When Melkhiresa asks the Wicked Spirit why Melkhiresa cannot personally access this knowledge, the Wicked Spirit remarks that textbooks can't read themselves. Heroic Mime: Downplayed the Player Character speaks, but their lines are not voiced. Manipulative Bastard: During the year they were possessed.Heroic Sacrifice: In the final confrontation with their summoner, the Player Character can commit suicide to destroy the summoner's original body, or demand that they be set free, which will send the spirit back to their realm but render the summoner powerless and without the protection of the Veil.Įxcept when possessed right before the penultimate mission. Actors are also able to lie very convincingly during gameplay, cops have the option to flash their badges to get through certain situations, and bartenders are good at building instant trust. Schrödinger's Question: The protagonist's gender and profession are determined by responding to Eli's questions.The reveal of the player character's real identity reveal they were this for most of their life. Thou Shalt Not Kill: Can be played as a person who, when given the choice, refuses to kill or expose people to even the risk of death.Stop, or I Shoot Myself!: Getting the best ending of the game has you threaten suicide so that you can return to your plane.Turns out none of it is true, because their real identity is Melkhiresa, which is a spirit of knowledge and without gender. In The Reveal, all available dialogue options are about how appalled they are by the blood sacrifice needed to summon them, and in the Golden Ending, the Unavowed refuse to summon them to check if they're okay because of the cost.Ī Fire Mage who has lived for over 90 years and yet still has the body of a younger man. He can be cocky and witty, but he also bears angst over having had to fake his own death and let his family grow up-and in some cases, grow old and die-without him. Family Man: An important part of his characterization.He also worries about becoming similar to his great-grandfather Aldin, an unhinged psychopath who used fire magic to cause immense devastation. In the Blood: His great-grandfather was a fire mage.Friends with Benefits: With Mandana, every now and then.Forgotten Fallen Friend: The inversion of this trope is played for drama if he's locked in the Lotus-Eater Machine in Brooklyn Eli reveals he's forgotten the colour of his wife's eyes after sixty years, and it pains him.Being unable to be with his own family due to becoming a Mage pains him, and he continually stresses the importance of family to everyone else. His great-grandson reveals the ability as well.

Unavowed deaths