just kill a person and be done it. Jahad took it to the extreme, betraying and tyrannizing everyone to gratify his own ego. The only exception was V, who grew closer to other people instead.
• Feuding Families: For all that their founders are companions who climbed the Tower together, they certainly like their feuds. When one of them finds a reason to hold a grudge, you can be certain they will hold the damn thing for as long as they can: for instance, the Khun and Ha families do not get along, and neither do the Eurasia and Po Bidau families. There are hints that the competition among the Princesses of Jahad devolved into an undeclared proxy war among the Great Families and that it drove them apart.
• The Ghost: The majority of the Family Heads are residing in their residences and are not active in the public; SIU has noted it is a very, very rare occurrence for one of them to speak directly to their family members.
• Immune to Fate: Mortal Seers are unable to predict the futures of Jahad and the Ten Great Warriors. They are still subject to any destiny set by God, but King Jahad is starting to become powerful enough to resist even that.
• Large and in Charge: Jahad and his Ten Warriors are all said to be very large and bulky; this is best seen when the real Jahad appears in the Hidden Floor, towering over his younger self and Bam.
• Mythical Motifs: According to Word of God, the Great Warriors are broadly based on the Greek Pantheon. Several of the Family Heads seem direct counterparts to those gods under Jahad as Zeus:
  • Dionysus to Khun Edahn. According to SIU, Edahn's hedonistic, excessive, and womanizing ways were directly inspired by Dionysus.
  • Hestia to Yeon Hana. Hestia is a celibate goddess of the hearth, fire, and domesticity. Hana is considered the greatest Hwayeonsa in the Tower, is a virgin that eschews all romantic relationships, and is known for being an extremely kind & gentle person.
  • Ares to Arie Hon. Ares, the Greek god of war is also the god of brutality and bloodlust. Arie Hon similarly is driven by the love of fighting and killing as the Blood Knight of the Family Heads.
  • Hephaestus to Tu Perie Tperie. Hephaestus is the god of blacksmiths and craftsmen who, among other things, made the chariot that Helios uses to bring the Sun across the sky. Meanwhile, of all the Great Warriors, Tperie is the one that works alongside the blacksmiths of the Workshop and in fact personally crafted Opera, the three most powerful Lighthouses in the Tower.
  • Artemis to Lo Po Bia Traumerei. Artemis is the goddess of wild animals and the hunt. Traumerei is the greatest Anima in the Tower, with the ability to control all Shinheuh and animals within. Moreover, the hunting dog is a symbol of Artemis, while the Canine people are strongly tied to the Lo Po Bia family.
• Might Makes Right: Although the Tower has never been a happy, pain-free place of easy choices and quick rewards, there are more than a few elephant-sized hints that the really sucky dog-eat-dog, power-based pyramid scam of a society we come to know through Bam and company is entirely down to them and their choices, rather than being intrinsic to the structure. Considering they made the system...
• Nigh-Invulnerable: Per their contracts with the Floor Guardians, none of them can be harmed by inhabitants of the Tower.^note This actually only applies to Jahad. A better term to describe the Ten Great Warriors would be that they're (considered) "invincible" rather than 'invulnerable'. Irregulars, not being natives of the Tower, are exempt from the contract and are able to kill Jahad.
• One-Man Army: All of them as the most powerful Rankers in existence are capable of this: Jahad was known for having defeated FUG's strongest forces by himself so badly that it forces FUG to stop the first war with the Empire. Gustang was deemed to be fully capable of annihilating Madoraco and his business from the face of the Tower. Even the presumed weakest of them, Lo Po Bia Traumerei, is deemed capable of annihilating the forces of FUG on the Nest.
• Really 700 Years Old: Probably among the oldest in the Tower.
• Retired Badass: None of them are active in the public. They don't even appear to leave their homes anymore as they have no reason to.
• The Runaway: One of the stories about how they got into the Tower paints them as defeated remnants of a war desperately fleeing the consequences of their defeat. It's implied they somehow worked out how to disappear by going inside a place none could easily follow.
• Superpowerful Genetics: Physical similarities vary, but there's a recurring pattern of Great Family members inheriting the skills of the Family Heads. The Ha family has Yurin's physical strength, the Khun family has Edahn's cunning, electricity, and sometimes ice skills, the Yeon family has Hana's flames (they are born from her kin, after all), the Lo Po Bias and their Animas...
• Villain Takes an Interest: As revealed in the recent arc, the Family Heads have been aware of Bam as the new Irregular and his capabilities. Currently, most of them are all on the side of letting Bam continue, some even wishing to protect him.

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The King

Jahad

Jahad

Tower Position: Fisherman

Rank: 3

Occupation: King of the Tower; Ruler of the 134th Floor

Sobriquet: King of the Tower

King of the Tower

^{CLICK to see his Young Hidden Floor Data Appearance}

I was the first one to climb the Tower. I was the greatest Fisherman in battle. And I pioneered a civilization of mutual understanding among the people of the Tower. But you probably know me best by a different word. The word... "King."

Jahad is the famed "King of the Tower" and the most famous and greatest being within, akin to a god to the Tower's inhabitants. Long ago, he entered the Tower with his Ten Great Warriors and built the Jahad Empire, gaining control of the 134 Floors from the Guardians. He is the first to form a contract with a Guardian, and became King through these contracts. This conquest is known as "The Great Journey". He is lord of the Jahad family, whose Princesses are powerful females endowed with his blood and are among "the most powerful kind" in the Tower. It must be noted, however, that none of them are related to him by blood, as Jahad has no spouse or heir^note however, more and more people await the birth of his "only son".

Jahad is currently resting, leaving the affairs of ruling to the Three Lords and his daughters, although it is believed that when Jahad is on the move again, the 135th Floor will be conquered.

His death is the longed-for wish of the famed criminal syndicate FUG, however, none chosen by the Tower can harm him.

His younger self was the ruler of the Hidden Floor, entrusted with a bracelet that was the key to defeating him. At the climax of the arc, before the floor is deleted, Jahad attempts to retrieve it, but it is stolen by Gustang's invisible manta ray given to Rachel. Perhaps as a consequence of seeing evidence that Gustang is plotting against him, Jahad issues an order to kill the entire Poe Bidau family.

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• The Ace: Jahad's name is associated with power and prestige across the Tower. He pioneered most of the Tower's present culture, and he is currently the most powerful active Ranker.
• Ambition is Evil: His destiny was to become a king that stands above all others, which translated in the modern day to becoming a cruel and ruthless tyrant.
• Ambiguously Evil: Played with, in that while Jahad's definitely gone off the deep end as King, manipulating and deceiving his subjects as well as allowing deaths and tragedies to occur to maintain his Empire, whether or not he is a Well-Intentioned Extremist who genuinely believes what he's doing is the right thing, even if it means keeping the Tower in a period of stagnancy forever if he could and preventing any further climb into the Tower, or if he is being a tyrant who lashes out at the world because he couldn't get his happy ending is still debatable. What muddles matters further is the fact that he didn't just outright kill Bam when he could have easily done so in the Hidden Floor, and instead chose to let him live for now, even stating he's taking the bracelet Bam came for to clarify his potential, and rather than ordering his death when Traumerei asked him to, Jahad allows him to test Bam, seemingly fine with allowing him to join the Empire if Bam is willing.
• Archnemesis Dad:
  • He is implied to have in some way fathered Ja Wangnan and Karaka, both of whom want him dead.
  • A few of his adopted daughters among the Princesses of Jahad are not fond of him either.
• Badass Boast: Gives one to Khel Hellam and his companions, right before personally kicking their asses.
  Jahad: I was the first one to climb the Tower. I was the greatest Fisherman in battle, and I pioneered a civilization of mutual understanding among the people of this Tower. But you probably know me best by a different word. The word... King.
• Became Their Own Antithesis: In his youth, he sought out adventure, accepted Because Destiny Says So, and wanted to make everyone happy. Nowadays, he spends most of his time in solitary hibernation, is attempting to gain enough power to Screw Destiny, and either wants everyone to suffer or is content to leave the minority, even if it amounts to thousands, to struggle and die for his own beliefs of the greater good.
• Big Bad: He is the main reason the Tower is a Crapsack World, and many people believe God chose Bam to kill him.
• Blood Magic: The process to make a Princess of Jahad involves his blood, and the rings Karaka and Wangnan have are both suggested by SIU to be made of clotted blood.
• Bold Explorer: Before he became obsessed with being a tyrannical king, he enjoyed exploring and identified as an adventurer.
• Broken Ace: He was The Hero of his story, only to fail to get the type of ending that he wanted and refuse to move on.
• Chekhov's Skill: A Loophole Abuse. He essentially can use the Flare Wave Explosion (a melee killing technique) at long range by vibrating the shinsu in the air instead of in the victim's body.
• Deadpan Snarker: The few appearances he's made in the story has him surprisingly show some darkly dry humor unexpected for someone of his status, notably mocking his data for not knowing he was imperfect and controlled by him the entire time and also Hwang for never knowing he was opening the way for him to enter the Hidden Floor, and taunting Khel Hellam for his arrogance over his ability to see fate, calling him a blind fool.
• Deep Sleep: Said to be "hibernating". However, it's unclear whether or not he was really sleeping or just keeping a low profile, as it is rumored he interfered in the Anne Jahad incident and he has been stated to have ordered Anak's execution, along with being quick to interfere with Bam's escapades in the Hidden Floor.
• Deer in the Headlights: Not himself, but he appears to be able to cause this to any Princess of Jahad, causing Maschenny and Endorsi to freeze and become unresponsive when they see him.
• Dystopia Justifies the Means: A possible interpretation for the way he rules in the present can be this, attributed due to a deep bitterness and despair over his situation. He was once The Hero of his own story, but he did not get the ending that he wanted, and refuses to move on. Fate coerced him into becoming king when he preferred being a Bold Explorer, whatever happened with the 135th Floor meant he could not finish the climb, he Did Not Get the Girl and murdered her child with his own hands, only for it to seal his fate as God declares he will be killed by Bam. If King Jahad cannot be happy, then why should anyone else be?
• Evil All Along: It is becoming increasingly apparent as the story progresses that FUG might not be entirely in the wrong in their desire to kill Jahad. Jahad, the King of the Tower, created the system by which Regulars can climb the Tower to obtain their greatest desire, does not appear be the Good Guy as we were originally led to believe and actually is the cause of a lot of the death and conflict in the upper echelons of the Rankers.
• Fallen Hero: Maybe. The data version of Yu Hansung mentions that the Jahad on the outside has turned his back on loyalty and justice, and Edahn, one of his companions, thinks the data Jahad is fake because of how out of character he is acting. The God of Guardians also stated that the reason Jahad wanted power and the mantle of king was to make the Tower a place where everyone can be happy. On his "becoming a king", he also states that it is his destiny, whether he likes it or not. All of this implies that originally, Jahad was someone who genuinely could be called a hero, a worthy chosen of the Tower, but something happened to him that changed his personality.
• Fangs Are Evil: One of his characteristics.
• Fighting a Shadow: Bam's first meeting with the real him is with a small fragment of his power, and he promptly gets nearly killed as Jahad immediately attempts to break his neck. He very nearly succeeded too, if the Thorn had not tried to forcibly take Bam away.
• A God Am I: He prefers the word, "King", but the way he brags about and emphasizes it amounts to the same attitude.
• God-Emperor: He is a Physical God, holds absolute power over the Tower, and is often a subject of worship by the Tower's government. When he gives orders, they are treated as a divine oracle delivered via a religious ceremony.
• Godhood Seeker: He is attempting to take control of fate so that he can Screw Destiny his fate to be killed by Bam.
• Greater-Scope Villain: A prophecy suggests Bam is meant to slay him, but Jahad has yet to get personally get involved in the plot. Nevertheless, most of the misery and conflict in the tower can be attributed to his actions. He finally starts to become active after the events of the Hidden Floor.
• Hidden Depths: While initially coming off as cool-headed, coldly authoritative and distant, even uncaring to his former companions, Jahad in his youth was an "adventure freak" as well as a Blood Knight. There are also hints that he does not like his fate to be king of the Tower, but accepted it anyway.
• Interspecies Adoption: Jahad's Princesses aren't related to him; they're all adoptive daughters. So far we know of multiple humans, a horned humanoid and a lizard-girl, though we have no context for what species Jahad is.
• Kung-Fu Wizard: He's infamous for being both a sublime hand-to-hand combatant and a magnificent user of the shinsu. Even his regular self already shows this, mixing up both incredible hand-to-hand combat skills and strong shinsu techniques, and it's good enough to put Bam on the ropes for much of their fight.
• The Magnificent: King of the Tower, for obvious reasons.
• Magic Knight: He wouldn't be the greatest Fisherman in the Tower if he isn't this big time. Back in his Regular days, he uses Lecalicus and, in addition to his aforementioned incredible shinsu skills, he also uses Lecalicus to channel powerful shinsu attacks and can even wield it like a blade normally with ease, matching Bam's shinsu with the needle. If his adult-self carrying blade-like weapons is of any indication, he's kept that skill and it's probably gotten a lot stronger, though we haven't seen his blade skills as the King yet.
• Motive Decay: There was once a time when King Jahad wanted to go on adventures and bring happiness to everyone in the Tower. Nowadays, he's focused on making everyone else suffer like him and overpowering God to Screw Destiny.
• One-Man Army: Khel Hellam's team was the strongest of FUG and quite numerous when they challenged Jahad.... And Jahad single-handedly massacred or captured all of them but Khel Hellam.
• Physical God: The real Jahad is a nearly perfect being that flows with divine power, is near-immortal, and is the subject of worship throughout the Tower. He is even starting to approach the point where he can control fate, much like God itself.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: Oh hell yes. Even prior to entering the Tower, he was challenged by Arie Hon, the strongest of his companions ten times. He won every single time, which is why Hon follows him. He was firmly #1 in the Rankings, and it was only after an Irregular killed a Floor Guardian and his own inactivity that has put him in third. Even still, a mere fragment of his power is still capable of freezing the data versions of his younger self, the ruler of the Hidden Floor, and Khun Edahn, as well as rendering Bam completely immobile.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning / Supernatural Gold Eyes: Beneath his mask, his eyes are an ominous red mixed with gold. Initially, it seemed his eyes were red, however, SIU changed it slightly to be gold, turning redder when he becomes "serious".
• Shrouded in Myth: Sleeping for ages does mean most people know nothing about you beyond tales.
• Single-Target Sexuality: As stated by Garam Jahad, Jahad has loved one woman alone and that is Arlen Grace. No matter how beautiful a Jahad Princess is or what their personality is like, he has absolutely no interest in marrying them and his love for Arlen leads him to use means to ensure no Princesses can ever become his bride.
• Screw Destiny: Once upon a time, he believed that if he was destined to do something, he had to go through with it. But now, as he becomes more and more like God, while he isn't completely opposed to his fate to fight Bam, he is also taking measures to have Bam killed before it can happen.
• Seers: He has the ability to observe fate from almost the same height as God.
• Slasher Smile: When Jahad gets excited about an opponent, he shows his teeth.
• Spell My Name With An S: Zahard or Jahad? The official LINE translation goes with the latter, but the fanbase is more attached to the former.
• Storm of Blades: Jahad's opening move against Hellam has him summon up to 14 large pieces of golden needles, which is the same technique we saw his data use, only at an entirely different level.
• Third Eye: His crest is the Red Three Eyes, which he also wears as a mask. However, Jahad himself does not have a third eye.
• Utopia Justifies the Means: According to the "God" of guardians, Jahad originally became king in order to make the Tower a place where everyone can be happy. Needless to say, this didn't work out, and either he now believes in Dystopia Justifies the Means or he's following a much more twisted and hardened version where he prevents any further climb and does keep the people of the Tower as united as he could but is more than willing to make thousands die or suffer for it for what he believes to be the greater good, which is why the guardian warns Bam when the latter asks to become a god.
• Uncanny Family Resemblance: The Princesses kind of gain a cheap, twisted and very Lamarckian knock-off of this, since a lot of their oomph seems to either reflect or piggyback on his various deals and agreements with the Tower in some Blood Magic way. But, they have nothing on just how much Ja Wangnan and Karaka resemble the data copy of the young future king in a lot of key respects (that Healing Factor, ability to bleed a bathtub without collapsing, epic-class stubbornness and no-holds-or-tricks-barred battling style suddenly make sense as a combo) beyond just looks. About the looks: yeesh! Heck, not wanting to see his dad in any and every reflection probably explains the reptilian mask Karaka insists on wearing most of the time. It's not like decorative scarring is much of an option for his actual kids.
• Unrequited Love Lasts Forever: It's all but confirmed that Jahad never fell out of love with Arlen, even after she had refused his marriage proposal, ran off with V, who was heavily indicated to have always been his Archenemy even back when they were still comrades, created the organization that will forever oppose his Empire, and then had a child with V. While his murder of the child was very obviously out of rage and spite, he never killed her himself and it was indicated he may have been willing to let her stay hidden after beating her and V in the war. His words to Bam about him being Arlen's son and his actions of refusing to marry anyone else only further confirm that Jahad never moved on from Arlen romantically.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Well, "sweet" is perhaps overstating things, but young Jahad shows nothing even remotely close to the tyranny and evil he displays in the current day and age. He was more focused on adventure and fighting than anything else. SIU noted that if it weren't for their destiny, Jahad in his youth and Bam would have gotten along extremely well, comparing the relationship to Wangnan and his changing of Bam when he was still acting as Viole.
• Villain Respect:
  • The data version of him shows some towards Khun Maschenny Jahad's fighting spirit.
  • The data version of him also shows some to Bam when Bam fights him to a stalemate. Their fight comes to remind him of how much he enjoyed adventuring, and he gives Bam a key to help him defeat the real Jahad in the hope that Bam can give the real him the thrill of adventure as well.
• Virtue Is Weakness: He sees being a King as being an existence that stands above and separate from others, and sees being a monster as the requirement to do so. He erased both his enemies and his closest friends, and claims to have forgotten Arlene Grace for this reason.
• Winds of Destiny, Change!: He informs his Data self that he now sees cause and effect from the same height as God, and is starting to become powerful enough to control fate.
• Yandere: He had a crush on Arlene Grace, but she chose a man called V instead and opposed Jahad's rule. Bam merely mentioning her name to his data self causes him to clam up briefly, before demanding to know who Bam is and threatening to kill him. Jahad had her child killed in front of her after she and V betrayed him and founded FUG, and it was stated he did so in a particularly brutal manner, making it clear he was driven by fury and heartbreak. In the current era, Jahad seems to have calmed down tremendously, remarking that "Fate is really toying with us" when he meets Bam, and didn't seem particularly relishing over the fact he gets to kill him once more, treating the whole affair as just business rather than a personal vendetta, and he even seems to attempt to comfort Bam, calmly asking Bam to rest in peace as he will send all his friends and everyone he ever met to him once he's killed them personally. He still appears to carry a torch for Arlene, however, calling her "the woman I loved more than anyone".
• You Can't Fight Fate: Something he once believed in, whether he wanted to obey his Fate or not. However, he is starting to become powerful enough to control it himself.

Ten Great Warriors

Arie Hon

Arie Hon

Tower Position: Fisherman

Rank: 5

Occupation: Family Head; Ruler of the 100th Floor

Sobriquet: White Sword; White Oar

White Sword

Use your rage towards me as fuel and increase your power by burning and devouring the souls of the weak. Perhaps you're destined to fail and ultimately be incinerated but that is what you were born for. Don't deceive yourself. Give yourself over to the joys and pleasures of murder.

One of the warriors who accompanied Jahad during his conquest of the Tower, and founder of the noble Arie Family, the strongest family in the Tower. Not counting Jahad and the top Irregulars, he is the strongest High Ranker in the Tower and seen as the strongest of Jahad's Ten Great Warriors. His sobriquet White Sword refers to the White Oar, his sword that doesn't get hindered by dense Shinsu.

Hon is known to give special tests to Regulars who reach his floor, the 100th; only two known people have succeeded in passing one. Urek Mazino, whose task was to endure his attacks for 10 minutes although Urek went above and beyond by fighting Hon evenly, and his daughter, Arie Hagipherione Jahad who wields the Red October. Since fighting Urek, he has not fought a battle.

Perhaps ironically, he indirectly assisted in the founding of Wolhaiksong. Urek's reward for matching him in battle was control of one of the Floors he owned, and Urek later used the floor as the group's headquarters.

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• Abusive Parents: He's not exactly abusive, or at the very least not as much as Eduan, though comparing him to Eduan, the bar is pretty low, as it's shown he does interact with his children and watch over their training, but as pointed out by a family member of his, he may help/teach them but he isn't really emotionally attached to his children, being that as an immortal being of millennia of age, he sees them as just weak beings passing through time. Hon himself has no hesitation telling Hoaqin the darkness he saw in him and outright encourages him to fulfill it. Whether or not it was intended as a warning and giving him a chance to reconsider his life goals is still unknown.
• Always Someone Better:
  • Jahad. Hon had fought him numerous times and lost all of it, which is why he became Jahad's servant.
  • Urek Mazino. Despite being the strongest High Ranker, Urek, then a Regular, was capable of fighting evenly with him for ten minutes and was the first person to ever pass his test. However, Hon does not appear to mind being surpassed, having gracefully admitted after the fight that Urek is much better than him.
• Archnemesis Dad: Deliberately became this to Hoaqin and his siblings. Hoaqin once started as a nice kid who just wanted his dad to acknowledge him on the outside, but Hon saw through him and knew his obsession reached dark levels and delivered a speech that served as his Start of Darkness.
• The Corrupter: He is the one who told Hoaqin to become the monster he is today, encouraging him to give in to his murderous urges "until everything seems pointless one day". Word of God stated that he saw Hoaqin's future, meaning that he knew this would happen to Hoaqin.
• The Greatest Style: Notably, despite swords being a poor option on higher Floors, Arie Swordsmanship is described as having no blind spots and no poor matchups. As a result, the only way to definitely beat someone skilled in this style is overwhelming force or surprise.
• The Magnificent: White Sword/Oar, after his weapon.
• Master Swordsman: He's the leader of a family renowned for their swordsmanship; Hoaqin remarks that Hon was the most brilliant sword he had ever seen, and Gustang is of the opinion that he cannot be matched or reached by anyone.
• Named Weapons: Owns the White Oar, the only sword forged by Macseth and the only weapon in the Tower with the rank of S+. Warriors in the Tower say that the sword is "like an oarfish", a legendary White Steel Eel.
• Retired Badass: While to a degree this applies to all the Family Heads who are not active in the public, Hon has not fought anyone after he fought Urek.

Khun Edahn

Khun Edahn

Tower Position: Spear Bearer, Lightning User, Ice User

Rank: 6

Occupation: Family Head

Sobriquet: Marlin; Blue Thunderclap

Young Data Appearance

One of the Irregulars who entered the Tower with Jahad. He later became one of the Ten Family Heads, ruling and giving birth to numerous children. He himself is the greatest Spear Bearer in the Tower, and even in terms of melee combat abilities, he is among the strongest of the Ten Warriors along with the Heads of the Arie and Ha families. He truly is the God of Spears.

—Sachi Faker

Head of the Khun Family, one of the Ten Great Families, and also the father of numerous children from the Khun Family, such as Khun Aguero Agnes. His family is known to be one of the greatest in the Tower, acknowledged to be one of the few equals to the great Arie family. Before Enryu appeared, he was the strongest Spear Bearer in the Tower.

Edahn also has a younger data version of himself within the Hidden Floor that is working against the data of Jahad.

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• Abusive Parents: He is infamous for being absolutely callous towards the welfare of his children. Khun Aguero Agnis intends to change this by ousting his father through a duel.
• Always Someone Better: Despite being friendly with Arie Hon, he resents him a little for being ranked higher. He also wants to fight Urek Mazino for pushing him out of the top five Rankers. Lastly, despite being considered the "God of Spears," he lost the title of the Tower's greatest Spear Bearer to Enryu.
• Archnemesis Dad: To Aguero Agnes, who seeks to take his position as Family Head.
• Blood Knight: Known for taking delight in fighting. It is said that Edahn wishes to fight Urek Mazino for pushing him out of the top 5.
• The Casanova: He's famous for his lewdness and possesses the most wives of any of the Ten Family Heads. Fittingly, the Khun family has the largest number of kids introduced so far in the series, and it's said to be among the largest of the Ten.
• The Collector: He's said to have a veritable treasure of exotic and precious things - that Khun plundered before going off to climb the Tower.
• Decadent Court: His family is this. Court? They're one of the Ten Great Families, which pretty much translates as being the Tower's high nobility. Decadent? As stated, TGF - they're loaded. Deadly? Again, TGF, but the Khun household takes the cake for this even among them (although the royal family may be a very close competitor). This guy fathered so many children that there are deadly competitions and factionalism among the siblings, and that's without mentioning the vicious competition among his army of wives. Khun himself is an example of someone who got the short end of the stick through one such event. Seriously, if the Khuns are everything the rumours say, they make the Ottoman imperial family look reasonable and stable.
• Feuding Families: Apparently, his descendants don't get along with the Ha Family. Whether this is because of some disagreement between the descendants or between Edahn and Yurin themselves has not been explained.
• Glowing Eyes: Unlike the rest of his family, his eyes seem to glow and emit blue electricity.
• The Hedonist: SIU stated he's inspired by Dionysus, and it shows: his love for wine, his womanizing, his laziness in dealing with family affairs... If he likes it, he will do it, and consequences be damned.
• An Ice Person: Curiously, he is an ice user despite being most famed for his electricity. Edahn notes that ice is an extremely rare ability, and possibly makes one suited for the role of Spear Bearer.
• Impossibly Cool Weapon: Mago. It is a compression-spear that, when expanded, is said to be able to "pierce half the Tower".
• Jerkass: See Let's You and Him Fight below. This may apply only to his current self, however; Aguero Agnes notes that if his data version could see his current self, he'd want to run away. It possibly runs in the family, as SIU has noted that the Khun family trait is that they are "douchebags".
• Let's You and Him Fight: He makes his "children" fight each other in "inhumane and bloody" fights to stay in the family, and is apparently uninterested in the results. He has also offered anyone who challenges him and wins "everything from the family".
• The Magnificent: Marlin, after his spear and Blue Thunderclap for his attribute of electricity (he was originally considered for Electric Eel as a sobriquet, but Edahn took offense to that). Boro also calls him "the God of Spears".
• Massively Numbered Siblings: Edahn has loads of kids; he is a serial skirt-chaser with literal thousands of years to spend pursuing the hobby, after all.
• Power Tattoo: Has one on his right arm. It glows when he uses shinsu.
• Seven Deadly Sins: Several:
  • Lust. Pretty clear from the other page tropes, but, if it's not obvious yet, Edahn enjoys getting laid. A lot.
  • Greed. Not for money, but he keeps some of the Tower's rarest and highest-ranking objects to himself. Manbarondenna, the case Khun had with him in Season 1, is one such case.
  • Sloth. Doesn't give a shit for his family's inner politics, and won't step in even when things get ridiculously bloody. "Deadbeat" is generosity.
  • Pride. One of the Ten Great Warriors. Do I have to explain anything?
  • Envy. He resents the fact that Arie Hon and Urek Mazino are both higher ranked than him. Mind you, he is still in the top ten.
• Shock and Awe: Has the ability to use turn shinsu into electricity, which is the root of his second sobriquet, "Blue Thunderclap".
• Strong Family Resemblance: Virtually every single Khun family member introduced so far whose head was shown inherited his blue hair and eyes. Aguero, Ran, Maschenny, Hachuling, Kiseia, Royale and Hynd all look an awful lot like him. The only two exceptions are Icardi (whose face was never shown) and Asensio, whose hair is a slightly darker blue than the others.

Ha Yurin

Ha Yurin

Tower Position: Scout, Fisherman

Rank: 10

Occupation: Family Head

Sobriquet: Snakehead

Snakehead

Yuri, you've been chosen to be one of Jahad's princesses. Princesses receive great power and adoration at the expense of their happiness. You have to be willing to fight to the death for the sake of the Jahad family, and can't ever run away. You will be exposed to unending danger, but you can't ever show fear. And even if you fall in love with someone, you can't ever marry them. Do you think you can handle it?

Head of the Ha Family and the first person in the tower to hold the Scout position.

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• Parental Favoritism: Ha Yuri Jahad is her favorite granddaughter, much to Ha Cheonhee's resentment. Enough so, that even after Ha Yuri gets caught betraying the Jahad Empire on behalf of FUG, Ha Yurin continues to stand by her, to the extent that Jahad's loyalists fear she will rebel.
• Super-Toughness: Her descendants have a reputation for being very durable.

Tu Perie Tperie

Tu Perie Tperie

Tower Position: Light Bearer

Rank: 11

Occupation: Family Head

Sobriquet: God's Eye

The Heavens gave me the Eyes of God.

Head of the Tu Perie Family and the first Light Bearer in the Tower's history. After Jahad and the Ten Family Heads stopped climbing the Tower, Tperie worked closely with the Workshop to construct numerous items. The most famous of their creations are the three Opera Lighthouses, the greatest Lighthouses in the Tower.

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• Ambiguous Gender: It is not clear what gender Tperie identifies with.
• Family Business: They were the very first Light Bearer in the Tower's history, and their descendants have kept the legacy alive: the Tu Perie family remains at the central stage of Light Bearing to this very day.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Tperie worked in close proximity with the Workshop in numerous projects, including the three Opera Lighthouses that are unmatched in their field.
• The Ghost: As with all Family Heads save for Gustang, Traumerei, and Yurin (and Edahn, if you're being generous), Tperie has yet to make an appearance in the comic. Their family stands out, however, because not a single member of the family has even been named so far. Even the Hendrock family has a named character (Princess Gladmerry).
• Informed Attribute: They are known as one of the most active Family Heads, but haven't even been named in the story so far. Jarringly, this extends even for members of their family.
• Knowledge Broker: Possibly. The Opera Lighthouses they created are known for being a Light Bearer's ultimate dream. Tperie gifted Princess Repelista with one such item, and this is what she uses it for, being able to locate people pretty much anywhere in the Tower without ever bothering to climb it.
• Metaphorically True: Possibly. Tperie has been known to say that "the Heavens gave [them] the Eyes of God", those being their favourite Light House (and the origin of their sobriquet). However, it appears that this isn't what exactly happened, and perhaps is just a metaphor. No one really knows how they became a Light Bearer.
• Older Is Better: The very first Light Bearer and the highest-ranked one (although Adori Jahad uses a Carrier, a unique item that can act as a Lighthouse, Tperie is still the best pure Light Bearer).
• The Strategist: As a Light Bearer, this is a given. In fact, they were the ones who pioneered the current system in which Light Bearers serve as strategists and communications hubs for their teams.

Eurasia Blossom

Eurasia Blossom

Tower Position: Wave Controller

Rank: 13

Occupation: Family Head

Sobriquet: Flower Shrimp

Blossom is one of the greatest Wave Controllers in the Tower, but she cannot teach you anything. This is because she herself does not know how she controls Shinsu.

—Poe Bidau Gustang

Head of the Eurasia Family and the birth mother of Eurasia Anne Jahad.

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• 13 Is Unlucky: Ranked 13th in the Tower, and also the mother of the Princess of Jahad who became posterchild for the words "highly destructive insanity". It is said that things got so bad with her daughter that Jahad himself had to step in to solve the mess.
• Always Someone Better: She's this to Gustang, big time. He appears to have envied her effortless superiority his whole life.
• Amicable Exes: Yeah, no. Her split with Gustang is the reason behind the Feuding Families situation between them.
• Attack! Attack! Attack!: Unlike Gustang who's more adept to support roles, Eurasia is a highly offensive Wave Controller. It is said that she is so destructive that even the other Great Warriors look for shelter when she goes all out.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: She is described as somewhat lazy. Although she is one of the best Wave Controllers of the Tower, she has no idea how she does it, so learning from her is useless. This pretty much drives Gustang insane.
  • She's also said to be uninterested in politics, despite being one of the Tower's most powerful people. It is said that she doesn't even bother properly taking care of the Floors she owns, which has earned her the criticism of other Family Heads.
• Despair Event Horizon: Eurasia and Po Bidau Gustang had a daughter named Eurasia Anne, who grew up to become The Ace, one of the strongest Princesses of Jahad ever, who went insane after learning the cruel truth behind Jahad's schemes and was imprisoned. Anne's condition led to her parents splitting, and apparently hit Blossom hard enough that she gave up on the Princess of Jahad system entirely.
• Doting Parent: We have not seen how is her relationship with her other kids, but apparently she was sufficiently attached to her daughter Anne that it made her nearly go nuclear when Anne was imprisoned.
• Fantasy-Forbidding Parent: Downplayed in that she didn't forbid it, but Blossom saw it coming from a mile away that becoming a Princess wouldn't end up well for Anne, and was strongly opposed to it from the beginning. Kids, listen to your mothers: Anne didn't, and things went very south to her.
• Feuding Families: She didn't take the whole Anne thing very well; the Eurasia and Po Bidau families have been enemies ever since the incident. They also have a minor case of it with the royal family for the same reason; it is said that the Eurasia refuse to send their daughters to become Princesses of Jahad because of what happened to Anne.
• The Gift: It is said that she has immense natural talent in handling Shinsoo, similar to Bam. This is why she's not considered to be a competent teacher: she never had to learn how to do it, she just did it.
• Girly Bruiser: She is famous for loving flamboyant clothing, and also is the top Wave Controller of the Ten Great Warriors.
• Hard Work Hardly Works: She is legendarily lazy, but gifted to the point that manipulating Shinsoo is almost an instinct to her. Compare that to Gustang, immensely talented himself, but never as much as Blossom.
• Mama Bear: Oh hell yeah. Blossom reacted so strongly to what happened to Anne that she broke up with her father, Gustang, forbade marriages between their families and even withdrew the Eurasia family entirely from the Princess of Jahad competition, the sole of the Ten to do so.
• Red Baron: "Flower Shrimp", matching her taste in clothing.
• Strong and Skilled: As described above, Blossom's offensive power is absurdly high. But that's not all: she's also magnificently skilled at manipulating Shinsoo. Supposedly, her control is so refined she is able to kill most people in a place simply by accelerating the Shinsoo in the environment.
• Older Than They Look: Immortality and agelessness aside, she is said to have the appearance of a child.
• Only Sane Woman: She is the only one who saw how the whole Princess of Jahad competition is madness and withdrew her family from it entirely. Blossom was also strongly opposed to Anne becoming a Princess from the beginning - and, well, look at how that turned out. The competition as a whole is also said to be a source of great tension among the families. It seems the Eurasias dodged a bullet (or nuclear warhead, considering what kind of people the Princesses are).
• Pintsized Powerhouse: She's 155cm tall; compare that to the weaker Bloodmadder, who is more than 13 meters tall. That doesn't stop Blossom from being one of the Tower's finest Wave Controllers.
• Technician Versus Performer: The Brilliant, but Lazy Blossom is the performer to the analytical Gustang's technician, leading to more than a little bitterness from the latter.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Eurasia opposed Gustang's setting of the Princesses of Jahad system. She even opposed the idea of Anne becoming a Jahad Princess. After what happened to her daughter, Eurasia broke up with Gustang, and banned her family from entering marital alliances with the Po Bidau family.

Poe Bidau Gustang

Poe Bidau Gustang

Tower Position: Wave Controller

Rank: 14

Occupation: Family Head

Sobriquet: Aloof Wave

Aloof Wave

He's a bug that would be blown away if you exhaled. That would be crushed to death if you stepped. That could fly as high as possible and never reach even the soles of your shoes. Yes, you can give a name and feel affection for it, but a bug is still just a bug.

Head of the Poe Bidau Family and the first living being to systematically record Shinsu. Poe Bidau Gustang is the Tower’s most famous Wave Controller and writer. Excluding the eccentrics within The Workshop, he probably knows the most about The Tower. He was also the lover of Eurasia Blossom for a brief period, and is the father of the famous Princess Eurasia Anne Jahad.

Gustang is the founder of the Research Association, and all males of the family are required to become a member. If they do not succeed, they are kicked out of the family. However, because it is a very powerful and exclusive group, his family enjoys a great reputation and substantial power, on par with the Khun family. He is rumored to know a way out of the Tower.

While he was loyal to Jahad for some time, the modern era has seen him quietly working against him, eventually resulting in Jahad declaring war on his family.

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• Amicable Exes: Oh ho ho, not at all. Apparently, the end of his relationship with Blossom was acrimonious; she had been strongly opposed to Anne becoming a princess in the first place. Ever since the incident with their daughter, Blossom forbade any sort of marriage alliance between the Eurasias and the Po Bidaus.
• Anonymous Benefactor: Aids Viole and the gang during the Workshop Battle for unknown reasons, allowing them to keep Viole and the Thorn as well as officially winning the Workshop Battle much to the chagrin of the organizers, and not even the Rankers helping them knew he was there.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: After he broke up with Blossom and became something of a womanizer, his popularity with the ladies skyrocketed.
• Always Someone Better: Blossom. This is the driving issue of their relationship: he never got over the fact that she is the superior Wave Controller, and nearly effortlessly at that. His feelings for her are a mix of envy, admiration, and love, with envy apparently occupying the central place. There's even an idiom in the Tower, "Gustang looking at Blossom", that initially described a greatly talented person envying the even greater talents of someone else, but nowadays refers to a man and a woman who do not get along.
• Badass Bookworm: His whole thing. He is the Tower's greatest writer, a superb Wave Controller, a pioneer of Shinsoo research, and the founder of the Research Institute. It is said that only a few members of the Workshop know more about the Tower than Gustang.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: One of the best-dressed characters in the series.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: Ooooh, boy. He apparently held romantic feelings for Blossom while still envying her talent. While it's unknown how he feels about her after what happened to Anne, Blossom at least didn't take the whole thing well, and forbade her family members from marrying his. She's certainly belligerent.
• The Casanova: After splitting with Blossom, it is noted that he became something of a ladies' man. Some people said that he did it to forget Blossom.
• The Chessmaster: His exact motivations are unknown, but some suspect he is betraying the Ten Families. He made the floor of death the way it is now and has been subtly manipulating events, seemingly to aid Viole.
• Condescending Compassion:
  • Displays it towards White over the fact that he got cursed as a side effect of stealing souls, calling him a poor bug.
  • He stops Traumerei from going too far in decimating the forces of his family, even though he calls the people who died at Traumerei's hands "bugs".
• Curb-Stomp Battle: He decimates dozens of the ships of the Lo Po Bia Family without so much of a single scratch on his person and would have blown up the entire Mothership with Traumerei occupied had he not chosen to abandon it upon seeing Traumerei had left the Nest anyway to further proof just how overwhelmingly powerful a Family Head is.
• Curtains Match the Windows: Brown hair with even lighter brown eyes.
• Defector from Decadence: He originally sided with the rest of the Ten Great Families, but at some point, for reasons implied to involve what Jahad did to his favorite daughter, started working against Jahad.
• Despair Event Horizon: Although he shows it much less subtly than Blossom, it turns out that he too was hit hard by Blossom's sealing. Not only did his daughter get sealed because Jahad wanted to keep the secrets of the past with Arlene and V, but all his friends practically chose to turn a blind eye mostly towards the people of the Tower and only cared about maintaining their relationships, essentially stagnating themselves. This is the core reason why Gustang chose to betray Jahad and the Family Heads and is backing up Bam, having grown embittered towards how far his friends had fallen and how much they support stagnancy.
• The Dreaded: Simply his presence alone utterly intimidates Madoraco into stopping his attempts to help Karaka.
• Driven by Envy: Was very interested in Eurasia Blossom because she was able to control Shinsu naturally, and was extremely envious of her talent.
• Feuding Families: With the Eurasia Family. The whole Anne Jahad incident soured things between them.
• Goggles Do Something Unusual: Gustang wears his glasses to better read the flow of Shinsu.
• Hoist by Their Own Petard: He was the architect of the Princesses of Jahad selection. Said selection ended up driving his daughter insane, causing his split with Blossom, and creating enmity between their two families. Not to mention how the viciousness of the competition ended up becoming a source of problems between the Ten Families. It's all but stated from how he spoke of Enne and the impact it had on furthering the stagnancy of the Tower and his friends that the fact that the system he suggested ended up being used by Jahad in such a manner was the main reason between his defection from Jahad's side.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: Socially only, but Jahad ordered the destruction of the Po Bidau family after the Hell Train saga. As of now, Gustang is a fugitive.
• Insufferable Genius: He is a close friend of the Gong Bang, exchanges stories with Macseth, pioneered the research of shinsu, and founded the Research Association. He also looks down on everyone who isn't a Ranker and casts out any member of his family who does not succeed in becoming a member of the Research Association. However, he has made an exception for Bam, saying that he may be capable of standing with the Ten Family Heads and Urek. See Condescending Compassion.
• The Magnificent: Known as the "Aloof Wave", perhaps owing to his quiet, reserved appearance. If this refers to his personality, he can be somewhat meddlesome when he wants to.
• Man of Wealth and Taste: The Workshop organizer, Madoraco, even comments it's hard not to notice who he is based on the expensive cigarettes he smokes.
• Noodle Incident: Gustang was rumored to know about an exit that led to the mysterious Outside world. Urek visited him, but came out disgruntled. He complained that digging his way out of the Tower with a spoon is easier than learning anything from Gustang.
• The Paragon Always Rebels: As one of the Ten Great Warriors, Gustang is one of the codifiers of the current Tower culture, and he and his family are among the highest nobility the Empire can offer. Still, he is plotting against Jahad, which the king did notice: the Po Bidaus were branded criminals after the Hell Train saga and their destruction ordered to be carried out by the royal army.
• Playing with Fire: He seems to prefer the use of fire shinsu, and it's strong enough to blow up entire ships of the Lo Po Bia Family, kill two of their strongest Branch Heads, and even burn away the creatures Traumerei personally commanded.
• Pitiful Worms: Considers most people to be nothing but bugs.
• The Professor: Is in charge of researching everything there is to know about the Tower.
• Shrouded in Myth: Whatever is the truth of his relationship with Blossom, only they know. That doesn't stop countless rumours sprouting in the Tower about the two, most of them fake. Apparently, they are like the Tower's equivalent of Brangelina, with a lot more bloodshed and resentment involved.
• Smug Super: He is completely dismissive of lesser beings, referring to them as bugs and considering them utterly irrelevant to the scheme of things.
• Technician Versus Performer: While Gustang was the first person to systematically record Shinsu (and founder of the Tower's Research Association), the extremely lazy and extravagant Blossom is his eternal superior when it comes to Shinsu control.
• White Mage: Refers to himself as an expert of science and medicine, and he functioned as a supportive Wave Controller contrasting his one-time lover Blossom, an offensive Wave Controller.

Hendrock Bloodmadder

Hendrock Bloodmadder

Tower Position: Defender

Rank: 16

Occupation: Family Head

Sobriquet: Long-Life Turtle

If you give your children and your children's children the curse of a short life, you alone will be able to live an eternal life through the life you've taken from them.

—100th Floor Guardian

The head of the Hendrock Family and the first person to hold the special position of Defender in the Tower. As a reward for passing its test, the Guardian of the 100th Floor offered Jahad and the Ten Great Warriors the gift of immortality. However, Hendrock Bloodmadder was the only one excluded from this gift. The reasons behind this exclusion are still a mystery.

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• Abusive Parent: He uses his kids' lives as fuel to keep himself immortal. It is said that he sires numerous children in order to do so. Edahn almost seems nice in comparison.
• Bash Brothers: His position is "Defender", a position that specializes in protecting Light and/or Spear Bearers in battle. It is said that when Bloodmadder teamed up with Edahn, they were unstoppable.
• Cast from Lifespan: Not his - his children's. In order for Bloodmadder to keep his immortality, those who inherit his blood are cursed with short lifespans. This is why the Hendrock family has so many adopted members, as the true-blooded kids don't live long.
• Four Is Death: He is ranked 16 (4x4), and his direct descendants are cursed with short lifespans in order for Bloodmadder to keep on living.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Not Bloodmadder himself, as far as it is known, but his direct descendants. While they are one of the Ten Great Families and receive all the respect that comes with the title, the curse of their short lifespans is well-known, and thus they are avoided as marriage partners. They often have to hide their backgrounds in order to get married. In the family, this is so common that it has a name: "deceptive marriage".
• In the Blood: Same deal as the other families, but only applying to the blood-related descendants: those who carry his blood are said to have high Shinsoo resistance. As a whole, the Hendrock family boasts the highest defensive power of the Ten.
• Ironic Name: His sobriquet is "Long-Life Turtle". He was the only one of the Ten who was not granted absolute immortality by the 100th Floor Guardian, and thus has to steal the lifespans of his children to keep on living.
• Massively Numbered Siblings: Because his kids are pretty much the fuel of his immortality, he had to keep siring them in order to continue living. This is why the Hendrock family is the largest of the Ten; counting the adopted members, there are more of them than even the Khuns.
• Mortality Phobia: Although he felt conflicted over the Guardian's offer of cursing his family members in order to keep on living, he accepted it anyway. He was that scared of dying.
• The Patriarch: Unlike some of the other families who are more loose, the Hendrock family is governed by a rigid set of ironclad rules that all members obey, and one of the rules is that Bloodmadder's position in the family is absolute.
• Spell My Name With An S: Hendrock or Hendo Lok?
• The Unreveal: Why didn't the Guardian grant him immortality like the other Warriors?
  • According to SIU, Bloodmadder and Yu Hansung are connected in some deep, mysterious way. If this will play a part in the plot in the future is unknown, but, given Hansung's relevance, it is likely.

Yeon Hana

Yeon Hana

Tower Position: Fisherman, Wave Controller, Flame User

Rank: 17

Occupation: Family Head

Sobriquet: Cichlid

You want me to teach you how to control fire? What kinda nonsense is that? From the day they are born, the Yeon Family is... flame itself.

—Unknown Hwayeomsa

The leader of the Yeon Family. Hana is known to be the most beautiful among the Ten Family Heads. Despite being the Family leader, none of the children born to the Yeon family have her blood. They are instead born to Ilarde, an old fellow family member of Hana.

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• Beware the Nice Ones: Despite being one of the gentlest of the Ten Warriors, she's scary when pissed; supposedly she is even worse than famously temperamental Ha Yurin when truly angered.
  • There's also the fact that the Yeon family is responsible for artificially manufacturing the rarity of the Zygaena flowers so they can profit. While it's not known if Hana is personally behind such an operation or even aware of it, she's still the head of the family, with no indication of a higher authority than her among them. This is a theme among the Ten Great Families: no matter how nice they may seem, they are still involved in some seriously dirty businesses.
• Broken Pedestal: Not Hana specifically, but the Yeon family as a whole for Ehwa; after discovering that her family is manipulating the Zygaena population to make money off its flowers, she is forced to admit that they aren't as squeaky clean as they'd like to appear, and grows somewhat disillusioned with the family as a result.
• Flower Motifs: In-universe, as the Zygaena flower is the crest of the family.
• Magic Knight: As both a Fisherman and a Wave Controller, she's skilled in both melee combat (probably with a needle) and in Shinsoo manipulation.
• Nice Girl: By all accounts, her reputation as a misandrist is undeserved, as she is considered to be the kindest of the Ten, gentle to everyone.
• Playing with Fire: The Yeon family is famous for its flames, and Hana is, fittingly, the Tower's highest-ranked (known) user of flame Shinsoo.
• Red Baron: Like all High Rankers, she received a sobriquet, "Cichlid".
• Silk Hiding Steel: Nice she may be, but she's still one of Ten Great Warriors and is dangerous when angered.
• Single-Target Sexuality: Either that or outright asexuality. According to one of SIU's blog posts, rumour goes in the Tower that Hana never chose to be with anyone because of someone she broke up with long ago, but could never forget. Considering that the Jahad Empire is dozens of thousands of years old and yet Hana never had a single relationship, this is some serious dedication.
• World's Most Beautiful Woman: Maybe not the world's - or Tower's -, but Hana is famous for being the most beautiful of the Ten Great Warriors.

Ari Han

Ari Han

Tower Position: ?

Rank: High Ranker

Occupation: Family Head

The Ari Family will do whatever we can to prevent war.

—Ari Bright Sharon

The leader of the Han Family. Had twins with Ha Yurin, the matriarch of the Ha family, daughters that continuously fight each other for the position of Ha Family heir. Not to be mistaken for Arie Hon.

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• Out of Focus: Among the Great Warriors, he's the only one whose position remains unknown (and, along with the Lo Po Bia Family Head, the only one whose rank is unknown). All we really know about him is that he had two kids with Ha Yurin out of wedlock; his family is generally known to be pacifistic; and that one of the Three Lords (that rule the Tower while Jahad is inactive) is his son.

Lo Po Bia Traumerei

Lo Po Bia Traumerei

Tower Position: Anima

Rank: High Ranker

Occupation: Family Head

From now on...you are my pet.

The leader of the Lo Po Bia Family. Known as the best Anima in the Tower and said to be capable of controlling every kind of creature, even humans. Out of the Ten Family Leaders, he is noted to be the most enthusiastically loyal to Jahad.

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• All-Powerful Bystander: He is stated to have the ability to destroy the FUG army attacking the Nest, but when he arrives, he doesn't get involved immediately and simply tells his subjects to bring Bam to him and kill the enemies.
• Ambiguously Human: Granted, the Tower's definition of "human" is flexible, but when seen in a flashback, he appears to have animal ears.
• Amnesia Missed a Spot: He's been storing bad memories into Leviathan, and it's heavily indicated those memories include the ones he had with Arlene and V, but it's made clear from his reactions to betrayal and nightmares that while the memories are suppressed, he does retain a vague sense of awareness as to what they are, and he definitely retains strong feelings of anger and bitterness at Arlene and V, even if he doesn't remember who they are.
• Animal Motifs: The Lo Po Bia family has twenty branch families, each named after one of the Family Head's personal beasts. Kaiser, for instance, belongs to the Grey Wolf branch.
• Arc Villain: Of The Nest arc.
• The Beastmaster: The specialty of him and his family. This guy is the Anima in the Tower. He commands 7 almighty beasts himself.
• Berserk Button: His is betrayal of any kind. Indeed, he actually breaks his professional and standoffish attitude to be angry when Wangwang shows hints of considering it, and any consideration he may have had to spare Wangwang vanished when Wangwang activated his power. Later on, he makes it clear that he was angered by Yasratcha lying to him about Wangwang's sons being alive as being more that he is furious that Yasratcha committed a betrayal rather than the fact they are still alive.
• Bullying the Dragon: He is subjected to this by Yasratcha, who doesn't hesitate to mock and blame him for everything that happened with Wangwang and spares no effort in making clear how he hated Traumerei and wants to defy him. Needless to say, while he thinks little of Yasratcha's threats, Yasratcha's attitude does irritate him, and when he does attack Yasratcha, he makes sure to repay the bullying part by not even standing up in handling Yasratcha as if saying he's not even worth it. In fact, he ends their fight by tricking Yasratcha into an illusion to display Yasratcha isn't nearly as safe from Traumerei as he expected, giving him a slight mockery about how he failed, and then coldly leaving him near death.
• Control Freak: This appears to be his primary thought process. He is utterly convinced that the native beings of the Tower should be under his control. If they resist him, he will not hesitate to kill them, even if at certain times he may display some emotion towards them, as Wangwang and Yasratcha find out the hard way.
• Cruel Mercy:
  • He forces Wangwang to be painfully stabbed and attacked by the Canines if he is to spare his children. At least he does honor that agreement by leaving it to Yasratcha... Too bad Yasratcha has other intentions.
  • He lets Yasratcha live despite his betrayal and costing him Wangwang and even grants him his family name and transfer into Jahad's Army.... But as it turns out, those things were no gifts at all. Rather, the reason he lets Yasratcha live is more because he decides killing him wouldn't do anything and wouldn't let him have his loyal pet dog back and doing that would just release Yasratcha from the heartbreak and pain he felt, so he grants him "freedom", but that "gift" is, in the end, a not so subtle final punishment and kick from him, forcing him into living forever haunted by the fact he led his friend to death and that he failed to obtain his greatest desire.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • He very swiftly ends his fight with Nen Neya by summoning a beast far stronger than her Ancient can possibly beat and then just fires a single green spear to kill her quite brutally.
  • When Khun challenges him to a game of chess to hold him off from interfering in Bam's escape, as Traumerei is the best among the Great Warriors in that game, even more so than Gustang, the Lo Po Bia Family Head utterly demolishes Khun, even with Khun doing his best to defend, and does so before 2 minutes even pass.
• The Dreaded: The moment it's revealed that the Lo Po Bia Battleship is connected to the Nest via a portal, Evankhell's main concern isn't about the other powerful Lo Po Bia warriors on the ship. It's the idea of Traumerei directly fighting FUG himself that makes her so wary that she is willing to trust someone who can very well be lying just because she knows his arrival will mean there will be no hope for FUG to win the battle and believes telling anyone about it would immediately demoralize them into retreating. Lefav also believes the idea of a confrontation with him would make anyone lose their spirit and indeed Yu Hansung stated he came prepared for everything, only to instantly lose his calm and start silently panicking and getting grim when he realizes the strongest warrior of the Lo Po Bia Family can enter the Nest any time he likes. Likewise, Nen Neya with an Ancient able to take an entire army on is visibly afraid of him.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
  • Apparently, he genuinely cared for and loved his direct kids at least, to where he was noted to be enraged and saddened over the loss of one of his youngest children and went as far as to send some of his strongest beasts after the Hidden Grove after they killed one of his, which is even verbally acknowledged by the Hidden Grove to be a sign of serious rage. In the present, though he's become significantly hardened and more ruthless towards his children as individuals, he does at the very least care for his Family as a whole, as the idea of Gustang attacking his Mothership immediately makes him act to return to the Mothership with Bam.
  • Traumerei at least cares enough for his friend to spare and capture Hansung when he indicates his connection to Bloodmadder.
• Faux Affably Evil: To an extent. While he's significantly colder than Yasratcha, showing scarcely any humor and preferring to get straight to the point, Traumerei doesn't act overly villainous. In fact, he actually speaks in a calm tone most of the time, but still makes clear just how ruthless and superior he is in most of his interactions with people. He calls Wangwang and Yasratcha by their animal characteristics while maintaining a cool attitude around them, which he keeps even when he denounces Wangwang as a traitor and gives him a hell of a painful death. He speaks to Bam fairly affably... While making it clear just how in his opinion, the "choice" he gives Bam is effectively a Deal with the Devil. Needless to say, Bam doesn't take long to reject him, after which Traumerei still keeps the affable attitude, but amps up the 'Faux" part by threatening to kill his friends.
• The First Cut Is the Deepest: Apparently, part of his jerkass and lack of trust and empathy for lesser beings, especially those who fall in love, is caused by Arlen betraying Jahad and leaving with V because she loved him, as well as Jahad becoming so obsessed with Arlen that he distanced himself from all his companions. Not only that, the first, and most certainly only true, love of his life, Ameuz, was still loyal to Arlen and V and rejected Traumerei because she wanted to side with the Graces. He repeatedly states with bitterness that he has already suffered betrayal from people in love and ever since that he regularly dominates his loyal subordinates to ensure what he believed to be a great tragedy never happens again and make sure they remain loyal.
• The Fog of Ages: Apparently, immortality and the countless years he's lived have left his memory rather hazy. Yasratcha seems to believe it's more of a self-serving distortion, but it's clearly untrue. That said, it doesn't exactly mean his memories are at all gone and he just has a harder time remembering. He is able to faintly recall Yama and Doom's names because he was the one who named them and instantly remembers when Yama activates his power. He is also able to at least recall Yasratcha's betrayal of Wangwang and clearly retains his apprehension of him for his Never My Fault attitude. This is later revealed due to him storing some of his memories in Leviathan, which still doesn't stop him from having nightmares of whatever it is he has bad memories of.
• Foil: To Edahn. Both are absolute Aces considered to be among the very best in their areas of expertise, both lead large families with numerous branches. But that's it. While Edahn never gave a damn for his kids, Traumerei once cared enough to be enraged when Hidden Grove killed one of his and sought revenge. Even in the present, his attitude is still more attentive than Edahn's in that while Edahn is indicated to never give his kids anything and hardly involves himself in matters, with how Khun had to steal from him and his specific disinterest with his family, Traumerei at least willingly gives his descendants super-strong equipment and creatures, is fully willing to intervene with matters if necessary, and he does at least relate to a few of his closest subordinates and seem to have some modicum of mercy that Edahn never showed. Edahn doesn't get along with Jahad, while Traumerei is the most loyal out of his peers.
• Hopeless Boss Fight:
  • With it having been a Foregone Conclusion and a Family Head being infamously known for having extraordinary power, when he acts to end the tragic story of Wangwang, Traumerei utterly destroys Nen Neya, completely blind-sides Yasratcha, and Wangwang doesn't even try fighting back for the sake of a modicum of mercy.
  • He is nearly completely unstoppable when he arrives at the Nest. Yama and Yasratcha doesn't even make him break a sweat as he casually pushes them back just by his creatures. Things only get worse after he unveils his Shinwonryu, and Yama managing to badly injure one of his creatures doesn't do anything but anger him and make him simply take it up a notch by amping up his dragon. He finally puts Yasratcha's persistent attempts to kill him and resistance to his mind control to a decisive and almost mocking end by revealing he was resistant only to his control, not so much the other aspects of his Anima technique, as he puts him in an illusion and casually kills him with two attacks, before then having enough of it and completely pushing all his foes into their absolute limits to survive by unleashing his Shinwonryu. Only Gustang attacking his Mothership allows the hero to escape him.
• I Gave My Word: For all his cold-hearted treatment of Wangwang in the end, Traumerei grants his dog the mercy he intended after Wangwang indeed dies the way Traumerei intended him to. He doesn't kill Yasratcha despite clearly holding him in disdain and lets him and the Canines go free. Too bad Yasratcha had other plans....
• It's Personal: Implied. He absolutely hated that Hidden Grove killed one of his kids and even sent some of his strongest beasts to intimidate and if possible kill them. As Hidden Grove is affiliated with FUG, not to mention Lo Po Bia's loyalty to Jahad meant he absolutely would have a particular dislike for them, it was probable he jumped at the chance to kick FUG by having Ha Jinsung sealed in the Nest and thus having FUG send in soldiers so the Lo Po Bias can destroy them, and in fact it's even revealed that the Lo Po Bia Family Head himself is more than willing to dirty his hands and destroy the FUG forces himself, being that he is on the battleship connected to the Nest.
• Knight of Cerebus: Even though he is the weakest Family Head, the battle on the Nest's stakes becomes ever grimmer when it's revealed that he can enter the Nest anytime he likes and while he may be on the bottom of the ladder among the Great Warriors, he is still deemed fully capable of single-handedly deciding the outcome of the battle, which gives a rather terrifying thought of how powerful the other stronger Family Heads would be. When he arrives, he lives up to every bit of the hype he's been given as nothing the heroes do barely even slow him down.
• Moment of Silence: He gives it to Wangwang after having Yasratcha kill him, acknowledging he used to be a fully loyal servant and taking no pleasure in killing him, not even responding to Yasratcha's Tranquil Fury and looking ahead in somewhat lament.
• Older Is Better: He's the oldest and first person known to be an Anima as well as the best. When he appears, he quickly displays completely unseen levels of skill with such techniques before. His creatures are all insanely strong and able to easily beat down the likes of Ancients and even more nightmarishly rule-breaking is that he can seemingly spawn them freely without a Fishbowl like it's natural for him.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: His first appearance (and the corresponding flashback) at first depicts him as a superior cold being in a way rather similar to Gustang, though at least he calls people creatures rather than bugs, and the flashback displays him being seemingly utterly callous towards Wangwang and approving of Yasratcha's ways, but as it gets unfolded further, he starts expressing more emotions than what you would expect from him, displaying beneath his god-like attitude there still lies some, albeit twisted, humanity, beginning from being somewhat contemplative and even in a way somber about Wangwang's attraction to Nen Neya, which actually made him threw a bone at his loyal dog for once, to being quickly riled up whenever Wangwang expresses doubt, and even coming himself to see whether or not Wangwang really betrayed him, all which surprise Yasratcha and even his representative, indicating he isn't as unaffected and dismissive of his dog's loyalty as he shows at first.
• Papa Wolf: A rarity among his peers, if Edahn is part of a pattern, but he is this. One of the flashbacks of Genesis has one of his sons declaring he was heartbroken over the death of one of his youngest children at the hands of Hidden Grove. Enough to send a giant snake to kill them. This is verbally compared to Edahn's response: absolute indifference.
• Parental Substitute: Raised Doom, Yama, and Paul's father Wangwang after he was created by the Workshop. Nice of him, right? Well, no. Instead of treating the guy like a member, the Lo Po Bia family used him to do their dirty work and wanted nothing more than a blindly loyal, well, dog. How Traumerei himself views Wangwang is a little unclear. He is more than willing to let Wangwang be put through numerous harsh trials, but Wangwang seems to genuinely believe Traumerei cared for him. That said, he was willing to give him some measure of freedom and time to enjoy developing a real romance with Nen Neya and appears to at least appreciate Wangwang's loyalty and didn't really wish to get rid of him. In fact, he even appears personally to confirm whether or not Wangwang really betrayed him and admits he couldn't kill him himself after all the years Wangwang served him. While he ultimately displays his Lackof Empathy towards Wangwang's anger that he killed Nen Neya, he at least promised to grant Wangwang's children mercy although it came in a very painful way.
• Smarter Than You Look: Say what you want about Traumerei mostly preferring to sit on his throne without a care for matters going on around him, but he is a Great Warrior with millennia of experience in dealing with numerous problems on his way. Most people who try to capitalize on his laziness find themselves facing a surprising diabolical genius behind Traumerei's seeming laziness.
  • Yasratcha, who has constantly been depicted as a cruelly cunning piece of work who managed to set up the stage of Gakjadosaeng, tries to use Traumerei's seeming apathy to turn him into an Unwitting Pawn to kill Nen Neya so he can have Wangnan all to himself. Traumerei sees through it effortlessly, and all that's left of Yasratcha by the time he is done with him is a broken angry mess as Traumerei forces him to kill Wangwang to punish him for his attempted treachery and then casually leaves him to do whatever he wants afterward. Even centuries later, where Yasratcha has actually become more aware of him, Traumerei still gets the last laugh by luring him into a hallucination by giving off a convincing air that he can't affect Yasratcha anymore.
  • As it turns out, he's actually the best chess player amongst the Great Warriors, surpassing even Gustang and as his utterly single-sided stomping of Khun in a chess match within 2 minutes make clear, while he hints he hasn't played chess for some time, he hasn't lost any of that edge. Not only that, he also delivers upon Khun his current worst made a fool moment by revealing he had never been tricked by Khun's challenge to play chess at all, and just indulged him because he thought it would be amusing to make him despair.
• Tranquil Fury: Whenever his "pets" start displaying rebellious tendencies, he shifts into this. He coldly asks Wangwang about his loyalty whenever he starts slipping due to Nen Neya. Then, when he is asked about the progress of dealing with the sealed creature in the Nest, he actually grips his sleeves as he admits it still won't listen to him. When Nen Neya arrives to take her sons away, he calmly but condescendingly asks why she was in his territory, while making his anger clear with a Death Glare that actually makes his green eyes shine. Likewise, when he finds out Yasratcha lied to him, all that he does is stand up and command his creatures to attack him, but he makes it clear he is pissed with Yasratcha's deception by his voice being cold and his eyes shining when he realizes the truth.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Needless to say, compared to his past self, Traumerei took several. Centuries ago, while he was always one of the more aloof and distant members of the Great Warriors, he was still quite active, traveling around his newly formed Mothership rather than just staying in his room and participating in battles, showing his dedication to Jahad's cause much more prevalently compared in canon, where he would only send in men and came out when absolutely necessary. Regardless of what superiority complex he was starting to develop, he even retained a fair amount of socializing skills, getting along pretty well with the other Great Warriors and even willing to invite a vast amount of those who helped during the Great Journey and hold a mass party, showing that he still acknowledged the people of the Tower as humans, even going as far as to genuinely be in love with one of those who climbed alongside him and the other Great Warriors that wasn't an Irregular. He was also willing to treat Enkidu well and see him as a friend despite Enkidu being just a creature possesing a human and the wariness of his other friends. It was only when Ameuz, the woman who he was in love with, rejected him in public that he started to snap, and even then, one of his sons declared that he was heartbroken over the death of another one of his sons, sending a giant cobra to kill the Hidden Grove for the murder. In the present, losing his memories, which also suppressed his feelings, and all the emotional baggage had turned him into someone who rarely participated in affairs, is mostly apathetic towards his children as individuals, more than willing to kill them for the slightest of offenses and only caring for his family as a whole, has grown to see everyone in the Tower aside from Irregulars as lesser beings, and is fully willing to kill Gustang, who he used to get along with, for trying to end the dynasty he and the other Great Warriors had created.
• Undying Loyalty: The most loyal to Jahad out of the Ten. This attitude apparently is ingrained in his family as well: in Season 3, the Lo Po Bias were the only one of the Ten Families to send troops to cooperate with the royal army in the defense of the Nest. Taken even further when it's revealed Traumerei is actually in the battleship of the Lo Po Bia Family himself and it's a known fact that he will not hesitate to intervene personally if he has to, which speaks volumes considering how other Family Heads rarely appear in the public. Indeed, Traumerei was willing to participate in the order to eliminate the Po Bidaus when Jahad ordered it.
• Unknown Rival: Yama, Doom and Paul are all High Rankers, with Doom once being in the Top 200 of the Tower in his prime and Yama being even stronger. But Traumerei is a Great Warrior. As Yasratcha put it simply, to Traumerei, Yama's titles as a Slayer and King of the Dogs mean nothing and he is just a cute pet. Yasratcha also turns out to hate Traumerei, for making him kill Wangwang, so much so that he straight up vowed he would be immune to Traumerei's control. When he actually does fight them, Traumerei indeed sees them just like he sees others as trifles, showing Yama only a modicum of interest by ordering him to be captured while brushing off Yasratcha's antagonism with cool contempt.
• The Worf Effect: As the first Family Head to directly act, Traumerei doesn't disappoint as he hands out Curb Stomp Battles like pamphlets to everyone he's faced thus far, all of which are legitimate badasses. In the past, it takes an entire army to beat Akrinak to the point of exhaustion, but Traumerei alone easily shrugs off its time-stopping abilities and then summons a much bigger creature to very quickly pummel the Ancient. Afterward, all that it takes is a single thin green spear to kill Nen Neya quite brutally. In the present, he utterly brushes off anything Yasratcha and Yama tries with just three of his creatures.

Hidden Warriors

Arlene Grace

Arlene Grace

I have finally found a way to get out of this place. A place without Jahad or Administrators. I don't know where I will end up, but as long as I can see the vast sky and shining stars which are so much like my own home, it doesn't matter.

An Irregular that climbed the Tower alongside Jahad and the Ten Great Family leaders, and said to be the cause of all the problems that plague the Tower in the current day. The reason being that Jahad had fallen in love with Arlen, but couldn't have her, because her heart was already set on another of their companions, V.

After Jahad became the new Tower King, Arlene revolted alongside V against Jahad and the Ten Great Family leaders so that they could one day continue climbing the Tower after Jahad locked the door to the 135th Floor. However, the two of them lost the war, and were forced to go on the run as fugitives. Jahad would hunt them down to the point of killing Arlene and V's newborn child, which resulted in V committing suicide to allow Arlene to return to Jahad's side, and live a better life. However, Arlene chose not to do so, and became a wanderer of the Tower to try to find a way to bring her dead baby back to life. Eventually, Arlene claimed to have found a means of escaping the Tower desiring to see the free starry sky outside the Tower, and begged to the God outside the Tower to bring her child back to life one day. Her dead child possibly being Bam.

In the present, Arlene and V's existence have been erased to make it seem like it was only Jahad and the Ten Great Family leaders that originally climbed the Tower. However, Arlene hid away her Pocket detailing her erased story, which was found by Princess Anne Jahad. In addition, Rachel is shown to have some sort of connection to Arlene as well, and is determined to be the one who makes Arlen's wish of going outside the Tower come true.

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• Chekhov's Gun: Arlene's existence was foreshadowed due to the 28th Floor's Hand of Arlene structure that was the setting of the "Devil of the Right Arm" Story Arc.
• Complete Immortality: Arlene is unable to die since she's part of the immortality contract that Jahad made with the Tower Guardians.
• Determinator: She was determined to bring her baby back to life to the point of placing a spell on her baby's corpse so that it never rotted away.
• Driven to Madness: The loss of her baby took a toll on Arlen's sanity, which led to V committing suicide.
• Driven to Suicide: She attempted multiple times to kill herself after the death of her baby, but given her Complete Immortality, she was unable to do so.
• Love Triangle: Got stuck in a tragic one between Jahad and V. Jahad loved Arlen, but she loved V, who loved Arlene in return.
• Official Couple: With V.
• Revenge: She offered her murdered baby's corpse to God in order to create Bam, and use him as a weapon to slit King Jahad's throat.
• Unperson: King Jahad did everything he could to erase her existence from history, even down to the level of modifying memories.
• Wandering the Earth: Instead of going back to Jahad's side after V committed suicide, Arlene chose to wander the Tower alone searching for a means to escape the Tower, and bring her dead baby back to life.

V

V

Arlene called him by the affectionate name 'V'. Your name, 'Viole', probably comes from that person's name. A warlord whom Luslec, the current head of FUG, once served.

—Garam Jahad

An Irregular that climbed the Tower alongside Jahad and the Ten Great Family leaders. V was the one who Arlene had truly fallen in love with, which causes her to reject Jahad's marriage proposal. Similar to Arlen's story, the two of them ran away to revolt against Jahad after he became the Tower King, and locked the door to the 135th Floor. However, they lost said war, and became fugitives on the run. After Jahad killed their baby, V chose to commit suicide after seeing Arlene continuing to lose her sanity in the hopes that she would go back to Jahad's side to live a better life. However, she didn't choose to do so.

In the present, V and Arlen's existences have been erased to make it seem like it was only Jahad and the Ten Great Family leaders that originally climbed the Tower.

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• Character Death: Killed himself for Arlen's sake.
• Driven to Suicide: After witnessing how much sanity Arlene lost due to the death of their baby, V killed himself so that she could live a better life without him.
• Love Triangle: Got stuck in a tragic one where he was up against Jahad for Arlen's affection. In the end, Arlene chose V.
• Official Couple: With Arlene Grace.
• One-Letter Name: Known only as V. Since he's Bam's father, V most likely stands for Viole.
• Signature Move: He was the best at utilizing Shinsu Tension.
• Unperson: King Jahad erased all memory of him from history, with only the higher-ups in FUG and the other Great Family leaders still remembering he ever existed.

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