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Основная партия

Агата Гетеродин

Протагонистка, едва совершеннолетняя студентка Трансильванского университета, которой так и не удалось доучиться. Представляет из себя весьма странную Искру: с одной стороны, у неё прекрасная наследственность и сильный, пробудившийся в раннем детстве дар; с другой — за счёт сделанного дядей Барри амулета её способности Искры подавлялись вплоть до самого совершеннолетия, из-за чего Агата, в отличие от многих других Искр, прожила нормальное детство и отличается от прочих безумных учёных большим самоконтролем.

Её происхождение также весьма странное. Она происходит из рода Гетеродинов — известнейших злых властелинов востока Европы. Однако её ближайшие родственники, отец Билл и дядя Барри Гетеродины — белые овцы в семье и признанные герои. Однако сама девочка ни ими, ни слугами «старых Гетеродинов» не воспитывалась: отец Билл пропал во время борьбы с атаковавшим Европу Иным, позже исчез и дядя Барри, а воспитывала девочку семья из созданных её родителями конструктов Панча и Джуди, живших под именами Адама и Лилит Клэев, при молчаливой поддержке старого друга отца, профессора Битла. При этом Агата о своём происхождении и даре ничего не знала, считая себя простой девчонкой невеликих способностей.

Само существование наследницы Гетеродинов сильно мутит воду. Одни боятся, что она пойдёт по стопам дедов; другие — отца; третьи считают, что живой Гетеродин как минимум займёт свои исконные трансильванские земли, захватив все богатства Механиксбурга и поставив под ружьё армию ягермонстров; четвёртые верят, что Агата — это новое тело Лукреции; пятые надеются на союз с Гетеродинами или как минимум ослабление империи Вульфенбахов… В общем, девушке приходится сходу влетать в большую политику и бороться за свою свободу. Что у неё с относительным успехом получается. Особые таланты молодой Искры — гетеродинская суперконцентрация и продвинутые, вплоть до собственных искроспособностей, миниатюрные клацы; недостатки — медицина и биотехнологии. А вот личная жизнь на фоне множества приключений буксует на месте из-за хронического дефицита времени.

Гильгамеш Вульфенбах

Девтагонист, сын главы Трансильванской Империи, барона Вульфенбаха, был явлен миру относительно недавно — незадолго до начала комикса. В детстве отец скрывал его существование, выдавая сына за ещё одного сироту в замке. После тайну своего происхождения узнал сам Гил, и лишь совсем недавно — весь остальной мир. Отец постарался дать сыну лучшее воспитание, модифицировал его тело, подвергал тестам личность — в общем, сделал всё, чтобы вырастить Гильгамеша настоящим человеком эпохи возрождения. И Гил хорошо справился, став сильной Искрой со специализацией на механике и биологии, сильным же рукопашным бойцом, неплохим командующим… правда, такая большая нагрузка дала ему некоторые проблемы с уверенностью, желание вырваться из-под опеки отца, а заодно проблемы с серьёзными отношениями — мало кто способен поддержать разговор с Гилом на равных.

Всё это повлияло на динамику отношений Гила с Агатой. Он быстро понял, что она — одарённая Искра, и начал проявлять интерес. Желание Клауса захватить, а то и убить Гетеродинку и, разумеется, оградить от неё сына только вызвала конфликт, в результате которого Гил только ещё больше привязался к Агате, а после её предполагаемого заключения в остановленном времени — потратил кучу сил на освобождение Механиксбурга и выправление репутации Гетеродинов.

Тарвек Штурмфораус

Дворянин, член одного из пятидесяти знатных семейств и кандидат на пост Короля Бурь. Тарвек — Искра, глубоко понимающая чужие творения (вплоть до того, что он смог создать пригодного для загрузки сознания Искры клаца на основе работ Ван Рейна), утончённый аристократ и неплохой боец. Впрочем, воспитание среди смертоносного распущенного двора наложило свой отпечаток, так что из основной тройки героев Тарвек — самый циничный, манипулятивный и склонный к интригам. Однако на фоне прочих наследников Валуа он является белой овцой: например, по-настоящему заботится о некоторых, наиболее благожелательных родственниках. С Агатой впервые столкнулся, когда его отец попытался загрузить в девушку личность Иного — и преуспел; впрочем, «поработав» с Лукрецией, парень сделал всё возможное, чтобы вернуть тело её дочери. Из-за последующего падения родового замка политический вес растерял, и чуть было не был убит, но выжил и присоединился к геройской партии.

Нужно отметить, что со своим главным соперником, Гильгамешем, Тарвек сильно дружил в детстве. Но попытка выяснить происхождение друга обернулась изгнанием Тарвека из замка Вульфенбах обратно в родовые поместья, а в университете герои разошлись ещё сильнее. Тем не менее, общие приключения в замке Гетеродин помогли парням вновь сойтись, и в дальнейшем герои часто работают вместе, продолжая соперничать на любовном фронте.

Зита

Принцесса из Скайфандера. Силачка, мастер фехтования с двумя мечами и весьма раскрепощённая девушка, прибывшая в Европу из этой удалённой страны. Изначально должна была попутешествовать и вернуться обратно, но сначала команда везущего её исследовательского судна была уничтожена пиратами, а потом Зита, оправившись от болезни, уничтожила пиратов — и никого, кто знал бы, где находится Скайфандер, не осталось. Так Зита осталась в Европе, попала в цирк Пэйна, а потом присоединилась к Агате просто потому, что та что-то слышала о Скайфандере от дяди. Позже девушки смешали кровь, и Зита начала нешутя заботится о своей «ученице».

В группе принцесса играет роль штатного силача, и по возможности помогает поднять физические способности протагонистке. Также она — за счёт воспитания в иной, раскрепощённой среде — куда более опытна в деле отношений, и переодически даёт прочим героям советы или фривольные намёки. Сама принцесса во время осады Механиксбурга завязала отношения с Хиггсом, и за время таймскипа их отношения успели значительно развиться.

Существует почти проговоренная в комиксе версия о том, что отец Зиты, воин Чамп — это Клаус Вульфенбах, закинутый в Скайфандер Лукрецией, а Зита, соответственно — сестра Гильгамеша. Ещё более зыбкая теория гласит, что во время лечения у мамы Гкики Зита не только выпила небольшое количество ягерпойло, но и стала ягером — по крайней мере, зубы у неё в некоторых кадрах весьма заметны.

Виолетта Мондарев

Дымчатый рыцарь, кузина Тарвека и Мартеллия, не имеющая, однако, большого веса в свете и потому отправленная учиться на «бойца», а не на «властителя». На этом поприще больших успехов также не достигла, и была послана шпионить за назначенными бароном правителями Механиксбурга (не без участия Тарвека, который хотел уберечь родственницу от по-настоящему опасных задач). После гибели Ааронева и Аневки раненый Тарвек был эвакуирован силами барона в механиксбургский госпиталь, и Виолетта перешла под его командование. После обострения ситуации парочка была вынуждена бежать в единственное неподконтрольное барону место — замок Гетеродин, где присоединилась к Агате. С тех пор Виолетта следует за протагонисткой, также выполняя роль бойца — но если Зита специализируется на исключительно силовых действиях, то Виолетта, как дымчатый рыцарь, предпочитает внезапные атаки и запутывание врагов. При всём при этом Виолетта занимается не только боями: ещё она, благодаря Тарвеку, разбирается в моде и музах Ван Рейна, любит платьица и вечеринки — но из-за плотного графика приключений редко может порадывать себя этим.

Кросп I

Император кошек, похожий на обычного крупного кота конструкт, созданный сильной и опасной Искрой, доктором Димитрием Вапнулом, чтобы повелевать кошками. И Кросп на самом деле повелевает — правда, обычные кошки сообразительностью не отличаются, и приказы его быстро забывают. Не сумев спасти создателя лично, Кросп присоединился к Агате Гетеродин, которая в шутку несла ему присягу. Впрочем, оказалось, что императорскую власть признают не только кошки, но и все творения Вапнула, включая крайне опасных — так что Кросп вскоре получил реальную власть и создателя всё-таки спас. Хотя от подчинения ему отказался ради Агаты.

Как кот, хоть и возвышенный, Кросп циничен, эгоистичен, склонен к гедонизму. При этом как император он весьма разумен, разбирается в политике и психологии, из-за чего выступает не только в роли комичного «представителя меньшинства», но и в виде мудрого советчика. Также не стоит списывать со счетов то, что, встав на четыре лапы и раздевшись, Кросп становится неотличим от обычного крупного кота, что позволяет ему заниматься разведкой на благо

«Висельники»

Трио «свободных» ягеров, которые вызвались искать потерянных Гетеродинов, и таки нашли Агату. От множества прочих ягеров отличаются повышенной самостоятельностью и разумностью. Димо более сознательный и во время таймскипа даже «подменял» генералов; Оггиан «Огги» — дальний предок Рассказчика, Максим — бывший кавалерист, щеголь, наименее раскрытый из тройки. Ягеры беззаговорочно подчиняются Агате как наследнице Гетеродинов, и по возможности отыгрывают роль бойцов и командных силачей. Однако при этом они частенько действуют самостоятельно, отделяясь от «основной» команды и воссоединяясь с ней потом.

мини-Замок и Зверь

Творчаство старых Гетеродинов, заключённое Агатой в оболочку миниклацев. Замок был, собственно, частью систем замка, которые кто-то успел вынести из Механиксбурга и продать, а Искра-бунтовщик Дю Квай — подключить к системам Парижа для их захвата. Зверь был гигантским, самодвижущимся, саморемонтирующимся, прожорливым и самовлюблённым поездом, подаренным Сатурном Гетеродином монахам-железнодорожникам и доставившим тем много проблем. В виде мини-клацев оба выполняют роль «тех двух парней», которые ходят вместе с групой, но редко когда принимают участие в разговоре. Впрочем, у них бывают свои роли помимо комического отыгрыша: как самые маленькие, они могут пролезть и пошпионить для хозяйки, а при случае — присоединиться и взять под управление что-то более внушительное.

Осоед

Постоянный спутник Агаты, модифицированный из ласки многоногий зверёк, обладающий способностью чувствовать ос-угнетателей, в том числе и внутри подчинённых людей. После таймскипа был дополнительно модифицирован, чтобы восполнять привитую протагонистке Мартеллием зависимость, и потому всегда находится возле Агаты.

Союзники

Ардсли Вустер

Шпион её величества королевы Альбии, действовавший в Европе. Благонадёжный джентльмен, имеющий обширные знакомства, знание местности и набор шпионских приспособлений, которые позволяют ему выполнять работу настоящего суперагента. Правда, в мире, где бал правят безумные учёные, это даёт куда меньше возможностей, чем в «Бондиане». Как и положено подданому короны, Вустер безгранично предан Альбии и всегда действует в интересах своей страны — даже если это приведёт к проблемам для прочих стран.

На начало комикса был валетом Гильгамеша Вульфенбаха, с которым познакомился во время обучения последнего в Париже. Впрочем, Гильгамеш прекрасно знал, что Вустер работает на Альбию, и при первой же необходимости использовал это для того, чтоб помочь Агате в тайне от отца. В дальнейшем тот пытался установить связи английской короны то с Гетеродинкой, то с оставшимся без её поддержки ягерским подпольем — пока не добился своего и не привёз Агату в Лондон. Умер героической смертью от руки временно захватившей тело Агаты и начавшей превращаться в Королеву Лукреции.

Панч и Джуди

Конструкты, созданные Биллом и Барри Гетеродинами в их ранние годы и служившие им всю жизнь. Как раннее творение, Панч нем, а Джуди имеет глаза разного цвета; поправить это было нельзя без того, чтоб залезть конструктам в голову, а это черевато. После исчезновения хозяев Панч и Джуди по указанию Барри взяли на себя заботу об Агате, представляясь её приёмными родителями, Адамом и Лилит Клэями, и как могли обеспечили девочке счастливое детство. Когда барон захватил Агату, Панч и Джуди попытались её спасти и показали себя опасными бойцами — но недостаточно опасными. После боя Гильгамеш сшил их заново, заодно поправив недостатки; после таймскипа свободные Панч и Джуди поселились с ягерами и прочими механиксбургцами в изгнании, растя своего сына.

Замок Гетеродин

Древний замок, построенный старыми Гетеродинами поверх волшебной реки Дины. Представляет собой кучу объединённых флигелей, башен, подземелий, построенных разными Гетеродинами в разные года и наполненных лабораториями, ловушками и прикормленными монстрами. Текущая вариация обладает разумным ИИ, основанном на личности одного из основателей, и может в значительной степени управлять своими помещениями и городом вокруг. Как и все творения Гетеродинов, замок верен своим создателям; впрочем, он способен идти против воли одного Гетеродина ради блага династии в целом. Как и все старые Гетеродины, обладает безумным разумом и крайне чёрным чувством юмора. На момент событий комикса был разломан при атаке Иного, потерял управление и распался на несколько личнотей, но усилиями Агаты починился.

фон Мекканы, род сенешалей Механиксбурга

Карсон фон Меккан

Сенешаль города в момент правления братьев-Гетеродинов, ныне — лысый старик. Само его существование тайна для официальных властей города: когда Вульфенбах занимал город, ему сказали, что сын Карсона и сам сенешаль мертвы, но не стали говорить, что в момент атаки Иного Карсон передал сыну пост сенешаля на время, чтоб повидаться с внуком. Поэтому старик доживает свой век под именем «Карсон Гелиотроп», по мере сил помогая внуку по-настоящему управлять городом. Как и всякий сенешаль, имеет в черепе просверленные отверстия для прямого подключения к замку Гетеродин.

Ванамонд фон Меккан

Нынешний сенешаль города и внук Карсона, правящий в тайне для назначенных Клаусом властей. Притворяется вечно сидящим в кофейне дурачком, хотя на деле компетентен и осведомлён. Впрочем, не настолько компетентен и осведомлён, как хочет показать. После возвращения Гетеродинов взял власть в свои руки уже официально. Крайне любит кофе, за что и пострадал, выпив приготовленный Агатой «совершенный» напиток.

Луми фон Меккан

Показанная только в филлерной «неназванной» арке сестра Ванамонда, Искра, изучающая алхимию в Трансильванском университете. Заглянула домой на каникулах и ввязалась в приключение, по ходу которого влюбилась в авантюриста из противостоящей команды. Так же как и брат, очень любит кофе — возможно, это семейное. Боится приведений, что весьма неприятно, учитывая, что её возлюбленный считает себя призраком.

Молох фон Цинцер

Полуофициальный «главный миньон» Агаты в Механиксбурге, который крайне не хочет быть миньоном и вообще начинал как противник первой арки. Молох — дворянин из настолько разорившегося рода, что ему с братом пришлось идти в солдаты и служить механиками на шагоходе. Потом их армию разбил барон, ребята дезертировали, были взорваны ДюПри и докатились до грабежей. Случайно украли у Агаты сдерживающий силы Искры амулет, отчего брат помер, а Молох попал в переплёт и в итоге оказался заключённым в замок Гетеродин, где встретился с Агатой снова. Сам герой всем этим приключениям не рад и хочет сбежать в Париж, чтоб жить тихой жизнью обычного обывателя — но на деле отчаянно чинит осаждённый Механиксбург прямо во время атаки. Да и в будущем он очевидно будет приключаться — по крайней мере, Бангладеш ДюПри видела его как одного из пользователей машины времени.

Будучи военным механиком, Молох хорошо (для обычного человека) разбирается в технике. А будучи военным на службе у Искры, неплохо разбирается в безумных учёных. Из-за чего часто проявляет жанровую смекалку или выступает голосом разума при фантанирующих идеями безумных гениях. А вот в отношениях герой не силён, и упорно не замечает интерес со стороны Снауг.

Ягеры (кроме основного трио «висельников»)

Ягергенералы

Самые старые, сообразительные и мощные ягеры. По-прежнему могут и умеют драться, но, в отличие от прочих ягеров, куда лучше держат себя в руках. На начало комикса их было семь (и ещё упоминался генерал Оск, которые погиб, сражаясь с созданным Полярными Лордами Вирмом Рока.

Четыре генерала перешли на службу к барону вместе с почти всем ягервойском. До начала событий комикса они выполняли у Клауса роль военных командующих и советников, после Колокола Рока покинули барона и вошли в Механиксбург.

• Зог — ягер с кожей болотного цвета и белёсым шрамом на носу. Считается самым старым, и чаще всего берёт на себя роль переговорщика. В бою в наибольшей степени склонен к хитрости.
• Крижан — единственный ягергенерал без шляпы, волос на голове — зато с седой бородой.
• Гумбласт — наименее антропоморфный ягер, крайне высокий и широкий, с полной мелких зубов пастью и металлической пластиной вместо макушки. При всей массивности предпочитает сражаться тонкой шпагой.
• Коппельслав — ярко-красный ягергенерал, который отсутствовал в начале комикса и присоединился к остальным уже в Механиксбурге, а активную роль играть начал только после разморозки города.

Мама Гкика — единственная женщина-генерал, которая отличается также способностью менять цвет шерсти и кожи, осталась под Механиксбургом в особой ягерской таверне. Она же все эти годы лечила травмированных ягеров, поскольку других Искр те к себе не подпускают.

Генерал Задипок — до сих пор не появившийся в кадре персонаж.

И, конечно, тайный генерал, который заведовал гетеродинской разведкой. Настолько тайный, что не открывался Агате, пока из той не изгнали Лукрецию. Как многие догадывались с самого начала, это Аксель Хиггс — формально «рядовой» служащий кучи европейских армий, на деле — крайне древний ягер, по какой-то причине сохранивший неизменное тело. Не раскрывая своей личности присоединился к героям, закрутил роман с Зитой и благодаря этому избежал ловушки остановленного времени, после чего продолжал служить уже не Клаусу, а Гильгамешу Вульфенбаху.

По физиологическому развитию до ягера проапгрейдился Воул, который постарел на сотни из-за того, что его извлекли из остановленного времени без соблюдейния должной технологии. А по функциям — Димо: в отсутствие всех «явных» генералов тому пришлось выполнять их работу для небольшой фракции оказавшихся вне города ягермонстров.

Женка

Женщина-ягер, одна из немногих в своём роде. Также как и Висельники, стала «вольным ягером», чтобы искать наследников Гетеродинов и, похоже, выполняла роль их командующего или связного. По крайней мере, именно она вытаскивает Висельников из передряги когда их, собственно, повесили — а после раздаёт указания. Достаточно сильно отличается от прочих ягермонстров: в старые времена она была ближайшей подручной Ефросинии Гетеродин, после — возглавляла дипломатическую миссию Гетеродинов. Это стало возможно потому, что Андроник Валуа из мести «переделал» Женку, частично вернув ей человеческие черты — так что она говорит почти без ягерского акцента и может сойти за странного человека, не выдавая себя сразу как ягермонстра.

Имеет питомца — гигантского медведя Фюста, который тоже выпил ягерпойла и стал единственным ягермедведем. Иногда Женка использует его как ездовое животное на пересечённой местности.

Йорги

Ягер-офицер, который возглавил захват части воздушного флота барона Вульфенбаха ягерами и высадку в Механиксбурге, а позже участвовал в спасении осоедов от солдат барона. Весьма примечательная личность — образованный сын философа, который ушёл в ягеры из юношеского протеста, но страсти к книгам не потерял. Пока многие другие ягеры не умеют читать, Йорги может разобраться даже в некоторый книгах Искр. Кроме того, он достаточно умён, чтоб хранить тайну — как свою, так и чужую. И достаточно самоотвержен, чтоб предложить Тарвеку бросить его в готовом взорваться дирижабле, чтоб спастись и пригодиться Агате.

Воул

Ягер, отрицающий свою принадлежность к ягерскому войску, презирающий ягеров и стремящийся убить последнего Гетеродина. Презирает братьев-Гетеродинов за их геройства, прочих ягеров — за мягкость, и хочет создать новую орду — злее и круче, чтоб воевать в стиле старых Гетеродинов. На деле — жертва тропа кому сохранить верность: он был верным ягером в армии Сатурна Гетеродина, потом Сатурн решил убить своих героических детей и заделать новых, но его убила жена, потом ту прикончил замок — и те самые детишки стали правящими Гетеродинами. Ягервойско приняло новые порядки и новых господ, Воул — остался верен старому образу действий. После пропажи Гетеродинов служил барону Вульфенбаху и в этом качестве был противником для Агаты; впрочем, хорошую войну он любит больше всего, так что присоединяется к бунту Гила против отца. После таймскипа пережил аварийный выход из временного стазиса, ускоренное старение и превращение в де-факто ягергенерала, со снижением уровня кровожадности — после чего остался на службе у Гила и с шансами восстановит отношения с ягерами (например, с Хиггсом он говорил вполне дружелюбно).

Антагонисты

Иное

Главная враждебная сила комикса, которая или прямо управляет злодеями, или как минимум опосредованно участвует в конфликтах. Таинственное Иное завершило славную эпоху братьев-Гетеродинов, устроив масштабную войну и зомби-апокалипсис в Европе и сгинув вместе с героями. Позже оно искало Агату сквозь время, затем записало себя ей в голову и ещё в пару тел. Главное свойство, отличающее Иное от всех прочих безумных учёных сеттинга — способность к перемещениям во времени. Это же делает его понимание крайне сложным делом: последовательные с точки зрения естественного хода времени события по субъективному времени Иного могут быть разделены веками неизвестного прочим наблюдателям опыта, из-за чего разные версии злодея имеют разные особенности и цели. К тому же Иное может записывать себя в механические и биологические тела, что ещё больше запутывает картину. В итоге не то, что в мотивация — а даже и последовательность действий Иного читателю комикса не ясна и требует комментариев Спидвагона.

Лукреция Монгфиш

Дочь древнего аристократического дома Монгфишей, великолепная мерзавка, манипуляторша, порочная красавица, выдающаяся Искра, мать (и отчасти создательница) Агаты и вообще главный повар всей заварившейся в комиксе каши. При этом — фактически персонаж-призрак, поскольку «лично» появляется только во флэшбеках и воспоминаниях, а последующие инкарнации Иного на Лукрецию Монгфиш похожи меньше, чем безносый Лорд Воландеморт — на хитрого и харизматического красавчика Тома Реддла.

Лукреция родилась в семье Монгфиш — Искр, специализировавшихся на биоконструктах. Она была обучена отцом; имела минимум дух сестёр, но отношения были… натянутыми. Кроме того, в поместье Монгфишей находилось одно из зеркал Королев, которые Лукреция подробно изучала. Девушка была красива и, кхм, любвеобильна — успела закрутить множество романов, в том числе и с Клаусом Вульфенбахом. Выход на европейскую сцену братьев-Гетеродинов вызвал их противостояние с типичными злыми учёными Монгфишами, однако Лукреция, видя бесперспективность борьбы, сделала вид, что «исправилась» — и вышла за Билла Гетеродина замуж. Переезд в замок Гетеродин позволил ей изучить расположенный там волшебный источник, от которого брала начало река Дина и ещё одно зеркало Королев, над которым располагался механиксбургский храм. Кроме того, Лукреция занималась переносом сознания между телами, в том числе между людьми и животными, между машинами и живыми существами. Так, именно она загрузила личность Музы Защиты в тело биоконструкта Вонн Пинн, а в тело музы записала копию личности замка. Возможно, где-то в это время она, имея доступ к волшебному источнику, зеркалам, ранним наработкам Клауса Вульфенбаха о природе Искр и древним технологиям Гетеродинов о воздействии волшебных вод на живые существа, открыла секрет превращения в королеву — поскольку другие версии Лукреции этот секрет уже знают. Примерно в это же время она должна была открыть секрет перемещения во времени.

С точки зрения политики Лукреция активно взаимодействовала с рыцарями Юпитера, перетряхнув орден и организовав ему живого, молодого и здорового наследника на трон Короля Бурь — даже и не одного. Из-за этого многие старые лица в ордене, равно как и большая часть дымчатых рыцарей, верны Лукреции. Многие также состояли с ней в отношениях. Помимо этого она, используя зеркало королев, вышла на связь со страной гейстердам, которые приняли Лукрецию Монгфиш как свою богиню.

Так или иначе, в браке Билла и Лукреции родился сын — Клаус Барри Гетеродин. Затем Лукреция забеременела Агатой, которую втайне подготовила как потенциальное тело для записи своего сознания. Во время очередного отсутствия братьев-Гетеродинов замок Гетеродин был атакован, Клаус Барри убит, а Лукреция сбежала в страну гейстердам, где родила Агату и, вверив её заботам жриц, отбыла. На этом её достоверная история заканчивается.

Историческое Иное

Таинственный суперзлодей, который устроил зомби-апокалипсис в Европе и исчез. Никто не видел его лица, никто не знает, откуда он взялся и куда делся. Иное объявилось посреди установленного братьями-Гетеродинами мира, атаковало их замок, после развернуло террор по всей Европе. Фирменная фишечка его технологий — осы-угнетатели: киборгизированные монстры, во множестве производящие как рои хищных насекомых, так и мелких паразитических ос, которые пробираются жертве в рот и берут её под свой контроль. Долгое время считалось, что поражённые осамы превращаются в монструозных, хищных шаркунов-ревенантов, похожих на классических зомби. Позже выяснилось, что в зомби превращаются только те, у кого «одержание» пошло не по плану: в норме заражённый ничем себя не выдаёт, не имеет памяти о заражении — но беспрекословно выполняет приказы Иного, которого опознаёт по характерным для Лукреции Монгфиш — и отчасти Агаты — гармоникам голоса. Позже — возможно, что уже и не Иным — были созданы модификации ос-угнетателей для контроля над Искрами или, например, крайне мелкими созданиями. С Иным — как минимум отчасти — в тайне союзничали верные Лукреции рыцари Юпитера. Внезапно появившись, злодей также внезапно и пропал, а вместе с ним исчез сначала Билл Гетеродин, а через пару лет — и Барри.

Муза времени

Разумный конструкт, который перемещался во времени, особенно интересуясь окрестностями лаборатории Ван Рейна под Парижем. Вдохновил последнего на создание размуных Муз. Был им пойман в колбу, причём сам Ван Рейн то ли умер сам после такой удачи, толи был каким-то образом убит. Зато Муза Времени все эти столетия в колбе провела без особых проблем и перенеслась в какое-то другое время сразу же, как Агата запустила механизм.

Убийца Королев

Сильно модернизированное существо, которое в доисторические времена истребило всех Королев, кроме Альбии, перемещаясь между их землями через Зеркала. Собственно, с тех пор Зеркала и не использовались: последняя из убитых Королев отключила порталы, а вылетевшая через случайное Зеркало перед его выключением Альбия сочла за благо связь не восстанавливать. Эта версия Иного обладает методами, позволяющими поражать Королев через все их защиты, возможно, что и знанием каких-то уникальных уязвимостей. После припоминания была опознана Альбией как Лукреция Монгфиш, причём королева заявила, что та появлялась в истории многократно, принося только горе.

Лугата

Личность Лукреции Монгфиш, записанная в голову Агате в замке Штурмхальтен. «Оригиналом», однако, служила не беременная Лукреция, сбежавшая в страну гейстердам, а «гневная богиня», которая явилась туда — в нормальном времени — позже и устроила жрицам разгром за то, что Барри отбил у них младенца-Агату. Лугата первой из Иных появляется в комиксе, в своих мыслях «выглядит» как живая Лукреция и сохраняет её повадки в достаточно степени, чтоб быть узнанной. Однако сознание её явно отличается от Лукреции-жены-Билла. Так, первая Лукреция была пусть и социопаткой, но тонкой социальной манипуляторшей и хорошей лгуньей, которая водила за нос и братьев-Гетеродинов, и Клауса Вульфенбаха, и Рыцарей Юпитера. Записанная Лугата тоже социопатка, но врать совершенно не умеет, людей не понимает, из-за чего легко оказывается обманута и «палится» при попытке притвориться Агатой. Она легко показывает любые свои желания — например, может начать флиртовать со смазливым мальчиком, даже если тот сражается против неё прямо сейчас. Зато она имеет знания о том, как стать Королевой — и может в какой-то степени запустить процесс даже без Источника и Пламени. Была подавлена волей Агаты, медальоном Барри, затем окончательно стёрта из головы дочери.

Луневка

Та же версия Лукреции, записанная той же машиной в роботело Аневки, созданное Тарвеком на основе технологий Ван Рейна (который, в свою очередь, создавал их под впечатлением от Музы Времени…). Полностью подобна Лугате по знаниям, однако не способна обращаться в Королеву без внешнего источника энергии из-за своего роботизированного тела, да и путешествовать во времени не может. Кроме того, Лугата находится на свободе начиная с арки Штурмхальтена, что позволяет ей больше проявить свою натуру. Так, она обладает знаниями об оружии, сокрушившем Королев, умеет использовать Зеркала, и при этом провела неопределённо долгове время без удовольствий плоти, из-за чего, например, не может без подсказки вспомнить о том, что любит шоколад. Утверждает, что прошла через некие непредставимые горести и испытания, о которых другие и помыслить не могут. Луневка социопатична, эгоцентрична, склонна к истерикам — и при этом совершенно не умеет читать людей и притворяться, из-за чего все её союзники в конце концов оборачиваются против неё, чтоб не получить ожидаемый кинжал в спину. Погибла в битве с Альбией, взорвав сама себя.

Гейстердамы

Страдающий альбинизмом народ амазонок из какого-то очень удалённого места, куда можно попасть только через Зеркало Королев. В Европе известны как хорошие бойцы, которые взялись непонятно откуда, говорят на своём, особом языке и преследуют неизвестные цели. Позже открывается, что гейстердамы боготворили Лукрецию/Иное как свою богиню (скорее всего из-за того, что та переместилась в прошлое и основала культ самой себя с удобными для себя в будущем пророчествами); они подчинялись ей и должны были сохранить рождённую Лукрецией Агату, но проиграли Барри Гетеродину и были посланы в Европу искать похищенную девушку. Большая часть гейстер — фанатички; однако явление крайне злой за пропажу дочери «богини» заставило их усомниться и поднять мятеж, уничтожив связывающее их мирок с Европой зеркало; в дальнейшем длительные бесцельные поиски и появление сразу нескольких «богинь» подтачили уверенность некоторых из них, так что часть гейстердам перешли на сторону Агаты.

Компанию гейстердамам составляют столь же бледные существа: ездовые боевые пауки, коренастые тяжеловозы, мини-дракончики, выполняющие роль воздушных собак.

Особо поименованы леди Врин (правая рука принца Ааронева IV, отвечавшая за попытки записать личность Лукреции в девушек-Икср) и Эотаин (гейстердама, которая после парижского провала усомнилась в «божественности» Золы, спряталась в катакомбах и с помощью Отара перешла на сторону героев, утянув за собой часть подчинённых).

Клаус Вульфенбах

Барон, благодаря таланту Искры и сильной воле расширивший своё государство до полноценной империи, первый серьёзный антагонист в комиксе. При этом сам барон не особо зол, а по меркам остального мира — даже благонамерен, хоть и имеет дурную репутацию. Он более всего заинтересован в установлении прочного мира в Европе, и Агату атакует (изначально — просто пытается захватить) исключительно потому, что считает её потенциальной угрозой текущему миропорядку. И он прав: Гетеродины на самом деле имеют дурную репутацию и большие возможности натроврить дел, а Агата просто по праву рождения может отхватить немаленькую армию, город, кучу земли вокруг и множество всяких опасных штук на этих землях. Весть о том, что в тело Агаты записана Лукреция/Иное ещё больше убеждает барона действовать решительно, и тут он тоже несильно ошибается. Однако череда событий приводит к тому, что от действий Клауса всё становится только хуже, а сам он оказывается подчинён и заморожен во времени.

Клаус Вульфенбах начал свой путь как сын небольшого дворянского рода. Точнее, три сына6 после некой трагедии ребята погибли, а родители-Искры сшили из трёх трупов одного мыслящего наследника. Что по определению ставит Клауса в оппозицию к дворянству и особенно к Пятидесяти Семействам, так как по закону он после смерти, вообще-то, даже на свой мелкий дворянский феод прав не имеет.

• Барон Клаус Вульфенбах — великолепный мерзавец, антизлодей и одновременно герой с плохой репутацией, искусный государь и крутой король. Короче, многогранная личность. Фактический правитель Центральной и Восточной Европы — но категорически отказывается менять свой баронский титул на более высокий, что иногда приводит к казусам: например, его титулуют «ваше баронское величество». Раньше был напарником Братьев Гетеродинов, таинственно исчез, усыплён своей любовницей Лукрецией Монгфиш накануне её свадьбы с Биллом Гетеродином и отправлен куда подальше, чтоб не мешал, предположительно в Скайфандер, потом вернулся с ребёнком на руках уже после исчезновения Гетеродинов и увидел родную землю погрязшей в анархии. Своей целью поставил сохранение мира и порядка в Европе, чего добивается порой очень жёсткими методами (не то что ему это нравится, просто местная знать по-другому не понимает, а мельчайшее проявление миролюбия в сеттинге принимают за слабость). Во времена приключений с братьями Гетеродинами был в их тени, но после того, как стал диктатором половины Европы, в качестве пассивного протеста против его режима во всех театральных, видео и прочих произведениях о приключениях братьев его стали выводить там полным придурком. «Пирог в лицо Клаусу Вульфенбаху спасает самую провальную постановку!» (при этом сам не Барон возражает и даже находит эти шутки забавными, иногда). Считает Агату угрозой стабильности (в общем-то так и есть — она не нарочно, но у неё всё время само получается) и Иным (почти правда, но не совсем), потому сначала стремился её запереть, а потом просто убить, причём любой ценой. Любит вафли.

A former friend and traveling companion to the Heterodyne Boys, Klaus disappeared shortly before Agatha’s parents married and returned several years later to find Europa in utter chaos. He restored order to the continent, not by negotiating and being nice like his vanished friends, but by imposing his Iron Will on an ever increasing area of the globe.

Эпизодические нейтралы

Отар Тригвассен, авантюрист и джентльмен

Сильная Искра из Скандинавии, народный герой, который считает Искр причинами всех бед и уничтожает их при первой возможности. Как и положено герою, высок, широк в плечах, харизматичен. Не горит в огне и переживает падения с любой высоты. При этом мыслит он тоже тропами приключенческой литературы, искренне считая себя главным героем. Под хорошей славой скрывается достаточно жёстокий храмовник, который, однако, способен на временные компромисы… до некоторой степени. Из-за этого успел побывать как союзником, так и противником героев — причём сразу многих, от Агаты до барона (обоих). В столкновении с бóльшим злом Отара обычно освобождают и привлекают к делу, а вот если злодеев тройной отгонки на горизонте не видно, он мигом становится… неудобным пассажиром для мира, где большая часть влиятельных фигур и учёных — Искры.

Известно, что Отар не женат и вообще сбежал от женитьбы, девушками интересуется мало. Из-за чего его даже в шутку подкалывали на тему ориентации. Впрочем, в другом варианте истории он сбежал на необитаемый остров с Эотаин — но это было не в комиксе, а в авторском Твиттере, и в любом случае эту линию времени пришлось отменить самому Отару.

У Отара есть сестра, Санаа, которую он оставил дома и которая увязалась за ним следом, поскольку очень хочет быть помощницей героя. По пути она успела побыть королевой пиратов, попасться Клаусу Вульфенбаху и отправиться в замок Гетеродин как заключённая, затем освободиться вместе со всеми и таки увязаться за братом.

Доктор Сан

Доктор-Искра, глава механиксбургского госпиталя и давний товарищ Клауса Вульфенбаха. Сан стар и является одним из немногих азиатских персонажей в комиксе; впрочем, обратно в Китай ему путь заказан. Док крайне ответственно подходит к своей работе и готов лично вырубить пациента для того, чтоб обеспечить ему положенный уход. Даже если это барон Клаус Вульфенбах в мини-мехе.

Гетеродины прошлого

Билл и Барри

Братья, которые, происходя из рода потомственных злодеев, сумели стать народными героями. Этому крайне поспособствовала их мать, Теодора Воденичарова, добрая и в некоторых конфессиях буквально святая женщина. Братья-Гетеродины разогнали Рынок Плоти, организовав на его месте механиксбургский госпиталь, запретили наиболее одиозные гильдии, а потом принялись за остальную Европу, добрым словом и выдающимися научными достижениями заставляя многочисленных Искр прекращать войну и прочие беспорядки. Они остановили вековую резню, совершили множество добрых дел — а под конец жизни столкнулись с атакой непойми откуда вылезшего злодея Иное и пропали в борьбе с ним (впрочем, Иное пропало тоже).

Билл был женат на Лукреции Монгфиш, дочери его противника; Барри остался холост. У Билла был сын Клаус Барри, убитый Иным, и дочь Агата, которая родилась уже после ататаки и пропажи Лукреции; кроме того, известными спутниками братьев-Гетеродинов являются конструкты Панч и Джуди, а также верный товарищ — барон Клаус Вульфенбах. Из флэшбеков известно, что как минимум Барри Гетеродин был жив и действовал несколько лет после атаки Иного, в том числе и после пропажи брата; он знал о Скайфандере (то есть, скорее всего, владел тайной зеркал Королев).

Сатурн

Дед Агаты и отец братьев-Гетеродинов, классический старый Гетеродин-злодей. Взял жену угрозами, но, похоже, действительно её любил — впрочем, посмотрев на результаты жениного воспитания, решил убить своих детей от неё и заделать новых. За что был убит женой. Упоминается, что Сатурн состоял в одном студенческом братстве с Вапнулом — тем самым, который оказался слишком опасным для ссылки в замок Гетеродин и который пугал полубожественную Альбию.

Ефемия

Редкая женщина из рода Гетеродинов, тоже сильная Искра, любовный интерес Андроника Валуа. Сама, однако, быть его женой и вассалом не хотела, чтоб не разрушать семейные традиции. Роман с ней кончился для Короля Бурь плохо: технологии Гетеродинов осквернили его оружие, а сам Андроник каким-то образом впал в безумие, был убит — но всё равно воскрес. По словам Андроника, Ефемия была похищена Ван Рейном; по версии Ван Рейна, пересказанной Владыкой Парижа Вольтером, Ефемия пыталась найти что-то опасное в его лаборатории и таки нашла и исчезла.

Прочие эпизодически упомянутые

• кочевник Хт’рок’дин пришёл в Трансильванию и нашёл святой источник какого-то древнего культа, вода которого могла исцелить, а могла и убить. Он выпил — и выжил; после решил остаться на этом месте и построил первый замок Гетеродинов и основал династию.
• Фаустус создал разум замка Гетеродин.
• Влад Богохульник, создал ягерпойло и ягеров.
• Бладхарст воевал с Королём Бурь, был побеждён и передал трон Ефемии.
• Робур экспериментировал со временем и случайно запустил в мир дринов. После чего уничтожил машины, решив, что это ангелы пришли его наказать. А затем откушал пирога, успокоился и сдал дринов корбелиттам в обмен на обещание мира.
• Красный Гетеродин как-то обещал съесть свою шляпу — и съел. А ещё у него был брат, Чёрный Гетеродин, который распрсотранил по миру летучих мышей-кровососов просто из желания поделиться такой прекрасной тварью со всем миром. У одного из них гробница с пятью датами смерти, у другого — с припиской «Не открывать!».
• Дагон был женат на Королеве Черепов Скраалы, которая послала армию боевых гомункулов, чтоб привлечь его внимание.

Персонажи

• Мартеллий фон Блитценгаард — кузен Тарвека (у них одна бабушка), ещё один член Рыцарей Юпитера. После того, как Тарвек дискредитировал себя в глазах заговорщиков, был провозглашён новым Королём Бурь. Поначалу выглядит как типичное ничтожество на троне, но чуть позже раскрывается как великолепный мерзавец, сильная Искра, мастер скрытности и боя и редкостный отморозок. Положил глаз на Агату и даже сумел генетически запрограммировать её на зависимость от собственной близости, но девушка сумела заменить его на хорька. Словил побочку, теперь он тоже без перисутствия Агаты подыхает.
• Ксерксефония фон Блитценгаард — сестра Мартеллия. Эффектная девушка, способная благодаря удачно подобранному наряду предстать в облике как роковой красотки, так и милой няшки. Вроде бы не Искра, но очень умна, хитра и коварна. Плетёт интриги, поддерживая братца (как ни странно, эти двое друг друга искренне любят), но не забывая о главной цели: стать супругой Гила. В отличие от Мартеллия, Ксефа прекрасный психолог и умеет находить общий язык с окружающими — в частности, Агата считает её если не подругой, то по крайней мере не хочет прибить. А ещё Ксерксефония ввела в Англии новую моду на сладости в волосах: кутюр а-ля кондитерне!
• Бангладеш Дюпри — правая рука главгада Клауса Вульфенбаха, псих-наёмник, бывшая пиратка, поступившая на службу барону в обмен на обещание найти и покарать тех, кто в её отсутствие уничтожил её крепость и команду (заявила о своей отставке, узнав, что это была Зита). Испытывает отвращение от любых романтических чувств, Гила воспринимает примерно как брата.
• Рассказчик — воплощение Фила Фоглио, автора романа в виде персонажа. Неудачливый путешественник, бродящий по Европе и зарабатывающий рассказыванием историй. Сам того не понимая, использовался Клаусом для передачи Гилу зашифрованного сообщения. Через некоторое время в персонажи набивается и Кайя, домогающаяся от Агаты должности придворного биографа.

Protagonists

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Gilgamesh Wulfenbach

Son of one of the major antagonists, Gilgamesh is one of the possible pairings for Agatha, and has much more obvious motivations.

• Don’t Call Me «Sir»: (Не называй меня «сэр») A weird case; he refused to be called Baron at first, since that implied his father was dead even though they Never Found the Body. He’s even less happy when he learns the alternative is «Your Highness.»

«	Gil: Oh, for … I can’t even imagine what that’s about.	»

• Red Oni, Blue Oni: (Диалектика Льда и Огня) Red to Tarvek’s Blue, oh-so-very much. Gil is passionate, dogged and relentless in everything he does, and prefers Crazy Preparation to Chess. This means he’s hopeless in situations that can’t be prepared for… like romance. He has to get by on honesty… and can be a bit brutal about it.
• Yank the Dog’s Chain: (Приманить собаку) He just wants to be with Agatha, but never gets to stay near her for long. A week after he meets her, she fakes her death; two months later he finds out she’s alive and reunites with her in Mechanicsburg for a couple of days, only to have her get frozen in time; when she comes out of the time stop two and a half years later he chases her to St. Szpac where his father’s mind control knocks him unconscious in a matter of seconds once he’s in the same room with her; after his father’s mind control is removed he gets to be with her for only a few days in England before he has to return to Europa to fight the Polar Lords while she goes to find Prende’s Lantern; a few days after she returns with the lantern, he gets kidnapped while they are preparing to lift the time stop.

Tarvek Sturmvoraus

First encountered when Agatha travels through the city of his father, Tarvek is the Prince of Sturmhalten, and a descendant of the legendary Storm King. He’s seemed to be on everyone’s side, playing everyone against everyone else, though later he seems to be genuinely on Team Agatha. He is a powerful Spark and a keen intellect. The other possible pairing for Agatha.

• Fatal Flaw: (Фатальная слабость) He shares two with Gil: Pride and Wrath. His pride is the more destabilizing factor for him. His pride forces him to try and prove that he’s the smartest in the room. When he found out Higgs was the hidden Jäger general, he HAD to openly confront him about it. He wanted to make sure Higgs knew that he knew his secret by forcing a discussion on it even after Higgs gives him a warning. This almost gets him killed. This is in contrast to Gil who knew the secret, but was way more subtle in revealing it and didn’t force Higgs to openly admit it directly or indirectly. As for wrath, he almost kills Zola despite her having a wealth of information that the heroes probably desparately need. His hatred for Gil is also a little bit unreasonable. He, like Gil, becomes a bit of an idiot around Agatha, though less so. He does get more freaked out than Gil by women when they openly flirt with him, however.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: (Диалектика Льда и Огня) Blue to Gil’s Red, oh-so-very much. He’s calm, cool, collected in everything he does, and prefers to dominate his surroundings through constant manipulation. This makes him as charming as the very devil… unless the girl realizes that he’s simply being polite about staying in control. It also means he’s rather dependent on others once outside of a support network… At least until he gets a new one.
• The Rival: (Соперник) To Gilgamesh Wulfenbach. In principle, he resents the Wulfenbachs in general (since they were a minor noble family who rose to power despite not playing by the rules of the game if you will) and Gil specifically for the swaths of his messed-up life that weren’t directly caused by his own family. Furthermore, they are also romantic rivals for Agatha’s heart. In practice, his relationship with Gil hovers somewhere in between Friendly Enemy and Vitriolic Best Buds. Justified since they were inseperable childhood best friends, even with their spats. When not on each other’s case, they get along quite nicely.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: (Чувствительный парень и брутальный мужик) Sensitive Guy compared to Gil’s Manly Man. He’s calmer, more thoughtful, and less prone to fits of violence. On the other hand, he often attempts to sway Agatha to his will while Gil dotes on her, so he could be considered the Manly Man to Gil’s Sensitive Man.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: (Одет с иголочки) Well, he is when we meet him, anyway. He deteriorates sharply later. He eventually manages to get some proper clothes on, but doesn’t manage to get into something genuinely nice again until the England arc.
• What You Are in the Dark: (Никто не узнает) Tarvek, much as he normally projects the image of a cold, efficient, ruthless and pragmatic hero, carries a stabbed and unconscious Ruxala out of the burning remains of the Vespiary Squad’s crashed airship instead of abandoning her. And then, already struggling under Ruxala’s weight, he stumbles across the crippled Jäger Jorgi in the wreckage and throws him on his back as well, despite even the Jäger telling him to Go On Without Me (and refusing to shut up while Tarvek is carrying him). And then he stops to pick up a litter of orphaned baby wasp eaters! Even when nobody can see him, Tarvek really is a good person.

Violetta Mondarev

Violetta is a Smoke Knight, although she herself says she’s not very good at her job. She’s also a member of a cadet branch of Tarvek’s family. Her job is to keep Tarvek alive, which is proving to be far more difficult than it should be considering he was confined to a hospital bed when she took that duty.

• Color-Coded Characters: (Расцвеченная команда) She has her family’s red hair and the Smoke Knights' purple gear.

Zeetha

Warrior princess from the lost city of Skifander, she no longer knows how to get back and, until Agatha mentioned it, was uncertain as to whether her homeland even existed. She has trained Agatha to be a warrior and still fights for her interests.

• Best Friend: (Лучшие друзья) With Agatha, bordering on sworn sisters due to their sworn teacher-pupil relationship. If it wasn’t for Agatha already pining for Gil and Tarvek and Zeetha for Higgs, one would think they were Heterosexual Life-Partners, that’s how deep their relationship is. They even sleep in the same bed and have explicitly expressed platonic love for each other.
• Color-Coded Characters: (Расцвеченная команда) She has bright green hair and her normal outfit is blue.

Antagonists

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The Other

• Fatal Flaw: (Фатальная слабость) Ego. Lucrezia’s got an inflated sense of self even by spark standards that make it far easier to manipulate someone as intelligent as her than it really should be. She was willing to risk outing herself in her disguise as the princess when her improvements to the healing engine hooked up to Klaus were being attributed to Doctor Sun, and her ego wouldn’t let anyone else claim credit for her work even when it was a bad idea to do so.
• Fighting from the Inside: (Прочь из моей головы!/Битва в чертогах разума?) Even sealed away by Agatha’s locket, the Other still pushes away at her mind. Toward the end, she started getting so strong even the locket was no longer effectual.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: (Сам себя перехитрил/Не рой яму другому) Offers to «ride along» in Zola’s head so she can leave Agatha to die, especially since Agatha’s brooch supresses her. Turns out, Zola can control and supress her even without external mechanisms which means that unless Zola is unconscious, Lucretia can’t do anything with that body while Zola gains all her knowledge.

Geisterdamen

• Ambiguously Human: (Се человек?) It’s unclear if they are humans, aliens, constructs, or whatever.

Franz

Franz is the Great Dragon of Mechanicsburg. You may have seen him on the town arms.

• Friend-or-Idol Decision: (Друг или золото?) Has to make a decision between helping himself to Hydrargyros' gold hoard once he and the impromptu band of raiders have access to it, or helping Humongulous from under the pillar he threw at him earlier. Not only does he choose the latter, he surprises the resident Mechanicsburger that there was even a dilemma to be had to begin with.
• Odd Friendship: (Непохожие друзья) Franz has managed to strike up a somewhat cordial and respectful partnership with Humongulous, despite the latter being constantly mistaken for a knight.
• Spell My Name With An S: (Я пишусь через «Э») It’s «Scortchmaw», not «Scorchmaw». Yes, it’s misspelled, but that’s how it officially is. You gonna argue with him?

Moloch von Zinzer

• Color-Coded Characters: (Расцвеченная команда) His outfit is mostly grey and his hair is black. He wore bright red early on.

Prisoners (in general)

A thoroughly mixed bag of Sparks, constructs, criminals and psychopaths sentenced to repair Castle Heterodyne, thus killing two birds with one stone from the Baron’s perspective. Provides a ready pool of minions (or mooks) for whomever is currently ascendant.

• Boxed Crook: (Миссия для заключённого) Though the remaining survivors are technically free once the castle is fully repaired, this happens in the middle of the siege of Mechanicsburg. With most of the Baron’s forces directly outside the town walls, and Agatha being able to provide a sanctuary, plenty of minions and freedom for their respective sciences, the survivors opt to work for her instead of fleeing.

Jägerkin

The Jäger Generals

• Be Careful What You Wish For: (Бойся своих желаний) You can hire him, but you can’t «un-hire» him. Once you set him on the case, he will not stop until the truth is fully exposed.
• The Smart Guy: (Умник) At least by the typical Jäger standard. Observant, methodical, and logical.

Old Man Death

• Dramatic Irony: (Драматическая ирония) Tells his granddaughter that he’d be more impressed if any of the Jägers he fights nowadays used cunning or stealth to steal his hat, but that it will never happen since Jägers don’t do subtle. Maxim’s third, and successful, attempt starts with stealth (hiding in a herring barrel) and ends with him (sort of) tricking Old Man Death into giving over the hat (by ordering a sandwich that is a hat-related historical reference) and escaping quickly (by ordering the sandwich to go).

The Heterodynes

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Bill and Barry, The Heterodyne Boys

• I Did What I Had to Do: (Для твоего же блага) Uncle Barry created the locket that he mandated that Agatha needed to wear for much of her life, because her Spark was breaking through at a young age and he knew that preventing that was necessary for the sake of keeping her safe. The flashback where he gives it to her makes it clear that he certainly wasn’t happy with what he was doing, and knew that she’d suffer as a result, but he had to do it for her sake. Agatha herself, in the present, would probably reluctantly agree with his reasoning despite what she went through, and the locket did end up (mostly) shutting down The Other when she was downloaded into Agatha’s brain, with the additional side effect of helping Agatha be able to think better and eventually overcome her mother’s mental strength, so it can be argued that Barry made the right call.

Wulfenbach Empire

Klaus Wulfenbach

• The Chains of Commanding: (Бремя лидера) Ruling (large portions of) the world is not as fun as it sounds.

«	Othar: What, tyrant? Does your empire give you no pleasure?! Klaus: No. It gives me no pleasure.	»

• The Extremist Was Right: (Экстремист был прав) The former Trope Namer, back when it was called «And It Worked», because he’s just that badass. Yes, Klaus conquered his empire by naked force. On the other hand, Europa was being torn apart by constant war, and his reign is second only to that of the Heterodyne Boys for general quality of life, especially for the common man. He builds up the infrastructure of his subject regions, and about the only things he actually bans are war and messing with Other technology. After the time-skip, his reign is described as «like some lost Golden Age out of antiquity» — after only two and a half years.
• Hero Antagonist: (Героический антагонист) He has some very good reasons not to want Agatha running around free, and is otherwise a Reasonable Authority Figure.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: (Не рой яму другому)
  • He left Silas Merlot in charge of Beetlesburg as a punishment for selling out Dr. Beetle, threatening to send him to Castle Heterodyne at his first mistake. He likely thought that Silas would muck up in some minor way or just spend the rest of his life keeping his head down, unaware of how truly unhinged and desperate he was. When Silas discovered Beetle’s journals about Agatha being the last Heterodyne, he immediately panicked, burning Beetle’s Hall of Records to the ground and murdering the Baron’s cryptography team to keep it under wraps. Had Klaus just killed or ignored him then he likely would have known about Agatha’s true origins long before it became an issue.
  • He made a deal with the damaged Castle Heterodyne for it to act as his prison, sending it a steady supply of dangerous Sparks and criminals to repair it. This gave the Baron his greatest threat to use against those who go out of line, being able to send them to be slave labor in an insane, death trap filled castle that will kill for fun. However, this ends up biting him in the backside when Agatha manages to fix the castle during his attempt to destroy Mechanicsburg. The repaired Castle cuts off all ties with him and frees its prisoners, leaving Agatha with an army of Sparks and minions to use against him. What’s more, it was Sparks who had been making repairs on the Castle for almost 15 years, making it even more dangerous when it’s finally fully restored.
  • He transferred a copy of his mind into his son to «protect» him from Agatha due to believing his son to be making the same mistake he made with Agatha’s mother — falling in love with a manipulative monster. He set it up to override and take control of Gil when needed, and the copy claims he cannot stop himself from taking over when he is in Agatha’s presence even if he wants to. Since Tarvek and Agatha’s plan to free Gil of his control requires him to be in charge of Gil’s body when it happens, that means they are able to do so by maneuvering Gil where they need him while Agatha is out of the room, then Tarvek claims she has returned once he’s in position.
• I Did What I Had to Do: (Для твоего же блага) His basic justification for just about any of his actions. Sadly, he’s right; everyone knows he’s right, even Agatha herself has admitted he’s right a few times. He doesn’t have the charisma the Heterodyne Boys did and thus can’t use their methods, meaning he has to resort to threat of force to prevent Europa from sinking back into war. That doesn’t mean anyone — himself included — likes the situation or thinks it makes him any less a Jerkass. Over the course of the comic, he resorts to increasingly extreme measures due to increasingly worsening events.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: (Зло воздающее)
  • One of the sources of friction between him and the Heterodyne boys was that he had no objections to giving unrepentant maniacs a taste of their own medicine, while Bill and Barry hated killing anyone. See also Dr. Vapnoople. Which his brain-coring of the man is pretty monstrous, once the man’s intelligence is restored it becomes extremely clear why Klaus inflicted such a fate on him.
• Scars Are Forever: (Шрамы навсегда) Assuming that the stitches covering his torso are from his resurrection as a construct (which they almost certainly are, since the different 'pieces' of his body clearly have different skin tones) they’re several decades old and yet have never faded.
• Sickbed Slaying: (Убийство в больнице) When he was hospitalized at the Hospital of Mechanicsburg following the Battle of Sturmhalten, numerous assassins tried pulling this trope on him, starting with one posing as a nurse. By the time Bangladesh DuPree was assigned to his room to guard him, there was a sizable pile of would-be assassins on the floor.

Wulfenbach Personnel As a whole

• Mauve Shirt: (Лиловые рубашки) Sergeant Scorp of the Baron’s Vespiary Squad survives a surprising number of appearances. Also an unquestionably Cool Old Guy, right down to the superb facial hair.

Bangladesh DuPree

A pirate queen in the pay of the Baron, though even he finds her taste for violence and random slaughter distasteful. Nevertheless he keeps her about as she is a very skilled warrior and hunter and sometimes, you need a butcher.

• Affably Evil: (Дружелюбный злодей) She’s made of fun. Always. Even while skewering someone.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: (Профи с причудами) One might forget she is an airship captain, what with being such a ditzy-acting Blood Knight… until a probably wasped airship captain nearly leads our heroes into the enemy’s time trap where they could kill the heroes at their leisure. Bang thwarts the rogue captain, takes charge and averts catastrophe with deft and decisive orders (with the crew quickly and wisely complying when realizing her infamy), all while still catering to her nature as a pirate at heart.
• Color-Coded Characters: (Расцвеченная команда) She wears white and red.
• Comedic Sociopathy: (Комический социопат) Say what you want about The Baron’s pet psychopath… she is big fun.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: (И у злодея есть любимые)
  • Et tu, DuPree? It just took some time to find the perfect match.
  • She also genuinely cares for Klaus and Gil, breaking down in tears when she believes the Baron was killed (though threatening to kill Gil for making her cry later), and her relationship with Gil is very much Like Brother and Sister. In fact, she sets her hostility aside when meeting with Zeetha and Agatha after the timeskip, and expresses her hope they can fix whatever Klaus did to him.
  • She also takes Tarvek aside and asks him as well. She’s really asking just about anyone she thinks she can trust.
• Evil Counterpart: (Оттенить героя мерзавцем) To Zeetha. Both are Action Girls who follow a Spark, extremely competent fighters, and each one is a Boisterous Bruiser, but Bang is a Psycho for Hire while Zeetha is a Spirited Competitor (who granted, does border on Blood Knight at times). And both are eagerly awaiting the time when a fight between them is justified.
• Evil Versus Oblivion: (Зло против небытия) She is a dyed-in-the-wool villain (albeit a fun one), but she sees an «oblivion» of sorts in the prospect of The Other winning and making no one’s mind their own anymore.
• Genki Girl: (Гэнки) A big lighthearted kid, even if she is the Ax-Crazy sort that would torture a rat just to hear it squeal.
• Jerkass Has a Point: (Козёл был прав) Bang’s reasoning on why the Baron can’t be the Other is… unique: The Other would never leave a minion free to do anything against orders. However, Bang still has the free will to constantly ignore Klaus’s orders not to kill people, therefore she hasn’t been wasped and mind-controlled, therefore Klaus can’t be the Other. He finds this a less than comforting chain of reasoning, but can’t really counter it.
• More Despicable Minion: (Гадский подручный хуже хозяина) She can barely be contained by the Well-Intentioned Extremist Baron Wulfenbach or his son, and loves violence.

«	DuPree: Isn’t that always the way? Management thinking it knows what works in the field? Why, if I were here alone — and you people were still standing around — half of you’d be dead!	»

• Mundane Solution: (Можно не изощряться) Upon hearing how the monstrous new Vole is at risk of killing himself if they don’t subdue him before he rips out all of his water and nutrient feeds, Bang asks why they don’t just let him pull out a few first to weaken him so that they can subdue him. Bang laughs at the fact that Sparks are so smart they fail to find simple solutions. Then she thinks she’s Spotted an Imposter and forcefully asks where the REAL Gil is.
• Not Me This Time: (На этот раз не я) She’s a default suspect for any cases of death and destruction around her, for an obvious reason. Bang doesn’t even see it as a problem.
• Revenge: (Я отомщу) She agreed to work for the Baron in return for his assistance in identifying the person that destroyed her pirate fortress. Upon learning that it was Zeetha, she goes in for the hunt, despite fully expecting to be the one killed.
• Token Evil Teammate: (Какой ни есть, а он за нас) While’s it arguable whether the Wulfenbach Empire is good or evil, Bang’s high ranking presence among them is probably the best argument one can make if they want to say they’re the latter. Although at the very least, Klaus is able to at least point her in the general direction of even worse people, thus keeping her on something of a leash.
• Torture Technician: (Мастер пыток) She shows her interest right during her introduction.

«	Bangladesh: Do I come into your lab and tell you how to torture rats? Gil: Frequently. Bangladesh: Exactly! So I know what I’m doing!	»

• Wham Line: (Поворотная фраза)

«	Bangladesh: Sure, sure. But this can’t wait, Herr Baron. My term of service to the empire is over. I quit.	»

Boris Dolokhov

The head of The Baron’s administrative staff, Boris is a microcosm of how the Baron operates, and why it may be preferable to the previous system. Originally a librarian with an eidetic memory serving a Spark (far from a calm profession in and of itself) his master decided to add an extra pair of arms, strength, speed, balance… and turn him into the ultimate juggler. When the Baron took down his former master, he was given a far less demeaning job. He is now the Baron’s right hand man and chief administrative secretary.

This is a job that he has excelled in. His brilliant and utterly humorless mind and enhanced physical abilities make him exactly the sort of person that a man like the Baron would need at his side, showing the Baron’s talent for getting the right monster for the right job.

He and the Jägers have a love/hate relationship, as in: They love to pick on him, he hates their attitude.

• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: (Власть — это сила) Boris is already a great leader, but the Jagers would never accept him as their commander if he couldn’t kick their asses. Dimo makes him their commander during a raid on Castle Wulfenbach after it is seemly taken over by the Queen of the Dawn.
• Badass Bookworm: (Крутой ботан) All the modifications intended to make him a juggler are extremely useful in combat. Boris is perfectly capable of beating the tar out of a Jäger, especially if he wants information. Fights alongside the Baron on the frontlines against Slaver Wasps, and comes out largely unscathed.
• Famous-Named Foreigner: (Известный иностранный иностранец) Shares last names with the main characters from The Idiot and War and Peace, respectively.
• What the Hell, Hero?: (Что за фигня, герой?) When Wooster clues the generals in on his plans to destroy Mechanicsburg. «DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU’VE DONE?!»

Dr. Dim Vapnoople

One of Baron Klaus’s experiments in «pacifying» particularly mad/stupid/dangerous/annoying Sparks, reduced to a janitorial role aboard Castle Wulfenbach. At some point he created Krosp.

• Curb-Stomp Battle: (Избиение младенцев) Once his intelligence is restored he and Agatha deliver one to Lord Snackleford despite the latter having achieved Second Breakthrough. He doesn’t even break a sweat. He just as effortlessly subdues Agatha afterwards, requiring Krosp, Kjarl, and Tarvek to intervene before he can drag her to another dimension.
• Fate Worse than Death: (Участь хуже смерти) Baron Klaus experimented on his brain, effectively lobotomizing him and leaving him an imbecile who can no longer use his Spark. The novelization makes it worse — he still has the mindset of a Spark, and therefore treats being complimented on menial tasks as the highest accomplishment possible.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: (Тени былого величия) Albia is stunned to find the terrifying Spark who once managed to brainwash several of the Great Cetaceans (an ancient race of massive civilization-bearing whales who live in the depths of the ocean and who are even implied to be the cetacean counterparts to human Sparks who have achieved Second Breakthrough) into attacking England is now a friendly and innocent janitor whose brilliant mind has been, in her own words, «disassembled.»
• Pay Evil unto Evil: (Зло воздающее) He was paid unto by Baron Wulfenbach. Deliberately inflicting psychologically degrading brain damage in the pursuit of understanding the physiological nature of the Spark sounds pretty heinous, enough for even another enemy of Vapnoodle to take pity on him afterwards… but then the Londinium arc shows that Vapnoodle was not at all undeserving of such a fate after his malignant intellect and top-class Spark were restored, and further backstory on his misdeeds are revealed.
• Scars Are Forever: (Шрамы навсегда) His head is covered in a crosswork patching of scars from Baron Klaus' experiments.

Higgs

Higgs is first introduced as a lowlevel crewman who happened to be on the medical airship assigned to transport the wounded Baron to Mechanicsburg. Over time, it’s become clear that this was a cover identity. After much prolonged hinting and implications about his true nature and identity, he finally explicitly confirms the truth to Agatha in person. (See various spoilers below.)

• Beneath Notice: (Никто не замечает официанта) Higgs infiltrates the target’s armies by signing up as some sort of low-ranking private and acting as a inocuous, bored grunt.
• Death Glare: (Убийственный взгляд (в разработке))
  • When Zola stabs Zeetha. «I vas starting to like her.»
  • Later on, when Tarvek figures out he’s a Jäger General, he gives Tarvek one of these while nearly choking him to death, before deciding to let him live because of how useful he is.
• Feel No Pain: (Нечувствительность к боли) He gets stabbed through the lungs and takes several seconds to remember that it should hurt him. In hindsight, this is yet another hint to his true nature.
• Freakiness Shame: (Не недостаток, а изюминка) Inverted. Despite how useful it is for his duties as Agatha’s Spymaster, it’s implied that Higgs has a slight complex about not having any of the usual cosmetic traits of a Jäger, particularly the teeth.
• Good Old Fisticuffs: (Старый добрый мордобой) In close quarters, he won’t bother using a weapon. He really doesn’t need one, either, seeing as how he can tear through anything up to and including Sparkhounds (which are tough enough to shrug off conventional blades and bullets like pebbles against a brick wall) without visible effort.
• He Knows Too Much: (Не оставлять свидетелей?) He doesn’t mind if you are suspicious and act with Selective Obliviousness, but if you actually know his secret or start stating it outright, there is a high chance he will kill you, even if you are his girlfriend. The castle almost told Zeetha his secret because it thought that would be funny. Higgs himself starts threatening Tarvek when Tarvek alludes to his secret in open.
• Let’s Get Dangerous!: (Ну-ка, от винта) For the most part, he stays in the background and doesn’t get actively involved. When he does get involved, he proves to be one of the most dangerous characters in the entire comic. You don’t become a Jäger General by inserting yourself into fights needlessly, but you also don’t by not being extraordinary deadly when you do.
• Meaningful Rename: (Сменить имя) When asked the question of whether «Axel Higgs» is his real name, he states that it wasn’t his original name, but he considers it his real name now.
• Only a Flesh Wound: (Безобидная рана) Higgs seems to function normally even when the wounds he took should be debilitating or lethal, much like all of the other Jägers we’ve seen.
• Scars Are Forever: (Шрамы навсегда) Has such an epic map of scars on his chest that it can be mistaken for hair at first glance.
• Smoking Is Cool: (Крутой курильщик) That is one badass pipe.
• Touché: (Туше́) When Agatha points out that, due to the long amount of time they’ve been in each other’s presence, Gil likely already has deduced that Higgs is the secret Seventh Jaegar general, Higgs dismisses the idea, only for Gil to show up and, upon reading the atmosphere between everybody, basically confirm Agatha’s hypothesis, to which Higgs can only begrudgingly commend him for his ability to downplay his insight.

«	Agatha: Isn’t he wonderful? Higgs: Hmf. He’s good, I’ll give you that.	»

• Unreliable Narrator: (Ненадёжный рассказчик) The story that initially earned him the fans' love and respect was related by him to the group of soldiers that found him. It hasn’t quite… meshed with what we’ve seen of him. It turns out he’s more badass, not less. Considering what we’ve seen him go through in order to reduce him to «walking wounded», what Higgs went through to get the injuries Dr. Sun mentioned has to have been far, far worse than what he reported.

Oglavia Spudna

Gil’s spymaster after the Time Skip. She is unnervingly good at her job.

• Evil Counterpart: (Оттенить героя мерзавцем) She has a similar hairstyle and build to Violetta, is Gil’s spymaster
• Psycho Psychologist: (Злой психиатр) It’d appear that she specializes in human psychology, and happens to be impressed by the Other’s use of Mind Control.

«	Spüdna: If she has indeed achieved the mass mental takeover of an entire population… Such a feat… So impressive… Gil: Wrong lesson, Spüdna.	»

• Token Evil Teammate: (Какой ни есть, а он за нас) She takes this role among Gil’s forces from Bang, suggesting that she has her people steal Agatha’s Wasp Eater (the same Wasp Eater she needs to live without Martellus’s «Touch of the King») to accelerate production of their own and brushes off Gil’s refusal by saying she could just frame Martellus for it.
• Torture Technician: (Мастер пыток) And even wrote a book about Cold-Blooded Torture in her youth.

Ruxala

One of the Wulfenbach Vepiary Squad members who survived being hunted down after the Baron was wasped.

• Berserker Tears: (Плакать от злости) Ruxala sat in tears until Slaver Wasp Warriors claw-stab her captain and walk in… carnage ensues.

«	Tarvek: Ah—I’m… I’m sorry, you just seemed rather… distraught— Ruxala: Of course I’m distraught! (still weeping, brains her third bug in a row, not even looking at it) They hurt my weasels!	»

Von Pinn

When first encountered Von Pinn seemed to just be another of the many monsters given jobs by the Baron. It eventually emerged, however, that she was the nursemaid at Castle Heterodyne when Agatha was born and this has made things rather interesting. Pursued by many Jägers as the height of womanhood and absolutely terrifying, Von Pinn seems to hate Agatha, fear what she is to become (whatever that is) and want to protect her.

• Combat Sadomasochist: (Боевой садомазохист)
  • Oh, yes.
  • Her attitude improved a lot the moment she was transferred into a body without pain sensitivity.
• Dark Action Girl: (Зло с женским лицом) If the way she looks isn’t enough her response to getting stabbed in the hand is to run her hand down the blade to grab the hilt.
• Dark Is Not Evil: (Тьма не есть зло) Dark, vicious, aggressive, but not evil.
• Horrifying the Horror: (Уволен из гестапо за жестокость) The Other, or perhaps Lucrezia, is terrified of her, even after having shoved her mind into a body she could control. With good reason. It only intensifies after Von Pinn reveals she’s found ways to circumvent Lucrezia’s hold on her.
• It’s Personal: (Это личное)
  • Things between Agatha and Von Pinn didn’t get off to a great start, but then she killed Punch and Judy. The next time they met, Agatha was not in a forgiving mood.
  • On the other end, she is quite furious with Lucrezia, what with Lucrezia robbing her of her original body and all.
• No-Sell: (Никакого эффекта) By the time she fights Lucrezia in the latter’s old lab in Castle Heterodyne, she has managed to nullify the effect of Lucrezia’s Compelling Voice on her.

«	Von Pinn: Sssss- That will no longer work, you filthy thief of souls. It was not easy, but I have found ways to break your hold.	»

• Not Quite Dead: (Скорее жив, чем мёртв) Seriously, someone like Von Pinn is a threat as long as they can move a finger.
• What the Hell, Hero?: (Что за фигня, герой?) When Agatha drops her down a bottomless pit. «TRULY YOU ARE YOUR MOTHER’S CHILD!»

The Lackya

Formerly the construct servants of the Duke D’Omas, aka the Gilded Duke, a year prior to the events of the comic, they entered the Baron’s service after he toppled the Duke. Only one of them, Katz, has been named so far.

• Clone Army: (Клоны и клонирование) Thus far all the Lackya we’ve seen but one have all been male, with silver hair, green eyes and little facial variation, and even the one with different hair may have been a coloring error. Considering they’re a race of constructs, this may not be too surprising.
• One-Gender Race: (Нет женщин и детей) As yet, all the ones we’ve seen are apparently male.
• Servant Race: (Раса слуг) Like the Jagers, the Lackya have a need to serve someone, so the Baron uses them as footmen once he takes out their master. After the Jagers leave the Baron’s service, the Lackya are mentioned (in the novels) to have taken over many of their duties.

Bohrlaikha

A Wulfenbach clank assigned to guard Gil after the Time Skip.

• Combat Parkour: (Паркур?) Bohrlaikha is able to fight an opponent several times her size even as she’s somersaulting in mid-air.
• The Juggernaut: (Джаггернаут) Few things can stop her for a meaningful amount of time. Gil eventually resorted to trapping her in the Mechanicsburg time bubble, and even that begins to fail after her time is restored for a split second.

Castle Wulfenbach Students as a whole

A mixed bag of Sparks, nobles, and young people with connections to both, kept on Castle Wulfenbach to be schooled… and to discourage stupid behavior in their families. Many of them remain as of yet un-named but two, Sleipnir O’Hara and Theopholous DuMedd, re-entered the story in Mecanicsburg. Three in particular have more characterization than the rest: Zulenna Luzhakna, Theopholous DuMedd, and Sleipnir O’Hara.

• Blue Blood/Science-Related Memetic Disorder: (Аристократ) Anyone without at least one of the two is at the bottom of the social heap. Sleipnir notes that Sparks matter more than lineage, although Theo Dumed is head boy with no title and only «a touch of the spark» — possibly because he’s related to the Heterodyne Boys by marriage.
• Gilded Cage: (Принцесса в клетке) They’re happy, healthy, and well treated, but it’s also true that they are hostages. At least one of them regretted having to leave, though he may have had other reasons. As Tarvek put it, Castle Wulfenbach is the place to be — especially for an ascending Spark.
• The Mole: (Внедрённый агент (в разработке)) Tarvek got kicked from Castle Wulfenbach because of this reason and he countered with basically «Who isn’t?». The students are not only hostages, they are also spying on Wulfenbach from inside his base of operation (or at least, sending the information the Baron wants them to have to their families).

Zulenna

A royal without the Spark, but with a strong sense of noble pride, as well as unshakable faith in the Baron. She starts out strongly antagonistic towards Agatha for a large number of reasons. However, she changes her tune when Agatha’s heritage is revealed. The Heterodyne Boys personally designed her family’s defenses, and thus she stays behind to buy Agatha and the others time to escape. She is killed by DuPree, but Klaus orders her put in the cold room to be revived later.

• Alpha Bitch: (Альфа-сука) Zulenna is the main enforcer of the pecking order amongst the students.
• Freudian Excuse: (Тяжёлое детство) Sparks matter more than lineage. So, as non-Sparky Princess, her standing was not the highest and she became an Alpha Bitch to compensate for what she lacks.
• Lovable Alpha Bitch: (Милая стервочка) Revealed with her Heroic Sacrifice; she may look down on anyone of lower station, but she gives her life to repay a family debt. Also in Tarvek’s own words, she was always very nice to him, which is why he arranged things behind the scenes for her to even be on Castle Wulfenbach.

Theo

A friendly Sparky boy, mostly in charge of wrangling the younger students. His mother was one of the Mongfish sisters, making him Agatha’s cousin — a fact he is quite pleased to discover, considering she’s the first family member he’s had who’s not dead, missing, or a head in a jar.

• Big Man on Campus: (Самый крутой парень в школе) As the Head Boy of the group. He’s got both Blue Blood and the Spark.

Sleipnir

A highly intelligent mechanic (not a Spark) who quickly befriends Agatha onboard the Castle.

• Deadpan Snarker: (Язвительный насмешник) When questioned about whether Von Pin will have psychological problems adapting to having her mind transferred from the body she’s used for decades into «a giant tiger clank with steel claws», Sleipnir responds that «given the similarities, I think it quite likely that she won’t notice any difference at all.»
• Redhead In Green: (Рыжий в зелёном) Sleipnir spends much of the comic during her stay on Castle Wulfenbach in a green jumpsuit. Once in Mechanicsburg, she trades it for a haltertop — still green.

Itto

One of the younger students on Castle Wulfenbach who likes Theo’s Heterodyne Boys stories and is eager to have some adventure himself and to hang out with the older kids.

• The Load: (Балласт) No one gets mad at him since they did pass up an opportunity to take him back to the dorms, but once they get into the Baron’s lab he gets startled and freaks out, yelling and running away, alerting the Baron to the presence of the students and he is the only one that gets caught since he goes the wrong way. He does refuse to give up the older students, though the Baron is able to figure out Theo’s involvement from things Itto says and just knowing Theo.

The Knights of Jove

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Loyal Order of the Knights of Jove

Various characters involved in the highly factional Storm King conspiracy.

The Fifty Families

The former ruling elite of Europa consisting of fifty noble houses all vying to have one of their own declared Storm King. Many of them were decimated by during the Other War while the rest were conquered by Baron Wulfenbach. Chafing under the Baron’s rule, the Families united and secretly began conspiring to overthrow the Wulfenbach Empire.

• Artistic License — Politics: (Не в ладах с политикой) Often the term «royal» is used for all among the Fifty Families, despite many of them being nobility (dukes, counts, (reigning) princes, etc.) instead of royalty (kings, queens, (heir) princes, princesses, etc.). Granted «royal» is sometimes used for reigning nobles IRL, but mostly in common parlance and not anything formal. It would be weird, as an example, for Duke Strinbeck to say «my royal personage» IRL (unless he was a king’s relative who also happened to be a duke).
• Evil Reactionary: (Злодей-консерватор) By and large, the Fifty Families want to take over the Baron’s empire because they want a «proper» monarch like in the «good old days» of the Storm King. Unfortunately, some factions are willing to collaborate with the Other to do so.
• Leeroy Jenkins: (Лирой Дженкинс) The Storm King conspiracy’s original, long-term plan to overthrow Klaus was fairly well-hidden and had a legitimate chance of succeeding. However, the appearance of Agatha and her injuring the Baron caused many members of the conspiracy to panic or try to take advantage of the situation, with some speeding up their plans to take Castle Heterodyne while others decided to go off-script entirely and try to kill Klaus or conquer parts of the Empire for themselves. This early playing of their hand not only caused them to reveal themselves to the Empire before they were ready to confront it but it also caused a lot their existing plan to fall apart.
• The Remnant: (Злодей-недобиток) They’re a shell of their former selves after the timeskip caused by Klaus' Take-Five Bomb. After the Other was done, there were only seventeen of the prior great houses left, and that’s assuming the strife between then and the modern day hasn’t whittled them down further.
• Secret-Keeper: (Хранитель тайны) An evil version. The Families knew that Lucrezia was the Other, with some being fanatically loyal to her, and they managed to hide it from Klaus for almost two decades.

Andronicus Valois

A legendary ruler who commanded the Knights of Jove and ruled a large chunk of Europe roughly 200 years ago. Super-Spark Van Rijn constructed the Muses for him. He beat back the forces of Bludtharst Heterodyne as head of the "Coalition of the West, " for which he was hailed as the «Storm King» and received the blessing of the «Five Good Emperors.» According to an opera written about his life, he fell in love with Euphrosynia Heterodyne when he saw her menaced by her fiancé, Ogglespoon (who was her fiancé by arrangement with her father, not by her choice, supposedly). He tried to rescue her, only to be thwarted by a bonsai hedge maze. He then vowed to search for her forever, leading to the downfall of the Knights of Jove and his empire.

• Foil: (Оттеняющий характер) To Klaus. Both have large and impressive empires which try to focus Sparks toward productive goals, while building and maintaining infrastructure along the way. Andronicus conquered Europa with diplomacy and saw war as just a means to get his opponent to agree to peace talks. Klaus ended the Long War by conquering Europa with brute force and shows disdain towards negotiation. Also, both their declines in power can be attributed to Heterodyne women, with Andronicus' coalition collapsing because he put his faith in Euphrosynia and the Wulfenbach Empire lost control of Europa because Klaus refused to trust Agatha.
• Shrouded in Myth: (Человек-миф) As noted, a lot of what the audience «knows» about him comes from an opera of dubious historical accuracy. Violetta also doesn’t know the abilities of his signature weapons because legend describes them in obtuse, fanciful language.
• Walking Spoiler: (Персонаж-спойлер) It’s incredibly obvious that there’s some sort of major twist involving him. Considering everything we knew about him was told through the opera and third-hand comments, some kind of major reveal was practically inevitable.
• Walking Spoiler: (Персонаж-спойлер) The very fact that he still exists in some form is a spoiler.
• Ax-Crazy: (Буйный неадекват) When he is reawakened in the present, he’s an enraged, psychotic husk of his former self that proceeds to go on a rampage through the streets.
• Humanoid Abomination: (Чужеродный человек) Was apparently transformed into a maddened undead monstrosity by his enemies, which his allies were forced to put down. When he appears in the current era, he looks increasingly monstrous the longer he fights — he starts off looking human except with green, glowing skin, but by the time Voltaire destroys his weapons, he’s degraded into some kind of walking skeleton, and after that he’s practically falling apart.
• Was Once a Man: (Был когда-то человеком) Andronicus was… corrupted somehow according to Simon Voltaire. His closest confidantes ultimately had to sacrifice much to end his deranged rampage. For all intents and purposes, everyone considers him to be undead.

Grandma

The grandmother of Tarvek, Anevka, Violetta, Martellus and Xerxsephina, Terebithia is the leader apparent of the Knights of Jove and the Smoke Knights not loyal to Lucrezia. Absolutely hates Lucrezia, at least according to Violetta, and would rather refocus on the original objective of the Knights of Jove.

• Bluff the Impostor: (Ловушка для самозванца) Upon meeting Mister Obsidian she immediately attempts to stab him in the face even though he had the correct code phrase, only for the dagger to snap in two. He mostly takes it in stride, but Grandma retorts to his snark that disguises are easy and that anyone can learn a code phrase.
• Deadly Decadent Court: (Гнусные придворные) She runs it and apparently has no problems with her kids and grandchildren killing each other and the in-laws. She once threw a party while Paris was under attack and half the city was flooded in the chaos. She even uses such events to make her parties more spectacular and gain power. She has spies everywhere. All this indicates that she is well aware of what is going on, well more than the grand majority of the general population, but is so high and almighty that she neither fears nor cares about the problems the lower classes face. If you aren’t good enough to survive in her court, then relative or not, you deserve what comes to you. From what we heard of him, her husband wasn’t any better.
• Honey Trap: (Далила) Back when she was young, she wasn’t above sleeping with powerful men to pry their secrets out of them. It turns out she once did so with the Master of Paris, who later admitted that he might have told her too much. She uses this knowledge to steal control of Paris from the Master’s daughter and effective heir.
• I Was Quite a Looker: (В юности была красавицей) As shown in a flashback, Terebithia was hot in her youth, and even seduced the Master of Paris into revealing too many of his secrets.

Sturmvoraus family

Aaronev VI

The ruler of Sturmhalten, and the father of Tarvek and Anevka Sturmvoraus. He’s pledged loyalty to Lucrezia Mongfish and does her work in the Knights of Jove. He’s also a complete nutcase.

• The Caligula: (Безумный король) He’s an insane prince obsessed with un-sealing a Sealed Evil in a Can, even at the cost of his own family. This isn’t even getting into how he treats visitors to the principality.
• I Was Quite the Looker: (В юности была красавицей) Overweight, balding and his hair’s turned grey, but apparently in his youth he was the spitting image of Tarvek.
• Karmic Death: (Кармическая смерть) He’s killed by Anevka, one of the girls forced into the «Holy Machine», right as he’s forcing yet another girl in.
• My God, What Have I Done?: (Что я наделал!) If Tarvek’s flashback (SPOILERS!!) is trustworthy, then Wilhelm was genuinely distressed when his daughter Anevka almost died after he hooked her up to the «Holy Machine».
• Town with a Dark Secret: (Деревня со зловещим секретом) Is the prince of one, where the «dark secret» in question is that almost everyone there is a Revenant infected by Slaver Wasps.

Anevka

Tarvek’s debatably-living sister. After an ill-conceived Mad Science experiment of her father’s left her at death’s door, her brother constructed a new robotic body that she could operate from within her life-support tank.

• Dead All Along: (Всё это время он был мёртв) The real princess died ages ago. What we see is her personality imprinted into the robot she originally used to interact with the world. She didn’t even realize she died!
• Faux Affably Evil: (Притворно дружелюбный злодей) Her initial appearance has her being polite and considerate towards Agatha, which almost immediately vanishes, showing that Anevka (or rather the clank that thinks she’s Anevka) is a dangerous and violent psychopath.
• Kinslaying Is a Special Kind of Evil: (Цареубийца?) That she killed her father — even if he deserved it — is used to highlight just how ruthless and amoral she is.
• Theseus' Ship Paradox: (Парадокс корабля Тесея) One of the heartbreaking human examples. Initially, Anevka’s remains — contained in the carboy carried by footmen — controlled the clank body attached to the carboy by cables like a puppet, but as she weakened, the clank did more and more on her own. In the end, the clank didn’t even notice when she died. The only one aware of the whole process was Tarvek, and apparently the clank was so much like his sister even he is unsure exactly when she died.
• Villainous Breakdown: (Злодейская истерика) After having nearly gotten away with her plan, she has a complete freak-out when Tarvek reveals what she really is.

von Blitzengaard family

Martellus

A cousin of Tarvek and the self-proclaimed Storm King.

• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: (Власть — это сила) He was able to retain his hold on the Storm King title once Tarvek was written off by being a better killer than the assassins they sent after him.
• The Atoner: (Кающийся грешник) Makes a point to stop pushing Agatha and wait on her to help him first. He refuses to be (intentionally) impolite or wake her up early in the morning for it. Agatha, still thinking he just wants to use her, calls him an idiot. He still fails, however, as he still tries to flirt instead of just admitting what he feels.
• Benevolent Boss: (Добрый начальник) In general. His knights and sparkhounds are fiercely loyal to him and he returns their dedication. When Andronicus turns several of his men into zombies, Martellus puts them down as respectfully as he can and is furious with the man responsible. He also acknowledges the value in the Knights of Jove’s smoke knights and tries to avoid wasting their lives if he can help it. That said, he’s not above executing a minion who defies his direct orders and patronizes him in the process. Krosp also notes that he genuinely cares for his creations, which is a rarity among Sparks.
• Butt-Monkey: (Мальчик для битья)
  • His introduction is… a bit embarassing. Despite having a showy entrance, he is completely outplayed by Klaus, his clank suit gets destroyed by a Dreen, and he’s basically forced into a bit player role for the rest of the battle. It’s only until Klaus suddenly shows up that he suddenly seizes his moment, nabs Agatha and surprises Tarvek with a poisoned knife, and even then it turns out this really ended up being surprisingly helpful for almost everyone involved.
  • Goes through a decent amount of this during the Corbettite arc, despite also being a serious threat at the time. The monks' general mocks him, the rampaging monster-train humiliates him more than once, Agatha subjects him to a Groin Attack and he loses an army of bears to Krosp. And then he gets talked down to by Klaus-in-Gil and Lucrezia-in-Agatha. And as a final insult, he gets blackjacked by Violetta, without any of the Corbettites seeing her.
  • This seems to be a recurring thing for him. While he ends the Paris arc in a good place, having done more to solidify his position as the Storm King, he’s also despised by Agatha’s group, Agatha is moving well out of his reach (England), his own sister is plotting behind his back to make sure Agatha hooks up with Tarvek instead of him (in a misguided attempt to get herself with Gil), the Empire, with Gil as its head, is unlikely to recognize him as Storm King despite his heroics in Paris given Gil would obviously favor Tarvek as long as Tarvek is an option (as evidenced by Martellus sending assassins after Tarvek to get rid of him), AND he loses said top assassin and many of his beloved sparkhounds in said assassination attempt.
  • In spite of all of this, he eventually claims the crown of the Storm King through defeating his ancestor, albeit with help. But then, see below under Hoist by His Own Petard.
• Enemy Mine: (От вражды к союзу) Offers an alliance, since even if he considers Tarvek and Gil to be rivals for control over Europa, the fact remains that the Other is slowly but surely winning, and her victory would leave none of them an empire to fight over.
• Evil Counterpart: (Оттенить героя мерзавцем) Although he is initially presented as an Evil Counterpart to Tarvek (their Sparky predilections and means of education are even in contrast, as Tarvek’s signature is reverse-engineering the Muses which he learned to do from Van Rijn’s notes while Martellus’s is modified animals like his Sparkhounds which he learned from his mentor Dr. Vapnoople), he mirrors Gil better. Like Gil, he’s blunt, physically powerful, not good with people, and tends to treat his peers like children. At the same time, he has people he cares about and harming them or worse leads to both of them losing their shit. Unlike Gil, he’s perfectly willing to use murder as a first solution, administers various types of mind control on people he can’t kill for whatever reason, and where Gil tends to treat those who can’t keep up with him as children to be corralled and protected, Martellus tends to treat those he sees as his «lessers» and as disposable pawns. It’s Lampshaded by Tarvek’s «Martellus insider» Norville, who thinks Gil and Martellus would get along well if Tarvek was dead.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: (И у злодея есть любимые)
  • Gets pissed off when his men are suddenly turned into zombie-like revenants thanks to a weapon wielded by Andronicus. He genuinely considered some of them his friends and when he has to put down them down, he tells them who they once were before telling them to rest.
  • And he appears to be genuinely fond of his sister, and has openly praised her intellect.
  • Krosp observes that he genuinely cares for his creations, which is rare among Sparks.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: (Друг, которого никто не любит) He’s been turning into this after getting handed several defeats by the protagonists; in the 2020 strips, he, Agatha, Gil and Tarvek are going to a royal ball in London as a group. He’s an able Spark with considerable power who is willing to join the fight against the Other, so they’re willing to put up with him now that he’s toned things down a notch. But they still don’t like him.
• Groin Attack: (Удар ниже пояса/Кастрация?) Agatha gives him perhaps the single most deserved one EVER. Shortly after meeting Agatha for the first time, he did something to her so she would die without regular physical contact with him. Agatha quickly replicates the effect with a wasp weasel, but after such an intimate trespass, the thought of any contact with him drives her to screaming rage. Similar attacks can thus be expected.
• The Heavy: (Самый заметный злодей) He’s the most present antagonist from Vol. XIII to around Vol. 2-2 (15). He’s the one who kidnapped Agatha, meddled with her body, and pressured the Corbettites into recognizing his claim. But after entering Paris, he takes a backseat as the Token Evil Teammate of Agatha’s party.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: (Не рой яму другому) It turns out that his messing with his and Agatha’s body chemistry resulted in him needing her physical touch to survive as much as she needs his. Or more so for a while, since she has the weasels she modified to alleviate the effect on her, while it took Martellus longer to create his own stopgap.
• Idiot Ball: (Внезапный приступ глупости)
  • Grabs one when dealing with a mysterious creature at the Corbettitie base. He insists they won’t be devoured since the monks have stated that the monster only eats metal. Not only do the monks point out that the creature wants revenge on them and thus they are very much in danger, but Tweedle has forgotten that his prosthetic hand is made of metal. Soon after that, he grabs Agatha in a borderline I Have You Now, My Pretty way… with predictable results (see previous entry).
  • Decides to use Andronicus' sword to attack the undead Andronicus in Paris, which Agatha instantly calls out for how bad a plan it is. Sure enough he’s eventually disarmed and the sword is picked up by the person they very much did not want to have it.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: (Ай, молодца, злодей!) If Martellus didn’t kidnap Agatha precisely when he did, then he, she, Krosp and Violetta would have been frozen in time by the Baron. This means that the Other could have successfully attacked Paris and London and the Beast could have destroyed the Corbettites. Similarly, if Gil had retrieved Agatha from the time field, then the Klaus imprint on his mind might have killed her on the spot.
• Noble Demon: (Благородный демон)
  • Evil as he may be, he genuinely cares for his men and is horrified when they’re zombified by the undead Valois. He puts them down with epithets before returning to fight the Storm King, this time utterly pissed off.
  • Later at Mechanicsburg when talking to Krosp, he asks how Vapnoople’s bears were doing, hoping that they were happy and doing well. After confirming as such, Krosp realizes that Martellus genuinely cares about his creations, a rarity in sparks, and that while the nobility (except maybe his sister) would not even weep for him if he died, his creations would greatly mourn him. Krosp takes the opportunity to give him advice about being a true king, that being protecting those loyal to him.
• Not Me This Time: (На этот раз не я) He actually does this to himself. When the Master summons his army, Martellus starts freaking out.

«	Martellus: EEK! Monsieur Machines! It’s the Gendarmy! …Wait… calm down… This isn’t my fault. I’ve done nothing wrong. Master Voltaire: Martellus Von Blitzengaard! Why am I not surprised?! Martellus: AH! It wasn’t me Master Voltaire, honest!	»

• Pay Evil unto Evil: (Зло воздающее) While putting down rebellious family members, he states he knows he can kill family members all day and know he’s still making the world a better place. And he’s not wrong in that either.
• Pragmatic Villainy: (Злодей-прагматик)
  • His most secure bolthole inside his home fortress was set up by himself, without any minions. Agatha questions why he didn’t just kill them, and Martellus points out that this is a world where death keeps very few secrets.
  • He decides against using a special drug to turn Agatha into his adoring slave, since it would also destroy her intelligence and her Spark, and she’s far too useful with those intact.
  • He tries to end his family’s efforts to stop him asserting his authority as quickly as possible because, while he has no love for said family members and is perfectly willing to keep killing them, he’s also killing valuable smoke knights that will take a lot of time and effort to replace.
  • Later, he orders his troops to not harm the mind-controlled civilians attacking them. When they complain, he points out they are being watched.
• Properly Paranoid: (Параноик был прав) Has a deep-seated dislike of Dr. Rakethorn because it’s clear to see to everyone, with the possible exception of Gil and Agatha, that he and Ms. Thorpe are cutting in between Agatha and any potential lovers. He hasn’t called it out directly, yet, because he is more diplomatic and less smug about noticing it than Tarvek. It just seems to annoy him.
• Token Evil Teammate: (Какой ни есть, а он за нас) Of Agatha’s party during the Paris and England arcs, overlapping with being The Friend Nobody Likes. But after the England arc, he no longer needs Agatha and seems to be getting back into his antagonistic role.
• Villainous Crush: (Влюблённый злодей) Tweedle happens to be interested in Agatha, part because marrying a Heterodyne is part of the whole Storm King mythos, and part because he’s actually interested in her. Agatha on her side of things makes it clear that she’s not interested.
• Villain with Good Publicity: (Злодей с хорошей репутацией) What his aims are in the Paris arc: to use his grandmother’s pageant-party to declare himself the Storm King publicly in a major city in such a way as to endear himself to people. His battle against the undead Andronicus plays right into this, even though Agatha, the Jägers, Tarvek, the Master, and Colette really do more of the work. It pays off as Colette, the new leader of Paris seemingly recognizes him as the Storm King afterwards. Of course, if he had been paying more attention to her wording, he would have realized she wasn’t actually recognizing his claim, but just saying he could leave in peace.

Xerxsephnia

Xerxsephina «Seffie» von Blitzengaard is the far more level-headed sister to Martellus von Blitzengaard, acting as the liason between Baron Gil Wulfenbach and the Knights of Jove after the Time Skip and the resurgence of the Long War.

• Affably Evil: (Дружелюбный злодей) Evil is a big stretch, but she is manipulative and can be uncaring towards others livelihoods. Nevertheless, she’s unfailingly charming. Gil regards her as an old friend, and Tarvek (who hates his family as a rule) says that she’s a doll, while acknowledging that she’s all the more dangerous for it.
• Brains and Brawn: (Умный плюс сильный) Despite not being a Spark, she’s more often than not the scheming Brains to the much more direct Martellus’s Brawn.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: (Ревность) She’s decidedly not a fan of Gil’s crush on Agatha. Later, when Queen Albia is attempting to encourage a romance between Gil and Trelawney Thorpe, Seffie is apoplectic.
• Color-Coded Characters: (Расцвеченная команда) Typically wears light blue clothes to match her eyes, and blood-red jewelry to match her hair.
• The Matchmaker: (Помощник в любовной интриге) Encourages Tarvek’s crush on Agatha to get Agatha out of the way for her own crush on Gil, which also means she’s opposing Martellus' claim to the Lightning Throne, as his claim basically hinges on him wedding Agatha.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: (Диалектика Льда и Огня) She is (at least when the subject isn’t Gil) a more level-headed counterpart to her heavy-handed and brutal brother.
• Secret-Keeper: (Хранитель тайны) Surprisingly, Gil trusts her enough to use her as a diplomatic messenger, even giving her papers meant to be placed «under the rock in catacombs.» Furthermore, she appears to know that Gil has his father riding around in his head.
• Stalker with a Crush: (Сталкинг) She has a borderline-psychotic crush on Gil and has been intercepting his letters since she was a child.
• Xanatos Speed Chess: (Мастер импровизаций) She’s very flexible in her planning, to the point of tossing the entire Knights of Jove agenda in the circular file after everything went pear-shaped and forming an alliance with the heir of the Empire they’d been planning to replace. She asks Colette not to kill Martellus for the sake of her newest master plan, suggesting she’s been through quite a few.

Selkinov family

Lord Selnikov

One of the Knights of Jove, Lord Selnikov assists Anevka in her attempt to usurp her brother. He also leads the Knights in their attack on Mechanicsburg, consequently getting himself killed by Gil.

• Brain in a Jar: (Мозг в банке) Thanks to a mix of Gil’s lightning stick and Vole’s method of «recovering» his body, it’s what he’s been reduced to.
• Pragmatic Evil: (Прагматичный злодей) During the attempted take-over of Mechanicsburg, he stated he wanted to make it at least look like he wanted to do it without bloodshed. He also advised against antagonising the Jägermonsters. He also switches sides to Wulfenbach rather readily, citing how despite them being so ruthless, it’s a step up from being in the Decadent Court of the Knights of Jove.
• Secret-Keeper: (Хранитель тайны) He is one of few that knows about Spark-infecting wasp. The others are Prince Aaronev and the creator of the device himself. Well, and Tarvek, but he wasn’t supposed to know.

Margarella

Lady Margarella Selnikov (or «Auntie Margolotta» to Violetta) is the widow of Lord Rudolf Selnikov, a member of the Knights of Jove, and sister to Prince Aaronev.

• Aristocrats Are Evil: (Загнивающая аристократия) Her exact rank isn’t stated, but she is clearly an aristocrat.

Smoke Knights

Malek

A Smoke Knight based out of Paris who serves Martellus von Blitzengaard.

• Hidden Weapons: (Потайное оружие) None of his weapons are seen unless he’s using them. It’s likely Smoke Knights often wear capes to help make hiding weapons easier.
• Surprisingly Sudden Death: (Внезапная смерть персонажа) The Geisterdamen announce their presence in Paris and the fact that they’ve been alerted to Agatha’s group by spearing him through the chest with some kind of hook on a rope and yanking him out of the carriage to toss him away off the rooftops.
• Worf Effect: (Силач на расправу) The Geisterdamen occasionally need to show the audience just how deadly they are. Even top level Smoke Knights can be sneak killed by them. Though, to be fair, he was distracted at the time.

Varpa

A Smoke Knight who serves Xerxsephina «Seffie» von Blitzengaard.

• Hidden Weapons: (Потайное оружие) None of her weapons are seen unless she’s using them except the knife at her belt.
• Honey Trap: (Далила) How she interpreted Seffie’s order to «get in [Malek’s] way a bit.» In a twist, Malek was aware of what she was doing and didn’t seem to mind.

«	Malek: Does this mean no more kissing? Varpa: …less kissing.	»

Veilchen

One of the Smoke Knights who worked for Tarvek’s faction. He «parted ways» with the rescue party leaving them in an oubliette and told Violetta about the hunt on Tarvek’s Smoke Knights when he was wounded himself. Seems to be a very popular dude.

• Bald of Evil: ([Лысый, как череп) He’s more of a cold-blooded professional, but the archetype is here.
• Idiot Ball: (Внезапный приступ глупости)
  • Sure, he escapes from an oubliette in pretty badass fashion, but forgets about the pursuing monsters that caused him to fall into the thing in the first place.
  • He also manages to forget that if you sneak through a sewer, you’re going to pong a bit afterwards.
• Laser-Guided Karma: (Кармическое возмездие) See Villain Ball below. He gets that after he abandoned the group for their fate.

Madwa Korel

The master of a rogue Smoke Knight cell that still serves The Other even after Grandmother divested the Knights of Jove cabal of her/it/them and all followers.

• He Knows Too Much: (Не оставлять свидетелей) She is all set to kill the pilot that smuggled her past England’s patrols to keep him quiet, up until being impressed by the fact that he knew all along and was too apathetic to care.

«	Madwa: Well, now I kind of want to keep him.	»

• Master Poisoner: (Мастер ядов) Her poisons are well known to other smoke knights. Made from extremely rare ingredients, to boot.

Other members

Zola «Heterodyne»

Once everyone had heard there was a Heterodyne girl running around, she stepped in (along with a conspiracy) to provide one. Agatha was… not happy about that.

• Ass Shove: (Всё через задницу) Lucrezia notes (after knocking her out, restraining her, and presumably searching her) that some of her equipment was «in rather uncomfortable places, I’d imagine».
• Dark Action Girl: (Зло с женским лицом) A fully trained Smoke Knight and the main rival to Agatha in the castle.
• Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: (Посрами дьявола) Whatever the Other’s deal is, Zola managed to sucker it and snatch some of its secrets.
• Evil Counterpart: (Оттенить героя мерзавцем) She is one to her cousin, Agatha.
  • Agatha spent most of her life unaware that she was a Heterodyne and still isn’t quite comfortable with all the attention she’s given. Zola was molded by the Order to be their fake Heterodyne and she loves making big, flashy scenes and being the center of attention.
  • They both spent their youths looking less competent than they truly were. Agatha’s Spark was suppressed by the locket, making her seem much less intelligent than she actually was while Zola was Obfuscating Stupidity when she was studying in Paris to keep her cover. Likewise, Agatha manages to subvert people’s expectations of her as a Spark and a Heterodyne by being kind and mostly in control of herself while Zola, who isn’t a Spark and was originally thought to just be a pawn of the Order, manages to be more violent, crazy and ambitious than most Sparks.
  • Agatha doesn’t like making people do things they don’t want to do or forcing them into dangerous situations while Zola has no problem with using violence and mind control to make people do what she wants.
  • Both Agatha and Zola are interested in Gil romantically, but for Zola it was a case of both their fake cover identities interacting while in Paris (and the 'real' Zola may not even care for him all that much) while Agatha has only ever known him in his true identity. Gil on his side sees Agatha as an equal and is in love with her because of it, while he always saw Zola’s fake identity as a Damsel in Distress he constantly had to rescue and never anything else. By the time he realizes how competent Zola really is he’s thoroughly repelled by her.
  • Agatha had the Other forced into her mind and she constantly fighting to keep it from taking over. Zola willingly allowed the Other into her mind and she has the training and conditioning to control it and use it for her own benefit.
  • She is also one for Violetta. Both are Smoke Knights who have agendas that don’t fit The Order’s. Violetta doesn’t really want to be part of it while Zola wants to manipulate it.
• Faux Affably Evil: (Притворно дружелюбный злодей) When in Mechanicsburg, manages to do a pretty good job of playing the «kind princess in waiting.»
• The Heavy: (Самый заметный злодей) For Volumes VII through XI, she’s the one providing the most direct opposition to Agatha and friends in Castle Heterodyne. Klaus is hospitalized and the Other is trapped thanks to the locket, so it’s Zola that’s doing most of the fighting for the Castle arc.
• Muggle Born of Mages: (Инвалидность по магии) Unlike her cousins Agatha and Theo, at least one Aunt (Lucrezia), and her grandfather in the Mongfish family, Zola is not a Spark. This may be why the forces of the Other allied with the Queen of the Dawn have not really exhibited any breakthrough in Slaver Wasp technology, as observed by the Wulfenbach forces. Zola may have a captive essentia of Lucrezia in her head, but she herself is not a Spark.
• Psycho Pink: (Злодейский розовый) Her Princesses Prefer Pink asthetic turns into this trope as she gets high on Movit 11 and gets a bit of the Other in her brain.
• The Starscream: (Стремящийся в ГлавГады) For both The Order’s fake Hetrodyne plan and Lucrezia.
• Unstoppable Rage/The Power of Hate: (Бешеный гнев) Claims this is what’s sustaining her after suffering some truly grievous injuries.

«	Tarvek: How are you even still moving? Zola: HATE! Hate and drugs! Lovely, lovely drugs! I’m a beautiful, chemical, killing machine!	»

• Villain with Good Publicity: (Злодей с хорошей репутацией) Post-timeskip she’s now known as the Queen of the Dawn and has a reputation for being a peacemaker. However, Gil and Tarvek suspect (without knowing the Queen’s true identity) that she’s been using slaver wasps and it’s unlikely that Zola’s ambition has faded over time.
• Xanatos Speed Chess: (Мастер импровизаций) She is «very good at improvising when things go wrong.»

Wolkerstorfer

Count Wolkerstorfer is an absent-minded member of the Knights of Jove, with a sparky propensity for magnets. He is first seen attacking the Wyrm of Limerick, a Corbettite rail liner, and later plays an important role in the defeat of the Beast of The Rails.

• Affably Evil: (Дружелюбный злодей) Appears genuinely personable and friendly, even while attacking the Wyrm of Limerick on behalf of Martellus.
• Magnetic Weapons: (Энергетическое оружие?) Wolkerstorfer is all about this, though not the typical rail/coil guns, but much more reality-breaking sparky applications. Martellus even calls him a «demon with magnets».
• Nothing Personal: (Ничего личного) It appears you really have to work at it to get him to form a grudge; after confronting Agatha and the Corbettite Monks and having them do some fairly serious damage to his mecha, he later cheerfully assists them in their fight against The Beast. He couldn’t be angry over it, because from Agatha’s and Matthias’s invention he learned something fascinating about magnets!

Knights of the Hunt

A force of elite bio-modified warriors loyal to Martellus von Blitzengaard who serve as his minions. They can shapeshift between human and wolf forms.

• Affably Evil: (Дружелюбный злодей) Norville thinks of Gil as a nice guy who would get along well with Martellus if they just sat down and talked for a bit, maybe even had some sandwiches. Well, that, and if Tarvek was killed.

Associates

Van Rijn

R.note Van Rijn was a legendary Spark, surpassing his peers of the day (ie, 200-odd years before the events of the comic), and even Sparks of the modern day. He is best known for two things: being the close advisor of the original Storm King, and for constructing nine clanks of exquisite craftsmanship, the Muses.

• Born in the Wrong Century: (Родился не в ту эпоху) 200 years later, the exquisite craftsmanship and intricacy of his Muses remain unsurpassed by other clank designers. Although there have been hints he got a leg up thanks to his conversations with The Muse of Time.
• Bookworm: (Книжный червь) He founded an autonomous library of extreme bibliophiles.
• Immortality Seeker: (Искатель бессмертия) He sought to trap The Muse of Time in order to force from her the secret of immortality. Although it’s been hinted that this was not done entirely for his own sake.
• Shrouded in Myth: (Человек-миф) Again according to the novel, not much was known about the guy even when he was alive.

The Muses

A set of clanks, built by Master Van Rijn, «The Greatest Spark of All Time» for «the Greatest King of All Time», Andronicus Valois. Their numbers include Otilia, Moxana, Tinka, Prende, Orotine, Mawu and Liza (the non-twins), Artimo and Contasia. Ludicrously advanced, even by modern Spark standards, most have been lost or gone missing due to people’s attempts to replicate their technology.

• Fem Bot: (Девочка-робот) Unlike most (gender-neutral) clanks, the Muses were explicitly designed in both form and personality to be female, and are referred to as such by other characters.
• Lost Technology: (Утраченная технология) Their tech is far more advanced than anything a Spark of the modern day could develop. Tarvek’s the only one who can reverse-engineer it, and only to a point.
• Off with Her Head!: (Обезглавливание) Tinka is decapitated by Vrin and her Geisterdamen, but given she’s a clank, and that Otilia’s severed head could continue to sustain a functioning Clank intelligence (the Castle, not Otilia herself), odds are good that Tinka could be repaired.
• Revenge: (Я отомщу) There is a final muse called the Muse of Vengeance, created to wipe out the Heterodynes for their crimes against Europa and their part in the Storm King’s downfall (or at least to be unleashed against enemies of the Immortal Library.) It has long remained inactive, but the librarians have recovered its heart as a precaution since some of their leaders fear Agatha is probably every bit the monster her ancestors were.
• Silent Snarker: (Безмолвный насмешник) Moxana may not be able to speak anymore, but she can still get her point across. After Krosp manages to outwit Master Payne, she rearranges her chessboard to signify he’s been put in check.

Mister Obsidian

«Mister Obsidian», the only alias we know him as, has a rather apt name, being seemingly impervious to physical attacks. First appearing as a spy seemingly working for the Library, but actually working for Terebithia to bring Tarvek back to his family, by force if necessary.

• Affably Evil: (Дружелюбный злодей) Very much all business but tries to be polite where possible. He even complains that he rarely gets the chance to be nice when doing his job.

Other

Prrriti M’Reau

An orange female cat who was the mouser of the British submarine that evacuated most of the heroes from the self-destructing Royal Society dome. Initially fawning over Krosp, she was turned into a construct with sapience and human-level intelligence by Martellus von Blitzengaard, both (presumably) as a counterpart to Krosp and (explicitly) a role much like Agatha’s weasel has in terms of keeping Martellus healthy. This also results in a 180-turn in her mental disposition towards Krosp. (Physically she’s still attracted to him.) Has noticeable lightning bolt markings above her eyes.

• Uplifted Animal: (Возвышение) Again, much like Krosp, though the difference is that we actually get to see what she was like before she was uplifted.

Paris

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The Master of Paris

The ruler of Paris. He is said to be very fond of art. Notable as being one of the few powerful sparks that Klaus has not had to deal with as he doesn’t care much about what goes on outside his city, so his «Leave me and mine alone» policy works well alongside Klaus' «Don’t make me come over there».

• The Chains of Commanding: (Бремя лидера) Like Klaus, he’d rather focus on his spark work, so he tries to leave incidents to his agents. He’s very agitated when his agent fails to stop an incident involving Agatha taking control of the city, because it forced him to take matters into his own hands.
• Cyborg: (Киборг) Appears to be mostly mechanical from the neck down. This might be part of how he’s lived for so long.
• Hero of Another Story: (Герой другой истории) As we catch more glimpses of the story of the Shining Coalition, it becomes clear that it was an epic tragedy, easily worthy of its own webcomic, one that finally ends two hundred years later with the Coalition’s last two members, one embittered and the other corrupted, facing off for the final time.
• I Gave My Word: (Человек слова) Agatha’s rescue of his city only warranted 6 hours of study-time in Paris, with the other 2 days and 18 hours being time left over on the accounts of the Heterodyne Boys. Being their heir, she inherits this time because he pays his debts.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: (Многодетная семья) He is very old and has many children. His children vary in age quite significantly, with some of them being ancient.
• Stern Teacher: (Строгий педагог) How he deals with unruly foreign heads of state he can’t kill, judging from a footnote about a visit from some rambunctious tsars the second novel gives. After a lengthy period of debauchment (which did make several businesses in the city much richer), they were summoned before the Master… who promptly sent then packing with homework.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: (Новый, точно такой же) To Klaus Wulfenbach. He keeps order through his reputation, he hates The Chains of Commanding and would much rather be left alone to his Spark work, and he distrusts Agatha because of his prejudice against the Heterodynes. The only difference between the two personality-wise is that the Master is willing to talk to Agatha and give her three days in his city.
• Wetware CPU: (Органический компьютер) The legends of his ability to know everything that goes on in his city stemmed from the fact that at one point, he had literally hardwired himself into the control systems of Paris. As he grew older, he was forced to stop doing so and delegate control of various subsystems to subordinates for health reasons, but that doesn’t mean he can’t plug himself back in and assert admin privileges over everything if he has to.

Aldin Hoffman

Aldin is a member of Incorruptible Library. Assigned to keep eyes for Agatha and company when they arrived the Library.

• Bookworm: (Книжный червь) Pretty much a given for anyone who works in the Library.
• Cassandra Truth: (Правда Кассандры) Nobody believes his stories about the adventures his brother drags him on. They’re just that weird.

«	Larana: Well, Aldin, if you didn’t write such fantastical reports… Aldin: I am incapable of making things up! It all happened! No one ever believes me, but it happened! Larana: Even the— Aldin: Yes, even the thing with the naked mole rat queen. Dimo: Hoo Hoo! Sounds spicy! Aldin: It was not. I assure you.	»

• Distressed Dude: (Парень в беде) He apparently plays this role often, judging how often he ends up captured and dressed up by villainesses to the point that he has a reputation for it.
• Go-Go Enslavement: (Раздеть женщину) Apparently evil villainesses enjoy dressing him up in «silly loincloth outfits.» And then we see why, the man looks like a classical gladiator.
• Hero of Another Story: (Герой другой истории) He gets dragged into a wide variety of misadventures with his brother. To the point more than a few people consider he and his brother the next Heterodyne Boys. It gets to the point that his adventures get titles.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: (Родные братья противоположны) Would you believe that shy, serious Bookworm Aldin and gung-ho Genius Ditz adventurer Jiminez are brothers?

Beausoleil

A Parisian professor of Philosophy and Ars Mechanica. He also serves as one of the Master’s agents and a "voix de la raison"note for the occasional «heroic type».

• Death Montage: (Смертельный монтаж (в разработке)) We’re treated to most of a page of the ways Colette killed his bodies.
• Dirty Cop: (Оборотень в погонах) While he does do his duty to thwart various schemes against the Master, he is also a key figure in one of those himself. He also embezzles from Voltaire’s private cheese stock.
• Manipulative Bastard: (Манипулятивная сволочь)
  • He manipulates a bunch of his students into fighting one another in order to create a diversion in order to abscond with Agatha in the confusion.
  • He worms his way into Du Quay’s trust, manipulates him into accepting Agatha as a prisoner by pointing out that she makes a good hostage against Gil, and looses her to rip apart Du Quay’s attempt at overthrowing the Master.
  • In order to motivate Agatha, he refuses to give Agatha the info she wants until she completes a task for the master. When she does so, he admits that they don’t actually have what she wants.
  • He manages to betray and sabotage the Master himself right under his nose, forcing the Master to do his last resort.
• Not Worth Killing: (Неохота мараться) Colette doesn’t deem it worth her time to hunt down Beausoleil’s real body outside Paris after destroying all his clank bodies, as whoever his new «masters» are will certainly not be happy on his failure to deliver Paris to them.
• Secret Police: (Тайная полиция) As one of the Master’s agents, it is his job to deal with the occasional overly ambitious spark so the Master isn’t interrupted from his work by yet another would be conqueror.

Colette

A daughter and agent of Simon Voltaire.

• Badass Finger Snap: (Щелчок пальцами) Does this when killing Beausoleil’s bodies.
• Clothing Damage: (Урон по одежде) As Colette becomes more and more a madgirl, her clothes start catching fire and get rent apart by the electric arcs caused by her interface with Paris. By the time she’s at full-tilt Madness Place while exacting revenge on Beausoleil, her clothes are so shredded that she’s one soft breeze away from being essentially naked.
• Just Friends: (Просто друг) She’s well-aware of Hoffman’s infatuation with her and while she’s appreciative of it (mainly since he was interested in her as an individual rather than her status), she states that she sees him more as an annoying younger brother. Jiminez ends up finding someone else and they end up engaged, with her smiling during it.
• Not Listening to Me, Are You?: (Да ты не слушаешь меня) After Agatha has been traumatised by her meeting with The Master, Colette confesses her love for her, then takes Agatha’s lack of response as confirmation that she’s not pretending.
• Wetware CPU: (Органический компьютер) Unlike her father, Colette still has the vigor of youth at the time her nascent spark emerges. As such, she is able to handle the mental burden of being plugged into all of Paris like her father used to be ages ago.

Jiminez Hoffmann

A Parisian student who offers to help Agatha for extra credit.

• Accidental Pervert: (Извращенец поневоле) After he is almost blinded by acid, he and Agatha make a vision-enhancing helmet with different settings. One of the them is X-ray vision.

«	Hoffmann: I can zoom in between macro and microscopic vision! We even gave it different filters! It can do infrared, ultraviolet, and… [stares at Larana] And… Uhhhh… Agatha: [changing the settings] And X-ray. Larana: WHAT?! Hoffmann: Uh, yeah. X-ray. Sorry.	»

• Battle Couple: (Боевая пара) With Larana, after they finally sort out their Unresolved Sexual Tension.
• Eye Scream: (Ранение глаза) He gets a faceful of acid from an old clank while exploring the Corbettite crypt. He’s lucky the acid had lost most of its potency, and it still leaves him almost blind.
• Hero of Another Story: (Герой другой истории) According to Aldin, the two of them have gotten into so many crazy adventures that the library curators consider them to be the new Heterodyne Boys. Just like Aldin, it’s to the point that their adventures have titles.
• Humble Hero: (Скромняжка) He saves a king’s life and puts an end to a war that has lasted generations. He insists it’s no big deal. And gets chewed out for it because that war was the only thing keeping the people involved from waging war upon the surface.
• Last-Name Basis: (Называть по фамилии) He is usually called by last names, except when his brother, Aldin, is around.
• Not Me This Time: (На этот раз не я) He releases monsters onto Paris often enough that the Master assumes he’s behind the latest weirdness involving van Rijn’s secret lab. He really wasn’t.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: (Родные братья противоположны) Would you believe that shy, serious and Bookworm Aldin and Genius Ditz, Good Is Dumb and adventurous Jiminez are brothers?
• Unrequited Love: (Безответная любовь) He is one of Colette’s many admirers. But she has no interest in him, viewing him in the same way one would an Annoying Younger Sibling.
• Weirdness Magnet: (Магнит для неприятностей) His brother Aldin laments this fact. Trying to keep him out of trouble only makes it worse.

«	Aldin: Lady Heterodyne, if we take him back now, he will complain for months. He will actively seek me out, follow me around, and tell me at excruciating length why we shouldn’t have «run away-» And while he is doing so, he will drag me into six «adventures» worse than this death crawl can ever be.	»

Larana

Princess Larana is daughter to the King of the Silver Lands, a subterranean kingdom deep beneath Paris. Unlike her father, she sees infestation by Revenants to be a problem.

• Action Girl: (Бой-девка) She is a member of Deep Library’s Hunting Party" who frequently goes to dangerous expeditions. She later proves to have a love of explosives.
• Cannot Spit It Out: (Непроизносимое «люблю») Larana has it for Hoffman, who is clueless about it.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: (Боевая подружка) When Hoffman gets sprayed in the face with acid by a Corbettite clank, her response is to break out the explosive charges on the clank with intent to collapse the passageway on it. She also previously got vehement when the Library sentry expressed hope that Hoffman would throw himself out of the lift due to his notoriety at the Incorruptible Library.
  • While she planned all along to take her father out of power, she outright usurps the throne as soon as he threatens Jiminez.

The Arguron King

The unhinged king of the Argurons of the Silver Lands, one of the deep realms beneath Paris.

• Author Avatar: (Аватара автора) For the comic’s colorist, Cheyenne Wright.
• Go-Go Enslavement: (Раздеть женщину) Inflicts this on his captives, dressing them all in skimpy loincloth outfits after they have a bath.
• Humiliation Conga: (Жизнь кончена) He gets deposed by his daughter and then sent back to TPU to account for twenty years of grant expenditures.

Vipsania Perrault

An aspiring librarian in the Incorruptible Library of Paris. She strikes a deal with Franz Scortchmaw, Dragon of Mechanicsburg to recover a deceased dragon’s hoard. There seems to be more to her than meets the eye…

• Sole Survivor: (Последний выживший) The only survivor of three expeditions, though was deemed not at fault.

«	Brother Marcus: Bears, a weak staircase, and then more bears, wasn’t it?	»

England

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Englishmen as a whole

Residents of the nation of Great Britain, which, due to a Spark-related mishap centuries prior, has gone from an island nation to an archipelago with a number of underwater cities.

• Atlantis: (Затонувший континент)
  • It’s revealed when Agatha and co get to England that the island-nation was somehow set to sinking by a band of Sparks some 300 years ago. Rather than let this bother her, Albia simply rebuilt England as an aquatropolis, and the nation is thriving, even as it continues to sink ever-deeper into the sea.
  • This has caused them to be Crazy-Prepared when it comes to sparks, too: They have a large dome where the best are collected and kept, not really so they can inspire and work together, but because that makes it conveniently easy to take them all out if things go awry. One of the labs allotted to Agatha is called «abominable» (as in, abominations unto science) and comes with all sorts of safety measures and a prepaid electrical bill.
• Tattoo as Character Type: (Опознавательная татуировка) the more nautical characters appear to be heavily tattooed, and there is the «Queen’s Tattoo» which appears to serve as a mark of special distinction.

Queen Albia of England

The mysterious and seemingly immortal Queen of England.

• Clarke’s Third Law: (Закон Кларка) Even by the setting’s standards, her technology seems magical, to the degree that she can make things happen without any visible interfaces or machinery. According to Klaus Wulfenbach, her technology still follows the normal laws of nature, it is simply far more advanced than what most of the world has access to.
• The Collector: (Коллекционер) She maintains a «garden» of interesting individuals, the exact size of which is not yet clear; it may even be all of Londinium or even England. She hopes to lure Agatha and (some of) her companions into «voluntarily» becoming permanent residents.
• Enlightenment Superpowers: (Просветлённый со сверхспособностями) Albia very much implies that this is responsible for at least some of her otherworldly abilities when she meets Agatha. Trelawney Thorpe says that she started out as a Mad Scientist no different from any other, and then broke through a second time.

«	Albia: Oho! Yes we thought so! We can always tell. You are one who has peeped into the infinite!	»

• Good Parents: (Хорошие родители) She’s got 74 daughters, and unlike pretty much every other parent we’ve seen, is absolutely loving and doting to her «pookies».
• Gorgeous Garment Generation: (Символическая смена костюма (В разработке)) Her unexplained shapeshifting abilities extend to her outfits. She often shifts her clothes based on who she’s talking to, or even what they’re talking about.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: (Многодетная семья) Albia has 74 daughters according to Neena. Unknown if she has any sons.+семья владыки Парижа
• Manipulative Bitch: (Манипулятивная сволочь) She’s a Mad Social Scientist, and her fingerprints are all over England. While the question of if she will ultimately be an antagonist or not remains to be seen, she is conspiring very effectively to split up Agatha from Gil and Tarvek so that Agatha will remain in England as part of her collection. And the degree of fanatical devotion her subjects display tapdances on the line between Undying Loyalty and something far more sinister.
• The Social Expert: (Социальный эксперт) Even among Sparks, who are all charismatic and can turn their genius to social engineering in a pinch. Even beyond her second breakthrough this is her specialty, since back when she was a normal Spark in Doggerland she was a master of the art of knowing people’s hearts and motivations.
• Technically Naked Shapeshifter: When she suffers a Power-Strain Blackout, most of her outfit disappears, leaving her naked except for her earrings and Holy Halo.
• Weather Manipulation: (Управление погодой) Capable of conjuring tiny storm-clouds in the palms of her hands. She ramps it up to a giant one while confronting Krosp and his legion of bears.

Princess Neena of England

One of England’s many princesses and an old friend of Tarvek’s from their time studying in Paris.

• Ambiguously Brown: (Неясно-смуглый) The queen shifts her appearance constantly and it’s not even clear if her princesses are biologically related to her but Neena has dark skin, black hair and blue eyes.

Trelawney Thorpe

An agent in Albia’s intelligence service.

• Hero of Another Story: (Герой другой истории) While her novels are said to be exaggerated, she really does have a very busy life.
• Honey Trap: (Далила) Queen Albia sends her to capture Gil’s heart to ensure Agatha has fewer reasons to leave England. Klaus-in-Gil has not only caught onto this, but encourages it, if more so as to keep Gil away from Agatha.
• Spy Catsuit: (Шпионка в облипочку) As noted, this is her chosen outfit when she’s in action. It’s green.

Lady Ariadne Steelgarter

An English noblewoman. Has interests in both Science! and fashion. She was the financial backer for the airship expedition that «discovered» Skifander.

• Bitch in Sheep’s Clothing: (Милый козёл??) It appears she’s got some sort of covert agenda regarding Zeetha and/or Skifander. She later turns out to be working with the Other.
• The Fashionista: (Модница) Has a very intense attitude when it comes to clothes.
• Meaningful Name: (Говорящее имя) Along with her more obvious last name, in Classical Mythology, «Ariadne» is associated with thread. The spider-motif also ties in whith her extra arms.
• Screw This, I’m Out of Here!: (Не буду в это лезть) Runs rather than stick around in a fight between Lucrezia and Monahan.

Hadrian Rakethorn

The Spark Albia assigns to Agatha with the intent on distracting her from her current romantic interests and getting Agatha to stay as part of Albia’s «garden». He has some kind of feud with Ardsley Wooster

• Honey Trap: (Далила) Albia hopes to replace Gil and Tarvek’s positions in Agatha’s affections with Hadrian.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: (Опора на четвёртую стену) In this comic, his cry of «I don’t get to do anything!» is both an Ironic Echo of Neena’s frustration and seemingly recognition of him being Demoted to Extra following the end of the Londinium arc.

Francisia Monahan

An English Spark and member of the Queen’s Society, who is one of Lucrezia’s spies in the organisation.

• Crazy Cat Lady: (Безумный любитель животных) Replace cat with rat and she is essentially this. She is fairly obsessed with her rats, to the point that they are practically her children.
• Disproportionate Retribution: (Неадекватное возмездие) Being ignorant about rats is a good way to rile her up.

«	Zeetha: Rats, weasels, all those fuzzy little scrungly guys… they’re basically the same kind of critters, right? […] Monahan: Ah. How sad. Now your friend must die. Agatha: NO!	»

• Gas Mask, Longcoat: (Крутой в противогазе) Wears a face-concealing mask revealing only her hair, along with a labcoat.
• The Mole: (Внедрённый агент (в разработке)) A member of the Queen’s Society of Sparks for years, with none suspecting she secretly remained loyal to Lucrezia. She was responsible for locking up Agatha’s surviving helicopter dingbot carrying the undoctored message from Sturmhalten, which was initally intercepted by Wooster, in order to prevent Albia and the world at large hearing it. She’s also a mole for Loremistress Milvistle, the rogue Geister leader working against Lucrezia, and ends up kicking «Luci»'s clank body into the «cursed waters».
• No-Sell: (Никакого эффекта) Lucrezia attempts to Mind Rape and transfer her own personality onto Monahan. Turns out, she was expecting this (and had in fact built the 'upgrade' allowing Lucrezia to do this herself), and it has no effect.
• Spanner in the Works: (Рояль в кустах?) If she hadn’t intervened, one of Lucrezia’s personalities would have ascended to Queendom wholly unopposed, which would have led to no end of troubles for the protagonists.
• The Starscream: (Стремящийся в ГлавГады) As it turns out, she’s been working as The Mole for Loremistress Milvistle all along, and almost destroys clank-body Lucrezia after an attempted Mind Rape.
• «The Reason You Suck» Speech: (Уничижительная речь) Delivers a killer putdown to Lucrezia upon betraying her.

Kjarl Thotep

An alien from another dimension. He has long lived within the English undersea dome of the Queen’s Society and built up a reputation as a ghost due to his invisible nature.

• Human Aliens: (Люди с другой планеты) He originates from a completely different plane of existence, but mostly looks like a large and oddly colored human.

Quintillius Snackleford

An important official in Queen Albia’s Society of Mad Scientists. There’s more to him than meets the eye.

• A God Am I: (Комплекс бога) Manages to achieve second breakthrough, effectively making him a demigod, and later expresses panic and outrage that his summoned Eldritch Abomination would dare to leave its «god».
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: (Светящиеся глаза) He always wears a visor which produces this effect. Interestingly, after he levels up Spark-wise, his eyes actually become more normal-looking.
• Unskilled, but Strong: (Сила есть — ума не надо!) This is Vapnoople’s assessment after Snacky makes his ascension- he wastes far too much of his new power flashily killing all the other Gray Hoods, leaving himself open to attacks from other quarters.
• Villain Has a Point: (Никто не верит злодею) Agatha wonders if his lies about creating a new golden age of wonder using an Extradimensional Power Source might have a valid point. Since such a thing could theoretically turn everybody into a spark, she admits that it’s an idea that should only be pursued cautiously.
• Villainous Breakdown: (Злодейская истерика) When Agatha manages to banish his summoned Eldritch Abomination back to where it came from, he starts panicking. Dr. Vapnoople then tells Agatha, his new «student», that the distraction of a Villainous Breakdown is the best time to strike and casually tosses Lord Snackleford into the closing rift.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: (Пережить свою полезность) He formed a Secret Circle of Secrets gathering nearly all of his fellow British Mad Scientists. He promised to bring a new age of enlightenment, delivering demigodhood to his cultists, and eventually the world. But as soon as they help him achieve it personally, he zaps them all to death.

Transylvania Polygnostic University

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Tarsus Beetle

Ruler of Beetleburg and Headmaster of the Transylvania Polygnostic University. Agatha attends TPU under his supervision and acts as his assistant.

• Cruel and Unusual Death: (Особо жестокая смерть) His favored means of dealing with criminals in his city is to stick them in a giant bell jar to die of exposure, starvation and/or dehydration. He then leaves their bodies there until he needs to reuse the jar.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: (Не рой яму другому) Killed when Gil knocks his own bomb back at him.
• Secret-Keeper: (Хранитель тайны) He knew Barry had returned to Beetleburg with Agatha, and knew who she, Lilith, and Adam were.

Silas Merlot

Assistant and second-in-command to Tarsus Beetle.

• Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: (Эффект штурмовика) He fires dozens of rapid-fire shots at Gil and Agatha with two giant machine guns and they all miss. The only bullet that actually hits is fired with a pistol from less than a foot away, and only gets Gil in the shoulder.
• Laser-Guided Karma: (Кармическое возмездие) The Baron sent him to Castle Heterodyne for arson and murdering his research team. Agatha straight up tell him he deserved what he got.
• Never My Fault: (Не признаёт ошибок) Blames Agatha for him getting sent to Castle Heterodyne, despite him being the one who burned down all of Beetle’s records and murdered the Baron’s men in a vain attempt to protect himself.
• Spanner in the Works: (Рояль в кустах?) The Baron wanted to interrogate Beetle and had some unspecified plans for him, but Silas’s early reveal of the Slaver Engine that Beetle was hiding resulted in Beetle fighting and dying. Likewise, Silas’s burning of Beetle’s records kept the Baron from learning about Agatha months ahead of time.
• Villainous Breakdown: (Злодейская истерика) Merlot was a jerk early on and didn’t get less so. Compare him then to now. He has totally lost it by here.

The Professoressa

A professor at the Transylvania Polygnostic University who decides she will interview Agatha and write her official biography when they run into each other in Paris. She is the presenter behind the stories in the «Radio Play» side stories, and co-writer/director of the Cinderella sidestory.

• Author Avatar: (Аватара автора) She is a stand in for Kaja Foglio, just as the Storyteller is the stand in for Phil.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: (Бойся своих желаний) The December 2020 side story involves her inquisitiveness about the Mechanicsburg Solstice resulting in her stumbling into filling in for Agatha as the «Heterodyne». It results in her getting a lot more than she bargained for, and the only reason she gets away unscathed is thanks to the Castle’s help.

The Storyteller

An incredibly unlucky traveling storyteller who by strange coincidence always seems to end up near the latest disaster.

• Butt-Monkey: (Мальчик для битья) He’s arrested and thrown in an oubliette in Sturmhalten for «unflattering portrayal of a royal», mocked for being boring, pestered by Oggie, frozen in the time-stop, used as a guinea pig from removal from said time-stop by Wulfenbach scientists…

The Corbettite Order

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Corbettites as a whole

A monastic order dedicated to the operation of a passenger rail line network throughout Europa. Staunchly neutral and quite able to defend their neutrality, they serve a vital role in transportation through the politically volatile realm.

• Artifact Collection Agency: (Хранилище сверхъестественных предметов) Of a sort. Among their duties is acting as custodians for all sorts of horrific products of deranged science that event most Sparks would prefer never to see the light of day.
• Badass Preacher: (Крутой церковник) Corbettite trains can, will, and on many occasions have shot their way through a wide variety of horrific constructs and clanks wandering the Wastelands that threatened their railways. The monks are so well regarded for their toughness that when the Old Heterodynes accidentally made something so dangerous that it scared them, they entrusted it to the Corbettites for safekeeping. And the monks were able to successfully extract concessions from them (which the Heterodynes actually honored for centuries) in return for doing so.
  • In addition, the Corbettites provide free «assassin disposal» services and are skilled enough to be able to take down Smoke Knights by surprise.
  • When one character asks why the Corbettites would build a massive crypt filled with all manner of incredibly deadly traps, the immediate answer is «Because it would be awesome.»
  • When Martellus' fleet foolishly opens fire on their fortress depot, the Corbettites immediately return fire and destroy eight of his airships with a single shot. Notably, while Martellus can be an idiot, he’s not this big an idiot; a subordinate went behind his back to order the attack. Martellus personally tossed him out of the command airship for his stupidity.

«	Father Gerät: Yes, it has been a long time since we faced the trials of raiders… Corbettite: Exactly, and are we strong enough to stand against them? (massive explosions) Father Gerät: …I meant, will we find the strength to spare any of them?	»

• Rail Enthusiast: (Поезда — это круто!) Explained in Agatha Heterodyne and the Voice of the Castle as to why some of them signed up — it’s a chance to drive big shiny trains really fast.
• Secret Test of Character: (Проверка на вшивость) Gives one to Vipsania Perrault when she seeks their assistance via bribing individual brothers to help her loot an abandoned Dragon Hoard containing a dangerous Spark device. The first brother she talked to who «wasn’t too holy to take a bribe» is dragged away by other members, the second misses their second meeting because he was Reassigned to Antarctica, and the third is sealed up in a room. Brother Marcus explains that when someone shows up asking questions and trying to bribe members of the Order, they will try to scare them off first, then assist them if they continue.

Brother Ulm

A brother and confessor of the Corbettite Monks, who serves as the Conductor aboard the Wyrm of Limerick, a rail liner with a massive dragon head figurehead on the front of its locomotive.

• Badass Preacher: (Крутой церковник) Presumably, he has received the same training that enables his brothers to dispatch Smoke Knights skulking around the train looking for Margarella.
• Brain Uploading: (Загрузка сознания) After nearly dying when the Beast was finally unplugged (which involved an explosion), he was instead uploaded to be a construct consciousness in the Corbettites' brand-new super-locomotive that Agatha also helped complete and perfect, in a manner similar to Castle Heterodyne. Though it’s ambiguous whether the procedure involved full Brain Uploading or just Wetware CPU.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: (Смехотворные пытки?) After trying to kill Agatha for fear of her causing his order trouble at their base, his punishment is to accompany her around and do her no harm, while also making sure she doesn’t cause trouble.
• Fiery Redhead: (Огненная шевелюра — огненный характер) He can vary from kindly priest to steam-headed rather quickly. Especially if he thinks there’s a threat to the Corbettites.

Brother Matthias

«	Not every Spark is crashing around trying to take over Europa, you know! Some of us get to work on trains! Beautiful, shiny, wonderful trains! Other Sparks beg us to build lines into their territories! Muhahahaha!	»

The chief engineer of the Wyrm of Limerick, as well as a Spark. He is by far the most…eccentric of the Corbettites, and as such Brother Ulm tries to keep him away from passengers as much as possible.

• Rail Enthusiast: (Поезда — это круто!) Brother Matthias likes trains quite a bit, to the point that he sees working on them as far more fulfilling than the things most other Sparks get up to, like ruling empires.

Father Gerät

The Abbot of Saint Szpac, and Ulm’s superior. He describes himself as an administrator, and isn’t as worried about the theological implications of the Order’s work.

• Swiss-Army Appendage: (Сверхфункциональный протез) Father Gerät’s prosthetic arms have been seen as a tentacle, a water nozzle, a hammer, pincers, claw machine-style grabbers, and a hand.

Brother Vadaxxus

The head cook and military leader of the Depot Fortress of St. Spzac.

• Electronic Eyes: (Искусственный глаз) Steampunk/Gaslamp Fantasy variant. Vadaxxus’s left eye is not the one he was born with.
• Frontline General: (Генерал-рубака) Vadaxxus is out front leading the Corbettites against the Beast.

Humongulus

«	Greetings, brother! Humongulus is here to punch and lift things!	»

An enormous Clank in service to the Corbettites. He works at their monastery lifting platforms into position. A one-shot taking place apparently after the series proper depicts Humongulus now residing in Mechanicsburg, working at a newly-constructed Corbettite trainyard and still more than happy to take any sort of challenge posed to him, be it a show of strength or a brawl with Franz.

• Big Damn Heroes: (Офигенные герои) He shows up just in time to stop the Beast from reclaiming its lost cars.
• Defeat Means Friendship: (Дружба начинается с поражения) Becomes fast friends with Franz following their fight.
• Hyperspace Arsenal: (Бездонный инвентарь) He somehow produces his sword out of nowhere, and the accompanying monk says that he has never asked where Humongulus keeps his tools.
• Odd Friendship: (Непохожие друзья) With Franz, despite resembling a knight.
• Pretentious Latin Motto: (Высокопарный латинский девиз) Parodied, with a gratuitous dose of Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe; Humongulus has a motto scrawled on his chest reading «Dost thou even lyft?»
• Third-Person Person: (О себе в третьем лице) Humongulus rarely lets a sentence go by without mentioning himself in third person.

The Beast

A sentient train that was created by Agatha’s grandfather Saturnus Heterodyne. It constantly hungers for coal and any form of metal, and to roam freely across the land devouring new and interesting things; after Saturnus gave the Beast to them, the Corbetite Monks tried to use it on their railway network but were finally forced to trick it and seal it in one of the Vaults in their Depot-Fortress.

• Ax-Crazy: (Буйный неадекват) When it first appears, this thing seems to be giving Castle Heterodyne a run for its money in this department, with the added danger that it doesn’t obey the resident Heterodyne, or possibly doesn’t believe that Agatha is a Heterodyne. Although in the end, it only kills one person (Lady Selnikov) and even that wasn’t particularly intentional.
• Cool Train: (Поезда — это круто!) It goes without saying, really.
• Defeat Means Friendship: (Дружба начинается с поражения) After being defeated by Agatha and reduced to a small dingbot body, the Beast gradually becomes fiercely protective of her and even makes an friendship with the Castle.
• Extreme Omnivore: (Великий пожиратель) According to Brother Ulm, one of the main reasons the Corbetites fear it so much is because it can subsist on literally anything, as opposed to normal trains that can only run on coal.
• Humiliation Conga: (Жизнь кончена) The process of its defeat. It started when it was swarmed by the Swartzwalders who had no metal on them to manipulate. Then its energy reserve cars were cut off by Count Wolkerstorfer and dropped down a cargo lift shaft. Then it got grappled by Humongulus when it tried to magnetically lift the cars back out of the shaft. Then it had its cab ripped open. Then its core brain was unplugged, and eventually revealed to be stored in a glass jar where it impotently yells at people.
• Psychopathic Manchild: (Жестокий большой ребёнок) Much like the other living Heterodyne object we’ve seen so far, it is positively giddy at the prospect of devouring the Corbetites and Martellus.
• Selective Magnetism: (Забили на третий закон Ньютона?) It has the power to selectively manipulate metal items in order to consume them. This includes Martellus' gold crown, which he notes isn’t a ferrous metal and asks how it’s doing that. It later pins almost all of the people around in place by holding the bits of metal in their clothes.
• Smug Snake: (Самоуверенный мерзавчик) Constantly reaffirms its superiority and talks down to Agatha and her allies, even as the battle turns more and more against it.

Brother Marcus

A brother in the order who joins Vipsania and Franz on their journey to the Dragon Hoard of Hydrargyros the Godburner, providing a reference book on dragons and assistance transporting the loot in exchange for the dragon’s flame-enhancer and any other dangerous Sparky creations.

Assorted

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Othar Tryggvassen

A man possessed with a quest to eradicate all Sparks, including himself (eventually), for the damage they do to the world. Harder to kill than James Bond.

• Amusing Injuries: (Насилие безобидно) No matter what happens to him, Othar bounces back almost immediately.
• Black-and-White Insanity: (Чёрно-белое безумие) The concept of «moral ambiguity» seems entirely lost on Othar. In his mind, all Sparks are irredeemably evil folks who must ultimately die in order to bring peace to the world, even the ones that are moderately harmless or even helpful to his crusade.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: (Профи с причудами) Even by the standards of Sparks. Which is saying quite a bit. On the other hand, as Sparky plans go, «Kill all the other Sparks one by one and then myself» is actually pretty logical and well-considered, and even other some Sparks admit the notion is a pretty well thought out plan for a valid experiment.
• Hero Antagonist: (Героический антагонист) Played with. Othar is here on the «Assorted» page because he’s often pitted against the protagonists, but he really is a hero to the common folk: rescuing innocents, vanquishing monsters, and— in short, hero work. Unfortunately, most of Agatha’s social circle are on his hit list, so there’s obviously a certain amount of Enemy Mine when they do happen to be working together.
• Hero of Another Story: (Герой другой истории) Invoked. You can follow his heroic story on Twitter! One of his most glaring flaws is that he is not only unaware of this trope, but completely unwilling to accept its possibility.
• Hunter of His Own Kind: (Крысиный волк) He’s a Spark hellbent on the eradication of all Sparks, himself included. Although his particular focus seems to be more in sabotaging the devices of others rather than building any of his own; people often forget he’s a Spark.
• Jerkass Has a Point: (Козёл был прав)
  • This is not to say that Othar isn’t dangerously insane and regularly murderous. He is. He really, really is. It’s just that most of the people he’s killed either have attacked him or otherwise been an asshole in his presence; Sparks in particular, especially as he boasts of all the Sparks he’s killed. Doesn’t change the fact that he tried to summarily execute Agatha the instant he learned she was a Spark.
  • Squibs, a much put upon minion in the side story 'Small Problems', sums it up best:

«	Squibs: Let me see if I understand this. He thinks that all the problems in Europa are caused by the mad scientists who build all the monsters. The mad scientists who vie with each other to see who can be the first to turn the population into wombat bats or clam people or stylish furniture. The raving lunatics who set off life-size chocolate volcanoes and unleash flash floods of porridge upon innocent villages. Othar wants to destroy these people, and you think he’s insane?!	»

• And Klaus secretly acknowledges that Othar has a point, and that the only difference between their «Peace Through Violence» approaches is that Klaus gives his enemies a chance to avoid execution by not being murderous jerks. When Othar first got started, Klaus got into the habit of subtly directing Othar in the direction of dangerous Sparks who hadn’t technically violated the Peace. He only dragged Othar onto Castle Wulfenbach for a little Doc Savage-esque brain surgery because the idiot started killing Sparks that were doing their best not to threaten the Peace.
• Also there’s the slight problem of Othar being a Spark exactly like all his foes, meaning his chosen means and methods of achieving his goals are the most complicated and destructive available to him at any given time. For example, to cover his and Agatha’s escape from Castle Wulfenbach, he turned loose and/or turned on every experiment he could find. And Agatha just got finished destroying a Hive Engine. If Wulfenbach had been any less awesome, that touch of genius could likely have wiped out all of Europa before sunset.
• As of the Mechanicsburg Arc, he does at least seem to be of the opinion that while all Sparks need to die, there are some that need to die sooner than others. As Agatha seems to be following the legacy of her heroic father and uncle, Othar seems to be willing to bump her and her friends to the back of the queue for now.

• Offscreen Teleportation: (Закадровая телепортация)
  • Dropping him out of sight, by whatever means, never seems to stick. At least twice, he manages to get back up onto Castle Wulfenbach by unknown means after being thrown off and then survives being pushed over the side of a much smaller airship.
  • And when Castle Heterodyne is introduced to him, its immediate response is to drop him into a bottomless pit. So far as it is concerned, surviving this is one of a Hero’s Required Secondary Powers, so it feels totally justified in pulling this stunt. And sure enough, Othar immediately reappears unscathed.
  • This is something he’s apparently so well known for in-world that when he ends up being defenestrated while handcuffed to someone else, Gil used the opportunity For Science, demanding Tarvek figure out the trick on the assumption that Othar would magic himself to safety per usual. On the plus side, he did manage to get himself out of the handcuffs… while busy fighting Vole… without the person he was handcuffed to finding out how. Even more amusing and impressive in retrospect, since it turns out the guy he got himself un-handcuffed from is no slouch in a fight and very good at misdirection.
  • He also manages to find his way into Gil’s super secret lab, a place nobody else in-story (including Klaus) seemed to be aware of, simply because he is a hero and finding secret villain lairs is what heroes are good at.
• Sunglasses at Night: (Крутые тёмные очки) Or whatever that visor thingy is. There’s a fan theory that it’s there to protect bystanders from the power of his amazingly pretty blue eyes; another theory (given his white hair, pale skin, and extremely light eyes) is that he’s an albino and needs it to protect his eyes from the light.
• Testosterone Poisoning: (GAR) Big, manly, aggressive, and has a tendency to barrel towards danger, just because.

Dreen

A species of other-dimensional beings with a tangential relationship to time.

• Blood Knight: (Рыцарь крови) They are described by another extradimensional being as «murder hoboes» and essentially like big game hunters for monsters. In fact, it seems that Klaus drawing in a monster with the time stoppage is the reason they helped him create his empire.
• Destructive Saviour: (Спаситель-разрушитель) They are capable of taking down some of the biggest baddest extradimensional horrors around, but don’t count on your city remaining intact after their epic battle.
• Human Aliens: (Люди с другой планеты) The «horrific» appearance is only one of their forms. When Agatha uses Prende’s lantern on them, it reveals blue skinned humanlike forms with slightly disproportionate builds.
• No-Sell: (Никакого эффекта) For an as of yet unexplained reason, they are immune to the Time Stands Still effect of Prende’s Lantern/Lady Heterodyne’s Star. Being inter-dimensional beings that don’t fully conform to the rules of Agatha’s world on their own, the time-stopping ability from the artefact merely brings them more in synch with Agatha’s world, allowing their true forms to be perceived.

Ferretina

The main antagonist of the «Revenge of the Weasel Queen» side story.

• Benevolent Boss: (Добрый начальник) Agatha assumed she controlled her lapinemoths with fear and mind control. Unfortunately for her, Ferretina controlled her army with good dental coverage.
• Freudian Excuse: (Тяжёлое детство) Her Spark father turned her into a weasel hybrid and she was chased away from her home village for her freakish appearance.
• Go Mad from the Isolation/I Just Want to Have Friends: (Я просто хочу иметь друзей) She was driven away from her home village due to her appearance and the lack of human companionship caused her more evil, animalistic side to emerge. However, she longed for someone to see her as a person and not a monster. Unfortunately, Othar was not that person, but luckily Agatha’s fashion clank was.
• Half-Human Hybrid: (Полукровки) Her father’s experiments turned into a human-weasel hybrid.
• I’m a Humanitarian: (Каннибализм) She regularly kidnapped tall, lusty young men… because they tasted better when they were grilled with cheese.
• Karma Houdini: (Как с гуся вода) Suffers no consequences for killing and eating villagers and she gets to open a successful fashion shop in Paris. See the background of the second panel of this comic
• Villainesses Want Heroes: (Влюблённый злодей) She fell in love with Othar after he defeated one of her giant rabbits. However, after she bared her soul to him, hoping to win his heart, he assumed she was a vile seductress plotting to kill him which lead to her angrily deciding to put him in an elaborate death trap.

The Circus

A traveling Heterodyne Show that takes Agatha in for a while after she saves them from a wandering monster-clank. Zeetha was originally one of them, but decided her place was with her student when the rest of the Circus was Put on a Bus.

• Arm Cannon: (Наручная пушка) Ollie has a prosthetic hand that either can transform into a hand cannon or he has a separate hand cannon prosthetic. He is never seen with it in any stage but mechanical hand or weapon so it is unknown if it is two devices or one but it looks like he just removes the hand portion to access the cannon.
• Blue Blood: (Аристократ) Marie is apparently distantly related to the Queen of England, and is often referred to as «the Countess.»
• Lovable Coward: (Милый трусишка) The whole circus is this. They play heroes on stage, but they don’t do any actual heroics — traveling the Wastelands is dangerous enough without it.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: (Устрашающее имечко) Master Payne, though he’s a pleasant enough fellow most of the time.
• Phony Psychic: (Великий Гудвин) Madame Olga is a fortune teller traveling with the circus; after she is killed, Agatha takes over her act using the same name.
• Pie in the Face: (Пирог в лицо) Shockingly, this is plot-relevant! Taki the chef believes there is no problem in life that cannot be solved by application of pie to the face, whether it’s a dud act, a panic attack, or a full-blown Sparkish rage. It actually helps with that last one.

Lars

A former cheese maker’s apprentice who joined Master Payne’s Circus of Adventure as an actor and as an advance man. He was one of Agatha’s closest companions in the first half of the comic.

• Glory Seeker: (Отчаянное желание внимания) He left his life as a cheese maker behind to become a lead actor in the Master Payne’s circus.
• Ladykiller in Love: (Ловелас нарвался) Lars, who falls for Agatha. He confesses it as he lies dying.
• Lovable Coward: (Милый трусишка) Sort of; he’s competent enough during dangerous situations, but as soon as the current situation is resolved, he breaks out in a delayed panic attack.

König

Leader of a group of sentient bear constructs, and tentatively named the Swartzwalders by the fandom after their previous appearance in the non-canon Girl Genius card game The Works. He considers himself their temporary leader, and has been long awaiting the arrival of the bears' true «Master».

• BFS: (Офигенно большой меч) He has a curved saber that is easily as long as Dimo is tall. Since König is also quite large, it’s a one-hander to him.
• Large and in Charge: (Большой — значит главный) König has significantly more body mass compared to the other Swartzwalders.
• No-Sell: (Никакого эффекта) He and the other bears aren’t affected by The Beast’s magnets due to not having metal on them.

Professor Blintzie von Wyrmhaut

Former instructor at Transylvania Polygnostic, now curator of Drachenzen Hall. Currently leading a party seeking the Iram Solis, a dragon flame-enhancer held in the hoard of Hydrargyros the Godburner. Once taught Agatha at TPU.

• Hunter of Monsters: (Охотник на нечисть) Franz adds «notorious monster hunter, specializing in dragons» to her titles. Apparently from a family of monster hunters («Wyrmhaut» means wyrm [dragon] hide). Notably, she isn’t fanatical about it and is quite respectful and cordial towards Franz, addressing him by his formal title of Lord Scortchmaw, while Franz admits most dragons aren’t as nice as him and are «flat out monsters».
• Meaningful Name: (Говорящее имя) «Wyrmhaut» means dragon hide. Presumably this is how Franz deduces she comes from a family of monster hunters.
• Sadist Teacher: (Педагог-садист) Shoots one of her students for getting a question wrong, then immediately backpedals when she realizes that the material wasn’t covered in their lessons. Previously taught Agatha and gleefully claims she flunked her (though Agatha was still wearing the power-limiting locket and hadn’t broken through at the time). Declares her entire class failed the midterms when Franz’s drunken dancing interrupts her. Decides to kill them all when they become a case of You Have Outlived Your Usefulness since they are potential competition for the treasure.
• Try to Fit That on a Business Card: (Сапогами попирают из Вселенной) «Supreme Curator of Drachenzehen Hall, High Queen of Historians, and Artifact Hunter Extraordinaire (and also notorious monster hunter specializing in dragons)».
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: (Пережить свою полезность) She only wanted the help of Franz’s group to get herself past a door designed for dragons. After that, she considers them boring, in the way, and competition for the treasure. She isn’t terribly fond of her students either. Thus, her minion, Hector, betrays them and gives her (very temporary) control over one of the traps to help her kill them all.

Zantabraxus

The current Queen of Skifander, a hidden and mysterious civilization, mother of Zeetha and wife of the mysterious warrior known only as «Chump». Also known as Klaus Wulfenbach, making her Gil’s mother.

• The Exile: (Изгнание) Before Chump showed up, there’d been a period of severe civil unrest between the priestesses of Eshkigax and Zantabraxus’s mother, which meant she had to go into exile. Chump helped her recover her throne.

Polar Ice Lords (Unmarked spoilers)

Mysterious and dangerous in equal measure, the Polar Ice Lords are things that rule over the frigid lands north of Europa. That is, until the fall of the Wulfenbach Empire, which seemingly encouraged them to expand their frozen dominion southwards.

• Ancient Evil: (Древнее зло) They’ve ruled over their icy lands for untold millennia, being venerable even in comparison to Albia. According to Ixthaliox, they even predate whoever built the Queens' Mirrors.
• An Ice Person: (Магия льда) And how. The Polar Lords are defined by their disturbingly powerful control over the cold — they can use it to ground fleets of airships, protect themselves and their troops from harm, and turn enemy soldiers into icy revenants who obey their every command.
• Humanoid Abomination: (Чужеродный человек) Once in their weakened state, they look human (ish), and might have been human once. But in most circumstances, they’re monstrous beings that wield the cold in a manner that even manages to shatter the setting’s Rule of Cool based laws of nature.
  • Even their foot soldiers don’t seem entirely human, having glowing, pupilless eyes and sharp teeth.
• Wrong Context Magic: (Чужая магия) The ice-based abilities wielded by the Polar Lords can only be described as actual, «traditional» magic without any of the Sparky trappings, which makes them a dangerous and unpredictable anomaly in the eyes of most other characters.