Estellise Sidos Heurassein

Estellise Sidos Heurassein (エステリーゼ・シデス・ヒュラッセイン), better known as Estelle (エステル), is the main female lead in Tales of Vesperia.

Personality
Estelle is an 18 year old noblewoman who has spent all of her life growing up in Zaphias Castle. Due to her restrictive upbringing, she has gained most of her worldly knowledge through books. As a result she has developed a love for reading, and can recite various passages from heart. Proficient in healing artes, she was also trained in swordsmanship by a famed Imperial knight, Drake Dropwart.

Despite her abundance of trivial knowledge, she has never left the castle and is sorely lacking in real-world experience. This becomes evident in her difficulty making critical decisions. Good-natured and selfless, she often puts others before herself. She uses her healing artes to help others whenever she can, and she is always kind to complete strangers.

Fighting Style
Estelle wields swords, staves, and shields in battle. Estelle is a highly effective healer with both target-based and area-based healing and support artes. Unlike the typical cleric archetype, she possesses a high defense and a large amount of defense-related skills, and can hold her own in the frontlines as an effective melee character with an emphasis on tanking enemies. She is also capable of using light-based magic, such as Holy Lance and Photon.

Story
She first encounters Yuri Lowell as they are both attempting to escape from the castle. She enlists his aid in her search for Flynn Scifo. Along the way, Yuri gives her the nickname Estelle. After reuniting with Flynn, she decides to continue traveling with Yuri in order to broaden her horizons.

During their journey it is revealed that Estelle is both a princess and a leading candidate to succeed the throne. Unbeknownst to her, she also possesses the power of "The Child of the Full Moon", which grants her the ability to use healing artes without a blastia, drawing her powers directly from the world's aer.

A sidequest in the game revolving around the Tree of Halure reveals that Estelle had chosen to live in Halure and write children's stories after her journey was over. In the end credits, Estelle can be seen reading to children, as well as finishing and closing a book she had written herself.

In addition to her skill with stories, Estelle is skilled at naming things based off the things she has read. Throughout the game, she named Karol Capel's guild "Brave Vesperia", the Elemental Spirits, and the town of Aurnion.

Party
Yuri Lowell - Estelle and Yuri get along very well, despite their different backgrounds and Yuri's dislike of the upper class. Throughout the game, Yuri's "street smarts" tend to clash with Estelle's "book smarts," shown by her attempts to get Yuri to actually read a book, which Yuri does not like doing, and the different way they deal with situations. Yuri does not seem to indicate a romantic interest in Estelle, and treats her as he treats the others in the party. However, there are several hints that Estelle may have feelings for Yuri, and she is sometimes teased by the other characters about it.

Repede - He does not show much interest in Estelle, though she tries to get him to like her.

Flynn Scifo - Flynn calls Estelle Lady Estellise, likely out of respect. He lives in the castle with her and has grown very close to Estelle, showing concern for her well-being.

Karol Capel - Estelle is always nice to Karol, almost like an older sister. They get along very well.

Rita Mordio - Estelle cares for Rita a lot. Rita also cares for Estelle, and is very protective of her, though she often denies it. Although, Rita is much closer to Estelle than she is with any of the other characters. This is obviously the result of Estelle's attempts at befriending her throughout much of the game.

Patty Fleur - Estelle and Judith both consider Patty a "very cute child", and Estelle acts somewhat like an older sister to Patty, being very supportive of her throughout the game. The two often talk, and can sometimes can be seen playing together after battles. After Patty recovers her memories, she cries when forced to kill Seifer, and Estelle is the first to comfort her.

Tales of Graces
During the Lala Sidequest, Estelle is one of the nine dolls that can be given to the sick girl. She is made by duarising Hubert's Family Coat of Arms and a Stuffed Toy.

Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2
Estelle appears in Radiant Mythology 2 along with Yuri Lowell. She can obtain a good fraction of her artes from her original game, although not all can be used. Her mystic arte returns as Sacred Penance.

Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 3
Estelle reappears as a playable character in Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 3 along with fellow Vesperia characters Yuri Lowell, Flynn Scifo, Rita Mordio, and Judith. She is first seen being cornered by a monster, where she is aided by the Protagonist (Radiant Mythology 3). During the same scene, it is discovered that she was separated from her group, and that Yuri and Rita were looking for her. She has access to much more artes in her original moveset than in Radiant Mythology 2.