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Characters from Tales of Legendia include:

Senel Coolidge

A former Alliance Marine and adopted brother to Shirley. He is hell-bent on protecting her from anything and everything. At first he is only concerned with matters that directly affect either himself or Shirley, but slowly begins to open up as he becomes friends with the inhabitants of the Legacy. He uses his fists in battle, the first Tales (series) main character to not use swords, and uses some traditional Tales (series) hero artes mixed with his own.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• The Atoner
• Badass
• Becoming the Mask: He was originally a soldier from Crusand sent to plan an attack on the Ferines settlement so Shirley could be captured and used as a weapon. He eventually assimilated into the Ferines village, to the point where he and Stella were talking about getting married. Then bad things happened.
  • Going Native
• Berserk Button: Anything having to do with Stella.
• Chaste Hero: Shirley and Chloe both have crushes on him, though the only girl he was ever romantically interested in was Stella, who is dead. Stealthily subverted at the beginning of Will's quest, which contains an oblique reference that maybe he's not so chaste after all.
• Chewing the Scenery: "STELLA, NOOOOOOOOOO!"
• Determinator: He's the only one who doesn't lapse into a Heroic BSOD after Maurits's Hannibal Lecture.
• Facial Markings: In Radiant Mythology, Annie starts talking about his "scar" and how it must've hurt. Senel admits that it's a tattoo and he just got it because he thought it'd look cool. It's the symbol of the marine troopers.
• Good Old Fisticuffs
• Heavy Sleeper: A running gag in the Character Quests features each character trying to wake him up. Will, at one point, resorts to kicking him in the head (he was asleep on the floor) and that still didn't wake him up.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: As noted above, the first main character to avert this in the Tales (series)
• Is That Cute Kid Yours?: At the start of Will's quest, when he, Shirley, and Harriet are trying to get everyone together to find the abandoned baby's parents. When he first sees Shirley with the baby, though, his reaction is more along the lines of Is That Cute Kid Ours.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He starts out a Jerkass, but he genuinely does care about Shirley's well-being. Eventually, he loses the "Jerk" part.
• Mistaken for Cheating: Very briefly in the Character Quests, during the scene where Grune tries to wake him up, fails, and decides to take a nap in his bed instead (Senel is on the floor). Shirley is not pleased for all of half a minute until the situation clarifies itself.
• Not Blood Siblings: He and Shirley claim to be brother and sister, but they're not actually related.
• Oblivious to Love: Except STELLLLLA'S!
• Pandaing to the Audience: If you buy the mascot costume set for a New Game+, Senel will fight in a panda suit.
• Power Fist: Interestingly, it is very similar to that of his mentor, Vaclav.
• Somebody Else's Problem: Early-on, if it doesn't involve himself or Shirley, he doesn't care. He gets heavily called out on this, and eventually gets better.
• Unreliable Narrator: He basically views Stella as a Purity Sue, overlooking a good deal of her negative traits. To be fair, he was madly in love with her.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Chloe essentially yells this at him, coupled slightly with Get a Hold of Yourself, Man! after he dumps Shirley, causing her to go crazy and try to destroy the world, because Senel wants to stay loyal to Stella, even though she's dead. He got better.
• White-Haired Pretty Boy

Shirley Fennes

An innocent young girl who travels alongside Senel, her adopted brother. She suffers from a rare condition that leaves her severely weakened if she becomes submerged in sea water. Though she harbors romantic feelings for Senel, she does not say anything because he is in love with her sister, Stella Telmes.

She is actually a Ferines, a Precursor race of highly-advanced, water-dwelling humanoids. Not only that, she is a candidate to become the Merines, the Chosen One of the Ferines race who has the ability to control the Legacy and all of its Ferines-built technology at will. However, the true purpose of the Merines is to activate the Wings of Light, a cataclysmic superweapon aboard the Legacy that would flood the planet and allow the Ferines to prosper once more.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Apocalypse Maiden: The Merines' actual duty is to activate the Wings of Light, a cataclysmic superweapon that will flood the planet and kill all the humans so that the Ferines can prosper again.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Her reaction to Norma trying to sleep over at Senel's place is to smile sweetly and start charging her Eres.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: By the entire ocean.
• Break the Cutie: Stupid Vaclav... Although it's Maurits and the Gadoria Knight Captain who push her over the edge.
• Color Coded for Your Convenience: When she finally joins and becomes playable, her spells that are shared with everyone else have a pink variant to their animations. Her Orerines clothing, that she wears for most of the main quest and the entirety of the character quests, is mostly white. Her Merines dress, on the other hand, is black and dark blue.
• Crucified Hero Shot: Briefly, when Maurits attacks the party after failing to completely absorb Nerifes' power.
• Crystal Dragon Jesus
• Damsel in Distress: Until she unlocks her Merines powers, at least. Before that, she spends the vast majority of the time being kidnapped.
  • Badass Damsel: In Jay's Quest.
• Despair Event Horizon: When Fenimore dies.
• Evil Costume Switch
• Evil Sounds Deep: After she completes the Rite of Accession and awakens as the Merines, her voice is noticeably deeper and no longer squeaky.
• Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: To Chloe and then Jay in the character quests.
• Honorifics: Once the Character Quests roll around, Shirley is the only member of the main party who still uses them. At the end of Chloe's quest, it's Chloe herself who convinces Shirley not to be so formal with everyone else (though she's still embarrassed when Shirley drops the suffixes completely). Norma has a similar scene with her near the end of Moses' quest.
• Improbable Weapon User: Though she specializes in magic, her weapon itself is a pen.
• Is That Cute Kid Yours?: In Will's quest; see Senel's profile for details.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Shirley loves Senel, but Senel loves her older sister Stella... Shirley puts up with it for a long time because she wants Senel to be happy, but eventually she loses it... Later in the character quests, she's on the verge of stepping aside again--for Chloe this time--despite being engaged to Senel. At least before she and Chloe air out their feelings and Chloe admits that she's never going to get anywhere with him and knows it.
• The Load: During the first act of the game, she alternates between being a Damsel in Distress and The Load. This is actually a source of angst for her. She is supposed to be the savior of her entire race, but instead she is only a burden for everyone, can't even save Fenimore, and her sister dies stopping the cannon, which Shirley could have prevented if she still had her powers. She gets better in the character quests.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Senel and Stella tried to keep Senel's past as a child soldier from her. When she learns the truth, she's much more upset about not being trusted and included than she is about what she's being told.
• Love Martyr
• The Messiah: And The Antichrist. And The Anti-Anti-Christ.
• More Hero Than Thou: During the whole Waterways incident. Shirley was rescuing herself quite capably in all the confusion up until Fenimore and Walter caught the Distress Ball; Shirley, not seeing herself as more important than them, lets herself get captured again in order to distract Vaclav from the two of them.
• Not Blood Siblings: Senel isn't really her brother.
• Person of Mass Destruction: After she awakens her Merines powers, she's capable of wiping out the planet in a gigantic flood if she wants to. At the cost of her life, but still. She can also cause lots of other lesser chaos and destruction with no risk to herself. Damn.
• Plucky Girl
• The Pollyanna
• Romantic Runner-Up: Lost to Stella initially but she wins in the end.
• Taking the Bullet: Shirley steps in front of a Ferines woman who was about to be stabbed by the captain of the Gadorian Knights. Fenimore then steps in front of Shirley, Taking the Bullet for the one who was going to Take The Bullet.
• Winged Humanoid: Ferines can produce a "teriques", that typically manifests as a pair of wings, either back-mounted or free and butterfly sized. After Shirley unlocks her Merines powers, her teriques becomes permanently active, as back-mounted wings.
• Yandere: Played with. Her Merines powers are activated because of Fenimore's death, but she doesn't give in to Nerifes completely until she gets hit in the face with the degree to which Senel and Stella kept her in the dark, reminding her of how badly Senel has always rejected her.
• Younger Than They Look: Her in-game mugshot does not look fifteen. Her battle model, now that's a different story.

Will Raynard

The sheriff of Werites Beacon, although he would rather be a natural historian. He is very knowledgeable about the monsters inhabiting the Legacy, and has a tendency to give lectures on monsters whether people want to hear it or not. Although he is huge and wields a gigantic hammer, he is a Crystal Eren. He has a daughter named Harriet.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Adventurer Archaeologist
• The Atoner
• Cool Old Guy: Well, Norma thinks he's old.
• Drop the Hammer
• Dull Surprise: He can be guilty of this sometimes.
• Kuudere
• Muscles Are Meaningless: He's a mage type character and very weak physically, despite what his apprentice would imply.
• Names to Know in Anime: Susumu Chiba
• Older Than They Look: He's actually 28.
• Team Dad
• Wise Beyond Their Years

Chloe Valens

A knight from Gadoria who joins the party. She came to the Legacy to find a swordsman with with a snake tattoo on his arm in order to kill him to avenge the death of her parents and regain the honor of the Valens family name. She fights using a sword, and plays a little more like the classic Tales (series) Hero, even using many of their artes combined with some of her own.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Action Girl: One of the most Badass girls in the whole Tales (series).
  • It's interesting to note that she's the only female swordsman who's built like a traditional Tales hero.
• All Love Is Unrequited: She has a crush on Senel, which isn't returned.
• Badass
  • Badass Cape
• Cannot Spit It Out: Her romantic feelings for Senel.
• Dull Surprise: Just listen to half of the English VA's lines and try to deny she's guilty of this. She also varies between this and Large Ham in combat.
• Easily Forgiven: For stabbing Senel when he stops her from committing murder.
• Hot Chick with a Sword
• Important Haircut: Before she started her quest for revenge.
• Improbable Weapon User: Well, a sword isn't all that improbable, but a few of her artes involve her using her sword as a pole-vault.
• Lady of War
• Lawful Stupid: She acts this way at first, but quickly learns better.
• Names to Know in Anime: Masumi Asano
• Nice Hat
• Redemption in the Rain: The end of her character quest.
• Revenge Before Reason & Roaring Rampage of Revenge: At first.
• Sensual Spandex
• Ship Sinking: After her character quest, though she still has feelings for him.
• Super Drowning Skills: She doesn't die instantly when touching water, but her swimming skills are practically nonexistent.
  • This would be why she's scared of water.
• Tsundere
• What the Hell, Hero?: She does this to Senel. And the other characters reacts this way to her stabbing Senel when he tries to stop her from taking revenge in her Character Quest.

Norma Beatty

An eccentric archeologist/treasure hunter who came to the Legacy to find the a mythical stone called Everlight that can supposedly grant any wish. She uses Crystal Eres, and knows more than anybody else about various locations around the Legacy. She wields a straw, and attacks by blowing bubbles out of it.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Adventurer Archaeologist
• Butt Monkey: Early on, less so once Moses shows up to take the role.
• The Chick: Most of her titles have the word "Chick" in them.
• Cleavage Window
• Genius Ditz: She's actually a very skilled archeologist, and managed to learn Relares, an ancient and complex language that's usually only known by the Ferines, entirely on her own.
• Genki Girl
• Hair Decorations
• Improbable Weapon User
• Jive Turkey: Lampshaded. "Yo yo yo, moms, pops, what's shakin? ...No, they'd cry if they read that."
• The Matchmaker: Norma gives Chloe advice on how to act on her crush on Senel, whether Chloe likes it or not.
• Names to Know in Anime: Kaori Mizuhashi, Tara Strong
• The Nicknamer
• Pettanko: Norma actually has a bit of a chest, but when you've got Grune for comparison, everybody looks flat...
• The Pollyanna
• Shipper on Deck: Norma happily ships Senel with both Chloe and Shirley, and actively gives Chloe relationship advice.

Moses Sandor

A bandit who kidnaps Shirley early in the game only to join the party later on. He has a large Galf, a wolf-like monster, named Giet that he keeps as a pet. He's very outgoing and friendly, and treats the other party members like siblings. He fights by throwing javelins at his opponents.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Accent Adaptation: In Japanese, Moses speaks with a Kyuushu regional dialect. In the English localization, he was given a southern accent. It worked.
• The Bandits Who Don't Do Anything: His bandits don't really do much thieving.
• Blade on a Stick
• Bottomless Magazines: Never seems to run out of spears no matter how many times he throws this. Norma lampshades this in a skit where she mentions she'll catch the spear next time he throws it.
• A Boy and His X: His character quest.
• Butt Monkey: Lampshaded with one of his titles, "Insult to Injury".
• Dark-Skinned Redhead
• Eye Scream: As a child, which is how he tamed Giet.
• Fluffy Tamer: Giet, a Grand Galf (an extremely powerful monster), is his pet.
• Idiot Hero
• Leitmotif: "A Cheerful Bandit"
• Likes Older Women: He admits he likes Grune, specifically because she is mature and therefore, er, more developed.
• Manly Tears: At the end of his character quest.
• Names to Know in Anime: Kazuya Nakai
• Rummage Sale Reject: Just what are those pant-like things with the zebra pattern? They look like they're about to fall off all the time!
• Victory Pose: "MOSES HAPPY DANCE! YEE-HAW!"
• Walking Shirtless Scene

Jay

A reclusive information broker. He is a young ninja who lives with the Oresoren, a tribe of anthropomorphic otters. He's a snide and snarky Iron Eren who fights using knives, combined with kicks and headbutts.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Abusive Parents
• Cannot Spit It Out: Chloe notes that Jay has trouble expressing his feelings. Additionally, even though he is told several times during his Character Quest to let the others know if something is bothering him, he keeps shrugging it off by saying "There really isn't anything", a variation of the typical Tales (series) quote of "It's nothing". Not very believable after what the gamers just saw last dungeon. He is also often seen denying his worry or positive emotions for others, most notably Moses.

Jay: He's so easy to read. He can't conceal his irritation at all. Senel: And that's why you can't help worrying about him, right? Jay: I'm not... worried...

• Career Killer
• Deadpan Snarker: Is he ever...
• Dude Looks Like a Lady
• Easily Forgiven: In his character quest, though understandably so.
• Hates Being Touched: All too obviously. Shown in both game scenes and victory poses, especially with Moses.
• Highly-Visible Ninja: Come on, he wears purple.
• The Messiah: After his Character Quest.
• Names to Know in Anime: Ryoko Shiraishi, Steve Staley
• The Napoleon: Occasionally, mostly in his post-battle skits with Moses.
• Parental Abandonment: Twice.
• Red Baron: "The Unseen"
• Sitcom Arch Nemesis: With Moses.
• Tsundere
• Younger Than They Look: Also younger than they sound, too - in the English version? He does not sound sixteen.
  • This is actually a set of Fridge Brilliance - he was raised to be emotionless. While his Japanese version went for the Creepy Child route, the English version went for the "grown-up-fast" type.

Grune

A ditzy woman with amnesia. She's a Crystal Eren who fights using urns. She is actually a goddess who incarnated to stop Schwartz. However, the world was not old enough to support her power, so she lost her memories. She enjoys... pretty much everything, and is always calm and relaxed, even in the middle of a battle.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Action Girl: You'd never expect it at first glance, but once she joins the party, she blissfully slaughters all in her way. She even Takes a Level In Badass toward the end of the game.
• Amnesiac God
• Anything That Moves: Gag Boobs moments whenever she hugs another character, and she doesn't discriminate between genders.
• Black Magician Girl: The only playable Crystal Eren who learns no healing or support spells.
• But Now I Must Go
• Chekhov's Gunman: If you look, you first see her in a crowd in Werites Beacon within the first couple hours of gameplay.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Pretty much anything that comes out of her mouth perfectly exemplifies this trope.
• Cool Big Sis
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: The biggest Cloudcuckoolander in the series by far, would you expect her to be such a badass fighter with Game Breaking spells? And then, once she remembers who she is, the Cloudcuckoolander attitude vanishes completely, and stays gone.
• Early-Bird Cameo: If you look closely during the first and second Bantam Bouncers scenes, she's in the crowd that gathers.
• Gag Boobs
• Gameplay and Story Segregation: The game treats the player to an elaborate cutscene of her gaining more power when she gets her memories back, but this causes no change in her gameplay wise. All it really does is change her voice.
• Girl in a Box: When you first meet her, she's taking a nap in an open coffin. In the deepest spot in a tomb.
  • Unless that is you remember her being in Werites Beacon.
• God Is Good: And helps you directly!
• Hot Goddess
• Improbable Weapon User
• Laser-Guided Amnesia
• Love You and Everybody
• Marshmallow Hell: Both Senel and Moses have had Grune lovingly smother them in her bosom. Lucky bastards.
• Ms. Fanservice
• Names to Know in Anime: Ayako Kawasumi, Lara Jill Miller. Both her voice actors do a VERY good job with her.
• Onee-Sama
• One Head Taller
• Physical God
• Statuesque Stunner: Dear GOD, is she ever!
• Stripperiffic: The description of her default armor, "Cocktail Dress," reads as follows: "A revealing dress that leaves little to the imagination."
• Took a Level in Badass: After regaining her memories.
• White-Haired Pretty Girl
• Yin-Yang Bomb: Somewhat, as most of her spells are curse and sea elemental. Makes sense, since she's a goddess.

Curtis and Isabella

The law-enforcement duo of Werites Beacon, Curtis and Isabella call themselves the Bantam Bouncers. They almost always appear together, and do far more singing and showing off than actual fighting, even though they're actually both highly competent soldiers.

Tropes exhibited by these characters include:

• Bare Your Midriff: Isabella.
• Brick Joke: Early in the game, they sing twice about how fighting is not allowed in Werites Beacon. Much much later in the game...they show up and arrest someone else for attempting to arrest Chloe and Senel in Werites Beacon.
  • Hilariously, Curtis does so by appearing and doing his usual singing gig without Isabella. And then decks the confused man in the face mid-sentence, triggering a cartoony curbstomp.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: The two look like something that came out of The Seventies. Senel beats the living crap out of them (off-screen) and doesn't take them seriously. Then they lead an army against Vaclav's. Nobody was laughing at them then.
• Goldfish Poop Gang: Though you never actually fight them...at least you aren't required to.
• Leitmotif: "Iron Hammer Time." The musical accompaniment seems to actually be in the scene.
• Let's Get Dangerous: They're wacky pacifists who sing about how violence isn't allowed in the city. Then, when the war starts, they take up the reins and lead the citizens of the Legacy into battle against Vaclav's forces.
• Nice Hat: Isabella is never seen without her stylized cowgirl hat.
  • ...which she can weaponize in battle with her "Boomerang Hat" arte.
• The Quiet One: Isabella doesn't speak much aside from the occasional "Yes, Curtis." She does get a solo number introducing the arena, though.
• Stripperific: Isabella.
• Thigh-High Boots: Isabella.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Curtis's shirt shows off his chest.
• You Gotta Have Purple Hair

Vaclav Bolud

The third prince of the Crusand Empire. He came to the Legacy seeking an ancient superweapon to use to wage war against the other nations and rule the world with an iron fist.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Authority Equals Asskicking
• Disc One Final Boss
• Evil Mentor: To Senel
• The Evil Prince: Well, duh.
• Large and In Charge
• Leitmotif: "March"
• A Nazi by Any Other Name
• Obviously Evil
• Power Fist

Melanie

One of Vaclav's Terrors. She specializes in fire eres.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• The Baroness
• Dark Action Girl
• Obviously Evil: "She's red! She has horns!"
• Playing with Fire
• Red Baron: "The Crimson"
• Spikes of Villainy: Her horned helmet, a source of one of Moses's golden lines. "Hey there, horny baby!"
• Whip It Good

Stingle

One of Vaclav's Terrors. A masked swordsman. Chloe came to the Legacy to find and kill him. His real name is Arnold Alcott. He is a doctor who joined Vaclav's army to use the medical knowledge from his Mengele-esque experiments to save his sick daughter.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Anti-Villain
• Cool Mask
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: He could've helped his daughter without joining Vaclav's army or killing Chloe's parents for money. Don't doctors have a good income?
  • It wasn't just about the income. He needed Vaclav's knowledge as well.
  • That and he's an apothecary, not a doctor.
• Easily Forgiven: Despite his noble end goal, he did kinda murder Chloe's parents.
  • Averted. Remember Chloe's Roaring Rampage of Revenge
    • Not to mention the fact that he was willing to die to atone for his crimes.
• Enigmatic Minion
• Evil Sounds Deep: ESPECIALLY in the Japanese version!
• Good All Along
• I Did What I Had to Do
• Karma Houdini: Not killing him was the right move but he doesn't even get sent to prison for all the people he's killed?
• Knight Templar Parent: at first
• Red Baron: "The Vicious"
• Redemption Equals Death: He was willing to die to make up for killing Chloe's parents after his daughter was cured.
• That One Boss: Considered to be harder than the other terrors and Vaclav since he has an instant death attack.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist

Cashel

One of Vaclav's Terrors. He is a Master of Illusion.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Blood Knight
• Feet of Clay: He's a pushover without his illusions.
• Master of Illusion
• Psycho for Hire
• Red Baron: "The Phantom"

Walter Delques

A young man who kidnaps Shirley. He is one of the Ferines and kidnapped Shirley to protect her from Vaclav, and so she could awaken as the Merines.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Blond Guys Are Evil
• Crazy Jealous Guy: His reason for helping Maurits commit genocide? He's jealous of Senel. And he doesn't even care that Shirley will die if she causes the Cataclysm.
• The Dragon
• Face Heel Turn
• Fantastic Racism: The worst amongst all Merines. He is so adamant to see the Orerines destroyed that when Maurits at least stayed civil with the team, Walter is still a huge Jerkass to them. His reasoning isn't exactly revealed, but implied toward the end that he willfully ignores the blatant goodness of Senel and company (despite them saving his life) due to his jealousy of Senel.
• Heel Face Turn: But not for long...
• Hopeless Boss Fight: 3 of them.
• Jerkass: He trumps Senel on this department.
• Leitmotif: Appropriately titled "Delques Black Wings."
• Meaningful Name: His last name means black wings in Relares
• Never My Fault: His dying words are blaming Senel for all that has happened to him; he honestly never once considered that maybe he brought a lot of his problems on himself.
• The Rival
• You Can Barely Stand: His insistence on fighting the party despite being heavily wounded gets him killed.

Maurits Welnes

The leader of the Ferines.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Blond Guys Are Evil. Well DUH, this is a Tales (series) game, they love this trope.
• Chewing the Scenery: At the end of the main story mode.

Maurits: Grant me your POWER! THE POWER TO TRANSCEND!!!

• Cool Old Guy: / Evil Old Folks
• Easily Forgiven: So easily it hurts.
• Face Heel Turn
• Fantastic Racism
• Hannibal Lecture: A surprisingly effective one.
• Karma Houdini
• Manipulative Bastard
• Meaningful Name: As a Ferines, his last name is by definition meaningful. It translates to "nature person." And he wants to terraform the planet back to its original state.
• No One Could Survive That: After being defeated, he absorbs Nerifes' power and fights the party again. After being defeated again, he draws so much power from Nerifes that he collapses. He later uses his body to channel Nerifes, a process which was supposed to destroy his mind. This appears to have had no ill effects on him judging from his role in the character quests.
• One-Winged Angel: He uses his body to channel Nerifes.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Even in the character quests, too.
• Treacherous Advisor
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He wants to revert the world to what it once was (an endless ocean) so his people can prosper, even if it means killing all the Orerienes.

Fenimore Xelnes

A Ferines who befriends Shirley.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Died in Your Arms Tonight
• Fantastic Racism: She hates the Orerienes because she was tortured by Vaclav, though she seems to get over a lot of it after Senel and the rest of the party rescue her and help defeat Vaclav.
• Heroic Sacrifice: See Taking the Bullet below
• Les Yay: With Shirley
• Meaningful Name: Her last name means blessing in Relares.
• Taking the Bullet: The captain of the Gadorian Knights is about to stab Shirley for "conspiring with the Crusand Empire against Gadoria" for being used to power the Nerifes Cannon. Shirley is prepared to take the stab that was intended to kill a Ferines woman who was protecting her, but Fenimore jumped in front of Shirley at the last minute. Then Maurits lets Fenimore die, hoping that her death at the hands of Orerines will be the final push Shirley needs to complete the Rite of Accession. It is.
• Tsundere: Toward Senel and the group for a while, claiming she's only helping them for Shirley's sake while blushing and generally showing signs of liking them more than she'd like to admit.

Thyra Welzes

Fenimore's twin sister. She arrives on the Legacy after Shirley fails to avenge Fenimore by killing all of the Orerines.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Backup Twin
• Chekhov's Gunman: Fenimore mentions her early in the game.
• Fantastic Racism: Against the Orerines. Unlike her sister, she doesn't really get over it.
• Meaningful Name: Her last name means hope in Relares.
• What the Hell, Hero?: When she meets Shirley, she demands to know why the latter seeks peace after everything the Orienes did to their people, ignoring of course what the Ferines did.

Stella Telmes

Shirley's older sister, and Senel's former girlfriend. Presumed dead after the attack that cost them their home, though she is eventually revealed to be alive (though comatose) on the Legacy, as one of Vaclav's captives. Her consciousness is linked to the Legacy, and she rescues Senel a number of times over the game, though she endangers Shirley badly in the process. About a third of the way through the game, Stella sacrifices herself to stop the Nerifes Cannon, and dies despite Senel and Shirley's efforts to save her.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Always Save the Girl: Not exactly how you'd think. She seems overall far more concerned about the well-being of her love interest (Senel) than her sister (Shirley), and on occasion came to Senel's aid while ignoring Shirley, who was in much greater peril and had the fate of the world resting on her safety.
• Damsel in Distress
• Good Angel, Bad Angel: She takes the form of Senel's fears and doubts towards the end of the main quest. This is not symbolic at all, we assure you.
• The Gwen Stacy
• Heroic Sacrifice: And in a further subversion of the Purity Sue trope, it actually makes things worse.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Even if she is a good character, when you look past Senel's unreliable narration, you'll probably find yourself thinking "What a jerk!" from time to time.
• Meaningful Name: Like all the Ferines. "Telmes" means "guiding star", which is appropriate if rather redundant.
• Stellar Name
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth
• We Hardly Knew Ye

== Nerifes The incarnation of the ocean who is worshiped by the Ferines. It seeks to flood the world, both to reverse the damage caused by the Orerines' terraforming and to avenge the fallen Ferines.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Angry Counterpart: To the Nerifes of the Quiet Lands.
• Big Bad: Of the main story.
• Blue and Orange Morality
• Defeat Means Friendship: Losing in combat calms its rage.
• Demonic Possession: To the Merines.
• Making a Splash
• Meaningful Name: Loosely, "the mind of the sea."

Solon

A sadistic ninja master. He comes to the Legacy in the Character Quests with an evil purpose. Solon is also Jay's surrogate father and teacher.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Abusive Foster Parent
• Ax Crazy: forces Jay into working for him again by talking about loud about his fantasies of slaughter the Orisorin.
• Kick the Dog: He crossed the Moral Event Horizon long ago and this is how he keeps going.
• Psycho for Hire
• Villainous Breakdown: Before he dies, he goes ballistic with rage at how Jay and his "family" could be strong enough to defeat him.

Schwartz

A mysterious woman who is related to the black mist that appears during the Character Quests. She is one half the Goddess that created the world. She has decided that her creation is flawed and that the only way that people will ever be happy is if she destroys the universe and recreates it.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• As Long As There Is Despair
• Big Bad: Of the Character Quests.
• Blade on a Stick
• Cool Mask
• Dark Action Girl
• Dramatic Unmask: In the ending, it is revealed that she is Grune's Evil Twin, though even before then one can notice a resemblance.
• Evil Is Sexy
• Evil Matriarch: Some of her lines while you fight her 'definitely indicate this!
• Evil Twin: To Grune.
• God Is Evil: A subversion. She's not "God" per se, but rather all of Grune's negative emotions.
• Leitmotif: Has one. You can listen to it in the bar in the inn's basement, but it's not on the OST, sadly.
• One-Winged Angel: Subverted. She tries to transform by killing all of the Legacy's inhabitants and absorbing their despair, but the party's allies manage to stop her.
• Physical God

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