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Broker

The Broker is an elusive figure in the Inpherno, who is fiercely devoted to The Church of the TRUE EYE as an acolyte, and additionally works as an information broker and parts dealer. Despite being an inphernal who spawned in Lost Temple, The Broker was spawned with unusual biology in comparison to others.

The Broker notably possesses a body which is sewn and stitched together, comprising of skin of unknown origin. This includes his head, which does not originally belong to him, and replaces the head he lost to being beheaded by Ban Hammer in the past. The Broker lacks the ability to taste, bleed, or experience tactile sensation; notably lacking pain and temperature perception. Upon closer inspection, one may see a dark, wire-like material protruding from his insides between his stitches and wounds. The nature of this wire-like substance, as well as the reason for The Broker being spawned this way, are both unknown.

The Broker is highly valued by The Church of the TRUE EYE for his uncanny ability to gather large amounts of information, thanks to his gear, which is currently unknown. Although he is loyal to the family, he doesn't enjoy living in Lost Temple, and so typically lives in various places, such as with Zuka and his son Rocket, to whom The Broker provides the materials used for creating artificial gears and other weapons.

Aside from Zuka and Rocket, The Broker is close to Scythe, whom he works with. He works directly under Father Overseer, and considers himself friends with Medkit. He is often on the run from Ban Hammer, who repeatedly tries to jail and execute The Broker to no avail.

• PERSONALITY -

The Broker comes across as overly jovial and friendly to most people he meets. In reality, he is a manipulative, dangerous, and self-serving individual who is not above violence or intimidation. He has a particular hatred for Church heretics and, ironically, bootlickers. Despite this, he is incredibly loyal to the Church and all of his earnings go towards the family. He has a tendency to watch other inphernals from their windows.

When asked questions about his gear, name, spawn region, age, etc., The Broker gives wildly different answers on all occasions, leading to much confusion about his exact nature.

• APPEARANCE -

The Broker is a light-skinned inphernal with large, dark blue horns which curve up and backwards. He wears a teal dress shirt and pants, with a dark blue waistcoat and shoes, and a dark teal tie. He wears signature teal blush on both cheeks, and he is often seen sporting a black metal cuff on his right wrist, on account of constantly escaping from Banland.

His body is covered in stitches where skin has been grafted onto his body in various places. Most notably, The Broker's head is stitched on at the neck, and he has marks resembling vivisection scars on his abdomen. When his stitches are open or come undone, a dark wire-like substance is visible inside his body. His right eye has been removed in a Church ritual and replaced with a glass eye, and he has a distinct X-shaped scar above his good eye.

• RELATIONS -

| Zuka and Rocket | *The Broker regularly crashes at Zuka's place, and even has his own nickname for him, that being "Zukes". The two have been friends for a few years prior to the events of the game, first meeting during a low point of The Broker's life. The Broker is grateful towards Zuka, but Zuka feels more neutrally towards him.

*Rocket, on the other hand, hates The Broker, despite Broker's apparent fondness for him. The Broker has a tendency to mess around with Rocket.

| Scythe | *Scythe and The Broker are close friends, and The Broker works under her in the Church.

| Other relationships | *The Broker works underneath Father Overseer, willingly making phone calls to errant members on his behalf.

*The Broker considers Medkit a friend. Medkit is responsible for stapling The Broker back together when he gets decapitated.

*The Broker holds a lot of vitriol towards Katana, likely related to his defection from the Church.

*The Broker is constantly running from, and being jailed by, Ban Hammer. However, The Broker always manages to escape, much to Ban Hammer's confusion. Their relationship can be described as a game of "cat and mouse".

*The Broker does not recognize the Swords to be true gods.

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Father Overseer

The father is the only known clergyman of The Church of the TRUE EYE, a cult-like religious group that operates within Lost Temple. He is mentioned by title only by both Scythe and The Broker, who both indicate that 'true devotion' and a good word or two are values that the father prioritizes in the Church's acolytes and laypeople.

• APPEARANCE -

Not much is known about Father Overseer's appearance. He wears a stylized cassock, which is dark teal on the upper half and teal on the lower half, has a cyan button up, and has four cyan eyes with black pupils on its front side, two sorted vertically on each side. His lower half features dark teal clothes with cyan buttons along the left side and large golden X's along the right.

Father Overseer has sharp, spiky fingers, and a scepter with a glowing cyan ball on a golden hilt connected to a dark aquamarine handle.

• PERSONALITY -

Little is known about the father, but he appears to be relatively strict about where and when Church members are required to visit 'the family.' Despite this, he 'welcomes all' into the Church.

• RELATIONS -

*Unknown

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Medkit

Medkit was unnaturally spawned in Blackrock to his two caretakers, and was immediately taken in by the KORBLOX Administration. His gear, being a healing class gear, is a very rare occurrence within the Inpherno. His gear allows him to heal the wounds and injuries of other inphernals with the abilities he was spawned with, making him a highly coveted asset to the KORBLOX Administration. He worked as a scientist alongside Subspace, using his incredible intellect and talents in the fields of engineering and chemistry to help further KORBLOX's research. During their time working under the KORBLOX Administration, Medkit developed the first known instance of energy crystals. Medkit and Subspace never got along, and after they had an altercation in which Medkit lost his left eye, he escaped Blackrock and fled to Crossroads.

In Crossroads, he was picked up by an extremist group which had just formed in Lost Temple shortly following the Scorch, and went on to offer this group—later known as The Church of the TRUE EYE—his various abilities, in exchange for protection from the KORBLOX Administration. Medkit suffers from severe PTSD as a result of his time in Blackrock, and struggles with intense paranoia and constant night terrors.

Medkit is closest to Sword, whom he sees like a sibling, and is subsequently friends with Rocket. He works underneath Scythe, who is his boss, alongside The Broker.

• APPEARANCE -

Medkit is a well put-together inphernal, who dons a suit in the uniform style of The Church of the TRUE EYE, and whose signature color is teal. He has two horns which closely resemble antlers that protrude from the sides of his head and extend upwards. On each horn, he has two tines following the same direction, and he wears a gold ring on his bottom right tine. In between both horns sits a floating crystal, which is the source of his gear's power. He wears a diamond shaped eyepatch with an inset gold trim over his left eye, covering his removed and stitched eye, and he is commonly seen with a disgruntled or forlorn expression.

His suit is predominately a dark forest green, with bright teal accents throughout. His suit jacket opens up to reveal a teal cravat tied around the collar, and with gold trim on both sleeves, and a diamond shaped appliqué just above the cuffs. He wears high waisted dress pants in a teal argyle pattern, a motif he shares with Scythe. His pants are fastened by two gold buttons at the waistband. He wears dark teal gloves on both hands, and forest green dress shoes.

He wields his medkit in his left hand, and his revolver in his right. Both are adorned with the same teal argyle motif as his uniform, and are trimmed with gold. His revolver is a distinctly brighter teal than his medkit, matching the color of his horns and cravat where the pattern is applied across the barrel and the grip. The sight, muzzle, hammer and trigger are all gold, with the rest of the gun being a dark teal. His medkit resembles a briefcase, exhibiting the same argyle pattern, along with a teal cross on the upper side, and gold accents along the body of the medkit, the corners, and the handle. The handle also has a bright teal grip.

• PERSONALITY -

Despite Medkit's intellect, he has become an extremely paranoid person in the aftermath of his life in Blackrock. He is typically very flat with his interactions, and tries not to get too close to anyone.

• RELATIONS -

| Sword | *Medkit and Sword met soon after Medkit fled from Blackrock. Medkit found Sword in a dire state and nursed him back to health. The two of them become close, eventually coming to see each other like siblings.

*Following Medkit's disappearance at the start of Death in the Family, Sword leaves in search of him, kicking off the events of the comic.

| Subspace | *Medkit and Subspace never got along, even when they were young. Subspace was terrible to Medkit, and their ensuing altercation caused Medkit to fight back in self defense. Medkit will likely never feel safe again until Subspace dies.

| Rocket | *Medkit met Rocket through Sword, and is responsible for his prosthetics.

| Other relationships | *Medkit chose to leave to Lost Temple as one of his caretakers hailed from there. His other caretaker was "not good".

*Medkit works under Scythe and made her various prosthetics and augmentations, but keeps a wide berth, choosing to refer to her only by her alias, Rifle. If it weren't for Medkit's guard always being up, the two would otherwise be friends.

*Medkit is responsible for stapling The Broker back together when he gets decapitated, but otherwise sees him as a pest.

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Scythe

Scythe was naturally spawned in Lost Temple, where she worked as an oziphrage wrangler alongside her significant other, Grappling Hook, and their group of other wranglers. Following the Scorch, the two of them split, and Scythe—who lost her right arm in the flames—left to join a newly formed extremist group, later known as The Church of the TRUE EYE.

Scythe is extremely loyal and dedicated to her family in the Church, and is willing to do absolutely anything to protect and serve them, no matter the cost. She works as a form of mob enforcer for the Church, being commanded by Father Overseer to take out anyone who has even the potential to speak out against the Church and Overseer's mission. Despite her blind enforcement of his word, she has complicated feelings regarding her leader and what he stands for. She is highly respected and loved by other members of the Church, being seen as an older sibling figure who others can bring their problems to.

Having lost her arm in the Scorch, Scythe has a mechanical prosthetic arm built by Medkit, which is powered by his energy crystals. Additionally, despite being spawned as Green Laser Scythe, her gear has been modified by Medkit to have an additional rifle mode, making her a formidable opponent to anyone who crosses her path. Her left eye is replaced by a glass eye, thanks to a practice done by members of the Church, and as a result she must wear a specialized scope on her right eye to account for her lack of depth perception. She was spawned with black horns, but paints them teal to show her devotion to her family.

Scythe has a deadly reputation within the Banland police force, and is constantly evading their capture. She is very close to The Broker, and is acquaintances with Medkit, who both work under her. She was once friends with Katana, when he was a part of the Church.

• APPEARANCE -

Scythe is a dark-skinned inphernal with teal spiked swept-back horns, going through her white cowboy hat with a teal Lost Temple insignia on the forest-green hatband directly on the front. The hat has an inline gold border topside on the rim. She wears an ornate scope consisting of three cyan lenses of different sizes over her right eye, supported by a gold band around her head. Her left, uncovered eye is glass. Around her neck, she wears a small, forest-green bandana.

She wears a fancy white suit jacket with two small gold buttons connected by a chain, with an inline gold border accent on the lapels following around a popped collar decorated with small gold spikes, paired with a teal shirt underneath and a forest-green necktie. She wears two-toned forest-green pants with diamond patterning and is held up with a forest-green belt in the belt loops with a gold buckle. She wears white Western-style boots with gold accents and gold spurs.

Her right arm is a prosthetic, with white plating around the forearm and upper arm decorated with gold accents. Black wiring connects the upper arm with the gold metal socket on her shoulder, while the elbow consists of a large, gold and black joint. The hand is made of black and gold plating. She wears a forest green glove on the left hand.

She wields her namesake laser scythe gear, modified into a hybrid with a submachine gun, with her right arm. It features a white body with gold grips and trigger and a black barrel jacket with a gold tip. A neon teal tube connects to a gray base on the butt of the gun, where the laser scythe's 'blade' is connected to. Near the butt of the gun are two gold wings with teal accents, connected by large black screws, which flip depending on its form. In Scythe form, the weapon rotates and extends to reveal a teal grip, while in Rifle form, a black rectangular ammo magazine is attached to the side.

• PERSONALITY -

Scythe is a charismatic and silver-tongued individual who is led by her intense desire for vengeance. She will stop at nothing to vindicate the pain and loss she experienced because of the Scorch, even being willing to murder other inphernals in pursuit of her "greater good". Despite this, she is loyal and dependable to those in her Church family, and has her own doubts about what the "greater good" means to her. She has a soft spot for animals and cares deeply for them.

• RELATIONS -

| The Broker | *Scythe and The Broker are extremely close friends, and the two work together as Church acolytes.

| Medkit | *Medkit works under Scythe and made her various prosthetics and augmentations, but keeps a wide berth, choosing to refer to her only by her alias, Rifle. If it weren't for Medkit's guard always being up, the two would otherwise be friends.[10]

| Other relationships | *Scythe and Grappling Hook were previously significant others and worked together as oziphrage wranglers, before the Scorch tore them apart.

*Ban Hammer has a one-sided rivalry with Scythe, who is constantly evading his grasp. The two appear in Scythe's reveal trailer.

*Father Overseer is Scythe's leader. She follows out his commands to murder his enemies with little protest, but has doubts about his intentions. Otherwise, their relationship is unclear.

*Scythe and Katana were previously friends, when they both were a part of the Church.

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