Part 57: Persons of General Disinterest

Right, so we've got a few named Characters in Secret of Mana that I haven't covered in a Character Profile, and now's a good enough time as any to go over a bunch of them. So with really no ado at all, have some

Persons of General Disinterest

First up is



Jema

In Game

Jema- who looks a lot older in game than in his art, is an old dude who helps the hero out in his quest, giving him pointers and directions... and not much else. A Knight of the Republic, he was in Potos Village to try and claim the Mana Sword for himself when Randi pulled it out instead. His name is a reference to the Gemma Knights of Seiken Densetsu 1. The republic, by the way, is Tasnica, which you may recall as being on screen maybe 10 minutes total.

Next is



Luka

In game

Luka is the Sage of Water. If you note that she's the only Sage of an Element, CONGRATULATIONS, she's really there to be an infodump, not part of a larger scheme of things (though you could say that Granpa and Joch are meant to be sages of wind and shadow, but eh.) Luka here falls into the "Young looking girl but is really super old" trope, but at least Mana's creators have the minor decency to let her look and be of age, as she at least looks eighteen. That's explicit in the text, by the by.



Neko

This asshole is your wandering save point and items vendor. He charges DOUBLE what anyone else does. Never buy armor from him unless he's literally the only way to get that armor. He will be.


Of course, we should cover the friends and family of the heroes, too.

Elder, Eliot and Timothy The old dude raised Randi, the other two grew up with him, and threw him under the bus when he unleashed encroaching doom upon the earth. Like it was a big deal or something. In Japan, Timothy's name is Bob. That is perhaps the most interesting thing about any of them.

Elman is Purim's dad. He doesn't want her dating Dyluck because he wants Purim to marry a nobleman's son. He convinces the King to send Dyluck to fight Elinee to get him out of the way.


Phanna here, not to be confused with Fahna, who the LP has yet to meet, is Purim's best friend. She secretly macked on Dyluck, and was hypnotized by Thanatos for eeeevilll ends... spoooky. But we clonked her on the head and she's all better now. And she works for the resistance.

Dyluck is Purim's boyfriend, a fact which she will not allow you to forget. Similarly taken by Thanatos, he has proved too strong for the necromancer to handle, and caused trouble for him. And yet Thanatos keeps him around. I wonder why.


is the Dwarf Elder, who raised the amnesiatic Popoi for a couple weeks maybe? Still cares for the little guy.

is Popoi's Grandpa, who hangs out at the shrine of Wind. Heals the party's HP/MP for free, so he's cool in my book.

Now for random people we've met and or beaten the crap out of.

Elineee is a witch who made a deal with Thanatos to get magic herbs to make herself younger in exchange for new blood. After you beat her ass she promises to go straight and gives you a whip. She looked kinda old even before her age defying magic faded, honestly.

Moogles live in the great forest, near sprites. Basically the only nod Secret of Mana 2 has to Final Fantasy, like how the Chocobo was FFA's nod. Also a status effect.


King Truffle is a super cool dude. He raised our airship for us! And he resides over non murderous mushroom people. That's cool too.

these fne young men are the Cannon men. they operate the cannon fast travel network before Flammie becomes a thing.

Meria ran the republic's sandship before we happened to it. Gave his grandson too much leeway, but set him straight once he found out what was going on.

Morie was an ass and ran the sandship poorly. That is all.

Sergo Was a pirate who made a distraction so we could move about on the sandship. He's free now, and we might see him later.

This fellow is both every single generic shopkeeper and Amar, King of Kakkara.

Doronjo The Scorpion gang are Secret of Mana's recurring comedy villains. Not quite sympathetic, but never truly evil. Mostly hare brained schemes and silly hammer robots.



This is just a reminder that SANTA FUCKING CLAUS is a character in this game that we had to fight because he used a Mana Seed to try and make the world's best christmas tree and got turned into an ice giant instead.


Mara is a resistance spy, who happens to also be a crazy cat lady on the side.

Krissie and her resistance also help the Hero out against the empire, but so far haven't had a good show of things, getting trapped and captured on their only known outing so far.

This is the generic king sprite, so it gets used for Mammon This fucker sealed Lumina in a tower just so she could make gold for him. Greedy asshole.

Pecard is a lighthouse keeper. That is literally all he is. Maybe he uses his bald head in lieu of a lamp in the lighthouse? I have no idea why he was given a name, but he has one in every language.

Charon is a Chobin that runs a ferry over the sea of stars in the middle of the desert, to and from the temple of Luna, spirit of the moon. That's all he exists for. He's actually a standard Chobin as far as the game is concerned. You can kill him if you try.

Lastly, I guess we can add this fellow to the list...

Sage Joch This asshole sent us all over creation looking for him just to give us ANOTHER errand the second we actually find him, the mumbly talking ancient languaging bastard. I dislike Sage Joch.