Warning: May contains spoilers, especially Lanox arc onward.
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Cobo Service and Travelers
Ariel
- "The Cobo adventure support company always puts your happiness first! That's why we're the best in Elrios! I'm Ariel, your Cobo representative."
An attendant from Cobo who will suit your adventuring needs! She gives out a lot of quests that are related to actual events but can also start some normal quests.
- Moveset Clone: Some event makes her appear in the dungeons or a NPC summoning card as Wind Sneaker.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: She rushes into Elsword gang to giving a bad news that Velder Kingdom has nearly been entirely conquered by demons. Needless to say, she's also crying about that.
Luriel
- "The Cobo, uh, adventure support company always, uh, always puts your happiness first! That's why we're, uh, the best! In Elrios! Yes, that's it! I'm Luriel, your Cobo, uh, representative."
Luriel is an NPC that can be found at any town except Ruben Village. Her role in the village is to provide players access to the Bank.
- Cute Clumsy Girl
- Lethal Chef: In first Adams' Welcome Party, her food makes unfortunate Elsword throws up.Luriel: T—That's strange.... I followed the recipe...Ariel: Ca-Can you show me the recipe?Luriel: Hm? The recipe...? The recipe's in my head...Ariel: W-What...?
- Tender Tears: Really feel bad every time she makes a mistake.
Camilla
- "Listen to Camilla: it's a good day for sparring!"
Camilla is an NPC that can be found at any town except Ruben Village. Her role is to give access to Training Room and Sparring Area. She also sells PvP-related stuffs.
Glave
- "An adventurer challenging time and space... ...Heeheehee... ...Well, what would happen?"
A mysterious masked man appearing in each region's resting areas, Feita Village and Elrianode. He is the administrator of Henir's Time and Space. and offers services related to that dungeon.
- It Amused Me: He purposely opens his realm in Henir dimension for adventurers to battle powerful monsters manifesting there, all for his entertainment.
Ruben
Lowe
- "Welcome to Training Camp! My name is Lowe. I'm the drillmaster here."
Lowe has experience in all forms of physical combat and can improve the melee skills of any character. He may look innocent, but he's fearless in battle.
- Badass Teacher: He's a drillmaster after all.
- Mirror Boss: Of Lord Knight. Occasionally when you queue in PVP, you might fight him.
- Nice Guy
- To Be a Master: Why he joined the arena. After retrieving the Elstone from Altera Core, he realized that he was far too weak and joined the arena as a means of bettering his skills.
Hagus
- "Ruben Village relies on the sacred Tree of El. As village chief, ol' Hagus never forgets that!"
Hagus is not much to look at, but he's got the mind of a master strategist. He never shaves his beard because it represents his long-time experience as a battle tactician. As the Chief of the village, his duty is to give several quests to warriors and travelers to prove their strength.
Ann
- "Welcome. My name's Ann. Wow, you're my first guest!"
Ann is a merchant in Ruben who cares greatly for the guardians of the El Tree, the Ancient Phorus. Ann is a purveyor of the basic equipment needed to explore a dungeon.
- Nice Girl
- Rose-Haired Sweetie
- Spell My Name With An S: Is it Anne or Ann? Many countries including Korea use Anne, while NA/INT use Ann.
Adams
- "A theory has it that the mushroom is walking as it evolves-."
Adams finally comes back. Despite his removal in the Ruben's revamp, Adams finally comes back to be both Net Cafe Waiter and Elrios Studio Administrator within the Ruben Village. Adams sells Net Cafe Service Equipment for 0 ED and provides Elrios Studio Service.
- The Bus Came Back: He finally return as both Net Cafe Waiter and Elrios Studio Administrator. Also there is new side story "Adams' Welcome Party" which featuring Cobo Service welcoming back him.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He used to be Ruben Village's alchemist in early day. But dear god, after Ruben revamp, he's was sitting near Ruben's riverbed, sometimes pursuing his hobby of fishing. Finally subverted recently (see The Bus Came Back).
- Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe
- Nerd Glasses
Banthus
- "Those pesky El Search brats. They'll eventually follow me here."
The leader of a notorious bandit group who stole the El Shard from Ruben Village.
- Arc Villain: He’s the first instance of this in the game, being the main villain of Ruben and the first half of Elder. After being defeated in the Underground Waterway, he’s never seen again.
- Artificial Limbs: Wally replaces his right arm with a Nasod arm, similarly to Raven.
- Bandit Clan: He’s the leader of his own bandit clan.
- BFS: His sword is roughly as big as he is tall.
- Conveniently Timed Distraction: Just as the El Search Party catches up to him in the White Mist Swamp, an enraged Ancient Phoru attacks them. This gives Banthus enough time to escape towards Elder.
- Eye Scream: Has a huge scar going through his right eye.
- Face–Heel Turn: In an old quest it’s mentioned that Banthus used to be the El Search captain before abandoning his position and becoming a well-known criminal.
- Magical Accessory: His technological necklace can shoot a laser in his third boss battle (Nasod Banthus).
- Sadist Teacher: In the Private Phoru Academy event map he has a new job as a school teacher. His temperament hasn’t changed at all though as he’ll awake sleeping students by shooting a laser at them.
- So Long, Suckers!: In his first boss battle. Beat him down enough and he'll decide he can't waste any more time - he'll call a Giant White Phoru to attack while he goes for the El!
- Walking Shirtless Scene: As Nasod Banthus, he’s not wearing a shirt so that the player can see his Nasod arm.
Elder
Hoffman
- "You must be a traveler. I'm Hoffman, head of the Velder Commerce Association."
This refined fellow is the head of the Velder Commerce Association. His products are of quality, and so are the rewards and the authority one can gain from his requests. So work hard!
Luichel
- "My goodness, what a cute guest! My name is Luichel."
An ex-thief, Luichel is Elder Village's jeweler. She sells bracelets, bonnets, and baubles of all sorts that aren't just for looks. Her goods are as enchanted as she is. She seems to have a lot of ancient artifacts in her disposal.
Echo
- "Suru... suru... What brings you to Echo?"
Elder Village's lollipop-loving Echo was trained in the ways of the Alchemist by her parents. Her enchanting and crafting skills are without equal. Go to her if you need something special.
Lenphad
- "Welcome to Sword Smith Cats! I'm Lenphad. We sell the best weapons around."
You can enhance your equipment items with Lenphad's help. People get easily intimidated by his grouchy appearance, but he really is a kind person who aims to please. Lenphad is the little brother of Hanna from Velder. He works in the same chain of equipment shops called "Swordsmith Cat" with his sister.
Wally
- "You've done a fine job fighting your way and finding me... However... My greatest masterpiece! Wally No.9 Destroy them all!"
The tyrannical dictator of the Elder region. A powerful monarch with a fascination for Nasods.
- Arc Villain: Of Elder.
- Broken Pedestal: Among Elder citizens.
- Evil Old Folk
- Evil Versus Evil: Planned to betray and ditch Add. However, Add catches on and does the same to Wally. Also after Wally and Add make their way to Altera Core, Add betrays Wally one last time and escapes Altera, leaving Wally stranded on the floating island.
- The Man Behind the Man: He behind Banthus.
Bethma
Altera
Feita
Velder
Hamel
Sander
Lanox
Elysion
Yuno/Herjuno
The Nasod supervising the Atlas Station that supplies Diceon to Elysion City. He is with a Nasod drone named Nono.- Accidental Pervert: Or more like innocent. At the beginning of Elysion arc, he met the El Search Party and out of curiosity of seeing flesh-and-blood humans for the first time, he inspected Ara and touched her skin and "soft parts". He got slapped by Eve.
- Heroic Sacrifice: He sacrificed himself to be able to send the El Search Party to Elysion City.
- Robot Buddy: Nono. Yuno created him so he won't be alone in Atlas Station.
Solace
- "What do you stand for? Show me."
The El Master of the Sun and the one who drives the story behind both Atlas Region and Elysion. He intends to recreate the world where the El didn't exist.
- The Ace: He had a lot of potential to be a possible candidate to become an El Master even though his older siblings really didn't see him as a worthy option. It couldn't be any more true to be an Ace if you were able to overcome every single person, obstacle and being that threw themselves in your way while you were trying to rescue a person you cared for.
- Arc Villain: He's this for the entire Elysion story as the entire El Team (including Ain) as well as Rose (in her own story) now have a driving reason to put a stop to his plans.
- Big Bad: Well, Solace is the cause for most of the events that took place in the whole story of Atlas Region and Elysion up to date even though he really isn't as bad as he seems. He originally gave up on trying to convince his best childhood friend, Hernia who became the current El Lady from leaving her mission to protect the El upon realizing that there was no way he could achieve that dream of his. When his plan starts up without his consent, he freaks out and tries to save the El Lady from reaching the El but gets slowed down by every other El Master and the royal guards who are stationed to stop intruders, mainly Denif who really doesn't understand what his fellow El Master is trying to do and thinks he (Solace) has gone insane and orders the El Tower's magical defense system to stop Solace. By the time he reaches Hernia, he only has a few minutes to speak before the Giant El literally explodes causing Hernia to suffer from a serious Heroic BSoD which wasn't her fault. He then takes the unconscious El Lady away from everyone else to keep her safe while he works on a new plan to recreate a new Giant El to severe the connection between those that serve it and the El itself. This plan of his is what causes everyone in the El Team which now consists of Ain and it also makes Rose herself very much wary that his plans aren't going to lead to a happy ending as Solace wishes.
- Big Damn Heroes: Performs this three times for the El Team. The first time happens when Elsword decides to make his own decision which so happens to be neither of the two options that Solace mentioned. Elsword reactivates the main El and reunites it back to normal which both causes Elrianode to return but as a downside, causes him to be absorbed into the El. Solace sees Elsword's decision as quite reckless and thoughtless and injects the El with Dicetium to stabilize it long enough for the El Team to rescue Elsword before he actually disappears. He then reappears when the El Team are fighting off Henir monsters in Elrianode, saving the team by single-handedly curbstomping the swarm with relative ease when they are struggling. Though this time, he was actually searching for them since he has some rather unfortunate news. His currently last performance of this trope is when he chooses to defend the area they are currently in from any further enemy swarms while the El Team tries to find the culprit behind the enemy invasion even though everyone present deems said action as extremely hazardous.
- Curbstomp Battle: ...yikes. While it's required to defeat Solace in his first debut (Solace's Fortress) to complete the dungeon and to finish the story quests related to it, in the Story near the end in that place, even with every single member of the El Team fighting him, Solace is still unfazed and comes out unharmed. He inflicts one insane one-sided battle onto the entire El Team and defeats them by himself. This is also closely accurate to how Solace is his first boss appearance is one of the strongest bosses in the game due to how mechanics operate in his scenario. He's also able to invoke this same trope in his second appearance as an enemy boss with one of his attacks which can't be mana broken should those who get hit by that attack not heal while taking damage.
- Fallen Hero: He's mostly this, strictly and literally speaking. While his actions cause others to see him as evil, Solace is actually very much shaken at what has happened in his past. He wants to spend time with the current El Lady who is actually his childhood friend but since she's unable to wake up from her coma until the El is restored, he intends to recreate a new El and to severe her connection to it so she doesn't have to feel obligated to serve the El above all else.
- Flash Step: Invokes this during both of his boss fights and it's annoying to defeat him thanks in little time thanks to this trope. Solace is capable of stepping out of any attack at any given moment, even out of attacks that regular enemies, most bosses and even every player naturally can't escape from. He can use this trope to escape from attacks while he's stunned (this naturally prevents nearly every being both players and enemies alike from escaping as you can't move while being stunned heavily and being stunned heavily prevents players from mana breaking), attacks that would freeze him (with the Freeze status) or any skill with a long delay frame (normally when a Special Active and most Hyper Actives are used, the screen dims down and any enemy who can see what you are doing is unable to move until the skill's animations comes to an end or is canceled). Even skills that literally drag enemies to your side can't stop him from flashstepping away from you before he tries to attack. He also uses this trope to reach a random player on the screen in order to attack them and it's either shown visibly to that player by a glowing aura surrounding them before it explodes and stuns said victim for a few seconds or he suddenly appears near his target without a warning and strikes making it hard to guess who he's going to attack next if you're in a team.
- Good Is Not Soft: In the story cutscenes, Solace is more than willing to strike down or fight anyone or anything that threatens Hernia (even when she becomes the El Lady). When he fights his older brother when the two of them are arguing over her, after Hernia distracts Sigmund from landing the final blow on him, Solace kills his older brother in the final moment. Later on when Solace, now as the El Master of the Sun, realizes that his original plans have somehow started up without a warning, fights his way through everyone that tries to stop him and succeeds only to have a few minutes to speak to the El Lady before the El explodes.
- Light Is Good: He is actually deep inside a very kind and compassionate human just like Elsword despite how he comes across. His powers were actually meant to help keep everyone on Elrios alive. In his second appearance, most of his combat dialogue to you (and your allies if you're in a team) come off as rather hopeful seeing that he hopes that you'll make the right decision on your own without being swayed by outside factors such as those around you than anything remotely threatening. Solace was never truly antagonistic in his past as everything he did was out of devotion to his childhood friend, Hernia who later became the current El Lady. However..
- Light Is Not Good: This is how the entire El Team (which includes Ain) and how Rose see him initially and so far only Elsword during the final events of the game realizes that Solace isn't actually evil at all but just very conflicted.
- Not Me This Time: The events when the main El shattered in the past are blamed on him, well, so far the El Team (and Rose) as well as most of the other El Masters blame him for causing the incident. It wasn't his fault at all. After hearing his story, the El Team comes to realize that he wasn't at fault and forgive him but El Master Denif still refuses to believe that Solace was innocent which is ironic due to that Denif himself answered the question of who was behind the main El's explosion.
- Sadistic Choice: Ouch. He delivers one very painful one to Elsword during the ending of the story where the two of them are alone in Solace's past memories. Either accept Solace's mission of recreating the El to severe the connection of those who are fated to serve it above all else and then remove the El from existence or allow the events of the current time to continue which will resume with Elesis becoming the next El Lady when the time comes. Elsword berates Solace for the first option since he knows that without the El, nothing can survive. However, since Elsword loves his older sister without a doubt, he doesn't want to lose her either. This slams at full force when this decision alone determines what will happen in the future events. Slightly toned down though since the spirits of all his companions (including his older sister Elesis who are still physically in the world of the current time) all show up to tell him that they are always with him and will always support him no matter what option he chooses meaning that he is not alone.
- Sword Beam: The most extreme version of Wave-Motion Gun in this game used by boss who uses a weapon. In his final appearance as a boss, one of two strongest attacks consist of him teleporting to one of the two sides of the stage and taking in an insane amount of power indicated by the air blowing in the direction the blast will travel (opposite direction of where he's currently standing). He then releases the accumulated power into a blast that hits dangerously hard.
- Sympathy for the Hero: Shows (in the story at least) that he feels very sorry for Elesis who is destined to become the next El Lady. When he sees the amount of suffering she's dealing with, Solace tells Elsword on what will happen. He clearly doesn't want the similar events to come true.
- Taste of Power: While not playable, Adrian who is the creator of the Nasods mentions that when Solace returned to Elysion, he (Solace) effortlessly destroyed an entire meteor shower that was going to strike Elysion with a fraction of his power. It's not mentioned if Solace was trying his hardest or not since all that was given besides that is that Solace had returned to Elysion with the unconscious El Lady. However, given that he is the El Master of the Sun, this should be taken as a given.
The El Priestesses
The keepers of the six El Stones scattered around Elrios Continent.
- Damsel in Distress: All of them except Ignia had been kidnapped and rescued at one point of the story.
Sasha
The priestess of Water El Stone of Hamel.- Making a Splash
- Non-Player Companion: She assists the players at some parts of Temple of Trials dungeon and heals them.
Anudran
The priestess of Wind El Stone of Sander.Ignia
The priestess of Fire El Stone of Lanox.- Face–Heel Turn: She betrayed the El Search Party and became the boss of Volcanic Flames Entrance as Traitor Ignia.
- Good All Along: However, it turns out she is just Forced into Evil by Scar and turned into his puppet for the sake of her village. She gets better after Scar's defeat.
- Non-Player Companion: She assists the players in Volcanic Flames Entrance and provide support and attacks alongside them. Ironic that she is also the boss of that dungeon.
- Playing with Fire
Artea
The priestess of Earth El Stone of Velder.- Big Eater: Official trivias reveal she can consume more food than the big eaters Elsword and Ara.
- Dishing Out Dirt
Gloria
The priestess of Sun El. Her place of origin is unknown.Darkmoon
The Priestess of Moon El. Her place of origin is unknown, though it might be implied that she came from the same place Ara came from. The El Masters
Rosso (Ainen Rosso)
The El Master of Fire. One of the six protectors of El who worked under the El Lady. The power of fire is the power of passion, and there is joy to prevent the strength of the fire from overflowing.Gaia (Bellonde Gaia)
The El Master of Earth. One of the six protectors of El who worked under the El Lady. He possesses the warmth and richness of the land and protects the continent of Elrios. He appears in Laby's storyline where they meet near the Black Forest when he visited his older sister's grave.- King Incognito: He hides his status as an El Master disguising as a normal traveler, justified that he appears that he lost most of his power.
- The Mentor: He teaches Laby basic fighting techniques. She calls him "teacher" for that.
Denif
The El Master of Water. One of the six protectors of El who worked under the El Lady. A combination of coolness and intelligence controls the sea so that it does not overflow onto the land.- Dude Looks Like a Lady: In his humanoid form, although less feminine looking compared to Chung's Iron Paladin form.
- Older Than They Look: His humanoid form is youthful, although his true identity is a dragon. Ventus also calls him "old man".
- Our Dragons Are Different: His true form is the Water Dragon of Elrianode. Although, it hasn't shown on-screen.
See Elysion section for more information.
Ventus (Soren Ventus)
The El Master of Wind. One of the six protectors of El who worked under the El Lady. The power of the wind energy keeps the universe in motion.- Our Elves Are Different: He is the only named male elf in the story.
Solace (Fenriart Solace)
The El Master of Sun. One of the six protectors of El who worked under the El Lady. Elrios was revived due to the power of life and the birth of the sun's power.See Elysion section for more information.
Ebalon (Harque Ebalon)
The El Master of Moon. One of the six protectors of El who worked under the El Lady. The power of the moon gives the people of Elrios comfort and security.- Big Brother Instinct: To Noah.
- Dead All Along: Most people thought Ebalon was the traitor until Noah's release revealed that Harque and the Ebalon we were seeing in the story were completely different people.
- Kill and Replace: He was murdered and replaced by a member of the Henir Order named Dantelion. Unfortunately, Harque's death was only found out when Noah came to Elrianode and told the living Masters what happened.
- Lunacy: It's in the title.
Deities
Elia
The god of light and creator of the material world.Henir
The god of darkness and creator of the demon world.- Primordial Chaos: His dominion
Ishmael
A goddess who served under Elia. It was Ishmael who truly believed and cared for the material world, she gave the barren land the El Shard which brought prosperous life. She would later possess a human girl in an effort to protect Elrios as the El Lady.- Big Good: Presumably.
- God of Good
- Symbiotic Possession: Possessed El Lady as the physical representation. Later (temporary) possess Elesis to help Elrios from the revival of the Demon God Sult.
El Lady (Harnier Solace)
The physical representation of the goddess Ishmael. While originally a normal human girl, the El Lady was possessed by the goddess Ishmael in her effort to bring life to the El Shard after misused drained the shard of its power. One day Solace would kidnap the El Lady and take her to Elysion, this cause the El Explosion. The El Lady would find her way to help Elrios from the revival of the Demon God Sult.See Elysion section for more information.
