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Characters of ''[[Radiant Historia]]''.

== Playable Characters ==
=== Stocke ===
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{{quote| ''[[Catch Phrase|I have to think about this one carefully...]]''}}

The main character of ''[[Radiant Historia]]''. [[The Ace]] member of Specint, Alistel's intelligence department, goes on one mission that goes horribly, horribly wrong. Nearly killed, he instead ends up in Historia, where Teo and Lippti tell him that his destiny is not to win the war for Alistel, but to save all inhabitants of the continent from the ongoing desertification.

* [[The Ace]]: He was apparently considered this ''before'' he was able to jump around timelines and learn whatever skill he needed for a particular situation.
* {{spoiler|[[Anti-Anti-Christ]]}}: {{spoiler|Heiss abducted Prince Ernst at the beginning of his "second life," renaming him Stocke and raising him in Granorg's rival Alistel. His intent was to train Stocke to assist him in destroying humanity. Everything he does to Stocke has the opposite effect. Moving Stocke away from Granorg protects him from his [[Dysfunction Junction]] family and introduces him to his best friend Rosch. He butchers Marco and Raynie's unit so he can hire them to assist Stocke, but they become his newest and dearest friends, furthering Stocke's devotion to others.}}
* [[Awesomeness By Analysis]]: Verges on [[Mega Manning]]. Stocke can learn techniques which take years to master with a brief tutorial and a few minutes' observation, though this may involve a certain amount of [[Save Scumming|creative use of his powers]].
* [[Badass Cape]]/[[Scarf of Asskicking]]: It's half cape, half scarf, and all badass.
** [[Badass|He doesn't just dress the part.]]
* [[Big Good]]
*  {{spoiler|[[Big Screwed-Up Family]]: The Granorg Kingdom}}
* [[Bishounen]]
* [[Brains and Brawn]]: Brains side of this dynamic with Rosche. 
* [[Bring My Red Jacket]]: Dressed in red, and frequently charging into battle.
* [[The Chosen One]]
* [[The Confidant]]: To Rosch.
*  {{spoiler|[[Cry for the Devil]]: Towards Heiss}}
*  {{spoiler|[[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Not that it really affects him since he doesn't remember it.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Dead All Along]]}}: {{spoiler|He is Ernst, given a temporary second life.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Dysfunction Junction]]}}
* [[The Face]]: starts off as [[The Stoic]], but also starts off with a growing circle of friends who he cares about dearly. He helps his party members through a variety of internal and external conflicts, and is always sensitive to their issues. And at one point, he helps his best friend Roche and an NPC with [[Match Maker Quest|relationship advice.]]
*  {{spoiler|[[Fighting Your Friend]]: Rosch. Twice.}}
* [[Fingerless Gloves]]
* [[The Four Loves]]: {{spoiler|Claims this separates him from the [[Big Bad]].}}
** Storge: {{spoiler|[[Thicker Than Water|Eruca and Heiss.]]}}
** Phileo: His [[Nakama]].
** Eros: {{spoiler|[[Battle Couple|Raynie]].}}
** Agape: {{spoiler|[[The Messiah|His love for the world and willingness to be the Sacrifice]].}}
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Immediately dismisses {{spoiler|the ritual as a temporary fix for which a better one must be found. He never finds it, but Heiss saves Stocke from it, and unknown to him, a scientist with two children he helped may have the permanent solution needed}}.
** A more amusing example happens in a sidequest early in the game. When an NPC soldier claims he "mislaid" something of his, Stocke immediately hazards a guess that the soldier had pawned it off for money...and his guess was dead-on.
** During a Bad End, he also questions {{spoiler|why something that can turn Gafka into a mindless beast even ''exists'', and is rewarded with a [[Sequel Hook]].}}
** Even more impressively, he immediately {{spoiler|[[Romance Sidequest|figures out that Raynie is in love with someone when she starts saying]] [[I Have This Friend]].}}
* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: {{spoiler|Kicks the shit out of Rosch once.}} 
* [[The Heart]]
* [[Hell-Bent for Leather]]: Under the cloak, official art shows lots of leather and [[Too Many Belts]].
* [[Heroes Prefer Swords]]
* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}: {{spoiler|The Ritual.}}
*  {{spoiler|[[He's Back]]: The [[Golden Ending]]}}
* [[Hope Spot]]: {{spoiler|The normal ending. Shows Stocke, still alive, working toward the [[Golden Ending]].}}
* [[If We Get Through This]]: {{spoiler|He promises to lay down his sword and live with Raynie in peace.}}
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: His speed is only surpassed by Aht's, and both his Attack and Magic Attack stats are above-average even without the proper accessories.
* {{spoiler|[[Living MacGuffin]]}}
*  {{spoiler|[[Loved I Not Honor More]]: Poor Raynie...}}
* {{spoiler|[[Love Makes You Dumb]]/[[Love Makes You Crazy|Crazy]]: Running away with Raynie? [[Catch Phrase|I'll have to think about this one carefully...]]}}
* [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me]]
* [[Made a Slave]]: Briefly.  {{spoiler|He is captured and taken to Cygnus as a [[Gladiator Games|gladiator]], but he [[Win Your Freedom|wins his freedom]] in a duel against King Garland.}}
* [[Magic Knight]]: Slices, dices, throws fire, and can heal you in a pinch.
* [[The Matchmaker]]: To {{spoiler|Rosch and Sonja}}, as well as to {{spoiler|Liese and a Granorg officer}}.
* [[Mega Manning]]: Learns new skills at the drop of a hat. Most noticeable is  {{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|copying Heiss's invisibility.]]}}
* [[The Messiah]]
* [[Messiah Creep]]: One of the most important things about him.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Many bad endings lead to this.
* [[My Greatest Failure]]
* [[Nakama]]: He starts off with a rapidly growing social circle.
* [[Nice Guy]]
* [[Not So Stoic]]: He gets set off on more than one occasion.
* [[Oblivious to Love]]: Kind of. {{spoiler|He helps multiple characters with relationship problems, and can tell Raynie is in love with someone, but is then shocked when he finds out it's him, when he's the only person she could be describing.}}
* [[Officer and a Gentleman]]
* [[The Only One]]: {{spoiler|Until Heiss steps in.}}
* [[Playing with Fire]]: The only elemental magic he learns are five fire spells, including two unique to him (three if you count different names with identical effects to still be "unique").
* [[The Power of Love]]/[[The Power of Friendship]]: To an intense degree.
* [[Rebel Relaxation]]: During the Mimel Sidequest
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Red Oni]]: To {{spoiler|Eruca's Blue, back when he was Ernst}}.
*  {{spoiler|[[Relationship Upgrade]]: With Raynie after a [[Romance Sidequest]].}}
*  {{spoiler|[[Royally Screwed-Up]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]}}
* [[Save Scumming]]: Implied to use his time-rewinding powers to learn techniques that often take '''years''' to master with seemingly blinding speed.
* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man|Sensitive Guy]]- One of his endearing traits. He's a tough-as-nails hotshot spy, and one would think he would be cold and introverted (okay, [[The Stoic|he kinda is]]). But he is very good to his friends and allies, in particular Rosch, Raynie, and Marco, and is sensitive to their feelings and problems. (He even helps Rosch out with relationship advice!)
* [[So Happy Together]]:  {{spoiler|In a bad ending, he and Raynie give up fighting to live together, only to watch the world slowly end together in peace. [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other|They come to really love each other, and are happy together]], but he ultimately uses the White Chronicle to get back to work when he can't bear to watch the world die anymore.}}
* [[The Stoic]]
* [[That Man Is Dead]]: {{spoiler|Both literally and figuratively: he lost his original life as Prince Ernst and got a new life as Stocke. Stocke believes that his new life shaped him for the better in a way his old life would never have experienced due to his [[Dysfunction Junction]] family.}}
** In the best ending, {{spoiler|you can choose whether he acknowledges Stocke or Ernst as his name.}} 
* [[Thicker Than Water]]:  {{spoiler|Heiss.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Tomato in the Mirror]]}}
* [[The Promise]]: Two of them.
** {{spoiler|When Rosche's unit is butchered and Kiel dies to cover Stocke, Stocke can't find any means to undo the event. Horrified, he swears to do whatever he can to undo it.}}
** {{spoiler|He promises to settle down and live with Raynie in peace when the world is safe.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Warrior Prince]]}}
* [[Warrior Therapist]]
* {{spoiler|[["What the Hell?" Dad]]}}: {{spoiler|In his first life as Ernst, he died opposing King Victor.}}
* [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]: Wide eyed might not be the best descirption, but he's certainly idealistic.
* [[You ALL Share My Story]]

=== Raynie ===
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One of two members of a mercenary duo from the desert country of Cygnus, she is assigned to be one of Stocke's two main assistants by Specint. Once a child refugee whose parents were killed fleeing from war, she grew up in the desert city of Cygnus. Raised with other refugees, she grew up knowing nothing but combat, and became a mercenary. She and Marco later became contracted to serve Alistel, after a bizzare battle got their merc team killed. Armed with a spear and a wide array of black magic, she is an offensive powerhouse.

* [[Action Girl]]
* [[Anime Hair]]: A [[Too Many Belts|belt]] ties her ponytail with a huge, pendulum-like decoration at the end. Don't pretend you don't like it.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]:  {{spoiler|One of the sadder endings. But the Golden Ending resolves it.}}
* [[Blade on a Stick]]
*  {{spoiler|[[Bodyguard Crush]]: A variation, as she was hired to assist Stocke.}}
* [[Boobs of Steel]]: Played straight. Compare her figure and playstyle to those of Aht and Eruca.
* [[Career Killers|Career Killer]]
* [[Child Soldiers|Child Soldier]]
* [[Everyone Can See It]]: Watching Stocke stare at Eruca, she quickly sets up the chance for them to speak alone.
* [[Fighting For a Homeland]]
* [[Hint Dropping]]
* {{spoiler|[[If We Get Through This]]}}: {{spoiler|She accepts Stocke's promise to settle down after [[Saving the World]].}}
*  {{spoiler|[[I Have This Friend]]: She starts to tell Stock this, but he can see through it.}}
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Lifestyle wise. She's weary of a lifetime of war.
* {{spoiler|[[I Will Wait for You]]}}
* [[Lady of War]]/[[Lady of Black Magic]]: Starts as a [[Magic Knight]] but her physical attacks are soon far outclassed by her raw ability with magic.
* [[Losing the Team Spirit]]: Happens twice. {{spoiler|Once when she realizes Stocke's choices could turn them both against Alistel, and again when she wants to give up fighting and elope with Stocke.}}
*  {{spoiler|[[Love Confession]]: She tells Stocke "[[I Have This Friend]]," Stocke [[Genre Savvy|quickly asks if she's in love with whoever she's talking about]]. She immediately has a [[Love Epiphany]] in front of him and confesses to him, and [[Oblivious to Love|he's genuinely suprised.]]}}
* [[Magic Knight]]: Has a spear for melee attacks, and a huge array of black magic spells.
* [[Master of the Mixed Message]]: She wants to be [[Fire-Forged Friends]]. Riiiight...
* [[Mook Promotion]]: Originally designed as temporary character, she and Marco stay with the party.
* [[My Country, Right or Wrong]]: Has a serious crisis concerning this in Cornet.
* [[Mini-Dress of Power]]
* [[One of the Boys]]: Marco mentions this. She gets pissed.
* [[Opera Gloves]]
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Red Oni]]: To Marco's Blue.
* {{spoiler|[[Relationship Upgrade]]: Ordinarily [[Just Friends]] with Stocke, she is [[Promoted to Love Interest]] in her sidequest.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Shallow Love Interest]]}}:  {{spoiler|Comes damn close, but narrowly averted. Early in, she is obviously quite taken to Stocke. During the [[Romance Sidequest]], [[Strangled by the Red String|out of nowhere]], [[Love Makes You Crazy|she's crazy about him]], to the point of asking him to abandon [[Saving the World]] to elope together. Yet Stock and Raynie are not the center of each other's universes (unless of course [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|you said yes]]). By the end of the game, she is an Alistel officer, as loud and proud as she ever was, but if the sidequest is complete, she is also [[I Will Wait for You|waiting for him]] so they can finally settle down together.}}
* [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man]]:{{spoiler|All three dialog options in her [[Romance Sidequest]] paint Stocke as a nice man. One for rescuing Aht, one for entrusting her and Marco in [[You Shall Not Pass|covering Stocke's escape,]] and one for rushing to stop a gang of mooks from charging into a [[Doomsday Device]]. She must dig aggressive male chivalry.}}
* [[So Happy Together]]: {{spoiler|With Stocke in one bad ending. If only they finished [[Saving the World]] first...}}
* [[Stripperiffic]]
*  {{spoiler|[[Token Romance]]}}
* [[Too Many Belts]]: She even uses one as [[Hair Decorations|a hair decoration]].
* [[Tsundere]]: Type B.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: Of the more silver variety.
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]

=== Marco ===
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Raynie's closest friend and ally, and the second member to assist Stocke. A short, mellow teenager, he has more of a supportive role in combat, with a variety of buffs and healing methods, but is still armed with a sword for offensive abilities.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: {{spoiler|Don't kill his potential love interest. He goes [[Ax Crazy]].}}
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Blue Oni]]: To Raynie's Red.
* [[Career Killers|Career Killer]]
* [[Child Soldiers|Child Soldier]]
* [[Combat Medic]]: Both in and out of battle.
* [[Cool Helmet]]: It has...metallic cat ears.
*  {{spoiler|[[Doppelganger Replacement Love Interest]]: He meets a girl who looks exactly like Mimel, though it's not known if Marco tried to get to know her.}}
* [[Everyone Can See It]]:  {{spoiler|He's quick to sigh when Raynie starts dropping hints she wants Stocke.}}
* [[Fighting For a Homeland]]
* [[Heartbroken Badass]]: {{spoiler|Conclusion of his sidequest.}}
* [[Little Hero Big War]]
* [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me]]
* [[Moment Killer]]
* [[New Old Flame]]: Mimel.
* [[Nice Hat]]
* [[Noodle Incident]]: Mutters something about Raynie beating the shit out of someone who hit on her.
* [[Satellite Character]]: He is the result of a [[Mook Promotion]], like Raynie, but with even less [[Character Development]].
* [[White Mage]]

=== Rosch ===
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Stocke's best friend, and given the spotlight in the Alternate History. When Stocke chooses to leave Specint to fight alongside him, they begin a campaign to win the war for Alistel. Things do not work out.

* {{spoiler|[[Babies Ever After]]}}: {{spoiler|Is married to Sonja and expecting a child if you complete their sidequest.}}
* [[The Big Guy]]
* [[Blade on a Stick]]
* [[Brains and Brawn]]: Brawn side of this dynamic with Stocke. Same can be said of his relationship with Raul.
* [[Bring My Red Jacket]]: Fits this even better than Stocke.
* [[Broken Ace]]
* [[Combat Clairvoyance]]
* [[Can't Catch Up]]: Mostly available in the Alternate History, and consistently drops in and out of the party for plot-related reasons, as such, he's underleveled for quite some time.
* {{spoiler|[[Disabled Means Helpless]]}}: {{spoiler|Acts like it once. Stocke [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|beats that attitude out of him.]]}}
* [[A Father to His Men]]
* [[Fighting For a Homeland]]
* [[Gut Feeling]]: And he's always right.
* [[Handicapped Badass]]
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: {{spoiler|Gets a huge case of this after he loses his entire army.}} 
* [[Hollywood Cyborg]]: Lost his arm and got a [[Magitek|thaumatech replacement]] called a "Gauntlet".
* [[I Owe You My Life]]: He feels indebted to Alistel for his new arm.
* [[Just Friends]]: With Sonja. {{spoiler|But his sidequest reveals he can't stay that way much longer.}}
* [[The Lancer]]
* [[Lawful Stupid]]: He gets better. [[It Got Worse|But not before he gets worse.]]
* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man|Manly Man]]
* [[Mighty Glacier]]
* {{spoiler|[[My Greatest Failure]]}}:{{spoiler|Losing his brigade}}
* [[Officer and a Gentleman]]
* [[Red Baron]]: He's called the Young Lion of Alistel.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Red Oni]]: To Raul.
* [[Relationship Upgrade]]: Can get this with {{spoiler|Sonja}} if you complete a certain sidequest.
* [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]]: {{spoiler|When he loses his entire army, he loses the will to fight.}}
* [[Supporting Leader]]
*  {{spoiler|[[Survivor Guilt]]}}
* [[Ten-Minute Retirement]]: {{spoiler|After his entire army gets wiped out, he goes into this.}} 
* [[24-Hour Armor]]: He must smell really bad. {{spoiler|He doesn't even get a new sprite with a desk job.}}
** Could this maybe have something to do with his gauntlet?
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: He  {{spoiler|[[Lawful Stupid|tries to kill Eruca]] and Stocke must kill him and use the Chronicle to sway his point of view on the country to which he swears his loyalty.}}
* [[Younger Than They Look]]: He's ''twenty-one.''

=== Aht ===
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A Satyros girl resembling a goat-hyman hybrid, she is a Shaman with gifted powers. Immediately upon meeting Stocke, she wants to befriend him and watch him carefully and displays immediate awareness of the things that he's going through. A powerful mage, she has the best healing magic in the game; however, instead of attack magic, she uses powerful traps which need to be set upon the ground and require the target(s) to be knocked into them for serious magic damage.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: In one bad ending she  {{spoiler|[[Yandere|Kidnaps Stocke, trapping him in a world she creates.]]}}
* [[Black Magician Girl]]
* [[Brown Note]]: Creates traps with music.
* [[Curtains Match the Window]]
* [[Cute Monster Girl]]
* [[Epic Flail]]: For some reason, it lets her steal.
* [[Genki Girl]]
* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: Of a sort.
* [[Hammerspace]]: Hides her [[Epic Flail]] there.
* [[Happy Dance]]: *Jump, jump, spin!* *Jump, jump, spin!*
* [[Hero Worshipper]]: She adores Stocke, to put it lightly.
* [[I Will Wait for You]]:  {{spoiler|She tells Stocke this in the end.}}
* [[Knife Nut]]: Her main weapon of choice, aside from the [[Epic Flail]].
* [[Little Bit Beastly]]
* [[Lotus Eater Machine]]: In one bad ending she  {{spoiler|seals Stocke in a world of her own creation.}}
* [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me]]: Only when she's blocking though.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Satyros = Satyr.
* [[Musical Assassin]]: She casts traps and spells by playing her flute.
* [[Mysterious Waif]]
* [[The Pollyanna]]
* [[The Medic]]: Learns some high-level healing spells...
** [[Combat Medic]]: ...And her traps can deal a lot of damage.
* [[Fauns and Satyrs|Satyr]]
* [[Squishy Wizard]]: Her defense is lacking, to say the least.
* [[Tagalong Kid]]
* [[Talking to the Dead]]: She's a shaman whose job is to help deceased spirits pass from the world.
* [[Token Mini-Moe]]
* [[Tomboyish Sidetails]]
* [[Trap Master]]
* [[Video Game Stealing]]
* [[Waif Prophet]]
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: She does not fare well against giant or immobile enemies since she cannot use her powerful trap techniques on them. 
* [[With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility]]: The point of her sidequest is to get her to realize this.

=== Eruca ===
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The princess of Granorg, Alistel's longest standing rival. She is a large focus of the Standard Timeline. Her goal is to usurp her Wicked Stepmother for the throne of Granorg. But that's only part of her true goal:  {{spoiler|To complete the Ritual that will stop the earth's desertification.}}

* [[Action Girl]]
* [[Armor-Piercing Slap]]: Her normal attack.
* [[Badass Princess]]
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Blue Oni]]: To Ernst's Red, before he died.
* [[Dead Little Sister|Dead Older Brother]]
* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]
* [[Glass Cannon]]: While she can deal good damage, her physical defense is less than that of ''Aht''. 
* [[Guns Are Worthless]]: Averted. Though she fires magic shots.
* [[Gun Twirling]]
*  {{spoiler|[[The High Queen]]}}
* [[Kicking Ass in All Her Finery]]
* [[Lady of Black Magic]]: She does have some support/healing skills, but her offensive magic is definetly the most impressive of her skillset.
* [[Little Miss Badass]]
* [[More Dakka]]: Her "Punishment" [[Limit Break|Mana Burst]].
* [[Rebel Leader]]
* [[Rebellious Princess]]: Quite literally.
* [[Requisite Royal Regalia]]: She never takes her crown off.
* [[Rightful Queen Returns]]: Her goal is to take back Granorg.
* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: And how!
* [[Supporting Leader]]
* [[Taking Up the Mantle]]:  {{spoiler|Her rebellion and toughness is inspired from Ernst's example.}}
* [[Tomboy Princess]]: More in personality than appearance.
** Becomes ever so apparent in battle. Her battle stance is rather dainty, but she occasionally stops to [[Gun Twirling|twirl her gun in two different directions]]. Then there's [[Armor-Piercing Slap|her melee attack]]...
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: {{spoiler|In her ending, she pulls off Stocke's ability to Vanish, and kills her would-be assassin.}}

=== Gafka ===
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A Gutral Beastkind. With the power of Chi, he transforms his seemingly brute strength into powerful energy attacks. When his skill gaining sidequests are completed, he gains great board control abilities, which let him push and pull enemies anywhere for absurd combos. Despite his rough appearance, [[Gentle Giant|he has a gentle and magnanimous personality]] [[Genius Bruiser|and he speaks with calm and experience]]. He has some difficulty telling humans apart. He acts as a protector and guard for the village of Celestia, though it's unclear at first as to why he lives with the Satyros rather than his own kind.

* [[Bare-Fisted Monk|Bare Fisted Monkey]]
* [[The Big Guy]]
* [[Blood Knight]]: In one of his bad endings, he becomes a monster powerful enough to wipe his enemies off the face of the earth...but at the cost of his humanity. He doesn't stop with {{spoiler|Alistel}}; he ends up taking on every other major country single-handedly, and the entire world has to team up ''just to take him down''. 
* [[The Exile]]: Left his hometown, Forgia.
* [[Genius Bruiser]]
* [[Glass Cannon]]: He's ridiculously powerful, but his magical defense is severely lacking.
* [[Good Old Fisticuffs]]
* [[He Who Fights Monsters|He Who Fights Beasts]]- The main dilemma of his sidequest. {{spoiler|As a Gutral, he has the power of a beast, but the ability to reason like a human. He is actively pursuing a relic that will make him "The Beast God," and give him ultimate power, but make him a pure beast with no humanity.}}
* [[Megaton Punch]]
* [[Mighty Glacier]]
* [[One-Man Army]]: In one of his bad endings. It doesn't end well.
* [[Petting Zoo People]]
* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]
* [[Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs]]: His Musou ability.

== Antagonists ==
=== Heiss ===
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Stocke's mentor and the leader of Specint. He is the one to initially assign Raynie and Marco under his command. In the same mission, he bestows him with the White Chronicle, simply stating that it might bring him good luck. As time goes by, though, it becomes apparent that Heiss may very well know the Chronicle's true nature, and is up to something behind the scenes.

 {{spoiler|It is eventually revealed that he is the wielder of the Black Chronicle, intentionally sewing corruption into history in order to hasten the continent's destruction. It also turns out that he is the first Sacrifice to refuse to complete The Ritual, and he also abducted his nephew Ernst during his second life, wiped his memory, and renamed him "Stocke" to prevent him from becoming a Sacrifice too.}}

* [[Bald of Evil]]
* {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]]: Of the game as a whole.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Cain and Abel]]}}: {{spoiler|Technically, he's both. He became the Sacrifice on behalf of his brother, King Victor, who was [[The Caligula]]. When he got his second life, he killed King Victor and abducted the reborn Ernst, renaming him Stocke.}}
* [[Character Development]]:  {{spoiler|He goes from being a [[Green-Eyed Monster]], to [[Hates Everyone Equally]], and finally to [[The Messiah]].}}
* {{spoiler|[[The Chessmaster]]: The entire plot is ultimately driven by his scheming.}}
* [[The Cynic]]
* {{spoiler|[[Dead All Along]]}}: {{spoiler|He is the previous Sacrifice, fleeing from his responsibility in his second life.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Dark Messiah]]}}: {{spoiler|Quite literally; he has the Black Chronicle as opposed to Stocke's White Chronicle, and is [[The Messiah]] who [[Refusal of the Call|refuses to go through his duty]].}}
* [[Dirty Coward]]: One of his {{spoiler|final desperate strategies}} is an ongoing [[Player Punch]]. {{spoiler|He repeatedly goes back in time, once to kill Eruca, then a number of times to possess different allies and enemies. He stops and makes a final stand, though.}}
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]
* [[Dual-Wielding]]: He has two Thaumatech Gauntlets, as opposed to Rosch's one.
* {{spoiler|[[Eldritch Abomination]]}}: {{spoiler|His final form, Apocrypha.}}
* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]]: {{spoiler|It's heavily implied he views Stocke as more of a son than a nephew, and in fact most of his actions in the game are an attempt to save Stocke from becoming a Sacrifice.}}
* [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]]:  {{spoiler|Until the very last moment...}}
* [[Evil Mentor]]
* [[Friendless Background]]
* {{spoiler|[[Good Feels Good]]}}
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]:  {{spoiler|Initially, he resented his brother ruling Granorg while he was the Sacrifice.}}
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]
* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Hoist by His Own Petard]]}}: {{spoiler|By giving Ernst a new identity as Stocke and the White Chronicle, he'd hoped to have Stocke likewise turn away from his duty as the Sacrifice. Instead, living as Stocke gives Ernst the resolve to become the Sacrifice and stop Heiss.}}
* [[Kick the Dog]]
* {{spoiler|[[Living MacGuffin]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Love Redeems]]}}:  {{spoiler|Stocke decides that Heiss's [[Refusal of the Call]] is naturally from a lack of love and friendship, to the point there was not a soul on earth for which Heiss was willing to be the Sacrifice. In the [[Golden Ending]], Heiss finds one. [[Thicker Than Water|His nephew, Stocke,]] who he genuinely tried to give a new life. Heiss demands he be sacrificed instead, so Stocke can be with all those he loves.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Madden Into Misanthropy]]}}
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]
* [[Megaton Punch]]
* {{spoiler|[[Misanthrope Supreme]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]}}: {{spoiler|Nice job giving Ernst a chance to gain a [[Nakama]] and become an extraordinary soldier, Heiss.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Nietzsche Wannabe]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Omnicidal Maniac]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[One-Winged Angel]]}}: {{spoiler|Apocrypha, which looks like something out of M. C. Escher's nightmares. It's the embodiment of the sorrow of all the previous Sacrifices.}}
* {{spoiler|[[People Puppets]]}}: Does this with {{spoiler|the corpse of King Victor}}, and later with {{spoiler|Field Marshall Viola}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Plaguemaster]]}}: {{spoiler|Every Sand Plague death is actually him ripping the mana out of a servant.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Put Them All Out of My Misery]]}}: {{spoiler|Quite literally, his objective.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Refusal of the Call]]}}: {{spoiler|This started the regrowing of the desertification.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Royally Screwed-Up]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Screw Destiny]]}}: {{spoiler|His primary motivation.}}
* [[Sinister Schnoz]]: This alone is the most popular giveaway.
* [[Smug Snake]]
* {{spoiler|[[Luke, I Am Your Father|Stocke I Am Your Uncle]]}}
* [[Teleport Spam]]: When first demonstrating Vanish to Stocke.
* [[Thicker Than Water]]:  {{spoiler|Towards Stocke.}}
* [[Treacherous Quest-Giver]]: With tragic consequences.
* [[We Wait]]
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: He does this repeatedly.

=== Queen Protea ===
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The queen of Granorg, the country at war with Alistel, and Eruca's stepmother. She is a vain, cruel, and stupid woman who is manipulated by her advisers. She does as she pleases without a care for her subjects and is known within the kingdom as a tyrant. Swept up in the luxury and power of royalty, Protea is addicted to indulgence at the expense of her people. As the late King Victor's second wife, she has no blood ties to Princess Eruca and finds the girl a nuisance. She has no political expertise to speak of, so [[Co-Dragons|her trusted courtiers]], [[Dragon with an Agenda|High Colonel Dias and Count Selvan]], actually handle her administration.

* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]
* [[Big Bad]]: Of the Standard History.
* [[The Caligula]]
* [[Eviler Than Thou]]: Between her and {{spoiler|Hugo}}.
* [[Evil Matriarch]]
* [[God Save Us From the Queen]]
* [[Kill'Em All]]: {{spoiler|She orders for Granorg to be set on fire to kill the resistance, regardless of who else it may hurt.}}
* [[Know When to Fold'Em]]: Only at the last possible second.  {{spoiler|When Stocke's about to cut her head off.}}
* [[Love Ruins the Realm]]: The late King Victor has bad taste. Not that he was a saint.
* [[Offing the Offspring]]: Well, the step-offspring, anyway.
* [[Puppet King|Puppet Queen]]
* [[Rich Bitch]]
* [[Royally Screwed-Up]]
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]
* [[Shotacon]]: She ogles choir boys. Dias and Selvan talk about it behind her back.
* [[Unholy Matrimony]]
* {{spoiler|[[Unwitting Pawn]]}}
* [[The Unfought]]: Unfortunate, but justified. She cannot fight.
* [[Wicked Stepmother]]

=== Selvan ===
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{{quote| ''"[[Deadpan Snarker|Mm. If you'll excuse me, I must go]] {{spoiler|[[Deadpan Snarker|set my own city on fire]]}}."''}}

Along with Dias, Count Selvan is Queen Protea's most trusted attendant. While Dias manages the army, Selvan bends Granorg's parliament to his will, acting as Granorg's administrator. He and Dias together manipulate Protea to impose their will on Granorg, but their relationship is always one of equals. Of the two, Dias is more visible, while Selvan uses his ingenuity to support him from the shadows. Selvan sees warfare like chess and enjoys it just as if it were a game. He is known as a feared tactician, but he occasionally goes into battle himself to lead his men.

* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]
* [[Bishonen]]/[[Long-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Protea hired him based on his looks.
* [[The Chessmaster]]
* [[Co-Dragons]]: With Dias, to Protea.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* {{spoiler|[[Deal with the Devil]]}}: In the Standard History, in the Final Chapter, he finds {{spoiler|Heiss under the Granorg palace, who promises him, and later Dias, to be part of a great power. [[Literal Genie|It doesn't end well.]]}}
* [[Dragon-in-Chief]]
* [[Dragon with an Agenda]]
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]
* [[Evil Chancellor]]
* [[Evil Redhead]]
* [[My Master, Right or Wrong]]: Depending on the timeline, he either follows Protea's will to the end (even to the point of {{spoiler|setting the city on fire}}), or he {{spoiler|turns her in to form a peace treaty with Hugo}}.
* [[Noble Top Enforcer]]: Has hints of this, with his reluctance to {{spoiler|burn Granorg to the ground}}.
* [[The Starscream]]: {{spoiler|In the Alternate History, when Protea's idiotic tendencies go too far.}}
* [[The Unfought]]
* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: Views Protea as this,  {{spoiler|but [[Hoist by His Own Petard|becomes one himself to Heiss]]}}.
* [[Villainous Friendship]]: Seems to genuinely get along with Dias.
* {{spoiler|[[Your Soul Is Mine]]}}: {{spoiler|His ultimate fate.}}
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: {{spoiler|As the Alternate History shows, he intends to run his plans like this, switching sides and leaving Protea to take the fall if things go wrong. It doesn't work, mostly because Heiss is an [[Outside Context Villain]] for him in the Alternate timeline, and Stocke is an Outside Context Hero for him in the Standard one.}}

=== Dias ===
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A court knight who serves Granorg's Queen Protea. High Colonel Dias is an exemplar of skill and efficiency as the army's supreme commander. He is an excellent soldier, but his ambitions go beyond the military: together with Count Selvan, he rules over all Granorg with Protea as their figurehead. Though he tries to appear stoic and dignified, he is a decisive mover and tends to rush headlong into matters. However, his heedlessness is balanced by Selvan, whose guile complements Dias' deficiencies to form a balanced team.

* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]
* [[Bishonen]]/[[Long-Haired Pretty Boy]]/[[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Like Selvan, he says he got his job because of his looks.
* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]
* [[Co-Dragons]]: With Selvan, to Protea.
* [[Cutscene Boss]]
* {{spoiler|[[Deal with the Devil]]}}: In the Standard History, in the Final Chapter, he finds {{spoiler|Heiss under the Granorg palace, who has promised Selvan to be part of a great power, and is given the same offer. [[Literal Genie|It doesn't end well.]]}}
* [[Dirty Coward]]
* [[Draco in Leather Pants]]: Is this to his in-universe fangirls.
* [[Dragon-in-Chief]]
* [[Dragon with an Agenda]]
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]
* [[Evil Chancellor]]
* [[The Heavy]]
* [[My Master, Right or Wrong]]: Similar to Selvan, his loyalty to Protea wavers between timelines.
* [[Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves]]: When [[Evil Chancellor|Hedge]] goes to Dias with help to defeat Garland, Dias takes it...and then promptly murders him. However, Stocke alters this later on, stopping Hedge before he can spill his guts.
* [[The Starscream]]: {{spoiler|In the Alternate History, when Protea's idiotic tendencies go too far.}}
* [[The Unfought]]: Unlike Protea and Selvan, he's supposed to be a master swordsman, and even fights in a cutscene, so this one is a bit harder to explain.
* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: Views Protea as this,  {{spoiler|but [[Hoist by His Own Petard|becomes one himself to Heiss]]}}.
* [[Villainous Friendship]]: Seems to genuinely get along with Selvan.
* {{spoiler|[[Your Soul Is Mine]]}}: {{spoiler|His ultimate fate.}}

=== Hugo ===
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The general and supreme commander of Alistel's army, he doubles as the Prophet Noah's mouthpiece and has taken up stewardship of the country in Noah's stead since the Prophet withdrew from public life five years ago. Since he holds the reins of both Alistel's government and military, it would be no exaggeration to call him the true ruler of Alistel. He used to be a politician, but his renown from conveying Noah's words to the masses coupled with the war against Granorg elevated him to his current position. Some already think of him as Noah's successor, as he stirs up Alistel's populace to war with exhortations that Protea-controlled Granorg is a den of evil.

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]
* [[Bald of Evil]]: Possibly a subversion of [[Bald Black Leader Guy]].
* {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]]: Of the Alternate History.}}
* [[Drunk with Power]]: He starts off as the spokesman for the Prophet Noah. He escalates into {{spoiler|the de facto leader of a country bent on purging the continent through a holy war. [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|And that's not even going into Flux...]]}}
* [[Eviler Than Thou]]: {{spoiler|To Protea}}
* [[The Fundamentalist]]
* {{spoiler|[[Go Out with a Smile]]}}: {{spoiler|A rare villainous, non-tearjerking example.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Man On Fire]]: How he dies.}}
* [[Obviously Evil]]
* [[Sinister Minister]]
* {{spoiler|[[Unwitting Pawn]]}}: {{spoiler|To Heiss.}}
* [[Villain with Good Publicity]]
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: In the Standard History, he just sort of fades into the background, and is never seen again after the first few chapters. {{spoiler|Though it can be conjectured that his fate in the Alternate History "leaked" into the Standard History.}}
* {{spoiler|[[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]}}
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: Once {{spoiler|Fennel}} has {{spoiler|infused him with the power of Flux}}, he disposes of him.

=== Fennel ===
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The director of Alistel's research and development department. Fennel is a world-renowned thaumatech scientist under orders from Hugo to work night and day on mass production of the powerful thaumachines he devised. Sonja is technically one of his underlings.He is Alistel's finest mind, but he has an extreme distaste for other people. He's a typical [[Mad Scientist]] who thrives on data collected through field tests and cares about nothing but furthering his research.

* [[For Science!|For Thaumatech]]
* [[Lonely At the Top]]: Though Fennel does love science, he loves the scientific community even more. The reason he stopped working on gauntlet tech was because the only person who could even comprehend his work{{spoiler|(Sonja's brother)}} died, leaving his theories and creations completely unchallenged, which Fennel finds incredibly boring.
* [[Mad Scientist]]
* {{spoiler|[[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]}}: {{spoiler|Once he empowers Hugo with the power of Flux, Hugo tosses him aside. It's unknown if he survives the ordeal, since he can be spoken to after fighting Hugo for the first time, but is not seen or heard of again.}}

== Supporting Cast ==
=== Vanoss ===
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The leader of a troupe of travelling performers which includes Aht and Liese, he is always a gentleman and acts as Aht's "Uncle Vanoss". He seems happy with his life as a wandering performer, but he is personally acquainted with the Patriarch of the Satyros, and seems to have his own agenda...

* [[The Caretaker]]: To Aht, before handing her off to Stocke.
* [[Honorary Uncle]]: His relationship to Aht.
* [[Horned Humanoid]]
* [[Little Bit Beastly]]
* [[Pointy Ears]]
* [[Promotion to Parent]]: Takes care of Aht until Stocke takes her in.
* [[Fauns and Satyrs|Satyr]]
* [[Street Performer]]
* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]


=== Teo and Lippti ===
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{{quote| ''"[[Nonstandard Game Over|You've returned, Stocke.]]"''}}

A pair of immortal twins, and the only known residents of Historia. They saved Stocke from near death. But they also give him his new mission: to save not only Alistel, but the whole world from desertification. They offer advice, but are not allowed to tell him what choices to make.

* [[All Powerful Bystander|All Powerful Bystanders]]
* [[The Atoner|The Atoners]]: It's implied in one sidequest that {{spoiler|their father was responsible for the destabilization of Mana, which led to desertification, and the family they meet in Alistel both mirrors their own and has the know-how to permanently solve the problem in a way the heroes may never know}}.
* [[The Chessmaster|The Chessmasters]]: They have been watching the timeline end badly for eons. And the [[Golden Ending]] reveals their true plan  {{spoiler|was not to get Stocke to be the Sacrifice, but to get Heiss to accept his destiny as the Sacrifice.}}
* [[Creepy Child|Creepy Children]]
* [[Last of Their Kind]]: {{spoiler|The last of the Imperials.}}
* [[Misery Builds Character]]: They say {{spoiler|the wielders of the Chronicles have to build up experiences with others to strengthen their souls and make them more willing to be the Sacrifices. It did not work on Heiss.}}
* [[Nonstandard Game Over]]: Every time a false [[Downer Ending]] is reached, Stocke escapes to Historia, where they explain why the choice was not a good one. They go so far as to say some choices are not even that bad, but that there are better ones.
* [[Pointy Ears]]: For some reason.
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: They're far older than they look. In fact, {{spoiler|they're even older than they should be chronologically (which would be at least as old as the the fall of the Empire), because their personal timelines include those of ''every single Sacrifice'', including Stocke and Heiss.}}
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]
* [[Restraining Bolt]]: They are not permitted to direct Stocke to make any choices. He is free to make any choices he wants because he can always go back and change them without consequences. {{spoiler|But they strain to give Stocke an exact destination during an emergency.}}
* [[Spirit Advisor|Spirit Advisors]]
* [[The Watcher|The Watchers]]
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: They (gently) do this for particularly bad choices, such as  {{spoiler|[[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|accepting Hugo's offer of power]], or [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|eloping with Raynie.]]}}

=== Sonja ===
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She is the overseer of the medical division. In addition to her duties as medic, she spends her time researching Mana, the source of all life, and dabbles in thaumatech research as well. Sonja is tough yet kindhearted and counts both Stocke and Rosch as friends. Though she doesn't fight on the frontline, she watches over them and tends to worry about their survival on dangerous missions.

* {{spoiler|[[Babies Ever After]]}}: {{spoiler|With Rosch, if you complete their sidequest.}}
* [[Dead Little Sister|Dead Older Brother]]
* [[The Chick]]
* [[The Engineer]]
* [[Hair Decorations]]: Hers appear to be ivy of some sort. Whether they're real plants or not is unknown.
* [[Fetch Quest]]: Sends you out to find all the cores for Rosch's gauntlet.
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: She is ridiculously skilled when it comes to installing gears into Rosch's gauntlet, despite it being one of a kind.
* [[My Girl Back Home]] - She feels like she's this to Rosch (and Stocke a little) when they're off fighting for their lives while she's safe and sound.
* [[Just Friends]]: With Rocsh and Stocke.  {{spoiler|She later marries Rocsh.}}
* [[Like Brother and Sister]]: With Rosch.  {{spoiler|But Rosch comes to love her more than that.}}
* [[The Medic]]
* [[Relationship Upgrade]]: Gets this with {{spoiler|Rosch}} if you complete a certain sidequest.
* [[True Companions]]: Her, Stocke, and Rosch.
* [[Wrench Wench]]

=== Kiel ===
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Within the hodgepodge Rosch Brigade, he unifies the new soldiers as a leader of sorts. On the word of his respected superior Rosch that Stocke is a skilled swordsman, he has the highest respect for Stocke as well. Kiel is a naive young man with a bright outlook, but he can sometimes get carried away witrh himself and begin to panic. He, too, is a skilled swordsman, but his talents lie more in ceremonial sword dancing rather than combat forms.

* {{spoiler|[[Back From the Dead]]}}: {{spoiler|In the [[Golden Ending]].}}
* [[Betty and Veronica]]: Has trouble deciding whether he likes Sonja more for her soft sensitivity and kindness, or Viola for her strength and beauty.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: When he finally has to stand and fight. {{spoiler|It doesn't end well.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}} {{color|white|- Although he gets better in the true ending.}}
* [[Hero Worshipper]]
* [[Innocent Prodigy]]
* [[Keet]]
* [[Plucky Middie]]
* [[Precocious Crush]]: On Sonja and Viola.
* {{spoiler|[[Sacrificial Lion]]}}
* [[Sidekick]]: to Rosch.
* {{spoiler|[[Stupid Sacrifice]]}}: {{spoiler|Seeing how Stocke could go back in time and warn the Rosch Brigade about the ambush, it's kind of silly that Kiel and the rest have to die, when logically Stocke should've been able to stop it, even if there wasn't a Node right there and then.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Suicide Mission]]}}
* [[Tagalong Kid]]
* {{spoiler|[[Tricked-Out Time]]}}: {{spoiler|How Stocke saves him in the [[Golden Ending]].}}
* {{spoiler|[[You Shall Not Pass]]}}


=== Raul ===
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The second-in-command of Alistel's army, with the rank of Lieutenant General. He is Rosch's superior and has a good rapport with him. His evasive demeanor and suspicious looks don't mark him as a serviceman, but those who know him well praise him as the Sleeping Lion of Alistel. He's not the type of commander who takes to the battlefield personally, but he has a natural talent for internal administration and navigating the kingdom's minefield of politics.

* [[Artistic Age]]: Judging by some of his comments, he's getting on in years, but he looks like he could be in his twenties. The page-boy haircut doesn't help.
* [[Benevolent Boss]]: One of Stocke's only superiors that he can actually trust.
* [[Big Good]]: Eventually becomes this, during {{spoiler|the war against Alistel}}, opposing {{spoiler|Hugo}}'s [[Big Bad]].
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Blue Oni]]: To Rosch.
* [[Bob Haircut]]: Of the male variety.
* [[Brains and Brawn]]: The brains to Rosch's brawn.
* [[Fighting For a Homeland]]
* [[Gut Feeling]]: He has a feeling that Hugo might be getting just a ''little'' [[Drunk with Power|taken up with controlling the people of Alistel]].
* [[Red Baron]]: He's called "Alistel's Sleeping Lion".
* [[Officer and a Gentleman]]
* [[Only Sane Man]]:  {{spoiler|The only man left to lead Alistel in the end.}}
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]
* [[The Strategist]]: Of supposedly legendary fame, able to lead {{spoiler|the joint Satyros/Gutral army}} with amazing tactical force.

=== Liese ===
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A Satyros dancer who acts as an older sister and caretaker for Aht in Vanoss' troupe of travelling performers. She is affable and talkative with a general sunny disposition. Though she is a Satyros, she shares Aht and Vanoss' warmth towards humanity.

* {{spoiler|[[Babies Ever After]]}}: {{spoiler|If you complete her sidequest, she becomes pregnant in the epilogue.}}
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]
* [[Eyes Always Shut]]
* [[Horned Humanoid]]
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: If you do her sidequest.
* [[Little Bit Beastly]]
* [[Loin Cloth]]: It's the only thing covering her...uh...animal parts.
* [[Perpetual Smiler]]: Though this could be in part due to her only having one character portrait, which bears a constant grin.
* [[Pointy Ears]]
* [[Fauns and Satyrs|Satyr]]
* [[Street Performer]]
=== Viola ===
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Alistel's prize Field Marshal, known as the Valkyrie for her beauty and strength. When she got too popular, she was reassigned to Alistel's most important stronghold and the most dangerous chokepoint in the war, the Sand Fortress, away from the people of Alistel. However, her valor and judgment have earned her the staunch support of all Alistellians, not just the miltary. She is unwavering in her devotion to Alistel and devoutly reveres the Prophet Noah as well, for she knew him personally before his health began to wane, which is something only a handful of people can say. Many believe that her charisma exceeds Hugo's, and her service record also dwarfs his. Yet despite her accomplishments, she is more often than not out of the country on assignment.

* [[Alliterative Name]]: With her [[Badass Nickname]], Viola the Valkyrie.
* [[Bifauxnen]]
* [[Death Seeker]]: Due to her illness. Partially excuses her [[Honor Before Reason]] tendencies.
* [[Dual-Wielding]]: Wields two swords.
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: On a [[Too Dumb to Live]] scale.
* [[Ill Girl]]/[[Incurable Cough of Death]]: {{spoiler|Although if you do her sidequest, she is expected to fully recover in the epilogue.}}
* [[Iron Lady]]
* [[Knight Templar]]
* [[My Country, Right or Wrong]]: Even when she knows that {{spoiler|Hugo is manipulating Alistel, she still fights for Noah, since the country would fall apart if they knew he was dead.}}
* [[Lawful Stupid]]: To an absurd degree. {{spoiler|Knowing that Hugo has been twisting Noah's preaching for a while and that Noah has been dead for up to five years, she continues to defend Hugo just to keep her faith alive.}}
** {{spoiler|It's less about keeping her faith alive and more about being aware that Alistel will completely fall apart if people's faith in Noah is broken.}}
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: At least when {{spoiler|she's not being [[Lawful Stupid]] and trying to pull a [[Thanatos Gambit]]}}.
* [[Reassigned to Antarctica]]: For being too popular.
* [[Red Baron]]: Known as the Valkyrie.
* {{spoiler|[[Thanatos Gambit]]}}: {{spoiler|Tries to pull one off, though she may survive if you finish her sidequest.}}
* [[To Be Lawful or Good]]
* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]

=== Galva ===
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The Gutral's Elder, said to be well over 150 years old. He is one of the few living beings who know of the continent's history. Because his race has been deceived countless times by humans, resulting in the loss of many of his kind, he is not kindly disposed towards humans and limits his people's contact with the outside world to a bare minimum. At his insistence, the Gutrals are mere observers in the war between Alistel and Granorg.

* [[Cool Old Guy]]
* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys]]
* [[Long Lived]]
* [[Miniature Senior Citizens]]: He's much smaller than the other Gutrals.
* [[The Patriarch]]
* [[Petting Zoo People]]
* [[The Watcher]]
* [[Wizard Beard]]

=== Garland ===
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The king of Cygnus. His leadership style is direct, informal, and very hands-on. As the ruler of a city of fighters, he thinks nothing of jumping into battle with his men, even when this leaves his throne undefended. Fortunately, he is not averse to heeding the advice of more level-headed companions. 

* [[Asskicking Equals Authority]]
* [[Badass Beard]]
* [[Badass Cape]]/[[Scarf of Asskicking]]: Like Stocke's, but with a criss-crossing arrangement over the chest.
* [[BFS|Big F**king Scimitar]]
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]
* [[Duel Boss]]: Against Stocke. He loses, but this only makes him respect Stocke as a fellow warrior.
* [[Easily Forgiven]]: If it weren't for  {{spoiler|Stocke's capture}}, you would never know his kingdom harbored slavery.
* [[Modest Royalty]]
* [[No Shirt, Long Jacket]]
* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]
* [[Sleeves Are for Wimps]]
* [[Warrior Prince]]
* [[What's Up, King Dude?]]: He values trustworthiness and competence above manners and breeding, to the point of assigning a counterintelligence mission to a young Granorgian rebel named Ricky he met a few days ago. 
** Although in his case, he used to be a slave and a gladiator before fighting his way to the top, so it's understandable. 

=== Bergas ===
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The chief of the Gutral warriors. He earned the nickname "Iron Armed" as being the strongest of the Gutral warriors. He is also Gafka's master and worries about him from a distance. Like the rest of his race, has has no love for humans.

* [[Badass Cape]]/[[Scarf of Asskicking]]: Hard to tell which exactly it is, since it's just a strand of cloth that travels across his body.
* [[Duel Boss]]: When trying to attain Gafka's skills.
* [[Petting Zoo People]]: Though he looks much closer to [[Little Bit Beastly]] than any of the other Gutrals. However, this could be attributed to the fact that the areas of his body where most Gutrals are covered in hair are fully clothed, which gives off a more human appearance.
* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]
* [[Red Baron]]: Has the nickname "Iron Armed".
* [[Sink or Swim Mentor]]

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