The characters of Les Légendaires.
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The Legendaries
A Group of heroes from various places that used to be the Official Heroes of Alysia, as they were fighting Darkhell. However, after they accidentally caused the Jovenia Incident, Alysia’s population despised them. They are now attending to fix their mistake by trying to find a way to free Alysia from the Jovenia Effect, while assuming their heroes role again.
Trope applying to the group as a whole:
- Broken Pedestal: Their popularity with the people of Alysia went straight downhill in the wake of the Jovenia incident. It got better eventually.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: They usually appear goofy and incompetent on the first approach, but as soon as it's necessary, they will kick ass for sure.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Dear Lord, where to start... all of them have this to some extent. Even those who seem to have had a normal past (such as Danael) are revealed in Origins to have some nasty stuff to remember.
- Hero with Bad Publicity: For most of the story. They eventually get over it after defeating Anathos.
- Living Legend: What do you think the name "Legendaries" stand for?
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: When they broke the Stone of Jovenia and indirectly caused the Jovenia Incident.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: A knight, a Magical Girl Rebellious Princess, a former slave Beast Man, a Big Eater Barbarian Hero and an Elf with Elemental Powers. Justified in that they weren't initially assembled by the people of Alysia to fight Darkhell; Jadina and Danael merely decided to create their own group of heroes and started recruiting anyone they would befriend on the way.
- True Companions: All five Legendaries are close friends and would gladly give each other's life to save the rest of their team.
- Two Girls to a Team: Initially played straight, but inverted after the Anathos Cycle; the current incarnation of the Legendaries actually has three girls for two guys, four girls even if you consider Amy as her own individual.
Danael
Our Hero
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The leader of the Legendaries, and the founding member with Jadina. A knight from the Kingdom of Larbos and a former member of the elite knight squad known as the Silver Falcons, he met Jadina during an escort mission. Sharing a common desire for justice above politic and compromise, they eventually ran away together and founded the Legendaries. Danael symbolizes the value of Nobility.
- Accidental Pervert: Twice in Book 1 of Origines, first when he accidentally happens upon Jadina while she's bathing, and second when he saves Saryn from Dragonites and accidentally touches her rear. While Saryn is aware of the fact he didn't do that on purpose, Jadina isn't so forgiving...
- Back from the Dead: He is resurrected by a mysterious adult woman at the end of the Anathos Cycle. Though he no longer is part of the Legendaries after that.
- Break the Haughty: In book 2, when he realizes the control he thought he had on the situation was just an illusion.
- Cool Sword: Not only can Danael's sword cut through almost anything, he and the sword also share a magical bond that enables Danael to control it from any distance.
- Defector from Decadence: He was once part of the Silver Falcons, but left out of disgust when he realized they were more concerned with following politics than their ideals.
- Fallen Hero: Though to be fair, it wasn't his choice.
- Good Is Not Soft: Deconstructed, to the point where it's sometimes borderline Good Is Not Nice; even though Danael means well and usually has very good reasons for doing what he does, he is occasionally willing to Shoot the Dog for the greater good, such as ordering Shimy's death so Anathos can't have her body. He even once threatened to stab Halan with a Darkhellion stinger in a fit of rage.
- Guile Hero: Has shades of this. Being the leader, he usually develops the battle strategy and is quite good at it. According to his brother Ikael, he takes pride in being in charge.
- The Hero: He is the team leader, and the first character introduced in both series.
- The Hero Dies: He ends up possessed by Anathos during the Anathos cycle, and Jadina is forced to kill him at the end of Rebirth. While he is brought back to life by Kalandre right after that, it isn't until book 18 that he rejoins his former comrades.
- I Hate Past Me: In a wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey sort of way: Danael, Gryf and Shimy fall through time in book 5 Hand of Hereafter and meet a young adult Danael. Unfortunately this version of Danael is pompous and smug, to which kid!Danael can only cringe.
- In the Hood: Introduced wearing a hood in book 1.
- Knight in Shining Armor: He is a literal knight with an ideal of justice and protecting the innocent.
- The Leader: Considered the team leader by the other Legendaries, and he usually is the one who hatches the plans.
- Oh, Crap!: When he realizes what's about to happen five seconds before Anathos's soul leaps out at him and enters his body.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue to Gryf's Red. Ironically, flashbacks from Book 6 reveal he used to be the Red Oni to his older brother Ikael.
- Rescue Romance: Part of the reason he and Jadina fell in love.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: His main reason for leaving the Silver Falcons and founding the Legendaries; he was disgusted that his group had just become pawns following politics rather than justice.
- Shoot the Dog: In the Anathos Cycle, he orders Razzia and Tenebris to kill Shimy in order to ensure that Anathos can't possess her. He is not proud of this decision, and Jadina doesn't take it well when she learns of it. Ironically, Shimy knew, despite his precautions, but was willing to make the sacrifice.
- Unresolved Sexual Tension: With Jadina, though it tends to be unclear wether they have confessed to each other or not. He asks her for her hand in marriage in the Mark of Destiny, but it backfires disastrously. They finally become an Official Couple after the end of World Without.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Danael doesn't know how to swim, and is understandably afraid of water.
Gryfenfer "Gryf" (Ironclaw "Claw")AKA Prince Anoth-Cha
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A former Monslave Jaguarian who joined the Legendaries and became Danael's best friend. Gryf symbolizes the value of Courage.
- Anime Hair: Justified due to his Beast Man status.
- Bare-Fisted Monk: Well he does have his claws, but they are technically part of his body, so he is fighting barehanded.
- Beast Man: Like all Jaguarians, he overall has a humanoid appearance, but has distinct beastly features such as fangs, claws, fur and a tail.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With both Shimy and Shun-Day.
- The Berserker: Like all Katseye-less Jaguarians, being in close proximity to another Jaguarian or even a Jaguarian vestige will cause Gryf to lose control and turn into a violently unhinged killing machine. Solved after the Anathos Cycle when he gets a Katseye implanted onto his forehead.
- Book Dumb: Tends to be seen as this by others, though he's not that stupid.
- Character Tics: Gryf tends to stick his pinky finger up his nose either when he's thinking or trying to appear unbothered.
- Chivalrous Pervert: Tends to flip between this and Accidental Pervert.
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Gryf has courage mixed with a healthy dose of disrespect for authority which means that even the gods don't impress him all that much, starting with punching Dusk in the face and later giving Eternity a load of lip.
- Deadpan Snarker: Gryf is extremely snarky, and not afraid to deliver sarcastic jabs whenever a situation seems ridiculous to him.
- Dub Name Change: For the English language release by Comixology, Gryfenfer has been renamed "Ironclaw" ("Claw" for short).
- Foil: To Danael; Danael is composed, level-headed, and a fairly cold-blooded Knight in Shining Armor Nice Guy who suffers from a case of Twice Shy with Jadina; he verges on Good Is Not Soft to the point where he will Shoot the Dog if necessary. Gryf on the other hand is a Hot-Blooded Anti-Hero Knight in Sour Armor, a terrible boyfriend to every girl he has been in a relationship with, but he tries his best to do the right thing regardless.
- Has a Type: Gryf seems to have a thing for ladies who can and will kick his ass if given the chance. Just ask Shimy, Captain Shamira and Shun-Day.
- Hellish Pupils: A rare heroic example.
- Honor Before Reason: Gave the Memoria serum to Elysio despite being perfectly aware it might cause Darkhell's return (and it did), because he gave his word to Elysio he would help him recover his memory.
- Identity Amnesia: Book 7 reveals he has no memory of his life prior to his Monslave days. He's eventually revealed to have been Anoth-Cha, the prince of Jaguarys.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Gryf usually acts rude, is clumsy dealing with his relationships with girls and is not entirely uninterested in getting paid for his service, but in the end, he means well.
- Knight in Sour Armor: A lifetime of being abused and lied to by Menthos has made him rather cynical and pragmatic, but he does have a good heart.
- The Lancer: He is both Danael's best friend and Foil.
- Like Brother and Sister: Gryf has this dynamic with Jadina, who is his closest friend right after Danael. They respect and care for each other enough that they can effortlessly trade barbs and call each other out on their mistakes without it putting a strain on their friendship, and unlike Danael and Razzia, Gryf noticeably hasn't ever expressed any kind of sexual or romantic attraction towards Jadina. It's also very telling that Gryf is noticeably the one most shaken and outraged with the discovery of the original Jadina's corpse, and he is the first one to personally go after the "impostor".
- Lost Orphaned Royalty: Gryf is actually Anoth-Cha, one of the twin princes of the hidden kingdom of Jaguarys; as a child, he ran away from home in an Anguished Outburst the night his father the king died, only to be captured and sold into slavery.
- Mr. Vice Guy: While Gryf is a genuinely noble individual at heart, growing up as a monslave left its mark on his personality. He is easy to provoke, often shows Blood Knight tendacies and has few scruples demanding money for defending villagers from a monster attack. He's also has a bit of perverted streak.
- Not in This for Your Revolution: His Origin book reveals he only agreed to join the Legendaries because this would give him an opportunity to get revenge on Dasyatis. Obviously, the main series shows he eventually did develop a genuine friendship with them.
- One-Winged Angel: His Deathgryf form.
◊ - Red Eyes, Take Warning: His eyes turning red is the main sign he is in his Chakounia state.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red to Danael's Blue. Flashbacks reveal he was even more of a Red Oni to his brother Kel-Cha's Blue.
- Relationship Revolving Door: With Shimy, who he seems utterly incapable of properly communicating with. It gets to the point where in Resistance, Gryf actually wound up walking out on Shimy and their son.
- Shipper on Deck: Gryf is shown in Heart of the Past to ship Danael and Jadina, though he mainly tries to give Danael a nudge in the form of a good old fashioned ribbing.
- Shut Up, Hannibal!: Delivers an especially epic one to Dawn and Dusk, followed by a "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
- Something Else Also Rises: His tail (no, not that one) goes ramrod straight when Shimy plants an almighty smooch on him at the end of book 16.
- Took a Level in Badass: Post Anathos Cycle, he has become fast enough to go toe-to-toe with Anathos (who he could barely see moving before) and gained the ability to go One-Winged Angel.
- Training from Hell: The means he used to become a famed monslave and also to take revenge on Dasyatis.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Justified due to him being a beast-man. He eventually wears half of a shirt after the Anathos Cycle.
- Warrior Prince: We don't find out right away, but he is one of the two princes from Jaguarys.
- Your Days Are Numbered: Though we don't learn it until Book 16, a blow from Anathos's sword left a shard of metal inside him that is getting inexorably closer to his heart, much like Iron Man. He knows he will have one more year to live at best, and he actually broke up with Shimy to spare her the grief, and he didn't even tell Shun-Day about it.
Jadina
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The banished Princess of the Kingdom of Orchidia. Jadina symbolizes the value of Intelligence. She was the one who founded the Legendaries with Danael.
- Achilles' Heel: After being reincarnated, she is an incredibly powerful sorceress who can shrug off pretty much anything (even death). Still, she is incapacited in Book 14 by being transfused with an Anti-Magic Serum, and in Book 18 is drained to her limit.
- Alien Blood: Post-timeskip Jadina now has green blood running through her veins, not actually blood at all but magical tree sap.
- Ambiguously Brown: The people of Orchidia have a distinctive dark skin.
- Ancestral Weapon: Jadina's Eagle Staff is an ancestral Orchidian artifact passed down from generations of sorceress queens, and marks its wielder as heir to the throne by right. The staff is powered by the spirit of Jadina's ancestor Jadilyna, warrior queen and founding mother of Orchidia, who willingly transferred her soul into the staff so as to protect and guide the next generation of sorceress queens. Jadina loses the Eagle Staff to the evil god Anathos, and it spends most of the Anathos Cycle in the hands of her Evil Counterpart Dark-Jadina before Jadina personally kills her, shattering the staff in the process.
- Animal Motifs: The eagle, obviously.
- Back from the Dead: She was recreated by the Gamera Tree after she fell to her death in the Jade Mines.
- Badass in Distress: Abyss had her injected with Antimag, leaving her powerless, and was about to have her executed. Yet she still saved her comrades.
- Beware the Nice Ones: She is probably the nicest person on the team, but you should never, ever get her angry. Ceyderom found out the hard way.
- Black Magician Girl: She fights like one and has shades of this as part of her character.
- Came Back Strong: Jadina died horribly when she fell down a chute in the Orchidian mines. The Gamera Tree happened upon her corpse, decided she'd make the perfect emissary to send back up to the surface, and recreated her body, stronger, faster, ten times more powerful and nigh invulnerable, with Jadina's soul as a finishing touch.
- Damsel in Distress: According to Danael, she used to be one before she joined the Legendaries. Her current form, on the other hand, adverts the trope: she saves the others much more often than she gets saved by them.
- Emerald Power: Her magic manifests in the form of a green glow, matching the Jade theme of her native country.
- Empowered Badass Normal: After her death during her trek down the Gamera Mines, she was brought back to life by the Gamera Tree as a human/plant hybrid with incredibly powerful magic abilities, superhuman physical abilities and a Healing Factor.
- Fallen Princess: Jadina's relationship with her parents was already strained since she rejected her Arranged Marriage to Halan and ran away with Danael to found the Legendaries, but it gets worse after the Jovenia Incident: her parents disown her, banish her from the kingdom and she is forced to live as a peasant in an dilapidated old hut. To say she doesn't adapt well to her new situation would be an understatement, which is why she furiously tells Danael where to stick it when he attempts to recruit her again.
- Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Jadina literally kicks Shimy's ass for allowing herself to wallow in self-pity, which does momentarily get Shimy out of her funk... only to start furiously running after Jadina to kick her ass in turn.
- Guile Hero: Displays traits of this during the Anathos Cycle. She comes up with a plan that was able to outgambit Anathos, of all people.
- Healing Factor: She gains a ridiculously powerful one after her reincarnation: she regenerates a broken arm within seconds, withstands a magical deflagration and gets her throat ripped apart by Tenebris, yet she survives.
- Half-Human Hybrid: After her resurrection.
- Humanoid Abomination: Hinted several times after her resurrection; Shimy, after seeing Jadina's aura, mentions twice that nothing about this new version of Jadina has anything human about it.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: She falls down a mine shaft and is fatally impaled on a stalagmite. It doesn't stick.
- The Leader: Shortly assumed the role in Heart of the Past after an argument with Danael. Becomes the leader permanently after Danael got possessed by Anathos.
- Lonely Rich Kid: Jadina may have grown up in the lap of luxury, being a princess and all, but her parents were always more focused on running the kingdom and she had no other children to interact with (barring the young prince her parents were planning to betroth her to).
- Precocious Crush: A teenage Jadina had a rather misplaced one on her tutor, professor Vangelis.
- Pretty Princess Powerhouse: Doesn't look like one at first glance, but she does a whole lot of ass-whooping when in action.
- Rebellious Princess: In Origins, a young Jadina was a very rebellious teenager and routinely got into mischief just to spite her parents. Even as an adult, she flat-out had the intention to disobey her parents when they tried to arrange her marriage to Prince Halan.
- Rejected by the Empathic Weapon: As per tradition on her sixteenth birthday, Jadina was put to the challenge of accepting the Eagle Staff from the hands of an avatar of the founding queen Jadilyna, but the staff picked up on Jadina's impure motivations - ie earning her distant mother's love and pride - and refused her.
- Rescue Romance: She fell in love with Danael after he saved her from being kidnapped by Darkhell.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: She was shown to be a more proactive aristocrat even before she joined the Legendaries.
- Shipper on Deck: Surprisingly, she was this to Danael and Saryn. Until Saryn got killed.
- Super Mode: She gains one after her reincarnation.
- Tomato in the Mirror: Jadina 2.0 goes through this after her comrades find the original Jadina's corpse down in the mines, and spends most of book 14 Legacy of Evil completely despondent in a jail cell.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Jadina is the girly girl to Shimy's tomboy; Post Anathos-cycle, they seem to have switched places.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Post-Anathos Cycle, she has become much more commanding, cynical and cold as a result of all the hardship she went through.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Shimy. The two constantly argue and snark at each other, but this doesn't mean they aren't friends.
- White Magician Girl: Her weapon fits the trope, but her fighting style and personality are more a mix of this with Black Magician Girl.
- Xenafication: Post-timeskip Jadina has completely dropped the pampered princess attitude she was previously lugging around and has become a lot more stoic and serious than she ever was. Her outfit is markedly less feminine than the previous one, and she is now so absurdly powerful that she no longer needs her long-lost Eagle Staff. Further exemplified in World Without where her altered identity is that of a notorious pirate captain.
Razzia AKA Korbo the Red Shadow
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A Barbarian Hero from the Country of Rymar. Razzia symbolizes the value of Strength. Though he was originally a hulking mass of muscles, the Jovenia effect turned him back into a chubby young boy, though he retained his super strength. He actually used to be Korbo the Crimson Shadow, Darkhell's lieutenant.
- Ascended Fanboy: Deconstructed; he became a hero, but not the kind he wanted to be, and he had to lose his family, friends and entire hometown for it to happen.
- The Atoner: The entire reason he joined the Legendaries was to atone for the many crimes he committed in Darkhell's name.
- Barbarian Hero: His adult form is a large, muscular man armed with a gigantic sword.
- Battle Couple: With Tenebris.
- Beware the Nice Ones: He is by far the nicest, most easygoing member of the group. He also happens to be the strongest physically, and Darkhell's former Dragon.
- Beware the Silly Ones: He might look like a chubby and dimwitted little kid, but he is extremely powerful, and you'd be surprised to find out who he once worked for...
- BFS: The Leviathan Saber, though he eventually loses it to Dark-Razzia, who later accidentally destroys it.
- The Big Guy: He is the tallest and strongest on the team.
- Big Eater: To the point where this is the first thing he thinks about when the world is about to be erased from reality.
- Big Fun: Only in child form. His adult form has more muscle than fat.
- Boisterous Bruiser: The biggest, strongest member of the team. Also very jovial and fond of good food.
- Book Dumb: Inverted; Razzia tends to be a bit dense an dim-witted in everyday life, but when it comes to intellectual skills, he is an expert in archeology, and actually read a lot as a kid.
- Charles Atlas Superpower: He got so strong just by training. And he is strong enough to dig a tunnel with his bare hands. Even in kid form.
- Cynicism Catalyst: A lot of what made him who he is is related to the death of his little sister Sheyla.
- Do Not Call Me "Paul": Razzia doesn't take too kindly to Tenebris insistently referring to him as Korbo when she unexpectedly pops back into his life.
- The Dragon: Used to be this to Darkhell. Or more accurately shared the role with Tenebris.
- Empowered Badass Normal: He has no special ability aside from Charles Atlas Superpower in the first half of the series, but in the Anathos Cycle, his bond with Amy grants him new supernatural abilities.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: He went from a cheerful, chubby little kid to Darkhell's Dragon and one of the most infamously remembered assassins in Alysian history.
- Genius Bruiser: An archaeology expert with a Barbarian Hero's physic and strength.
- Gentle Giant: He is no longer a giant, but he still is taller than most people in Alysia, and more importantly was a mountain of muscles as an adult. Regardless, he is a pretty nice guy.
- Gonk: In kid form only. His adult form is quite handsome and fitting to the series style. Tenebris seems to have no problem with the way he looks.
- Idiot Hero: Subverted; he appears to be this since he tends to be rather slow on the uptake, but he is actually extremely smart, and possesses a large amount of knowledge about monsters and archaeology.
- Late to the Punchline: Not with jokes in particular, but he has his moments where he understands the situation or recognizes people a little too slow, which means that he is frequently mistaken for an idiot.
- Made of Iron: In Book 6, an adult Darkhell shoots him with a deadly spell. He is barely injured, but still has enough strength to rise again.
- One-Man Army: He once slaughtered a entire army of elite mercenaries all on his own.
- Play-Along Prisoner: When Danael and Gryf come to look for him, they find him in a prison cell, where he explains that he was tossed in for not being able to pay for the ridiculously huge amounts of food he had eaten at the inn. As Danael and Gryf are trying to negotiate his freedom, he suddenly realizes they want him out... and promptly breaks free on his own.
- Real Men Wear Pink: It's revealed in Book 4 that he's a dab hand at sewing, and always keeps a sewing kit about his person. He'd rather have no one know however.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Had one after Darkhell destroyed his hometown and made it seem like the Army of 1000 Wolves were the ones responsible. This made Razzia go From Nobody to Nightmare and eventually slaughter the Army of 1000 Wolves of his own.
- Shirtless Scene: His adult self got a lot of this in flashbacks. Granted, that is to be expected from a Barbarian Hero.
- That Man Is Dead: Razzia's last stand as Korbo the Crimson Shadow ended with the life of his opponent, none other than his sister Sheyla, who Razzia had up till then believed to be long dead. Sheyla uses the last of her strength to inform her brother that it was Darkhell, and not the Army of 1000 Wolves, who anihilated their hometown, before she succumbs to her injuries.Razzia: Tenebris, I want the truth. Did you know?Tenebris: Korbo, I... I...Razzia: Korbo... is dead!! [he takes up Sheyla's sword and brandishes the blade at Tenebris] Go back to Casthell, take your Dragonites and deliver this message to your father! Korbo the Crimson Shadow has ceased to exist. Razzia of Rymar has been reborn, and swears that he will never rest till the Dark Sorcerer falls to the Leviathan!
- Took a Level in Badass: Twice. First he went from a bumbling, pacifistic kid who would constantly get bullied to a One-Man Army who single-handedly wiped out an entire army of veteran warriors. Then, like all the other Legendaries, he receives a significant power upgrade during the Anathos Cycle.
- Tragic Keepsake: His sword, the Leviathan, was once wielded by his younger sister Sheyla.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: During his time as Korbo.
Amylada "Amy"
- Amy: Will you be my avenging arm?
Razzia: I already am.
Amy: Then I shall be yours. [turns into an arm and fuses with him]
A demon introduced in the Anathos Cycle. Amylada is the last of an ancient race of Demons named the Chiridielles, who long ago fought with the Galina for a territory now gone. At some point in the story, Skroa captured her and trapt her in his lab, where he kept her for years as a subject for tortures and experiments. At some point, Razzia found the old lab and discovered a weakened but still alive Amylada chained. Learning about her wish for revenge, he offered her to avenge her in exchange for her help. Amy agreed, and bonded with him replacing his lost arm.
- And I Must Scream: The reason why she hates Skroa: he trapped her in his palace and used her as lab rat for his experiments, similar to what Darkhell would wind up doing to him.
- Arch-Enemy: Skroa, needless to say.
- Berserk Button: Being anywhere near Shun-Day and/or Skroa doesn't do wonders for her temper.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Played with; she is solely helping Razzia out of a thirst for revenge, but she admits she does enjoy the Legendaries' company.
- Eventually confirmed as Dark Is Not Evil by Book 16, where she admits she does consider Razzia her friend.
- Deadpan Snarker: She has few scruples with criticizing Razzia's choices and mistakes.
- Deal with the Devil: Razzia made one with her; she provided him with a new arm and new powers, he in exchange vowed to kill Skroa and Shun-Day in her name. It doesn't end well for him when he attempts to weasel out of his end of the bargain.
- Demonic Possession: She pulls this on Razzia in Book 15 when he tries to prevent her from killing Skroa.
- She does it again in Book 17, this time in order to save his life because he isn't in any condition to fight.
- Disproportionate Retribution: While her hatred of Skroa is legitimately understandable, Shun-Day on the other hand had no part in Amy's abuse, so wanting her dead by association seems a little extreme (as lampshaded by Gryf). Ironically, once Amy finds out the truth about just who Shun-Day is to her, she does a full 180.
- Faceless Eye: The closest thing she has to a face in her arm form is a big yellow eye on Razzia's forearm. Her humanoid form, on the other hand, has a face but no mouth.
- Irony: She is reincarnated as the human daughter of Razzia during World Without and sacrifices herself to kill Shun-Day who was her own daughter in the previous world.
- Kick The Son Of A Bitch: No-one particularly holds her murder of Skroa against her, not even Shun-Day.
- Last of His Kind: She is the last of the Chiridirelles, a species of Demons that fought the Galinas centuries ago.
- Mama Bear: Amy eventually finds out that Shun-Day technically is her daughter, and flips out at Aperhos when she overhears his plans to kill Shun-Day.
- Sealed Badass in a Can: A recent spoiler reveals that Razzia found her in the ruins of Skroa's old palace, imprisoned the same way Darkhell trapped Skroa.
- Shapeshifter Weapon: As Razzia's arm, Amy can shapeshift into various weapons and equipment. These include a shield, a hammer, surgical tools and even a giant protective shell that can hold all the Legendaries at once.
- Shout-Out: Her full name, Amylada, is an obvious reference to Padmé Amidala.
- The Symbiote: She makes up for her main body being imprisoned by having part of herself merging with Razzia, replacing his arm and granting him special abilities.
- Telescoping Staff: As a human she wields a weapon called a majakaï, which she obtained during her training with the Marakas.
- Unstoppable Rage: When she realizes Razzia wasn't going to keep his part of the deal, she goes completely insane and takes over her host's body entirely.
Shimy
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The current Elemental Elf from the Isle of Koleana, Shimy symbolises the value of Purity. Though she was supposed to serve as the Guardian of the Elven World, Shimy eventually chose to join the Legendaries and live on Alysia.
- Apocalypse Maiden: Subverted; she was intended to be this by serving as Anathos' reincarnation, but the Legendaries succeeded in preventing it... only for Anathos to possess Danael instead.
- Aura Vision: She uses this to balance her blindness after Anathos burnt her eyes.
- Broken Bird: Post-Anathos Cycle, big time.
- The Chosen One: Deconstructed; she was forced into becoming the Elementary Elf when all she wanted was to become a vet, and she was so reluctant towards the role that she neglected her duties and joined the Legendaries. This backfires on her in Book 3, when Astria is going through a mysterious plague and Shimy feels guilty for not being there when she was needed. And if that wasn't enough, she finds out in book 9 that she is also marked and intended as the vessel of Anathos. She doesn't take it well.
- Daddy's Girl: She is on far better terms with her father Albion than her mother Shamira. "Origins" reveals that this dates back to her childhood.
- Deadpan Snarker: Her most significant character trait on the first books, especially towards Jadina and Gryf.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: A violent deconstruction; Her "defrosting" is mostly due to her Heroic BSoD combined with a violent Break the Cutie and Break the Haughty.
- Designated Victim: Though the Legendaries admittedly all suffer, Shimy gets a truly staggering amount of this compared to her companions, to the point where she's a borderline Doom Magnet.
Word of God says she was the author's favourite character (besides Razzia), and that he enjoys making his favourite characters suffer. - Dislikes the New Guy: She never really liked Shun-Day even before The Reveal that she was Skroa's daughter, and was so reluctant to accept Tenebris in the group she actually tried to kill her; granted, certain flashbacks reveal that Shimy was once abducted by Darkhell and tortured for information by Tenebris, which is a plausible reason for her to hold a strong grudge.
- Elemental Powers: Her Elemental Elf status grants her the ability to manipulate and merge with all four elements. She can only master Earth and Water at the beginning, but later learns to use Air and Fire.
- Elemental Shapeshifter: Her elemental powers include the ability to merge with elements in order to develop things such as rock fists or being literally made of air.
- Eye Scream: Courtesy of Anathos. With a friggin' flaming sword, no less.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Post-Anathos cycle, it really doesn't take much to set her off. Especially if you happen to be Gryf.
- Handicapped Badass: Her eyes are burnt by Anathos.
- Heartbroken Badass: Poor, poor Shimy.
- Locked into Strangeness: Anathos's first attempt to take possession of Shimy is so excruciatingly painful and traumatizing that it turns her hair shock white.
- Master of Disguise: She's not quite a shapeshifter, but Shimy's earth manipulation gives her the ability to seamlessly and convincingly disguise herself as another person. Add to that that she usually gets the mannerisms down pat, and the illusion is so convincing in fact that she even manages to fool Anathos if even for a brief moment.
- Miss Fanservice: Not that much initially, but after the Anathos Cycle, Sobral took the habit of taking advantage of the fact that her more tomboyish ensemble was replaced with a short skirt, cue an absurd amount of Panty Shot. She now seems to get at least one each arc.
- Pointy Ears: She is an elf; what do you expect?
- Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!: In Book 1, when the other Legendaries come to the Elven World to get her, they find out she is not allowed to leave the Elven World anymore following the Jovenia Incident. When her father and the Elven soldiers try to stop her from going with her friends however, she promptly uses her Earth powers to Curb-Stomp them and force them to let her go:
- "Shut Up" Kiss: Plants one on Gryf at the end of book 16, phrase and everything.
- Skewed Priorities: Shimy has a habit of bringing her relationship troubles with Gryf to the forefront when they really have other things to worry about.
- Smug Super: In earlier books, Shimy is prone to showing off her magical prowess with no small amount of self-satisfaction, and on one instance throws around her status as the Elemental Elf to strongarm her father into letting her do what she wants. This completely shatters when she finds out that the Elemental mark on her forehead is actually the insignia of the evil god Anathos, and that she has inadvertently agreed to be the god's host. As a result she is considerably less boastful during the Anathos cycle despite mastering two additional and stronger elements, and is in fact a lot more matter of fact about it, unlike her evil clone Dark Shimy, though she can at her worst indulge in some Unsportsmanlike Gloating, namely in her last interaction with Shun-Day.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Pre-Anathos Cycle. After that, she tends to go more in Tsundere territory.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The tomboy to Jadina's girly girl.
- Took a Level in Badass: Post Anathos Cycle, she now masters all four elements instead of just two, possesses Aura Vision and is able to fool both her Evil Counterpart and Anathos.
- Tsundere: Her relationship with Gryf mostly lands between this and Like an Old Married Couple.
- To the point that when she is missing him in Book 15, she conjures up a water clone of him to see him again... and promptly starts screaming at it.
- Similarly, her reaction upon waking up at the end of Book 16 and having learnt everything is to attack Gryf with a giant rock fist... and then promptly make out with him, much to the embarrassment of their teammates.
- To the point that when she is missing him in Book 15, she conjures up a water clone of him to see him again... and promptly starts screaming at it.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Jadina, who Shimy seemingly can't resist winding up.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: She can use her Elemental fusion abilities to disguise herself as someone else in a very convincing way. Even Anathos initially fell for it.
- Woman Scorned: To say she didn't react well to Gryf cheating on her would be putting it lightly.
Shun-Day
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A Young Ninja apprentice who joins the Legendaries as a temporary member during Book 7 and 8 in order to achieve her formation by helping them to save the world from Dawn's and Dusk's warning. She is eventually revealed to be a creature made by Skroa to serve as his mole in the group in order to find the Horn of Sygma. However, she eventually becomes the mask, and helps the Legendaries defeat Skroa. Danael alows her to get away with Skroa as thanks.
- Anti-Villain: Poor girl just wants to have a happy life with her "father", who merely treats her as a servant and takes advantage on her to do his bidding.
- Becoming the Mask: Was initially supposed to serve as The Mole amongst the Legendaries, but she grew to genuinely like them.
- Badass Normal: Subverted; she initially appears to be a mere ninja apprentice with no special abilities. Then it turns out she is Skroa's creation.
- Batman Gambit: Upon realizing Gryf won't agree to become Eternity's host even if it's the only way to save his life, she fatally injures Shimy, correctly reasoning he would do it to save her life.
- Broken Bird: If you'll excuse the pun; Skroa strikes Shun-Day for calling him "Papa" and tells her in no uncertain terms that he doesn't think of her as his daughter.
- Cute Monster Girl: Skroa and other Galinas saw in Amy's flashback look like Garudas with bird heads and bestial appearances. Shun-Day, even in her true form, merely looks like a normal girl with wings, blue feathers all over her body and birdclaws, which is still attractive in its own right.
- Daddy's Little Villain: She tries to be this in her first appearance; her father doesn't see her as a daughter though, and she ends up Becoming the Mask.
- Dark Action Girl: When working for her father.
- Hybrid All Along: Skroa created her from his own arm spliced with cells from Amy's DNA, making her genetically half-Galina and half-Chiridirelle.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Shun-Day's spirit appears to Shimy in her dreams and entrusts Gryf's happiness to her.
- Katanas Are Just Better: She wields a short, katana-like blade. Understandable, given that she's posing as a rookie ninja.
- Kick The Son Of A Bitch: Mercilessly threatened a Jaguarian-racist human mayor with her katana. No one can really blame her for that.
- Luke, You Are My Father: Book 16 reveals that Skroa used his own arm and DNA samples from Amy's mutilated body to create Shun-Day, meaning that she is, in essence, his and Amy's daughter.
- The Mole: First introduced as a Sixth Ranger who joins the Legendaries on their quest to find Jaguarys. She is eventually unmasked as Skroa's minion.
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Technically, she is an artifcially created Galina-Chiridirelle hybrid with ninja skills who can shapeshift into a human, and later a Jaguarian.
- Nonhuman Humanoid Hybrid: Half-Galina and half-Chiridirelle.
- One-Winged Angel: Her true form is a Winged Humanoid with teal feathers all over her body and claws for hands and feet.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: As Akkiten; while she does look somewhat different physically and is convincingly disuised as a whole other species, she still uses a short katana and hides her right arm with a long and ample sleeve, since it is the only part of her body that does not shapeshift along with her. It's a miracle no one recognized her sooner.
- Psychotic Smirk: On occasion, when she is gunning for a fight. In Book 7 and 8, serves as a Foreshadowing to her true nature.
- Red Right Hand: Her right arm once belonged to Skroa, and as such has feathers and bird-like claw, even when she is in human or Jaguarian form. She uses a long sleeve to hide it.
- The Rival: To Shimy.
- Sacrificial Lion: In Book 16, she is devoured by Sheiba's Clipped-Wing Angel form.
- Sins of Our Fathers: Amy wants Shun-Day dead because Shun-Day's father Skroa kept Amy captive and tortured her for years. Ironically, Aperhos also wants Shun-Day dead because both of her "parents" Skroa and Amy were indirectly responsible for the downfall of the Chiridans.
- Sixth Ranger Traitor: Though she becomes the Mask.
- Tsundere: She acts this way towards Gryf.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: She truly sees Skroa as her father and only assists him in the hope of gaining his affection and pride. Too bad he barely sees her as more than a servant and hates being referred as a father.
- Yandere: While she supposely tried to kill Shimy to cover her real identity, it's hinted it was also out of jealousy. She even get called out for it.
Tenebris
Darkhell's daughter and former lieutenant. During her father's reign of terror, she led his armies into battle. She actually used to work together with her lover Korbo aka Razzia before he turned good. During the Anathos Cycle, she is freed from Barek prison by Darkhell, but she ends up turning against him and joining Razzia's side. Eventually, she joins the Legendaries as a full-time member.
- The Atoner: She does feel remorse for her past crimes as Darkhell's lieutenant and wishes to atone for them.
- Battle Couple: With Korbo/Razzia.
- Berserk Button: It would be suicidally unwise to insult or devalue Korbo where she can hear you.
- Blade Below the Shoulder: Her trademark weapon.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: When she falls under Abyss's control. Though according to him, it might have been More than Mind Control.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Just look at her reaction when Toopie hugs Razzia. Or when Razzia is perving on Jadina.
- Daddy's Little Villain: She is Darkhell's daughter, and happily served as his lieutnant during his reign of terror.
- Dark Action Girl: Before her Heel–Face Turn. She is female, can kick ass really well, and used to be one of her father's finest agents.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Though she used to be.
- Defecting for Love: Tenebris doesn't bat an eye at finding out that "Korbo" is no longer the hulking assassin she once fell in love with and is now a good guy who goes by Razzia. She defies her father(s) and joins the Legendaries to stay with the man she loves.
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: She flat-out rejected Anathos' offer to join him out of love for Razzia, stating she would rather die a free woman.
- The Dragon: She used to share this role with Korbo when she was working for her father.
- The Dreaded: Not quite to the extent of her father, but Tenebris does have quite the infamous reputation. Danael refers to her past self as one of the Legendaries' worst nightmares, and she scared Toopie shitless when the latter recognized her in Larbos.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Dark-haired with pale skin just like her father.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Even as her father's dragon, she refused to kill an infant.
- Hidden Backup Prince: A variation in that Tenebris was kidnapped at birth and brought up by the evil sorcerer who provided her royal birth mother with magical IVF. She finds out years later that her former princess teammate is her younger sister, and that their mother the queen intends for them to decide which of them should inherit the throne.
- If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: Jadina tried this on her when she tried to kill Abyss. She didn't listen, but was still prevented from doing so by the Gamera Tree.
- I'm Your Biggest Fan: Says this word for word to Korbo when she approaches him in a flashback.
- In Love with Your Carnage: Implied to be the reason she felt in love with Korbo.
- Long-Lost Relative: Book Thirteen "Of Royal Blood" reveals that she is actually Jadina's older half sister who was taken from their mother the day she was born.
- In the Hood: She used this to try going unnoticed at Larbos during the festival. Toopie saw right through it.
- Love Redeems: Her motivation for joining the group was initially because of her feelings for Razzia. She even turned down a place as Anathos's second-in-command because of it; she does love her man.
- Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: Or more accurately Evil Sorcerer's Beautiful Daughter, but she otherwise covers every classic aspect of the trope, down to falling in love with one of the good guys.
- Meaningful Name: Her name is a homophone for "tenebrous", a Latin word meaning darkness when she's the daughter of Darkhell. Real subtle.
- Remember the New Guy?: An adult Tenebris makes a cameo in book 6 Hand of Hereafter and is described by Danael as having been the bane of the Legendaries' existence during her father's reign; she's later officially introduced to the narrative in book 9 the Alystory, where we find out she actually has some history with Razzia.
- Single-Target Sexuality: Other men might as well not even exist as far as Tenebris is concerned. Razzia's it for her, to the point where she's completely unfazed by his Jovénia-induced pre adolescent gawkishness.
- Sixth Ranger: She joins the Legendaries during the Anathos Cycle out of love for Razzia, and is eventually accepted as a permanent member of the team.
- Sixth Ranger Traitor: Subverted twice; she joined the Legendaries while making it clear she had no interest in their cause and only wanted to protect Razzia, but it turned out she stayed with them eventually; in Books 14, it appears she is leaving them, but she turned out to be Brainwashed and Crazy.
- Spikes of Villainy: Her adult self wore a a very dragon-like ensemble into battle.
- Unholy Matrimony: With Korbo, her former co-Dragon and lover. Eventually evolved into Love Redeems.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: To Razzia.
- Would Not Hurt A Child: Back when she was working for her father, she and Korbo slaughtered the Maker couple for supplying weaponry to the armies ooposing Darkhell, but neither wished to killed the Makers' infant daughter, and instead placed her in the care of a caravan of nomads.
The Fabulous
Another group of heroes that replaced the Legendaries as the Official heroes of Alysia. Unlike the Legendaries, the Fabulous are extremely popular amongst Alysia's people. They intially display arrogant behaviour toward the Legendaries, despising them the same way than everyone for the Jovenia Incident, but after the two teams are forced to team up, they end up growing mutual respect.
Trope applying to the whole Group:
- Badass Normal: in contrast with the Legendaries, they are all humans and none of them possess any powers or weapon with magic proprerty (unless you count Toopie's Gadgeteer Genius as a power). Yet they kick ass when figthing: Shaki and Michi-Gan are the only known non-Legendarie characters to even succeed in punching Darkhell in the face. Toopie put it even farer by actually durably injuring both Darkhell and Elysio in their Empowered Badass Normal states.
- Knight, Knave, and Squire: Michi-Gan, Shaki and Toopie respectively.
- The Rival: to the Legendaries, initially.
Michi-Gan
- Braids of Action: A rare male exemple.
- Eyes Always Shut: Always portrayed with his eyes shut, suggesting asian ancestry (or the Alysian equivalent at least).
- I Shall Taunt You: He actively taunts Darkhell during their fight.
- The Leader: To the Fabulous.
- Katanas Are Just Better: His weapon is a katana.
- Only Sane Man: Arguably; he is the only one in his team who is not driven by a desire of Revenge, and is seen attempting to retain Shaki and Toopie when they attempt to fullfill theirs.
- Team Dad: Seeing as he is Toopie's foster father.
Shaki AKA Little Cat Drinking His Milk Bowl / Little Cat Who Drinks Milknote
- Ambiguously Brown: He hails from the Alysian equivalent of Native Americans, so this is a given.
- Do Not Call Me "Paul": He does not like being referred to by his real name.
- Embarrassing Nickname: "Little Cat Drinking His Milk Bowl". Inverted in that it's his real name, and he uses his Shaki alias to hide it.note
- Last of His Kind: He is the last of the Comanshawas, an Native American-like shamanist tribe.
- Not So Stoic: Completely loses his cool when faced by Darkhell.
- The Stoic: Compared to his teammates, Shaki doesn't talk much and is quite calm...
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Fitting with his native american design, he never wears a shirt.
Toopie Maker
- Badass Adorable: She is an actual child with enough gadgetry to kick ass on the same level than the actual adults of the setting.
- Child Prodigy: And unlike most of the characters, she is a REAL child, not just an adult turned back to childhood.
- Gadgeteer Genius: She can build flying battle robots, bombs and advanced machines of her own in a fantasy world.
- Girlish Pigtails: As a kid; when she turns twelve, she switches to Odango Hair
- Fiery Redhead: And a child one.
- Happily Adopted: She seems pretty happy with Michi-Gan as her foster father.
- In the Blood: She seems to have inherited her affinity for technology from her parents.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Invoked; during her first encounter with the Legendaries, she calls them out them for disbanding and not being there when Alysia actually needed them. In a later discussion between Danael and Michi-gan, Danael admits that Toopie was right, and he argues that this is the reason they chose to stay this time.
- Science Hero: She makes up for her non-existant fighting skills by using her knowledge for technology to conceive various machines that allow her to fight on the same field as her teammates.
- She's All Grown Up: In the Anathos Cycle. Tenebris actually looks furious when Toopie tackles Razzia into a hug.
- You Killed My Father: Her parents were killed by Korbo and Tenebris when she was just a baby, and while she's appropriately shaken when she recognizes Tenebris in Oroban, it's nothing compared to Toopie's reaction when she hears Tenebris call Razzia "Korbo".
Silver Falcons
The Silver Falcons are a squad of elite knight formed by the Kingdom of Larbosa and in charge with the most important missions. Danael started out as part of this team, but ended up quitting it. Unlike the Legendarie's Fabulous' Ragtag Bunch of Misfits statut, the Silver Falcons are actual elite soldiers, and as such are much more disciplined, but also dependant from the law.
Danael's older brother and the Captain of the Silver Falcon.
Aghar's daughter and Danael's childhood friend, as well as the only female amongst the Silver Falcons.
Tropes applying to all Silver Falcons:
- Animal Motif: Falcon, obviously.
- Badass Army: They are the king's personal elite army in Larbosa.
- Badass Creed: "Justice and Truth for All". Subverted in that it tends to not be respected (at least from Danael's point of view), since the Silver Falcons tend to merely follow their kind's orders without taking this oath in account.
- Forced Transformation: The Guardian inflicted this to them after they failed his tests, turning those who survived into winged monsters. They get better.
- Hero Antagonist: In The Alystory, they fight to prevent the Legendaries from stealing the Alystory, not realizing they have a very good reason to do so.
- The Worf Effect: Since they are hyped up as the best knights of Larbosa, this frequently happens to them:
- In Book 2, They failed to pass the Guardian's test offscreen just to establish how dangerous said tests are.
- In Book 1 of Origins, many of them get killed off quite easily when fighting Raptor and his minions.
Ikael
- Cain and Abel: The Abel to Danael's Cain when the latter was under Kalandre's Mind Control. He got better thanks to World Without, but it severed his brotherhood with Danael.
- Four-Star Badass: Took after his father as the captain of the Silver Falcon and kept the position for decades.
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Lawful Neutral: The reason why Ikael and Danael don't see eye to eye. Ikael takes order from the king of Larbos, even if said orders are to abandon his mission and let a princess to die or hunt down his own brother. - The Leader: The captain of the Silver Falcons.
- My Master, Right or Wrong: The main reason for his brother quitting the Silver Falcons order. Ikael was more concerned with following the king's command than doing the right thing.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Used to be the Blue to Danael's Red before Danael left the order.
- The Stoic: In Origines, he is significantly calmer than his brother.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: After [[Del Conquisador rewrote the history of Alysia and Astria in World Without, he appears in a single panel as a friend of Danael in their farming community, his role as the captain of the Silver Falcons being given to Shamira instead. He never reappears after that.]]
- What the Hell, Hero?: Gets one from Danael when we learn he has the order from the king to not rescue Jadina if she is captured, and that he intends to follow that order.
Alghar
Ikael's second-in-command in Origines- Dirty Old Man: Hinted on occasion, though it doesn't go beyond noticing when he finds a girl hot.
- Eyepatch of Power: Wears one after losing his right eye during the same mission that cost Danael's father's life.
- Family-Unfriendly Death: Raptor used his magic blade to disintegrate him, leaving only his skeleton and armor behind.
- Papa Wolf: To Saryn. And she doesn't like it.
- Sacrificial Lion: Dies before the climax of the book mostly to make Raptor a credible threat and give Saryn the ultimate push she needed to leave the Falcon with Danael.
Saryn
- Break the Cutie: Raptor kills her father in front of her, and she herself is later transformed into a Chaos Shade, a excruciatingly painful transformation that reduces her to a screaming mess.
- Cannot Spit It Out: She has feelings for Danael, but clearly can't own up to it. Ironic considering she has no problem kissing him against his will to "help" him annoy Jadina.
- Corrupt the Cutie: When she is turned into a Chaos Shade.
- Doomed by Canon: A Childhood Friend of Danael and a Silver Falcon who never was mentioned in the main series, despite the Legendaries meeting the Silver Falcons several times? Yeah, she won't make it to the end of the book.
- Fate Worse than Death: She gets stung by a Darkhellion and transformed into a monster.
- The Lad Ette: She is the sole female Silver Falcon, and acts like a male soldier, including taking part in bar brawls and drinking.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: She goes after Raptor to avenge her father's death.
- The Tease: She shamelessly kisses Danael in front of Jadina as a way to "help" him tick her off.
- Token Girl: She's the only female Silver Falcon we ever see in the original timeline although after World Without, the role of leader of the Silver Falcon is taken by Shamira.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Tomboy to Jadina's Girly Girl.
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak: A girl part of an army of Elite Knights, who drinks and brawls with men (and more often than not wins against them). She also wears her hair long, and though understandably taken aback when Jadina makes her try on a dress, she doesn't seem to feel too uncomfortable about it.
- Unlucky Childhood Friend: Subverted; Danael didn't start a relationship with Jadina until after Saryn died, and Jadina was actually a Shipper on Deck for the two of them. Had she survived, she might have ended up with Danael instead.
Gods and similar entities
Tropes Applying to All Gods
- Have You Seen My God?: While their existance has been proven many times, they apparently left Alysia long ago and only rarely come back. Sadly, they still left a lot of things behind them that cause troubles to mortals.
- Our Gods Are Different: They apparently rely on a Magitek Organic Technology to create anything. They technically are spirits, but can manifest by possessing mortals and using their bodies to interact with mortals. They apparently have extremely powerful Reality Warping abilities, though the exact limit of it is unknown.
- Physical God: Although they need a mortal host to become one.
- Takes One to Kill One: In theory, only a God can kill a God. Though it has been shown that you can still find a Loophole Abuse.
Dawn and Dusk
- Anti-Villain: Even though they play a villain-like role in their appearance, they meant well in the end.
- Apocalypse How: Threatened to cast a Class 6 on Alysia if the Jovenia Incident wasn't solved.
- Badass Boast: Dusk delivers one while scaring away angry Alysians:Dusk: Go home, Mortals, or face the Wrath of the Gods Dawn and Dusk, creators of your decadent world!
- Badass Cape: Dawn.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: The only possible explanation for Dusk finding amusement in the idea that Alysia is destined to be destroyed at the hand of one of the Legendaries.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Threaten to end the entire world if the Legendaries don't solve the Jovenia Incident. As it turns out, they are fine with letting it slide with a proof of maturity from the mortals as well, but there is no indication whatsoever that they weren't going to go on with their plan had Gryf not said anything.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: Combined with Red Eyes, Take Warning.
- Jerkass Gods: Subverted; it eventually turns out they were acting like jerkasses to test the Legendaries. After Gryf proves the Alysians have grown mature enough, they leave without harming anyone.
- No Mouth: Their avatars possess no visible mouth.
- Not So Omniscient After All: Played for laughs; Dusk can see the future, yet he is unable to remember the way to the Gods' home. Dawn apparently thinks it's because he is a man.
- Trickster Mentor: To an extent.
- Women Are Wiser: Dawn doesn't think too highly of her twin brother's intelligence, which is understandable given that despite being a god with foresight he appears to have a lousy sense of direction.
Misery
The last God to leave Alysia. Few thing are known about him beside the fact he took compassion in the Jaguarians when they were about to be extinct, and provided them with the Horn of Sygma, an artifact that granted them wishes as long as each new wish cancels the previous. The Jaguarians used the Horn to wish for a way to escape humans and were as such able to survive despite persecution.- Bargain with Heaven: He made one with the Jaguarians, offering them the Horn of Sygma in exchange for them guarding a piece of the key to awaken Eternity.
- Chekhov's Gunman: While he was important in the Jaguarians' backstory, the first time he is mentionned is just in a short expalantion of how the Jaguarians got the Horn of Sygma. He comes back a major plotpoint in Book 15.
- The Ghost: He has yet to appear in person; so far, he has only been mentionned in flashbacks with an obscured picture of him, leaving his appearance unknown.
- Ironic Name: manages to be both this and Meaningful Name at the same time. One one hand, he came to the Jaguarians' help in a time of misery. On the other hand, he was the one who saved them from said misery.
- Token Good Guy: The only god mentionned in the series to be neither a Jerkass God nor an Evil God.
Anathos
See the Major Antagonists section.Eternity
A discorporated God who was sealed by the other Gods for reasons unknown and was left to be guarded by the Chiridan civilisation. He also happens to be Anathos' son. He finds a somewhat willing host in Gryf, only to be eventually defeated by the Legendaries.- Dark Is Evil: His color scheme is significantly darker than his father's.
- Demonic Possession: Inflicts this to Gryf.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He apparently genuinely loved, or at least respected his father, to the point he attempted to obliterate Shun-Day for harming Shimy (who still bears his father's insignia).
- Greater-Scope Villain: Of Book 15-16.
- Killed Off for Real: He is killed by the Legendaries soon after being freed.
- Overlord Jr.: He is Anathos' son.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: While he is still sealed at least.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: His approach to rewarding Sheiba for her services was to shoot a fireball at her.
The Guardian
- Above Good and Evil: sort of; he doesn't consider himself above it, but his action are apart from both, he just follows the rules.
- Anti-Villain: During the Anathos Cycle: while his methods were debatable, his attempt to stop Anathos is a respectable motive.
- It Amused Me: a lot of what he does in the first two books are made for his mere amusement.
- Jerkass Gods: gave the Stone of Jovenia to the Evilest sorcerer in all Alysia of his own will, as part of a deal to turn the country of Klafooty into a place where Everything Is Trying to Kill You; put fake maps written by the Anciens everywhere so more people would come to die at his tests trying to take stones from him for his own amusement; Attempted to kill all the Legendaries to prevent Anathos from coming back because he couldn't figure out which one was gonna be Anathos' reincarnation.
- Killed Off for Real: Anathos kills him during the Anathos Cycle by destroying his lair. His corpse is discovered in a later book, confirming his death.
- Loophole Abuse: being a creation of the Gods, he can't directly fight one of them, including Anathos. So instead of facing Anathos of his own, he rectuits Darkhell and Elysio and turns them into an Empowered Badass Normal to fight for him.
- Magitek: his palace can looks strangely like an alien ship, can go to space and possess healing machines.
- No Mouth: Has no visible mouth whatsoever.
- Punch-Clock Villain: the only reason he opposes the Legendaries in the first book is because they have come to take the Stones he is supposed to keep. He considers himself some sort of Game Master rather than an antagonist.
- The Worf Effect: he gets blow up by Anathos at the end of the Anathos Cycle's second book just to show how bad Anathos is.
The Krea-Kaos
- Artifact of Doom: played with; it wasn't intended to be one, as it serves to both manipulate the Stones and create new worlds. However, it works through Equivalent Exchange, so it has to destroy worlds in order to create new ones, and as thus can be used as one.
- Eldritch Abomination: though he doesn't appear to be a sentient being.
- Equivalent Exchange: the way it works.
- MacGuffin: Only appears in Book 3 and 4, is destroyed at the end of the story arc and never apppears again aside from a mention in the Anathos cycle.
- Nigh-Invulnerable: its wearer becomes this as long as he is wearing it.
- Powered Armor: It is less a character and more an armor intended to help manipulate the Stones.
- Shapeshifter Weapon: its arms can shapeshift into blade for attack purposes.
The Bearer
The third artificial being created by the Gods. The Bearer was a living jail intended to keep the essence of Anathos trapt inside itself. Unfortunately, with time Anathos managed to slowly corrupt and take over it, and he started using it as a body of substitute to find his new host.- Demonic Possession: Anathos controlled her through this, though unlike his reincarnation, he had limited control over her, preventing him from using his full power while inside her.
- Fatal Flaw: her armor can be used for attack purpose and deviate attacks, but does not protect her against attack from behind. This is how Danael and Gryf eventually manage to defeat it.
- The Jailer: she was a living can used to trap Anathos' essence. Unfortunately, he ended up corrupting her.
- No Mouth: Just like the Guardian, she has no visible mouth.
The Gamera Tree
A giant millenial tree that looms over the city of Orchidia, and the source of the Gameragashé Jade that is mined for its magic enhancing properties; she actually turns out to be a sentient entity who is fed up with being drained of her sap by greedy humans who have never expressed any gratitude or remorse for their actions.- Big Good: Ultimately a benevolent force who has cared for Orchidia for thousands of years, and wanted to settle matters with them peacefully even though they were exploiting her. She expresses pride in Jadina for having valiantly fought against Anathos to the point where she doesn't hold her defection against her.
- But Now I Must Go: She leaves Alysia and flies off into space at the end of Book 14.
- Eldritch Abomination: Though a benevolent one, but she's still a creature of obscure origin with powers that go far beyond human comprehension.
- Gaia's Revenge: Subverted; she initially wanted to settle matters peacefully with the Orchidians by having a resurrected Jadina go back up to the surface and speak in her name. Unfortunately, Jadina 2.0 refused to go along with it, and the Gamera Tree ultimately decided that the time had come for her to depart from Alysia.
- Genius Loci: Sure, technically she's just a tree, but said tree is big enough to overshadow the entire city of Orchidia.
- Green Thumb: Has a clear magical influence over plant life, including the summoning of giant carnivorous plants.
- Healing Hands: She brought Jadina back to life by giving her a new body, and cured queen Adeyrid of the Lerdamer disease.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: She says a variation of this to Jadina 2.0, who she created after the death of the original Jadina.
Kalandre
- Ambiguously Evil: She has been seen both Kicking Dogs and helping the protagonists at this point, making it unclear which side she is on, and her true intentions are still unknown. By Book 17 and 18, she is pretty much confirmed as a villain.
- Back from the Dead: She can bring you back from the dead, provided you wield a gold weapon forged from your own blood.
- The Chessmaster: This woman was behind almost all the events of the series, including the birth of the Legendaries, the creation of Danael's gold sword, the Jovenia Incident, Anathos's return and Jadina's transformation into a Humanoid Abomination.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Kalandre and her twin brother Asterion are the offspring of the elven high priestess Kamila and Akamandis, ruler of the Gods. While their mother loved them dearly, their cold and distant father on the other hand held no affection for them, and the children in turn feared him and dreaded his visits. Things abruptly took a turn for the worse when the gods abandoned Astria, prompting the elven population to riot and destroy anything affiliated with the deities who deserted them, which unfortunately included Kamila, who was murdered before her children's very eyes. Asterion was so furious that his latent divine powers manifested themselves and killed everyone present, and he and Kalandre fled together. They spent the next fifteen years on the run until Asterion sacrificed himself to protect Kalandre, whose powers of prophecy then manifested very painfully. Left all alone in the world, Kalandre decided the gods were to blame for everything, and hatched a plan to avenge her mother and bring her brother back.
- Dark Messiah: In Book 17, she shows up in Alysia claiming to have been sent by the gods to take the people to the divine realm, where they will be cured of the Jovenia effect. It's all a lie; she's planning on sacrificing them all to the Kaminodoa, a giant monster who guards the gates to the divine realm.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Officially confirmed as such in Book 18.
- Kill the God: She intends to use the remaining Stones combined with a sacrifice of several humans to destroy the world where the Gods are hiding, presumably killing them in the process.
- The Man Behind the Man: To Anathos, to Invidia and probably so many more.
- Manipulative Bitch: In spades. She uses her gift of prophecy to lead people exactly where she wants them in order to further her own plans. She frequently plays both sides and has destroyed multiple lives with her machinations, such as when she exacerbated Invidia's thirst for power just so that the Eagle Staff would choose Jadina when her plans failed, or when she got it into prince Larsen's head that his father king Absalon was planning on making his adopted daughter Valiha/Sheyla his heir instead of him, ultimately leading father and son to kill each other and leave Sheyla without a family again..
- No-Sell: Her divine blood immunizes her to all types of magic, including the Jovenia effect.
- One Bad Mother: The Dynameis refer to her as "Mother".
- Physical God: Her power cancels out the Jovenia effect and allows her to retain her adult appearance, and she can even (briefly) turn another person back into an adult by touching them. Considering the only other to have managed such a feat was the Darkhell/Elysio fusion, which easily put [them] on par with Anathos, that in turn would imply that she has quite the amount of power.
- Pointy Ears: We only get a shadowed glance at the back of her head when Invidia removes her helmet, but you can clearly see she has those. This is our first clue that she has elven blood.
- Seers: The ability she inherited from her god blood.
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: After having a vision of her death at Artemus's hand, she has him framed for Tenebris' murder and leaves him to be executed by Razzia. Turns out that Razzia wasn't buying it for one second and spares Artemus. Eventually, the following events lead to Artemus killing her completely by accident, with a sword that she herself had created.
- Third Eye: The reason she wears a helmet to cover her face is to hide one, which allows her to see into the future.
- Tragic Keepsake: The feathered cloak she wears once belonged to her mother, Kamila.
Other Characters
Elysio
A mysterious boy encountered by the Legendaries during their search for the Stone of Crescia. An amnesiac young man who was taken in by local villagers, he has no memory of his life before the Jovenia Incident and is also searching for the stone in order to find out who he really is. He has a vast array of magic powers, but no control over them. He is eventually revealed to be an amnesiac Darkhell, who survived the power deflagration from the Jovenia Incident, but lost his memory and control over his magic powers. Darkhell's Zar-Iko minions recognize Elysio as their master and provide him with a Memoria Serum. He eventually drinks the serum and gets his memories back in quick time, but by this time Elysio has found friendship and trust within the Legendaries and he doesn't want to be evil, which causes his body to eject the Darkhell persona, now given form and out for revenge. Realizing that he has inadvertently put the world at Darkhell's mercy once more, Elysio elects to take responsibility for his actions and redeem himself by helping the Legendaries defeat his evil former self.
- Amnesiac Dissonance: He is absolutely horrified by what he did as Darkhell.
- Amnesiac Hero: And had he known, he would rather have stayed that way.
- Anti-Villain: When he was working for the Guardian.
- The Atoner: After finding out that he used to be Darkhell, he dedicates himself to helping people and trying to stop his evil self as a means of making up for his past deeds.
- Empowered Badass Normal: When the Guardian gives him a new, more powerful body.
- Fusion Dance: He performs one with Darkhell to fight Anathos.
- Good Counterpart: Becomes this to Darkhell after he ejected the Darkhell persona from his body.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: He has a scar on his right cheek to match Darkhell's.
- Good Wings, Evil Wings: The new body provided by the Guardian retains the potion-induced magic wings he got in book 4, to contrast Darkhell's more bat-like wings.
- I Hate Past Me: And how. Elysio hates who he was and what he did as Darkhell, to the point where he initially refused to accept it.
- Killed Off for Real: He and Darkhell both die fighting Anathos.
- Large Ham: In his first appearance. He loses it after being separated from Darkhell.
- Literal Split Personality: When he recovers his memories as Darkhell, his reject of his past self results in an Enemy Without, separating him into two individuals.
- Meaningful Name: "Elysio" comes from "Elysium", an area of the ancient Greek Underworld where the heroic and the virtuous go after they die. In short, it's as close as one can get to Heaven, and it is the complete opposite of ''Darkhell''.
- Redemption Demotion: First played straight and then adverted big time; in his first appearance, he was amnesiac and had no control over his magic powers, making him helpless to the point where Danael had to rescue him from a troll. Later however, after consuming the Memoria Serum, he gets all of Darkhell's memory back alongs with his powers, as well as a telepathic link to his Darkhell persona, making him a key element in his counterpart's defeat. Even more so in the Anathos Cycle.
- Redemption Equals Death: He believes his crimes as Darkhell can only be truly solved that way.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue to Darkhell's Red.
- Science Hero: After recovering Darkhell's memories, he takes advantage of his newfound magical knowledge and puts it to use for good.
- Slasher Smile: A very frightening one in Book 1. Fortunately Gryf was just dreaming.
King Kash-Kash note
- Adipose Rex: Which is surprising for an Elf.
- Big Fun: He's a chubby man who just wants everyone to enjoy themselves.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: When they first meet him, the Legendaries and Fabulous are somewhat concerned to see such a carefree and joyful king who seems hardly aware that his people are at war. However, when the serious part of the story arrives, he proves himself to be actually quite competent and wise.
- Dub Name Change: In Comixology's english version, his name was changed to King Hydenseek.
- Elective Monarchy: According to Shimy, he was elected by his people to be king. The Fabulous are mildly alarmed to learn this.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Surprisingly, despite his deceptively carefree attitude, he is actually perfectly reasonable, and allows Jadina a chance to prove Elysio's innocence during the trial.
Captain Shamira
- Abusive Parent: While she did care for her daughter and eventually reconciled with her, Origines reveals she was a pretty terrible mother, placing her military career before her family and taking her daughter to the Arbores Elementa against both her and her father's will as soon as she displayed her Elemental Powers.
- Action Mom: Shamira is a respected warrior and Shimy's mother.
- Four-Star Badass: She is the leader of the Elven fleet, and a very skilled fighter.
- Everyone Loves Blondes: Gryf sure does. And apparently, so does Halan. Michi-Gan, on the other hand...
- Fiery Red Head: She looks like a redhead but is referred as blonde. As for the fiery part... well let's say she has quite a temper.
- Four-Star Badass: She is the leader of the Elven Fleet.
- Hypocritical Humor: She is clearly displeased by the suggestion of Shimy dating a human. Come the Anathos Cycle, she herself is sleeping with king Halan.
- Lady of War: Part of what makes her charm.
- Large Ham: At least ninety percent of what she says is said with emphasis.
- Mama Bear: Just look at her reaction to finding out the Legendaries (including Shimy) have been promoted as criminals. She personally led the Elven army against Anathos after he scarred her daughter.
- Married to the Job: While technically married and with a child, she rarely bothered doing much for her family affection-wise, always putting her military career first. This eventually resulted in a divorce when she forcefully took Shimy away from her husband to become the new Elementary Elf.
- Mrs. Robinson: Shamira gets into a relationship with king Halan, who (chronologically speaking anyway) is probably around the same age as her own daughter.
Prince Halan later King Halan "the Great"
- Affectionate Nickname: Halan calls Jadina "Dina", which she finds mildly annoying.
- Arranged Marriage: Halan was once Jadina's intended. Though she already wasn't all that jazzed about marrying him, her banishment and loss of her royal title officially put an end to it.
- Back from the Dead: Was resurrected by Jadina's time reset.
- Benevolent Boss: The Sabledoran soldiers hold their prince in high regard, and it seems to go both ways since Halan is distraught to find out what happened to the troops deployed to the mountains of Shiar. He also furiously demands an explanation when his bodyguard Shakra is found dead.
- Big Entrance: His first appearance in the regular series has him showing up with his ride and single-handledly defeating a monster the Legendaries were struggling against when their plan went awry.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Pulls this to save Jadina, though she cancels it using a Reset Button.
- Hopeless Suitor: To Jadina. Fortunately, he was eventually smart enough to get over it and find another girl.
- Kick the Dog: In Origines, he deliberately unleashes his monstrous carnivorous pet on Danael just because he was rude to him. And he does it again at the end of the book on his own guards because he is pissed off.
- Jerkass: Hinted by Danael in Book 5. Origines confirms this big time. He fortunately gets better during the Anathos Cycle.
- Love Makes You Evil: He joined forces with Ceyderom in order to change history so Jadina would love him instead of Danael.
- Love Redeems: Eventually redeemed himself by saving Jadina's life from past Darkhell.
- The Proud Elite: Halan is a handsome, suave, charismatic, but also rather arrogant prince. He seems to have tempered himself down since becoming king, though he now refers to himself as Halan the Great.
- The Rival: To Danael, for Jadina's affection.
- Romantic False Lead: Introduced as a potential rival to Danael for Jadina's affections, though it's eventually made clear that he didn't have a chance to begin with.
- Royal Brat: In his first appearance and Origines.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: Evolved into this during the Anathos Cycle.
- Taking You with Me: He pulls this on Darkhell, courtesy of a fistful of freezing Darkhellion drool.
- Unlucky Childhood Friend: His relationship with Jadina seems to have been quite correct when they were kids.
Shakra
A Maraka who served as Halan's bodyguard in Origines- Ambiguously Brown: Like all Makaras, she has a distinctive brown skin.
- Bodyguard Babes: Female, quite attractive, and an elite bodyguard to Prince Halan.
- Bodyguard Crush: A one-sided one; she was in love with Halan, but he clearly had eyes only for Jadina.
- Hopeless Suitor: Shakra is a hired assassin and bodyguard, while the object of her affections is the crown prince of Sabledoray. Even if Halan had been either aware of Shakra's feelings or not happily looking forward to marrying Jadina, her chances of getting together with him were already pretty damn slim.
- Love Makes You Dumb: You would think a hightly trained assassin and bodyguard like her would think twice before making a deal with a treacherous Lizard-man working for a Sinisterly famous and equally treacherous Sorcerous Overlord for something as shallow as dealing with a love rival. Or at least, that she would take measures to ensure her own safety when meeting up with said Lizard-man alone, at night, in an isolated location. Well apparently not. Raptor even lampshades this trope before killing her.
- Love Makes You Evil: Her love for Halan is what causes her to deliver Jadina's location to Raptor.
- Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Raptor kills her immediately after she hands him the map to find Jadina.
- Yandere: Shakra was ready and willing to sell Jadina out to Raptor all so that Halan would marry her instead.
General Rasga
- Anti-Villain: His reasons for siding with Skalp-Hell are perfectly justified, and the only reason he is a villain is because he sides against the protagonists. He didn't even started the new war between Elves and Pirahni: the Elves did after a magic plague accidentally freed by the Pirahni in their search was mistaken by them for an attack.
- Fish People: Like all the Pirahni.
- Four-Star Badass: He is the leader of the Pirahni and a very effective fighter, able to defeat Shaki and fight toe to toe with Captain Sharmira.
- Genre Blind: Even though he is apparently aware of his alliance with Skalp-Hell's being close to a Deal with the Devil, he appears actually surprised when he betrays him. Seriously, you make a deal with an Evil Sorcerer with a creepy mask, foundness for Evil Laugh and who has no problem using your soldiers as pawns, yet you didn't expect him to betray you ?
- Heel–Face Turn: He wasn't that villainous to begin with, and he promptly switches sides after Darkhell betrayed him.
- No Mouth: The Pirahni have no visible mouths.
King Kel-Cha
- Beast Man: Like all Jaguarians, he looks like a cat-man.
- Bystander Syndrome: He refused to join the alliance against Anathos due to Jaguarys' law forbidding him to take part in the affairs of humans.
- Enemy Mine: With the Legendaries when Skroa attacked Jaguarys. Fortunately enough, this allowed them to find an agreement eventually.
- Idiot Ball: It somehow never occurred to him that preventing the Legendaries from using the Horn of Sygma to prevent Alysia's destruction would have resulted in his species' annihilation either way. Thankfully he realizes this at the end and admits that he was wrong.
- Also, he refused to go against the laws of Jaguarys and provide aid to the Humans, Elves and Pirahni going against Anathos. Not only would Anathos have also anihilated the Jaguarians had he won, this could have been the perfect opportunity to finally get humanity to stop fearing them.
- Not So Stoic: Played for laughs at the beginning of Book 7, when he's visiting his father's tomb in a very solemn fashion to announce Anoth's return. Right after that, Garfilda walks in and informs him that Anoth has escaped again, causing Kel to switch from "zen attitude" to "angry attitude".
- Polar Opposite Twins: Kel-Cha is shown to be level-headed and stoic (even back when he was a child) where Gryf is more belligerent and cocky.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: He used to be the Blue to Anoth's Red when they were kids.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: And to a really respectable level. He personally takes part in the fight to protect his city when Skroa attacks Jaguarys, and was willing to die in order to ensure its survival.
- Warrior Prince: Apparently a respectable warrior of his own right.
- The Wise Prince: Despite being supposedly younger than his twin brother Anoth, he clearly was the wisest of the two even when they were kids.
Kel-Matu and Ko-Chonu
Kel-Cha's advisers and Royal Guards.- Affectionate Nickname: Sheiba calls Kel-Matu "Kelma", though she seems to use it a bit tongue-in-cheek nowadays.
- Beast Man: By virtue of being Jaguarians, they are both beast people.
- Big Fun: Averted; Kel-Matu, despite being fat, actually is fairly stern.
- Childhood Friends: It's shown in a brief flashback that Kel-Matu, Ko-Chonu and Sheiba all grew up together.
- Fat and Skinny: Kel-Matu and Ko-Chonu, respectively.
- Irony: Ko-Chonu distrusts and loathes humans, even the Legendaries, and always has an underlying current of hostility towards them during their stay in Jaguarys, only to wind up saving their lives before Skroa kills him.
- Old Retainer: Ko-Chonu and Kel-Matu were already full grown adults during Kel-Cha's childhood and were king Wis-Kas's advisors before Kel inherited the throne.
- Sacrificial Lion: Ko-Chonu.
Queen Adeyrid
- Ambiguously Brown: Like most inhabitants of Orchidia.
- Arranged Marriage: Was arranged to wed Kinder, and accepted it as part of her duties. She tried to do the same with Jadina, with far less successful results.
- Benevolent Mage Ruler: As per royal Orchidian tradition. That said, her daughter was the last legitimate wielder of the Eagle Staff and Adeyrid herself never actually gets to show off her powers.
- Doesn't Know Their Own Child: Adeyrid has always been so focused on her responsibilities as queen that she never bothered to get to know her own daughter, as shown in Origines when she simply assumes that Jadina will drop the teenage rebellion and take her duty as princess more seriously now that she wields the Eagle Staff. Her husband gently calls her out on her presumption, since he on the other hand is under no illusions as to what kind of person their daughter is.
- Ironic Name: Her full title Queen Adeyrid (in french, la Reine Adeyrid) is a deformation of the phrase la reine a des rides as in, "the queen has wrinkles". This is ironic because not only is Queen Adeyrid a de-aged adult who looks like a twelve year-old girl, her adult form in Origines toes the fine line of Mum Looks Like a Sister.
- Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The Light to her sister Invidia's Dark Feminine.
- Like Mother, Unlike Daughter: Adeyrid and Jadina are as different as night and day; where Adeyrid is duty-bound, rarely cracks a smile and prioritizes the kingdom over her wants and needs, Jadina on the other hand is rebellious, hot-blooded (especially as a teenager) and craves adventure more than she cares for her duties as princess.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: Turns out Tenebris is her older daughter, who she got thanks to a magical fertility formula created by Darkhell and Vangelis to counteract her sterility. Darkhell however betrayed her and took Tenebris as his own.
- Maternally Challenged: And with reason. Queen Adeyrid was once thrown off her quadryl steed and while the fall didn't kill her, the injuries sustained as a result rendered her infertile. Rather than face the eventuality that her bloodline was doomed to fail, she called upon every doctor, mage and scholar in Alysia for help, and in desperation wound up accepting help from Darkhell, of all people; all in all, Adeyrid didn't want to become a mother insomuch as she was supposed to, and her accident followed in quick succession by Darkhell stealing her first-born had clearly taken its toll on her by the time her daughter Jadina came along. Professor Vangelis actually admits that Adeyrid isn't one to whom motherly affection has ever come naturally, and if her angry outburst at a ten year old Jadina in Origines is anything to go by, she doesn't really seem to understand how children actually work, given that she told the obviously distressed child to stop acting like a child.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: She was in love with Vangelis. Due to their respective positions, they could never be together, and she was resigned to it out of sense of duty.
- Truly Single Parent: Played with, in that neither of her two daughters has a biological father since they were both conceived via magic.
- Parental Neglect: The few times she bothered taking an interest in her daughter as a child were to do with planning her Arranged Marriage to the prince of an allied nation. In her defense, she was only following royal protocol. Once cured from the Lerdamer disease, she is willing to atone for this mistake, though Jadina turns her down.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: Though it's not really shown, she is reportedly rather active in her role as queen.
- Your Days Are Numbered: Queen Adeyrid is suffering from the mysterious Lerdamer disease, which allegedly has no cure, and she has pretty much resigned herself to her fate. Ultimately averted, as she is healed when the Gamera Tree injects her with pure Emeraudia, counteracting the poison and purging the disease from her system once and for all.
Professor Kallisto Vangelis
- Badass Bookworm: He is a brillant scientist who succeeded in keeping Adeyrid alive despite her terminal illness. He also went to Casthell seeking information and came back alive.
- Chick Magnet: Apart from Adeyrid, Origins reveals that other girls, including Jadina, of all people, wanted him at some point.
- Dead All Along: The real Vangelis died weeks before we even got introduced to the character; the one we see in the book actually is Abyss using his body.
- Evil Costume Switch: When Abyss poses as him in Book 14 and acts as a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing, he uses the clothes you can see on this pic. Comes book 15, he is promoted to High Chancelor as part of his plan, and start dressing like this◊
- Evil Is Not a Toy: Poor guy ended up learning the hard way that fiddling around with Darkhell's research is a very bad idea.
- Hospital Hottie: Origins reveals he had more than one nurse lusting over him.
- Love Makes You Crazy: Vangelis was shown to be a level-headed and reasonable man, but his desperation to save Adeyrid's life drove him to put all rationality aside and break into Casthell, taking things at random in the hope that something, anything might be the key to Adeyrid's salvation. This also led him to free a dodgy-looking creature from its glass prison without taking a proper look at what it might actually be, at the cost of his life.
- Love Makes You Evil: Played with; while he didn't really become evil, it was love that led him to be infested by Abyss, resulting in his body and knowledge becoming those of the new Big Bad.
- Mr. Exposition: Provides the explanation as to how the Gamera Tree is exploited by Orchidians.
- Parental Substitute: Since Jadina was neglected by both of her parents in favour of their royal duties, Vangelis was both her educator and confidant. Though Origins reveals she once saw him as much more...
- Posthumous Character: By the time Vangelis shows up in the series proper, he's already been dead for weeks. Not that anyone could tell.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: With Queen Adeyrid.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He is killed and taken over by Abyss long before the reader gets a chance to meet him.
Samael
- Ambiguously Human: His mother is confirmed to be human, but while he is more human-looking than the average Monslave, he still has white skin, horns, rock abilities, glowing yellow eyes and green hair. It's unclear if he is a form of mutant or a Half-Human Hybrid.
- Ax-Crazy: As an adult, Dasyatis' poison caused some serious damage to his mind, rendering him unstable and much more homicidal than he used to be.
- Big Brother Mentor: To Gryf.
- Dishing Out Dirt: His signature ability was to produce a form of organic rock he could use to create natural weapons.
- Horned Humanoid: As a kid, he had two small horns growing out of his head. As an adult, said horn have grown to become more ram-like.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: First by Dasyatis, and later by a Chakounia-induced Gryf. Amazingly, he survives both times.
- Kick The Son Of A Bitch: His murder of Menthos.
- The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: After his Face–Heel Turn, he brutally slaughters his entire team just so he can personally kill Gryf.
- Parental Abandonment: His birth mother sold him to Menthos as an infant.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Especially impressive in that he was a Monslave at the time.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Typically walks around without a shirt. Justified due to both his condition as a Monslave and the fact it allows him to make a better use of his ability.
Major Antagonists
Darkhell
The Arch-Enemy of the Legendaries. A powerful Sorcerous Overlord that used to rule the land of Shiar from his fortress of Casthell. Not long before his Final Battle against the Legendaries, he was studying the stone of Jovenia as he was searching for a way to regain his lost youth, but the proceedings were interrupted by the arrival of the Legendaries, ultimately resulting in what would become known as the Jovenia Incident. Thought to have been disintegrated when the stone shattered, Darkhell actually turns out to have survived, though like every other person in the world he has been turned into a child, and doesn't have any memory of who he was. When Elysio, his amnesiac identity, drinks a magic serum in order to regain his lost memories, the conflicting personalities within him end up splitting into two distinct people, allowing Darkhell to walk among the living once more.
- Arch-Enemy: He was the Legendaries' first and greatest enemy, since they came together as a group during his reign of terror, and them repeatedly thwarting his plans sure made it personal for him.
- Artificial Limbs: His right arm was severed when he was a child and was replaced with his sword.
- Badass Long Robe: His trademark outfit when he was in power consisted of a long purple robe. After he is brought back by the Guardian, he wears a red, armored robe.
- Baddie Flattery: Has moments of this, especially toward Elysio.
- Big Bad: In Origines, the first books of the main story, and all the backstory between and before Origines.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: His rival was a demonic sorcerer part of a race of bird demons. Not only did he win when they faced each other, but he also took away his powers, imprisoned him, and tortured him for years.
- The Dreaded: He has been considered as the greatest evil in Alysian history before Anathos rose back to power. At several points, him showing up, or the mere mention of his name is enough to get everyone serious at best, or scare the crap out of them at worst.
- Easily Forgiven: Even though he was the Legendaries' Arch-Enemy and responsible for many deaths (including but not limited to Danael's father and childhood best friend and Razzia's entire hometown), his body is buried and honoured by the protagonists alongside Danael and Elysio at the end of Rebirth for sacrificing his own life to at least try to keep Anathos at bay. Could double as Death Equals Redemption.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: His skin is white as paper, which he passed on to Tenebris. According to Word of God, it's because of a spell he used on himself to prolong his lifespan.
- Emperor Scientist: Has shades of this; most of his army was engineered by him through a form of cloning magic he refers to as Maginetic.
- Enemy Without: Elysio accidentally frees him from his own body after drinking the Memoria serum. Combines it with Literal Split Personality.
- Enfant Terrible: Once he and Elysio are separated, having been reduced to the form of a little boy does nothing to stop him from wreaking havoc.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite being a homicidal sorcerer, Darkhell cares a lot about Tenebris. He actually cares about her more than his revenge on the Legendaries, as he is genuinely distraught when she joins them, and eventually helps them escape Anathos of only to ensure her survival.
- Eviler than Thou: With Skroa, in the backstory.
- Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: Averted. Unless you press his Berserk Button, he tends to very taunting and have a strong sense of irony.
- Evil Old Folks: Deconstructed; while still powerful by the time of the backstory, he admitted time was starting to get a toll on him, causing him to seek a way to restore his youth.
- Evil Sorcerer: A brillant sorcerer with spectacular magic powers, who used his abilities to create monsters as his personal army and tried to take over the entire world.
- Evil Versus Evil: He and Skroa fought for control over Alysia once upon a time.
- Evil Versus Oblivion: Against Anathos. Though he did it initially to get his revenge on the Legendaries and then to protect Tenebris; he couldn't care less about Alysia.
- Expy: Word of God claimed he was based on Saga.
- Face Death with Dignity: In the World Without timeline, when told the Cruel and Unusual Death he has been sentenced to, he acts unimpressed, and even offers alternative, better suggestions.
- "Facing the Bullets" One-Liner: The World Without version of Darkhell sacrifices himself to save Tenebris (again), and just has the time to reintroduce himself as Galen before he dies, this time for good.
- A Father to His Men: A rare villainous example; since Darkhell created his minions with his own magic, those of them who display actual intelligence (including Abyss and the Zar-Iko) consider him as their father, and are deeply loyal to him. It's never specified clearly if he does care about them or if they are mere tools to him, but he at least does care for his Dark Action Girl daughter Tenebris.
- Freudian Excuse: Shrug of God suggests he might have had a hard childhood as a possible explanation for him being evil. The prequel series Chronicles of Darkhell seems on its way to getting to that.
- Fusion Dance: He and Elysio merge together to fight Anathos. They're actually powerful enough combined that they cancel out the Jovenia effect and temporarily reverts them to adulthood.
- A God Am I: When he finally got his hands on the Krea-Kaos:Rasga: By the Gods?!
—>Darkhell: "The Gods"? No... A God!- Granted, it was unclear if by "god", he was referring to himself or the Krea-Kaos.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: He has a distinctive scar on his right cheek, courtesy of Shaki.
- Good Wings, Evil Wings: The new body the Guardian gave him possesses bat-like wings, in contrast to Elysio's more bird-like wings.
- Greater-Scope Villain: During the Time Travel arc in books 5 and 6.
- Hazy-Feel Turn: You can't really say he ever becomes good, but at least he ends up helping a good cause.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Believe it or not, he gives his life along with Elysio to keep Anathos busy while the Legendaries escape.
- I Have Many Names: Skalp-Hell
- Immortality Seeker: The reason behind his experiences with the Temporhell and the Stone of Jovenia; Darkhell was apparently afraid to get old and die, and was looking for a way to live for ever. He even casted a spell on himself to prolongate his lifespan.
- I Was Quite a Looker: If His adult form when fused back to Elysio is anything to go by, he was apparently one good-looking guy as a young adult.
- Joker Immunity: He got seemingly killed twice, yet came back both times. Even after being Killed Off for Real in Book 10, he is eventually brought back in the World Without timeline.
- Large Ham: usually averted; he tends to talks rather quitely most of the time. Get him angry however, and...'Darkhell:"' I WILL CRUSH YOU ALL!!!!"
- The Lost Lenore: Chronicles of Darkhell and World Without gives him one in his childhood friend and teammate Cherylad, whose death pushed a young Galen off the edge of what he was already becoming. Tenebris even describes Cherylad to Razzia as "the woman who would have been [her] mother".
- Malevolent Masked Man: Apparently, Darkhell has a fondness for creepy monster-like masks. He wore one as an adult and wears one again when posing as Skalp-Hell.
- Manipulative Bastard: See how he destroyed Razzia's native village and pinned the blame on the Army of 1000 Wolves...
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Dark-Hell. Hard to get more obvious than that.
- Omnicidal Maniac: When wielding the Krea-Kaos. He actually planned to destroy both Alysia and the elven world of Astria, and very nearly succeeded.
- One-Man Army: Right at the beginning of Book 9, he rushes Prison Barek, breaks through its defenses, slaughters all the guards and frees his daughter Tenebris from her jail cell. All of this singlehandedly. And it takes him less than two and a half pages to do so.
- Papa Wolf: As despicable as Darkhell is, he genuinely loves his daughter to bits. He'll even berate Elysio for taking a tone with her.
- Physical God: At his strongest, he is able to take on an actual god.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: His eyes were blue when he was a child, but they turned red somewhere along the way to shedding his humanity.
- Really 700 Years Old: According to Word of God, he was already more than 100 years old when he helped Adeyrid to conceive Tenebris. This is explained by a spell he used on himself in order to live longer.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red to Elysio's Blue.
- Slasher Smile: He was rather stoic as an adult, but his young self has a habit of giving a disturbing grin.
- Smug Snake: Mostly averted; while he is megalomaniac and arrogant, Darkhell rarely makes the classic mistake of underestimating his opponents.
- Sorcerous Overlord: Before being defeated by the Legendaries, he was the ruler of an entire country through nothing but his magic and monsters, and was in the process of conquering the rest of Alysia.
- Take Over the World: His original goal.
- Tom the Dark Lord: As revealed in his spin-off series, Alysia's greatest enemy is named Galen.
- Token Evil Teammate: As pointed out by Elysio and confirmed by himself, Darkhell had no concern for Alysia's fate, and joined the Guardian because it allowed him to get "a new body, more power and a revenge as a bonus". His point of view does slightly change after Tenebris switches sides however...
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: As shown in his Origins series, the sorcerer used to be a simple child taken into matters far beyond him.
- World's Strongest Man: While he was clearly one of Alysia' strongest before the Jovenia incident, when Elysio and Darkhell fuse, their powers combined are enough to No-Sell the Jovenia effect and, putting them on more equal footing with Anathos, the local God of Evil.
- You Have Failed Me: Double-subverted in Book 1 of Origines with one of his lieutenants who failed to bring him Jadina:Darkhell: I sometimes allow a second chance...Lieutenant: T-thank you, my Lord...Darkhell: ...But never a third. [drops him into a pit of lava]
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Attempted this on General Rasga.
Skroa the Cunning AKA Vertigo
A sorcerer from a now extincted demon specie called the Galinas, who once attempted to take over the world at the same time than Darkhell. The two fought, and Darkhell was victorious, but choosed to keep Skroa as a cobaye rather than killing him. Eventually, few time after Darkhell tested the Jovenia stone on him, turning him back to a regular bird form, Skroa was accidentally freed from his prison by the Legendaries. Now powerless, he posed as Elysio's pet bird Vertigo, hoping him to find a way to restaure him to normal. He enventually succeeded by shallowing the Stone of Crescia.
- Abusive Parent: He doesn't even want to be a father; to him, Shun-Day is nothing more than a servant. Seriously, you gotta wonder how she can still love him despite his attitude.
- And I Must Scream: What Darkhell did to him after defeating him; instead of just killing him, he chose to keep him as a prisoner and lab rat he used for many of his experiments and delighted in torturing him for his own amusement. Skroa recounts the experience to Danael as "tortures beyond your imagination".
- Baddie Flattery: In Feather and Claw, he compliments Jadina on having brushed up on her magical skills since last they fought.
- Big Bad Wannabe: While he is in no way a harmless villain, he never was as much of a threat as Darkhell or Anathos.
- Brought Down to Normal: What exposure to the Jovenia stone did to him: it turned him back into a regular bird with no magic powers (though he retains his intelligence and power of speech).
- The Chessmaster: Compared to Darkhell, Skroa seems lacking in fighting skills and brute force, but he makes up for it with cunning and manipulation. He was twice able to manipulate the Legendaries into unwittingly leading him to his goals.
- Dirty Coward: Whereas Darkhell will usually go mad when hit, Skroa retreats in his first appearance as soon as he gets injured by Jadina. Even though Jadina was dying and Danael no longer had the strength or will to fight. Danael even lampshaded the trope by calling him so.
- Eviler than Thou: He and Darkhell used to fight each others for the control of Alysia.
- Evil Genius: He might very well be as smart as Darkhell. He was the one who built Gryf's enhanced Katseye.
- Family-Unfriendly Death: Amy cut him apart with her blade tendrils.
- Faux Affably Evil: Often likes to express himself this way.
- Feathered Fiend: Since technically he is a fiend.
- Godhood Seeker: His goal in Book 7 and 8: he sought to wish on the Horn of Sygma to become powerful enough to face Dawn and Dusk, thus preventing them from wiping out Alysia. If you think this sounds like an uncharacteristically noble goal, you'd be right, since he also intended to become the ruler of Alysia in the process.
- Handicapped Badass: Even after he cut his own arm off to create Shun-Day, he's still able to effortlessly wipe out a team of armed Monslave dealers, and proves to be an even match to the combined forces of the Legendaries and the Jaguarians.
- Improvised Golems: Summons an entire army of these in Book 7. His feather can animate Rocks they are in contact with, creating golems.
- In the Hood: He conceals his appearance in books 7 to 8 while tailing the Legendaries all the way to Jaguarys. Having reached his goal, he reveals himelf.
- Irony: The tortures that Darkell inflicted on him are strangely similar to what he himself inflicted on Amylada.
- Kick The Son Of A Bitch: His murder of the Monslave Dealers when they interfered with his plans by attacking the Legendaries. Considering those guys were planning on capturing and enslaving Gryf, it's hard to feel sorry for them.
- Killed Off for Real: Butchered in Book 15 by Amy.
- Large Ham: He's pretty elated to get his body back, to say the least.
- Skroa: At last... after all these years trapped in that pathetic body, I am myself once more! Alysia! Witness the return of SKROA!
- Last of His Kind: He is the last of a species of bird-like demons named the Galina.
- Mad Scientist: Like Darkhell, he seemed quite fond of magic experiments.
- Noble Bird of Prey: He looks like a green garuda-like creatures in adult form.
- Oh, Crap!: His reaction when he recognizes Amy and it hits him that she means business.
- One-Man Army: Slaughtered a group of heavily armed crooks on his own and laid siege to the city of Jaguarys alone. All of this after cutting off his own arm.
- Our Demons Are Different: The Galinas were a species of bird-like demons.
- The Rival: Used to be this to Darkhell.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Attempts this when Amy reveals herself. This doesn't end well for him.
- Smug Snake: Very arrogant and ambitious, but ultimately he just doesn't measure up to someone like Darkhell.
- Winged Humanoid: His adult form looks very much like a Garuda.
Captain Ceyderom
The main Antagonist of books 5 and 6, Captain Ceyderom is a infamous pirate who was once married to a woman named Sigyga. When the Jovenia Incident hit, Sigyga left Ceyderom for his second-in-command, whom she had up till then deemed too old for her. In a fit of heartbroken and jealous rage, Ceyderom murdered them both. Realizing just what he'd done, he spent the following years wallowing in self-hatred and alcohol, before he utimately decided that it was not he, but the Legendaries who were to blame for this. Visiting Casthell in order to find a way to solve his misery, he found the Temporhell, an experimental time machine created by Darkhell, and decided to use it to alter history and erase the Legendaries from existence, thus preventing the whole Jovenia Incident from happening and bringing Sigyga back.
- And I Must Scream: Kinda parodied. Jadina sent him thousands years in the future in order to ensure he would no longer cause any harm and destroyed the Temporhell, thus preventing him from coming back. The result: he ended up trapped in a time where Apes has become the dominant specie, and exposed in a zoo. To him, it was probably an awful (and humiliating) fate, but it's prevented to the reader as comical.
- Big Bad Wannabe: When he is first introduced, he appears to be the current Big Bad of the arc; when his plan comes in action, however, he is quickly overshadowed by his "ally" past-Darkhell, who becomes the closest thing to a Big Bad for the rest of the arc. Wheareas past-Darkhell is able to kill most of the Legendaries, and is only defeated through a Heroic Sacrifice, Ceyderom spends most of the arc waiting for him to do the job, and eventually attempts to kill Jadina through backstabbing... only to activate her Berserk Button, be easily put into submission and forced into helping her reparing his mess.
- Combat Pragmatist: Rather than killing the Legendaries himself, he just waits for past Darkhell to dispose of them before trying to finish the job by killing Jadina. Turns out to be a mistake, however.
- Cyborg: He has a robotic arm, a robotic eye and a prosthetic jaw.
- The Dreaded: He is said to be this, but in practice, he doesn't do much.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite being known a vicious pirate amongst Alysia's inhabitant, he mentions his love for his wife Sigyga was matched only by blood lust.
- Filler Villain: If not, could as well be; he is the only major villain so far to last only one arc, and is never mentioned again after his defeat.
- Love Makes You Evil: The whole motive behind his actions was to resurrect his dead wife.
- Never My Fault: Double-subverted; he initially (correctly) blames himself for his wife's death, then decides after a few years that it's all the Legendaries' fault.
- Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie: He's a cyborg pirate captain in a fantasy universe who attempts to travel through time.
- Pirate: Explicitly stated to be one.
- Yandere: He killed his wife when she left him for his second-in-command.
Anathos
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Anathos was one of the founding Gods who used the Mystical Stones to create the original Alysia. The power of the stones corrupted Anathos's soul, and he put them together to create a weapon with which he destroyed the newly created world. The weapon however proved unstable and destroyed Anathos, though his essence was left intact. The Gods then created a new Alysia and punished Anathos by trapping him inside a living prison known as the Bearer. It wasn't long before Anathos took over his host, and he began to plot his return amongst the living.
- Badass Boast: Delivers one just as he is about to attempt his reincarnation:Anathos: Your journey ends here, humans! For I am the end of all things, I am... Destiny!
- Empowered Badass Normal: He's Danael's body with the soul of an extremely evil and powerful god.
- Baddie Flattery: Especially during his fight with Darkhell and Elysio.
- BFS: Anathos wields a long sword that he can control at a distance and that was generated along with his new form.
- Black Eyes of Crazy: His eyes have black sclera with yellow irises.
- Big Bad: Of the aptly named Anathos Cycle.
- Breath Weapon: His "Devil's Breath" attack is rather dragon-like in nature.
- Calling Your Attacks: Only during his fight with Darkhell and Elysio. It never comes up again.
- Combat Pragmatist: Anathos has few concerns with honor and would rather resort to the most practical ways to reach his goals.
- Death by Irony: He used the No Man of Woman Born trick to his advantage in order to accomplish his reincarnation. The Legendaries end up defeating him by exploiting this very same Trope.
- Demonic Possession: He originally had such designs on Shimy but had to resort to plan B: Danael.
- Disproportionate Retribution: During his Villainous Breakdown, he decides to destroy all of Alysia just because the Legendaries humiliated him.
- God of Evil: Anathos is Alysia's version of Satan. He even claims to have created Hell.
- Hero Killer: This guy took the team leader's body as his own, effortlessly defeated his teammates, leaving them horrifically scarred or permanently crippled, and did away with Darkhell (who so far had been displaying Joker Immunity) and Elysio (who was the closest thing to a hero after the Legendaries themselves). Unless you kill the heroes themselves, you can hardly get more hero killer than that.
- Humiliation Conga: Rebirth is just one humiliation after the other, especially considering how pretty much invincible he was in all the previous books. First, his Hellions all get defeated by their respective Legendary counterparts, who pop up out of the woodwork in front of him right as he is gloating to their leader that her comrades' survival is highly unlikely. Then, despite his best effort to anticipate and thwart it, Jadina's plan goes off without a hitch and results in his entire army getting defeated, not to mention his Castlewar's main artillery rendered completely useless. And while the Legendaries still can't kill him, they do manage to land a severe beating on him which give him some serious and undignified injuries.
- Kick the Dog: Practically everything he does in the Anathos Cycle is this.
- Kneel Before Zod: Has a moment like this right after he successfully takes possession of Danael and fatally stabs Jadina, causing her to fall on her knees:Anathos: Now everyone follow Jadina's example and bow down before Anathos.
- Knight of Cerebus: As soon as he shew up in the comic, the whole story became all of a sudden a lot darker than it already was; he makes Darkhell look harmless. Even after his death, the books have as a whole been much darker than before.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: His name is a Portmanteau between "Anathema", meaning "a thing or being that is rejected" and "Thanathos", the incarnation of Death in greek mythology. No wonder his fellow gods ended up seeling him away.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: His first fight with the Legendaries. It's probably the bloodiest fight in the entire series.
- No Man of Woman Born: Uses this trope as a basis for his plan B. The Legendaries eventually use a trick of the same kind to defeat him once and for all.
- Obviously Evil: He has a devil-like appearance that makes it pretty hard to mistake him for a good guy.
- Omnicidal Maniac: Successfully destroyed the original Alysia. Almost succeeded in destroying the second one.
- Physical God: As soon as he gains a physical body. Until thel, he was a disincarnate spirit trapped in a living prison.
- Satanic Archetype: Red skin, horns, a fallen god who turned against his brothers, claims credit for creating this universe's Hell... yeah, it checks out.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: When he was trapped inside the Bearer.
- Takes One to Kill One: Only a God can kill another God. The Legendaries eventually bypass this by stabbing him with Danael's sword, forged from his host's own blood.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Though his constitution makes it more creepy than sexy...
- Villainous Breakdown: His composure gradually decays over the course of the final book in his cycle, as the Legendaries defeat his Hellions and Jadina humiliates him by outsmarting him at every corner. By the end of their fight, he just gives up any pretense of calm and prepares to blow up Alysia.
- Villainous Crush: It's unclear wether this comes with possessing Danael or not, but Anathos seems to have a certain begrudging admiration for Jadina's power and beauty, enough that Dark Jadina is his favorite Hellion and is hinted at being his mistress.
- You Have Failed Me: Horribly double-subverted; when Dark-Jadina fails to defeats Jadina and begs him for forgiveness, he states he forgives her... then blows her head off.
- Xanatos Gambit: His original plan was to possess Shimy, but he anticipates the possibility he might not be able to reach her, and takes note of Danael's elven key (also marked with his insignia) in case it'd fail.
Abyss
The new big bad after the end of the Anathos Cycle. Most likely a failed experiment of Darkhell's, Abyss was a Puppeteer Parasite contained in a bottle and locked inside a trunk at Casthell, until it was found by Orchidian scholar Kallisto Vangelis, who was searching for a cure for his terminally ill love. Vangelis made the mistake of freeing the creature, which promptly leapt down his throat and killed him within seconds. Now in full control of Vangelis' body, intellect and Darkhell's knowledge, a powerful capacity for magic and a brilliant mind, he schemed thoughout all of Books 13 and 14 in order to gain full control of Orchidia, with Tenebris (who he believed was his sister) by his side.- Affably Evil: Not so much with the Legendaries, but when he adresses Tenebris, he acts genuinely nice and sweet to her. Extremely disturbing when you consider he does so while trying to forcefeed her a Puppeteer Parasite.
- Also, when Razzia feigns to understand Tenebris' decision to become queen of Orchidia and claims he won't oppose it anymore, Abyss actually buys it, and calmly assures Razzia he has made the right decision for everyone.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: When posing as Vangelis in Book 13, he acts like the nicest guy ever (which the real Vangelis actually was). Book 14 starts gradually frailing his Nice Guy attitude, until The Reveal.
- The Chessmaster: Came up with a very elaborate scheme to have Queen Adeyrid poisoned, frame Jadina for it and place a mind-controlled Tenebris on the throne.
- Combat Tentacles: He uses a similar trick to catch Tenebris. While the "tentacles" are actually made of energy, they still touch Tenebris in some suggestive places, and forcefully open her mouth so Abyss can have her being infested again.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: His first fight with the Legendaries.
- Dead Person Impersonation: A particularly squicky case; he was literally walking around using Vangelis' dead body as a disguise.
- Disowned Sibling: Somewhat. Abyss certainly thinks he and Tenebris are siblings. She disagrees.Tenebris: [...] You are not my brother, do you hear me? The Legendaries are the only family I have left, and you, scumbag, have done everything in your power to take them from me!Abyss: But... all that I did... was out of love for you, and for Father, so we could be-Tenebris: There is no "we"! There never will be a "we"!
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He does genuinely cares about Tenebris, though his love for her is very twisted. Also, he openly states at some point he loved Darkhell as a father, this in spite of his creator having cast him aside.
- Evil Chancellor: As Adviser Vangelis.
- Family-Unfriendly Death: He's squashed into a pulp by the Gamera Tree. It doesn't stick.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: As Vangelis.
- Game Face: While posing as Vangelis, Abyss had normal skin, dark blue eyes and glasses. When giving up the disguise to fight the Legendaries, his skin turn pale, he gets Red Eyes and gives a Psychotic Smirk.
- Humanoid Abomination: He is an intelligent Puppeteer Parasite with powerful magic abilities and inhabiting the dead body of a human.
- Incest Subtext: He claims to see Tenebris as his sister, but the way he interacts with her sometimes sounds more like a Stalker with a Crush than a brother. He even screams that he loves her just as the Gamera Tree crushes him between her roots.
- I Reject Your Reality: Abyss just will not understand that Tenebris wants nothing to do with him, let alone that she doesn't want to go back to the cold-hearted murderess she once was.
- Love Makes You Evil: According to Tenebris, the whole motive behind his action was because of his love for her.
- One-Man Army: When the Legendaries faced him the first time, he was able to defeat them one after the other with unnerving ease (except for Jadina, who was helpless at that point), and destroyed Shimy's stone fist without even moving.
- Puppeteer Parasite: He is actually a small Venom-like parasite with the ability to kill people and then use their corpse as his own body.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Vangelis's eyes are blue, but they turn red after The Reveal. His eyes changing color is actually the first visual sign given to the reader that he isn't the real Vangelis.
- The End... Or Is It?: Even though he was seemingly crushed to death by the Gamera Tree, his hand is seen moving between the roots at the end of book 14, implying he will return. Word of God confirmed he would be the new Big Bad.
- The Man Behind the Man: He was behind both Kasino (who he manipulated) and Vangelis (who he murdered and impersonated).
- Villainous Breakdown: When he works out that Tenebris has been freed from his control, Abyss gradually starts to lose his nerve and fastforwards Jadina's execution. He then becomes more and more unhinged, and ends up trying to kill her himself. Disturbing considering how nice he seems at the beginning of the story.
- Walking Spoiler: Almost everything you can know about him, including his very existence, gives away the twist of Book 13 and 14.
- We Will Meet Again: Abyss seems to know what he's in for once the Gamera Tree makes her entrance, and vows to Tenebris that they shall be reunited (whether she likes it or not).
- Abyss: Our story doesn't end here, baby sister! I'll come back and smite all who stand between us! We'll be together again soon, I promise! I love you! I lo-!
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: He considers himself Darkhell's son and spiritual heir, and hopes to accomplish what the sorcerer never could.
- Wham Line: The moment he finally drops the mask serves as one to the audience and to Jadina.
- Jadina: Professor... you were like a father to me... why...?Abyss: Are you still not getting it, stupid girl? I am not Vangelis.
- Yandere: And a pretty creepy one at that; he's obsessed with Tenebris but has absolutely no regard for what she truly wants, to the point where he's willing to brainwash her into submission all in the name of "setting things right".
Sheiba
- Anime Hair: Seriously, she has no less than four colours: red for her fur, white for the top of her hair, blonde for the back of it and black around her eyes.
- Big Bad: of Books 15-16.
- Big Bad Ensemble: With Master Kirikiri and Eternity in Book 16.
- Beast Man: She is a Jaguarian, so this is a given.
- Clipped-Wing Angel: When she finally manages to become Eternity's host, Razorcat's attempt to take the bullet for her cause the three of them to fuse in a mindless Eldritch Abomination that just devours everything around itself, and ends up destroyed by the Legendaries through brute strength within only a few panels (whereas actual Gods can only be killed by other Gods).
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: For all the horrors she commits, she deeply cares about her son Razorcat.
- Fantastic Racism: She is to Jaguarians what Magneto is to Mutants.
- Freudian Excuse: Sheiba's son Razorcat ran away from Jaguarys after they had a disagreement and was captured by Monslave Merchants. Sheiba put together a search party and hunted the caravan down, but unfortunately found them too late as the merchants had torn off her son's Katseye, mistaking it for a mere jewel, the trauma of which had driven him insane. A heartbroken Sheiba swore revenge on all humanity for this.
- Implied Love Interest: At the very least a childhood one to Kel-Matu, who was ready and willing to sacrifice himself to Eternity for Sheiba. Too bad her vendetta against humanity has overwritten any affection she may have had for him.
- Knight Templar: She wishes for her species to be able to thrive without facing discrimination. Too bad her methods involve savagely slaughtering any human that stands in her way, wiping out their entire species with an Artifact of Doom and offering herself up to an evil god.
- Knight Templar Parent: Possibly the most extreme exemple of the trope. She wants to eradicate humanity as revenge for what some cruel human brigands did to her son.
- Redemption Rejection: Kel-Matu offers to volunteer himself as the host for Eternity's reincarnation in her place and harness the God's power to cure her son from Chakounia, but only if she agrees to give up on her crusade against humans, if only to honor the memory of their friendship when they were children. Her reaction is to laugh in his face and deride him for being so sentimental, asserting that nothing will dissuade her from destroying all of humanity.
- Revenge Before Reason: As noted above, she refuses to give up her plan to wipe out humans even when offered a more peaceful way to cure her son.
- That Girl Is Dead: What she tells Kel-Matu when he asks her what happened to the little Jaguarian girl he once knew, who dreamed of a world where Jaguarians and humans could coexist in peace.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: According to Kel-Matu, at least.
- Villainous Breakdown: Gradually starts to lose her cool when the Legendaries interfere with her plans to become Eternity's host.
- Villain Team-Up: With Skroa. Until Amy kills him.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: She wants to eradicate humanity as a revenge for them mutilating her son and causing him to become insane.
Master Kirikiri
- Affably Evil: He politely explains the Legendaries what he and the Chiridans are trying to accomplish, treats them like guests and provides them with clothes and confort.
- Anti-Villain: He and the Chiridans technically are antagonists in that they intend to have a God released on Alysia, uncaring of weither this god will be evil or not, but they only do it so they can get free from their charge and find rest.
- Eventually subverted in Master Kirikiri's case; he was trying all along to take control of Eternity so he could use him to satisfy his power lust.
- Batman Gambit: Made everything to ensure that Gryf would chose to become Eternity's new incarnation. He had put a spell on Gryf's Katseye that would allow him to control the God.
- Beware the Silly Ones: By far one of the silliest-looking character, with a just as goofy attitude and Dirty Old Man tendencies. But he actually was able to take over Eternity for a moment.
- Butt-Monkey: His own Chiridans frequently beat him up for his perverted attitude.
- Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: He manages to temporarly get control over Eternity thanks to his schemes. It works until Razzia, Amy and Jadina pull out a Big Damn Heroes moment and easily defeat him.
- Dirty Old Man: This guy can't stand a minute without trying to grope girls around him.
- Establishing Character Moment: The very first thing he does right after introducing himself is to drool over Shimy's and Tenebris' Chiridan-possessed bodies.
- Loophole Abuse: Appears to have chosen to stay in animal form and thus remains untouched by the Jovénia effect.
Countess Invidia
- Aristocrats Are Evil: A countess who is part of the royal family of Orchidia, and actively attempts to have her own niece killed so she can place her son on the throne.
- Big Bad: Of Book 2 in Origins.
- Disney Villain Death: A rare exemple where you actually get to see the body reach the ground. Yeesh.
- Establishing Character Moment: Inividia is introduced demanding to see her son before giving little Jadina an almighty Death Glare. When she's given the horrifying news that Kasino has lost an eye, she immediately blames Jadina for it and makes a snide comment about her conception.
- Evil Aunt: Jadina's aunt, and she actively tried to have her killed.
- Frame-Up: After a fashion; while Invidia did collaborate with Kalandre to get Jadina "accidentally" killed in the Orchidian zoo rampage, there was likely no way it would have been traced back to her had Kalandre not planted the countess's jade ring on the premises, ensuring that Jadina would find it.
- Green-Eyed Monster: She clearly never got over the fact her sister got the throne instead of her, and this in part fuels her resentment of her niece by extension.
- Ironic Echo: When they were younger, Adeyrid once screamed at her that she would never get chosen by the Eagle Staff as the next Queen, for she was too mean. Invidia smugly ignored her. Guess what happened when she went through the test.
- Irrational Hatred: Of Jadina, partly out of the belief that she indirectly disfigured Kasino by freeing the Cracolac from its cage all those year ago.
- Jerkass: Granted, she does have good reasons to not like Jadina, but the flashbacks showing her interactions with Adeyrid make it very clear she wasn't exactly a nice person to begin with.
- Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: To Adeyrid's light feminine.
- Mama Bear: For all her jerkassery, it's quite obvious she deeply cares about Kasino. The woman got her son a pair of assassin bodyguards for his birthday, that's how badly she wants him safe.
- Meaningful Name: "Invidia" is the Latin word for "envy", and needless to say it fits her like a glove.
- Obviously Evil: Somehow, you just know this lady's no saint.
- Rejected by the Empathic Weapon: She clearly was more than willing to become the next Queen of Orchidia, but the Eagle Staff judged her unworthy, and eventually chose Adeyrid over her.
- Unwitting Pawn: Kalandre pretended to help her get rid of Jadina, but was really manipulating her to her own ends.
- Villainous Breakdown: When she realizes too late that Kalandre had been using her all along.
The Hellions
A group of villains created by Anathos from the Legendaries' blood (though most of Alysia's population initially believed they were created by reanimating the Legendaries' deadbodies) who serve as his lieutenants during his rampage accross Alysia. The Hellions appear as twisted versions of the Legendaries with amplified abilities but none of the defects, and contrast their models by being cruel, violent and unfaillingly loyal to Anathos.
Tropes applying to all Hellions:
- Copycat Sue: Possibly parodied; the Hellions are physically identical to the Legendaries save for different colour schemes, their names are the same with the added suffixe "Dark" and they have amplified versions of the Legendaries' powers (but lack their weaknesses).
- The Psycho Rangers: They are a team of stronger Evil Counterparts to the heroes created by a major villain.
- Smug Snake: They just won't shut up about how much better and superior to the Legendaries they are. This bites them hard in the ass when the Legendaries decide to take the fight seriously.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Save for Dark Jadina, none of them was actually killed onscreen or confirmed dead. It's unknown what happened to them after Anathos's defeat, though since the Castlewar was destroyed, odds are they didn't make it.
Dark Jadina
- Bodyguard Crush: Dark-Jadina is markedly more powerful and intelligent than her co-Hellions, and as such Anathos keeps her around as his bodyguard during most of Versus Inferno. She also just so happens to be infatuated with him.
- Dark Mistress: To Anathos, with a horrible conclusion.
- The Dragon: To Anathos.
- Grand Staircase Entrance: She introduces herself to Jadina while walking down a spiral staircase.
- Dark Jadina: Stop right there, gorgeous! Have you perhaps forgotten the proper manners due to our status as royals by blood? We do not run in other people's homes. And this is the abode of Dark Jadina.
- The Leader: She's Anathos's right hand, which makes her Hellion in chief.
- Mind Rape: Her favourite torture method. Poor Tenebris...
- Technicolor Eyes: A physical clue that singles her out from the other Hellions and places her closer to Anathos in the hierarchy are her eyes, which have red sclera instead of red irises.
- Terms of Endangerment: Dark Jadina uses a sarcastic "Big Sis" to refer to Jadina, and earlier on calls her "gorgeous"; granted, they have the same face, so Dark Jadina probably does this out of vanity more than appreciation.
- Undying Loyalty: Even when clearly overpowered by the real Jadina, she still stood back up and was prepared to die protecting Anathos. Not that he was grateful to her for that.
- Villainous Breakdown: When Jadina goes Super Mode and single-handedly defeats her.
- Your Head Asplode: Anathos blew her head off.
Dark Gryf
- Achilles' Heel: As pointed out by Gryf, his permanant Chakounia state, by preventing him from feeling exhausted, makes him unable to realize when he no longer has the strength to keep going. By the end of their fight, he keeps trying to attack even though he actually has already depleted all his energy, and Gryf easily put him down without his One-Winged Angel form.
- Ax-Crazy: Even though he is still in control while in Chakounia state, he still seems psychotic. Apparently, Anathos deemed it useful to keep some of his madness.
- Beast Man: Like Gryf, he is a Jaguarian, though an artificially created one.
- The Berserker: Anathos placed him in a permanent Chakounia state but tempered it in a way that leaves Dark Gryf in control of his own mind, while simultaneously allowing him to retains the strength, rage and superhuman endurance of the Chakounia state.
- Card-Carrying Villain:
- Dark Gryf: My name is Dark Gryf and I'm veeeeeery mean! Nyark nyark!
- Deadpan Snarker: Even more than regular Gryf, which is saying a lot.
- Explaining Your Power to the Enemy: Part of what caused his demise.
- Fingore: He gets his hand completely crushed by Death Gryf. You know, just for starters.
- Lightning Bruiser: His Chakounia state allows him to attack with incredible speed and strength.
- Oh, Crap!: When Gryf transforms into Death-Gryf.
- Psycho for Hire: None a single one the Hellions really is very sane, but Dark Gryf in particular is completely nuts.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: As pointed out by himself, it's the sign he is in Chakounia state.
- Slasher Smile: Usually displays a seriously psychotic grin.
- Tempting Fate: Mocks Gryf for grafting himself with a Katseye, thus curing himself of his Chakounia, which would have allowed him to fight on par with him. Cue Gryf revealing what his new Katseye can actually do.
Dark Razzia
- Blood Knight: Unlike Razzia, who initially doesn't like to fight unless he absolutely has to, Dark Razzia constantly seems to be itching for a fight and sees his counterpart as a spineless weakling.
- The Brute: Like Razzia, he is the muscle of his team. He also is a brutish, violent bastard who Would Hit a Girl.
- BFS: Wields the Leviathan Saber after Razzia loses it to Anathos. It's eventually destroyed by Amy.
- Fat Bastard: He is every bit as chubby and fat as the real Razzia, but has none of his kindness.
- I Shall Taunt You: He sadistically mocks Razzia for murdering his sister in the past as a means of riling him up and out of hiding.
- Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Attempts this on Tenebris; it doesn't work:Tenebris: Razzia... compared to him, you hit like a girl!
- Kick the Dog: He mockingly praises Razzia for killing his younger sister. Also, beating up Tenebris.
- Oh, Crap!: His reaction to seeing Amy for the first time. It was
epic. - Scary Black Man: His skin is black.
- Super-Strength: Unlike Razzia, who is merely subject to the Charles Atlas Superpower, Dark-Razzia's muscles have been magically enhanced by Anathos.
- Volcanic Veins: A visual sign that his muscles have been magically enhanced.
- Would Hit a Girl: And Tenebris, of all people. Not that this prevented her from provoking him...
Dark Shimy
- Baddie Flattery: Congratulates Shimy on not falling for her Tenebris trap before the start of their fight.
- Explaining Your Power to the Enemy: Reveals to Shimy that she can use her elemental powers without exhausting herself as a mean to break her confidence.
- Elemental Baggage: And unlike Shimy, she has an infinite amount of energy, so she can use her powers without getting tired.
- Elemental Powers: Though unlike Shimy, it seems she never learnt to master Fire or Air.
- Elemental Shapeshifter: Like Shimy, she has the ability to merge with the elements.
- Me's a Crowd: Since using her Elemental power doesn't exhaust her, she can use it to produce a seemingly infinite amount of earth-based elemental clones of herself.
- Out-Gambitted: She incorrectly deduces that Shimy was trying to push her to the brink of her elemental abilities as much as possible in order to exhaust her, which couldn't work due to her power enhancement. Shimy was actually trying to get her at close range so that she could suck the air out of her lungs.
- Smug Super: She's by far the most smug of the Hellions, and considers herself far more powerful and intelligent than her counterpart Shimy. The obviously fake Tenebris she tries to bait Shimy with just goes to show what little esteem she has for Shimy's intelligence.
Darkhell's Army
Raptor the Green Shadow
- Combat Pragmatist: When fighting Alghar, he merely burnt him with a magic blast from his blade rather than fight him in hand-to-hand combat.
- The Dragon: Darkhell offered to name him this as a reward for his services.
- The Heavy: He isn't technically the Big Bad in Book 1 of Origins, he still is the villain who accomplishes the most things in that book.
- Hero Killer: this guy killed Alghar and almost got Danael as well.
- I Have You Now, My Pretty: he was planning to do this with Tenebris once he would have overthrown Darkhell.
- Killed Off for Real: by Saryn.
- Meaningful Name: Raptor. And the guy looks like an anthropomorphic lizard...
- Politically Incorrect Villain: his plans for Tenebris and his attitude toward Saryn when they fought give hints he might be quite mysogynistic. Granted, this appear to be quite common in Alysia, but still...
- The Starscream: He is secretly scheming to overthrow Darkhell using Jadina's eagle staff and become the ruler of Shiar with Tenebris as his Sex Slave. Darkhell is aware of it, but doesn't consider him as a treath, and takes advantage on the fact his ambition make him more determined.
Dasyatis the Black Shadow
- Arch-Enemy: To Gryf in Origins. Taking his revenge on her is the main reason he decides to join the Legendaries in the first place.
- Ax-Crazy: she eventually killed her master so she could join Darkhell.
- Black Eyes of Crazy
- Blood Knight: Unlike most Monslaves, she had already won enough points to get her freedom way before Gryf arrived; she still sticked to be a Monslave until Darkhell made her a better offer just because she liked killing people.
- Combat Tentacles: She has two of them on her head, both ending with venomous, sharp stingers.
- Dark Action Girl: The only female beside Tenebris amongst Darkhell's generals, and a vicious, extremely dangerous warrior.
- Enfant Terrible: Back when she was a Monslave, she seemed to be barely older than Gryf or Samael, and already was a psychotic Blood Knight.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Her favourite way to kill her opponents.
- Red Baron: Aside from the obvious Black Shadow title, she was nicknamed "Silent Death" back when she was a Monslave, due to never speaking.
- Slasher Smile: The only sign of emotion she even shows, which she does only when she is about to finish an opponent.
The Darkhellions
Darkhell's favourite minions. Darkhellions are dragon-like creatures engeenired through magic who serve as his air armies, while the Dragonites serves as his fantassins. They possess the ability to shoot stingers that can turn people into "Chaos Shades", soulless creatures doomed to serve Darkhell who can only be killed through magic weapons. Their spitting can also produce a crystal-like substance to encase people, allowing to capture them without causing them any harm.- The Faceless: those things have no visible eyes or mouth.
- Fate Worse than Death: what will happen to you if you get reached by one of their stinger; you will be turned into a "Chaos Shade", a soulless creature doomed to serve Darkhell and who can only be killed through magic attacks and weapons.
- Glass Cannon: those thing don't have much more resilience than the standard mook, but they only need to shoot you once and you are doomed, even if you survive the fight.
- Our Dragons Are Different: They are not dragons, but it's a close thing.
The Dragonites
Darkhell's standard minions. Dragonites are, as suggested by their name, Dragon-like massive creatures.- Giant Mook: all of them are much bigger and stronger than human beings, so they are an army of this.
- Mooks: Darkhell used them as his personal foot soldiers.
The Zar-Iko
Creatures from Klafooty created by Darkhell as part of his bargain with the Guardian. Zar-Iko are intelligent Plant People. Dynameis
The Dynameis are a group of warriors from various ages recruited by Kalandre to serve as her guards. She recruits them by offering them powerful golden weapons while they are alive, forged from their own blood, in exchange of them swearing to serve her after their death.
Tropes applying to the group as a whole:
- Badass Crew: All of them were famous heroes in their time, recruited specifically for having accomplished some great deed.
- Light Is Not Good: They are recognizable through their golden weapons and a halo on their heads. They also happen to be Kalandre's s lackey, and have done some morally questionable things over the course of centuries.
- Undying Loyalty: To Kalandre.
Halcyon
The first to join the Dynameis. Halcyon was an elven warrior who fought against the Piranhis 3213 years ago, taking back an island from them before falling victim to a poisoned arrow.- The Cynic: Since he is the one who has been working for Kalandre the longest, he is well-aware that being a Dynameis includes making some really morally questionable things. This has left him bitter, and he doesn't even believe in them being heroes anymore."I have been under Mother's orders for milleniums. In her name, I have committed more than questionable acts. So if she does like something about our souls, it's definitely not their "purity""
- The Dragon: To Kalandre, being usually portrayed as the one leading the Dynameis below Kalandre herself.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: In his duel with Razzia, he manages to use his lance's power to kill Amy's original body, meaning her arm on Razzia is about to explode. So Razzia just grabs him, causing both of them to die in the explosion.
- Jerkass: None of the Dynameis really are good guys, but he is the only one of them to not make any effort to even pretend being a nice guy.
Asgaroth
The second to join, Asgaroth was a powerful dragon slayer who freed his country 1245 years ago. His body was burnt to ashes in death, and Kalandre had to bring him back in a mechanical body.- The Dragonslayer: Was this while alive.
- The Voiceless: Since he now has a mechanical body, he can no longer speak, and can only express through smiley-like signs on his screen-like face.
Galatee
The third to join. Nicknamed the "Crystal Princess", she saved the city of Kelfolie of her own against a tribe of female barbarians 724 years ago. She succcumbed to an illness not long after.- Blow You Away: Displays the ability to do this with her fan.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: She is heavily implied to have developped a crush on Danael, to the point she openly gets furious when he kisses Jadina and starts trying to mess with their relationship.
- Gratuitous Princess: She was once the princess of the Kingdom of Kelfolie. This does not add anything to her characterization.
- Paper Fan of Doom: Her golden weapon is stated to be a fan, though it looks slightly more like a spear.
Minor Villains
El Diablo
- Gratuitous Spanish: "Caramba! La bonita just doesn't know when to quit!"
- Pride: His main Idiot Ball; he stole a potion that might have cure everyone on Alysia from the Jovenia Incident, including himself. He was perfectly aware of the potion's importance, but still stole it, arguing he had to steal such an important object in order to keep his reputation as a thief.
Lord Menthos
A famous Monslave trainer who owned Gryf during his youth.- Bad Boss: Treated his Monslaves like animals, regularly whipped them and would typically let them die rather than ruin his reputation.
- Bullying a Dragon: Somehow assumes it's perfectly safe to laugh at the very angry and free Jaguarian who is confronting him about his lie.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: He saves Gryf's life by admitting his defeat during the Jaguarian's first fight... only to brutally beat him up and threaten to pull a You Have Failed Me on him right after the fight.
- Later, He agrees to train Gryf to be the best Monslave so he can defeat Dasyatis and avenge Samael. Years later, it turns out he willingly chose to not inform him Dasyatis no longer was here, just so he could make more profit exploiting him. And he flat-out laugh in his face when Gryf calls him out for it.
- Karmic Death: He ends up killed by Samael, the very Monslave he had pulled a You Have Failed Me on years ago.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: His final fate, courtesy of Samael.
Count Kasino
- Aristocrats Are Evil: Count Kasino.
- Ambiguously Absent Parent: While Origines introduces us to his mother the countess Invidia, her husband count Alorin isn't so much as mentioned.
- Ambition Is Evil: In Book 13, he is motivated by his desire to inherit the throne of Orchidia. Though Origins reveals there is more to him than this trope.
- Bad Boss: The first time Baraka and Bakara fail to kill the Legendaries (thanks to Tenebris' intererence), he blames their incompetence for it and threatens them with a sword. In a curious inversion of Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male, this is played for laughs.
- Big Bad Wannabe: Appears to be the main villain in Book 13 until he gets killed via Abyss's machinations.
- Devil in Plain Sight: Considering how this guy looks, acts and rules in his region (which isn't even a secret to anyone), you gotta wonder how nobody thought he would attempt to kill his cousins for the throne.
- Embarrassing Nickname: Jadina calls him "Corkscrew", which he hates with a passion.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Part of his motivation for wanting the Orchidian throne is being duty-bound to his queen-that-never-was mother's memory, and some of his resentment towards Jadina is fueled by the fact that he holds her responsible for his mother's death.
- Eye Scream: Origins reveals that he lost his eye as a kid following a confrontation with a Cracolac. This is the reason why his bangs cover half of his face.
- Family-Unfriendly Death: Gets Impaled with Extreme Prejudice by a mind-controlled Tenebris. It's not pretty.
- Hidden Depths: When introduced in the main series, he appears to be nothing more than a generic power-hungry aristocrat. Origins considerably fleshes out his personality and motivations, revealing that he truly cared about his mother, did have some affection for Jadina before his mother's death and was actually manipulated from childhood into becoming what he is.
- Hiding Behind Your Bangs: His bangs hide his missing eye.
- Jerkass: Though it's implied in Origins he used to be a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
- Mr. Fanservice: He gets a good ol' shirtless scene in Origins.
- Smug Snake: Especially toward his own cousin.
- The Wrongful Heir to the Throne: Kasino is right behind Jadina and Tenebris in the line of succession, though he has no real claim to the throne due to Orchidia having always been ruled by a matrilineal line of sorceress queens. He currently rules his own region (reportedly a totalitarian regime), but considers that he deserves to rule Orchidia by virtue of his deceased mother having "almost" been queen.
- Unwitting Pawn: Poor boy was practically manipulated by Kalandre into hating his own cousin.
- You Killed My Father: He holds Jadina responsible for Countess Invidia's death (though he still thinks it was a suicide).
Baraka and Bakara
- Badass Normal: They have no powers, but Jadina stated Gryf was risking his life trying to attack them, hinting they are hightly dangerous. Later, they are shown to be quite effective while fighting the Legendaries.
- Bodyguard Babes: As beautiful as they are deadly, Baraka and Bakara act as count Kasino's personal guard, and it is hinted at that they also tag team as his Paid Harem, further exemplified in Origins when Kasino sics Bakara on an Orchidian guard and rewards her for her victory with an Almost Kiss. He also calls them "my beauties" when he orders them to attack the Legendaries.
- Creepy Twins: They're a pair of identical twin assassins who never say a word and never seem to express any kind of emotion.
- Family-Unfriendly Death: Accidentally crushed to death by Shimy when she tries using her elemental magic inside the Gamera Mines, the ambiant Jade causing it to overload.
- Identical Twin ID Tag: In a way, since the colors on their outfits are just reversed: Red bandana is Baraka, blue bandana is Bakara.
- Informed Ability: According to Jadina, they master many fighting techniques and are hightly dangerous. While they are shown to be indeed good opponents in a direct fight, they are portrayed as rather uncompetent killers when it comes to setting traps, and few of their skills are actually shown during the only time we see them fight.
- They get more occasions to shine in Book 2 of Origins.
- The Voiceless: Safe for a very short scene where one of them say something in Kasino's ear, you never hear them talking.
Razorcat
- Abhorrent Admirer: Surprisingly subverted; he's very taken with Princess Nadkoko, and despite his brutish, disfigured appearance, Nadkoko doesn't reject his advances and actually seems to like him.
- Ax-Crazy: Courtesy of his incurable Chakounia.
- Beast Man: Even more than regular Jaguarians.
- The Berserker: Thanks to his Katseye having been forcefully removed, he has turned mad and is now suffering an incurable form of Chakounia.
- Berserker Tears: When his mother orders him to kill Princess Nadkoko and he manages to stop himself.
- Bruiser with a Soft Center: Razorcat is so violently unhinged that his mother keeps him on a leash, yet he manages to be strangely adorable when bashfully presenting Princess Nadkoko with a bunch of flowers.Razorcat: Nadkoko... pre..tty...
- The Dragon: To his mother.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He cares about his mother, and has strong feelings for Princess Nadkoko.
- Extremely Protective Child: To his mother, and his lightning fast reflexes allow him to yank her out of the way when the god Eternity tries to kill her. This unfortunately proves to be his undoing when Sheiba gives herself up to Eternity and he gets himself caught in the crossfire.
- Hulk Speak: Razorcat's mind has been damaged to the point where he now has a very poor grasp on language, and can only speak in single words or very short sentences. The most he is ever seen speaking is when he gives his mother a mild "The Reason You Suck" Speech, but even then he doesn't use a single conjugated verb.
- I Am a Humanitarian: Notable in that most Jaguarians, as a rule, don't actually eat humans. Sheiba has him feast on human monks at the beginning of Book 15.
- Morality Pet: Inverted; his mother deeply cares about him, but, ironically, he is the one who motivated her into going on her quest to exterminate humanity.
- He himself appears to have one in the person of Nadkoko.
- Primal Stance: Most Jaguarians walk around on their own two feet, but Razorcat is constantly bent to a crouch and walks around on all fours.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Just like any Jaguarian in Chakounia state.
- Wolverine Claws: He wears these on top of his actual claws.
Apehros the Collector
Master Kirikiri's unofficial second-in-command, whose soul is placed in Razzia's body.- Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon: Apehros is large and unpleasant, and wields a massive hammer that also generates gigantic golden crystals that he uses to trap people.
- Fat Bastard: At the very least when possessing Razzia's body; Apehros completely forgoes the niceties and doesn't even pretend to be a good guy, which extends to his brutal treatment of his underlings. His job also involves abducting innocent people and putting them up for possession, so make of that what you will, and he was also in on Master Kirikiri's plan to enslave the god Eternity and take over the world.
- Hypercompetent Sidekick: He's this to Master Kiriki, who Apehros has no qualms over beating up if it means he'll stop embarassing them.
- Perpetual Frowner: Apehros is always shown to be scowling, which is downright unnerving when he's wearing Razzia's face.
- Revenge is Sweet: Apehros relishes the opportunity to avenge the Chiridans when he almost defeats Amy, only to be stopped in extremis by a reawakened Jadina.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Wanting revenge on Amy and by extension Shun-Day is somewhat understandable enough, but this is the opinion he appears to have of Jadina, who he was planning on eliminating because her plant-mutant constitution made her incompatible with Chiridan souls.
