Little Queen

The Little Queen is the main antagonist of Tales of Graces f during the "Legacy and Lineage" Arc. She is the physical manifestation of the consciousness of Fodra. Unlike the previous antagonist of the main story, Lambda, the Little Queen seeks to restore life and beauty to the world by eliminating humanity, capable of doing it herself without the need of a host body.

Throughout the story, she reaches out to Sophie, calling her the "Child of Fodra", to leave her human companions and join her so she would not feel alone when they passed on. It soon becomes clear that she is a far more dangerous foe than Lambda.

Real or Illusion
As Sophie is visiting the grave of Asbel's father in Lhant, she begins to hallucinate about seeing his name on the grave and how she would be if she was all alone. At that moment, the Little Queen appeared before only Sophie, asking her what she would do when all her friends would be gone. Afterwards, before Sophie can figure out what she witnessed, she vanishes.

Attack on Fodra
Later, when Asbel and the party go to Fodra to figure out the cause of extremely powerful monsters attacking Ephinea, Sophie sees a lush green forest growing on the thought to be dead planet. In a garden of flowers, they all saw the Little Queen. But without a word, the queen turns her gaze on their shuttle and attacks, causing them to force land in Telos Astue before they crashed. Sophie wants to find out who she is and asks if they can go to the forest where she was. They decide to put that visit on hold as they venture on to the Eleth Research Laboratory, having gained a clue about what is going on from Psi in the city.

Upon arrival, the group ventures deep into the lab before uncovering a damaged video recording about Fodra scientists attempting to obtain samples for an experiment. After defeating the boss of the dungeon, Pascal uncovers a major clue from the memories of an offline humanoid. In its visuals, the Little Queen was seen within Fodra's core in a subconscious sleep. That is when they learn of her name from the name mentioned between the scientists and also from Emeraude, claiming her powers will be apart of Sophie's final design. But as everyone begins to question who she is, the queen attacks them within the lab without a word. She soon changes her motive once clashing face to face with Sophie, beginning to try and coax her into joining her. Asbel and the others begin to escape from the lab as it begins caving in from the attacks. The queen continues firing beams of energy at Asbel's group as they flee the lab and escape aboard the shuttle. But they do not escape far as they are forced to crash in Arcadia Forest, the area they saw the queen in earlier.

Battle in the Forest
After landing in the forest, Sophie hears the queen calling out to her. The group decides to explore the forest in search of her. They find her again in the deepest part of the forest and Sophie asks how she knows who she is. The Little Queen mentions that she knows about her through the stars and begins to speak of humanity laying waste to the beauty of the planet. She then tries to coax Sophie into joining her, proving to be futile as she later engages in a boss battle with the party. During the battle, she proves to be a true challenge as they must battle through at least ten copies of herself before the fight ends. After being dealt defeat, the queen vanishes and the group returns to Telos Astue.

The Final Battle for Fodra
Having obtained a second data file from a humanoid before fleeing the lab, Pascal uploads it through the projection system in the city. The video images show the Fodra scientists deciding that they must shut down Fodra's core before the Little Queen can strike at them. However, the queen is shown to have heard their decision and attacks them without mercy. Before the humanoid is shut down amidst the destruction, they watch the queen kill a scientist before striking at the humanoid. Asbel and friends decide that to stop the queen and to protect Ephinea, they must venture down the Fodra Shaft, the Fodran equivalent to Ghardia Shaft on Ephinea, and have Lambda use his powers to absorb the eleth from the core.

Once they venture deep into the Depths of the shaft, shown to be heavily different from the rest of the shaft due to the lush plants, they are attacked again by the Little Queen. But this time, she commands monsters and faces them with only one of herself. After her defeat, she curses the humans before vanishing. Asbel is then warned by Lambda that they are drawing close to the core and Asbel is in danger of having his mind overwhelmed by the core's memories. Before reaching the final floor of the shaft, the party realizes that the beauty they are seeing is the result of what nature would be if humans never entered the scene. They then begin to sympathize that what the queen is trying to do is not evil and they feel bad for attacking. But before they can contemplate further, the queen attacks again with a small group of herself. They now inflict various status ailments to the party in an attempt to befuddle the group. But the queen is defeated again and retreats.

Their final meeting with the queen outside Fodra's core, where a massive swarm of them appear and try once more to coax Sophie into joining them. But Sophie has proven to them that she will not change and that they are here to try and convince her to give humanity another chance. They are not swayed by Sophie's words and have become convinced she is also their enemy. All of the queens merge together and become the final boss of the arc, the Fodra Queen. She unleashes a devastating power against the party, causing them to drop in agony as her words seem to speak directly into their minds, before explaining how humanity abuses the gift they are given from the planet's core and treat their world like a child's toy. But before she can attack them while they're down, Lambda forces himself from Asbel to shield the party. He warns them that he cannot hold her off forever and they must attack now. The party then proceeds to face and defeat the Fodra Queen after a long struggling battle.

Though they win, the queen attempts to use the eleth from the core to recover her strength. But that is when Asbel and Lambda strike, absorbing most of the eleth from the core and weakening the queen back to into her Little Queen state. Afterwards, a large light warps Asbel's friends into the subconscious of Fodra's core where Lambda explains that he was unable to absorb the entire core's eleth and was able to absorb the pain ridden portion of the Little Queen's heart, attempting to reach an understanding with her the same way Asbel had with him. This process may take a century worth of time, so Lambda asks Sophie to watch over his progress, knowing that she will be the "friend" that will be able to stay with him after the time passes. They then return outside the core, along with Asbel, to see a severely weakened Little Queen trying to protect herself out of fear. Her powers are seriously weakened and her attacks prove of little use as they weaken to the point that she cannot use them. But she is comforted by Sophie and is finally convinced that humans are not the same as they were from the past.

She is moved to tears when Sophie offers to help her, similar to how Asbel talked Lambda into merging with him. But the battle proved to be the queen's end as she is fading away. But before she fades completely, she gives what little of herself is left to Sophie, asking her to bring life back to Fodra and to watch over the planet's future. Once they merge powers, Sophie transforms into a new form, one that heavily bears resemblance to that of the Queen and to how she appeared after the credits. She is also able to shed real tears afterwards, having inherited the feelings of the Queen. The party later begins to speak of plans to bring new life back to Fodra, especially Sophie.

Friends
Sophie - Throughout the story, the Little Queen tries to tempt Sophie into joining her. She claims she will replace her friends so she will not suffer from loneliness once they all pass on. But this proves of little success as she is either interrupted by the others or Sophie rejects her proposal. Even after being defeated in the final boss battle, seeing Sophie then as her enemy, she is comforted by her in a way that mirrors Asbel trying to comfort the lonely Lambda. Before fading away, her remains are merged with Sophie, allowing her to "age" to her final appearance at the end. Now merged with her, Sophie promises to keep the queen's desire to protect and bring life back to Fodra.

Trivia

 * In the Monster Journal, all of the Little Queen's data, including that of the Fodra Queen, appear under the "Mystery" section of the monster lists.
 * The Fodra Queen is also revealed to be at Level 100 when her entry is viewed in the Monster Journal after her defeat.
 * During the final boss battle, when the Queen is close to her defeat, she summons two Little Queen to assist her. These can be easily dispatched as they only have 1000 HP.
 * She also has two versions of herself as the Fodra Queen. One form is where she floats within a opened flower and wields lasers around her, called her Defense Form, and the other is where her flower disappears and she wields a spear weapon and casts powerful artes, called her Attack Form.
 * As the Fodra Queen, she has two different Blast Caliber attacks which can lower all party members to 1 HP. They differ depending on her HP count. Her second attack can be triggered even when the player is in Eleth Break mode.