History Characters / TheDeathMageWhoDoesntWantAFourthTimeTalosheim

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Due to his horrific childhood, all three of them, and his insanity, as the legal term, he knows the concepts of Right and Wrong exist but clearly has no understanding of them. As such, when he undertakes action, he doesn't consider the inherent morality, but goes almost purely by cost-benefit analysis, and as for personal relationships, he basically just pack-bonds to people who treat him nicely, and then extends the pack to people who treat them nicely. People who would harm the pack are a threat to be neutralized, and if they refuse to stop being a threat, destroyed. The fate of the pack takes priority over cost-benefit analysis, always.
** As a result of being raised by ghouls, who are stuck in resource poor Devil's Nests for reasons of biology and being unjustly hunted thanks to the Church of Alda spreading the lie that they are some kind of weird mutant undead, Van has come to the conclusion that anything edible must be eaten and genuinely doesn't understand religious or cultural taboos, like feeding the meat of Elder Collusus who side with Alda, and thus try to kill Titans, to Titans after the battle's won.

* SimpleStaff: Used a plain staff carved from wood or later monster parts before receiving her transformation staff from Vandalieu.

* KeystoneArmy: Discussed. A number of mortals and gods fear if Vandelieu dies, things could get very, ''very'' bad for his [[UpToEleven entire city-state]] of Talosheim. The very powerful undead among the citizens could suffer a DeathOfPersonality again and go on rampage, ghouls would lose the ability to reproduce safely and at a reasonable rate and the entire infrastructure of Talosheim would instantly collapse.

* CrazySane: The narration notes that he actually went mad at some point. He completely lost any aversion to murder and is obsessed with the idea of luxury, which (courtesy of his abusive family in his life as Amamiya) is actually quite modest and more focused on seeming rich than actually using his wealth.

** People who [[NeverMyFault don't take responsibility for their own actions]] is another notable button. Vandalieu is [[CruelMercy cruel]] [[FateWorseThanDeath in dealing]] [[SoulEating with his vengeance]] and a {{hypocrite}} for torturing prisoners ForScience when he was also a victim, [[HypocrisyNod he]] [[AtLeastIAdmitIt admits it]].
* BestServedCold: When it comes to his revenge on Darcia's kidnappers and killers, Van is incredibly patient. When he sees Heinz in person he tries desperately to think of some way he could possibly kill the man and escape, but upon failing leaves in an incoherent fury. So he waits until he's strong enough and ''then'' kill him. Van also won't pursue vengeance if it will endanger his loved ones. When his spirit is brought to Earth by Zuruwarn to meet Earth's god, he had ample opportunity to curse his EvilUncle, evil aunt, and apathetic cousin for the crap they put him through, but passed it up when Zuruwarn informed him that it would tip off Rodcorte. Instead, he leaves it to their own terrible characters and the randomness of Rodcorte's reincarnation system to to bring misfortune on them for stealing his inheritance and abusing him.

** When Rodcorte realizes [[spoiler:that he's a reincarnation of Zakkart]] he tries to [[KnowWhenToFoldEm cut Lambda, Earth and Origin]] [[ApocalypseHow loose from his system]] only to be assaulted by terrible pain out of nowhere. He stops and investigates, only to realize much to his horror that enough people in Lambda now know who he is that he counts as a god of that world and cannot detach himself from it. He didn't expect anyone to tell so many people they were reincarnations sent by a god no one had ever heard of.

* AnimatedArmor: Funnily enough, it is ChainmailBikini, something their father initially was happy about (since now that they have bodies they can help Van), that is, until they [[DidNotThinkThisThrough properly materialized their]] [[{{Stripperific}} body under the armor]].

* CurbStompBattle: Knochen's "fight" against Heroic Spirit Shestun. [[spoiler: Shestun was able to defeat over a thousand skeletons, but since this is [[MookMaker Kno]][[StoneWall chen]] that loss is barely noticable to the Bone Pandemonium. The [[VictoryByEndurance inevitable happens]].]]

* NighInvulnerability: The only way to kill it would be to destroy each and every bone that makes up its body. [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Good luck]] [[StoneWall with that.]]

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Most Scylla have green eyes and hair, and she's no exception.

* BaldHeadOfToughnes: Half his head is bald, and he's incredibly tough even by Titan standards, and grows even stronger than he ever was in life.

* SignificantWardrobeShift: She embraces becoming a Ghoul by dressing far more provocatively than how she did as a human, with some SideBoob and a skirt.

* GeniusLoci: Eventually becomes a Bone Fort, a sentient building made of bones. As its rank increases from there he grows even larger.

* BaldOfAwesome: Half his head is bald, and he's totally awesome.

* PrettyPrincessPowerhouse: First princess of the Titans and either in life or in death, she's a total powerhouse.

* SignificantWardrobeShift: She embraces becoming a Ghoul by dressing far more provocatively than how she did as a human, with some SideBoob and a DangerouslyShortSkirt.

* IAteWhat: The gods of the boundary mountains hand him a lump of flesh that he instinctively eats the moment he touches it. It's delicious. They and his followers beside him are all shocked, but continue giving him more pieces until they're all gone. It's not until afterward when his followers tell him directly that he was eating [[spoiler:what was left of the evil god he had just defeated.]]

* MindHive: The dominant mind is located at the base of the various necks, not in the humanoid heads. However, these heads do have a limited amount of intelligence and personality, which is apparently why several of them can frequently be found singing to themselves.

* OurHydrasAreDifferent: She's an undead hydra whose heads have been replaced with torsos of beautiful women from different races. Certainly different from the standard.

* GodSlayer: He has killed and eaten a few gods, such as a god that was hiding inside a magic tome, the lord of the gillmen, the evil god of release, the gods sealed by Vida's faction and [[spoiler:Curatos]]. He himself is already stronger than many gods, so this is not particularly surprising, though they find it terrifying since gods aren't really supposed to be killable.

* MismatchedEyes: His left eye is purple while the right one is red. The purple is inherited from his mother and one of only a very few features he shares with her while the red eye is for his vampire father.

* BossInMooksClothing: He doesn't look that different from a regular skeleton soldier, but he's much stronger. This has caused him to be considered a mook level skeleton only to decimate the opponent.

* ExtraOredinary: Suruga is an Iron, later Dark Copper Rat and can turn her body into metal.

* BrokenBird: When she lost to Vandalieu she thought that she would finally die after suffering for 10.000 years.

* GotVolunteered: Has a history of this happening to him. In his first appearance he's made to use a Live-Dead to infiltrate an Orc camp, then he got embroiled into the succession crisis on the Hartner Duchy by some nobles. He also didn't want to accompany Vandalieu's party to The Trial Of Zakkart]] but got dragged in anyway.

* RequiredSecondarySuperpowers: They lack a surprising one: They're made of literally nothing but muscle tissue and maybe a bit of skin covering it, but since they lack a skeleton to anchor it too they can't actually exert much more or move very fast [[spoiler:until they borrow a mountain giant's skeleton and realize this flaw in their biology.]]

* {{Asexual}}: He's often misunderstood, but he's basically completely uninterested in anything sexual. He just wants to study the undead and is irritated that people consider him akin to a necrophiliac.

* HorrifyingTheHorror: For some reason, while Lambda's native gods (basically all humanoid or beastlike in appearance) only find the appearance of his soul somewhat alarming and pitiful, the evil gods associated with them (think Cthulhu type monster) are all flat out terrified of him.

* {{Irony}}: The character list at the end of volume 10 states that Orbaume followers have cannoninzed him a patron saint of Fitun and '''Alda''' after Fitun's little stunt concerning Morksi...

* DarkSkinnedBlonde: The manga shows she keeps the light-colored hair she had as a human but now has the typical Ghoul skin tone.

* SignificantWardrobeShift: She embraces becoming a Ghoul by dressing far more provocatively than how she did as a human.

* FlunkyBoss: During the trial of Zakkart she hits rank 12 at some point, which is just a step below the point where creatures start becoming divine beings. However, she's relatively weak in a direct fight and, when pressed, fights by forcibly spawning new soldiers every fives seconds or so. She's noted to still be strong enough to physically crush a B ranked adventurer, but looking at her skill lineup you can see there isn't much more she could really do beyond that by herself, so that's likely her limit when alone. Her actual skillset is noted to only really work via commanding her daughters.

* LoopholeAbuse: There are two categories of magic: Attribute magic and support magics like alchemy and spiritual magic. Van only had the death attribute so he can't use fire magic and so on. He also can't use spirit magic because death aligned elemental spirits do not exist. However, he ends up creating some out of ghosts and therefore gets around the "no non death attribute magic" thing by simply sending the mana to some of his undead followers like Levia or Orbia who transformed into ghosts with special fire and water powers and largely function as additional power ups for him. Needless to say, Van takes full advantage of this to make up for Rodcorte's Curses.
* LovecraftianSuperpower: Most of his physical techniques are based on bizarre and disturbing abilities like growing out his tongue several meters to use as a whip. He can even create lesser and gruesome looking copies of himself by combining multiple demon king fragments.

** The Disease Demon job allows him to create diseases that ''ignore disease resistance'' because [[spoiler:they consist of flesh-eating bacteria that simply tear the victim apart piece by piece, meaning it counts as a physical attack. You are not reading this wrong, Van can weaponize [[BodyHorror Necrotizing Fasciitis]].]]

** The Disease Demon job allows him to create disease that ''ignore disease resistance'' because [[spoiler:they consist of flesh eating bacteria that simply tear the victim apart piece by piece, meaning it counts as a physical attack.]]

* OneManIndustrialRevolution: Thanks to his Death-attribute magic he has brought to Lambda many modern commodities (which were explicitly prohibited by Bellwood thousands of years ago) like mass-production factories, functional bathhouses and plumbing, all sorts of foods, automatic fans and even refrigerators.

* MoneyFetish: Because of his first life without "luxuries", he once filled a bathtub with gold and tried to swim in it with [[RealityEnsues obvious results.]] He also has an obsession with appearing wealthy rather than actually ''being'' wealthy, which he is as a natural consequence of completely controlling the Talosheim economy.