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Being a game in which the plot is entirely based on RP interactions, Imperium Nova tends to have quite the colourful cast. Needs More Love.

House de Erwyne

House Tropes

• Big Screwed-Up Family
• Con Lang: Vránsé, a language exclusive to the de Erwynes
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: Besides being activity involved in their business practices, the de Erwyne's will often lead their forces into battle personally.
• Spell My Name with an "S": Refers to themselves as "The House de Erwyne"

Count Théophile de Erwyne

• Anti-Villain: Type IV
• Authority in Name Only: Became this after giving his daughter, Aimée, power to act in his name.
• Reluctant Warrior
• What the Hell, Hero?: Giving Aimée power to act in his name.

Aimée de Erwyne

• Ax Crazy
• Dark Action Girl: Happens to be the best duelist in House de Erwyne.
• Evil Chancellor: To her father.
• Karma Houdini: Partially. She may have been captured and imprisoned by her uncle and cousin, but it was her father that died for her crimes.
• Knight Templar
• Psychotic Smirk
• The Corrupter: Manipulated her father into giving her complete power by convincing him that their family was in danger from the waves of assassinations happening at the time, and that only she could protect them.
• The Fundamentalist: Attempts to stamp out chaos and disloyalty within her House in accordance to her extreme Imperialism views.
• Warrior Princess: Personally led her forces into battle against her uncle Leon and cousin Ambrosius.

Count Leon de Erwyne

• Anti-Hero: Type III
• Good Is Not Nice: Threatened to end his tyrannical, usurping, niece's life, if necessary.
• Knight in Sour Armor
• The Stoic

Ambrosius de Erwyne

• Anti-Hero: Type III
• Combat Pragmatist
• Good Is Not Nice: Gave his cousin Aimée quite a beating during the Battle of the De Erwyne Manor.
• Knight in Sour Armor
• The Stoic
• Warrior Prince: Ambrosius led Leon's forces in the Battle of the De Erwyne Manor personally, being responsible for the capture of his cousin Aimée.

House Qwib-Qwib

House Tropes

• Bubble Boy: Qwib-Qwibs have incredibly weak immune systems from the generations of inbreeding, though that practice has stopped.
• Lotus Eater Machine: Many are wary of Qwib Tech's VR Chambers because of this trope.
• Latex Space Suit: They almost always wear form-fitting spacesuits to prevent bacterial contamination.
• Nebulous Evil Organisation Rumors are floating around that Qwib Tech is one of these.
• Master Computer: The Allied Master Computer Network.
• Shout-Out: The house name is a reference to Mass Effect.
• Space Pirates: Accused of funding pirates. Who kidnapped Ezra and Simon Qwib-Qwib. And had robots. That were stealthy.

Chairman Barak Qwib-Qwib

• Convenient Coma
• Put on a Bus

Vice-Chairman Lorenzo Qwib-Qwib

• Evil Genius: Not quite a genius, but he's certainly intelligent, and oversees a lot of immoral research.

Ezra Qwib-Qwib

• Non-Action Guy
• Insufferable Genius

Simon Qwib-Qwib

Cariad Qwib-Qwib

• Action Girl: The most skilled duellist in the galaxy, although not the most experienced.
• Battle Couple: She happens to be /married/ to the most experienced duellist in the galaxy.

House Suzumiya

House Tropes

• All Monks Know Kung Fu: All Golden Vale Martial Adepts do anyway.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Prefer to use diplomacy first, second, and third, but if that fails, a Wave Motion Gun blast or two will do in an emergency.
• Powers That Be: Refers to House Alhazred, Levantes, and their dependents as such to an occasionally superstitious degree.
• Psychic Powers: Deathwatch, their Covert Ops unit for hire. Comes in a Power Armor flavor, too.
• Shout-Out: To a certain teenage deity, among many others…
• Tv Tropes Will Enhance Your Life: House Suzumiya’s player certainly thinks so.
• Silk Hiding Steel: An ideal for House Suzumiya albeit with a female supremacy twist and a touch of Pragmatic Villainy on the side.

House Cotillion

House Tropes

• Career Killers
• Murder, Inc. an ancient house specializing in assassination
• Scary Amoral Religion: sadly didn't get enough chance to flesh that out.

Brother Eldred Cotillion

• Mission from God
• Sinister Minister to a degree. It's a bit grayer than that though.

House Daimyo

• The Empire: Their supermajority in the senate was widely blamed for Capricorn's stagnation and inability for lesser houses to advance.

House Zealot

• Exactly What It Says on the Tin
• Knight Templar: Currently one of the more aggressive houses in Capricorn, tends to jump on any house that violates the constitution within hours (real-world time).

House Mckenna

House Tropes

• Waif Fu (Every female Mckenna is pretty short and rather delicate, therefore being easy to underestimate. Some of them though are downright dangerous, especially when allowed near anything sharp)
• We Can Rebuild Him (The reason for actually being able to pull off Waif Fu when it matters. Dagmar Mckenna is one of these, having undergone a full body replacement)
• Glorious Mother Russia (The Mckennas are Galactic Communists and never lose an opportunity to decry the bourgeois exploitation of the Emperor)
• Powered Armour (Hey, it's the future)

Gwendolin Mckenna

• Brilliant but Lazy (She'll spend an hour a day making decisions, no more)
• Never Mess with Granny (She's getting on in years, but maintains a vindictive streak a mile long.)

Dagmar Mckenna

• Lady of War ("Chief issuer of threats and promises")

Silja Mckenna

• Villain with Good Publicity (Chief of the would be dictatorial Red Union, propaganda and misdirection is in her blood.
• Hot Mom (She's not married, but never mind. Silja's attractive and uses it for her own ends.

House Savoie

House Tropes

• All There in the Manual (Much of the backstory can only be found in supplementary materials... like this page.)
• Awful Truth (Most are.)
• Be All My Sins Remembered (Virtually every Savoie up to Clement was morally ambiguous at best, and a monster at worst. Every reform-minded Savoie starts with quite the chip on their shoulder because of this.)
• Big Brother Is Watching (Interplanetary computer network that might possibly be sentient? Hm...)
• Civil War (YES.)
• Dark Is Not Evil in Cosmic Balance, and Light Is Not Good. (Or so it is believed.)
• The Extremist Was Right (Valerian Savoie appeared - literally - out of nowhere in the Nokh Revolts and used brutal and morally questionable tactics to defeat a far more monstrous foe, and then leveraged his achievements to force governmental reform upon the devastated Empire, along with recognition as a noble and head of the newly-created House Savoie. Vices aside, he built his institutions to last.)
• Fast Roping (The elimination of Jago Ragnarok.)
• Flaunting Your Fleets (House Savoie used the size and pedigree of the Alderamini navy as a deterrent against other Houses. Now, if only they had the crews to operate them all at once...)
• Forgotten Superweapon (How about an entire golden-age fleet?)
• House With A Dark Secret (Or ten.)
• Great Offscreen War (The civil war between Philippe and Joseph was overshadowed by the Valerian conflict.)
  • Past Great Offscreen Wars include, from most to least recent:
    • The War of Sheliak Independence (Between House Savoie and the combined forces of House Inviquantus and the Wazn Houses.)
    • The Rexist Revival (A religious crusade preceded by decades of buildup.)
    • The Solidor-Neco War (A war that split the Alderamini electorate into two factions.)
    • The Nokh Revolt (The sudden and violent uprising of the native Alani and the "native" C'alani.)
• A House Divided (Hoo boy.)
• In the Original Klingon (Alderamin views itself as the last bastion of Golden Age culture. This is barely true, but defensible.)
• Our Founder (Valerian Savoie.)
• The Remnant (In the centuries preceding the New Empire, Alderamin was a major regional power. Now, most Alderamini are among the most conservative people in the galaxy. The New Empire often faces a 0% Approval Rating.)
• Screw the Money, I Have Rules (The House was severely hampered by restrictions placed upon it by the treaty that allowed it to operate both on Alderamin and in the "New Empire". That treaty was largely self-imposed. However, Daniel would turn the situation on its head by forcing a new, largely favorable agreement in exchange for not stealing the local throne entirely.)
• Suspiciously Small Army (House Savoie kept most of its troops on Alderamin. Because of this, their military became something of a paper tiger when dealing with offworld threats.)
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity

Clement Savoie

• Good Is Not Nice
• Historical Hero Upgrade (By the time Joseph assassinated the electorate, Clement had gone from being seen as a traitor to Alderamin to being the planet's greatest gift the humankind.)
• In Harm's Way (Yes, let's piss off every powerful noble on Alderamin, in addition to the other nobles around the galaxy that already hate my House based on ancient history! Splendid idea!)
• The Last DJ (The real deal.)
• Posthumous Character
• Reasonable Authority Figure
• Secret-Chaser
• White Sheep (Ascended to the throne by exposing his older brother's hypocrisy.)

Daniel Savoie

• Ambition Is Evil (Well...)
• Full-Circle Revolution
• Secret-Chaser
• Smug Snake (Often left this impression.)
• Stopped Caring
• Suck Sessor (Surely, the people who assassinated his father couldn't have imagined the enormity of what they had done.)

Joseph Savoie

• The Chains of Commanding (One guess as to which job Joseph absolutely does not want to have right now.)
• Character Development (The Joseph of today is nothing like the Joseph of 25 years ago.)
• Cutting the Knot (How do you deal with that pesky electorate? You KILL them.)
• Deceased Fall Guy Gambit (Joseph pulls a form of this on the electorate. Since the members of the electorate also had the most to gain from assassinating Clement, they might have even had it coming.)
• Deceptive Disciple (His interest in his faith has always been slim at best. The Head of Faith, his insane uncle, may be partly to blame.)
• The Dutiful Son (He wasn't exactly crazy about taking over for 'ol pops.)
• Easily Forgiven (Subverted. He hasn't actually been forgiven for his abandonment by anyone; most others are either preoccupied or too pragmatic to force the issue. The exceptions are in no position to do anything, though.)
• The Exile (Self-imposed, and it didn't last. He wishes it did.)
• Failure Knight (He abandoned his House and his home after making a mockery of himself. He hasn't forgotten.)
• He Who Fights Monsters (A more cynical observer would say You Are What You Hate.)
• Head-in-The-Sand Management (He was a major supporter of House Valeria in the early stages of the war.)
• In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves (His latest epiphany as to the fate of the Empire.)
• The Last DJ (Saw himself as this at first. Now, not so much.)
• More Than Mind Control (It's clear that he's under the absolute will of something, but he isn't brainwashed.)
• The Pawn (As of his triumphal return. To who or what, only he knows.)
• Rebel Leader (For a short time, although it's unclear how 'rebellious' this faction actually was.)
• Rebel Relaxation
• Shame If Something Happened (What he used to keep the electorate quiet long enough to properly frame and dispose of them.)
• Smug Snake (He had his moments, which almost always backfire spectacularly.)
• Sympathetic Murderer (Er...)
• Telepathic Spacemen (Of a sort.)
• Tyrant Takes the Helm (He stole the Alderamini throne by setting up the entire electorate, and then using their families as bargaining chips before coldly disposing of them. The electorate, that is, not the families. Many other key figures seem to be brainwashed.)
  • Bait and Switch Tyrant (But it turns out that he's the puppet, and a particularly unhappy one.)
• The Usual Adversaries (Joseph was tired of the centuries-old antagonism between Alderamin and Mirfak, and made it a priority to end it. If only the desire had been mutual.)
• While Rome Burns (He abandoned his House after making a very public, very reputation-ruining, mistake. House Savoie was lucky enough to see the return of Philippe soon afterwards, but it's not something that anyone will be forgetting soon. His brothers especially have it in for him.)
• White Sheep (He tried.)

Philippe Savoie

• All Your Base Are Belong to Us (The civil war against Joseph ended poorly and suddenly.)
• Put on a Bus (When House Nagendra collapsed, Philippe panicked and ran to House Valeria, hoping to join another power bloc before the Dominion set their sights on Alderamin. He was held captive for more than a galactic year before he escaped.)

David Savoie

• Awful Truth (He didn't take it very well.)
• Gundamjack (David managed to steal some of the advanced technology being developed on Agena.)
• I Just Want to Be Normal
• Only Sane Man (Perhaps one of the benefits of being the youngest.)
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right (What he's aiming for.)
• Eager Young Space Cadet (Before dropping out of military school.)
• White Sheep (Doing better than Joseph is.)

Cadno Kujawski

• Have You Tried Not Being a Monster? (Yeah, once or twice.)
• Madden Into Misanthropy (Might be the case.)
• Mind Control Conspiracy (It all seems to point towards him, but never to him.)
• Passed Over Inheritance (Due to the circumstances of his birth, he only got the raw end of the deal.)
• Pelagian Villain (This could be the case.)
• Reassignment Backfire (It probably wasn't the wisest choice.)
• Reassigned to Antarctica (His post on Agena was meant to be something like this.)
• The Only One (As the eldest male heir, his choices are more limited than it may seem.)
• We Are Everywhere (The recipient, not the claimant.)

Crispian Dublin

• Skilled but Naive
• The Watson
• Unwitting Pawn

Anzhelica Holdren

• Action Girl
• The McCoy
• Retired Badass
• The Worf Effect

Munisa Lanning

• Field Promotion (When Joseph, Philippe, and David were all absent and/or missing, she took the reigns and tried to calm the chaos.)
• Put on a Bus (Currently serving with House Yweraar.)
• The Good Chancellor

Bernadina Peppers

• Girl Friday (Doing the odd jobs since 5 AR)

Controller Superior

• Flying Dutchman
• Hidden Agenda Villain (What does he want? Nobody knows.)
• Hidden Villain
• The Man Behind the Curtain (Signs point to yes.)
• Master of Illusion
• Mysterious Past
• Playing with Puppets
• The Real Remington Steele
• The Slow Path (A variation without time travel.)

Sirius/Luther Blisset

• Code Name (Both of them.)
• Deep-Cover Agent (Within financial operations, commissioned by House Inviquantus.)
• Going Native (Orders stopped coming in, he decided to reveal himself to the current head of House Savoie - who had previously worked for his former masters.)
• Good with Numbers
• Hazy Feel Turn (His identity never really changed, only his employer.)
• Mole in Charge (Became a very high-level employee before he defected.)
• Only Known by Their Nickname

House Ataraxia

House Tropes

• A kind of Heel Face Turn from House Aponia
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity
• Magitek 'Discord Drives' and other Ataraxia technology.
• Black Magic: 'Discord' energy which May Contain Evil. Parallels to Void should be obvious.

House Glenn

House Tropes

• Expy: Of House Gagarin.
• La Résistance
• Psychic Powers: More so than usual.
• Theme Naming: In the same manner as House Gagarin.

Ifor Glenn (second-oldest of the Primary Study Group; current Administrator of the Glenn Institute for Psionics Research)

• Conveniently an Orphan: Like all of the PSG, he's actually an adopted orphan psi-talent.
• Deadpan Snarker
• Insufferable Genius
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold
• Knight Templar Big Brother: While not technically the oldest of the Glenn siblings, he's the most level-headed, responsible, and devoted to his family. And he's absolutely furious about Constantine's latest stunt.
• Psychic Powers: Specifically,
  • Telepathy

Zaira Glenn (Ifor's wife, Aidan's daughter)

• Only Sane Woman

Constantine Glenn (youngest of the Primary Study Group)

• Bishonen
• Conveniently an Orphan
• Expy: Of Maximillien Robespierre. Yes, him.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness
• Knight Templar
• Pure Is Not Good
• Psychic Powers: Specifically,
  • The Empath: Including projective empathy, although he swears he'd never use it.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: You saw who he was an Expy of, right?
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: See how long that lasts.

Doctor Aidan Glenn

• Expy: Owes a bit to Professor Charles Xavier
• The Ghost

House Houraisan

House Tropes

• Author Appeal (Everywhere.)
• Badass in a Nice Suit (Both the men and women of the House. House Houraisan's secondary motto? "There's never an excuse to not dress one's best".)
• Bizarre Alien Biology (Fluorescent irises; aging that keeps a Lunarian at around their 30-40's until around age 70, after which they rapidly age to "make up the difference", and the obvious.)
• Evil Albino or Heroic Albino (Depends; mostly heroic. They tend to have white hair and fur for their ears and tails, blood red eyes, and pale skin.)
• The Faceless (At least, the women of the House with respect to their upper faces.)
• Fantasy Counterpart Culture (Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Manchurian/Mongolian/Uighur/Vietnamese People IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAACE!)
  • Void Mages are Zen Buddhists with Shaolin Kung Fu Powers IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAACE!
  • Lunarian Animism is Shintoism IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAACE!
• Glowing Eyes of Doom (Their specie's natural threat response, and both a voluntary and involuntary action.)
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning (House Houraisan have red eyes, to be precise.)
• Half-Human Hybrid (Of which only females exhibit Lunarian phenotypes.)
• Human Aliens (Ignoring the ears and tails. Probably descended from a common ancestor anyways.)
• I See Dead People (And also that water fairy over there, as well as my own God of Space Flight. Really, Lunarians are giant cosmic antennas for all sorts of supernatural things.)
• Kung Fu Wizard (The Void Mages and Lunarian Animist Priests.)
• Petting Zoo People (Rabbit ears and tails. They also happen to be the royal family of an entire race of similar people called the Lunarians.)
• Psychic Powers (Usually because of at least basic training in Void Magecraft.)
• Royals Who Actually Do Something
• Shout-Out (The entire House is one to Touhou)
• The Power of the Void (It cost them a civilization.)
• White-Haired Pretty Boy and White-Haired Pretty Girl (Any Houraisan that did not marry into the family.)

Lady Misako Houraisan, Queen of the Lunarians

• Brilliant but Lazy (She's absolutely dedicated to her House and all, but the problem is that she has /zero/ motivation for the dirty/boring paperwork associated with running a House.)
• Cheshire Cat Grin (More of a subtle smile, but still a bit unsettling.)
• The Faceless (Her upper face, with curtains, veils, and fans, to be exact. How this would work in a non-visual medium like that of Imperium Nova, the author of House Houraisan has no idea.)
• Gameplay and Story Segregation (Mechanistically, she's a solartologist. This is explained as her mostly paying lip service to the religion.)
• The High Queen (Exudes raw charisma.)
• Happily Married (To Grimbold Godwinson.)
• Hot Mom (Two daughters have not hurt her figure in any way.)
• Hot Scientist (Will run the House's psionics research.)
• Manipulative Bitch With A Heart Of Gold
  • The Trickster (Likes to mess with people's head - to detrimental or beneficial effect.)
• Ms. Fanservice
  • Audio Erotica (Said to have a deep and husky voice that just runs down your ear like water down a parched and thirsty throat.)
  • Gag Boobs (36DD!)
  • Hartman Hips (CHILDREARING HIPS!)
• Psychic Powers
  • Master of Illusion (Especially of the Mind Screw variety.)
  • Mind Over Matter
• Squishy Wizard (She might be able to mess your head up really badly, but she's not much in an actual fight.)
• Stripperific (Tends to show her assets off with low-cut dresses and kimonos that stay up by virtue of miracle or tape.)

Chika Houraisan

• Audio Erotica (House Houraisan tends to have this.)
• Altar the Speed and Shotgun Wedding (She and her husband Tatsuaki had to get married a bit faster than usual for certain reasons.)
  • But We Used a Condom (Too bad he put it on wrong.)
• Badass Grandma
  • Combat Pragmatist
  • Shock and Awe
  • Ki Attacks
  • Knife Nut (Glass dagger, more exactly, in addition to her organometallic sword and pistol.)
• Cheshire Cat Grin (Always wears this.)
• The Faceless (Also always wears an opaque black visor or eye veil.)
• Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have! (Also a trait House Houraisan tend to have.)
• Happily Married (To Tatsuaki Houraisan.)
• Hot Mom
• Manipulative Bitch With A Heart Of Gold
• The Spymaster (Runs House Houraisan's intelligence operations.)

Mayako Houraisan

• Audio Erotica (Noticing a pattern?)
• Badass Grandma
  • Badass Normal
  • Combat Pragmatist
• Brilliant but Lazy (Easily the most intelligent person in her House; let's see her actually do anything.)
  • Greed (Want to motivate her to do something? Offer her money.)
• The Faceless (A full face veil.)
• Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!
• Happily Married (To Mitsusuke Houraisan.)
  • Pair the Smart Ones (Her husband and her.)
• Only Sane Woman (Sees herself as this.)

Tatsuaki Houraisan

• But We Used a Condom (Too bad he put it on wrong.)
  • Altar the Speed and Shotgun Wedding
• Happily Married
• Hot Dad
• Large Ham (Tends to be one.)
• Tall, Dark and Handsome (Was this when he first met Chika, and still is this.)
  • Grandpa What Massive Hotness You Have
• Ladykiller in Love and I Love You Because I Can't Control You (The only woman in his life that he had to work to get in bed with - and exactly the reason why he fell in love with her.)
  • Chivalrous Pervert (He still has an eye for the ladies.)
  • Irony (In the end, it might have been Chika that seduced him, rather than the other way around.)

Mitsusuke Houraisan

• Grandpa What Massive Hotness You Have (Averted, for once, although he's only a little chubby and could ditch the moustache.)
• Happily Married
  • Pair the Smart Ones (With Mayako.)
• Mad Mathematician (Not really mad, but he's had mathematics articles that he wrote published.)

Saeko Houraisan

• Action Girl
  • Badass Abnormal (Cybernetic upgrades, yo.)
• Book Dumb (She's intelligent, but just not in an academic sense.)
• The Faceless (Veils, curtains, fans or visors, as usual.)
• Happily Married (With Iowerth Quest)
  • First Kiss (She still hasn't fully forgiven Iowerth for taking it, rather than her giving it to him.)
• The Ojou (Much more than Misako.)
• She's Got Legs (Just ask Iowerth Quest.)
• Victorious Childhood Friend
• Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World (See Iowerth Quest)

Nagachika Houraisan

• Happily Married (To Constancia Invernigon... the writer for House Houraisan thinks.)
• I Like Swords (Big time.)
• If You Ever Do Anything To Hurt Saeko (... I will skin you alive, Iowerth.)
• Serious Business (Obsessed with certain things, like a certain expy of a certain Children's Card Game, and bizarre little projects, but otherwise kind of apathetic.}
• Stoic Spectacles / Bespectacled Bastard (Depends on your point of view.)
• The Rival (To Iowerth Quest.)

Kageyoshi Houraisan

The Late Lady Sakuko Houraisan, Queen Koumei of the Lunarians

Mitsunaga Houraisan

• Badass Normal
  • Badass Cape
  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
  • Revolvers Are Just Better
• Hot Dad
• Happily Married (With Maggidh Crow.)
  • Arranged Marriage
  • Perfectly Arranged Marriage (Eventually reveals itself as this.)

Miyoko Houraisan

Tori Houraisan

The Magnificent Eleven

Harbinger 4-17 "Ruum"

Dr. Tae Genma

House Quest

House Tropes

• Punch Clock Villain: Joined Roma's Domain pretty much at gunpoint; does everything the position of Seneschal demands, but has only recently been doing really evil things.
• The Dragon: Anyone wanting to take on Goratrix would have to roll over Quest first. Also, Quest tends to be the one who squashes routine threats not worth Roma's time. (It's a living.)
• Powered Armor: One battalion in each Quest Regiment is composed of Air Cavalry. Basically hundreds of Iron Men.
• Humongous Mecha: Another battalion in each regiment is composed of Somatic Assault Vehicles (known to the troops as SAVIORS) because too much firepower is never enough.

Premier Joseph Quest

• Casual Kink: Oh, you know it. Revealed to be into S&M in his very first appearance, is inordinately fond of Lunarian women and commits adultery at the drop of a ... hat.
• Affably Evil
• No Accounting for Taste: Married to Agnes in name only.
• Crazy Prepared: When the forces of another House attempted to kidnap him, he had the foresight to have an undetectable android duplicate ready. This could have been considered an Ass Pull, except that it was foreshadowed in a previous RP thread.

Natasha

• The Mistress: Openly Joseph's mistress; goes to social events with him in place of his comatose wife.
• Evil Redhead: Oh, yeah.
• Dark Secret: Natasha is the granddaughter of former Emperor Helmut Ventruz.
• Puss in Boots: (Usually long, black, leather boots.) Insanely competent in her role of spymistress and head of internal security.

Agnes Quest, Wife of the Premier (snicker)

• Fate Worse Than Death: Rendered braindead by a serial killer. Amazingly, Joseph had nothing to do with it.

Zephaniah Quest (Agnes' brother)

• Fate Worse Than Death: The same fate as Agnes, at the same time. Joseph waters the vegetables regularly.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Considered himself a master swordsman and a genius statesman. In actuality, he was pretty much an oxygen thief.

Aimee Quest, Sister of the Premier

Gabriel Quest (Aimee's husband)

• Only Sane Man

Lochlannach Quest (Aimee's elder son)

• Inadequate Inheritor: Lochie will take over the House when Joe kicks the bucket. He's not nearly ready. He makes hasty decisions, he's not cunning like Joe and most of all, his evil psionic genius daughter will ride him like a monkey rides a greyhound.

Oscar Quest (Aimee's younger son)

• Four-Star Badass: Oscar is Marshal of the Quest armed forces, an honorary position. He was formerly CO of a regiment, but was kicked upstairs after being wounded in action one too many times. He's an incredibly skilled soldier and hand-to-hand fighter and inspiring to the men, but a little too fearless and reckless.
• Estrogen Brigade Bait
• Hot Dad
• Happily Married: to Heulfryn Boudicca, widely regarded as the galaxy's number one sex symbol, although a certain Lunarian Queen might have something to say about that...
• Shout-Out: He's Richard Sharpe in SPAAAAAAACE, even to the extent of looking like him.

Yutsoko Sun (Lochlannach's first wife)

Iowerth Quest(Lochlannach's eldest son)

• Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World: Had a series of adventures in Dreamscape with his future wife and brother-in-law, as schoolchildren.
• Now or Never Kiss: Played straight,with his future wife. Led to a Relationship Upgrade.
• Jumped At the Call: Oh boy, did he ever. "You have the chance to fight monsters in Dreamspace with your friends, but if you screw up once, you're braindead. Also, you're thirteen." (Merest of pauses) "Where do I sign?"
• Future Me Scares Me: An alternate future version of Iowerth was responsible for worldwide - maybe galaxywide - death and destruction. He went back to kill himself as a teenager so it wouldn't happen.
• Warrior Poet: Already showing signs of becoming this.
• Happily Married: to Saeko Houraisan.
• Scars Are Forever: Has a vertical scar over his breastbone from when he was initiated into the Void Engineers. Also has white hair on the sides of his head from the trauma it inflicted.
• Destructo-Nookie: Between him and Saeko, now and again.

Abiel Quest (Lochlannach's second son)

Saeko Quest (Lochlannach's second wife)

• Took a Level in Badass: Selected as Lochie's second wife because she was meek and submissive and unlikely to take off and leave the galaxy like his first wife. But then she joined the Void Engineers. So much for that idea.
• Dark Secret: Something out of the ordinary happened during her Void Engineer training, but nobody is talking about it.

Gethsemane Quest (Lochlannach's daughter)

• Enfant Terrible: Psionic super-genius prodigy taken under the wing of the Void Lord.
• Person of Mass Destruction: You don't want to get her angry, and everything makes her angry.
• The Chosen One: Selected by Constantine Roma to be his successor and future Empress of the galaxy. Over the entire Goratrix family.

Luatha Quest (Lochlannach's youngest son)

Shona Boudicca (Oscar's daughter)

Ialach Quest (Oscar's son)

• The Ditz: Possibly. (He has Woefully Poor potential.)

House Von Carstein

House Tropes

• Badass in a Nice Suit Generally complete with trench coats, protective sunglasses, and fedora hats.
• Commissar Cap The standard headgear of the vampire officers.
• Evil Albino They ARE vampires.
• Fan Disservice After much pressure to reveal what Lunarian Vampires would look like, the Author decided that he would shrink the ears (and the curves), give them the standard hair and skin coloration, give them the fangs and red eyes... and thin wing membranes under each arm.
• The Mafia Before they became Vampires, they were this. There are still some hold over practices.
• Our Vampires Are Different Fairly.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning Default eye color for the species.
• Shout-Out The most obvious being to Warhammer Fantasy Battle. There's also the group of mercenaries with widely varying equipment, and a variety of mental health issues. And Agent Findlay
• Weapon of Choice Higher ups, security forces and covert operatives use knives and Thompson Submachine guns (no, it doesn't make sense). The elite knights in the military use swords and knives almost exclusively, while their less elite human counterparts use bolt action (though very powerful) rifles.

Count Sergio Von Carstein

• Affably Evil Well, he was a laugh to have around. And he did generally try to keep it polite, dressed nice, honored his friends birthday with a crate of wines, and try to make amends with the woman he tried to brutally murder by giving her his knife with a nice little hand written note. Not that she ever got said package.
• Hearing Voices Justified, as he had become possessed by Void Spirits.
• Killed Off for Real Luckily he had managed to bind his soul into a ring, with the souls of the denizens possessing him.
• I Never Drink... Wine In one of the more blatant references, this is flat out stated.
• Knife Nut Always carries around the switchblade from back in his mob days.

Commander Lothar Du Bek

• Artificial Limbs He lost he arm fighting against a power armored Godwinson commander. It was, naturally, replaced.
• Badass Normal Yes, he is a vampire, but he can't do most of the magic stuff that the Counts can do. Yet he's managed to survive longer than both of them.
• Nice Hat The aforementioned commisar style hat. He's the only named character to wear one.

Count Cristiano Von Carstein

Grand Regent Este Von Carstein

Agent Mannfred

• Badass in a Nice Suit Was the first character to be actually described dressing in the coat and hat.
• Badass Normal Jumps his way through a construction site sustaining any injuries, took on around fifty psychic power armored troopers, and may have even killed some.
• Smoking Is Cool While preparing to escape from the compound, he lights up while grabbing his weapon. See's his evac get blown up? Time for a smoke. Surrounded on all sides, with heavy weapons chipping away at your cover? Give him a sec, he's getting his lighter.

Agent Findlay

The United Federation of People's Republics

House Tropes

• Dirty Commies: Pretty much the entire reason for their existence.
• Glorious Mother Russia
• Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Of The Soviet Union (with a dash of North Korea)
• The Federation: Really, really subverted.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Wound up becoming this, eventually.
• People's Republic of Tyranny: Go figure.
• Theme Naming: House Gagarin fits its creator's trifecta of criteria for a good Imperium Nova house name - cool-sounding, historically relevant to the concept, and somehow space-related. Bonus points for starting with a G.
• Try to Fit That on A Business Card: Hooo boy.

Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Parliament of the United Federation of People's Republics and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Total Democratic Party of the United Federation of People's Republics Viktor Gagarin

• Evil Overlord: Intended to be an amalgamation of Stalin and Kim Il-sung.
• Just the First Citizen