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Playable Characters
In general
- Dub Name Change: Downplayed. Every playable character's name was changed, but the differences are minimal.
- Mutually Exclusive Party Members:
- Recruiting Cyuss prevents you from getting both Ashley and Erys, who needs Ashlay to recruit.
- Erys replaces Mavelle's position once she's recruited because Mavelle WAS her, in a different body. Also with Cyuss, as Ashlay is required to recruit her and cannot be in the party with Cyuss.
- Zig-zagged with Phia and T'nique. They both require 6 party member slots at maximum to acquire. However, Phia can be recruited earlier, but she will not be able to gain the God of War SFT, which means the exclusive members are actually Phia-with-God of War SFT and T'nique. You can still get them together, but you can't put the two together with Erys, who requires you to fill up your roster with Ashlay and Ioshua at bare minimum with her (meaning that you have to not get both Ioshua and Mavelle). Additionally, they don't have this limitation in the SFC version.
- Optional Party Member: Everyone but Roddick, Millie, Dorne, Ronyx and Illia is optional.
Roddick Farrence
Roddick Farrence (Ratix Farrence)
Voiced by: Hiro Yuki (JP, 1996 SFC Original / FDR), Mamoru Miyano (JP, FD), Yuri Lowenthal (EN, FD)
Artwork from First Departure R
The hero of the game. He protects his hometown of Kratus with his friends Dorne and Millie. Once the stone sickness occurs, he and Millie embark on a journey to save Roak from the epidemic.
- Artwork and Game Graphics Segregation: His FDR look really gives him a more handsome appearance and a ponytail, unlike how boyish, ponytail-less he looks in his FD look.
- Cat Boy: A mainline Fellpool.
- Chick Magnet: Half of the female party members in the party have a thing for him: Millie for being Childhood Friends, Pericci because she really liked how Roddick guessed her name correctly and played the ocarina for her, and Welch because it's a Precocious Crush.
- Curtains Match the Window: Blue eyes and matching blue hair.
- Deuteragonist: The first half of the game involves him trying to reunite with Millie and Ronyx. Once that is done, Ronyx pretty much takes over the decisions of the team for the rest of the game with Roddick mostly being around for fights (outside of some Private Action focus).
- Disappeared Dad: He died before the start of the game, but not before teaching Roddick how to use the sword.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Ronyx's request to touch his tail makes Roddick all flustered and scolds Ronyx for it, even though Millie did let him hold her tail.
- Fish out of Water: Naturally, he, Dorne, and Millie have zero clues about what lies beyond space and the highly advanced technology unavailable in Roak.
- Gets upgraded to Fish out of Temporal Water when traveling to Roak 300 years in the past, when his knowledge of the present Muah Kingdom doesn't do much to help him out.
- Heroes Prefer Swords: He is the main sword-using character.
- Heroes Love Dogs: He prefers dogs over cats, moreso when Millie completely failed at making a cat deliver letters (it never arrived at its destination).
- Nice Guy: His main attitude. Most of his reason to embark on the journey to save Roak's petrification is simply to stop whoever is doing it.
- Not So Above It All: One PA has him scaring Pericci in her sleep by yelling that there's a dog nearby, after he learns that she's afraid of them.Roddick: This is gonna be awesome!
- Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here: It's implied through some of his private thoughts that he was bored with how things were in Kratus, meaning it is peaceful. Then the plot happens and he suffers for it.
- Sword and Sorcerer: Has this dynamic with Millie. Roddick is the swordsman and Millie is a sorceress.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Pork, which he's rewarded (by a fan) early in the game for protecting the village from bandits.
- Uneven Hybrid: Revealed at the end of the fourth game to have Earthling ancestry.
Millie Chliette
Millie Chliette (Milly Killet)
Voiced by: Konami Yoshida (JP, 1996 SFC Original / FDR), Hitomi Nabatame (JP, FD), Katie Leigh (EN, FD)
Artwork from First Departure R
Roddick's childhood friend. She protects her hometown along with him and their friend Dorne, and is apprenticed to her father, the local healer.
- Cat Girl: A mainline Fellpool.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: In general, Millie really doesn't like the idea of Roddick being with another woman, getting annoyed when Pericci hugs him during her recruitment and becoming extremely irritated at Welch's flirting with him. If she finds out that Roddick bought some earrings for Ilia, she explodes.
- Curtains Match the Window: Has pink hair and eyes.
- Fish out of Water: Has no clue about what lies beyond space and the advanced technology.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: And then she gets to go back to Roak 300 years in the past, where she unfortunately lands in the Silvalant continent.
- Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Millie is usually presented as a sweet girly girl who is the party's main healer, her favorite food is the sweet Fruit Parfait and she writes books to express her girliness (such as either cooking books or a romantic novel). However, Dorne refers her as a Tomboy thanks to her more headstrong personality. Millie usually hears that behind him and then smacks him on the head from behind, proving his point.
- Missing Mom: Hers isn't even mentioned.
- Out-of-Character Moment: She herself points this out. If Ashlay and Ioshua are recruited, she ends up separated from Ronyx by a sudden monster attack that she ends up all the way to Silvalant, where she is incredibly hopeless of contacting Roddick or anyone else that she can only mope around and make letters she can't deliver (which are sent as airplanes by her little friend Lucius). When she starts crying, she quickly complains that it's not like her to be so dependent on Roddick and blames him loudly outside the window... right as he's outside looking for her after an airplane happened to reach him.
- Power Tattoo: Never seen, but they allow her to use her healing symbology.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: Pink-haired and very nice as long as Roddick or Dorne aren't doing something to piss her off.
- Sword and Sorcerer: The type B Sorceress to Roddick's Sword.
- Tsundere: Millie is a deredere by default, but Roddick and Dorne, especially Dorne, tend to bring out her tsuntsun side.
- White Magician Girl: In practice, her spell-set was lifted straight from Mint Adenade.
Dorne Murtough
Dorne Murtough (Dorn Marto)
Voiced by: Nobuyuki Hiyama (JP, 1996 SFC Original / FDR), Kentarō Itō (JP, FD), Bryce Papenbrook note (EN, FD)
Artwork from First Departure R
Roddick and Millie's childhood friend and partner on the local defense force. He succumbs to stone sickness early on, and his friends journey to find the cure on his behalf.
- Advertised Extra: Often appears alongside Roddick and Millie in promotional material, but he's only playable for a little bit in the beginning before getting turned to stone. Even when he returns to normal, he gets conveniently shooed away when Roddick and Millie are called back by Ilia and Ronyx for one last mission.
- All Love Is Unrequited: Implied to have feelings for Millie. However, Millie seems to have feelings for Roddick instead.
- Cat Boy: A mainline Fellpool.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: He hates how Millie is more interested in Roddick through some subtle hints.
- Gone Horribly Wrong: In an attempt to convince Roddick to steer clear from Millie, he ends up badmouthing her while she's not around. Unfortunately, Millie had arrived at the station and heard all the stuff Dorne said and promptly knocks him down (which happens twice).
- Guest-Star Party Member: He is only playable in the beginning of the game.
- Identical Stranger: Roddick and Millie end up meeting an exact look-alike (named Dirne) 300 years in the past in Portmith, whom they wonder if he's perhaps an ancestor to Dorne.
- Taken for Granite: Succumbs to stone sickness early in the game.
Ronyx J. Kenny
Ronyx J. Kenny (Ronixis J. Kenny)
Voiced by: Akira Okamori (JP, 1996 SFC Original / FDR), Kenji Hamada (JP, FD), Sam Gold (EN, FD)
Artwork from First Departure R
The Captain of the starship Calnus. Knowing that the stone sickness plaguing Roak had offworld origins, he traveled there to find the cure. The father of Claude, hero of the sequel.
- The Ace: He starts out one of the top captains in the Federation and a crack shot with a phase pistol. After he loses access to his futuristic weaponry he manages to completely master archery and Symbology, despite having never even heard of magic before arriving on Roak, in only a few days. And not just basic spells but everything up to dropping Meteors from the sky. Despite breaking practically every law in the Federation to obtain the stone sickness cure he's not only not punished, but asked to do it again. He gets sole credit from the Federation for the group's heroism in taking down Jie (though to be fair that's partially because Roddick was just as critical opts to return to his quiet life on Roak rather than join the Federation) and is promoted to Admiral at the youngest age in history. A recurring problem for his descendants in later games is their struggle to live up to the example that Ronyx set.
- Artwork and Game Graphics Segregation: His FDR look, for some reason, changes his hair color from black to purple.
- Badass Normal: Despite being human, he managed to quickly learn offensive Symbology in a short time (in perhaps a very dangerous continent full of murderous monsters).
- Black Mage: Learned offensive symbology during his time on Roak.
- The Captain: Of the starship Calnus.
- Chaste Hero: Due to the death of his wife, he has shut off any and all romantic feelings for any woman, even though Ilia believes he's trying to hide such feelings around women like Mavelle. By the end of the story, he confides in Ilia about his Dark and Troubled Past and proposes to her.
- Embarrassing Tattoo: Does not like to talk about how he obtained the tattoos he uses to cast symbology or where exactly they are on his body.
- The Hero: Once Roddick and Ilia reunite with him, he pretty much takes over the leadership of the group all the way to the end of the story.
- Hollywood Atheist: In an early event, he catches Millie praying to her gods, which brings up the talk that Earth humanity moved on from praying to gods that don't exist. This causes Millie to question him on the fact that he's currently in a world where magic (Symbology) and an epidemic that causes people to turn into stone aren't exactly just fantasy but very real. In order to change his mind about his faith, Millie brings up the idea to teach him about Symbology.
- Mage Marksman: An archer and black mage. This is a bit detrimental to him in the Updated Re-release because bows don't improve the user's magic stat like a staff does.
- Noodle Incident: He does not want to divulge how exactly he learned Symbology through Millie.
- Power Tattoo: Never seen, but they allow him to use his offensive symbology.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: A lot of the actions he takes to ensure the way to save Roak involves breaking a lot of the Federation laws to get things done, which exasperates Ilia a bit. Despite all his lawbreaking, he's not punished by his actions.
- Second Love: His first wife died before the events of the game. He eventually ends up with Ilia.
- The Straight and Arrow Path: Without access to phasers while stuck in Roak's past, he learned how to use bows.
- Sword and Sorcerer: The type A (Fighter and Glass Cannon) with Ilia. Ronyx being the former.
- We Named the Monkey "Jack": Between the first two games, he named the family dog Roddick due to their shared fluffy tails.
Ilia Silvestri
Ilia Silvestri (Iria Silvestoli)
Voiced by: Wakana Yamazaki (JP, 1996 SFC Original / FDR), Sanae Kobayashi (JP, FD), Julie Maddalena (EN, FD)
Artwork from First Departure R
Chief science officer of the Calnus and Ronyx's second-in-command. The mother of Claude, the hero of the sequel.
- The Alcoholic: She displays some extreme deep knowledge about beer, even in another planet. And if Roddick can't keep up the bare minimum with her, she calls him a stick-in-the-mud for it.
- Artwork and Game Graphics Segregation: Oh boy. Her FDR artwork sure as hell doesn't match her in-game sprite or FD artwork at all that her newest artwork makes her look more motherly than her more Action Girl FD look. (On the plus side, her FDR look makes Welch's teasing more on-point.)
- Bare-Fisted Monk: A martial arts master.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Check out her reaction when you meet up with Millie again, and she explains that the captain is "escorting" Mavelle. And then blithely starts to explain how beautiful Mavelle is.
- Cuteness Proximity: Is implied to have done this offscreen after the second game. She thought Leon was adorable and acted as his surrogate mother during his stay on Earth.
- The Cynic: Ronyx vaguely describes her as such since she likes to be more cautious than his adventurous self, though that cynism has gotten both of them out of problems in the past.
- Famed In-Story: In later games, Ilia is remembered as the founder of Symbological Science.
- The Gadfly: Has a knack to tease her Roak party members. In particular when trying to share the story of Cinderella, she unapologetically tells the Darker and Edgier Brothers Grimm versionnote , reducing Millie to tears and indirectly leading Roddick to have nightmares about Cinder-Roddick.
- Genius Bruiser: Ilia managed to become a maritial arts master while simultaneously getting her PHD by the age of 23.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Blonde and very nice.
- Hard-Drinking Party Girl: She's very fond of alcohol.
- Headbutting Heroes: She and Welch do not get along well, as Welch constantly teases her age and feelings for Ronyx.
- Improbable Age: She has a PHD, is considered a master of her chosen martial art, and is the chief science officer on a military starship. She's 23.
- The Lancer: To Ronyx initially. To Roddick in the game proper.
- Muggle with a Degree in Magic: Ilia is an expert on Symbology and credited with turning it into its own field of science, but does not have the ability to use it herself.
- Pregnant Badass: The official timeline implies she was already pregnant with Claude during the events of Fargett.
- Romancing the Widow: Knew Ronyx's first wife, and eventually ends up with him.
- Shared Family Quirks: Ilia is the reason why the Kennys afterwards had a tendency to rate battle performance by points.
- Sword and Sorcerer: The Fist to Ronyx's Sorcerer.
- Title Drop: If she's knocked out, sometimes she can say this:Ilia: I...can see...the Star...Ocean...
Cyuss Warren
Cyuss Warren (Cius Warren)
Voiced by: Hiroki Tochi (JP, 1996 SFC Original / FDR & FD), Grant George (EN, FD)
Artwork from First Departure R
Son of the famed general, Lias Warren. He left his hometown to wander as an adventurer. He meets Roddick and Ilia in the town of Haute and offers to help them get to Portmith.
- Artwork and Game Graphics Segregation: He's described as a big guy, though the in-game sprites don't really give much credit to it as he's as tall as everyone else. Slightly averted with his FDR artwork, which more or less resembles his FD look.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Phia.
- BFS: His preferred weapon.
- The Big Guy: Cyuss is generally the heaviest hitter in the party. Illustrated in his First Departure R artwork where he's depicted as much larger than in First Departure.
- Blood Knight: He's always looking for a good fight and training his swordsmanship.
- Boisterous Bruiser: In addition of his Blood Knight tendencies, Cyuss is a fun, hearty guy who's more likely invite some friends to drink some booze together. His big build and the size of his weapon also support this characterization.
- Dark and Troubled Past: As he was joining Astral's Knight Corps as a soldier, the position for assistant captain opened up and he was nominated as a candidate (not because his father is the current captain). What followed was Cyuss being criticized by his peers for the implied favoritism for being the captain's son, convicing him to desert his home in a journey to become stronger and be worthy of his father's reputation until the time is right.
- Generation Xerox: Looks exactly like his father save for the lack of an eyepatch.
- Imposter Forgot One Detail: During the Lias assassination attempt, Cyuss catches up to “Phia”, demanding to know what happened. “Phia” pleads with Cyuss to let her go as they’re friends. Hearing that, Cyuss immediately took out his sword demanding who the hell is she, saying the real Phia wouldn’t beg to him for mercy. Then the real Phia comes along, exposing the lie.
- Mutually Exclusive Party Members:
- Recruit him, and you lose the chance to ever recruit Ashlay.
- And by extension, if you don't recruit Ashlay, you never can recruit Erys.
- Recruit him, and you lose the chance to ever recruit Ashlay.
- Not Blood Siblings: Him and Phia.
- Panthera Awesome: A Highlander.
- Post-Final Boss: If recruited, in the ending, he asks for one final duel with Roddick, although winning or losing makes no difference. He just wants to test how much he has advanced in swordsmanship.
- So Proud of You: Basically his overall opinion on Roddick before Cyuss goes back to the past.
- To Be a Master: He wants to be the best swordsman there is. His goal, according to the ending, is to make sure that his legacy lived on for, like, 300 years (Roddick's main timeline).
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Don't like wearing shirts.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: He has a tense relationship with Lias, because he feels unworthy to live up to Lias' enormous reputation. He's wandering to make sure he's worthy.
Ashlay Bernbeldt
Ashlay Bernbeldt (Ashlay Barnbelt)
Voiced by: Kazuhiko Inoue (JP, 1996 SFC Original / FDR), Norio Wakamoto (JP, FD), Michael McConnohie (EN, FD)
Artwork from First Departure R
A veteran of the previous war against Asmodeus and old friend of Lias Warren. He witnessed Roddick's talent in the arena and joins to help him refine his abilities.
Ashlay can only be recruited if Cyuss is not in the party, though he can also be turned down as well.
- Berserk Button: Saying dogs are better than cats as he hates dogs due to a past incident involving one.
- Continuity Nod: Appears as an optional boss in the fourth game.
- Crutch Character: A textbook Crutch Character. However, the updated remake gives you one utility over recruiting him instead of the much potential-filled Cyuss: He lets you recruit Erys and also lets Roddick gain some better abilities. In the remake, he is still quite viable endgame save for his inability to use shields. He also starts knowing the SFT skills your party can only gain later and gains special techniques like Dragon Slash and Phoenix Blast purely though level ups instead of having to gain them through the skill system. If you grind, he'll gain access to powerful moves well before the rest of the party, but he'll only learn a few so he'll fall behind again.
- Handicapped Badass: Ashley is 50-60 years old and has lost his left arm but can still keep up with the rest of the party and go head to head with some of the nastiest monsters Roak has to offer.
- Old Soldier: He's a war veteran and so his experience and skill can keep up with the rest of the party. In fact, he is the party's crutch.
- One-Handed Zweihänder: Justified, as he lost an arm.
- Overrated and Underleveled: Ashlay is, in-universe, a skilled swordsman. However, he is actually no stronger than any of your party members and, compared to the other recruitable characters, becomes a little less powerful later on. This actually makes perfect sense in-universe though - For one, Ashlay is sixty years old, is missing an arm, and likely has some other injuries slowing him down. He's still a Handicapped Badass though. It's notable that he comes with the Wyrm King SFT skill, which is the trademark sword skills he personally invented and he cannot learn ANY of them because they need two hands. Instead the point of it is to teach to Roddick, who can learn the special Thundersurge sword techniques.
- Panthera Awesome: A Highlander.
- Take Up My Sword: A strange case. Because Ashlay has lost one of his arms, he's unable to utilize his more powerful sword techniques. To make sure his sword style lives on, he teaches Roddick his lost techniques.
Ioshua Jerand
Ioshua Jerand (Jousha Jerand)
Voiced by: Nobuyuki Hiyama (JP, 1996 SFC Original / FDR), Jun Fukuyama (JP, FD), Ezra Weisz (EN, FD)
Artwork from First Departure R
A young symbologist who travels the world in search of his younger sister following the murder of their parents. He encounters Roddick outside the Purgatorium.
After assisting the party in an early dungeon, Ioshua can be asked to join permanently.
- Artwork and Game Graphics Segregation: His FDR look changes his hair color from white to pale light green.
- Big Brother Instinct: Toward his lost little sister, Erys.
- Birds of a Feather: He shares the same goal as Mavelle to find the Crimson Shield, as both of them seemingly lost loved ones to him. Though it later turns out that Mavelle is his sister Erys inhabiting the body of a Muan woman.
- Bittersweet Ending: Should he fail to save Erys from her fate, he decides to travel the world to respect her memories.
- Cuteness Proximity: A big factor behind his adoration for his little sister is that she was too cute when she was little.
- Dramatic Irony: His pursuit for the Eye of Truth at the Purgatorium to see where his sister is leads him to see Roddick and Ilia's friends in the Van Kingdom with Mavelle among their group, though one of the three runes mentions Mavelle's presence but brushes it off as not important. Except it is extremely important, because Mavelle is really Erys inhabiting her body.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: It even leads some of the female party members to want to dress him up.
- Extreme Doormat: From his childhood memories with Erys, she sounded like a real pain to deal with, but Ioshua didn't care about suffering her childish tantrums and pranks because she was too adorable in his eyes.
- Heroes Love Dogs: Surprisingly, he's a dog person. He had a horrible experience with a cat who tried to attack him while he was flying, which caused him to see all cats as a menace. If Pericci is recruited, Ioshua suffers from her constant attempts to try to eat him, much to his horror.
- Hypocrite: He admits so when he has to fight:Ioshua: I do not wish to battle, even if that makes me a hypocrite!
- Mage Species: As a Featherfolk, he can use symbology innately.
- Mystical White Hair: His FD version was designed with that hair color.
- Pacifist: He abhors the thought of battling and is even put off by sites like the arena existing, so he attempts to avoid physical conflict. Ironically, most of his magic is offensive magic, and he falls behind by Millie's healing magic repertoire (she can heal status ailments, provide better healing, and can revive knocked out party members).
- The Red Mage: Though his healing magic is really only useful before Millie rejoins. He focuses much more on offensive magic.
- Seldom-Seen Species: Finding a traveling Featherfolk is an extreme rarity in itself when the party points that fact out, though he's got a good reason to do so (find his missing sister Erys).
- Winged Humanoid: A member of the Featherfolk race.
Phia Melle
Phia Melle (Fear Mell)
Voiced by: Konami Yoshida (JP, 1996 SFC Original / FDR), Megumi Toyoguchi (JP, FD), Dorothy Elias-Fahn (EN, FD)
Artwork from First Departure R
Current captain of the Astral Knights and adopted daughter of Lias Warren. Roddick earns her respect after helping to clear her name when she was framed for the attempted murder of Lias.
Phia forcefully joins if the player does not recruit Cyuss or Ashlay, but can also be asked to join later in the game.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Cyuss.
- Break the Badass: If recruited via breaking her out of jail. She gets framed for murdering Lias, her adopted father, and gets labeled a fugitive.The man she held great respect for is dead and she couldn’t do a thing to stop it.
- Dual Wielding: Equips dual daggers, though she can inexplicably use a shield.
- Fiery Red Head: She becomes especially fiery when Cyuss is involved.
- Guest-Star Party Member: In routes where the player isn't trying to recruit her early she will still briefly act as a party member: If Cyuss is in the party, then she will temporarily join during the chase through the Astral Caves; if he isn't because they're waiting for Ashlay, then she'll briefly join Roddick and Ilia when they arrive at Autanim and guide them to Astral. She can permanently join much later during the emblem quest.
- Happily Adopted: As far as she is concerned, Lias is her father, blood or not.
- Not Blood Siblings: Her and Cyuss.
- Panthera Awesome: A Highlander.
Mavelle Froesson
Mavelle Froesson (Marvel Frozen)
Voiced by: Nozomi Nonaka (JP, 1996 SFC Original / FDR), Houko Kuwashima (JP, FD), Tara Platt (EN, FD)
Artwork from First Departure R
A mysterious woman Ronyx and Millie meet on their travels. She seeks revenge against the Crimson Shield for the murder of her family. She seems to have some connection to Ioshua, but refuses to speak about it.
- Artwork and Game Graphics Segregation: Averted. There's nearly nothing off between her FD and FDR looks.
- Chronically Killed Actor: Starting with First Departure, she is voiced by Houko Kuwashima, a Japanese voice actress infamous for 'having a death star hovering above her' (meaning, a lot of her character die). Seeing that ever since the Super Famicom version, Mavelle holds the distinction of being the only party member that can be removed from the party (by dying, and in First Departure, being replaced by Erys and her whole moveset dies with her), the casting is most likely deliberate, knowing Kuwashima's reputation.
- Combat Stilettos: Wear high heels in combat. Since she is a magician, it doesn't bother her. However, she sometimes kicks as a form of normal attack (and she will, because she doesn't do traditional symbology casting).
- Dying to Be Replaced: If you choose to get Erys, even if Erys carries Mavelle's spirit, she is a traditional spellcaster. All of Mavelle's physical skills will be gone to be replaced with Erys' spells.
- Even the Girls Want Her: Millie can't stop going on about how beautiful she is.
- Glass Cannon: She has very high physical attack, but she is also one of the most fragile characters in the game.
- Grand Theft Me: Is actually Erys Jerand inhabiting the dormant body of a Muah woman. Erys says that remnants of the unnamed Muah woman's personality remained.
- Human Aliens: Subverted. Muah are a subspecies of Earthling that were teleported to other worlds when their civilization was struck by a meteor.
- Improbable Weapon User: Uses her floating Crystal Ball for melee attacks.
- Lady of Black Magic: An odd case. Her special attacks act like spells but are treated like physical skills.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: Is actually Ioshua's younger sister in a different body.
- Mutually Exclusive Party Members: You can't have Mavelle and Ioshua's sister Erys in the same team because Mavelle is Erys inhabiting the body of a Muah woman.
- Meaningful Name: Mavelle's Japanese name is Marvel Frozen, and the real Mavelle is a Muah woman frozen in the Old Race Ruins.
- Ms. Fanservice: Downplayed. Mavelle is the prototype of the 'sexy Lady of Black Magic' throughout the franchise (followed by Celine, Myuria and Fiore), hence, all she has to show fanservice are her Impossibly-Low Neckline which are enough to showcase her ample bosom, mature charm, and shapely legs while wearing heels. Aside of that, she's more covered than her successors.
- Not So Above It All: Even she gushes whenever Ronyx and Ilia have a moment together. She also engages in a girl's-only gossiping session during one PA.
- Optional Party Member: Mavelle is a very tricky character to recruit, as she will join the party if either Ioshua or Ashlay were recruited, or if you avoided recruiting anyone before meeting her. She is also the only party member that can be removed after joining.
- Shrinking Violet: Unless her family's murderer is involved, Mavelle is generally withdrawn and shy despite her drop dead gorgeous mature look. It's not known how much of these are from Erys, or the original Muah woman whose body was used by Erys who still have lingering personalities within.
T'nique Arcana
T'nique Arcana (Tinek Arukena)
Voiced by: Takuya Fujisaki (JP, 1996 SFC Original / FDR), Chihiro Suzuki (JP, FD), Vic Mignogna (EN, FD)
Artwork from First Departure R
A Lycanthrope who saw Roddick in the arena and wished to fight him personally. After being defeated, he asks to travel with Roddick to learn more from him.
- Artwork and Game Graphics Segregation: Averted for both of his FD and FDR looks (though the latter one makes him look much less of a Ranma Saotome look-alike).
- Blood Knight: He's always ready for a fight and will excitedly battle.
- Clothing Damage: His sprite shows this whenever he transforms into his werewolf form (the glasses still stay on), though he will always have them repaired at the end of each battle.
- Duel Boss: The only way for him to appear is through fighting in the Rank D of the Arena, where he will crash the final battle.
- Expy: His FD appearance makes him look like a dead ringer for Ranma Saotome with blue hair and glasses.
- Genki Guy: Out of all the males, he's the most energetic. Given how two games later it's explained that Lycanthropes only transform when excited, it explains his somewhat hyper attitude.
- My Instincts Are Showing: Due to his status as a werewolf, he will occassionally display his animalistic nature like smelling food from afar.
- Optional Party Member: He can only be recruited after the Emblem quest begins and the party is at 6 characters or less.
- Notably, if trying to recruit Erys as well, T'nique can still join the team before getting all four main party members as Millie will only join at Silvalant right after starting the Emblem quest.
- Our Werewolves Are Different: Lycanthropes in this series harbor a symbiotic virus that alters some of their cells. When the lycanthrope gets excited, these cells expand and transform them. This isn't explained until two games later.
- Significant Birth Date: According to Star Ocean: Anamnesis, T'nique was born on October 10 (10/10). This is also the birthday of Rumiko Takahashi, the creator of Ranma ½.
- Take a Third Option: Played For Laughs during a Private Action about prefering cats or dogs, in which he claims to prefer wolves. Roddick counts his vote as one for dogs.
- Training from Hell: He is constantly doing any sort of training at any settlement he visits, and he will happily do any requests from other party members if it means he'll get a good workout out of it.
Pericci
Pericci (Perisie)
Voiced by: Wakana Yamazaki (JP, 1996 SFC Original / FDR), Yukari Tamura (JP, FD), Alicyn Packard (EN, FD)
Artwork from First Departure R
A young Lesser Fellpool that Roddick and Ilia meet while she is being held captive by the Velkent Pirates. After freeing her, Roddick and Millie encounter her in Kratus in the form of a housecat.
- Animorphism: As a Lesser Fellpool, she can take the form of a housecat at will.
- Artwork and Game Graphics Segregation: Zigzagged. When compared to her character sprite, her FDR look is the closest match, except for the leotard being green instead of pink. Her FD look gets the leotard color right, but there's the fact she actually looked more like a fuzzy anthromorphic Cat Girl than her more human-like FDR look.
- Attack Animal: Her special move, Multiple Punch, has Pericci summon several cats to attack an enemy.
- Bare-Fisted Monk: Uses cat martial arts. T'Nique tries to learn it.
- Cats Are Mean: She constantly wants to find the right time to eat Ioshua, much to his horror.
- Cat Girl: Lesser Fellpool are much more catlike than the other inhabitants of Roak.
- Chainmail Bikini: Pericci’s armor are all bikinis. Her strongest one is the Kitty Armor, which is also a bikini.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Roddick and crew rescue Pericci from the Velkent pirates’ hideout where she then runs off before accidentally dropping her ocarina. She doesn’t get seen again until way later once you’ve reunited with Millie and Ronyx down the line.
- Curtains Match the Window: Has pink hair and eyes.
- Freudian Excuse: Often very rude to damn near everyone, but her mother abandoned her when she was "old enough" and she's been on her own for a very long time.
- Genki Girl: She's very hyperactive and often complains whenever the party feels so gloomy to be with.
- Innocent Fanservice Girl: Invoked. One of her level up quotes has her wondering if she's become sexier.
- Leotard of Power: Her choice of outfit at all times.
- Magic Dance: Some of her special moves.
- No Full Name Given: The only party member whose surname isn't known.
- No Social Skills: Partly because Lesser Fellpool are so rare and partly because she was kept as a prisoner for so long.
- Optional Party Member: Pericci can be recruited if Roddick picked up her ocarina after saving her from the pirates' prison, reunites the four core party members, and correctly identifies her in Kratus as long the party is 7 characters or less.
- Parental Abandonment: One day Pericci's mother declared her old enough to look after herself and left her.
- Rape as Drama: In the Japanese version, the pirates who held Pericci prisoner hinted at using her as a sex slave. When getting rescued by Roddick, she was so traumatized that she thought he was going to rape her, too, which was why she was hesitant with leaving with him. The English version changed this to her accusing Roddick of wanting to tie her up in a rope.
- Significant Birth Date: Star Ocean: Anamnesis reveals that she was born on February 22 (Cat Day in Japan).
- Single-Target Sexuality: She adores Roddick so much that she practically clung to him when she first joined the party, but was told to at least hold his cape because otherwise she'd be sad.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She hates dogs, due to a bad encounter with one (She says it was attacking her, but the subtext implies that it was being playful). Humorously, Roddick uses this against her in one PA while she's sleeping.
Erys
Erys Jerand (Eris Jerand)
Voiced by: Kana Ueda (JP, FDR & FD), Stephanie Sheh (EN, FD)
Artwork from First Departure R
A character exclusive to the remakes.
Located in an optional dungeon, Erys can only join a party that includes Ashlay, Ioshua, and Mavelle.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: In her backstory, by the Crimson Shield.
- Cute and Psycho: Often spouts some rather disturbing imagery. She doesn't like this aspect of herself though.
- Mage Species: Like Ioshua, being a Featherfolk removes the need to tattoo herself to use symbology.
- The Red Mage: Much more balanced than Ioshua. Edges into Master of All in practice.
- Walking Spoiler: Erys Jerand is Ioshua's missing younger sister. When her parents were murdered, she was abducted by the Crimson Shield and brainwashed into an assassin. She recovered her memory after an assignment went wrong, and made her way to the Old Race Ruins. There, she found the bodies of the Muah people encased in ice. Using a Muah device, she switched bodies with a Muah woman, and began seeking revenge against the Crimson Shield under the alias Mavelle Froesson. If Mavelle is taken to her old body at the bottom of the ruins along with Ioshua and Ashlay, she will return to her original form; just having Ioshua reveals her past, but keeps Mavelle in her current form.
- Winged Humanoid: She's a Featherfolk, like Ioshua.
Welch Vineyard
Welch Vineyard
Voiced by: Tomoe Hanba (JP, FDR & FD), Melissa Fahn (EN, FD)
Artwork from First Departure R
Welch is a recruitable character in the PSP Remake. She's an eccentric inventor in a hut hidden away in the Van Kingdom and joins the party with little trouble (with the hidden excuse to romance Roddick).
General tropes about her are listed in the main page.
- Bungling Inventor: Her hut is full of inventions all over the place as a mess, and she creates some questionable items that, while they work, have some unintended side effects.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Secretly dislikes Millie for being the girl who crushes after Roddick.
- Headbutting Heroes: She enjoys teasing the hell out of Ilia's age and her subtle love for Ronyx, which causes Ilia to retaliate and call her a brat to her face.
- Improbable Weapon User: Her main weapon is a pointy stick with a glove on top (her signature weapon across the series) that she uses to smack enemies with.
- Mysterious Woman: Well, mysterious girl. She playfully hides anything regarding her backstory and her own race (it's listed as "It's a secret!")
- Optional Party Member: She can only join the team if there is an empty eighth slot.
- Precocious Crush: She has the hots for Roddick.
- Yaoi Fangirl: One of Welch's private actions involve her talking with a group of girls showing her some yaoi stories they wrote, which she really gets into.
Supporting Cast
Martoth Chliette
Martoth Chliette
Millie's father.- Cat Boy: A mainline Fellpool.
- The Medic: He taught Millie everything she knows.
- Pointy Ears: Being a Fellpool, he have elf-like ears.
- Taken for Granite: Succumbs to stone sickness.
Lias Warren
Lias Warren
A general from the previous war with Asmodeus. The father of Cyuss and adopted father of Phia.- The Cameo: Appears in the fourth game in his prime.
- Eyepatch After Time Skip: Inverted. He makes a cameo in the prequel without his eyepatch.
- Panthera Awesome: A Highlander.
- Pointy Ears: He is a fellpoll.
Madam Karner
Madam Karner
An informant from Eckdart.- Gonk: The way she looks, her pose on the chaise, and how she buys and sells information makes her seem like a female Hutt.
Yvena
Yvena
The leader of the Fargettian Resistance Force.- Da Chief: She leads the resistence in Fargett.
- Human Aliens: Subverted. She is a Muah: a subspecies of Earthling that was teleported to other worlds after a meteor impact.
Villains
Crimson Shield
Crimson Shield / Del Argosy
Voiced by: Yutaka Aoyama (JP, FDR & FD), Richard Epcar (EN, FD)
A famous war hero, whom Mavelle seeks revenge against, he is said to be working with the monsters.- Brainwashed and Crazy: He was driven insane and became corrupted after touching the Mirror of Incarnation.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: He doesn't remember killing Mavelle's parents when she confronts him. Justified, as he meet Mavelle as Erys.
- Cat Boy: Implied, as he is a Highlander (a Fellpool variant).
- 24-Hour Armor: He is always seen wearing his armor, which hides his face.
Asmodeus
Asmodeus
Voiced by: Ryōtarō Okiayu (JP, FDR & FD), Joe J. Thomas (EN, FD)
A demon who terrorized Roak in the past.- Adaptational Wimp: Zig-zagged. Asmodeus in the SFC version turns into a Humongous Mecha or Mechanical Abomination as his combat form, explaining his lack of voice actors (where only those who can get into battle gets a voice actor). He loses this ability in First Departure, and so fights on foot where he's instead modeled after the next game's Lucifer as a floating powerful mage. All he loses is the intimidation factor of his old look, effectiveness in battle is another story.
- Arc Villain: Asmodeus is the central antagonist of the Past Roak story arc.
- Artificial Human: He was created to find a way to survive on Fargett.
- Climax Boss: His defeat ends the Past Roak arc.
- Disc-One Final Boss: He's presented as a major threat whose defeat saves both Roak's past kingdoms and its modern Stone Sickness victims, but the story doesn't end there.
- Flawed Prototype: He escaped his masters and terrorized Past Roak.
- Our Demons Are Different: Despite his devilish appearence, Asmodeus is a flawed super-soldier prototype that ended up in Past Roak.
Jie Revorse
Jie Revorse
Voiced by: Kazuhiko Inoue (JP, 1996 SFC Original), Show Hayami (JP, FD, FDR), Paul St. Peter (EN, FD)
The tyrannical ruler of the planet Fargett.- Alas, Poor Villain: After his death, both Ronyx and Ilia acknowledge that he's sympathetic in a way that all he wanted is just to get back home. Additionally, they also take heart of his anger against humanity as a proof that the Pangalactic Federation needs to do better in their treatment to other planets overall.
- Artificial Human: He was created from Asmodeus' data to create a perfect human to survive on Fargett.
- Big Bad: The main antagonist of the story. Jie Revorse rules the planet that created Asmodeus and opposes the Pangalactic Federation. He also created the bio-weapon that turned the Roak inhabitants into stone, making him a personal enemy of Roddick and Millie.
- Evil Overlord: The ruthless dictator of planet Fargett.
- Final Boss: The last enemy of the game.
- Humans Are Bastards: In both versions, this is his justifications to eventually antagonize Earth and force them to be busy with the petrification of Roak:
- In the original version, he blames the Pangalactic Federation to be bullying other civilizations to join them, and then ignored them to rot. He refuses to let his people, after being yanked out from their original homes, to suffer such fate, concentrating his hatred to humans in general.
- In FD, while his hatred towards the Pangalactic Federation is nonexistent, Jie doesn't like how humans corrupt everything they touch and it'd be a matter of time until they get into Fargett and the last remnants of Muah after they were yanked from their homes thanks to the humans' actions. He then started adopting the ideology of 'the strong survives, the weak perishes' and implements that to the people of Fargett in order to facilitate his retaliation against humanity while hoping to return his people to their proper homes.
- Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: Jie Revorse seems to come out of nowhere and have little to do with the previous plot in the original version, mainly because his existence is only vaguely alluded to once prior to his reveal late in the game. The remake does a better job of tying him into the main plot.
- One-Winged Angel: Becomes Neo Revorse after being defeated for the first time.
- You Don't Look Like You: His Neo Revorse form. In the original SFC version, it's a giant robot akin of Asmodeus. In FD, it's a biological demonic form. His former form is also the form used in his event boss fight in Star Ocean: Anamnesis, which may confuse people who got into this installment via First Departure.
