Arvid Alces, who goes more commonly by the name Grius, is a temporary playable character in Metaphor: ReFantazio. A member of the Rhoag tribe, he is a master of both martial arts and magic, and even attempted awakening to the Archetypes. He is the father of Maria Alces.
Appearances[]
- Metaphor: ReFantazio: Temporarily playable Character
Profile[]
Prior to the events of the game, Arvid Alces was the prince's tutor in swordplay. He directly attempted to protect the prince on the night of his attack alongside Eiselin Hulkenberg, but had failed. As such, Alces partook in an organization named the Resistance that was formed to conceal the prince in a hiding place and restore his position of power.
Alces is also the father of Maria, and while having had a romantic relationship with an Ishkia in the past as implied by Maria's halfblood heritage, it's implied she died to illness. Eventually, he gets re-married with Fabienne Vulpes. Due to complicated circumstances involving Alces and travel, Fabienne is willing to take over the Hushed Honeybee Inn for him.
Prologue[]
During the beginning of the story, Arvid Alces acts as an operative under the pseudonym Grius, and the protagonist and Gallica have been assigned to relay a confidential message to him. After finding him in the Northern Border Fort, he's told his mission has been changed to directly assassinate Louis Guiabern, which he accepts gladly. Together with Strohl, the quartet begins working in secret, though he was initially wary of Strohl until the ex-lordling awakened to his Archetype, the Warrior.
After returning back to the Royal Capital Grand Trad at the Hushed Honeybee Inn, Grius is re-introduced as Maria's father and the current husband of Fabienne. Grius asks the others to keep Maria company. On the day of the funeral, with Strohl and the protagonist's help, they give him an opening for him to assassinate Louis, but Hythlodaeus V's sudden election magic protects the most popular candidates from being killed by others, chaining Grius in midair, allowing Louis to fatally slash Grius's throat with his sword, spilling Grius's blood on the royal casket. His body would later be taken by the guards that Grius would under Hulkenberg's command to be buried at the Mausoleum.
Unfortunately, any postmortem respect and dignity were stripped from him as Grius's corpse would later be reanimated by the necromancer by the time the party tried cutting through the Mausoleum to get into the Regalith Grand Cathedral and attacked. Hulkenberg would awaken to her Archetype, the Knight, upon hearing that her prince still lives, and the party would do battle with Grius, eventually defeating the risen corpse. Before passing on once more, Grius entrusts both the prince's fate and Maria in their hands. After the protagonist returns to Akademeia afterwards, More will mournfully note that all the Magla spent on Grius for Archetype customization had been returned to the protagonist.
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Trivia[]
- Grius's death is foreshadowed by the fact that of the first three playable characters, he was the only one to not have an innate Archetype and had to have his ability to use Archetypes be unlocked for him in Akademia, as well as the fact he didn't form a Follower Bond with the protagonist.