Captain Cercis Klinger is a character in Metaphor: ReFantazio. He is an army captain and subordinate to Louis Guiabern who enables the count's schemes under his orders.
Appearances[]
- Metaphor: ReFantazio: Minor antagonist
Personality[]
At first glance, Klinger is a callous and coarse man who minces no words. He's also rather boisterous of his abilities in spite of his lack of finesse. In actuality, he is an amoral man who would let countless fresh recruits die to human attacks in order to make his boss Count Louis look good. The first thing he did on screen was to recruit citizens of the Grand Trad before purposefully sacrificing the fresh meat to the humans Count Louis summoned.
Profile[]
Klinger is an army captain serving Louis Guiabern and is complicit in his false flag operations where he would summon humans (likely random civilians he transformed into monsters) into attacking civilian settlements and slay them himself to make him look good in front of the public. The first of these villages is Strohl's hometown, which was targeted and destroyed in one of these attacks and where Captain Klinger left people such as his parents to die.
The protagonist first meets Klinger at the recruitment center at Royal Capital Grand Trad, where the man approved of his inclusion into the army in the most condescending manner possible and where the player might enter their name and decide the protagonist's preferred stat build. He then led the protagonist, Strohl, and dozens of fresh recruits to the Northern Border Fort, which unknown to anyone but Klinger himself and some of his men, were bait for what was presumably a human invasion orchestrated by Louis. This led to most of the new recruits bar the protagonist and Strohl into being massacred by the army of monsters released into the fort.
When the protagonist and Strohl left the fort with their lives and were joined by their designated contact Grius, they soon were under attack by military men by the time they ran into the Nord Mines, where the party fended off both soldiers and saw the brutality inflicted on the innocent, trespassing miners. When the party finally reaches Klinger, he reveals that Northern Border Fort was one of the many false flag human attacks Louis orchestrated to bolster his image, citing that all the blood spilled by humans were all worth the price to convince the populous that Louis is their savior, not the King's Guard. A callous remark, however, made Strohl realize Klinger had been the one to let his hometown be destroyed, with his fury allowing the last son of Halia to awaken to the Warrior Archetype, eventually defeating Klinger in combat with the party. Despite he claims that he sealed off the mines' exits to seal off the party before his fight with the party, the peddler they ran into was still able to go in, revealing that he was only bluffing about sealing the exits.
However, Klinger was still alive and slunk off unseen by Grius and Strohl when the protagonist and Gallica were dragged into Akademeia after forging a bond with Strohl. Sometime afterwards, he was captured by Martira's town guard, who were ordered by Sanctoress Joanna to kidnap random people and feed them to her "child," a Homo Jaluzo. By the time the party were captured by the same forces after falling into a pit trap, Klinger was dragged away to be fed to the human and was last heard being ripped apart by the human. The spiked chair he was restrained to in his final moments can be found by the party as they made their escape, splattered with his blood.
Questionnaire[]
The questionnaire segment with Klinger alters the protagonist's battle stats to fit a build that favors the selected stat. The game does so by transferring two stat points of the opposite stat of the one that was selected to it. The luck-based starter build will instead transfer 1 point from each other stat to the luck stat.
So, what can you bring to our beloved corps? Any skills to speak of?
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Strategy[]
There is not much else one could do at this point, as all the player has on standard playthroughs at this point are Slash or Wind Skills, meaning hitting him for weaknesses is impossible. As the Seeker is weak to Fire Skills, which is Klinger's sole ability to cast, be sure the protag is guarding enough times to prevent him from being knocked out by the relentless barrage and play medic whenever anyone in the party is in need of heals. Be sure to take out Klinger's men, as they cast the igniter version of Rakukaja, and will do it to make Klinger harder to hurt. If the Seeker is ranked high enough prior to the fight, one can answer back by using Tarukaja on Strohl.
Once he reaches low health, Klinger will start sporadically using Mage Flames, the igniter version of Maragi.
Stats[]
- The battle ends immediately once Captain Klinger is defeated, regardless of any other on-screen targets.
| Captain Klinger | |||||||||
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| Type | Level | HP | Turn icons | ||||||
| Person | 5 | 530 | 1 | ||||||
| Affinities | |||||||||
| Slash | Pierce | Strike | Fire | Ice | Elec | Wind | Light | Dark | Almi |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | Weak | --- | --- |
| Normal Drop | Rare Drop | ||||||||
| Captain's Uniform | --- | ||||||||
| Skills | |||||||||
| Mage Fire | Light fire damage to one foe. | ||||||||
| Mage Flames | Light fire damage to all foes. | ||||||||