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== The Heroes ==

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Isaac is a Venus Adept, a playable character in ''Golden Sun'' and ''Golden Sun: The Lost Age'', and a main character in the overall ''Golden Sun'' series. He's the silent protagonist and party leader of the original ''Golden Sun'', and gains a speaking role in his appearance late in ''Golden Sun: The Lost Age'' as a co-leader of the game's extended final party.

 

In ''Dark Dawn'', he keeps a cabin observatory which he uses to keep an eye on Mt. Aleph along with Garet, and also as a place to train his son, Matthew. He is greatly concerned over the unrest that has swept Weyard since the restoration of Alchemy, as well as eventual coming of the Mourning Moon, a devastating giant Psynergy Vortex that appears every decade.

 

[[Golden Sun|At the onset...]]

 

 

[[Golden Sun: Dark Dawn|30 years later...]]

* [[Assist Character]]: He and Garet provide backup for his son and Karis in the game's first tutorial dungeon and even hand the two a few of their Djinn.

* [[Badass Beard]]

* [[Older and Wiser]]

* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: Time has been kind to him.

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Garet is a Mars Adept and a playable character in ''Golden Sun'' and ''Golden Sun: The Lost Age''. He is the one who is tasked to personally accompany his closest friend Isaac on the latter's quest and endeavors all throughout the ''Golden Sun'' series, but is also a foil for the occasional comedy relief.

 

In ''Dark Dawn'', he joins Isaac in keeping watch over Mt. Aleph while trying to keep his son Tyrell in line. He's simmered down with age, but often gets irritated at Isaac's unflappable personality.

 

[[Golden Sun|At the onset...]]

* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: A-''yup''.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Not too happy with Isaac's behavior in the tutorial dungeons, although he has enough trust in Isaac's judgment that he doesn't resist too much.

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Ivan is a Jupiter Adept and a playable character in ''Golden Sun'' and ''Golden Sun: The Lost Age''. As a party member, he is a mage-style Jupiter Adept who has an extremely similar successor in Sheba in the second game.

In ''Dark Dawn'', he lives in Kalay, the merchant city of his old caretaker Hammet the merchant. He designed the soarwing glider that allows one to fly using Psynergy. His daughter Karis is a childhood friend of Matthew and Tyrell.

 

* [[Adorkable]]

* [[Ambiguous Innocence]]: Since Psynergy is [[Invisible to Normals]], and he was raised by non-Adepts, he hasn't really had anybody to teach him the ethics of mind-reading: he has absolutely no qualm about reading people's minds and in fact makes you corner people in their inn room so he can read theirs. He's actually kind of a sneaky little thing, but you don't realize it because he's just so cute.

* [[The Smart Guy]]: He's pretty good at reading people, even without reading their minds. The implication is this is why Hammet takes him on his trading trips.

* [[Squishy Wizard]]

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Mia is a Mercury Adept and a playable character in ''Golden Sun'' and ''Golden Sun: The Lost Age''. She is the only mage-style Mercury Adept in either game, and is probably the only Adept that can be labeled the "designated healer" to the player's party in the default class setup. Her characterization is stronger in the Japanese text, generally speaking fairly politely, but drops it when when she she thinks she is alone or when particularly outraged (generally at Alex for betraying the clan).

She eventually gives birth to Rief, a party member in ''Dark Dawn'', as well as Nowell, an NPC from the same game.

 

* [[Blue Eyes]]

* [[Carry a Big Stick]]: Her only weapons are staffs and maces.

* [[You Killed My Father]]: The Japanese script has her say she failed her deceased father before insisting the group follow Alex specifically, creating an implication of this. The English version simply says she failed her clan and requests the group follow "them".

 

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Felix is a Venus Adept, a playable character in ''Golden Sun: The Lost Age'', and a main character in the overall ''Golden Sun'' series. He appears in ''Golden Sun'' as an NPC in league with the game's band of antagonists opposed to Isaac, but in ''The Lost Age'', the perspective of the narrative focuses on him as the main playable character. He is the elder brother of Jenna, and uncle to Matthew (though he's almost certainly never met his nephew).

After the party returned from their quest to light the lighthouses, he left on his own, and by the time of ''Dark Dawn'', no one has seen him since.

 

* [[Always Save the Girl]]: And how! Just watch his [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] at Venus Lighthouse.

* [[Anti-Villain]]: During the first game.

* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: At the end of the first game, Felix himself states that he's no match for Isaac (due to Isaac's [[Took a Level in Badass|levels in badass]], natch!). Typically, by the time the first party joins the group, Felix is almost as powerful as Isaac is, if not ''more so'' due to the longer and more annoying dungeons, the trickier and more frequent bosses, and the subsequent [[Level Grinding]].

 

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Jenna is a Mars Adept and a playable guest character in ''Golden Sun'' that becomes a main playable character in ''Golden Sun: The Lost Age''. A childhood friend of Isaac and Garet's and the younger sister of Felix, Jenna quickly becomes a conventional damsel-in-distress character early on, until ''The Lost Age'' when she joins Felix's quest in full. As a result of her kidnapping between the games, she has matured fairly quickly, though it's only obvious in the Japanese script where her speaking style has changed dramatically.

In ''Dark Dawn'', she is said to live in Kalay along with other Vale survivors. She is the mother of Matthew, the game's protagonist.

 

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Big Brother Worship]]: She addresses Felix ''very'' affectionately in the Japanese script.

* [[Victorious Childhood Friend]]: Isaac/Jenna has been confirmed as canon.

 

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Sheba is a Jupiter Adept introduced as an NPC in ''Golden Sun'' and becomes a playable character in ''Golden Sun: The Lost Age''. As a party member, she is a mage-style Jupiter Adept in an extremely similar vein to Ivan in the first game.

 

* [[The Chick]]

* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Like Jenna, she ditches the mantle in ''The Lost Age''.

* [[Shipper on Deck]]: One particularly funny moment in the second game features her mentioning Valeshipping (Isaac/Jenna) with Jenna turning red in embarrassment. She then immediately jumps on Jenna's follow-up comment of wondering about how Garet is doing.

* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: Similar to Jenna, she goes from [[Damsel in Distress]] to a snarky [[Black Magician Girl]].

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Piers is a Mercury Adept and a playable character in ''Golden Sun: The Lost Age''. He is the only warrior-style Mercury Adept in either game and the only playable character in ''The Lost Age'' that is completely new to the series, in contrast to the other playable characters Felix, Jenna and Sheba who appeared in the first game in NPC and minor gameplay roles.

By the time of ''Dark Dawn'', he sails around Weyard in his ship and is considered a hero to the seafaring world for sailing the Sea of Time surrounding Lemuria, and is also friends with the Champan pirate Briggs, who ironically was unintentionally responsible for him being imprisoned in ''The Lost Age''. While he never appears to Matthew's party, he is instrumental in helping them obtain a sea-worthy ship.

 

* [[The Big Guy]]/[[The Smart Guy]]: Which, of course, makes him a [[Genius Bruiser]].

* [[Combat Medic]]

* [[Vague Age]]: Deliberately so.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]

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Though not an Adept of any kind, Kraden is a wise old sage who lives in Vale to study Alchemy and tutor Isaac and his friends. He is not a playable character, but he accompanies Felix throughout the entirety of ''Golden Sun: The Lost Age'' and is vastly important to the plot. In ''Dark Dawn'', he continues his Alchemy studies, and is the teacher of Mia's children, Rief and Nowell (as with the heroes of the first two games, the Golden Sun slowed down his aging as well, which is why he lived as long as he did without anything else to slow it down as with the Lemurian draught that slowed down the aging of Babi and the Lemurians the former took it from; he just ended up with this effect after he was already of old age).

 

* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Sadly not playable. Of course, considering that he's a [[Muggle]], this does make sense.

* [[Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Trailer]]: Until ''Dark Dawn'', Kraden lacked any promotional art releases despite being a fairly major character.

 

== The Antagonists ==

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Saturos is a Mars Adept who along with his partner Menardi is a main antagonist in ''Golden Sun'', and is typically considered the primary antagonist in the duo. He leads along with Menardi the original effort to break the seal on Alchemy and bring it back to the world of Weyard, and is opposed by Isaac's party all throughout the first game.

 

* [[Affably Evil]]: With shades of [[Laughably Evil]]. Cheerful and friendly towards the heroes in a much more casual, easygoing way than Alex is, and even gets a few [[Deadpan Snarker|snarky quips]] in.

* [[Anime Hair]]

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]

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Menardi is a Mars Adept who along with her partner Saturos is a main antagonist in ''Golden Sun''. She along with Saturos leads the original effort to break the seal on Alchemy and bring it back to the world of Weyard, and is opposed by Isaac's party all throughout the first game. She is the elder sister of Karst, who becomes an antagonist in a similar vein in ''Golden Sun: The Lost Age''.

 

* [[Anti-Villain]]

* [[Blondes Are Evil]]

* [[Skirt Over Slacks]]: Leggings under a knee-length dress, if her character art is to be believed.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]

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Agatio is a Mars Adept who along with his partner Karst is a main antagonist in ''Golden Sun: The Lost Age''. The pair nominally follows in the footsteps of the original game's Saturos and Menardi and shares their goal of lighting the four Elemental Lighthouses and restoring Alchemy to the world, but seek vengeance upon Isaac in response to the deaths of Saturos and Menardi at his hands at the end of ''Golden Sun''. Of the two, Agatio appears to have the higher authority because he is more powerful.

 

* [[Anti-Villain]]

* {{spoiler|[[Baleful Polymorph]]}}

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: While significantly more brutal and cruel that Saturos, his end goal is the same.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]] Looks like it's just purple, with dramatic highlights from that fireball he's waving around.

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Karst is a Mars Adept who along with her partner Agatio is a main antagonist in ''Golden Sun: The Lost Age''. The pair nominally follows in the footsteps of the original game's Saturos and Menardi and shares their goal of lighting the four Elemental Lighthouses and restoring Alchemy to the world, but seek vengeance upon Isaac in response to the deaths of Saturos and Menardi at his hands at the end of ''Golden Sun''. Of the two, Karst is the more personal side, for Menardi was her sister.

 

* [[Anti-Villain]]

* [[Avenging the Villain]]

* [[You Killed My Father]]

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]

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Mia's cousin and fellow Mercury Clan disciple, {{spoiler|and the closest thing the games have to a [[Big Bad]]}}. Very little is known about his motivations until the end, where it is revealed that {{spoiler|he is playing every side in an effort to obtain the [[Title Drop|Golden Sun]], which will grant him godlike power}}.

 

* [[Affably Evil]]: Certainly a whole lot more courteous and polite than Saturos and Menardi were, especially obvious in the Japanese script where his speech uses polite forms, even when saying he'll kill the main cast if they tried to finish off Saturos. {{spoiler|It may be all [[Faux Affably Evil|fabricated in order to further his own ambitions]], [[Manipulative Bastard|of course]]}}.

* [[Big Bad]]: Kinda? Maybe? He is '''''the''''' consistent antagonistic force between all three games but he appears subservient to Saturos in the first game; has every reason to wish the protagonists success in the second game, even if he is [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulative]] and his motives considerably less altruistic than theirs; and the third game does little to clear up his [[Hidden Agenda Villain|Hidden Agenda]]. Still, when it comes to examining the series as a whole, he's the closest we've got.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]

 

== ''Dark Dawn'''s Heroes ==

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A young Venus Adept, the son of Isaac [http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/8367/1287819854328.jpg and] [[Victorious Childhood Friend|Jenna]], and the main playable character and party leader of ''Dark Dawn''. He lives with his father in a cottage in the Goma Highlands west of Bilibin, which overlooks the ruins of Mt. Aleph, training for the day he's expected to step up and take on his father's mantle. That day comes when his friend Tyrell breaks Ivan's soarwing, and he's sent on a journey that begins with the goal of obtaining the Mountain Roc feather and ends up involving the fate of Angara and Weyard.

 

* [[BFS]]: Aside from boasting the Ragnarok and Odyssey spells, improved graphics allow for different weapons to actually be shown; long/broad swords are big enough to be comparable to [[Final Fantasy VII|Cloud's]] and are apparently so heavy he holds it down by his leg.

* [[Blue Eyes]]

** Lampshaded in the conversation with Tret, where Tret asks for Matthew's name, only for Matthew to reply with his classic "...", followed by Tret asking him to speak up, and Amiti pointing out that he doesn't talk much.

* [[Strong Family Resemblance]]: Played with when Briggs identifies him on sight... because of how strongly he resembles ''Jenna''. To be fair, Briggs never met Isaac.

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A young Jupiter Adept who is Ivan's daughter and a childhood friend of Matthew's and Tyrell's. She decides to accompany the two on their quest to obtain a Mountain Roc feather. She is strong-willed, reliable, and clever.

 

* [[Action Girl]]: She can hold her own in a physical fight.

* [[The Archer]]: Thanks to the new weapon system.

* [[Two Guys and a Girl]]: With Tyrell and Matthew.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Green.

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A young Mars Adept who is the son of Garet. Like father, like son: he is a mischievous character, but is loyal and a close friend of Matthew's and Karis's. His making off and subsequently breaking the soarwing glider that Ivan had made becomes the trigger for their quest.

 

* [[An Axe to Grind]]: Seen wielding one in promotional art. Of course [[Heroes Prefer Swords|he can use swords too]].

* [[Redheaded Hero]]

* [[Strong Family Resemblance]]: Not ''quite'' as strong as it is between Isaac and Matthew, but his face does look like a younger Garet, and his hair and body structure are extremely similar. Although his hair is much redder than Garet's: besides his sprite in the original duology, Garet's hair was actually brown. Tyrell's at least gained the ability to mimic daddy's gravity-defying hair-style... sort of.

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The fourth party member is a Mercury adept, as well as the younger of Mia's two chidren. Along with his sister, Nowell, he is an apprentice of Kraden, now a traveling Alchemy scholar. He joins the party after being captured by Tuaparang in order to bait Matthew's party south to the Ei-Jei region of Angara.

 

* [[Adorkable]]

* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Rief is following in Kraden's footsteps as a scholar and Tyrell dubs Rief as a nerd, but in combat, Rief can hold his own and has access to lots of powerful water and healing Psynergy as he levels up.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: It runs in the family—his mother, [[Hidden Agenda Villain|mother's cousin]], and sister have blue hair as well. {{spoiler|So does his second cousin once removed, Amiti}}.

* [[Youngest Child Wins]]: His older sister Nowell is basically [[Put on a Bus]] after she is introduced, while Rief becomes a member of your party. It's been [[Wild Mass Guessing|suggested]] that Nowell could be a future player character in the [[Sequel Hook|implied sequel]].

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A Mercury Adept who joins Matthew's party. He is the young prince of the Ayuthay kingdom who is said to have been an immaculate birth on account of his mother's strong Mercury powers. However, his uncle King Paithos reveals that this is not the case, that his father was actually an unknown Mercury Adept of considerable power. {{spoiler|It is confirmed that his father is Alex}}.

 

* [[The Archer]]

* [[Bishounen]]: And boy is he ever.

* [[The Wise Prince]]

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: As is required of Mercury Adepts. {{spoiler|And it runs in his father's family}}. [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|It's a light enough shade of blue for him to fall into this]].

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A member of a new race of man-beasts who have evolved since the restoration of Alchemy, Sveta is a Jupiter Adept who joins Matthew's party, her natural animal senses being boosted by the precognitive abilities of the wind element. {{spoiler|Her older brother, Volechek, is the king of Morgal}}.

 

* [[Action Girl]]: As opposed to using blades to attack like Jenna and Karis, she fights with physical punches and kicks. Confirmed to be the series's first warrior-type Wind Adept and the first female warrior of any element.

* {{spoiler|[[Awesome Moment of Crowning]]: She becomes queen of Belinsk after Volechek's death, albeit offscreen. Tyrell notes how quickly the proceedings were done, probably because they are only beginning to recover from a continent-wide disaster}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Spoiled Sweet]]}}

* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: With lavender undertones.

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First appearing as the infant son of the pirate Briggs in ''The Lost Age'', Eoleo is now the prince of the pirate nation Champa and a Mars Adept. He first appears imprisoned by the Belinsk beastmen and sentenced to death, but is freed by Matthew's party. He joins their party after {{spoiler|his father's death in the Grave Eclipse, whereupon he swears revenge on those responsible for it}}.

 

* [[Adorkable]]: As a tot in ''The Lost Age''. The [[Blinding Bangs]] and [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100930223905/goldensun/images/c/cc/EoleoToddler.jpg perpetually-confused expression] hide a sneaky, resourceful, ''dangerous'' little boy.

* [[An Axe to Grind]]: Part of his [[Weapon of Choice]].

* [[With This Herring]]: He joins the party with a Cotton Shirt and the cheapest possible axe. Given that he is from a dirt-poor nation and was in prison for the last several days (weeks?), this is justified, albeit a little [[Incredibly Lame Pun|disarming]] under the circumstances.

* {{spoiler|[[You Killed My Father]]: As noted above, he swears vengeance upon those who were responsible for Briggs's death}}.

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A Venus Adept and the final party member. She is the princess of Yamata, a city on Nihan founded by refugees from the city of Izumo, which was destroyed following the return on Alchemy, and has the power to see into the future. Her parents are Susa and Kushinada, both of whom met Felix's party in ''The Lost Age'', and she also has an unseen older brother named Takeru.

 

* [[Ascended Extra]]: Well, sort of: her ''parents'' turned up for the Gaia Rock bit of ''The Lost Age''.

* [[Badass Princess]]: She gets up from being effectively bedridden for several days, and ''immediately'' takes off with a bunch of random strangers to go save the world... and she's just so calm and matter-of-fact about it.

* [[Shrine Maiden]]

* [[Summon Magic]]: Both of her exclusive classes have psynergy lines that resemble this. One of her strongest moves summons [[Dragons Up the Yin-Yang]].

* [[Youngest Child Wins]]:

** Back in ''The Lost Age'', Kushinada said (via Mind Read) that her son Takeru will rush to help the children of Felix's party (which includes Jenna) should they ever be in danger. It is her younger daughter Himi that [[The Unchosen One|actually helps out Matthew and company]].

** Takeru actually left because Himi had visions of Isaac being in danger causing him to seek out the first game's hero. Because of this, fans [[Wild Mass Guessing|presume]] that he will appear in the next game.

 

== ''Dark Dawn'''s Antagonists ==

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A swordsman from the military nation of Tuaparang who Matthew's party encounters several times over the course of the story. He is always eager for a fight, and along with his partner Chalis manipulates Matthew's party into fulfilling their desires.

{{spoiler|He is an Adept who can wield a new type of darkness Psynergy, and attempts to gain control of the Apollo Lens}}.

 

* [[Anime Hair]]: Sticks straight up above his head.

* [[Battle Couple]]: With Chalis.

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: The game doesn't show what happens to him and Chalis after you {{spoiler|destroy the Grave Eclipse}}.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Dark green.

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A commander of Tuaparang who also confronts Matthew's party several times over the course of the story. She gets close to leaders of foreign nations in order to obtain secret information and is in league with Blados in some fashion.

{{spoiler|Like Blados, she is also a darkness Adept, and works with him in order to gain control of the Apollo Lens}}.

 

* [[Above Good and Evil]]: She claims that they don't exist, and mocks Matthew openly for thinking that he's "on the side of angels."

* [[Affably Evil]]: Unlike Blados, she's rather polite and "enticing" around others. Even when {{spoiler|Alex}} is, predictably, [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|betraying her]], she never loses her cool.

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: The game doesn't show what happens to her and Blados after you {{spoiler|destroy the Grave Eclipse}}.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Pinkish-purple.

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A third member of Tuaparang who is seen working with Blados. Seems to be connected with the original Warriors of Vale. [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|Is absolutely not a certain Mercury Adept from the previous games]].

{{spoiler|Of course he is. Now working under Tuaparang's High Empyror, Alex works with Blados and Chalis in order to bring about the Grave Eclipse, and in the end reveals that he plans to use the Apollo Lens to disperse it, and turns against the other two when they try to seize the weapon for themselves. As always, his motives and allegiance remain ambiguous, but [[It's All About Me|suggestive]]}}.

 

* [[Affably Evil]]: More so in this game than anyone in the series. He remains downright polite even when the heroes are antagonizing him.

* [[Big Bad]]: Takes this role between himself, Blados and Chalis, especially considering how his "Ace"/"Arcanus" moniker implies that he might be their superior (though where exactly the three of them fit into the hierarchy of Tuaparang isn't really clear). {{spoiler|And since he's really [[Magnificent Bastard|Alex]], he's manipulating everyone for whatever purpose he's plotting. Of course, seeing as this is ''[[Wild Card|Alex]]'' we're talking about, we still don't know whether there's any benevolence to his goals or if he's nothing more than a self-serving asshole}}.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Hmm...