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“Giliath Osborne has fallen! No longer will we be plagued by that detestable man and his foolish ideals! However, his loathsome legacy still lives on, and this great nation has been filled with undesirable pollutants as a result of him and his followers. Our primary task shall be to wash away the filth and restore Erebonia to its rightful, glorious form: a land ruled by nobles.”
— Duke Cayenne, 영웅전설 섬의 궤적 II
Croire de Cayenne (クロワール・ド・カイ工ン公爵), commonly referred to as Duke Cayenne (カイエン公爵), is the head of House Cayenne, one of the Four Great Houses of Erebonia, and the leader of the Noble Alliance. He serves as the main antagonist of Trails of Cold Steel II.
Profile
Introduction
A great nobleman who rules over the Lamare Province, the western part of the Erebonia Empire, and is the head of one of the Four Great Houses. He has vast financial power far surpassing that of other countries in the recent past, and has a taste for luxury that matches that. In 영웅전설 섬의 궤적 he was steadily preparing behind the scenes for the upcoming Civil War, by recruiting Xeno and Leonidas, members of the Zephyr Jaeger Corps, and secretly constructing the giant airship Pantagruel. Starting with the Noble Alliance's operation to occupy the Imperial Capital, he shall move to take control of the entire Empire together with the eldest son of the Albarea family, Rufus Albarea.[1]
Appearance
Croire is a middle-aged man with bright orange hair of medium length and emerald eyes. He wears his hair in an unkempt style and also has a narrow moustache and short beard.
Croire dresses extremely flamboyantly, wearing a long purple long coat which is both trimmed in both and black as well as frilled. he has a frilled cravat, green waistcoat, white gloves and pinstriped trousers with are tucked into knee-length riding boots. Croire has a very pronounced frilled purple cape which he wears around his shoulder where a mass of dark violet feathers can be found. A silver pin with three blue feathers can be seen on his lapel.
Personality
“A man's worth is decided not by himself, but by those he rubs elbows with.”
— Duke Cayenne, Trails of Cold Steel, Chapter 5.
Duke Cayenne is a true aristocrat. He loves extravagance and flashy clothes, but hates the idea of commoners getting into positions of power which is why he hates the Reformists. He also acts condescending towards others.
Cayenne also thinks that people should bow to him because of his noble lineage. He feels that his family has been robbed because of what happened to his ancestor Orthros Reise Arnor during the War of the Lions. His main goal in seeking the Divine Knight Testa-Rossa is to reclaim Erebonia and return it to the days when nobles ruled and commoners lived to serve the nobles.
He is also not a fighter and prefers to make others do the work for him. He carries an immense hatred for Giliath Osborne who he sees as being an obstacle. However his belief, self-centered and conceit nature cause him to be rather short sighted and proven himself not to be very effective and competent leader which would eventually lead to his downfall.
References
Sources
- ↑ 영웅전설 섬의 궤적 II, Official Website Page (EN-JP)
