Folklore (video game)/Characters
Main Characters
Ellen
- The Beast Master: Fully manifests her folk when she summons them, having them fight on her behalf.
- Dimensional Traveler: Between the human world and the Netherworlds.
- Parental Abandonment: Grew up in an orphanage after leaving Doolin as a young child, the circumstances of which are pivotal to the plot.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Keats finds at one point in the game a portrait of a woman he believes to be Ellen. It's actually Ingrid, the portrait painted by her husband and Ellen's father.
Keats
- Dimensional Traveler: Between the human world and the Netherworlds.
- Fighting Spirit: Tends to only partly manifest his folk as extensions of his own body while he fights.
- Guardian Entity: The Cloak of Sidhe transforms him to be Ellen's Guardian.
- Our Ghosts Are Different: The big reveal. Keats is a halflive, created from the last wish of Ellen's childhood friend, and thus a remnant of him. Halflives operate quite differently to the standard ghost, with elements of The Fair Folk.
Suzette
- Abusive Parents: Herve and her husband Renaldo's death unhinged Regine so much, she either abused her daughter or thought in her insanity she was Herve.
- Parental Abandonment: Suzette's father died before her birth, and her mother has abandoned her prior to the game's events to follow an unhinged plan to kill Ellen in revenge for Herve's death.