Freyjadour Falenas

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Freyjadour Falenas, sometimes shortened as Frey is the protagonist in Konami's role playing game Suikoden V. He is the Royal Prince of the Queendom of Falena, and latter on, the leader of the royalist force attempting to reclaim the rule of the country after a coup d'état.

Contents 1 Statistics 2 Biography 3 Weapons 4 Trivia

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• Name: Freyjadour Falenas (according to the novelization)
• Alias: Frey, Prince of Falena, Faroush Falenas (From a Konami Savegame)
• Star of Destiny: Tenkai
• Age: 16 (Approximate)
• Origin: Sol Falena, Queendom of Falena
• Race: Human
• Rune: Dawn Rune
• Family: Arshtat Falenas (Mother, deceased), Ferid Egan (Father, deceased), Lymsleia Falenas (Sister), Sialeeds Falenas (Aunt, deceased), Haswar Falenas (First Cousin, once removed), Skald Egan (Grandfather), Bernadette Egan (Aunt)
• Affiliation: Queendom of Falena
• Previous Affiliations: Prince of Falena's Royalist Army
• Position: Commander of the Queen's Knights
• Previous Positions: Commander-in-Chief of Falena's Royalist Army
• Events Involved in: Sun Rune War

[edit] Biography

Freyjadour is the eldest child of Arshtat Falenas and Ferid. However, as a male, he is unable to inherit the throne to the Queendom.

Freyjadour, since he cannot inherit the throne, performs mainly ceremonial functions. Some nobles respond that princes in Falena are only good for waving to the crowds and marrying off to foreign relations. Freyjadour himself is fairly indifferent to nobles like this.

Because his sister Lymsleia is quite young, Freyjadour goes out on tour to visit places in the queendom, often with his aunt, Lady Sialeeds. Often accompanying Freyjadour is his bodyguard, a Queen's Knight apprentice named Lyon, and Georg Prime, a soldier recruited by Ferid.

Freyjadour went on tour to the desolate town of Lordlake, and was appalled at the sheer devastation that happened there. The area was a dried-up, desolate wasteland that was arid and waterless. After rescuing the child Toma from a pack of Ulse, the boy angrily spits on Freyjadour's offer of help, stating that his family, or rather, his mother the Queen, caused such devastation to Lordlake. The Ulse attack people because there is no other food around due to a lack of water.

When he returns to Sol-Falena, he receives a warm welcome from his father, and goes to see his mother. She welcomes Freyjadour home with open arms, and thanks his entourage. When they move onto the discussion of Lordlake, however, things change. The Queen is initially saddened by the news, but she immediately changes her attitude. The people of Lordlake were loyal subjects, but they rebelled and stole the Dawn Rune. The Queen had to enact judgment on them, and she used the Sun Rune, a powerful relic that caused the devastation Freyjadour had seen. When Freyjadour speaks out that there are innocent people who had nothing to do with the rebellion, the Queen barks angrily at him. But Ferid enters, and the Queen calms down. She dismisses her son and will hear the rest of his report later.

Freyjadour is upset and concerned about what he witnessed, but figures he should find his sister, Lymsleia. He searches around the palace but cannot find her. So he decides to wait with Queen's Knight Kyle in the Queen's Knights barracks, figuring Lymsleia will come there eventually.

There, he witnesses a political dispute between Kyle and Alenia. Alenia is a militant who wants to use the Sun Rune aggressively, an opinion relative of the Godwin faction she supports, while Kyle prefers peaceful accord, like the Barows faction. It gets heated until another knight Zahhak reminds the two they are acting disrespectfully in front of Freyjadour. Ferid enters, and tells the Knights that, although discipline is important, the Knights may speak openly in this room. He also consuels his son into listening to the Queen's Knights; they all have good wisdom to impart.

Lymsleia enters and finds her brother there, and latches onto him, hugging him tightly. The Princess's bodyguard Miakis also enters, and finds the scene adorable. Now that Princess has found her brother, she wants to spend some time with him. Miakis suggests going to the Senate to see the list of candidates for the Sacred Games, a festival to choose the next Commander of the Queen's Knights and Lymsleia's eventual husband.

In town, Freyjadour encounters Salum Barows, and is not too pleased with the foppish lout, nor with his son Euram. After noticing the list, and how both Euram Barows and Gizel Godwin are on the list, Lymsleia reutrns for afternoon studies, while Freyjadour heads into town.

After this, Freyjadour must go to Stormfist to oversee preparation for the Sacred Games. There, he meets Gizel Godwin for the first time, and, although he is pleasant enough, Freyjadour quickly becomes suspicious of the man. After touring the arena, Freyjadour is approached by Shoon, a gladiator. After hearing Freyjadour voice his discontent on the treatment of the gladiators during his tour of Stormfist, Shoon decides that Freyjadour is the one who can help him. There have been strange noises coming from the basement of the arena of late, and someone needs to check it out. After investigating, Freyjadour learns that Euram Barows's gladiator, Zegai, is conspiring with Armes.

Gizel's victory seems almost absolute, and it's clear that Arshtat, Ferid, and Sialeeds are not pleased with this. However, a mysterious swordsman, student of Roundier Haia, the famous instructor from Kanakan, is winning like lightning. His name is Belcoot, and Ferid asks Freyjadour to go investigate him. A foreigner, Belcoot is in danger from patriotic people who want a noble to marry the princess. Freyjadour rescues Belcoot several times, but that doesn't prevent him from losing to Gizel in the final match. Belcoot appeared to have been drugged, although Dr. Murad could find nothing wrong with Belcoot. Gizel is the victor.

As the royal party leaves, Gizel sees off the royal family. Freyjadour notices just how calm and cool his family is, despite how they know Gizel's treacherous actions. He attempts to follow their example.

Freyjadour takes Lymsleia to do her engagement ceremonies, where the two children discuss with Sialeeds about the missing Dawn Rune.

After the ceremony, some time passes. The engagement banquet is coming up, and the royal family, minus Freyjadour and Lymsleia, have been planning what to do with the Godwins. Freyjadour goes to see his mother one night, and the Queen talks to him. The famliy has been planning, and they will not let Lord Godwin have his way with the country. But the Queen does fear that things will become much more difficult for both Freyjadour and Lymsleia. She hugs her son closely, and tells him she's quite proud of him. She tells him he'll probably have to do a lot of difficult things in the future.

Gizel comes to Sol-Falena for the engagement banquet. Freyjadour is angry with the farce of this banquet, but Sialeeds calms him, saying he must act like the Royal Family is ignorant of Gizel's schemes.

When Gizel springs his trap, though, the family is ready. Gizel's troops are amazingly strong, and soon overwhelm the palace, but Freyjadour and Sialeeds fight off some assassins. They meet with Georg who tells them the Queen and Ferid have perished. Saddened, Georg informs Freyjadour that they must flee. But Freyjadour wants to go rescue his sister. He knows they'll use Lymsleia as a puppet Queen and won't stand for it. However, Freyjadour would never make it to her. Freyjadour is with her bodyguard Miakis and Galleon, so she's in good hands. But Freyjadour refuses to listen to reason and is punched out by Lyon or leaves with the crew by choice depending on the selected path.

Freyjadour eventually leads an uprising against the Godwins. Initially housed by the Barows, but Freyjadour leaves them after he discovers that the Barows faction, and not Lordlake, had stolen the Dawn Rune. The Dawn Rune then chooses Freyjadour as a host, and with that, he is granted the power to fight and rescue his sister.

Freyjadour recruits the disenfranchised factions of Falena to lead against the Godwins. Lordlake, Lelcar, Estrise, Sable, Beaver Lodge, and finally, the dwarves. Through the tactical advice of Lucretia Merces, Freyjadour successfully leads campaigns against the Godwins. Sialeeds betrays Freyjadour, however, and uses the counterpart to the Dawn Rune, the Twilight Rune, as well as thwart Freyjadour's attempt to rescue Lymsleia.

But, despite overwhelming odds, Freyjadour succeeds in taking back Falena from the Godwins.

Freyjadour is known to be like both of his parents, possessing the political savvy of his mother and the strength of his father. He is devoted to his family, he dotes on his little sister, and, despite his aunt's treachery, he will not allow Georg to hurt her.

[edit] Weapons

The Prince employs a Sansetsukon or Tri-Nunchaku as his weapon. It is thought to be a Falenan treasure and like all other Suikoden weapons can be upgraded and changes its name every few levels.

• Twilight Nunchaku (Level 1-6)
• Dawn Nunchaku (Level 7-12)
• Sun Nunchaku (Level 13-16)

[edit] Trivia

• Freyjadour and Frey are not his canonical names in the games, but the ones used in the novelizations. It is generally used in fanon in order to disambiguate the character from the other nameless protagonists in the series. Before the novel's release, the prince's assumed name was Faroush, an amalgam between Ferid and Arshtat that was used in a Konami savegame demo.
• Frey has three different outfits over the course of the game and uses a fourth one during one of the endings.
• Frey has long, braided hair throughout the game. In the ending where he is the new Commander of the Queen's Knight, he cut his hair to be shoulder-length.

Preceded by: Lazlo	Tenkai Star	Succeeded by: N/A
Preceded by: Gizel Godwin	Commander of the Queen’s Knights	Succeeded by: N/A