The characters found in Silent Hope.
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Wanderer
Voiced by Nobunaga Shimazaki (Japanese), Brandon McInnis (English)
Weapon: Sword & Shield
Classes: Wanderer - Adventurer - Drifter
- Goggles Do Nothing: His Adventurer class has a pair of goggles on his head for decorative purposes.
- Heroes Prefer Swords: His role is that of the more stereotypical hero found in videogames, with his designated fighting style being a one-handed sword alongside a shield for protection.
- Jack of All Trades: The character. Seeking an actual purpose is life is part of the reason he followed the light to the Abyss.
- His fighting style is adequately quick and reasonably strong, he has a variety of skills that allow him to handle one-on-one and group battles, and his parameter growth for HP isn't so bad.
- Even at base camp, he will pretty much jump into any side job that's currently empty if the player is using said job's specified character.
- Master of None: Goes hand-in-hand with the above. Everyone has something they can do better than him. This manifested in the Drifter shadow that appears in the Abyss.Wanderer's Thoughts: Jack of all trades, master of none. That's just another way of saying you're average, right? Whenever I saw people with true talent, my envy ate me alive.
Warrior
Voiced by Mutsumi Tamura (Japanese), Allegra Clark (English)
Weapon: Greatsword
Classes: Warrior - Paladin - Berserker
- The Blacksmith: Her side job while at base camp, being the one to forge the heroes' equipment and upgrading it.
- BFS: Her designated weapon is a two-handed greatsword, leaving her fighting style to be rather strong, but also rather slow. Compared to most of the other heroes, her regular attack chain only goes up to two hits.
- Fiery Redhead: She has deep red hair and is a rather aggressive fighter.
- Leeroy Jenkins: Throws herself into battle, along with having skills where she simply rushes into the enemy with her weapon held like a battering ram.
- Mighty Glacier: She has a lot of bulk and her greatsword hits like a truck full of bricks, but her swings are slow and she doesn't have many mobility options.
- Screaming Warrior: She has a lot of battle cries, including a skill called Howl that has her temporarily stun enemies with her voice.
- Significant Greeneyed Redhead: She's the only one out of the heroes that has green eyes alongside her red hair.
- Stay in the Kitchen: One of her ongoing gripes in camp is that her master refused to teach her solely on the basis of gender. Her frustrations and anger over the issue would ultimately yield the Berserker shadow.Warrior's Thoughts: The sheer beauty of big blades stole my heart. Did that innocent admiration really deserve such derision? And all because I'm a woman... Well, I'M SICK OF IT!
Rogue
Voiced by Yoshiko Sakakibara (Japanese), Laura Post (English)
Weapon: Dual Blades
Classes: Rogue - Trickster - Ninja
- Dual Wielding: Her chosen fighting style is wielding two blades, which means she's a fast attacker and can easily deal with a group of enemies. In exchange, her attacks are not very strong.
- Flash Step: Her means of dodging enemy aggression. Some skills let her attack either during or after such a dodge.
- Flechette Storm: One of her skills has her throw knives around her in a circle.
- Fragile Speedster: Her individual hits are weak and she can't take much punishment, which requires observing enemy attack motions and abusing her blink-dodge and blink-attack skills in order to survive.
- Ninja Maid: Her initial class appearance of Rogue has her wearing a stereotypical maid outfit, while she's well-versed in fighting with two knives. One of her advanced classes is called Ninja.
- Purple Is Powerful: Aside from her haircolor and designated merchandise color being purple, her advanced Trickster class switches her maid attire to a fancier, purple gown.
- She Who Fights Monsters: Having been abandoned by her parents at a young age, she understandably wants to keep that from befalling others. Unfortunately, attempts to justify her failures and extreme measures to herself would birth the Ninja shadow.Rogue's Thoughts: My parents abandoned me. In the depths of my despair, I swore I'd never let anyone suffer the same fate. I'd nip all evil in the bud.
Archer
Voiced by Akira Ishida (Japanese), Zeno Robinson (English)
Weapon: Bow
Classes: Archer - Bomber - Sharpshooter
- Animal Lover: Seems to love animals, and is the one to care for the various livestock at base camp.
- Better with Non-Human Company: His big hang-up - and the thoughts that manifest in the Sharpshooter shadow - is that he finds more comfort with animals than with people, and never really learned how to live with the latter before arriving at the Abyss.Archer's Thoughts: After I lost my old home, I found a new one in the wilderness. The animals are my family now. I've survived through trial and error, but never had anyone to teach me how human society actually works.
- Throw Down the Bomblet: His advanced class Bomber has several skills where he throws bomb-arrows, which count as a magical-type of attack.
- Trap Master: Several of his skills involve setting traps to temporarily hold or otherwise incapacitate enemies, allowing him to get his distance and make use of his bow.
Farmer
Voiced by Misaki Kuno (Japanese), Megan Taylor Harvey (English)
Weapon: Pitchfork
Classes: Farmer - Ranger - Geomancer
- Bratty Half-Pint: Even with a good family, she wasn't always the best kid growing up, and such arrogance would yield the Geomancer shadow in the end. She misses her family, though.Farmer's Thoughts: One cute smile and I could get away with anything. I felt invincible. I'm still determined to see my duty through to the very end... even as thoughts of the family I left behind threaten to consume me.
- Gardening-Variety Weapon: Her designated weapon is a pitchfork, which makes her default attacking style of the Pierce type.
- Power-Up Food:
- One of her skills has her munch a vegetable she plucks out of the ground, which gives her temporary buffs.
- Per her vocation, she's the one that grows the assorted crops used by the Fighter (or Wanderer) to cook the food you consume for stat buffs.
Fighter
Voiced by Kotono Mitsuishi (Japanese), Erica Lindbeck (English)
Weapon: Gloves
Classes: Fighter - Battle Master - Destroyer
- Curtains Match the Windows: Her hair and eyes are both red.
- Glass Cannon: While not that fragile (especially compared to the Rogue), she's not as durable as the Wanderer or Warrior, but she's quick on her feet and she hits hard. Throw her at a boss with proper equipment and watch their life bar melt before your eyes.
- Good Old Fisticuffs: Her fighting style involves beating enemies up with her fists, which makes her one of the physically strongest fighters out of the heroes in one-on-one combat. However, this means that there's some difficulty fighting a group of enemies, and her range is incredibly short.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: The Destroyer shadow manifest from her short temper, a character flaw that she could find no solution to prior to her journey to the Abyss.Fighter's Thoughts: I was raised to mind my manners, but have always struggled to control my emotions. When blinded by anger, I destroy everything in a rage. I committed the greatest breach of etiquette, yet kept repeating it.
- Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: Her initial class of Fighter has her fight in a short, velvet dress and fur stole.
- Supreme Chef: Her side job at base camp is to do the cooking for the group, which adds buffs to them in the Abyss.
Caster
Voiced by Takahiro Fujimoto (Japanese), Bill Butts (English)
Weapon: Staff
Classes: Caster - Sage - Summoner
- Alchemy: His side job at base camp is to transmutate the various rocks and gems the heroes collect in the Abyss into useable material for equipment.
- Ambiguously Brown: Aside from his skintone being the darkest of the heroes, about the same tone as the Princess and King, his hairstyle sports several dreadlocks.
- Black Mage: His fighting style of using offensive spells from a distance. This gives him an advantage from afar and decent crowd control with various AoE spells, though his overall attack speed is slow and he only has a two-stage basic attack chain.
- Insufferable Genius: This issue plagues him enough to manifest the Summoner shadow in the Abyssal Forest. Fittingly, it's implied the King's curse has nothing to do with it... or any of the others' issues, for that matter.Caster's Thoughts: My undeniable intellect allowed me to outpace everyone else, but I had no way to pass on my knowledge. Even with our words restored, no one can understand my genius.
- Massive Numbered Siblings: One of the Princess' notes mentions that he has seven younger brothers and five youngers sisters.
- Navel-Deep Neckline: His shirts under his coats are usually open past his pecs, giving a nice view of his chest.
- Purple Is Powerful: His advanced class Sage has him don a purple coat compared to the white one he wears by default.
- Signature Instrument: The lute. If he's not busy performing alchemy at base camp, he can be seen playing it.
Princess
Voiced by Kana Hanazawa (Japanese), Dani Chambers (English)
The Princess of the kingdom that was struck by calamity and whose ruler stole the power of speech from its citizens. With her father's theft and sudden leap into the Abyss, she began to mourn him and cried for 100 years straight.
She saw the seven rainbow-colored lights flying out from the Abyss and she prayed to them, wishing for heroes to brave the descent into the Abyss and finding her father.
- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Upon reuniting with the King, she thanks the heroes for their support before leaving for the afterlife with him. Her crystal remains empty hence, but its magic persists.
- Body to Jewel: Her tears have encased her like a crystal prison, and her tears can be found inside the Abyss to switch between characters or return to base camp.
- Daddy's Girl: With her father being her sole surviving parent, she clung to him and her reminiscing in memories of the old kingdom has her frequently note how wonderful he was... at least, until the kingdom went to hell.
- Exposition Fairy: She explains basics about the Abyss, as well as how the base camp works for the heroes. She's also the only character capable of speech, making this role kind of necessary for her.
- Missing Mom: One of her notes mentions that her mother died shortly after giving birth to her.
- Mystical Waif: The princess of a forgotten kingdom that calls upon the heroes to descend into the Abyss and find her missing father.
The King (Unmarked Spoilers)
The King of the kingdom that was struck by calamity. He stole the world's words, then jumped into the Abyss without a trace.
- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: He and the Princess depart for the afterlife in the ending. But your journey is not yet over, as the Dark Voice makes itself known soon after.
- Final Boss: He transforms into the King of Malice when you find him, and you have to take him out.
- I Cannot Self-Terminate: The seven lights that flew from the Abyss were meant to summon virtuous heroes to strike him down in the event the malice of the stolen words overwhelmed him.
- Walking Spoiler: Beyond the basic premise, discussing the circumstances of his fall or his actions in-depth fundamentally spoils the story.
- Weakened by the Light: As the Dark-element King of Malice, he is weak to Light attacks.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: While stealing the concept of speech from the entire world is by all definitions extreme, you can't fault him too much given that the people blamed him for every calamity that befell it back-to-back, with some even exploiting the disaster for selfish gain.
Spoilers (Unmarked!)
Primitivus
A dark voice beckoning from the depths of the Abyss once the King and Princess have passed on. Actually a dragon born from the malice that permeates the Abyss itself.
- Dragons Are Demonic: Its appearance is both draconic and otherworldly malefic, and it hates humanity enough to consider eradicating the species before you show up.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: After you bested your shadow at the end of the Abyssal Forest, and all the way down the Nadir, it is incapable of understanding why your inner evil remains dormant.
- True Final Boss: Once you defeat the King of Malice, it becomes the final challenge you must face at the end of the Nadir.
- Humans Are Bastards: Believes this wholeheartedly from the moment you first meet; it seems unable to see humans as anything else, even after you defeat your shadow in the Abyssal Forest. By the time you arrive at its lair, it wants to understand why you are so different.
- Kill All Humans: It admits by the time you arrive at its lair that it had originally planned on annihilating humanity when it eventually left; your ongoing struggle with your own inner evil has piqued its curiosity enough to suspend this plan for the moment, and losing to you convinces it to observe the world to better understand the humans it despised so.
- Made of Evil: It is an avatar of the malice that has infested the Abyss since time immemorial. Believing that all things bear malice, the seven heroes' ongoing struggles confound it.
- Non-Elemental: Despite being made of concentrated malice, Primitivus is not Dark-elemental, and instead has no elemental alignment and no weapon weaknesses whatsoever.
- The Omniscient: Its first warning when you enter the Abyssal Forest is that it sees everything that happens in the Abyss.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: It has a special attack that lines up seven elemental beams that sweep the entire field. Only by activating an elemental beacon that matches your equipped weapon magistone can you hope to survive.
- Walking Spoiler: Its mere existence is outside the scope of the basic narrative, so discussing it at all spoils the postgame.
- Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: You honestly thought you were done with the Abyss once the King was retrieved and the world had its words back?
