Bruno The Bandit - Main Characters

Main Characters

The main characters are:

Bruno

A strong and ambitious thief. Not very bright, but has gathered some fame as a bandit over the years. Currently, Bruno is 38 years old. He wields the "Sword Of The Truth," a magical sword that is located in the caves beneath Mt.Grislydeth in the land of Maliceria, according to Milo, but according to Bruno his sword is not rare. Instead it was mass produced in the factories of Asuton. (Even though Bruno's "Sword Of Truth" is not so rare, it is still a lethal weapon and also has a digital alarm clock.)

Fiona

Bruno's sidekick. A micro-dragon, she tricked Bruno into becoming her boss. She acts as the conscience/brain of Bruno, but will betray him for her own benefit on any opportunity. There's a running gag where Fiona mistakenly gets referred to as a baby dragon, which annoys her.

Maledict

An evil wizard, he is one of Bruno's many foes. However, since Bruno is not exactly good, they have allied (and betrayed each other) many times in the strip. In fact, Bruno meets Fiona for the first time during a mission for Maledict.

Eunyce

Bruno's mother. She was a Warrior hottie in her youth. From time to time, she dons her old outfit to help her son. Think Xena, warrior princess...sixty years old.

Ambrose

Bruno's father. He was a bandit until recently. He lost an arm somehow, which hasn't been explained in the online strip archives. However, we know he had both arms while Bruno was 17 years old. The reason why is explained in a bonus story in one of the printed books. He is married to Eunyce. He is as bad as his son, but not as stupid. Sometimes he has his wife put her old warrior outfit back on in order to relive "old times." The lack of an arm is a joke - he is a "one-armed bandit."

Constable Oswold

Bruno's least favorite representative of the elite Rothland Imperial Guard. Rothland's above-ground institutions hobble themselves with ineffective and corrupt laws and regulations. Oswold's narrow-minded focus on obeying the law frequently prevents him from dealing with even the simplest of petty crimes, committed right under his nose.

The Fame Vampires

Beautiful, undead, talented creatures whose life energy depends on the constant adulation of fans. If they lose their fan-base, and if the number of cameras on them reduces to zero, they dissolve into a grey powder. They can be reconstituted, with the utterance of the correct punch-line, into a normal Human, a Häzbin, a Warrior Hotty, a Stage Mother, or a Fame Vulture. The latter crave infamy, and their life energy depends on continuous tabloid-oriented scandal and public opprobrium.

Demons

Evil, often inept creatures from beyond known dimensions of space and time. One, a Dread Lord known as Num'thkul (Knumbskull), works as a bartender in Bruno's hometown. His ex-wife, a hideous female demon known as Shub'megrath, has ten thousand children sired by Num'thkul, child number 666 being the most well-known and evil, possibly due to his name being a satanic number.