멜키오르

멜키오르 (Melchior, メルキオル) is the second-in-command of Almata who serves as the secondary antagonist of 영웅전설 여의 궤적.

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Appearance

멜키오르 is a young man with red eyes and bright turquoise hair. He often stands and moves with a slumped posture. He wears a white shirt with a blue cross pattern and large hoop zippers, along with gray trousers with several belts. 멜키오르 wears a long sleeveless black shirt over this. He wields a small red knife with a curved shape resembling something between a dagger and a boomerang.

Personality

멜키오르 is devoted his his boss's ambitions and ideology of bringing fear to the republic. He is quite jovial and manipulative whilst also displaying savagery. 멜키오르 holds very little consideration for morals or compassion, willingly manipulating people based upon their insecurities and aiming to hurt people in the most acute way he can. He gets angry when his attempts to play with others' lives are foiled and uses murder as a first resort.

He is skilled in the use of large knives and bombs with different effects, as well as vicious combat techniques that crush his opponent’s body and mind. He seems to be taking on erratic missions, including manipulation, assassination, and sabotage, all in the name of fulfilling the boss’ wish of bringing 'fear' to the Republic.

Background

As a child, 멜키오르 was originally a member of the assassination organization, the Order of the Moonlight Horse. It is speculated in 딩고 브래드's diary that 멜키오르 was trained by fellow Order member, 엘로이 하우드. When 멜키오르 was 7 in S.1194, the Order was destroyed by Ouroboros. Per the whims of Harwood who had migrated to Ouroboros, the other remnants of the Order (including 멜키오르) merged with the remnants of the D∴G cult to form a new organization; the Garden. As one of the top members of Garden, 멜키오르 was the Warden of the Garden of Thorns. Like all of the Garden's Wardens, 멜키오르 wielded Artifacts in combat; in his case, bombs that can be created endlessly, and his dagger.

At sometime prior to the events of Kuro, 멜키오르 joined Almata and acted as the right-hand man of its leader, 제라르 당테스, to whom 멜키오르 swore loyalty. he woudl eventually bring the remaining wardens, Arioch and Olympia into the fold as well.

영웅전설 여의 궤적

멜키오르 first appears in Creil, having recently murdered all of Eisen Schild's forces led by Aida, with help from Arioch and Olympia. He meets Van and the Arkride Solutions Office for the first time, who are actively investigating the disappearance of Aida. 멜키오르 states he is a wanderer going from place to place for personal reasons, and points them in the direction of the Stone pillars as a site of interest. The party consider him strange, but move on. They later encounter 발터 크론 who appears to be hunting 멜키오르. Aida reveals 멜키오르 is a leader of Almata and one of the ones who attacked them. 멜키오르 admits it and identifies himself, as well as the Oct-Genesis he is investigating that somehow brought Aida and the corps back to life as ghouls. He snaps the cords restraining Aida's men so he can watch the fight but flees when Walter arrives and begins to attack him.

멜키오르 makes a brief appearance in Langport, having given Walter the slip and deciding to check on how Viola and Alexandre were doing. He states he is only there to observe but cannot resist trying to kill the party and Maxim Rogan. 일레인 오클레르 keeps him occupied whilst the party moves on. later, melchior gets away and talks with the other overseers, stating how he found the perfect site for the boss to use later- Creil.

He next appears in Tharbad, directly assisting Gerard. He murders Gaspar Dillon for outliving his usefulness and paints a taunting message about the film festival in his blood. After a manhunt for melchior, he next appears at the side of Gerard in the Aljumeriah hotel, having unleashed madness on the city and taken the prince 쉐리드 아스발 and Naje Berca captive. By drugging the pairs' drinks, he forces the party to fight them. After the party defeats Verethragnar, Almata reinforcements arrive by airship, cutting through the windows. Viola 'accidentally' strafes the bullets towards 멜키오르, which he dodges irritably. They escape via the airship.

In Basel, 멜키오르 continues to pester the party, having been manipulating 데이빗 캘러핸 by playing on his insecurities and weaknesses. They use Callaghan to research and develop a reactor weapon. Tracking him down to the Aurora super terminal, 멜키오르 lures 카트르 살리시온 in only to reveal he planted explosives all over it. 리제트 트와이닝 takes the blast, receiving critical injuries and 멜키오르 gets away by hanging onto Ishtanti, Olympia's Doll Artifact. They track him down to where Callaghan, now an AI, is finalising the calculations for the reactor weapon structure. Renne appears to keep him busy after an initial battle. When Callaghan loses and begins to lose integrity, 멜키오르 ignores his pleas for help and cuts him loose and then leaves.

멜키오르 takes a backseat role during the Carnival in Oración, simply acting as a commentator and conveyor of the rules. He sits at the lap of Gerard within the Vashtar Palace Ruins whilst this transpires. A hologram of 멜키오르 greets the participants as they clear each phase of the death game. When a Hercules unit breaches the rules, 멜키오르 personally contacts the teams to scare them but eventually reveals that the Genesis presidingover the rules didn't think it qualified as a violation. He gets visibly irritated when 아니에스 클로델 finds a way to get the children out of the city via Sherid's Haurvatat. Elaine confronts 멜키오르 and makes a deal with him to become the 20th team and enhance the game, in exchange for information regarding their sponsors- in this case her father, Edmond Auclair. 멜키오르 agrees because the information is of no more use to him and he is planning on cutting Edmond loose anyway. He and Arioch teleport in to kill Edmond and depending on Van's choices, may inflict a grievous wound. 멜키오르 blows up the office as he escapes with Arioch. 멜키오르 witnesses the death of Gerard and laments his passing briefly before throwing bombs at his corpse and destroying the palace. he now remains the last member of Almata's leadership still active.

On Revolution Day, 멜키오르 calls Van and summons Genesis Tower using the Seventh Genesis, freezing time, unleashing pandemonium and resurrecting or transporting the members of Almata. 멜키오르 taunts the party as they progress through the city, but isn't confronted until the penultimate floor of the Genesis Tower. 멜키오르 stabs himself to turn into an immortal, gaining markings and becoming The Madness of Avici, Demon 멜키오르 (無間の狂気魔人メルキオル). He loses the fight, but in one last act of defiance, refuses to tell the party who the "C" that sent the warning message to the party of the day's events might be before vanishing into ether.

영웅전설 여의 궤적 II

It is revealed that 로빈 글래스고, a former member of Almata, had been coaxed by 멜키오르 into unknowingly helping deliver the cores that were used in the destruction of Creil. It is also revealed that before his death, 멜키오르 instructed all of the members of his Garden to kill each other; the only two survivors were Ixs and Jolda. Additionally, prior to his death, 멜키오르 acquired the ability to produce mimicry bodies of others based on combat data; he created a clone of Ace as the data indicated he was the best assassin. Following the destruction of the Garden, a certain figure was able to take possession of the body to put his plans into motion.

During the final battle between Van and 그렌델=졸가, Zolga uses its abilities to force Van through recreations of several of his past battles, and one of them is a battle between Gerard and 멜키오르 in their demon forms in the Genesis Tower (though neither of them have any voice lines during this battle).

Gallery

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  Official Render
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  Concept Art of Melchiors Demonic Form
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  Melchior's dagger artifact
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  Melchior's bomb artifacts
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  Promotional screenshot
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Trivia

• 멜키오르 was purportedly one of the Biblical Magi along with Caspar and Balthazar who visited the infant Jesus after he was born.
• 멜키오르's knife bears the inscription "Terror must be the Greatest Love".
• His Demon Form's title, "Madness of Avici", is a reference to the Buddhist hell where the worst sinners are punished (and the only hell in Buddhism which is eternal).
• In a sidequest in Oracion, he seems to go out-of-character by tying Lucio to a bomb that is a fake and playing a quiz game with Van. Van is visibly weirded out by that.

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