< Phantasy Star IV

Phantasy Star IV/Characters


Chaz Ashley

Chaz is a 16 year old apprentice hunter serving under Alys in the town of Aiedo on Motavia. The mission to investigate the goings on at the Academy of Motavia is his first. While he begins the story as Alys' sidekick he eventually becomes the main protagonist of the story. While good-hearted and generally idealistic, he has quite a temper.

  • Can't Drop the Hero: The only character who remains in the party from the beginning of the game to the end.
  • Heroes Prefer Swords: He's the only character in the game who can use them, actually.
  • Kid Hero
  • Kleptomaniac Hero: Averted; if you attempt to make him search drawers/cabinets in peoples' homes, he'll remark that it's not very nice to look through peoples' belongings without their permission.
  • Magic Knight: Eventually gets both the most powerful physical attacks and the most powerful offensive magic in the game.
  • Red Oni: To Rune's Blue.
  • Refusal of the Call: On Rykros, he initially flat our refuses to go along with the Great Light's plan in maintaining the seal that is the Algo star system; he reconsiders when he thinks of the people of Algo he'd be fighting to save.

Alys Brangwin

A veteran hunter, Alys is Chaz' mentor and surrogate parent. She's the main character of the early part of the game, but this changes after she is incapacitated by, and later dies due to, an attack from Zio, the first of the game's villains. Brash and supremely confident, Alys is not above threatening people for money and/or information if it makes her job easier.

Hahn Mahlay

A young scholar at the Motavian Academy, Hahn is the one who hires Alys and Chaz to look into the monster infestation in the Academy basement. When it turns out there's more to the situation than meets the eye, he tags along with Alys and Chaz to try to get to the bottom of the mystery.

Rune Walsh

An old friend of Alys', Rune is a snarky, blue-haired wizard who possesses a gift rarely seen in Algo these days - the ability to perform true magic. Initially, he only accompanies the party briefly, but after Alys' incapacitation he joins up for good.

  • Blue Oni: To Chaz' Red.
  • Expy: Of Lutz from Phantasy Star. Justified in that he actually is Lutz, reincarnated.
  • Jerkass: During his first stint in the party, he's quite rude and condescending to Chaz.
  • Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards: Inverted; during his first stint in the party, Rune is of a much higher level than your other party members, and can pretty much nuke any enemies you encounter on his own. When he later rejoins, he's still powerful, but not noticeably moreso than the other characters.
  • Simple Staff: His Weapon of Choice; his physical attacks are so weak, however, that many players choose to forego them entirely in favor of having him dual wield shields instead.
  • Squishy Wizard: The squishiest in the game.
  • You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Gryz

A native Motavian warrior, Gryz joins the party after they journey to the Motavian village of Tonoe in search of a magical antidote, and tags along afterward in hopes of avenging Zio's attempted genocide against the Motavian people. He hits hard, but is rather slow and has no magical abilities.

Rika

Rika is a Numan, a genetically engineered being created in an underground laboratory by the computer Seed. Though she's only a year old, she looks like a young adult woman. She possesses an optimistic, friendly personality, and all the curiosity you'd expect of an intelligent being that's never seen the outside world.

  • Action Girl
  • Artificial Human
  • The Chick
  • Combat Medic: She's possesses some of the best healing magic of any of the characters, and can also kick plenty of butt in physical combat.
  • Cute Monster Girl: Like all numans, she possesses some traits indicating her monstrous heritage, in her case her ears.
  • Expy: Of Nei from Phantasy Star II. Originally, she was actually supposed to be Nei, but this was changed in development.
  • I Choose to Stay: In the ending.
  • Lightning Bruiser: The fastest of all the characters, she hits quite hard to boot.
  • She's Got Legs
  • Skilled but Naive: Despite being among the most powerful characters you can get in your party, she's not very worldly, as you might expect of someone who's spent the only year of her life in an underground laboratory.
  • Wolverine Claws: Dual wielded, of course.
  • Zettai Ryouiki: Perhaps one of the great-grandmothers of this trope: she wears a black leotard (and heavy-class armor), but she wears thigh-high boots that are pretty standard from the front, but from the back, they just barely reach the hemline of her cape.

Demi

Wren

Raja

Kyra Tierney

Seth


Zio

Dark Force

The Profound Darkness

  • Big Bad: Is revealed to be this for the entire series.
  • Eldritch Abomination: Oh, yes.
  • Enemy to All Living Things: Even being in the same vicinity as it is enough to kill off all life.
  • The Man Behind the Man: To Dark Force.
  • One-Winged Angel: Goes through three forms when you fight it; oddly enough it's the last one that's the least monstrous.
  • Retcon: In previous games in the series, Dark Force was portrayed as the ultimate evil in the Algo solar system. While this is true in a sense, PSIV reveals that it is in fact only a representative of the world's true Big Bad.
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