open/close all folders
Playable Characters
Hero/Randi
Voiced by Kensho Ono (Japanese), Tom Bauer (English)
He was out with two friends near a waterfall, but he fell down and tried to find his way back to the village on his own. Hearing someone calling him nearby, he found the Mana Sword stuck in stone and pulled it out, not knowing the consequences it would have.
When he returns to Potos Village, he fights off a large monster and gets told of the legend surrounding the Mana Sword by Gemma. The villagers banish him from Potos because they fear his actions will put them in further danger if he stays. Randi heads to the Water Palace on Gemma's advice and meets Sage Luka, who gives him the task to regenerate the power to the Mana Sword and thwart the Empire.
- 11th-Hour Superpower: In the final battle, Dryad's final spell is unlocked. This spell turns the Mana Sword into its true form, and as one might expect, it's the most effective weapon against the Mana Beast. Depending on the version, Randi wielding the Mana Sword's true form might be the only thing that hurts the Mana Beast.
- Badass Normal: Randi feels left out when Primm and Popoi get magic, while he doesn't. Undine tells him that his using magic to amplify himself would be dangerous, and that the Mana Sword is actually stronger than any magic.
- Blamed for Being Railroaded: In the beginning, he cannot get back to Potos Village because there are some bushes in his way, so he takes the sword to cut through them. Doing so leads to him being banished from Potos Village.
- Canon Name: Randi.
- The Chosen One: Zigzagged. It's said that only a chosen hero can pull the Mana Sword from the stone and that Randi is too young and inexperienced to be said hero, so his ability to pull the sword must be a sign of Mana weakening. Randi is told to take care of the sword, until he can hand it to the real hero. Of course, it turns out that Randi was the Chosen One all along.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: Has elements of this in the remake, explored through party conversations:Randi: We gotta step up and stop wrongdoing when we see it. I dunno if that'll save the world, but it's a start.
- Distressed Dude: Can be captured by goblins and almost cooked alive, but Primm arrives to save him.
- Giving the Sword to a Noob: Gemma handwaves this issue by saying that Randi will just wield the title of the Mana Knight by default, simply because the sword's weakened powers allowed him to easily take it out of the stone. Subverted, when Randi taking the sword was not by chance.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: His mother is the Mana tree. His father is the ghost seen when he pulled the sword.
- Magically Inept Fighter: While Primm and Popoi get access to White Magic and Black Magic respectively, the various elemental spirits offer Randi nothing. Reason being that as the wielder of the legendary Mana sword, he hardly needs it.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Pulling the sword from the stone caused monsters to appear near Potos Village and even awakened the Mantis Ant below. The villagers all but name this trope directly to Randi.
- No Cutscene Inventory Inertia: When Randi attacks a possessed Dyluck, he will always use the Mana Sword, no matter what weapon he currently has equipped. Justified, as using the Mana Sword allowed the possession to be nullified.
- Shonen Hair: A mess of spiky, brown hair only slightly contained with a bandana.
- You Can't Go Home Again: He got banished from Potos Village as part of the introduction.
Girl/Primm
Voiced by Nozomi Yamamoto (Japanese); Lindsey Alena Green (English)
She was planned to have an arranged marriage with another noble's son, but she refused to go through with it. When she learns that her father sent Dyluck and his men onto a dangerous mission to confront the witch Elinee, and news spreads that they haven't returned, she runs away from home. Primm planned to rescue Dyluck from Elinee, only to see him being sent away to Thanatos.
Determined to save Dyluck, Primm joins up with Randi and Popoi out of selfish reasons. She eventually chooses to stick with them for the journey, when she sees the extent of Thanatos' plans and his focus on Dyluck.
- Action Girl: In spades. Her default weapon are knuckles and her entire reason for leaving home was to go rescue her boyfriend, who is a high ranking soldier of Pandora, from a dangerous witch.
- Arranged Marriage: Supposed to marry a noble's son, but she ran away from home when this was decided.
- Bare-Fisted Monk: She brings in the knuckles as a weapon, which are her default.
- Canon Name: Primm.
- Chainmail Bikini: The Tiger Bikini has better stats than the full-body Tiger Suit that Randi and Popoi can obtain at the same time.
- Combat Medic: Primm specializes in healing and support spells, but she also has good physical stats and can easily fight on the front lines alongside Randi.
- Damsel in Distress
- If you recruit her to your party the first time you visit Pandora but then try to go directly Gaia's Navel instead of going into the Haunted Forest to try and reach the Witch's Castle she storms off in a huff to go alone. If this happens she gets accosted by two werewolves in the Forest, from which Randi and Popoi have to save her, before she rejoins the party permanently.
- Midway through the game, she gets kidnapped by a possessed Dyluck and her life energy getting taken. She's only sent into the next room, so she quickly joins the party again for the next boss fight.
- Impossibly-Low Neckline: Not particularly evident in the original game's sprite art, but official art and her 3D remake model make it clear Primm's top completely bares her shoulders and a substantial part of her back.
- Light 'em Up: Lumina grants her powers to Primm. Its Lucent Beam is one of her few purely-offensive spells (aside from Salamando's Fire Bouquet and Fire Wall) and is particularly valuable against a number of particularly evil enemies in the late game who are weak against Light magic.
- Magic Knight: She's not a knight by any measure, but she's the closest thing in the game- considerably tougher and more physically-adept with weapons than Popoi, while also having access to a variety of useful magic that Randi cannot wield. Most of her spells are supportive rather than damaging, but she does have a couple that can pack quite a punch.
- Parental Marriage Veto: Her father wants to marry her off to a noble's son because he disapproves of her dating a mere soldier.
- Playing with Fire: Aside from Lumina, Primm's only direct damage spells are gained from Salamando.
- Pointy Ears: Not as obvious in her original sprite, but official art always depicted her with pointy, elf-like ears. The remake makes them more noticeable by having them flare outward instead of upward.
- The Runaway: She left home against her father's wishes in order to escape an Arranged Marriage and to find the man she's in love with.
- The Smurfette Principle: The only (official) female party member of the heroic trio.
- Spell Blade: Primm's primary source of elemental damage comes from imbuing the party's weapons with magic.
- Spell My Name With An S: Her official name was believed to be Purim. The remake makes it clear that it's Primm.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: Dyluck gets sent away early on and Primm goes off to rescue him, but the game keeps pulling the two apart. In the end, Dyluck's death separates them completely.
- Statuesque Stunner: Her character model in the remake. She's at least half a foot taller than Randi, and is one of the taller characters in the game in general.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial
- An inn dialogue in the remake has Primm stop a plan of Popoi's to use the Cannon Travel service unnecessarily, citing that it would be a waste of money. It definitely isn't that she's scared of travelling that way!
- Another inn dialogue of the remake has her claim to not admire the view from Flammie because the wind stings her eyes, and certainly not because she's terrified of heights. Popoi even offers to have Sylphid block the wind for her next time, but Primm objects on the grounds that it would be a blatant misuse of an elemental spirit's powers.
- White Magician Girl: Played with. The only one to obtain even a typical healing spell, but she's by no means a weak healer. With proper equipment, she can be as strong as Randi in terms of physical fighting, and her Lucent Beam is deadly when leveled up properly.
Sprite/Popoi
Voiced by Emiri Katou (Japanese); Lizzie Freeman (English)
They got washed away from their home by a flood and were found by the dwarves and taken in, with the resulting trauma leading to them having lost all memories of their home and how to get there. Popoi reluctantly joins Randi when the Dwarven Elder tells them that the Mana Seeds might help them regain their memories.
Popoi learns that they came from the Upper Lands and lived in the Sprite Village. Upon heading there, it turns out that the village was ravaged by the Empire and most of the sprites are implied to have died, except for Popoi and their Gramps, who was safe in the Wind Palace at the time. When they learn that the sprites will cease to exist if Mana were to disappear from the world, Popoi sticks with Randi to prevent this from happening.
- Ambiguous Gender: Popoi's gender was left ambiguous in the Japanese version. The English version made Popoi male, while the German version went for female. The English translation of the remake then chose to use the gender-neutral 'they', albeit other western translations, such as Spanish, went with 'he' instead, due to language restrictions regarding gender. Popoi is generally voiced by women, with the Japanese voice using 'oira' to refer to themselves, which is generally a male pronoun to use, but can be used by girls.
- Amnesiac Hero: Has no memories of their home or how to get there. Interacting with a Mana Seed returns some of Popoi's memories, enough for them to remember that they come from the Sprite Village.
- Big Eater: Eats an entire ship's worth of food within hours. The remake has Popoi express an interest in eating Mana Seeds, and considers it a revelation that the Empire is not trying to eat the seeds themselves.
- Black Mage: Most of Popoi's spells are offensive and they are your main, magical attacker.
- But Now I Must Go: As a creature of magic, Popoi can't exist in this world without the power of Mana. Unfortunately, that power fades at the end of the game, and Popoi goes with it.
- Canon Name: Popoi.
- Casting a Shadow: Shade grants Popoi exclusive use to his Shadow spirit powers.
- Cheshire Cat Grin: Popoi does this constantly in the remake. In the original, they have a laughing animation sporting one.
- Con Man: Tried to con people out of their money before joining Randi.
- Fiery Redhead: Very excitable and quick to anger, with a long mane of reddish-pink hair.
- Gender-Inclusive Writing: In the remake, Popoi is referred to with the gender-neutral "they".
- Glass Cannon: Offensive magic is absurdly overpowered and Popoi wields almost all of it, but they also take by far the most damage if you let the enemy smack them about.
- Mundane Utility: The remake has an inn dialogue where Popoi complains about thirst when talking about the Kakkara Desert and promptly summons Undine. She gives them abundant water, quenching their thirst, much to Randi's surprise.
- Spell My Name With An S: Popoi versus Popoie. The remake makes Popoi official.
- Squishy Wizard: Has the weakest physical attributes out of all three characters and will probably start at the lowest level, too, but their magic can tear up regular enemies and bosses equally well. Popoi's stats aren't actually that much lower than the other two, but by the late game they still take incomparably more damage- particularly damaging enemies like Griffin Hands or Werewolf Lords can almost kill even a very high level Popoi equipped with the best armour in the game in only a few hits, particularly if they crit, while practically doing scratch damage to Randi and Primm.
Allies
Dyluck
Dyluck is a knight of Pandora and the lover of Primm.
He was sent out on a risky mission by the king of Pandora to infiltrate the Haunted Woods and kill the evil witch Elinee living within. She overpowered him and, having no use for him, sent him to Thanatos in the ruins south of Pandora.
Dyluck seems to be of interest to him, as Thanatos repeatedly ensures to keep the knight nearby.
- Badass in Distress: While his credentials are never actually shown on-screen, the fact is that Dyluck is the captain of the royal army of Pandora. Unfortunately, he cannot match up to magic users like Elinee and Thanatos.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Gets manipulated by Thanatos to do his bidding.
- Distressed Dude: Spends most of the game being held captive by Thanatos.
- Heroic Suicide: Killed himself to prevent Thanatos from taking over his body.
- I Just Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Asks Randi to take care of Primm as his final request.
- Living MacGuffin: Dyluck was born with enormous dark powers that were suppressed at birth and was raised into following justice. Thanatos cites that this combination of darkness and light made him the perfect choice of being his new vessel.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: With Primm. They are kept apart for majority of the game and then Dyluck's death ultimately keeps them apart.
Gemma
Gemma is a knight of Tasnica.
He was in Potos Village when the Mantis Ant awoke and played an indirect role of helping Randi win. He explains to Randi that the sword he took was the legendary Mana Sword and points him in the first direction of where to go from there.
- Badass Cape: The only heroic character to wear one in the game.
- Badass in Distress: Becomes one of the mute zombies due to Thanatos stealing his energy. He gets better after the party clears the ruins south of Pandora.
- The Chooser of the One: The only person that ends up accepting Randi as the hero without reservation, though he thought he was a bit young to be the Mana Knight for a bit. Fortunately, he has some standing with sages and regents, leading to other people taking his word that Randi's alright.
- Cool Old Guy: Helps out the heroes throughout the adventure.
- Mr. Exposition: Is the one to initially tell Randi where to go, notably to Sage Luka in the Water Palace.
- Mythology Gag: His name in the original version was 'Jema' and he's overall a reference to the Gemma Knights in the first game. The remake outright changed his name to 'Gemma'.
- Old Master: Cited to be a master in battle and still does his share of fighting. While it's never shown on-screen, it is said that he and the Tasnican army handle the regular troops of The Empire.
Krissie
The 18 year old leader of the Resistance opposing the Vandole Empire. She and her rebels provide guidance to the heroes once they reach Northtown.
- A Child Shall Lead Them: Downplayed since she's technically a legal adult, but 18 years old is still fairly young for the leader of a La Résistance faction.
- The Chains of Commanding: Despite appearing outwardly mature and responsible, there are signs that leading the resistance and the death of her father (who was the previous Rebel Leader) have shaken her more than she shows. One of the kids in the resistance hideout even mentions hearing Krissie "crying at night" if you speak to him.
- Rebel Leader: Leads the resistance opposing the Evil Empire.
- Shonen Hair: Spiky, unkempt yellow hair.
- Supporting Leader: Krissie isn't The Hero, but her resistance provides support to the heroes at several points.
Antagonists
Emperor Vandole
The Emperor of The Empire, who seeks to gather the eight Mana Seeds and use them to raise the Mana Fortress and conquer the continent.
- Bad Boss: Doesn't much care for his underlings, even his top generals. He isn't the slightest bit miffed when his right-hand man Sheex is killed and would rather focus on getting to the Mana Fortress.
- Deal with the Devil: He and his generals sold their souls to Mavolia for more power. The English translation leaves out whether the Emperor was in on it due to limitations in text space, leaving it ambiguous if the Emperor was aware.
- Disc-One Final Boss: He's the ruler of The Empire and the one leading their conquest, but is eventually exposed as an Unwitting Pawn for Thanatos before being killed off by him.
- Elite Four: He has four generals who serve under him.
- The Emperor: Of the Vandole Empire.
- Fake King: Dummied Out content from the game states he was a really a monster impersonating the real Vandole.
- No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine: At one point he invites the heroes and the resistance to his castle to negotiate over a feast, but it's really just a way to lure them into a trap.
- Take Over the World: His end goal is just to use the Mana Fortress to conquer the world.
- The Unfought: Thanatos and Fanha kill him before the heroes can get to him.
Thanatos
Voiced by Joji Nakata (Japanese), Jarred Kjack (English)
Click here for the Mithra Sphere design for his Dark Lich form
Click here for the Last Cloudia design for his Dark Lich form
Thanatos is the real Big Bad of the game. He is the one behind the strange behavior of the people in Pandora, and eventually those in Northtown. He saps their life-energy, leaving them in a zombie-like state, to give himself strength.
He's one of the four generals of The Empire, though he has no real loyalty to it. He is revealed to be the real mastermind of the plot to rise the Mana Fortress, and the real power behind the throne, who manipulates The Emperor and uses him as a smoke-screen and a meat-shield. He is strongly hinted to have corrupted the Empire and to have been the one they sold their souls to. Worse, he is not even human, merely an undead vessel for the Dark Lich.
Once the Mana Fortress has resurfaced, Thanatos kills Emperor Vandole and becomes the main threat, before the Mana Beast gets resurrected. Thanatos' main goal is to obtain a new, all-powerful body for himself to possess, and his eyes are set on Dyluck.
- All-Encompassing Mantle: His Badass Cape covers most of his body and enlarge his frame.
- Badass Cape: Held in place with skull-shoulderpads.
- Badass Longcoat: Wears one as the Dark Lich.
- Badass Longrobe: Fitting the Evil Sorcerer he is. The remake makes it covered with moon and star motifs, foreshadowing his true form.
- Battle Theme Music: His Dark Lich form gets its own unique music, "The Oracle"
. - Big Bad: The biggest evil of the story and the most personal enemy to the heroes. He is the real source of the conflict and the power behind the Empire.
- Body Surf: His demonic soul has done that for centuries, if not millennia, each new body fueling his evil.
- Celestial Body: As the Dark Lich, his spectral body is a starry night-sky filling his Badass Longcoat.
- Climax Boss: Despite being the Big Bad, he is only the second-to-last boss due to his actions awakening the Mana Beast. The battle against him settles the conflict but the world remains in peril until the Final Boss is slain.
- Continuity Nod: Being a powerful Evil Sorcerer in service of an more martial oriented Evil Overlord Who in fact stringed on his boss all along, ending up betraying him and taking center stage recalls Julius from the first game of the series.
- Cool Mask: Wears a horned, skull-like one that hides his face.
- Dark Messiah: What he paints himself as, describing his reason for reviving the Mana Fortress — in the North American release — as to create a 'peaceful' world, by any means necessary. Dyluck exposes him as either a liar or planning to make a peaceful world for Mavolia instead of Fa'Diel.
- Deal with the Devil: How he obtained his powers from Mavolia.
- Dem Bones: The Dark Lich is a skeletal demon.
- Demon of Human Origin: Once a "regular" Evil Sorcerer whose soul became immortal through a Deal with the Devil, now an ethereal, undead demon of Dark Magic powerful enough to hold authority over Mavolia.
- Diabolus ex Nihilo: Not much is known about Thanatos, beyond his desire of getting a new body from Dyluck. When that plan ultimately fails, he has no other choice than to assume his Dark Lich form and fight the party. Thanatos is just plain evil and loves destruction.
- Dragon with an Agenda: Thanatos is noted quite early as working separately from the other Co-Dragons of The Emperor, and having a mysterious goal. He is in fact using the Empire's resources for his own gain and covets immortality and supreme power for him alone.
- Dub Name Change: The German translation names him Tantalus, keeping the mythological villainous reference.
- The first French translation calls the Dark Lich Ténébro (a pun on "ténèbres" meaning darkness). The remake translation calls him Koschei, the name of a lich in Russian folklore, keeping with the mythological theme and his lich aspect.
- Elite Four: One of the four generals of the Empire, and the most dangerous.
- Evil Sorcerer: His whole concept.
- Expy: His Dark Lich form is a reference to Lich the Fiend of Earth. Other World of Mana games reference the other Elemental Fiends Marilith, Tiamat and Kraken.
- The Faceless: We never see the ugly mug he was hiding under that mask of his. Fitting as it was a borrowed one.
- For Doom the Bell Tolls: His main leitmotif Ceremony and boss battle theme Oracle.
- Gender Bender: He gave consideration to possessing the body of Phanna, but she doesn't make the cut.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: Making it look like that his skull-mask's eyes are his own, for additional creepy points.
- Grand Theft Me: Thanatos has done this multiple times before and plans to do this to Dyluck. When Dyluck thwarts his plan with a Heroic Sacrifice to destroy the perfect vessel Thanatos so desperately needs, he reveals his true form and attempts to to kill the party and take over one of their bodies in a last ditch attempt.
- The Heavy: The Emperor is his superior and is plenty powerful himself, but it is Thanatos who drives the plot and causes the most trouble for the heroes and the world at large. Fitting in that he is the reason behind The Empire descent into evil.
- Humanoid Abomination: He looks like a human (albeit creepy), but is in fact a corpse serving as the physical anchor to an extremely powerful wraith-like demon, feeding on destruction.
- Immortality Immorality: Taking someone as a host kills them and he is implied to devour their soul. Worse, they cannot bear his evil might for long and eventually break apart. Thanatos requires a very special individual to be the perfect, permanent host he needs, with implication that Dyluck was fated to become his vessel at birth. And he's in a hurry, as his current body is nearing its limit. Him taking energy from the people of Pandora Kingdom and Northtown was to prolong his body for now, before managing to root out Dyluck and Phanna.
- Life Drinker: Drains life-force wherever he goes. Justified in that he needs it to sustain his crumbling body and empower his future host.
- The Man in Front of the Man: Appears as the Emperor's servant but he only fakes loyalty and is hinted to be the reason why the Empire is a threat.
- Mass Hypnosis: He builds a cultist army wherever he goes, draining people's life-force to make them his zombie-like slaves. It is said that he plans to use them to topple kingdoms opposing The Empire from within, but the heroes thwart him.
- Meaningful Name: 'Thanatos' was the personification of death in Greek mythology. It is also retroactive references to the Thanatos, flying masks of the Dark Echoes, which transforms humans into either Mavoles or Grimslies in Dawn of Mana.
- Mobile Menace: As soon as the party reaches the Mana Tree, Thanatos destroys it.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Thanatos.
- No Ontological Inertia: Placed a seal on Dryad's magic. It disappears once he's defeated.
- Number of the Beast: His Dark Lich form has 6666 HP.
- One-Winged Angel: Turns into his true Dark Lich form when fought.
- Our Demons Are Different: A Demon King and an embodiment of sorts of Dark Magic, mixing aspects of a wraith and a skeleton.
- Our Liches Are Different: A spectral skeleton with a body formed from the night itself. His undead nature seems to be inspired by the Suel Lich from the Greyhawk D&D setting.
- Our Spirits Are Different: The Dark Lich is a demonic wraith. Justified in that it his the manifestation of his evil soul, needing a body to sustain itself.
- Pre-Final Boss: He's fought immediately before the Mana Beast, with no break in-between.
- Prophetic Name: Given his name, and its meaning, he was bound to be bad news.
- Purple Is Powerful: He's an extremely powerful sorcerer and his attire is full of purple.
- Red Right Hand: In the remake, he hides his left hand under his Badass Cape, for it is decayed to the point of being bare bones.
- Riddle for the Ages: Is he originally the Masked Mage Belgar, whose immortal spirit endured after his body's destruction? Linked to the Thanatos Spirits? Or someone else entirely?
- Shoulders of Doom: His huge shoulder pads. Exaggerated in the remake.
- Skeletal Appendage: His aforementioned left hand.
- Skeletons in the Coat Closet: Skull mask and skull-shaped pads.
- The Starscream: Clearly had his own agenda going, despite belonging to the Empire. Eventually he kills Vandole to seize the Mana Fortroess for himself.
- Undeath Always Ends: He spent a lot of time looking for an ideal body, but once that falls through, he's out of luck. And his boss theme makes it clear that he's not happy about it.
- Vader Breath: Begins to wheeze and cough as his body begins to break down.
Fanha
One of the four generals of the Vandole Empire and the lone female among them.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She greatly cares for her fellow generals and was determined to avenge Sheex and Geshtar after their deaths against the heroes.
- Fiery Redhead: Has red hair and is very headstrong.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: After Vandole reveals he doesn't care about the lives of his generals, Fanha joins Thanatos in his coup against the Emperor.
- Scaled Up: For her One-Winged Angel transformation boss fight Fanha becomes Hexas, who is a four-armed Naga.
Geshtar
One of the four generals of the Vandole Empire, and the second most recurring of them.
In contrast to his fellow generals, Geshtar always fights the heroes in Mech Riders that use futuristic weapons rather than selling his soul to Mavolia to receive a One-Winged Angel form.
In contrast to his fellow generals, Geshtar always fights the heroes in Mech Riders that use futuristic weapons rather than selling his soul to Mavolia to receive a One-Winged Angel form.
- Arch-Enemy: His first defeat at the hands of the heroes leaves him itching to get back at them and fight them once more.
- The Brute: Of the four generals. He doesn't have the power of the underworld like they do, but is a powerful fighter in his own right and is the one usually sent out when the Emperor needs to rustle the heroes.
- Came Back Wrong: Done deliberately by Thanatos, who brings him back as an undead cyborg enslaved to his will.
- Car Fu: One of his attacks as Mech Rider is simply ramming into the party. Any character who gets hit by it is temporarily knocked unconscious.
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: After being resurrected by Thanatos, he becomes an undead cyborg.
- Noble Demon: He's probably the least evil of the four generals. While he won't hesitate to carry out atrocities when commanded to by The Emperor, he keeps his part of bargains and generally respects the heroes, even at times acting Affably Evil towards them.
- Recurring Boss: is fought a total of three times throughout the game.
- Taking You with Me: After his second defeat he tries to burn down the castle to take the heroes with him.
Sheex
One of the four generals of the Empire and Emperor Vandole's right-hand man.
- Age Lift: In the original game he was an older man with quite a large beard. In the remake, he's a young boy.
- The Dragon: Is the one stated to be Emperor Vandole's second-in-command.
- Fake King: His plan to topple Tasnica involved him kidnapping and impersonating their Chancellor.
- Minor Major Character: Despite being Emperor Vandole's lead general, he gets the least amount of screen time of the four generals in the game.
- Scaled Up: In his One-Winged Angel transformation boss fight, he reveals his true form and Mavolian powers as Aegagropilon, a rather fearsome watermelon-like Vagina Dentata creature with walking stem-legs covered with spikes.
Mana Beast
The Final Boss of the game, a divine beast that appears to destroy the Mana Fortress in response to the abuse of Mana.
- Adaptational Ugliness: Looks much more reptilian in the remake, unlike its "larger Flammie" appearance in the original.
- Battle Theme Music: As appropriate for the final boss, has its own fight theme, "Meridian Dance".
- Diabolus ex Nihilo: Comes out of nowhere with little foreshadowing to attack the heroes and serve as the Final Boss once the main plot is more or less resolved.
- Gaia's Vengeance: It shows up to wreak havoc in response to Thanatos and The Empire's abuse of Mana.
- Final Boss: Of the game, it's the last opponent the heroes have to face.
- Our Dragons Are Different: Notably looks very much like a larger version of the party's dragon, Flammie. The resemblance is downplayed in the remake (the original design misled some players into thinking that they were fighting a corrupted Flammie.)
- Post-Climax Confrontation: It shows up right after the Big Bad has been defeated and the main plot has been more or less resolved.
