The character sheet for ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights. Work in progress.
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Main Characters
Lily
The main character. A descendant of the White Priestess, who wakes up in a crypt and without her memories.
- Action Survivor: Lily is physically frail and has no combat capabilities on her own, and has to rely on her spirit allies to do the fighting and more advanced maneuvering. This doesn't stop her from surviving in a hostile world where everything is out to get her.
- All-Loving Hero: Even after they attack her in blight-induced rage she never fails to purify the corrupted residents that she encounters, even though doing so slowly corrupts her body and causes her considerable pain. This includes more dubious characters such as deranged prison inmates, the chief executioner, the knight who killed his father the king and the scientist who experimented on her "mother" Fretia. In Ending B she insists on purifying Fretia and share in her suffering despite knowing this will corrupt her and end with her becoming another Blighted Lord trapped in her own body.
- Amnesiac Heroine: When she woke up in the beginning of the game, Lily has no memories whatsoever of who she is or why she came to be in the sanctuary ruins. Given that she's one of the clones of Fretia, it's likely that she's a Blank Slate with no memory to begin with.
- Barrier Maiden: The only way Lily can protect herself outside of her spirits. It is this barrier's health that functions as HP in the game.
- Equipping Fretia's Ring will allow her to use her barrier to block attacks, negating damage and knocking her back.
- Cute Mute: The trading card from Steam featuring her reveals that Lily can't talk, and she's certainly cute.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Being surrounded by the spirits of corrupted knights and mutated monsters can make her look a little sinister, as can her increasingly corrupted and demonic appearance as she takes on more blight, but she's squarely on the side of good no matter the cost to herself.
- Guardian Entity: Any boss or miniboss she purifies becomes a spirit she can summon to fight for her, and these form the bulk of her abilities and all her offensive options.
- Defeat Means Friendship: Every boss and miniboss she purifies lends her their aid in gratitude for saving them from their living death and reminding them who they are.
- Final First Hug: Happened twice. In Ending A, she gives Umbral Knight a hug before leaving Land's End. In Ending C, she managed to get a hug from her mother, Fretia, after purifying her from the blight before Fretia fades away.
- Heroic Mime: Lily doesn't talk throughout the game, although the player can get a glimpse on what she is thinking through her reactions and the Umbral Knight's commentary. The trading card from Steam featuring her reveals that Lily simply can't talk.
- Heroic RRoD: Purifying the Blight takes a massive toll on her body and corrupt her appearances. Her hair turns from white to brown, she grows tentacle-like things from her body, and her veins turn a dark maroon color from the Blight. In Ending B, just trying to purify the Blighted Lord practically puts her on death's door.
- Heroic Willpower: As a White Priestess she's resistent to blight and able to take it into her body without it corrupting her mind, but it still takes a toll on her body.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Lily is small, and it is especially notable when she stands alongside some of the spirits or is being carried by them while maneuvering, where most of them are double her height at the least. Justified, as Lily is a child while most of the spirits were fully grown men and women (and mostly hardened warriors, no less) in their past lives.
- Kid Hero All Grown-Up: In Ending C after the credits, an epilogue shows Lily being all grown up, giving the Umbral Knight a smile.
- Lady and Knight: With the Umbral Knight.
- Last of His Kind: She's the last surviving clone of Fretia, and the only living White Priestess once she passes in Ending C.
- Locked into Strangeness: As Lily takes more of the Blight, her hair begins to turn brown. By the final boss fight, her white hair has been completely turned brown, though the Golden Ending has her recover some of her white hair.
- Lovable Coward: Lily flinches and cowers behind her hands whenever one of her Spirits attacks for her.
- My Sibling Will Live Through Me: The "Lily" the player controls throughout the game does not actually have a name. After finding the remains of a previous White Priestess in the ruined cathedral's attic — who was properly named Lily per her letter — the playable character decides to take up her predecessor's name so she will be able to carry her memories and dreams.
- No Name Given: Played with. The in-game status and the descriptions within the game refer to her as "Lily," but she is never referred to as such in the story except during the endings. Given that she is a newly-awakened clone of Fretia, it is likely that she doesn't actually have a name to begin with, and decides to take up the name of "Lily" if the player manages to find the remain of the previous White Priestess and the note she left behind in the ruined cathedral's attic.
- Plucky Girl: Despite being a frail child thrust into an unforgiving Death World After the End, Lily never falters in her duties as a White Priestess and always picks herself up after falling, even as the purification she does on the Blighted takes its toll on her body. Even when overwhelmed by Blight and confronted with Fretia begging her not to join her in holding back the Blight, Lily staggers to her feet and slowly drags herself towards Fretia to do so despite knowing that this would doom her to an eternity of suffering.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In Ending A she leaves the kingdom behind, honoring Fretia's wish that she live a normal life rather than trying to assume her duties.
Umbral Knight
A black-garbed knight awakened from a deep slumber. Though naught but a Blighted Spirit, they still retain some semblance of who they once were.
- Ambiguous Gender: They are only ever referred to in a gender-neutral fashion. Their name, Ferin, is a feminine name in some languages while masculine in others, which only adds to the ambiguity.
- Foreshadowing: Why does upgrading them require Ancient Souls, unlike all other spirits? They are one of the Ancients who became immortal to protect the priestess's bloodline.
- Jack of All Stats: Among Lily's spirits, anyway. Their sword attacks have decent damage, range, knockback, and speed. Their Last Rite is also a decently-powerful area-of-effect move of multiple sword slashes. They're also Lily's default starting spirit, and cost nothing to use. But their sword attacks aren't the best at any one thing, and they're the only spirit that needs Ancient Souls to upgrade, many of which are locked behind progression.
- Lady and Knight: The Knight to Lily.
- Last of His Kind: They're the last of the Ancients' deathless guardians, them and Fretia being the only survivors of their kingdom.
- Mysterious Past: Except that they were apparently made into a Deathless One by a previous White Priestess, who the Umbral Knight is and what their motives are in helping Lily in the first place are shrouded in mystery.
- The Reveal: They are a member of the Ancients who became a Deathless warrior by offering their soul to one of the priestesses during the war between the Ancients and the kingdom of Land's End. This is the reason why they retain their humanity and memories.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: While they appears gruff and distant in the beginning, they shows a great deal of concern and kindness towards Lily as more of the purification starts to take its toll on her, and they even show sympathy for the purified warriors.
- Would Hurt a Child: Subverted. Later dialogue implies that when they first found Lily, they contemplated killing her to end the Deathless Pact to the lineage of the White Priestesses, but decided against it.
Spirits
Main Spirits and Bosses
In General
- Dark Is Not Evil: They retain their corrupted appearances once they've been recruited, with several of the secondary spirits being so mutated and monstrous they don't even resemble humans anymore, as well as coming with abilities like spewing poison or backstabbing enemies. They still give their all to protect the priestess and can be seen watching over her as she sits at Respite spots.
- Defeat Means Friendship: Each of them lends the player character their aid once they have been defeated and purified.
- Psycho Serum: Several were rendered immortal by drinking a dubious elixir made by the royal sorcerers concocted using Fretia's blighted flesh. The conconcoction gave them immortal blighted bodies while preserving their minds but they eventually lost the ability to control their bodies and time and exposure to the Rains corrupted them into monsters.
- Tragic Monster: Just about all of them were once brave warriors, wise scholars or devoted healers who were turned into monsters by the Blights through no fault of their own.
- Turns Red: As bosses they change their attach patterns twice over the course of the battle, releasing a shockwave roar each time and typically gain a red aura during their final phase.
Guardian Siegrid
One of the Guardians chosen by the White Parish to protect the White Priestess. When the rain of death started falling, she took up arms and guarded the sept to protect the White Priestess Lily. Never-ending bloodshed caused her to be consumed by madness.
- Broken Angel: The Blight left her mostly human-looking but gave her flayed, bone-like wings, giving this impression.
- Church Militant: Specifically trained to protect the White Priestess with a massive, heavy flail.
- Double Jump: Defeating Siegrid unlocks this ability for Lily.
- Early-Bird Boss: You have only your 3 slash combo and a dodge move that has you stumble forward. If you had anything else, this boss wouldn't even be a challenge.
- Leitmotif: "Rosary - Intro
" and "Rosary - Outro" - One-Winged Angel: Once her health gets low, she turns into a gigantic abomination.
- The Runt at the End: Of all plot-relevant Blighted spirits, Siegrid is the only one whose attack is categorized as subskill instead of main skill.
Gerrod, the Elder Warrior
Once dubbed the finest knight in the kingdom, Gerrod was a symbol of glory and a hero to his village. His altruism made his demise a lonely one.
- Gentle Giant: His memory reveals that he was a noble hero dedicated to protecting others before the Blight took over his mind. He even refused to be purified by Fretia as he knew the toll purification takes on the priestess.
- Ground Pound: One of his attacks and the skill Gerrod's spirit can use once Lily purifies him, dealing massive damage and destroying pustulant ground.
- Leitmotif: "Helplessness - Intro" and "Helplessness - Outro"
- Mighty Glacier: As noted by the game itself, Gerrod's attack is slow, but when it hits enemies, he truly delivers. Even after upgrades, his swing still has a long charge-up time before he swings it.
- Super-Scream: His Last Rite is a loud roar that deals area damage around Lily one time. This roar damage is an Unblockable Attack as well.
Dark Witch Eleine
Raised in a coven of witches, Eleine was hailed as a gifted sorceress at an early age. She did everything in her power to protect the coven from the Blight and help her Only Friend Fretia.
- Combat Tentacles: She starts using them in her second phase, lashing out at Lily as a melee attack.
- Expy: Of The Witch of the Lake from Salt and Sanctuary, a similar 2D Souls-Like. Both are levitating witches with a traditional pointy hat who like to spam projectiles and have some kind of tentacles under their robes. The pool of water in Eleine's chamber even makes it seem like you are fighting her above a lake. The key difference is that Eleine is not as horrendously difficult as the former.
- Intelligence Equals Isolation: As the most talented magic user in the coven, she had to bear great responsibilities and expectations which separated her from others. Her Only Friend Fretia eased that burden and Eleine was very devoted to Fretia as a result.
- Lady of Black Magic: Befitting her title as Dark Witch, she attacks with magical projectiles and is one of the few spirits in the game with a projectile attack. Her Last Rite shoots multiple strong projectiles in every direction.
- Leitmotif: "Communication - Intro" and "Communication - Outro"
- Super Not-Drowning Skills: Defeating her earns Lily the ability to dive and swim underwater; she can only tread water otherwise. In addition, Lily can hold her breath indefinitely.
- Tragic Keepsake: The "bubble" protecting Lily that allows her to dive underwater after defeating Eleine is apparently this, as it is the final spell Eleine spent her last moments trying to perfect in her last attempts to help Fretia.
Guardian Silva
The Guardian chosen by the White Parish to act as the White Priestess Fretia's personal bodyguard.
- Air-Dashing: Defeating her transforms Lily's evasive dive into this move, which covers more ground mid-air and can cross wider gaps, such as the ravine that separates the Catacombs and the Twin Spires.
- Big Sister Instinct: The whole reason why she became Fretia's personal guardian is that she did not want her sister Siegrid to face any dangers from such a task.
- Broken Angel: Like her sister, the Blight gave her wings - in her case, angelic white ones, stained with blood and/or Blight.
- Charged Attack: One of a few whose attacks can be charged to clear out spiked obstacles. Holding down the attack button has Silva charge up her hammer before swinging it, turning the attack from a single hit into a multi-hit that deals more damage.
- Church Militant: As Fretia's personal bodyguard.
- Irony: She and her sister Siegrid were once very close as children, but became distant after Silva upstaged Siegrid as Fretia's personal guardian. The irony comes from the fact that Silva did this precisely because she could not bear to see Siegrid in danger.
- Leitmotif: "Bible - Intro" and "Bible - Outro". The former stands out for similarities with her sister's own Leitmotif.
- Limit Break: Following her defeat, Lily gains the Last Rites ability, which lets her unleash powerful attacks from some of her main spirits.
- One-Winged Angel: Transforms into a giant monstrosity for the second phase of her boss fight.
- Super-Scream: After she goes One-Winged Angel, she screams and transforms into a hideous skeletal demon. Her Last Rite has her doing the same thing as a spirit, protecting Lily and dealing multi-hit damage in an area around her.
Ulv, the Mad Knight
The brutal knight who was feared by his Order. He seemingly lost his edge after a fierce battle and continued to protect Snowflower Garden in seclusion.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: The reason for his Undying Loyalty to Fretia, even after he lost his mind and became one of the Blighted.
- The Berserker: Ulv's fighting style can be summed as this, as he is a short-range combatant capable of launching rapid-fire attacks.
- Charged Attack: Ulv's spirit allows Lily to charge up slashes using his claws. These can do massive damage and clear out spiked obstacles like Silva's; however, while the attack is being charged, Lily is left wide open.
- The Dreaded: Ulv was feared even by his fellow knights, who were explicitly ordered not to approach him without speaking to Captain Julius first.
- Friend to All Children: Before the Blight consumed him, he was the only friend of the little White Priestess who lived in the spire.
- Glass Cannon: His claws are very fast, especially underwater. And his charged attack does a huge amount of damage if it fires off and connects. However, while charging, Lily is left wide open, so it requires balancing risk and reward.
- Intrinsic Vow: His dedication to Fretia is so strong that even as a mindless Blighted, he guards the garden of flowers that she loved so dearly.
- Leitmotif: "Bloom - Intro" and "Bloom - Outro"
- Loners Are Freaks: Ulv was shunned by pretty much everyone in the army due to his rough personality and curt manner of speech. Fretia was the only one who showed kindness to him, which is the reason why he is defending the field of flowers she liked despite becoming the Blighted.
- Red Baron: He was dubbed as the Mad Knight by other knights due to his savagery in battle.
- Wall Crawl: His spirit allows Lily to cling to walls, letting her get to places she couldn't get to before. They prove vital in entering the Ruined Castle.
- Undying Loyalty: To Fretia as he is protecting the field of flowers she liked even after losing his mind to the Blight.
Knight Captain Julius
A sharp and upright man with unparalleled tenacity, Julius became the head of the Knights of the Bastion at a young age. His companions followed him for his simple honesty.
- Achilles' Heel: As a boss, Julius' strongest attacks once he Turns Red hit hard several times and covers all area in front of him, which means that only well-timed parries can save Lily if she gets caught in the line of fire. However, said attacks also take a while to charge and Julius cannot change direction until he unleashes them, which gives time for the player to get behind him to avoid the attacks and retaliate. However, note that he has a specific, very fast attack that he'll start using if you stay behind him for too long.
- Air-Dashing: Julius's ability is another upgrade to Lily's dodge skill, giving her a burst of momentum to cover distance quickly. However, this dash is still susceptible to gravity, limiting the additional reach her jumps get, and does not protect Lily from enemies.
- Blocking Stops All Damage: Julius uses his spear as a shield, effectively becoming a boss version of the knight enemies you've encountered throughout the Ruined Castle. While blocking he will become impervious to frontal attacks, forcing the player to get behind him, use unblockable attacks, or strike him while he's winding up to attack, to deal damage.
- Dark Secret: His father is the king but his mother's family unknowingly contained a Dark Executioner, so his uncle Hoenir stole him away to honor his sister's wish that he could have a normal life.
- The Dog Bites Back: He killed his own king after the Blight began to spread. It was from both the fact that the king never acknowledged his son Julius as a talented warrior, and because the king had sacrificed his entire kingdom as a selfish Immortality Seeker.
- Leitmotif: "Accolade - Intro" and "Accolade - Outro"
- Patricide: As one of his last acts before succumbing to the Blight, he took revenge on his father the king for his abuse of the Blight.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Julius went throughout many hardships to become Knight Captain just so he could get his father's approval. Unfortunately, the king saw all knights and the White Priestesses, who sacrificed themselves to protect the kingdom, as disposable, and when Julius saw how the king's obsession with immortality brought about the kingdom's ruin, Julius decided to kill the king as revenge before the Blight destroyed whatever remained of his sanity.
- Wave-Motion Gun: Can fire one from his spear in his final phase, which covers nearly everywhere except behind him.
Hoenir, Keeper of the Abyss
Head of the Dark Executioners who protected the kingdom from the shadows.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Despite the grisly nature of his work, Hoenir always remained loyal to the kingdom and was overall dedicated to making it a better place.
- Flunky Boss: As a boss, Hoenir is fought alongside several Blighted executioners that infinitely respawn.
- "Get Back Here!" Boss: For the first and second phases of his boss fight, Hoenir keeps his distance from Lily and attacks from afar with knives while his minions fight up close. He even has an attack that does no damage but sends Lily flying far away.
- Leitmotif: "The Sun - Intro" and "The Sun - Outro". Doubles as Irony given his title and profession.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He stole away Julius, the king's illegitimate son, to give him a normal life. One of the king's notes sees him ranting about his beloved son being stolen and his determation that his line will not end with him, suggesting that this may have contributed toward his interest in immortality.
- Parental Substitute: He was this to Julius, as Julius' mother (Hoenir's sister) died soon after giving birth and Julius' father abandoned him.
Faden, the Heretic
Head of the King's Mage Brigade, Faden, with his assistant and lover Miriel, led the expedition into the Verboten Domain that once served as home to the Ancient sorcerers. By investigating the ancient magic responsible for creating the Blight, he hoped to lessen the burden on the White Priestess. He is the one responsible for developing the Deathless Elixir that created the Immortal Knights of Land's End.
- Became Their Own Antithesis: The research Faden and his lover Miriel conducted in Verboten Domain initially started out well-intended - namely, they were trying to figure out a way to lessen the White Priestess' suffering by the Blight. As time passed on, however, due to external factors such as the King's greed for immortality and his own desperation to save the Blight-transformed Miriel, his research ended up causing suffering to not only Fretia herself, but also other subjects of the kingdom and the White Priestess clones.
- Love Makes You Evil: After his lover Miriel turned into the Blighted, he conducted many inhuman experiments with the Blight in an attempt to save her.
- My God, What Have I Done?: He eventually realized how his desperate attempts to save the Blight-transformed Miriel only resulted in making the situation much worse and causing the White Priestess to suffer, making him seek to make amends for it. To that end, he gathered the fragments of the stone tablet that can repair the Aegis Curio and hid them throughout the kingdom, which plays a pivotal role in the game's Golden Ending.
- Protectorate: He is this for Miriel, who had transformed into a gigantic behemoth by the time the player encountered her and fought in his stead. Faden himself noted in his memory of how Miriel never once harmed him despite already long losing her humanity to the Blight.
- The Unfought: He is not directly fought before he is purified by the player. Instead, it is what was once his lover and assistant Miriel that fights the player and protects him in the Verboten Domain.
Miriel, the Beloved
Assistant and lover to Faden who ventured into the Verboten Domain in search of a cure for the Blight. However, she eventually became consumed by Blight herself, transforming into an enormous abomination while driving Faden to insanity. She's fought at the bottom of the Verboten Domain in place of Faden himself.
- Belly Mouth: Her mutant form has one that she uses to vocalize and vomit up exploding balls of rot.
- Body Horror: The Blight transformed her from a human woman into a gigantic butterfly-winged grub creature covered in growths and spikes.
- Face Death with Dignity: After she contracted the Blight, she quietly resigned herself to her fate, reassuring Faden that she had known the risk of this happening the moment she decided to enter the Verboten Domain.
- Intrinsic Vow: Despite having long since lost her humanity, Miriel never attacked Faden and in fact continued to protect his lab in her Blighted state.
- Leitmotif: "Evil - Intro" and "Evil - Outro"
- Spikes of Doom: Slams the ground to summon these. The spikes have very good tracking and can hit Lily in motion, and are best avoided by being mid-air.
- Stationary Boss: Does not move.
Secondary Spirits and Minibosses
Cliffside Hamlet Youth
Separated from his mother in the midst of a terrible storm, the boy set off for the White Parish in search of help. He never arrived.
- Death of a Child: Since he's also one of the first Spirits you can acquire, it quickly establishes that corruption by the Blight spares no one.
- Fastball Special: The Youth's purpose is to be launched into the enemy upon being summoned, damaging the surrounding enemies on impact. This has its use in damaging enemy knights from behind their shields.
Headless Defender
A knight who followed in the footsteps of the hero, Gerrod. Suffering the Blight upon becoming immortal took its toll. He was beheaded for attacking his fellow knights.
- Achilles' Heel: The Headless Defender's skill is intended to tank one hit, which means that against enemies capable of launching multi-hit attacks, he cannot nullify the successive hits.
- Counter-Attack: The Headless Defender's function. When summoned at the right time, he will block one hit and launch a powerful counter in return.
- Off with His Head!: This was done to him due to his succumbing to The Corruption faster than other knights and attacking them.
Western Merchant
This merchant from a western land came to Land's End peddling foreign wares. A vibrant salesman who would light up when touting his rare stock.
- Assist Character: The Merchant is summoned to hover around the character, firing attacks at anyone who approaches, for a limited number of shots. He can be dismissed at will to conserve ammo.
Castle Town Maiden
The maiden was tending to her dog when the Rain came. The dog nuzzled up against her body in the rain, never again to leave her side.
- Assist Character: The Maiden can be summoned to patrol Lily's immediate surroundings, slashing at ground-based enemies that come close. She can be dismissed at will and re-summoned to bring her onto higher ground since she cannot jump.
- Fusion Dance: She was fused with her dog by the Blight.
- Zero-Effort Boss: She will not attack the player. Instead, she will slowly walk up to them and then sit. The player still has to kill her in order to move on.
Fallen Archer
The kingdom's greatest archer became a Sinner to save his Guardian sister. All Sinners became Immortal Knights and were charged with defending the Bastion.
- Anti-Air: Fires a fan of fast arrows diagonally upwards, which is great for tagging airborne enemies.
Elder Crypt Keeper
After a lifetime spent guarding the catacombs, the elder crypt keeper had earned eternal rest. His dying wish was to be interred under the watchful eye of his son, the apprentice.
- You Will Not Evade Me: His projectile attack can stun the enemies it touches, keeping them from moving or attacking.
Fungal Sorcerer Melville
The sorcerer who traveled outside of Land's End in hopes of finding a cure for his lover's condition. Unfortunately, he failed to return to the coven where his lover waited.
- All for Nothing: His efforts to find a cure for his lover's illness ultimately were for naught as they both became the Blighted once the rain of death struck.
- Damage Over Time: The Fungal Sorcerer's attack is a poison that covers certain range of the field that gradually damages enemies caught in it as long as it is active. It also ignores enemy resistance.
Floral Sorceress
The charming sorceress who was beset by grave illness. Amongst her flowers, she waited patiently for her lover, who left to seek a cure for her.
- Blow You Away: Creates a tornado at the point of summon, dealing rapid hits with great verticality and shredding enemy stagger bars.
Fallen Sentinel
After the Bastion defense, the heretic sorcerers gave suspicious elixirs to the soldiers of the Twin Spires. When the Rain fell, those who drank the brew mutated into winged abominations.
- Body Horror: His background gives more vivid detail as to how the more extensive mutations came about.
Hidden Test Subject
A rogue who was captured for his crimes and sentenced to becoming a test subject for Blight experimentation. He often hid in urns he could find to escape the experiments, but could not escape his ultimate fate.
- Counter-Attack: Like the Headless Defender, the Test Subject blocks an attack and retaliates with an area-of-effect roar.
Dark Executioner
The nameless Dark Executioner trained in fierce competition with Knight Captain Julius since their childhood. The blood of the Sinner coursing through his veins kept his dream of becoming a knight from ever coming to fruition.
Incompetent Sinner
A Sinner sealed in the Subterranean Lab. Once a curious and bold man, he ventured into the Blighted and forbidden Verboten Domain. His Blighted form was found some time later, non-violent and lucid.
- Time-Limit Boss: This boss is fought in the middle of a pool of blighted water, and if its attacks don't get you, the blighted water damage eventually will.
- Video Game Dashing: As a Spirit it dashes through enemies, damaging them. It can also be used in mid-air as another air-dash on top of what you can already do.
Verboten Champion
Despite being Blighted in battle, driven by some purpose, this former knight was able to cling to his humanity. Escaping the Stockade, he headed to the Verboten Quarter and entered Faden's lab.
- Double Jump: His spirit attack is an uppercut that launches Lily upwards, which can serve as a triple-jump in mid-air when combined with your other mobility options.
- Heroic Willpower: Clung on to the last of his humanity and powered through the Blight affliction to descend into the Verboten Domain.
- Laughing Mad: His only dialogue is incessant giggling. Whatever he saw or was subject to in the Verboten Domain clearly took a toll on his mental state.
Cliffside Hamlet Elder
The Rain rotted and melted the Elder's body, fusing him with his cattle into a monstrous anomaly.
- Fusion Dance: The Blight caused him to be fused with his livestock.
- Ground Pound: Attacks by jumping and performing a body slam.
Chief Guardian
The Chief Guardian, once-protector of the prior Priestess, suffered in the Rain. She wept as she came to know the pain of the Priestess' sacrifice.
- Protectorate: She takes care of the Priestess named Lily (not the main character) who lives in the Cathedral. Lily's own body and memories can be found in the room above her arena.
One-Eyed Royal Aegis
Royal Aegis elite tasked with protecting the King. Defended the castle during the Rain, only to be betrayed by one of his peers. Consumed by madness.
- Et Tu, Brute?: Killed following a betrayal by his fellow soldiers. He likely did not take it well, as you can see the corpses of Blighted soldiers scattered around his arena.
- Ground Pound: Slams the ground with its sword to cause a shockwave that can stagger enemies.
Forsaken Fellwyrm
Many children denied a life within the castle walls were given refuge in the Twin Spires and trained as knights. Among the forsaken, many were orphans of battle or illegitimate children of royal blood.
- Child Soldiers: Essentially what they were in life before the Rain.
- Damage Over Time: Creates a large cloud of damaging unblockable gas where it is summoned.
Other and Spoiler Characters
Do note that due to the nature of these characters, the entries below contain unmarked spoilers. You Have Been Warned. The Ancients
The original residents of the End Kingdom who were slaughtered by the king of the first age when he sought to establish a kingdom for his people. Their priestesses contained the blight with the help of their deathless guardians until they were all slaughtered.
- Back from the Dead: After believing them exterminated a blight-animated army of dead Ancients attacked the Kingdom of the End, led by the first Blight Lord, the Crimson Blight.
- Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Their Deathless Pact allowed a knight to give up their body and become a deathless spirit guardian for their priestesses.
- Elite Army: Their deathless knights were effective against the King of the First Age's forces but were eventually overwhelmed by superior numbers and having their undying soldiers sealed away by enemy sorcerers.
- Laser-Guided Karma: The kingdom that slaughtered them would eventually be assaulted by an army of their blighted dead and destroyed by the blight that their priestesses kept in check. The King saw the blighted army as the Ancient's vengeance made flesh.
- Precursors: The original inhabitants of Land's End and users of magic now lost to the kingdom. The royal sorcerers ventured into the Verboten Domain to study their techniques and relics.
- Sole Survivor: The king spared and took in the only survivor of their massacre, a mute child who would go on to become the kingdom's first White Priestess.
King of the First Age
A king of old who led his people to the land now known as Land's End, overthrowing the Ancients and establishing the kingdom found today.
- The Atoner: He felt great shame in wiping out the Ancient race previously occupying Land's End to give his people a place to live. When he found the last survivor of the Ancients, the girl who would become the first White Priestess of the Dawn, he took her in and raised her out of guilt.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The Ancients previously had many White Priestesses who were able to handle the Blight problem without too much issue, but the First King's war to establish Land's End ended up killing all of them except one, putting the entire weight of purifying the Blight on her shoulders and resulting in its unrestricted growth. When he finds out about this, he doesn't take it well.
- Zerg Rush: He was able to overwhelm the Ancients with superior numbers, using sorcerers to contain their deathless knights.
King of Land's End
The final King of Land's End who hoped to unlock the secret of immortality through the Blight. This obsession played a key role in the kingdom overrun with the Blight by the time Lily wakes up from a church.
- Asshole Victim: By the time Lily and the Umbral Knight reach the Throne Room, the King is long dead and his corpse is laying without dignity beneath Julius' feet, who is sitting on the king's throne. Lily purifies Julius and learns about what the King had done to his subjects. Julius recounts that the king's last words were that he viewed them all — citizens, knights, and even White Priestesses — as disposable tools in his quest for immortality. It's hard to feel sorry for him when you see his rotted corpse with a sword through his back.
- Dead All Along: He's long been dead by the time Lily and the Umbral Knight reach him, thanks to Julius running him through with his lance.
- Evil Is Not a Toy: Once the original Blighted Lord was defeated he believed he could control the blighted. The state of the kingdom shows that he was mistaken.
- Immortality Seeker: One of the reasons why he let his own subjects to turn into Blighted ones in the first place is because he wanted to be immortal. Julius made sure that didn't happen.
- Irony:
- He mentions his determination not to let his royal dynasty end with him in the same letter he mentions his son being stolen away. Had he known Julius existed his mad desire for immortality may not have become as extreme, and it's that very desire that drives Julies to kill him.
- Despite being obsessed with immortality he's one of the few major characters not to become a blighted revenant after death.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Played with. The king certainly didn't know what the Blight was going to do when he unleashed it. But once he did know, it didn't stop him from continuing on anyways if it meant he could be immortal.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He's mentioned a few times in notes before you find him, but he's been Dead All Along.
- We Have Reserves: The king considered everyone but himself expendable, even purposely letting his subjects become infected with the Blight so he'd have a chance at using it to become immortal. Julius killed him out of disgust before the last of his sanity slipped away.
Fretia, White Priestess of the Fount
The third White Priestess who was chosen to purify the Blight. A kind and selfless woman, she took in as much blight as she can for the sake of the kingdom's people.
- Apocalyptic Log: The five-part Fretia's Memoirs.
- Big Good: In both backstory and the main game. Fretia is the woman who did all she can to ease others' pain and burden and many loved her and were dedicated to her well-being in turn. Even after becoming overpowered by the Blight, she aids her last clone Lily in escaping the Land's End, taking the Blight within Lily in one of the endings.
- Break the Cutie: Her entire backstory. Her mother died soon after she was born. Then, she was torn away from her friends and families to purify the Blighted. Once her body started breaking down as a result of purifying the Blighted Lord, the kingdom started cloning her and making those clones, whom she came to see as her daughters, take in the Blight in her stead.
- Despair Event Horizon: She crossed this after becoming bedridden due to taking in so much corruption and seeing her little clones sacrificed just to keep her alive.
- Last of His Kind: She's the last surviving White Priestess of the Ancients, the only one to survive the First King's genocide, and had no heirs. Subverted once the kingdom's sorcerers cloned her against her wishes.
- Leitmotif: "Mother - Intro" and "Mother - Outro", befitting her status as "mother" of the Priestesses. The latter serves as a Boss Remix of the main theme.
- Missing Mom: Her mother died shortly after giving birth to her, likely due to the blight she'd absorbed through purification weakening her body.
- Odd Friendship: She and Ulv were close, and she lamented that she would not be able to fulfill her promise to draw a picture for him one day.
- One-Winged Angel: Unable to contain the corruption from purifying the Blighted Lord any longer, she transforms into a Blighted Lord herself and becomes the Final Boss of the game.
- Parental Substitute: She loved her young clones as daughters and wanted them to lead lives free of the Blight.
- Protectorate: She was one for Silva.
- Tragic Dream: One of her lamentations in her memoirs is that she will no longer be able to draw again as the Blight affliction starts to affect her right hand. A blank canvas can be found just outside her location in the abyss. In addition, she wished for her clones to lead their own lives instead of bearing the burden of the Blight. The true ending implies that despair she felt is at least partially responsible for the rain of death.
- Unwanted Rescue: She tells Lily to stay away and live her life and resists being purified out of knowledge that this will result in Lily being corrupted just like she was.
The White Priestesses
Child priestesses whose bodies can be found throughout Land's End on Lily's quest. It is revealed near the end of the game that all of them are clones of the original White Priestess of the Fount created to take on her burden, including Lily herself.
- All-Loving Hero: They all willingly take on the blight afflicting the residents of the kingdom so that they can be at peace even though doing so slowly corrupts their bodies and causes considerable pain.
- Artificial Human: Young clones of Fretia created through magic and science.
- Backup from Otherworld: Their spirits appear to assist Lily in purifying Fretia in Ending A.
- Expendable Clone: The sole purpose of creating the clones was to create disposable vessels to absorb the Blight, particularly so that Fretia could continue living to fulfil her duties. The children who were sacrificed to Fretia in particular were never told about their purpose for living until it was too late.
- Posthumous Characters: By the time the game begins, all of the little priestesses are dead, making Lily the last one remaining.
The Blighted Lord
An enormously powerful Blight monster who once attacked Land's End with their infected army, before falling and being purified by Fretia at the cost of her well-being. By the events of the game, the Blight within Fretia overwhelms her and turns her into another Blighted Lord, becoming the Final Boss of the game.
- Attack Its Weak Point: The core in their chest is what you strike to damage it.
- Combat Tentacles: Four spined ones on its back, which it uses for stabbing and sweeping attacks as well as a Shockwave Stomp.
- Evil Is Bigger: The source of the Blight and easily the biggest enemy in the entire game, taking up most of the screen.
- Fighting from the Inside: When at low health in their second phase, the Blighted Lord will break down and stop attacking Lily altogether, silently crying Tears of Blood. Given that this Blighted Lord is actually Fretia, it can be interpreted as her regaining enough control to stop herself from hurting her clone/daughter.
- Flunky Boss: Summons abyssal eyeball minions to assist them. In their second phase, they'll sometimes try to summon a minion, but fail due to their deterioration.
- Mighty Glacier: Immensely powerful and extremely durable, but slow to attack and unable to move.
- Sins of Our Fathers: The original Blighted Lord and their minions were described as the manifestation of the rage of the Ancients who were overthrown by the first generation of Land's End.
- Stationary Boss: Can't move.
- Turns Red: In the Golden Ending, after beating them once, they get back up for a rematch, sporting Volcanic Veins and an improved moveset.
