First Age and Primordial War characters?

[Astralporing]

Does Merela, Sun Dragon and that Hell's Warlord guy count ?

Sure they do. Mind you, some people seem to think that the Warlord and the Sun Dragon are the same person (which may or may not be true).

[Isator Levi]

Desus is a dick. Such a dick that the Unconquered Sun withdrew the tianming from the Solar Deliberative and tacitly gave the go-ahead for the Usurpation.

Ahh, now here we get to the TV Tropes rendition that I despise the most. A ridiculous overstatement of the portrayal in the books and a dreadfully small take on what it requires to provoke a Usurpation.

[Kallipolis]

Ahh, now here we get to the TV Tropes rendition that I despise the most. A ridiculous overstatement of the portrayal in the books and a dreadfully small take on what it requires to provoke a Usurpation.

Did the hyperbole offend your sensibilities that much? I thought it was more amusing than getting into a socio-theological discourse about the relationship between a metaphysical symbol of virtue and his champions after they had largely turned to venality, corruption, and cruelty that contradicted his very nature.

(I'm aware that Desus was less the straw that broke the four-armed camel's back than the Hierophant, in other words.)