History Characters / SwordOfMana

* AdaptationExpansion: While the hero's storyline is more or less lifted from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyAdventure'', the heroine's route was freshly written for this game. One of the consequences of this is that she is privy to a lot more of the other characters' backstories and the secrets of the world than he is. This arguably makes her the central protagonist of the game, whereas in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyAdventure'' the heroine was a much more traditional DistressedDamsel.

The cast of ''VideoGame/SwordOfMana'', which is expanded from the storyline of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyAdventure''. Very much a Work In Progress. '''All spoilers are unmarked. ''Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.'''''

The cast of ''VideoGame/SwordOfMana'', which is expanded from the storyline of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyAdventure''. WIP. Contains unmarked spoilers.

* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler:Her real name is Pamela, an identity which she abandoned after Lorimar Castle was frozen. When Prince Durac recognizes her after Lorimar unfreezes, she denies it.]]

* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:The only person who wasn't frozen with the rest of Lorimar aside from the king.]]

* MysticalWaif: A {{GenderInver|tedTrope}}sion for Dark Lord, who trusts him implicitly. Just a shame Julius didn't reciprocate.

* MysticalWaif: A {{Gender-Inver|tedTrope}}sion for Dark Lord, who trusts him implicitly. Just a shame Julius didn't reciprocate.

* LegacyCharacter: Originally from ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI Final Fantasy 1]]'', he came over to the Franchise/WorldOfMana and only went back once as a human for ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII''.

* LegacyCharacter: Originally from ''[[VideoGame/Final FantasyI Final Fantasy 1]]'', he came over to the Franchise/WorldOfMana and only went back once as a human for ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII''.

* UltimateBlacksmith: His signature trait even back in ''[[VideoGame/Final FantasyI Final Fantasy 1]]''.

* {{Transflormation}}: Became the Mana Tree after the old one was lost in ''Final Fantasy Adventure'', or merged.

* YouKilledMyFather: Initially holds a strong grudge against Dark Lord and Julius, but mellows out a bit as she learns more about their circumstances.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Was the first character to die in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyAdventure'', whereas here he is one of the few survivors.

%%* IJustWantToHaveFriends

* IntergenerationalFriendship: With the hero, in the hero's prologue.

* OneWingedAngel: A giant humanoid bat, just like in ''Fina lFantasy Adventure'' / ''Adventures of Mana''.

* AdaptationOriginConnection: He was just a crony for the Dark Lord in ''Final Fantasy Adventure'' / ''Adventures of Mana''. In ''Sword of Mana'', he's Dark Lord's twin brother.

[[folder:Selah]]
!!Selah
An old ally of the Gemma Knights, who lives in the town of Ishe. Her house serves as the party's home base during the journey to recover the Mana Sword.

%%* CoolOldLady
%%* FriendToAllChildren
* RetiredBadass: Fought alongside the Gemma Knights, but that was decades ago.

[[folder:Niccolo]]
!!Niccolo
Representative of a race of anthropomorphic cat-bunny merchants. Rescues the hero early into the story and from then on shows up in random places to sell the protagonists items both story-relevant and ordinary.

* BeastMan: He's a chubby anthropomorphic rabbit.
* DungeonShop: He can randomly appear in most wild areas to sell you items. Oddly enough, this includes the Mana Sanctuary.
* LegacyCharacter: Shares a name and species with a character from ''VideoGame/LegendOfMana''.

[[folder:Li'l Cactus]]
!!Li'l Cactus
The protagonists' pet, who [[NowWhereWasIGoingAgain immortalizes your plot and sidequest progress]] in verse form if you talk to him at certain points of the game.

* LegacyCharacter: The jury's out on what connection, if any, he has to other appearances in the series.
* RhymesOnADime: His diary is written as if each entry was a poem.
* ShipperOnDeck: Lampshades the SlapSlapKiss dynamic of the hero and heroine at the beginning, and sagely remarks that Dark Lord "shoulda married Isabella".
%%* TerseTalker: Except in his diary.

%%* BestServedCold

%%* HelloInsertNameHere

%%* JumpedAtTheCall

* ShipTease: With both Amanda and the heroine in his route.

%%* YouKilledMyFather

%%* ActionGirl

%%* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence

%%* HelloInsertNameHere

* SaveTheVillain: She tries very hard, at least.
* ShipTease: With Devius and the hero.

%%* [[spoiler:{{Transflormation}}]]

* WhiteMagicianGirl: Takes this role in the Hero's route.

* DishingOutDirt: He can use the Spirit Gnome.
* DistressedDude: Winds up kidnapped by Devius at one point.
* IncestSubtext: In his grief over his wife's death, he initially perceived his daughter to be her reincarnation. Awkward.
* LukeIAmYourFather: He was the heroine's dad all along.

* NotBloodSiblings: His wife Mana was originally raised as his little sister.
* ParentalSubstitute: Ironic, seeing as...
%%* TeamDad

* BlowYouAway: She can use the Spirit Jinn.

%%* ShootTheDog

%%* UnluckyChildhoodFriend
* TheVirus: Medusa's venom causes her to start attacking the protagonists.

Amanda's younger brother, a minstrel who admires Granz. His skills attract the attention of Devius, who adopts him and brings him back to Jadd--where Medusa winds up turning him into a bird, like all the other minstrels her son has brought home. Once returned to his true form by his sister's sacrifice, he accompanies the protagonists on their quest to stop Dark Lord's party from getting their hands on the power of mana.

* GreenThumb: He can use the Spirit Dryad.
%%* MagicMusic

* DirtyCoward: [[MyGreatestFailure Still blames himself]] for running away in terror during the attack on the Mana Village.
* PluckyComicRelief

%%* SurvivorGuilt

%%* CoolOldGuy
%%* MiniatureSeniorCitizens

%%* LegacyCharacter

%%* UltimateBlacksmith

[[folder:Marshall]]
!!Marshall

* HeroicSacrifice: Saves the heroine when the tower begins to break down, and knowing that it can't function outside the tower anymore, doesn't even try to jump the gap itself.

%%* RobotBuddy

* AdaptationExpansion: His backstory (not coincidentally exclusive to the heroine's route) was reworked heavily for this game; the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyAdventure'' version of his character was a flat villain.
%%* AntiVillain
%%* BarehandedBladeBlock

* DevilInPlainSight: Just look at his name!
%%* DiscOneFinalBoss

%%* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas
%%* HalfHumanHybrid
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Hates the Mana Tribe and the Granz regime for what he believes to be their prejudice against Mavoles and half-bloods like himself, but his persecution of Mana believers sure looks a lot like prejudice too.
* PetTheDog: Still very protective of Marley.

%%* RoaringRampageOfRevenge
%%* ShipTease: With Isabella and Julius.
* StatusEffects: Can cause blindness with one of his attacks.
%%* SwordAndSorcerer: With Julius.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: {{Discussed|Trope}} by Lee if you visit him after Dark Lord's death.

%%* CampGay

* DeadpanSnarker: Prior to Dark Lord's death.

%%* EvilRedhead
%%* EvilSorcerer
%%* FinalBoss

* GenerationXerox

%%* ManipulativeBastard

** It's worth noting that in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyAdventure'', he's unambiguously just the last surviving member of the empire, and seeks to return it to glory as Neo-Vandole. He was found as a baby in a cave at the waterfalls near Granz by Dark Lord and was presumably raised by him, so it's unknown how he learned about his heritage.
%%* MysticalWaif
* OneWingedAngel: During the third and final part of his battle, he appears as a humanoid figure made of tree bark due to absorbing most of the Mana Tree's power.

* SequentialBoss: The first two part of the final battle have him in human form with different ability sets.
* ShadowArchetype: To the heroine.
* ShipTease: With Dark Lord.

* StatusEffects: Petrification, burn, silence, freezing, sleep and/or poison depending on the phase of his boss fight.
* SwordAndSorcerer: With Dark Lord.

* TheTrickster: Prior to Dark Lord's death.

* AdaptationalHeroism: In ''Adventure'', he was pretty much just a vampire who collected a bunch of girls in coffins for... no apparent reason, and was killed by the hero. However, this game changes him to a ''much'' more sympathetic character.

* OneWingedAngel: A giant humanoid bat.

* CatStereotype: Fits the general white cat archetype.

%%* FieryRedhead

* OddFriendship: With the heroine.

* ShipTease: With Lee and Dark Lord.
%%* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself

%%* AntiVillain
%%* BenevolentBoss
* BerserkButton: Very kind and reasonable unless his mother is harmed, in which case watch out.
%%* BewareTheNiceOnes
* TheCaretaker: To Medusa.
* ChekhovsGun: Early on, the heroine explains that spirits don't appear before inherently evil beings, and so this goes to reinforce Devius's character.

%%* HalfHumanHybrid
%%* NotSoStoic: After Medusa's death.
* OneWingedAngel: A humanoid nautilus.
* RevengeBeforeReason: He doesn't take that fact that you killed Medusa very well.

* StatusEffects: Blind and confusion, which [[InterfaceScrew reverses your controls]].
%%* TheStoic

%%* MoralityPet: To Dark Lord.

* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler:Her real name is Pamela, an identity which she abandoned after Lorimar Castle was frozen.]]
%%* SecretKeeper

Dark Lord and Devius's mother, a Mavole noblewoman. Due to the powerful geas meant to prevent Mavoles from intermarrying with humans, she has been steadily losing her memories of her husband and children, and will eventually die. Granz chose to separate from her in hopes of slowing her illness down, which also forced their sons apart. She now lives with Devius in Jadd, where he continually brings minstrels to perform for her because they help her remember her husband. [[ForcedTransformation If only she would stop turning them into birds.]]

* StatusEffects: Petrification, caused by a beam fired from her OneWingedAngel form's third eye.

* TheVirus: Her venom has a corrupting influence on humans.

* ChaoticEvil: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] InUniverse.

* EvilLaugh: After every line.
%%* ForTheEvulz

%%* MonsterClown

%%* PunnyName
%%* SinisterScythe
%%* TheUnfought
* YourSoulIsMine: [[spoiler:Does this to Devius and Dark Lord.]]

%%* RetiredBadass

Representative of a race of anthropomorphic cat-bunny merchants. Rescues the hero early into the story ("Grandpappy always said that being a Good Samaritan is good for business!") and from then on shows up in random places to sell the protagonists items both story-relevant and ordinary.

* BeastMan: He's a chubby rabbit-man.

%%* LegacyCharacter

%%* LegacyCharacter
* RhymesOnADime: His diary is written this way.

* TerseTalker: Except in his diary.

%%* HeroesWantRedheads

%%* BladeOnAStick

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: The people of Jadd love him, and so do the Luna spirits, with which he's affiliated.

%%* NotSoStoic: After Medusa's death.

%%* BareYourMidriff

* AdaptationalHeroism: In ''Adventure'', he was pretty much just a vampire who collected a bunch of GirlInABox for... no apparent reason, and was killed by the hero. However, this game changes him to a ''much'' more sympathetic character.

* NotWhatItLooksLike: Very much so. That GirlInABox-filled basement? Those are sleeping Mana women he's sheltering from Dark Lord at the behest of Granz. The butlers who remark about how the heroine and Isabella are "the perfect woman" and try to present them to Lee like a stereotypical vampire B-movie? They're a little overly enthusiastic about bride-shopping for their master, and are doing it against his will. Isabella is floating motionless in the air when the hero bursts in? She was harassing Lee, so he put her to sleep. It takes Granz's intervening to get things sorted out in the end.

%%* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire

* DungeonShop: He can randomly appear in most wild areas to sell you items.

%%* AnAxeToGrind

%%* BalefulPolymorph

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Gives off this impression with his birds; though it's later discovered that [[BalefulPolymorph some of them weren't always birds]].

Dark Lord and Devius's mother, a Mavole noblewoman. Due to the powerful geas meant to prevent Mavoles from intermarrying with humans, she has been steadily losing her memories of her husband and children, and will eventually die. Granz chose to separate from her in hopes of slowing her illness down, which also forced their sons apart. She now lives with Devius in Jadd, where he continually brings minstrels to perform for her because they help her remember her husband. [[BalefulPolymorph If only she would stop turning them into birds.]]

* BalefulPolymorph: She turns visiting minstrels into birds. Amanda's blood can change them back thanks to being laced with Medusa's venom.

* FlunkyBoss: During the first part of his battle, he summons other enemies.

* StatusEffects: Petrification, freezing, sleep and poison.

%%* SimpleStaff

%%* NiceHat

%%* DualWielding

* KnifeNut: Her battle-ready sprite shows her holding a pair of knives.