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* FaceHeelTurn: The Black Duchess route has her turn adventurer/bandit gang leader. She can also choose to, in the Empire ending, join Lord Vecanthrax, and [[spoiler:join ZEALOT]] in the betrayal ending.

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* FaceHeelTurn: The Black Duchess route has her turn adventurer/bandit gang leader. She can also choose to, in the Empire ending, join Lord Vecanthrax, Vecnathrax, and [[spoiler:join ZEALOT]] in the betrayal ending.
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The resident rogue of the Awesome Fellowship, she now functions as the de-facto sheriff of the marque, rounding up bandits and rescuing their captives. She starts off somewhat cold to the Duchess, but learns to appreciate what she brings to the castle. Secretly, she's playing the Fellowship and Vencathrax against each other, so she can see how his plan was going to end...

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The resident rogue of the Awesome Fellowship, she now functions as the de-facto sheriff of the marque, rounding up bandits and rescuing their captives. She starts off somewhat cold to the Duchess, but learns to appreciate what she brings to the castle. Secretly, she's playing the Fellowship and Vencathrax Vecnathrax against each other, so she can see how his plan was going to end...

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* DamselInDistress: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] repeatedly, in that kidnappings only started happening once she entered the marque. In one path, she turns into a DecoyDamsel. Also Deconstructed; the Duchess is constantly being kidnapped and imprisoned whenever she leaves the safety of the castle, but she's been kidnapped and imprisoned all her life and has gotten very good at it; the Fellowship doesn't band together to help her and when Louni rescues her, she finds it just as annoying as most gamers do when being forced to rescue the hero's love interest.



* DistressedDamsel: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] repeatedly, in that kidnappings only started happening once she entered the marque. In one path, she turns into a DecoyDamsel. Also Deconstructed; the Duchess is constantly being kidnapped and imprisoned whenever she leaves the safety of the castle, but she's been kidnapped and imprisoned all her life and has gotten very good at it; the Fellowship doesn't band together to help her and when Louni rescues her, she finds it just as annoying as most gamers do when being forced to rescue the hero's love interest.

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* MayflyDecemberRomance:

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* HidingBehindYourBangs: Part of her face is always hidden by her hair, which makes her look all the more mysterious.
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* PeekABangs: Part of her face is always hidden by her hair, which makes her look all the more mysterious.
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* GagBoobs: Countess Knockersdale, and they're big enough to cover a noticeable portion of her portrait. The former's name is also [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Fal during a party; she just doesn't want to believe the Duchess that "Knockersdale" really is her name.
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A horny devil lady summoned by Vecanthrax who appears in the castle where King Stew is being held.

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A horny devil lady summoned by Vecanthrax who appears in the castle where King Stew is being held.
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: UpToEleven, and it's entirely justified.

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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: UpToEleven, and it's It's entirely justified.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Rather unusual, since most humans have realistic hair colours.
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* {{Seer}}: Despite royalty being forbidden from being magicians.

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* {{Seer}}: {{Seers}}: Despite royalty being forbidden from being magicians.
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T. (Ze Evil Anti-defamation League of Taruz)

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* FaceHeelTurn: The Black Duchess route has her turn adventurer/bandit gang leader. She can also choose to [[spoiler:join ZEALOT]]].

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* FaceHeelTurn: The Black Duchess route has her turn adventurer/bandit gang leader. She can also choose to to, in the Empire ending, join Lord Vecanthrax, and [[spoiler:join ZEALOT]]].ZEALOT]] in the betrayal ending.



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An organization of Anti-paladins who defend the "evil races" from persecution by the "good races".
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* NobleDemon: Taken to amlost ridiculously extremes, as he cares about his men and is much more friendly than the utterly amoral Awesome Fellowship.

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* AffablyEvil: He is cordial towards his enemies.
* FinalBoss: In the Embric, No More Lies, and two Elstwhere endings, he and his men are the last enemy that the Duchess must defeat.
* NobleDemon: Taken to amlost almost ridiculously extremes, as he cares about his men and is much more friendly than the utterly amoral Awesome Fellowship.Fellowship.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He wants to fight against the discrimination that the so-called "evil races" have suffered at the hands of the "good races", especially the elves. However, he decides that the best way to do that is to invade and burn down Wulfhammer and kill every paladin who gets in his way.



* AristocratsAreEvil: He's a spoiled kid and may grow up into a tyrant.

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* ArcVillain: In the Iron Duchess routes, he attempts to take over Wulfhammer back from the Duchess and Embric.
* AristocratsAreEvil: He's a spoiled kid and, in the Iron Duchess endings, becomes a wannabe tyrant attempting to takee over Wulfhammer.
* DragonAscendant: He worked with Greyghast when he was alive,
and may grow up into in the Iron Duchess ending tries to take over Wulfhammer himself, taking the title of "Greyghast's heir".
* SmugSnake: Every word he speaks is filled with arrogance, despite him being nothing more than
a tyrant.wannabe dictator.


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* MsFanservice: If she ''can'' end up in her lingerie and/or naked, she ''will''.

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* TheMole: WordOfGod is that one valid interpretation of the Betrayal ending is that she was a mole for ZEALOT all along.
* MsFanservice: If she ''can'' end up in her lingerie and/or naked, she ''will''.''will'', at the drop of a hat (or a drop down a well). It's also a game mechanic; at least one story path requires her to be in her underwear before it will progress. Her fanservice is especially apparent when she dons her evil dress.



* {{Stripperiffic}}: If there is any excuse for the Duchess to end up in her underwear, it will happen.
* TheMole. Yes, really; WordOfGod is that one valid interpretation of the Betrayal ending is that she was a mole all along.

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* {{Stripperiffic}}: If there is any SpockSpeak: The Duchess, with the excuse for the Duchess to end up in her underwear, it will happen.
* TheMole. Yes, really; WordOfGod is that one valid interpretation of the Betrayal ending is
that she was conditioned that way in childhood.
-->'''Duchess:''' Who is
a mole all along.
delightful little nereid? That is correct! It is you!
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Most of the pairings that The Duchess can end up in.
* UnderratedAndOverleveled: Possibly the only game where this happens to the ''main character''. The Duchess gains experience and levels up over the course of the game's events, almost none of which are remotely related to fighting. By the time she actually ends up in combat, she's likely to be capable of fighting on the level of the Awesome Fellowship, who've presumably spent a long time accruing much more relevant experience.



* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:Turns out she directs Lord Vecnathrax's actions.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:The woman behind Lord Vecnathrax.]]

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* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:Turns Turns out she directs Lord Vecnathrax's actions.]]
actions.
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:The woman TheManBehindTheMan: Vecnathrax is the oft-spoken of ArchEnemy of the Awesome Fellowship; a very old [[OurLichesAreDifferent Lich.]] It turns out, he's actually quite senile. The person who is really behind Lord Vecnathrax.]]his schemes is Louni; who is finding all of his old plans back when he was competent and firing them up and seeing how the Awesome Fellowship handles it. For the [[WarForFunAndProfit Artistic Value]].



* RagTagBunchOfMisfits: They're all a bit odd for dwarves, some more obviously than others.

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* RagTagBunchOfMisfits: OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: [[{{Deconstruction}} Deconstructed]], the dwarves are so identical that the Awesome Fellowship did not realize at their dwarf was eventually replaced by ''seven different dwarves'' playing the original one, even when they all have different hair colours and one of them isn't even a guy.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits:
They're all a bit odd for dwarves, some more obviously than others.



* SmarterThanYouLook: [[spoiler:The nameless, faceless people on the castle grounds only speak short WelcomeToCorneria lines because they're scared of the Duchess. When she earns their trust, they speak ''long'' WelcomeToCorneria lines. One of them even works in the fields so he has lots of time to think deep thoughts.]]



* TheFogOfAges: Vecnathrax is rather senile, which makes sense as he's a thousand-year-old skeleton.



* MayflyDecemberRomance: [[spoiler:And what a tearjerker it is! See the BittersweetEnding entry above]].

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* MayflyDecemberRomance: [[spoiler:And what a tearjerker it is! See the BittersweetEnding entry above]].MayflyDecemberRomance:
* MsFanservice: She usually appears naked and sumptuous-- in actuality she's emaciated and sick from being kept imprisoned and malnourished, but she uses illusions to satisfy her vanity.


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* PragmaticVillainy: WordOfGod is that Carmina is really, really unrepentantly evil. She's also more than intelligent enough to know it's not in her best interest to push it; and she ''does'' love the Duchess, as evidenced in one ending where she [[spoiler:actually cries when the Duchess dies of old age]].


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* NobleDemon: Taken to amlost ridiculously extremes, as he cares about his men and is much more friendly than the utterly amoral Awesome Fellowship.

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* ArrangedMarriage: With Embric, despite having never met.



* DistressedDamsel: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] repeatedly, in that kidnappings only started happening once she entered the marque. In one path, she turns into a DecoyDamsel.

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* DistressedDamsel: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] repeatedly, in that kidnappings only started happening once she entered the marque. In one path, she turns into a DecoyDamsel. Also Deconstructed; the Duchess is constantly being kidnapped and imprisoned whenever she leaves the safety of the castle, but she's been kidnapped and imprisoned all her life and has gotten very good at it; the Fellowship doesn't band together to help her and when Louni rescues her, she finds it just as annoying as most gamers do when being forced to rescue the hero's love interest.
* DecoyDamsel: Duchess, in the Black Duchess path.



* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Nobody asks what the Duchess' name is. At the end of her romance path, Louni asks, but Duchess is interrupted-- she does tell Carmina. At one point, Azreala, a villain challenging the group to a riddle contest, asks them the Duchess' name. ''None of them can recall it'', and they all get captured as a result. This includes a potential love interest and a friend she's had since childhood.



* FaceHeelTurn: The Black Duchess route has her turn adventurer/bandit gang leader. [[spoiler:It's also a choice with ZEALOT.]]

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* FaceHeelTurn: The Black Duchess route has her turn adventurer/bandit gang leader. [[spoiler:It's She can also a choice with ZEALOT.]]choose to [[spoiler:join ZEALOT]]].



* OnlyKnownByThierNickname: Her name is [[spoiler:Catherine]], but it's not mentioned for a long time. Everyone just calls her Duchess.



* ReallyGetsAround: She can have relationships, and sleep, with nearly a dozen people.

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* ReallyGetsAround: She can have relationships, relationships with and sleep, sleep with nearly a dozen people.



* {{Jerkass}}: She looks down on other races, especially humans and dark elves, and asserts her supposed superiority any chae she gets. She is also more prone to solving problems with violence.

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* {{Jerkass}}: She looks down on other races, especially humans and dark elves, and asserts her supposed superiority any chae chance she gets. She is also more prone to solving problems with violence.violence.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Her justification for imprisoning Carmina and chaining her up naked while keeping her malnourshished is that Carmina could easily break free and kill them all with her magic if she were physically fit.



* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Everyone calls him "The Good Dwarf".

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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Everyone calls him "The Good Dwarf". The Good Dwarf is called the Good Dwarf because no one can pronounce his Dwarven name. [[spoiler: And nobody realizes there's more than one; each with their own name.]]



* BodyguardCrush: [[spoiler:She has the hots for The Duchess, but tries not to make it obvious.]]
* CuteBruiser: Adorable and physically powerful.

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* BodyguardCrush: [[spoiler:She She has the hots for The Duchess, but tries not to make it obvious.]]
obvious.
* CuteBruiser: Adorable and physically powerful.powerful, with levels in Barbarian.



* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:Said beloved being The Duchess; she almost never says anything about her love towards her mistress and would willingly disregard her own happiness as long as The Duchess is well.]]

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* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:Said beloved being The Duchess; she almost never says anything about her love towards her mistress and would willingly disregard her own happiness as long as The Duchess is well. The only time she admits her feelings is in the DevelopersRoom.]]



* ChildProdigy: She's less than ten years old, but incredibly smart and learns even the most difficult topics quite quickly.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Since she's used to high culture- and scholaric books, she tends to speak in rather complicated ways.

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* ChildProdigy: She's less than ten years old, but incredibly smart and learns even the most difficult topics quite quickly.
quickly. Various endings have her in some form of strategist or other advisor role.
* LittleProfessorDialog: She is less than ten and yet speaks in a higher, more advanced vocabulary than most of the adult characters.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Since she's used to high culture- and scholaric books, she tends to speak in rather complicated ways.ways, made even more amusing by her being less than ten years old. This confuses the Duchess more than once.



* AffablyEvil: Carmina seems ''really'' nice and friendly for how evil she is, from treating the townsfolk of a Dark Elf city well in a flashback to her relationship with the Duchess.



* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Her romance arc, if you choose for Carmina to "Be by your side." The Duchess and Carmina escape the castle to Elstwhere. The Duchess and Carmina rule over Elstwhere, and eventually over Wulfhammer's Castle, also, evicting the Awesome Fellowship. Carmina and the Duchess spend the rest of their lives together (or, more accurately, the Duchess' life) until the Duchess passes away from old age, while Carmina still appeared as young and flawless as ever. Suffice to say, Carmina becomes devastated]].
-->'''Duchess:''' [[spoiler: I wonder, in vanity, if there has ever been a human man or woman who has had a dark elf weep loud and open over them as they passed. My love. Forever... Carmina]].



* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Her romance arc, if you choose for the Duchess to "Be by her side." The Duchess and Carmina escape the castle to the Underdurt, where the Duchess had to be passed off as a slave in order to live there. Eventually, the Duchess is squished to death by a couple of golems on the orders of Carmina's jealous sister/ex-lover]].



* HarpingOnAboutHarpies: Alice was kidnapped by them as a child. They're obsessed with shiny things and not very bright, and had Alice polish mud.



* AbusiveParents: Abusive Uncle in his case, towards The Duchess. Just about anything he'd give her that she'd bond with, he would destroy for the sake of torturing her, or in his eyes, "making her harder".

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* AbusiveParents: Abusive Uncle in his case, towards The Duchess. Just about anything he'd give her that she'd bond with, he would destroy for the sake of torturing her, or in his eyes, "making her harder". [[spoiler: Likely sexual abuse, as we see him walking to her in a memory when she couldn't move.]]


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* GagBoobs: Countess Knockersdale, and they're big enough to cover a noticeable portion of her portrait. The former's name is also [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Fal during a party; she just doesn't want to believe the Duchess that "Knockersdale" really is her name.
* HiddenDepths: Countess Knockersdale, of all people, [[spoiler:saves Catherine from revealing her seer capabilities and counsels her on using them in one of the final endings.]]

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* ChickMagnet: She attracts the attention of a NinjaMaid, a thief, an elven mage, a dark elf aristocrat, [[spoiler:an EldritchAbomination, and even the Goddess of Love and Illicit Sex.]]

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* ChickMagnet: She attracts the attention of a NinjaMaid, a thief, an elven mage, a dark elf aristocrat, [[spoiler:an EldritchAbomination, EldritchAbomination]], and even the [[spoiler:the Goddess of Love and Illicit Sex.]]Sex]].



* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her uncle would kill any friends she made, and routinely molested her.

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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her uncle Greyghast would kill any friends she made, and routinely molested her.



* InterspeciesRomance: In several different flavors.
* MsFanservice: If she ''can'' end up in her lingerie, she ''will''.

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* InterspeciesRomance: In several different flavors.
flavors, mostly with the local {{Cute Monster Girl}}s.
* MsFanservice: If she ''can'' end up in her lingerie, lingerie and/or naked, she ''will''.



* NoNameGiven: Her name is [[spoiler:Catherine]], but it's not mentioned for a long time.
* PrincessClassic: More so than the actual princess! Provided you overlook her being sexually active, that is.

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* NoNameGiven: OnlyKnownByThierNickname: Her name is [[spoiler:Catherine]], but it's not mentioned for a long time.
time. Everyone just calls her Duchess.
* PrincessClassic: More so than the actual princess! princess. Provided you overlook her being sexually active, that is.




* ArrangedMarriage: With none other than the Duchess! Actually, Falwythwier is simply serving as a proxy on behalf of Embric Wulfhammer since he's not around for his own wedding. Fal hates that she had to be the proxy, not only because she had to kiss the bride but that she also had to, ahem, consummate the marriage, too.

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* ArrangedMarriage: With none other than the Duchess! Duchess. Actually, Falwythwier is simply serving as a proxy on behalf of Embric Wulfhammer since he's not around for his own wedding. Fal hates that she had to be the proxy, not only because she had to kiss the bride but that she also had to, ahem, consummate the marriage, too.



'''Louni:''' Old patriarchial laws, whatcha gonna do, right?

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'''Louni:''' Old patriarchial patriarchal laws, whatcha gonna do, right?



* HeadTurningBeauty: The sight of her naked once put an eleven-year-old through an instant puberty. [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Even the Duchess is impressed by her figure]] when she takes her measuments.
* JerkAss: All the time! If you think she is a DefrostingIceQueen, you're wrong.
* InterspeciesRomance: Attracted to Embric.

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* HeadTurningBeauty: The sight of her naked once put an eleven-year-old through an instant puberty. [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Even the Duchess is impressed by her figure]] when she takes her measuments.measurements.
* JerkAss: All the time! If you think {{Jerkass}}: She looks down on other races, especially humans and dark elves, and asserts her supposed superiority any chae she gets. She is a DefrostingIceQueen, you're wrong.
also more prone to solving problems with violence.
* InterspeciesRomance: Attracted to Embric.the human Embric, and can have a romance with the human Duchess.



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The Duchess' personal maid in the castle, she's somewhat impulsive and clumsy, but has a good heart.

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* AntiAntiChrist: She is the herald of the Apocalypse, but deicides that she likes the Duchess too much to carry out her purpose, instead preferring to work as her maid.




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* ReallyGetsAround: Implied, but since she's the avatar of a Goddess of Sex, a lot of jokes are made about her... services. Which, admitedly, isn't really any different compared to before.

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* ReallyGetsAround: Implied, but since she's the avatar of a Goddess of Sex, a lot of jokes are made about her... services. Which, admitedly, admittedly, isn't really any different compared to before.



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* AffablyEvil: Has a friendly conversation with the Duchess on the mountain, then kidnapps her.

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* AffablyEvil: Has a friendly conversation with the Duchess on the mountain, then kidnapps her.kidnaps her.
* ApparentlyPowerlessPuppetmaster: [[spoiler:Despite his supposed senility, the Final Ending heavily hints that he's been faking it to carry on with some secret plan in the shadows, and that Louni, who supposedly has been manipulating him, is really ''his'' pawn.]]



* OmnicidalManiac: Vecnathrax's is driven purely by his hatred of living things.

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* GreaterScopeVillain: He is the greatest evil in the setting barring some gods, and is in command of a whole army of demonic forces. His actions shape much of the world. Despite this, he is mainly a background threat who only rarely comes into direct conflict with the Duchess, and his battles with the Awesome Fellowship are offscreen. [[spoiler:The Final Ending also heavily implies that he sent the BigBad Azreala to drain the Duchess of her despair as part of some plot of his.]]
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: For most of the story, he is depicted as a senile old fool who is not much of a threat to the Duchess and needs a spy, [[spoiler:Louni]], manipulating him and suggesting plans to actually be a threat. The Final Ending, however, indicates that [[spoiler:he is not as senile as he looks, and that he sent Azraela to drain the Duchess' depair and manipulate events as part of some plan of his- even Louni is terrified when she discovers this plan, hinting that she was ''his'' pawn rather than the other way around]].
* OmnicidalManiac: Vecnathrax's Vecnathrax is driven purely by his hatred of living things.



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* BigBad: Turns out she is the one devouring on the Duchesses' despair in her dreams and is driving them to some extent, making her the final enemy that the Duchess must overcome.
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: The quirky devil girl that appears in a ''sidequest'' as an unimportant minor villain is revealed in the Final Ending to be the true mastermind, as everything that has happened was AllJustADream that she was driving to feed on the Duchesses' despair.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: When she first appears, she is a quirky devil much like many of the game's villains, and isn't really that much of a threat, as she challenges the Duchess to a rather easy quiz and the Duchess easily outsmarts her. When she reappears in the Final Ending, she reveals that she is the BigBad, and promptly challenges the Duchess to a much harder quiz where the price for losing is that she will devour the memories of the Duchess.
* TrueFinalBoss: The last enemy the Duchess faces in the secret Final Ending, though unlike all the other RPG battles, she is "fought" in a pop-quiz concerning many of the game's trivia.




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