Characters / Horizons Gate

Eral is filled to the brim with people of all stripes. This page lists some from the core game, and some from mods made by prominent modders.

Core Plot Characters

The Commodore

The player character. A Commodore of the Dominio navy, who mutinies after finding out the High Admiral planned to get them killed.

• Colonel Badass: Downplayed, in that all their on-screen badassery only comes AFTER they desert the navy.
• Deadpan Snarker: They have a few snarky dialog options they can say to the Admiral. Whether or not you pick them is your choice.
• Ensign Newbie: They're described as only having obtained the position of Commodore recently.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": As opposed to NPCs, party members with unique dialogue will usually refer to them as "Commodore."
• Featureless Protagonist: Significantly less so than the player characters of previous games in the series. While you still decide their race and name, they have a backstory and relationships from before the game started.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: They desert the Dominio navy after they find out their own country set them up to die. Nothing much ever comes of it, because the person who ordered their death tells the rest of Dominio that they are actually dead.
• Rookie Red Ranger: They were made Commodore over Reeve, who starts the game far more qualified for it in terms of combat skill. Asking her why reveals that she refused because she doubts her ability to actually lead.

Reeve

The Commodore's first mate, and the Deuteragonist of the game. She's a Falpa who served in the Dominio navy for 35 years.

• Bag of Spilling: She starts with sky-high stats and powerful endgame-tier equipment, but loses it all when hit by the prototype lightning cannon.
• Beleaguered Bureaucrat: She was once the Vice-Admiral of Dominio, during which time, she was this. She hated every moment of it, because of all the red tape and paperwork she had to deal with.
• Blood Knight: She enjoys fighting monsters a fair bit. If you ask her about the Demon Drake, she gets really pumped up and says that she became a Krakenslayer to fight things like that.
• Cool Mask: You never see her take off her mask.
• Dented Iron: She survives a lightning cannon blast that would've killed anyone else. It leaves her significantly crippled from a combat standpoint.
• The Lancer: She was this to you even before the game started. The Dominio navy made her your first mate at her request.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: She deserts the navy alongside you, seeking the truth and revenge.
• Real Men Eat Meat: While she is female, she has rather masculine personality traits, and she's a big fan of meat. She's the only party member with cafe dialog who actually enjoys the Beaf you can get at Dolor.
• Red Baron: The Dragon Tamer. She'll reveal the story about how she got that title if you ask.
• Reluctant Warrior: Downplayed. If you talk to her about Life Triggers, she'll say that she doesn't like fighting things that aren't monstrous- and that if healing magic weren't so commonplace, she wouldn't be able to fight people because of the inevitable body count she'd rack up.
• Undying Loyalty: To you. She's the only character in the base game besides yourself that you don't have to pay, presumably sticking with you out of loyalty and friendship.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: If you enter the Bloodweaver Hive, she is rather unsettled and warns you to be careful. She is right to be cautious.

Hagger

A boisterous man who enjoys a good drink, who can be recruited into your crew during the later stages of the tutorial.

• Actually Pretty Funny: When Reeve cracks a joke about how his accent makes few of the things he says sound like actual words, his response is a jovial "Hah! Y'got me there!"
• Big Eater: Most of his cafe dialog centers around the food you're being served.
• Doomed Hometown: A rare example where it's not the protagonist's hometown, but he's from Fantlin, which is currently undergoing a Gaia's Lament situation.
• The Drunken Sailor: A pretty standard example of the trope. He's a sailor you can recruit, and he loves a good drink.
• Hidden Depths: He's surprisingly insightful. While his cafe dialog is pretty food-centric, he's willing to try weird stuff to see if it's good, like the Rutroot Surprise, and expresses rather valid criticisms of the food that aren't explicitly tied to the flavor, like the Osso Cakes being so crumbly it makes them hard to eat.
• Talk Like a Pirate: Downplayed in that he doesn't use piratey lingo, but he does have a rough sounding accent that makes him sound like one regardless. Reeve comments on it, telling him "very few of the things (he says) are actually words."

Mod Created Characters

These characters are categorized by the creator of their mods.

Prominence

Bloodlock

A young Aphest who was adopted by a master thief, who joins the team when his adoptive father dies. Appears in Book of Thieves.

• Affectionate Nickname: He has one for the Commodore, referring to them as "master thief."
• Ancestral Weapon: Well, it's not a weapon, but in The Sea Below, there's a unique set of armor that only he can use to its full potential. Its stats are nothing to write home about, but if Bloodlock is the one using it, he gains Guard and Ward for a duration so long, it might as well last the whole battle, unless it's a particularly long one.
• Cuteness Proximity: Asks if the party can go see the gojer when visiting Fivili.
• Hero-Worshipper: Downplayed. While he's not overly obsessed with the Commodore, he has nothing but respect for you.
• Killed Off for Real: If you pressure him into opening the Sea Vaults before he's ready, it will kill him, and no amount of revival magic will bring him back.
• Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Played for drama. His birth father uses his unimaginative name as evidence that his adoptive father saw him as nothing but a means to an end. Bloodlock pauses for a moment, but ultimately concludes that while his father wasn't perfect, he did end up caring about him.

Edmina

A shady Scurio treasure hunter, who joins the team under the pretense that they help her get into some dungeons to get the loot inside. Appears in Ports of Ill Repute.

• Ambiguous Criminal History: She used to be a pirate and smuggler, but the exact nature of her crimes is never revealed. She had a partner in crime, Bonifacio, who betrayed her. She seeks to make things even between the two of them.
• Cool Old Lady: Not her, but her grandmother, who was a thief. If Bloodlock and Edmina get Osso Cakes together, he'll reveal that her recipe for biscuits made it into the Book of Thieves, meaning she must've been pretty good at it, though Edmina will state otherwise.
• Motor Mouth: Her speech isn't strung together like usual examples of the trope, but her dialog types itself out into the text box faster than average, and she has a tendency to interrupt you by accident.
• Sweet Tooth: In contrast to Reeve, who is big on meat, Edmina prefers candy and other sugary things.
• Vengeance Denied: Bonifacio, the man who betrayed her, has already been killed by someone else before she could get to him. Subverted when it turns out she didn't want revenge specifically, just some form of closure.