Character Relationship Map: Mad God

Characters

• Last Man (played by Alex Cox) — protagonist

  Warden of a Gulag holding Nazi POWs, receives a map from witches to initiate the descent into hell.

• Nurse / Witch (played by Niketa Roman) — protagonist

  Assists the surgeon in extracting a larva from the Assassin and transports it to the alchemist.

• Surgeon (played by Satish Ratakonda) — supporting

  Performs gruesome surgery on the Assassin, extracts a larva, and interfaces his brain with a television.

• Surgeon / Alchemist / Witch (played by Arne Hain) — supporting

  A surreal amalgamation of medical, magical, and transformative roles governing the cycle of destruction.

• Assassin / Alchemist / Zombie (played by David Lauer) — supporting

  A transformed state of the Assassin, blending combat prowess, alchemical magic, and undeath.

• Witch (played by Anthony Ruivivar) — minor

  A gnarled figure who provides the crucial map to the Last Man, initiating the descent into hell.

• Assassin (played by Hans Brekke) — supporting
• Alchemist (played by Tom Gibbons) — supporting

  Grinds the extracted larva into powder, transforms it to gold, and engineers the creation of a new cosmos.

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Surgeon / Alchemist / Witch → Assassin (Meta Role Continuum) — The amalgamated figure connects the medical and transformative forces acting upon the Assassin.

  The character list describes Surgeon / Alchemist / Witch as a surreal amalgamation of medical, magical, and transformative roles, while the Surgeon op...

• Nurse / Witch → Assassin (Professional Medical Attendant) — The Nurse / Witch participates in the Assassin's mutilation and extraction.

  The nurse is present during the Assassin's surgery and later carries the extracted infant larva away.

• Last Man → Assassin (Power Mission Giver) — The Last Man directs the Assassin toward the underworld.

  The Last Man receives the map from the witches and gives it to the Assassin before the descent.

• Witch → Last Man (Professional Guide) — The Witch provides the map that directs the Last Man's mission.

  The gnarled Witch gives the Last Man a map, initiating the descent into hell.

• Assassin / Alchemist / Zombie → Assassin (Meta Transformed State) — This figure represents a transformed version of the Assassin.

  The character list identifies Assassin / Alchemist / Zombie as a transformed state of the Assassin, blending combat, alchemy, and undeath.

• Nurse / Witch → Alchemist (Professional Courier) — The Nurse / Witch transfers the extracted larva into the alchemical process.

  The Nurse brings the extracted infant to a ghostly floating figure, who escorts it to the alchemist's lair.

• Nurse / Witch → Surgeon (Professional Surgical Assistant) — The Nurse / Witch supports the Surgeon's operation.

  The Surgeon appears with a nurse, who assists while he opens the Assassin's abdomen and searches inside.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Witch → Assassin (Narrative Indirect Instigator) — The Witch indirectly initiates the Assassin's descent.

  The Witch gives the map to the Last Man, who then gives it to the Assassin.

• Alchemist → Assassin (Conflict Extractor) — The Alchemist continues the transformation begun through the Assassin's surgery.

  The Alchemist receives the larva extracted from the Assassin and grinds it into powder.

• Surgeon → Last Man (Narrative Observer) — The Surgeon becomes linked to images of the Last Man through the television.

  The Surgeon connects the Assassin's brain to a television, which shows the Last Man preparing the mission above.

• Surgeon → Assassin (Conflict Surgeon And Subject) — The Surgeon violently dissects the captured Assassin.

  The Surgeon skins the shackled Assassin, opens his abdomen, searches his chest cavity, and removes a larva.

Story Analysis

A silent descent through war, bodily horror, and cosmic repetition culminates in the creation of another doomed universe.

Plot Progression

1. The Map Into Hell — The Last Man receives a map from the Witch and passes it to the Assassin. The Assassin begins a descent into a landscape shaped by war, death, and filth.
2. Through Carnage and Memory — The Assassin travels across a munitions depot, graveyard, and war zone. His route descends toward a spiral roadway associated with human DNA.
3. The City of Repetition — The Assassin reaches a city ruled through screens and populated by faceless drones. In its depths, he finds countless identical briefcases and plants his time bomb.
4. The Body on Display — A creeping creature captures the Assassin before the bomb is completed. He is shackled, skinned, and surgically opened before a laughing audience.
5. Alchemy of the New Cosmos — The Nurse transports the extracted larva to the Alchemist, who converts it into gold. The gold generates another cosmos that repeats the earlier cycle as the countdown concludes.