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[@Terminal]: To be fair, two of the Arcosians are definitely looking like protagonists, or at least antiheroes, and the other one... mmmmmmwe'll talk about him later, I couldn't say whether Shiver's ultimately good or not. Prolly not. Charis is honestly far too weak to have much swaying power among the relatively high-power characters we have at the moment - after closer examination, I realised that Thess' power in LSSj would not be 1800 as I originally thought, but [i]18000[/i], and that's still the lowest PL so far presented beyond Charis'. And, uh... yeah, Luceptor's definitely rather antagonistic, though depending on what goals the other Makaioshin end up having in the course of the game, he may be compelled to turn on them to ensure they don't deplete his supply of people to deceive and convince to deceive other people. With that said, I'll likely hold off on the second character for the time being, and see whether other people join as the appropriate races before making a judgement call.
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Shiver is far from good. He will be a major antagonist, but not for some time. He will be a "puppeteer" of sorts through the tournament saga and will not directly be involved in the tournament, as he has alterior motives for Arcose, which currently is under his rule. However, there will be a plethora of fighters loyal to the Arcosian Empire whom will participate in the tournament. 

Shiver is regarded as the most powerful Arcosian currently, which was achieved by his past. He is of royal blood, but volunteered to purge the blood-stained gladitorial pit of the "boring" competition. There are whispers he may be some reincarnation of the legendary Frieza, but this is untrue. Shiver comes from a strong bloodline, and the combination of martial skill and cunning diplomatics ascended him to becoming Lord of Arcose..after Lord Kryo, his father, was mysteriously murdered. Hmm.