Belenus

Belenus is an Einherjar from Valkyrie Profile. He is a Swordsman and can be recruited in Chapter 1.

A respected and kind nobleman, Belenus treats everyone, including his servants, with the utmost care and compassion. While originally from Gerabellum, his family appears to also have a house in Lassen. When he was young, one of the family's maids, Maria, noticed a young Yamato girl called Asaka at one of the Lassen slave auctions and, taking pity on her, brought her home. She raised her, and Belenus eventually fell in love with her, a feeling that appears to have been reciprocated. However, presumably because it would have been improper for him to be involved with a servant, Belenus married a noblewoman. Despite trying his best to love her, he could not help his feelings for Asaka. As a result, his wife became jealous and made a pact with a demon, Lady Beliza, which led to her death.

By that point, Belenus' father has been killed in a war and Maria has also passed on. Belenus thus finds himself hard-pressed to run the household on his own and resorts to buying another servant at a slave auction. He brings Asaka with him as an interpret, but she is reticent and stops on the way under the pretense of picking a flower. Upon being questioned, she answers that, while she knows that Belenus will treat the new servant kindly, she is upset at being able to have such power over a person's life. Belenus makes a comparison: picking a slave is like picking a flower; neither has a say in the matter, and yet Asaka sees nothing wrong with picking the flower. This makes her pensive. Belenus concludes by saying that, much like the flower and the slave, we are all at the mercy of a higher power - which he identifies as destiny.

Upon reaching the auction, Belenus and Asaka realize that there are no slaves for sale that day. Looking at the empty cage, Belenus reflects on his earlier words. He wonders whether destiny was really responsible for everything in his life: the deaths in his family, his meeting with Asaka, his own current circumstances. Asaka interrupts his musings, and they return home. That night, a spectre manifests in Belenus' room. Lenneth appears to slay it, and informs the startled Belenus that his home is cursed. Fearing for Asaka's safety, he runs to her room, only to find that a vampire summoned by Beliza has killed her. Heartbroken, Belenus begs Lenneth for help, but she says that it was Asaka's destiny to die. This repeated reference to destiny grieves him even more. Seeing his plight, Lenneth says that he may still perform the ritual of Soul Transfer: trade his own life for Asaka's. Seeing this as an opportunity to finally counteract his passivity in the face of circumstance, Belenus accepts the offer without hesitation, and Lenneth recruits him, impressed by his selflessness.

If Lenneth returns to Belenus' home after recruiting him, he will find a Pressed Flower in a drawer in his room, possibly the same one Asaka picked on their way to the slave auction.