Walter Delques

Walter Delques is a antagonist in Tales of Legendia. Walter is a seventeen year-old Ferines on the Legacy who is fiercely loyal to the Merines. His nickname from Norma Beatty is Wally.

Personality
Walter is a cold and arrogant person, believing in the racial superiority of the Ferines over the human Orerines. Despite this, he is also extremely loyal to the Merines and sees the association with the Orerines as a corruption on her. In spite of his pride, he believes that only he can protect the Merines.

Fighting Style
Walter is a master of both iron and crystal eres, performing both in conjunction with each other. Walter's basic attacks are martial arts combos not unlike Senel Coolidge's. He can cast devastating spells of many elements, beginning small with Flame Cutter and Thunder Blade, graduating to the Sea-elemental Spread and Aqua Laser, beginning to use Indignation and Icicle Volt as he loses strength, and casting the dangerous Blizzard and Ray.

For iron eres, he begins with the base arte Wings of Destruction (破壊の翼), during which he announces "DelQues" and jumps into the air to unleash a blast of energy angled downwards, and later upgrades it to the arcane eres Wings of Slaughter (殺戮の翼), which he announces with "ZelDelQues" and he instead releases two blasts. He also has the base eres Hallowed Wings (水鳥の飛翔), where he performs an uppercut before dashing through an enemy to do a punch-kick combo to the back. He can use the arcane eres Roar of the Sea (水神戦吼) which is a very strong uppercut, and he will also use it immediately after recovering from being knocked down. His strongest iron eres is the arcane eres Wings of Hallowed Doom (滄翼天翔) where he performs Hallowed Wings's punch-kick combo, follows it with a dash through and another punch-kick combo that finishes with an uppercut. He then jumps into the air and releases a large blast of energy downward.

Walter also has the ability to use his Teriques to attack as a monster in the form of a Zephyr, and he can also use it fly as he wishes. Later, he gains the ability to control automata using the Whisper Crystal.

Mysterious Man
Walter first appears as a bandit trying to kidnap Shirley Fennes. When Senel Coolidge sees him, he instantly attacks him. Their battle is interrupted by Moses Sandor kidnapping Shierley, and Walter flies away. Walter is then seen at the Bandit's Lair kidnapping her again and taking her to the Secret Passage Way. The party finally catches up with him and fights him for Shirley, but they still can't defeat him. After the battle, a pillar falls on him, but the party helps, and Walter leaves after he wakes up.

Walter is not seen again until Senel and his friends try to rescue Shirley at The Waterways. Walter fights most of Vaclav's troops but gets injured in the process. He hides Shirley and Fenimore Xelhes in secret room in the area and faints there. The party rescues him and Fenimore after Shirley is kidnapped again by Vaclav. After waking up, he grabs Fenimore and takes to the skies heading to Maurits' Hermitage.

War Torn Land
At Maurits' Hermitage, Walter returns from the Man Eating Ruins in a failed attempt to get the Whisper Crystal from there. After Senel and friends return from the ruins with the crystal, Walter is appointed the leader of the Sentinel squad in the war. The next day, Walter appears in his regular clothes and goes to the Bridge to lead automata in the war. When the Nerifes Cannon is shot, he goes to the Bridge's top floor to see if Shirley and Stella Telmes are safe. Walter is the one to reveal to Senel that Stella became the Legacy itself and protected Senel the whole time.

Betrayal
After the war, Walter leads the party to Vaclav's former hideout in response to rumors of Vaclav's surviving forces. This turns out to be a trap set by Walter to make sure Shirley completes her task at the Altar of the Sea. Later, when the party tries to see Shirley at the Altar, Walter blocks them with his Teriques. When Shirley finally becomes the Merines, he obtains more power from the sea and challenges the party to another fight, which the party instantly loses. Maurits commands him to kill Senel, but they are saved in time by a blizzard summoned by the Summon Spirit Celsius.

During the events of Fallen Lands, Walter tries to fight the party at the Ice Monument to stop them from getting their eres back, the power of the Quiet Nerifes weakens his strength and Shirley rescues him with her Teriques.

At Mirage Palace, Walter sees Senel and tells him to leave, but Senel will not leave until he talks to Shirley. Walter fills with of anger and attacks the party, but for the first time is defeated thanks to their Sacred Eres. Walter is then weakened and runs to Shirley and Maurits to the Wings of Light.

Death
The party encounters Walter one last time at the Wings of Light where he uses his remaining energy to control a giant automata. The party plead with him not to do it, but he insists and attacks them. After being defeated, Walter expresses anger that Senel would be the one to be at Shirley's side, a position that Walter has trained his life to fulfill. Senel feels regret about the battle, wishing there could have been another way.

Allies
Shirley Fennes - Walter is extremely loyal to the Merines and trains all his life in preparation for being her bodyguard. He believes that he is saving her by taking her away from the Orerines.

Enemies
Senel Coolidge - Walter hates Senel with a passion, seeing him as a corrupting influence on Shirley. He expresses envy at Senel's position as close to Shirley, a position he has trained his life for but is instead usurped by Senel's closer bond.

Tales of Vesperia (PS3)
By buying and downloading the Merines Shin'eitaichou (メルネス親衛隊長) title, Rita Mordio can dress as Walter.