Freyjadour Falenas: Personality History write up
Taken from Lila’s stargathering
Note: the choices made in this are based on the path to the “good ending”. Also, due to the length of Suikoden V, I’m going to keep a close eye on the whole of the beginning, and then focusing on major events in the rest of the game.
This is long as heck, ‘cause I can’t quite summarize it all properly.
MASSIVE spoilers, so please, if you dont want the entire game ruined for you, don’t read.
When you start Suikoden V, The “main group” is taking a ship back to Sol Falena after doing an assessment of the state of Lord Lake. Georg Prime aids us as the outsiders guide to the Falenan Queendom.
The group is obviously uneasy about what to tell the queen, and even Sialeeds claims to be afraid of making Arshtat mad. But none of this talk seems hateful in the least.
Their arrival at the dock gives us more insight, courtesy of Georg: he questions the small amount of guards there to greet them, and Sialeeds adds in her two cents: Male royalty aren’t deemed important, because they are not in line for the throne. Sialeeds isn’t either, having given up her right to it.
This is one of many moments in the game we see how this lack of acknowledgement affects Freyjadour: he visibly seems a bit depressed, up until Lyon catches his attention and he smiles for her. Obviously, he hides quite a bit and doesn’t want anyone to worry.
“Ah! Frey! You’re back! Ha Ha!”
Entering the Sun Palace gives us yet another insight: We meet Ferid, who promptly gives Frey a teasing noogie and happily welcomes all of them, before getting down to business. His interesting mix of casual interspersed with formal is pretty apparent. He even questions Georg’s formality, but tells him to keep a bit of prudence in any case. Ferid is an obvious formative figure for Freyjadour, being his father and a man he looks up to.
“Ah, I’ve been waiting for you! Don’t be shy, come closer. Let me get a good look at you!”
Then we meet the Queen: Arshtat is a beautiful woman, and obviously a loving mother. She is eager to see her son after so long away. It makes you wonder why they’d fear making her angry.
We find out in the form of a flashback: Queen Arshtat, apparently, doomed the entire town of Lord Lake to a slow death, after using the Sun Rune to completely dry up the lake and land around it. The people lack water, and are slowly dieing. The reason? They supposedly stole the Dawn Rune, a treasure of Falena.
“Grampa said you were coming, but I didn’t think you had the guts!”
During their inspection, you can see obvious pity shown in the entire group. You can also see Frey pretty much taking the people’s scorn for his mother’s actions in silence. After hearing a child was lost in the forest, a place filled with animals that have gone mad from lack of water, the group rushes to find him.
They do find Toma, and in the process we see another obvious trait of Frey’s: He is rash, and runs to aid Toma, now surrounded by Ulse, without consulting anyone. This prompts Sialeeds to remark on his actions as a common occurrence.
“My path is the path of righteousness! My will is the will of heaven! To defy me is to defy the sun!”
After the lengthy flashback, we get to see exactly why the group was uncomfortable.
After all this, the group splits up to rest or take care of their own business. Frey’s goal? Find Lym, rest can wait. You have to go all over the Sun Palace to find her, and in the process hear exactly how close the siblings are from numerous people. We also get the hintings that Arshtat is going mad due to the Sun Rune.
“And, hey, all that stuff they said-- Don’t worry about it. Courts filled with those kind of losers.”
Along the search for Lym, we get an insight as to how the nobility view Freyjadour: They badmouth him, Call him “spare baggage“, and ridicule Arshtat’s decision for involving him in politics. They go so far as to say he would be better off dead, which is when Kyle comes in and smoothly shuts their mouths with the idea of treason.
“True loyalty means being able to speak openly about what you think is right and what you think is wrong.”
Entering the guard room, we see the severe division of the knights on their support for the senate. We also seem them bickering and then an upset about the voicing of opinions in front of royalty being treason. But we also see Ferid cutting in, and asking them to continue, as he believes everyone should be able to speak openly about their opinions, at least behind closed doors. Frey also carries such a personality trait, and we often see a “equal voice” theme in game, for good or bad.
“Hey! Has anyone seen my brother in here?!”
Then, we find Lym. This is adorable, no questions asked. She pretty much tackles him in glee, and Freyjadour doesn’t seem to mind at all. We also get to see Miakis for the first time, and if you choose the right option, get the first taste of her own unique brand of teasing.
Throughout the game, Lym can be viewed as a bit spoiled. For the good ending, you actually have to spoil her further, so Freyjadour is more then likely a doormat for his baby sister.
After this, we get the bright idea of…. checking out the people lined up for the chance to marry the baby sis. WTF. Way to go Suikoden, for rubbing the salt in the wounds. Some of the options at this point can vary between mean and overprotective, and for the good ending, I went with the overprotective.
We also get our first glimpse of Lym’s idea on this: none of it seems real, to her. This is a point not really addressed, but worrying nonetheless. She’s 10, and emotionally not ready for any of this. Which means Frey is probably pissed beyond belief by the coming events.
Later, we get the job to escort Lym to the east palace and Lunas. We get a few new insights: The group is close, very close. Miakis is something of a big sister figure, teasing and generally friendly with everyone. That, along with everything else in game, seems to identify the more open members of the Knights (Lyon, Miakis, Georg, and even Kyle) as a kind of pseudo family. We also get to see that, for a teen boy, he has some damn good manners with the ritual bath scene.
You also get the option of first suggesting having mercy on Logg and Lun, once again showing the merciful thing. And just plain smarts because as Sialeeds said, punishing them could have ramifications.
StormFist is an exercise in keeping your mouth shut. Gizel comes off as a polite asshole. He never insults you, but talking about Lym’s marriage as casually as he did in front of her big brother, of all people, is like a kick in the teeth. There is an obvious distaste for the entire situation in this point of the game, from Frey and everyone else in the main group.(Maybe a little awkward WTF as well, since this guy was supposed to marry Sialeeds and is now planning to marry her niece. So that would mean a once potential uncle might become a brother in law, for Frey. Squicky, anyone?)
We also see Frey shares his parents views on the treatment of gladiators: he hates the idea of treating people as objects, and is quite clear that he will not put up with them letting a injured man untreated.
And then we have the Sacred games.
The sacred games provide several insights:
1. Frey does not agree with the Godwin’s racist views on Dwarves and beavers. You can also attempt to order the guards to let Dongo in (which helps his recruitment, I think.) but this is obviously not a good idea, because Sialeeds stops you: the guards in town might just kill the dwarf. Once again, we see a bit of naivety on how the world works.
2. Frey does enjoy the occasional joke, as he has the option of going along with some of Miakis’ teasing of Lym. (Even if it’s vaguely creepy.)
3. The Godwin’s ring alarm bells for everyone, Frey included.
It’s commented by Lord Godwin that the look of the prince changed over the course of the sacred games. It’s fairly obvious he’s recognized an enemy in Gizel, and Gizel should watch out for him. When it comes to the important stuff, Frey is quite capable of being suspicious.
Back home in Sol-Falena, the entire family seems aware the Godwin’s are plotting something, including Frey. The engagement party is tense and filled with suppressed feelings, and one of the options given allows Frey to literally tell his aunt “to hell with this farce!” and he and Lyon will be all ready to crash the party until Sialeeds scolds them. It's fairly obvious he's trying not to blow a gasket, as this is one of the few points in game he would use such language.
Then evening falls.
During the attack, we see how hard it hit’s the group and Frey to hear of Arshtat and Ferid’s deaths. When Frey hears his parents are dead and they want him to leave without Lym, too, Frey promptly… well…
Scene in question
He puts up a massive struggle, only ended by Lyon, of all people, punching him in the gut so hard he passes out. If she hadn’t done it, it’s highly likely he would have run off and gotten himself, or someone else killed.
After that, they flee to the East Palace and then Lunas, and we enter the “formative” part of the game.
Note: the choices made in this are based on the path to the “good ending”. Also, due to the length of Suikoden V, I’m going to keep a close eye on the whole of the beginning, and then focusing on major events in the rest of the game.
This is long as heck, ‘cause I can’t quite summarize it all properly.
MASSIVE spoilers, so please, if you dont want the entire game ruined for you, don’t read.
When you start Suikoden V, The “main group” is taking a ship back to Sol Falena after doing an assessment of the state of Lord Lake. Georg Prime aids us as the outsiders guide to the Falenan Queendom.
The group is obviously uneasy about what to tell the queen, and even Sialeeds claims to be afraid of making Arshtat mad. But none of this talk seems hateful in the least.
Their arrival at the dock gives us more insight, courtesy of Georg: he questions the small amount of guards there to greet them, and Sialeeds adds in her two cents: Male royalty aren’t deemed important, because they are not in line for the throne. Sialeeds isn’t either, having given up her right to it.
This is one of many moments in the game we see how this lack of acknowledgement affects Freyjadour: he visibly seems a bit depressed, up until Lyon catches his attention and he smiles for her. Obviously, he hides quite a bit and doesn’t want anyone to worry.
“Ah! Frey! You’re back! Ha Ha!”
Entering the Sun Palace gives us yet another insight: We meet Ferid, who promptly gives Frey a teasing noogie and happily welcomes all of them, before getting down to business. His interesting mix of casual interspersed with formal is pretty apparent. He even questions Georg’s formality, but tells him to keep a bit of prudence in any case. Ferid is an obvious formative figure for Freyjadour, being his father and a man he looks up to.
“Ah, I’ve been waiting for you! Don’t be shy, come closer. Let me get a good look at you!”
Then we meet the Queen: Arshtat is a beautiful woman, and obviously a loving mother. She is eager to see her son after so long away. It makes you wonder why they’d fear making her angry.
We find out in the form of a flashback: Queen Arshtat, apparently, doomed the entire town of Lord Lake to a slow death, after using the Sun Rune to completely dry up the lake and land around it. The people lack water, and are slowly dieing. The reason? They supposedly stole the Dawn Rune, a treasure of Falena.
“Grampa said you were coming, but I didn’t think you had the guts!”
During their inspection, you can see obvious pity shown in the entire group. You can also see Frey pretty much taking the people’s scorn for his mother’s actions in silence. After hearing a child was lost in the forest, a place filled with animals that have gone mad from lack of water, the group rushes to find him.
They do find Toma, and in the process we see another obvious trait of Frey’s: He is rash, and runs to aid Toma, now surrounded by Ulse, without consulting anyone. This prompts Sialeeds to remark on his actions as a common occurrence.
“My path is the path of righteousness! My will is the will of heaven! To defy me is to defy the sun!”
After the lengthy flashback, we get to see exactly why the group was uncomfortable.
After all this, the group splits up to rest or take care of their own business. Frey’s goal? Find Lym, rest can wait. You have to go all over the Sun Palace to find her, and in the process hear exactly how close the siblings are from numerous people. We also get the hintings that Arshtat is going mad due to the Sun Rune.
“And, hey, all that stuff they said-- Don’t worry about it. Courts filled with those kind of losers.”
Along the search for Lym, we get an insight as to how the nobility view Freyjadour: They badmouth him, Call him “spare baggage“, and ridicule Arshtat’s decision for involving him in politics. They go so far as to say he would be better off dead, which is when Kyle comes in and smoothly shuts their mouths with the idea of treason.
“True loyalty means being able to speak openly about what you think is right and what you think is wrong.”
Entering the guard room, we see the severe division of the knights on their support for the senate. We also seem them bickering and then an upset about the voicing of opinions in front of royalty being treason. But we also see Ferid cutting in, and asking them to continue, as he believes everyone should be able to speak openly about their opinions, at least behind closed doors. Frey also carries such a personality trait, and we often see a “equal voice” theme in game, for good or bad.
“Hey! Has anyone seen my brother in here?!”
Then, we find Lym. This is adorable, no questions asked. She pretty much tackles him in glee, and Freyjadour doesn’t seem to mind at all. We also get to see Miakis for the first time, and if you choose the right option, get the first taste of her own unique brand of teasing.
Throughout the game, Lym can be viewed as a bit spoiled. For the good ending, you actually have to spoil her further, so Freyjadour is more then likely a doormat for his baby sister.
After this, we get the bright idea of…. checking out the people lined up for the chance to marry the baby sis. WTF. Way to go Suikoden, for rubbing the salt in the wounds. Some of the options at this point can vary between mean and overprotective, and for the good ending, I went with the overprotective.
We also get our first glimpse of Lym’s idea on this: none of it seems real, to her. This is a point not really addressed, but worrying nonetheless. She’s 10, and emotionally not ready for any of this. Which means Frey is probably pissed beyond belief by the coming events.
Later, we get the job to escort Lym to the east palace and Lunas. We get a few new insights: The group is close, very close. Miakis is something of a big sister figure, teasing and generally friendly with everyone. That, along with everything else in game, seems to identify the more open members of the Knights (Lyon, Miakis, Georg, and even Kyle) as a kind of pseudo family. We also get to see that, for a teen boy, he has some damn good manners with the ritual bath scene.
You also get the option of first suggesting having mercy on Logg and Lun, once again showing the merciful thing. And just plain smarts because as Sialeeds said, punishing them could have ramifications.
StormFist is an exercise in keeping your mouth shut. Gizel comes off as a polite asshole. He never insults you, but talking about Lym’s marriage as casually as he did in front of her big brother, of all people, is like a kick in the teeth. There is an obvious distaste for the entire situation in this point of the game, from Frey and everyone else in the main group.(Maybe a little awkward WTF as well, since this guy was supposed to marry Sialeeds and is now planning to marry her niece. So that would mean a once potential uncle might become a brother in law, for Frey. Squicky, anyone?)
We also see Frey shares his parents views on the treatment of gladiators: he hates the idea of treating people as objects, and is quite clear that he will not put up with them letting a injured man untreated.
And then we have the Sacred games.
The sacred games provide several insights:
1. Frey does not agree with the Godwin’s racist views on Dwarves and beavers. You can also attempt to order the guards to let Dongo in (which helps his recruitment, I think.) but this is obviously not a good idea, because Sialeeds stops you: the guards in town might just kill the dwarf. Once again, we see a bit of naivety on how the world works.
2. Frey does enjoy the occasional joke, as he has the option of going along with some of Miakis’ teasing of Lym. (Even if it’s vaguely creepy.)
3. The Godwin’s ring alarm bells for everyone, Frey included.
It’s commented by Lord Godwin that the look of the prince changed over the course of the sacred games. It’s fairly obvious he’s recognized an enemy in Gizel, and Gizel should watch out for him. When it comes to the important stuff, Frey is quite capable of being suspicious.
Back home in Sol-Falena, the entire family seems aware the Godwin’s are plotting something, including Frey. The engagement party is tense and filled with suppressed feelings, and one of the options given allows Frey to literally tell his aunt “to hell with this farce!” and he and Lyon will be all ready to crash the party until Sialeeds scolds them. It's fairly obvious he's trying not to blow a gasket, as this is one of the few points in game he would use such language.
Then evening falls.
During the attack, we see how hard it hit’s the group and Frey to hear of Arshtat and Ferid’s deaths. When Frey hears his parents are dead and they want him to leave without Lym, too, Frey promptly… well…
Scene in question
He puts up a massive struggle, only ended by Lyon, of all people, punching him in the gut so hard he passes out. If she hadn’t done it, it’s highly likely he would have run off and gotten himself, or someone else killed.
After that, they flee to the East Palace and then Lunas, and we enter the “formative” part of the game.