Why I do this? WHY?
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plotamariatoriWhee. More plot. I should never have let myself been convinced to play Phantasy Star 4. Not only is it eating me alive, so is my own PS-style world idea. Ngh.
God DAMN IT all these new muses need to quit flooding in.
Name: Alyssa de Cruce (アリサ・ディ・クルーセ, Alisa de Cruce (JP))
Race: Human
Class: Hunter
Gender: Female
Age: 24 years
Height: 5'6" (172cm)
Laterality: Right-handed
A member of the Hunter's Guild in the city of Keton, Alyssa is the number one Hunter of the guild, her talent matched only by her long-time partner Kyta Vardon. She has a tendency to be rather rough-spoken and headstrong, and many of her actions are less elegant than would be expected, giving the impression that she sets the standard for 'one of the guys' amidst the other Hunters; on the other hand, she does have a much softer, feminine side that she mostly uses when dealing with young recruits or new Hunters who are still nervous about their work. She knows a few small techniques, but they're mostly of the offensive type and she's usually forced to depend on others for anything past basic healing. She seems to know Rune from a long time ago, but no one's ever heard the details and she won't cough them up no matter how hard she's pressed on the matter. She has medium-length, light brown hair that she normally wears braided back and medium blue eyes.
Name: Kyta Vardon (カイタ・ヴァルドン)
Race: Human
Class: Hunter / Seer
Gender: Male
Age: 19 years
Height: 5'9" (180cm)
Laterality: Right-handed
A member of the Hunter's Guild in the city of Keton, long-standing partner to Alyssa de Cruce and second only to her own ability. Like Alyssa, he can be rough and not very considerate, but he has a good heart and most people who talk to him for longer than a few minutes will at least get a little glimpse past that tough exterior. From a young age, he's been able to use an ability called Sight to work out hidden details about people or plan the best path for a mission to take, and so he usually ends up handling most of the logistics whenever he and Alyssa work together, letting her take control of the social parts; his Sight is what ends up setting him and Alyssa on a journey to save the world, and keeps them out of a lot of danger that they would have otherwise walked right into. He's fairly skilled with lower level techniques and has a good mix of offensive, defensive and healing capabilities. He has somewhat unruly, short blonde hair and green eyes, which turn grey when he's using his Sight.
Name: Leyna Arlett (レイナ・アルレット)
Race: Human
Class: Technist / Seer
Gender: Female
Age: 15 years
Height: 5'2" (160cm)
Laterality: Right-handed
The adopted daughter of Rayburne Gallade, a dealer of antique weaponry and technology in the city of Leknat, and a proficient Seer. Her father abuses her Sight to get extravagant amounts of money out of potential customers, but no matter how much she runs away from home, he always finds a way to bring her back. Alyssa and Kyta eventually end up taking her away from Gallade for good when they're sent to track her down, and from then on she proves to be an invaluable help to them. Despite her young age, she's undeniably charming and seems more than willing to flirt a little if it'll help her and the others achieve their goals more easily. She's always had proficiency with techniques and ends up being one of the most powerful casters to join Alyssa and Kyta. She can be a bit arrogant about her high level of ability, but her kind and caring manner usually overshadows that. At times it can also seem like she's someone else, which seems to be tied to her extreme skill. She has shoulder-length red hair and ocean-blue eyes, which glow more brightly when she's using her Sight, and wears the mark of an offensive Technist on the back of her right hand.
Name: Rune Bishop (スレイ・ビショップ, Thray Bishop (JP))
Race: Human
Class: Wizard / Esper
Gender: Male
Age: ??
Height: 6' (185cm)
Laterality: Left-handed
A mysterious cloaked man who knows how to cast true magic and not just techniques. He goes by the name Noah at first, but his true name is later revealed to the party during battle. He meets them in the city of Zion, where he seems to be investigating the strange illness that has befallen all Zionites and has no known treatment; he later proves to be afflicted with this same illness, but it doesn't affect him to any visible extent until near the end of the journey. He seems to know Alyssa from a long time ago and enjoys teasing her about it, annoying her greatly, but it's actually for her sake that he joins the party and assists them with his powerful magic. He and Kyta often clash over things that Kyta suggests as a result of his Sight, but he seems more willing to listen to Leyna's own accounts of Seeing the same things, suggesting he has some kind of familial feelings towards Leyna. He also seems very intrigued by Kie's specialised techniques that only she can cast. He has pale blue hair that reaches to mid-back, usually pulled into a ponytail that drapes over his left shoulder, and dark blue eyes.
Name: Kie Walder (キイ・ワルダー)
Race: Newman
Class: Priestess
Gender: Female
Age: 3 years
Height: 5'4" (165cm)
Laterality: Ambidextrous
A priestess of the Light who, like all newmans, follows the religion of the Great Core, a supercomputer that controls the entirety of the newman continent. She has the unique ability to read others' Sight and to cast specialised techniques that were built right into her genome. It is through the orders of the Core that she joins Alyssa and the others in the newman city Zentrei, and her light-aligned powers become an invaluable help in battling Zion's dark forces from then on out. She is one of the strongest mages to join the party, her abilities outmatched only by Rune and Thray, and as such she can always be found wielding a staff crafted from Laerma wood, as she's one of the few who can truly utilise its full potential. She and Leyna get along well, and she ends up becoming a sort of mother figure to the young Seer, even choosing to take Leyna in after the journey's end. Due to her techniques being specialised only to her, she does not wear a Technist mark. She has shoulder-length white hair, usually worn in a twisted loop at the back of her head and fastened with magic-imbued hairsticks, and purple eyes.
Name: Vien (ヴィーヌ)
Race: Android
Class: Defender
Gender: Male
Age: 546 years
Height: 6'6" (203cm)
Laterality: Right-handed
The older of two sibling androids built to protect the innermost workings of the Great Core. According to his specifications, he is a Class F combat-model android with an advanced neural net and processing unit, but he is easily able to interface with ancient technology as well as modern. He takes his work very seriously and it can be hard to get him to think about anything else, but even despite that, he's very eager to learn about the world in general, never having been outside the central command center of the Core. He is also extremely protective of Eutelis, and can become completely unreasonable if he thinks she's being threatened, but it usually only takes a few scolding words from her to make him back down. He has slightly unruly black hair and gold eyes, and his face is adorned with a black stripe running underneath his eyes, over his cheekbones and across the bridge of his nose.
Name: Eutelis (ユテリス)
Race: Android
Class: Maintainer
Gender: Female
Age: 546 years
Height: 4'4" (135cm)
Laterality: Left-handed
The younger of two sibling androids built to protect the innermost workings of the Great Core. According to her specifications, she is a Class N civilian-model android with an advanced neural net and processing unit, though she was created to also be compatible with even the oldest computer systems. She can be a bit flighty at times and is easily distracted by what's around her, but when she's performing her usual maintenance routines within the Core, nothing can tear her away from it until she's absolutely certain everything is in perfect working order and completed to the best of her ability. She, like Vien, has a great curiosity about the outside world, but she is able to use the systems within the Core to some extent to gain knowledge that Vien cannot, and often tells him stories of what she finds. She also seems perplexed by Vien's protective attitude towards her. She has short, well-kept black hair and gold eyes, and her face is adorned with a black stripe running along the edge of her jaw and cheeks.
Name: Kain Zephyr (ケイン・ゼファー)
Race: Human
Class: Scholar / Technist
Gender: Male
Age: 24 years
Height: 5'9" (180cm)
Laterality: Right-handed
A scholar and geneticist ultimately responsible for the program that created Fazer. He joins the party together with Fazer at the Biological Control Center, wishing to take Fazer away from the world of corruption and lies that has suddenly sprung up due to Zion's influence, and becomes an invaluable help due to his knowledge of biomonsters and their genetic construction, as well as having extensive knowledge of many types of machinery. He takes a mostly-defensive approach to battle, but he has some skill with daggers and can cast a few offensive techniques as well, most of them highly useful against machine-type enemies. He is highly intelligent and tries to take a logical approach to most things, but this makes him come off as very naive sometimes, which tends to get him into situations where he can easily be taken advantage of. He has perpetually-tousled brown hair and green eyes, and wears the mark of a defensive Technist on his collarbone.
Name: Fazer Shiva (フェイザー・シヴァ)
Race: Neikin
Class: Psychic
Gender: Male
Age: 1 month
Height: 5'5" (165cm)
Laterality: Ambidextrous
The oldest currently-known member of a race engineered by combining newman DNA with that of various intelligent biomonsters. He has extremely strong psychic powers, allowing him to cast several spells not even known to Rune and speak with monsters, but keeps them well-hidden, usually choosing to fall back on his impressive melee skills with the twin wrist-mounted claws he carries. He is extremely hostile towards Kie, to the point of nearly attacking her several times when she's performing magical rituals for the party to progress, but calms down somewhat once the circumstances behind his creation are revealed, though he still only has a very grudging tolerance towards the newman priestess. He also seems to dislike most of the other party members except for Leyna, who often ends up unwillingly moderating conflicts between him and the others, Thray, who is effectively his sister, and Kain, who is the only parent he's ever known. By the end of the journey, however, he seems to gain at least a little liking for all of them. Oddly, despite Kie (and later Thray) performing most spiritual abilities within the party, he is the only one who joins them that can perform the "Exorcism" skill to free biomonsters and humans under Zion's possession. He has long, pale green hair and grey eyes, and wears coverings of some strange bio-engineered material over his ears to hide them.
Name: Thray Walsh (ラティス・ウォルシュ, Latis Walsh (JP))
Race: Neikin
Class: Mystic
Gender: Female
Age: 3 days
Height: 5'1" (157cm)
Laterality: Left-handed
A Neikin infused with Rune Bishop's DNA. She bonds to him immediately upon awakening and refuses to take orders from anyone else, even her creators, which leads to her following the party. At first, she has no last name, but upon witnessing her magical abilities and being requested to completely name her, Rune gives her the surname "Walsh" after one of his ancestors, a protector of the Algo system from long ago. Unlike Fazer, she prefers to fall back on magical attacks in battle despite her melee capabilities, and her high level of psychic power makes her an excellent mage and healer, second only in ability to Rune himself. She also doesn't seem to have Fazer's same dislike for humans and newmans, as she is tolerant of just about everyone and downright friendly to anyone who's connected to Rune; maybe there's some related reason she can't bring herself to fight against Zion, sticking solely to healing her comrades. She has sky blue hair that reaches to her waist and dark blue eyes, and wears coverings of some strange bio-engineered material over her ears, though it remains open enough to let them show somewhat.
Name: Meena Sage (ミーナ・サガ, Meena Saga (JP))
Race: Human
Class: Biologist
Gender: Female
Age: 22 years
Height: 5' (155cm)
Laterality: Right-handed
A scholar at the rebuilt Motavia Academy in Klamah, currently the Academy's foremost biologist despite her young age. She hates to destroy any living thing, including enemies, and tends to break down if she's thrust into a battle situation, but her extensive knowledge and peaceful nature enable her to cast several defensive techniques that will disable biomonsters without killing them. She does know a few basic offensive techniques, but tries to only use them if she's in an extremely bad situation where they're the only way out. On the other hand, she's an excellent healer and is the only human the party meets who can cast the Nei series of healing techniques. These healing abilities make her an invaluable addition to the party while Fazer and Thray are resting at the Academy after being struck by the Neifirst virus. She seems to gain a bit more of a brave nature from traveling with the party and ends up fighting with them at the end. She also seems to have romantic feelings for Kain by then, possibly developed from her time spent fighting alongside him. She has short red hair and brown eyes, and wears black-framed glasses.
Name: Zion (ジオン)
Race: Human
Class: Wizard
Gender: Male
Age: ??
Height: 6' (185cm)
Laterality: Left-handed
The central antagonist and main force that Alyssa and the others face, a powerful sorcerer who has chosen to align himself with the darkness. The city of Zion and its central religion, Zionism, were both named after him, and he seems to use that city as a base of sorts - the final confrontation with him is even held there, within the Zionist church. He and Rune apparently know each other very well, and Rune is the only person he is at all hesitant to face; he is even forced to flee from the first battle due to that hesitation, but seemingly overcomes whatever mental block had led him to hesitate in the first place in subsequent fights. However, there seems to be some sort of deeper evil controlling him, giving the impression that he won't be the worst challenge that any of the party will face. Interestingly, before revealing himself as an antagonist, he temporarily joins the party and proves extremely helpful. He has jet-black hair, slightly too long, and dark blue eyes, which turn brilliant red when he's casting a spell.
Name: Elsydeon Nei (エルシディオン・ネイ)
Race: Lyphalim
Class: Telemental
Gender: Male
Age: ??
Height: 5'9" (180cm)
Laterality: Right-handed
The personification of determination and hope and the countering force that balances Noir. Born long ago from the willpower of a sword turned sentient by the feelings of those who wielded it, he hence always carries a sword at his hip, though he can't use it against corporeal enemies - the only time he ever uses it is against Noir. Instead, he usually battles using the Nei series of techniques and magic, which have no effective physical/spiritual boundary to cross. He first appears to the party in the ancient Birth Valley and joins them there after witnessing their will to continue fighting even when things seem hopeless, knowing that they are the only beings capable of standing up to Noir's wicked power; he is later instrumental in sending several members of the party back in time to gain information from previous Algoian warriors, and also in preventing the death of Thray and Fazer due to the uncovery of certain classified information at the Biological Control Center, so that everyone may stand in the final battle together. He shows no regret in standing up to Noir, though he knows he will disappear along with her, and his positive outlook is a large part of what keeps the party going during the latter portion of their journey. He and Noir's parting gift to the party is to bring Zion back to life, free of his dark possession. He has waist-length white hair, held out of his face with a silver and blue circlet, and gold eyes.
Name: Noir Lordeth (ノワール・ロアデス)
Race: Lyphalim
Class: Telemental
Gender: Female
Age: ??
Height: 5'4" (165cm)
Laterality: Left-handed
The personification of hopelessness and despair and the countering force that balances Elsydeon. She is the final antagonist the party will face, revealing herself once they defeat Zion in his own church and striking the final blow against him with her own hands, calling him "useless and weak" and showing no remorse as he perishes at her feet. Whenever the party encounters her afterward, she often simply speaks of something called the "Profound Darkness" before disappearing, showing no wish to fight them outright until Elsydeon manages to gather the necessary information and power to open the way to her interdimensional fortress; only then does she confront them, implying she feels safer fighting on her own home ground than facing them in the world itself. When defeated, she finally shows regret and apologises to the party, warning them that beings such as her will live on as long as there are people left in the world to feel, before fading along with Elsydeon. She and Elsydeon's parting gift to the party is to bring Zion back to life, free of his dark possession. She has jet-black hair that reaches to the middle of her back, cut low over her forehead to just brush her eyebrows, and violet eyes.
God DAMN IT all these new muses need to quit flooding in.
Name: Alyssa de Cruce (アリサ・ディ・クルーセ, Alisa de Cruce (JP))
Race: Human
Class: Hunter
Gender: Female
Age: 24 years
Height: 5'6" (172cm)
Laterality: Right-handed
A member of the Hunter's Guild in the city of Keton, Alyssa is the number one Hunter of the guild, her talent matched only by her long-time partner Kyta Vardon. She has a tendency to be rather rough-spoken and headstrong, and many of her actions are less elegant than would be expected, giving the impression that she sets the standard for 'one of the guys' amidst the other Hunters; on the other hand, she does have a much softer, feminine side that she mostly uses when dealing with young recruits or new Hunters who are still nervous about their work. She knows a few small techniques, but they're mostly of the offensive type and she's usually forced to depend on others for anything past basic healing. She seems to know Rune from a long time ago, but no one's ever heard the details and she won't cough them up no matter how hard she's pressed on the matter. She has medium-length, light brown hair that she normally wears braided back and medium blue eyes.
Name: Kyta Vardon (カイタ・ヴァルドン)
Race: Human
Class: Hunter / Seer
Gender: Male
Age: 19 years
Height: 5'9" (180cm)
Laterality: Right-handed
A member of the Hunter's Guild in the city of Keton, long-standing partner to Alyssa de Cruce and second only to her own ability. Like Alyssa, he can be rough and not very considerate, but he has a good heart and most people who talk to him for longer than a few minutes will at least get a little glimpse past that tough exterior. From a young age, he's been able to use an ability called Sight to work out hidden details about people or plan the best path for a mission to take, and so he usually ends up handling most of the logistics whenever he and Alyssa work together, letting her take control of the social parts; his Sight is what ends up setting him and Alyssa on a journey to save the world, and keeps them out of a lot of danger that they would have otherwise walked right into. He's fairly skilled with lower level techniques and has a good mix of offensive, defensive and healing capabilities. He has somewhat unruly, short blonde hair and green eyes, which turn grey when he's using his Sight.
Name: Leyna Arlett (レイナ・アルレット)
Race: Human
Class: Technist / Seer
Gender: Female
Age: 15 years
Height: 5'2" (160cm)
Laterality: Right-handed
The adopted daughter of Rayburne Gallade, a dealer of antique weaponry and technology in the city of Leknat, and a proficient Seer. Her father abuses her Sight to get extravagant amounts of money out of potential customers, but no matter how much she runs away from home, he always finds a way to bring her back. Alyssa and Kyta eventually end up taking her away from Gallade for good when they're sent to track her down, and from then on she proves to be an invaluable help to them. Despite her young age, she's undeniably charming and seems more than willing to flirt a little if it'll help her and the others achieve their goals more easily. She's always had proficiency with techniques and ends up being one of the most powerful casters to join Alyssa and Kyta. She can be a bit arrogant about her high level of ability, but her kind and caring manner usually overshadows that. At times it can also seem like she's someone else, which seems to be tied to her extreme skill. She has shoulder-length red hair and ocean-blue eyes, which glow more brightly when she's using her Sight, and wears the mark of an offensive Technist on the back of her right hand.
Name: Rune Bishop (スレイ・ビショップ, Thray Bishop (JP))
Race: Human
Class: Wizard / Esper
Gender: Male
Age: ??
Height: 6' (185cm)
Laterality: Left-handed
A mysterious cloaked man who knows how to cast true magic and not just techniques. He goes by the name Noah at first, but his true name is later revealed to the party during battle. He meets them in the city of Zion, where he seems to be investigating the strange illness that has befallen all Zionites and has no known treatment; he later proves to be afflicted with this same illness, but it doesn't affect him to any visible extent until near the end of the journey. He seems to know Alyssa from a long time ago and enjoys teasing her about it, annoying her greatly, but it's actually for her sake that he joins the party and assists them with his powerful magic. He and Kyta often clash over things that Kyta suggests as a result of his Sight, but he seems more willing to listen to Leyna's own accounts of Seeing the same things, suggesting he has some kind of familial feelings towards Leyna. He also seems very intrigued by Kie's specialised techniques that only she can cast. He has pale blue hair that reaches to mid-back, usually pulled into a ponytail that drapes over his left shoulder, and dark blue eyes.
Name: Kie Walder (キイ・ワルダー)
Race: Newman
Class: Priestess
Gender: Female
Age: 3 years
Height: 5'4" (165cm)
Laterality: Ambidextrous
A priestess of the Light who, like all newmans, follows the religion of the Great Core, a supercomputer that controls the entirety of the newman continent. She has the unique ability to read others' Sight and to cast specialised techniques that were built right into her genome. It is through the orders of the Core that she joins Alyssa and the others in the newman city Zentrei, and her light-aligned powers become an invaluable help in battling Zion's dark forces from then on out. She is one of the strongest mages to join the party, her abilities outmatched only by Rune and Thray, and as such she can always be found wielding a staff crafted from Laerma wood, as she's one of the few who can truly utilise its full potential. She and Leyna get along well, and she ends up becoming a sort of mother figure to the young Seer, even choosing to take Leyna in after the journey's end. Due to her techniques being specialised only to her, she does not wear a Technist mark. She has shoulder-length white hair, usually worn in a twisted loop at the back of her head and fastened with magic-imbued hairsticks, and purple eyes.
Name: Vien (ヴィーヌ)
Race: Android
Class: Defender
Gender: Male
Age: 546 years
Height: 6'6" (203cm)
Laterality: Right-handed
The older of two sibling androids built to protect the innermost workings of the Great Core. According to his specifications, he is a Class F combat-model android with an advanced neural net and processing unit, but he is easily able to interface with ancient technology as well as modern. He takes his work very seriously and it can be hard to get him to think about anything else, but even despite that, he's very eager to learn about the world in general, never having been outside the central command center of the Core. He is also extremely protective of Eutelis, and can become completely unreasonable if he thinks she's being threatened, but it usually only takes a few scolding words from her to make him back down. He has slightly unruly black hair and gold eyes, and his face is adorned with a black stripe running underneath his eyes, over his cheekbones and across the bridge of his nose.
Name: Eutelis (ユテリス)
Race: Android
Class: Maintainer
Gender: Female
Age: 546 years
Height: 4'4" (135cm)
Laterality: Left-handed
The younger of two sibling androids built to protect the innermost workings of the Great Core. According to her specifications, she is a Class N civilian-model android with an advanced neural net and processing unit, though she was created to also be compatible with even the oldest computer systems. She can be a bit flighty at times and is easily distracted by what's around her, but when she's performing her usual maintenance routines within the Core, nothing can tear her away from it until she's absolutely certain everything is in perfect working order and completed to the best of her ability. She, like Vien, has a great curiosity about the outside world, but she is able to use the systems within the Core to some extent to gain knowledge that Vien cannot, and often tells him stories of what she finds. She also seems perplexed by Vien's protective attitude towards her. She has short, well-kept black hair and gold eyes, and her face is adorned with a black stripe running along the edge of her jaw and cheeks.
Name: Kain Zephyr (ケイン・ゼファー)
Race: Human
Class: Scholar / Technist
Gender: Male
Age: 24 years
Height: 5'9" (180cm)
Laterality: Right-handed
A scholar and geneticist ultimately responsible for the program that created Fazer. He joins the party together with Fazer at the Biological Control Center, wishing to take Fazer away from the world of corruption and lies that has suddenly sprung up due to Zion's influence, and becomes an invaluable help due to his knowledge of biomonsters and their genetic construction, as well as having extensive knowledge of many types of machinery. He takes a mostly-defensive approach to battle, but he has some skill with daggers and can cast a few offensive techniques as well, most of them highly useful against machine-type enemies. He is highly intelligent and tries to take a logical approach to most things, but this makes him come off as very naive sometimes, which tends to get him into situations where he can easily be taken advantage of. He has perpetually-tousled brown hair and green eyes, and wears the mark of a defensive Technist on his collarbone.
Name: Fazer Shiva (フェイザー・シヴァ)
Race: Neikin
Class: Psychic
Gender: Male
Age: 1 month
Height: 5'5" (165cm)
Laterality: Ambidextrous
The oldest currently-known member of a race engineered by combining newman DNA with that of various intelligent biomonsters. He has extremely strong psychic powers, allowing him to cast several spells not even known to Rune and speak with monsters, but keeps them well-hidden, usually choosing to fall back on his impressive melee skills with the twin wrist-mounted claws he carries. He is extremely hostile towards Kie, to the point of nearly attacking her several times when she's performing magical rituals for the party to progress, but calms down somewhat once the circumstances behind his creation are revealed, though he still only has a very grudging tolerance towards the newman priestess. He also seems to dislike most of the other party members except for Leyna, who often ends up unwillingly moderating conflicts between him and the others, Thray, who is effectively his sister, and Kain, who is the only parent he's ever known. By the end of the journey, however, he seems to gain at least a little liking for all of them. Oddly, despite Kie (and later Thray) performing most spiritual abilities within the party, he is the only one who joins them that can perform the "Exorcism" skill to free biomonsters and humans under Zion's possession. He has long, pale green hair and grey eyes, and wears coverings of some strange bio-engineered material over his ears to hide them.
Name: Thray Walsh (ラティス・ウォルシュ, Latis Walsh (JP))
Race: Neikin
Class: Mystic
Gender: Female
Age: 3 days
Height: 5'1" (157cm)
Laterality: Left-handed
A Neikin infused with Rune Bishop's DNA. She bonds to him immediately upon awakening and refuses to take orders from anyone else, even her creators, which leads to her following the party. At first, she has no last name, but upon witnessing her magical abilities and being requested to completely name her, Rune gives her the surname "Walsh" after one of his ancestors, a protector of the Algo system from long ago. Unlike Fazer, she prefers to fall back on magical attacks in battle despite her melee capabilities, and her high level of psychic power makes her an excellent mage and healer, second only in ability to Rune himself. She also doesn't seem to have Fazer's same dislike for humans and newmans, as she is tolerant of just about everyone and downright friendly to anyone who's connected to Rune; maybe there's some related reason she can't bring herself to fight against Zion, sticking solely to healing her comrades. She has sky blue hair that reaches to her waist and dark blue eyes, and wears coverings of some strange bio-engineered material over her ears, though it remains open enough to let them show somewhat.
Name: Meena Sage (ミーナ・サガ, Meena Saga (JP))
Race: Human
Class: Biologist
Gender: Female
Age: 22 years
Height: 5' (155cm)
Laterality: Right-handed
A scholar at the rebuilt Motavia Academy in Klamah, currently the Academy's foremost biologist despite her young age. She hates to destroy any living thing, including enemies, and tends to break down if she's thrust into a battle situation, but her extensive knowledge and peaceful nature enable her to cast several defensive techniques that will disable biomonsters without killing them. She does know a few basic offensive techniques, but tries to only use them if she's in an extremely bad situation where they're the only way out. On the other hand, she's an excellent healer and is the only human the party meets who can cast the Nei series of healing techniques. These healing abilities make her an invaluable addition to the party while Fazer and Thray are resting at the Academy after being struck by the Neifirst virus. She seems to gain a bit more of a brave nature from traveling with the party and ends up fighting with them at the end. She also seems to have romantic feelings for Kain by then, possibly developed from her time spent fighting alongside him. She has short red hair and brown eyes, and wears black-framed glasses.
Name: Zion (ジオン)
Race: Human
Class: Wizard
Gender: Male
Age: ??
Height: 6' (185cm)
Laterality: Left-handed
The central antagonist and main force that Alyssa and the others face, a powerful sorcerer who has chosen to align himself with the darkness. The city of Zion and its central religion, Zionism, were both named after him, and he seems to use that city as a base of sorts - the final confrontation with him is even held there, within the Zionist church. He and Rune apparently know each other very well, and Rune is the only person he is at all hesitant to face; he is even forced to flee from the first battle due to that hesitation, but seemingly overcomes whatever mental block had led him to hesitate in the first place in subsequent fights. However, there seems to be some sort of deeper evil controlling him, giving the impression that he won't be the worst challenge that any of the party will face. Interestingly, before revealing himself as an antagonist, he temporarily joins the party and proves extremely helpful. He has jet-black hair, slightly too long, and dark blue eyes, which turn brilliant red when he's casting a spell.
Name: Elsydeon Nei (エルシディオン・ネイ)
Race: Lyphalim
Class: Telemental
Gender: Male
Age: ??
Height: 5'9" (180cm)
Laterality: Right-handed
The personification of determination and hope and the countering force that balances Noir. Born long ago from the willpower of a sword turned sentient by the feelings of those who wielded it, he hence always carries a sword at his hip, though he can't use it against corporeal enemies - the only time he ever uses it is against Noir. Instead, he usually battles using the Nei series of techniques and magic, which have no effective physical/spiritual boundary to cross. He first appears to the party in the ancient Birth Valley and joins them there after witnessing their will to continue fighting even when things seem hopeless, knowing that they are the only beings capable of standing up to Noir's wicked power; he is later instrumental in sending several members of the party back in time to gain information from previous Algoian warriors, and also in preventing the death of Thray and Fazer due to the uncovery of certain classified information at the Biological Control Center, so that everyone may stand in the final battle together. He shows no regret in standing up to Noir, though he knows he will disappear along with her, and his positive outlook is a large part of what keeps the party going during the latter portion of their journey. He and Noir's parting gift to the party is to bring Zion back to life, free of his dark possession. He has waist-length white hair, held out of his face with a silver and blue circlet, and gold eyes.
Name: Noir Lordeth (ノワール・ロアデス)
Race: Lyphalim
Class: Telemental
Gender: Female
Age: ??
Height: 5'4" (165cm)
Laterality: Left-handed
The personification of hopelessness and despair and the countering force that balances Elsydeon. She is the final antagonist the party will face, revealing herself once they defeat Zion in his own church and striking the final blow against him with her own hands, calling him "useless and weak" and showing no remorse as he perishes at her feet. Whenever the party encounters her afterward, she often simply speaks of something called the "Profound Darkness" before disappearing, showing no wish to fight them outright until Elsydeon manages to gather the necessary information and power to open the way to her interdimensional fortress; only then does she confront them, implying she feels safer fighting on her own home ground than facing them in the world itself. When defeated, she finally shows regret and apologises to the party, warning them that beings such as her will live on as long as there are people left in the world to feel, before fading along with Elsydeon. She and Elsydeon's parting gift to the party is to bring Zion back to life, free of his dark possession. She has jet-black hair that reaches to the middle of her back, cut low over her forehead to just brush her eyebrows, and violet eyes.
