Characters / Game Of Touhou Essos

This page covers all characters that hail from, or are seen in Essos in Game of Touhou For the rest of the characters, see this page. Characters from A Song of Ice and Fire will be noted with this: (!)

The Free Cities

The westernmost region of Essos has nine proud free cities, some of which are visited during Yorihime's travels throughout the eastern continent.

Volantis

Volantis is an old scion of the now-dead Valyrian empire, and the triarchs often claim it to be the spiritual successor to Old Valyria, right down to its thriving slave markets. It is the home of the temple of the Lord of Light, the Merchants' House, and one of the largest ports in Essos.

Ferrisos Siderys

An old, experienced treasure hunter well-accustomed with sailing the flooded ruins of Old Valyria. He rents his ship to the younger Luna sisters, temporarily renaming it the Silent Sinner for them.

• Adventurer Archaeologist: Is almost this setting's equivalent of one, searching through the ruins of a dead civilization and finding treasure.
• Cool Old Guy: He's certainly seen a lot of years, but is also a hardened treasure hunter and all-round survivor.
• Eyepatch of Power: He has one that regularly switches eyes, as he wears it not to hide a deformity, but to improve his night vision.
• Meaningful Name: His name is based on 'Ferrus' and 'Sidero', Latin and Greek respectively for 'Iron'. This is foreshadowing for his ship taking on an ironborn.
• Mr. Exposition: As the most experienced treasure hunter and sailor in Yorihime's vicinity, he tends to act as this.
• Original Character
• The Stoic: Rarely shows his emotion, but when he does, it's for quite a good reason.
• Survivor's Guilt: Appears to suffer this after a good portion of his crew die fighting through the Qartheen guard.
• Third-Person Person: As the Essosi tend to be, due to the common tongue not being his first language.

Lorath

Lorath is a free city situated on a small island north of Essos. It is not particularly notable for anything, though its residents appear to have red-and-white dyed hair. The city also appears to have a thriving prostitution market.

Meterys

A whorehouse owner and temporary boss for the child prostitute cover identity Tewi Inaba assumes.

• Everyone Has Standards: Despite being a whorehouse owner, even he finds the concept of what he thinks is an orgy between a child, a cripple, and two sisters is Head-Tiltingly Kinky. It's actually Platonic Prostitution, but he does not know that.
• Meaningful Name: His name is based on the Latin for whore, 'Meretricem'.
• Only One Name: That we know of.
• Original Character
• Third-Person Person: As is standard of Essosi.

Braavos

A free city at the very north-west of Essos, situated within a many-isled lagoon. Its landmarks include the Titan of Braavos, the Drowned Town, and the Temple of the Many-Faced God, home of the Faceless Men. It is also home to a dueling culture involving swaggering fighters named 'Bravos'.

Fastorio Rictas

A smug, irritating bravo who takes Yorihime into Braavos. He is constantly disparaging of Denys Pyke for being crippled, an attitude that results in him dueling to the death with him.

• Agent Peacock: He has a flamboyant swagger and likes to wear bright clothes, as most bravos do.
• An Arm and a Leg: Loses his hand in his duel with Denys Pyke.
• Blood Knight: As bravos tend to be, he is rather fond of fighting and violence.
• Blood Magic: He becomes a blood sacrifice to hatch Selenion's egg, after being Driven to Suicide.
• Driven to Suicide: After losing his hand, he decides to end it all, so as not to be a Hypocrite.
• Duel to the Death: He enjoys having these, as a bravo, but loses his with Denys Pyke when his sword gets stuck in his peg-leg.
• Handsome Lech: He is young and handsome, but acts in a rather lecherous manner to Yorihime which she does not appreciate.
• Hot-Blooded: As a bravo, this should not come as a surprise.
• Hypocrite: Surprisingly, he averts this regarding his policy on cripples: when he becomes one, he puts himself down.
• Ironic Death: After encouraging euthanasia for Denys due to his being crippled, he winds up losing his own hand and putting himself down.
• Jerkass: Oh so very much. His surname, 'Rictas', refers to a grin, which is often described as being exceptionally smug.
• Madness Mantra: When psyching himself up for his suicide, he repeats over and over 'Valar Morghulis'. Readers of A Song of Ice and Fire will know what he's saying is 'all men must die'.
• Meaningful Name: 'Rictas' is latin for 'grin', representing his smugness. It also foreshadows his fate, as a 'Rictus Grin' refers to a 'smile' caused by facial muscles tightening after death.
• Oh, Crap!: Has one when his sword gets stuck in Denys' peg-leg.
• Original Character
• Third-Person Person: He says his own name whenever he refers to himself, which makes him seem all the more arrogant.

Selenion

A dragon hatched from an egg initially in Euron Greyjoy's possession, though in a trade, Yorihime gains it and hatches it in Braavos. He is fiercely loyal to his 'mother', and dies fighting for Yorihime even after she is crazy.

• Big Sleep: Sadly averted- once he's down, he's still making weak noises.
• Breath Weapon: He, like most dragons, can breathe fire.
• Kill It with Fire: His usual means of attacking.
• Meaningful Name: Selenion refers to the moon, which references that Yorihime Luna is his master.
• Memento MacGuffin: His bones are a macabre version of this in the Epilogue- Lady Iku Nagae has his bones to signify her killing of him to save the Rainbow Fort.
• My Master, Right or Wrong: Being an animal, he acts this way regarding his 'mother', Yorihime, fighting for her even when it leads to his death.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: According to several sources, Selenion is likely responsible for charbroiling several wight caches in the Woodlands en-masse.
• Original Character
• Our Angels Are Different: He's considered an angel by Mokou Fujiwara and her ascetics, an attitude Yorihime encourages when she moves into the City of Flames.
• Our Dragons Are Different: He is more like a wyvern, having two feet and two wings.
• Person of Mass Destruction: As a dragon, this comes with the territory.
• Pet Baby Wild Animal: While he is an adorable baby, as he grows larger and harder to control, he becomes wilder and wilder. This eventually forces Yorihime to build him a dragon pit to reduce his undesired destruction.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: He is this as a baby. As an adult, though...
• Sacrificial Lion: He has to die in order for Noros to have lasting peace, despite being for the most part simply a wild animal that wants to eat and fly.
• Senseless Sacrifice: He dies due to being sent on an entirely unnecessary vengeance attack by a maddened Yorihime, and to make things worse, he's still crying even after he's downed.
• Shout-Out: A cute purple dragon. Seems familiar. Also, his whole existence is a reference to the dragon egg Euron Greyjoy claims to his younger brother Victarion that he had, but threw overboard in 'one of [his] black moods'.
• Tragic Monster: His increasing savagery is only the nature of dragons, and despite it all, he is unflinchingly loyal to Yorihime to the point of death.
• Undying Loyalty: To Yorihime, even when she's mad.

The Smoking Sea

The Smoking Sea is what remains of Old Valyria. A flooded ruin, there are many secrets and treasures lying in these ruins.

Nessun Visos

A faceless man sailing the Smoking Sea with an ironborn crew. He is currently posing as a Tyroshi. He is first seen with the ship he's on sinking and surrounded by krakens, and is saved by the crew of the Silent Sinner.

• Animals Hate Him: While in the kraken-infested waters, he is bizarrely safe, the krakens avoiding him like the plague.
• Balancing Death's Books: As per a Faceless Man. In exchange for Yorihime's crew saving he and Denys Pyke, he offers to kill two people.
• Meaningful Name: 'Nessun Visos' means 'no face' in latin, referring to his status as a Faceless Man.
• Odd Friendship: With Denys Pyke, his total opposite number in terms of being emotional and culture.
• Original Character
• Prisoner Exchange: He is part of one, being traded for Reisen Inaba in Qarth, while he enters the service of Euron Greyjoy.
• Professional Killer: As per his role as a Facless Man. He's implied to be the very Faceless Man who kills Balon Greyjoy for Euron.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue to Denys Pyke's Red.
• Shout-Out: He is given to Euron Greyjoy for his killing services, and is strongly implied to be the cause of Balon Greyjoy's death, a large driving force of the Ironborn plot of A Song of Ice and Fire.
• The Stoic: He very rarely shows emotion, as expected of a Professional Killer.

Denys Pyke

A bastard from the Westerosi and Ironborn House Botley of Lordsport. He is sailing on the same ship as Nessun Visos, and ends up saved by Yorihime's crew after the ship sinks, albeit losing a leg to a kraken in the process.

• Affectionate Nickname: He calls Toyohime his 'Fair Mermaid'.
• An Arm and a Leg: He loses his leg to a kraken when his ship gets shipwrecked, but still fought it off with his bare hands.
• Bros Before Hoes: Averts this by not going with Nessun Visos onto the Silence with Euron Greyjoy, opting to stay with Toyohime.
• Fair for Its Day: An in-universe example more akin to 'Fair for his culture'. He is genuinely being courteous to Toyohime when he promises he'll only take her for a wife if they get married, and not 'salt wives'.
• Florence Nightingale Effect: Inverted- due to being tended to by Toyohime Luna after losing his leg to a kraken, he falls obsessively in love with her.
• Handicapped Badass: Even after he loses his leg to the aforementioned kraken, he still beats a bravo in a Duel to the Death, partially due to the injury.
• Heroic Bastard: Is quite a kind-hearted man, especially for an ironborn.
• Hook Hand: He has a peg-leg to replace his mostly gone leg.
• Hot-Blooded: He is quite boisterous and warm given his situation, but is also easy to rile up.
• Intergenerational Friendship: With Rumia Woods during his time at the Rainbow Fort, showing how kind to children he is.
• Odd Friendship: With Nessun Visos, a mysterious Professional Killer that is The Stoic, especially considering how Hot-Blooded he is.
• Original Character
• Perma-Stubble
• Plucky Comic Relief: His simple-mindedness and desperation to be with Toyohime makes him this more often than not.
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: As he has ironborn blood, he is naturally predisposed to being this, but subverts this as often as he plays it straight.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Nessun's blue.
• Shoo Out the Clowns: He is noticeably absent from serious scenes such as Marisa debating what to do with Yorihime- subverted in that he shows up in some serious scenes.
• Single-Target Sexuality: While it is noted several times that Yorihime is more beautiful than Toyohime and she is the one who breast-feeds Selenion in full view of Denys, he merely makes jokes about Yorihime's predicament, not demonstrating attraction to her due to his romantic obsession with Toyohime, his savior.
• Undying Loyalty: After having his leg-stump tended to by Toyohime Luna, he falls head-over-heels in love with her, and stays loyal to her over all else.
• White Sheep: He is certainly one of the nicer ironborn, if A Song of Ice and Fire is anything to judge by. Funnily enough, another White Sheep of the ironborn in the books would in theory share family ties with Denys- Tristifer Botley.

Euron Greyjoy(!)

The exiled younger brother of Balon Greyjoy, Lord Reaper of Pyke and current self-proclaimed King of the Iron Islands. He was exiled from Pyke for raping his younger brother Victarion's salt-wife and forcing him, by ironborn law, to beat her to death. Not the nicest of fellows. He is the Captain of the Silence, and is currently searching Old Valyria and Essos for treasure.

• Ax-Crazy: He has absolutely no qualms butchering the Qartheen nobility for a bit of extra plunder.
• Eyepatch of Power: Like in Canon, he wears an eyepatch to cover his black, shiny eye.
• He-Man Woman Hater: He is notably misogynistic, as if just to add to his unpleasantness.
• Hero of Another Story: Inverted- he is one of the VILLAINS in the main A Song of Ice and Fire universe.
• Jerkass: Probably putting it lightly. By a noticeable margin.
• Kick the Dog: He is a constant practitioner of it, but a special mention goes to him ripping out the tongues of any part of his crew not useful for teaching him magic.
• Prisoner Exchange: He arranges one so he can get the services of Nessun Visos to kill Balon Greyjoy.
• Psycho Serum: He, not unlike a warlock, has pale blue lips, indicating he has a taste for shad-of-the-evening.
• Rape, Pillage, and Burn: If his treatment of the Pureborn is any indication, this is generally how he deals with people.
• Shout-Out: So, you wondered how Euron got a dragonhorn and a faceless man to kill his brother in A Feast for Crows? Now you know.

Qarth

The greatest city that ever was or will be, or so the Qartheen claim, Qarth is a beautiful city in the very east of Essos, only surpassed by the Shadowlands. Its wealth and affluence are unparalleled, and it is known as 'the Queen of Cities'.

Xaro Xhoan Daxos(!)

A merchant prince of Qarth with the masculinity of a eunuch, Xaro Xhoan Daxos is a walking example of Qarth's exotic culture. Encrusted head to toe with jewels, he is wealth and aristocracy embodied.

• Ambiguously Gay: He is rather effeminate, and dresses flamboyantly.
• Crocodile Tears: Like in Canon, Xaro is able to form a single perfect tear to poorly simulate emotion.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: He's under no illusions that he's a fighter. Hence, when he sees the Pureborn are likely being killed, he runs.
• Mr. Exposition: He gives a little exposition about Qarth to Yorihime and company.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He abandons the scene once he figures out the Pureborn are being massacred.
• Shout-Out: Various snippets of his dialogue are references to Daenerys's time in Qarth in the actual A Song of Ice and Fire.