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This is the character list for Ys V: Lost Kefin, Kingdom of Sand. For entries about Adol Christin, Dogi and characters from other installments, see the main page.
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Introduced in the SNES game
Niena
Niena
Niena in the SNES game
Niena in the PS2 remake
Voiced in the PS2 game by: Airi Yoshida
A shopkeeper from Xandria and Stein's adopted daughter. Five years ago, Stein and others found her at the desert of Felte. She does not recall what happened to her before she got lost in the desert.
- Adaptational Hairstyle Change: In the games, her hair is medium length. In the novelization by Waku Oba, it's long enough to reach her back.
- Age Lift: In the original concept, she was only 7 years-old, which would make her even younger than Terra. When she meets Adol in the games proper, she's 18.
- Ascended Extra: In the original concept, she is a minor character whose ability to communicate with mermen helps Adol in one segment. Both the SNES game and PS2 remake give her more substantial roles.
- Distressed Damsel: She is kidnapped by Dorman to be used as a hostage in exchange for the remaining crystals.
- Girl of the Week: She's yet another girl that gains feelings for Adol, only to get left behind as he goes off on yet another adventure.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: She lost her memories when Stein found her two years ago. She only regains them near the end of the game.
- Mysterious Waif: There is more to her than meets the eye.
- The Reveal: In the SNES game, she's actually an alchemist from the city of Kefin who was sent to prevent Rizze and others from breaking the seal. However, the impact upon arriving the outside world caused her to lose her memories. The PS2 remake by Taito takes it a step further by making her a homunculus clone of the Eldeen created by Jabir.
Rizze
Rizze
Rizze in the SNES game
Rizze in the PS2 remake
[Voiced in the PS2 game by: Noriko Fujimoto
A guard-captain and partner of Dorman.
- Adaptational Heroism: In the Waku Oba novelization, she actually opposes Jabir.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the original game, she stays behind on Kefin as it disintegrates. In the PS2 remake, Jabir kills her when she was no longer useful.
- The Man Behind the Man: She is using Dorman to obtain the crystals so the seal on Kefin can be undone.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: She initially appears to be a hardworking captain who wants to keep Xandria safe. Many citizens in Kefin praise her as well..Unfortunately, see Utopia Justifies the Means trope below.
- Tomato in the Mirror: In the PS2 remake of Ys V, she is revealed to be a clone of Kefin's royal retainer.
- The Unfought: In the Super Famicom version, she is not fought despite being a major antagonist. Subverted in the Video Game Remake, where she fights alongside the king of Kefin in a boss battle. With that being said, she can only be knocked out temporarily; the battle only ends when the king is defeated.
- Utopia Justifies the Means: She genuinely believes that using Kefin's alchemy to create a strong country justifies its cost.
Karion
Karion
Karion in the SNES game
Voiced in the PS2 game by: Genji Konno
A fearsome swordsman of few words, he is a servant of Rizze from Kefin.
- The Dragon: He is the head of the three lieutenants under Rizze's command.
- Flash Step: Makes use of this during the boss battle against him. The PS2 remake adds Teleport Spam and Me's a Crowd to the mix.
- Our Homunculi Are Different: The PS2 remake makes him an artificial human created using alchemy.
Baruq
Baruq
Baruq in the SNES game
Voiced in the PS2 game by: Ryouko Tanaka
A sorcerer of small stature, he is a servant of Rizze from Kefin.
- Hostage Situation: He holds Niena hostage when Adol confronts him at the top of the Southern Tower in Kefin.
- Our Homunculi Are Different: The PS2 remake makes him an artificial human created using alchemy.
- Teleport Spam: Does this in the boss battle against him.
Abyss
Abyss
Abyss in the SNES game
Voiced in the PS2 game by: Ryoma Hanagata
A servant of Rizze from Kefin.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: Stein diagonally bisects him when he threatens Adol's life.
- Our Homunculi Are Different: In the PS2 remake, he is an artificial human created using alchemy.
- The Unfought: Gets cut in half by Stein with no boss fight in the SNES game. In the PS2 remake, he dies immediately under Jabir's command after getting cornered by Dios and Nottis in order to prevent any information leak.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Gets the least screen time out of Rizze's three minions.
Dorman
Dorman
Dorman in the SNES game
Dorman in the PS2 remake
Voiced in the PS2 game by: Koichi Kasamura
A wealthy merchant from Xandria who hires Adol to look for the mystical alchemy from the Phantom City of Kefin, claiming that such power can be used to stop the desertification of Xandria.
- One-Winged Angel: He uses his own alchemy to transform into a giant monstrosity for the boss battle.
- Really Royalty Reveal: In the original concept and Taito's remake, he's descended from the royalty of Narum, the kingdom that was destroyed by Kefin 500 years ago. His main motivation for seeking Kefin's alchemy is to rebuild the kingdom of Narum and drive the Romun Empire out of Xandria.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He first appears as such in order to get Adol to look for Kefin's alchemy for him.
- Smug Snake: He's confident in his scheme to use Kefin's alchemy to conquer the world but is ultimately used by Rizze.
- Unwitting Pawn: Rizze uses him to undo the seal on Kefin.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Once Adol obtains all crystals, Dorman tries to do this on him.
Foresta
Foresta
Stoker's fiancée. In order to prevent Kefin's soldiers from taking the light crystal, she sealed herself along with the crystal. Stoker has been watching over her ever since.
- Adapted Out: She doesn't appear in the PS2 game.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Subverted; Adol goes back in time and saves Foresta and Stoker, thereby making her sacrifice unnecessary.
Stoker
Stoker
A spirit from 500 years in the past, Stoker might seem sinister, but there's more to him than it initially seems. He longs deeply for his fiancee, Foresta. He entrusts Adol with the Covenant Bracelet, which binds the two together as Adol seeks answers about what happened to the Kingdom of Kefin.
- Adapted Out: He doesn't appear in the PS2 game.
- Dark Is Not Evil: He appears evil with black robes, but he is a heroic figure who helps Adol in his quest.
Massea
Massea
Massea in the SNES game
Massea in the PS2 remake
Voiced in the PS2 game by: Ryouko Tanaka
A local alchemist who lives in the cabin near the village of Foresta. She helps Adol in his quest by using elemental stones to create alchemy spells for him to use.
- Defector from Decadence: In the original concept and Taito's remake, she is an alchemist from Kefin who rebelled against its oppressive regime and went to the outside world in order to find warriors who could help her.
- Demoted to Extra: In the original concept and Taito's remake, she is an important character who reveals the truth behind Kefin and guides Adol in his quest. In the SNES game, she is an alchemist who plays a little role beyond introducing the alchemy magic to Adol at the beginning.
- Official Couple: Massea and Stein become engaged at the end of the original concept and Taito's remake.
Stein
Stein
Stein in the SNES game
Stein in the PS2 remake
Voiced in the PS2 game by: Go Yamane
Niena's adoptive father and a veteran adventurer who has gone missing while looking for the lost city of Kefin.
- Cool Old Guy: An experienced adventurer who has his own shares of stories to tell.
- Dynamic Entry: Adol first encounters Stein as Stein jumps down to catch one of the villains off-guard and slices the villain in half.
- Rebel Leader: Leads the resistance against Kefin's oppressive regime.
- Official Couple: He proposes to Massea at the end of the original concept and Taito's remake.
- Parental Substitute: He was this to Niena before he disappeared three years ago.
Terra
Terra
Terra in the SNES game
Terra in the PS2 remake
Terra in Ys VI
Voiced in Ys V for PS2 by: Kae Araki
Voiced in Ys VI for PS2 by: Yoko Yamamoto (Japanese), France Perras (English)
Voiced by (Ys SEVEN Drama CD): Shiori Mikami
Voiced in Ys VI Online by: Haruka Takanashi
A scurrilous little scamp from a group of outlaws in the forest, she first tries to scam Adol by pretending she's a maiden in distress. She and her family continuously cause mischief for Adol throughout the game but become allies later on.
- Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: In all her appearances, her top is narrow enough to reveal her belly while her father wears a shirt long enough to extend into his pants.
- Bratty Half-Pint: Starts off deeply distrusting off Adol and only comes around after Adol saves her life.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: A scene in the PS2 version of Ys V shows that she's not pleased with how Adol seems to be acquainted with pretty women like Niena and Massea.
- Heel–Face Turn: She stops being an antagonist towards Adol partway through Ys V.
- Hopeless Suitor: Adol does not seem to recognize that she has developed a huge crush on him.
- Pirate Girl: She went from a thief girl in Ys V to this in Ys VI.
- She Is All Grown Up: Invoked; as Adol leaves Xandria, she promises that she'll grow up to be a fine woman in 5 years. Ys VI, which takes place 3 years later, shows that she's making progress.
Dios and Nottis
Nottis and Dios, respectively, in the SNES game
Dios in the PS2 remake
Nottis in the PS2 remake
Dios voiced in the PS2 game by: Takeshi Maeda
Nottis voiced in the PS2 game by: Aki Kinomoto
Twin brothers who are introduced seemingly harassing Terra, but are soon revealed to be her big brothers performing a scam with her.
- Big Damn Heroes: The duo burst onto the scene twice, once to prevent Baruq from escaping, and once to save Adol from having to fight Abyss.
- Combination Attack: Dios claims that he and Nottis have 8 different techniques they perform in tandem, one of which is called the "Wall Crusher."
- Heel–Face Turn: They start off antagonizing Adol, but start helping him out once Dorman betrays them. By the end of the game, they agree with their mama's decision to end their criminal ways.
Alga
Alga in the SNES game
Alga in the PS2 remake
Voiced in the PS2 game by: Chinomi Takema
A middled-aged woman introduced as a shopkeeper, but is soon revealed to be the mother of Terra, Dios, and Nottis, and the head of the Ibur gang.
- Heel–Face Turn: She and her family team up with Adol after Dorman betrays them. At the end of the game, she decides to have her family leave the criminal life behind them.
- The Leader: As the Matriarch of the Ibur gang, she leads the others in their scamming endeavors.
- Mama Bear: The trigger for her to team up with Adol was Dorman kidnapping her daughter Terra.
Effey
Effey
Effey in the SNES game
Effey in the PS2 remake
Voiced in the PS2 game by: Madoka Tsuzurahara
A caring girl who lives with her father Mujaba in the desert town of Felte. She rescues Adol after he gets shipwrecked in the middle of the game.
- Cleavage Window: One artwork
◊ depicts her wearing a dress that gives a show of her cleavage. - Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Has blonde hair and she is a nice young girl whom Adol meets.
- Love Interest: She was this to Dogi in the original concept. As the SNES game removed Dogi, her role was diminished to simply rescuing Adol at one point, but the PS2 remake by Taito brings this back by adding Dogi.
- Precocious Crush: She's 16 years-old, and the PS2 remake has her completely smitten with Dogi at a point where he should be around 25.
- Smitten Teenage Girl: Anytime she's so much as thinking about Dogi in the PS2 game, she's probably having a blushing and/or giggling fit.
King Kefin
King Kefin
King Kefin in the SNES game
King Kefin in the PS2 remake
Voiced in the PS2 game by: Satoshi Hayami
The monarch of Kefin. In the SNES game, he passed away prior to the events while in Taito's remake and the original concept, he shows up alive.
- Ascended Extra: Was only mentioned in passing in the SNES game. In the original concept and Taito's remake, he is alive to actually antagonize Adol.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the released game, he died before the events. In the PS2 remake, Jabir kills him when he was no longer useful to him.
- Fallen Hero: In the original concept, he was once a just king but the promise of immortality corrupted him, turning him into Jabir's puppet.
- Immortality Immorality: See Would Hurt a Child entry below.
- One-Winged Angel: Turns into an abomination in Taito's remake and the original concept to fight Adol.
- Posthumous Character: In the SNES game, he passed away before the events of the game happened.
- Would Hurt a Child: In Taito's remake and the original concept, he extends his lifespan by draining the lives of the children whose parents are judged unworthy by Kefin.
Jabir (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
Jabir
Jabir in the SNES game
Jabir in the PS2 remake
Voiced in the PS2 game by: Tsuyoshi Aoshi
An alchemist who found the Philosopher's Stone in the jungle of Xandria 500 years ago. With its unimaginable power, he became immortal and took control of Kefin from the shadows. He then sought to conquer the rest of the world but other alchemists, led by Foresta, stopped him by sealing Jabir and the entire city of Kefin in another dimension. Since then, he has been seeking to break the seal while maintaining the power of the Philosopher's Stone through human sacrifices.
- Adaptational Jerkass: In Taito's PS2 remake, he's far less tolerant of failure than he was in the original, as shown with the deaths of Abyss, as well as King Kefin, and Rizze.
- Bad Boss: He has Abyss die to prevent information from leaking and offs Rizze and King Kefin after they lose to Adol in the PS2 remake.
- Big Bad: He serves as the main villain of Kefin, the Lost City of Sand.
- Evil Old Folks: Has an appearance of a crotchety old man and is the source of all woes in this game.
- Flunky Boss: Summons two minions that attack Adol throughout the battle, regenerating them periodically.
- Immortality Immorality: Used human sacrifices to power the Philosopher's Stone so he can live forever.
- Mad Scientist: A mad alchemist who is willing to do anything to satisfy his curiosity.
- Man Behind the Man: The true mastermind behind Kefin's oppressive regime that runs on human sacrifices.
- One-Winged Angel: During the final battle, he fuses with the philosopher's stone, becoming a gigantic abomination. In the PlayStation 2 remake by Taito, he takes on a final form where he is a disembodied head encased in a crystal.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Attempted to conquer the world using the power of the Philosopher's Stone but got sealed by other alchemists. Inverted in the original concept where he chose to seal away Kefin so he may experiment freely without any outside interference.
- You Have Failed Me: He does this to King Kefin and Rizze in the PS2 remake after they lose to Adol in a battle.
Introduced in the PS2 game
Aisha
Aisha
Voiced in the PS2 game by: Rio Kaneoka
A character introduced in the PS2 remake of Ys V by Taito. Not to be confused with Aisha from Ys Seven or Aisha from Ys II Special.
- Canon Foreigner: Only appeared in Taito's remake of Ys V and not the original game.
- The Farmer and the Viper: She brought the knowledge of alchemy and the red emelas to Kefin so Kefin could prosper. Later, Kefin's alchemists forcibly turned her into the core of the Philosopher's Stone.
- Physical God: Just like all other Eldeen in the series.
- Winged Humanoid: She is depicted with white feathery wings as any Eldeen was.
