As an added bonus, after the attack resolves, the bones of the fallen Core units gravitate forward to form walls.

Combined Energy Attack: Fiona's spell does this with every idle Core unit on her field, converting them into a single attack.

Nadia's Kaamla Asiya spell is the only thing that can break it off.

Clingy MacGuffin: The Blade of Binding, with a dash of Body Horror it starts as a dagger-looking weapon and eventually fuses with your arm.

Brainwashed and Crazy: The Blade of Binding on Aidan's hand eventually consumes him and he attacks the heroes at the end of the final campaign.

Body Horror: What happens to Count Carlyle when he tries to use the shapeshifting rod is pretty disgusting.

Blush Sticker: The zombie core units sport these.

He could just tell them to get out of his way or even make them kill themselves yet he combats them, and sometimes even foces them to fight him, because he feels it's a more meaningful revenge. The vast majority of his campaign battles are against demons.

Blood Knight: Aidan can control demons at will.

In his monstrous form, when he isn't using his vomit comets, he uses a beam that turns your units into foodstuffs, then sucks them into his gigantic secondary mouth.

Big Eater: Count Carlyle is not a slender man.

An alter-ego/true form for Nadia's father, Ahz Rafir.

Bears Are Bad News: One of the basic Sylvan units.

Bag of Spilling: Artifacts don't carry over to the final part of the campaign.

Thankfully, the other four heroes snap him out of it the old-fashioned way before confronting Ahz Rafir as Lord Bloodcrown. When Ahz Rafir called for Azexes, Aidan got summoned instead and was bound to the former's will. Upon meeting Ahz Rafir, Fiona recognizes him as the wizard that attacked her in Heresh, prompting him to imprison the trio until Nadia rescues them.

Back for the Finale: After completing their respective campaigns, the first three heroes converge upon the Silver Cities as originally planned in the ending of the Downer Beginning.

Ax-Crazy: One of your bounties in the Haven Campaign is like this.

And again when you confront Carlyle, who says 'I'll advise the emperor to hang you for the insult, Sir.

Lampshaded by Varkas who goes 'Ignatius Thunderblade?', so Godric tells him to just roll with it.

Godric's name in the tournament is 'Sir Ignatius Thunderblade', which was made up on the spot.

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