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The Cloudsley Family
Albert Cloudsley
Esquire Albert Cloudsley
A member of the Seven Seas Company, shareholder in the Titania Printing House, and progenitor of the Cloudsley Family. He went on an expedition to Monkey Paw Island with Doctor Oberon Geller and took the golden idol.
- Bold Explorer: Albert leads the original expedition to the Monkey's Paw Islands, which is where he finds the golden idol. He murders his navigator, Dr. Oberon Geller, in order to keep it for himself.
- Predecessor Villain: It is Albert's impulsive murder of Oberon Geller and theft of the idol that sets the stage for every horrible event that follows in the decades after. It is implied also that by stealing all of the spoils from the expedition, he created the massive fortunes that looms over the next couple chapters, and which later finance Edmund Cloudsley's machinations.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: Kills Oberon Geller under the belief that he's cheating Albert out of a valuable fortune by hoarding the Golden Idol. While the Spider of Lanka DLC reveals Geller truly was a murderous cheat and master manipulator, by all accounts he was giving Albert a far better deal than any of Geller's previous victims in Lanka.
Sebastian Cloudsley
Lord Sebastian Cloudsley
Thirdborn child of Albert Cloudsley and Lord of Blackfield. A Proudbeast Steward within the secret society of the Brotherhood of Masks, he was the first member of the Brotherhood to possess the golden idol and discover its ability to perform freezing and spontaneous combustion.
- Passed-Over Inheritance: Sebastian passes over his nephew, Peter, in his will due to his gambling addiction. Meanwhile, he leaves the golden idol to Willard Wright, someone who is seemingly a stranger.
- Undignified Death: Cloudsley dies when he falls off his horse while hunting and suffers a nasty head wound.
Edmund Cloudsley
Lord Edmund Cloudsley/Lazarus Herst
Firstborn child of Albert Cloudsley with strong political ambitions. After faking his death he tricks the Brotherhood of Masks into naming him their leader as Gryphon Reborn and turns the secret society into the Order Party, of which he is High Arbiter.
- Fake Wizardry: Though Cloudsley fakes having magical powers (such as the ability to fly), his magic actually comes entirely from the idol.
- God Guise: As Lazarus, Cloudsley infiltrates the Brotherhood of Masks and ascends to its top position by using the idol to fake a miracle, "proving" to the Brotherhood's members that he is a resurrection of a deity called the "Gryphon".
- Hypocrite: The Order Party's Virtues, which he is shown teaching in Case 10, forbid lust and excesses of emotion and demand honesty and diligence. Edmund took charge of the Brotherhood of Masks by lying about his identity and his abilities, and his death comes about because rather than concentrating on his overall goal as leader of the Party, he takes a side trip to abduct a woman he was infatuated with and gets blasted with a cannon by her husband.
- Loving a Shadow: In the final chapter, the material dealing with his obsession with Mary indicates that he's put her on a pedestal as a symbol of purity rather than actually seeming to care much about her as an individual.
- Meaningful Rename: After faking his death, he takes on the name Lazarus, likely a reference to Lazarus of Bethany whom Jesus raised from the dead.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Cloudsley has grown tired of the abuses of the nobility: by infiltrating the Brotherhood and using the idol's secrets, he hopes to create a new society, one in which everyone is equal and "virtuous" people are rewarded. However, his actions ultimately cause the deaths of numerous people, and the Order he creates ban many works of literature, art and music, as well as punishing and killing non-members for minor infractions, making him just as bad as the nobility he claims to despise.
- Two Aliases, One Character: Lazarus Herst is actually Edmund Cloudsley's new identity, with Cloudsley having made himself younger using the idol's powers.
- Tyrant Takes the Helm: Cloudsley, as Herst, takes over the nation as the leader of the Order Party. He sets out to create a totalitarian government with himself at the top.
- Undignified Death: Right as he's preparing to topple the king and cement his power over the nation, Cloudsley is killed by his drunken nephew, who shoots him with a cannon during a lover's quarrel.
- Villain Protagonist: Cloudsley is the game's central character: he appears more often than any other character, and his actions set nearly the entire plot in motion.
Peter Battley
Peter Battley
Grandson of Albert Cloudsley, son of his fourthborn child, Beatrix. He is unable to support himself financially, resorting to horse betting and accumulating large gambling debts.
- Accidentally Broke the MacGuffin: When he kills Edmund Cloudsley with a cannon, Battley inadvertently breaks the golden idol, making it useless.
- Butt-Monkey: Battley is so much an hedonistic Upper-Class Twit that the rest of his aristocratic family constantly puts him down and schemes to get rid of him behind his back. Nothing works out for him in the cases where he first appears and the player constantly finds more clues that add to his misfortunes. In the end, however, he gets to earn his happy ending - the only character to do so.
- Fugitive Arc: Peter and Mary go on the run from the Order Party after their takeover, since Edmund wishes to kidnap Mary and have her for his own.
- The Gambling Addict: Battley has a serious gambling addiction, which has caused him a number of problems; he has often written to family members asking them for money, and is rarely seen without a horse-racing betting slip in his pockets. His addiction led his wealthy uncle Sebastian to all but write him out of his will, leaving him only a book of aphorisms on how to live healthily.
- Love Letter: Battley writes a corny love letter to Mary Richards, who appears to be touched by it, as she marries him and keeps the letter all the way to the end of the game.
- Non-Protagonist Resolver: After years of political intrigue and betrayals by Cloudsey as Lazarus Hearst, Turner, Koch and Keene, ironically it is ultimately Peter Battley, the shiftless layabout previously written off by his relatives as a lost cause, who kills Hearst - setting of a snowball of chaos that destroys the Order Party and saves Albion. Punctuating this for added measure, Battley had no heroic intentions, and Hearst got himself killed by Battley for reasons completely unrelated to his ambitions for domination just hours before he could've won everything had he just not bothered: storming into his manor at random to kidnap his wife over an old grudge and getting blown up by a cannon by a drunken Battley for his trouble.
- Passed-Over Inheritance: Due to his gambling addiction.
- Sole Survivor: By the end of the game, Peter is the only remaining member of the Cloudsley family left alive (alongside his new wife Mary).
- Upper-Class Twit: Battley is short-tempered and spends all his money on horse races, to the point of having to beg from Edmund Cloudsley for money to pay off his gambling debts.
Mary Richards
Mary Battley (nee Richards)
The beautiful and much desired daughter of Lothar Richards.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Mary initially appears in only one chapter partway through the story, where she is introduced as a seemingly inconsequential love interest for both Edmund Cloudsley and Peter Battley. She disappears for the rest of the game... until the very end, where it's revealed that she's the catalyst for the events that ultimately lead to Edmund's death and the destruction of the idol.
- Everyone Loves Blondes: Mary, a blonde, is frequently described as being beautiful and is the object of desire for several characters.
- Fugitive Arc: Peter and Mary go on the run from the Order Party after their takeover, since Edmund wishes to kidnap Mary and have her for his own.
- Love Triangle: One of these exists between Mary, Edmund, and Peter. Though she initially despises Peter and prefers Edmund, Mary is eventually won over by the former after Edmund's apparent death, ultimately marrying him. When he hears about their marriage, Edmund attempts to kidnap Mary, but is killed by Peter in a confrontation.
Rose Cubert
Rose Cubert (nee Cloudsley)
Albert Cloudsley's second child who spent most of her life living in the colonies.
- Foreign Culture Fetish: Having spent time in British India, Rose seems to be infatuated with the setting's equivalent Indian culture; she carries Indian ornaments (including an elephant hand fan and an ornamental katar blade) and speaks gratuitous Hindi.
- Murder by Mistake: Rose is killed by the poison meant for Edmund when she sips some of the poisoned drink at the dinner party.
The Brotherhood of Masks
The Brotherhood in General
Brotherhood of Masks
A cult and secret society that believes in magic and worships a higher being known as the Gryphon. They wear ruby rings at all times to identify each other in public but in gatherings all wear masks of one of the three houses: Darkhands, Watersnakes, and Proudbeasts.- Brotherhood of Funny Hats: The Brotherhood of Masks is a secret society made up of members of the nobility, who worship a god called the "Gryphon". It's noted that, while the Brotherhood has several powerful and influential members and will go to lengths to protect themselves and retrieve their artifacts, they don't do much of anything outside of that. It's not until Lazarus Herst takes over as "Gryphon Reborn" that they start to grab for power.
- Group-Identifying Feature: All of the Brotherhood members are identifiable by brands on their back, which signify their rank and sect. They also all have ruby rings.
- Initiation Ceremony: Potential Brotherhood initiates must pass a number of different tests (such as being isolated, exposed to the elements, and branded), which they are forced to endure before becoming members.
- Malevolent Masked Men: The Brotherhood's members all don ominous masks while meeting, making it difficult to identify which of them is which without inside knowledge.
Walter Keene
Walter Keene
An notorious and fashionable thief who has been initiated into the Brotherhood.- Assassin Outclassin': When David Gorran is sent to kill Keene, Keene tricks him using a scarecrow as a decoy, ultimately ambushing and killing him.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Keene first betrays Edmund Cloudsley after being hired by him; he then betrays the Brotherhood in order to serve Cloudsley; he then betrays Cloudsley once again after being kicked out of the Order Party.
- Cult Defector: Due to his misbehavior and lies, Keene is expelled from the Order Party and magically aged up by several decades. He attempts to blackmail Edmund in order to gain his lost years back.
- The Dog Bites Back: Walter attempts to blackmail Edmund after being betrayed and succeeds in killing his right hand man.
- The Highwayman: Styled as this, with the domino mask, and his tendency to wear a different fancy hat on each of his escapades.
- Lovable Rogue: The image he tries to present wearing flamboyant hats, being a notorious womanizer, and mainly committing non-violent crimes (not to say he has anything against killing, he tries to have Ada assassinate Edmund Cloudsley after all, it's just that his plans notably take steps to keep alive many - such as David Gorran and the Darkhand Initiate he later impersonates - that it would've been much easier for him to just kill).
- Won't Get Fooled Again: Averted with Walter, who remarks that he managed to fool David Gorran twice using a similar trick. In Case 6, Walter fools David by posing a scarecrow as a corpse, allowing him to ambush David and get access to the Cloudsley cabin. In Case 11, he once again tricks him by posing a scarecrow as himself, allowing him to ambush and kill David when the latter shoots the scarecrow.
David Gorran
David Gorran
Loyal servant to Edmund Cloudsley- Line-of-Sight Alias: While staying at the Little Mermaid Inn, he uses the alias "Ash Blair", the name of a popular brand of tobacco.
- Personal Mook: Edmund Cloudsley uses Gorran as a henchman for a variety of tasks, including assassinations, kidnappings and personal protection. This trend continues once Edmund has reinvented himself as Lazarus Herst.
- Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo: After disguising himself as a Brotherhood member, Gorran helps Keene pass a test involving poisoned chalices by secretly signaling toward the non-poisoned one.
- The Reliable One: Gorran is Edmund's most trusted servant, and is often at his side assisting him. Cloudsley notes that Gorran is a "resourceful and discreet professional".
James Turner
Doctor James Turner
A member of the Seven Seas Company and Darkhand Master of the Brotherhood of Masks.- Decapitation Strike: With the help of Alistair Koch, Turner performs one of these on the British government; he invites the leaders of the two biggest parties to a stay at his mansion, where Koch murders the leader of one party and Turner frames the leader of the other. This clears the way for Lazarus Herst's struggling Order Party to come out on top.
- The Hedonist: Turner is very greedy, and Edmund notes that he needs "constant material motivation to cooperate".
- Nepotism: Both Nicolas Maker and Angus MacBain try to get positions on the board of directors at the Seven Seas Trading Company through Dr. Turner, but he turns them down.
- Those Two Guys: Is almost always accompanied by Alistair Koch.
Alistair Koch
General Alistair Koch
A military general and Proudbeast Master of the Brotherhood of Masks.- General Ripper: Koch is notable for being a brutish, hardheaded general. He commits murder on several occasions for his own benefit, and leads the Order Party's march on the palace.
- Sole Survivor: Of the Order Party's upper echelon.
- Those Two Guys: Is almost always nearby James Turner.
Willard Wright
Willard Wright
A stranger to the rest of the Cloudsley family who shows up at Sebastian Cloudsley's will reading. Proudbeast Initiate of the Brotherhood of Masks.- Alliterative Name: Willard Wright
- Small Role, Big Impact: Wright is a minor character whose only relation to any of the other characters is that he is in the Brotherhood of Masks. After Sebastian Cloudsley's death, Wright is granted the golden idol in Cloudsley's will. Wright already piqued the interest of Cloudsley's relatives because of his inclusion in the will, but then Wright used the power of the golden idol in a public place. This motivated Edmund Cloudsley to send a thief to steal the idol, which set the Brotherhood of Masks against Edmund and also started Edmund's experiments to determine the full extent of the golden idol's power. All this from a minor character who has only one line and dies in the very next scene.
Nicolas Maker
Nicholas Maker
The attorney handling the will of Sebastian Cloudsley and Watersnake Initiate of the Brotherhood of Masks.- Amoral Attorney: Downplayed. Whilst Nicolas follows proper procedure in his job, he is a member of a murder-happy cult and is perfectly happy to work in a totalitarian regime before then proceeding to insist that he never had anything to do with them once it collapses.
- Karma Houdini: Took part in a oppressive regime yet once the party falls apart he quickly denies all involvement and joins the revelry of those that despised the party.
Lanka Island Characters
In General
Lanka and Lemuria
- Cultural Chop Suey: Aside from its obvious inspiration from Sri Lanka, both of which are also situated on the island and the name meaning "island" in Sanskrit, the culture had elements of South East Asian kingdoms (this play into a nod that many of these pre-colonial kingdoms—especially Majapahit in Indonesia and Angkor in Cambodia—adopted Indian culture to the point of appointing Brahmin from India).
- Deadly Decadent Court: Other than three kingdoms, the family itself has intrigue among its members who were assisted by other officials and Seven Seas Company to fulfill their agendas.
- Hegemonic Empire: While local monarchs rule the island itself, the Lemurians still had sway in terms of choosing their successors through kingship rituals.
- Vestigial Empire: Lemuria itself has fallen from the grace that it had to maintain its influence through religious delegation to oversee the new monarchs on the Island of Lanka.
Oberon Geller
Doctor Oberon Geller
Surgeon, hypnotherapist, shareholder in the Titania Printing House, and a member of the Seven Seas company.- Engineered Heroics: Tricked Zubiri Kerra into entering a dangerous card game so he could save him and invoke I Owe You My Life to get information out of him about the Lemurian delegation.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: The Lemurian Vampire reveals that the reason why Cloudsley killed him is because he used trickery to give everyone (including Cloudsley) the impression that he could read minds. When Cloudsley had the passing thought that Geller was becoming too powerful and ought to be killed, he believed Geller would see that in his mind and that he therefore had no choice but to seize the moment and kill him immediately.
- The Chessmaster: Plays everyone in the Spider of Lanka DLC like a fiddle.
Zubiri Kerra
Zubiri Kerra
A Lemurian student who accompanies his father, Yupik Kerra, as part of the Lemurain delegation in Lanka.- Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Is the character who features most prominently throughout both of the DLCs and - as opposed to Edmund Cloudsley - tries to use his intelligence and knowledge for good.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Although he goes through a lot, repeatedly ending up imprisoned for things he didn't do, and ultimately ends up losing the golden idol, he ends up invited into a leadership role by the villagers of Monkey Paw Island, who respect his knowledge of the ancient world.
- Fire-Forged Friends: The first time Zubiri meets Jayan Ji, Jayan is prepared to carry out the order to execute Zubiri to enforce the local custom that a life must be traded for a life. Later, Zubiri is held prisoner, but Jayan starts to befriend Zubiri. After the two become shipwrecked on Monkey Paw Island, they eventually become true friends.
Yupik Kerra
High Priest Yupik Kerra
Lemurian High Priest asked to lead a delegation to Lanka to perform the rebirth ritual. Arri Sukerra
Arri Sukerra
A servant girl for the Lemurian delegation.- Love Triangle: She is desired by both Zubiri and Jayan.
- Posthumous Character: She is already dead as soon as she is introduced.
Abhaya Gamini
Raja Abhaya Gamini
Raja of the Vijaya Kingdom- Adipose Rex: He is the monarch of his kingdom, and also quite a large man.
- Dies Offscreen: Dies in a shipwreck prior to the first case in The Lemurian Vampire
Anula Gamini
Daughter of the Raja and one of the candidates to be his heir.
- Gone Horribly Wrong: She died during a ritual that went wrong after an assistant was murdered.
- Posthumous Character: She is already dead as soon as she is introduced.
Tissa Gamini
Son of the Raja and one of the candidates to be his heir.
- Inadequate Inheritor: While Tissa's sister Anula would resort to deceit, Tissa himself showed a lack of initiative and wit compared to her as the plot that led to his succession was crafted by Oberon Geller.
- Prince Charmless: He has an unpleasant personality and a royal lineage. This is emphasized in The Lemurian Vampire DLC, where he shows frustration with the village's communal lifestyle where he has to do physical work. In fact, his abuse of power as a Sentinel led to his demise by Lavu Mata with his "promise" for Sahilla to be his companion being the last straw.
Putra Sun
The Raja's Spymaster
- Iconic Item: The spymaster is never seen without his umbrella. To prepare for a mission, he draws a diagram showing the building, and each person involved in the mission is represented by a simple circle. But the circle representing himself has a little umbrella drawn on it as well.
Jayan Ji
The Raja's Blademaster
- Code of Honour: In his first appearance, Jayan tells his captive that he will be killed swiftly. He sees killing as his duty to his Raja:I have killed many people, for the right and the wrong reasons. Such is the Dharma of the Warrior.
- Fire-Forged Friends: Zubiri Kerra is Jayan's captive during the journey to Monkey Paw Island, but already Zubiri's diary tells that Jayan has been friendly to him. After being shipwrecked, the two eventually become true friends and Jayan helps Zubiri escape captivity in the final chapter.
The Lemurian Vampire Characters
In General
Monkey Paw Island Villagers
Lavu Mata
Lavu Mata
The village's Guardian of Children. Vyrlis Momgo
Vyrlis Momgo
The village's Guardian of Males- The Big Guy: Big, strong and the most likely to leap to aggressive action.
Kula Stirna
Kula Stirna
The village's Guardian of Females Kruplu Zarno
Kruplu Zarno
The village's Guardian of Agriculture Sutul Vaito
Sutul Vaito
The village's latest Sentinel who protects them from Tower Dweller. Sahilla Een
Sahilla Een
A beautiful young village woman who catches Tissa's eye. Tower Dweller
An entity wielding the golden idol to take the lifespan of the villagers.
