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== Our Heroes ==
=== Duran ===
A mercenary swordsman hailing from the mountainous land of Forcena and son of the Golden Knight Loki, who famously aided King Richard in felling the power-hungry Dragon Emperor. Duran sets out to become the strongest warrior in the world after a humiliating defeat at the hands of Altena's Crimson Wizard.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Duran include:}}
* [[Cool Sword]]
* [[Failure Knight]]: His defeat at Koren's hands prompts him to leave the service of the knights until he redeems himself.
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* [[Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards]]: A plot point at the start of Duran's quest. He wants the Sword of Mana so he can defeat the wizard Koren, who Duran was not able to stop when the latter attacked Forcena. Averted in the actual gameplay, however, since all of Duran's possible classes end up learning magic of some kind.
* [[Magic Knight]]: In the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' tradition of Magic Knights, Duran's spell specialty is giving elemental attributes to weapons.
* [[Mighty Glacier]]: Duran gets this label sometimes, although a little unfairly as his swing reset timer is the same as the other characters. The main reason is probably because he doesn't strike twice per attack like the other two males, who use daggers and [[Good Old Fisticuffs]] respectively.
=== Angela ===
The daughter of the Queen of Reason and princess of the magic kingdom of Altena, Angela failed to show any sign of magical prowess during her childhood. When her mother decides to make up for this by choosing her as the sacrifice for a powerful spell, she makes a break for it.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Angela include:}}
* [[Black Mage]]
* [[Hot Witch]]: As she levels up and gains ability. She had the Hot part before she gained the magic to match.
* [[Rebellious Princess]]
* [[Sideboob]]: In her SNES sleeping animation. The remake covers her up to the shoulders when sleeping so this isn't prominent anymore.
* [[Spoiled Brat]]: Played with; she acts like one, but [[Lonely Rich Kid|feels neglected and rejected by her mother]] because of her difficulty learning magic.
* [[Squishy Wizard]]: With an extra helping of [[Hello, Nurse!|Squishy]].
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{{quote|''"My, what are young girls thinking these days, running around dressed like that?"''}}
* [[Well Done Daughter Girl]]: As mentioned above, she feels neglected by her mother. Her main motivation for going along on [[The Quest]] is to gain the power of magic from the spirits, and to get the Sword of Mana, in order to force her mother to at least acknowledge her as something other than a failure.
* [[Valley Girl]]: How she speaks in the remake, fits with her naive, upper class upbringing.
=== Kevin ===
Kevin is the son of the Beast King, and thereby the prince of the Beast Kingdom. His mother disappeared around the time he was born, and as he grew up he associated with his fellow Beastmen less and less, preferring the company of a wolf cub he names Karl. However, he discovers his own Beastman strength when Karl attacks him and he kills the cub in of self-defense. Overhearing that the Beast King had orchestrated his wolf's attack on him, he attacks his father in a rage only to be swatted aside with ease. Denied his revenge, he sets out to find a way to bring his only friend back to life.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Kevin include:}}
* [[Bare-Fisted Monk]]
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: Human Mom, Nonhuman Dad
* [[Healing Hands]]: Can pick this up on one of his Light-Side class routes.
* [[Hulk Speak]]: Oddly, the full-blooded Beastmen don't talk like this.
** This is to reflect how his isolation from society has affected him, since he speaks mostly to a wolf cub most of the time while growing up. This comes across better in the remake, with his speech being very stilted and stuttery.
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Especially with his attack bonus at night, almost to [[Game Breaker]] status.
* [[Missing Mom]]
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* [[Wrestler in All of Us]]: With the sole exception of his starting class, all of his classes learn some kind of throw technique in addition to their normal tech.
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{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Charlotte include:}}
* [[Bratty Half-Pint]]
* [[Dub Name Change]]: Her name in the original Japanese script is "Charlotte". The change to Carlie for the [[Fan Translation]] was due to space constraints.
* [[Epic Flail]]
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: Human Dad Non
* [[Healing Hands]]: Basically [[The Medic|the default medic]], and is the only hero to ''start'' with recovery magic.
* [[Holy Hand Grenade]]: Her Bishop class gains the [[Turn Undead]] spell.
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* [[Immortality Begins At Twenty]]: Gloriously averted. At the age of fifteen, she has both the body and mind of a five year old.
* [[Nice Hat]]
* [[Older Than They Look]]: She's fifteen but due to aging slower looks like a child.
* [[Third Person Person]]
* [[Verbal Tic]]: Carlie is very childlike, 'n shtuff, in her shpeech, m'kay? (This is a [[Woolseyism]] in the fan translation of her Katakana use in the Japanese version.)
** The remake opts more for rendering her words in a very exaggerated New Yorker accent (as spoken via a little girl) to achieve a similar effect.
* [[White Mage]]
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{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Hawkeye include:}}
* [[Bishounen]]: Put him and Angela in the same party and she will flirt with him. She'll also remark that he's 'cute' (complete with a heart) if she confronts him in Rolante.
* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: He'll try to charm the ladies at every chance he gets, asking Lise or Angela out in Jad and striking a pose while telling the Altenian soldiers "not to get so excited". But the worst transgression he ever commits is giving a Lise a (not entirely unwelcome) peck on the cheek if she confronts him in Rolante.
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* [[Spam Attack]]: His Level 3 Tech for his Rogue class is called "Thousand Slice". Essentially it's the [[More Dakka]] principle applied to melee knife strikes.
▲=== Lise ===
The princess of the Wind Kingdom of Rolante, and a fierce wielder of the lance. The Navarre raiders took her castle, killed her father, and kidnapped her brother. Now she, too, is out for justice.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Riesz include:}}
* [[Action Girl]]
* [[Blade on a Stick]]
* [[Cool Big Sis]]
* [[Hot Amazon]]: A large portion the fan art for this game is of
** To get an idea of ''how'' large a portion? On [[Danbooru]], she accounts for not only 90% of ''Seiken Densetsu 3'' art, but 2/3 of all ''[[World of Mana|Seiken Densetsu]]'' art!
* [[Jack of All Stats]]: She isn't quite as balanced as
* [[Light Is Good]]: She IS a blonde.
* [[Magic Knight]]: With a focus on [[Status Buff|status buffs]] or debuffs, depending on which class
* [[Promotion to Parent]]: Following her mother's [[Death by Childbirth]] with Elliot.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Riesz/Rizu/Reese/Lise--"Lise" is used
* [[Stripperiffic]]: In the Fenrir Knight class only, but in it she beats out even Angela. Its costume is simply a bikini and a wolfskin cape.
* [[Token Wholesome]]: In terms of personality at least among the female heroes. While her outfit is a bit skimpy (though logical given her fighting style), she acts polite and responsible. By contrast, Angela is a bit stuck up and haughty while Charlotte is stubborn and impulsive.
== The Villains ==
=== The Dragon Emperor ===
An evil dragon with no specified origin baring that he waged a war and was believed to have been killed by Duran's father Loki. He in fact survived and {{spoiler|turned Loki into his servant the Darkshine Knight.}} Wants to become a god and make life a living hell for everyone in the world.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by The Dragon Emperor include:}}
* [[A God Am I]]: This is about as far as his characterization goes. Is he a real [[Physical God]] or just an egomaniac dragon? Never explained.
* [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever]]: His true form is by far the largest enemy in the game, he's so big you don't even see his whole body.
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==== Koren ====
An [[Evil Sorcerer]] that serves the Dragon Emperor, who attacked Forcena at the start of the game and nearly killed Koren. He boasts to be the strongest wizard in the world. {{spoiler|turns out that he was originally a no talent attempt at a mage and because he was abused by his teacher }}
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Koren include:}}
* [[The Dragon]]: A particularly ironic case given that he is [[The Dragon]] to an ''actual dragon'', whereas Koren himself is human.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: {{spoiler|Like Angela, he had no inborn ability to use magic whatsoever. The Dragon Emperor offered to make him into a powerful wizard [[Deal with the Devil|in exchange for a piece of his soul.]] Koren got all the power he wanted, but after his defeat decides life isn't worth living without that part of his soul kills himself.}}
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==== The [[Black Knight|Darkshine Knight]] ====
A powerful warrior serving the Dragon Emperor. {{spoiler|Is in fact Duran's father Loki, who was injured fatally by the Dragon Emperor, but seeing the value in him as a minion, he revived him as his servant. His mind-control breaks after his death.}}
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by The Darkshine Knight include:}}
* {{spoiler|[[Brainwashed and Crazy]]}}
* [[The Brute]]
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=== The Masked Mage ===
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by The Masked Mage include:}}
* [[Big Bad]]
* [[Expy]]: {{spoiler|Of Thanatos the Dark Lich, [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Secret of Mana]]''}}
* [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]]:
* {{spoiler|[[Luke, I Am Your Father|Heath, I am your father]]}}
* [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]]: Is generally considered the weakest of the three [[Big Bad]]s.
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==== Deathjester ====
[[Monster Clown]] that serves the Masked Mage, and not much else is revealed about him.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Deathjester include:}}
* [[The Dragon]]
* [[Evilly Affable]]
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==== Fallen Cleric {{spoiler|Heath}} ====
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this Fallen Cleric include:}}
* {{spoiler|[[Brainwashed and Crazy]]}}
* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Not when he's the one using it, anyways.
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=== The Dark Prince ===
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by The Dark Prince include:}}
* [[Big Bad]]
* [[Complete Monster]]: {{spoiler|despite Bigieu feelings for him and her [[Undying Loyalty]], he's not affected by her death and considered her an acceptable loss.}}
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==== Bigieu ====
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Bigieu include:}}
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: Goes into this if you don't take the Hawk/Lise route, in which case {{spoiler|the [[Big Bad]] of your route destroys the Dark Prince's remains, ensuring he can never be resurrected. Not wanting to face a world without her beloved, she murders Jagan when he tells her he plans to try stealing the Sword to merge the two worlds anyway, and then after delivering the exposition to you, kills herself.}}
* [[The Dragon]]: To the Dark Prince.
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==== Jagan ====
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Jagan include:}}
* [[High Collar of Doom]]: He's got the typical vampire look down pat.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]
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== The God Beasts ==
Powerful elemental monsters that were sealed away by the Goddess at the creation of the world, and they threaten it once again when they break free after the villains release the energy from the Mana Stones.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by The God Beasts include:}}
* [[Dark Is Evil]]/[[Light Is Not Good]]
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: All of them.
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== Elemental Spirts ==
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by the Elemental Spirts include:}}
* [[Elemental Powers]]
** [[An Ice Person]]/[[Making a Splash]]: Undine
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* [[Light Is Good]]/[[Dark Is Not Evil]]
* [[Sealed Good in a Can]]
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