Ganabelt Valkyris

Ganabelt Valkyris
Information
Appearance	Tales of Arise
Race	Renan
Occupation	Lord of Cyslodia
Weapon	Rapier
Japanese Voice Actor	•Jouji Nakata (Ganabelt) •Katsuhiko Kawamoto (Meneck)
English Voice Actor	•Kyle McCarley (Ganabelt) •Christian La Monte (Meneck)

Ganabelt Valkyris (ガナベルト・ファルキリス, Ganaberuto Farukirisu^?) is an antagonist in Tales of Arise. He is the "Lord of light" and ruler of Cyslodia. A master of subterfuge, he sows mistrust among Dahnans by encouraging informants to betray their own people, exerting authority with minimum effort.

History

Ganabelt is one of the Five Lords who compete in the Crown Contest to become Sovereign. He rules over Cyslodia from Cysloden, gathering light astral energy though giant floodlights that his Dahnan slaves work on and causing Cyslodia to be cloaked in eternal night. His rule over his realm is marked by how he sets the Dahnan populace against each other; the Dahnans inform on and sell each other out to his secret police, the Bureau of Civil Observation, all the while making it difficult for resistance groups to form. To additionally foment discord, he assumes the role of Meneck (メネック, Menekku^?), leader of the Silver Swords, while leaving a body double to act as Ganabelt.

With all of his knowledge and information, he is able to set a trap at Messia 224 that uses Law's existence as Zephyr's son to capture Zephyr and take him to Cysloden, drawing Alphen and Shionne Imeris there as well. At Cysloden, he greets them as Meneck and uses the opportunity to stage an attack on the Silver Swords, wiping out a fair portion of them while letting Alphen and Shionne escape. Ganabelt then schedules Zephyr's public execution in an attempt to break the public's will, but rather than breaking himself, Zephyr instead gives a speech to inspire them to rebellion. Law defects from the Bureau and rescues his father. Ganabelt takes the opportunity to pretend to provide reinforcements with the other Silver Swords but instead backstabs Zephyr using a poison that is resistant to Shionne's healing artes. They are able to flee, but Ganabelt is prepared for them at Riville Prison Tower.

There, Ganabelt clashes with the party, intending to deal with the threat posed by the Blazing Sword. He is ultimately defeated when Law uppercuts him into his own spirit vessel, where he is electrocuted by the gathered energy. As he struggles to reach for his master core, lamenting the fate that will befall his Renan subjects, he eventually perishes.

Appearance and Personality

Ganabelt is a tall man in a white outfit with a refined poise. He prefers subterfuge to direct power, able to manipulate the feelings of the populace. As Meneck, he is well-liked and respected as a leader, which makes his betrayal all the more shocking. He views all Dahnans as subhuman, referring to them as "rats". He also holds a low opinion towards his fellow Lord Balseph, seeing him as an incompetent brute. As revealed during the party's time at Lenegis, his Renan supporters view him as a strict but fair leader. He sought to expand the Renans' population on Dahna to overtake the Dahnans as the majority race.

Fighting Style

Ganabelt specializes in a mixture of swordplay and Light-elemental astral artes. For defense, he has three diamond-shaped bits attached to the device on his back, as well as four more that he controls telekinetically, acting as a shield.

His attacks, albeit unnamed, consist of the following: In the first, he blitzes across the area, once or twice, each time as a streak of lightning. The second has him fire six balls of lightning with a thrust from his rapier. The third has him summon the three bits in his device above the target, each one shooting a streak of lightning before spinning across each other. The fourth is an unnamed technique that increases his Attack and Elemental Attack, similar to Law's Steel. The fifth is a powerful right slash that can inflict Paralysis. The sixth consists of three upward slashes, right, left, then right. The seventh has him jump upward, then slam back down unto the target, followed by five strikes of lightning. The eighth has him charge his rapier with light astral energy before performing a downward slash, shooting out a ground projectile.

To complement his potent capabilities, Ganabelt can also create lightning clones of himself that can also use many of his techniques. These clones have weaker defenses, however.