Faerie (Trials of Mana)

Faerie
Gender	Female
Race	Faerie
Status	Support
Location	Mana Sanctuary
Voice Actor(s)	Maaya Uchida (JP) Stephanie Panisello (English)
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The Faerie is a character that appears in Trials of Mana.

Profile

Physical appearance

True to her name, Faerie is a faerie who has long blonde hair, frosted pink at the tips, and blue eyes. She is shown wearing a short blue dress with white panties or shorts underneath it and is also barefoot. Her hair is in a single ponytail with bluish flower ornaments and her ankles have two golden anklets.

Personality

Faerie is a very kind and gentle faerie with great knowledge of the Tree of Mana. Although typically well-meaning, Faerie has a habit of spacing out or otherwise "missing a beat", which can get her and the party into more than their share of sticky wickets. Still, she is a reliable companion that, more often than not, gives sound advice. She is passionate about her work and the role she plays in maintaining the natural order of things, even if the means to her ends do not necessarily give comfort to her host.

Abilities

As an emissary of the Mana Goddess, Faerie is given the authority to manipulate mana power in the execution of her role. She primarily acts as a guide for her host, providing them her knowledge of the world observed from the Sanctuary. Faerie also acts as ambassador on behalf of her host, and so communicates with the Mana Spirits and other influential figures to muster support for the greater mission of preserving mana power. Acting as a sort of ninth Mana Spirit, Faerie can use various other powers to aid her host and their companions, such as teleportation and the removal of magical barriers.

Story

Arrival

The Faerie is one of several of her kind that lived peacefully in the Sanctuary of Mana until the world's mana began fading. The faeries quickly set out from the Sanctuary to restore the balance with the assistance of the Priest of Light and the chosen hero of Mana. Because of the fading mana, however, only Faerie survived the journey, and she only made it as far as Astoria before collapsing. Fortunately, she was found by the main protagonist who had followed her into the Rabite Forest. Unable to travel any farther on her own, Faerie chose to use the protagonist as a host, which also marked the protagonist as the one destined to wield the Sword of Mana and restore balance to the world. She then urged the protagonist to take her to the Priest of Light in the Holy City Wendel.

Abduction

Once the heroes manage to open a gate to the Mana Sanctuary, the three main villains immediately take the opportunity to go after the Mana Sword. Their forces eliminate each other, however, seemingly leaving the heroes free to obtain the sword for themselves. Once the main protagonist obtains the sword, however, they discover that the Faerie has been abducted by one of the villains; which villain abducts the Faerie depends on who the main protagonist is. Regardless of identity, the villain retreats to their stronghold and demands the Mana Sword in exchange for the Faerie. Having no choice but to comply, the heroes hand over the sword and watch helplessly as the villain releases the eight Benevodons.

Final Battle

In the climactic final confrontation with the master villains, Faerie is seemingly killed, but moments later is found to have merely been swatted away, recovering one last bit of strength to spur the heroes on in their ultimate clash with evil.

It is revealed after the conflict that Faeries are in fact the seeds of the Mana Tree, and that the Chosen played a pivotal role in nurturing the seed. Faerie is promoted as the next Mana Goddess as a result, and is set to enter stasis for 1,000 years as she grows and mana recovers.

Trivia

• Faerie is one of the only two characters of Trials of Mana to have visible feet, the other being Kevin.
  • Faerie is also the only female hero character in Trials of Mana to go barefooted, all other female characters have footwear all the time.

• During the meeting of Flammie for the first time, if Riesz is not in the party, then Faerie will be the one to both know that Flammie is a female and will both give her a name and ask her to take herself and the three heroes to the Sanctuary of Mana.