Rance/Characters/Residents of Rance Castle
During the events of Rance Quest Magnum, Free Cities Alliance's merchant and unofficial leader Copandon Dott helped Rance to built a large castle all for himself, out of love for him. Its capacity can be up to 256 people, with ten living rooms for daily activities and meal. Furthermore, maids are available to the owner's needs. By the time of Rance X, several people settled down in Rance Castle, some choosing to live with him, or in search of protection, or simply working for him.
Athena 2.0
An artifial human created by the Witch Frostvine in Rance IV. She's actually the second version of the aptly named Athena 1.0, whose intelligence was similar to a real human. However, she fell in love with a Ham Barbara and both eloped soon after.
2.0 was designed to be less intelligent but still able to act as a useful familiar and toy for children. She was finally created thanks to the help of Rance, however his Imperial Juice got mixed into the creation, altering the process: Athena 2.0 was born with a very low intelligence, but a wide range of abilities, including combat. Despite this, Rance decided to keep her as a pet, and eventually was allowed to live in his house, and later the Rance Castle.
- Artificial Human: She's a homonculus created by Frostvine, and the second version of the Athena series.
- Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny: Because of her low intelligence she easily gets distracted by everything, especially ladybugs and beetles. As seen in Rance 5D, it can also prevent her to attack at all.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Lives in her own little world, to the dismay of everyone around her.
- Curtains Match the Window: Orange hair for orange eyes.
- The Ditz: She is by far the most simple-minded character of the series.
- Genius Ditz: Aside from her intelligence issues, she's able to make accurate calculations and maps, and she has a very high eyesight and sense of smell compared to humans.
- Mix-and-Match Man: She was created from the combination of the essences of an Angel and a Devil.
- Odd Friendship: She ends up befriending Tourin Sanada, the most skilled strategist of Nippon, of all people.
- Unskilled but Strong: Has a staggering Level Cap 1 but she's stronger than the average human, meaning she doesn't need to train but at the same time, she can't get stronger at all.
- Younger Than She Looks: Since she was created in Rance IV, she's technically 5 by Rance X.
Sanakia Drelshkaf
Sanakia was a knight from for now-destroyed Kingdom of Dallas roughly 200 years ago. She went on an expedition in the floating island of Ylapu, but was captured and kept in statis until the events of Rance IV. After being rescued by Rance, she joined the Ice Flame group in Rance VI and eventually became one of his companions of adventure. While she first hated Rance due to his perverted and brutish attitude, she eventually softens up, acknowledging his qualities as a warrior after witnessing him saving the country of Zeth. By the time of Rance Quest, she became the Captain of the Rance Castle Guard.
Despite her average Level Cap of 22, she trains hard to better herself, and shows some good abilities of a Tactician, along with being one of the rare persons to have Rance teach her his Signature Move Rance Attack.
- Action Girl: She was part of an expedition among other knights and was considered one of the strongest in her kingdom. However, she ends up rescued in the LP Era, where many powerful people live.
- Belly Dancer: One of the costumes she uses as a disguise in Rance VI ressembles one.
- Fish Out of Temporal Water: Comes from the GI Era where her kingdom was still existing. She also has the manners of a classical knight from the Middle Ages.
- Knight in Shining Armor: Works as much as possible to become one, and find a lord to work for. Said lord ends up being Rance, but she eventually accepts her new position as the Captain of the Rance Castle Guard.
- One of the Boys: She sees herself more of a knight before a woman, and as such exhibits masculine behaviour.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: She has several useful abilities for combat but her Level Cap is average, causing her to fall behind most of Rance's other companions.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red to Krutche's Blue.
Rocky Bank
The first companion Rance meets in the Slave Arena of Zeth in Rance VI. Resigned to a life of servitude in Zeth, he is saved by Rance and plead his ever-lasting loyalty to him, effectively making him his second slave. Since then, he followed him thorough his time as the Ice Flame leader, often bullied by him. Nonetheless, his travels in Zeth progressively changed his opinions of Mages, and he quickly made his place among the companions of the brutal warrior and the orphanage, looking to him as an older brother of sorts.
After the events of Rance VI, he's seen again in Rance Quest, joining Rance in his adventures once again, while living in the outskirts of Rance Castle, trying to get allowed in.
- Awesome McCoolname: Rocky Bank.
- Birds of a Feather: He quickly becomes friends with Caloria Cricket, the last living member of the Insect Users, due to their similar pasts as ostracized people from Zeth.
- Butt Monkey: Being the second slave of Rance, most of his time with him ends with him getting humiliated and mistreated, so much that the rest of the cast (and the player) pities him and plead Rance to treat him more fairly. Although he does complain about it, he doesn't really mind and consider Rance his true master after he saved his life.
- Friend to All Children: He's loved by orphans and spends his time playing with them, looking up to him as their older brother.
- Noble Bigot: He starts off as one, being enslaved by mages as at a very young age and prejudiced towards while being a good person. After meeting mages from the rest of the world such as Shizuka Masou and Sill Plain, he's able to overcome his prejudices.
- I Owe You My Life: The main reason he stays with Rance, regardless of everything he goes through: His life could have ended as unnamed slave, if not for Rance accidentally saving him.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: Similar to Sanakia. He's useful as a meat shield for the early game of Rance VI, but he quickly falls behind the rest of his group, especially Patton Misnarge who can do the same but with stronger stats and a higher Level Cap.
- Precocious Crush: He has a crush on Kimchi Drive during his time in Ice Flame, who's at least twice his age.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: After contemplating quitting Ice Flame due to being on the sidelines with his low Level Cap, the Level God Starlevel the Great decides to raise his Level Cap thrice to encourage him to try his best.
- Younger Than He Looks: In Rance VI, he's actually 14, despite looking much older. He still looks the same in Rance X, being 17.
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Alkanese Rize
The leader of Lion Mind, a group of bandits located in an abandoned shopping mall in Eastern Helman and exclusively composed of women who have been betrayed by men. The group was mostly composed of unattractive women who were mistreated, and its goal was to get rid of men. Rance hears about them during his adventures in Rance Quest, and eventually defeats them alongside Alkanese after tricking the Helman City Guard into fighting Lion Mind.
Unlike the other members of Lion Mind, Alkanese herserlf is actually a beautiful woman, but her huge and tall body caused her to have a complex and considered herself ugly, until her meeting with Rance who was the first person to treat her as a woman. Touched by his compliments on her body, she becomes interested in him and accepts to join his side to live in Rance Castle.
- Affectionate Nickname: Exclusively refers to Rance as her "Bro", showing a sense a familiarity around him.
- An Axe to Grind: Thanks to her Lv1 Skill Level in Hammer Combat, she's able to wield heavy weapons and likes to uses axes.
- Amazonian Beauty: She's one of the few physically fit women of the series and one of the tallest, something that Rance doesn't mind much.
- One Head Taller: One of the few women who dwarfs Rance with her huge height.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: Inverted. After losing her makeup, she turns out to have a pretty face.
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Fey Breeze
A maid working in Leazas Castle, who's strangely obsessed with cleaning everything. She first appears in Rance I/01 as the maid cleaning Rance's room, and she eventually becomes of the maids working for him in his Rance Castle in Rance Quest.
- Determinator: She will clean everything in the castle, and makes sure anyone won't prevent her to do so, even repelling Rance's attempts to sleep with her, since she couldn't clean anymore.
- Dub Name Change: Her original name was Klean Bew in the original version of the games, before being changed in the official translations.
- Meaningful Name: Both of her names are references to cleanliness.
- Meido: She's certainly the most normal looking maid of the series, with a bit of cuteness.
- Neat Freak: Exaggerated. If she ever sees everything dirty in her sights, she will immediately clean it or replace it if it's clothes. Later exploited by Rance in order to get Miki Kurusu's underwear.
- Shout-Out: Her localized name comes from Febreze, the American brand of household odor eliminators.
Heidi Bredeter
Another maid working in Leazas Castle, who also appears in Rance I/01 tasked to clean the kitchen. When she's a dutiful maid most of the time, she also exhibits kleptomaniac tendencies and compulsively steals bread no matter the circumstances, which caused her to lose her previous jobs multiple times. She's eventually recruited by Rance to work as one of his new maids after the building of his castle in Rance Quest.
- Ambiguous Disorder: Her pathology and obsession with bread is never explained, and she doesn't know why she suffers from it either.
- Dub Name Change: Her original name was Heidi Pankrau in the original version of the games, before being changed in the official translations.
- Master of None: She's one of the few characters of the series who doesn't have any Skill Level in anything.
- Meido: With the exception of her "bread problem", she's actually serious with her duties as a maid.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Bread, in any form possible.
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair: She has light blue hair.
Caloria Cricket
A strange girl met by Rance's party at the beginning of Rance VI. She's actually one of the last surviving members of the Insect Users, another species of Humans with Insect-based powers. With nowhere to go home following the genocide of her people by the Zeth Government, she's taken as an orphan in Ice Flame. Quickly befriending Rance and his companions, she begins to look up to him as his savior and has followed him in many of his adventures. After he set up his own home at Rance Castle, she became one of its permanent residents ever since.
- Big Eater: Like standards Insect Users, she can host up to four Insects in her body, and while it gives her multiple powers, she also needs to eat more to feed them.
- I Owe You My Life: She's one of the few woman with a vastly positive opinion of Rance, because he gave her a new family and home to live with.
- Jack of All Trades: The four Insects she has gives her access to various useful powers and give her more versality in combat.
- Last of Her Kind: After the death of Dolhan in Rance VI, she becomes the last Insect User alive.
- Nubile Savage: Downplayed. She comes from a tribe of Insect Users who were known for their more traditional and down-to-earth practices, and she's a cute looking woman but doesn't exude sexiness.
- Standard Status Effects: She can poison or paralyze her enemies with darts.
- Stone Wall: One of her most powerful abilities is to turn into a huge chunk of stone, which renders her immune to any damage but leaves her unable to attack.
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair: She has green hair.
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