History Characters / LegendOfMana

* FauxActionGirl: Despite being a Jumi Knight, she is killed off-screen by an unnamed Jumi hunter while protecting Sappho. Although this is justified as supplemtary material mentions that she was originally a Guardian who forced herself to assume the role of Knight to protect Sappho who couldn't fight.

* AscendedExtra: In the ''Teardrop Crystal'' anime, he is revealed to have been the leader of the Jumi Knights of the Bejeweled City that Diana leads.

* MagicKnight: He is shown wielding a sword and using fire in flashbacks in the ''Teardrop Crystal'' anime.
* NiceGuy: Refuses to harm a Sproutling even if doing so would help free his love from petrification.
* NominalImportance: Subverted. He's got an name, an encyclopedia entry, a unique sprite... [[spoiler:and dies about five minutes after you meet him.]] He appears to have commanded some respect as part of the Jumi however.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Although this applies to many of the Jumi, Blackpearl is possibly the oldest living Jumi as she is noted to be over a thousand years old and has served a number of Clarius other than Florina in the distant past despite her appearance of a 26-27 year old woman.

* CoolSword: A 1-handed sword user, he carries "the Sword of Fate," which belonged to an ancient tribe of nomads and has the power to cut time, but only once. None of this important-sounding backstory winds up being relevant to the plot in the slightest. Should the player character elect to [[spoiler:take Pearl instead of Elazul to the Bejeweled City, Elazul will bequeath the sword to them. It's more impressive for the implied sentiment than for the sword's actual (mediocre) stats, unfortunately]].

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Emerges as a far more likable character than his earliest appearances might lead one to believe. He starts of as a rude and impatient man, but the more the player gets to know him, the more it becomes clear that Elazul's abrasiveness mainly stems from the stress of needing to be on high alert all the time knowing that his people are being hunted to extinction, including his ditzy, trouble-prone partner, Pearl. He drops the jerk act altogether once The Hero has earned his full trust.

* DeviousDaggers: Utilizes daggers as her main weapon in the ''Teardrop Crystal'' anime. [[spoiler:She originally wielded nunchuks when she was Alexandre.]]
* DirtyCoward: Sandra only personally targets Jumi who are far weaker than her, especially noncombatants, or resorts to attacking people when they least expect it. The moment she's confronted by a seasoned warrior like Lady Blackpearl, she chickens out and summons monsters to do the fighting in her stead.

* GenocideFromTheInside: It turns out the one hunting Jumis to extinction is [[spoiler:a Jumi herself!]]

* SuperStrength: The ''Teardrop Crystal'' anime shows off her superhuman strength, she's able to kick and throw people across a room easily, and her kick is enough to break a metal sword.

* TheAce: She is considered the strongest Jumi Knight and the knight of Florina, and for good reason, the ''Teardrop Crystal'' anime shows that she was able to defeat the Deathbringer single handily and she destroys multiple Jewel Beasts in seconds.

* CastFromHitPoints: Creating healing tears has slowly caused her core to fall apart, and eventually her core will break and she will die from creating them.

* AllThereInTheManual: The History books show how major a player he is the world, he is noted to be a major player in the Jumi hunts and his Empire invaded multiple nations in the past including Larc's and Sierra's. Without that, he's just a mid-boss that gets namedropped by others in a few quests. The ''Teardrop Crystal'' anime showcases his deep involvment with the Jumi as he sends his military forces to hunt down and bisiege the Jumi for their cores.

* TragicKeepsake: The Blue Eye becomes this for him in the anime, which is later revealed to be a Jumi jewel who once belongs to a Jumi named Sappho, who opted to kill himself over being hunted down by Jewel Hunters.

* AbortedArc: She was originally going to be part of a storyline involving Flameshe, Thona, Thesenis, and the Deathbringer if the Siren Arc of VideoGame/EchoesOfMana is anything to go by. [[spoiler: The story ends with Elle being mortally wounded from stopping a burning Flameshe, the two trade away their memories and their beings (siren for Elle and mermaid for Flameshe) to reincarnate into new lives. Despite being reincarnated as humans living seperate lives with no memories of their previous lives, the two find each other again.]]

* AbortedArc: She was originally going to be part of a storyline involving Elle, Thona, Thesenis, and the Deathbringer if the Siren Arc of VideoGame/EchoesOfMana is anything to go by. [[spoiler: The story ends with Elle being mortally wounded from stopping a burning Flameshe, the two trade away their memories and their beings (siren for Elle and mermaid for Flameshe) to reincarnate into new lives. Despite being reincarnated as humans living seperate lives with no memories of their previous lives, the two find each other again.]]

* AbortedArc: She was originally going to be part of a storyline involving Flameshe, Thona, Thesenis, and the Deathbringer if the Siren Arc of VideoGame/EchoesOfMana is anything to go by. [[spoiler: The story ends with Elle being mortally wounded from stopping a rampaging Flameshe, the two trade away their memories and their beings (siren for Elle and mermaid for Flameshe) to reincarnate into new lives. Despite being reincarnated as humans living seperate lives with no memories of their previous lives, the two find each other again.]]

* AbortedArc: She was originally going to be part of a storyline involving Elle, Thona, Thesenis, and the Deathbringer if the Siren Arc of VideoGame/EchoesOfMana is anything to go by. [[spoiler: The story ends with Elle being mortally wounded from stopping a rampaging Flameshe, the two trade away their memories and their beings (siren for Elle and mermaid for Flameshe) to reincarnate into new lives. Despite being reincarnated as humans living seperate lives with no memories of their previous lives, the two find each other again.]]

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Although this applies to many of the Jumi, Blackpearl is possibly the oldest living Jumi as she is noted to be over a millennia and has served a number of Clarius who were not Florina in the distant past despite her appearance of a 26-27 year old woman.
* TheStoic: She is noted to be very level-headed. In the the ''Teardrop Crystal'' anime, [[spoiler:Alexandre]] calls her a battle puppet who only lives to follow the orders the Jumi leaders due to her stoicism even when amongst her Jumi Knight comrades.

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: As the only Jumi who can still shed healing tears, she's endured a lot of suffering as a result.
* ShrinkingViolet: Not to the extent of Pearl, but her naturally mild personality combined with the weakness from her disintegrating core makes her very unconfrontational and apologetic about everything.
* WhiteMagicianGirl: What her position as Clarius essentially makes her, as her primary duty is to provide healing for her race. Taken to the logical extreme in that some (such as Blackpearl) believe she should ''die'' for the sake of healing the Jumi.

* CompleteImmortality: Is immortal and can return even if his physical form is completely destroyed.

* OurLichesAreDifferent: He is essentially a lich of sorts, the ''Teardrop Crystal'' anime and VideoGame/EchoesOfMana game shows that he is truly immortal and will return even if his physical form is destroyed much like a lich.

* DirtyCoward: Sandra only personally targets Jumi who are far weaker than her, especially noncombatants. The moment she's confronted by a seasoned warrior like Lady Blackpearl, she chickens out and summons monsters to do the fighting in her stead.

* GenderFlip: A bit of an odd case for the manga adaptation. Rather than have both of Alexandre's forms be fully biological transformations like in the original game, the manga [[spoiler:downgrades Sandra to a mere disguise and makes Alex the primary/"true" form instead. To drive the point home, he's even given the male equivalent of Sandra's ''qipao'' after the reveal - a sleeveless vest reminiscent of a ''tangzhuang'' top]].

* LegFocus: A Mad Mallard you encounter in the caves describes her legs as "just fantastic."

* LoveMakesYouEvil: She turned against the Jumi and hunted them to near extinction because [[spoiler:she didn't want Florina to die and felt like the whole race was slowly and knowingly killing her.]]

* TheUnfought: She mostly sends her Jewel Beasts after you instead. The final boss fight of the story arc is actually [[spoiler:her master, The Lord of Jewels]]. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] entirely in the anime, where she is shown to be an extremely competent fighter and consistently gives a CurbStompBattle to the protagonist in all of their encounters.

* BandageMummy: She's covered from head to toe in wraps, though it is anyone's guess if this is due to some kind of injury or skin condition, her being an actual mummified undead, or just something she wears for kicks.
* OutOfFocus: Among the academy instructors, she's the least involved, with no development whatsoever or involvement in any quests. Her "roles" consist of nothing but a couple of ''one-line'' cameos in one or two sidequests.

* DespairEventHorizon: After Florina is kidnapped by Alexandre and most of the Jumi start leaving her Bejeweled City in fear of another attack by the Deathbringer's Empire without the aid of Florina's healing tears, she loses hope and willingly petrifies herself.
* TheHighQueen: Functions as this for the Bejeweled City, acting as its leader, although it eventually degenerates to GodSaveUsFromTheQueen as her hard-headed dictatorship when dealing with the Deathbringer's Empire causes her to lose support.

* TheNeedsOfTheMany: What she ultimately believes in regarding Florina, she willingly pushes Florina to create healing tears so the Bejeweled City can fight off the Deathbringer's Empire.

* ImmortalitySeeker: In life he sought immortality, going as far as to attack the dragons for their Mana Stones in this pursuit. Apparently his drive for immortality impressed Jajara so much that Jajara granted his wish for immortality by turning him into an undead and into a dragoon. Based on events of the Siren Arc in VideoGame/EchoesOfMana, [[WhoWantsToLiveForever Deathbringer regrets this now and actively seeks a way to end his immortal undead existence]].

* AllThereInTheManual: The History books show how major a player he is the world. Without that, he's just a mid-boss that gets namedropped by others in a few quests.
* DemBones: He's a skeleton.

* NotSoStoic: [[spoiler: If you ring Pearl/Lady Blackpearl to the Bejeweled City instead of Elazul during the events of Teardrop Crystal, she reacts in anger when she finds out that Elazul's core is taken by Sandra and it is consumed by the Lord of Jewels.]] [[spoiler:She also shows notable displeasure when Alexandre calls her a puppet in the ''Teardrop Crystal'' anime.]]

* GenderFlip: A bit of an odd case for the manga adaptation. Rather than have both of Alexandra's forms be fully biological transformations like in the original game, the manga [[spoiler:downgrades Sandra to a mere disguise and makes Alex the primary/"true" form instead. To drive the point home, he's even given the male equivalent of Sandra's ''qipao'' after the reveal - a sleeveless vest reminiscent of a ''tangzhuang'' top]].

* MeaningfulName: Sharp-eyed people will notice that Sandra is short for [[spoiler:Alexandra.]]

* MeaningfulName: Sharp-eyed people will notice that Alex is short for [[spoiler:Alexandra.]]
* NotQuiteHuman: Contrary to his appearance, [[spoiler:Alex is not really a human. It's merely a cover for Alexandra/Sandra, who is really a Jumi. Sandra dons this disguise to draw attention away from herself.]]

* LightLiegeDarkDefender: The Light Liege to Lady Blackpearl's (and later, Alexandra's) Dark Defender.

* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In the game, both playable characters are simply avatars with no real personality or backstory to them, save for the heavy implication that they were specifically created by the Mana goddess herself to become saviors of Fa'Diel. In ''Teardrop Crystal'', while the same is still implied for the male hero (named Shiloh), the female heroine (named Serafina) is given a completely new backstory as a war orphan who was found and raised by Alexandra of the Jumi, which explains the antagonistic role she ends up playing in this anime adaptation.

* DropTheHammer: Her chosen weapon is a massive warhammer.

* TheUnfought: She mostly sends her Jewel Beasts after you instead. The final boss fight of the story arc is actually [[spoiler:her master, The Lord of Jewels.]]
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] entirely in the anime, where she is shown to be an extremely competent fighter and consistently gives a CurbStompBattle to the protagonist in their early encounters.

* HeroicMime: All interaction is handled by dialogue trees except for the end of the Jumi Arc, wherein the character declares: [[spoiler: "I'm back!" to Bud and Lisa.]] Subverted in the ''Teardrop Crystal'' anime, where both Shiloh and Serafina were voiced.

* RelatedInTheAdaptation: The final episode of ''Teardrop Crystal'' reveals that Serafina (the female player character of the game) was a war orphan found and raised by the jewel thief, Sandra. This is an original invention by the anime since in the game, Sandra is merely an ArcVillain who's never had any prior interactions with either protagonists.

AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In the game, both playable characters are simply avatars with no real personality or backstory to them, save for the heavy implication that they were specifically created by the Mana goddess herself to become the saviors of Fa'Diel. In ''Teardrop Crystal'', while the same is still implied for the male hero (named Shiloh), the female heroine (named Serafina) is given a completely new backstory as a war orphan who was found and raised by Alexandra of the Jumi, which explains the antagonistic role she ends up playing in this anime adaptation.

* FunnyAnimal: A large, plump canary.

* AdaptationalWimp: The male protagonist (named Shiloh) gets hit hard by this in ''Teardrop Crystal'', losing every fight he gets involved in from episodes 1 to 4, even against an early game boss that should've been easy even for beginner players.

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: She has no wings and is covered in thick white fur instead of scales. Aside from her head, she looks rather similar to [[Literature/TheNeverEndingStory Falkor]]. Other than her lack of wings, her overall appearance is rather reminescent of Flammie.

* NominalHero: Nic is a dirty, rotten con-man to his very core. The only reason he can even be described as a "hero" lies in the fact that he's willing to stop a madman from destroying the world (if he was taken along the fight against Irwin). And ''only'' because [[RightForTheWrongReasons he sees the world as his cash cow]]. He's a living epitome of {{greed}} and selfishness, without any redeeming qualities.

* GoodIsDumb: This is the male protagonist's characterization in both manga and anime adaptations. The manga version (named Toto) is an outright idiot who keeps blundering his way through everything but somehow manages to save the day anyway due to sheer dumb luck and occasional moments of rare insight. The anime version (named Shiloh), while nowhere as egregiously brainless as his manga counterpart, is shown to be a naïve and gullible young man who doesn't know how to pick his battles nor think things through before taking action, suffering humiliating defeats and being played for a fool time and time again as a result, although his seemingly endless optimism and altruistic drive does sometimes pay off for him.

* GoodIsDumb: This is the male protagonist's characterization in both manga and anime adaptations. The manga version (named Toto) is an outright idiot who keeps blundering his way through everything but somehow manages to save the day anyway due to sheer dumb luck (if nothing else). The anime version (named Shiloh), while nowhere as egregiously brainless as his manga counterpart, is shown to be a naïve and gullible young man who doesn't know how to pick his battles nor think things through before taking action, suffering humiliating defeats and being played for a fool time and time again as a result, even though his heart's in the right place.

* GoodIsDumb: This is the male protagonist's characterization in both manga and anime adaptations. The manga version (named Toto) is an outright idiot who keeps blundering his way through everything, though somehow ends up saving the day anyway because of sheer dumb luck (if nothing else). The anime version (named Shiloh), while nowhere as egregiously brainless as his manga counterpart, is shown to be a naïve and gullible young man who doesn't know how to pick his battles nor think things through before taking action, resulting in him suffering humiliating defeats and being played for a fool time and time again, even though his heart's in the right place.

* FalseFriend: Serafina in the ''Teardrop Crystal'' anime. Initially presented as a kindly fellow adventurer and Geo student who befriends Esmeralda and Shilo, she later turns out to have been in cahoots with the murderous Sandra the whole time, and betrays everyone else to help advance Sandra's plot.
* GoodIsDumb: This is the male protagonist's characterization in both manga and anime adaptations. The manga version (named Toto) is an outright idiot who keeps blundering his way through everything, though somehow ends up saving the day anyway because of sheer dumb luck (if nothing else). The anime version (named Shilo), while nowhere as egregiously brainless as his manga counterpart, is shown to be a naïve and gullible young man who doesn't know how to pick his battles nor think things through before taking action, resulting in him suffering humiliating defeats and being played for a fool time and time again, even though his heart's in the right place.

* GoodIsDumb: This is the male protagonist's characterization in both manga and anime adaptations. The manga version (named Toto) is an outright idiot who keeps blundering his way through everything, though somehow ends up saving the day anyway because of sheer dumb luck (if nothing else). The anime version (named Shilo), while nowhere as egregiously brainless as his manga counterpart, is shown to be a naïve and gullible young man even though his heart's in the right place.

* AdaptationDeviation: Played with. ''Teardrop Crystal'' initially presents the male hero as the sole protagonist before later introducing the heroine as a secondary lead... only to pull a plot twist and reveal that she's been made an antagonist in this animated adaptation.