Tristan

Unnamed father

Phantasos - Demon possessing

> "*There are some things in this world... that are better off left untouched.*"
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Tristan is the deuteragonist of the Amethyst of Illusions Arc. A former member of the Brotherhood of King Timaeus, Tristan seeks to avenge his family, killed by the Phantom, their enforcer.

## Appearance

Tristan has short blue hair and wears glasses. His outfit consists of a violet tunic with a cravat under a black cloak. He also wears an uniform hat.

## Personality

Formerly a gentle spirit and a doting father, if not a bit eccentric, Tristan was a passionate writer who yearned for freedom. He stole the Amethyst of Illusions because he couldn't stand remaining in the Brotherhood after realising the Phantom came from there. As such, he renounced his occultism and dedicated himself to become a playwright.

However, after the incident at Gloomwood, Tristan became a shell of his former self, with his melancholy becoming evident from his opinions and goals. His reunion with his thought deceased daughter filled his heart with joy, and liked the prospect of restarting his life with her as father and daughter after the Phantom was dealt with. Despite that, as a Mystic, he always defended the idea that Mystics should be united to a common goal, even if with humans.

## Story

### Background

Tristan was a member of the Brotherhood through his father, who believed in the cause to restore Zeletenia through the overthrowal of Kazas. However, Tristan's father learned the feared Phantom was in fact the demon Phantasos, who was thought killed by Leif. Tristan's father tried overthrowing its leader and was imprisoned. Before being executed, he revealed the truth to Tristan and asked him to leave the Brotherhood and not do anything to stop them.

He decided to do something by stealing the Amethyst of Illusions before leaving from the group, hoping that, without the Phantom, they would reform. Upon leaving the Brotherhood, Tristan dedicated himself to the writing of stories as a playwright. He was loved by his neighbors and eventually married and had a daughter, Lucretia.

Fourteen years after Lucretia's birth, the Brotherhood found Tristan and demanded he relinquished the Amethyst, else they would destroy the town he lived in. Tristan lied by saying he didn't have it. In the next day, the town was burned and attacked by monsters. Tristan went to Gloomwood and relinquished the Amethyst. In return, they forced him to become the host of Phantasos, making him the new Phantom.

With Tristan's body, Phantasos would kill his wife and wound his daughter. He didn't finish her off due to Tristan's interference in his subconscious. Tristan's consciousness would be sealed for the following three years, until his persona was necessary for Phantasos.

### Amethyst of Illusions

Tristan would wake up in a room, where an attendant would give him a letter addressed to him. It was the Phantom, informing Tristan that his family is dead, and that he is three years in the future and was led to believe he was seeking the Phantom ever since. The letter was also an invitation to the mansion he lived while he was in the Brotherhood, giving him an opportunity to kill his nemesis.

Finding the Hero after the Phantom's introduction, he tries to dissuade them from seeking the Amethyst, as the Phantom is a dangerous foe. After witnessing the first death at the mansion, Tristan introduces himself and offers to partner with the Hero, since they know about the nature of the Amethyst. Upon linking the pages left by the Phantom, Travant reveals his father was the lord of that manor and the incident where his family died.

Finding the last key to access the other side of the mansion, the Hero and Tristan are joined by Lucretia, Thalassa and Rean. Upon collecting all relevant pages in the Phantom's diary, Tristan reads it, and thus revealing that Lucretia is his daughter, who he thought dead. Father and daughter have an emotional reunion and vow never to leave each other's side again after they deal with the Phantom. Together, they keep investigating until they hint that the Phantom is one of the targets, reflecting upon the power of the Amethyst.

After all inhabitants have died, Tristan corners Rean to "reveal himself" as the Phantom, who has Thalassa betray the group out of her love for him. "The Phantom" leaves them to die inside of the mansion with a crazed Thalassa, and says that the final act would begin in the Gloomwood, where the Phantom was born. Tristan tries firing at him, but Thalassa is struck instead, protecting Rean. At Gloomwood, Rean explains the circumstance behind the Phantom's birth, and taunts Tristan over him being the reason of their lives. Enraged, Tristan kills him in a duel.

The Hero's realisation that the Amethyst Rean carried was a phony, Tristan congratulates Lucretia and the Hero as the best actors he ever saw. He reveals that he was the Phantom all along, and that Rean was his accomplice. The Phantom reveals that the only truth in the entire story was that Lucretia is Tristan's daughter and the entire reason he set up the meeting at the mansion, so that she would be led to him, even though he didn't account for the Hero's survival.

After learning he was a pawn and seeing his daughter lose all hope, Tristan fights for the control of his body and implores Lucretia to kill and free him from Phantasos. Phantasos regains his composure and announces that he would kill Lucretia in order to torture Tristan due to his interference and reveals his true form. After a final duel, Phantasos is destroyed, but Tristan is mortally wounded. He passes the Amethyst to Lucretia and says that Phantasos' death is just the beginning, and that she and the Hero must defeat the Brotherhood before they do something even worse. He thanks the Hero and Lucretia for freeing him, and his body crumbles into dust.

### Final Chapter

With the treasures under Leif's possession, he uses them to summon the monsters associated with them merged with phantoms of their respective hosts in order to intercept the heroes as his four Sinistrals. Tristan and Phantasos' souls and personalities are merged, and they refer themselves as a nameless phantom. as they doesn't remember anything from his past lives outside of the name "Lucretia". Upon being defeated, the phantom utters Lucretia's name a last time before passing to the afterlife.

### Seraphic Gate (non-canon)

In this alternative reality, Tristan never became Phantasos' host and became the king of Zeletenia (and one of the guardians) after defeating Graham, and Lucretia became the Princess. He points to remark that assimilated Phantasos' powers into his own and challenges the party to a battle. After the battle, Tristan joins the party in order to see his unfortunate reality with his own eyes,