History Characters / TheSecretWorldOtherFactions

* LadyInRed

* SpoiledSweet

* FightingForSurvival: Amparo believes that this is what the factions need to do in order to secure a future for the world; given that most of them are DyingLikeAnimals, she's currently stuck trying to convince you that the factions [[NotSoDifferent aren't as different as they think]]

* VillainExitStageLeft: Possibly happens at the end of "the girl is gone". Her helicopter gets blown up, but the mission doesn't directly say whether she was on it.

[[WMG: Lydia]]

* BelligerentSexualTension: With current Phoenician Agent and former lover Lydia.

[[folder: The Brotherhood of Phoenecian Sailors]]

An ex-KGB agent, now poenician agent, seen in the Carpathian Fangs. Had some sort of relationship with Dragan Dzaovitch in the past.

Field agent and head of an official Council delegation sent to Egypt to investigate the crisis in Al-Merayah. Unfortunately, Amparo has her hands full as a result: not only is Egypt beset by a series of near-biblical disasters, but her delegation is frequently attacked by Aten Worshippers, her reports are being ignored by the Council, and her requests for equiment needed to continue her investigation go unanswered. Worse still, her attempts to dig deeper on her own have resulted in even more attention from the Atenists. Out of options and suspecting that her superiors have been compromised, she can only maintain her position at the centre of the town- and send ''you'' in to investigate.

A Council agent assigned to investigate the vampire army gathering in Transylvania. As a native of the area, Carmen knows much of the local history and folklore (through the two are frequently interchangable); unfortunately, though she's more than capable of dealing with lone vampires and ghouls, there may be too many undead to tackle alone...

The Orochi Group is a new and powerful multinational coporate group, controlling a satellite company in every industry on every continent. To the outside world, they appear perfectly legitimate and even benign in some aspects. However, the inhabitants of the Secret World know better: the Orochi Group have been making forays into magical research for some time now, with research teams armed with highly-advanced equipment and weaponry surveying areas known for supernatural territory; rumours circulate about their shadier activites, implying the Group's involvement in vast political conspiracies and corporate takeovers. Most curiously of all, their headquarters lay at the very centre of the attack on Tokyo; perhaps because of this, their operatives have been keeping tabs on the spread of the Filth throughout Solomon Island, Egypt, and Transylvania- though field representatives refuse to comment.

* WeHaveReserves: Takes this perspective- not in regards to her soldiers, but to the executives that occasionally visit the sight.

* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: According to the lore entry, he was brought to the Ankh as an achaeologist; however, given his experiments on the Filth and the research team, he's also a biologist.

A Orochi agent in Translyvania, codenamed "Ghost". He is all that remains of the company operation in the area after the disaster at the Breach; having aided the evacuation of the Orochi brass (the Smiths included), he was left behind to try and figure out what went wrong. Now firmly believing that Emma Smith didn't properly escape, he spends most of his time attempting to [[ItMakesSenseInContext get answers out of her teddy bear]].

* BelligerentSexualTension: With current Phonecian Agent and former lover Lydia.

* CoolShades: Which the player can also own for a measly 50 credits of ca'd'oro.

* ShoutOut: To the scientist collaborating with the Strangers in ''DarkCity.'' For good measure, he also has an assistant named J. Murdoch, a reference to the hero of ''DarkCity.''

* CoolShades

** However, perhaps out of gratitude [[spoiler: for being cured via Emma's powers]], she does seem kinder to her after this. During Emma's moments of feverish delirium in "Too Deep," Julia actually takes the trouble of sedating her and gently helping her back into bed.

* IncurableCoughOfDeath: While reporting on Julia's recent infection, Winston coughs violently as he admits to suffering nightmares similar to those experienced by Filth infectees. [[spoiler: After-mission reports suggest that the Smiths were cured, but only through Emma's intervention.]]

* PetTheDog: During Emma's moments of feverish delirium in "Too Deep," Julia takes the trouble of sedating her and gently helping her back into bed.
** In "Contagion," while suffering from a terminal Filth infection, Julia actually apologises to Emma for what was done to her. However, at the time, she's also delirious and not herself... and Emma clearly knows it.

* ApocalypticLog: [[spoiler: His notes have become this by the time you reach the Nursery; along with displaying both his experiments and his burgeoning insanity, they also hint at the sheer chaos that erupted when Schreber deactivated the security protocols, particularly in the case of the clipboards: many of them are stained with blood, the Paranormal Fungus notes have picked up several spores, while the Zero Point Pathogen notes are coated with tendrils of Filth.]]

* ChildrenAreSpecial: Played '''very''' darkly with Schreber's a firm belief in this trope. Reasoning that children are more adaptable than adults - citing an incident when his four-year-old granddaughter taught him how to use a new function on his smartphone - he urges his personnel to aspire towards "a child's plasticity" and abandon their preconceptions over the course of their experiments. Worse still, he also experiments on children, going so far as to test the effects of demonic possession, mutant spores, ghosts, lycanthropy, and even the Filth on dozens of kidnapped children to see the difference in effects. And terrifyingly enough, this approach garners results: it turns out that the only reason why werewolves transform into their traditional form is because, as adults, they're under the subconscious influence of millennia worth of folklore. The children that Schreber went to the trouble of infecting with lycanthropy weren't old enough to be influenced, so their transformations are much more varied - [[spoiler: hence the boss battle with the child-creature earlier in the issue.]]

* PuppeteerParasite: Schreber has a very deep and abiding interest in mind-controlling fungal spoors that grow throughout the Transylvanian forest [[spoiler: at least before this particular interest is overtaken by his obsession with the Filth]]; according to researchers outside the Nursery, he'll go on and on about "zombie ants" if you make the mistake of asking him about the fungus. Some of them also express disapproval with his cavalier attitude towards the Filth, noting that some of their team-members have turned up dead with spoors hatching out of their skulls... [[spoiler: but in spite of this, it's the Filth that results in Schreber's downfall.]]
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: Filth infection sends him spiralling and closer towards insanity, beginning with his obsessively renaming the Filth as the Zero Point Pathogen. As time goes on, he grows more and more obsessed with this Pathogen, his dispassionate notes giving way to deluded praise of its "promise of skinless truths and shrieking stars." Finally, believing that his fellow researchers are trying to steal his work, Schreber deletes most of his computerized notes and releases the Filth into the Nursery.]]

* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler: It's hinted throughout the game in both the lore entries and the overarching plot, particularly in the Bees' remarks on "a monstrous nativity" and that "there are tombs that are less haunted than some wombs", not to mention the fact that Mara reacts to Engel's signiature by whispering "Mother?". Finally confirmed in the climax of Issue #7.]]
* IHaveManyNames: [[spoiler: Seventeen, in fact - all of which she goes so far as to detail for your benefit. And that's not even counting her personas of Lily Engel and the Russian Council Agent.]]

* [[spoiler: MotherOfAThousandYoung: Vampires, werewolves and dozens of other breeds of hideous monsters can all trace their lineage back to Lilith.]]

* [[spoiler: AFateWorseThanDeath / WhoWantsToLiveForever]]: [[spoiler: Her favoured method of dealing with her enemies is making them regret immortality, as the player and Octavian can attest.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler: For Issue #7, though its hinted that her influence is much greater than that.]]

* WomanScorned:[[spoiler: Did not appreciate Samael choosing Gaia over her, she returns the sentiment when Emma makes the same choice.]]

Director of the facility known only as "The Nursery," Dr Schreber presides over all the experiments that take place within the hidden laboratory's walls. Coldly justifying the use of kidnapped children in the Orochi Group's tests, he has set out to apply his beliefs regarding "a child's plasticity" to some of the most dangerous supernatural phenomena in the Secret World. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, he also ended up getting infected with the Filth in the process, leading to the Nursery's takeover.]]

* MadScientist

* ApocalypticLog: Their regularly scheduled reports. On top of being held during an ongoing emergency, each report details a different calamity: "Breached" concludes with the Smiths being blasted across the room by a panicky Emma; in "Contagion," Julia has been infected with the Filth and is comatose - and it's hinted that Winston is also suffering the early symptoms [[spoiler: the two of them only surviving only through Emma's powers.]] "Too Deep" features Emma being driven into delirium by psychic disturbances at the Orochi dig site; finally, towards the end of "Mortal Sins," the immediate aftermath of the vampire attack on the Breach is seen - complete with the blame game over who was responsible.

* RedOniBlueOni: Julia, the red of the duo, is harsh, excitable, irritable, impersonal and paranoid; for good measure, she's the more active of the two (with the exception of "Contagion"). Winston, being the blue, is calmer and gentler, more inclined towards talking than actually doing.

* {{Jerkass}}: Julia, oh so very much; on top of being dour and irritable, she also refuses to acknowledge that Emma is anything other than an experiment - openly scoffing at the idea of her being considered a child. She makes a point of calling Emma "the subject," suggests that she should be restrained to prevent her from wandering off, denies her the right to speak to anyone (even if it's just to say "tired"), and claims that Winston shouldn't speak to her in case she "finds a way inside (his) head."

* ShoutOut: Winston Smith and Julia are both leading characters in GeorgeOrwell's NineteenEightyFour; appropriate, considering Orochi's [[BigBrotherIsWatching attitude]] towards both employees and customers alike.

-->'''Emma:''' I don't blame her. She believes she's doing the right thing. {{Beat}} You all did.

** In "Contagion," while suffering from a terminal Filth infection, Julia actually apologises to Emma for what was done. However, at the time, she's also delirious and not herself... and Emma clearly knows it.

Orochi scientists assigned to act as Emma's foster parents, Winston and Julia Smith naturally followed her into the Carpathian Mountains at the behest of their superiors. Unfortunately, they were very quickly embroiled in the many supernatural phenomena at work in the area, from Mountain Trolls to Filth reservoirs; they were also forced to contend with the rampant chaos of the Breach that left the Transylvanian Orochi Operation in chaos. By the time you reach their home, the Smiths have reportedly been evacuated. Fortunately, they left most of the records behind, allowing the player a look at their home life with Emma - and the associated mission briefings.

* Badass: Dragan is more than capable of defending himself and especially adept at surviving out in the wilderness with only a modicum of shelter.

A Orochi agent in Translyvania, codenamed "Ghost". He is all that remains of the company operation in the area after the disaster at the Breach; having aided the evacuation of the Orochi brass (the Smiths included), he was left behind to try and figure out what went wrong. Now firmly believing that Emma Smith didn't properly escape, he spends most of his time attempting to get answers out of her teddy bear.

* DefectorFromDecadence: [[spoiler: By Issue #7; having recieve word on Orochi's experimentation in the Nursery, Dragan is now chiefly concerned that Emma gets out of Translyvania safely, regardless of company policy.]]

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Hidden by his shades for the most part.

[[WMG:Arturo Casiglione]]