

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

Except when possessed right before the penultimate mission. Heroic Mime: Downplayed the Player Character speaks, but their lines are not voiced.

When Melkhiresa asks the Wicked Spirit why Melkhiresa cannot personally access this knowledge, the Wicked Spirit remarks that textbooks can't read themselves. And in other summonings, Melkhiresa was always correct with knowledge.

Good All Along: Melkhiresa was not some diabolical villain, but an innocent spirit of knowledge trapped in an evil human's body, and they have been helping the Unavowed solving magical mysteries.Human Sacrifice: A blood sacrifice was required to summon Melkhiresa.Mel is an easy enough nickname for a male or female. Gender-Blender Name: Can use "Mel" as one after the truth of Melkhiresa's origin is revealed.The player character can later rename themselves 'Mel' to distinguish themselves from the original owner of the body. Except Melkhiresa, which Eli will reject. Hello, : You're allowed to pick any name you want for the player character.Or, as the case would be, the demon was the victim of the human it was forced to possess. Demonic Possession: A former victim of one.The human used Melkhiresa's knowledge to commit atrocities, and Melkhiresa thus decides to continue on and defeat the sociopath. However, it later turns out that this is backwards-the protagonist is Melkhiresa, an innocent knowledge demon who was summoned by a sociopathic human. The protagonist thus joins the Unavowed to defeat Melkhiresa and right the demon's wrongs. After meeting Eli and Mandana, the protagonist understands that his or her body was possessed by a demon named Melkhiresa, which spent a year doing horrible things in the protagonist's body before being exorcised. Totally harmless"An individual who suddenly finds himself or herself thrown into the world of the supernatural.
