Chloe Valens

Chloe Valens is one of the protagnonists in Tales of Legendia.

Personality
This young woman is a practitioner of iron eres (the name for physical artes in Legendia) and has an extraordinary talent with the sword. She is single-minded and focused in achieving her goals, sometimes to the point of irrationality towards other people. Most of the time, she appears very serious and determined, but she also has moments of exuberance, and occasionally worries about silly things (such as her weight or the possibility of turning into a monster). She also has strong feelings for Senel and is initially jealous of Shirley. Chloe doesn't know how to swim, a weakness she takes very seriously.

Her "Norma Nickname" is "C".

Backstory
Prior to the game, Chloe Valens belonged to the Valens House, a great line of nobles whose existence is well-known throughout the world. When she was a child she had long, beautiful black hair. One rainy night, however, her parents were murdered before her by a masked bandit with a snake tattoo on his arm. Chloe tried to use her father's sword against him, but the masked bandit told her if she chose to attack that he would show her no mercy. Overpowered by fear, she was unable to avenge her parents, and so the masked bandit stole her father’s sword and left.

After the incident, the Valens name was threatened to be stripped from her due to the incident. Chloe tries her hardest to keep the Valens name but, being only a child, she finds it impossible to meet the demands of owning such a status. Chloe blamed everything on the masked bandit and swore revenge. Following this, she ordered her maid to cut her hair, a sign of her oath and a symbol of her determination.

Arriving in the Legacy
After arriving on the Legacy, Chloe claims to be a knight, focused on looking for the man with the snake tattoo. She meets Senel Coolidge and the two start in a rocky relationship: She agrees to help Senel find his sister, her responsibility as a knight. In a rescue mission in the Waterways, Chloe almost drowns in a river but Senel saves her life. This is when Senel first learns that Chloe can’t swim. He decides to keep her secret among the party members, to her surprise. This marks the beginning of her romantic feelings towards Senel.

Chloe finally meets the man who has snake tattoo on his arm: Stingle, of Vaclav’s three Terrors. At one point, Chloe blindly assaults Stingle, ignoring Will’s urges to retreat. One night, Chloe reveals to Senel that she isn't a true Knight and explains to him her past, bringing the two to a point of mutual trust. In the bridge of the Legacy, before the party confronts Stingle, Senel reminds Chloe that she can count on them. The party defeats Stingle, but he escapes before Chloe can kill him.

Merines and Nerifes
Two weeks after the battle with Vaclav, the Kingdom of Godoria begins to recognize the Valens name for Chloe's contribution to the country's welfare and safety by defeating Stingle. Even in the process of sarcastically mocking her tarnished name, she humbly obeys them. When the Godoria Knights interrupts the Rites of Accession begins massacring Ferines, Chloe disobeys the Godoria’s Head Knight's order to kill the Merines, knowing this would brand her a traitor.

When Shirley takes back the "blessings of Nerifes" (sealing the ability of all Orerines to use any kind of Eres), the party retreats back to Werites Beacon, where a mysterious entity guides them to the Fallen Lands, where they learn of the arrival of the Legacy to their planet. While in the Fallen Lands, with Norma’s urging, Chloe increasingly advances on Senel romantically, which sometimes backfires and unintentionally succeeds. After the Calm Nerifes bestows sacred eres (enabling the party to use Eres) on all the party members except for Senel, Chloe talks to him and suggests that he could have been the one to reject the Calm Nerifes, not the other way around. Senel then reveals his secrets to Chloe about him being responsible for the attack on his village 3 years ago. Chloe then points out the he is merely running away from himself, for which Senel humbly thanks her. After defeating the Raging Nerifes and rescuing Shirley, Chloe leaves the Legacy to visit her parents' grave in Godoria.

Character Quest
Months later, Chloe comes back to the Legacy, to be with her friends. On their way to Werites Beacon, Senel and Chloe save a traveling peddler and her daughter from a monster. The traveler, a man who works with herbs, is known as Alcott; his daughter, who takes a liking to Chloe, Elsa. During her Character Quest, Shirley and Chloe gets jealous of one another when Senel decides to be friends with them both. Later on the two come to terms about their feelings for Senel and develop a sort of truce and become good friends, to the point where Shirley starts seeing Chloe as an older sister figure. After her Character Quest, she also manages to open up a lot more, especially with Shirley.

One day after the party finds a missing Alcott in the Hidden Fortress, Chloe notices a snake tattoo on his right hand. She instantly draws her sword, surprising the party. Moments later, however, Norma sees a Grand Gaet behind Chloe and assumes her friend's quick hostility was for that reason instead. After the fight, Chloe again begins to think of revenge, the black mist feeding her anger. One rainy night on Werites Beacon, Chloe tries to meet with Alcott but Senel stops her. The two engage in a fight, climaxing when Chloe stabs Senel. Her path chosen, Chloe confronts Alcott in the Forest of No Return. They duel, the black mist strengthening Chloe's blows. Just as Chloe prepares to deliver the finishing blow, however, the other characters, as well as Elsa, intervene. Her father fallen, Elsa determinedly takes her father's sword into her hands, bringing Chloe back to the night when she refused to do the same for her parents. Senel points out that she is repeating the same sadness she experiences upon others. With the others backing her, Chloe fights the black mist inside her and realizes that she doesn't want Elsa to share her pain. Suddenly, though, the black mist materializes into a Shadow Chloe and fights the party. Afterwards, Chloe forgives Alcott and decides to remain with her friends on the Legacy. In the end, it is unknown if Senel choses either Chloe or Shirley over the other, but the ending animation of Chloe’s Character Quest hints that Senel might have feelings for Chloe. Though Chloe believes that his feelings for her are not the same. She states that while she can cry in front of anyone else, she cannot find herself doing the same for Senel.

Throughout her Character Quest, Chloe is haunted by memories from her childhood, how after her parents died people kept on talking about her behind her back, and how she worked extremely hard in order to ensure that the House of Valens would not fall. The player is able to see that Chloe had very beautiful long hair when she was 12 and even dressed up. After her parent's death, though, she cut it and started acting more noble (As a sign that she will start learning the ways of a Knight). A manifestation of Young Chloe is also seen near the end of the character quest, constantly taunting Chloe to kill Alcott.

Trivia

 * Chloe dislikes the rain because her parents died in a rainstorm. After her Character Quest, though, she seems to come to terms with this.
 * Chloe is right-handed.
 * Chloe, unlike other Tales female swordfighters, is built like a main character, a strong frontline character who is easy to use sharing similar artes with them.
 * Chloe, in a sense, is very similar to Stella. While there are obvious differences, Chloe, like Stella, is kind and caring, but is very stubborn when she has her mind set on something. They are also gallant and brave as both of them do not hesitate to help someone in need, but are also very frail individuals which their strong personalities counter-ballance this factor. In fact, they share the exact same scene with Senel where both of them hold him in the back while Senel comforts them (Stella does this in a flashback when Senel was talking to Chloe about her after they were training in secret, and Chloe does this in an anime cutscene at the end of her Character Quest).

Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2
Chloe will make an appearance in the second installment of Radiant Mythology. Her role is slightly larger than most of the others. Due to her parents being killed, she began to live only for revenge on those who killed them. She started to become confused and astray after staying with Ad Libitum for so long, thus causing the Negative Energy inside herself to grow, eventually manifesting this energy into a "Negative Chloe". After the party defeats the Negative Chloe and the Descender purifies the Negative Energy, she decides to forget about revenge and fights for the purpose of being a true swordsman.

Tales of Vesperia (PS3)
In the PlayStation 3 port of Tales of Vesperia, Estelle receives a costume title which enables her to wear Chloe's outfit when she wins the 200-man melee in Nordopolica Coliseum. This costume also gives her Chloe's arte: Phantom Blade.