This is the character sheet for Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time.
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The Village
Player Character
Player Character
A customizable hero, chosen from among the four races of Clavat, Yuke, Lilty, and Selkie. The story begins on the day of their coming of age ceremony, where they come face-to-face with the Crystal Core in the forest outside the village where they have been raised. At the same time, however, the young village girl Eryll falls ill to crystal sickness - and as the only one able to leave the village, the hero goes to help.
- The Chosen One: They are chosen by the Crystal Core and it even goes inside them.
- Conveniently an Orphan: How they came to be abandoned in the woods is never revealed and has no bearing on the plot.
- Dangerous 16th Birthday: The coming of age ceremony happens on their sixteenth birthday.
- Good Morning, Crono: How the game begins and ends.
- Happily Adopted: The hero, by the village in general and Sherlotta in particular.
- Hello, [Insert Name Here]: The character's name is completely chosen by the player.
- Mysterious Past: The character is too young to remember most of the details, but they were discovered in the forest by Sherlotta as a young child. The details are uncovered over the course of the story.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: When Eryll gets sick they get the cure from Larkeicus, who then asks them to return to him afterward to repay his favor. This involves activating the towers at the top of Fire Mountain and Ice Mountain, enabling him to set his Evil Plan into motion.
- Not a Morning Person: Everyone in the village ribs them about how they're always sleeping in, even on the morning of their coming-of-age-ceremony.
- Raised by the Community: Though Sherlotta is the one to look after them the most, the entire village plays a part in raising the hero and everyone looks upon them as one of their children.
- This Is Unforgivable!: One of the hero's final journal entries, after learning what happened to Sherlotta, is a declaration that they will never forgive Larkeicus.
- Unwitting Pawn: The hero, being a decent and honest individual, decides to repay Larkeicus for his help in Eryll's cure. The tasks that Larkeicus asks the Hero to perform lead to the villagers disappearing.
- Weapon Specialization: Any race can equip any weapon, but each race specializes in two.
Sherlotta
Sherlotta
- Voiced by: Marina Inoue (Japanese), Stephanie Sheh (English)
- Animorphism: She seems to be able to transform into a cat. It's actually more complicated than that - she is a cat. Larkeicus's experiments left her unable to leave on her own, so she placed her consciousness into a cat.
- Cool Big Sis: Sherlotta has the personality when she starts traveling with the hero.
- The Dreaded: When you visit town, people often tell stories of the witch of the forest and mothers use them to keep their children in line. When Sherlotta eventually comes to town with you, she has a wonderful time making people faint with fear.
- The Gadfly: She knows she's The Dreaded and she loves it, milking it for all it's worth once she goes to town.
- Gemstone Assault: The Crystal Core gave her the ability to create more crystals since it is the only one left in the world. A variant - she doesn't actually use it to attack (though she does in Opera Omnia).
- Heroic Willpower: During the final battle, Sherlotta—the real one whose body has been comatose and used as a crystal vending machine by Larkeicus for 2,000 years—gets up and puts him in a chokehold after he expels her from her cat form and moves to kill the hero.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Sherlotta is a jerk to people in town, but a Cool Big Sis to the hero and the villagers. Given her past, her short temper is understandable.
- Little Bit Beastly: She looks pretty normal other than the fact that she has a tail. It's because she's borrowing the body of a cat.
- Mama Bear: She loves the hero and would do anything for them.
- Mystical White Hair: The only character with silver-pink hair and has a connection to the Crystal Core. As a bit of a subversion, she had that hair color even before she was mystical.
- Parental Substitute: To the hero.
- Really 700 Years Old: She's really 2000, like the villagers, and this is due to Larkeicus's experiments on immortality.
- Speaks Fluent Animal: She can talk to animals - she doesn't seem to like dogs but she adores cats.
- Tsundere: She's pretty rough with everyone except the hero.
Norschtalen
Norschtalen
A young Yuke girl who lives in the village. Like the hero, she was found in the forest outside the village and taken to live there, though not as a baby like the hero - instead, she used to live in town but left there because she wasn't accepted.
- Affectionate Nickname: Eryll and some of the others call her "Norsy."
- All of the Other Reindeer: She was raised in an orphanage in town but she left and wandered into a dangerous forest because no one accepted her. Among the village people, she's as loved and adored as the hero.
- Best Friend: Eryll, who is the youngest girl in the village.
- Cloudcuckoolander: She can say some pretty nonsensical things at times. Such as when her teacher, Waltrill, turns into a spirit and fades away in front of her.Norschtalen: I-is this a scientific transformation? Has phosphorous gotten into his bloodstream?!
- Expressive Mask: The eye-holes in Norschtalen's mask change shape with her mood. Additionally, the notch at the top of each eye-hole shifts around like eyebrows.
- Go Mad from the Isolation: Played for laughs. When the villagers all disappear due to the Crystal Core's power getting fractured, she's left alone and continues to hang out in the village and the player can often find her wandering around, singing, or talking to herself.
- Happily Adopted: By the village and Waltrill in particular, just like the hero with Sherlotta.
- Locked Out of the Loop: She doesn't find out until the end of the game that everyone in the village except for her and the hero is actually a spirit, because she's too young and they want to keep looking after her.
- No Sense of Direction: Every time she attempts to leave the village, she gets hopelessly lost and someone has to fetch her. In fact, this is how she got to the village in the first place.
- Parental Substitute: While the hero has Sherlotta, she has the Yuke mage Waltrill, who is also her teacher.
- Right Behind Me: A Running Gag. The player often finds her alone and she never notices, so she can often be seen singing nonsensical songs to herself.
- Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Her hair bow seems like it exists just to show that she's a girl.
- Token Human: Aside from the hero, Norschtalen is another adoptee of the village; an orphanage runaway who wound up there after getting lost in the woods. This gives the hero someone to talk to when everyone else vanishes—they are the only people there who were actually alive.
- Weirdness Censor: She's the only one in the village who doesn't seem to have it. Which is an early hint that she's more of an outsider. When she asks the player if they think Sherlotta having a tail is weird, they don't think so.
Other Villagers
Other Villagers
Inhabitants of a village hidden away in a forest. All of them take care of the hero and Norschtalen in addition to their own children. It is made up of Aurdy the Clavat elder and leader, Bachenn the Clavat man, Eryll the Clavat and youngest villager, Ilina the teenage Clavat, Eryll's older brother Lian, Lilty Phelple and his mother Toumli, Selkie Ullz and his mother Tratt, and Waltrill the Yuke. Everyone in the village with the exceptions of the hero, Sherlotta, and Norschtalen turn out to be Dead All Along.
- Always with You: They say as much to the hero and Norschtalen, saying that they'll always be around even if they can't see them. Though Waltrill advises the hero not to tell Norschtalen this in case she thinks it'll mean he's haunting her.
- Apologizes a Lot: Toumli, who gets flustered easily and apologizes about everything.
- Big Brother Instinct: Lian to Eryll; he laments that he can't do anything to help her when she falls ill.
- Companion Cube: Lian names all of his vegetables when he plants them.
- Quirky Town: The hero's home village. Between a guy who gives all his vegetable seeds girl's names and cries when they're harvested, a former mercenary who can't control her son, and a big-sister figure with an inexplicable cat tail, it was an unorthodox place for the hero to grow up.
- Retired Badass: Toumli is said to have been a monstrously powerful mercenary some years back, but she denies it. Even so, a flashback scene shows her leaping high into the air and defeating Larkeicus's golems along with Bachenn. Even in the present, she is shown to effortlessly lift cows above her head.
- Stern Teacher: Waltrill to Norschtalen, who won't teach her advanced magic.
- Those Two Guys: Phelple and Ullz are two young boys who seem roughly the same age who are constantly getting into some kind of trouble together.
- Town with a Dark Secret: Though the way it's handled is lighter than most. The secret is that they're all over 2000 years old and long dead - the Crystal Core just enabled them to all stick around as spirits.
- We Named the Monkey "Jack": Eryll apparently called all of her pets 'Sherlotta.'
- Will-o'-the-Wisp: The villagers dwindle to formless apparitions, in which form they bid farewell to the Hero.
The Town
Larkeicus
Larkeicus
- Voiced by: Rokurō Naya (Japanese), William Frederick (English)
An archaeologist who works in the library. When Eryll gets ill, the hero leaves their village to find a cure and it leads them to him - and in return for his help, he asks them to come back and do something for him in return.
- Bald of Evil: He has not a single hair on his head.
- Big Bad: The very first cutscene of the game shows him following a Mystical Waif through a forest with an Ominous Walk, catching her, and it only gets worse from there.
- Casting a Shadow: His golems are summoned from darkness and magic runes.
- Funetik Aksent: He speaks with a German accent and his dialogue text will reflect it, saying things like "vill" instead of "will." Overlaps with Herr Doktor.
- Mad Scientist: It is his experiments that made Sherlotta and Veriaulde immortal.
- Emperor Scientist: Essentially his role in the ancient civilization, without directly being called such. He is the one who provided all the technology that ran on the crystals and made them as advanced as they were, to the point where Veriaulde says he was "worshiped as a god." Overlaps with God-Emperor.
- Really 700 Years Old: He is over 2000, just like Sherlotta and Veriaulde, and a member of the advanced ancient civilization that utilized the power of the crystals.
- One-Winged Angel: True to Final Fantasy form, he transforms at the end of the game by absorbing the power of the crystals and becomes Neo Larkeicus, serving as the Final Boss.
- Recurring Boss: He's fought three times, once as Neo Larkeicus.
- Resurrective Immortality: He is fought as an early boss in the Library and defeated, but reveals that he cannot stay dead for long.
- Scary Shiny Glasses: He has them briefly in the cutscene where the towers at the top of Fire Mountain and Ice Mountain are activated, which opens a portal to admit his golems.
- Set Right What Once Went Wrong: His main goal is to try and reverse the tragedy that befell the ancient civilization.
- Summon Magic: He is capable of summoning golems made from darkness.
- This Cannot Be!: Larkeicus says this so strongly when he realizes he's worked for 2,000 years trying to stop something that he is instead causing to begin with that he starts desperately begging for it not to be.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: All of his actions are meant to prevent the destruction of an ancient civilization from over 2000 years ago, which fell to a calamity from sometime in the future.
- Villain with Good Publicity: No one in town knows that he's behind all the strange things happening lately (some even think the hero is!) and he is known as a highly respected, if reclusive, scholar.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Larkeicus summons a number of golems to dispose of the hero after they reactivate the mountain devices, leading to the first boss battle against him.
Other Characters
Veriaulde
Veriaulde
A Yuke hiding in seclusion at the bottom of the Ruins. The player finds him down there while searching for a way to track down the fragments of the Crystal Core, but when Veriaulde is exposed to their crystal he unwillingly transforms into Deathgaze.
- The Aloner: He secluded himself in the Ruins for hundreds of years for a reason and he's not happy that the player discovered him. It's a form of self-punishment for being complicit in Larkeicus's atrocities 2000 years ago.
- Ignorant Minion: He was Larkeicus's apprentice 2000 years ago. When Larkeicus went to destroy the village, Veriaulde was under the assumption that they were simply going to investigate the last remaining crystal in the world that was inside the forest. When Larkeicus attacks the inhabitants, Veriaulde is shown trying to stop him, but it's too late and he gets overwhelmed.
- Involuntary Shapeshifter: He transforms into Deathgaze and serves as a boss battle. It only seems to happen when exposed to a piece of the Crystal Core. It's a side effect of Larkeicus's immortality experiments. Afterward, he returns to normal but stresses that the player can't take out their crystal again around him.
- Long-Lived: He's old even by Yuke standards. It's because he participated in Larkeicus's experiments and gained immortality from it, though with the caveat that he'll transform into Deathgaze when exposed to a piece of crystal.
- Mr. Exposition: He gives a lot of background on the ancient civilization and Larkeicus's role in it.
- My Greatest Failure: Allowing himself to be manipulated by Larkeicus resulted in the destruction of the village and everyone in it.
- Punny Name: Veriaulde sounds like "very old."
- Small Role, Big Impact: He only has two scenes and a boss battle but he reveals a lot about the story and the nature of the villain.
Undead Princess
Undead Princess
A spirit that guards a magical artifact hidden away in the Graveyard. When the player and Sherlotta find it, they have to defeat her first - and afterward her soul inhabits the artifact, eventually becoming a magic staff that can harness the crystals' power. Temperamental and shrill, she is often bullied by Sherlotta.
- Attack Its Weak Point: Like every boss battle, she has a weak point - hers is her tombstone.
- Black Eyes of Evil: Because she's an evil spirit. Also, she sometimes has Red Eyes, Take Warning.
- Butt-Monkey: Sherlotta puts her through a lot of abuse after her soul inhabits the magic artifact.
- Casting a Shadow: As a boss battle, she uses darkness attacks.
- The Chew Toy: To Sherlotta.
- Cute Monster Girl: She verges on this trope - at least from the waist-up.
- Defeat Means Friendship: The friendship part is downplayed - it's mostly that she's cowed into submission by Sherlotta, who she begins to call "m'lady."
- The Dreaded: The townspeople tell stories of a haunting in the graveyard that keeps them from exploring it, though the Undead Princess isn't as dreaded as much as Sherlotta is.
- Gratuitous Princess: It's unclear what she's actually the princess of. The Japanese version calls her the "Undead Celeb" instead.
- Guest-Star Party Member: Of a sort. She tags along after the hero defeats her in the Graveyard and comes along into the Mines to get the staff attachment for her magic artifact. She tags along into town inbetween these events and has fun terrorizing the townspeople with Sherlotta.
- Heel–Face Turn: After becoming the magic staff, the hero and Sherlotta use it as the key to unlock the Gate, which requires her to stay there. It gives her a lot of time to ponder her existence, and she eventually refers to herself as "the Spirit of the Holy Staff," and she wishes the world to be at peace.
- Heroic Comedic Sociopath: When she comes along to town with the hero and Sherlotta, she wastes no time terrorizing the townspeople. One guy tries to flirt with Sherlotta and in response the Undead Princess beats him until he's nearly "legally and biologically dead" with Sherlotta's approval. Together, they make half of the town faint in fright.
- Large Ham: She is prone to bombastic, dramatic exclamations and over-the-top threats of violence.
- No Name Given: The official strategy guide gives her the name "Celeb," but her name in Japanese is "Undead Celeb," likely making it short for "celebrity." World of Final Fantasy opts to just call her Undead Princess.
- Really 700 Years Old: She's eight hundred, which makes her young compared to Sherlotta or Larkeicus.
- Revive Kills Zombie: The player needs to cast Cure on her in order to make her susceptible to damage, like all ghost enemies.
- Scary Teeth: She has them, but it doesn't really serve to make her scary.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Larkeicus sealed her away years and years ago to guard the magical artifact that can harness the power of the crystals. Even after the hero and Sherlotta get their hands on it, she remains sealed inside.
- Sinister Scythe: She wields a scythe that she uses in battle.
