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=== The Guardian Spirit ===
 
The unseen avatar of the player, ostensibly ''the player him/herself'' watching and being spoken to from another dimension. Guardian Spirits are beings from another world that occasionally drift to the world of Baten Kaitos through Nekton, the Shrine of Spirits in Mira. Anyone who is able to make contact with one and allow it into their heart becomes bonded to it, and from then on is now a Spiriter. As revealed in ''Origins'', Spiriters are said to be [[The Chosen One|The Chosen Ones]]s, said to wield great power and knowledge, destined to sway the fate of the world. Though we're not too sure on the knowledge part (as the Guardian Spirit is also like a second, sentient conscience), they definitely endow their Spiriter with powerful magic spells when called upon, and all Spiriters seen so far have indeed had a role in the world's future.
 
* [[Addressing the Player]] - The Guardian Spirit is you, the player.
* [[Bond Creatures]]
* [[Finishing Move]]: In the first game, carrying out your combo with Kalas {{spoiler|and later on with your brief stint with Xelha}} to just before its current maximum would yield a chance for any of the Magnus in your hand to change to one of six Spirit Spells, very powerful elemental spells that scaled in strength with your class level. At class 6, they are stronger than your character's strongest finishers. {{spoiler|The absence of this ability in ''Origins'' is a plot point.}}
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* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: The guardian spirit in ''Eternal Wings'' can't remember things before the beginning of the game.
* [[Level Up At Intimacy 5]]: You’ll often get two or three options of what to say during cutscenes. What you say doesn’t affect the plot (except for one particular instance in Origins, where choosing the wrong answer gives you a [[Nonstandard Game Over]]), but giving the right answers will help you fight better, powering up your Spirit Attacks in ''Eternal Wings'' and improving the chances of you getting useful cards in ''Origins''.
* [[Most Gamers Are Male]]: Apparently 8-4 and NoA thought this and removed the option for a female guardian spirit in the second game despite it being present in the Japanese version.
* [[Tomato Surprise]]: In ''Origins''.
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: In ''EWLO'', {{spoiler|Kalas does this to you after [[The Reveal]] of his role as [[The Mole]].}} In ''Origins'', {{spoiler|the non-standard game over (you to Sagi)}}
 
 
== The cast of Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean ==
 
== The Six Man Band ==
=== '''Kalas''' ===
{{quote| ''"Here's your share of the loot. [[Jerkass|Enough to shut you up I hope."]]''}}
 
[[The Hero]] of our story. Kalas is a youth who wakes up in the clinic of Cebalrai, the Farming Hamlet, under the care of a kindly old doctor named Larikush, having been found by a [[Ridiculously Cute Critter|Greythorne]] named Meemai in Moonguile Forest, unconscious. A Spiriter, Kalas hails from Mira and [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|is hell-bent on getting even with Giacomo]] [[You Killed My Father|for killing]] [[Dead Little Sister|his grandfather and little brother.]] Quite the [[Jerkass]] and [[Deadpan Snarker]] at first, as well as highly cynical, [[Character Development|but eventually softens later on.]] [[Dual-Wielding|Dual wields]] a large sword and a reverse-gripped dagger.
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* [[Heroic Willpower]]: How he is able to {{spoiler|throw aside Malpercio's taint and [[Heel Face Turn]] back to the group's side again.}}
* [[Jerkass]]: Very much so at first.
* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]
* {{spoiler|[[The Mole]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Laughing Mad]]: After [[The Reveal]].}}
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* [[Sidequest]]: Almost ''plays out'' like one, and has a certain feel to it, but it is actually mandatory, to go to the Celestial Alps later in the game to obtain "something Georg left behind for Kalas." Surprise surprise, {{spoiler|turns out the [[Terrible Trio]] [[No One Could Survive That|was alive]] [[Never Found the Body|after all.]]}}
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: Very cynical at the beginning, more idealistic towards the end.
* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: To Giacomo and crew.
* {{spoiler|[[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: After [[The Reveal]].}}
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]
* [[You Killed My Father|You Killed My Grandfather And Little Brother]]
 
=== '''Xelha''' ===
{{quote| ''"Cast light upon the darkened earth... Save those lost in despair. O Mighty Ocean, guide us, as we journey through... The darkest pit of night."''}}
 
A [[Mysterious Waif]] that we first meet in Cebalrai, quite distinct from the townspeople. Xelha and Kalas chat briefly before she departs with two men for Moonguile Forest, whereupon Kalas finds her at the mercy of a Sabre Dragon. Cue [[Big Damn Heroes]]. Afterwards, though initially appalled by Kalas' rough and uncaring behaviour, she nonetheless requests to accompany him towards a common goal for a while, which eventually ends up becoming a mission to save the world. Caring and very gentle, very empathic, possesses strong morals and a powerful sense of duty. Quite a contrast for Kalas. Obviously develops a thing for him due to his [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment. Fights using magic spells channeled through a wand.
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* [[Dreaming of Things to Come]]
* [[Dull Surprise]]
* Elemental Powers: [[Playing Withwith Fire|Able]] [[Making a Splash|to]] [[Blow You Away|wield]] [[Time Master|all]] [[Light'Em Up|six]] [[Casting a Shadow|elements]] [[Black Magician Girl|due to being]] [[Squishy Wizard|a magician.]]
* [[Eyes of Gold]] and [[Hair of Gold]] - Like many people in this world, Xelha's [[Curtains Match the Window]].
* [[Girly Run]]: Becomes a lot more noticeable when {{spoiler|you start playing as her}}
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* {{spoiler|[[Modest Royalty]]}}
* [[Mysterious Waif]]
* [[One-Hit Kill]]: Her level VIII [[Finishing Move]], ''[[Kill It Withwith Water|"Seal Of Water"]]'', has a 100% instant death effect on normal enemies.
* {{spoiler|[[Princesses Prefer Pink]]}}: ''Really'' pink outfit.
* {{spoiler|[[King Incognito|Queen Incognito]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Sealed Good in Aa Can]]: And SHE is the can.}}
* [[Ship Tease]]: Meets with Kalas under the moon at least three times, and [[Luminescent Blush|blushes brightly when teased about her apparent crush on Kalas.]] [[spoiler: {{Eventually [[Official Couple|acknowledged.]]}}
* [[Sidequest]]: Like all characters before the endgame, has her own. Hers involves searching for a forbidden magic book in the School of Magic that would prove useful to the group. {{spoiler|It was actually left behind by her ancestors, containing magic that would help them defeat Malpercio (in the form of her [[One-Hit Kill|Seal]] [[Kill It Withwith Water|of Water]]). First though, we get to see some [[Flash Back|Flashbacks]] that reveal to us how [[Crazy Prepared]] Xelha's mother was.}}
* [[Team Mom]]
* [[Three Faces of Eve]]: The mother, definitely.
* [[White Magician Girl]]: Fits the personality perfectly, but her magic is offensive.
 
=== '''Gibari''' ===
{{quote| ''[[Pre-Mortem One-Liner|"I'll show you what a man of the Sky can do!"]]'' - ''EWLO''}}
 
{{quote| ''" {{spoiler|Damn you Pop... [[Skyward Scream|Damn you!]]}}'' - ''Origins''}}
 
A Skyfarer, that is, Baten Kaitos's [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]] name for a fisheman. Gibari is large, burly man, and though he has his moments of headstrongness, he's actually fairly calm and very amiable. [[Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions|Believes his hometown's local myths to all be fiction,]] which causes him to butt heads at times with Reblys, and his father as revealed in Origins. Kalas and Xelha meet him in Nashira when they go there after escaping from Imperial soldier pursuit back in Sadal Suud, in need of a boat in order to get to Sheliak and speak with King Ladekhan. Gibari pops in after they get dissed by Reblys and offers his boat in exchange for a favor; that they accompany him to the Lesser Celestial River so that he may discern the cause for its flooding. Fights with [[Improbable Weapon User|boat oars.]]
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* [[Cool Boat]]: Like all ships not belonging to the Empire Or Mira, ''it's alive.''
* [[Fashionable Asymmetry]]
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Reblys.
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: He fights with ''oars.''
* [[Infinity+1 Sword]]: Balgora's Paddle, and "Ultimate Geyser" as his ultimate Finisher, and either Skull Creel or Creel of the Whale as his equipment magnus.
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* [[Mighty Glacier]]: Slowest character, but has the highest raw base power and very high defense and HP. In fact, there so happens to be one piece of equipment designed to subvert his low speed, turning him into a [[Lightning Bruiser]], if only until you get better equipment.
* [[My Greatest Failure]]: Not seen clearly in ''Eternal Wings'' due to [[Retcon]], but in ''Origins'', {{spoiler|he blames himself deeply for his father's death.}}
* [[Odd Friendship]]: With King Ladekhan. {{spoiler|''Origins'' shows that they weren't very different as children.}}
* [[Power Trio]]: Forms one of sorts with Ladekhan and Palolo II in Origins.
* [[Retired Badass]]: Sort of.
* [[Sidequest]]: His involves going to the Greater Celestial River to go look for Reblys and Anna, who went looking for a remedy for a kid's fever. Gibari and Reblys end up having a fish-out... {{spoiler|and end up fishing The Lord Of The Celestial River.}}
* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: With Anna to some extent, particularly in ''Origins''.
* [[Team Dad]]: Far and away the oldest member of the six, and serves as something of an authority, although most leadership defaults to [[The Hero|Kalas]].
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: He and Reblys have a fishing competition...''using enormous logs as fishing rods.''
 
=== '''Lyude''' ===
{{quote| *Points his gun* '' {{spoiler|Savyna}}, I have reason to believe that you [[The Mole|are an Imperial Soldier.]]''}}
 
Imperial Ambassador of the Empire of Alfard to the Kingdom of Diadem. As his title implies, his job is to act as the go-between both nations and see it to it that peace is kept between them.
 
...Or so he'd like people to believe. As he himself points out, his title is actually little more than a simple name, and indeed his position is actually more of a means to get him out of the way. This is not because he was seen as a threat to the throne, but rather because he was exiled, as we learn not too long after meeting him. Indeed, Lyude is a one-in-a-million citizen of the Empire, one who does not think of himself as being above the rest of the entire world. This is later explained by the fact that, unlike the rest of the Alfard children, he was homeschooled by his surrogate mother {{spoiler|[[Heroic Bastard|and actual real mother]]}} and nanny, Almarde, who taught him to be kind and mindful of others. Thus his defection from the Empire comes when they prove that they have no intention of being pacific, honorable or even fair. A pacifist at heart, Lyude is very nice and also very considerate, finding himself enjoying his stay in Diadem rather than seeing it as an exile as he enjoys the simple pleasures of life that come naturally with the world. Fights with a gun, his magnus taking the form of [[Musical Assassin|brass instruments.]]
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* [[Instrument of Murder]]
* [[Military Brat]]: His siblings are soldiers for [[The Empire]]. He was, too, until he joined you.
** He is also the youngest son of Lyuvann, a soldier who assists Sagi in Ahza during Origins, making this trope literal.
* [[Momma's Boy]]: Or, failing that, nanny's boy.
** A side quest in Origins reveals that {{spoiler|Lyude is [[Your Cheating Heart|the nanny's son.]] When Camella finds out, she leaves.}} Hence why Skeed and Vallye consider him [[The Unfavorite]].
* [[Musical Assassin]] (Lyude uses a variety of weaponized trumpets, saxophones, tubas, and other brass instruments to attack. And sometimes they'll be light-based or dark-based horns.)
** Shows his work, though, with the [[Musical Theme Naming]] of his finishing moves: [[wikipedia:Overture|Overture]], [[wikipedia:Concerto|Concerto]], [[wikipedia:Dynamics chr(28)musicchr(29music)#Sudden changes|Sforzando, Diminuendo,]] [[wikipedia:Intermezzo|Intermezzo]], [[wikipedia:Dynamics chr(28)musicchr(29music)#Sudden changes|Crescendo]], [[wikipedia:Rhapsody chr(28)musicchr(29music)|Rhapsody]], [[wikipedia:Tempo#Basic tempo markings|Presto]], and [[wikipedia:Finale|Finale]]. Talk about [[Wicked Cultured]]...
* [[Nice Guy]]: Every bit as nice as [[The Heart|Xelha]].
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Subverted. Kalas initially suspects him, but he's ''nicer'' than him.
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* [[Yin-Yang Bomb]] - His finishers and elemental weapons are all either light or dark. This a bad thing (Light and Dark damage cancel each other out, 20 dark damage and 10 light damage results in 10 dark damage).
 
=== '''Savyna''' ===
{{quote| ''"Hmm... Could be worse, I guess. Let's go."'' - ''EWLO''}}
 
{{quote| '''"..."''' - ''Origins''}}
 
A woman introduced as a lone, silent huntress who lives in the mountains of Anuenue and who hunts monsters for a living. She generally gives off a cold aura, and her statements are often as cynical or blunt as one would expect, bound by ice-cold logic. [[You Didn't Ask|She also has a tendency for not telling things outside the realm of what is asked of her.]] However, despite how hard to approach she is, she is indeed often shown to not be as cold as she appears to be, despite her manners. A prime example of this is how she sternly dissents Mayfee from taking her as a model example of what "a brave and strong" woman should be. She fights with no weapons, [[Bare-Fisted Monk|using her own fists and feet to fight.]]
 
As Savyna states not too long after joining the team, she ''used'' to work for the Empire, as Lyude suspected. However, while she ''was'' in the Empire, {{spoiler|Savyna was known as '''"[[Red Baron|Lady]] [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Death]]"''', [[The Ace|the deadliest and most feared member]] of a special ops unit named [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|the Mad Wolf Unit.]] Savyna took part in a massacre known as Operation Sweep against the Azhani, in which she accidentally hit a child when the kid got in the way and took the hit for her father, after which Azdar came and killed the [[Papa Wolf|enraged man,]] Savyna too horrified at herself to stop his attacks.}} After {{spoiler|witnessing the mortally wounded Kalas and Fee fleeing for their lives after Giacomo's attack,}} Savyna decides enough is enough and quits the Empire, spending her time drifting through the Sky, [[Desperately Looking for Aa Purpose In Life]]. A meeting with an oracle is what prompts her to lay in wait in Anuenue, in wait for Kalas and company, to fulfill the destiny the oracle predicted Savyna would take part in.
 
Savyna is also present in Origins, the only other one of the original party we get to see the past of. {{spoiler|Savyna is [[Smug Snake|Shannath's]] daughter, strongly giving off vibes of a [[Creepy Child]] as she spends all of her time following him around, idly playing with a ball and a [[Broken Smile]] permanently plastered on her face, [[Dissonant Serenity|even when she sits with her dying father after Sagi is done with him, and even when she faces almost certain death at a berserk paramachina's hands.]] She also happens to be the one sending all those unsigned letters Sagi keeps getting, which all keep referring only to "Dear Somebody".}} Before the endgame, {{spoiler|she sends one final letter where she expresses her desire for power to avenge her father, setting Savyna up for the sequel BK.}}
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* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: though it edges into Kuudere at times, she's mostly this.
* [[Desperately Looking for Aa Purpose In Life]]: What she did before joining Kalas.
* [[Dissonant Serenity]]: NEVER stops smiling in Origins, even when {{spoiler|Shannath lays dying before her, or when a paramachina is about to kill her.}}
* [[Emotionless Girl]]: To a point
* [[Hair Decorations]] - Honestly, she could have done with a simple ponytail. And her defense equipment are barrettes.
* [[Fashionable Asymmetry]]
* [[Flechette Storm]]: Her first finisher involves her raining burning feathers on the target.
* [[Good Old Fisticuffs]]
* [[Infinity+1 Sword]]: Phoenix Crest, and her ultimate Finisher is "Deadly Heat Scythe", and either Skull Barrete or Fairy Barrete for her equipment magnus.
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* {{spoiler|[[Tyke Bomb]]:}} Implied to have become this after {{spoiler|Sagi kills Shannath.}}
* [[When She Smiles]]: A rare photo shot makes a deal out of this (valued at several thousand [[Worlwide Currency|Gold]] even!). To be fair, it ''is'' a rather charming smile.
* [[Yin-Yang Bomb]] - Her finishers and elemental weapons are all either [[Playing Withwith Fire|fire]] or water (manifested as [[An Ice Person|ice]] often). Unlike Lyude though, she has a good chunk of her attack magnus are neutral instead of aligned, so she suffers less for it.
* [[You Didn't Ask]]: The reason for the misunderstanding where {{spoiler|Lyude accuses Savyna of being [[The Mole]].}}
 
=== '''Mizuti''' ===
{{quote| ''"Us heroes, we have so much to do!"''}}
 
A mysterious masked being that our heroes have the luck of encountering when they become lost in an Outer Dimension from the Trail of Souls. It speaks in a very strange, rather childish manner; never conjugating the verb ''to be'' (ex, ''"The Great Mizuti be invincible!"'') and [[Insistent Terminology|always calling itself and asking others to adress it by]] ''[[Insistent Terminology|Great]]'' [[Insistent Terminology|Mizuti]], and similar things. When it declares it can guide the party, they take it up on the offer, and eventually make it. They later meet Mizuti again in Duke Calbren's manor in Balancoire, who reveals it went there in order to protect "Bo" (which is revealed to be the End Magnus of Mira). After {{spoiler|Giacomo}} comes in and declares his intetnion to steal the Magnus after eavesdropping on the conversation detailing its location, Mizuti joins the team. Without a doubt the [[Cloudcuckoolander|most eccentric]] member of the party. Fights like Xelha, channelling it's magic through a chakram instead.
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* [[Insistent Terminology]]: ''The Great'' Mizuti.
* [[Kid Hero]]: 14 years old.
* [[Mighty Glacier]]: Much slower than [[Fragile Speedster|Xelha]], but has substantially more defensive abilities, and can generally soak up hits pretty well. That being said, Mizuti's finishers aren't as good as Xelha's.
* [[Power Floats]]: Floats practically ''everywhere'', and even though Mizuti does walking motions, Mizuti is still levitating even then.
* [[Rings of Death]]: Used as such in only one finisher.
* {{spoiler|[[Samus Is a Girl]]}}
* [[Sidequest]]: Mizuti's involves going back to [[That One Level|Zosma Tower]] and doing a whole new slew of block-pushing puzzles. If you thought the first five floors were annoying, then know the five basement floors are [[Up to Eleven]]. This is all because the Great Kamroh, accompanied by Mizuti's parents, Mizuti's friend Kee and his parents went down there in order to obtain the Ring of Stars for Mizuti, an artifact of {{spoiler|her}} ancestors that would be useful. {{spoiler|The wizard's spirit deems them unworthy and blasts them, which angers Mizuti into a reckless confrontation with the spirit, but Kee's speech about them not letting Mizuti fight her battles alone anymore calms Mizuti down and allows her to focus for the battle with the Wizard Shadow, all too reminiscent of Xelha's battle with the Goddess of Ice.}} Mizuti wins, is deemed worthy of the Ring of Stars and obtains an Infinity Minus One Finisher.
* [[Spell My Name Withwith a "The"]]: See [[Insistent Terminology]] above.
* [[Strange Syntax Speaker]]: Mainly Mizuti's habit of not conjugating "to be," though its speaking quirks as a whole could qualify.
* [[Third Person Person]]
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* [[Will Not Tell a Lie]]: The Great Mizuti never lies nor tricks. Maybe only sometimes. Rarely. Once in a blue moon.
 
=== '''Meemai''' ===
{{quote| ''"Squeeeeaak!"''}}
 
The group's [[Team Pet]]. Meemai is a light-blue-green Greythorne that lived in Cebalrai. He found Kalas unconscious in Moonguile Forest and brought him to Cebalrai {{spoiler|at Xelha's request.}} Later he finds Kalas uconscious again at the spring in the forest and tags along with him to Pherkad. Once they rescue Xelha, Meemai travels with her. From then on, Meemai only really appears when talking to other Greythornes (in which case they'll have a brief "conversation" consisting of squeaks), in Xelha's "coy" face portrait and {{spoiler|[[Fusion Dance|when all the Greythorne's fuse to become the Whale.]]}}
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== Other characters ==
=== '''Giacomo''' ===
 
{{quote| ''"I won't kill you... But believe me, this is going to hurt. Prepare yourself, boy!"'' - ''EWLO''}}
 
{{quote| ''"I'll see to it that the Service's tarnished name is washed clean...in blood!"'' - ''Origins''}}
 
A high-ranking soldier in the Imperial Army, commander of the Emperor's dark forces. Giacomo is a tall and imposing man clad in armor who seems to get [[For the Evulz|a kick out of antagonizing Kalas.]] Giacomo is resposible for the deaths of Georg and Fee, Kalas's grandfather and little brother, in an attack that took place two years before the start of the game, subsequently destroying Kalas's life and thus being the reason Kalas is always so bitter and eager to kill him. Giacomo has command of an Imperial battleship named the Goldoba, and has two loyal minions in Ayme and Folon. Giacomo fights using a [[Sinister Scythe]] and gets around with a jet pack on his belt.
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* [[Cool Ship]]: The Goldoba, which is primarily made of machina and gold.
* [[The Dragon]]: Functionally serves this role to Geldoblame in ''EWLO'', even though there's also Fadroh.
* {{spoiler|[[Face Death Withwith Dignity]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Famous Last Words]] - ''Life is so long when you live it but so short when you look back. Farewell, Kalas.''}}
* [[Heads I Win, Tails You Lose]]: Regardless of how well you were doing against him in the first battle, Kalas and Xelha will be staggering after the cutscene kicks in and Giacomo will just blast you off the Goldoba.
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* [[No One Could Survive That]]: He, Ayme and Folon stay in the Goldoba as it crashes after you beat them. {{spoiler|Predictably, they survived.}}
* [[The Medic]]: {{spoiler|Only in the rematch.}}
* [[Playing Withwith Fire]]: His main method of attacking, combined with [[Casting a Shadow|darkness.]]
* [[Recurring Boss]] - With Ayme and Folon.
* [[Terrible Trio]]: With Ayme and Folon. He's the boss.
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* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: {{spoiler|Subverted. It ''looks'' like he has blue hair, but that's actually part of his helmet's ornamentation. [[Blond Guys Are Evil|He's actually blonde.]] In between learning that Giacomo is Georg's son and Kalas is an [[Artificial Human]], we're lead to believe the then-strong implications that Kalas could be Giacomo's kid, and the apparent sharing of blue hair helped.}}
 
=== '''Ayme''' ===
{{quote| ''"Hope you enjoy your trip to hell!"'' }}
 
A [[Dark-Skinned Redhead|dark-skinned pinkhead]] who works under Giacomo with Folon. Ayme was there when Giacomo killed Georg, so Kalas recognizes her on sight once they cross paths with her in Diadem, where she is assisting in the seige of Elnath Castle. After she shoots King Ladekahn twice, Lyude defects and Kalas and Gibari jump in to fight her. She promptly brings in an Iron Beetle V mech and pilots it to try and kill Kalas and his group. After being defeated, she leaves. Ayme would later appear to snatch the Le End Magnus with the help of a mind-controlled Lyude. After that, all of her apperances are in the company of Giacomo and/or Folon. She fights with special gauntlets that also serve as guns, and gets around with jet boots.
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{{spoiler|As she and Folon reveal, they used to be orphans from Azha whom the Empire bought for use in experiments. Giacomo took them under his wing and kept them close, which earnt him their loyalty. After Giacomo dies at Kalas' hands, she and Folon disappear from the story until they appear at the last minute to help the other rulers breach the shield around Cor Hydrae. After that, at the end of the game, they appear one last time to the scene to bid their farewells to the Guardian Spirit, alongside the rest of the named cast.}}
 
* [[Ambiguously Brown]]
* {{spoiler|[[Big Damn Heroes]]: Appears at the last minute to help the other rulers of the sky breach Cor Hydrae's magical shield.}}
* [[Blow You Away]]: Her main elemental focus, with her single [[Making a Splash|water]] attack being [[An Ice Person|Chaotic Ice,]] one of two Finishers.
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* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: The only girl of the three.
 
=== '''Folon''' ===
{{quote| ''"Stupidity is more like it... Stupidity must be one of your stronger points!"''}}
 
A crazed, joker-like man serving under Giacomo with Ayme. Folon is first introduced to us as a retainer to Geldoblame accompanying him on his trip to Anuenue, and we can tell right from that first glance that something's not right about him because he dresses like an armored version of a court jester. Folon set up a trap for Kalas and company and lured them to the Ancient Library of Magic, where he ambushed them. Only Savyna's timely intervention saved them. Afterwards, Folon would appear always with Giacomo or Ayme. Fights using whips that extend from his armor's gauntlets, and gets around with a jet pack on his back.
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* {{spoiler|[[Big Damn Heroes]]: Appears at the last minute to help the other rulers of the sky breach Cor Hydrae's magical shield.}}
* [[The Brute]]: Plays this more straight than Giacomo, also being the strongest physical attacker of the three.
* [[Casting a Shadow]]: Balances this with [[Time Master]], with one attack Finisher based on [[Playing Withwith Fire|fire (Chaotic Flames)]].
* [[Heads I Win, Tails You Lose]]: Regardless of how well you were doing against him in the first battle, Folon will not have even broken a sweat while your characters are left staggering and panting. After mocking you, he proceeds to blast your entire party. Only Savyna going [[Big Damn Heroes]] on you allows you to escape.
* [[Mighty Glacier]]: Even more than Giacomo, attacking only once but having the ability to boost his power, as well as being able to set you on flames. A reason he is often considered the most dangerous of the trio, and often the one taken out first thereafter.
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* {{spoiler|[[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]}}
 
=== '''Geldoblame''' ===
{{quote| ''"Kill him! If left alone he will prove a threat to my Empire!"'' - ''EWLO''}}
 
{{quote| ''"I am but a humble servant of the noble Quaestor Verus."'' - ''Origins''}}
 
The ruler of Alfard, Empire of the Flame. Geldoblame is the [[Big Bad]] of the game, the one who has given the order to obtain the End Magnus of each continent, with the apparent purpose to revive Malpercio. A plump man with a rather unpleasant demeanor, Geldoblame is a megalomaniacal villain who will not tolerate anything getting in his way. He is responsible for many things, including the execution of Operation Sweep, the order for the death of Kalas' family, the surprise attack on Diadem, the recovery and/or stealing of the End Magnus, {{spoiler|the order for Georg's project which would yield the birth of Kalas and Fee with the intention of studying the Magnus of Life to become "perfect"}} and several others
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* [[Adipose Rex]]
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: In ''Origins'', he keeps a scrapbook dedicated to Verus and {{spoiler|takes Verus' betrayal [[Start of Darkness|VERY badly]], almost as a spurned lover}}, and has some generally effiminate mannerisms. In ''Eternal Wings'', his bedroom is filled with children's toys and heart pillows and has a generally pink theme.
* {{spoiler|[[Disc One Final Boss]]: Appears barely a few hours into the second disc. [[Spoiled Byby the Format|Whoops.]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Doomed Byby Canon]]}}: In ''Origins''.
* [[The Emperor]]
* [[Evil Overlord]]
* {{spoiler|[[Fake Boss]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Go Mad Fromfrom the Revelation]]: ''Twice''. The first canonical one in Origins, where he goes off the deep end after Verus reveals himself. The other one, in ''EWLO'', after [[The Reveal]], when he appears again, he's arguably even ''more'' nuts than before. Just listen to him!}}
* [[Jiggle Physics]]: {{spoiler|His [[One-Winged Angel]] form.}} [[Squick|Oh god.]]
* [[Marathon Boss]]: Can feel like this {{spoiler|in the first battle}} because he will keep healing himself practically every turn.
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* [[Yes-Man]]: In ''Orginis''.
 
=== '''Melodia''' ===
{{quote| ''"Oh, thank you, dark-winged traveler."''}}
 
Lady Melodia as she is called, is the granddaughter of Duke Calbren, ruler of Mira; thus she is the heir to the duchy. Melodia's parents died when she was young because of a plague that struck Mira, and that same plague almost took her own life as well. Because of this, it is somewhat implied that she is [[Ill Girl|rather frail, physically.]] However, Melodia is seen to be constantly smiling a gentle smile, calmly placating arguing people and inspiring admiration in all of Mira. She is also stated to be a close friend of [[Big Bad|Geldoblame's]], which warrants such things as an escort headed by the general of Alfard and such. Melodia's shown to be empathic towards spirits, able to sense their feelings even before they manifest them on the physical plane, and just as well as being able to placate them. She helps the group sneak into Alfard for the final End Magnus.
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{{spoiler|After ''Origins'', it is now very heavily implied that she is Sagi and Milly's daughter, the two having gone to Mira at the end of the game seeking asylum under Duke Calbren. Her hair color, which is the same color as Sagi's after she is redeemed, and her incredible ressemblance to Milly further support this possibility.}}
 
* {{spoiler|[[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]: In her backstory.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Came Back Wrong]]: She's fully human, and is in one piece, but there's ''something else'' with her.}}
* [[Creepy Child|Creepy Teenage Girl]]: As nice as everyone says she is, she still seems a bit odd. {{spoiler|And then it's played straight.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Death Byby Origin Story]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Despair Event Horizon]]: When Duke Calbren reveals her nature, which prompts her to fuse with Malpercio.}}
* [[Distressed Damsel in Distress]]: {{spoiler|Even Malpercio was holding her hostage within him.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Evil Albino]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Easily Forgiven]]}}
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== The Rulers of the Sky ==
 
=== '''Lord Rodolfo''' ===
 
Ruler of Sadal Suud, the Ancient Frontier. He is a man of pourtly build, often acting in a rather selfish way, and is also criticized to be a coward who kisses up to the Empire. Rodolfo is first seen complying with the Empire's intentions in Sadal Suud in hopes that they will go away quicker. After that, he is said to have confined himself in his mansion after {{spoiler|Malpercio revives.}} Some time later, before the end of the game, he returns to help the other Rulers {{spoiler|destroy Cor Hydrae's shield.}}
 
In ''Origins'', we see a younger Rodolfo who is a servant to the unnamed Lord at the time, hoping to inherit the post. We see him originally as someone very greedy who would gladly allow the Empire promachinate his country, but it turns out his true intentions are to help push Sadal Suud forward in the world's economy. [[It Got Worse|As expected,]] it doesn't work.
 
* [[Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?]]: What he [[Subverted Trope|''tries'']] to do to Hughes in ''Origins''. Unfortunately, Hughes didn't actually buy it for a minute, and was in fact already prepared for the event.
* [[Fat Bastard]]: Comes off as this. {{spoiler|Subverted. He may be somewhat rough and selfish, but he truly has the good of his nation in his heart.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]}}
* [[Somebody Else's Problem]]: [[The Empire]] leaves him in this situation with Xelha. Then he apparently takes this stance when {{spoiler|Malperio revives. Fortunately, this is subverted at the end.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] - He ''truly'' wants the best for his nation, but he keeps allying with [[The Empire]] and doing their bidding.}}
 
=== '''King Ladekahn''' ===
 
The reigning King of Diadem, Land of the Clouds. Ladekahn is touted as a brave and strong leader under whose leadership the will of Diadem's people is said to be unshakable. Ladekahn believes in the code of honor of a knight, and thus falls to Ayme's trap, saved only by your [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment. Afterwards, he reveals the location of Diadem's End Magnus, and later sends the group with a letter in his name to Queen Corellia, proposing an alliance against the Empire. After {{spoiler|Malpercio revives}}, he forms a coalition of nations with Anuenue and Mira in order to combat their enemy.
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* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Though he was [[Hair of Gold|blondish]] in ''Origins''...
 
=== '''Queen Corellia''' ===
 
Queen Corellia, the Fairy Guide as she is called, is the queen of Anuenue, the Rainbow Nation. Queen Corellia has maintained a policy of staying [[True Neutral]] in all conflicts between nations, which means she is to show as much hospitality to our heroes as she would their enemies. In both games this presents a conflict with both of the heroes' teams due to the fact that her neutrality gets in the way. However, she acknowledges that neutrality is impossible in ''Eternal Wings'' once Geldoblame is proven to be guilty of his accusations, and looks the other way when Sagi needs to retrieve Celestial Tree Fell Branches in ''Origins''.
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* [[Older Than They Look]]
 
=== '''Duke Calbren''' ===
 
Regent of the Duchy of Mira, the City of Illusion. Duke Calbren first appears in ''Eternal Wings'' when the group is invited to his manor as thanks for saving Melodia from the [[Terrible Trio]]. Not too long after, he reveals the location of the Bo End Magnus. After {{spoiler|Malpercio is revived}}, he forms a coalition of nations alongside King Ladekahn and Queen Corellia in order to combat the enemy.
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* [[Nice Hat]]
 
=== '''The Great Kamroh''' ===
 
Elder of Genma Village and leader of the Children of the Earth. There are actually ''two'' different Kamrohs in ''Baten Kaitos''. The Great Kamroh in ''Eternal Wings'' who wears a red mask is the one who tells our heroes to look for the Sword of the Heavens, and later leads the effort to retrieve the Ring of Stars for Mizuti. In ''Origins,'' we see the two Kamrohs together: the previous Great Kamroh (a very old and thin man who wears a blue mask), and the Kamroh from ''Eternal Wings'' (younger and more strict), who later inherits the position once Guillo's sidequest is finished.
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* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}} - The Kamroh of ''Origins''.
 
=== '''Krumly''' ===
 
The leader of Algorab Village. Krumly's character undergoes a serious transformation from his incarnation in ''Origins'' to twenty years later in ''Eternal Wings.'' In ''Origins,'' Krumly is polite yet companionable, obeying the ''Origins'' Great Kamroh even if at odds with Kamroh (who would become the Elder at the end of the sidequest). However, after the first Kamroh names the ''Eternal Wings'' Kamroh as his successor, Krumly leaves in outrage. In ''Eternal Wings'', Krumly is clearly still embittered by this fact, as an NPC mentions that he and The Great Kamroh have arguements all the time he goes to Genma Village.
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== The [[Power Trio]] ==
 
=== '''Sagi''' ===
 
{{quote| ''"[[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner|May my blade be sharp!]]"''}}
 
[[The Hero]] of ''Origins''. Sagi is a fifteen-year-old assassin enlisted in the Empire's Dark Service. Another spiriter, Sagi grew up in the town of Sheratan on Hassaleh. After Emperor Olgan had most of Sheratan enslaved, Sagi joined the Imperial Army to provide for his mother's orphanage. Wields a very long katana and wears a distinctive red robe.
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* {{spoiler|[[And Then John Was a Zombie]]}}
* [[Badass Adorable]]: He's fifteen, baby-faced, naive, and fairly short. Milly even tells him at one point that he's the kind of person who looks like he needs mothering.
* [[Badass Normal]]: Nothing more than a sword and some magic. {{spoiler|Upgrades to [[Badass Abnormal]] after the Heart-to-Heart.}}
* [[Berserk Button]]: {{spoiler|Hurt Sagi's mother}} and Sagi will kick your ass.
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* [[Cheerful Child|Cheerful Teenager]]
* [[Chick Magnet]]: In a way. In addition to Milly, Lolo gets the hots for him almost instantly. And during their stay in Sadal Suud, a wanted poster claims that he steals women's hearts (and their wallets).
* {{spoiler|[[Doomed Byby Canon]]: If you believe that he's Melodia's father.}}
* [[Elemental Powers]]: His finishers are mostly [[Playing Withwith Fire]] and [[An Ice Person]] with a few odd variable-element attacks and one [[Shock and Awe|electrical]] attack early in the game. There's also one notable attack that incorporates {{spoiler|[[Light'Em Up]]}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Gone Horribly Right]]: He is the successful tailor-made spiriter/malideiter.}}
* [[Heavy Sleeper]]: A [[Running Gag]].
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: He's voiced by Crawford Wilson, aka [[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Jet]] and [[The World Ends With You (Video Game)|Beat]].
* [[Improbable Age]]: He's in the Dark Service, and he's only fifteen. Becomes justified later on when you realise {{spoiler|that certain people in the empire knew ''damn well'' who he was.}}
* [[Jack of All Stats]]: Is arguably the most balanced of the party.
* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]
* [[Kid Hero]]: He's 15.
* [[Magnetic Hero]]: Inspires die-hard loyalty from Milly and Guillo, as well as winning over the leaders of the island nations very easily.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: 'Sagi' is the Japanese word for heron, but it can also mean 'fraud.' {{spoiler|[[Subverted Trope|It fits the Guardian Spirit more than it does Sagi.]]}}
* [[Momma's Boy]]: A lot of his decisions are based on how they will affect his mother, and she often expresses that she wants him to start doing things to make himself happy. {{spoiler|[[Unstoppable Rage|And God help you if you hurt her...]]}}
* [[Nice Guy]]: Compared to the cynical [[Jerkass]] Kalas, Sagi is very idealistic and upbeat.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Occasionally.
* {{spoiler|[[Tomato in Thethe Mirror]]: Sagi and his spirit aren't quite what he thinks they are.}}
* [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]: {{spoiler|Before Heart-to-Heart, Sagi loses quite a lot of fights. Afterward, he's unstoppable.}}
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: Just ask {{spoiler|Shanath}} what happens when you make Sagi angry.
* {{spoiler|[[Unwitting Pawn]]: Verus certainly had him under his thumb.}}
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Teal Hair]]
 
=== '''Guillo''' ===
 
{{quote| ''"Hmm, this fight might be too much for you alone - [[Deadpan Snarker|provided their guns sting more than their wit]]."''}}
 
An arcane puppet animated by mysterious forces, Guillo was found buried in the Nusakan Thornwood by Sagi, who dug it up and brought it back to Sheratan. Guillo has no memories before being dug up by Sagi, aside from its name. It enlisted in the Imperial Army alongside Sagi, posing as a [[Robot Buddy|paramachina]]. Attacks with powerful magic channeled through its arms and legs.
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* [[Child-Hater]]: Children are fascinated by Guillo and play rough with it as a result, which annoys it greatly. Additionally, Guillo mentions [[Kids Are Cruel]] plays a part.
* [[Combat Stilettos]]: Doesn't help the gender issue at all, either.
* [[Crutch Character]]: When it first joins your party, it's under AI control.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Might not be ''the'' snarkiest character ever created, but it's certainly up there.
* [[Elemental Powers]]: Like the others, normal attack elements vary, but its finishers fall under all six elements. It tends to lean more towards the [[An Ice Person|ice]] side of things, however.
* {{spoiler|[[Famous Last Words]]: ''So long, Milliarde. Take care of Sagi!''}}
* [[Glass Cannon]]: Has the highest attack power but pitiful HP and defense.
* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}
* [[Hold Your Hippogriffs]]: Frequently.
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: Parodied. Guillo threatens to eat a lot of people, but never acts upon it.
* [[The Lancer]] ''and'' [[The Smart Guy]]
* {{spoiler|[[Lost Superweapon]]: Guillo was abandoned by the Children of the Earth, who felt that the world didn't need weapons that could kill a god anymore.}}
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* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Calls Sagi out on snapping at his guardian spirit.
 
=== '''Milly (Milliarde)''' ===
 
{{quote| ''"Talk about unfair odds! I don't know how I do it."''}}
 
A young girl who first appears as Sagi and Guillo are fleeing Mintaka, helping them escape and latching onto them immediately afterward. Milliarde is the sheltered daughter of an Alfard nobleman, who decided to run away and see the outside world. Despite annoying Guillo to no end, she gets along well with Sagi and quickly befriends him. In battle, she dual wields large spiked clubs.
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* [[Action Girl]]
* [[Badass Adorable]]: Anyone who says Milly isn't cute is a filthy liar.
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Sort of. She's had more education than Sagi, even though she was never particularly interested in school.
* [[Blood Knight]]: Possible interpretation given how ''ecstatic'' she sounds in a scrap.
* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]
* [[The Big Girl]] and [[The Chick]]: She shakes up Sagi and Guillo's in-game two-man band dynamic and also serves as their emotional centre. In-battle, she also seems to get ''very'' into it.
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: When [[Genki Girl|Lolo]] shows up, anyway. [[Played for Laughs]].
* [[Cute Bruiser]]
* {{spoiler|[[Cyborg]]: She was in an accident when she was young, and most of her body was replaced with machina.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Doomed Byby Canon]]: Again, if you buy into the idea that she's the mother of Melodia.}}
* [[Dual-Wielding]]: [[Drop the Hammer|Maces]].
* [[Elemental Powers]]: Normal attacks are variable, of course, but her finishers fall primarily under [[Shock and Awe]], with some hints of [[An Ice Person]] and [[Playing Withwith Fire]], except for a couple which have no element at all.
* [[Everyone Can See It]]: Her crush on Sagi is very obvious. [[Deadpan Snarker|Guillo]] takes a few shots at her for it.
* [[Face Palm]]: When Sagi {{spoiler|reveals that he told Lolo about their wedding}}.
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* [[Large Ham]] / [[Not So Above It All]]: Outside of battle, she seems like a fairly cheerful girl with a rather [[Everyone Can See It|obvious]] crush on Sagi. Inside of a battle, she takes considerable bites out of the scenery with her [[Calling Your Attacks|attack cries]]. {{spoiler|It clearly runs in the family.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter]]}}
* [[Mighty Glacier]]: A weird example. She has low offense, but her physical defense is the highest of the three party members, and her low attack power is balanced out by the fact that she hits multiple times per attack (as well as having several unique specials attacks). {{spoiler|Granted, this may be a subtle hint that she's a [[Cyborg]]...}}
* {{spoiler|[[The Mole]]: She was reporting on the party's actions to her father, Baelhiet.}}
** {{spoiler|She never actually betrays you, however - she admits to this instead.}}
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== The Imperial Plot ==
 
=== '''Baelheit''' ===
 
{{quote| ''"What you're capable of...Such an apt choice of words."''}}
 
The leader of the [[Five-Bad Band|Machina Vanguard]], Lord Baelheit is a powerful Imperial politician and one of the two candidates for Emperor. He strongly advocates promachination, extolling it as the way of the future and desiring to remove magic, which he detests, from people's lives. He is rarely seen in-game, preferring to act through the Dark Service or his underlings.
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* {{spoiler|[[Anti-Villain]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Despair Event Horizon]]: After the spectacular failure of the malideiter project, he fled [[The Empire]] and tried to kill himself. Then, he met his Guardian Spirit.}}
* [[Duel Boss]]: Briefly
* [[Elemental Powers]]: Mostly [[Light Is Not Good]] and [[Playing Withwith Fire]].
* {{spoiler|[[Fake Boss]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Famous Last Words]]: ''Goodbye, Daimon. I'm sorry we never got to see the end of your story''.}}
* {{spoiler|[[HeelDeadly Face Door SlamChange-of-Heart]]: Milly almost convinces him to stop promachination and land Tarazed. Then Verus steps in...}}
* {{spoiler|[[Heel Realization]]: It takes a beatdown from Sagi and his Guardian Spirit refusing him power to realize it.}}
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Looks like [[Mass Effect 1|Saren's]] connection with machines is older than we thought.
* [[Large Ham]]: He's calm throughout most of the game, but {{spoiler|when you confront him in Tarazed's control room}}, his VA unleashes the hog.
* {{spoiler|[[Mad Scientist]]: He outright states that even if he had reservations, he conducted the malideiter experiment partly because he wanted to know if it is possible to create an artificial spiriter.}}
* [[Nice Hat]]
* {{spoiler|[[Red Herring]]: He's not really all that evil (at least compared to [[Complete Monster|Verus]]), but up until [[The Reveal]] he's made out to be much worse than he actually is.}}
* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: {{spoiler|After Sagi lays the smackdown on him, Daimon realizes how misguided they've become and denies him her power}}.
* [[Villain Withwith Good Publicity]]
* {{spoiler|[[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: So, so much.}}
 
=== '''Verus''' ===
 
{{quote| ''"Welcome, lad. I am Verus, head of the Empire's military affairs."''}}
 
The other candidate for Emperor, Quaestor Verus is a former hero of the Empire and a spiriter. When Sagi is being hunted by the Empire, Verus offers him a chance to work to stop Baelheit's effort at promachination. Sagi takes him up on the offer. Throughout the game, Verus serves as the [[Big Good]] for Sagi, providing him with a craft, blank magnus, and intelligence reports. He opposes promachination, believing strongly in tradition and the old ways.
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* {{spoiler|[[Flunky Boss]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Glass Cannon]]: For a final boss, Verus has pitiful HP. Of course, he spends most of the fight invulnerable.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]: See [[Karmic Death]].}}
* {{spoiler|[[I Am Not Left-Handed]]: He's faking that limp.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Karmic Death]]: The afterlings in Tarazed's core override the machina and maul him.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Laughing Mad]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: It's heavily implied that Verus is Sagi's father.}}
* [[Mission Control]]
* [[Mysterious Backer]]
* [[Nice Hat]]: You were expecting otherwise?
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* {{spoiler|[[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: To Geldoblame after [[The Reveal]], triggering Geldoblame's breakdown.}}
 
=== '''Shanath''' ===
 
{{quote| ''"Hold it right there, please. I can't allow you to run loose any longer."''}}
 
[[The Dragon]] to Baelheit, Shanath is a nasty piece of work. At the beginning of the game, he slays the Emperor and leaves Sagi to take the blame. Throughout the game, he's seen at the various promachination sites, commanding the men and hiding behind machina arma when Sagi comes calling.
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Has a daughter, named {{spoiler|Savyna}}.
 
* {{spoiler|[[Death Byby Irony]]: The malideiter project is supposed to make Shanath into a perfect heir for [[The Empire]]. Years later, the project's only successful sample kills Shanath. Shanath even muses on this at his last moments.}}
* [[The Dragon]]: {{spoiler|To both Baelheit AND Verus.}}
* [[Jerkass]]
* [[Kick the Dog]]: The list is quite long.
* {{spoiler|[[The Mole]]: A villain-to-villain example. He is secretly working with Verus.}}
* [[Pet the Dog]]: He genuinely cares about his daughter, {{spoiler|Savyna}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Self-Made Orphan]]: It's heavily implied that Shanath's father is Emperor Olgan, whom Shanath murders at the beginning of the game.}}
* [[Smug Snake]]: As smug as they get.
 
=== '''Valara''' ===
 
{{quote| ''"What do you think I am - nice?"''}}
 
* [[Foe Yay]]: Some of her conversations with Sagi.
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* [[Humongous Mecha]]: Her arma, a giant walking tank with a cannon for a tail.
* [[Lady of War]]: Averted and lampshaded. She makes a point of being soldier first, woman second.
* [[Married to Thethe Job]]: See above.
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: {{spoiler|'Don't get any ideas. I just did my job.'}}
* [[Recurring Boss]]
* [[Shock and Awe]]: Her main weapon is some sort of taser.
* [[Smug Snake]]: Fits right in with the rest of the antagonists.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Views Sagi as one after he defeats her under the Celestial Tree.
 
=== '''Heughes''' ===
 
{{quote| ''"Let's just see how many punches I've got left in me!"''}}
 
* [[Crispin Freeman (Creator)|Crispin Freeman]]
* [[The Brute]]
* [[Good Old Fisticuffs]]: His preferred attacks involve punching.
* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]: If you choose to spare him, he comes to Milly and Sagi's [[Big Damn Heroes|rescue]] as they flee Tarazed.}}
* [[Pet the Dog]]: He really cares about his brother, Nasca.
* [[Playing Withwith Fire]]: His primary elemental power.
* [[Power Fist]]: His machina arma is a giant gauntlet.
* [[Recurring Boss]]
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Goes ballistic after his arma is destroyed. If you spare him, he gets even angrier.
 
=== '''Nasca''' ===
 
{{quote| ''"Machina will dominate this continent!"''}}
 
* [[Child Prodigy]]
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== Assorted Allies ==
 
=== '''Gena''' ===
 
* {{spoiler|[[Convenient Coma]]: See [[Ill Girl]].}}
* {{spoiler|[[Distressed Damsel in Distress]]}}
* [[Hot Mom]]
* {{spoiler|[[Ill Girl]]: After getting her wings ripped out, she becomes very sick and lapses into a coma. Sagi's sidequest involves tracking down an ancient herb to strengthen her heart.}}
 
=== '''Wacho and Tik''' ===
 
* [[Cheerful Child]]
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]
 
=== '''Palolo II''' ===
 
* [[Badass]]: He stops Heughes' Burning Harken ''with one hand''.
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* [[Highly-Visible Ninja]]: Some kind of purple makes up his clothes, and even if stealthy he's ''flashy''.
 
=== '''Lolo''' ===
 
* [[Anime Hair]]
* [[Genki Girl]]: Very energetic, although also quite intelligent.
* [[The Glomp]]: Gives one to Sagi after he agrees to get her celestial fell-branches, much to Milly's horror.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Catherin Taber, whom you may know better as the voice of [[Final Fantasy XII|Penelo.]]
* [[Motor Mouth]]
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Gets three scenes in the whole game.
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== Those from elsewhere ==
 
=== '''Seph''' ===
 
* {{spoiler|[[Deal Withwith the Devil]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Doomed Hometown]]: Naos.}}
* [[The Hero]]
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* [[The Stoic]]
 
=== '''Thoran''' ===
 
* [[The Lancer]]
* {{spoiler|[[Meaningful Name]]: He's Malpercio's chest.}}
 
=== '''Pieda''' ===
 
* {{spoiler|[[Meaningful Name]]: She's Malpercio's legs and feet.}}
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* [[Team Mom]]
 
=== '''Ven''' ===
 
* [[The Big Guy]]
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* [[The Load]]: In Zaurak's Keep, Ven is the only one who can break the large boulders occasionally obstructing your path...But he can't fly up the taller ladders, so you have to find alternate routes.
 
=== '''Wiseman''' ===
 
{{quote| ''"A ruler must listen to their subjects."''}}
 
A mysterious figure in the past, Wiseman is the ruler of most of the world. He taught humanity the power of their hearts, giving them powerful magic, their wings, and the technology to create Magnus. For this, they worshipped him as a god. He advocates 'promagnation', which involves turning people into magnus, so they can live in a truly happy world, according to him.
 
{{spoiler|[[Obviously Evil|Do I even need to tell you this guy is evil?]] After Seph and co. confront him in Cujam, he storms Naos, killing anyone who resists and turning the rest into magnus. This drives Seph to make a [[Deal Withwith the Devil]] for the power to destroy him.}}
 
{{spoiler|There's more. Wiseman instigated the War of the Gods, with his army of empowered people fighting the Dark Brethren. Thanks to the Children of the Earth slaughtering Malpercio, Wiseman managed to escape the Battlefields of Atria without a scratch, stopping to consume the magnus of those who had fallen. However, with Marno's power, Sagi travels back in time and slays him, paying him back for the evil he's done.}}
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{{spoiler|...or so you thought. Wiseman wasn't quite dead, and spent the next thousand years wandering the earth as a spirit, too weak to regain his power or be sensed by mortals. Upon meeting Verus and sensing his heart, Wiseman bonded himself to Verus, waiting for an opportunity. When Sagi killed Verus, Wiseman was able to devour his heart and steal the power from Tarazed's core, returning to the corporeal world in a more terrifying form than ever before. After a [[Rousing Speech]] from Malpercio, Sagi and co. are able to slay Verus-Wiseman. In his death throes, he vanishes, leaving behind only Verus' cane.}}
 
* [[Ambiguously Evil]]: He's clearly an antagonist, but at the same time he also doesn't seem to "get" the morality of mortals.
* {{spoiler|[[Assimilation Plot]]: He turns people into pure Magnus and absorbs them.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]]: Arguably. Should you complete the sidequest that involves him, he shows up after Verus is defeated and absorbs him for the final battle. Whether or not he was actually controlling him isn't confirmed.}}
** {{spoiler|[[Bigger Bad]]: It is his promagnation campaign that started all the problems throughout the series.}}
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* [[Blue and Orange Morality]]: Wiseman doesn't quite seem to get the morality of humans.
* {{spoiler|[[Body Horror]]: His [[One-Winged Angel]] form, consisting of himself, Verus, and four afterlings fused together. It looks like a deranged cross between a rooster and an insect wearing a clown's clothing.}}
* [[Complete Monster]]: He evokes this reaction in-universe from Seph and his [[True Companions]]; who believe that he's so utterly evil and corrupt that they {{spoiler|[[Deal Withwith the Devil|strike deals with]] the ''[[Baten Kaitos]]'' equivalents of [[Satan]] for the power to defeat him. It doesn't work}}
** [[Moral Dissonance]] / [[Values Dissonance]]: ... But, as it happens, he's more like a subversion as [[Blue and Orange Morality|he clearly doesn't adhere to the same moral ideals as human beings]] and even believes that {{spoiler|[[Well-Intentioned Extremist|he is making people "truly happy" by turning them into Magnus.]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Demonic Possession]] & [[Fusion Dance]]: The [[Final Boss]] battle with him, where he devours Verus' heart and [[Body Horror|fuses with his corpse]].}}
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* [[Evil Laugh]]
* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: Inhumanly deep and very slow.
* [[Humanoid Abomination]]: It's never explained exactly what manner of being he is.
* {{spoiler|[[Karma Houdini]]: In the original past, he escaped the battle of the gods in the confusion of the fight and vanished into history. Sagi, however, can set that right.}}
* [[Kick the Dog]] / [[Moral Event Horizon]]: YMMV but {{spoiler|while his promagnation campaign can be considered incomprehensible to normal people, killing everyone off in Naos who refuses to go along with his ideals is the point where Seph and his family become resolved to stop Wiseman at all costs.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Load-Bearing Boss]]: After taking over Verus, he sucks the afterlings out of Tarazed's core and uses them to give himself more power. Defeating him causes Tarazed to self-destruct.}}
* {{spoiler|[[The Man Behind the Man]] Behind The Man}}
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Subverted. Seph's group seems to be under the impression that his reasons for {{spoiler|eating Magnus}} are going to be a convoluted mess of [[Xanatos Gambit|Xanatos Gambits]]s and emotional manipulation. Instead, he just states his beliefs and tells them to take it or leave it.
* [[Marty Stu]]: A very strange, not to mention ''creepy'', in-universe subversion. When we're first introduced to Wiseman, it's [[Obviously Evil|painfully obvious]] to the protagonists that he's a [[Humanoid Abomination]] but the [[Genre Blind]] villagers ''think'' he's one of these. They proclaim him the best thing to happen to them, spread word of the wings he's given them through teaching them how to embrace their Hearts to encourage everybody else to do everything he says. Not to mention the fact that they revere him like a god and are either totally unaware of or don't care about the fact that this thing {{spoiler|eats souls for breakfast}}. Needless to say, Seph and Sagi's respective parties are ''not'' fooled.
* [[Obviously Evil]]
* [[Royal We]]: Always speaks like this.
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