Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem: Encyclopedia II - Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem - Playable characters

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem - Playable characters

The player controls the following characters in the years noted next to their names.

• Pious Augustus (26 BC) - A Roman Centurion in his late 20s, at war in the Middle East. Becomes the game's chief antagonist after being corrupted by one of the Ancients' essences.
• Karim (565) - A Persian swordsman, sent into the desert to find a treasure (one of the Ancients' essences) for his love, Chandra.
• Anthony (814) - A French messenger for Charlemagne the Frank, ordered to deliver a message to his liege.
• Ellia (1150) - A Cambodian slave girl and court dancer for Suryavarman II. She yearns for adventure after reading passages from the Tome.
• Roberto Bianchi (1460) - A traveling Venetian artist and architect, taken as a prisoner of war while roaming abroad. He is forced to work for a warlord, helping with the construction of the Pillar of Flesh.
• Paul Luther (1485) - A Franciscan monk on a pilgrimage, detained in Amiens by the Inquisition.
• Maximillian Roivas (1760) - A rich doctor in colonial Rhode Island, ancestor of both Edward and Alex. Something is amiss in the mansion he recently inherited from his father, Aaron.
• Peter Jacob (1916) - A field reporter during World War I, staying at Oublie Cathedral, which has been converted into a field hospital.
• Edward Roivas (1952) - A clinical psychologist, Alex's grandfather, led to the Tome by Max's ghost. His servants are attacked by a dreadful presence.
• Edwin Lindsey (1983) - An archaeologist exploring in Cambodia under the auspices of a mysterious benefactor named Paul Augustine.
• Michael Edwards (1991) - A Canadian firefighter sent to extinguish the oil fires ignited by Iraqi troops in the Middle East after the Gulf War.
• Alexandra Roivas (2000) - A student at a university in Washington. The game's main protagonist, she is investigating her grandfather's gruesome death.

Note that the above list is in strict chronological order. Disregarding Alexandra's actions at the beginning and between chapters, and the return of other characters during the final battle, the player controls the characters and experiences their struggles against the Eternal Darkness in the following order:

1. Pious Augustus
2. Ellia
3. Anthony
4. Karim
5. Maximillian Roivas
6. Edwin Lindsey
7. Paul Luther
8. Roberto Bianchi
9. Peter Jacob
10. Edward Roivas
11. Michael Edwards
12. Alexandra Roivas

The action is divided between four principal locations. Though the game skips back and forth through time, chapters concerning each individual cite are in respective chronological order.

• The Forbidden City (Middle East) - Pious → Karim → Roberto → Michael
• The Cambodian temple - Ellia → Lindsey
• Oublie Cathedral - Anthony → Paul → Peter
• The Roivas family mansion and the Ruined City of Ehn'gha - Max → Edward → Alex

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Playable characters", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki