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“I can't believe an airhead like you is serving under that calm and collected Lord Runan. Why do you want to know my name? If that was a pickup line, then I'm afraid I've heard far better.”
—Estelle, in a conversation with Arkis

Estelle is a playable character from TearRing Saga: Utna Heroes Saga. She is the daughter of Count Merlon of Verge and the adopted sister of Raffin. Despite her father's opposition, she became a knight in order to be helpful to him.

Profile[]

Estelle is introduced when she offers to accompany Raffin to thank Runan and his knights for rescuing Sasha. In her first scene, she teases Raffin by claiming that he has romantic feelings for Sasha. She is soon scolded and reminded that she should be training instead of discussing trivial matters. When Runan arrives in Verge seeking aid from Merlon, she and Raffin decide to help him by joining his army. Early in the game, she meets Arkis and immediately turns down his offer to become her bodyguard. Due to his flirtatious behavior, she has a low opinion of him and initially refuses to introduce herself. However, once Arkis reveals that he honors all of his comrades by memorizing their names, Estelle gives out her name, but says that she does not ask for him to remember it.

If Raffin accepted the Dragon Flute from Sharon, he and Estelle part ways in the ending, as he returns to Barge with Sharon. When she reunites with Merlon, he reminds her that she is now his only successor and therefore has more responsibilities. However, if Raffin refused to accept the flute, he and Estelle return to Verge together.

Personality[]

Estelle has a serious and harsh personality, although she can occasionally be playful. She is pampered as a result of her noble upbringing, and Arkis assumes that she expects others to look after all of her personal needs. She harbors a tendency to lash out at others, even over trivial matters. She fears that Raffin will eventually leave her behind for Barge without a second thought and accuses him of not caring about her. Despite being aware of her inexperience on the battlefield, she refuses to have a bodyguard. She also thinks that Rina is old enough to be considered a lady and tells Arkis that he should see her as one rather than a child.

In-Game[]

Recruitment[]

Automatically from the start of Map 2.

Base Stats[]

Starting ClassGroup
RookKnight FRook KnightTS group horse Horseback
LevelHPStrMagSklAglLckDefWlvMov
22140445437
SkillsWeaponStarting Items
City City Fighter

TS Life or Death Life or Death (Lv 14)
TS Elite Elite (Lv 20)

TS Gale Gale (Lv 28)
TS SwordSword
TS LanceLance
SlimLanceTRSSlim Lance
TS Short SwordShort Sword

Growth Rates[]

HP Str Mag Skl Agl Lck Wlv Def Mov
50% 30% 15% 30% 35% 45% 25% 18% 0%

Supports[]

Promotion[]

Item Required Promoted Class
Ts-knight-proof Knight Proof Paladin Paladin
+3 +3 +0 +4 +4 +3 +3 +1

Overall[]

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Subjective: The following part of this article is based upon the editor's personal experiences and opinions, and therefore may not be applicable for all readers.

Estelle is a rather curious unit, as she can either range from being surprisingly competent to merely being a utility bot.

To start off, Estelle comes with poor bases, with her 3 Mastery causing a lot of problems for her in the earlygame. While she can use the Chapter 1 Mastery Potion, her low base power means that she is going to struggle 2HKOing much early on. She also learns Elite far too late, meaning that training her up will prove to be more challenging early on in contrast to Narron. Still, the game gives her several opportunities to get experience so that she can reach promotion such as Chapter 8.

In contrast to Arkis and Kriess, Estelle benefits greatly from the early Knight Crest as she gains a respectable boost to all of her stats. She should also be able to use Pilums and can reliably keep up outdoors thanks to her 8 Movement (which is further boosted to 9 via Urbanite). However, her performance on Runan's route does leave a bit to be desired as the enemies there come with Iron Shields, which somewhat mitigates her otherwise respectable offense. On Holmes' Route, she faces similar problems to Roger as her usefulness is ultimately restricted to indoor maps and can struggle to double enemies consistently due to having 4 AS with Pilums equipped. Despite these minor setbacks, her performance in the mid-to-lategame is still solid enough, making a better overall unit to invest in than the Christmas Cavaliers. She also learns Wrath at Level 14, which is a nice bonus for training her.

Now as promising as these traits are, there is an inevitable problem that most people have that radically changes her viability: her competition with Narron. Narron comes with significantly better bases, skills and promotion gains than Estelle, and thanks to Elite, he is significantly easier to train than her. In that case, she has to wait until Chapter 8 to get hands on another Knight Crest (which most players tend to skip anyways due to it being so far away) and if she doesn't, she would have to compete with a slew of competition (namely from Lionel, San and even Billford) for the later ones. Even if you were to sucessfully promote by that point, the player should have several strong late-game mounts such as Mintz, Roger, Raphael and Lionheart, making her ultimately redundant. Despite this, Estelle can be decent early on with her ability to support Raffin (and other units if she has Lan's Mirror) as well as being a VIP shopping bot on Chapter 9.

Overall, Estelle is a great example of how external factors can radically shape a unit's performance. If the player hasn't chosen Narron, she can prove to be quite the competent unit and can still maintain some limited utility even if they did. She may never be the best unit in the game, but she is definitely far from the worst.

Quotes[]

“Brother...”
—Estelle's death quote on Runan's route
“No... Raffin, save me...!”
—Estelle's death quote on Holmes's route

Etymology[]

Estelle is a French feminine name that was derived from the Latin word stella, meaning "star". Her name in fan translations, Esther, is feminine given name that also means "star". In the Bible, Esther was the eponymous heroine of the seventeenth book of the Old Testament and a Jewish woman who became the queen of Persia.

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