Goban Tovah (1989)

==Appearance== 
Goban Tovah his a brown haired man with a mustache. 
==Biography== 
Goban and Dogi fire arrows 
into the heads of two demonic wolves when they attempted to maul Adol after he washed ashore. It is here Goban realized Adol came from across the sea and might be the hero Sarah Tovah foretold and told Dogi that he must be taken to Minea. When Dalles and Jenocres enter Minea, Goban uses a rope to enter the city to tell Sarah that she should not work so hard, but she tells him that he should continue helping Adol from the shadows. However, Goban assures her that he's resting at his mother's house after bringing back the book of Hadal. Before he leaves, he apologizes for not subverting his destiny as a descendant of the priests to help her. As he was scaling the wall out of the city, he is alerted by one of Jenocres's blasts when he was fighting Slaff and his partner and rushes towards their location. When he witnesses people surrounding Jenocres, he realises he was a distraction and rushes to Sarah's location where he finds her petrified. He later disciplines Adol when he laments this event as Sarah did not ask her to be her protector, she believed in him bringing peace back to Esteria by solving its mystery. He tells him not to lose himself before he faces his enemy and see what needs to be done. Goban then presents one of the books, Volume Tovah, to Adol as Sarah knew something might happen to her. Just then, Jenocres arrives to kill Adol and claim the book. After Adol and Goban fail to penetrate his barrier, Jenocres teleports and holds Adol by the neck when his crystal flashes and renders his powers useless, giving Adol the chance to finish him off. After she makes fruit juice, Goban talks with his mother Jevah about Sarah's fate and Jevah explains that Sarah did what she could. Goban explains to her that Adol went to the mines with Dogi. After getting Volume Hadal, Adol, having known that Darm Tower has been built by the monsters, tells Goban that he believes the key to the mystery of evil is there. but the thief tells him not to jump the gun. Adol still insists he will go to the tower. When Goban asks him about the last half of the books, Adol believes they are in the tower. But Goban insists that courage and recklessness are not one and the same. While sleeping, a voice coming from Roda, a loyal servant of the goddesses, calls to Adol asking him to come. Roda, a talking giant tree from when Esteria was once Ys, reveals that it passes on the memories of the goddesses which is why he must come. In the morning, Adol tells Goban about Roda summoning him. Just then, Dogi reports that Luta, descendant of the priests, vanished yesterday and someone is after Volume Gemma. Just then, Dark Fact, a wicked sorceror, greets Goban via astral projection to reveal that he has Luta with him and has enjoyed watching Adol's prowess and invites Adol to a deserted temple, the location of Volume Messa, within a forest to test his worth alone as a brave soul with the promise of him keeping the book if he survives. After Adol accepts, Dark Fact reveals that he has Volume Fact on his person and Adol cannot make his wish to solve the mystery come true. After Dark Fact terminates the projection, Goban rides on horses alongside Dogi and Adol down a into a valley in search of the book where they end up in a fog and try to cut through a forest of vines when it opens up. It is here that Adol meets Roda who had been waiting to awaken from his long slumber to carry out a promise he made to the goddesses. Roda then invites Adol to see the history of Ys by forming a bridge of vines. After Adol hears the legend from Roda, Goban and Dogi watch as he emerges with his gear newly transformed into Cleria. Adol rides on horseback as Dark Fact told him to go alone, knowing it was a trap. With the book in hand, Adol returns to Goban and Dogi with it. It's where he learns that the last two books are indeed in the tower. Adol also is somehow now able to read the letters on the book which surprises Dogi. Goban reveals that Roda blessed him with the abillity to do this. Adol reads the book to find that the people of Ys were forced to retreat into Solomon Shrine with the great evil and his army moving in on them prior to the evil being sealed away. After reading up, Adol tells Dogi and Goban they should head to the Darm Tower. As the time approaches, Goban is present as Dogi shows Adol with a set of maps needed for the infiltration of the 25-story Darm Tower. Goban explains that Dark Fact is pretty much at the top floor, but Luta needs saving first. Adol, Goban, and Dogi travel through the woods to reach the tower. With no monsters in sight, Goban tells them they must get going. When they reach the door, Dogi takes out a key to unlock it and smashes it open so they can enter. When they enter, they notice that there were no monsters and travel down a hall where they get ambushed by a trio of monsters they dispatch with ease and they proceed to take on more monsters. After going up a floor, they find themselves in a room of mirrors where Adol gets sucked into a mirror after touching it agaisnt Goban's wishes. Dogi seeks out Adol while Goban heads up. On the exterior of the tower, Goban places his hand on a structure, asking Dark Fact why he discarded his soul. Just then, Adol, Dogi, and Luta catch up with Goban at a trio of statues, however Goban found out that this is potentially another trap they may not come back from. Luta provides a solution by holding out an ancestral Blue Amulet that can disable traps of evil. After the trap is disabled, they open a door to find no way up. However, there is a hidden door somewhere but they first had to deal with a massive monster, Khonsclard, that attacks with rocks. With the advice of Luta and Goban, Adol turns his hopes into strength with the cleria and Dogi throws him to help him slay the beast, turning it to dust and revealing the hidden door. Just then, Dogi, Goban, and Luta flash white and vanish in front of Adol. It is later shown that the trio is warped to another place in the tower, but find it strange that there is no evil present, just then Feena and Reah appear before them. The goddesses commend Goban and Luta for their efforts as descendants of the priests and are need of their help and tell them they need to head for the room of Fact. Reah and Feena escort Dogi, Goban, and Luta to his quarters via teleportation. Dark Fact had been expecting their arrival as he was going to ask the goddesses why they gave the humans of Ys the Black Pearl even though they were not ready for its power. Fact explains that it did not begin from humans he found foolish or the Black Pearl, but the goddesses. Reah said it was as he said, but she and her sister's only option had been to save the world after what happened. Dark Fact tells them it was too late for that as the world is in the sway of evil and that it is the true destiny. Goban counters this claim as the goddesses intended the power to be for the good of Ys. Even if man took an incorrect route, it was not the fault of the goddesses. Luta agreed as they can correct their path regardless of difficulty or length. Dark Fact tells them to do as they like before warping to Adol. As Adol was fighting Dark Fact, Reah tells Luta to place his amulet on the throne while Feena tells Goban to put forth his strengthened arms. This destroys the throne and brings up another structure, the true form of evil that cursed Ys, the Black Pearl. The goddesses hover towards the Black Pearl in hopes to bring evil to naught in hopes of having the brave soul sent to them so that the darkened world can have shine again. Reah then asks the descendants of the priests to rebuild the world as the Black Pearl flashed white. This stops the monsters attacking Minea dead. When Adol defeated Dark Fact and attained the last Book of Ys, Goban, Dogi, and Luta watch as Adol is engulfed in light as he is provided the power of the six books and transported skyward. Later after the seal of the six priests breaks when Adol failed to stop Dalles's efforts in helping it break, Goban was one of the descendants summoned by the godeesses to Ys as Adol is in trouble and is need of their help. Once he, Dogi, and Luta arrive in the palace, the goddesses explain to them that the spell by the six priests that bound the Black Pearl and sent it to the sky has been broken and will be unleashed as a force of evil. They've counted on Adol to prevent this, but was blinded by the rage of not stopping Dalles from sacrificing Maria or his mass petrification and need to do something or he cannot stop the power of the Black Pearl as it must not be used for evil desires nor should it exist with such negative emotions. when Goban asks if they were asked to destroy it, the goddesses explain they have no other choice as the Black Pearl has to be destroyed along with all the power it has so evil can be destroyed as well. Just then, Keith Fact, having followed Lillia, walks to Dogi, Goban, and Luta, asking if they are going to elimnate all the magic in the world. As Dogi and Goban are preparing to fight, the goddesses explain they must accept their destiny even if thehy lose their powers as goddesses. The goddesses also explain that the mass petrification must be undone and Adol must be cleansed of the hatred in his heart. Goban and Dogi proceed to hold Keith back with their swords before Dalles silences the Goddesses and Lillia pleads with the two not to kill Keith. After Keith failed to kill Dalles, he regains control of himself and reveals that he was turned into a monster that he killed and his powers have been filling his heart with evil the more he pursued revenge. Lillia tells Keith that he has no need to use the evil power anymore and asks that she use the harmonica so she can break the stone curse with Reah's song while they find Adol. As Adol fights Darm, Dogi, Goban, and Luta find themselves unable to get close and cannot get through the barrier until Adol lets his hate go. As the fight rages on, Dogi notices the clouds getting closer as Ys is descending to Earth where the world is about to be overtaken by evil again. Unless the descendants of the priests are connected to the Goddesses, they have no power. When Ys starts to fall as a result of Darm's demise, the goddesses call for the aid of the priests' descendants in order to use the power of the priests to in order to have Ys land safely. Goban uses the Star of the Goddess power with the aid of Dogi and Luta in order to do this, leading to the destruction of Darm Tower as Ys falls back into position. 
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