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| Age | 15 → 18 |
|---|---|
| Height | 159cm (5'3") → 162cm (5'4") |
| First-Person Pronoun | Watashi (私) |
| Class | Valkyrie |
| Primary Card | Revolution |
| Theme | "Aegina Sortie" (Yggdra Union), "Why I Wield My Sword" (Blaze Union) |
| Voice Actor | Tomoko Fujino (Yggdra Union/Yggdra Unison), Mai Nakahara (Blaze Union) |
About
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Captain of Gulcasa's honor guard, and a member of the Bronquian Army. She has the strength to rival any of the Five Dragon Generals and is an expert swordswoman. She is known as the Phantom Valkyrie for her ability to appear out of nowhere and take her enemies by surprise, and her ferocity has led the Empire to many victories.
She's a powerful enemy who the player must face many times throughout the story. Her skill Revolution instantly KOs all members of an enemy unit but the leader.
Aegina is blond and blue-eyed like Yggdra, and wears her hair in a long braid.
Speaking of Yggdra, Aegina seems to have some sort of fierce grudge against her...
Princess Yggdra! You can hear me, right?!
While you were dressing up in pretty clothes, we were desperately swinging our swords all for want of revenge!
While you were being raised lovingly, we were distracting ourselves from our pain and misfortune with hate!
Spoilers
Aegina Eine Artwaltz has an older twin sister named Luciana Rune Artwaltz. The sisters have the same rank and work together, but as long as the enemy doesn't know they are twins, they're mistaken for the same person, so Luciana and Aegina take advantage of this to gain a tactical advantage. They're known as the Twin Valkyries amongst their allies.
Aegina is shot in the right eye in the middle of the story, and so the twins' trick of appearing in tandem begins to unravel. Towards the end of the game, Aegina and Luciana are revealed to be the protagonist Yggdra's older sisters: They should be the true heirs to the Kingdom of Fantasinia, and not her.
In fact, the valkyrie fought in the very first battlefield is actually Luciana. This is why Aegina doesn't know about what happened between Milanor and her sister two maps later.
You can use the twins' hairstyles and the colors of their armor (Aegina's is mostly red). Aegina is also the more emotional of the two, and in Tomoko Fujino's performance, her voice is slightly higher than Luciana's.
In the city of Paltina, Fantasinia's capital, there's a little monument across the lake. According to the townsfolk, a pair of twins related to the royal family were buried there after their tragic death. If the player has learned about these graves in BF17, then in BF34 Luciana has extra dialogue when she tries to interfere with Yggdra's coronation.
Yggdra and Durant already know about the monument, and so they won't react to them (the related event won't trigger for either character). Therefore, when the twins finally appear together in BF43, Yggdra has already realized the truth, and is the only member of the party who isn't surprised.
Aegina's past is not fully explained in this game, but her and Luciana's circumstances are thoroughly explored in the prequel game Blaze Union.
Aegina in "Blaze Union"
She joins the party in Chapter 2.
In this game she's depicted as serious, humble, and obedient, which is quite a departure from her ferocious behavior in Yggdra Union. However, she despises Fantasinia from the bottom of her heart, and the contrast between her burning hatred with her usual self surprises her teammates. Also, Aegina believes the Blessed Papal Army (see below) to be her personal burden to bear, and will go out of her way to avoid embroiling her friends in the crossfire. Her reluctance to burden her friends is an expression of how much she loves them, but her self-sacrificial courage is also a bad habit that puts her in danger.
Aegina is extremely well-mannered and especially deferential towards Garlot, who she regards with loving respect after he saves her life in their first meeting. She's polite to the rest of the party, too, but is more friendly with Siskier.
In this game Mai Nakahara voices all three Artwaltz sisters. In her performance Aegina has the most androgynous inflection of the three, and her voice is a bit higher than Luciana's, as in Tomoko Fujino's performance.
A group of assassins called the Blessed Papal Army are after Aegina and Luciana's lives. In the twins' first appearance, these assassins have just killed their foster father Albelt, and Luciana has broken her leg trying to escape, so Aegina meets the Blessed Papal Army head-on to distract them and buy Luciana time to escape. This might have spelled certain doom for the sisters, but luckily Gram Blaze happened to be passing through Albelt's lands on their way home to Tiera and so Luciana is able to ask them to save Aegina.
After this incident both sisters join Gram Blaze, but Luciana is stuck on the bench because of her leg, so only Aegina is a playable unit.
Through the story's common route she's a supporting character, but she becomes the focal character of the B route, which explains the twins' circumstances.
In this game, Aegina inherits Yggdra's famous "Come Near Me And I'll Kill You!" line. It must run in the family.
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※Spoilers for Blaze Union's B route below
Aegina ought to have been raised as second in line to Fantasinia's throne, but there was an attempt to assassinate her immediately after she was born. She and Luciana were only spared because an old soldier smuggled them across the border into Bronquia, where landholding noble Albelt adopted the twins and raised them in secret.
However, the Blessed Papal Army continued to threaten the twins' lives, and so Luciana and Aegina grew up deeply resenting their birth parents for not protecting them, as well as their younger sister Yggdra, who was raised as their replacement. The sisters survived sustained by the hope that they could one day take revenge on all of Fantasinia for abandoning them.
At the beginning of the B route the Blessed Papal Army murders Luciana. Aegina, unable to bear the grief of losing her sister on top of all the anger she's bottled up over the years, charges off to attack Fantasinia by herself in a fit of blind rage.
Velleman orders Gram Blaze to leave Aegina to die, but Garlot refuses point-blank to abandon a friend in need, and leads Gram Blaze to back Aegina up.
With Gram Blaze as her honor guard and Emilia's raw power after breaking the seal on her demon blood, Aegina is able to overcome the pursuers Velleman sends after her and break through Fantasinia's defenses to reach the capital city of Paltina. There, she confronts her father King Ordene, who failed to protect her, and the royal courtier Alanjame, the mastermind behind the plot to kill the twins.
※Spoilers for the politics behind the B route below
According to the background lore revealed in the Yggdra Union and Blaze Union artbooks, it was actually the queen who saved her own daughters. She was suspicious of the courtiers, and concocted the plan to have the twins smuggled out of the country behind her husband's back.
Alanjame, who wanted to avoid a succession crisis, is both the commander of the Blessed Papal Army and the ringleader of the assassination plot. However, Velleman was actually in cahoots with Alanjame all along, which is why he initially orders Garlot not to help the twins during their first meeting. He agrees to shelter the twins for his own benefit, as he becomes regent of the Albelt territory while they're underage (and gets to keep it if they should die); he also leaks the location of Gram Blaze's barracks to Alanjame.
At the beginning of the B route, Gram Blaze is sent to the west to help restore public order after having defeated Pandra, but on their way home they remark upon how there weren't actually any problems for them to solve there after all. This is because Velleman fed them fake information to get them away from the barracks so that Luciana would be left defenseless, making Velleman the direct mastermind behind Luciana's murder.
Velleman's skullduggery is never directly touched on in-game, but it's explained in depth in the Blaze Union artbook. If you replay the game with this information in mind, Velleman's suspicious behavior may stand out much more.
