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Soul Series/Characters/Soul Calibur III


This is a list of characters from the Soul Series that made their debuts in the fourth game of the series, Soulcalibur III.

Zasalamel

Origin - Unable to determine due to his ability to reincarnate

Weapon(s) - Scythe

Voiced By: Hiroshi Tsuchida (Japanese), Keith Silverstein (English)

Zasalamel was originally a member of an ancient tribe: a sect of Algol's cult that guarded Soul Calibur. He was eventually exiled, however, when he went against the cult's strict orders to never use the spirit sword in times of war. Some time afterward, he discovered the secret of immortality, and through the use of arcane magic gained the ability to reincarnate himself. It seemed awesome at the time, but a few centuries of constant resurrection and death took its toll and he fell into depression, losing the joy of living as every death he suffered became more painful over the years. Believing his immortality to be a curse, Zasalamel decided to use the energies of Soul Edge and Soul Calibur so that he could finally die forever.

Zasalamel succeeds in obtaining the two swords in Soulcalibur IV, but during the ritual he witnesses a vision of the modern world. Amazed by humanity's accomplishments, and wanting to see this vision come to pass, he stops the process and the two swords disappear. Zasalamel now seeks to use the swords to gain true immortality instead of reincarnation to make his dream a reality.

His current status is unknown as of V.

Tira

Origin - Bird of Passage Assassins Guild, Europe

Weapon(s) - Ring blade

Voiced By: Masumi Asano (Japanese), Jessica Straus (Soulcalibur IV onward, English)

A young girl who uses a ring blade and looks like she wandered off from the Cirque Du Soleil. Tira is a former assassin who once worked for an organization called the Bird of Passage. When the Evil Seed shone down on the leaders, the group disbanded. Tira had become addicted to killing during her time in the group, however, and couldn't live a normal life. When she heard about Nightmare, she empathized with him because he was a similar being to herself, and she became his servant. She then went after Sophitia's children.

In Soulcalibur IV her mind gets shattered by the meeting of Soul Calibur and Soul Edge and her already bi-polar nature becomes a full Split Personality. She becomes very cunning and manipulative and has most of the cast under her thumb. Unfortunately, Soul Edge is destroyed, and she suffers a mental breakdown, returning to the shadows. She finds solace in her plans for Pyrrha, and upon Soul Edge's return she returns to Nightmare. However, she is not pleased when she finds out that the new Nightmare wants to privately seek control over the world, instead of slaughtering everything. Deciding that this Nightmare is an impostor, she sets out to seek a new host in V.

"I WANT TO SEE YOU DESTROYED! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

Setsuka

Origin - Raised in Japan

Weapon(s) - Shikomi-zue concealed in an oilpaper parasol

Voiced By: Nanaho Katsuragi (Japanese), Kari Wahlgren (Soulcalibur III; English), Tara Platt (Soulcalibur IV; English)

A European-Japanese woman who wields an Iai sword hidden in an umbrella. She seeks Revenge against Mitsurugi for killing her master, the only man she ever loved. In IV she gets self-doubts about her mastery of the sword, and retrains in order to reach Himura-esque speed.

Between IV and V, Mitsurugi's backstory states that she defeated him sometime during the time skip, taking his Shishi-Oh in the process. By the time of SCV, she has left Japan and started a new life in Istanbul under the alias of "Neve," where she taught the ways of the sword to orphans. She also had a hand in training Patroklos.

  • Action Girl
  • All There in the Manual: According to the official site, after the events of Soulcalibur IV, Setsuka understood how mistaken she was to pursue revenge. She took on the name "Neve" and travelled to Istanbul (the capital of Turkey) where she became a self-defence teacher to orphaned children, including Patroklos.
  • Combat Sandals: She wears 6 inch high okobo sandals, even in combat.
  • Distaff Counterpart: In a sense, she could be a considered to a very loose female counterpart to Arthur.
  • Fancy Hair Decorations: Her hair is gathered high on top of her head in an elaborate coiffure and held in place with various combs and ornamental pins in a Geisha/Oiran style.
  • Femme Fatale
  • Geisha: Her design basis, although she is more reminiscent of an Oiran, a type of high-ranking Japanese courtesan distinguished from geisha by their more elaborate kimono and hair decorations, front-tying obi, and higher status.
  • Gorgeous Period Dress: Her player 2 outfit in IV, often dubbed her Mary Poppins outfit by the fanbase.
  • Hidden Weapons
  • High-Class Call Girl: Her look. She's based on an Oiran, as explained above. This is referenced in one of her kicks, "Oiran kick."
  • Iaijutsu Practitioner
  • Ice Queen: Her demeanor.
  • Istanbul: Her current home, as of SCV, following her departure from Japan. The Turkish city is traditionally thought of as the gateway from Asia into Europe (and vice versa). Setsuka's character design personifies this "east-meets-west" quality, in what could possibly have been a deliberate pun. The city is also located within the Ottoman Empire, which enables her meeting and training Patroklos.
  • Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: Especially in SCIII, where she's geisha-ed up to the nines.
  • Kimono Fanservice: Her beautiful kimono, a gift from her dead master, looks as if it would slip off if she so much as sneezed.
  • Lady of War
  • Meaningful Name: Setsuka means snow bloom, which suits her cold personality.
    • Shown Their Work: The name Neve means Snowy in Latin, which is a remarkably appropriate Western counter-part to her previous alias Setsuka.
  • Mentor Ship: Was in love with her master, as mentioned above.
  • Mighty Whitey: She's actually European. She dyed her hair black in the 3rd game but returned it to her natural blonde color in the 4th game. Subverted in that she was shunned from early childhood for her overtly non-Japanese appearance before she was taken in and cared for by her aformentioned master.
  • Parasol of Prettiness/Parasol of Pain: Not only does the umbrella conceal her weapon, but she actually whaps her opponents on the head with just the umbrella in a few moves.
  • Parental Abandonment: Presumably. However, it's not explained in her bio how she came to be an orphan in Japan.
  • Parental Substitute: While training Patroklos in the art of iaido, she was disappointed that the boy was so steadfastly clinging to revenge as a motive and urged Patroklos to not go down the same path she did, causing him to eventually turn his back on her. It is only later that Patroklos realizes that Setsuka was a second mother to him.
  • Revenge: She wants to kill Mitsurugi to avenge her slain master.
  • Revenge Before Reason: Setsuka vows to take revenge upon the man that defeated her master in a duel, which accidentally gave him an infection that killed him. Despite the fact that his dying words were that the swordsman was a good and honorable man, and that she should not hold a grudge against him.
  • Satellite Character: Becomes apparent instantly. Also, see "Stand Alone Episode."
  • Shout-Out: To Lady Snowblood and Kill Bill.
  • Stand Alone Episode: Her story. Unlike the other characters in the series, who are all connected to or effected by Soul Edge or Soul Calibur in some way, Setsuka's storyline has nothing to do with the legendary swords or their power and is purely concerned with her attempting to kill Mitsurugi. She is not accompanied by any other characters in SCIV's Story Mode and this must be completed using her alone.
    • Exemplified in her ending in SCIII, in which she's the only character to completely ignore Soul Edge after beating Abyss.
  • Sword Cane
  • Tall, Blond and Bishoujo
  • The Unfettered: Her single-minded goal is to avenge her slain master, nothing more.
    • Setsuka actually moves past her revenge in both games' endings. In III, she even counsels a woman in a predicament similar to hers and helps her move beyond such petty things as well.
    • The above might not hold true, given what is mentioned in Mitsurugi's V backstory.
      • While training Patroklos, she advised him to not give in to dark desires such as revenge, as she was once consumed by that same drive in the past, implying that she did get over her vengeance after defeating Mitsurugi and saw something of her younger self in Patroklos.

Amy Sorel

Origin - Rouen, French Empire

Weapon(s) - Rapier

Voiced By: Kanako Tateno (Soulcalibur III; Japanese), Hitomi Nabatame (Soulcalibur IV; Japanese), Heather Hogan-Watson (Soulcalibur III onward; English)

Raphael's adopted daughter. She was orphaned at a young age, and had become distant from the world. She saves Raphael from the authorities, and starts to open up her heart again to the world.

In III she becomes a fully playable character, and gets revamped for the Arcade Edition of III, and then gets even more revamped for IV. Bored of waiting for Raphael to return with Soul Calibur, and possibly not too happy with him constantly leaving her, she heads out to search for him. Amy is missing as of the time of V, although it is speculated that unspecified events might've lead her to becoming the woman known as Viola.

Olcadan

Origin - Unknown (An ancient civilization)

Weapon(s) - All weapons

Voiced By: Shigenori Souya (Japanese)

A warrior from an ancient time when the soul swords were in their infancy, who mocked the gods and got in exchange an owl-headed curse. Trapped in a time-still labyrinth for many years, the Evil Seed finally released it in the 16th Century. After getting used to the new era, he sets out to fight the power that released him.

  • Badass Grandpa: Possibly one of the oldest characters in the series (his in-game bio claims that Soul Edge was only "young and weak" in his era).
  • Ditto Fighter
  • Expy: Of Edge Master, who is implied to have fought him to a draw before he was cursed.
  • Put on a Bus: As with most ditto fighters.
  • Worthy Opponent: He fought Edge Master to a draw, and can see Edge Master's influence in Kilik's style. The only person he's considered as approaching worthy since then was Mitsurugi.

Abyss

Origin - Chaos

Weapon(s) - Scythe

Voiced By: Hiroshi Tsuchida (Japanese), Keith Silverstein (English)

Zasalamel's ultimate form after being affected by the energies of the abyss he used for his plans. In Soulcalibur III, supposedly he'd morph into this as an after-effect of the ritual he performed to merge with the energies of both swords. Soulcalibur IV retconned this, and instead Zasalamel cut short the ritual after feeling his body starting to be transformed.

Night Terror

Origin - Chaos

Weapon(s) - Soul Edge - Great Sword

A What If character intended to show Nightmare's ultimate form after he merged both Soul Edge and Soul Calibur with itself. While the character itself never came to be (well, canonically, anyways), his design was the base for Nightmare's SCIV form, possibly to show he's approaching that magnitude of power all by himself. The New Legends Of Project Soul confirms it is canon and THE most powerful entity in the Soul Calibur universe - not even Algol tangles with it.

Revenant

Origin - Unknown

Weapon(s) - Dual wave swords

An assassin once feared, but later mocked as an old man. Revenant having killed a previous incarnation of Zasalamel, Zasalamel made him pay in his next reincarnation. And since death wasn't enough, he controlled his remains to serve him as a servant. In IV he's downgraded into a Cervantes-copy still serving Zas.

  • Dem Bones
  • Disproportionate Retribution: Receiving end, see above.

Greed and Miser

Origin - Japan

Weapon(s) - (Miser) Katana and shuriken, (Greed) Dual kunai

Voiced By: Keiji Hirai (Greed; Japanese), Yuki Makishima (Miser; Japanese)

An old man that looks like a bum and a Japanese-looking girl. Two random assassins and rivals of Yoshimitsu. They get trashed by Mitsurugi in IV.

Valeria, Hualin, and Lynette

Origin - Venice, Republic of Venice (Italy) / Xian, Ming Empire (China) / Kiev, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Ukraine)

Weapon(s) - Grieve edge (Valeria), Extendable staff (Hualin), Tambourines (Lynette)

Voiced By: Yuki Makishima (Valeria; Japanese), Hiromi Konno (Hualin; Japanese), Kanako Tateno (Lynette; Japanese), Heather Hogan-Watson (Lynette; English)

Otherwise referred to as The Shop Girls by the fans. One lost her father to Soul Edge, the second got hired after noting her talents and the third seeks her life's calling... though they are more remembered by their role as the ones attending the in-game store... and their ludicrous amount of jiggling (especially Valeria... oh boy).

Abelia, Luna, Demuth, Aurelia, Chester, Strife, Girardot

Origin - Chronicles of the Sword

From an Alternate Universe known as Chronicles of the Sword. All bosses within said mode, some later reedemed to become units of the player.

KOS-MOS

While not an "official" character and lacking a move-set, KOS-MOS makes a cameo in the character creation mode, where she can be created with the "type-x" parts.

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