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Rakios
Rakios is the name of the kingdom where Yuuto and Kaori landed. It is the northernmost country in the world of Phantasmorgia and holds an alliance with two of the other four small countries that make up the northern area. The king is highly aggressive and has ambitions to conquer the world.
Takamine Yuuto
Yuuto is the protagonist of Eien no Aselia. He is an average student who is rather stubborn and quite hot headed. He's also rather popular with girls, but fails to notice. At the beginning of the story, he is dragged from his world to the land of Phantasmorgia in order to fulfill a Deal with the Devil he made to save his sister's life. He is quickly turned into a slave soldier and forced to fight in order to protect Kaori. Due to his status as an extremely powerful Etranger, he is quickly put in charge of the Rakios military. He wields the rank four Eternity Sword Desire.
A Real Man Is a Killer: Averted; Yuuto makes it a point to never grow accustomed to killing spirits. Kaori is also initially horrified to learn he's become a soldier for her sake.
Awesome, but Impractical: Eternal skills generally do an absolutely immense amount of damage, but have either low amounts of uses or have an incredibly low Mind range, limiting their real effectiveness. They're also pretty taxing on Mind, so even at the max you can only use the attacks about twice before falling out of it.
Bishōnen: Yuuto is easily the prettiest male in the game, though still not quite girly with the muscles he has to develop.
Brother-Sister Incest: Kouin calls Yuuto a siscon for how protective he is of Kaori, though in fact it's the other way around; Kaori loves him but she's firmly in the sister category and has no ending.
Brought Down to Badass: Yuuto has a moment in Aselia's route. While Desire is occupied with healing Aselia, Yuuto is forced to fight without the sword. As such, he uses a stick, fights around a dozen guards, managing to kill one and take his sword, then kills all of the rest of them. Afterwards, he survives fighting the spirits long enough so that Aselia is able to save his life.
Chick Magnet: Yuuto gains the love or at least deep respect of essentially every female character in the story and was quite popular at his old school. Not that he ever noticed. Kyouko and Kouin, on the other hand...
Childhood Friends: With Kyouko and Kouin, which can turn into a love triangle.
Deal with the Devil: The story begins because Yuuto made a deal with Desire so that if Desire saved Kaori, Yuuto would agree to wield him. The actual deal was apparently something more like 'You'll be my slave and do whatever I tell you' but Yuuto resists have it work like that.
Doom Magnet: Yuuto thinks of himself as one, though it's unclear if he really is or not.
Fatal Flaw: Yuuto's would be impulsiveness and anger. More than once he nearly gets himself killed for it. Worse, he nearly kills Kaori when his rage and hatred grow too strong.
Ineffectual Loner: Yuuto has serious problems accepting assistance but while competent at his job (raising Kaori or fighting) is not quite good enough to do it alone.
Laser-Guided Amnesia: Yuuto's memory of contracting with Desire was wiped until it was time to fulfill it. And his memory is also later wiped by Tokimi after Desire is destroyed so that he thinks he won and the fight is over.
Oblivious to Love: As many as four people can tell Yuuto they love him during a route while he was completely oblivious. Kouin on the other hand will instantly notice Helion's crush as well as Shiah and Nelie's attachment and Kyouko will be suspicious at all the girls calling him Yuuto-sama, though she tends to exaggerate.
Purposefully Overpowered: Yuuto is going to be your best unit. Near the end of the game, he gains the ability to be an all rounder, meaning he can do the attack, defense and support roles all at once, and he'll still be better than your full units. He does start off a little slow, though. Also, Eternals in general. In fact, they should be even more overpowered than they are!
Sanity Slippage: There are early events about Yuuto's difficulty in suppressing his sword where he generally falls more and more under its control until he finally manages to be able to resist properly. There's also an 'evil' route in the original version where he falls under Desire's power.
Sympathy for the Devil: At the end, Yuuto thinks to himself he could easily have ended up like Shun without friends. He also doubts Shun would have ever tried to hurt Kaori.
Took a Level in Badass: Yuuto upon getting Wisdom. If anyone becomes an Eternal as well, they count as well.
Unskilled, but Strong: Yuuto tends to bulldoze through most of the game with sheer power until Uruka joins and starts teaching him actual technique.
Unwitting Pawn: Yuuto actually does realize that the situation is way too contrived to be mere chance, but is still helpless to act against it because his sister is still being held captive by his old school enemy. See Evil Plan.
Vitriolic Best Buds: Yuuto and Desire get along fairly well when Desire wasn't doing the whole 'try and make Yuuto my evil puppet' thing. He's even sad when Desire dies.
Aselia is the primary heroine of Eien no Aselia, as you may have guessed from the title. She is very quiet and inexpressive, but hidden deep beneath this exterior is... a ditz. As a blue spirit, she is a very powerful and talented sword fighter, though she has a tendency to be too direct.
Esperia is the next heroine of Eien no Aselia and the first of the spirits that the reader gets to meet. She is very polite and reserved but appears to have some hidden traumas and self esteem issues. She is primarily a defense and support unit and excels at these tasks.
Florence Nightingale Effect: Though as a multiple endings kind of thing it's not necessarily reciprocated. She is more or less the secondary heroine after Aselia, though.
Orpha is the last of the Rakios main spirits and the youngest. She is a fire spirit and has a lot of potential, but due to her age she tends to be rather fragile. She is very energetic and excitable and quickly decides that Yuuto is her papa. As a red spirit, she focuses almost entirely on magic and is terrible at both defense and direct attacks.
Ambiguous Innocence: Orpha has something of a sadistic streak due to being raised to believe that killing and violence are good things. She genuinely doesn't understand why Yuuto is disturbed.
Really 700 Years Old: Orpha appears to be the blueprint for spirits and is at least ten thousand years old.
Squishy Wizard: Orpha, even by standards of red spirits. It's not strange for Yuuto to have six times the amount of health she does plus infinitely better shields.
Lesteena is the princess of Rakios. While the king is very harsh and condescending, Lesteena appears very cold and dismissive, though it is clear from early on that this is mostly an act. She is the only heroine incapable of fighting. In order to get close to Lesteena, Yuuto has to bump into her when she's outside the castle in her Paper-Thin Disguise.
Ambiguous Situation: Lesteena's route ends with Yuuto staying in Phantasmorgia to try and start up a relationship with Lesteena again. He does run into Lemuria but... all the original problems are still in the way of the relationship if not more. After all, they don't remember that he's the hero that saved the world anymore.
Amnesiac Lover: Lesteena can't become an Eternal at all, though, Yuuto is genre savvy enough to not try reminding her since he can't stay in Phantasmorgia after he saves it so it's not a completely straight example. However, he 'accidentally' misses the gate out and plans to restart the relationship.
Beneath the Mask: Lesteena honestly doesn't know whether Lesteena or Lemuria is her real personality, but it's probably much closer to Lemuria. Unlike the wise, noble Queen Lesteena, Lemuria is a selfish genki girl with an obsession for waffles yofwals.
Blatant Lies: After the king is assassinated, Lesteena proclaims him to have been a man of peace who wouldn't want to see the world ruined by ambition. Considering Rakios just conquered four countries overnight, Yuuto isn't the only one somehow doubting the truth of her claims.
Paper-Thin Disguise: Lesteena's Lemuria persona was only supposed to fool people who didn't really know her in the first place, so when she runs across Yuuto while wearing it she's both astonished and later amused by the fact he couldn't see through it.
The Woman Wearing The Queenly Mask: It's obvious from early on that Lesteena is not happy about playing the ice queen role. So she vents by going out into town as 'Lemuria.'
Takamine Kaori
Kaori is Yuuto's little sister and harbors an obvious crush on him, though he never really notices. Despite her initially prominent role, she is quickly reduced to an objective and has little direct impact on the story.
Brother-Sister Incest: Kouin calls Yuuto a siscon for how protective he is of Kaori, though in fact it's the other way around; Kaori loves him but she's firmly in the sister category and has no ending.
Captivity Harmonica: It's a flute instead, but it's used exactly the same way.
Idiot Hair: But only when she's not wearing her hat.
Little Sister Heroine: She's of the devoted type. However, contrary to the expectations of the cast, the affections only go from her to Yuuto and she does not have a proper ending.
Nice Hat: Kaori's bunny hat. Yuuto thinks it's a little creepy.
Tragic Keepsake: After Yuuto becomes an Eternal, the only thing left that survived the rewriting of reality was the necklace that contained the last fragment of Desire, which Yuuto gave to Kaori before she returned to Earth.
Minor Spirits
In addition to the three primary spirits listed above, Rakios has a number of minor spirits that work as your general forces. There are three more blue spirits with Nelie, Shiah and Selia, two more red spirits with Himika and Nanaru, two more green spirits with Halion and Nimnthor and the two black spirits Faron and Helion.
Action Girl: Selia, Faron and Himika, for the most part. The others are decent fighters, but largely too young or spacy to really fit.
A Day in the Limelight: Occassionally, you can view scenes that focus on the secondary spirits and their interactions with the main characters, assuming they didn't die in any of the battles. It's also necessary to view those scenes in order to give them the highest rank.
Anti-Magic: Ice Banisher, a blue support skill. You're going to need it if you don't want red spirits shredding you.
Emotionless Girl: Nanaru is a more literal take on it than most because she has too great an affinity with her sword and lacks much in the way of an ego at the beginning. She doesn't even recognize that she's sad that Yuuto will be leaving until it's spelled out for her.
Fragile Speedster: Helion. Faron can actually make a fairly decent tank.
Genki Girl: Nelie. Shiah would be too except she's a little shy.
Killed Off for Real: If you lose a spirit in battle that is not a main character, they don't come back. Ever. Only in a new game + will they come back.
Through His Stomach: Helion learns cooking to impress Yuuto. Unfortunately for her, she A. lacks the confidence to do so and B. gets too easily distracted by the other spirits.
What Is This Feeling?: Nanaru near the end has to have it spelled out for her that she's sad because what she's feeling doesn't match what Yuuto told her 'emotion' was like.
Malorigan
The Malorigan Republic is the second most powerful nation in the world of Phantasmorgia. Located in the Western deserts, it is the only republic form of government and is led by Quedgin, a former scientist. It is less hostile than Sargios and maintains itself through its natural desert based defenses and strong economy.
Kyouko
When Yuuto and Kaori were dragged to the world of Phantasmorgia, Kyouko and Kouin were swept up with them. Upon arriving, they are eventually found by a Malorigan scouting squad and taken back for questioning. When it is established that they are Etrangers, the pair are presented with a pair of swords. Kyouko picks up the sword Void, but unfortunately she lacked the willpower to control it and was essentially turned into its puppet, though glimpses of her personality can be seen at times. If you manage to successfully save her, she turns into a powerful and speedy but rather fragile unit.
Amnesiac Lover: Kyouko gets left behind when Yuuto goes to become an Eternal. Yuuto is genre savvy enough to not try reminding her so it's not a completely straight example. However, Kyouko has Wistful Amnesia and ends up following him.
Badass: Though fragile, she tends to be a very useful offensive unit.
Brainwashed and Crazy: Kyouko's mind has been devoured by Void. And at the end, Shun has been devoured by The World.
Cannot Spit It Out: Kouin and Kyouko actually started dating without every confessing. Kouin doesn't want to confess to Kyouko unless she picks him over Yuuto, and Kyouko doesn't want to confess because she would prefer Yuuto. They both do like each other but...
Childhood Friend Romance: She's also caught in a love triangle between Kouin and Yuuto in her own route.
Cordon Bleugh Chef: Kyouko actually can cook. It just looks horrible because she'd rather focus on taste than appearance.
Dying as Yourself: If you don't recruit Kyouko, Yuuto accidentally hits her in the blow that was only meant to destroy Void. She returns to normal, but is mortally wounded.
Heel Face Turn: Kouin and Kyouko will make one after the first playthrough if you make the correct decisions.
Love at First Sight: In Kyouko's route, she's forgotten Yuuto but still loves him, so when he appears before her again she's incredibly confused. Then when she becomes an Eternal as well, the same happens for Kouin!
Mundane Utility: Kyouko uses her Etranger abilities in place of a hyperspace mallet. Though subverted when she accidentally nearly kills Yuuto and has to apologize, which probably led to a sex scene in the original version.
Like Kyouko, Kouin was also picked up by Malorigan. As an intelligent and rather crafty individual, he was able to work out a deal not only with Quedgin for prominent positions for himself and Kyouko, but also struck up a deal with his Eternity Sword Karma so that it and Void would work together to destroy the other two Eternity Swords first. Belying his appearance, he is actually a very calm, focused and strong willed individual, though he generally lacks charisma. If you successfully save Kouin, he turns into perhaps the most powerful defensive and support unit in the game.
Bromantic Foil: Kouin, though if you can hear his internal monologue he's actually a great deal more intelligent, competent and able than Yuuto. He just lacks the charisma.
Cannot Spit It Out: Kouin and Kyouko actually started dating without every confessing. Kouin doesn't want to confess to Kyouko unless she picks him over Yuuto, and Kyouko doesn't want to confess because she would prefer Yuuto. They both do like each other but...
Genre Savvy: Kouin knows that his willingness to kill spirits makes him a lot less sympathetic and heroic than the angsting Yuuto. Yuuto also has some decent savviness himself from time to time, though not as blatant.
Heel Face Turn: Kouin and Kyouko will make one after the first playthrough if you make the correct decisions.
Killed Off for Real: On a first playthrough and if certain requirements are not met on later games.
Lolicon: But really, he truly loves Kyouko.
Mighty Glacier: Kouin is an amazing defensive unit, has good defensive support and some of the most powerful elemental attacks in the game... that he can only use once per fight, meaning he won't be getting any critical hits if the defender is still up.
Quedgin is the president of Malorigan and a final scientist. He is a reasonable man, but is rather hard to get a grasp on. He is a former scientist, colleage and implied lover to Youtia. Unlike her genius, he is a largely average man, but he was able to figure out the plans of the Law Eternals and set up a plan by which either he destroys Phantasmorgia before they can recruit Shun or Yuuto becomes powerful enough to stop the plans of Temuorin on his own.
Screw Destiny: Quedgin believes that something is manipulating the world he lives in and would rather destroy the world than bend to their will. And he's actually correct, and this is not as extreme as it sounds.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Quedgin's plan actually was better than what would have happened if Yuuto hadn't become an Eternal.
Sargios
Sargios is by far the most powerful country in the world and occupies the southwestern corner of the continent. Little is known about its emperor, but the country appears to nurse some sort of grudge against Rakios and frequently meddles in its affairs.
Akitsuki Shun
Shun is an enemy of Yuuto's from school. His rather unpleasant personality grated at Yuuto, especially considering his obsession with Kaori. He feels that Yuuto is the true villain here and demands that he stop interfering with Kaori. Naturally, he's the last of the Etrangers pulled to Phantasmorgia and wields the most powerful sword, Oath. Unfortunately for him, it has largely corrupted his thoughts and made him even more violent and obsessed than normal.
Badass: Enough so that Yuuto is the only one who seems to be able to match up against him.
Big Bad: He's the final boss, but he's not the one behind the plot of the story.
The Man Behind the Man: Shun is the one really running the Empire, but Oath is controlling him.
Staying Alive:Justified in advance with a scene involving Tokimi that shows that Eternals rarely truly die even when killed (yes, really, not a metaphor this time) due to the abilities of their swords. Temuorin's three underling Eternals don't appear to have been doing such, but Temuorin, Takios, and Shun (Word of God confirmed) all basically retreated from the battlefield upon defeat. And if they were to reappear again, it would be justified since they're not really confirmed to be dead dead.
Uruka is the most powerful Rakios spirit and seems to function as an assassin and special agent. She is extremely skilled at swordplay and very fast. She has a strong sense of honor, no sense of humor and appears to enjoy fighting. She is later recruited and functions as the best black spirit in the game. She was sent or perhaps created in order to protect Orpha, but while Orpha was picked up by the 'good' guys, Uruka wound up with Sargios somehow.
Big Damn Villains: After conquering Sardbart, Lemuria is convinced her father's ambition is going to destroy the country and decides she has to stop him. Nice timing for Ulruka to show up and assassinate him, huh?
Blood Knight: Though she dislikes actually killing.
Japanese Pronouns: Uruka uses a rare and very humble first person pronoun, 'temae.'
Lethal Chef: Why is she so confident in her cooking abilities?
Soma
Soma is a human captain of Sargios and an extremely cruel man who makes even Shun look good by comparison. His past is tied to those of both Uruka and Esperia.
Eternals are immortal beings with immense power that wield high ranking Eternity Swords and godlike power. They fall into two major factions, Law and Chaos.
Tokimi
Tokimi is a mysterious miko that Yuuto meets at the beginning of the game even before venturing to Phantasmorgia. She wields at least two rank three Eternity Swords as well as a powerful magic fan. She has the ability to manipulate time and can see the future, an ability she had as a mortal that was strengthed when she gained Prophecy. She acts polite and dignified in front of others, but this is merely a front for her rather sharp tongue and quick temper.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Tokimi. Only Yuuto and his lover ever seem to realize it. To be fair, Tokimi's quite pleasant so long as you never mention her age or in Yuuto's case have really bad sex with her.
Deus Sex Machina: Yuuto has to sleep with Tokimi to be able to undergo the test to become an Eternal. Esperia and Kyouko are not very happy about it in their routes. Then it is later revealed that the ritual was completely unnecessary, and Tokimi only lied about it so that she could sleep with Yuuto.
Stalker with a Crush: When you think about it, Tokimi has been watching Yuuto since before he was born and he's even a large part of the reason she became an Eternal in the first place.She's a little fixated on him.
Weak, but Skilled: Tokimi has only a rank 3 sword to fight against Shun's rank 2 (the power difference is apparently exponential) but can see the future and uses that to bridge the power gap and force him to leave.
Temuorin
Temuorin is the leader of the Law Eternals in Eien no Aselia. She is referred to as the Matriarch and looks like an extremely young girl. She wield the Eternity Sword Order, which takes the form of a staff. Behind her polite words she is extremely sadistic.
Big Bad: It's a bit tricky to say who between her and Shun is the Big Bad. Temuorin engineered the plot of the story, but Shun is stronger and the final fight as well as held up to be the real villain of the story.
Cute and Psycho: Temuorin looks even younger than Kaori and is perpetually cheery, but has a tendency to say some rather disturbing things. And also be a completely vicious Omnicidal Maniac.
Staying Alive:Justified in advance with a scene involving Tokimi that shows that Eternals rarely truly die even when killed (yes, really, not a metaphor this time) due to the abilities of their swords. Temuorin's three underling Eternals don't appear to have been doing such, but Temuorin, Takios, and Shun (Word of God confirmed) all basically retreated from the battlefield upon defeat. And if they were to reappear again, it would be justified since they're not really confirmed to be dead dead.
Takios
Takios is the lieutenant of Temuorin. Unlike the other Eternals, Takios seems to care for little but having a good fight. He has an unexplained connection to Wisdom, Yuuto's second Eternity Sword.
Staying Alive:Justified in advance with a scene involving Tokimi that shows that Eternals rarely truly die even when killed (yes, really, not a metaphor this time) due to the abilities of their swords. Temuorin's three underling Eternals don't appear to have been doing such, but Temuorin, Takios, and Shun (Word of God confirmed) all basically retreated from the battlefield upon defeat. And if they were to reappear again, it would be justified since they're not really confirmed to be dead dead.
Others
Below are any miscellaneous characters in Eien No Aselia. These range from acquaintances of Yuuto to Eternity Swords to largely neutral characters.
Kotori
Kotori is Kaori's best friend. Yuuto, as always, is quite oblivious to her crush.
Desire is Yuuto's Eternity Sword, a rank four blue weapon with an extreme case of bloodthirst that tries to control Yuuto in order to destroy his hated enemy Oath. Yuuto and Desire have a grudging partnership since their goals largely overlap, but neither can stand the personality of the other.
The Comically Serious: Occasionally, when he's not half killing Yuuto or urging him to murder, pillage and rape.
Evil Weapon: Eternity swords of rank 4 and 5 are intelligent enough to be rational unlike the lower ranked swords, but not rational enough to control their natures. After he dies, Yuuto realizes that Desire felt like he was constantly starving to death.
There Can Be Only One: Void, Karma, Oath and Desire all hate each other because they need to absorb each other. If another sword is clearly defeated, they become indifferent to whether they're actually dead or not.
Youtia
Youtia is the most intelligent person in Phantasmorgia and an extremely renowned scientist. She defected from Sargios out of disgust at their methods and essentially became a hermit.
Big Eater: Implied. She eats enough food for four people when she manages to badger Yuuto into making something for her. Then again, considering it's her, she may not have eaten in days.
Hot Scientist: Youtia... although her sprite is absolutely ridiculous looking due to her face being about about a third lower on her head than it should be.
Io Whitespirit
Io is a spirit that seems to be of a unique type. She claims her combat powers are low, but that her eternity sword has a lot of mundane utility.
Guest Star Party Member: She's available for use during Chapter V of Lesteena's route where it's shown rather conclusively that she is not in fact a crappy fighter. She plays as a more magically oriented blue spirit.
White-Haired Pretty Girl: Io, who is from a group of spirits so rare that even in their world she's strange.
Wisdom
Wisdom is a rank two Eternity Sword and the eventual replacement for Desire. He is very calm and thoughtful and expects the same values from his wielder.
Cool Sword: And unlike the sword he's replacing he's actually powerful enough to not have to try eating people.
Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Yuuto isn't very respectful towards the godlike Wisdom. Then again, by this point he's bordering on being a god himself.
Evil Weapon: Eternity swords of rank 4 and 5 are intelligent enough to be rational unlike the lower ranked swords, but not rational enough to control their natures. Rank 2 and 3 swords can control themselves, but do not always choose to do so.
There Can Be Only One: Void, Karma, Oath and Desire all hate each other because they need to absorb each other. If another sword is clearly defeated, they become indifferent to whether they're actually dead or not.
