The unnamed prince is an important character in Metaphor: ReFantazio. He is the son and heir to the throne of King Hythlodaeus V and has close ties to the protagonist.
Appearances[]
- Metaphor: ReFantazio: Supporting Character
- Metaphor: ReFantazio (Manga): Supporting Character
Design[]
The prince is a young man with long, white hair and blue eyes in white royal garb. Although he is a clemar/elda halfblood, he lacks clemar horns and is visually indistinguishable from a pureblood elda.
When he was younger, he had shorter hair and wears a choker around his neck. He wears a tunic with short sleeves and a pair of black pants with simple brown shoes.
After being fused with the protagonist, his hair becomes short like the protagonist's, but his hair is silver-white and both of his eyes are blue like his original counterpart.
Personality[]
As the prince spent most of the events of the game comatose and the protagonist never meets him before his death, little is known about him out of the protagonist's recollections about him (which were mostly fabricated albeit in terms of exact events rather than personality entirely) and words from people close to him. However, he is apparently adventurous, having a lifetime dream to travel across and explore the world. This also applies to the protagonist after he resurrects through him.
Details[]
The prince was born as the illegitimate son of King Hythlodaeus V and the eldan chieftess of a secret elda village within the Principality of Oceana. He grew up in the elda village, but after Sanctifex Forden ordered it to be destroyed out of spite against the king's potential eldan heir, the prince was taken to Royal Capital Grand Trad, leaving behind his Fantasy Novel. While there, the prince was served by several knights, including Grius and Hulkenberg. Twelve years prior to the story, Forden, having his own aspirations for the throne and still out for the half-breed eldan prince's blood, blackmailed Saintess Rella into assassinating the prince. During her attempt, Rella hesitated, causing her to instead cast a slow-acting curse that will not go away until she is dead. Forden then pinned blame on Louis Guiabern as the one responsible for the assassination attempt as well as the curse. The treachery led to Louis being "promoted" to a position where he can no longer directly interfere with the state army, while Forden gets away with everything simply because nobody will believe the sanctifex orchestrated a conspiracy to assassinate the prince and take the throne for himself. This action causes his father to fall into a deep depression, which Forden took advantage of to do whatever he wants to using sanctist teachings as excuses, such as making him declare Sanctism as the state religion and shut down the Mage Academy. For the prince's own protection, he was declared dead three years prior to the game and his now cursed and comatose body was brought back to the elda village.
The prince's very soul, along with his ideals and desire to travel the world, was separated from his physical body by the ghost of his mother, forming their own body from magla drawn from the Fantasy Novel, and becoming the protagonist, who would be given false memories of being the prince's childhood friend and being sent on the mission with Gallica, with her own memories being altered to match.
The group eventually discovers that Rella is the actual culprit behind the curse and her sacrifice releases the prince, allowing him to awaken. However, during Louis' battle with Will at the royal capital eleven days later, Zorba attacks the village under his boss' orders and successfully assassinates him off-screen. The group arrives too late to prevent this, but as the protagonist discovers his true identity, he and the prince merge back into one, with the prince now living on through him. Will initially exhibited the prince's accent upon merging though this later mostly disappeared, and his post-merge personality is mostly Will but with some of the prince's unique traits sometimes subtly flashing through.
Refusing to fuse with the prince under the eldan queen's instructions will automatically cause a game over where the protagonist deserts his journey.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- The sword that the protagonist inherited from the prince was left off from his mother. When the prince got bored, he would levitate it and glide on it. In a similar vein, the protagonist can glide on that sword for moving quickly through towns.
- The original owner of the Farsight Mirror was the prince, which Gallica is entrusted a piece of to see his condition.
- The calendar depicting the prince changes as the story progresses. During the week following Rella's death, the thorns vanish, and after the protagonist fuses with the prince and awakens to the Prince Archetype, it will display him (as the prince) and Gallica sleeping together.