Riesz

Riesz
Title(s)	Princess of Laurent
Gender	Female
Race	Human
Faction	Laurent
Health	87
Level	1
Status	Protagonist
Location	Laurent, Kingdom of Wind
Voice Actor(s)	JP: Mikako Komatsu (Remake) EN: Brittany Cox (Remake)
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"I am Riesz. It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance."

—3D selection

Riesz (リース, Rīsu) (Lise in the fan translation) is one of the six main characters of Trials of Mana.

Profile

Appearance

Riesz as depicted in the character selection menu

Riesz is a young woman with long blonde hair tied into a low ponytail with a green ribbon and blue eyes. In her default Amazon class, Riesz wears a green dress, fringed at the waist with a low neckline, and a winged coronet with a gem in the center. She also wears green shoulder pads and brown/purplish brown boots and fingerless gloves. Around her wrist is another green ribbon, a memento of her mother. She wields spears and other polearms as her weapons of choice.

Personality

Riesz is soft-spoken, yet stoic and determined to accomplish what she sets her mind to. As a mother figure to her own brother, she is shown to be firm with him as well as highly protective of him. Perhaps because of her royal upbringing, she is exceptionally formal and polite when speaking with others. She prefers to avoid involving others in matters of state or her personal struggles, begrudgingly accepting the aid given to her on multiple occasions.

Story

"Mother... I leave Father and the other fallen to your care. Elliot is my responsibility. I wear my mother's ribbon with pride. May it protect me on my journey."

—Riesz

See also: Riesz's Introduction

Riesz is the princess of the mountainous Laurent, Kingdom of Wind (Rolante in the fan translation), and captain of its Amazon army. After her mother, Minerva, dies while giving birth to her younger brother, Elliot, Riesz vows to take care of him. However, two mysterious ninjas from Nevarl, Bill and Ben, discreetly trick Elliott into turning off Laurent's protective winds and promptly kidnap him. With the winds gone, Nevarl attacks Laurent with a cloud of sleep powder and succeeds in taking the castle. The king and Riesz's father, Joster, is fatally wounded in the struggle. Devastated by the loss of everything she holds dear, Riesz makes her escape and travels to the Holy City Wendel to seek counsel from the Priest of Light.

Riesz shares many story elements with Hawkeye, who escaped from Nevarl prior to the invasion of Laurent. If either of them is chosen as the main hero in Trials of Mana, the main villain will be His Dark Majesty and the final dungeon will be the Dark Castle.

Abilities

Riesz's stats are very well-balanced, making her a handy character in almost any situation. Her Strength, Agility, and Vitality are all above-average. After changing classes, Riesz gains the ability to manipulate the stats of others - her Light classes can raise the heroes' stats and her Dark classes can lower enemies' stats. All four of her final classes learn a summon spell that affects all enemies.

Classes

Below is a list of Riesz's classes. The first class change takes place at Level 18, while the second one takes place at Level 38, with the latter requiring specific items acquired from ??? Seeds.

Her starting class is named "Amazon". The origin of the word comes from ancient Greek, and it means "without one breast" ("a-" = without, "mazos" = breast), because the amazons of the original legend cut off their left breast in order to better use the bow (which has been debunked).

Level	Light		Dark
Lv. 1	Amazon
Lv. 18	Valkyrie		Rune Maiden
Lv. 38	Vanadis (Brisingamen)	Starlancer (Star Lancer) (Evening Star)	Dragon Master (Dragoon Band)	Fenrir Knight (Gleipnir)
Post-Game (remake only)	Meteorite (Kind Sphere)		Brynhildr (Kind Sphere)

Note:

• Class 4 path is dependent upon the path of the Class 2 switch. All Class 3 abilities learnt are retained.

Amazon

Missing description

Valkyrie

Within myth, it is said that there are experiences that can only be explained as spiritual awakenings; an elevated sense of spiritual awareness, calls from the spiritual realm, visions and messages from the heavens, or even summonings and quests through to the other side. Within Fa'Diel, to those who walk the ways of the warrior, even those who go through their lives fighting come to experience these transcendent experiences at one point or another, with many legends and stories telling of prestigious warriors bearing themes of undergoing this allusive phenomena. To one such class of warriors, none could have more prevalent callings than that of the Valkyrie. Taking up the mantle of the divine warriors said to be seen alongside the Mana Goddess and act as Her messengers and guides of the souls of those who have recently passed, the Valkyries of the mortal world act just the same, taking up heavenly vows to uphold the sacred orders of ensuring the stability of Fa'Diel and to enact divine justice wherever there has been wrong, with rightful judgement to correct or even send beyond when circumstances permit. With their elevated experience of becoming closer to the spiritual realm, so have Valkyries attained higher levels of spiritual sensitivity and understanding the power of the soul, allowing them the ability to unlock the inner power and potential within all things.

Vanadis

Missing description

Starlancer (Star Lancer)

Missing description

Rune Maiden

Though to many, tales of warriors and great battles stir in mind heroics and glory, justice and the triumph of good against evil, and the majestic allure of attaining power for the sake of benevolence, so exists a coexisting truth that there is no light without its darkness; the costs that must have been made for that gain, that the horrors of war are worse than can ever be imagined, and to more grim and starker truths, that conflict is but a reoccuring cycle that will never end, that there are many battles that end without reward nor conclusion, that peace brings idle waste, complacent decadence, and vices worse than what can be committed in war, and that evil can too achieve victory. Of shock and abhorrence for the everyday world, such forsaken truths are but just as fair in the eyes of the Rune Maiden. A shadowy and enigmatic order of warriors who have dedicated themselves to a long forgotten god of war, Rune Maidens tread a way of mysticism forged through battle and violence, a warpath fraught with unknown danger and neverending carnage that baptizes them in bloodshed and destruction to understand the darker truths of the world, to attain lofty elucidation of the realm of fighting and the true nature of conflict. So as their vows adhere them to be fated to live to their last breath fighting, Rune Maidens also take a vow to purity and abstinence to become the sacred heralds of their god; a vow alleged to temper their souls and harden their hearts with determination and motivation strong enough to bolster the instinct to survive and the fighting spirit to brutalize opposition and attain victory, and bestows upon them mystical powers to waste away foes to drive forward opposition to their annihilation. But as they walk this path of darkness, their way becomes more narrow and sharper than any edge as temptation runs high, the truths they will face may be more awful and bleak than they can realize to accept, wounds on their soul can become more fatal than those of the flesh, and that journey's end will most likely not give way to salvation.

Dragon Master

Missing description

Fenrir Knight

Yearning for the fated time to raise hell and for all of its wrath to unleash upon all, the Fenrir Knight is said to take on the name of the dreaded evil devil wolf of legend, who is believed to be destined to devour the Mana Goddess upon the end of the world. Devoted to the harbinger of the end of days and to the ultimate battle to end all battles, so have Fenrir Knights thrown themselves into inhumane and barbaric ways to prepare for that war that will never end when chaos reigns, developing a deep thirst for violence and bloodshed, a berserker rage that will never cease, to throw themselves into indulgence and depravity the likes of demons and monsters would even come to fear, and to revere and worship dark powers of old prophesied to reawaken and return for the end of the world believed to aid Fenrir to gain their infernal blessings and allegiance as they share to seek world's end. The Fenrir Knight specializes in not just merciless fearsome combat, but also in the arts of invocation and sorcery; it is said that because of the classes' closeness with the demonic forces of Fenrir and Mavolia, this pact has bestowed the class with enervating spells to make opposition helpless before their presence, and allows them to summon terrifying monsters from the depths of the demonic realm.

Class Strikes

Below is a list of skill attacks Riesz learns across her different classes:

Level	Light		Dark
Lv. 1	Whirlwind Spear (Amazon)
Lv. 18	Lance Surge (Valkyrie)		Aerial Lance (Rune Maiden)
Lv. 38	Light Lance (Vanadis)	Meteor Thrust (Starlancer)	Dragon Rend (Dragon Master)	Raging Fury (Fenrir Knight)
Post-Game (remake only)	Elysium Slash (Meteorite)		Raptor Lance (Brynhildr)

Moves

Riesz is capable of learning several moves, which mainly boost the stats of allies or lower the stats of enemies. Depending on her final class, Riesz will also learn at least one Summon move as well. There are no new moves learned for Class 4.

Below is a table of spells Riesz learns across her different classes. Spells in italics are only available in the 2D version:

Level	Light		Dark
Lv. 1	n/a (Amazon)
Lv. 18	Protection Accelerate2D Mental Boost Strengthen (Valkyirie)		Defenseless Impediment2D Weaken Enfeeble (Rune Maiden)
Lv. 38	Freya (Vanadis)	Protection + Accelerate +2D Mental Boost + Strengthen + Seraph (Starlancer)	Jormungand (Dragon Master)	Defenseless + Impediment +2D Weaken + Enfeeble + Lamian Naga (Fenrir Knight)

• Note: The spells Riesz originally learns after the first class change allows her to only affect one target. These spells will be upgraded to affect one or all targets when she changes class to either the Starlancer or the Fenrir Knight respectively.

Equipment

Weapons

Riesz comes to bear spears as weapons, and of many varieties, including lances. As Riesz progresses in her classes, Valkyrie classes will come to bear spears with heavenly and almighty motifs with purity and finality in their design, while Rune Maiden classes will bear spears with primordial and even chaotic themes, evocative of wild unrestrained power and neverending conflict.

Name	Cost	Location	Class
Bronze Spear	40	Starting Weapon	--
Long Spear	95	Astoria, Wendel, Maia	--
Framea	205	Dwarf Village, Valsena	--
Corseque	258	Beiser, Palo, Jadd	--
Partisan	570	Ghost Ship, Palo	--
Steel Lance	990	Tomato Town	--
Glaive	1450	Alrant, Sirhtan, Diin	--
Silver Lance	3035	Mintos	--
Winged Spear	3300	Mintos	Valkyrie
Mystic Spear	3300	Mintos	Rune Maiden
Plume Lance	3400	Diorre	--
Dark Piercer	3440	Diorre	Valkyrie
Torrento Spear	3415	Diorre	Rune Maiden
Golden Spear	4320	Altena, Deen, Mintos	--
Mythril Spear	4670	Altena, Deen, Mintos	Valkyrie
Brainwrecker	4935	Altena, Deen, Mintos	Rune Maiden
Griffin Lance	7870	Cats	--
Staghorn	8240	Cats	Valkyrie
Wolf's Fang	8400	Cats	Rune Maiden
Maidenleaf	17230	Cats	--
Valkyrie	18480	Cats	Valkyrie
Mideel Spear	18270	Cats	Rune Maiden
Brunak	18670	Pedan	--
Gungnir	34135	Pedan	Valkyrie
Paintooth	34270	Pedan	Rune Maiden
Blaze Piercer	--	Weapon/Armor Seed	Valkyrie/Rune Maiden
True Spear	--	Weapon/Armor Seed	Vanadis
Stargazer	--	Weapon/Armor Seed	Starlancer
Dragon Lance	--	Weapon/Armor Seed	Dragon Master
Giant's Spear	--	Weapon/Armor Seed	Fenrir Knight

Armor

Name	Cost	Location	Class
Pad Leathers	18	Starting Armor	--
Cuir Boulli	60	Wendel, Maia	--
Feather Vest	144	Dwarf Village, Valsena	--
Stud Leathers	215	Beiser, Palo	--
Chain Mail	258	Ghost Ship, Palo	--
Padded Mail	360	Tomato Town, Valsena	--
Scale Mail	738	Alrant, Sirhtan Diin, Mintos, Diorre	--
Mani Plate	1380	Mintos	--
Steda Plate	2560	Diorre	--
White Eagle Plate	2930	Altena, Deen, Mintos	--
Jotzdammoran	3170	Cats	--
Valkyrie Mail	4670	Cats	Valkyrie
Rune Armor	4535	Cats	Rune Maiden
Wing Armor	8240	Pedan	Valkyrie
Fang Armor	8135	Pedan	Rune Maiden
Phantasm Armor	--	Weapon/Armor Seed	Valkyrie/Rune Maiden
Goddess Armor	--	Weapon/Armor Seed	Vanadis
Polaris Armor	--	Weapon/Armor Seed	Starlancer
Dragon Knight's Armor	--	Weapon/Armor Seed	Dragon Master
Wulfhezein	--	Weapon/Armor Seed	Fenrir Knight

Helmets

Name	Cost	Location	Class
Winged Bow	48	Maia	--
Leather Helm	205	Jadd	--
Barbute	930	Diin	--
Viking Helm	1600	Diorre	--
Horncrest	2200	Cats	--
Unicorn Helm	3170	Cats	--
Aurora Helmet	4670	Pedan	--
Pegasus Helmet	--	Weapon/Armor Seed	Valkyrie/Rune Maiden
Vanir Helmet	--	Weapon/Armor Seed	Vanadis
Stardust Helmet	--	Weapon/Armor Seed	Starlancer
Rising Dragon Helmet	--	Weapon/Armor Seed	Dragon Master
Wolf Helmet	--	Weapon/Armor Seed	Fenrir Knight

Accessories

Name	Cost	Location	Class
Vambrace	95	Valsena	--
Steel Bracelet	160	Jad	--
Wind God Bracelet	738	Deen	--
Earth Bracelet	1380	Deen, Mintos	--
Gyralhorne	1900	Cats	Valkyrie
Rune Earrings	2200	Cats	Rune Maiden
Yadorigi Armlet	--	Weapon/Armor Seed	Valkyrie/Rune Maiden
Draupnir	--	Weapon/Armor Seed	Vanadis/Starlancer
Giant's Ring	--	Weapon/Armor Seed	Dragon Master/Fenrir Knight

Other appearances

Circle of Mana

Rank	Image				Classes	Quote
SR					Amazon Rune Maiden Dragon Master Fenrir Knight	「……この風が私を導いてくれるわ。お母様…どうか見守っていてください…。」
UR					Amazon Valkyrie Vanadis Star Lancer	「…やっぱり、モンスターが以前にくらべて多くなってる…それに、風が…風が泣いている…。」
SUR					Amazon Valkyrie Vanadis Star Lancer	「マナの恵みと勇者様への感謝をこめて、今日は私たちがおもてなしさせていただきます。」
SUR					Amazon Rune Maiden Dragon Master Fenrir Knight	「ナバール軍の襲撃により、ローラント王国と父ジョスター王も失ったリースは、連れ去られた弟のエリオット王子を探す為、今、一人旅立つ……。」
SUR					Amazon Valkyrie Vanadis Star Lancer	「手作りチョコを誰にあげたか、ですか！？ わ、私は…」
SUR					Amazon Valkyrie Vanadis Star Lancer	「誰も……見てないよね？あぁ、冷たくて気持ちいい！女の子だもん、たまにはこうしてリラックスするのもいいよね。」
SUR					Amazon Valkyrie Vanadis Star Lancer	「望むところです！アマゾネスの力を見せてやりましょう！」
SSUR					Amazon Valkyrie Vanadis Star Lancer	「きっと活路は開けます。諦めないで！さぁ、風と共に進みましょう！」
SSUR					Amazon Valkyrie Vanadis Star Lancer	「ねぇ、シャルロット？この格好恥ずかしいんだけど……。着替えてもいいかな？」
SSUR					Amazon Valkyrie Vanadis Star Lancer	「きっとそうですよ。間違いないと思います。だって、あのヴァルダさん。アンジェラにそっくりじゃないですか？」
SSUR					Amazon Rune Maiden Dragon Master Fenrir Knight	「星の飾りを返しなさい！もう、あの子達ったら……。どうしていつも面倒を起こしたがるのかしら。」
SSUR					Amazon Valkyrie Vanadis Star Lancer	「大丈夫、風が味方になってくれるわ。一撃で決めてみせる！」
SSUR					Amazon Rune Maiden Dragon Master Fenrir Knight	「お母様…お父様やみんなをよろしくお願いします。私はエリオットを必ず助け出します。」
SSUR					Amazon Valkyrie Vanadis Star Lancer	「私たちは孤独ではありません。ですから――戦えます！」
SSUR					Amazon Rune Maiden Dragon Master Fenrir Knight	「ごめんなさい、お怪我はありませんか？　異世界の勇者様。」
SSUR					Amazon Rune Maiden Dragon Master Fenrir Knight	「ケヴィンのことが心配です。」
SSUR					Amazon Rune Maiden Dragon Master Fenrir Knight	「さぁ、行きましょう！風もあなたを祝福してくれているわ。大丈夫、私たちならきっとやれるはずよ！」
SSUR					Amazon Rune Maiden Dragon Master Fenrir Knight	「この場所で戦っても、無駄死にするだけです。あの男を誘い出し、倒しましょう！」
LGR					Amazon Valkyrie Vanadis Star Lancer	「おめでとうございます。あなたの世界でも、きっと素晴らしい一年になりますよ。」
LGR					Amazon Valkyrie Vanadis Star Lancer	「あのピエロは、人を欺くことが得意な卑劣な奴なんです。」
LGR					Amazon Rune Maiden Dragon Master Fenrir Knight	「やれる所までやらなきゃね。私達ならきっとやれるハズよ。みなさん、行きましょう、これからも！」
LGR					Amazon Valkyrie Vanadis Star Lancer	「この子と一緒なら、相手が空飛ぶ神獣だろうと、決して引けは取りません！」
LGR					Amazon Valkyrie Vanadis Star Lancer	「ど、どう？似合ってるかなぁ？ちょっと！そんなにまじまじ見ないでよっ！」
LGR					Amazon Rune Maiden Dragon Master Fenrir Knight	「勇者様、浮かない顔をされていますがどうかなさったんですか？」
LGR					Amazon Valkyrie Vanadis Star Lancer	「ねぇ、みんな、こっちこっち！見て、夜空があんなに綺麗！」
LGR					Amazon Valkyrie Vanadis Star Lancer	「エリオットを助け出せたのは皆さんのおかげ。今度は私が皆さんを助けます！」
LGR					Amazon Rune Maiden Dragon Master Fenrir Knight	「この風の力を利用すれば、もっと速く動けます！」
LGR					Amazon Rune Maiden Dragon Master Fenrir Knight	「え…と、皆さんのお人形を作ってみました。一生懸命作ったので、気に入ってもらえると…いいな…。」
LGR					Amazon Valkyrie Vanadis Star Lancer	「舞踏は、小さい時に嗜みとして少々。よろしければお相手していただけますか？」
LGR					Amazon Valkyrie Vanadis Star Lancer	「そうですね。面白かったです、宝の地図探し。」
LGR					Amazon Valkyrie Vanadis Star Lancer	「私達が竜帝を倒さなかったら、この世界に明日はありません！」
LGR					Amazon Valkyrie Vanadis Star Lancer	「し・ご・と・で・す・よ、ホークアイ。」
LGR					Amazon Valkyrie Vanadis Star Lancer	「今年も皆さんと楽しい旅が続けられますように。きっと大丈夫です。」
LGR					Amazon Valkyrie Vanadis Star Lancer	「今日は、ぱっくんチョコよりも、私の手作りチョコを食べてくれませんか？その…ちょっとだけでもいいですから！」
SLGR					Amazon Valkyrie Vanadis Star Lancer	「ふふ、ずいぶん長い間、いっしょに旅を続けてきましたね。私にはあっという間のできごとでした。」
SLGR					Amazon Rune Maiden Dragon Master Fenrir Knight	「四季の森では一年中、桜が見れるんですね。素敵です！」
SLGR					Amazon Valkyrie Vanadis Star Lancer	「天国のお父様、お母様。私はエリオットといっしょに、ローラントを昔のような平和な王国に戻してみせます。」
SLGR					Amazon Rune Maiden Dragon Master Fenrir Knight	「…私、こういうドレス着るの二度目…なのです。」
SLGR					Amazon Valkyrie Vanadis Star Lancer	「コンテスト…ですか？」
SLGR					Amazon Valkyrie Vanadis Star Lancer	「風は…もう泣きやみました。ふふ、私も泣いてなんかいられませんね。」

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

Riesz appeared as a summonable unit (vision) during a collaboration event for the Japanese version.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Riesz is a spirit alongside Hawkeye. Their spirits are held by Sheik and a Mii Sword Fighter and the battle takes place in the Great Bay.

Million Arthur Arcana Blood

Riesz appears as a guest character with the wind element.

Trivia

• Riesz and Duran are the only characters with a younger sibling; in Riesz's case, it is Elliot

Nomenclature

Names in Other Regions
Language		Name	Meaning
	Japanese	リース (Rīsu)	Riesz, Reese or Lise
	Chinese
	French	Riesz
	German	Resi
	Korean
	Spanish	Lis

Gallery

Official artwork of Riesz in her Vanadis class.

Official artwork of Riesz in her Fenrir Knight class.

Scene art of Riesz leaving the castle of Laurent in tears.

Chibi art from guidebook

Hawkeye and Riesz in Rise of Mana.

Official artwork from the 2020 remake's cover art.

Render of Riesz in her initial class from the remake

Render of Riesz in her Valkyrie class from the remake

Render of Riesz in her Valkyrie class from the remake

Render of Riesz in her Rune Maiden class from the remake

Render of Riesz in her Rune Maiden class from the remake

Render of Riesz in her Vanadis class from the remake

Render of Riesz in her Starlancer class from the remake

Render of Riesz in her Dragon Master class from the remake

Render of Riesz in her Fenrir Knight class from the remake

Artwork of Riesz from the fighting game Million Arthur: Arcana Blood

Key Artwork for Hawkeye and Riesz's storyline for the remake

Render of Riesz in her Meteorite class from the remake

Render of Riesz in her Brynhildr class from the remake