| Romancing SaGa/Minstrel Song character | |
|---|---|
| シェラハ (Sherah?) | |
| Sprite | |
| Gender | Female |
| Age | N/A |
| Race | God Human |
| Class | N/A |
| Appearances | Romancing SaGa Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song Emperors SaGa Imperial SaGa Romancing SaGa: Re UniverSe |
| Voice Actor | {{{Voice Actor}}} |
| Type | Non-playable character |
Schirach (シェラハ Sherah?), also known as Schiele (シェリル Sheryl?), is a non-playable character from Romancing SaGa and its remake, Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song. She is the second oldest of the three Gods of Evil. It is also hinted that she may be the most powerful of the three.
She is voiced by Junko Minagawa in Japanese and by Melodee Spevack in English for the remake.
Profile[]
Appearance[]
In her most recognisable form, Schirach has absurdly long hair, which is tied into a ponytail, with two more ponytails on the front of her head. This might be a hint torwards her creation. She wears a red cloak ontop of her pure black tunic. She does not have any footwear.
In Minstrel Song, her Schiele form has a noticeably larger red cloak, which is more of a hood or a tunic in that regard, while also sporting a red hat with an emblem, black pants and red shoes; clothing matching one hailing from the Kjaraht region of Mardias.
Personality[]
In her state as Schiele, Schirach is a very melancholic person, due to her losing everyone she knows and loves in some way.
Story[]
Minstrel Song[]
After the battle of the Gods, Schirach and Elore met. Her powers were so great that if left unchecked, she would bring ruin to the world. It is said that her power of darkness rivaled Elore's power of light. Both the Red and Silver Moons were created to weaken her. It was afterwards that Elore and Schirach made a deal; she was given a Fatestone, the Diamond of Light. When her power of darkness met Elore's power of light, they cancelled each other out, thus rendering her harmless. It was then that she was turned into a mortal girl named Schiele. Thus, she traveled the world as Schiele under the watchful eye of Elore.
Schiele has a tragic past, and everyone she meets has an unfortunate death and is tormented by countless accidents that takes the lives of the people closest to her. She is filled with despair as a result of living for such a long time and witnessing the tragedy of humans throughout her time in her mortal state. In the quest to gather the Fatestones, Scorn attacks Schiele while she shares a tale of the passing of someone she held dear with the Heroes. The lead will fight against Scorn to protect her. Win or lose, she will forcibly take the ring off in exchange for the safety of the lead character. This causes her old personality to emerge. Now returned to her old self, the personality she has developed over the millennium she was mortal, fears that Mardias will be engulfed by her darkness. She asks the Heroes to defeat her and put her back to sleep. With her defeat, she returns to being a mortal and falls into a deep slumber.
Gameplay[]
Ultimate Boss[]
In the Wonderswan Color remake, the method to fight her is alot less complicated, as she is sitting in the bar with the option to fight her at any point. While no translation has been located so far, it seems like Schiele offers the option to take off the Diamond ring, doing so resulting in a boss fight.
Video of the Wonderswan Color battle with Schirach
In Romancing SaGa Minstrel Song, Schirach is one of the strongest opponents in the game. Both her CHA and INT stats are 99 and her techniques can inflict status ailments. Hymn of the Night Wind inflicts Phobia, Black Book inflicts Sleep, and Dark Temptation inflicts Charm and can take HP/LP from the Target. She can also inflict instant death with Abyss.
Video of the few cutscenes with Schiele and the battle with Schirach: Part 1, Part 2.
In the Remaster, Schiele is recruitable in future playthroughs provided that Schirach is defeated and is given the Diamond immediately after the fight, otherwise she goes to sleep.
Other appearances[]
Emperors SaGa[]
Schirach and her alter-ego Schiele appeared as obtainable characters.
Imperial SaGa[]
Schirach and her alter-ego Schiele appear as obtainable characters.
Romancing SaGa; Re UniverSe[]
Schirach appears as a boss fight on floor 150 of Spiral Tower.
SaGa Compilation Trading Card Game[]
Schirach appears as an obtainable card.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Schirach never formally appears in the original SFC version of the game. Her portrait and backstory concerning the war with Elore is featured in the game intro and a sprite resembling her official artwork appears in Pubs but she never says anything. It's believed there was supposed to a be a quest involving her. Hacking the game data shows that she was meant to be a recruitable character and she does actually have a battle sprite with spell casting animations. Further evidence comes from Japanese websites that discovered she had the Diamond Fatestone, though her identity as the human incarnation of Schirach was unknown.
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