The Twilight Council has been around for centuries under one name or another, moderating contact between humans and the supernatural. With the dawn of superhumans, their job has been made much harder, necessitating more activity. For the main character page see here.
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The Council
In general
A council of supernatural beings that regulates their interactions with the general human populace.
- Exact Words: Supers weren't hidden by The Veil because they were never specifically written into it.
- Fur Against Fang: One of many feuds among the groups that constitute the Council.
- Internal Affairs: They reign in supernatural threats themselves rather than allow others to do it, often with lethal force.
- The Masquerade: Upheld by the Sigils, which create a world-wide aura that camouflages nonhuman beings.
- Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering: There are a great number of groups represented by the Council, almost all of which have some grudges against each other. It's even lampshaded that they like putting on an air of mysteriousness around newcomers.
- Underestimating Badassery: Most of their interactions with supers was with individuals on the middle-to-lower end of the power scale, and several council members realize that they've done this when Maxima, Dabbler, and Sydney take down a defense golem despite a weakness aura (Maxima apparently was affected but was powerful enough that it didn't matter, Dabbler has a way to resist that kind of thing, and Sydney's shield protected her).
- Van Helsing Hate Crimes: Played with. The various individuals of the many groups are as varied as humans are, but they are still bound by their nature.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Sentient constructs have historically been treated poorly, though actions have been taken to avoid this problem in the future.
Ingsol
An elder vampire and the vampire representative on the Council.
- Dracula: Averted. In his very first appearance, he tells Sydney that Count Dracula is a fictional character, albeit one with a lot of similarities to real vampires.
- Monster Progenitor: He's spawned at least two other vampires, though he himself isn't the first vampire.
- Really 700 Years Old: He actually is around 700 years old. Go figure.
- Stronger with Age: As with all vampires in this setting.
- Troll: He tricks Gregor into transforming in order to foist Sydney's fangirling onto him.
- Weakened by the Light: The flash from a camera is enough to sting.
- What the Hell Is That Accent?: Its switches his v's and w's, except for when it makes reading his dialogue difficult, but is otherwise normal. Though he has made it clear that it isn't Russian.
Gregor
A powerful werewolf and the were-being representative on the Council.
- Dire Beast: He's not just a werewolf, he's a were-direwolf."Still kicking it."
- Manly Facial Hair: He has a full beard and is one of the most powerful werewolves in the world.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Transformation is at will, not controlled by lunar phases.
- Wolf Man: When transformed.
- Wolves Always Howl at the Moon: Averted and complained about. As a wolf he howls all the time but apparently confirmation bias means only the ones around the moon get counted.
Icon
A living suit of armor and the representative for aegirs. note
- Animated Armor: With sapience to boot.
- BFS: He's a big guy and he carries a sword to match.
- Chainmail Bikini: Dabbler uses an illusion spell to look like this when he allows the succubus to wield him around her temporarily. He isn't happy about it.
- Instant Armor: He can disassemble himself and reassemble around a wearer in a matter of seconds.
- The Needless: He doesn't need to eat, drink, sleep, or breathe.
Valen and Trilla
An elf and a fairy who speak for the Fey races.
- Covert Pervert: Valen nearly gets his block knocked off for peeking down Maxima's cleavage before Sydney distracts her.
- Pointy Ears: Both of them.
Chorius
A monster of unspecified species and representative for all miscellaneous races on the Council.
- The Big Guy: He's the largest being on the Council, rivaled only by Icon and Gregor when transformed.
- Bioluminescence Is Cool: He has several glowing blue spots along his neck.
- Dark Is Not Evil: He's a hulking creature with pitch black skin, fangs, spikes, claws, and all the other tidbits one would expect from a mythical beast. He's also a pretty nice guy with a big vocabulary.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: His first line included "axiomatically" and "exemplification".
- Vocal Dissonance: Despite his monstrous appearance, he has an extensive vocabulary and apparently sounds like Frasier.
Lethane
A woman of unknown heritage who speaks for the odyssians.note
- Deadly Gaze: A character blurb on the webpage notes that she likely has a reason for veiling her eyes.
- In the Hood: She wears a black hood and cape.
Irradon
An alien of unknown species and representative for extraterrestrials on Earth.
- The Greys: He bears a strong resemblance to them.
- Humanlike Hand Anatomy: Averted. He has three fingers, a thumb, and a second thumb on the other side of his hand.
- Rank Up: Becomes Galactic Ambassador to Earth
after the existence of aliens is made public.
Decolette
A succubus and representative for demons.
- Accidental Innuendo: Surprisingly... yes. When Sydney makes a remark about how succubi "suck the souls out of men" Decolette replies "among other things" (meaning that they do other things besides that). When Sydney points out the innuendo, she laughs and apologizes for the innuendo.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Dabbler (Xuriel), willing to note that Xuriel's an "accomplished adventurer and scientist", and later in the same strip, say that herself, on the other hand, is a "properly educated" succubus, instead of just "by birth".
- Distracted by the Sexy: In the middle of a shouting match about whether supers pose a security risk, her argument is that they're really sexy.
- Extreme Omnisexual: She's a succubus, so of course.
- Get a Room!: Sydney tells her and Dabbler to get one when their Belligerent Sexual Tension starts annoying her.
- Navel-Deep Neckline: She's a succubus, it's practically in the dress code to have a plunging neckline (although ironically hers just barely reaches her stomach).
- Meaningful Name: Her name is the french word for cleavage.
- Noblewoman's Laugh: To emphasize her more refined personality.
- Succubi and Incubi: Succubus. She is one.
Gault
The mage representative.
- Ambiguously Human: There's no indication that he isn't human, and all evidence says he is, but being on the Twilight Council means that's not a guarantee.
Semper Vigilantis
Clover
Gregor's daughter and a lycan.
- Dire Beast: She's a were-dire-honey badger, and no one's going to argue with her that "dire honey badger" isn't a real species.
- The Nose Knows: Even in human form she has an excellent sense of smell.
- Memetic Mutation: She's immune to poison, can tank blows that would put anyone save Maxima down for the count, and rarely changes expression. In other words, she really doesn't give a shit.
- No-Sell: She's completely immune to most poisons and doesn't even flinch at the wound that demonstrated this.
- Not So Above It All: She corrects Sydney when she makes an erroneous Supernatural reference.
- Oral Fixation: She holds a cigarette in her mouth, and even lights it eventually.
- Squee: She induces this in Sydney.
- The Stoic: She never changes expressions, even after transforming and when being stabbed
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Like her father.
Katrina
A lycan turned by a serial propagator. She transforms into a werehare.
- Badass Adorable: A were-hare who can kick the ass of a supernatural murder mannequin.
- Cuteness Proximity: She induces this in Sydney.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: Being a werehare doesn't seem that great, but then you realize those jumping muscles are great at delivering kicks.
- Involuntary Shapeshifting: She's newly turned so she doesn't have as much control as Gregor or Clover. This results in the occasional random transformation and less control over her appearance in were form.
- Unsound Effect: KA-BUN
Krona
A woman with a unique "programming" style of magic.
- Cowardly Lion: Claims to be not very brave, but still keeps her cool.
- Crippling Overspecialization: Her magic works by accessing the "source code" of items and allowing her to manipulate them. This makes it much easier for her to alter existing items but much harder to create things from scratch.
- Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: When Sydney bursts in on her and Leon, kissing, she and Sydney start arguing over Leon as if he's some kind of inanimate object of which they're discussing ownership or lease rights and terms. The moment he asks for perfectly rational, though inappropriate in any other context, clarification regarding the prospective Love Triangle both Sydney and Krona are discussing, concerning himself, both Krona and Sydney proceed to kick him in the face before going back to arguing. When Leon asks if it's merely possible for Krona to use her powers on herself to make herself more at ease with Sydney's... expectations, both Sydney and Krona shout him down.
- Everything Is Online: A magical equivalent. With how her magic works she can "hack" just about anything.
- For Science!: She explains that with the knowledge in Sydney's orbs, she could fundamentally change laws of the universe, like gravity. Sydney points out this could destroy the universe. Krona claims that isn't what she wants but starts off by clarifying it as a local effect, raising some concerns.
- Goggles Do Nothing: She wears what seems to be lab goggles, but never really uses them.
- Hero of Another Story: She's a member of the Semper Vigilantis, the Twilight Council's version of ARCHON.
- Hypocrite Has a Point: Suggesting Krona use her powers on herself to alter her own thoughts and feelings may have been a rational question, but it was a foolish one.
- Instant Runes: Ones that resemble soundboards and computer screens. She essentially uses them as magical touchscreens for directing her powers.
- Konami Code: Prominently displayed on her banner, though the Alt Text says it could also have been a number of other Classic Cheat Codes.
- Reality Warping Is Not a Toy: After learning about her Save Scumming, Maxima has her come to ARCHON so they can make sure that she won't accidentally cause a Reality-Breaking Paradox. Sydney also points out that Krona messing around with the universal source code could destroy the entire universe.
- Rewriting Reality: Can alter existing objects with greater ease than most mages, like disarming grenades from a distance. She can hack into and modify just about anything, including people. One strip has her shutting down Sydney's Potty Emergency.Sydney: Did you just hack my bladder?!
Krona: I bought you another half-hour. It's like hitting the "snooze" button. - Save Scumming: Can use her powers to do this in real life. And then it turns out not to work exactly how she thought, and she resolves to stop doing high-level alterations to reality when she doesn't fully understand the consequences.
- Sufficiently Advanced Magic: She uses magic, but it has a distinct technological aesthetic to it.
- Troll: She changes Gunnhildr's underwear into a thong to give her a wedgie for literally no reason beyond personal amusement.
- True Sight: Of a sort. After Sydney gains another level up for her spheres, she can apparently see WAY more than the others can.Krona: AHHHH! The Deep Code! The Universe laid bare! God's dicebag, tumbling across the velvety tabletop of space and time!
- She later explains to Sydney in a little more detail what she saw. She described it as "direct access to the fundamental underpinnings of the universe," and further explained that currently, she can increase, decrease, or reverse the effects of gravity; however, with access to the information in Sydney's orbs, she would be able to fundamentally change what gravity does.
- She later explains to Sydney
- Wrong Context Magic: Her abilities are magical in nature, but she is not a normal mage or a super. In fact, her abilities are apparently unique enough to warrant her own faction on the Council, consisting of just her.
Elsbeth
Gault's apprentice.
- Bag of Holding: Book of holding. Anything that can fit in the book by two axes can be stored within its pages.
- Chained by Fashion: She keeps her book chained to her waist.
- Clingy MacGuffin: The book chained to her waist can't be removed. There is a discussion about how it's not the most comfortable thing for sleeping or bathing, and an example is later provided when at a pool.
- Logical Weakness: Being blinded, such as by a flashbang grenade, severely limits her ability to access the items in her magic book.
- Muggles Do It Better: She summons an assault rifle for combat in order to get around the Mannekiller's mana void.
- Mundane Utility: Besides potions and weapons, she uses her book to hold handcuffs for... recreational purposes.
- Spell Book: Her book of holding.
- White Mage: Her book contains mana potions and antidotes for healing. It also contains an assault rifle with a 100-round drum magazine and some kind of rocket launcher.
Gunhildr
A vampire affiliated with Azilus and mole for Sciona. Her tropes can be found here.
Ravven
A winged figure who leads a mercenary force of supernatural beings. She reports to Ingsol on matters of security but it's clear that he's not her only employer.
- Dark Is Not Evil: She has black wings and wears dark clothing but she's not evil. Disinterested in the suffering of others, sure, but not evil.
- Lack of Empathy: She's more concerned with the potential work she can get after the fall of the Sigils than the massive casualty rates.
- Only in It for the Money: She doesn't care about a massive crisis that will surely affect her and her organization because she hasn't been paid to.
- Pointy Ears: She has them.
- Private Military Contractors: She's a sellsword and leads a group of similar beings.
- Winged Humanoid: She has a pair of black feathered wings.
- X-Ray Vision: An inverted version, the bones of her wings can be seen glowing beneath her flesh when she flies.
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Azilus
A vampire even older and more powerful than Ingsol.
- Jerkass Has a Point: He may be rude, but beings as obvious as supers and uncovered by the Veil coming to Council meetings do pose a security risk.
- Really 700 Years Old: He's 1,100 years old.
Crimson
A vampire sired by Ingsol.
- Meaningful Name: A vampire named Crimson.
- Of Corsets Sexy: Part of her clothing.
- One to Million to One: She has the power to turn into a swarm of bats and back to human form.
- Really 700 Years Old: She's been a vampire for 35 years but looks far younger than she is.
Zvonamir
One of the vampire observers, secretly working for Sciona. His tropes can be found here.
Other
Vault Guardian
A massive construct used to guard The Black Reliquary, a vault containing the world's most dangerous relics.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: A magical version. Sciona corrupts it to turn it against its creators.
- An Arm and a Leg: Maxima rips off one of its arms.
- Anticlimax Boss:The massive guardian meant to protect the world's most dangerous magical items is dispatched two pages after it first appears. Justified, as a fight scene in the vein of the previous ones would take another month or so.
- Blade Below the Shoulder: It doesn't have hands, just very large blades.
- Crippling Overspecialization: Was not made with supers in mind. Which makes sense, considering it was made before gunpowder was a thing.
- Disney Villain Death: It gets thrown off a cliff into a field of magical blades.
- Dungeon Bypass: Sciona was able to teleport past it, albeit only with a lot of planning and preparation to get around the other defenses.
- Gate Guardian: It exists to protect the vault.
- Golem: The Rant says it's something like a bone golem.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Maxima rams its own severed blade through its chest.
- No-Sell: Its weakening aura incapacitates Ingsol and the Council, but does zilch to the Supers: Dabbler has warded herself against debuffs, Sydney has her shield, and Maxima was affected. Just not enough.
- Older Is Better: Averted, it was made long before gunpowder, weapons or explosives, as well as the discovery of supers. So while it has powerful magic effects, it wasn't prepared for anything in the power range of a super or armed with modern technology.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: Maxima and Dabbler tear it apart the moment they go on the offensive.
- Rasputinian Death: Maxima impales it with its own blade, Dabbler slices its head in half, and then it gets thrown off a cliff into a field of magical blades.
- Skeletons in the Coat Closet: Its design incorporate a lot of bones, something commented on by Sydney. When Maxima rips its arm off, the stump shows its entire body is basically nothing but bones interlocked into a larger form.
- Status Infliction Attack: It has a weakness aura that severely hampers anything around it, which was expressed in terms of Role-Playing Game mechanics.
