Deis (Breath of Fire)
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Deis is a character from the Breath of Fire computer role-playing game series who has appeared in every installment except Dragon Quarter. She is a playable character in BoF I (known as Bleu in the English version) and BoF IV, a hidden character in BoF II, and a master in BoF III. In most games, she is depicted as a blue-haired immortal being with strong magical powers and usually a serpent's tail, resembling a naga.
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[edit] Breath of Fire
Deis (Bleu in the U.S. Version) is a playable character and the strongest mage of the party. Many ages ago she sealed Tyr (the Goddess of Destruction) and then went to sleep. Ryu and his friends awakened her to fight Tyr once again but because of her long inactivity, she forgot how to cast most of her spells. During the course of the game, she tries to remember some of these spells, but most of them end disastrously.
[edit] Breath of Fire II
In Breath of Fire II, Deis is a secret character, and only joins the party if the player intentionally tracks her down. She is a very powerful spellcaster, exceeding even Nina, and has a special ability, Shed, which restores her HP and cures any negative status effects while halving her defense for the remainder of the battle. Her hunt ability nukes the entire field and yields charcoal.
[edit] Breath of Fire III
Deis plays a relatively small role in Breath of Fire III, emerging into the spotlight a little while after Ryu first becomes an adult. She is revealed to have been sealed away by Myria, the Goddess of the world, and her Guardians, most prominently Guardian Gaist. She is revealed in flashbacks to have empathized with the Brood, who faced extermination at the hands of the Guardians for posing a potential threat to Myria. Ryu is forced to kill Gaist in order to free her, and she is greatly weakened by her imprisonment.
When first awakened, Deis appears as a naked, human woman; she soon takes leave of this form when she returns to her home, in Mt. Zublo, and returns to her standard naga shape. Once this is done she unlocks Ryu's 'prana', an inner eye of light that points the way towards Myria, and sets the party off in search of answers. Soon after she can also be accessed as a Master.
Deis' final appearance in Breath of Fire III comes at the very end, revealing that she is in fact Myria's sister. She materializes beside the defeated Myria as Myria Station collapses, suggesting to her sister that their kind, as overseers of the planet, are no longer necessary. Though the game cuts out at this point it can be assumed that they both die in the Station's collapse.
[edit] Breath of Fire IV
Deis plays a major role in the BoF IV plot line. When Nina and Ryu meet Ershin, she instructs the living armor to lead them through the Hex-ridden town of Chamba, and joins the party. She is also able to see and expose mischievous Faeries who shrink Nina to the size of a bug while the party traverse through Wytchwood. At this point she is trapped within the armor, and can't directly communicate with the group. Also, while the armor is called Ershin it doesn't think it has a name; when it appears to refer to itself in the third person, the armor is relaying Deis's words. "Ershin" for the armor is simply an old word for master, a title it gave Deis.
In the town of Chek, Ershin is found eavesdropping on a conversation in one of Ryu's dreams that the Abbess of Chek entered to communicate privately. The Abbess realized that within the armor was an Endless (entities considered gods in this world), apparently trapped. The next day the Abbess transports the party inside Ershin's mind, where they free Deis from a magical prison. She is then transferred from the living armor into a human body.
Later, she begins to explain to the party that she and Ryu are Endless, imperfectly summoned from another dimension by the Fou Empire into the current world. She was trapped in the armor with no way to fully manifest. Ryu was split in two, and the halves were split in space, and time. After the explanation she demands food and drink, gorges herself, and falls into a deep sleep. This forces the party to reenter her mind to wake her.
Inside Deis' mind again, they find her in a lavish temple, surrounded by identical muscular shirtless male servants; apparently they look like her conception of the ideal male. Here she reveals to the party her name is Deis, and that Ershin was what the armor called her. She tells the party to leave so she can wake up, and once out she instructs them to protect her while she heads to the Yorae Shrine, so she can communicate with the Dragons (Endless who are no longer worshiped) to get assistance.
Once there, Deis summons the Dragon spirits, asking that they help Ryu become more powerful so that when he and Fou-Lu inevitably join, Ryu's persona would become dominant. The Dragons agree to assist Ryu in his quest, but state that the party must find their physical forms first. Chek is attacked by the Empire, and the living armor is critically damaged as it tries to defend the village. Since the only way to revive it requires Deis to re-enter the armor and have it absorb her energy, she reluctantly does so to the surprise and joy of the armor, which is given the name Ershin when Deis states she doesn't want to be called that, and notes it was what people called the armor in its lifetime.
Deis continues to assist the party, and when the party meets Fou-Lu she tries with everyone else to convince him to not commit genocide, noting humans aren't all corrupt and evil. In the bad ending when Fou-Lu becomes dominant after merging with Ryu, Ershin/Deis does not attempt to fight the reunited god, and simply defends until they are defeated. In the good ending she decides not to go back to her original universe, and stays to observe the new godless world the Ryu-dominant hybrid creates.
An interesting note, if you talk to Ershin right before the first Golden Plains section of the game, Ershin mentions Deis, whom she shouldn't know about at that point. Either that, or Ershin does know, but Deis wouldn't tell Ershin to call her by that name yet and unintentionally makes a "grammar mistake" on [Ershin]'s part.
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