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The original Prime Angels were created by the god Koss from the Hot White Flame; when the Conquering King claimed Throne, he slew them and cast them into the void. Later, the angels had new armor-bodies forged for them by the old Demiurges, and were brought back to serve as peacekeepers once again.

All angels progress through states of Plasma, Vapor, Liquid, Metamorphic, Igneous, Crystal, and finally Neutron as they age and grow in power; they also have a number alongside their name, indicating how many times they have "died" by being sent to the void - a process that generally wipes most, but not quite all, of thier memories and identity.

Tropes common to all Angels

• Always Lawful Good: Well, they were intended to be this. Some of them have ended up with Black-and-White Insanity instead, while others, like the Petal Knights, have abandoned their moral code entirely.
• Animated Armor: Outside the void, an Angel can only exist by inhabiting a suit of specially-made armor - essentially a living, armor-shaped sentient nuclear reactor.
• Cannot Tell a Lie: They technically can lie, but doing so causes their body to crack.
• The Fettered: The Angels had the Old Law hammered into them by Koss, and are bound to it. Some of them, like the Thorn Knights, have found ways around some of these restrictions through Loophole Abuse that they know of through their leader truly knowing the Old Law. Most Angels have an extremely rigid world-view of some variety on top of this, though exceptions exist.
• Morton's Fork: When the angels were first made, their thinking was exceptionally inflexible and they would enforce strict punishments without consideration for the circumstances. One of the gods, Prim, solved this by ordering an angel to safeguard her delicate comb, which could not withstand the jarring and jostling of combat. Protecting it was therefore mutually exclusive with the angel's duty to violently punish a group that had accidentally broken the rules, forcing the angel to think.
• Name That Unfolds Like Lotus Blossom: Most angels have lengthy, flowery names that define their purpose. The very oldest ones (like 2 Michael and 1 Metatron) seem to avert this, though they still have lengthy titles.
• No Biological Sex: They're not biological at all, and ideologically they reject gender. In practice most of them tend to use male pronouns and terms for themselves, though, and ones that identify as female are considered deviants.
• Numerical Theme Naming: All angels have a number before (or occasionally after) their name, indicating the number of times they've been incarnated from the void.
• One-Man Army: While their precise level of strength may differ, all angels are walking nuclear-powered tanks wielding millennia-old martial arts.
• Our Angels Are Different: Their "true form" in the void often bears some resemblance to the more bizarre biblical descriptions of angels (flaming wheels, Eyes Do Not Belong There, and so on), but their practical forms involve pouring their nuclear fire into a suit of incredibly-tough armor made of fired Void ash (which by its nature barely exists).
• Taking You with Me: The bit about their armor being walking tanks containing a living nuclear explosion isn't just flowery speech; if an Angel's armor is breached (sending it back to the void and sometimes "killing" it until it reincarnates), it tends to explode violently in the process, killing anyone in the area.

Thorn Knights

6 Juggernaut Star

6 Juggernaut Star Scours the Universe

"MISTAKE."
^{Click here to see Juggernaut Star's form while in the Void. 
Click here to see Juggernaut Star's secret face} 

"WE ARE MERE VERMIN TO BE CRUSHED UPON THE WHEEL OF FATE ITSELF, OVER AND OVER, AS HE SPINS THE WHEEL, AND LAUGHS AT GOD!"

From the author's description:

An Igneous Angel that leads the Holy Thorn Knights and believes Allison needs to be killed for the good of the universe. It rides a bio-organic motorcycle made out of living skeletons, and is fond of tea ceremonies.

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• Ambiguous Gender: While biologically sexless, as with all angels, Juggernaut was assumed masculine-leaning until an extremely feminine face was found under its "steed's" bony facade. Given this reveal's nature as a twist, its self-identified gender, if any, is extremely unclear as of now.
• Badass Biker: It's a fallen angel riding a flaming motorcycle made out of skeletons. You do the math.
• Blood Knight:
  6 Juggernaut: Prove to me you are worthy. I doubt it. The girl is close. If you don't reach her before me... It will be my incredible pleasure to DISMEMBER her.
• Boomerang Bigot: Juggernaut considers White Chain a "deviant" for having a feminine and human-like Void form, but as it turns out the projection coming from its Void form under the spiky fire skeleton is also actually quite humanoid, feminine and pretty. It's implied that this is a common "malady" facing the Thorn Knights.
• Broken Angel: Quite literally, as its secret true form has amputated wing stumps. Given that angels' bodies shift to match their state of mind over time, this is as likely to represent a mental trauma as it is a physical one.
• Cool Bike: It's made out of a bunch of skeletons, and the front wheel is actually the angel's real body.
• Dem Bones: In the void, without its armor, it appears as a flaming skeleton. Also, its motorcycle is made out of skeletons.
• Disproportionate Retribution / Evil Is Petty: Juggernaut's response to White Chain rejecting her one time too many at the tournament? Try to kill her in the slowest, most sadistic manner available — cracking her armor with its bare hands.
• Dragon-in-Chief: To Metatron, as the head of the Thorn Knights. Since Metatron can't move and has possibly had a change of heart about destroying the universe, Juggernaut has to do most of the dirty work.
• Enlightened Antagonist: Juggernaut is stated by Word of God to know more than most of the other characters about the true nature of the world... and hates it.
• Fallen Angel: As the leader of the Thorn Knights, it has turned to the path of Thorns, though it sees itself as serving a higher power.
• Faux Affably Evil: Just because you're a skeletal fallen angel riding a flaming motorcycle doesn't mean you can skimp on tea ceremonies... and just because you enjoy tea ceremonies doesn't mean you don't derive your enjoyment from feeling smugly superior to the lowly mortals who dedicate their finite lives to making things as fragile and inconsequential as tea sets.
• Foreshadowing:
  • In the Alt Text for its introduction, it says "Do not mistake the rider for the steed." This is because its true body isn't the humanoid, but rather the motorcycle it rode in on.
  • Juggernaut heavily foreshadows the true nature of the Universe and the time loop during its first conversation with 82 White Chain, who doesn't pick up on it.
• The Heavy: It's not quite the Big Bad of the comic, but of all the villains, its certainly the most recurring.
• Hero Killer: Decapitates what turns out to be Zoss during the comic's opening. It doesn't quite take due to Zoss being a Non-Linear Character. It later reveals its job every cycle is to kill Zoss once he's picked his successor, though it implies it jumped the gun this particular cycle out of hatred for Zoss and what is implied to be Time Loop Fatigue.
• Hidden Depths: Despite all it's claims that 82 White Chain is weak for embracing human character traits, the feminine human face it shows to Maya implies that Juggernaut has far more depth than it pretends to. On top of that, Word of God is that Juggernaut's previous incarnation died protecting something or someone very dear to it.
• Improbable Weapon User: The front wheel of its motorcycle doubles as a breaking wheel and triples as a bludgeoning weapon should Juggernaut feel like using a weapon other than its own body. With the reveal that the wheel is the angel's body, it is more like 6 Juggernaut using a puppet to bludgeon people to death with itself.
• "It" Is Dehumanizing: The author refers to other angels by their chosen gendered pronouns, or "they/them" if they don't identify as either. As seen in the author's description above, 6 Juggernaut is "it".
• Magic Knight: Has quite the knack for the Art of Division, which lets it teleport through the Universe and chop people's heads off bare-handed.
• Monowheel Mayhem: It rides a Badass Bike, but only requires one wheel to function, as we see when it is heavily damaged. In fact Juggernaut Star IS the wheel, simply projecting its spiritual form into its armor remotely.
• Mouth of Sauron: Speaker for Thorns; the only Thorn Knight who seems capable of speech and 1 Metatron's evident second-in-command.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: 6 Juggernaut's hatred for its enemy caused it to jump the gun on putting the Prophecy in motion — Zoss was slain and Zaid was captured before he could be named the Successor, so Allison was chosen instead. Or so the angels believe. The Conquering King himself implies Allison was always his choice of heir. Juggernaut's growing Hidden Depths over the story imply it may also have had alternate motives.
• No One Could Survive That!: So, how exactly do you survive getting cut in half? Well, it helps if you're a being made from pure cold fire, but on top of that it isn't Juggernaut's true body that got cut. It's its "steed". Its true body — the front wheel on its motorcycle — is largely unharmed. Although it confirms it was quite painful.
• Razor-Sharp Hand: Master of a martial arts technique known as Pattram Sword Hand.
• Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: In King of Swords 9-126, Juggernaut implies it has perfect knowledge of all the "previous cycles" of Throne. Namely Zoss endlessly resetting time until he is satisfied with his choice of successor.
  6 Juggernaut: Late... an irrelevant word. Past and future are one. It matters not. This will happen again. It will all happen again, forever.
• Spikes of Villainy: Lots of spikes (even some coming out of its eyes). Lots of villainy.
• Straw Nihilist: It believes the universe and justice are lies and is offended that anyone could want to protect either. It later goes into further detail, saying that everything is hopeless because the universe is a Vicious Cycle where past and future are the same. Everyone else will suffer forever and ever until the Conquering King is finally satisfied.
• Time Loop Fatigue: It is one of the few to realize that Zoss has trapped the multiverse in a "Groundhog Day" Loop and has gotten more than a little sick of it.

Metatron 1

Metatron 1

"YS ATUN VARANMA PRESH."^note "THE GLORY, THE TOWER, THE FLAME, THE DIAMOND, THE BLADE, THE MIND, THE BEAST."

The last of the original Prime Angels, being the only one left alive by the Conquering King during his conquest of Throne. Founder of the Thorn Knights, and bearer of the secret names of YISUN.

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• All-Powerful Bystander: As the being with the closest link to true divinity, Metatron could scour all of Throne with a word, but the Old Law makes it impossible for him to use his power in such a way. There's also the matter of him being trapped on the edge of death.
• And I Must Scream: Rather than kill him and leave him to reincarnate, Zoss left him all but dead, trapped within the petrified shell of his own body for untold thousands of years.
• The Chessmaster/Manipulative Bastard: Manipulated Jagganoth into becoming his personal executioner to wipe out all life in the universe. Jagganoth eventually realizes this sometime before the beginning of Book Five and decides to kill the angel.
• Deal with the Devil: Ironically, as an angel. Jagganoth believes Zoss made a bargain with Metatron, turning himself into Metatron's puppet king and in return gaining the power to turn the wheel, thus locking it in a Vicious Cycle.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Metatron is utterly immobilized and unable to act directly, but they're the ultimate hand behind the Thorn Knights, 6 Juggernaut's actions, and most of the plot. Also turns out to be the puppet-master behind Jagganoth, the Red God, who was widely seen as the Big Bad of the setting up until the reveal. Then Jagganoth reveals that Metatron is this to an even further degree than previously thought; Metatron is the one who forces Zoss to lock the world in its Vicious Cycle, for some inscrutable purpose.
• Last of His Kind: Metatron is the very last surviving of the first incarnation of all angels.
• Odd Name Out: Is consistently referred to as either 'Metatron' or 'Metatron 1', breaking both the theme of angels' numbers coming before their name and their tendency for Name That Unfolds Like Lotus Blossom. The former is likely because they have never reincarnated, the latter probably because of the meaning of the name.
• Omnicidal Maniac: Metatron originally created the Thorn Knights to "sterilize" existence, though according to 2 Michael he has since seen the error of his ways.

Root Knights (Traditionalists)

2 Michael

2 Michael, Wielder of the White Flame, First Among the Secondborn

^{Click here to see Michael's form while in the Void.} 

The oldest incarnated angel, and the only one reincarnated from among the ones who guarded the Throne before the Conquering King defeated them, 2 Michael is White Chain's master and mentor.

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• Blue-and-Orange Morality: 2 Michael, being a Prime Angel, possesses this in spades. He believes in the preservation of order at any cost, even if that cost is the complete death and rebirth of the multiverse, and considers "mortal" concepts (such as physical form and gender) as beneath the race of angels. Seeing White Chain's extremely humanoid true face was the final straw in deciding their banishment.
  2 Michael: Not all acts of evil are foolish, White Chain. And not all acts of good are wise.
• Da Chief: What 2 Michael is supposed to be to White Chain as their superior in the Concordant Knights. Conceptually, the author had to refrain from giving 2 Michael a badass cop mustache.
• Cynical Mentor: To White Chain, although 2 Michael's cynicism is so deep that it amounts to a certainty.
• The Evils of Free Will: 2 Michael believes that humanity having a will is what caused the world to become corrupt.
• Human Pincushion: 2 Michael still has several spears sticking through his chest from from the war between the Demiurges, when the Concordance was broken. His true form in the Void is similarly impaled, suggesting that it's become a symbolic part of his identity.
• Lean and Mean: His armour is sculpted to look like a terribly emaciated humanoid form, and he is very much not a nice angel.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: His views on gender, which are ostensibly neutral but which, practically, have a degree of male bias seeping into them (eg. misidentifying the first human as male and his reaction when corrected.) He also repeatedly misgenders Delicious after her death, using male pronouns for her even though she openly identifies as female in both her forms.
• Pure Is Not Good: 2 Michael believes in purity and order above all else, including morality.
• Shout-Out: He quotes Martyr Logarious, although not entirely accurately. He left out the last part of the quote, which encourages one to always strive to do good.
  Michael / Logarious: Acts of evil are not always foolish, and acts of good are not always wise.
• Time Abyss: All the angels are really old, but 2 Michael takes the cake, dating all the way back to before the rise of the Conquering King... and he says that before that, he guarded the throne for 30 Kalpa, or roughly 130 billion years.

10 Vigilant Gaze

10 Vigilant Gaze Purges the Horizon

^{Click here to see him in armor.} 

"Ħo there! Coming or going?"

An igneous angel who spends his time in the impression of Koss' Workshop in the Void watching for anyone coming and going.

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• All-Encompassing Mantle: For maximum mysteriousness, while in his armor, only his head and (when he gestures) his hands emerge from his robes.
• Attack Backfire: During the tournament fight, Juggernaut Star dismissively kicks him in the chest to get him out of the way. All this serves to do is help expel the dust from Vigilant Gaze's armor, bringing him back to full power.
• Badass Boast: Just before he fights 6 Juggernaut to stop it from killing White Chain and Allison, mixed with "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
  "God, called YISUN, has entrusted us with the world itself! How can we be so prideful as to judge it? She is the only one not afraid of fulfilling her duty, and yet we spurn her! NO LONGER! By my honor as a Knight of the Holy Concordance — UNHAND OUR SISTER!"
• Big Brother Mentor: To White Chain. Vigilant Gaze has known White Chain through multitudes of incarnations and respects White Chain greatly for the ability to keep going despite all the struggles repeated incarnations has imposed upon the latter.
• Break Out the Museum Piece: It's not clear how long it's been since the last time he actually used his armor, but it was long enough that an old war buddy forgot what he looked like. It was not cared for particularly well in the meantime either, having gotten so full of detritus over the ages that it hampers his speaking and movements until a few good whacks clear the worst of it out.
• Bond One-Liner: Drops one after he disables Juggernaut Star with a point blank massive energy beam to the face, referencing his catchphrase below.
  "So." (Beat) "It's going then."
• Catchphrase: His greeting to all who approaches in the Void, "Ho there! Coming or going?"
• Composite Character: With 25 Vengeful Iron Suffers No Heretics or Fools to Live. Vengeful Iron still exists, as he provides one of the page quotes, but his role in the story and his armor design is taken by Vigilant Gaze.
• Cyclops: His armor only has a single glowing eye, although unlike a standard cyclops it's positioned off to the side where it would be if he had two.
• The Faceless: His head armor is shaped like a face-concealing helmet and has no real hint of a face aside from his single glowing eye. The shape of it also resembles that of his actual head, which itself qualifies for this trope.
• Foreshadowing: There's a number of hints that the mysterious newcomer angel in the tournament is in fact the wheel-headed doorman of the Void we met a few arcs back.
  • White Chain says his voice is unknown to her. He also has a ragged cough. Several pages later, a solid hit to his chest that helps clear out the dust in his armor does away with the cough and causes the text of his speech to change from a ragged appearance to the same text he uses in the Void.
  • Despite supposedly being a stranger to White Chain, he makes mention of fighting demons alongside her in the past.
  • The design of his helmet is rather similar to the circular shape of his head in the Void. It's particularity notable in 9-121, a page before his identity is overtly revealed.
• Gentle Giant: According to the Alt Text during his introduction, he's one of the most powerful angels, but is better known for his mild manners and tendency to ramble. His favourite fighting style, Fierce Horse Soul, is almost entirely defensive in nature and designed to subdue without causing permanent harm.
• Glowing Eyes: Well, glowing eye. The sole eye-hole in his helmet has the blue flame constantly visible within it.
• Good All Along: In the tournament, before his identity is revealed. Given the imposing appearance of his armor, the way he chases White Chain down while accusing her of losing her way, and the fact that White Chain doesn't know him, it's easy to assume he's a villainous Knight Templar like Juggernaut Star. Turns out, he's actually quite the opposite; he's one of the few angels who expressed support for White Chain earlier in the comic. He remains faithful to the old ways, and is upset that not only are the other angels not following White Chain's example, but that White Chain seems to be bowing to their pressure.
• I Am Not a Gun: Unlike the Thorn Knights, Vigilant Gaze remembers that the true purpose of angels is to preserve the works of God while defending mortals, not to covet, control, and terrorize those things. He's seeking out White Chain to make sure she remembers this lesson as well.
• Kamehame Hadoken: Is capable of unleashing one so big he has to leap several feet off the ground to get it all in the air - and even then, it still leaves a massive trench of cracked, red-hot stone.
• Large Ham: Between his catchphrase and booming declarations to 6 Juggernaut? Yeah, Gaze is a bit of a ham. The alt text for King of Swords pg. 10-149 even suggests that he sounds a lot like BRIAN BLESSED!!!!!.
• The Last DJ: Like White Chain, Vigilant Gaze is one of the few angels that stays devoted to the old ways and remembers that they're supposed to be defenders of the innocent, not self-righteous jerks towards mortals.
• Meaningful Name: He spends all his time vigilantly gazing at the horizon. He also might be nearsighted.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: He ditches his cloak when he properly joins the fight, revealing that his armor has four arms.
• My Defence Need Not Protect Me Forever: On a longer scale than usual, he's a practitioner of Fierce Horse Soul, which is noted as being focused almost entirely around defense and endurance - with the quirk that someone's who's practiced it long enough (thousands of years, specifically) can unleash the energy they've stored up in immensely destructive bursts.
• Mysterious Stranger: White Chain doesn't recognize him when he first appears in the tournament, though he seems to know her, and none of the rest of the cast knows who he is either. Averted after his actual identity is revealed.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He drags out his old armor over concern for White Chain's recent change in attitude for the worse. Unfortunately when he finaly catches up the tone he adopts and his unclear identity accidentally spurs her further down the path of the Thorns and provokes her into a violent confrontation with Cio and Allison, which is exactly the sort of thing he was trying to prevent.
• Old Soldier: Even by the standards of angels, he's an old-timer; his physical body is so old that it's covered in and full of dust and he has a nasty cough while using it. His armor's gone unused for so long that White Chain initially doesn't recognize him.
• Rainbow Speak: His speech bubbles and the text within them are orange, and every letter H has two bars in the middle. When he's depowered and in his dusty old armor, the text is still orange, but it lacks his "accent" with the double-barred H.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: He's the leader of the angels who congregate in the Void at Koss' Workshop, and he's sympathetic to White Chain, but since he spends all his time meditating on the infinite blackness, he's become somewhat judgmental. He also is willing to demand Michael reprimand the Thorns when they harass and wound White Chain.
• Some of My Best Friends Are X: His attitude towards humans.
• Supernatural Martial Arts: Like all angels. He apparently prefers Fierce Horse Soul, a common angelic style that focuses almost entirely on defense, evasion, and conservation of ones energy in order to get close enough to an opponent to subdue them - yet those who master it also find that the energy it conserves may be utilized to devastating effect, useful for foes too dangerous (or simply impossible) to subdue. He demonstrates his mastery of the style by performing the Ten Thousand Year Evil-Quelling Fist-style, said to only be known by the oldest and most experienced angels, which releases all the conserved energy in a single, overpowering attack. That single strike was enough to take out one of the most powerful Thorn Knights.
• Verbal Tic: When he first appears in his armor, he tends to cough a lot thanks to the fact that it's been out of use for a very long time and is clogged with dirt and debris. After a solid hit to the chest fires him up enough to clear out the worst of it, the cough goes away too. His reference to opponents as 'ruffians' also hints at his identity, and his loud "HO THERE!" after getting the dust out of his armor serves to confirm it.
• Walking Spoiler: It's impossible to talk about his role in the tournament without spoiling who he is.
• Wham Line: His identity is made overt in the tournament when he drops his Catchphrase in his distinctive text.
  "Ho there!"
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • He gives White Chain a serious dressing down for bowing to the Thorn Knights' pressure and turning on Allison during Solomon's tournament, accusing her of losing her way.
  • Shortly after, he gives a far more hostile one to 6 Juggernaut, calling it out for being everything an angel shouldn't be, and for treating White Chain so horribly just because she follows the old ways and hasn't turned into a petty thug.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: His speech to White Chain at the end of the tournament has shades of this - criticizing her for her mistakes, but reminding her that she was always better than the other angels said she was.

Petal Knights (Rogues)

Delicious

23 Liminal Blossom Punctures the Heart of the Unrepentant, Deliciously

^{Click to see her true form in the Void} 

A rogue Vapour Angel, who no longer serves the Concordance. Before her banishment and forced reincarnation, she worked for the flesh-seller Omun Vash, as as Obstacle Eliminator for his Golden Pearl Pleasure Guild.

According to the notes on the corresponding character sketch, Delicious is also fond of friendly boys, classical music and flower arrangement.

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• Blood Knight: Downplayed, though she obviously really enjoys fighting White Chain and doesn't mind handling dangerous anti-angel weaponry barehanded to do it.
• Character Death: Courtesy of 6 Juggernaut. Angels reincarnate after they die, but their memories are often hazy, unclear, or incomplete.
• Defiant to the End: When White Chain tries to beg for her life, Delicious rejects it, choosing to shout defiance at Juggernaut Star instead.
• Extra Eyes: Delicious has two smaller eyes, one above the other, in place of her right one.
• Fallen Angel: She abandoned her holy duty and became a mob enforcer. Despite this, she has standards, and shows only contempt to the Thorn Knights.
• Kiss of Distraction: To White Chain, in the middle of combat. White Chain's reaction is hilarious.
• Professional Killer: Her official job title at the Golden Pearl Pleasure Guild is "Master Obstacle Eliminator".
• Punch-Clock Villain: When she's not on the clock for Vash, she's quite amicable towards White Chain.

Judicious Rains

33 Judicious Rains Sear the Unrepentant

A rogue angel with a position of some authority in one of Throne's guilds. She also serves as its muscle when the mood suits her.

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• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When White Chain breaks out Burning Finger, Judicious immediately shifts to begging for mercy and asking to be arrested.
• And You Thought It Was a Game: During most of her confrontation with White Chain, Judicious Rains is mocking, taunting, and generally not taking things seriously. It's not until White Chain switches to the Empty Palm Purges the Impure style that Judicious Rains realizes just how pissed her opponent is.
• Extra Eyes: She has three eyes on her face.
• Horned Humanoid: Her head has two blunt horns. They come back to bite her when White Chain uses them as handholds to slam a knee into her face.
• Kick Chick: Her preferred martial art is the Leisurely Kicks style.
• Kick Them While They Are Down: White Chain doesn't accept Judicious Rains' surrender and continues beating her into the ground, seemingly with full intent to shatter her armor and banish her to the Void. Only Nyave's interference stops White Chain from going through with it.
• Multiarmed And Dangerous: She has four arms, making her armor one of the greatest deviations from humanoid form we've seen in armored angels.

Others

25 Vengeful Iron

25 Vengeful Iron Suffers No Heretics or Fools to Live

A strict and extremist angel mentioned only in the comic's page quotes.

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• Knight Templar: A quote from him from earlier in the comic sums it up:
  "If thou harbour’st the slightest stain of evil within thy heart, we will know; thy breast shall be torn open, thy skull shall be ripped from thy spine, and we will feed thy fetid corpse to the crocodile god. This is my decree."

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