Friday, July 14, 2006

Raine Sage
Raine Sage rocks! She is the coolest video game characters since...ever! It could be just because I like the smart, over obsessive characters...


Name: Raine Sage
Japanese Name: ƒŠƒtƒBƒ‹�EƒZƒCƒW (Rifiru Seiji, Refill Sage)
Job: Teacher
Weapon: Staff
Birthplace: Heimdall
Age: 23
Height: 5' 5"
Weight: 108 lbs
Race: Half-Elf

History: Raine, like her brother, is a half-elf, a people who are scorned in Sylvarant and Tethe'alla alike. When her parents abandoned her and Genis in the Otherworldly Gate, she was forced to be not only an older sister, but a mother-figure for Genis. One should note that Raine is 23 years old at the beginning of the game, and Genis is 12; Genis was an infant when he was sent to Sylvarant, as he has no memories of Tethe'alla, and Raine can hardly remember it either. Therefore, one can assume that Raine was only eleven or so when she was abandoned and forced to care for her younger brother. This helps explain her high level of maturity. (It is likely that the Otherworldly Gate does not have a single location where its users are always dropped off; when the party uses it, they arrive outside of Palmacosta. It is desperately unlikely that Raine, an eleven year-old with her infant brother in her arms, would have been able to make it from Palmacosta to Iselia unharmed, or even would have had a reason for shunning Palmacosta in favor of the far-off Iselia. Therefore, the Otherworldly Gate must have deposited the half-elves just outside of Iselia.) Raine, though young, must have remembered the prejudice she suffered from being a half-elf in Tethe'alla, for she told the members of the village that she was a pure-blood elf. Raine and Genis were then accepted into the village.

Later in the game, when the group travels to Exire (the floating city of half-elves), Raine discovers that her mother, Virginia, is actually living there. Lloyd and friends accompany Raine to visit her, but when they arrive, they discover that Virginia is in a greatly disturbed state, and thinks a doll she is cradling is Raine. They realize that Virginia has suffered some sort of amnesia, perhaps from the trauma of abandoning her children, and is permanently stuck in her own past (when the group asks her about Genis, Virginia is surprised that they knew what she would name her second-born if it was a boy). Raine receives Virginia's diary from the elder of Exire, which reveals the reason they were abandoned. Raine's extreme intelligence was apparently evident ever since she was little. The Imperial Research Academy wanted to take Raine, and later Genis as well, to raise and study at the Academy. In order to prevent the Imperial Research Academy from reaching them, Virginia and her husband constantly fled. It was while they were escaping from their pursuers that Raine fell into the cold ocean, causing her hydrophobia. Eventually, Virginia decided to put Raine and Genis through the portal of the Otherworldly Gate, hoping to give them a brighter future in the fabled land of Sylvarant.

Bio: Raine is a cool, calculating thinker. She is somewhat Machiavellian in nature, being untrusting and sometimes coldhearted. However, she is willing to sacrifice herself for her beliefs, if it comes to that. After Zelos betrays the party and kidnaps Colette at the Tower of Salvation, it is Raine who realizes that the party might have to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to achieve Lloyd's goals. She discusses this with Regal in a Z-Skit at the time, saying that they must take the course with the highest odds of success (which is ensuring that Lloyd, with the power of his special Exsphere, survives the trip to the Great Seed Chamber. His Exsphere, with the powers it gained from the Angelus Project, is the only real chance they have at rescuing Colette, she says).

That time comes, and Raine sacrifices herself to save Lloyd. She says that she believes in his ideals, in a world free of discrimination. Even if she dies, she says, her soul will live on in the world Lloyd creates. Lloyd is forced to leave her, but she is saved from the trap by either Kratos or Zelos (depending on whom the player spoke to in Flanoir). Clearly, her goal for trying to regenerate the world is to end the discrimination that she, as a half-elf, has suffered from all her life, the discrimination that drove her to pose as a pure-blood elf.

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