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Celia

"I just don't understand all the violence. I'll admit that I got caught up in the thrill of it all a few times, but I just can't stomach the idea of willfully deciding to end someone's life."

Race: Sylph
Gender: Female
Class: Sorcerer
Alignment: Lawful Good

Roy's girlfriend, Celia is a sylph and lawyer from the Elemental Plane of Air.

Roy: Ah, there's my damsel. In distress. As is quickly becoming standard.


Eugene Greenhilt

"I'll have you know that I was named Best Illusionist of the Year three times by the Wizzie Awards by the time I was your age."

Race: Ghost (formerly human)
Gender: Male
Class: Wizard (illusionist)
Alignment: Lawful Good (at time of death [1])

Roy's rather selfish father who swore a Blood Oath of Vengeance after Xykon killed and zombified his master. Pretty much a condescending asshole to damn near everyone. Dead before the beginning of the story, he pays ghostly visits to his son.

  • Abusive Parents: Of the psychological variety.
  • Blood Oath: "I, Eugene Greenhilt, swear on the blood that flows from my wounds this day that I shall not rest, in this life or any other, until I or my heirs have enacted horrible vengeance on those that have slighted me, named here as Xykon the sorcerer."
  • Death Is Cheap: He died and was resurrected 6 times before finally succumbing to old age.
  • Dirty Old Man: Being dead hasn't stopped him from dating. And by his own admission, he's been spying on Haley under the shower.
  • Good Is Not Nice: When his soul was getting judged, it was stated that he never did anything seriously wrong in his life, but was something of a rude Jerkass.
  • Gretzky Has the Ball: He thinks there are homeruns in soccer, and has no clue if winning a game by 3-2 is good. His wife Sara deconstructs this by pointing out that as smart as he is, he could easily learn the rules of any physical sport in a short time, but won't because he feels it's beneath him.
  • Grumpy Old Man: He still takes the form of an old man in the afterlife despite his wife looking otherwise. This is due to the fact that he was always bitter and ornery by nature, though the Blood Oath he swore didn't help.
  • Insufferable Genius: Has a natural disdain for fighters, which is the reason why he never got along with his father and son. Likewise, his master was also quite arrogant towards sorcerers, which got him killed by Xykon.
  • Jerkass
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: One scene in Start of Darkness portrays him as such, where he declines a perfect opportunity to defeat Xykon out of concern for leaving his wife widowed and son fatherless. Assuming he wasn't using that as an excuse.
  • Master of Illusion: Illusion is his favored school. He's good enough to fool an entire group of paladins that he's really a being of light and good.
  • Nominal Hero: He's only technically on the side of good; very, very technically. This is why he's only barely inside heaven at all; he doesn't really care about doing good, he just happens to have done good during his life.
  • Our Ghosts Are Different
  • Posthumous Character
  • Prematurely Bald
  • Prophecy Twist: "When the goat turns red strikes true." Now, Eugene, ever heard of the comma?
  • Spirit Advisor: To Roy in the beginning. He's not that tremendously helpful, though.
  • Unfinished Business: That's why he's stuck on Fluffy Cloud Heaven and can't join the true afterlife.


Julia Greenhilt

"I can feel my Coolness Factor dropping just by being in the same room as these dorks."

Race: Human
Gender: Female
Class: Wizard
Alignment: True Neutral

Roy's younger sister. A mage student at Warthog's School of Wizardry and Sorcery.


Sara Greenhilt

"This is the afterlife, Roy, honey. We all appear as our ideal version of ourselves, and I guess I never stopped thinking of myself as the 19-year-old looker who had never even heard the name 'Eugene Greenhilt'."

Race: Ghost (formerly human)
Gender: Female
Class: Unknown
Alignment: Lawful Good

Eugene's wife, mother of Roy, Julia and Eric. Dead years before the start of the story, she meets with Roy during his visit in the afterlife.


Eric Greenhilt

"hi roy! wanna play blocks with me?"

Race: Ghost (formerly human)
Gender: Male
Class: None (Roy suspects he might have become a bard had he lived long enough)
Alignment: Lawful Good

Roy's baby brother, killed by Eugene's negligence.


Horace Greenhilt

"I was long in my grave before either of you were more than a gleam in my boy Eugene's eye."

Race: Ghost (formerly human)
Gender: Male
Class: Fighter
Alignment: Lawful Good

Eugene's father, dead before his grandchildren were born. Roy's childhood hero from the stories told by his mother.


The Oracle

"Geez, I can peer into the murky depths of the future, and yet I always seem to get interrupted during bath time."

Race: Kobold
Gender: Male
Class: Expert
Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Tiamat's Oracle of the Sunken Valley is a snarky kobold with a dislike for Belkar specifically and pretty much everyone in general.

Oracle: I think the halfling dulls his blades just to make it hurt more.

  • Everyone Calls Him Oracle
  • Fantastic Racism: "You mammals are disgusting..."
  • Foreshadowing: That's his whole job.
  • Fourth Wall Observer
  • Half Truth
  • High Altitude Interrogation: He did get dangled out a window by Roy and Durkon, as seen in a flashback, before conceding them a third question.
  • I See Dead People: Though at first he pretended not to, in order to snub Roy's ghost.
  • Laser-Guided Amnesia: Visitors to the Sunken Valley remember his prophecies, but nothing else about their visit due to a charm, including the Oracle's true identity. This spell nearly keeps the Order from returning to Azure City to defend it from Xykon's attack, but it also keeps Belkar from getting kicked out of the Order and left to die from his curse after he kills the Oracle.
  • Lizard Folk
  • Mathematician's Answer: The Oracle's answers can be extremely literal, apparently deliberately. He gives one to Belkar, to the halfing's disgust. Roy is Genre Savvy enough to have a specifically-worded question prepared, to prevent the Oracle from doing this.

Oracle: Hey, "in his throne room," was a perfectly legitimate answer to the question "Where is Xykon?"

  • Medium Awareness: Higher than any other characters in the comic, which is saying something.
  • Omniglot: A special case. He could tell what Haley was saying despite the Cypher Language because he can look into the future when the translations are included.
  • Power Floats: During the oracular trance.
  • Revenge: The town of LickMyOrangeBallsHalfling. Founded: Last week. Population: Just Enough.

"Go ahead, give them a good once-over!"

  • Seers
  • Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
  • Speech Bubbles: His normal (white) speech bubbles turn green when entering the trance and doing a prediction; incidentally this answer is all the petitioner will remember.
  • Your Mom: The type of insults he trades with Roy's ghost.


Qarr

"See, the first lesson of being 18-inches tall is: Find someone more powerful than you are, and glue your lips to their ass."

Race: Imp
Gender: None
Class: Sorcerer
Alignment: Lawful Evil

An imp, the IFCC's latest employee and former minion of Kubota (and an unknown devil).


Julio Scoundrél

"So, now's probably a good time to mention that I'm a wanted criminal in Azure City. I admit to nothing, but I have it on good authority that there are several attractive young heiresses in this town that are quite shamefully lax in securing their most valuable jewelry."

Race: Human
Gender: Male
Class: Dashing Swordsman
Alignment: Chaotic Good

A swashbuckling adventurer who takes Elan briefly under his wing.

Julio: Well, as an older mentor figure, the most likely scenario is that I'd return only to be randomly killed by an enemy of yours so that you can cradle my dying body while swearing revenge -- so don't take it personally if I say that I sincerely hope we never cross paths again.


Inkyrius

"I am sure it will be well-received when your Other Parent finishes mastering the way of magic and comes home. Now go wash up, both of you. Lunch is ready."

Race: Elf
Gender: Unknown
Class: Unknown (probably Commoner or Expert)
Alignment: Unknown

Vaarsuvius's mate. Due to V's brief stint as evil uber-mage, around two-thirds of the way through the Empire of Blood arc s/he has filed for divorce and is suing V for full custody of the kids.


Team Peregrine

"Team Peregrine to Elven Command: covert insertion successful. Will penetrate Cloistered territory on foot and rendezvous with designee 'Thanh' to coordinate further insertions. Liberation: commencing."

Race: Elves
Gender: Varies
Class: Varies
Alignment: Unknown

A team of elves sent to help liberate Azure City from the hobgoblins.

  • Anti-Hero
  • Asshole Victim: Considering his attitude towards goblins and that his Kick the Dog moment was his only real scene before his death, the Commander can easily be seen as this.
  • Attack! Attack! Attack!: The Commander attempts to assault Redcloak due to an attempted Roaring Rampage of Revenge for his fallen comrades, despite being completely outnumbered and outmatched. This ends quite poorly, as you might expect.
  • Badass: They actually show a team of highly trained, skilled adventurers.
  • Cowboy Cop: The commander definitely has elements of this.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: The aforementioned death of the Commander/Lieutenant. This might have been the case for the rest of the team as well.
  • Fantastic Racism: As far as the commander is concerned, the only good goblins are dead goblins.
  • Kick the Dog: The commander gives a hobgoblin prisoner false hope before throwing him off the ramparts of the prison. And later Redcloak is told that besides the prison guards casualties include a pair of innocent hobgoblin bystanders who were shot in the back, presumably because they saw them escaping.
  • Meaningful Name: The Peregrine falcon is the fastest hunting bird on Earth, swooping on its preys before they're even aware it's here. The first time we see Team Peregrine, they teleport in the midst of a hobgoblin patrol and kill them all in one round. Very fitting.
  • Moral Myopia: Commander "The Only Good Goblin Is a Dead Goblin" screams that he'll avenge every elf slain by Redcloak. Redcloak, for his part, doesn't comment on the irony of all the hobgoblins he avenges by making the commander implode.
  • No Name Given
  • Our Elves Are Better: They are all elves. They are all awesome (when not being jerks, but again, Elves).
  • Pointy Ears
  • Revenge Before Reason: The Commander when he returns to the Resistance HQ only to see half of his team slaughtered by Redcloak.
  • Shoot the Dog: The Azurites are unwilling to kill hapless civilians in their fights. Team Peregrine is not.
  • Total Party Kill: The wizard and cleric are killed off-panel by horned devils, and the Commander and Lieutenant are imploded by Redcloak.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: One of the Azure City Resistance members is quite disturbed by the commander's ruthlessness. Another finds it awesome.
  • You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Or white hair, or pink hair...


The Lawyers

"Get back! I have a restraining order and I'm not afraid to use it!"

Race: Humans
Gender: Male
Class: n/a
Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Mssrs. Jones and Rodriguez -- attorneys at law. Two lawyers who enforce copyright for Wizards of the Coast, they also sometimes take court cases.

Rodriguez: Ohmygod!!! You have a kitty!!!


The Flumphs

"...and ever since then, I've felt like... I don't know, like just I'm a... a minor character in, you know, someone else's story."

Race: Flumphs
Gender: Unknown
Class: n/a
Alignment: Lawful Good

A pair of bizarre aberrations left over from D&D 1st edition. Originally kept as part of Dorukan's menagerie of discontinued monsters, the flumphs escaped the dungeon's destruction after Xykon's defeat. Ever since, they keep running into the oblivious main characters... who keep landing on them from great heights.

  • The Chew Toy: They seem to exist solely as landing cushions for the main characters.
    • Which was exactly what the Flumphs's role was in D&D 1st edition.
  • Living Crashpad: Their lot in life.
  • Recurring Extra
  • Running Gag
  • Shoo Out the Clowns: Played with and lampshaded all to hell. When Roy died, one of the Flumphs felt that he had to be somewhere as a gag. But when you realize how many times the Flumphs have actually saved the lives of all the people who landed on them... well.
  1. ↑ He is currently waiting for a member of his family to fulfill the Blood Oath he called years ago to slay Xykon; until that time, he is stuck in a limbo-like plane of existence where the deceased go to see which afterlife they are suited for- based on Roy's judgement, it is implied that he is not really Lawful Good, or rather that he has failed to live up to the responsibilities of his alignment, and had not truly been Lawful Good for several years. However, until the Blood Oath is fulfilled, his alignment and afterlife cannot be ascertained
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