The cast of Grandia III. As with many character pages, some spoilers will be unmarked. You Have Been Warned.
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Playable Characters
Yuki
Voiced by: Masaya Matsukaze (Japanese); Johnny Yong Bosch (English)
An aspiring young pilot, who idolises the legendary Sky Captain Schmidt, and wants to replicate his achievement of crossing the ocean on a his own plane. One day, he meets a strange girl, pursued by soldiers, and decides to help the girl - Alfina, on her journey.
- Blow You Away: Two of his Specials, Whirlwind and Blade Storm, are Wind-based.
- Calling Parents by Their Name: He almost always calls Miranda by her name. According to him, it just feels right, and she doesn't mind. When he does call Miranda "mom", it's a big deal.
- Calling Your Attacks:"Feel the bite of my blade! WHIRLWIND!"
- Call of the Wild Blue Yonder: Yuki wants to become a pilot, and has already built and crashed eighteen planes before the start of the story. There's also his dream of repeating Schmidt's crossing of the ocean on a plane, but he still wants to fly even without it. Tellingly, when Xorn's power shuts down flight units, Yuki seems desperate not only because he can't save Alfina, but also because he can no longer fly.
- Composite Character: Of Justin's idealism and craving for adventure and Ryudo's physical appearance and fighting style.
- Heroes Prefer Swords: He, like all protagonists in the series, uses swords as his weapon. He actually starts with a wrench, but his model still has him wielding a sword.
- Official Couple: With Alfina, as shown in the Distant Finale.
- Wrench Whack: He starts the game with the Silver Wrench as his weapon, even if his model shows him with a sword. All of his following weapons are swords, but at least you can sell the wrench for a nice amount of money.
- Younger Than They Look: He doesn't look nor sound like a sixteen-years old, but rather as twenty-something.
Miranda
Voiced by: Mayumi Wakamura (Japanese) and Michelle Ruff (English)
Yuki's mom, who raised him alone since her arrival to Anfog village. While her and Yuki's relationships may be closer to those of siblings, instead of parent and child, she cares for him deeply.
- Action Girl: She fights with dual daggers, and is quick to jump in action. She basically kickstarts the whole game when she spots Alfina being threatened by Raven, and attacks him without a second thought.
- Action Mom: She's the protagonist's mother, and a party member.
- Crutch Character: A minor example; she starts out the game four levels higher than Yuki, and while the rest of the party quickly catches up to her, she remains the most powerful for quite some time, helped by the fact that she comes with a skill that does extra damage to the type of monsters fought in the first area.
- Dishing Out Dirt: Her second special move, Force Slash, is Earth-based, and she comes equipped with the Tremor spell by default.
- Dual Wielding: Her weapon is dual daggers, although she usually leaves one dagger in sheath, and draws it only for her Specials.
- Expy: Of Lily, if she'd been a playable character rather than just a Retired Badass.
- Kick Chick: Her Aerial Combo has her kicking the airborne enemy several times, tossing them higher and higher.
- Older Than They Look: She doesn't look old enough to be a mother, period, much less a mother of a teenage boy.
- Put on a Bus: She and Alonso leaves the party and are never seen again.
Alfina
Voiced by: Haruka Kinami (Japanese) and Stephanie Sheh (English)
A Communicator, a priestess who can speak with Guardians, who's heading back to the Arcriff Sanctuary. However, en route she was attacked by mysterious soldiers, forcing her to rely on Yuki and Miranda for protection. She wants to find her brother, Emelious, who disappeared several years ago.
- Apologetic Attacker: When using Stun Force, she says "Sorry, this might hurt!" to the enemy.
- Damsel in Distress: Near the climax of the game Alfina reaches out to Emelious, who seems to finally heed her plea, but then something changes, and he kidnaps her and gets away on a dragon. She spends next few hours tied up with a nice view on Xorn's cocoon, until the party frees her just in time for the final battle.
- 11th-Hour Superpower: She learns Armageddon right before the final boss.
- Expy: Of Elena, only with Pointy Ears instead of singing. She even plays a similar role in the world's church.
- Magic Staff: She fights with various staves, and can create spheres and circles of light with its head to use as projectiles.
- Mystical Waif: She is a young girl with a unique power to speak with Guardians - basically gods of the world. Surely, villains want her power because Emelious needs it to feel "complete", as Communicator's power was split between two siblings in this generation, while Xorn needs it to destroy his seal and break free.
- Official Couple: With Yuki, as seen in the Distant Finale.
- Repressed Memories: She turns out to have repressed a memory of Emelious snapping and carving the other half of the Communicator mark on his hand. In a sequence where she explores her subconscious her normal memories are represented by doors, while this one is a secret passage, hidden behind a curtain.
Alonso
Voiced by: Shingo Katsurayama (Japanese) and Bob Buchholz (English)
A hapless sailor, who lost his ship in a gambling game. After the party helps him regain his vessel, he transports them across the ocean, and sticks with them for some time.
- Prongs of Poseidon: He is a sailor, who fights with tridents.
- Put on a Bus: Goes on a travel with Miranda and disappears from the plot.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Delivers an impressive one to Yuki after he jumps into a Versephere after Alfina and worrying both him and Miranda.
Ulf
Voiced by: Takeru Shibaki (Japanese) and Brian Beacock (English)
Alonso's acquaintance, Ulf hails from the Dragon Valley, and has a pet dragon to ride on. Quickly becoming friends with Yuki, he decides to help him on his journey.
- The Big Guy: While he's actually somewhat short, he has the highest attack and health among playable characters, but weak magic.
- Big Eater: During camp interactions he will often empty his bowl in one go. If he lands a final hit in a hard battle, he will also say that he wants to eat.
- Calling Your Attacks"Get ready to fry, maggots! INFERNO SPIKE!"
- Dragon Rider: He comes from the Dragon Valley, where everyone has a dragon partner to ride on. Ulf's dragon is called Shiba, and some cutscenes show him riding her, while Yuki and Alfina fly on the airplane.
- Epic Flail: Ulf wields a realistic flail as his weapon. What sets it apart is that he spins it constantly, stopping only when he's hit or uses his Specials.
- Expy: Of Rapp, albeit a bit more of a heavy physical hitter compared to Rapp's Fragile Speedster.
- Kill It with Fire: Three of his Specials, Flame Spike, Inferno Spike, and Red Lotus, are Fire-based.
- Little Bit Beastly: He has a tail, slitted pupils, and patches of fur on his arms and legs. It's apparently normal for people of the Dragon Valley, and the game's definition of "human" is already pretty lax.
- Pitiful Worms: A rare heroic example. He has a penchant for calling enemies "maggots", as seen in his attack call for Inferno Spike.
- You Can't Go Home Again: Since he ran away from the Dragon Valley, its people claimed him a traitor, and attack him on sight. While the party's visit to Valley's Guardian probably patched things up, he's still not at home in the ending stills.
Dahna
Voiced by: Sayaka Yoshino (Japanese); Jessica Straus (English)
The chief of the Baccula settlement, who has been appointed its head since her lover, Raven, encountered Emelious and mysteriously disappeared several years ago. Since then, she's grown cynical, trusting her cards more than she does people.
- Death Dealer: Dahna uses Tarot-like cards as projectiles, in both her normal attacks and skills. Somehow, they can strike with enough force to send the enemy flying.
- Fortune Teller: She uses Tarot-like cards in combat, and even recites their readings when she casts spells.
- Glass Cannon: Given the right magic, she can do a lot of damage, but she can't really take a hit.
- Her Heart Will Go On: After her lover Raven is killed by Emelious.
- Love Hurts: Her opinion when you first meet her.
- Squishy Wizard: Without equipped skills, she's guaranteed to have the lowest HP in the party, and will easily go down from certain enemy attacks. In exchange, she has the highest MP and MAG to effectively use them. You can even save on skill slots by not installing [Element] Mastery skills, as she has MP to spare even without them.
- Ms. Fanservice: Dresses as a gypsy-like fortune teller's outfit, with a bare midriff and a prominent cleavage.
Hect
Voiced by: Ayaka Maeda (Japanese); Rebecca Forstadt (English)
A mysterious girl, who Yuki and Alfina first meet after falling into a Versphere. Eventually, she turns out to be the mayor of Terrarium, the last town in the Verse Realm.
- A Child Shall Lead Them: She's notably young, and is even called a child by other inhabitants of Terrarium. It's never made clear how she ended up in the position, but her Communicator power may have something to do with it.
- Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Alfina notes that Hect has "such lonely eyes", wich is not surprising, as she has to rule a doomed town with little, if any, hope of salvation. She gets better when the party convince her to not give up hope.
- Expy: Has more than a bit in common with Liete.
- Guest-Star Party Member: She joins the party for what is essentially the last dungeon of the game before switching out with Alfina once you reach Xorn.
- Magic Music: She plays her violin to close Verspheres, and also uses it to summon her ultimate Special - Armageddon.
- Purposefully Overpowered: Hect is a notably strong party member, so you can effectively use her without having to learn another character's playstyle so late into the game. Even her basic Special, Crimson Shock, is a battlefield-wide Cancel attack, a godsend against hordes of enemies. Her other skills, magic, and even basic attacks are also pretty strong and useful.
- Squishy Wizard: She has even lower HP than Dahna, but comes equipped with very powerful skills and Last Disc Magic.
The Guardians
In General
- Animal Motifs: Bird, dragon, goat, horse, dolphin and seemingly bird again.
- Character Death: They are killed by Emelious.
- Disappears into Light: How they are shown to die.
- Off with His Head!: Gryph's and Seiba's deaths are the only two directly seen, and Emelious beheaded them both. There is no reason to believe he didn't decapitate Drak and Yoat as well.
- Physical God: They're the gods of the Grandia III world.
Gryph
Voiced by: Chieko Baisho (Japanese) and Paula Tiso (English)
The first Guardian seen and their leader, she appears as a massive bird.- Chekhov's Gun: In the end, it really is Alfina's love that turns Emellious.
- Giant Flyer: A massive bird.
- The Power of Love: Tells Alfina to never stop loving her brother right before she gets killed by said person.
- Top God: She is the leader of the Guardians.
Drak
Voiced by: Douglas Rye (English)
The second Guardian seen, Drak is known as the Dragon King and resides in Dragon Valley, which is Ulf's old home.- Blow You Away: He's heavily associated with wind.
- Playing with Fire: His orb's ability is a powerful, multi-hitting AOE attack that does Fire damage.
Yoat
Voiced by: Kim Strauss (English)
The third Guardian the party meets, he is a massive goat that is stated to guard the entire mainland by a girl in the Baccula Settlement, but likely only takes care of the Baccula region.- Killed Offscreen: Emelious kills him too, but his death is never seen.
- The Medic: Yoat's Orb is described as the "ultimate healing power," and indeed heals the entire party and revives anyone who has happened to bite it back to full health when used.
- Punny Name: Yoat is a giant goat.
Seiba
Voiced by: Douglas Rye (English)
The fourth Guardian the party meets, he is a giant horse-like being that guards the Vejas Jungle area.- Playing with Fire: Fire appears under him as he creates his orb to give to the party.
- Status Buff: His orb gives the effects of WOW! (fire-elemental Attack raising spell), Diggin' (earth-elemental defensive spell), and Runner (wind-elemental speed spell) to the entire party.
Unama
Voiced by: Sherry Lynn (English)
The last Guardian met by the party.- Dead All Along: Remarked on by Alfina after receiving Unama's Orb, in which she states how Unama will be able to rest now.
- Time Stands Still: The effect of Unama's Orb. It works on ANYTHING that's not the player characters, even bosses.
Villains
Emelious
Voiced by: Takashi Hagino (Japanese) and Fleet Cooper (English)
Alfina's brother and another Communicator, who suddenly disappeared several years ago. Now, he reappears, wielding a sword of unimaginable power, and seemingly wanting nothing more than speading death and destruction.
- Aloof Big Brother: Alfina looks up to him, and wants him to return. Emelious, meanwhile, treats her as if she didn't exist at all. He still has a soft spot for her, but being a follower of Xorn, who wants to eradicate all love, he suppresses his feelings.
- Big Bad: Seemingly so, but only for the earlier portions of the first disc. Then Xorn comes along.
- BFS: His Godslayer sword, seen on the cover of the game, is a huge, jagged blade, capable of killing Guardians. It's formed from the remains of Xorn, which explains its power.
- Broken Ace: Emelious is very talented, highly knowledgeable person, and a swordsman without equal. And yet, he has always felt "incomplete" due to sharing his Communicator's mark with Alfina. This led to him eventually snapping and allowing Grau to corrupt him.
- The Dragon: To Xorn.
- Expy: He's pretty much exactly like Melfice if he was Elena's brother instead of Ryudo's, right down to being the unwitting puppet of an evil god.
- Love Redeems: A platonic example. His love for Alfina forces him to finally abandon Xorn's nihilistic worldview, after he witnesses a vision of Alfina turning into glass.
- Redemption Equals Death: Moments after reconciling with Alfina, he suicidally attacks Xorn, and ends up turned into glass for his troubles.
- Scars Are Forever: He still has a Communicator mark-shaped scar on his hand, which he carved himself in an attempt to "become complete". But then again, that's probably what he wanted anyway.
Kornell
Voiced by: JB Blanc (English)
A large man, who works under Emelious's command.
- Berserk Button: He hates when somebody insults his intellect. Miranda accidentally pushing it leads to his second boss battle.
- The Brute: A large man with heavy weapon, who works for a more powerful villain, and is not very bright. He can be pretty nice when he doesn't fight you, though.
- Dual Boss: He fights alongside Violetta for one boss battle.
- Flunky Boss: He is assisted by two henchmen during the first battle against him.
- Power Fist: He wields a large metal gauntlet alongside his enormous axe. It has a separate cooldown, making its own attacks, and can us a Combination Attack with Violetta's Sinister Scythe.
- Token Good Teammate: He seems like a pretty nice dude, who happens to work for the wrong side. He isn't mad when Miranda foils him with a trap, and he dissapears from the plot when villains start to commit truly apocalyptic deeds.
- Warm-Up Boss: He is also the first boss battle in the game, and is also fought during a Forced Tutorial on cancelling enemy attacks.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: After being defeated by the party in front of Yoat, he disappears and is never seen again.
Violetta
Voiced by: Wendee Lee (English)
A young woman with a crush on Emelious, who follows him no matter what.
- Ax-Crazy: She laughs maniacally when Kornell wonders about Emelious killing them.
- Card-Carrying Villain: She brags about being "a bad girl" in voiceover for one of her attacks.
- Dual Boss: She fights alongside Kornell for one boss battle.
- Too Dumb to Live: She tries to awaken Xorn, using her love for Emelious as a catalyst. Xorn wants to eradicate all love. Do the math.
- Sinister Scythe: She carries a large scythe for combat. It has a separate cooldown, making its own attacks, and can us a Combination Attack with Kornell's Power Fist.
La-Ilim
A Necromancer who serves Emelious and confronts the party.
- Crystal Skull: His weapon, seen in the second battle with him. It has a separate cooldown, making its own attacks, and can ressurect his pet undead dragon.
- Flat Character: He never speaks in cutscenes, and his only on-screen actions only serve to confront the party, making his motivation (if it exists) unclear at best.
- Necromancer: He raises an undead dragon to fight the party.
- No Body Left Behind: When defeated, the only thing that remains of him is his mask/helmet/skull.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He can flee from his first battle if it takes long enough, depriving the player of sweet sweet EXP.
Grau
Emelious's henchman, abd seemingly the brains of the group.
- Evil Is Not a Toy: He meets his end when he attempts to control Xorn with the broken Godslayer. Considering how Xorn dealt with Violetta not long ago, he really should have seen it coming.
- The Unfought: The only villain who is never confronted by the party, mainly because he always stays on the sidelines, and then Xorn kills him when he (literally) backstabs Emelious and attempts to control Xorn.
Xorn (Unmarked Spoilers)
Voiced by: Douglas Rye (English)
A fallen Guardian, who was defeated in battle with other Guardians long ago. His remains were sealed in the ruins of his former domain, but now Emelious tries to ressurect him.
- Big Bad: The ultimate force of evil in the world, who was defeated by other Guardians long ago, but survived. Now he subtly manipulates several parties to complete his rebirth and destroy the world.
- Casting a Shadow: He seems to be darkness-themed, in that his body is nearly black (due to having a Celestial Body) and one of his attacks is actually called Darkness.
- Celestial Body: His body looks like a portal to space, with red nebulae covering the darkeness.
- Destroyer Deity: While this is not particularly brought to attention, Xorn was once a normal Guardian, who's still noted to "exist to destroy life". Guardians' hierarchy and jobs are never detailed, so it's quite possible that Xorn once was the designated destroyer of the group.
- Draconic Abomination: Xorn is less of a dragon, and more of a dragon-shaped hole in reality, with two giant eyes floating in the middle of his body.
- Evil Counterpart: To Gryph, since he has what appears to be feathery wings, makes a lot of black feathers appear during the windup to his Death Knell attack, and is a Guardian.
- Expy: Pretty much Valmar take 2, albeit one with more agency and character of his own.
- Final Boss: The last antagonist fought before the end of the game. Unusually for an Eastern RPG, he has only one form, but makes up for it with 128 thousands HP and immunity to aerial combos.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Emelious seems to be the Big Bad for the beginning of the game, then Xorn's name starts getting dropped.
- Hellish Pupils: His pupils switch between normal circle, and slitted, cat-like ones. "Switch" meaning that they stretch and contract as Xorn speaks.
- Large Ham: "SOON, THIS WORLD WILL BE MINE!!! "
- Literally Shattered Lives: He already turns his victims into glass with his power. Immediate shattering is usually reserved for those who attemt to control him.
- Omnicidal Maniac:
- He believes love to be the source of hatred and suffering. In fact, he pretty much confirms that in order to wipe love out, he has to go this path.Xorn: "All living things must PERISH!"
- It's explained that his main goal during his war with the other Guardians in the backstory was that he wanted to assimilate all life into himself, creating an empty world of death. His goals haven't really changed, then.
- He believes love to be the source of hatred and suffering. In fact, he pretty much confirms that in order to wipe love out, he has to go this path.
- Satanic Archetype: Basically the Grandia III version of the Devil, as he is a Guardian who caused a power imbalance in the game's backstory by becoming to agressive and making too many power grabs, resulting in the other Guardians fighting him. During the battle he took the city of Surmania, which he ruled as its Guardian, hostage. The Guardians destroyed the city in order to defeat Xorn, but he wouldn't stay dead forever. In other words, he's a fallen Guardian who was thusly scorned by his peers, Gryph first and foremost.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: His battle with the other Guardians culminated in his defeat, but he could not be completely killed. The best the Guardians could do was reduce him to a claw and seal him in a crystal monument at the bottom of the crater in the Surmania Zero ruins. Emelious bails him out and kickstarts the plot, of course.
- Taken for Granite: A unique example in that he turns things to glass instead of regular stone. He did this to the entire Verse Realm (save for a town) and threatens the other characters' world with this. One of his attacks during the final battle even references this.
Others
Sky Captain Schmidt
Voiced by: John Snyder (English)
Rotts
Voiced by: Doug Erholtz (English)
- Chekhov's Gunman: Comes back at the very end of the game to help Yuki get a plane so he can go save Alfina.
Raven
Voiced by: Jamie Shrick (English)
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: Emelious fatally wounds him and he dies in Dahna's arms.
- Killed Off for Real: Emelious severely wounds him when they have their last battle outside of Surmania and leaves him to die.
