Zerase (ゼラセ, Zerase) is a major character in Suikoden V. Zerase is a supremely powerful magician and bearer of the unique Star Rune.
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| Gender | Female |
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| Voice | Minagawa Junko (S5) |
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Biography
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Zeras is a mysterious magician with intimate knowledge of the three runes of Falena, the Night Rune, as well as the Sindar civilisation. She is also the bearer of the Star Rune, a rune born from the Night Rune, which was stated by Levi to be a unique, one-of-a-kind rune, like the Dawn Rune itself. Leknaat regarded her as a "traveler of the night and bearer of stars" and as someone who could see "the stars that guide people's destinies".
Early Appearances and Warnings
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Zerase first appeared to the Prince, Sialeeds and Lymsleia at the East Palace, where the Dawn Rune had been housed prior to the Lordlake riots. Demanding to know if the rune had been found, Zerase chided the Falenan royal family for its incompetence, much to Lymsleia's anger, before disappearing without a trace.
She would not be seen again until the Prince and his party had fled to Rainwall, following the Queen's Assassination. She was seen in the town, apparently attempting to concentrate on the Dawn Rune's location and later, when the Prince uncovered the Dawn Rune in the Barows' mansion, Zerase appeared once more, remarking that the Prince had better live up to the expectations of the rune, or she would kill him before vanishing once again.
The Twilight Rune and Alenia
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As the Sun Rune War began, the Sindar ruins at Ceras Lake had been uncovered and chosen as the headquarters of the Imperial City Recapture Army, Zerase appeared following the vision shown in the sealed room at the top of the ruins. She would recluctantly accept that the Prince's bearing of the Dawn Rune was no small twist of fate. Stating that she would answer no questions beyond her own name, especially not about the Sindar or the vision that was just viewed (a statement which irked Lorelai and Zweig to great length), she did agree to oversee the Prince's handling of the rune, thus joining the Recapture Army as a powerful magician.
During the siege of Doraat, when it was revealed that Alenia had become the bearer of the Twilight Rune, Zerase angrily accompanied the Prince in order to force its removal from its bearer, whom she considered unworthy. She would caustically lambaste Alenia verbally for her presumption in bearing the Twilight Rune through some "trick", rather than being chosen by the rune itself. After defeating Alenia in battle, she tried to remove the Twilight Rune, which Alenia was rapidly losing control of, after countering its power but failed when Dolph interceded, escaping with Alenia before Zerase could extract the rune. Following the siege, she also had a short conversation with Jeane, whom she seemed to be familiar with. During their brief encounter, Zerase seemed to resign herself to Jeane's part in giving Alenia the Twilight Rune.
Following the siege, Zerase returned to the sealed room atop the Ceras Lake headquarters where, worried by the use of the Twilight Rune, seemed willing to impart some information on the matter before Leknaat appeared. The two seemed to be highly familiar with each other, Zerase sardonically noting that Leknaat was telling her to continue to aid the Prince in her own mysterious way. Leknaat referred to Zerase as a "traveler of the night and bearer of stars", a title she would later reject as being too lofty for someone as lowly as herself. Zerase would summon the Stone Tablet of Promise and, once Leknaat disappeared, returned to her usual reticent silence.
She would assist the Prince during the New Queen's Campaign, fighting alongside Roy with the aim of recovering the Twilight Rune and protecting what she saw as a foolish child from the power of the rune. Although Alenia was once again defeated, Zerase did not get a chance to reclaim the Twilight Rune as the rune had already been removed following the events at Doraat. Following Lyon's fatal injuries, she offered little help, glibly noting that the Prince's Dawn Rune simply wasn't capable of being fully harnessed by the Prince to heal her at that point.
Conflict with Sialeeds
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In the latter stages of the war, hearing of the decimation of Recapture Army scouts attempting to infiltrate Stormfist, Zerase realised that someone else must have equipped the Twilight Rune, someone actually chosen by the rune. This was confirmed when she witnessed the difference in power between its use in Doraat and its use in Stormfist. She accompanied the Prince and his companions in their infiltration of the city. She helped fight against Sialeeds, the new bearer of the rune, but was unable to persuade her to remove it before she escaped.
She later got her one-on-one confrontation with Sialeeds at the Sol-Falena Dam, her Star Rune clashing with Sialeed's Twilight Rune, in order to stop her from destroying the dam. However, her rune was not powerful enough to overcome the mastered Twilight Rune. Exhausted, Zerase remarked that she needed the "Sword of Night" in order to overcome the rune's power. However, Sialeeds was soon defeated by the Prince and his companions and it was Zerase's knowledge of the Dawn and Twilight Runes that allowed the Prince and Sialeeds to cancel out the effects of the Sun Rune, used by the Godwins in a final attempt to destroy the rebel forces.
War's End
Following the final defeat of Marscal Godwin and the Sun Rune Incarnation, Zerase oversaw the return of the Sun Rune to the Sun Palace. As soon as the task was complete, Zerase vanished, her wish to ensure the return of the three runes of Falena successful, and was never seen again.
References
- Genso Suikoden Kiwami Encyclopedia, page 619