Characters / Rogue Stormers

The Characters of Rogue Stormers.

The Stormers

The Rogue Stormers in general

• It's Personal: Each Stormer has a personal reason why they want von Garg dead.

Wolfgang Albrecht von Eisenbeiss, "Brecht"

The founder of the Rogue Stormers and their designated leader. He is the only Stormer initially available. His "Iron Wolf" passive gives him +10 max health, +20% healing efficiency, +20% secondary weapon durability, as well as 250 gold and one key to start with.

• Crusading Widower: As if getting mutated into a werewolf wasn't bad enough, Brecht also lost his wife.
• The Good Captain: His subtitle is "Stalwart Captain", after all. He's the former captain of the town guard and considered a man of the people.
• Knight in Sour Armor: Losing his wife and good looks along with much of the city to von Garg has made Brecht a gruff and bitter man, but no less determined to do what is right.
• Jack of All Stats: Has an easy-to-use primary weapon, gets more health out of pickups and his secondary weapons last longer, making him a good character to learn the game with.
• Meaningful Name: Incredibly. For Wolfgang: He's a werewolf, and he's on a path... of justice! Albrecht is a combination of words meaning "noble" and "bright" or "famous". There's also his surname of Eisenbeiss, which could be loosely translated as "iron bite".
• Mutant
• More Dakka: Brecht's primary weapon is a rapid-fire "Motorgun".
• It's Personal: Brecht has a personal grudge with von Garg for mutating him.
• Our Werewolves Are Different: The motif even extends to his armor, with a shoulder pad fashioned in the shape of a wolf's head and his engine, which has curved spikes on it so that it resembles bristling fur. It's even designated the "RS-1 Wolf".
• Special Attack: Lunacy, which greatly increases the whole team's fire rate for a short time. It also grants them Piercing shots, which the in-game description fails to mention.

Gandolfe Acufene Rombo, "Presto"

Formerly Ravensdale's greatest Opera singer, until the orcs burned down the opera house- and his audience. Now he's joined the Stormers to exact his revenge. Presto is unlocked after completing stage 2. His "Massive Diva" passive gives him +30 max health and 500 starting gold.

• Big Fun: He's quite portly, and much beloved by his public. What's left of them anyway.
• The Big Guy: Has the highest starting health of any Stormer, and a shield ability.
• Difficult, but Awesome: Effective use of Presto requires knowing when to activate his shield special, or else he'll get hit much more often then Brecht or the long-ranged characters.
• Kill It with Fire: Presto's weapon of choice is the "Red-Hot Performinator", a flamethrower.
• It's Personal: Not only did the orcs take away his livelihood and his fans, they had the unmitigated gall to call his singing "noise".
• Make Me Wanna Shout: Presto is capable of creating bullet-stopping shields by singing.
• Meaningful Name: Gandolfe is a variation on a Lombard name that can mean "battle". More amusingly, Acufene is the Italian word for tinnitus. Rombo can mean "roar," "rumble", or "thunder."
• Special Attack: Blazing Aria, which puts up a temporary shield and supercharges his flamethrower for a short time, doubling it's normally very short range.
• Pyromaniac: His subtitle is the "Operatic Arsonist." His bio claims "something died" in him the night the opera house burned, and now he revels in giving the orcs taste of fire in return.
• Warrior Poet: Seems to enjoy singing for the patrons of the Good-Guy Bar when not burning orcs.

Camille Gaspard

Formerly an alchemist in the city's employ and tasked by von Garg with studying the Goop, she fell prey to an arranged laboratory accident that transmuted her body into an amorphous, ooze-like creature. She joined the Stormers in the hopes of bringing von Garg to justice, and hopefully finding a cure to her condition. Camille is unlocked after completing stage four. Her "Slippery Goo" passive gives her a 60% increased grace period, and 250 gold and 1 key to start with.

• Cute Monster Girl
• Difficult, but Awesome: Camille suffers from a very low initial fire-rate. This can be offset by perks, upgrades, or simply using her Special Attack. Her passive also flat-out means she will get hurt less often. Decreasing her ability's Cool Down time is advisable.
• Glass Cannon: Camille starts with only 50 base health but has a long-range weapon that can inflict Splash Damage.
• It's Personal: Has similar grudge against von Garg to Brecht.
• Meaningful Name: The name Camille is descended from a latin term for the attendants of priests and priestesses. Camille once worked in the employ of von Garg, the high priest of Ravendale. Gaspard is more of a stretch, as it means "treasurer". Camille was tasked on Goop research, a substance "treasured" by von Garg and his cronies.
• Sickly Green Glow: Her armor's backpack is fitted with several large transparent canisters containing... well, her.
• Shy Girl: Noted by her introductory article, where she was so shy that she hid herself in an empty beer cask in anticipation of an interview.
• Slime Girl: Notably, she is only capable of maintaining human form while wearing her Stormer armor. Her gooiness also apparently grants her a longer Mercy Invincibility period.
• Special Attack: "Probe Ejector Malfunction", which fires a swarm of mini-rockets at a targeted location.
• Stuff Blowing Up: Her weapon of choice is the "Explosive Probe Ejector", a rocket launcher.

Abigail Arling, "Stabbygale"

A former barmaid who witnessed her fiancee torn apart and her bar destroyed by orcs. She went insane, grabbed the barkeep's shotgun and took it on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. When slivers of sanity returned to her, she joined up with the Rogue Stormers to murder more orcs. She is unlocked after completing stage six. Her "In Your Face" passive gives her the ability to release explosions when damaged, +10 max health, +20% movement speed and 500 starting gold.

• Blood Knight: At the absolute best.
• Berserk Button: For your own sake, don't mention her fiancee.
• The Berserker: Her subtitle is the "Berserk Barmaid".
• Difficult, but Awesome: Stabbygale is probably the hardest character to use effectively, see Fragile Speedster below. Notably, her Ripsaw can't pull bosses and doesn't even damage some of them, in addition to her cripplingly low range. It would be advisable to increase her range or, in particular, her healing efficiency.
• Fragile Speedster: Sort of. She has the same starting health as Brecht, but her short-ranged primary weapon and increased base movement speed mean that she both gets into combat quicker and will take more damage on average.
• It's Personal: Extremely, messily so.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: She calls herself Stabbygale.
• Short-Range Shotgun: Her weapon of choice. While very short-ranged, it has a generous Spread Shot.
• Token Evil Teammate: Stabbygale is not a nice person and her armor's engine even has Spikes of Villainy.
• Special Attack: Ripsaw, which tosses out a giant glaive-like sawblade that damages and pulls enemies in towards Stabbygale.
• Stuff Blowing Up: Her armor lets out a small explosion whenever she takes damage.

Don Ernesto Hernandes, "El Cazador"

A mysterious gentleman mercenary who has appeared in Ravensdale at dawn of its fall from grace, seemingly hoping to profit from von Garg's impending demise. He is unlocked after beating the seventh and final stage. His "Death from Above" passive gives him a Double Jump, .65 seconds of hover time and 2 keys.

• The Charmer: He's not picky, going so far as to turn his interview with Sayetta into a date.
• Dashing Hispanic: Gives this impression.
• Friendly Sniper: His title is the "Gentleman Sniper". He's polite and well-mannered, and his weapon of choice is the "Gearlock Rifle", a slow-firing, but high damage Sniper Rifle.
• Glass Cannon: El Cazador starts with only 50 base health, but his primary is so damaging that with the right perks and upgrades El Cazador turns into the nastiest boss-killer of any character. He can so easily attain Lightning Bruiser status that it's understandable he's the last character you unlock.
• The Immune: For unknown reasons, El Cazador is immune to the effects of Goop.
• It's Personal: The only one of the Stormers to whom this does not apply. See Professional Killer below.

• Meaningful Name: Aside from the nickname, Ernesto can mean "serious" or "determined".
• Only in It for the Money: Or so everyone thinks.
• Professional Killer: In reality, he's an agent from the capital of the kingdom that Ravensdale is part of, sent by the crown specifically to assassinate von Garg.
• Special Attack: El Matador, a huge sniper round that pierces through and slows enemies.

Von Garg's forces

Hector von Garg

The obnoxious, cruel and extremely corpulent self-appointed ruler of Ravensdale following the execution of the twin duchesses.

• Bad Boss: Frequently shoots his own troops by mistake, according to one news article.
• Body Horror: During the first phase of his fight, his body splits more then halfway apart, revealing a toothy maw that spews projectiles at the players.

The Devouring Beguiler

• Animalistic Abomination: Resembles a giant, pissed-off angler fish.
• Body Horror: von Garg's seemingly lifeless body becomes the end of it's angler.
• Beam Spam
• Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: While the entire game was building up to the fight with von Garg, the Beguiler is a complete surprise to a first-time player.
• Man Bites Man: It'll try to bite you if you stand in front of it for too long, taking off a whole 20 health- equal only to the goblin suicide bombers or getting hit by a sky mine.
• True Final Boss: Acts as the second phase of the von Garg fight.
• Walking Spoiler

Ubertinker Bernhardt Kranz

• Evil Genius: The creator of both the Stormers' Powered Armor and von Garg's various "wunderwaffen".
• Humongous Mecha: Pilots the "Dreadwalker".
• Insufferable Genius: His notes give the impression that he has an enormous ego.
• Our Goblins Are Different
• Was Once a Man

Baron Niklas von Schreyer

• Military Mashup Machine: Operates a rocket-powered, rotor-driven flying tank.
• Red Baron: Known as "The Green Baron".

Morkenrav, Enslaved Herald of Vori'thel

• Animalistic Abomination
• Extra Eyes: Quite a few, on all sides.
• Flying Seafood Special: He zips nimbly about his arena between attacks.
• Giant Squid: He's many times the size of the player.

The Mouse Panzer

• BFG: Its main gun is huge, and fires arcing bombs with shark faces painted on them.
• Gatling Good: Has several mounted gatling turrets.
• Grenade Launcher: Has several, which can launch a spread of gas grenades.
• Military Mashup Machine: An enormous, multi-turreted tank perched atop a single, central tread pod.
• Shockwave Stomp: It can jump, and send out damaging blasts in either direction when it lands.
• Shout-Out: Possibly to Metal Slug, given the configuration of its gatling turrets, its ability to jump, and the word "Slug" scrawled on the side plating.
• Tank Goodness

Other characters

Sayetta of the Scale:

A reporter for "The Inner Voice" who wrote interview pieces with each of the Stormers.

• Even the Girls Want Her: Even Stabbygale thinks she's pretty, referring to her as "sexy-eyes". However, the feeling is not reciprocated.
• Exposition Fairy: Sayetta's news articles serve to introduce the player characters and explain certain elements of the Back Story.
• Madness Mantra: Sayetta got a taste of Vori'thel's power, but she's perfectly fine fine fine fine...
• Meaningful Name: See below.
• Mutant: It's implied that Sayetta was mutated into some kind of naga-type being... and that she's seven meters long.
• The Unseen: Sayetta doesn't appear in-game.
• Snake People

Harald Kreischmann

• Propaganda Machine: He writes the self-congratulatory reports about Von Garg's "holy" new war-machines to the public and tries to paint the Stormers as heretics and terrorists.
• The Unseen

Vori'Thel

An elder goddess imprisoned under the deepest ruins beneath the city by von Garg, whose blood, the Goop, was leeched and used to power his wunderwaffen.

• Cuteness Proximity: Finds humans to be "so very cuddly."
• Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?
• Eldritch Abomination: Admittedly a much friendlier one then most.
• Go Mad from the Revelation: Her mere presence will "scour your mind like a dirty frying pan." She apologies profusely for such and according to Sayetta, spent time puzzling the minds of the Stormers back together after her release.
• I Have Many Names: Called "Mother of Monsters" and "She Who Sleeps Below".
• Sealed Good in a Can: von Garg had imprisoned her spirit to make use of her powers for his own nefarious purposes.
• Skill Point Reset: Rewards the Stormers with one for releasing her.
• Walking Spoiler: