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Main Characters
Reisalin "Ryza" Stout
- Voiced by: Yuri Noguchi
- Farmer's Daughter: Ryza was raised on a farm, and is a tomboy with a taste for adventure. She also dresses the part with her short shorts.
- Fashionable Asymmetry: Ryza's belt sits lopsided at her waist, and she only wears her right glove but not the left.
- I Choose to Stay: Despite being the one who was so eager to leave at the start, Ryza is the only one of the main cast that decides to stay in Kurken to take care of all the loose ends. While she still thinks that she may want to see the outside world someday, she's no longer in a rush to leave.
- Jumped at the Call: Even before discovering alchemy, Ryza is actively searching for a call to adventure.
- Magic-Powered Pseudoscience: True to almost every Atelier protagonist, Ryza possesses an innate ability that allows her to perform alchemy despite it also being treated akin to science (repeatable outcomes, predictable results, recipes, etc.) Empel outright states that he needs to assess whether she has an innate talent before moving forward with alchemy lessons.
- Ms. Fanservice: Ryza's design is more overtly sexualized than previous Atelier protagonists (who tend to lean more towards "cute" than "sexy"). She has Jiggle Physics on her model, and in an interview
, producer Junzo Hosoi revealed that character designer Toridamono put special focus on Ryza's thighs, which is shown in the storefront trailer which starts with a closeup of her legs. One of her DLC outfits is just her regular clothes without her jacket, and it shows off even more skin. Funnily enough, while the art team knew exactly what they were doing, Hosoi later admitted in a post launch interview that he and his team don't see her as the most sexualized Atelier protagonist and were genuinely confused at the level of the fans' response:Junzo Hosoi: Our approach was to make a cute character without any sexual innuendo whatsoever. Everyone sort of looks at her as sort of being sexy, and that’s completely not how we look at her, so that really caught us by surprise. (Laughs) - Navel Window: Ryza's tank top has a very subtly raised hem, showing a hint of her belly button.
- Shipper on Deck: Believes there's more to Empel and Lila's travelling together than professional synergy.
- Surpassed the Teacher: She becomes a much better alchemist than Empel by the last fourth of the game, after which Empel sees her as a Child Prodigy. She's even able to figure out why the Klint Kingdom would want to purposefully cause the Philusca to invade the Oren lands when Empel couldn't over hundreds of years just by looking at the Ravenger Queen's corpse, something that shocks the entire party, Empel included.
- Tomboy: She's one of the more active members of her circle of friends.
- Utility Belt: A purely cosmetic one that holds some phials and bottles.
- Vapor Wear: One of Ryza's DLC costumes is simply her regular outfit without her jacket; it reveals that her tank top is cut low enough in the back and sides that it is impossible for her to be wearing a bra.
Lent Marslink
- Voiced by: Takuma Terashima
- BFS: His main weapon is a gigantic sword that is almost as long as he is tall.
- The Big Guy: Lent is the largest and most combative of Ryza's friends, using his strength to keep the group safe.
- But Now I Must Go: He announces that he's leaving the village to become a Knight Errant in the ending.
- Character Development: By the end of the game, he realizes that just arriving somewhere and bragging about it isn't the point of being an adventurer, that the journey and his own personal growth that comes from it are what he really wants.
- Dumb Muscle: He's the first to admit he's only good for manual labor and fighting. Because of this, he knows he will have to become the best at those to get a career and leaves to become a knight at the end of the game.
- Hopeless Suitor: A few late game lines from him and Tao imply he's got a crush on Lila, but realizes that she deeply loves Empel on top of seeing him as a child and student so he doesn't act on it.
- Missing Mom: His mother left his father, Samuel, because he's a raging alcoholic.
- Mr. Fanservice: He's built like a lion, and in addition to his shirt baring his midriff, his pants are rather low cut.
- Only Sane Man: In the starting trio. Despite being the group's Dumb Muscle, he's the one who tries to use reason to plot the gang's next move, since Ryza always lands at the most insane and risky option first while Tao is too much of a coward to have valid input on their course of action.
Tao Mongarten
- Voiced by: Yui Kondo
- Book Worm: His personal goal while working with Empel is to learn how to translate a lost language that is found in a number of books in the library. After founding Atelier Ryza, he moves piles of books to the hideout as well.
- Boys Like Creepy Critters: Averted. He will occasionally voice his disgust when you collect insect materials.
- But Now I Must Go: He applies for college in the capital with Bos in the ending.
- Cowardly Lion: Tao often expresses doubt about the party's next adventure, and tries to convince them to reconsider, but in the end he always goes along with them because he'd never abandon his friends.
- Monster Compendium: Some of his personal Party Skill unlocks are tied to the completion of the guide’s monster section.
- Nerd Glasses: Tao is the nerdiest party member, being obsessed with reading and translating his ancient books, and this trait of his is visually represented by the large, round glasses he wears.
- The Smart Guy: Tao is the bookworm of the gang: his motivation for joining the adventure was to learn how to read ancient script from Empel.
- Sword Beam: More like Hammer Beam, but Tao Mongarten attacks by swinging his hammer, launching energy waves at enemies.
- Token Mini-Moe: He's two years younger than Ryza and Lent, and seems to have only barely started with puberty.
Klaudia Valentz
- Voiced by: Hitomi Ohwada
- Ambiguously Gay: She admits to being in love with someone and tries to ask Ryza if there's anyone she loves too before changing the subject if you talk to her in the post-game, and the only person she's shown to be overly attached to is Ryza.
- But Now I Must Go: She knew from the beginning that she would have to leave with her father soon while training to take over his business. She does after saving the island, but at the same time she reveals this to the gang, everyone except Ryza reveals they were leaving town too.
- Hero of Another Story: Gets the chance to be the protagonist in the stand-alone Atelier Klaudia DLC.
- Lonely Rich Kid: Due to her father's job as a trade tycoon, she's never stayed in one spot long enough to make friends as his job involves travelling from place to place in order to create new business opportunities. However, since the trade project in Kurken is more complex than usual, they end up staying for a longer period of time, during which she becomes a member of Ryza's circle of friends.
- Missing Mom: Klaudia’s mom suffered from an unnamed illness. Doubles as her Freudian Excuse, since she says she once gave a flute recital to her mother and father after her mother taught her how to play. Since then, every time she plays for her father he looks sad, hence why she is so reluctant to play in front of people.
- Musical Assassin: Klaudia's weapon is a flute, which damages enemies with its music.
- Not a Morning Person: Admits this when asked to write about Ryza's home village.
Empel Vollmer
- Voiced by: Hirofumi Nojima
- Batman Gambit: Pulls one off when summoned by the village. To elaborate, Empel and Lila are accused of causing the dragon to attack and being the cause of why the fishermen can no longer catch anything, despite Ryza pointing out the truth. Knowing Bos’ pride would lead to this kind of situation, Empel has Ryza use her alchemy skills to develop a monster attractor and has it triggered to go off during the trial. This lets him prove his innocence, deal with the monster, and do so in a place away from Kurken.
- But Now I Must Go: Continues his quest with Lila in the ending.
- Career-Ending Injury: Has a nerve injury in his arm due to messing up a synthesis for a powerful explosive, which stops him from fighting or doing complex alchemy. You later make him a prosthetic arm which helps him get back into the fight.
- The Exile: Is actually living in exile from the Rotewasser kingdom. He reveals that he used to be a court alchemist, but fell victim to a scheme by a fellow alchemist whom he trusted deeply.
- Expy: Empel plays a very similar role to Keithgriff from Atelier Ayesha, being a retired alchemist who takes on a mentor role for the protagonist and is later revealed to be investigating and combating the harm caused by abuse of alchemy by the Abusive Precursors.
- Freudian Excuse: Why Empel shuts down any discussion of Ryza using alchemy to help fix his arm. At first Ryza thinks he must find the alchemic recipe for a prosthetic immoral since it’s from the Klint kingdom. In reality, Empel has been carrying around a lot of trust issues since being betrayed by an alchemist he trusted. Lila points out that Ryza is the change for good he has been searching for in alchemy. He’s able to overcome his issues and expresses excitement at working alongside another alchemist again.
- Genius Sweet Tooth: Empel is an ex-alchemy master and magician, and also loves his sweets, despite him not really looking like the type to have a sweet tooth. His menu portrait shows him holding a pink frosted donut in his mouth while reading an ancient scroll. A DLC mini-chapter involves making the donut, and apparently it's obscenely sweet.
- Item Caddy: One of his benefits as a party member is being able to equip four core items for use in battle or the field.
- Kangaroo Court: Invokes this trope by name when receiving a summons to appear before the village council.
- Horrible Judge of Character: His backstory focuses on the time his trusted friends asked him to create a huge bomb and he didn't even consider that when someone wants a extremely powerful explosive device that they might be terrorists planning a coup. He ends up nearly killing himself by accident trying to create it, then became the fall guy for the whole plot before he realized what had happened.
- Magic Staff: Like Ryza, he also wields a staff, but unlike her, he uses it as a ranged weapon, firing magic attacks from the back line.
- Mentor Archetype: He can't use alchemy anymore, but he helps Ryza discover her own alchemy talents. He's also a mentor to Tao, to a lesser extent, giving him pointers on how to read Klint Kingdom script and getting him started on translating ancient books.
- Really 700 Years Old: Lila mentions he's the same as her in being really damn old, Empel having done something with alchemy to stop his own aging long ago. He's implied to be a little younger than Lila, but not by much.
Lila Decyrus
- Voiced by: Haruka Terui
- Big Eater: Pretty much anything she has to say about gathering materials has to do with eating.
- But Now I Must Go: Continues her quest to seal the gates with Empel in the ending.
- Demihuman: Lila has grey skin and hair, claw-like fingernails fur-or feather-like fluff around her forearms, and what seems to be very large ears folded back against her hair. Later it's revealed that she's of a race called the Oren, natives to the Underworld.
- Everyone Can See It: Ryza, Klaudia, and Romi all can tell Lila has obvious romantic feelings towards Empel but won't admit it due to how cold and aloof she is.
- Extreme Omnivore: Some of the gathering items she wants to eat are VERY questionable. About the only things she won't try to snack on are literal rocks.
- Ms. Fanservice: Considering her huge breasts, skintight bodysuit, and that she has Jiggle Physics like Ryza, she fits the trope.
- Really 700 Years Old: Lila is actually an Oren, a long-lived species from the Underworld. She's been around since the age of the Klint Kingdom.
- Undying Loyalty: Empel saved her life, despite her attempts to downplay what happened. She makes it clear to the party on joining that Empel's safety comes above everyone's to her. Where he goes, she follows, and will protect him for as long as she lives.
- Wolverine Claws: Lila uses a pair of oversized metal claws.
- You Can't Go Home Again: Her ultimate goal is to seal every gate to the Underworld, even if that means she's stuck in this world away from her people forever.
Supporting Characters
Bos Brunnen
- Amazon Chaser: His crush on Kilo starts from seeing how absurdly powerful she is.
- The Atoner: When he finds out just how the Brunnen family came to control the island's water supply, he becomes determined to personally make it right.
- The Bully: Bos is often seen antagonizing Ryza and her friends, whether through verbal or physical assault.
- But Now I Must Go: Applies to college in the capital with Tao in the ending.
- Freudian Excuse: There's a reason why he's constantly bullying Ryza and her friends: when they were younger, Ryza fell into a raging river. While Lent and Tao tried to hold on to her, Bos ran off to get help. However, the other friends misunderstood his intentions and thought he was abandoning them. Since then, he's always been trying to prove to them that he's not a coward.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Bos is always bullying Ryza and her friends, but deep inside he's a good person. When he learns that his family's fortune was built on water stolen from the Underworld, he's horrified, and even tries destroying the water orb. Shortly afterwards, he becomes friends with the gang once again.
- Ship Tease: A lot of his interactions with Ryza early in the story border on Belligerent Sexual Tension. Later in the story, it seems that his intentions with Kilo are a little more personal than the matter of honor that develops during the story, which doesn't go unnoticed by the other characters.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: While his father actually seem appropriately supportive of him, Bos is nonetheless driven by a desire to do right by his family name. He's not fighting to earn his father's respect, but rather to maintain it.
Ryza's Parents
Karl Stout
Ryza's father. He runs a farm next to the family's house in the village of Kurken.- Gentle Touch vs. Firm Hand: Is the gentle touch to Mio's firm hand. He believes that by showing infinite patience to Ryza she will eventually come around to being responsible to her duties on the family farm.
- In Harmony with Nature: Has shades of this. He describes the farm as a living being and talks about the importance of listening to what the fields are saying.
Mio Stout
Ryza's mother. She works the family farm alongside her husband Karl. She is often depicted scolding Ryza for shirking her duties.- Gentle Touch vs. Firm Hand: Of Ryza's parents, you can expect Mio to be the one who comes down on Ryza like a ton of bricks.
Other Characters
Lubert Valentz
Klaudia's father. He is the head of a large trading company established in his first generation and lives with a caravan.- Meal Ticket: Seen this way by the local townsfolk. Many of them express excitement at the prospect of redeveloping the village using Lubert's wealth.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He is understandably reluctant to have his sheltered daughter running around fighting monsters with nobody for protection but a few barely-trained kids; when his daughter makes it clear how determined she is, though, he's willing to set tests to let you prove you can protect her. The tests he chooses are reasonable (only the final one has any real danger), and he reveals midway through that he was actually giving you a chance to prove yourself to other villagers as much as to him, since he realizes they haven't recognized your growth.
Moritz Brunnen
Bos's father, a powerful man who controls the water source of the village where Ryza lives.Lumbar Dorn
Bos' friend and lackey, often seen following him and going along with his plans.Samuel Marslink
Lent's father. Samuel is a washed-up ex-mercenary who is now an abusive drunkard.- Abusive Parents: Often physically hits his son Lent when he gets angry.
- The Alcoholic: He is often seen drunk, to the point where in one scene, Ryza is surprised to see him sober.Lent: Yeah. He gets violent when he's drunk, and even more violent when he can't keep drinking.
- Hidden Depths: On scene reveals that he collects coins, and has quite an extensive knowledge of them.
Agatha Harmon
Romy Voler
A quirky travelling trader who visits the island from time to time. She also asks Ryza some items so her job would be much easier, but she often teases Ryza, much to her annoyance.Kilo Shiness
An Oren woman called a spirit messenger. She keeps fighting alone to protect important things.- In the Hood: Wears a dark blue and silvery poncho with a hood that covers most of her face
Pamila
A wanderer known to "float" from place to place, most recently finding an interest in Ryza's village.- Inconsistent Dub: Ryza's dialogue occasionally refers to her as "Pamela".
- Legacy Character: Although her name is slightly different, she's most likely the latest "Pamela Ibis" to appear in an Atelier game.
