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3'''''[[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned BEWARE OF UNCOVERED TROPE SPOILERS!]]'''''
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8[[folder:Heldalf, The Lord of Calamity]]
9!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakayukiSugo (JP), Creator/PatrickSeitz (EN)
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11A towering, lion-like Hellion of incredible strength. Calm and collected, he desires to destroy the world and make it anew.
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13* AdaptationalVillainy: PlayedWith in regards to his backstory. [[spoiler:In the game the destruction of Camlann was less of his fault and more of ContrivedCoincidence, seeing as Hyland attacked after he and his forces had left the village, and his choice to leave it to its fate is more of a pragmatic reason than anything. The anime instead has him and his forces at the village, with his superiors revealing it was a XanatosGambit to draw out Hyland into attacking. However the PlayedWith aspect is that Heldalf seems to not agree with the plan and merely followed the orders given.]]
14* AnimalMotifs: Lions, from his appearance to possessing the iconic arte Beast, which is renamed "Lion's Howl".
15* TheAntichrist: He's the resident force of evil that opposes Sorey's MessianicArchetype. It's to the point where one of his attacks [[spoiler: in his OneWingedAngel]] actually name drops Satan himself.
16* ArchnemesisDad: [[spoiler: The manga implies that Heldalf is Sorey's father. Neither are aware of it, however]].
17* BareFistedMonk: Uses his fists along with his claws as his primary way of attacking.
18* BigBad: He's largely responsible for the spread of the miasma and Hellions throughout the world. [[spoiler: He retains the position for the entire story, unlike the villains of some other Tales games.]]
19* TheCorrupter: He puts Sorey through [[KickTheDog all kinds of hell]] in order to turn him into a Hellion. His power is also so massive he corrupts anyone with any bit of malevolence and they instantly become a Hellion.
20* {{Curse}}: His abandoning Camlann was the reason the previous Shepherd ended up cursing him, driving him mad by grief and despair until he turned into the Lord of Calamity.
21* DarkAndTroubledPast: Like most Tales villains, he has his reasons for doing what he does.
22* DarkIsEvil: His design involves a lot of black and purple, and he's the BigBad of the game.
23* ElementalPowers: Able to wield the four primary elements, presumably as a result of having consumed Seraphs who possessed them.
24* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Due to the years he suffered from the curse and eventual transformation into the Lord of Calamity, Helfdalf lost the ability to see anything good in the world beyond hatred and darkness. His words as Sorey walks over to end his suffering were all about how striking him down [[StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred would make him the next Lord of Calamity]] only to be mad and baffled at how he failed to turn.
25* {{Expy}}: Of [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Ganon]], being the animal themed {{Antichrist}} BigBad with ties to a god, and was made the BigBad through a curse.
26* FreudianExcuse: Surprisingly {{Averted}}. It wasn't a single moment or event that made Heldalf the monster he is now. Instead, it was a slow and even worse series of events ranging from [[spoiler:his family being murdered]], to him [[spoiler: being unable to kill himself]] that shaped him into hating the world.
27* FourStarBadass: Even before turning into a hellion, he was a powerful enough general in Rolance to be granted the Lion's Howl arte.
28* FusionDance: [[spoiler:He armatizes with Maotelus, becoming a dragon with a lion's face.]]
29* IJustWantToHaveFriends: The girls discuss in a skit during Alisha's story that his attempts to convince Sorey to join him were due to his feelings of loneliness and seeking someone to be his companion. He failed to realize that even if Sorey joined him and became a Hellion he would still oppose him since Hellions are fully capable of hating and opposing each other. [[spoiler: It is implied that he is also reaching out to Sorey specifically because on some level he recognizes him as his son.]]
30* KingOfBeasts: He's more or less a humanoid lion, having the distinctive mane and tail, along with claws.
31* LukeIAmYourFather: The manga heavily implies that [[spoiler:he is Sorey's father. While both of them are apparently unaware of this, Heldalf seems to realize the similarity between Sorey and Selene in his last moments.]]
32* MagicallyIneptFighter: Much like the human party members, Heldalf cannot use Seraphic Artes [[spoiler:outside of Armatization]].
33* NamesToRunAwayFrom: The Lord of Calamity.
34* NiceJobFixingItVillain: He imprisoned a Seraph in the middle of a battlefield to turn him into a dragon and help wreck the world. This causes the remaining Hyland and Rolance soldiers to team up with Sorey against the dragon and leads to the war being cut short.
35* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: The source of why he ended up the way he is, though the "good deed" is up for interpretation. [[spoiler:Heldalf and his troops were garrisoning at Michael's village during the war, causing the people to constantly lash out at them. He decided to give them what they want and left, only for the village to be attacked after they did so. Rather than try to save it, he decided to leave it to its fate to spare his troops. In doing so, Michael cursed him into becoming the Lord of Calamity, which is why he no longer can see people in a positive way again]].
36* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: He claims and believes that turning everyone into Hellions will erase the world's pain, which is a contradictory goal due to how most Hellions are characterized as perpetually angry, AxCrazy brutes. However, the party speculates that he's really looking for a way to overcome his loneliness, as shown when he insists on sparing Sorey in order to give the latter a chance to become a Hellion servant. It's implied that his true motive for spreading Malevolence is so that he doesn't have to be alone in his predicament, though his curse would most likely find a way around that anyways.
37* OneHitKill: His Mystic Arte causes so much damage that anyone who gets targeted with it is going to hit the floor, regardless of what difficulty you're playing on.
38** He also does this to a Dragon during a flashback.
39** [[spoiler: In the second part of the final fight, he Armatizes with Maotelus and gains the ability to use Indignation and will attempt to use it for every quarter of health lost. Failure to inflict enough damage to disrupt the charging ''will'' result in this happening to the entire party.]]
40* OneWingedAngel: After [[spoiler: Armatizing with Seraph Maotelus]].
41* PhysicalGod: While he may have been human once, Heldalf is a walking well of malevolence. Simply appearing in any area generally causes '''anyone''' with any malevolence at all to instantly become a Hellion. He's so absurdly strong he defeats Sorey and the group the first time they clash with his domain alone. Keep in mind up until that point domains only were used to quell malevolence in cities. During a viewing of the Iris Gems the group is utterly '''horrified''' at how he [[CurbstompBattle defeats]] [[SingleStrokeBattle a]] [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Dragon]] in one hit.
42* PowerGlows: Most of his body glows purple, and it does a good job of making him look powerful, in case him being a hulking, eight-foot tall lion man wasn't enough.
43* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Heavily implied to have been this in his backstory; [[spoiler:though he butted heads with Shepherd Michael, he was only truly doing his job and made choices that were logical and meant for the good of his soldiers. Unfortunately...]]
44* ShapingYourAttacks: As one might expect from his appearance, he's able to use the lion-shaped, Tales series staple of Beast. His Mystic Arte basically takes it and cranks it up.
45* ShootTheHostage: At one point, Rose holds Symonne at knifepoint in an attempt to get him to back off and stop attacking the party. He responds by simply blasting both of them with a torrent of water.
46* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Unlike his game counterpart, Sorey does not kill him and successfully purifies him in the anime.]]
47* TheStoic: Aside from occasionally showing some slight amusement at the party's determination, he tends to remain completely straight-faced.
48* TragicVillain: Being cursed to endure eternal loneliness caused his family to die in tragic accidents, be alienated and mocked by his peers, feared amongst those who saw his curse in action, watch innocent babies turn into Hellions just from him holding them, and have every attempt to commit suicide to fail until he finally transformed into the Lord of Calamity.
49* TrueFinalBoss: If the player beats the postgame dungeon, Hexen Isle, the Earthpulse's flow is restored and powers up both Heldalf and [[spoiler:Maotelus]]. If the player starts the FinalBoss fight again, Heldalf is upgraded to "Despot Heldalf," giving him higher stats and resistance to all elements. His upgraded [[spoiler:Armatized]] form doesn't have these resistances, but gets a stat boost that makes the DPS check much harder than before.
50* UnskilledButStrong: He fights with punches and claw swipes, which can easily be used without finesse. He's also strong enough to one-shot a dragon. Exaggerated during [[spoiler: his OneWingedAngel mode after Armatizing with Maotelus]]. The unskilled part is downplayed since he's at least skilled enough with countering to use Karmic Stance.
51* VillainousLegacy: In the Alisha DLC, [[spoiler:Hyland and Rolance are still healing from the conflict he instigated between them. Additionally, his servants Symmone and Lunarre are still at large, recycling his methods to sabotage Sorey's plans to purify the continent.]]
52* WalkingWasteland: He emits enough malevolence to blanket the region he's in, turning the sky an eerie purple, along with causing ill effects to those aren't protected from it; the worst of them being a swift transformation into a Hellion should the individual have enough darkness in their heart. The party initially doesn't stand a chance against him as a result.
53* WasOnceAMan: Used to be a General from Rolance.
54* WeCanRuleTogether: Offers this to Sorey, but he declines.
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57[[folder:Lunarre]]
58!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakehitoKoyasu (JP), Creator/BenjaminDiskin (EN), Creator/AustinTindle (EN, Anime)
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60->''"Are you going to make me spell it out for you…? That I want to devour you?"''
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62A cold-blooded assassin whose dark heart transformed him into a Hellion, and a member of the guild known as the Scattered Bones. His sudden appearance in Sorey's village and subsequent actions end up being part of what drives him and Mikleo to set out on their journey.
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64* AmbiguousSituation: The game doesn't reveal how he came into Heldalf's fold. It's implied to have happened sometime after his second boss fight since his goal of killing Alisha could interfere with [[spoiler:Maltran's]] plans to use the princess.
65* AnimalMotif: He's designed after the mystical kitsune/foxes of Japanese folklore, having facial markings reminiscent of one, along with a tail-like hairstyle. He looks enough like one that he's referred to as a fox-man before his name is known, or is simply called a fox by those who don't respect him.
66* AxCrazy: He loves killing and is prone to fits of insane cackling.
67* TheBrute: He shares this role with [[spoiler:Maotelus]] by being an AxCrazy Hellion with plenty of literal firepower. During his first Pendrago encounter, he's shown working with Symmone, which means he's working for Heldalf. Unlike [[spoiler:Maotelus]], he is shown to have a cunning mind when the situation calls for it. He captures his former Scattered Bones comrades in order for them to take the fall as Hyland spies, all as part of Heldalf's plan to worsen the war. In Alisha's DLC, [[spoiler:he manipulates the pro-war extremists into invading Camlann, which is bad news because Sorey is still in hibernation with Maotelus.]]
68* DragonAscendant: Played with due to his role as TheBrute during the main story. Despite not being as close and loyal to Heldalf as Symmone, [[spoiler:he takes a more active role in Alisha's DLC to antagonize the party and invade Camlann. In contrast, Symmone ditches the operation halfway through, due to questioning her nihilistic views.]]
69* {{Expy}}:
70** Of [[VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia Zagi]], [[AxCrazy in so]] [[BloodKnight many]] [[RecurringBoss ways]].
71** Blondish hair, creepy fangs, was once human before willingly becoming a monster, enjoys devouring humans to gain strength, AxCrazy BloodKnight mindset, and RecurringBoss voiced by Creator/TakehitoKoyasu? Sounds a lot like [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Dio Brando]].
72* FromNobodyToNightmare: According to the Scattered Bones, Lunarre apparently started out as a small-time thief before joining them. [[spoiler:The Alisha DLC has him commanding Hellions in much the same way as Heldalf, implying that he's trying to become the next Lord of Calamity]].
73* FusionDance: The game strongly infers Lunarre was somehow created this way from [[spoiler:Rolance Prince Konan]]'s malevolence and the body of [[spoiler:Dezel]]'s old friend [[spoiler:Lafarga, who had long hair]]. The fact the Scattered Bones met Lunarre only two years prior to the game, Lunarre not remembering a time when he wasn't a thief (assuming he wasn't being figurative), and his obsession with Rose further points to this trope. On the other hand, the Fuseface Hellion also seems to have a connection to [[spoiler:Konan and Lefarga]], so it's not guaranteed that this is Lunarre's identity.
74* ImAHumanitarian: He's introduced in the game '''literally eating someone!''' He even calls Alisha his next meal and refers to Sorey and Mikleo as appetizers.
75* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:In the anime only. He sacrifices himself by using all of his power to destroy the malevolence.]]
76* KnowWhenToFoldThem: At the end of Alisha's DLC, [[spoiler:Lunarre refrains from fighting the party after they defeat the last of his Hellion minions, since he's still weakened by the stab wound from his previous boss battle.]]
77* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: The party [[spoiler: minus Rose]] doesn't know his name for a while and call him Fox Guy or Foxxy.
78* MoreDespicableMinion: Downplayed. Lunarre lacks the tragic pasts of Heldalf and the rest of the latter's group, making him their least sympathetic member. While the other members have their own share of atrocities, Lunarre is even more sadistic and spiteful towards the party in comparison, especially to Rose. His malice gets to the point where the Alisha DLC implies that [[spoiler:he's trying to take Heldalf's place as the Lord of Calamity by raising a Hellion army against Camlann]].
79* MultipleChoicePast: [[FromNobodyToNightmare Two]] [[FusionDance pasts]] in the game, [[StartOfDarkness one]] in the anime.
80* NaturalWeapon: Uses his claws for close-range combat, frequently imbuing them with the aforementioned flames.
81* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Lunarre ends up saving Alisha in Zestiria the X's prologue from Symonne because he is the one who must kill her.
82* PlayingWithFire: Wields blue flames to go along with his kitsune motif, but also incorporates some standard fire elemental magic into his arsenal in later battles.
83* PointyEars: One of his physical traits aside from his eyes and fangs that make him readily identifiable as a Hellion.
84* RecurringBoss: Yet another in the line of psychopathic assassins/hitmen who fill the role throughout the ''VideoGame/TalesSeries''.
85* SlasherSmile: His default expression and the markings on his face serve to emphasize it.
86* TheSociopath: The anime gives him this attitude regarding current events and will watch with glee as everything and everyone around him wither down under pressure, especially in regard to Alisha's issues.
87* StartOfDarkness: Zestiria the X reveals he became the psychotic Hellion Lunarre after failing to defeat his target Alisha and begging Rose to let him finish the job she gave him.
88* TheStinger: Lunarre is shown to be alive in Alisha's story, plotting to kill all of Rose's friends or somehow kill Sorey in front of them all.
89* TookALevelInBadass: By his fourth encounter, he's capable of using a Mystic Arte and can quickly cast fire Seraphic Artes.
90* UnskilledButStrong: Downplayed. His melee attacks mainly consist of wild flaming swings despite his experience as an assassin. However, he eventually learns several fire Seraphic Artes and gains the ability to turn his flames into explosive mines, showing that while his martial capabilities have degraded, he's developing better control of his Hellion powers.
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93[[folder:Seraph Symonne]]
94!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HiromiIgarashi (JP), Creator/ChristineMarieCabanos (EN)
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96A rogue Seraph with the power to create illusions. Cold and cynical, she considers good deeds to be worthless, and belittles those who would strive for them.
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98* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: In a bizarre way she came to serve Heldalf because he valued her and her abilities, something other Seraphim and humans did not.
99* DarkIsEvil: She is the only seraph who has dark hair instead of light or a solid color, and also the only seraph who remains firmly villainous.
100* DeathByAdaptation: In the game, she survives to the end and even appears in the post-game DLC event, whereas in anime adaptation, [[spoiler:she sacrifices herself for Heldalf and turns into a dragon to block the path to his domain, and is eventually taken down by Dezel's HeroicSacrifice]].
101* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: After Heldalf bites it.
102* DoppelgangerAttack: While not very threatening on her own in battle, she can create weaker clones with the same abilities as her. Her Mystic Arte, Metem Psychosis, has them gang up on a downed victim and stab them repeatedly in a scene reminiscent of a horror movie.
103* TheDragon: To Heldalf.
104* ElementalPowers: On top of her illusions, she's able to utilize magic from a wide array of different elements by [[PowerCopying copying the artes of the party seraphim]].
105* EvilCannotComprehendGood: She sics an illusion of Maltran against Alisha, which ends up helping Alisha get over the event. Like before, she's baffled that her illusion failed to corrupt her intended target.
106* GirlishPigtails: She has cutesy pigtails in contrast with her villainous behaviour.
107* HairIntakes: She has two intakes in her hair that resemble cat ears.
108* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:In the anime only, where she turns herself into a dragon to keep the party from reaching Heldalf and is subsequently killed by Dezel.]]
109* LoopholeAbuse: She's not allowed to kill anyone, but she get around this restriction by setting her enemies up to be killed by others, like Hellions.
110* MagicallyBindingContract: It's implied that her illusion magic is so strong because she took an oath forbidding herself from killing anyone.
111* MagicStaff: Her weapon of choice. She seldom attacks directly with it, preferring to keep her distance and use magic.
112* MarkOfTheSupernatural: As a seraph, she has unnatural purple hair tips.
113* MasterOfIllusion: She's able to create tangible images capable of causing harm, disguise herself, and trap others in a world of illusion.
114* NiceJobFixingItVillain: In Alisha's DLC, though her attempts were to get Alisha to cross the DespairEventHorizon, she ends up helping Alisha with her CharacterDevelopment.
115* PowerCopying: Her illusion powers allow her to access a range of elemental artes that all derive from the party seraphim's own artes.
116* PureIsNotGood: She's a Seraphim who has dedicated herself to her master Heldalf and his cause. Thus she has no malevolence within her.
117* {{Sadist}}: In her first appearance, she cruelly taunts Dezel about his past mistake, and it turns out she was there to taunt him when it happened, as well.
118* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: She initially planned on using Alisha for the age of Chaos in Zestiria the X prologue, but Lunarre's interference makes her decide it's not worth it and leaves.
119* {{Stripperiffic}}: Her outfit is easily the skimpiest out of any female in the game, excluding some of the DLC costumes.
120* ThouShaltNotKill: The party speculates that the cost of the oath she took to gain her illusion powers was that she couldn't kill anyone.
121* VillainousBreakdown: After being defeated for the last time, the party gives her a speech in an attempt to make her question her way of thinking, and she ultimately throws a crying fit as they walk away unable to understand what they mean.
122* WorfHadTheFlu: Her illusion are basically a StoryBreakerPower, but she loses to the party in the final dungeon. The party speculates that her power comes from a pact that prevents her from directly killing them and when she does try to break the pact, she does it in a place full of malevolence, thus weakening her.

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