Findaris Del Roddea

**Findaris Del Roddea,** also known as **Finrod,** is the leader of the Azure Stars guild, having the class of dragon-knight, and is the tritagonist of the series. He is also the last surviving member of the major noble family of Del Roddea, and the last Templar. He was the one who created the Azure Stars after convincing Sean, Nat, Lediga and Andrea to join and later adding Kotori, Kuri and Zero.

## Appearance

Findaris is a young-adult who looks his age, but with sharp features, long, silvery-white hair and striking crimson eyes. His build is lean and muscular and his body is in good shape, as well as being quite tall. With sharp facial features, his good looks are perhaps only offset by his unstable personality. He is described as quite good-looking along with Vector.

Usually, Findaris prefers to dress in robes that are not quite as extravagant as the ones donned by Vector and Luuk, but he has some specific sets of robes for combat to allow him good mobility. The common point in all the combat robes is the white or blue cape, which may be due to his memories of the Templar uniform.

At several points in the story, he was described as wearing sleeveless combat robes with only shoulder-guards as armour, but later on in **Part II,** he drops the shoulder guards and wears sleeved robes instead, though of a very similar look.

## Personality

Findaris' personality is complex to explain, to say the least, as his inner and outer selves are completely different. Outwardly, he appears quite friendly and respectful albeit quiet and reserved, serving as the foil to the loud and pompous Vector. This was shown in his first few interactions with Sean and Nat, being quite polite and apologetic for his friend Vector's behaviour. However, it was later revealed that he can be quite strict as well, expecting all the guild-members to follow the rules he set, and will punish them with extra chores for breaking them.

Despite this, he is quite protective of them, becoming incredibly incensed when Kuri and Zero took his guild-members on a very dangerous quest. On the other hand, he can be quite playful as well, playing a great deal of pranks especially during the events of the Burning Embers Shorts, and also manipulating many events to embarrass the others.

Another thing that was noted was his eye for aesthetics, prioritising decorating the castle after it was thoroughly cleaned up, and maintaining that look by assigning everyone (including himself) chores to at least clean up and decorate the parts of the castle that were in use. He was also described as getting severely upset if anyone broke a decoration, going as far as to almost use Cold Judgement on Sean, but settling with using Absolute Zero for a "microsecond", subjecting Sean to a cold.

However, in the end, all of this is a mask built by Findaris to disguise his real personality that is only known to Vector and Kotori. Inside, he is cynical, manipulative, cold, cruel and full of despair. After losing everything again and again, being left alone and betrayed, Findaris trusts no one besides Vector, and also holds a great deal of survivor's guilt from the events of the Fall of Almarck. Due to this, he considers his only goal to be that of avenging those who perished in the event, and will do whatever it takes to get there.

He has mentioned to Kotori that he only views the guild-members as valuable tools to attain his goal, and will sacrifice them without second thought if need be. He also holds immense hatred towards barbarians, seeing them as less than humans and "not better than monsters", and cruelly murdered them including innocents on some occasions, though showed some small regret for killing the innocents later. That part is attributed to his alter-ego, as he struggles with a split-personality as well. His alter-ego, that he has under control most of the times, is absolutely insane, murderous and uninhibited.

Despite everything, he is able to maintain a level-head in all situations, not letting his rage go out of control and showing the ability to always make rational decisions. Some of his personality slipped out after the guild-members found out his identity in **Arc 6**, but he was quick to regain control. However, it caused a rift and, leading especially Kuri to mistrust him.

## Plot

### Arc 1

Findaris is first encountered by Sean and Nat at the end of **Chapter 1** where Vector saves both of them.

He introduces himself as Finrod, an adventuring alias, in **Chapter 2**. Sean quickly realises Findaris is a dragon knight, much to the dismay of the latter. Sean doesn't linger long on the fact and is quick to cute to the chase, amused, Finrod gets to business, extending an invite to join their guild. An invitation that Sean denies straight away, leaving behind a smiling Finrod as they head back to the city. Finrod and Vector save them once again at the end of the chapter, the former extending the invitation once again.

In **Chapter 3**, Finrod stops Sean while he's chewing out Vector for the damage dealt to the forest, asking his companion to clean up. However Vector's taste for grandeur has left him completely out of mana much to the exasperation of the Dragon Knight. With a quick Mana Drain Vector is back to full and summons a great flood, almost drowning everyone if not for Finrod who grabs Sean and jump to safety on the nearest branch. This time Finrod chastises his companion for his lack of self restraint, demanding that Vector heal Lediga who is now in a critical condition, knowing full well the archmage has never bothered learning any healing magic. Left with no choice, Finrod has Vector slice a small cut in his arm and pours some of his blood into the mouth of Lediga, the dragon-knight blood will heal him but it might also take his sanity. Right after that, Cookie emerges from the forest and attempts to bind Finrod and Vector, convinced that they are enemies, Finrod quickly cuts the rope, content that the final member of the party has arrived and so they head back to town.

Back in town, Finrod accepts to pay for all the damages they have caused to the forest while silencing an outraged Vector. Finally, Sean and Nat accept to join them and so Finrod sets out to recruiting the last two members required to form a guild by asking Cookie, and Lediga by extension, to join them. Cookie starts by refusing, with no trust in Vector's ability to restrain himself, Finrod displeased with the turn of events insults her, calling her a "party-jumper". Cookie, filled with rage, almost jumps him but Finrod's aura of danger keeps her frozen in place, for a second she seems to know who he is, muttering something about the "lost ...", after hesistating for a little while longer, Cookie finally decides to join. Finrod, seemingly phased by this exchange doesn't say another word for the rest of the chapter.

Finrod starts off **Chapter 4** out of this world, he has taken refuge in the palace of his mind and seems oblivious to what's going on outside. He finally returns to reality rather lost about the "plan" they have been discussing. Sean suggests that Finrod take care of the ghosts considering he is a dragon knight, but Finrod tells them he doesn't not have any skill for exorcism and instead suggests Vector, Sean and Finrod go to the church to ask for their Exorcist using the weight of the Von Maximus name. They are surprised to learn that the church is actually under the patronage of the Des Toridea but the head priest lets slip that they charge for confessions, something forbidden by the central church of Kyri and Finrod ask Vector to start an investigation into the corruption of the church. They still don't have an exorcist but Sean believes it was Finrod's plan all along to expose the church's corruption, that's when they notice Luuk in the corner, who introduces himself as an Exorcist. Finrod extends the invitation to join the guild but Luuk refuses, he will lend them his service but in exchange for a steep fee.

While the group cleans up the area surrounding the castle in **Chapter 5**, Vector and Finrod stay behind, only intervening when the linotaur shows up. It's finrod that duels him, dodging his blows with ease and laughing as he enjoys the thrill of the fight. The battle goes on for a while, with the linotaur drawing a second axe and fighting even more fiercely, before finally managing to hit Finrod, cutting a small gash in his cheek. Happy that the linotaur has finally proven worthy of his blade, Finrod unsheathes it and kills the beast in a single strike. At the end of the chapter, Finrod decrees that they will all sleep in the castle while Luuk patrols the halls and he guards the outside.

Finrod spends half of **Chapter 6** guarding the castle against outside invasions before Luuk brings him back in for the area cleanse. During the ritual, he spots a necromancer and chases after, sadly not able to catch him Finrod comes back empty handed and emotionally incensed. Luuk, realising Finrod's class, instantly decides to join the guild because, as he puts it, "a dragon knight in your team equals great profit".

In the **Epilogue**, Finrod watches the rest of the guild fight of the couch, amused, before setting off with Vector and Sean to gather the communication rings they have crafted at Fudge's Shop. Finrod has to stop a jealous Vector from blowing up the magic shop while he and Fudge chat away. When they return and spot Raethis Des Toridae, Finrod quicken his pace to to quickly close the distance.

## Equipment

**Steel armour:** Shoulder-guards only (usually), and has won a breastplate on at least one occasion.

**Leather gloves**

**Combat robes:** These robes were woven specifically to allow him full movement in combat as he does not require armour due to his dragon-toughness.

**Mythril Sword (Belés):** The dragon-slaying sword of fire capable of heating itself to temperatures where it can essentially cut through anything. It can only be wielded by one of Del Roddean blood.

**Potions:** Findaris usually carries around some potions in a pouch. The type depends on the nature of the quest.

## Abilities

Findaris is indubitably the most powerful member of the guild, reflected by his rank as well as level and stats. He boasts ridiculous stats in everything except his below-average luck, and his physical stats and mana are beyond the scale of measurement. His skills with a sword are also formidable, and given his Advanced Archery and Spearmanship, he is very proficient with those weapons as well. Having slain a dragon and taking its capabilities, his ice powers along give him an unscalable advantage over most opponents, and his skin is as hard as dragon-scales when need be, giving him incredible resistance to all forms of attacks.

**Advanced Swordsmanship:** Level 9

**Advanced Archery:** Level 5

**Advanced Spearmanship:** Level 8

**Mana Strengthening**

**Dragon's Strength**

**Dragon's Toughness**

**Dragon's Speed**

**Enhanced Senses**

**Mastery of Ice:** Level 10

**Raging Blizzard**

**Polar Attack**

**Cold Judgement**

**Absolute Zero**

## Trivia

* All the main characters represent a part of humanity; Findaris represents the negative aspects of hatred, despair and vengeance.
* Findaris' alias "Finrod" is derived from his name **Fin**daris Del **Rod**dea, but is also a reference to the character Finrod from **The Silmarillion**.
* According to the author, Findaris' personality is an **INTJ-A,** on the **Myers–Briggs Personality Type Scale.**