I'm not out to abolish Sanctism myself. I just don't want everything we believe in to be destroyed.Edeni, Metaphor: ReFantazio
Edeni is a character in Metaphor: ReFantazio. He advocates for religious freedom as a candidate in the Tournament for the Throne. He is also the brother of Euphausia Etoreika.
Appearances
- Metaphor: ReFantazio: Supporting Character
Details
Edeni was the chieftain of the mustari settlements of Eht Ria, Virga Island and the brother of Eupha. More than ten years ago, their parents, the former chieftains of the mustari villages of Virga Island, died in an accident out at sea when they were on the way to the Dragon Temple for an unknown reason. Since then, Edeni has reigned as the village chief.
He joined the Tournament for the Throne to promote religious freedom and was among the 20 competitors who progressed past the Exhibition of the Brave. When the Sanctist Church announced that contestants were to plunder relics from pagans like the mustari of Virga Island, Edeni protested as he was a pagan himself, leaving the competition and returning to Virga Island to inform the villagers and put the island on high alert for intruders. At the meantime, Louis tasked the party to take the Drakodios so he could use it to slay Forden, while the party wants the weapon to assassinate Louis and free the prince of his curse. They track down Edeni and ask him for intel about the Drakodios. He dissuades them from getting their hands on it, telling them that he will not let them get it, nor will they ever reach it. On the way back, he spotted the Sanctist crier Albus Batlin stowing on his ship to keep an eye on the tournament and immediately captured and jailed him.
When the party runs into Eupha taking a bath in a lake, a group of vigilant mustari guards working for Edeni spotted and captured them, then threw all of them into the same prison where Albus was held at, where they would be prepared for execution.
The impending Sanctist invasion on Virga Island has made the local mustari believe that there is a great calamity on the rise, and they considered sacrificing the priestess to their god, a white dragon known as Eht who inhabited Drakodios to appease its wrath. However, the acting priestess, Eupha, was Edeni's sister, so he was uneasy about the decision in spite of the villager's protests and her sheer eagerness in throwing her life away for the greater good of her people.
Afterwards, a reluctant Edeni and a group of soldiers escort Eupha to the Dragon Temple on a nearby island. Because of the sheer amount of hostile monsters now roaming in the temple, all of the soldiers ended up dead with Eupha trapped inside the temple, and Edeni returns in the main island badly wounded. On the night where Basilio and Fidelio freed the party and Albus from their prison, they run into Edeni, who was so badly injured that he was crawling on the ground and is now asking them for help. The party decides to carry him back the village while Basilio and Fidelio are coyly coerced by Junah to follow the party. He recovers and warms up towards the party, making a deal with them to save his sister from the monster-ridden temple.
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Trivia
- If spoken to after completing Eupha's Follower bond, the protagonist can tell Edeni about the handshake he had with her. While he states that he is glad that they shared that moment with each other, he decides not to tell the protagonist the true meaning of the gesture as doing so could cause Eupha unnecessary grief should he fall.