Seres

Seres
Information
Appearance	Tales of Berseria
Age	•10 (chronologically) •20 (physically)
Height	170 cm
Race	Malak
Weapon	Amulet
Japanese Voice Actor	Satomi Arai
English Voice Actor	Monica Rial

Seres (シアリーズ, Shiariizu^?) is a malak woman with power over fire, reincarnated from Celica Crowe in Tales of Berseria. She is Artorius Collbrande's subordinate who began to question his motives after the incident from three years before the main story's events, after the memories of her past life returned to her. She sneaks into the prison island Titania in order to free Velvet Crowe.

History

Ten years prior to the beginning of the main story, during a Scarlet Night which would become known as the Opening, Celica Crowe was pushed by a daemon she was trying to protect Arthur from into the Shrine of Tranquility located at the cape of Aball. She was pregnant with Arthur's child at the time, and both Celica and her unborn child were eaten by the asleep at the time Innominat and reborn as malakhim. Seres, the reincarnation of Celica, had the memories of her past life suppressed at the time. Seven years later, after the next Scarlet Night, later known as the Advent, Seres regained said memories.

For three years, Seres watched as the Arthur she once loved slowly faded away. Artorius's Abbey gained control over Desolation, and he planned to suppress all emotions as a means to permanently end the malevolence, which went so far as to use Seres's own life. Artorius and Melchior Mayvin bound Seres's life to an oath to recreate the Sorcerer's Ring as a means to develop the armatus, an arte to which they planned to control Innominat. The stronger that Seres felt her love for Arthur, the less that she could forgive Artorius. Eventually, tormented by Celica's memories and what she had allowed to happen, Seres took it upon herself to free Velvet so she could kill Artorius. Before leaving, Seres went to see the unborn child of her past life as Celica, now a malak assigned to Teresa. Seres asked him his name, but he answered that it was Number Two, to what Seres answered that that was not a real name. She then told the boy of her plan before asking her son to forgive her for failing to protect him.

Seres sneaks into Titania intending to rescue Velvet. Initially, Velvet attacks the malak woman, but after a test from Seres the two partner up and cooperate to escape. Seres informs Velvet that she is no longer Artorius's malak, and of what has happened during her stay in the prison. She also tells Velvet that, albeit powerful, Artorius's power is not yet absolute, meaning that he can still be killed. They create a commotion by liberating the rest of the prisoners and fend off orderly exorcists but, near the front deck of Titania, they encounter the praetor Oscar Dragonia, who questions Seres for aiding Velvet and having a free will. During the fight that follows, one of Oscar's contracted malakhim turns into a Drake that quickly goes in to attacks Velvet, only for Seres to take the hit instead to protect Velvet. Critically wounded, Seres begs Velvet to devour her so she can use the strength of the Sorcerer's Ring to fight back, before returning the comb that Velvet dropped during the Advent. Velvet raises Seres' body, intending to eat her, when the mask breaks, giving Velvet a peak of the face behind it and making her realize that she is a reincarnation of her sister Celica. She also sees through her memories after eating her. Using her new power, Velvet unleashes a fireball at Oscar, hurting him enough that he is forced to teleport away with the malak that he has left. Seres's death weights on Velvet's mind, and it affects Velvet enough to dream with Seres several times during the rest of the story.

Appearance and Personality

Artwork for Tales of Asteria.

Seres has red hair with white tips at the end of four longer bangs tied into a bun atop her head and wears a black, butterfly-shaped hairpin with gold outlines, as well as a black and gold mask shaped after a butterfly that conceals her brown-red eyes. She wears a black underdress with a white and blue dress atop it, along with a printed red ribbon on the back of her waist, which also features twin tails of sorts themed after butterfly wings in black and blue colors, along with a white bolero with black and red accents. Her look is completed by black stockings with red accents, as well as white, low-heel shoes with more red accents. Her nails are also painted red. When her mask broke as her face is revealed, she shares the same face as Celica, whom she's reincarnated from.

Seres is full of guilt due to her past, having followed Artorius's orders without question and sacrificing her own flesh and blood. Due to this, Seres wishes for the reincarnation of her son to stay emotionless, as she considers that he will have a happier life if he never learns of his origin, or gets his will back, like it happened to her.

Fighting Style

Patterned after Lailah from Tales of Zestiria, albeit wielding a different weapon, the two share the same artes except the First Aid malak arte, all Fire-elemental. While assisting with Velvet's escape from Titania, Seres has no visible status display during battles and cannot be manually controlled like a standard party member.

Gallery

Character icon in Tales of Berseria.

Concept artwork for Tales of Berseria.

Trivia

• Within the code of the game, Seres's arteset has access to Blaze Waltz and Mad Waltz, even though she never uses them in the story.
• Seres's true name is Luzrov Hy Fweth (ルズローシヴ＝ハイ＝フォウェスィ, Ruzurooshivu Hai Fowesi^?), meaning "The Executor of Purity" (清浄のための執行者^?). Though it sounds similar to Mikleo's and Lailah's true names, there is no known relation.