Valkyrie Profile

Jelanda is the princess while Arngrim is a soldier, and one of the most powerful ones at that. The king (Jelanda’s father) presents him with a statue, but he destroys it, making Jelanda angry. So, she dresses up as someone else to get revenge on him. However, she is kidnapped at some point by a sorcerer named Lombert. He ends up having her placed within a box and sent into enemy territory by both Arngrim and Badrach who have no idea what’s in the box. Enemies intercept for an inspection, which reveals Jelanda. Lombert provided a medicine that turned her into a monster. She dies while Arngrim heads after Lombert. Even after Arngrim defeated Lombert and his men, he ends up killing himself to help Valkyrie and Jelanda.

Llewelyn gets drafted into a war, and ends up dying. His girlfriend at the time, Millia, is devastated. Her parents warned her to let the relationship go before it was too late, and even arranging a marriage with someone else for her, but she couldn’t let Llewelyn go. Valkyrie allows him to see Millia one last time for a final goodbye.

Belenus is a nobleman who fell in love with a slave that was auctioned, named Asaka. However, Belenus married a noblewoman who became angry and jealous. She made a pact with Lady Beliza, which ended up killing her. Some time later, a specter appears and Lenneth comes to defeat it, saying that the house is cursed. A vampire summoned by Beliza kills Asaka, and Belenus asks Lenneth to bring her back. However, she cannot, but can perform a soul transfer to bring her back in exchange for his own life. He agrees.

Lawfer is a knight and had a close relationship with Arngrim, seeing him as his mentor. However, his father assumes Arngrim killed Jelanda, but Lawfer refused to believe that. Arngrim’s brother, Roland, was imprisoned for the crimes his brother committed. Lawfer breaks Roland out of prison and is killed (which is not shown).

Yumei is a half-human and half-mermaid girl who can transform into both. She is looking for the Cerulean Lapis, a legendary stone that can grant the wishes of the one who possess it. Her father, Rijun Koh, a famous shogun, is rumored to be dead, but was taken prisoner by the merfolk. He ended up falling in love with a mermaid and they had a child. Yumei and her mother were ostracized by the merfolk, and her mother later died. She later meets a young boy named Fuyuki who believes in the lapis. Yumei’s wish is to be reunited with her parents, but since they are both dead, she gives up hope and heads into the ocean where the Oouzu, a shift in sea currents that causes whirlpools, awaits. Fuyuki tries to stop her, shocked that she was a mermaid, but she goes out to sea anyway. However, her tears form the lapis gem, and Fuyuki wishes for her to be reunited with her parents again. Since both of her parents are dead, she too dies.

Jun is a samurai, who is a twin to his blind sister, Ai. He desires to find a cure, and discovers that the Soul Stone in the dark mirror cavern can provide this. However, an ogre prevents him, saying that either Jun must die, or his sister dies. Jun kills the ogre, but had his body possessed by the ogre. When Lenneth kills the ogre, Jun returns to his human self, and explains that there was no ogre. Rather, Jun’s inner soul is that of an ogre, and he was the cause of Ai’s blindness. When he dies, Ai regains her eyesight.

Kashell is a mercenary from Gerabellum. Both him and Celia, which was in the same mercenary group as him (in addition to other characters: Grey and Aelia), travel to Camille Village where everyone turned to stone. A sword rests against doors to a cave where the demon rests. They go inside and find a little girl who has been petrified in front of a stone tablet. The demon attacks Kashell, killing him, while his last wish is to protect the vial he held that could bring back the little girl. Lenneth comes to recruit Kashell, and saving the vial. Celia takes the vial and brings back the little girl.

Nanami was adopted at a young age, after her adopted parents lost their child, Minayo. She wants to perform the family ritual, but knows that she’s not their birth daughter. Her parents try to stop her, but she goes anyway. The ritual consists of getting the Dragonbane sword within a shrine in a cavern. As she approaches the sword, Minayo’s spirit attacks her. Nanami feels like she is the wrong daughter and instead wishes to sacrifice herself to have Minayo take her place. Lenneth comes in and recruits Nanami while Minayo, in Nanami’s body, takes the Dragonbane back to her parents.

Aelia is a mercenary from Gerabellum (in addition to Kashell and Grey). She found a dragon gem which allowed her to transform into a dragon. She sent out to find Grey who went missing, but was captured by Gandar, a sorcerer from Villnore who seeks the Dragon Orb. He tortured her, but she wouldn’t reveal the location. She ended up dying and Lenneth recruited her, while remembering Gandar’s disgusting ways.

Janus was a skilled warrior who was assigned espionage and assassination missions. However, he was to assassinate a nobleman of a neighboring country, which ended up failing. The king marked Janus as a traitor and is exiled. Years later he returns to check up on the king, which has passed away and been replaced by a new one. Janus steals documents and returns them to the king to prove his loyalty, but they no longer trust him and have him killed. They were conspirators that wanted to kill him earlier, but couldn’t when the previous king was still alive.

Lorenta is a teacher at the Sorcery Academy. She is generally respected by her students, with the exception of Mystina and Lezard. She expelled Lezard due to his interest in forbidden magic, and so he sought revenge on her. On her birthday, Lezard kidnaps her husband and brings him to the top of his tower, giving him a potion that turns him into a beast. Lorenta rushes by his side, but he ends up killing her. Lezard’s true intentions may not have been revenge, but rather to summon Valkyrie from the love the two shared.

Mystina of a sorcerer that was a student of Lorenta. She desires to gain the knowledge of the gods. She is ecstatic that Lorenta was killed, but was surprised it was by Lezard, who was expelled by Lorenta. She goes to his tower (in an astral form) and discovers homunculus he is keeping that resemble little girls. She takes one home and that grabs the attention of Lezard. In exchange for the homunculus, Mystina requires knowledge from Lezard. He explains that his homunculus are half human and half elves, and that elves are the vessels for the gods. He says that gods are static, unless a human element is involved. His desire is to become a god to rival Odin, and make his love, Lenneth, his own. After revealing this information, Mystina becomes a threat to Lezard, so he kills her while she’s astral projecting, freezing her body. Lenneth comes to offer help, which Mystina agrees and wants to get back at Lezard.

Shiho is blind but has a beautiful singing voice. Her voice brought courage to the Hai-Lan army. Many battles were won due to the how she positively influenced the army. However, after an unsuccessful mission, she was confronted by a widow who asked her how many men died because of her. This affected her greatly since she was encouraging people to kill. During the next battle, she stopped singing and the enemy troops started to approach the village. An enemy troop of the Hundred Demons, Suo, confronted her, and started to have sympathy for her since she was blind and wanted to die if she wasn’t a song maiden. Suo took her to his commander to use her as their own song maiden, but the commander killed her swiftly and that she deserves no mercy for the deaths of their troops.

Lucian is one of the most important characters in the game, as he is one of the first shown with his girlfriend at the time, Platina, who died in the Weeping Lily Meadow. Afterwards, he heads to Gerabellum and joins a group of thieves. One of them is Claire, who falls in love with him. However, Lucian cannot stop thinking about Platina. Sometime later, one of his partners steals from a nobleman who captures and kills him. Lucian and Claire escape, however Lucian is struck down and dies. He had to leave Claire as Lenneth recruits him.

It’s important to send Lucian to Asgard by the end of Chapter 6 to get the A ending. Upon doing so is the only time sending an Einherjar up results in a cutscene. Lucian takes Lenneth through the village he lived at with Platina long ago. When in the Weeping Lily Meadow, she takes off her helmet and Lucian is amazed how much Lenneth looks like Platina. She kisses him before sending him to Asgard. Realizing that love among humans and gods is impossible, she wishes to see him again.

Jayle’s real name is Leticia. Both her parents were killed by a sorcerer, Magnus. In order to get revenge on him, she disguised herself as a man. Her commander, Fahn, eventually found out, but said he would keep it a secret since she was more skilled than any of the male knights. The two eventually fell in love. Eventually they confronted Magnus, who made a pact with a demon named Genevieve. She cast a bewitchment spell that caused all the males to pass out. Jayle confronted her, but Lenneth comes in and Genevieve recognizes her from a prior battle. During the conversation, Fahn awakens, but is entranced and kills Jayle.

Badrach was a bad man. He stole and killed many people. Him and Arngrim were both hired to transport cargo which contained the princess Jelanda. Neither were aware of what was inside the box. After Jelanda takes a medicine that turns her into a monster, Badrach flees. Later an assassin attacks him which later leads to his death. When Lenneth approaches him, she mentions Hel of Niflheim is looking for him. He desperately tries to find something that will redeem him, and remembers a time he helped a little girl (who is presumed to be Lucian’s sister) who was sold into slavery. She took a liking to him so he took her to a church to be raised by the townspeople instead of being a slave. This was enough and his soul was spared.

Grey was a mercenary that was wounded in combat. A girl who fell in loved him, Lemia, performed the soul transfer ritual to spare his life in exchange for her’s. However, all his comrades thought he killed her. Sometime later Celia found his whereabouts and confronted him, blaming him for the death of all her friends. He asks for forgiveness and tries to reverse the soul transfer ritual. However, his body vanishes and Lenneth said he can redeem himself by serving the gods.

Lyseria is a sorcerer who is a descendent of Mimir, an ancestor of a Vanir. She lived on Midgard hundreds of years prior to the events of the game. She had such strong powers that she feared them, and decided to seal herself in a giant crystal. Odin requested Lenneth rescue her from the Arkdain Ruins to help with the war.

Suo is a samurai of the Hundred Demons troop. They form an attack on Hai-Lan, eventually wiping out the units. The Hai-Lan army had a song maiden, Shiho, who was blind, but used her voice to help her troops. Realizing the amount of death she is contributing to, she no longer wishes to sing, allowing the Hundred Demons to take over. However, Suo rescues Shiho. However, the commander kills her and is disappointed with Suo. During another attack, Suo backs down from attacking villagers who ended up killing him. Lenneth recruits him, asking why he backed down as his commander said he was too soft. Suo only wanted to protect those who needed help.

Gandar seeks the Dragon Orb so he can rival the gods. After capturing Aelia who possessed the dragon gem, he thought she knew the whereabouts of the orb. He ends up killing her in his attempts of torture, and Lenneth recruited her vowing to not forget Gandar for his vile ways. He heads to the Palace of the Dragon in search of it, but it isn’t there. Lenneth, who was tasked at finding the orb, discovered Gandar at the Palace of the Dragon. Freya intervenes and under Odin’s request to kill Gandar but preserve his soul as he could be a useful asset, despite his malicious nature. However, Gandar is not happy by becoming a servant of the gods, and says that he is not loyal to Lenneth.