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This character sheet holds much more than the named main characters of Brutal Legend. Unique from other Real Time Strategy games, and brawlers like Dynasty Warriors, each and every unit has a story behind it, and was designed to be as important to combat as they are charming. And so, you will find information on every unit in the game, divided by the faction they come from. Of course, most of the heroes reside in the Ironheade faction, while the villains are in the rest.

Ironheade

Ironheade is the heroic Heavy Metal faction of Brutal Legend. They embody Heavy Metal (and Heavy Mithril) from The Seventies, and The Eighties. The single player campaign is a Justified Tutorial for multiplayer, teaching players how Ironheade came to be as well as the other factions.

Main

Eddie Riggs
Where I come from, this guitar makes noises. Here, it blows stuff up!
—Voiced by Jack Black

The world's greatest roadie. He finds himself transported to a mythical land of metal after an accident at a concert. Now he must find a way to help his new friends and find out some of the secrets surrounding this strange new land.

"Silence, groundwalker!"

Eddie: How do I get this thing started? Oh man... Dear evil, messed up, demon powers. (Of darkness.) Please transport me off this awesome corpse pile, I am but a visitor in this strange world, which some would call hellish, but I have to admit, is kinda badassed. Oh lords of gross leather things and S&M type wear! You know you guys really have style! That Battle Nun? She was hot. Sorry about killing her, but you're evil though, so we're cool! I didn't know I could do that with an axe.

  • Call Back: When Eddie plays the "Battle Cry" solo, a flaming sword appears over his head. He learned the solo off of Lars' blade.
  • The Call Has Bad Reception: And how! Only Ophelia and Doviculus had a clue to his significance.
  • Calling Your Attacks: Either spoken or sung...
    • Aaaannvil!
    • Call of the Wiiiiild was my faaavorite booook!
    • BRING IT ON HOME!
    • Facemelteeer!
    • Non-solo attacks will also get called if you use the Love Giver.
  • Chekhov's Skill: It's his roadie skills that unlock the secrets of the Age of Metal for all three factions.
  • Chick Magnet: Ophelia, Lita, and the Zaulia.
  • Cool Car: The Deuce a.k.a. "Druid Plow".
  • Cue the Sun: The Light of Dawn solo.

Eddie: "Oh mighty sun, burn the creatures of the night from this land while I enjoy coffee and bacon!"

"Mangus, the Hour of Rock is upon us."
"Hope you're in the mood..... for Death! Which is waiting for us on the road now lets HIT IT!"

Ophelia
I hope my parents were wrong about this...
—Voiced by Jennifer Hale

She met Eddie only a few minutes after he was transported to the world of metal. After a few fights the two quickly became allies and friends. Eddie is immediately smitten by her Perky Goth sexiness. She is a good friend to Lars Halford, but his sister Lita does not trust her due to her parents.


Lars Halford
How long do you think I should let my hair grow?
—Voiced by Zack Hanks

Lars is the leader of Ironheade and Lita's brother. Despite being dead for half the game he gets most of the credit for overthrowing Doviculus.

  • Awesome but Impractical: Lars is, in-universe, a living version of this trope: so inspiring that the armies of man will follow him to the gates of Hell, but completely incapable of organizing the logistics of an army. That, of course, is why he needs... a roadie.
  • Battle Cry: The song written on his sword.
  • Big Good: Treated as such, even by the true protagonist.
  • Designated Hero: In universe, anyway. Until you find the last Legend.
  • Do Not Taunt Cthulhu He got away with Lyonwhite, but Doviculus was not to be trifled with.
  • Fearless Fool He's a valiant and courageous man, but he's also very foolish... He walked right up to Doviculus, no weapon drawn, wearing no armor, and no actual plan or back up. He thought he would be a badass and declare his people's independence and his own sovereignty... Doviculus impales him with less effort than it'd take to swat a fly.
  • Fake Ultimate Hero
  • Genre Blindness
  • Heroic Lineage:

Eddie: So who died and made Lars king?
Lita: OUR FATHER, YOU JERK!

Headbanger: "Do you think Lars shaves his chest?"

Lars: "The time has come for you to shut the hell up, Lionwhyte!"

Lita Halford
Watch me stick this dummy in the crotch!
—Voiced by Kath Soucie

Lars Halford's sexy, but aloof younger sister. An utter Ice Queen who is critical of Lars and mistrusting of Ophelia. She harbors personal prejudices of Ophelia because her parents were Tear Drinkers in the Black Tear Rebellion.

Mangus

Mangus, are you an Engineer?

What's an Engineer?
—Voiced by Alex Fernandez

An ugly, lanky guy who becomes Eddies right hand as Bladehenge develops. Eddie is a boss and mentor to him, teaching him his Roadie ways.

"What are you looking at?"
"I don't know."

Units

Headbangers

What is that sound?!

It's a Devil screaming!

It's an Angel singing!

It is the pounding of Creation's Hammer upon the Anvil of Time!

It's fucking awesome!

It's called...Music/HeavyMetal.

Headbangers are Ironheade's main infantry unit who attack with their amazingly hard heads. They may not seem too smart but a big enough group of them can cause a lot of damage in a little time. They are the only unit in the game with a Double Team attack that stacks depending on how many of them are around. In other words, the more Headbangers you have, the larger their Mosh Pit attack is.

Tier 1 melee infantry.

Lars: What do you do with a bunch of kids who don't know how to do anything but bang their heads all day?
Eddie: (as Manly Tears form) You start a revolution, Lars.

Razor Girl

It's like they're born warriors!
I know! I think I'm gonna cry!

The Razor Girls were formerly sex slaves who were freed by Ophelia and joined Ironheade. They use guns made from razor fire boars for ranged attacks.

Tier 1 ranged infantry.

Kill Master/Thunderhog Bassists
Marchin' off to war!
—Voiced by Lemmy Kilmister

A mystic healer who resides at the peak of Thunderhorn Mountain. He and his clan of bassists join Ironheade to stick it to Lionwhyte. His clan's bass music has the ability to heal allies. Their bass strings are harvested from the webs of Metal Spiders, who spin threads of metal instead of silk. After Eddie delivers the strings, Kill Master modifies the motorcycle Eddie hastily delivered, strapping dozens of amps to play his healing music, or the paralyzing Stun Note.

Tier 1 healing vehicle.

Eddie: Hey, Kill Master! How did you like your first battle?
Kill Master: First battle with YOU. I've been around a while.

  • Waxing Lyrical: Lemmy quotes his own works on occasion.
  • Zerg Rush: Because multiple Thunderhogs don't stack their healing ability, one would think there would be no reason to have more than one at a time... until you start Double Teaming, and stunning opposing armies over and over.


Headsplitter

Reverse engineered from Lionwhyte's crossbow towers, they behave like mobile defense turrets. They attack slowly, but hit relatively hard and their arrows are unblockable. Double Team to make them fire rapid, exploding arrows.

Tier 2 ranged vehicle.

The Baron/Fire Barons
BURN THE OTHER GUYS!
—Voiced by Rob Halford

A clan of pyromaniac bikers, they fling Molotov Cocktails at their enemies. After finding out about Ironheade's exploits, they save them from the Drowning Doom just in the nick of time. Their leader is simply known as The Baron, voiced by Rob Halford. Initially a Game Breaker, patched into a fast anti-infantry unit.

Tier 2 anti-infantry vehicle squad.

Bouncers

I'm helping!

Massive Top Heavy Guys whose brawn is matched only by their gentle nature. Originally in the service of Lionwhyte, their boss' poor treatment of them encouraged most of them to defect to Ironheade.

Tier 2 anti-vehicle infantry.

I like hitting things!

Roadies

Lets blow some eardrums, man!

These Roadies are not just hard to notice, they become invisible in The Age of Metal.

Tier 3 anti-building stealth infantry.

Rima/The Zaulia/Metal Beasts
Search the prisoners for potential mates!
—Voiced by Lita Ford

The Zaulia are a clan of Amazon women in King Diamond makeup who ride fire breathing cats called Metal Beasts. Their leader is Rima, voiced by Lita Ford.

Tier 3 anti-infantry infantry.

Rock Crusher

Hey! Who else feels like taking on the world?!

Metal is just too epic for a show battle to have only one stage base, so why not have another one? The Rock Crusher is a massive unit that bombards nearby enemies with fireworks, razes infantry with it's massive grinder, and constantly provides an attack buff for nearby friendly units. Double teaming with it, Eddie plays the Bladehenge Assault solo which traps enemies in an energy effigy of said landmark that explodes. The fact that it also plays your main stage's base's current song fanfare doesn't detract from it's awesomeness.

Tier 4 vehicle, 1 unit limit.


Drowning Doom

The second army is the Drowning Doom, embodying Turn of the Millennium Death Metal and Black Metal. They are composed of various forms of The Undead, ranging from emo zombies to ghosts to pseudodemonic creatures that have crawled straight from the Uncanny Valley. They are the only army with no buffs, yet they are also the only army with debuffers. The Drowning Doom are more about bringing the opponent down than building themselves up.

The Leader of the Drowning Doom: Drowned Ophelia
After you tore out my heart and left me for dead, I'll admit I was a little down. But then I pulled myself together! Started making new friends...
—Voiced by Jennifer Hale

After Eddie and Doviculus's respective cases of Mistaken Identity, Eddie decides that Ophelia is not trustworthy for refusing to explain the name Succoria, and leaves her to tend to the now devastated Ironheade without her. Heartbroken, she wandered the land until The Sea of Black Tears compelled her to attempt suicide in its evil waters. The Sea snatched and drowned her, imprisoning her at the bottom and creating a Doppelganger, which took everything learned from Eddie to use it against him.

Grave Diggers

You don't understand our suffering!

A zombie dressed in Goth clothes. They are the only infantry to come in a squad of six (because large groups help them express their individuality). Before the patch, they had the lowest health of any infantry. After the patch, they got a little more. Their Double Team is very powerful, to the point of being a Game Breaker.

Tier 1 melee infantry squad.

Bride

Begin the procession!

A female ghost in a wedding gown who died without finding a husband (or possibly a zombie with a wedding dress Fetish). Depressing rain follows her wherever she goes, slowing enemy movement. It can stack, so if you get three together, opposing armies will hardly function, which is why you can only make three.

Tier 1 passive debuff/ranged infantry.

Frightwig

Let's give someone a hairdo!

The severed head of a female Tear Drinker who washed her hair in the Sea of Black Tears, giving it supernatural beauty. After her death, her hair came to life on its own, severing the head to fight for the Drowning Doom.

Tier 1 ranged/possession infantry.


Ratgut

Lead my rats to victory!

An undead Eurotrash guy whose Balloon Belly houses a family of plague infested rats. Or it's a horde of rats reanimating a lifeless corpse, it's intentionally vague.

Tier 2 anti-infantry infantry, limit 4 units.

Organist

Here is a song about the futility of war. Well... for YOUR side anyway...

A large car with a ghostly organ player who plays depressing music, reducing the opposing side's attack power. During a Double Team, the Hero Unit plays the organ while the player controls the Organist, who can float to any enemy unit and possess it with puppet strings.

Tier 2 passive debuff/possession vehicle, limit 3 units.

  • Evil Laugh: Lets out one of these every now and then, but is other wise mellow.
  • The Ghost
  • Mind Control
  • Ominous Fog: Blue fog surrounding The Organist can visibly show you the area of it's effect.
  • Ominous Pipe Organ: The Doom attached one to a car.
  • People Puppets: The Organist can literally extend puppet strings to steal any unit.
  • Standard Status Effects: Attack debuff to nearby enemies.
  • Stringy Haired Ghost Guy
  • Useless Useful Spell: The double team. It prevents your avatar from doing a more powerful double team, the vehicle is always nearby the possessee, and of course you can't double team with the possessee because it's the organist in doing the possession. Their attack debuff remains useful, however.

Lightning Rod

Time to get CRUEL AND UNUSUAL!

A hot rod sporting an electric chair. Strapped to it is Sparky, a criminal with an electric personality who gets electric shocks and fire them at enemies. During a Double Team, he creates Chain Lightning that can zap a massive group of enemies all at once. The Drowning Doom equivalent of a Headsplitter.

Tier 3 ranged vehicle.

Hero Unit Let's go see the Governor!
Sparky: YES! A pardon from the Queen!


Brood

Nobody here but us babies!

An evil pram (baby stroller) that launches baby dolls that munch on infantry or severely damage cars.

Tier 3 anti-vehicle ranged vehicle.


Reaper

Time to reap!

A Grim Reaper sporting big headphones and the Drowning Doom crest, riding on an undead Reaper Steed. They are expensive and have low health. But they move very fast, and their attacks are unblockable, making them good for guarding an area from Hero Units, or attacking lone units of any kind. During their Double Team, you can ride with them, creating a scary aura that causes enemy infantry to flee in a panic, allowing other units to close in.

Tier 3 anti-infantry infantry.


Dirgible

Riiiiide with meeeeee......

The ultimate Drowning Doom debuffer, it lowers defense. It is a dirigible with an unseen, mysterious dead guy inside who whipsers and spreads his own crematory ashes across the battlefield. Around it, the land seemingly rots and decays. It doubles as a healing unit when it's urns are dropped on friendly units.

Tier 3 passive debuff/healing vehicle, limit 1 unit.

Eddie, Defense Down: Hey guys? I think we should break up the army.
Eddie, Defense Down: Man, I don't even like Heavy Metal anymore.
Doviculus, Defense Down: Why did I EVER think the demons could win!?
Doviculus, Defense Down: It's YOUR fault, Minions! YOU'RE the reason we're going to lose today!


Treeback

Show your roots!

A giant zombie with a tree on it's back that houses murderous crows. The crows are anti-infantry, but when double teaming the giant rises from the ground and has powerful melee attacks.

Tier 4 anti-infantry range/general purpose melee infantry, limit 1 unit.

Tainted Coil

The Tainted Coil are the villains of the story. A race of S&M covered demons themed around Industrial Metal, they enslaved humanity before the events of the single player campaign. They are led by the evil, yet delightfully kinky Emperor Doviculus. Gameplay wise, they resemble the Zerg, as specific demonic units have the power to grow monsters and vehicles anywhere on the battlefield.

Emperor Doviculus
Give them your mercy UNTIL THEY CAN TAKE NO MORE!
—Voiced by Tim Curry

The Big Bad, ruler of, and kinky father to the entire Tainted Coil army. Doviculus is demon that revels in his own evilness, enjoys being hurt as much as hurting his enemies (or even his own children), and oh yeah. Something about impregnating his own children by force of will to build an army. In short, he's every famous role Tim Curry has had in the skin of the Prince of Darkness.

[After Lars declares himself leader of the human rebellion] "Well, in that case... *skewers Lars* It seems I had less to worry about than I thought."

SEND ME A NIGHTMARE!

"Can you hear me?! I AM YOUR MASTER!"
"You will surrender to me, monstrosity!"
"Tell me your secrets, automobile!"

Curse solo quote: "Let your veins RUN THICK WITH MY DISEASE!"

Battle Nun

"I feel more... DISCIPLINE is needed."

A latex clad demonic nun with the power to give birth to demons in the middle of the battlefield. When not being impregnated by the will of their emperor, Battle Nuns are proficient melee units which heal and are strengthened by any non-breeding units near them.

Tier 1 melee infantry/hierarchy unit.

Soul Kisser

Basic melee infantry, these demons are covered in latex and their hands bound behind their backs. They silently attack with their hair, made of meshing metal shears.

Tier 1 melee/kamikaze infantry squad.

Punishing Party

We punish you, and punish you, and WHAT DO YOU GIVE US?!
—Voiced by Courtney Taylor

A complex squad composed of one demonic gimp called Pinboy, and four bird-faced dominatrices that pluck spears from his back to throw at enemies.

Tier 1 ranged infantry squad.


Tick Choppers

Imp like creatures who ride on Chopper-esque motorcycles. They fling metallic ticks, similar to the metal spiders, onto enemies, which suck blood (or motor oil) from their victims until they burst. They cannot be produced, instead they can only be summoned by a solo.

Special tier summoned ranged vehicle squad.

Warfather

I can give you things the Sisters cannot.

Tainted Coil's tier 2 production unit, the Warfather shares the same double team as Battle Nuns and Overblessers: being impregnated by Doviculus' will and producing tier 2 units anywhere on the battlefield. Their regular attacks are demonic energy fired from their unholy book. Has a similar healing/buffing effect as Battle Nuns.

Tier 2 ranged infantry/hierarchy unit.


Screamwagon/Screamin' Demon

Can you help me? I was told that I was signing up for a spa day!
—Voiced by David Cross

A lone, unlucky Screamin' Demon is strapped to a car and tortured various ways. His screams of torment inspire different buffs depending on the torture.

Tier 2 active buff vehicle.

Skull Raker

Drive my skull DEEP into the enemy!

A massive demon with the mind of an infant. Its head is a mace, chained to a tether on its neck.

Tier 2 medium range melee infantry.

Pain Lifter

Your pain is a beautiful gift!

A slow but deadly, long range trebuchet that fires living bombs called Agony Balls, which burst, spreading poison.

Tier 2 anti-infantry ranged vehicle.

  • Abnormal Ammo: Agony Balls are pitiful creatures who are born spending every moment of their short lives in agony, waiting to be euthanized by being launched and self-destructed.
  • And I Must Scream: The Agony Balls spend every moment of their existence in agony until they self destruct.
  • Geo Effects: Find a high spot and launch Agony Balls very long distances to your heart's delight.
  • Herd-Hitting Attack

Overblesser

May I kneel on your altar?

The metal demon Eddie used to depart the Temple of Ormagoden. This time, a demonic priest sporting garb The Pope would wear sits atop it. He has the power to breed a Superior Warfather, making even better units.

Tier 3 ranged infantry/hierarchy unit, limit 1 unit.


Hate Cage

Time for a Hate Parade!

Actually two different creatures. One is a massive pair of legs. Between them is a cage with a living lump of pure hate. It spits liquid hate on enemies, lowering defense. Unfortunately, they are the worst unit in the game: their cost is high, their health is low, and by the time they have entered the fray, they will have taken serious damage before they can get a hand into the battle. If you see somebody build one, it means they're showing off (they still look cool after all...).

Tier 3 ranged/melee infantry.


Heart Cutter

My heart years to serve the Coil!

A massive, disturbing vehicle with an anti-vehicle attack. The car serves as a massive altar in which one of the Tainted Coil druids stands with his sword beside a giant, pulsing heart. When the druid stabs it, massive spikes rise up from the ground, impaling infantry or cars, causing severe damage to cars especially. During the Double Team, Doviculus allows his own heart to be stabbed. But he remarks "Don't worry. It's not MY heart...".

Tier 3 anti-vehicle ranged vehicle.


Bleeding Death

LAUNCH THE SUFFERING!

A combination of the final Tainted Coil unit and final attack, it is violently stuffed into an iron maiden and then launched anywhere on the battlefield, where it goes on a rampage, refusing to follow orders until it slowly bleeds to death.

Tier 4 uncontrollable melee infantry.

  • Attack! Attack! Attack!: He CANNOT be commanded by any means.
  • Ax Crazy
  • The Berserker: It's constantly losing health from the moment it's created, the only thing that will cease its attacks is death.
  • Body Horror: It's a massive humanoid... thing... with arms and mouths growing out of places they really shouldn't be. One of the extras shows concept art, which reveals that its torso is made of skulls.
  • Cold-Blooded Torture: Is stuffed into a way-too-small iron maiden where it awaits being launched. Once released, it will attack endlessly until it bleeds to death.
  • Eldritch Abomination
  • Friend or Foe: He does not count as an ally to the point that if he destroys a Merch Booth, the geyser will appear green and your opponent can claim it all over again. Yet there is no friendly fire.
  • The Juggernaut: The only thing that can stop it is a Drowning Doom "Wall of Death".
  • Unstoppable Rage: Not even Doviculus can control it when it's set free.
  • Wave Motion Gun: Takes a long time to cast.

Additional Characters

The Guardian of Metal

Have you pleased the fucking gods of metal yet?
I want you to go FUCKING CRAZY out there! YOU HEAR ME?!
—Voiced by Ozzy Osbourne

A mysterious robed man with Cool Shades and a thick accent. He offers Eddie the secrets of the Titans in exchange for Fire Tributes, which are treated as currency.

  • All Powerful Bystander: "I'm not really a fighter, I'm more of a... keeper of timeless secrets."
  • Arms Dealer: He supplies all the upgrades to Eddie's car and armaments as well as a few other things he sells. Apart from an axe upgrade Eddie gets from the Hunter, and a nitro upgrade from Squealer. Everything else comes from the Guardian of Metal.
  • Brilliant But Lazy: He's not a fighter. Ok fine. He supposedly knows all there is about the Guardians and the knowledge they left for the future generations. But he doesn't actually tell you much of it. He also sometimes gets annoyed when Eddie visits him since he apparently interrupts the Guardian's nap.
  • Cameo: From the great and powerful OZZY!
  • Ink Suit Actor: Looks like Ozzy, talks like Ozzy, and curses like f---ing Ozzy.
  • Ozzy Osbourne: Playing himself, pretty much.
  • The Reveal: "Well! It's about fucking time!"
  • Watch the Paint Job: It's not even his car, but man does he get pissed at Eddie.

Every time you come down here, there's another fucking scratch on that beautiful car!

Lionwhyte
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH DEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAATH!
—Voiced by Rob Halford

A villainous human warlord who Doviculus appointed to rule over the enslaved humans. He enslaves his own people to please Doviculus while attempting to fashion humanity in his Camp, Hair Metal image. Voiced by Rob Halford.

The Hunter
What a little puss.
—Voiced by Brian Posehn

A grumpy hunter who has hunted every animal in the land. He challenges Eddie to beat his hunting records, which awards Eddie the increasingly powerful Call of the Wild song, which summons the animals he defeats. Voiced by Brian Posehn.

  • Badass Normal: He's hunted and killed several of the worlds most dangerous animals... all by himself.
  • Cameo: Brian and Schafer worked on a newspaper together in high school. Also, he likes Metal.
  • Grumpy Bear
  • Ink Suit Actor: The Hunter is not only voiced by Brian Posehn, but he also looks exactly like him.
  • Nice Hat: Makes himself one of these out of the laser panthers he killed.
  • Real Men Eat Meat: Often found munching on a slab of whatever he just killed.
  • Troll: Eddie and The Hunter do not like each other.
  • Twenty Bear Asses: He gives these quests exclusively.

Fletus

Oh can it. I know who you are, you're that guy who thinks he invented cars!
Nah, I didn't invent cars, I just showed them how to put them together, it's easy!
Oh yeah. My people have been doing it for years... EXCEPT WE MADE THEM FAST!

Originally the leader of his own faction, but cut out due to time restrictions, he sits around with his car, The Squealer, awaiting challengers to race him. He hints several times that he has an entire army. He hints that his army is a race of demons different from the Tainted Coil, and their races are enemies. The Coil, who wrap themselves in bondage to mimic the Titans, decided that Fleetus's race are too ugly to be allies.

  • Cool Car: The Squealer is a green Dodge Challenger that's WAY too small for Fleetus. His body sticks out of the moon roof, along with the steering wheel and stick shift, a reference to Ed Roth's Rat Fink.
  • Demoted to Extra: Originally Fletus was the leader of his own faction of demons, but this ended up being cut out of the game due to time constraints.
  • Expy: Of Glottis from Grim Fandango.
    • He also talks and dresses like Brian Johnson from ACDC.
  • Grumpy Bear
  • Hero Unit: To a cut fourth faction. What it looks like is unknown other than the Tick Choppers.
  • Our Demons Are Different: Fleetus explains to Eddie that his race is fundamentally different from the demons of the Tainted Coil, who are not his allies. The Tainted Coil dislike his race because they are too ugly. Furthermore, his race has had access to cars long before Eddie showed up.
  • Proud Warrior Race Guy: What race is unknown at this time...
  • Racing Mini Game
  • The Rival
  • Sequel Hook: He hints his army will return for revenge for Eddie winning so many races.
  • Violent Glaswegian: YOU'LL NEVAH TAKE MEH ALIIIIIIVE!
  • Watch the Paint Job: "Do not touch my damn car!"
  • Winged Humanoid: His wings are tucked behind his back in-game, but his full Hero Unit wings are revealed in concept art. He has wings like a vampire bat, except with hairy tarantula legs in between the membrane of the wings.

Dadbat
Get out of here before I bite your fucking head off!
—Voiced by Ozzy Osbourne

A small, angry, neurotic vampire bat with a human head. He holds one sidequest for Eddie: clearing out his cave of monsters so his family can move back in. Ozzy's second voiced character.

Kabbage Boy

And nothing of value was lost...

Alriiiiight! Do you people wanna hear some Heavy Metal?!

The band that Eddie works for in the intro, Kabbage Boy is a "Second Wave of American Tween Melodic Rap Metalcore" group that does "Heavy Metal", as they put it. They are killed by Ormagoden when Eddie accidentally summons him.

Characters of Legend

These are characters that appear in the origin stories and legends of the old/beginning/creation of the world of metal.

Ormagoden

The Eternal Fire Beast, the Creamator of the Sky, and Destroyer of the Ancient World. It is a six legged monster Made of Iron, who although appears menacing and evil in the intro, is actually a Physical God of nature and Heavy Metal who shaped the world into what it is.

The First Ones

Exactly What It Says On the Tin. These were supposedly the first beings in existence in the world of metal, before it was even a world of metal.

  • Asshole Victim: They greedily drank from a holy tree all day with no sense of gratitude, one of them kidnapped, caged and forced Aetulia to sing only for him and under his orders, used her to try and trap Ormagoden. Suffice to say, when their plan backfires (literally), it ends with them all dying, and seemingly being reborn as the Tainted Coil. Either way, it's hard to pity them.
  • When It All Began: In the beginning, all was darkness, which they felt was good because even they somehow knew they were so hideous that they couldn't bear to look at themselves.

Aetulia

An ancient goddess-like being who lived deep beneath the earth's surface and sang to the roots of a sacred tree to help it grow.

  • Angelic Beauty: While the first ones were all supposedly super ugly monsters, she was a beautiful humanoid-looking woman. Her voice AND appearance were supposedly second to none.
  • Beautiful Agony: After her being part of the events leading to Ormagoden's death, she went back into isolation and spent millennia crying. Her tears formed into what later became known as the Sea of Black Tears, and supposedly, any who drink from said sea will receive some of her power, but also go insane with despair or rage.
  • Corrupt the Cutie: The First ones did this to her, though not literally, they made her do something that made HER feel corrupted. She falls to despair after she was used to help kill Ormagoden, and her tears formed the Sea of Black Tears which turns anyone who drinks from the seas insane and/or evil. Like what happened to Ophelia.
  • Damsel in Distress: She was singing her beautiful songs all day every day, minding her own business, when one day... the The Greedy First King of the First Ones imprisoned her and forced her to do his bidding.
  • Heroic BSOD: Happens to her after she was forced to lure Ormagoden into a trap. She blamed herself for his death and cried so much and so long that her tears formed the Black Tear Sea, and SHE herself eventually turned to dust.
  • Jerk With a Heart of Gold: Not exactly HER but at the same time, yes. SHE is a good person or rather, she WAS. By the time of the game's events, she's been long dead/gone. All that remains is the Sea of Black Tears that she created from her own tears of despair. The tears curse any who drink of them which is a pretty Jerkass move.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Her voice was magic and was used to nourish the great tree of drinking, which was in turn suckled for nourishment by the First Ones... The Greedy First King of the First Ones imprisoned her and forced her to do his bidding. This in turn leads to her being used to lure Ormagoden down into a trap, and after his death, she was rid of the First Ones, but went into seclusion where she cried and mourned her part in the death of Ormagoden. Her tears ended up creating the "Sea of Black Tears" which in turn caused a great deal of pain and suffering even millenia after she had "turned to dust". Some of the Titans going insane and dying, the Black Tear Rebellion, and Ophelia becoming tainted.
  • Unwitting Pawn: Some of the wording of the legends, on top of a supposed poem heard in-game, leads one to believe that perhaps when she was imprisoned by the First Ones, they may have either tried befriending her or manipulating her into trusting them, and then she sang her song which lured Ormagoden down for them to try and kill him.

The Titans/Gods of Heavy Metal

An ancient race of giant human-like beings that came to power after the fall of Ormagoden and the First Ones.

  • Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Eventually, they evolve SO much that they become all-knowing and all-powerful, and they do this. However, before they leave, they left instructions and other preparations behind to tell those left behind how they could live and follow in their footsteps.
  • Kryptonite Factor: Even the Titans were vulnerable to the Black Tears. Thus they dropped a mountain atop the sea to seal it away.
  • Gentle Giant: They saw the Tainted Coil and pitied them, clothed them, and adopted them (like pets).
  • Physical Gods: At first, they were giants that appeared from places unknown. Eventually, they evolved so much that they became this, and so they decided to ascend to higher planes of existence.

Riggnarok

Eddie's father.

  • Chekhov's Armoury: He left behind a few very important items that Eddie would take possession of that became very important later including: the Ormagoden artifact which sent Eddie back in time, the very shirt Eddie wears has the logo of his mother (though he didn't know that) on it, and the sword Eddie gets from Lars was actually originally Riggnarok's.
  • Determinator: He was the only one of his entire army to resist the effects of the Sea of Black Tears. This leads him to infiltrating the Tainted Coil so that they would take him with them to the future, so that he could kill the emperor of the Tainted Coil.
  • Like Father, Like Son: Eddie supposedly looks a lot like his father, minus a full beard. They also act very similar in their heroic deeds.

Succoria

The Emperor of the Tainted Coil from the days of Eddie's father's life. The Grand Demon Witch, the White Winged Death, the most fierce and bloodthirsty warrior of ALL the Tainted Coil.

  • Death By Childbirth: She died giving birth to her and Riggnarok's son... Eddie.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Initially, she was the most blood-thirsty and fierce warrior of the Tainted Coil, but when she went to the Future, she lost her will to go on. She then developed a bond with Riggnarok who spared her life. The two fell in love and even had a child together, but she died in child-birth of their son... Eddie.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: She had always apparently turned down Doviculus whenever he made advances toward her. Good thing though, by the time Eddie comes around, Succoria is long dead, and apparently, almost ALL of the entire Tainted Coil is either his offspring or has bred with him in some way. Kind of a funny insult toward Doviculus in that, she fell in love with and had a baby with a human who for the longest time were seen as inferior and always hated by the Tainted Coil, and yet she'd prefer one of them to Doviculus.
  • Hoist by Her Own Petard: She wanted to go to the future to reacquire secrets of the Ancient ones including the Titans, but when she found society was dominated by humans, she gave up on everything. Instead, she and Riggnarok actually fell in love and had a child together: Eddie. Who would later go back in time to help take down the Tainted Coil, which very well may have been why the future was dominated by humans in the first place.
  • Red Herring Twist: Initially, everyone is led to think that Ophelia IS Succoria, but actually, Succoria is long dead in the story. It turns out that Eddie is actually her and Riggnarok's son, hence why they can "smell her blood".


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  1. ↑ Break the Cutie/Corrupt the Cutie/Dark Action Girl/Dark and Troubled Past/The Dark Chick/Came Back Wrong/Doppelganger/Evil Makeover/Face Heel Turn/Heel Face Turn/Heel Face Revolving Door/Heartbroken Badass \\ Ironic Echo: "Hey look, Eddie! I finally got myself a car. It has a special seat in the back just for you." \\ Poor Communication Kills: Everything that happened to her was because of Doviculus's and Eddie's respective misinterpretations of Succoria's presence. \\ Super-Powered Evil Side/The Ophelia/Unwitting Pawn
  2. ↑ Doviculus wills his own children to pregnancy, causing a nasty growth to rapidly surge out of their mouth, around their body, and into the ground. The growth comes back out of the ground in a hand-like shape holding a ball with the new unit growing inside. This explodes and poof! More children for Doviculus to impregnate!
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