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=== Dehl Sikohlon ===

{{quote|''"My life for Wadassia."''}}

 

In-game description: ''"A polite, peaceful young shra, he tries to fit in with the people of Wadassia. A gate guard for the city's defense army. A well-balanced fighter with no outstanding strengths or weaknesses, he arrived in Wadassia one day 10 years ago."''

 

 

Dehl is also very [[The Stoic|stoic]], peaceful, and compassionate as part of his upbringing among the Sikohlon, a clan of pacifists. There seems to be something slightly off about him compared to the rest of them, though, such as his willingness to wade into combat and the sadness in his eyes...

* {{spoiler|[[The Berserker]]}}: {{spoiler|Turns into one after his [[Freak-Out]] in chapter 6.}}

* [[Character Development]]: And ''how!'' By the end of chapter 5, he goes from being a soft-spoken [[Extreme Doormat]] content to do thankless deeds to a celebrity and symbol of hope for the entire world, as well as a capable leader of a large and varied guild.

** Amazingly, this is also ''deconstructed'' in a sense. {{spoiler|Dehl finds that this transformation is not entirely positive -- to take on such a mantle, he must abandon many of his previous ideals, and he himself hates the man he has become.}}

* [[Chaste Hero]]: As evidenced by his conversations with Kidra, who says [[Double Entendre]] lines every five seconds. To be fair, he ''is'' a [[One-Gender Race|shra]].

{{quote|"A little cliché, don't ya think?"}}

* {{spoiler|[[Self-Made Orphan]]}}: {{spoiler|[[Accidental Murder|By accident]]. Also, his father was trying to [[Offing the Offspring|off the offspring]], so it's not like he [[Subverted Trope|had much of a choice]].}}

* [[The Stoic]]: Lampshaded by Tehgonan, who is baffled by Dehl's insistence that he never feels anger.

** [[Stoic Woobie]]: And how.

** {{spoiler|[[Not So Stoic]]}}: {{spoiler|His [[Freak-Out]].}}

** {{spoiler|Deconstructed when he actually ''does'' kill people in front of a [[Perfect Pacifist People|Sikohlon]] child. He gets a rather nasty [[What the Hell, Hero?]] speech afterwards and is banished from the Sikohlon family.}}

* [[Technicolor Eyes|Technicolor Sclerae]]: Yellow, like most shra.

 

=== Zargos D'Rath ===

{{quote|''[to Skint] "That answers nothin'! Where ye of the Crown or the [[La Résistance|Spear]]? Which side bought ye out?"''<br />

[...]<br />

 

=== Santes D'Rath ===

Race: Human. Class: [[Combat Medic|Blessed Corps]]. Age: 29

 

 

=== Tehgonan Clapian ===

Race: Human. Class: [[Light'Em Up|Spectrumancer]]. Age: 11

 

* [[Jerkass]]: He's ''slightly'' less of a prick than his father, but is still quite the [[Bratty Half-Pint]]. [[Character Development|He gets better]].

* [[Light'Em Up]]: He can manipulate literal light, plus a bit of [[Dishing Out Dirt|geomancy]] on the side.

* [[Parental Substitute]]: Qualstio seems like he may border on this for Tehgonan while he's in the guild. The two interact a lot, with Qualstio often giving him moral and practical guidance.

* [[Weapon of Choice]]: [[Magic Wand]]

 

=== Fero Flael ===

{{quote|''"Do not let your mind be poisoned by the air [of Kir'Ssha]...{{spoiler|as mine once was}}."''}}

 

 

In-game description: "A friendly but shy Fih'jik hunter of wild game, he seeks to prowl upon the most dangerous creatuers in the wilds of the world."

 

Fero is a fih'jik who, like most of his kind, left to escape the chaos of his homeland. However, he is also a skilled hunter, and constantly seeks new game to test his skills on.

 

=== Sicious Qualstio ===

{{quote|''"Ohhh, so you've heard of me! I guess I won't have to tell you to stay outta my way."''}}

 

 

=== Lani Derra ===

{{quote|''"My life is discipline! Your mission becomes mine. Just tell me what to crush!"''}}

 

 

=== Sirush ===

{{quote|'''''Dehl:''' You will be able to save many people if you join us.

'''Sirush:''' {{spoiler|Myself...included.}}'' }}

 

=== Kidra Silvery ===

{{quote|''"A home is destined to be fled."''}}

 

Race: Human. Class: [[Fragile Speedster|Flashcurve]]. Age: Undisclosed

 

 

{{spoiler|That's because she's actually a member of the Nal police. The ''secret'' police, that is, whose job it is to make sure the ''real'' police are doing their jobs correctly -- though of course, the real police's job in the first place was to make sure the old police didn't abuse their power either. Nal's government is a mess. Kidra realizes this in the ending, where she assists in the rebuild of Nal, and agrees with the people who say that a mess of guards, officers, and police, just makes everything worse and invites corruption.}}

 

=== Halia Falitza ===

{{quote|''"I...I see...through...the un-seeable..."''}}

 

Race: Sactifellian. Class: [[Spoony Bard|Wonder Caller]]. Age: 18

 

 

She enjoys babbling about "the sky", "the blue", and "fate", among other strange things. Though her mad phrases may seem like incoherent nonsense, there may be a few genuine truths to it for those who look carefully...

 

=== Ques Mahesto (real name: {{spoiler|Seku Muezza}}) ===

Race: Fih'jik-fortian. Class: [[Difficult but Awesome|Tactician]]. Human-normalized age: 68 (real age: 34)

 

 

=== Moke Sikohlon ===

{{quote|''"If I continue to wield such vileness, shall I one day become completely consumed by it?"''}}

 

 

=== Rehm Sikohlon ===

{{quote|''"No one dies today. None of us, and none of them."''

[...]

* [[Playing with Fire]]

* [[Technicolor Eyes|Technicolor Sclerae]]: [[Rule of Symbolism|Sea blue]].

 

=== Kulkumatz ===

{{quote|''"You will help me find the proper placce to die. A placce where I may put my sspirit to resst."''}}

 

 

=== Yfus Crossar ===

{{quote|''"Why do you believe it must be stopped? Perhaps a war is exactly what we deserve."''}}

 

 

=== Alito ===

{{quote|''"I... I am home, so long as I serve my friends."''}}

 

== Character #16 '''(SPOILER WARNING)''' ==

=== Tezkhra ===

{{quote|''"Truthfully... I have lived more in the last Surface-year than in any time before."''}}

 

Race: Shra-God. Class: [[Overrated and Underleveled|Deity]]. Human-normalized age: Indeterminate

 

 

 

* [[A God Am I]]: Though he acts more like, "[[Shrouded in Myth|Wait, I'm a god]]? Uh...sure, I'll go with that."

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: He ''died'', for crying out loud!

* [[Mighty Glacier]]: One of the reasons why he's [[Overrated and Underleveled]].

* [[Personality Powers]]: His elemental affinity is "Order".

* [[The Quiet One]]: When we are privy to his thoughts, though, he can be described as quite the chatterbox.

* [[Shrouded in Myth]]: He's actually the ''complete inverse'' of the mythological Tezkhra.

* [[Technicolor Eyes|Technicolor Sclerae]]: Like Moke, averted, which is in and of itself notable.

* [[Weapon of Choice]]: [[Power Fist]]

 

=== Havan ===

{{quote|''"My life...for Wadassia."''}}

 

 

=== The Blue Guard ===

 

The Blue Guard is a fellow guild of Wadassia, led by Havan. Due to his friendship with Dehl, the two guilds vow to help each other and, by extension, the rest of the city. The Blue Guard follows in the footsteps Six Stars around the world, but they begin to appear out of their depth before long.

 

 

 

* [[Action Girl]]: Adi.

 

=== Metzino ===

{{quote|''"Hmmhmm, but you won't [kill me], and do you know why not? Of course you do. You're smart."''}}

 

 

{{spoiler|His family line also has a [[Feuding Families|blood feud]] with the Pazzato line, for unexplained reasons. The current Pazzato is the Mental Councillord, so the rest of the Council is easily able to manipulate events to force the two into a duel -- [[Xanatos Gambit|and no matter who dies, they will win]]. Metzino puts up a good fight against Pazzato using some kind of energy gun, but Pazzato eventually gets the best of him and throws him off the Faithall Tower. After his death, the Council destroys everything, and since he has no children, there will be no one to carry on his work. Well, [[Hope Spot|except Brenetto, his faithful student who survived unscathed]]...except that he's never seen again after the apocalypse, so he's almost certainly dead as well.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]}}

* [[Non-Action Guy]]: Mostly.

* [[Verbal Tic]]: "Hmmhmmhmmmm..."

 

=== Yacatec Yutli ===

{{quote|''"I trade in many things, as I said before. This land is a fount of riches, [[Verbal Tic|hza nek]]?"''}}

 

* [[Alliterative Name]]

* [[Back for the Finale]]: Though it's done in a rather depressing manner. {{spoiler|He appears in the final dungeon as [[Poetic Justice|a slave]], and helps you get through said dungeon after you free him.}}

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: {{spoiler|He has a human wife.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]}}: Debatably. Qualstio doesn't buy it.

* {{spoiler|[[Love Redeems]]}}: {{spoiler|He's a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]] because he has a loving family.}} [[Defied]] by Qualstio, who {{spoiler|still thinks he's a horrible person, even if he does have a family.}}

* [[Nice Hat]]: He takes it off when he's not in the Lowlands, though.

* [[Technicolor Eyes|Technicolor Sclerae]]: Yellow, like most shra.

* [[Verbal Tic]]: He likes to sprinkle random shra phrases into his speech. We're never given a translation as to what they actually ''mean'', though.

 

=== Syri Muezza ===

{{quote|''"We thought you were dead... T'was something far worse than death! You abandoned us! Your family! It's your fault!"''}}

 

* [[Action Girl]]: To an extent.

* {{spoiler|[[He's Just Hiding|She's Just Hiding]]}}: [[In-Universe]]; {{spoiler|after she almost certainly dies during the Unstoppable Night, Ques desperately tries to convince himself she's still alive at every opportunity.}}

* [[Technicolor Eyes|Technicolor Sclerae]]: Blue.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: She was originally intended to be playable.

 

=== Brenetto ===

{{quote|''"Ah, yes, yes! You are here, here to assist me, yes? Delicious!"''}}

 

 

{{spoiler|It turns out that he was a student of Metzino, which is the reason why he focuses on a fusion of magic and technology. He becomes very sad when he hears the news of his death in chapter 4, but Qualstio manages to cheer him up. Brenetto decides that even though his master is no more, he will still continue his research.}}

 

=== Mahk Sikohlon ===

{{quote|''"Just remember the house rules. No weapons, no quarreling, no violent acts of any sort. That includes the sword you are so shakily trying to conceal, Brother Dehl."''}}

 

 

{{spoiler|It is heavily implied that he dies in the Second Blackening (along with most of his clutch), making Dehl, Rehm, and Xopi the only surviving Sikohlons in the world.}}

In addition ([[Spoiler|don't read this]] unless you've seen the [[Golden Ending]]): {{spoiler|Mahk is -- or was -- actually one of the [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]] who created and populated the world the game takes place in. After Tezkhra died, he went down to find him, but ended up [[Going Native]]. Why his personality is the complete inverse of what it was in ''[[I Miss the Sunrise]]'', why he went native, and why he named his pacifist cult after weapon traders are all mysteries.}}

 

* {{spoiler|[[Going Native]]}}

* [[Man in White]]

 

=== Xopi Sikohlon ===

 

Xopi is a young shra in the care of Mahk. He is very quiet and shy, but he eventually takes a liking to Dehl, asking him questions about the large, strange outside world he comes from.

 

=== The Scourge Clad (Skint and Aryn) ===

{{quote|''"Your mouth may belie you, but perhaps your veins will speak truth to me instead!"''|'''Skint'''}}

 

 

It turns out that {{spoiler|Skint is a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] who wishes to free the shra people from decades of enslavement. He offers Dehl the opportunity to join him in this endeavor, but Dehl refuses, since it is against everything he has learned since coming to the mainland. The two part ways and never see each other again. Of course, when the apocalypse happens, these motives make Skint the prime candidate for the "Lord-God", but Dehl is in for a rude awakening -- Skint actually tried to fight ''against'' the Lord-God during the guild's absence, but failed, and requests a [[Mercy Kill]] when they meet.}}

* [[Leitmotif]]: Though it's also used as a generic [[Mood Motif]].

* [[The Quiet One]]: Aryn. She speaks only to Skint, and even then only in whispers.

* {{spoiler|[[Sacrificial Lion]]}}: Both of them.

* [[Technicolor Eyes|Technicolor Sclerae]]: Skint has yellow ones, like most shra. We never see Aryn's eyes, but she probably has blue or green, like most fih'jik.

 

=== Mental Councillord Pazzato ===

 

As a Councillord, Pazzato is unrivaled in mastery of his element. Of the Councillords, he is actually the least antagonistic toward Six Stars, even casually asking them for help with a task. {{spoiler|However, this is merely a clever ruse to distract them while he duels Metzino. For he has a [[Feuding Families|blood feud]] with the Metzino line, and eventually wins the duel due to his signature [[Mind Over Matter|telekinesis]] technique. Qualstio is enraged when he sees this, and, along with the guild, avenges Metzino's death soon after.}}

 

=== Commandant Zaka {{spoiler|Crossar}} ===

{{quote|''"Thus, [the people] must battle. Blade to blade...father against son, brother...against brother..."''}}

 

{{quote|''"It sounds like the game is afoot, then! The winner shall inherit the ashes of the world!"''}}

 

 

{{spoiler|Actually, they can -- because he isn't a god at all. He's ''Havan''. It turns out that, as a matter of fact, Havan was the first person Fell approached as a "chosen one", not Dehl. He and his guild performed her tests for ''years'' while being told that they were chosen and were the ones who would ascend. However, after Havan finds and becomes obsessed with his relic, Fell becomes disappointed in him, and casually brushes him aside in favor of Six Stars, despite everything he has done for her. He takes this well enough until Six Stars disappears and Donz destroys the world. Enraged at this betrayal, he and the Blue Guard ascend to the Watcher's perch. When they block his path, he slaughters them. For some reason, instead of continuing onwards to confront Dehl, the Blue Guard returns to the Surface, and takes over what remains of the world.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Motive Rant]]}}

* [[One-Winged Angel]]: Though [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|it's not his own doing.]]

* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]]: His quote up there.

* [[Slasher Smile]]

 

=== Taru Clapian ===

{{quote|''"I hope my folks don't find out I've started drinking. They'll disown me!"''}}

 

 

=== Vasra (real name: Sara) ===

{{quote|''[to Rehm] "Good luck. [[Deadpan Snarker|Me and Clapian will go pick out a suitable flower arrangement for your grave.]]"''}}

 

 

{{spoiler|When Pazzato attacks and knocks Rehm unconscious, Sara tries to continue the fight. Pazzato responds by flinging her into the ocean. After Rehm regains consciousness, he tries to search for her, but, after hours of searching, realizes it's too late. This drives him into a [[Heroic BSOD]] that breaks up the crew.}}

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

* {{spoiler|[[Disposable Woman]]}}: The effects of the trope are inverted, though. {{spoiler|Usually, the [[Disposable Woman]]'s death spurs a hero into action and vengeance. However, Sara's death instead causes Rehm to go into a [[Heroic BSOD]] and [[Driven to Suicide|drives him to suicide]].}}

* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: {{spoiler|Her quote up there. At first, it just sounds like her usual snark, but after she ''dies'' and Rehm gets [[Driven to Suicide]]...}}

* [[The Lancer]]: She serves as a down-to-earth counterbalance to Rehm, who doesn't take many things seriously.

* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]}}

* [[Stripperiffic]] / [[Breast Plate]]

 

=== Rulian ===

 

 

Or that the six elements exist, for that matter...

 

=== Fell ===

{{quote|''"It is all [[Arc Words|scope]], Dehl. [[Central Theme|How far back must you stand before you can see 'everything']]?"''}}

 

 

{{spoiler|Along with the other Watchers, she is killed by Havan after Six Stars attempts to track down Donz.}}

 

=== The Watchers (Nath, Kott, and Donz) ===

{{quote|'''''Nath:''' [Donz] will not take kindly to knowing his own Watch is flawed, or to be broken.

'''Kott:''' Yep. He's pretty serious about being right. He's the only one of us left who still cares.'' }}

* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Kott.