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* ArcherArchetype: Wields a bow and is very cold and cynical unless Nikola is involved.

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* ArcherArchetype: Wields a bow and is very cold and cynical unless Nikola is involved.
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%%* {{Meganekko}}: She is a real cutie and wears period appropriate glasses (they are balanced on her nose).

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%%* {{Meganekko}}: BespectacledCutie: She is a real cutie and wears period appropriate glasses (they are balanced on her nose).nose). %%Needs to explain how her glasses make her seem more endearing.

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%%* {{Meganekko}}: She is a real cutie and wears period appropriate glasses (they are balanced on her nose).



* {{Meganekko}}: She is a real cutie and wears period appropriate glasses (they are balanced on her nose).
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* DeathByDespair: When she is defeated by Nikolai and then surrounded by an angry mob of the villagers she starved, she images what will happen next. She imagines the mob beating her up, [[ShamefulStrip stripping her naked]], then sentencing her to be locked up until she starves to death. She is so horrified by the thought of starving that she has a heart attack and dies. Adante revives her seconds later.

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* DeathByDespair: When she is defeated by Nikolai and then surrounded by an angry mob of the villagers she starved, she images imagines what will happen next. She imagines the mob beating her up, [[ShamefulStrip stripping her naked]], then sentencing her to be locked up until she starves to death. She is so horrified by the thought of starving that she has a heart attack and dies. Adante revives her seconds later.
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* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: She fantasized that she would be brought back to life by a PrinceCharming type man who would sweep her off her feet. Imagine her disappointment when she gets revived by a kid who is already married to Evelvald, though she still loves him.

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* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: She fantasized that she would be brought back to life by a PrinceCharming type man who would sweep her off her feet. Imagine her disappointment when she gets revived by a kid who is already married to Evelvald, Ezelvald, though she still loves him.

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* TopWife: Not only is she Nikola's first wife, he eventually loses his virginity to her and tells her he loves her the most.



* TheOathbreaker: Back in the day, she constantly broke her vows like her vow of celibacy. The First Witches also swore that they would serve the Church and protect humankind when they were brought back to life, but she instead causes chaos and destruction by making witches, though this may be because her husband is a demon. Despite breaking her vows, Diana has not relinquished her powers.

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* TheOathbreaker: TheOathBreaker: Back in the day, she constantly broke her vows like her vow of celibacy. The First Witches also swore that they would serve the Church and protect humankind when they were brought back to life, but she instead causes chaos and destruction by making witches, though this may be because her husband is a demon. Despite breaking her vows, Diana has not relinquished her powers.


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* DyingAsYourself: When she is turned into a witch, she goes mad. When she finally dies for real, she reverts to her original personality.

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* TheChainsOfCommanding: She's had to make several tough calls, including faking her adopted son Nikola's death to free him from the bounds of the church so that he can remain married and hunt witches, knowing they likely won't ever see each other again.
* CleavageWindow: Almost all of her outfits sport this.
* RetiredBadass: She was a knight before becoming leader of the church.
* ATasteOfTheLash: Lurrie subjects her to this while interrogating her. Ezelvald heals her wounds later.



* LosingYourHead: His true form is a severed head.

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* LosingYourHead: His true form is apparently a severed head.head now.


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* OurDemonsAreDifferent: He's a mysterious being who brought Adante back to life centuries ago, became her husband, and granted her demonic powers, then charged her with creating witches to terrorize the human race. His head doesn't look human.

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* PickyPeopleEater: Besides "Papa's" saliva, the only thing she is able to eat without her body rejecting it is the blood of a priest or monk who has forsaken his vows.

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* PickyPeopleEater: Besides "Papa's" saliva, the only thing she is able to eat without her body rejecting it is the blood of a priest or monk who has forsaken his vows. It was part of her DealWithTheDevil.



* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: After capturing Nikola, she decides to spare his life and treat him as an honored guest, in preparation to find a way to make him truly angry so that she can feed on that emotion.
* DepravedBisexual: She expressed an attraction to both Nikola and Ezelvald, and drained the soul of a woman with a kiss.



* ThePowerOfHate: Her flames are described as wrath given form.



* TheSocialDarwinist: After conquering a village, she confiscates all the food and kills anyone who tries to take it. However, if anyone actually manages to take it, she rewards them. As she explains, only people with the will and strength to eat deserve to eat.

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* TheSocialDarwinist: After conquering a village, she confiscates all the food and kills anyone who tries to take it. some. However, if anyone actually manages to take it, some, she rewards them. As she explains, only people with the will and strength to eat deserve to eat.


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* EyeScream: In his true form, his eyes appear to be sewn shut.

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* EveryoneHasStandards: She has macabre tastes, but she freaks out when she sees "Papa".



* ComboPatterPowers: In addition to the powers Diana grants her, she has demonic powers.

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* ComboPatterPowers: ComboPlatterPowers: In addition to the powers Diana grants her, she has demonic powers.



* ImprobableAimingSkills: She can kill two rabbits that were running away with {{Multishot}} arrows.

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* ImprobableAimingSkills: She can kill two rabbits that were running away with two {{Multishot}} arrows.



!"Papa"

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!"Papa"!"Papa"
* LosingYourHead: His true form is a severed head.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Adante refers to him as "Papa".
* VoluntaryShapeShifting: He can apparently take on any form, like a humble farmer.

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* AnimalMotifs: Rabbits.
* ComboPatterPowers: In addition to the powers Diana grants her, she has demonic powers.
* ConditionalPowers: To activate their Diana-given powers, she has to drink "Papa's" saliva.
* FriendlyEnemy: She has nothing against Nikola and his wives/her old sisters and talks to them like they are still friends, though this won't stop her from trying to kill them.
* MonsterProgenitor: She is the source of all the evil witches.
* TheOathbreaker: Back in the day, she constantly broke her vows like her vow of celibacy. The First Witches also swore that they would serve the Church and protect humankind when they were brought back to life, but she instead causes chaos and destruction by making witches, though this may be because her husband is a demon. Despite breaking her vows, Diana has not relinquished her powers.
* PickyPeopleEater: Besides "Papa's" saliva, the only thing she is able to eat without her body rejecting it is the blood of a priest or monk who has forsaken his vows.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: "Papa" brought her back to life centuries before the others were.
* SuperEmpowering: She can turn ordinary women into witches.
* TheVamp: She seduces priests and monks to make them forsake their vows of celibacy so that she can kill and feed on them.
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* YouAreWhatYouHate: It is heavily implied he is related to the witches he is fighting.


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* LudicrousGibs: Upsula slices her into really tiny pieces, destroying her Stigma in the process.

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* HormoneAddledTeenager: He's a 13 year old surrounded by some of the most gorgeous women alive who all want a piece of him. He can be forgiven when his thoughts become less pure.




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* WeCanRuleTogether: She tries to convince Ezelvald to join her and her coven. She refuses while dissing her as a fake.
* WhipSword: Wields a seemingly ordinary whip that can become razor sharp to slice people to pieces or function like an ordinary whip.
* WhyWontYouDie: Because Ezelvald didn't know about Stigmas at the time, she gets confused when she pumps Lurrie full of arrows and she lies there writhing in agony instead of dying. Her suffering only ends when Nikola tells her to aim for her tattoo.




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* DualWielding: She uses two sickles.
* SweetPollyOliver: She infiltrates Sant Angelo by wearing monk robes and pretending to be a man. However, Upsula can tell at a glance that she is a woman.
* WeCanRuleTogether: She tries to convince Upsula to join her and her coven, but she refuses.



* OrganDodge: When Evelvald shoots her in the chest where her heart would be, it doesn't affect her that much beside the initial pain even though it is a WoundThatWillNotHeal because she doesn't have a heart.
* PlayingWithFire: She controls flames well enough to make Evelvald's arrows turn to ash in midair before they can hit her.

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* OrganDodge: When Evelvald Ezelvald shoots her in the chest where her heart would be, it doesn't affect her that much beside besides the initial pain even though it is a WoundThatWillNotHeal because she doesn't have a heart.
* PlayingWithFire: She controls flames well enough to make Evelvald's Ezelvald's arrows turn to ash in midair before they can hit her.her.
* RedBaron: The Witch of Wrath.




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* VictoryByEndurance: Ezelvald points out that without people's anger to feed on, she'll eventually run out of energy, while Ezelvald's arrows are unlimited. She pumps arrow after arrow until she can no longer block them with her flames.
* WhamLine: Right before getting killed, Nikola interrogates her on whether she was the one who destroyed his village. She says it wasn't her, but suddenly recognizes him and says his mother was a witch.
* WorthyOpponent: After a few sword clashes, Upsula compliments her skill and comments she may be a real witch after all. Ezelvald defies this and says she still thinks Cybelle is a fake witch.

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* TheWitchHunter: His mission is to travel the land with his wives and wipe out any evil witch they find.



* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Several male and female characters comment on her great beauty.




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* EmotionEater: She becomes stronger with the anger of the people around her. She is defeated when she is separated from an angry mob and has no one to feed on. She fights on for a time, but runs out of her stored energy.
* OrganDodge: When Evelvald shoots her in the chest where her heart would be, it doesn't affect her that much beside the initial pain even though it is a WoundThatWillNotHeal because she doesn't have a heart.
* PlayingWithFire: She controls flames well enough to make Evelvald's arrows turn to ash in midair before they can hit her.
* TheVamp: She seduces men before draining their souls and turning them into thralls.
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* {{Namedar}}: His spell for revealing a witch's Stigma also tells him their true name.


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* MadeOfIron: She's endured torture twice so far and never screams or cries.


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* ButtMonkey: She is very often the butt of humor.


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* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: She fantasized that she would be brought back to life by a PrinceCharming type man who would sweep her off her feet. Imagine her disappointment when she gets revived by a kid who is already married to Evelvald, though she still loves him.

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* AnimalEyeSpy: She can create a TV-like portal to see and hear what her butterflies experience.
* AnimalMotifs: Butterflies.
* TheBeastmaster: She controls butterflies.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Wields blades attached to wristbands.
* ConditionalPowers: To activate her powers, she has to drink Nikola's blood.
* ValleyGirl: She talks like this, making liberal use of "totally" and LikeIsLikeAComma.


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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Back in the day, the other members of her coven shunned her for spending all her time in the dark with her spiders and fungi. Nikola bonds with her over their similar circumstances.


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* RedBaron: The Lonely Poisoner.

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* ArcherArchetype: Wields a bow and is very cold and cynical unless Nikola is involved.
* BottomlessMagazines: She makes arrows with magic, so they are limitless.
* ConditionalPowers: To activate her powers, she has to drink Nikola's tears.
* FeatherMotif: Her transformation comes with an explosion of feathers, and she uses them in some of her magic.
* MaliciousMisnaming: She constantly calls Upsula things like "Leftovers" or "Sloppy Seconds", all things that remind Upsula she is Nikola's second wife.
* TrackingDevice: She can turn a feather into one of these. She can fire an arrow and it will hit where the feather is without fail.
* WoundThatWillNotHeal: Her arrows inflict these and even a witch's HealingFactor does not help.


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* TheBeastmaster: She controls spiders.
* ConditionalPowers: To activate her powers, she has to drink Nikola's sweat.

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* TheBeastmaster: She controls a pack of wolves.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: After breathing in the spores from Mylitta's fungus, she and her wolves collapse and go into anaphylactic shock, their bodies swelling up and bleeding everywhere. Nikola and the others presumably destroy her Stigma off screen.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Says she doesn't understand why a witch would help humans.
* TheHighwayman: She robs and kills travelers who pass by her territory.
* NoNameGiven: She is only referred to as the Bandit Witch.
* VirtueIsWeakness: She calls Mylitta weak for protecting humans. She didn't know that Mylitta gets stronger from getting hurt, so by shielding the others from her attacks with her body, she became powerful enough to beat her.

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* ApologizesALot: Nearly every other sentence she speaks is her apologizing for some perceived mistake or for being worthless.
* FeedItWithFire: The more damage she takes in battle, the more powerful her fungus spores become.
* FungusHumongous: Her weapon is a staff topped with a ''huge'' fungus that sprays noxious spores on the enemy.
* MagicMushroom: Her specialty is making mushrooms with various effects spread like wildfire. Even when she was still dead, mushrooms grew around her skeleton.
* MasterPoisoner: She can make all kinds of poisons and other potions from ingredients found in nature.
* {{Meganekko}}: She is a real cutie and wears period appropriate glasses (they are balanced on her nose).
* NightmareFetishist: She prefers the company of spiders, insects, and other creepy things over people.
* SupremeChef: She can turn insects and poisonous mushrooms into tasty delicacies.

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* HappilyAdopted: After his village was destroyed and his parents killed, he was taken in by Pontifex Valentina.



* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Due to being fed poison as a child, she can recover and shrug off being poisoned in the present.

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* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Due to being fed poison as a child, she can recover and shrug off being poisoned in the present. Mylitta's poisons only affect her for about a minute.



* ImprobableAimingSkills: She can kill two rabbits that were running away with {{Multishot}} arrows.




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* WeCanRuleTogether: She offers anyone who can take her food a chance to join her mooks. Those who refuse are locked up and starved until they agree.
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* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Due to being fed poison as a child, she can recover and shrug off being poisoned in the present.
* DeathByDespair: When she is defeated by Nikolai and then surrounded by an angry mob of the villagers she starved, she images what will happen next. She imagines the mob beating her up, [[ShamefulStrip stripping her naked]], then sentencing her to be locked up until she starves to death. She is so horrified by the thought of starving that she has a heart attack and dies. Adante revives her seconds later.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: In her first appearance, she is actually an ordinary human who happens to be powerful enough to enslave a village. Then Adante brings her back to life and turns her into a witch.
* FreudianExcuse: As a child, after her parents died, her abusive older brother starved her and then fed her poison. She survived and killed him, then became obsessed with food.
* GlassCannon: She is quite strong and skilled in combat, but Nikola is able to floor her with a single open handed slap.
* TheSocialDarwinist: After conquering a village, she confiscates all the food and kills anyone who tries to take it. However, if anyone actually manages to take it, she rewards them. As she explains, only people with the will and strength to eat deserve to eat.
* StatuesqueStunner: She's a real beauty and is at least a head and a half taller than Ezelvald, who is pretty tall herself.
* VillainousGlutton: She is obsessed with eating and she and her mooks have huge feasts all the time. Strangely, though her mooks are morbidly obese, she still looks like a supermodel. She didn't have magic at the time, so she can't say AWizardDidIt.

!Pontifex Valentina

!"Papa"
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!!Adante

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!!Adante!!Adante

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!!Alexandra

!!Cybelle

!!"The Bandit Witch"

!!Amala
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* BeneathTheMask: Several characters comment that while he seems calm and friendly most of the time, in truth, his soul is darkened with hatred and rage.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: He was shunned by others for spending all his time reading.


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* UnwantedHarem: He's very uncomfortable with the fact he now has multiple wives. He's slowly falling in love with them, though.
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* YouKilledByFather: He's obsessed with defeating the witches because one of them burned his home village to the ground and killed his parents.

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* YouKilledByFather: YouKilledMyFather: He's obsessed with defeating the witches because one of them burned his home village to the ground and killed his parents.

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* BadassBookworm: He spent all his time studying everything he could find about witches. He mostly remains level headed in combat and is tough for his age.
* ClarkKentOutfit: With a shirt on, he looks as scrawny as a 13 year old is expected, but without his shirt, he's surprisingly ripped.
* {{Kidanova}}: He's 13 and by Volume 3, he has three wives, plus several other women falling for him.
* YouKilledByFather: He's obsessed with defeating the witches because one of them burned his home village to the ground and killed his parents.
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!Nikola Eskalibur

!First Witches
!!Ezelvald

!!Upsula

!!Mylitta

!!Adante

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