Legend of Dragoon/Characters

A list of characters from the PlayStation Eastern RPG The Legend of Dragoon. Spoilers ahoy.

Cast Calculus
Going from a single hero to an ensemble of seven and having nine different characters in the party, Legend of Dragoon runs the gamut of Ensemble tropes:
 * Three Amigos: Dart, Lavitz and Shana
 * With a Friend and a Stranger: Shaken up a bit in that it's a guy from out of nowhere and the childhood friend is the Mysterious Waif. Played fully straight when Rose joins.
 * Knight, Knave, and Squire: Lavitz, Dart and Shana form a toned down version with Lavitz as the Knight, Dart being the Knave and Shana as the Squire. When Rose joins as she takes over the Knave position and Dart switches roles to the Squire. This dynamic is especially noticeable when
 * Four-Philosophy Ensemble
 * The Realist: Dart
 * The Optimist: Lavitz. His optimism regarding defending Basil is contrasted with Rose's cynicism.
 * The Cynic: Rose.
 * The Conflicted: Shana. Relies on Dart for guidance. Her youth and is also contrasted with Rose.
 * The Apathetic: Haschel. Pretty much goes with the flow until the group switches to a Five-Man Band
 * Freudian Trio: Dart, Lavitz and Rose as The Kirk, The McCoy and The Spock respectively. Like the Knight, Knave, and Squire dynamic, this is more noticeable
 * Five-Man Band
 * The Hero: Dart
 * wears red, uses a sword, team leader
 * The Lancer: Rose
 * more cynical than Dart, more experienced and uses a rapier instead of a broad sword.
 * The Big Guy: Haschel
 * The strongest of the group
 * The Smart Guy: Albert
 * thinks about plot developments and plans the group's next move.
 * The Chick: Shana
 * compassionate in the ways the others are not.
 * The Magnificent Seven Samurai
 * The Hero: Dart
 * The Lancer: Rose
 * The Big Guy: Kongol
 * The Smart Guy: Albert
 * The Old Guy: Haschel
 * The Young Guy: Shana in terms of personality, later Miranda in terms of familiarity with the plot
 * The Funny Guy: Meru

Dart Feld
Voiced by Tomokazu Seki in Japanese and John Butterfield in English

""Revenge does not generate anything." That's what I learned from Lavitz. To tell the truth, I don't know what I am going to do or even what I want to do when I face the Black Monster. I just want to know what he is.""

Survivor of the Black Monster's destruction of Neet, Dart returns from a trip Walking the Earth to find his adopted home of Seles razed and his childhood friend Shana kidnapped. The quest to rescue Shana and make the responsible parties pay will extend his journey to take vengeance against the Black Monster further than he could possibly comprehend.

Wielder of the Red-Eyed Dragoon Spirit, which awakens from within his father's prized jewel during the climax of the party's first clash with Kongol.


 * Celibate Hero: For the first two discs.
 * Coup De Grace Cutscene: Subverted about half the time, including the first two times.
 * Discard and Draw: Dart loses the Red-Eyed Spirit in the endgame, only to gain an Eleventh-Hour Superpower (see below).
 * Doomed Hometown: Dart attracts fire (no pun intended) like honey attracts bees. Not only is Seles burned at the beginning of the game, but his birthplace of Neet was torched by the Black Monster 18 years prior. He's one of only three known survivors.
 * Eleventh-Hour Superpower: Dart's use of the happens just in time for the Final Boss.
 * Fashionable Asymmetry
 * The Hero
 * Heroes Prefer Swords
 * Jack of All Stats: All his stats are perfectly average, with the exception of his above-average HP.
 * Law of Chromatic Superiority
 * Memento MacGuffin: His father's memento is actually the Red Eyed Dragoon crystal.
 * Parental Abandonment: Both of Dart's parents were killed trying to save their home village of Neet from the Black Monster.
 * Pinball Protagonist: Never really figures things out until the end. He's just in 'protect Shana' mode and this informs all his decisions.
 * Playing with Fire
 * Say My Name: "Laaaaaviiiiiiiitz!!"
 * Shonen Hair
 * Walking the Earth: What he's been doing prior to the beginning of the game
 * Walking the Earth: What he's been doing prior to the beginning of the game

Lavitz Slambert
Voiced by Kazuhiro Oguro in Japanese and Mike Marx in English

"This is what I saw everyday when I was young. I grew up thinking... "I'll be an admired knight just like my father and I'll protect this country!" [...] The reality was much harder than I imagined back then. I feel all the more strongly how great my father was. To protect this country I would tear the flesh from my body."

Knight of Basil and prisoner of Sandora's Hellena compound, at least until Dart rescues him in the midst of his strike to save Shana. Together, they escape to the Kingdom of Basil and assist in its defense at the fortress city of Hoax.

Wielder of the Jade Dragoon Spirit, won from Greham, the man who killed Lavitz's father during the initial schism that split Serdio into Basil and Sandora.


 * Awesome McCoolname
 * Blade on a Stick
 * Blow You Away
 * Knight in Shining Armor
 * The Lancer: uses a spear to Dart's sword. More confident and lawful than the emotional Dart.
 * Mighty Glacier: Though he quickly becomes a Glass Cannon in magic-heavy boss fights.
 * Military Brat
 * Petal Power: A couple of his dragoon spells, especially the aptly-named Blossom Storm.
 * Razor Wind
 * You Killed My Father: His showdown with the traitorous Greham.
 * Petal Power: A couple of his dragoon spells, especially the aptly-named Blossom Storm.
 * Razor Wind
 * You Killed My Father: His showdown with the traitorous Greham.
 * You Killed My Father: His showdown with the traitorous Greham.
 * You Killed My Father: His showdown with the traitorous Greham.

Shana
Voiced by Akemi Okamura in Japanese and Donna Mae Wong in English

""I can walk next to Dart. I have been working towards that. There is nothing we can do about the time we were apart, but I want to be with you forever!""

Dart's childhood friend and honestly not-girlfriend. Isn't particularly sure why Sandoran forces kidnapped her during the invasion of Seles.

After being poisoned by the Green-Tusked Dragon Feyrbrand, she is healed with the White Silver Dragoon Spirit and subsequently inherits its power.


 * The Archer
 * Bare Your Midriff: In Dragoon form.
 * The Chick: The feminine and compassionate one.
 * Combat Medic
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: As the White Dragoon spirit, she can remain almost permanently in Dragoon Form...and her Dragoon summon is, without a doubt, the best in the game. A suitable reward for putting up with someone who can't combo, is outdamaged by the other Squishy Wizard's phsyical attacks and is also a Squishy Wizard herself.
 * Damsel in Distress: Kidnapped in Disc 3, and held in Damsel Perpetuity until the ending.
 * Defense Mechanism Superpower: On occasion, when her life is endangered, she instinctively manifests a glowing halo of power that can destroy her enemies or protect her allies.
 * Friend to All Living Things
 * Holy Hand Grenade: Not all her powers are healing.
 * Light'Em Up: Holy Dragoon powers.
 * Magikarp Power: Starts off completely useless but becomes one of the most useful characters in the game once she hits Dragoon Level 5.
 * Name's the Same: She's not the flame haze
 * Out-of-Clothes Experience: Her Dragoon transformation.
 * Proper Lady: Polite, kind, wholesome etc.
 * She Cleans Up Nicely: Shana wears a ballgown at the end of the second disc. Dart is floored.
 * She's All Grown Up: Played with in that Shana wants Dart to think of her differently because of this but Dart still thinks of them Like Brother and Sister. Resolved about halfway through the game.
 * Squishy Wizard
 * Trick Arrow: Many later weapon upgrades.
 * Woman in White
 * She Cleans Up Nicely: Shana wears a ballgown at the end of the second disc. Dart is floored.
 * She's All Grown Up: Played with in that Shana wants Dart to think of her differently because of this but Dart still thinks of them Like Brother and Sister. Resolved about halfway through the game.
 * Squishy Wizard
 * Trick Arrow: Many later weapon upgrades.
 * Woman in White
 * Woman in White

Rose
Voiced by Yumi Touma in Japanese and Awele Makeba in English

"War is not in human nature. Humans fight by making themselves enter insanity. It is...the same for revenge. This is a tool to amplify the insanity. And this insanity is the source of the power of Dragoons, the Dragon Knight. Someday, something will happen, and if you cannot chasten your insanity, I wonder if you will be able to endure it, given the size of your spirit?"

A wandering warrior who saves Dart from Feyrbrand during his journey home to Seles, and later shows up to help awaken and train his Dragoon Spirit, seeing as how she wields the Darkness one herself. Her knowledge of the Dragon Campaign of 11,000 years ago becomes dangerously relevant to the civil war in Serdio and the machinations of its puppetmasters.


 * Action Girl
 * Bad Powers Complicated People: She has moves called Death Dimension and Demon's Gate, but she's a pretty good person.
 * Broken Bird:  Rose is very, very broken.
 * Casting a Shadow
 * Cool Sword: They don't come much cooler than that.
 * Crutch Character: Rose will pretty much carry the party through the first disc and remain decent in the second but her poor stat progression and Dragoon magic leaves her near-useless in the last half of the game once she gets outclassed by everyone. It's only the Infinity+1 Sword that keeps her viable for the Final Boss.
 * Dance Battler: Some of her combos even sound like dance names.
 * Dark Is Not Evil
 * Dark Magical Girl
 * Defrosting Ice Queen:.
 * Easily Forgiven: Rose Apart from a swordfight with   to resolve the pent-up anger, the party very readily forgave Rose for this. Rose herself was surprised at this treatment, but everyone accepted that she did what had to be done.
 * And they flat out let her go for it when they realized might be for the best.
 * Floral Theme Naming
 * Glass Cannon: Her defenses are meh, and her HP is awful for a physically oriented character. Nevertheless, her attacks hit hard.
 * Hot Chick with a Sword
 * Lady of War
 * The Lancer: From disc 2 onwards and especially in the last two.
 * Ms. Exposition: Gives Dart (and us) an outline of the Dragoon/Wingly war.
 * Mysterious Waif: A mysterious woman that comes out of nowhere and knows more than anyone else about what's going on.
 * Necessarily Evil:.
 * that sets off the events of the entire game.
 * Obfuscating Stupidity: One of the few times she doesn't almost blow her cover, it's because.
 * The Obi-Wan: Mysterious? Check. Part of the ? Check. Teaches mystic powers to The Hero? Check.
 * Rebel Relaxation
 * Shell-Shocked Veteran
 * Sixth Ranger: In Disc 1.
 * Sugar and Ice Personality: Rose can be extremely cold and downright merciless at times, but with a lot of patience and effort, she can show a certain degree of affection - usually to Dart.
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
 * The Tragic Rose: Once you've finished the game, step back and take a good hard look at everything that Rose has been through in her life.
 * Useless Useful Spell: Astral Drain would be awesome if it dealt (and therefore healed) more damage. Demon's Gate is only useful in random battles, which no sane person will use Dragoons in anyway.
 * Woman in Black
 * Zen Survivor
 * Zettai Ryouiki: Only her left.
 * The Tragic Rose: Once you've finished the game, step back and take a good hard look at everything that Rose has been through in her life.
 * Useless Useful Spell: Astral Drain would be awesome if it dealt (and therefore healed) more damage. Demon's Gate is only useful in random battles, which no sane person will use Dragoons in anyway.
 * Woman in Black
 * Zen Survivor
 * Zettai Ryouiki: Only her left.
 * Zettai Ryouiki: Only her left.

Haschel
Voiced by Minoru Inaba in Japanese and Brian Vouglas in English

"It's been 20 years since I left the village pursuing Claire, but what I have found was only my immaturity."

Martial Arts master from the isolated island village of Rouge, who joins Dart and pals to take a bit of a break from his own search for his missing daughter Claire. This winds up being a shock to Dart, as Claire was also his mother's name, and the lullaby Dart taught Shana originated from Rouge.

Wields the Thunder Dragoon Spirit after inheriting it from.


 * Badass Grandpa:.
 * Bare-Fisted Monk: In terms of appearance, anyway.
 * The Big Guy: Physically average in stature but he gets a few moments to remind everyone that he is a powerful martial arts master, including one where he cracks a massive stone circle to dust with one punch.
 * Dirty Old Man: A rather innocent example, but it's definitely still there.
 * Fingerless Gloves
 * Lightning Bruiser: Both stat-wise and literally, of a fast hard hitter variants, but he has a decent defense as well.
 * The Master: Now an Old Master.
 * Theme Naming : His addition refers to numbers, and add the exact same number of hits -1 to fit the number of hits with the number it represents. The weird exception is Flurry of Styx (which might or might not be referring to three) and Hex Hammer (which adds 6 hits, totalling into 7 attack)
 * In the Japanese version, Flurry/Ferry of Styx (the English version is inconsistent on what it's called) is referred to as 三途の渡し　(Sanzu no Watashi), with "Sanzu" being the Japanese name for Styx. "San" (三) is also Japanese for "three" which fits his number theme. Ferry of Styx makes sense, even though it loses the number theme. Don't even ask where "flurry" came from...
 * My Greatest Failure: His daughter accidentally killed a fellow student during a sparring session, under his watch, after being insulted by him, and then ran away from home.
 * Power Fist
 * Shock and Awe: After gaining the Thunder Dragoon Spirit. Probably one of the main reasons he doesn't fall behind stat-wise, as Thunder has no counter-element.
 * Team Dad: Rose is too jaded to keep this bunch in line.
 * Walking the Earth: In search of his runaway daughter.
 * "Well Done, Son" Guy: Claire was the sole heir to the Rouge School of Martial Arts. As such, Haschel pushed her harder than any of his other students.

Albert
Voiced by Shinichiro Miki in Japanese and David Babich in English

"It reminds me of what Lavitz happily told me about you. That he had met "guys he could finally call friends." Now, I understand why."

King of Basil and regular sparring partner to Lavitz, he joins Dart's merry band following Sandoran forces' extraction of the Moon Gem from his body. Smitten with Princess Emille of Tiberoa, and spends a good chunk of Disc 2 shocked at her newfound rashness of attitude. .

Wields


 * A Child Shall Lead Them: Albert inherited the throne when he was only six. It's the reason Doel split the country in two.
 * Authority Equals Asskicking: Like Lavitz Up to Eleven and the knight's liege lord.
 * Awesome but Practical: The Rose Storm spell. It halves damage for three turns and won't break the mana meter.
 * Badass Bookworm / Cultured Badass: Definitely the most polished member of the team, not to mention the most formal.
 * Blade on a Stick
 * Blow You Away
 * Bunny Ears Lawyer: There's no sugar-coating it, Albert is a nerd, and his royal upbringing means his ability to blend into a crowd leaves a bit to be desired. Good thing he can tear through enemy lines with his trusty blade on a stick and has memorized entire libraries.
 * King Incognito: Albert tries to adopt this persona once he joins the party, but the disguise never seems to last very long.
 * MacGuffin Guy: The Moon Gem's inside his body.
 * Razor Wind
 * Royals Who Actually Do Something: The brains behind Basil's war effort and later joins the party.
 * Spam Attack: Albert's Additions are the QTE version of a 6-year-old with ADHD on a sugar rush.
 * The Smart Guy: You'd think he'd be a Lancer but he gladly defers to Rose in that role and simply doesn't have the same dynamic with Dart that Lavitz did. On the other hand, we are reminded often that Albert has a hard-on for books.
 * Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Lavitz. Thankfully he's not quite like the other Suspiciously Similar Substitute.

Meru
Voiced by Tomoko Kawakami in Japanese and Lucy Kee in English

"Hey you, alky! How dare you touch my butt!"

The best dancer in the Tiberoan village of Donau, she joins Dart and the gang to help free the kingdom from the clutches of the Gehrich Gang. Her perky exterior hides the fact that.

Wields the Blue Sea Dragoon Spirit after putting an end to.


 * Action Girl
 * An Ice Person
 * Age-Inappropriate Dress: Although Meru is older than she looks if you meet her fiancé in the Wingly Forest.
 * Awesome but Impractical: If you use the special command to initiate either her Plane Shift or Dart's, it weakens the other's attacks and magic because you cannot remove Dart from the party.
 * Awesome Yet Practical : On the other hand, she is ridiculously fast, and has ridiculously powerful spells, combined with second highest magic stats, far making up for the weakened Dart.
 * Dance Battler
 * Drop the Hammer
 * Fragile Speedster -> Glass Cannon and Lightning Bruiser once her last Addition is maxed out. She's most definitely the fastest character in the game, regularly getting two attacks before most people get one.
 * Foreshadowing: This essentially is a Replay Bonus moreso, but you'll notice that  See also Hair Color Spoiler.
 * Gameplay and Story Integration: Try having Meru use a magic item...you'll notice it deals way more damage.
 * Genki Girl: The world will end before she runs out of energy.
 * Giant Waist Ribbon
 * Hair Color Spoiler
 * Just a Kid: How everyone treats her. Not that she helps matters by acting like a tween with a schoolgirl crush.
 * Kawaiiko: Older than she looks but acts younger than she is.
 * Magikarp Power : Not as bad as Shana, but despite her massive speed, she starts with a weak addition for several levels, potentially the last character to gain her Dragoon, and weak defense. Properly trained and set up, she become a complete Game Breaker, capable of killing bosses before they get a single turn, dealing massive damage like it was nothing, and becomes the strongest physical party member with only Haschel being capable of outdoing her physical damage output. Not to mention that her Dragoon form is the most versatile, having both a healing move and a spell for every situation. And in case you forgot, she is also the one with highest speed.
 * Making a Splash
 * Ms. Fanservice
 * Older Than She Looks
 * Platinum Haired Pretty Girl
 * The Red Mage: Learns healing magic and can actually deal some nice damage.
 * Stripperific
 * Squishy Wizard:
 * Tagalong Kid
 * Token Heroic Orc: Of all the  the party meets, she's the only helpful one.
 * The Unfavorite: It's clear her entire village thinks she's a disappointment, to say nothing of her parents.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Kongol
Voiced by Masashi Sugawara Japanese and Ernie Fosselius in English

"Emperor Doel say he make world where every species equal. World needs strong leader. Whether you can be leader, Kongol will watch to the end. Giganto's sadness should not be repeated...."

Last of the Giganto species and one of Emperor Doel's trump cards in the civil war in Serdio. After being bested by Dart and his entourage twice, however, his honor as a Proud Warrior Race Guy leads him to join the team as they liberate the Gigantos' ancestral home from the Gehrich Gang.

Canonically the last to gain a Dragoon Spirit, inheriting the Golden spirit from ; although the player can acquire it earlier with a little backtracking to the merchant city Lohan (as hinted by an easily missed NPC in Donau).


 * An Axe to Grind
 * The Brute --> The Big Guy
 * Charles Atlas Superpower: He is a giganato but he does a lot more damage with his bare hands than a blade.
 * Dead Older Brother
 * Defeat Means Friendship
 * Dishing Out Dirt
 * Facial Markings
 * The Giant: Clocking in at 8'3"
 * Gentle Giant: After his Heel Face Turn
 * Heel Face Turn
 * Last of His Kind: On the continent of Endiness, anyway. Come on people, we have a whole planet to search!
 * Mighty Glacier: Highest HP, highest physical defense, and close to the highest attack strength.
 * No Indoor Voice
 * Out of Focus: While his motivations for joining and his loyalty to Doel are both explained, relative to the rest of the party he's pretty much along for the ride. He admits as much when he joins up.
 * Proud Warrior Race Guy: Everything for him is about the honor of the Giganto.
 * Screaming Warrior
 * Walking Shirtless Scene
 * You No Take Candle

Miranda
Voiced by Yoko Soumi in Japanese and Mo Mellady in English

"Don't misread me. Roses make me puke. They are just flashy. They don't have any kindness in them. Do you know why roses have thorns? It is to bring out their own red using the blood of the people they hurt. They'll do anything for their own happiness."

First Sacred Sister of Mille Seseau and a particularly headstrong retainer of that nation's queen. Following, she is assigned to Dart's group to assist in their counterattack.

Wields the White Silver Dragoon Spirit, since.


 * Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male: Miranda seems incapable of not punching everyone she sees. One of them was an officier and no one said a word.
 * Action Girl
 * Anti-Hero Substitute:
 * The Archer
 * Authority Equals Asskicking: After the queen she's the highest ranking person in the country.
 * Combat Medic
 * Cool Big Sis
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: As the white dragoon, she appears to be stuck behind everyone else. However, as the white dragoon, you can keep her almost permanently in dragoon-form and the dragon summon is undoubtedly the best in the game.
 * Four-Star Badass: Seems to be in charge of the Mille Seseau military based on what happens in Deningrad.
 * Good Is Not Nice: Despite belonging to the holy order of Denigrad, she is a definite hardass.
 * Happily Adopted
 * Holy Hand Grenade
 * Lady of War
 * Light'Em Up
 * Out of Focus: One of the reasons Miranda is seen as The Scrappy. While most characters do get their focus, Miranda and Kongol just seem to be along for the ride. Miranda in particular doesn't show up until midway through the third disc, leaving little time for character development. The problem is, at that point in the game, the plot's already on full-stop and Miranda gets left in the shadows, having only a few scenes.
 * Royals Who Actually Do Something: Technically adopted, but officially she's the Queen's daughter and one of the kingdom's highest ranking generals.
 * Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Gameplaywise, she is the exact same as Shana.
 * Sixth Ranger
 * Trick Arrow
 * Tsundere: Odd in that its not for a love interest but her country. She loves her countrymen but is often hostile to them.
 * Zettai Ryouiki: Just a couple pigtails away from the highest rank.

Antagonists

 * Standard Evil Empire Hierarchy: First disc only.
 * The Emperor: Doel
 * The Right Hand: Kongol
 * The General: The nameless Sandora Commander
 * The Guard: Fruegal
 * The Evil Counterpart: Greham
 * The Man Behind the Man: Lloyd
 * Token Good Teammate: The afore-mentioned Sandora Commander; whereas the others mentioned here are, for the most part, various shades of Ax Crazy and megalomaniacal, he's only it because of My Master, Right or Wrong. Sure, he leads the attack against Seles in the opening movie, but it soon becomes apparent that the wanton destruction that occurred there was entirely down to Freugal; he just captured Shana, as ordered, and got out. Later, when the player actually meets him,

Fruegel
"The red one!? I'll get you!! I might as well dye everything else red with your blood!!"

The head warden of Hellena Prison, feared for his immense size and superhuman ability he displays in battle. Fruegel was given the order from Emperor Doel to obtain Shana from the small outlying village known as Seles. Emperor Doel himself does not know the importance of the girl, he was following an outside influence. Fruegel, sadistic as he was, was not content in only taking the girl and ordered that the village to be destroyed, as well.


 * Ax Crazy: He even plans on painting the walls of Hellena with Dart's blood.
 * Bad Boss: Anyone unlucky enough to be in range of one of his tantrums (friend or foe) is thrown from a steep height to their death.
 * The Brute: Very big, very strong... not very smart.
 * Carry a Big Stick
 * Dishing Out Dirt: He has the Earth element and can hurl large boulders at you.
 * Fat Bastard: Has a huge belly which not even his uniform can disguise.
 * Flunky Boss: The first time you battle him, he's escorted by two guards and when they're killed he summons two more guardians. The second time he's followed by his pets Rodrigo and Guftas.
 * Large and In Charge: He's a veritable behemoth.
 * Obviously Evil
 * Our Ogres Are Hungrier: He looks more like a ogre than a human.
 * Skeletons in the Coat Closet
 * Right-Hand Attack Dog: His demonic dog Guftas, who assists in battle.

Greham
"Nobody could be stronger than your father. That was the only thing I could never conquer. I had...admiration for him, as a mate...and as a friend. But time goes by and it turned into this feeling.... This fear, from realizing the limits of your ability.... This fear...that goes nowhere. The only thing you can do is curse yourself for weakness...."

Once the commander of the Second Knighthood of Basil, Greham was the right-hand man and closest friend to Lavitz's father Servi. Over the years, Greham became jealous of Servi's ability, his desire to better himself turning into a desperate attempt to best Servi as a warrior. Greham defected to Sandora where he received the power of the Jade Dragoon Spirit and used it to murder Servi. He commands the Green-Tusked Dragon Feyrbrand in service of Sandora and the two are finally defeated by the heroes deep inside Feyrbrand's nest. Mortally wounded and consumed with reget, he passes the Jade Dragoon Spirit to Lavitz before finally dying.


 * Blade on a Stick
 * Blow You Away: However his most powerful magic summons a large stone totem to which he impales the target.
 * Death Equals Redemption
 * Fridge Brilliance: When poisoned, Shana is diagnosed as being healthy in the body but poisoned in the mind. Feyrbrand primarily uses his Fear-inducing attack a lot more than his Poison-inducing one.
 * Green-Eyed Monster
 * Face Heel Turn
 * Informed Ability: Feyrbrand is mentioned as attacking with poison and the forest surrounding its nest is drenched in poison, yet it uses poison very rarely, instead shooting a blue goo that causes Fear most of the time. In addition, the poison it does shoot is no more severe than any other poison.
 * Right-Hand Attack Dog: Feyrbrand.
 * Rival Turned Evil
 * Sixth Column
 * Turncoat

Emperor Doel
"You remind me of...Carlo, 20 years ago. A bloodstained corpse in front of me...."

Ruler of the southern part of Serdio, which broke from Basil to become Imperial Sandora following the death (read: murder) of Albert's father Carlo. Doel claims to be fighting to create a world where all creatures may live in peace - by any means necessary. However, for the past few years, he's been content to operate under the truce between Basil and Sandora without actively pursuing his goals... up until he discovered the power of dragons, with Lloyd's help, of course. Doel is the primary antagonist of Chapter One,. Late in the game, an apparition known as "Dark Doel" appears to test Albert's virtue.


 * Authority Equals Asskicking: The toughest boss in Disc 1 and even latter bosses aren't as powerful.
 * Badass Cape
 * Beard of Evil
 * BFS / Dual-Wielding: That can't be good.
 * Cain and Abel: Killed his brother because Doel doubted his competence.
 * Disc One Final Boss
 * The Emperor
 * Emperor Scientist: A patron of the sciences, he's had a good portion of his castle converted into a testing facility for magic..
 * Evil Is Not Well Lit: The aptly-named Black Castle. His throne room puts Palpatine to shame.
 * Evil Uncle: After King Carlo's death, Doel apparently wanted to be set up as Regent for Life since Albert was so young. When he didn't get his way, he started a civil war. Friendly guy!
 * Evil Virtues: Doel keeps a gigantic statue of his late wife in his castle.
 * Genius Bruiser: As well as being an impressive swordsman, he's a shrewd tactician (even without Lloyd's help) and very happy to incorporate highly-advance Magitek into his palace and personal defences.
 * High Collar of Doom
 * Orcus on His Throne: Doesn't do anything against anyone until they take the fight to him.
 * Pet the Dog: Taking in the young Kongol after his people were massacred.
 * Powered by a Forsaken Child: The Black Castle is powered by purple flame, explicitly stated to originate from a Dragon... and there's a Dragon corpse in the basement of the castle being experimented on, which would account for the reason why Doel has no dragon of his own.
 * Purple Is Powerful: As a human, most of his colour scheme involves dark blues and purple;
 * Redemption Equals Death
 * Shock and Awe: Even before, he can cast waves of purple lightning.
 * Slouch of Villainy
 * Technicolor Blade: His Shadow Sword.
 * Tin Tyrant
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: The Serdian government under Carlo was characterized by overtaxation, systemic racism, corrupt government ministers and Carlo's questionable competence. Then Carlo dies and the ministers decide to have a six-year-old crowned, presumably to keep all the power to themselves. If he wasn't a megalomaniacal tyrant, he'd be a hero.
 * Slouch of Villainy
 * Technicolor Blade: His Shadow Sword.
 * Tin Tyrant
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: The Serdian government under Carlo was characterized by overtaxation, systemic racism, corrupt government ministers and Carlo's questionable competence. Then Carlo dies and the ministers decide to have a six-year-old crowned, presumably to keep all the power to themselves. If he wasn't a megalomaniacal tyrant, he'd be a hero.

Lenus
"A girl in love doesn't know the meaning of the words 'give up'! I have managed to get this for my love. I won't give this up so easily."

A Wingly bandit lovesick for Lloyd, she spends much of her screen time disguised as Princess Emille of Tiberoa, whom she and the Gehrich Gang had sealed inside a magical pocket dimension following a "convenient" horse accident. When directly challenged by the Dragoons, however, her rowdy side manifests in a frenzy of cesta attacks and ancient magic. After escaping the palace, she flees to Prison Island, where she's confronted a second time, this time  calling on the dragon Regole to help her.


 * All Girls Want Bad Boys: She's hopelessly in love with Lloyd despite the fact that he clearly thinks she's dirt.
 * An Ice Person
 * Dark Chick
 * Disc Two Final Boss: The second time you face her.
 * Fake Princess
 * Fuuma Shuriken: Her first version resembles one, with Laser Blade in it.
 * The Ladette: Her rough and very un-feminine behavior is what causes suspicion that she's not the real princess.
 * Love Martyr
 * Master of Disguise
 * Pirate Girl
 * Right-Hand Attack Dog: Regole, the Dragon of water.
 * Stripperific
 * Squishy Wizard: Though she's a very powerful Wingly magician, she's nothing special in the way of physical resilience.
 * Silver Haired Pretty Girl
 * Winged Humanoid
 * Winged Humanoid

Lloyd
Voiced by Show Hayami in Japanese and Jon Russell in English

"The blood-smeared road might be the only way to lead us to the world we desire. Death gives birth to tears. And tears give birth to anger. When anger turns itself into rancor, it opens to war."

An impossibly fast swordsman who bests Dart and Haschel in a tournament at the desert city of Lohan and then proceeds to take direct and indirect responsibility for the misfortunes that befall our heroes. The laundry list:. Despite being a Wingly, he claims to do all of this on the orders of Emperor Diaz, the human leader who emerged victorious from the Dragon Campaign 11,000 years ago.


 * Captain Ersatz: Silver-haired, nigh-unbeatable swordsman who wears black, wields a long, thin blade, is chased by the main characters across the world, and . Sound like anyone familiar?
 * Dead Ex Machina: Following his apparent Disney Villain Death.
 * Draco in Leather Pants: Lloyd is this in-universe. No less than two completely different women fall for him despite all the horrible things he's done. One's more justifiable, since she falls for him after he saves her life on two separate occasions.
 * The Dragon
 * Flaming Sword: The Dragon Buster
 * Hair Color Spoiler
 * The Heavy
 * Hopeless Boss Fight: Dart's first duel with him.
 * In the Hood
 * Magic Knight: One of the most powerful Wingly magicians encountered in the game, as well as an apparently unbeatable swordsman.
 * Pet the Dog: Saving Wink's life and his reaction to her returning the favor.
 * The Man Behind the Man: The game manual does a very horrible job of trying to disguise the fact he's one for
 * The Rival
 * Super Speed
 * Flash Step
 * Utopia Justifies the Means
 * Villainous Fashion Sense
 * Platinum Haired Pretty Boy
 * Winged Humanoid: As a Wingly, this is a given, but he doesn't use his wings much before the third disc.
 * Villainous Fashion Sense
 * Platinum Haired Pretty Boy
 * Winged Humanoid: As a Wingly, this is a given, but he doesn't use his wings much before the third disc.

Emperor Diaz/
Voiced by Akio Ohtsuka in Japanese and Doug Boyd in English

"It's been a while, Rose. Dart."

The man Lloyd claims to be working on the behalf of, Emperor Diaz was a human rebel who was canonized after the successful human rebellion against the Wingly Dictatorship.


 * Cool Sword
 * Flaming Sword:
 * Flight: One of the non-Dragoon magicks he's managed to master. Also, it's probably his most annoying characteristic, as it's very difficult to catch up with him.
 * Mask Power:
 * Mutual Kill: During their final battle,
 * Mirror Match: When faced in battle,  is an incomplete (but stronger) replica of Dart.
 * Not Quite Dead
 * Playing with Fire
 * Taken for Granite: In Rose's Flash Back,  was turned to stone by Melbu Frahma, forcing her to leave him for dead as the castle collapsed around them.
 * Tragic Hero
 * Playing with Fire
 * Taken for Granite: In Rose's Flash Back,  was turned to stone by Melbu Frahma, forcing her to leave him for dead as the castle collapsed around them.
 * Tragic Hero

Melbu Frahma
Voiced by Akio Ohtsuka in Japanese and David Babich in English

"I have acquired all. The immortality.... And the ultimate power.... I am the god...who purifies the world...! Under the fate determined by Soa. Death to those who rebel against fate. Death to all life...! And may your death bless the new world to which I shall descend!!"

Over 11,000 years ago, Melbu Frahma was the ruler of the Winglies and all of Endiness, renowned for both his power and his depravity. Frahma, according to the lore of present-day Winglies, was directly responsible for imposing on his people the genocidal directive of Wingly superiority over all other living creatures. These lesser beings had no right to live, he preached, and it was the mercy of the Winglies that suffered them as slaves.

To cement his role as all-powerful dictator, he kept the soul of the Virage Embryo in a Crystal Sphere, giving him immense magical power. His older sister, Charle, realizing the the threat Melbu posed, created five Signet Spheres to limit the power he could draw from it and keep the body of the Virage Embryo - known in layman's terms as " " - floating in the sky. In retaliation, Melbu Frahma created Divine Moon Objects to destroy the spheres if need be.

However, he never had a chance to do so: the human slaves of his empire finally rebelled, leading to a war known afterwards as the Dragon Campaign. Led by Emperor Diaz and assisted by sympathetic Winglies, the humans proved themselves too formidable for Frahma to easily defeat, especially when they began harnessing Dragons for war - creating the legendary Dragoons in the process. During the Dragoons' final attack on the Wingly Capital of Kadessa, Zieg, the bearer of the Red-Eyed Dragoon Spirit, defeated and killed Melbu - apparently at the cost of his own life.


 * The Archmage: Thanks to the power of the Crystal Sphere, Frahma was arguably one of the most powerful magicians in all Endiness - especially once Faust died.
 * A God Am I: Believed himself to be a god
 * Authority Equals Asskicking: Managed to put up quite a fight against Zeig before dying.
 * Bald of Evil
 * The Chessmaster:
 * The Emperor
 * Not Quite Dead
 * Orcus on His Throne: According to the legend of the Dragon Campaign, he only showed his face at the final battle.
 * Pointy Ears
 * Not Quite Dead
 * Orcus on His Throne: According to the legend of the Dragon Campaign, he only showed his face at the final battle.
 * Pointy Ears

Shirley
The former owner of the White Silver Dragoon Spirit, died fighting a Super Virage during the battle of Kadessa. Her spirit is still bound to Earth and resides in a ruined shrine in the middle of Serdian mountains. She's trying to save the other Dragoons and will test Dart in order to see if he's worthy of the Dragoon spirit for Shana.


 * The Archer: Her former weapon.
 * Combat Medic
 * Hair of Gold
 * Hopeless Boss Fight: If you don't take her test.
 * Light'Em Up
 * Morality Chain: To Kanzas in the past and to Drake in the present.
 * Secret Test of Character: Her boss fight.
 * Unfinished Business: Her spirit will stay on earth as long as the other four Dragoons are trapped.
 * Woman in White: Wears a white robe as a ghost.

Kanzas
The former owner of the Purple Dragoon Spirit, is a fierce and brutal martial artist who used to carve a doll for each killed opponent. His soul is bounded to Vellweb by his own bloodlust.


 * Anime Hair: Looks like Vegeta!
 * Ax Crazy: As mentioned above, his room is full of dolls, representing his victims.
 * Blood Knight
 * Death Equals Redemption: He repents for his bloody ways in his last moments.
 * Foil: To Haschel. His bloodlust and love of killing contrasted with Haschel's dedication to fighting, making one wonder if one could have been like the other For Want of a Nail.
 * Lightning Bruiser
 * Power Fist
 * Shock and Awe
 * Taking You with Me: How he died in the past. Namely, he self-destructed along with the head of a Super Virage. Bonus points for using this sentence as his Famous Last Words.
 * Token Evil Teammate: Only Shirley's presence could calm him.

Syuveig
The former Jade Dragoon, Syuveig is a wise scholar and researcher who's nonetheless afraid of the void of death, hence why he's ended up stuck in Vellweb.


 * Badass Bookworm: With glasses to boot.
 * Blade on a Stick
 * Blow You Away
 * Foil: Syuveig's bookishness highlights Albert's as well and shows the consequences of going overboard: he's become afraid of what he doesn't or can't know.
 * Mad Scientist: It's implied from the contents of his room that he's been dissecting dragons in his studies.
 * Nothing Is Scarier: He's seriously afraid of death and the afterlife, and with good reason; the Wingly city Mayfill automatically channels non-Wingly souls into hell.
 * The Smart Guy

Belzac
The Former Golden Dragoon, a huge warrior who was romantically linked to Shirley in life. His inability to accept her demise is what anchors him to Vellweb.


 * An Axe to Grind: His weapon.
 * Big No: Sort of. After Rose tells him the truth about Shirley he screams "I DON'T BELIEVE THIS!!" right before attacking you.
 * Boisterous Bruiser
 * Dishing Out Dirt
 * Gentle Giant: He had a soft spot for children, ultimately fighting against the Winglies due to their enslavement of children.
 * Heroic Sacrifice: His last act was to try and save Shirley from the dual threat of an attacking Virage and a collapsing ceiling; though he managed to grab the ceiling in time, the only way he could stop the Virage was by getting impaled on its fingers. Sadly, Shirley refused to abandon Belzac, resulting in the Virage's next attack killing both of them.
 * Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: His last act was to suffer one of these from a Virage. Horrifically, it doesn't kill him immediately.
 * Love Makes You Crazy
 * Super Strength: Much like Kongol, Belzac was immensely strong in life - a trait enhanced by his Dragoon powers - enough to lift the collapsing roof of a Wingly building, which looked like it weighed a few tons at the very least.
 * Tomato in the Mirror: When you find him, he's under the impression that Shirley's still alive and the final battle is due to occur the next day. He even mistakes Dart for Zieg at first. Rose has to deliver the Tomato in the Mirror revelation to him, ultimately forcing him into a boss battle.

Damia
The former Blue Dragoon, Damia is a human-mermaid hybrid, and thus she was highly ostracized during her youth. Her only friends were her fellow Dragoons, and now she can't move on to the afterlife because she's afraid of being left alone.


 * All of the Other Reindeer: Subject to Fantastic Racism because of her mermaid blood.
 * An Ice Person
 * Drop the Hammer
 * Half-Human Hybrid: Half Mermaid. However, she does look perfectly human.
 * I Just Want to Have Friends: The reason why she's stuck.
 * The Chick

Charle Frahma
Sister to the infamous Wingly Emperor, Charle was one of the few Winglies of her generation that sympathized with the humans her little brother oppressed. Throughout the Dragon Campaign, she and her partners-in-crime provided aid to the resistance, becoming friends to the Dragoons in the process. She even went so far as to personally sabotage Melbu's powers by creating the Divine Moon Objects. Even once her human allies had won the war, she continued assisting them - more specifically, the only surviving Dragoon:  Early in the fourth disc, it's revealed that Charle was the Winglie who first learned of the threat that the   posed, and sent out   to stop them.


 * Cool Old Lady
 * Defector From Decadence
 * Genki Girl
 * Hidden Elf Village: Ulara, Charle's home, is one of the nicer examples of these.
 * Immortal Immaturity: To put it lightly, Charle tends to approach things with childish excitement, giving both Rose and  pet names, to the point that Rose actually has to step in and ask her to calm down.
 * Time Abyss: Charle is well over eleven thousand years old, having been alive long before the Dragon Campaign, and probably even before the Winglies first started oppressing humans.

Savan
A magician and researcher dwelling within the city of Aglis. During the Dragon Campaign, Aglis was shot down by human forces, sending it plummeting into the ocean; however, Savan was able to prevent the city's outright destruction by creating a barrier around it, holding in the oxygen and protecting it from flooding. As the only surviving Wingly in the area, Savan set himself the task of preserving as much magical knowledge as possible and defending Aglis' signet sphere from harm. However, over the milennia he spent researching the outside world through his scrying mirror, he came to sympathize with humans,. As such, when Dart and the others arrive in Aglis during the fourth disc, Savan is more than willing to help them.


 * Bald of Awesome
 * Cool Old Guy
 * Cool Pet: Most of his Familiars function as this. There's also the Last Kraken, the guardian of the Signet Sphere, and Coolon, the Giant Flyer Savan gives to the heroes as an easier means of getting around the world map.
 * Creating Life Is Awesome: Over the course of his exile, Savan created numerous life-forms to assist him in his research- and to prevent him from going mad from isolation. Both Savan and the creatures are depicted as entirely benevolent.
 * Defector From Decadence
 * Mad Scientist: A magical variant of this.
 * Magic Mirror: Savan uses a Magitech variant of this to study the world outside Aglis.
 * Mayor of a Ghost Town
 * No Ontological Inertia:
 * The Power of Creation
 * The Smart Guy
 * Time Abyss
 * Time Abyss

Feyrbrand
The Green-Tusked Dragon of Air, living inside a toxic swamp in the middle of Serdio. The Sandoran Empire managed to tame it with, and now is their secret weapon.


 * Climax Boss
 * Deadly Gas: His breath.
 * Our Dragons Are Different: He looks more like some sort of giant praying mantis, and isn't sentient.
 * Poisonous Person: Can produce several kinds of poisons from his abdomen.
 * Technicolor Toxin: Green poison (poison), blue poison (fear) and grey poison (stun).
 * Walking Wasteland: Feyrbrand's toxins can pollute and corrupt almost any landscape he settles in; the swamp he resides in has become so distorted and twisted by the influence of his poison that water can actually wilt the plantlife.
 * Walking Wasteland: Feyrbrand's toxins can pollute and corrupt almost any landscape he settles in; the swamp he resides in has become so distorted and twisted by the influence of his poison that water can actually wilt the plantlife.

Regole
The sea dragon of Illisa Bay residing on the Prison Island. It's known for assaulting ships and thus making the Tiberoan Sea too dangerous to traverse. It takes orders from.


 * Combat Tentacles.
 * Dual Boss: With
 * Eye Beam
 * Making a Splash
 * Our Dragons Are Different: Looks like a sea serpent with a giant, pyramid-shaped head.
 * Our Dragons Are Different: Looks like a sea serpent with a giant, pyramid-shaped head.

Michael
The Dark Burst Dragon and  former dragon companion.


 * Achilles' Heel:
 * Casting a Shadow: Can cast a dark explosive gas and a pitch black laser beam of destruction.
 * Death From Above: His Dark Laser attack.
 * Early-Bird Cameo: First seen in the flashback to the Dragon Campaign, where he tears a Virage apart by chewing through it's torso and vaporizes another one with his laser attack.
 * Frickin' Laser Beams
 * Our Dragons Are Different: It's hard to describe him, but he looks slightly more like a tradition Dragon, if not a wyvern.

The Divine Dragon
The seven-winged God of the Dragons, the Divine Dragon is the strongest living Dragon in Endiness. It was imprisoned by the ancient Winglies inside a giant volcano in Mille Sesau. However, during the third disc, he awakens from his slumber and escapes his prison to wreak havoc on the world.


 * Climax Boss: Of disk 3.
 * Cognizant Limbs: The "Divine Ball" and the "Divine Cannon". Destroying these will stop the dragon from casting his most dangerous attacks.
 * Death From Above: The Divine Ball Attack, which consist of a shower of energy blasts projected from his chest.
 * Giant Flyer
 * Eldritch Abomination
 * Extra Eyes
 * Eye Scream:
 * More Teeth Than the Osmond Family
 * Our Dragons Are Different: The Divine Dragon looks somewhat similar to the traditional dragon design, but it has seven wings, seven eyes (the largest of which is set on it's chin), and the nearest thing it has to dragon's breath is a Wave Motion Gun projected from it's torso.
 * Physical God: Explicitly stated as such.
 * Roar Before Beating: He tends to roar just before using the Divine Attack.
 * Sealed Evil in a Can
 * Weaksauce Weakness: The Dragon Buster sword and the Dragon Block Staff.
 * Weaksauce Weakness: The Dragon Buster sword and the Dragon Block Staff.

The Black Monster
A mysterious demon who exists seemingly only to kill, the Black Monster has been slaughtering innocents for over eleven thousand years, his massacres coinciding with the birth of the Moon Child every one hundred and eight years - his victims often including the Moonchild as well. It's commonly believed that his mission in life is to prevent the Moon Child from cleansing the world, which would destroy him as well; of course, Dart has set out to kill the Monster long before this can happen, motivated by revenge for the destruction of Neet.


 * The Antichrist
 * Black Knight
 * Casting a Shadow
 * Dark Is Evil
 * Eternal Recurrence: Every hundred and eight years, he returns to wreak havoc.
 * Good Wings, Evil Wings: Sports batlike wings, apparently wreathed in black smoke and flames.
 * Humanoid Abomination:
 * One-Man Army: Whole armies have stood in his way... and all have died.
 * Person of Mass Destruction
 * Playing with Fire
 * Time Abyss
 * Would Hurt a Child: The Black Monster is more than prepared to kill children over the course of his rampages, and because the intended target is the Moon Child - who will likely be only a baby at the time of the massacre - child murder is guaranteed.
 * Wreathed in Flames: As a flashback reveals, the Black Monster's body is wreathed in black flames and smog.
 * Time Abyss
 * Would Hurt a Child: The Black Monster is more than prepared to kill children over the course of his rampages, and because the intended target is the Moon Child - who will likely be only a baby at the time of the massacre - child murder is guaranteed.
 * Wreathed in Flames: As a flashback reveals, the Black Monster's body is wreathed in black flames and smog.
 * Would Hurt a Child: The Black Monster is more than prepared to kill children over the course of his rampages, and because the intended target is the Moon Child - who will likely be only a baby at the time of the massacre - child murder is guaranteed.
 * Wreathed in Flames: As a flashback reveals, the Black Monster's body is wreathed in black flames and smog.
 * Wreathed in Flames: As a flashback reveals, the Black Monster's body is wreathed in black flames and smog.

The Moon Child
The prophesized saviour of Endiness, the Moon Child is born once in every one hundred and eight years; the Child's mission in life is to purify and restore the world with holy power, but in the past eleven thousand years, none of the Children have ever managed to complete this sacred quest, as every last one of them was murdered by the Black Monster before they had a chance to begin.


 * Barrier Maiden
 * Born-Again Immortality: Unlike the Black Monster, the Moon Child is not physically immortal, and its spirit has to be reincarnated in a human form to go about its sacred duties; for good measure, it still takes a hundred and eight years to find a new human host whenever the Black Monster kills it.
 * The Chosen One
 * Eternal Recurrence: Much like the Black Monster, the Child only appears once every hundred and eight years.
 * God in Human Form
 * Holy Hand Grenade
 * Light'Em Up
 * Weird Moon: The Moon Child's birth is heralded by the Moon That Never Sets glowing blood-red.
 * Holy Hand Grenade
 * Light'Em Up
 * Weird Moon: The Moon Child's birth is heralded by the Moon That Never Sets glowing blood-red.
 * Weird Moon: The Moon Child's birth is heralded by the Moon That Never Sets glowing blood-red.
 * Weird Moon: The Moon Child's birth is heralded by the Moon That Never Sets glowing blood-red.

The Virage Embryo
Purported to be the one hundred and eighth fruit of the Divine Tree, an unborn god of unthinkable power,. It was first discovered by the ancient Winglies; under the command of Emperor Melbu Frahma, they removed the Virage Embryo's soul and imprisoned it within a Crystal Sphere; the body was kept well out of reach of both the imprisoned soul and any prospective saboteurs -. Melbu kept the sphere with him at all times, using its immense magical power to terrorize the races under his control, in spite of his sister's efforts to lessen his power; however, in the final battle of the Dragon Campaign, the sphere was broken, releasing the soul trapped within.


 * Bad Moon Rising:
 * Combat Tentacles
 * Eldritch Location:
 * Physical God
 * Reality Warper
 * Time Abyss: Undoubtedly the oldest living being in the game, having existed since the creation of the world.
 * Physical God
 * Reality Warper
 * Time Abyss: Undoubtedly the oldest living being in the game, having existed since the creation of the world.