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This is a list of some of the characters from the 2003 [[GONZO]] series ''Last Exile'', as well as its 2011 bridge manga ''Travelers from the Hourglass/Sunadokei no Tabibito''.

 

 

== Main Characters ==

=== Claus Valca ===

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A simple (if skilled) vanship pilot and message courier, Claus has a big dream for someone his age: to be able to cross the Grand Stream using just his vanship. However after accepting a delivery from another dying courier, he and his close friend Lavie are soon drawn into the middle of a conflict that might determine the fate of his homeworld.

=== Lavie Head ===

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Claus' friend since childhood, Lavie is both the navigator of their vanship as well as its mechanic. Very brusque and blunt, Lavie is a tomboy through and through, but she's more sensitive than she first seems. She shares in Claus' dream to cross the Grand Stream just using their vanship.

* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: While she's subtle about it and it doesn't last very long, she's not too happy to see Tatiana wearing the overalls that she repaired for Claus after they return to the Silvana, and refuses to talk to him for a while as well.

* [[Demoted to Extra]]: While a significant character at the beginning, she spends the middle of the series not doing anything important.

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Like Claus, both of Lavie's parents are dead -- her mother during childbirth, and her father during the ill-fated expedition across the Grand Stream that claimed the life of Claus' father as well.

* [[Team Mom]]: Becomes this to both Alvis and Holly, judging from the ''Travelers from the Hourglass'' manga.

=== Alvis Hamilton ===

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A quiet little girl with pale blue eyes, Alvis is Claus and Lavie's first major 'delivery', and the main reason why the two friends are drawn into the conflict between Anatoray and the Guild. As a scion of House Hamilton, she is the key to activating the Exile, which both Anatoray and the Guild seek to control.

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* [[Hair Decorations]]: [[Word of God]] is that they were modeled after jet turbines.

* [[Last of Their Kind]]: She is the last living member of House Hamilton.

* [[Parental Abandonment]]

* [[The President's Daughter]]: Due to her ability to activate Exile.

 

== Supporting Characters ==

=== Alex Rowe ===

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The dark and brooding captain of the Silvana, Alex Rowe is focused on the utter destruction of the Guild's current Maestro, Delphine Eralcea, for reasons only known to himself. Although he ostensibly serves Anatoray, he is given much more leeway and is considered a dangerous rogue by the rest of the Anatoray military.

* [[Badass Cape]] that frequently performs a dramatic [[Cape Swish]].

* [[Berserk Button]]: When the Guild ship appears over Sophia's coronation ceremony, and Delphine's mocking laughter is heard, Alex orders all the Silvana's weapons fired, despite the mass of humanity gathered below. Fortunately, [[My Master, Right or Wrong]] gets averted:

* [[Revenge]] Is A Dish [[Best Served Cold]]: Alex's motivation for stealing the Silvana, gathering the components necessary to activate Last Exile and conquering the Grand Stream, essentially revenge on [[The Guild]], and Maestro Delphine in particular.

* [[Byronic Hero]]: Broods on personal failings, dark, attractive, mysterious, flawed, broken, classy, isolated, intense drive for revenge, no romance, rebelling against authority...need we go on?

=== Sophia Forrester ===

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Alex's loyal second-in-command, she has known him since apparently military academy. She is ''also'' the heir to the throne of Anatoray.

=== Vincent Alzey ===

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An old friend of both Alex and Sophia, Vincent is the captain of the Anatoray battleship ''Urbanus''. More straight-laced than Alex, Vincent is nevertheless a very competent (and dangerous) skyship captain.

* [[The Captain]]: Much like his friend Alex.

* [[Drink Order]]: Vincent is never seen without a cup of 'battleship coffee' either in hand or within easy reach.

* [[The Rival]]: Arguably.

 

=== Tatiana Wisla ===

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Leader of the Silvana's vanship corps, and nicknamed 'Princess' by its gaggle of hangar mechanics, Tatiana is humorless and all-business, which tends to rub people the wrong way. She starts to lighten up later in the series however, after crashing with Claus and spending a few days thinking the Sylvana has been sunk. She pilots a modified red vanship with her friend and navigator Alister.

=== Alister Agrew ===

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Tatiana's classmate from military academy, as well as her current navigator. She is more understanding of Tatiana's cold attitude, but there are limits to even what she can take.

* [[Cat Smile]]: Not so much in the series, but does this a lot in the ''Travelers from the Hourglass'' manga. Mostly whenever the topic of Tatiana's love life comes up.

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Tatiana.

* [[Number Two]]: Seems to take on this role for Tatiana in the ''Hourglass'' manga.

 

 

=== Mullin Shetland ===

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A soldier serving in Duke Mad-Thane's fleet, Mullin helps Claus and Lavie in their initial delivery to the Duke. A survivor of twenty fleet battles, this simple fact gives him the right to choose which ship he wants to be reassigned next. Another chance encounter with Lavie robs him of the chance to even do so, though it ''does'' land him a spot on the Silvana, where he eventually becomes part of its corps of mechanics. Mullin still experiences some nostalgia for his time as a line musketman.

=== Duke David Mad-Thane ===

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Commander of one of Anatoray's fleets, Duke Mad-Thane is the recipient of the message Claus and Lavie delivers at the start of the series. He initially embodies the Chivalric traditions of Anatoray, which includes among other things giving quarter to defeated enemies and [[Honor Before Reason|not retreating even when tactically expedient]]. He eventually gets over the latter though, and goes on to lead the Anatoray segment of the Alliance fleet against the Guild.

* [[Honor Before Reason]]: At first.

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]

 

== The Guild ==

=== Dio Eraclea ===

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Whimsical and unpredictable, Dio is a Guild pilot who takes an interest on Claus during the initial chase for Alvis. He later reappears as one of Claus' competitors during the Horizon Cave endurance race, eventually following him back to the Silvana, where he sticks around from that point on. He is ''really'' the younger brother of the Guild's leader Delphine, and as such a possible successor to its rule.

=== Lucciola ===

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Dio's companion and bodyguard, Lucciola accompanies Dio wherever he goes, even aboard the Silvana.

=== Delphine Eraclea ===

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Current leader of the Guild, and main antagonist of the series, Delphine is as ruthless as she is coldly beautiful. She doesn't particularly care about the troubles of the people of Prester, and looks upon their struggles with grim amusement. She seeks control of the Exile, and will do anything to acquire the means to do so.

=== Cicada ===

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Delphine's loyal servant, Cicada serves in virtually the same capacity as Lucciola to Dio. Fitting, as he is Lucciola's older brother.

=== Holly Mad-Thane ===

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Duke Mad-Thane's only daughter. At the beginning of the series she asks Claus and Lavie to deliver a personal message to her father, which influences his decision during that particular encounter. She and her mother later convert their mansion in Norkia into a field hospital once Anatoray and Disith join forces against the Guild.

=== Dunya Scheer ===

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A young female musket soldier from Disith, she becomes part of one of the many Anatoray and Disith squads tasked in retaking the Alliance fleet's Claudia units from their Guild Handlers.

* [[Badass Moustache]]: Probably the only thing badass about him, sadly.

** As of chapter 9 of the manga, {{spoiler|[[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|it turns out that]] he is a capable artillery marksman. To the extent that he can shoot a Guild base ''from beyond a ship's normal cannon range''.}}

* [[Oh Crap]]: Does this a lot, with accompanying epic reaction faces.

 

* [[Facial Markings]]

* [[Pointy Ears]]

* [[Super Strength]]

* [[Theme Naming]]: Uroctea is named after a genus of spiders found in Africa and Eurasia.