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A character who clashes with the protagonist ideologically or through another form. In any case their conflicts are central to the story and often what the story focuses on.

Domain: Video games; Category: Characters

The appointed is a character ordained by fate or any other sufficiently powerful force to perform the tasks required of them and move the story and fulfill their destiny.

Domain: Video games; Category: Characters

Characters who do not have a great effect upon the story whatsoever. Often they may be introduced for one scene just to demonstrate a principle or an effect of whatever mechanism the story produces.

Domain: Video games; Category: Characters

A character that contrasts another character, usually the protagonist, so that their traits come out and mark them as more unique characters compared to each other. Comes from jeweler's foil, which ...

Domain: Video games; Category: Characters

A character that initiates the entire story by setting things in motion. May not even be a character but an event or a thing whose discovery pushes the first domino, so to speak.

Domain: Video games; Category: Characters

Not necessarily the protagonist of the story, the hero is the character doing the morally correct action as much as possible in the given setting. When faced with a moral dilemma, the hero will do ...

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More commonly known as paladins, holy knights are the defenders of good and the slayers of evil everywhere, following their strict code of honor to defend what is right. Holy knights do not ...

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