Characters that don't fit into any of the other categories.
Bishop
Senior Librarian, Arrun Central Library Branch
The Head Librarian of the Arrun Library. No one knows much about her, or even recalls having met her before the Transition though she seems oddly familiar to those fae that deal with her. She is generally very pleasant to talk to and enforces the rules of the Library in a strict but gentle manner. She is also an Avatar of the Cardinal System created to quietly observe the new world in which it finds itself and to watch over the fae in its own inscrutable fashion.- Anthropomorphic Personification: She's a subroutine of Cardinal. Her appearance is based on a Fae version of the canonical personification of Cardinal from the Light Novels' Alicization arc.
- Berserk Button: Don't try to check out a book without a library card or you will know what Killing Intent feels like.
- God in Human Form: In a Deus est Machina sense, she is like a divine spirit that inhabits the World Tree, which is the center of Fae life.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Word of Author says she doesn't really care about the events that are taking place. As long as the balance of Alfheim isn't threatened and the books in the library are safe, she's not going to be doing much to help the Fae or Tristain.
- Magic Librarian: The girl in charge of Arrun's central library has many subtle powers, such as Stealth Hi/Bye.
- Moe Anthropomorphism: A short and cute girl in scholarly robes is the physical form of the Cardinal System.
- Meaningful Name Bishop -> Cardinal.
- Scary Librarian: Yui finds her very presence unsettling and she can appear out of nowhere. She is particularly scary when the order of the library, and safety of its books, are threatened.
Akihiko Kayaba
Shortly before the launch of Sword Art Online, the creator of the Death Game was able to create a copy of his mind which he stored away deep in the Argus severs. It was so deep in fact, that technicians at RETCO didn't even suspect it's existence when they took over the servers after buying them from the bankrupt Argus. This copy of Kayaba was brought over along with Alfhiem in the Transition, where it now exists as a consciousness spread across the world, quietly observing and occasionally focusing on a single point enough to appear to others and interact with the world. It now seeks to recover The World Seed, the true familiar of Louise Francois le Blanc de la Valliere, for reasons only it knows.- The Archmage: The only one who could possibly cure Yui's magic/data/magical data corruption would be her "grandfather", the man who created her and Sword Art Online. Furthermore, as a semi-omnipresent ghost with a connection to Cardinal, he knows far more about Fae magic than anyone else.
- Enemy Without: The "Heathcliff" that manifested when Louise attempted to bind the World Tree is a separate entity from him, composed of data that Louise unintentionally stole from him. Thinking itself to be Louise's protector, it will try to stop him from recovering The World Seed.
- Hidden Agenda Villain: He seeks to recover the Seed and wishes for Kirito's help in doing so.
- I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder: "I'm a ghost Kirito-kun, not a god."
- Villainous Rescue: He saves Yui after her transformation begins to unravel and uses that as leverage to enlist Kirito's help. Yui is terrified of him because of what he did in Aincrad but trusts her father enough to allow Kayaba to work his cure.
- Virtual Ghost: As in canon, he scanned his brain to become a data entity. This meant he was pulled into Halkegennia along with everyone else. Considering that they became actual Fae, he may now be a literal ghost.
Skuld
The norn of the future who would dwell in the realm of Jotenheim in the roots of Yggdrasil.- Lady of War
- Time-Travel Tense Trouble: Her narrative in the first part her chapter in 2.0 is in the conditional tense due to her not really existing in the present, until she suddenly does.
- Walking Spoiler
Oberon
King Oberon, King of ALfheim
The King of the Fae, as recorded in ALfheim's lore. Oberon was intended to be an NPC for the Grand Quest, but Sugou used Oberon as an avatar for himself in ALO. As Sugou was not logged in at the time of the Transition, Oberon appears to be absent from the post-Transition world.- The Caligula: In the Lore, he's mostly about destroying things and the former mobs who have memories of Sugou's idea of how a king acts are not fond of him.
- I Have Many Names: Implied, but currently unstated. If Titania is anything to go by, Oberon should at the very least have a series of titles to represent his position as creator of several of the Fae races.
- Retcon: When Sugou got involved with ALO, he retconned the existing lore of Oberon and Titania to support his image of Oberon as supreme ruler of Yggdrasil.
Titania
Queen Titania, Queen of ALfheim, Mother of the Sylphs, Mother of the Puca, Mother of the Beast Tamers, Mother of the Spriggans, Mother of Mermaids, Verdant of the Forest, The Fair, The Kind, The Desert Queen (pre-retcon lore), Friend of the Djinn (post-retcon lore), Blessed by Yggdrasil (pre-retcon lore), Guardian of the Small Lives (post-retcon lore)
The Queen of the Fae, as recorded in ALfheim Online's lore. Titania was originally meant to be an NPC for the Grand Quest, but due to Sugou's meddling, Asuna's mind was loaded into Titania's body, which then became Asuna's new body during the Transition.- Badass Decay: In-Universe example. Titania was originally written in ALO as a power in her own right who stood up to Oberon (sometimes to the point of outright war) to protect the mob races she loved. Sugou was in the process of rewriting her character to be a submissive wife who offered her body to Oberon to purchase his mercy towards those races as part of his plan to cast himself as Oberon and warp Asuna into Titania.
- I Have Many Names: ... as listed above on this page, and this isn't guaranteed to be all of them, as Asuna interrupted Suisen when she was reciting the list.
- Retcon: When Sugou got involved with ALO, he retconned the previous lore of Oberon and Titania to marginalize Titania's accomplishments, and aggrandize Oberon's. However, the Djinn seem to remember their history with Titania matching the pre-retcon lore.
- Silk Hiding Steel: An example with a fair bit more obvious steel than the norm, but this is how Titania's original depiction in ALO was described by Argo and Suisen. As matron and protector of both the Pixies and the Djinn, Titania argued and fought against Oberon so that their lives would be preserved. However, the steel in Titania's personality was written out during Sugou's retcon of the lore.
Seista
A maid formally working at the Tristain Academy of Magic until the war effort saw many of it's students either join the military or go home due to the strategic target the academy had become. She eventually becomes the live-in maid for the Kirigaya family.- Day in the Limelight: Downplayed; however, her going to Arrun to avoid becoming a maid for Count Mott and subsequently buying a magatama ends up being the catalyst for the Maid in Arrun plot.
- Demoted to Extra: Due to the massive shift in canon, Seista went from a member of the Supporting Harem to a non-entity until the Maid in Arrun side story.
- Fish out of Water: After going to Arrun she finds that the Fae don't behave at all like the nobles she's had to live with.
- Meido: As in canon, so is she here. When her contract with the Tristain Academy of Magic is ended due to the war, she leaves for Arrun to avoid becoming a maid for Count Mott due to the rumors about him, she ends up becoming the live-in maid for the Kirigaya family, which is a good thing as Kirito and Asuna are frequently away on duty as Knights of Yggdrasil, Leafa/Suguha is too busy as a member of the city watch and Yui is too young to properly keep house.
- Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: Having her magatama and purse stolen by a Sionach Sidhe ends up revealing a major smuggling operation.
