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Alternate Elyos

In General

• After the End: Alternate Elyos turns out to be a dying world where most animals are extinct, the plants have begun dying out, and almost everyone on the continent, including the royal families of each country, have died and been revived as Corrupted. The only alive people are Nel, Nil, and the Four Winds. It's lampshaded by the Winds that the war they were fighting was one they had already lost.
• Alternate Universe: Assuming Nel's exposition is accurate, in addition to its Mirror Universe aspects, Alternate Elyos has some important distinctions in its history. Namely, instead of being an unknown exile, Sombron in this world was a native of Elyos, with Fell Dragons and Divine Dragons being descendants of the First Dragons (a type of dragon first described in Fire Emblem Fates). As such, his interest in going to other worlds was much less important as a motivation (though Rafal indicates it may have still been present), and his warmongering was more about honor and direct vengeance instead.
• Apocalypse How: The entire alternate world is revealed to have suffered from a Class 4 apocalypse long ago, where every human on the planet (excluding Nel, Rafal, and the Winds) have died from a Zombie Apocalypse, including some animals, leaving the world as a near-lifeless husk.
• Disc-One Nuke: You can access and complete the Fell Xenologues as early as Chapter 7, allowing you to already have Nel, Rafal, Zelestia, Gregory, and Madeline recruited for deployment in the main story. All of them are prepromotes, allowing them to pull their own weight and help out the team without starving the earlygame units of too much EXP. That being said, if you wait too long to recruit them, you end up with a bunch of Overrated and Underleveled chumps.
• Doomed by Canon: Implied with the Fell Dragon twin siblings' counterparts in the main game. It's already established that only Alear and Veyle are what remains of Sombron's children, with the rest either having died toward the end of the war in battle or killed by Sombron himself for their perceived "defects". Assuming Nel and Nil (and Rafal) have counterparts in Mainline Elyos, it's possible they too are dead, either having been seen as "defects" or died fighting for Sombron. It's unclear who their potential counterparts may have been or if they were identical (Alear's alternate counterpart is of the opposite gender and the Four Winds all bear different names than their Mainline selves barring Alternate Mauvier); however, in Veyle's Support with Nel, the former asks Nel if she's really a fellow daughter of Sombron, meaning either Nel's counterpart went by another name, Veyle never met or heard of her, or was too young to remember her properly.
• Downloadable Content: Alternate Elyos and its residents require the Expansion Pass to experience for oneself.
• "End of the World" Special: How dead Alternate Elyos is after Nel and Rafal leave isn't made clear. They did use the Emblem Bracelets in some manner, at least to get a Dragonstone for themselves and then send them to the main Elyos, but the Bracelets are portrayed as weaker or more limited than the Rings. Still, Rafal ponders "if any flowers have begun to bloom" there while in Alear's company, implying that he and Nel left some life behind.
• Everybody's Dead, Dave: Nel realizes at some point, either before Alear's arrival or while talking with the Firenese royalty, that everyone on the main continent has been Corrupted. Unlike with Sombron's Corrupted, most of them have retained most of their reason and all of their memories (aside from remembering that they're Corrupted), and not even Zelestia or Gregory (noted sensors of life and danger respectively) notice. Nel says this in Fell Xenologue 4, and no Corrupted who look like common people appear afterwards.
  • According to an interview, this is the result of the war dead becoming Corrupted and killing the royal families of Elyos, as well as Rafal's raids. The only reason the Four Winds aren't in this number is due to Rafal not wanting to make his true nature too obvious to Nel.
  • There's a Freeze-Frame Bonus of sorts that hints to this earlier in the story; when Alternate Alfred accuses the Divine Dragon and co. of being Corrupted sent to them, the camera briefly shifts to Nel, who says nothing but looks pissed.
• Humanity's Wake: Once all of the resurrected royals and all of the other Corrupted have been defeated for good, and the last few survivors migrate to the main Elyos, the Alternate Elyos becomes a world where humans have become extinct.
• Mirror Universe: The personalities and preferences of most of Alternate Elyos characters, the royals and the Four Winds (with the exception of Mauvier), are notable inversions and exaggerations of their main counterparts, though for the former, it is mostly justified because of the tragedies of losing their Divine Dragon, retainers, families, and other close friends while being locked in a cold war. Also further justified that they are all Corrupted, their personalities greatly twisted as a result. However, when initiating a battle between an alternate royal and their retainer, most notable among the Elusian and Solmic royals, they will admit that their deceased retainers had contrasting personality traits to the main game retainers. These examples include Merrin hating animals, Bunet being horrible in the kitchen, and Goldmary being withdrawn and uncharismatic. Though as for how truthful they are from the mouths of the Corrupted alternate royals, it can also be taken just as much with a grain of salt.
• Overrated and Underleveled: Downplayed. That is, depending on where you are in the main story, if you recruit them very late in the game or after you have long since completed the main story, their base stats will be alarmingly low for their join time, and will struggle to keep up with your other party members without significant dedication, despite their reputation as a powerful Fell Dragon duo and an elite squad of warriors. They are best recruited mid-game, but this comes with its own issues due to how much more difficult the Fell Xenologue is at such a point due to lack of available Emblems.
• Posthumous Character: In Alternate Elyos, with the exception of the royals and Mauvier, everyone from the main Elyos was said to have died at some point during or after the previous war. Known casualties include the royals' retainers, as well as their parents, and if Zelestia's comment regarding the inhabitants of Alternate Elyos after clearing the Fell Xenologue is of any indication, then Vander, Clanne, Framme, Jean, Anna, Yunaka, and Seadall, while not explicitly mentioned, have all died as well. However, as for the case of the royals, the real versions of them were already dead. The ones seen in game are just them reanimated as the Corrupted.
• Sugar Apocalypse: Small and cute things are said by Nel to be quite endangered here... though this is said after she leaves, so it's possible that they've outlived everything else that's not a plant.
• Time Dilation: Time is out of it in Alternate Elyos. When Nel and Rafal arrive on the Somniel not all that long after Alear and the Four Winds go there, Alear is surprised to see them so soon. Rafal, however, clarifies that from his perspective it had been one thousand years, the time needed to revive Nel. It's possible that the Ancient Well just picks and chooses when to spit out its users, though; this would explain why the Emblem Bracelets make it from the end of the Xenologue to before you even play it, for example.
• You Can't Go Home Again: While the Skirmishes in Alternate Elyos take place in their respective maps, the characters in Alternate Elyos reject that they're the same place. To them, what they're visiting is either the past or an alternate version of Alternate Elyos, or both. The state of Nel and Rafal's Elyos after their departure is never revealed.
• Your Magic's No Good Here: Alear can't purify Emblems of Fell power in this world, and thus can't re-summon the defeated Bracelet Emblems as allies. Exactly why they can't do this is not explained beyond speculation that it is due to Alear not being native to their world.
• Zombie Apocalypse: The main Elyos has one occurring with the Corrupted starting to spreading across the continent. However, this Elyos has been almost completely overrun by the Corrupted, which includes Corrupted versions of the royals, and only a few are still alive at this point. The bizarre thing is that most of said Corrupted look and behave like living people, and with few exceptions are not even aware they are actually dead and Living on Borrowed Time.

The Divine Dragon

Male Alear voiced by: Hiro Shimono (Japanese), Brandon McInnis (English)
Female Alear voiced by: Aya Endo (Japanese), Laura Stahl (English)

The Alear of Alternate Elyos. In this Mirror Universe, they perished during the climax of the war against a revived Sombron. Although dead, they possess enough power to contact their counterpart and request their help in saving their loved ones.

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• Alternate Self: Alear's counterpart in Alternate Elyos. Unlike the Alear of the main game, this Divine Dragon never fell into a thousand-year slumber (on top of potentially being a full-on Divine Dragon instead of a Fell Dragon) and succeeded Lumera following her Heroic Sacrifice to defeat Sombron, creating an era of peace in Alternate Elyos until Sombron revived.
• Ambiguous Situation: In contrast to the Alear of the main game, Alternate Alear has entirely blue hair, though it's unclear whether they are a full Divine Dragon to begin with, eventually became a full Divine Dragon after surpassing Lumera as Divine Dragon Monarch following her passing, or simply Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence. The pact ring supports with Gregory and Rafal imply, if not confirm, that their Alear somehow was never a Fell Dragon at all. The logistics on how this is possible are never made clear.
• Backup from Otherworld: Does this twice, first by enabling Alear to travel to Alternate Elyos to begin with, and then in the last battle giving all their remaining power to grant Alear a sword that does massively boosted damage against the final boss of the Xenologue.
• Cryptic Conversation: Their meeting with Alear is chock full of this, insisting that they have never met despite Alear feeling as if they have. Indeed, they outright claim they are not meeting even in that moment.
• Curtains Match the Window: Like Emblem Alear from the Main Elyos, the Alternate Elyos Divine Dragon has both blue hair and eyes.
• Distaff Counterpart: Depending on which gender Alear is, the Divine Dragon of Alternate Elyos will be the opposite gender; a female Alternate Alear will greet a male Alear, and vice versa.
• The Faceless: Their face is always obscured at an angle during cutscenes, such as the camera only showing the back of their head or have their head almost completely blocked out, but it is seen briefly in Xenologue 6, albeit with a shadow overlaying their face.
• Foreshadowing: Since they're from a mirror world, it's a bit conspicuous that the Divine Dragon's hair is solid blue while Alear's is blue-and-red. Indeed, Alternate Alear is more of a swap of the Alear of the past, and Past Alear's red hair and black outfit contrasts with the alternate's blue-and-white. Dialogue with Nel shows that they were opposites in a few other ways, such as Alternate Alear being born a Divine Dragon and having an unabashed personality, while Past Alear was Sombron's child and intensely fettered.
• Gender-Blender Name: Nel confirms in her A support with Alear that the alternate Elyos Divine Dragon had the same name as them, despite being the opposite sex. This can result in some rather extreme cases of this trope, like female divine dragons named Chad or male ones named Tiffany.
• Have We Met Yet?: A non-time travel variant. Alear feels as if they've met their counterpart, but the Divine Dragon insists this is their first meeting, or rather they have never met and never will meet, even as they speak to each other. It may be a case of Metaphorically True since they're the same person from two different timelines.
• The Heart: Of Alternate Elyos. When they died, everyone started pointing fingers at each other for having let them die and are now at each other's throats. Though, it is pondered if the Divine Dragon's army was ever really united to begin with, given how quickly they turned against each other.
• The Lost Lenore: To Nel.
• Mutual Kill: They and Sombron both slew each other when the latter managed to free himself sometime after the last Fell-Divine Dragon war.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: As pointed out by Alternate Sombron in a flashback, the Divine Dragon inadvertently helped doom Alternate Elyos by never having kids or even adopting an heir in their thousand years of rulership, causing their divinity to pass from the world with them.
• Not Too Dead to Save the Day: Despite being dead, Alternate Alear sets the plot of the Fell Xenologue in motion by sending Alear to their world to put a stop to the Big Bad's plans.
• Plot-Triggering Death: The death of Alternate Alear isn't necessarily what kicks off the plot of Fell Xenologue, but their passing created a fracture in Alternate Elyos, putting all four nations in a state of cold war.
• Posthumous Character: They're recently deceased, having pulled a Mutual Kill with Sombron at the end of the second Divine-Fell Dragon war. That said, their spirit still lingers and requests their Mainline counterpart's assistance in their world.
• Quest Giver: They issue Alear one at the very start of the Fell Xenologue DLC, requesting their help in protecting their loved ones. It ends up being the motivation Alear uses to try to save Rafal, despite all he has done, as it is something the Divine Dragon wanted them to do and therefore there must be a chance.

Nel (El)

Class: Fell Child

Voiced by: Romi Park (Japanese), Liz Morey (English)

Stoic Dragon

One of the Fell Dragon twins from the other world. She is the elder twin sister of Nil and, alongside her brother and the Four Winds, reside in Lythos Castle defending the Emblem Bracelets until their theft at the hands of the DLC's Big Bad. She (and unknown to her Alternate Alear) and her brother summon Alear in the hopes of reclaiming the Emblem Bracelets before they fall into the wrong hands.

Her personal skill, Protective, grants her +10 Crit for one turn if Nil is attacked.

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• Abusive Parents: Even in another Elyos, Sombron isn't winning any parent of the year awards. Ignoring Nel's distress after seeing the corpses of her siblings, all slain by her hand, Sombron decided she was the best choice to become his heir in the event of his death and did something to her dragonstone. Alear and Zelestia speculate that whatever Sombron did to tamper with it, it affected Rafal's mind after he inherited the stone from Nil.
• Ambiguously Bi: Nel mentions her crush on her world's Alear regardless of what gender you (and by extension their counterpart, since they will always be the opposite gender) chose.
• Affectionate Nickname: Nel has a habit of addressing humans as "little ones". She is also shown to call human royalty like Diamant and Timerra "little prince" and "little princess" respectively.
• Anguished Declaration of Love: Tearfully admits to Alear that she loved their counterpart and resolved to tell them herself when the war ended, only for the Divine Dragon to die alongside Sombron at the war's end.
• Antiquated Linguistics: Nel speaks in a notably formal and outdated way. While she is a 1000+ year old dragon, there are several dragons in the game that are similar in age or significantly older that speak in a more modern way.
• Big Sister Instinct: She is very protective of her younger twin brother Nil. In a flashback sequence in Xenologue 3, she was outraged by her siblings' taunts of how Nil was a failure and offered to get rid of him for her, and upon waking up after having a blackout, she finds them all dead at her hands. Even though the present day Nil turns out to be Rafal impersonating him as per his dying wishes, she is still cares for him regardless. In gameplay, this manifests as her Protective skill, where she will get a crit boost if Nil (or Rafal) gets attacked during Enemy Phase.
• Bizarre Taste in Food: Nel really enjoys a ludicrous amount of salt on her food. Her B rank bond conversation with Roy has him being baffled by how she would use an entire shaker of salt on her food. Her response is to pity him for not being able to taste her "gift to culinary advancement" suffice to say Nel is confident in her sense of taste.
• Blue Is Heroic: Dresses primarily in blue and white, and is the most proactive in trying to save her world. This is even reflected in her dragon form, where her noticeably sinister features are balanced out by her glowing blue scales. Further reinforced by her brother Rafal being dressed in red and revealed as the true villain; cementing Nel as the true hero of this world.
• Breath Weapon: Her dragon form's attack animation has her firing a laser beam from her mouth.
• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Gender-inverted version. She's the brooding girl in this case, being very solemn, aloof and cold. It's later revealed that she is this way because she feels immense guilt over feeling responsible for the state of her world. Nel is also shown for the majority of the Fell Xenologue to be frustrated with the idea of working alongside Alear. In truth, she is frustrated because they remind her of the Alear she once loved and lost. In contrast, Nil is a gentle boy and is much more openly emotional. This trope becomes played straight with the reveal that the gentle Nil shown throughout the Fell Xenologue was a facade and instead Sombron's chosen heir Rafal. In truth, Rafal was always a vile person, being darker and more brooding than Nel ever was. Likewise, as more is revealed about Nel, it's shown that she has always been a very gentle person to those she cares about.
• Brother–Sister Incest: Albeit by way of a huge technicality. While it's implied Alternate Alear is a full-blooded Divine Dragon, the Player Character Alear was born a Fell Dragon and therefore they share different versions of the same father. That said, Nel hails from a world where she and Alear are not related, which Nel points out in their S-Support. This isn't in the Japanese version. Nel says multiple times that they both have the same Fell Dragon blood, but says nothing about them not being related.
• Cain and Abel: At the end of the DLC, she becomes the Abel to Rafal's Cain, though she wishes to try and redeem him rather than kill him.
• Casting a Shadow: Being a Fell Dragon, she can wield Obscurité, a tome that is normally exclusive to Veyle and Sombron. She can't use it by default in her base class, requiring her to class change to a magic-wielding class to use it.
• Contralto of Strength: Nel has a noticeably deep voice in both the English and Japanese dubs. This is fitting as Nel is described as being both strong and brave and in fact was a candidate for being Sombron's heir.
• Critical Hit Class: So long as Nil is deployed alongside her, Nel's personal skill grants her additional Crit when he's attacked, turning her into this.
• Cruel to Be Kind: Her cold shoulder to Alear is this. As she explains to them after killing Alternate Ivy and Alternate Timerra, she didn't want them to experience or see the deaths of people they know and fight alongside in their world, nor did she want them to see what became of their companions in this world. In short, Nel felt Alear was better off not knowing.
• Dark Is Not Evil: She's a heroic Fell Dragon who wants to put a stop to the cold war in her world by taking the Emblem Bracelets, believing No Man Should Have This Power.
• Deadpan Snarker: She has her moments, such as when she informs Alear that they've already entered Brodia.
  Alear: And you didn't think to mention that sooner?
  Nel: I was unaware it was so important. I hope you can still reschedule the parade.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: She's initially cold to Alear, as she and the rest of her world are still reeling from the loss of Alternate Elyos' Divine Dragon. Alear's presence is a very bitter reminder of what she and her allies have lost. It takes until near the end of the DLC for her to start opening up and treat them respectfully.
• Distaff Counterpart: The end of the Fell Xenologue sees her more or less follow in Alear's footsteps in the main game. Specifically, she performs a Heroic Sacrifice to stop the Big Bad, and falls into a thousand-year slumber, during which Rafal imbues her with his essence, much like what Lumera did with Alear.
• Dramatic Irony: Nel and her brother called for a "savior" to aid them, only to summon Alear. Nel can't help but comment how fate is cruel and mysterious since two Fell Dragons summoned someone who, in the distant past, was their mortal enemy. It's almost immediately made clear, however, that what she actually meant was the person they summoned to help them is a different version of the Divine Dragon, who Nel was in love with.
• Driven to Suicide: After the final battle, instead of finishing Rafal off, she suddenly stabs herself, declaring that she would rather die than strike down her last remaining family. It's implied she was also aware that her Dragonstone was the cause of Rafal's madness, hence her stating that her death would end his pain as said death would destroy the stone.
• Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: When she and the Four Winds are caught in Nil's trap and surrounded by Corrupted, she says she'll take them on by transforming, only to then remember that Nil, who left to kill Alear, has her dragonstone.
• Gameplay and Story Integration: Nel prefers to handle everything herself, to avoid letting anyone get hurt. Her stats make her out to be a capable damage-dealer and tank, who does best at melee range, and her Class skill softens the consequences of overextending by providing some damage resistance against engage attacks. Likewise, Nel's battlefield role changes after the end of the Xenologue and her Disney Death; as long as you didn't get her too early, her average-across-the-board stats will make her more of a supporting party member, mainly for helping out her now-overprotective brother.
• Heroic BSoD: When Nel finds out that the Winds have all (presumably) sacrificed themselves to defeat all of the Corrupted, she is at a complete standstill, as Rafal gleefully admits that it was their own fault. He uses the opportunity of Nel being at her lowest point in order to kidnap her to the fallen Somniel.
• Heroic Suicide: She kills herself at the end of the Xenologue, breaking her altered dragonstone and restoring Nil/Rafal's state of mind. She eventually is revived thanks to Rafal channeling his essence into her over the course of a thousand years.
• Humans Are Insects: Handled wholesomely, with Nel referring to humans as "little people" or "little ones", and calling Diamant "little prince".
• Hypocritical Humor: In Nel's wake up lines towards Alear she criticizes them for always oversleeping. Nel starts to call Alear "Divine Dozer" so they get the point. Alear oversleeping is even listed as one of Nel's dislikes in her ally notebook. Despite all this in her support with Timerra, Nel is shown to have a habit of dozing off. Notably she was falling asleep out in the open. Near the end of the Fell Xenologue it was also confirmed by Rafal that Nel always used to sleep much deeper and longer than him when they were kids.
• Jerkass to One: Nel is a kind older sister to Nil as well as Rafal and a Benevolent Boss to the Four Winds, but is rather abrasive to Alear due to her issues with them as the counterpart to the Divine Dragon she loved.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Nel has been keeping the truth of the royals and their armies actually being Corrupted a secret from her friends and allies, primarily so that they will never have to learn their former comrades died and to spare them the experience of killing them, even if it is a Mercy Kill. She especially did not want Alear to have to kill the alternate versions of their own comrades.
• The Lost Lenore: Tearfully admits Alternate Alear is this for her in Xenologue 4. She loved them dearly and even planned to confess to them when the war ended. She never got the chance to since they and Sombron took each other out.
• Mercy Kill: She feels that killing the alternate royals is the best thing she can do for them, finding their current states as Corrupted pawns to be pitiful.
• Our Dragons Are Different: As a Fell Dragon, Nel's dragon form has similar snake-like qualities to Sombron and a glowing third eye. Unlike Sombron, she has frilled lizard qualities as well as luminescent blue scales.
• Painted-On Pants: Her Somniel outfit includes skintight black leggings, with one of the pantslegs having diamond-shaped cutouts showing her skin underneath.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner:
  "Farewell."
  "Are you frightened?"
  "I will put you to rest!"
  "You may wake in a thousand years!"
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Nel has red eyes like the other Fell Dragons, can assume a form similar to Sombron's in battle, and is not one to be trifled with. Pick a fight with her or try to kill Nil at your own risk.
• Red Herring: Nel's refusal to work with the alternate royals (and later being revealed to have killed them after the battle), along with her aloof and sometimes cruel treatment of Alear, raises several red flags that she might be the Hidden Villain of the Fell Xenologue. But the truth is revealed after Chapter 4: she refused to work with the Royals because they're all Corrupted and couldn't bring herself to tell Alear the Awful Truth, and she has issues with Alear because Alternate Alear was The Lost Lenore to her, so she's constantly treading a fine line between "I didn't want to hurt you with the truth" and "I hate you for having their face". The real villain responsible for the Corrupted Royals is Nil, who was waiting for the tension between Alear and Nel to inevitably blow up before making his move.
• Replacement Goldfish: Averted. Nel was beginning to see Alear as this for Alternate Alear, and gave them the cold shoulder in response to those feelings. By the end of the Fell Xenologue Nel eventually resolves to see Alear as their own person, and in their A and Pact Ring support Nel states she sees them as their own individual, and no longer sees them as a copy.
• Selective Obliviousness: Although she accepted Rafal from the start, Nel knew the entire time her real twin brother Nil is long dead, but chose not to confront him about it due to the gesture being kind to her.
• Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: At first, Nel shows some hostility towards Alear, while Nil says that Nel is actually a kind person despite her rough exterior. The game appears to set her up to to be The Mole or the Big Bad of the Fell Xenologue after Xenologue 3, where she kills Alternate Diamant and Alcryst, then ominously notes how Alternate Alfred and Céline didn't put up much of a fight, either... Only for the following chapter to reveal her true colors; she really is a kind and caring person deep down, and she is simply mercy killing the alternate royals due to being revived as Corrupted, all the while she confesses her love for her world's Alear.
• Ship Tease: With Alear. Nel was in love with the Alear of her world, and never got over their death. This has led to complicated feelings towards normal Alear as they remind her of the love she lost, but also by being around them she was starting to develop those same feelings again. This was unacceptable in her eyes because they are not the same Alear she fell in love with, and it would be a betrayal to those feelings. Nel eventually reconciles with Alear, wanting to treat them as their own person and start over as friends. However, Alear can pursue a romantic relationship with Nel should they choose to give her the Pact Ring.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: There's some initial tensions between Alear and Nel at first, with the latter keeping mum on certain details or just being outright giving them the cold shoulder despite Alear being her ally. It takes until near the end of the DLC for her to trust Alear properly and the reason for the cold shoulder to be properly explained: Nel was in love with Alternate Alear and is still reeling from their loss, but refuses to so much as consider Alear a Replacement Goldfish for them.
• Useless Useful Spell: Nel's personal and class skills, while decent when they work, are somewhat niche. The former requires Nil/Rafal being attacked, and is likewise unused if you're not fielding him; in Classic Mode, if he dies outside of the Fell Xenologue, Nel's personal skill becomes permanently useless. The latter, in only responding to enemy engage attacks, doesn't come up super often; you can complete the Fell Xenologue early enough to use her skill against all of them, but there's only a set amount of battles where it comes into play (if you're not engaged in Outrealm Trials).
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The events of the Fell Xenologue may have happened because of Nel's well-meaning decision to give Nil her dragonstone. Assuming Alear and Zelestia's theory that Sombron tampered with it is correct, Nel's dragonstone (which Nil gave to Rafal as he was dying) may have warped Rafal's psyche and made him into the Big Bad of the DLC.
• Weapon Specialization: Nel is proficient in using lances, and has a unique lance called Représailles.
• What the Hell, Hero?: When Nel brutally kills Alternate Ivy and Timerra in cold blood right in front of Alear themselves (implicitly by eating them), they become furious and chew out Nel for the needless killing of the two queens. However, Nel defends her decision by stating that the royals were actually the Corrupted and she is only doing a favor for them by putting them out of their misery, causing Alear to rein in their anger.
• You Can Talk?: Before witnessing Fallen/Dark Tiki in Xenologue 1, Nel believed it was impossible for corrupted Emblems to speak. Likewise, she didn't form bonds with any of the Bracelet Emblems, and she starts out at Level 1 with them.
• You're Not My Father: Has this reaction to the main universe's Sombron if they fight during the final battle of the main game.

Nil (Il)

Nil

Class: Fell Child

Voiced by: Takuya Eguchi (Japanese), Yungi Chang (English)

One of the Fell Dragon twins from the other world. The younger twin brother of Nel, he and his sister live in Lythos alongside the Four Winds and protect the Emblem Bracelets. When an unknown threat begins summoning Corrupted and the four nations are on the verge of going to war, Nil and his sister attempt to summon an Emblem to help turn the tide, only for Alear (summoned by their counterpart in this world) to answer their calls for help instead.

His Personal Skill, Wounded Pride, gives him +10 Crit for one turn after an ally within 2 squares of him defeats an enemy.

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• Dude Looks Like a Lady: A very androgynous man who could quite easily pass as a woman. He heavily resembles the example image for Uke.
• Gameplay and Story Integration: Whether you like it or not, Nil is a very, very poor fighter and his statline is terrible even on Normal mode, and the story shows that he's far weaker than Nel due to his inability to transform.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Not on the level of Alcryst, but Nil does consider himself a "failure" compared to his sister.
• The Load: Even in Normal Mode, Nil is a terrible fighter, and the game says as much. His stats are so low compared to everyone else that pretty much any enemy can kill him in a hit or two and he can't hope to beat anything that isn't already quite low on health. The only real way to get any mileage out of him is to give him a support-focused Emblem like Micaiah (as suggested by his Restore staff in Xenologue 1) or Byleth.
• Nice Guy: Nil is quite cheerful and sweet, in contrast to the more aloof Nel.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner:
  "I am no failure!"
  "I will prove myself!"
  "How about this?"
  "I can help too!"
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Nil has red eyes like other Fell Dragons, and while he may not be as strong as Nel is, he is not to be underestimated with that axe of his.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The passionate red oni to his sister's calm and cool blue oni.
• Wonder Twin Powers: Nil wears Nel's Dragonstone on his chest, so the latter can only turn into a Dragon while near the former.
• Yes-Man: To Nel, whom he agrees with in most things. He points out when she's being unfriendly, though.

Alternate Royals

Alfred and Céline, Diamant and Alcryst, Ivy and Hortensia, and Timerra and Fogado

Class: Royal (Alfred and Céline), Warden (Diamant and Alcryst), Trainer (Ivy and Hortensia), Watcher (Timerra and Fogado^*Fogado is classed as a Wolf Knight instead in Fell Xenologue 1)

The royals of Alternate Elyos. The long and brutal cold war of the nations of this Elyos, among other things, has driven them to develop personalities far harsher (or simply different) from the ones of the main story.

For the normal versions of the royals, all of the crown heirs can be found here, while all of the second heirs can be found in their resepctive pages; Céline can be found here, Alcryst can be found here, Hortensia can be found here, and Fogado can be found here.

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• Alas, Poor Villain: As they're dying for the third and final time, the alternate royals peacefully accept their deaths, often expressing regret for their actions or their mistreatment of their siblings. Downplayed with alternate Fogado, who peacefully accepts his death but makes no remarks of regrets, instead simply stating it feels like this time he's going to stay dead.
• Alternate Self: They're just the royal siblings, but with their personalities either swapped or turned into a harsh extreme, as seen with Alternate Céline who is wholly willing to go to war with other countries, if not the entirety of Elyos, if it means Firene can prosper. Furthermore, while the other alternate royals look almost the exact same as their main counterpart, Alternate Hortensia does not have the heart tattoo her main counterpart has.
• Ambiguously Evil: With the reveal that they're all Corrupted, exactly how much of the alternate royals' darker personalities is genuine and how much of it is because they Came Back Wrong is up in the air.
• Attractive Zombie: Despite being reanimated as Corrupted and their personalities being a lot more harsh than their main counterparts, none of them look all that different from when they were still alive, and they all retain their good looks.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Played with. Alternate Diamant succeeded Morion as King of Brodia, but if the interaction between him and Alternate Alcryst is any indication, it's clear he feels inferior, not unlike how Alcryst feels toward Diamant in the main timeline.
• Ax-Crazy: Alternate Fogado is perhaps the most detached from his main counterpart among the alternate royals, taking glee in the destruction and death he causes, nevermind how excited he seems at the prospect of murdering the Mainline versions of his former retainers or replacing Mainline Fogado. Unlike the other alternate royals, he knows he's become a Corrupted pawn, but embraces his newfound nature because he no longer has to hold back his inhibitions, implying that he's always been insane. As if to really hammer the point home, if Mainline Timerra fights him, Alternate Fogado bemoans how he wasn't the one who killed Alternate Timerra, but he'll happily accept killing her Mainline counterpart as a consolation prize.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Alternate Timerra stands defiant even when defeated and declares to Nel that she'll have to kill her if she wants her Bracelet. Nel obliges and kills her with a single bite.
• Big Brother Bully:
  • Inverted with Alternate Alcryst. In stark contrast to his main timeline self, Alcryst has more of a backbone and a complete Jerkass to Alternate Diamant, who is more meek and timid. Alternate Diamant even implies his younger brother hates him so much he's been plotting to assassinate him for quite some time.
  • Alternate Ivy, in addition to running Elusia into the ground, is this to not just Alternate Hortensia, but even the rest of her half-siblings. If Ivy and/or Hortensia fights Alternate Hortensia, she'll ask Ivy if she's come to kill her like the rest of Hyacinth's illegitimate children and tells her main timeline counterpart that Alternate Ivy thinks of her as little more than a miserable wretch.
• Blood Knight: Alternate Céline, in addition to being much more vengeful and violent than her Mainline self, enjoys the thrill of battle. If Alear battles her, she's ecstatic by the prospect of being able to fight them. She even says she's been looking for an excuse to cross swords with the Divine Dragon, and (mistakingly) believing them to be a Corrupted gives her the battle she's been after.
• Break the Haughty: Alternate Alcryst doesn't take the revelation that he died and became a Corrupted well at all, bitterly asking how such a thing could be possible. Once he's defeated for the last time, he states that he cannot disgrace himself any further, and apologizes to Diamant as he dies.
• Cain and Abel: With the exception of the Firene siblings, the other royal siblings either have an antagonistic relationship or one just flat out hates the other's guts:
  • While Alternate Diamant has a cordial, if strained relationship with Alternate Alcryst, the latter is a Green-Eyed Monster who thinks he should have been king and considers his older brother useless and pathetic. Alternate Diamant is at least aware of this and thinks his younger brother might actually be plotting to assassinate him.
  • Alternate Ivy despises Alternate Hortensia due to her mother not being a noble, throwing insults at her at every turn and refuses to let her so much as address Alternate Ivy by name. Alternate Hortensia is obviously terrified of her, and even tells Ivy her older sister killed the rest of King Hyacinth's illegitimate children.
    Alternate Ivy: Well, if it isn't the good-for-nothing second princess. The sight of you makes me sick.
    Hortensia: Ivy? What's gotten into you?!
    Alternate Ivy: Don't you "Ivy" me^note In the original Japanese, Hortensia calls Ivy "Onee-sama," a highly respectful way to address an older sister! You've no right to be so familiar. I've warned you countless times! If your plan was to collude with Solm to get my attention, congratulations. You've succeeded.
  • While Alternate Timerra clearly misses her younger brother greatly, it's clear based on Alternate Fogado's words to his counterpart and Timerra that he doesn't reciprocate those feelings at all, instead indulging in acts of cruelty and even lamenting the fact that he wasn't the one who killed Alternate Timerra. Unlike the other siblings, it's implied Alternate Fogado was always like this, and becoming a Corrupted just meant he didn't have to put up a front anymore.
• The Caligula: Alternate Ivy. Not only is she continuing the main timeline Elusia's worship of the Fell Dragon in Alternate Elyos, she even tried to revive Sombron, offering her own father Hyacinth as a sacrifice when he attempted to interfere and has no qualms in killing the main timeline versions of Kagetsu and Zelkov when they oppose her, telling Zelkov she has no problems killing him when he's already died for her sake once. Ivy is abhorred by this and angrily asks if there's even anyone in Elusia left to call her Queen when she's destroyed her country with her hedonism. Her character description in-game even describes her as a woman drunk on her own nobility.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Alternate Fogado openly revels in his villainy. When Fogado calls him out for his crimes, he gleefully agrees that he's "a real piece of work".
• Came Back Wrong: The harsher personalities of the alternate royals aren't just from the current state of Alternate Elyos. In Xenologue 4, Nel tells Alear they are all Corrupted, who barring a few exceptions (like Alear in the endgame) come back with some complications. Alternate Hortensia is aware of this, if Alear faces her in battle.
• Cassandra Truth: Since the Alear of Alternate Elyos died facing Sombron, none of them believe the protagonist is the Divine Dragon and mistake them as a Corrupted.
• Composite Character: Alternate Fogado has shades of this, attempting to fill Veyle's shoes as the Hero Killer in Lythos Castle when he attacks Nel and Nil to take the Emblem Bracelets. Unlike Veyle in the main timeline, who succeeded in killing Lumera, he fails because of Alear's interference.
• Cute and Psycho: Alternate Fogado is as cheerful and smiley like the main universe Fogado, but unlike the main universe Fogado (who is genuinely a Nice Guy), he is disturbingly giddy in reveling in sadism and violence.
• Dead All Along: Nel reveals in Xenologue 4 that the royals the party has fought so far were all Corrupted, and that her killing of them was a Mercy Kill.
• Dissonant Serenity: Alternate Fogado wears a smile on his face, even as he tries to kill his main timeline counterpart with the explicit purpose of taking his place and gleefully admitting he's the one who attacked Lythos Castle.
• Does Not Like Spam: Since meat is Timerra's Trademark Favorite Food in the main timeline, Xenologue Timerra is a vegetarian, presumably for this very reason.
• Dub Personality Change: Downplayed. In the Japanese dub, Céline is quite vocal in her desire for vengeance against Brodia and pushes Alfred to approve of the invasion, whereas in the English dub, she frames the invasion as a means of expanding their territory so as to acquire more resources for Firene, and if Brodia suffers for it then so be it.
• Dying as Yourself: When they are killed for good in Xenologue 6, most of them regain their humanity and die peacefully.
• The Eeyore: Alternate Diamant and Alternate Hortensia, who get verbally abused and mistreated by their younger and older siblings respectively. Alternate Hortensia is morbidly terrified of her sister Ivy, while Alternate Diamant is much more meek and knows that Alternate Alcryst intends to assassinate him and ascend the throne of Brodia himself.
• Eaten Alive: Alternate Timerra and Alternate Ivy are eaten by Nel once they're defeated in Xenologue 4. Given they're revealed to be Corrupted shortly after though, not only it's hard to say if they could be considered alive after all. Either way, this doesn't stick as the two later return in Xenologue 6.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: As monsterous as Alternate Alcryst and Alternate Fogado are, it's clear that they genuinely loved and cared for their respective retainers. If Alternate Alcryst fight Citrinne and Lapis's main game counterparts, he bemoans the fact they died and that he utterly failed to protect them. It's especially poignant with Citrinne where he says he should have died, not her. Alternate Fogado's sadistic glee notably only vanishes when recalling to Bunet and Pandreo's main game counterparts how his friends had died... before he eagerly prepares to kill them in cold blood, at least.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Alternate Ivy is baffled why Nel wouldn't want her to revive Sombron. She also can't understand why her world's Kagetsu sacrificed himself for her, since she's convinced that his smiles at her were fake and that he secretly hated her.
• Faux Affably Evil: Alternate Ivy tries to pass herself off as being well-mannered and joyous when speaking to her enemies...except she also gleefully says how she killed Hyacinth when he tried to stop her from reviving Sombron. Alternate Fogado isn't much better, with how gleeful he sounds as he tries to kill Bunet and Pandreo's main game counterparts despite having somberly recalled their counterparts' deaths seconds beforehand.
• Flanderization: Alternate Céline dials up her main game counterpart's ruthlessness to a degree that the latter is vocally appalled by, having no qualms about going to war with Brodia if it means she can have vengeance and allow Firene to prosper. Her increased Blood Knight tendencies are justified, though. After all, most Corrupted aren't what you call sane when they come back.
• Foreshadowing: After defeating Alternate Alfred and Céline, Alear notes how the former seems to be acting strange in their presence (referring to them as the Divine Dragon they knew despite having had it just explained to them they are a different person, with Alfred proceeding to try to downplay or distract from his mistake). While his breakdown could easily be mistaken for grief, since Alear reminds him so much of their counterpart, or exhaustion due to the stress of being king or his terminal illness, it's later revealed to be a sign of his degradation as a Corrupted, with him briefly losing his grasp on reality.
• Freudian Excuse: Some of the royals have good justifications for their darker personalities. Alternate Céline wants war with Brodia after having lost not only her mother, but even Chloé and Louis. Alternate Hortensia is motivated to revive her father, who was killed by Alternate Ivy when he tried to interfere with her attempt to revive Sombron.
• Grew a Spine: Alternate Alcryst is very much not The Eeyore his main counterpart is, and Alcryst and Saphir are impressed. Unfortunately, said spine also comes with a level in douchery as evident by how he treats his older brother.
• Hate Sink: While the other alternate royalsvary in terms of malice, Alternate Ivy and Fogado are definitely the most foul of the bunch. The regular Ivy is an merciful and socially-awkward woman who cares very deeply about Hortensia and her father Hyacinth. By contrast, this Ivy is set up to be a malicious jerkass who is abusive and cruel to Alternate Hortensia, having insulted her, and also killed her own father as a sacrifice to resurrect Alternate Sombron. She even executed her half-siblings and dragged Alternate Elusia into the ground, which made poor Alternate Hortensia terrified of her. The regular counterparts of Ivy and Hortensia are disgusted by her actions. However, this is eventually subverted once she is killed off in the final Fell Xenologue, where she regrets her abusiveness towards her little sister before dying. Regular Fogado is an easygoing guy who many see as a shameless flirt, but who is actually very serious about living up to his responsibilities and supporting his sister. Alternate Fogado is everything regular Fogado pretends to be but taken in a disturbingly malicious direction, with him reveling in how being a Corrupted enables him to indulge in all his darkest desires without anything holding him back, and gleefully admitting to wishing he could have killed alternate Timerra himself simply to see what it felt like.
• The Hedonist: Alternate Fogado's in-game bio describes him as one, and becoming Corrupted evidently removed what few inhibitions he may have had in life, much to his own rather demented pleasure.
• Informed Attribute: Alternate Brodia apparently hates war, unlike the main universe's Brodia, but they're still able to bring a large force of knights to bear against Alear and the others in order to get the bracelets and ensure an end to war.
• Interface Spoiler: Checking the stats of the royals show that they (along with the generic human enemies) are considered Corrupted, which would raise many a player's eyebrows. It turns out that they are indeed reanimated corpses.
• Irony:
  • The likes of characters from the main timeline get flipped into dislikes for their counterparts. Alternate Timerra, for example, hates singing and eating meat. Certain battle lines suggest this was also the case for their retainers: According to Alternate Timerra, Alternate Merrin hated animals and Alternate Panette was afraid of graveyards.
  • Knowing that Alternate Elyos' Divine Dragon is dead, many of them accuse Mainline Alear and their allies of being Corrupted. They have it completely backwards.
  • The Emblem Bracelets all of the nations are entrusted with run completely contrary to their respective users.
    • Hector is entrusted to Alternate Alfred, a weak-willed king who finds himself getting pushed around by his Blood Knight sister. By contrast, Hector in his own game was a brash, confident prince who had to be rangled by his own brother.
    • Veronica is entrusted to Alternate Diamant, whose only ambition for war is to try and prevent the other nations from misusing the Emblem Bracelets. Veronica on the other hand, is one of the only Emblems who is willing to initiate a war, and is the Token Evil Teammate of the Emblems at large.
    • Soren is entrusted to Alternate Ivy, who is a madwoman obsessed with her noble status, killed her own father for trying to stop her from trying to revive Sombron, and has little regard for her own family and retainers given her dialogue with Mainline Hortensia and Zelkov. By contrast, Soren himself was an abuse victim at the hands of family and mentors before meeting Ike, and in his own games was just a humble mercenary. And it doesn't help that, while Soren never learned of the relation, Alternate Ivy is eerily similar to the father who abandoned him, the Mad King Ashnard of Daein.
    • Camila is entrusted to Alternate Timerra, a woman with the air of an extremely straight-laced and dignified queen, unwilling to falter even in the face of her family. Camilla in her own game is motivated first and foremost by her own family, and and in some endings, renounced her nobility entirely to raise a family of her own.
• Killed Offscreen: At some point between Xenologue 2 and 3, Nel returned to Firene and killed Alternate Alfred and Alternate Céline. After killing Alternate Diamant and Alternate Alcryst, Nel remarks that Alternate Alfred and Alternate Céline barely put up a fight, either.
• Meaningful Rename: Downplayed. All of their personal skills and classes have been renamed to fit their different personalities, along with new Flavor Text, but they look and function identitical to their main game counterparts.
  • The Firenese Noble class becomes the Royal. Alfred's Self-Improver becomes Self-Defense, and Céline's Gentle Flower becomes Fierce Bloom.
  • The Brodian Lord class becomes the Warden. Diamant's Fair Fight becomes This Ends Here, and Alcryst's Get Behind Me! becomes Show-Off.
  • The Elusian Wing Tamer class becomes the Trainer. Ivy's Single-Minded becomes Final Say, and Hortensia's Big Personality becomes Stealth Assist.
  • The Solmic Sentinel becomes the Watcher. Timerra's Racket of Solm becomes Dignity of Solm, and Fogado's Charmer becomes Wear Down.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Alternate Celine, for all of her claims of intending to go to war with the other kingdoms for the sake of Firine, lets slip through a few of her lines throughout her battle with Alear's group that her own gratification may have a greater influence in her intentions that she lets on. Her return in the final chapter, now well aware of her status as a Corrupted, fills her with glee as she can focus purely on killing her enemies and drops all pretense of fighting for her people.
• Other Me Annoys Me: This trope gets played with, averted, or played straight depending which royal interacts with their alternate counterpart. The counterparts themselves do play this straight, believing their main timeline selves to be illusions. Of particular note are Ivy and Fogado, who by the end of their conversations with their alternate counterparts make it clear with varying levels of outward emotion that they want them gone.
  • Alfred's main gripe with his counterpart is that he lacks muscles and wonders if he's just not cut out to have the physique he's dreamed of in any world he's in.
  • Céline is really not happy with her counterpart's insistence on going to war with Brodia, stating war will never bring them peace. Alternate Céline is of the opposite opinion since she wants Firene to prosper; the other nations can go to hell as far as she's concerned.
  • Diamant criticizes Alternate Diamant's complete lack of self-confidence and tells his counterpart that if he doesn't instantly surrender, then he still has something worth fighting for as the king.
  • Despite either being ignorant of or not realizing what the relationship is like between the him and Diamant of Alternate Elyos, Alcryst actually admires how strong-willed Alternate Alcryst is.
  • Initially, Alternate Ivy's personality and way of speaking simply annoys Ivy. Then she hears from her own counterpart's mouth how she killed King Hyacinth and offered him up as a sacrifice. Between this and how Alternate Ivy has more or less single-handedly ruined Elusia, Ivy is rightfully pissed. Ivy gets even more upset if she fights Alternate Hortensia, who's terrified of her, and wonders what Alternate Ivy did to her.
    Alternate Hortensia: Ah! Ivy! I mean, Your Majesty, my queen... have you finally come to execute me, like all of Father's illegitimate children?
    Ivy: Hortensia... what has the Ivy of this world done to you?!
  • Alternate Hortensia doesn't like the prospect of fighting her main timeline counterpart, but she's willing to fight her to revive her father while rebuffing Hortensia's comments how they're cute, insisting they're just as Alternate Ivy says they are: "miserable wretches".
  • Timerra quickly notices how "stuffy" Alternate Timerra is and wonders if she's a "normal ruler", then decides her counterpart needs to blow off some steam with a good old fashioned fight. Alternate Timerra thinks her main timeline counterpart just needs to die.
  • After confirming to himself that his counterpart is indeed him, Fogado expresses disappointment at his counterpart's villainy. Alternate Fogado's response of vocally intending to Kill and Replace him briefly but very visibly horrifies him, resulting in him simply glaring at him and fighting without another word.
• Posthumous Character: The rulers of the respective nations died during the second war against Sombron, leaving the crown heirs to pick up the slack in their place. The only ruler of the four nations of Elyos that survived was Hyacinth, though he would later be killed by Alternate Ivy when she attempted to resurrect Sombron and offered him as a sacrifice when he interfered. As you later learn in Xenologue 4, however, they've been Dead All Along. All of the alternate royals are in fact Corrupted and died alongside their parents during the war.
• Recurring Element: Due to all of them being Corrupted (and thus undead) versions of the main game's royals who are fought in a group during the final battle of the Fell Xenologue, they are Engage's take on the "undead boss group" pioneered by the Deadlords. Unlike most Deadlord type groups who usually cannot talk, they can express their twisted personalities, mockeries of their original selves, well enough.
• Shrinking Violet: Alternate Hortensia is very scared and depressed, preferring not to draw any attention to her at all. According to her, Alternate Goldmary of her world is a true Shrinking Violet instead of the real Goldmary just acting like one.
• Token Evil Teammate: While the Alternate Royals are clearly all very damaged mentally, Alternate Ivy and Alternate Fogado really stand out, since the former is The Caligula who's hellbent on reviving Sombron, has casually admitted that she murdered her own father, King Hyacinth, when he tried to stop her from doing that, and apparently has killed off most of her half-siblings, to the point that Alternate Hortensia is terrified of her. The latter is a Card-Carrying Villain who is well aware of his status as a Corrupted and relishes in it, and has committed himself to heinous acts such as invading Lythos Castle and planning to Kill and Replace the mainline Fogado in order to commit more atrocities in his world, to say nothing of his reaction to learning that his Timerra was killed was to bemoan that he wasn't able to kill her. While Alternate Ivy does claim her goal is to save Elusia (to which mainline Ivy points out that thanks to Alternate Ivy's actions there isn't anything left to save at this point), Alternate Fogado doesn't even try to justify himself.
• Token Good Teammate: Alternate Diamant and Alternate Hortensia are surprisingly this compared to the other royals. The former is meek, but he just wants to have a nice brotherly bond with Alternate Alcryst and gives Alear's party a chance to surrender, wanting to use the Emblem bracelets to stop the fighting. Alternate Hortensia, meanwhile, clearly doesn't want to fight her main timeline counterpart, but she's willing to do whatever it takes to revive her father with the Bracelets' power. Downplayed with Alternate Timerra - while she did begin an invasion of Elusia, it was, according to her, because Alternate Ivy was trying to resurrect Sombron, even trying to negotiate with Alear if she sees them - and she does, genuinely, love her brother and miss her retainers even after becoming Corrupted.
• Tomato in the Mirror: They all think Mainline Alear and their allies are Corrupted made by Nel and Nil, with the Four Winds commanding them. This would be true in Mainline Elyos with Veyle and the Four Hounds, but in Alternate Elyos it's completely reversed: Alear, the Fell Dragon twins, and the Winds are all living, and it's everyone else in the world that's a Corrupted, including the royals themselves. Alternate Ivy actually became Corrupted willingly, though it is indicated she lost memory of the change afterward. They learn the truth in the final map when they're brought back a second time, and they're all broken by it — except for Alternate Fogado, who knew all along and embraced it, and Alternate Hortensia, who is too broken to care.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Played with. Without the Divine Dragons to act as a Morality Chain and the cold war Alternate Elyos is caught up in, the alternate royals have all undergone this. The loss of Alternate Céline's mother and retainers has made her brash and vengeful, demanding that Alternate Alfred declare all-out war against Brodia and coldly dismiss the suffering of others if it is for the sake of her own people, Alternate Alcryst treats his older brother like garbage and finds him a pathetic excuse for a king (it's also implied by Alternate Diamant that Alternate Alcryst may even be plotting to assassinate him), and Alternate Ivy is The Caligula who genuinely worships the Fell Dragon Sombron who calls Alternate Hortensia a "miserable wretch". Another contributing factor is that they're Corrupted, who have already been stated to have complications from being Back from the Dead.
• Villainous Breakdown: Alternate Ivy becomes enraged upon learning that the Mauvier of her world disrupted the ritual to revive Sombron, then demands that her soldiers kill Nel at once.
• We Were Your Team: They fought well together under Alternate Alear's leadership, but once their Divine Dragon died, they quickly turned on each other.
• Wicked Heart Symbol: Averted with Alternate Hortensia, who does not possess the heart symbol on her face that her main universe counterpart does.
• You Monster!: Alternate Diamant and Alternate Timerra make remarks to this effect after witnessing Nel eat someone alive in front of them.

Alternate Retainers

The alternate versions of the royal retainers.

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• Ambiguous Situation: Alternate Ivy claims that Alternate Kagetsu always hated her, and cannot believe he would have willingly sacrificed himself for her, but Kagetsu replies that she was mistaken about the idea that her Kagetsu hated her. It's unclear whether Kagetsu was a Jerkass in the alternate Elyos, or whether Ivy was wrong about him.
• Animal Lover: Inverted with Alternate Merrin, who is stated to hate animals.
• Best Friend: Alternate Pandreo was this to Alternate Fogado. The main universe Fogado doesn't dislike Pandreo but is closer to Bunet instead.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Alternate Rosado stayed behind and sacrificed himself to allow Alternate Hortensia to escape the Corrupted.
• Lethal Chef: Alternate Bunet is said to be an incompetent cook, but a "brute" who loves slicing and grilling his enemies.
• Morality Pet: Even though Alternate Alcryst is abrasive and hates his brother, he has a soft spot for Alternate Lapis and Citrinne, and mourns their deaths.
• Plain Palate: Alternate Chloé is said to have a preference for bland-tasting food.
• Posthumous Character: All of them died in battle, and what is known about them is revealed by having their main universe selves fight their lieges (as well as Diamant for Citrinne, Céline for Etie, both the Brodian princes for Saphir, and both the Elusian princesses for Lindon).
• Shrinking Violet: Alternate Hortensia describes Alternate Goldmary as withdrawn and lacking in confidence and charisma. Unlike the main universe Goldmary, this is presumably not an act. Alternate Hortensia admits that their group sought to survive by not standing out, which also implies Alternate Rosado is of the same mindset instead of proudly showing off his cuteness like his main universe counterpart (though the fact that Alternate Hortensia easily recognizes Rosado and expresses no surprise at his appearance muddies the waters there a bit).
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Alternate Panette is scared of graveyards.

The Four Winds

In General

From left to right: Zelestia, Gregory, Madeline, and Mauvier

An organization of four knights formed to protect Lady Nel and the counterpart to the main timeline's Four Hounds.

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• Aerith and Bob: Two of the Four Winds have perfectly normal Western names (Gregory and Madeline), while the other two have fantasy names (Zelestia and Mauvier).
• Alternate Self: All four of them are alternate versions of the Four Hounds from the main timeline. For the most part, their histories are the same as the Hounds up until a diverging point.
  • When Sombron came to the Mage Dragon Tribe a thousand years ago and demanded they serve him as soldiers, they fought back rather than try and curry favor with the Fell Dragon and were subsequently killed as he burned their village to the ground. Only Zelestia escaped and fled to Lythos, and only succeeded because her magic was weak enough compared to the rest of her kind that Sombron was not able to find her.
  • Gregory was sold to a Fell Dragon cult by his Abusive Parents, but he never developed the same sadomasochism Griss did, instead faking it so as to not arouse suspicion. When his ruse was discovered, he fled for Lythos.
  • Madeline's parents were killed, rather than simply abandoning her as they did with Marni (it's also implied Madeline was an only child as she makes no mention of having brothers). Furthermore, Madeline's parents were knights and she would eventually follow in their footsteps under Alternate Mauvier's tutelage. She emulated his teachings of not seeking praise for doing what is expected of a knight, that duty is its own reward.
  • Alternate Mauvier's history isn't well known, but it's implied his story is more or less similar to his main game counterpart and served Veyle until her death, at which point he turned away from Sombron to join the opposition.
• Cutting Off the Branches: Canonically speaking, the Four Winds' Supports with Mauvier and Veyle take place after Zephia and Griss' Last Stand in Chapter 23 as the event is directly mentioned in said Supports. However, like all supports, they can be accessed as soon as the needed characters are recruited (i.e. chapter 22), resulting in potential Gameplay and Story Segregation.
• Doppelgänger Gets Same Sentiment: While they're all aware that the main universe version of Mauvier isn't their Mauvier, they all deal with projecting their feelings about their Mauvier on to him, specifically their feelings regarding his sacrifice for them.
• Family of Choice: Even though they are knights first and foremost, at their core, all members see themselves as a part of one big family. This is in marked contrast to the Four Hounds, who despite Zephia's claims are anything but.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Owing to their counterparts, none of the Four Winds are well-liked in Alear's Elyos, and it takes them a very long time to get accepted by civilians. They even have far fewer Support pairings than everyone else in the army, and default (very low) stat bonuses from Supports, though the latter may be due to their difficulty with losing one of their own.
• Gender-Equal Ensemble: Consists of two women and two men.
• Good Counterpart: They are heroic versions of the Four Hounds.
• Heroic Sacrifice: In Xenologue 5, the Four Winds provide cover for Nel as she leaves to rescue Alear while they face down an army of Corrupted with seemingly no way out. Alternate Mauvier proposes they bring down the temple on their heads, in turn taking the Corrupted out with them. They all go through with this plan, fully intending to sacrifice themselves, only for Alternate Mauvier to use a Warp staff and get them out of the temple as it collapses.
• Last of His Kind: After Alternate Mauvier's death, Gregory and Madeline became the last humans left on Alternate Elyos. However, once they both leave Alternate Elyos, the human race of this world becomes extinct, while in the Main Elyos, humans continue to thrive.
• Magic Knight: Half of the Winds (sans Gregory and Madeline, who is purely a spellcaster and physical fighter, respectively) can fight with physical weapons and use magic via tomes or staves.
• Mirror Match: With the exception of Alternate Mauvier, the Four Winds can battle the Four Hounds once recruited and even have special dialogue. They all react with shock upon learning their respective counterparts all serve the Fell Dragon, with Zelestia, in particular, expressing regret for being so naive for thinking her counterpart would be against Sombron.
• Nice Guy: All of them are shown to be very kind and compassionate people.
  • Zelestia, unlike Zephia, is a kind and compassionate person, always looking out for the safety and well-being of her friends and allies. Unsurprisingly, this makes her the Team Mom of the Four Winds.
  • Gregory is kind, compassionate, and dependable to pretty much everyone he meets, even if he is a bit of a wuss, unlike the sadistic Griss.
  • In stark contrast to the bratty and psychotic Marni, Madeline is a humble, polite, and mature young lady who looks out for her friends and for other people.
• Palette Swap: Save for Alternate Mauvier who is identical to his counterpart in the base game, all of them are recolored versions of the Four Hounds. Notably, Gregory also lacks the tattoos and piercings of Griss, his main game counterpart.
• Promoted to Playable: Played with. The Four Winds are essentially Palette Swaps of the Four Hounds that fight alongside Alear in the DLC and can be recruited after completing Fell Xenologue. However, they are ultimately different people with different personalities from the Hounds despite their extremely similar design (with the exception of Alternate Mauvier, who looks and acts the same as his original counterpart).
• Survivor Guilt: Their supports with Mauvier show that they all have this regarding their own Mauvier's sacrifice. While Madeline remains mostly in control even as she reveals her sorrow, Zelestia and Gregory nearly break down crying as they apologize for being unable to save him.

Zelestia

Class: Melusine

Voiced by: Rika Fukami (Japanese), Elizabeth Maxwell (English)

Loving Leader

The leader of the Four Winds, and a Mage Dragon of "small" renown.

Her personal skill, Friendly Boost, provides a one turn +20 Hit to allies within 2 squares of her when she defeats an enemy.

Information about Zelestia's mainline counterpart, Zephia, can be found on the Antagonists page.

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• Big Eater: In their second Bond Support, Emblem Chrom relates his shock at having seen her devour a meal that could feed ten people. Zelestia jokes that Mage Dragons have stomachs ten times normal size, only to immediately admit she was simply hungry.
• Bizarre Taste in Food: Zelestia is rather likely to prepare "unutterably alien" versions of meals. This trait is shared with Mauvier and Pandreo, two other Workaholic characters, so it might not be as related to Alternate Elyos cuisine as it is to her rarely cooking for herself.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: A trait that differentiates her from Zephia greatly. While Zelestia is a very competent leader to the Four Winds, and acts very motherly to her allies; she is prone to having dramatic outbursts and silly tendencies. For example, Zelestia is shown to be rather overzealous, and forgetful in her supports with Veyle and Alear. Likewise in her supports with Nel she is shown to be Prone to Tears; becoming a loud, blubbering mess whenever she cries.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: She shares her counterpart's busty figure, and this seems to be the very first thing Alear notices about her, as their introduction has a Male Gaze shot aimed at her cleavage.
• Contralto of Strength: Normally her voice is noticeably higher and lighter in tone than Zephia's, but she'll adopt a deeper tone when delivering a critical hit or angry.
• Cuddle Bug: It's indicated she is prone to acts of physical affection, responding to gifts from Alear by stating she almost scooped them up in a hug on impulse. Her first impulse upon noticing Veyle could be cold (and there being no blankets nearby) is to try to envelope her in a tight, warm hug, thinking her high body temperature will be the perfect solution.
• Dark and Troubled Past: In Xenologue 3, Zelestia tells Alear that Sombron came to her village a thousand years ago and demanded obedience from the Mage Dragons. Unlike in the main game where they willingly served him, the Mage Dragons resisted and fought back, only to die at his hands. Zelestia survived because she fled to Lythos, and only succeeded because her magic was too weak compared to her kin that Sombron couldn't track her (in contrast to Zephia who was possibly the most powerful Mage Dragon to ever live).
• Dark Is Not Evil: In contrast to Zephia, her outfit consists of dark and gray colors, and is one of Alear's allies.
• Exposed to the Elements: She is a native of Elusia, and like Ivy expresses no discomfort in the frigid environment despite her limited attire. Notably her dislikes include very hot places. Her C-Bond Support with Chrom has her explain that this is a trait of Mage Dragons in general. When he expresses concern over her catching a cold (implied due to her attire), she states that Mage Dragons have such a high body temperature that cold outright doesn't bother them.
• Floral Theme Naming: Similar to the inhabitants of Elusia, Zelestia is named after a flower called a celestia, though it's spelled with a Z at the beginning.
• Hate at First Sight: The hate toward the two didn't last, but she admits that even a thousand years after Sombron destroyed her people her hatred of Fell Dragons was such that she instinctively tried to kill Nil and Nel the first time she saw them. It took Alternate Alear interfering and ordering her to protect them no matter what happened to stop her.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Downplayed as she overall thinks fairly well of herself, but she also routinely claims she is a mediocre leader and has weak magic, despite a number of characters telling her how dependable and powerful she is. The former seems based in how for much of her time as leader of the Four Winds their actions were focused on fleeing and surviving rather than achieving victories in battle, and the latter is likely due to lingering grief over how she alone survived her people's destruction thanks to her weak magic enabling her to escape Sombron's detection. This was over a thousand years ago though, and she has doubtless become much more powerful since then (albeit not as powerful as Zephia).
• Horned Humanoid: Just like her main Elyos counterpart, Zephia, Zelestia's head is adorned with a large pair of asymmetrical horns.
• Inelegant Blubbering: In her support with Nel, she is shown to be easily prone to crying and doing so in loud and uncouth way. This is especially the case in the Japanese dub.
• Innocently Insensitive: Upon meeting Alear, Zelestia asks if she has an Alternate Self in their world before proudly saying she has no doubt her counterpart is also fighting Sombron and is of great help to Alear. Alear doesn't have the heart to tell her that her counterpart Zephia is actually one of their greatest enemies and proudly serves Sombron. If Zelestia ends up facing Zephia, she actually ends up realizing this.
  Zelestia: If she [Zephia] pledged to serve Sombron, then I said some naive things to the Divine Dragon...
• Irony:
  • She loves long hair and keeps hers well-groomed, yet she is not particularly good at actually taking care of any long hair but her own (and its noted she often has to get help from others with this as well). When she tries to braid Veyle's hair she leaves it a tangled mess.
  • Gameplay-wise, Zelestia is far less magically-powerful than Zephia, but the former's version of the Melusine class has an S-rank in Tomes, while the latter's version has S-rank in Swords^note Though Zelestia's blue weapon rank proficiency is swords, rather than tomes.
• Last Disc Magic: Among your five designated S-rank Mages^note Citrinne, Ivy, Veyle, Gregory, and Zelestia herself, Zelestia will likely be the quickest user of Nova without any Rings or Skills. Her Dexterity will be on the lower end of the pack, but casting four times and missing once is generally better than casting only twice. On the other hand, Zelestia will likely have the lowest Magic of the five; you'll see this play out if you have her use Nova on the Fell Xenologue's final boss, where she'll get numerous hits in that do basically nothing.
• Last of Her Kind: She's the last of the Mage Dragons left in Alternate Elyos, with the rest of her kind having perished either at Sombron's hands for refusing to side with him or becoming among the hundreds of thousands of Corrupted that now occupy her world. This changes in her solo ending in the main game, where she becomes the matriarch for the Mage Dragons in Alear's world after Sombron's death.
• The Leader: The head honcho of the Four Winds, though like them, she's subservient to the twin Fell Dragons Nel and Nil. It's remarked that Mauvier was arguably more qualified as he brought the group together to begin with, with Gregory joking that perhaps Zelestia got chosen as leader because she's so much older than the other three. That said, Mauvier expresses great trust in her and she proves to be a capable leader.
• Locked Out of the Loop: When she asks about the counterpart of herself in Alear's world and proceeds to assume she must be Alear's staunch ally, Alear chooses to say nothing to Zelestia about Zephia. This causes her some grief in her B-Support with Nel, where the latter asks her to make some friends. Zelestia attempts to do so, but many of the people she talks to mistake her for Zephia and flee in terror. If Zelestia battles Zephia, she's shocked to discover her counterpart serves Sombron and realizes how naive she was to Alear when she boasted her counterpart no doubt worked alongside them.
• Magical Accessory: Zelestia's diadem supposedly protects her from harm, making her comfortable with her apparent lack of armor, and is her token for Alear if she gets the Pact Ring.
• Magical Gesture: Like other magically-inclined Dragons (and her evil counterpart), Zelestia doesn't directly invoke magic from her tomes; instead, she swings her arms and splays her fingers to cast spells. She doesn't even need to bring them in from Hammerspace and have them present for the rituals, unlike Sages, though they still need to be in her inventory.
• Master of None: Downplayed. Like Céline (the other mixed attacker in your army), Zelestia has decent personal growth rates in both Strength and Magic, but her personal class that allows the use of both doesn't elevate either very much. She may have trouble causing catastrophic damage, at least. On the other hand, Zelestia is still one of only three people in your army who can fly and use Tomes at the same time, and she's the fastest of the bunch without any assistance from Lyn.
• Ms. Fanservice: By virtue of being a Palette Swap of Zephia, Zelestia is quite the looker. In contrast to the Feet-First Introduction via Supermodel Strut that Zephia gets, Zelestia is introduced running toward the viewer (a rarely used animation in this game), her large chest front and center (the viewing angle only then panning up to show the rest of her head). Alongside Goldmary she is the bustiest of the playable characters, and the Melusine class outfit puts them on ample display. Further, her doting, Cuddle Bug behavior can get a bit suggestive at times.
• Never Got to Say Goodbye: Alternate Mauvier ambushes her with the Warp Staff to get her out of the temple they collapsed, sparing her from the Heroic Sacrifice they planned on doing together without letting her object.
• Non-Elemental: The Class skill for Melusines (Zelestia and Zephia), Soulblade, makes all of their sword hits half-physical and half-magical. In other words, they average out the target's Defense and Resistance when dealing damage. This is zigzagged in that there's a different system of weapon weaknesses that Soulblade doesn't care about, however.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner:
  "For the Mage Dragon tribe!"
  "By the strength of my love!"
  "You'll never take what's mine!"
  "That's enough from you!"
• Prone to Tears: She gets emotional easily and tends to cry with little prompting, as shown by her supports with Mauvier and Nel.
• Really 700 Years Old: She's been around for well over a thousand years, and participated in both wars against Sombron.
• Recognition Failure: Subverted. Unlike Zephia who did not know who Alear was, Zelestia recognizes them as a Divine Dragon right away, though not the same as the one she knew. Justified In-Universe as Zelestia had been Alternate Alear's ally for around a thousand years.
• Romantic Spoonfeeding: Alear clearly feels this is being invoked in their supports with Zelestia when she shares some soup she loves with them, complete with the "say aaah" phrase, much to Alear's embarassment. While Zelestia doesn't necessarily mean anything romantic by it at the time, should Alear romance her by giving her the Pact Ring then sharing her food like this becomes a common occurance for the couple.
• Statuesque Stunner: Zelestia stands at 5'11" (tallest of all the playable female characters and taller than several of the men), not counting her horns, and is one of the most fanservice-laden characters in both design and personality (though the latter aspect is more sweet and doting than Zephia's domineering personality).
• Stripperiffic: Like Zephia, her main outfit exposes a lot of skin. Her Somniel outfit, in contrast, is a fancy, figure-hugging but still more modest dress.
• Team Mom: Unlike Zephia, whose relationship with the Four Hounds was manipulative and caustic, Zelestia genuinely treats the Four Winds as family and loves them all dearly.
• Token Non-Human: Like Zephia, Zelestia is the only one of the Four Winds who is not human, as she is a Mage Dragon instead.
• Weredragon: Averted. Just like her counterpart Zephia, she never transforms into a dragon at any point in the game, but unlike her, this is explained to be because she lost her dragonstone when Alternate Sombron raided her village.
• Workaholic: Her Support with Alear shows that she spends much of her day doing all sorts of work. It's to the point that she often forgets to eat anything but snacks for days at a time.
• Your Magic's No Good Here: Zelestia is incredibly lucky in her own Elyos — that is to say, her Luck stat is rather high — but incredibly unlucky in Alear's. She's the only member of the Four Winds to take this sort of hit, though the others were rather unlucky to begin with. She's still luckier than Ivy, however.

Gregory

Class: Sage

Voiced by: Kenjiro Tsuda (Japanese), Jamison Boaz (English)

Fading Scar

A member of the Four Winds, and an adept at survival.

His personal skill, Survival Plan, gives him +20 Avoid while there are more foes than allies within 3 squares of him.

Information about Gregory's mainline counterpart, Griss, can be found on the Antagonists page.

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• Awesome, but Impractical: Gregory's personal skill is cool, but it doesn't line up well with his default class. Sages' class skill, Spell Harmony, increases their damage output based on how many allied Tome-users are adjacent to them... but Gregory's personal skill, Survival Plan, relies on Gregory distancing himself from allies, including friendly Tome-users. As a result, if he's not reclassed, players will have to choose between increasing Gregory's firepower or allowing him to dodge hits more easily, which becomes a huge problem on higher difficulties.
• Badass Adorable: He's an accomplished and powerful mage, but he's also an endearingly big softie who loves stuffed animals.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Despite his dislike of violence and not desiring revenge on Rafal, he also makes it coldly clear in their supports that he won't hesitate to kill them himself (or at least try to) if Rafal ever betrays them again.
• Big Damn Heroes: While on the run from the cult he grew up in, Gregory came upon Zelestia as she was being attacked by Corrupted and saved her. He often tries to downplay his achievements while Zelestia praises him whenever she brings it up.
• Combat Sadomasochist: Inverted. Unlike Griss, who enjoys pain, Gregory dislikes pain.
• Cowardly Lion: He's quite the coward and often thinks of running away first, but won't hesitate to fight if he has to.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Even before he wound up in a Fell Dragon worshipping cult, Gregory did not have a good life. His parents never got along and only ever expressed scorn for his existence, even on his birthdays. At some point, they eventually sold him off to the cult. Gregory was disgusted with their practices but pretended to be a faithful follower so as to avoid being tortured like the other dissenters. When a priest discovered his ruse, Gregory fled for his life.
• Dub Personality Change: Gregory's introduction in the Japanese version is much more subdued; when Alear spots him, he keeps his voice down and calmly states that he reacts badly to pain, as if just to affirm that he isn't Griss. Compare this to the English dub, where he freaks out at the thought of being mistaken for an enemy.
• Evil Me Scares Me: If Gregory battles Griss in the main game, he is understandably freaked out by how much of a Combat Sadomasochist his counterpart is.
• Face of a Thug: Downplayed. Like his main counterpart Griss, Gregory has a traditionally thuggish face. However, he lacks Griss' face piercings and tattoos, if not his sadistic personality altogether. In fact, his profile mentions that he owns the most stuffed plushies in the entire party. He only dresses in such an intimidating way because he believes it helps him avoid some fights, his preferred clothing would be far cuter.
• Gameplay and Story Integration: Gregory is a squeamish guy who has immense doubts about his own reliability, and his Speed and Dexterity are likewise both rather low. He also has poor Luck, both in-story and out. (His propensity to run away would suggest he's fast, but Speed is more akin to combat initiative, while the Move stat governs how far one can run in a turn.)
• Glass Cannon: This man is Citrinne on heavy doses of Spirit Dust. His Speed and Defenses are quite sub-par, but his starting Magic and Resistance are only topped by Veyle (an endgame unit), and his Magic Growth as a Sage ties with Jean's or Anna's as the highest in the game^note 80%, versus Citrinne's slightly lower 70% as a Sage. His only major downside compared to Citrinne, in fact, is that his Dexterity (which governs his Hit Rate and Crit Rate) will be much worse on average.
• Hesitant Sacrifice: When the Four Winds decide to lay down their lives in Fell Xenologue 5, he's the only one who is openly terrified of doing so, although he agrees to go with it of his own volition.
• Light Is Good: Parts of his outfit are colored white instead of the gray seen on his original counterpart, Griss, and he's on Alear's side.
• Lovable Coward: He's nervous, jittery, and does not like fighting, but he can always be counted on when trouble comes.
• Martial Pacifist: While Gregory would much rather avoid conflict if at all possible, he will fight back and defend himself when needed. He'll also come to somebody's aid if he sees them in trouble, which is how he met Zelestia.
• Mr. Fanservice: He shows as much skin as Griss, arguably a little more since he doesn't have the latter's piercings and tattoos.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: Gregory has an impressive physique, but despite this, he starts as a spellcasting Sage and not as a physical fighter; his physical bases stats and growths are poor as well.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner:
  "I don't like pain!"
  "Outta my way, please!"
  "Don't hurt me!"
  "You're not gonna enjoy this!"
• Reluctant Warrior: As opposed to his mainline counterpart, Griss, Gregory does not like fighting very much. However, he'll still fight in order to protect those he cares about.
• Rock Theme Naming: Similar to the inhabitants of Brodia, Gregory is named after a mineral called gregoryite.
• Spotting the Thread: Surprisingly, Gregory instantly knows Alear isn't the Divine Dragon he's familiar with as he finds them scary; not because Alear almost attacked them when Gregory accidentally snuck up on them, but because he feels they're off somehow. The imbalance of essence he mentions likely refers to Alear's Fell Dragon heritage and the Divine Dragon essence Lumera imbued in them.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Pain. Gregory fears pain more than anything, a heavy contrast to Griss, his mainline counterpart. Part of the reason why Gregory is such a Reluctant Warrior is because he fears just how much pain he might suffer through in battle.

Madeline

Class: General

Voiced by: Ruriko Aoki (Japanese), Sarah Anne Williams (English)

Healing Heart

The youngest member of the Four Winds, recruited by (Alternate) Mauvier.

Her personal skill, Knightly Code, reduces damage taken by 2 while she's next to an ally.

Information about Madeline's mainline counterpart, Marni, can be found on the Antagonists page.

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• Adorably Precocious Child: Madeline is indeed still a child, as one of her likes in the Ally Notebook is "food adults eat". Despite this, she is quite dutiful and humble, and even does things she dislikes for the sake of others.
• Anguished Declaration of Love: When Mauvier uses a Warp staff to send the other Four Winds to safety, Madeline tearfully tries to tell him "I love you". She's teleported outside the temple before she can finish.
• Badass Adorable: Madeline is a cute yet dignified girl who dons heavy armor and packs quite the punch.
• Battle Ballgown: Just like her main Elyos counterpart, Marni, her default outfit is a large armored dress with lots of ribbons.
• Blue Is Heroic: Her armor is blue as opposed to Marni's magenta, mirroring the series's association of blue with player units and red with enemies, and she is quite humble and one of Alear's allies in Alternate Elyos.
• Bratty Half-Pint: Averted. Unlike the bratty Marni, Madeline is far more composed, polite, and mature. She gets quite offended when Gregory accuses her of being "snot-nosed" when she first joined up.
• Dark and Troubled Past: She led a normal life with her parents until her village was attacked by a horde of Corrupted, which left her the Sole Survivor and would have died alongside the others were it not for Alternate Mauvier's intervention.
• Edible Theme Naming: Similar to the inhabitants of Solm, Madeline is named after a French dessert, namely the madeleine cookie.
• Happily Adopted: Played with. When her parents died, Alternate Mauvier raised her in the ways of knighthood. Zelestia even comments in her C-Support with Madeline that she mistook them for father and child when they arrived at Lythos Castle. The reason it's played with is that Madeline states she never saw Alternate Mauvier in a paternal light and considered him more of a mentor who she also had a crush on.
• Heroic Lineage: Her parents were both knights. When they died, Alternate Mauvier took her under his wing and taught her all he knew. When Alear meets her, she's a distinguished knight just like her parents and teacher, and proudly serves Nel and Nil.
• Humble Hero: Madeline is quite modest and humble when it comes to accepting praise, in another sharp contrast to Marni.
• Lady of War: Madeline may be far more polite than her counterpart, but make no mistake, she can hit just as hard.
• Likes Older Men: She has a romantic crush on Mauvier, who is presumably 31 like his main game counterpart, if not older given that the Fell Xenologue takes place some time after the second war with Sombron.
• Min-Maxing: Two examples:
  • Madeline's growth rates are quite lopsided, with the game's highest in Strength^note 50%, tied with Berserker-Jean if she's also a Berserker and Defense^note 55%, tied with Goldmary and General-Jean and the game's absolute lowest in Dexterity and Speed. Madeline is to Louis what Gregory is to Citrinne. On the other hand, Gregory and Madeline also have better prospects in stats they wouldn't normally use than their counterparts; like how Gregory has better Strength and Defense growths than Citrinne, Madeline has better Magic and Resistance growths than Louis.
  • Reclassing Madeline into a Great Knight will improve her damage reduction from 2 to 5, if the adjacent ally and her attacker are on opposite sides of her. This requires acquiring Sword or Lance Proficiency from an Emblem Ring, but the only major downside is the loss of her Battle Ballgown and an added weapon vulnerability (which won't stack with the other one, if the attacker is using one of the Engage weapons with two banes).
• Never Trust a Trailer: In the trailer for the Fell Xenologue DLC, Madeline is introduced speaking in the same voice as Marni and takes offense to being called snot-nosed, implying she isn't all that different from Marni. In the game proper, she's actually very humble and speaks more formally and politely than Marni does, only speaking in a similar tone when offended, with the aforementioned "snot-nosed" comment being in response to Gregory's accusations.
• Other Me Annoys Me: It doesn't take long for her to develop a low opinion of Marni. If she's recruited in the main game and fights her counterpart, Madeline tells Marni her desire for approval will only end in disappointment. The only positive thing she has to say about her is her bond with Mauvier. This changes after Marni's death. In her supports with Veyle, Madeline admits that she can't help but admire Marni for how, in the end, she was willing to give up her life for her lady as a true knight would.
• Precocious Crush: Although Mauvier took Madeline in after her parents died, she never really saw him as a Parental Substitute and more like a mentor. One of the reasons why Mauvier's death hit her so hard in particular is because it's implied that she was romantically interested in him.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner:
  "How's this for praise?"
  "You will get nothing from me!"
  "Persistent, aren't you?"
  "I will not falter!"
• Replacement Goldfish: Defied. While Mauvier shows signs of seeing her as this to Marni in their B support, he quickly realizes how selfish he is being and apologizes, promising to see Madeline as her own person. Madeline, for her part, bears him no ill will for it, as she admits that she herself has the same struggles regarding him and her own Mauvier.
• Sentimental Homemade Toy: Madeline makes Gregory a sheep plushie in one of their supports, which the latter mistakes for a "pile of dust"^note possibly a mistranslation of "dust ball" before realizing it's for him.
• Synchronization: Downplayed as it normally doesn't effect her, but she is implied to have this with Marni; if Alear talks to her in Lythos Castle where Marni was killed, Madeline remarks that in this place she feels an awful pain behind her sternum (presumably where Marni was stabbed), despite not having been injured there.
• Trauma Button: One of her strong dislikes in the Ally Notebook is "dark temples", which likely came from her losing Alternate Mauvier in one.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Her B-Support with Alear reveals she's scared of bugs, as in any bug. Even something as harmless as a ladybug. Madeline is so terrified of them that she genuinely thinks they're a threat to the Somniel, speaking as if they're worse than the Corrupted, and tries to exterminate one such bug with extreme prejudice. Their A-Support does see her trying to move past her fear, with some success as she fends off a bug with minimal panic.

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Alternate Mauvier

Class: Royal Knight

Voiced by: Tomoaki Maeno (Japanese), Gavin Hammon (English)

The "big guy" of the Four Winds, both its founder and its second-in-command.

Information about Mainline Mauvier can be found on the Antagonists page.

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• Big Damn Heroes: Madeline tells Zelestia in their Support chain that he's the reason she's still alive. When her hometown was attacked by Corrupted and was about to be killed, he showed up and saved her.
• Big Guy Fatality Syndrome: He's the largest of the Four Winds and the only one to die in the story of the Fell Xenologue.
• Face Death with Dignity: Like the rest of the Winds, he's nonplussed about the prospect of dying when facing down a seemingly endless horde of Corrupted. He's even the one to propose they pull a Taking You with Me move by bringing down the temple on top of them and kill the Corrupted all at once... only to reveal he brought a Warp staff, which he then uses to send Zelestia, Gregory, and Madeline out of the temple as it collapses, all with a smile on his face.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: Defied to a depressing degree. It's made blatantly clear in the Four Winds' supports that they haven't forgotten about Alternate Mauvier's Heroic Sacrifice and miss him dearly, as Gregory and Zelestia are both reduced to tears in their C-Support with Mauvier. They even still call themselves the Four Winds after his death in order to preserve his memory. And before that, when Alear offered the remaining Winds an opportunity to come to their Elyos to start a new life there, Madeline expressed hesitation initially over the fact that it would mean leaving Mauvier's corpse and spirit behind and alone in a ruined world.
• Four Is Death: He's the last of the Four Winds to be introduced to Alear, and the only member of their party to die.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He warps Zelestia, Gregory, and Madeline out of the crumbling temple in Xenologue 5, so that only he will die in the impending ruin. Gregory emphasizes the sacrificial nature of the act, not allowing Rafal to claim Mauvier was a victim and in turn explaining why he is not seeking vengeance against Rafal.
• Irony:
  • Whereas Mainline Mauvier is the Sole Survivor of the Four Hounds, this one is the only member of the Four Winds to die.
  • Mauvier is the only character who is playable in the base game who is alive in the Fell Xenologue, making them the Sole Survivor of the main timeline's roster. However, he is also the only character that's not a Corrupted who dies in the Xenologue.
• The Leader: Subverted. Although he founded the Four Winds, he passed on being named the leader of the group and instead gave the reigns to Zelestia, choosing to become her trusted second-in-command. He would later pass on this position to Gregory before his death.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: As the second-eldest member of the Four Winds, he's more or less Gregory and Madeline's mentor, especially the latter who he trained in the ways of knighthood. He eventually sacrifices his life to ensure his comrades will survive.
• Never the Selves Shall Meet: He's the only major character who can't encounter his mainline counterpart in the story. He probably would've had the chance, but performing a Heroic Sacrifice prevented him from doing so.
• Never Trust a Trailer: Despite his gameplay being showcased in a trailer previewing the Four Winds as playable characters, he is never actually playable in the Fell Xenologue proper, given that he dies two chapters after he's introduced. The trailer likely used the Mauvier that was already in the base game to demonstrate Alternate Mauvier's gameplay.
• No Animals Were Harmed: Mauvier's horse is never shown in cutscenes, so it's possible that it survived his Heroic Sacrifice. On the other hand...
• Odd Name Out: Of the Four Winds, he's the only one who doesn't have a different name from his main universe counterpart.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted. Despite being mirror versions of the same character, this version of Mauvier shares the same name as his main universe counterpart.
• Parental Substitute: In her Support with Zelestia, Madeline mentions that Mauvier took her in after her parents died. That said, Madeline also states she never really saw them as "father and daughter", and that she actually saw him in a romantic light.
• Red Herring: Alear briefly finds odd how Alternate Mauvier is the only member of the Winds who is not surprised by meeting an alternate version of the Divine Dragon, hinting there might be something off about him. Given he was sent to spy in Solm, it's implied he was already aware of the fact because Alternate Fogado and co. were informed of this as well.
• Riddle for the Ages: The Fell Xenologue DLC takes place in a world where the Four Hounds are the good guys, called the Four Winds. Each of them also has a slightly different name and appearance to their Hound counterparts from the main timeline, as well as having drastically different personalities. However, Mauvier is the exception, as he is exactly the same in the main timeline and the Xenologue timeline, with the only difference being that Xenologue Mauvier dies while he is the Sole Survivor of the Four Hounds in the main timeline. Why is it that Mauvier the only one of the Winds who is exactly the same while all the others have slightly different names, appearances, and very different personalities?
• Story Breadcrumbs: Mauvier doesn't appear in many scenes, but the few he does have addresses a burning question: what happened to Veyle in Alternate Elyos? Given his comments (and the fact Nel says he was previously a knight to one of Sombron's children, albeit one she did not know), it's easy to infer that Mauvier was Veyle's utterly devoted Number Two just as he was in Main Elyos — and that she died, which immediately caused Mauvier to change sides in disgust. This is further supported in Nel's supports with Veyle, where she states she knows there was a Veyle in her world, but she never met her.
• Together in Death: In his final moments, he mentions being able to reunite with Veyle in the afterlife.
• Token Evil Teammate: Averted. Since Mauvier in the main timeline is the Token Good Teammate of the Four Hounds, and the Four Hounds, or, Four Winds, of the Xenologue timeline are heroes and the exact opposite of their mainline counterparts, it is to be expected that Mauvier would have the opposite role that he does in the main timeline. Instead, Mauvier is exactly the same in the main timeline and Xenologue timeline. Xenologue Mauvier even gives up his own life to save his comrades.
• Undying Loyalty: Although not much is known about alternate Veyle, it is known that, just like in the main timeline, Xenologue Mauvier was utterly devoted to her and served her until her death. Even after Veyle's death, he has become incredibly loyal towards the other Four Winds; so much so that he's willing to give up his life for the sake of theirs.

Rafal

"Nil" / Rafal

Class: Fell Child

Voiced by: Takuya Eguchi (Japanese), Yungi Chang (English)

Atoning Dragon

One of the Fell Dragon twins from the other world. One of Sombron's many children, he took Nil's place after his death due to their remarkable physical similarity. His weakness compared to Sombron's other children has driven him to orchestrate events in the alternate Elyos to secure ultimate power for himself.

His Personal Skill, Rivalry, gives him +10 Crit for one turn after an ally within 2 squares of him defeats an enemy.

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• Advancing Boss of Doom: As the Final Boss of the Fell Xenologue, he starts off the fight on a Fell Sigil that renders him functionally immortal. Most of the map is spent fleeing northwards as he destroys the terrain around him until you finally reach the part of the map where he isn't invincible and you can finally bring him down.
• Ambiguous Situation: Both Alear and Zelestia sense Sombron's magic in Nel's dragonstone when it is broken and suggest Sombron cast a spell on it that influenced Nil's actions and mindset during the DLC (an idea supported by some of Alternate Sombron's own dialog). However, Nil insists his actions were ultimately his own regardless of what influenced his psyche and refuses to give sole responsibility to Sombron.
• And Then What?: That he cannot give a good answer to this is an early indication that something is affecting his mind. When Nel first asks him what his goals are he refuses to give an answer, and later when Nel points out the end result of his efforts will be ruling over an empty world, he ignores her logic by claiming that achieving power is essentially the beginning and end of his goal, that he has no further plan than that nor does he see any need for one. It takes the breaking of Nel's Dragonstone for Rafal to regain memory that the source of his desire for power was to protect and support Nel in Nil's stead.
• The Atoner: Following the end of the Fell Xenologue DLC, Rafal wishes to make amends for his actions. While he doesn't regret his pursuit of power, he at least wants to make up for the suffering he caused along the way.
• Bad Powers, Bad People: While pursuing Sombron's goals, Nil exercises a number of Fell powers, including command over the Corrupted and the power to invoke Emblems as their "Fallen" varieties. Once he arrives in Alear's Elyos as a better person, though, he doesn't use these. His B Support with Gregory shows him baffled by the Corrupted not respecting him, so it might be that he lost some of his powers when reviving Nel or moving between worlds.
• Baritone of Strength: When he stops pretending to be Nil, Rafal's voice becomes his deeper and natural voice tone, fitting when he no longer needs to hold back his formidable fighting prowess, both as a boss and (in the main story) as a playable character.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: As "Nil", Rafal is a kind-hearted and welcoming young man who has no problems working with Alear, unlike Nel. Once he reveals himself to be Sombron's heir, however, he shows his true colors as an abrasive, manipulative, cold-hearted bastard who is more than happy to destroy whatever's left of Alternate Elyos, even though everyone except for his sister and the Four Winds are all dead. Notably, he doesn't return to his "Nil" persona even in the main game, though he's softened to the point of coming across as a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
• Blatant Lies: In his A-Support with Alear, he hands them a small bag of sweets and claims "the kitchen staff held [Nil] hostage" until he made them. That he takes pride in giving Alear a bag of confections, one of which containing sweets mixed with Alear's favorite flavors, says otherwise.
• Cain and Abel: Becomes this to Nel towards the end of the Fell Xenologue, though they eventually reconcile after Nil spends a thousand years reviving Nel from her Heroic Suicide.
• Casting a Shadow: Being a Fell Dragon, he can wield Obscurité, a tome that is normally exclusive to Veyle and Sombron. He can't use it by default in his base class, requiring him to class change to a magic-wielding class to use it.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To Aelfric from the Cindered Shadows DLC sidestory. Both were playing the role of a good samaritan while having darker motives, but their actions differ. Aelfric was beloved in Abyss for caring after the downtrodden inhabitants, but he was wholly willing to sacrifice the Ashen Wolves (while maintaining his polite and affable persona) to resurrect Sitri, the woman he loved dearly. When that plan failed, he used himself as fuel for the ritual, only to create a monstrous dragon that had to be put down. Rafal originally wished to protect Nel as per the real Nil's Last Request, but wound up being corrupted by Nel's dragonstone which Sombron tampered with and strove to finish his father's work to destroy what was left of an already devastated Elyos. When he drops his "Nil" ruse, he reveals his true nature as a cold and abrasive man. After gaining the seven Emblem Bracelets, he transforms into a Great Fell Dragon, but is defeated and subsequently redeemed via Nel's Heroic Sacrifice.
• Deadly Distant Finale: In his solo ending, Rafal is said to have given his life to save the world without anyone knowing.
• Dead Person Impersonation: In truth, the real Nil died years ago, the person at Nel's side is really Rafal. His twin had died when he was too young to really remember her and he had grown close to the real Nil. Because the resemblance between the real Nil and Rafal was so uncanny as Nil lay dying he asked Rafal to take his place to spare Nel the pain of his loss. However, Nel knew the entire time her real twin had died but accepted Rafal anyway.
• Death Seeker: In Xenologue 6, he's begging for this when he's not proudly declaring himself Sombron's Heir. Rafal knows he cannot be forgiven for what he's done and he's done so many horrible things, but he can't bring himself to end his own life, so he instead tries to push Alear and Nel to kill him, pointing out that if they don't, he'll continue to try and finish what his father started. It's treated like his mind is warring with itself, with him questioning why he said such a thing after saying it.
• Easily Forgiven: Played with. While Nel doesn't hold what happened in Fell Xenologue against him and the Four Winds are able to accept him (Gregory admittedly states he still hates Rafal for what he did, and is prepared to kill him if he ever strays again, but hates himself for not being able to help Rafal or see the truth), Rafal doesn't feel he's earned it. His regret for his actions is to the point that, when Zelestia and Alear raise the possibility that Sombron may have corrupted Nel's dragonstone to turn the siblings against one another, Rafal rejects this as mattering when it comes to his crimes and states all he did was on him. He then punishes himself with a thousand years of solitude, devoted to nothing but giving his life energy to Nel.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: While he initially insists that he's been playing pretend with Nel and in fact hated her, Rafal immediately contradicts himself and says he adores her, considering his life as "Nil" to be the happiest he's ever been. Part of the reason for his Death Seeker pleas is that underneath whatever influence Sombron placed on him he genuinely doesn't want to kill her, and is horrified when Nel performs a Heroic Sacrifice to free him from Sombron's "curse".
• Evil Sounds Deep: His "real" voice is noticeably deeper and smoother than his "Nil" one.
• Final Boss: As Fell Nil in the Fell Xenologue DLC.
• Gameplay and Story Integration: Turns out his apparent weakness is just a ploy encouraged by Sombron so that Rafal would survive. After revealing his true colors, his statline is approipately beefed up.
• Heel–Face Turn: After Nel's dragonstone is destroyed and he spends the next thousand years or so infusing her with his essence, Rafal joins up with Alear in their world to live with his sister as he promised. It also helps that Rafal's actions may not have entirely been his own, despite his insistence that he's still responsible for the destruction and death he caused in Alternate Elyos regardless of whatever else may have influenced him.
• In Harm's Way: Rafal parts with Nel and Alear after defeating Sombron (if unpaired), only returning once a century to donate some of his gifted sweets. Eventually he disappears without a trace; those who knew him figure he sacrificed his life to privately save the world from some unknown threat, but their only proof is the skeleton of an unknown Fell Dragon found ages later.
• Interface Spoiler: Nil has a "new" personal skill when he betrays you in Xenologue 5, teasing that he's still going to be playable, which he is in the main story after completing the Fell Xenologue. His Great Fell Dragon form does not, of course.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: His personality in a nutshell once recruited into the base game. It's best shown in his Support with Gregory, who he mocks for serving him and not realizing his "Lord Nil" persona was just an act. Gregory implies in their A-Rank Support, however, that Rafal's cold shoulder is mostly because he doesn't want to hurt his old comrades again, much less express his gratitude to them.
• The Load: He's dead weight in the Fell Xenologue, but this turns out to be an act; Nil was a late bloomer whom his Father saw immense potential in, and was told to play weak to survive. It helped that he had a twin sister who would come to blows and bisections at even the mention of harming him. As a playable character in the main game, he's decently competent, averting it there.
• Look Behind You: He does this to Alear at the very end of Chapter 4 when the two of them are alone with each other, but it's subverted in that there really is something behind Alear, as Rafal has figured out how to re-awaken Tiki from her slumber. While Alear is talking to Tiki though, Rafal uses the opportunity to kidnap them. He does this yet again when Nel and the Winds confront him in the temple, where they are ambushed by Corrupted. Rafal uses the opportunity to get away.
• Magically Inept Fighter: Nil's abysmal Strength throughout most of the Fell Xenologue may be an act, but his low Magic stat isn't; once he joins as Rafal, you'll notice that it's the same as it was in alternate Firene, a lowly 7. In fact, most of the Magic he does have is just from him being a Fell Child.
• Meaningful Rename: His personal skill becomes Rivalry after he shows his true colors, and he starts going by Rafal when you recruit him for the main game. This is all after he already took on Nil's identitity.
• More than Mind Control: How Rafal's descent into villainy is indicated to have happened, and why he refuses to downplay his own complicity in the crimes he committed. Sombron's magic within Nel's Dragonstone appears to have influenced Rafal's mind and instincts in a number of ways, to the point that at one point Rafal almost seems to develop a split personality, with him arguing with himself after asking Nel to kill him. His memories of why he took on Nil's identity seem to only come back after the stone is shattered, and the drive the stone's magic gave him is described as an intense, maddening pain that Rafal could not soothe or escape. However, ultimately Sombron's magic preyed on genuine desires Rafal had for power and control, and unlike with Veyle, Rafal was fully conscious of what he was doing.
• My God, What Have I Done?: While Rafal doesn't regret his decision to pursue power, he does feel great regret about the destruction he left in his wake after he is cleansed of the influence of Nel's dragonstone, and most of all that he had somehow forgotten the entire reason he took on Nil's name to begin with and sought to be more powerful; to help Nel and protect her as she had protected him (this memory suppression effect implied to be due to Sombron's magic). It's to the point he refuses to consider or accept the possibility that Sombron affected his actions and memory with Nel's corrupted dragonstone, or at least refuses that whatever effect it had means he is not responsible as well.
• Older and Wiser: A thousand years of contemplation while waiting for Nel to wake up has taught Rafal how to transform into a standard Fell Dragon (as opposed to the Great Fell Dragon he became as a boss), using pieces of the huge Dragonstone the Emblem Bracelets created with their united power (he splits the stone into four pieces, two for Nel and two for him).
• One-Hit Kill: In his boss fight, Fell Nil has an attack that will hit every unit within a certain space regardless of whether it's a friendly or enemy unit. On top of destroying those sections of the map, any unit killed by the attack gives him a permanent stat boost, and if it was a named unit he killed, he also gets their unique skill.
• Power Copying: As the Final Boss of the Fell Xenologue, he can copy the class skill of any named unit he kills with his One-Hit Kill attack, friendly or enemy.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner:
  "I am awakened!"
  "Are you frightened?
  "A worthy sacrifice."
  "The might of a Fell Dragon!"
• Redemption Demotion: Played with. When he joins your party in the main game after beating the Fell Xenologue, he does so as Rafal rather than as "Nil". He's one of the strongest units you get if you complete the DLC as early as possible, but if you were hoping he'd come with all those fancy Unique Skills and dragon form he used against you in his boss fight, think again. On the other hand, he does come equipped with dragonstones like Nel, something he couldn't use in the Fell Xenologue.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Nil has red eyes like other Fell Dragons, and when he reveals himself as Rafal and Sombron's heir, he's presented as being a threat on par with his father.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The willful, power-hungry red oni to his sister's calm and cool blue oni. The red oni aspects ramp up when he reveals himself to be Rafal, who is more aggressive than he was as "Nil". This is more literal in their dragon forms, with Rafal having a pinkish luminescence and a pair of horns, compared to Nel's blue luminescence and lack thereof.
• Regenerating Mana: The class skill for his version of the Fell Child class, Spur Emblems, makes him a walking Engage meter battery, allowing him to regenerate adjacent allies' engage meter by 1 at the start of every player phase.
• The Reveal: Whoo boy, where do we start? First of all, he's Sombron's heir and the one who orchestrated the "assassination" at Lythos Castle. He is also not Nil, but instead another Fell Dragon by the name of Rafal who assumed Nil's identity at the latter's behest so his sister Nel would not have to suffer the loss of her beloved twin. It's also implied much of his actions throughout the DLC are because of Sombron, who tampered with Nel's dragonstone in the hopes of either ensuring she or Nil would never go against him or they would become a worthwhile heir as he hoped they would.
• Self-Imposed Exile: At the end of the Xenologue, believing he should be severely punished for his actions regardless of what mitigating circumstances there may be, Rafal decides to remain behind in Alternate Elyos which is now devoid of sapient life. He spends his time devoted entirely to reviving Nel at the expense of his own lifespan and swears he will not accept Alear's invitation to live in their Elyos until after he succeeds and even then only if Nel wishes for him to do so as well. He keeps to his word, and is essentially alone for a thousand years.
• Shielded Core Boss: Something the game doesn't tell you, of course. As the Final Boss of Fell Xenologue, Rafal has two gimmicks that greatly reduce the amount of damage he takes. The first is a Unique skill that reduces the amount of damage he takes for every alternate royal still alive on the map. The second is the tiles he's on, which reduce any and all damage he takes by 50 points. Half the fight becomes evading his laser breath attacks, preventing reinforcements from being summoned, taking down the alternate royals, and getting the hell out of a One-Hit Kill that only serves to buff him for every unit he kills with it. The only one who can do any damage to him while the other Bracelet Emblem holders are still alive is Alear with Libération, though the damage is so minuscule it may as well be scratch damage. You can't rely on Chain Attacks, either, as they dole out only one point of damage and Rafal has another unique skill that lowers the hit rate down to a pitiful 10%.
• Sweet Tooth: His profile notes that he has a sweet tooth, and when spoken to at Destinea Cathedral, he muses that if people were to give him offerings as a Fell Dragon, he'd prefer sweets. Supports with Alear suggest that his preferred level of sweetness surpasses what most taste buds can handle.
• Took a Level in Badass: As seen in the flashback of Xenologue 4, Rafal succeeded in finally invoking an Emblem Bracelet's power and wanted to show Nil straight away. Sombron told him to hide this development and play the role of a weakling so as to lower his siblings' guard.
• Villainous Legacy: Possibly enforced. Sombron deemed Rafal and Nel potential successors in the event Alternate Alear struck him down for good, though Xenologue 5's flashback implies Sombron favored the former more. It's also implied Sombron tampered with Nel's dragonstone to not only drive a wedge between them after Nel's defection, but also to mould Rafal into a worthwhile heir by warping his mind.
• Walking Spoiler: It is impossible to talk about Rafal without revealing critical points of the Xenologue's story alongside his role in it.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Why Rafal acts as the main antagonist is the Xenologue to begin with. He was so sick of being weak, that he tried following in Sombron's footsteps to pursue power. Subverted, since he was partially being brainwashed thanks to Nel's Crystal. However, Rafal takes full responsibility for his actions once he is free of the brainwashing.
• Willfully Weak: When playable in the Fell Xenologue, "Nil" has lousy base stats that make him a poor combatant. When he shows his true colors as Rafal, his stats skyrocket appropriately, making it clear he was pretending to be weak on purpose. In the flashback scene of Xenologue 5, Sombron even encouraged Rafal to hide his true abilities after he managed to invoke a Bracelet Emblem, deeming him a potential heir.
• You're Not My Father: Has this reaction to the main universe's Sombron if they fight during the final battle of the main game, noting that any relationship they have is purely theoretical given that his father is a different Sombron.

Third Fell Dragon Sibling

Nil

Voiced by: Takuya Eguchi (Japanese), Yungi Chang (English)

The younger twin brother of Nel, as well as Rafal's brother. He died with his sister's dragonstone in hand, and per his dying wishes, Rafal took up his name.

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• Dead All Along: It is revealed later on that the real Nil died on a mission over a thousand years ago. His dying request was for Rafal, a fellow Fell Dragon who looked near identical to him, to take up his identity and protect Nel.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Like Rafal, he saw himself as inferior to his sister because he was incapable of transforming into a dragon.
• Impersonation-Exclusive Character: The real Nil is long dead by the time Alear meets Rafal and Nel personally, with Rafal taking on Nil's identity at his request.
• My Sibling Will Live Through Me: Before succumbing to his death, he requested his brother, Rafal, to take his identity, so that he could look after his older sister after his death.
• Posthumous Character: Prior to the events of the Fell Xenologue, he was given his sister's dragonstone. Sometime afterward, however, he was fatally wounded on a mission and begged Rafal, another of Sombron's children he had grown close to, to take up his identity and look after Nel in his stead. Rafal looked very similar to Nil, but Nel knew the truth right away and only played along out of respect for Nil and Rafal's feelings.
• Walking Spoiler: It is impossible to talk about the real Nil without bringing up his fate as revealed in the later half of the Fell Xenologue, and by extension the fact that there's a lot more to the Nil Alear encounters than meets the eye.

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