Jowy Atreides

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Jowy Atreides (IS 444 - ) is one of the central characters in Konami's roleplaying game, Suikoden II.

[edit] Statistics

Name: Jowy Atreides-Blight
Origin: Kyaro Town, Highland Kingdom (Present Higheast Province of Dunan Republic)
Age: 16 (Suikoden II)
Race: Human
Height: 177 cm / 5'9.5"
Rune: Black Sword Rune (Half of the Rune of Beginning)
Family: Rosa Atriedes (mother), Marcel Atriedes (stepfather), Marco Atriedes (stepbrother), Jillia Blight (wife), Luca Blight (brother-in-law, deceased), Agares Blight (father-in-law, deceased), Sarah Blight (mother-in-law, deceased), Pilika (adopted daughter)
Affiliation: None
Previous Affiliations: Highland Army Unicorn Youth Brigade, Viktor's Mercenaries, Highland Army
Position: Wanderer
Former Positions: Youth Brigade soldier, Mercenary soldier, General, King

[edit] Biography

Jowy Atreides was born in IS 444 into the wealthy Atriedes Clan of Highland. However, there was a distinct lack of love and caring in his family, so Jowy tended to care little for them. He was much closer to two friends from his boyhood: two kids adopted by an old hero named Genkaku. The children were Riou and Nanami. Riou and Jowy were the best of friends and were inseparable. As kids, they did everything together: Kept secrets, harbored a crush for the beautiful Jillia, they defended each other's honor, and more. Eventually, the two boys decided to join the Highland Youth Brigade together.

In IS 460, Jowy and Riou witnessed at Tenzan Pass the massacre of the Youth Brigade by Prince Luca Blight, though it was passed off as an attack by the City-State of Jowston in order to whip the people of Highland into a war frenzy. Both boys were found out by Rowd, the captain of the Youth Brigade, and are ordered to death. Riou and Jowy jump into a river to escape.

Jowy was rescued by child named Pilika and her parents, Marx and Joanna. Jowy rested to recover his strength, but when he heard Riou was held captive by Flik and Viktor, mercenaries of the City-State, he breaks Riou out of jail.

The boys were able to return to Kyaro thanks to the aid of a traveling circus troupe, but they are both caught by Captain Rowd when they go to get Nanami.

The boys were sentenced to death, but before they are sent to the scaffold, Jowy speaks to Jillia, at how Highland betrayed him, and not the other way around.

Flik and Viktor came to the rescue. The trio joined with them and they went back to the City-State.

Jowy decides to introduce Pilika to Riou, and both boys are welcomed with open arms.Pilika informs Jowy that she went to Muse and saw a great gift for her father, and asks Jowy if he could walk to Muse and get it for her if she gave him the money. While Jowy is gone, however, Pilika's hometown of Toto Village is burned and pillaged. Pilika is the only survivor.

Jowy meets Apple, a strategist, and takes her to Viktor, where they decide they need to fight. Viktor gives Jowy and Riou the job to repair Fire Spears, old weapons made by the dwarves. Riou and Jowy find a man named Tsai who can fix them, but during this time, Ryube Village, another small town, is ransacked.

Jowy decides he wants to fight, and he, Riou, and Nanami join Viktor in the battle. But Viktor's plan fails and they must all retreat to the capital of the City-State, Muse.

While going through to Toto Village, Pilika enters a shrine that her father used to take care of. Jowy examines the writing and is taken to a place where he relives his happy days with Riou. Riou is also with him, and the two boys are granted the power of the two pieces of the Rune of Beginning. Jowy receives the Black Sword Rune, which grants him powerful offensive magic.

Once in Muse, Jowy tells Riou he wants to fight for Pilika's sake, and volunteers to spy on Highland. Riou goes with him. Jowy finds out the information, but spots Rowd. They hide in Jillia's tent, where the Princess treats them to tea. However, even with Jillia's plan to stall Rowd, the boys are eventually caught. Jowy uses his Black Sword Rune to stall the Highlanders while Riou goes to escort Nanami from the woods where she is hiding.

Jowy is caught and meets Luca Blight. Although he hates the carnage the evil man causes, he admires the fact that Luca is strong. He accepts an offer to assassinate Lady Annabelle, Mayor of Muse. Jowy is then released back to the Highland camp, and finds out that Riou and Nanami waited outside of the gates of Muse for him.

Jowy watches the Jowston Hill meeting, and is appalled by the fact that the City-State mayors constantly squabble. He doesn't believe the State can manage Highland if it was conquered. After the meeting, Jowy leaves and assassinates Annabelle as ordered. As he does the deed, Riou and Nanami enter, and cannot believe Jowy did this. They are discovered by Jess kneeling at Annabelle's body and Jess accuses them of the assassination. Jowy opens the gates of Muse for the Highland army and flees to Highland.

Jowy is made a general and given prestige by Luca Blight. After the death of Solon Jhee, Jowy is made his replacement, and volunteers to assault Greenhill. Jowy manages this with only 5000 men and Muse's prisoners of war, despite the fact that Greenhill had about double that amount of soldiers. However, he doesn't manage to capture Teresa Wisemail, the mayor of Greenhill and She goes into hiding.

While Jowy is in Greenhill, he comes across Riou and Nanami, now members of the Dunan Army, made up of the City-State officials. Jowy allows Riou to go with Teresa. When asked why he does the things he does, following Highland and Luca Blight, Jowy replies that he must, although he won't allow Luca to have his way with the City-State. Seed and Culgan, two high-ranking generals in the Highland Army, believe that Jowy can lead Highland to a better future then the one Luca Blight is planning, and decide to help him.

Because of Jowy's success in Greenhill, Luca offers him a reward. Jowy says that he wants Jillia as his bride. He later informs Luca that doing this will allow Prince Luca to become King.

Jillia accepts the marriage, and Jowy is sworn in as a member of the Blight family. Jowy adds drops of his blood to wine and gives it to King Agares, a symbolic representation of Jowy adding his lifeblood to Highland. However, Jowy poisoned his blood, so that when Agares drank it, he would die. Luca believes the plan ingenious, since his paranoid father never takes a sip of water without having it tasted first.

With his throne secure, Luca plans to use a True Rune known as the Beast Rune to summon a large wolf-like monster and eradicate the City-State. Jowy has other plans.

Jowy then plots the death of Luca, and with Leon Silverburg, he manages to engineer it. By informing Riou of Luca's movements, it allows Shu, the strategist of the Dunan Army, to plan a counterstrategy and kill Luca.

Because Jillia is now blood heir, Jowy is now King of Highland. However, rather than make peace with Riou, Jowy demands Riou surrender, having Leon create a trap in Muse. He wishes to create a powerful country, born of force and wielding force, and the State cannot do this. However, Riou refuses to back down, and their war continues. He nearly gets Riou to surrender, but Shu anticipates this, and uses Pilika to prevent it. Riou manages to escape.

Jowy manages to capture Matilda, but loses his occupied territories quickly. When Riou takes Greenhill back, Jowy meets him face-to-face. Both men don't want to fight the other, but they have to. For one, the two halves of the Rune of Beginning always fight each other, and two, if either of them backed down, it would betray the faith of the people who believed in them.

During Riou's Matilda campaign, Jowy suspects that Riou is up to something, and hides in the castle, revealing himself to Riou and Nanami. They parley, but are interrupted by Gorudo, who wants to kill both Riou and Jowy and take all the land as his own. However, Nanami deflects the arrows, but is critically injured. In grief, Jowy kills Gorudo with Riou and orders his troops to abandon Matilda.

With Matilda gone, Jowy's forces withdraw from Muse and back into Highland. Jowy bolsters the morale of his army by pretending to sacrifice Jillia to the Beast Rune. But the Highland forces still fall. Seed and Culgan are killed. Jillia and Pilika are sent by Jowy to Harmonia to have a new life, and Jowy himself abandons L'Renouille Palace.

Jowy returns to Tenzan Pass one last time, and Riou meets with him there. This was where their journey began, where the two jumped into the river. Jowy decides that the two of them must fight, and one must kill the other, but Riou won't fight. Jowy doesn't understand, but then he collaspes from exhaustion.

Luca Blight had planned to use the Beast Rune, and, to seal away the power, Jowy used his Black Sword Rune. However, the Black Sword Rune, without its counterpart, harms the wielder. Jowy wants to die for his sins, of murdering Annabelle and the others, but Riou forgives him. Miraculously, Riou's Bright Shield Rune heals Jowy's health. Leknaat explains that since Riou did not bend to the will of the rune and fight Jowy, he is worthy of its power.

The two boys leave together, and are stopped by Shu, who explains that Nanami was not killed in Matilda, that she only pretended it so Riou wouldn't worry about her. The two boys go back to meet her and travel the world together, having unified the land at last.

[edit] Weapon

Jowy uses a staff until he becomes a general, then he uses a sword.

• Star Staff(Level 1-5)
• Heaven Star Staff(Level 6-12)
• Heavenly Star Staff(Level 13-16)

[edit] War Unit Statistics/Skills

• Whilst with Protagonist: 1 ATK, 1 DEF, Critical (Inflicts double damage to an enemy unit, effectively wiping the unit out)
• Within Highland Army: 13 ATK, 11 DEF, Cavalry, Critical (Inflicts double damage to an enemy unit, effectively wiping the unit out)