In a shocking revelation, it turned out that Alexei was a traitor and had captured Estelle to use her power as a Child of the Full Moon to resurrect an ancient weapon known as Zaude. Raven turned out to have been living a double life: Both as Raven, member of the guild Altosk, and as Commander Scwhann, a knight indebted to Alexei. Schwann was instructed to eliminate Yuri, Rita, and the rest of the group. However, they eventually got through to him, and he protected them and allowed them to go after Alexei.
At the top of Zaude, Alexei activate the weapon, or at least what he thought was a weapon. It was actually a barrier. A barrier protecting them from the ancient catastrophe: The Adephagos. With the Adephagos released, time was running out and it was up to Rita to figure out a formula that could balance the aer in the world and drive back the Adephagos. She constructed a formula that combined the remains of an Entelexia along with an aer krene and Estelle’s power that would convert the aer into a substance known as mana. The formula worked way, way better than expected. It converted the Apatheia (Remains of an Entelexia/An extremely potent Blastia Core) into a corporeal being known as a Spirit. The Spirits were not only able to regulate the flow of aer, but were also a sort of antidote towards the Adephagos and the only way to combat it. They created four great elemental Spirits with the Apatheia, but their power still wasn’t nearly enough to eliminate with the Adephagos. The only feasible solution was to convert every single Blastia in the world into a Spirit in order to combat the Adephagos. Rita constructed a device, aptly named by Karol as “Vesperia No. 1,” that would act as an artificial Dein Nomos (The sword of Duke, who controlled the aer at Keiv Moc) and focus together all of the power from the Spirits to destroy the Adephagos. Rita, with the help of a few other mages from Asipo constructed a network between all of the Blastia in the world. When Vesperia No. 1 would be activated close enough to the Adephagos, all of the Blastia in the world would be converted at once and gather to combat the great catastrophe in the sky.
While Rita and the others were continuing their quest, the mysterious Duke was working towards his own goals. Rather than work with the group towards their solution, he sought to create his own. He saw humans as selfish creatures always inclined to betray each other, he saw them as a taint towards the beauty and splendor of the natural world, along with their wretched blastia. By raising an ancient ruin from the mountains around Aspio known as the Floating Castle of Tarquaran, he sought to destroy the Adephagos with the combined energy of every human life. He would rather exterminate them all than change the world like Yuri and his party intended.
Before setting off towards Tarquaran, Rita snuck out to check on her calculations for the Vesperia No. 1, but ended up speaking with Judith, who was earlier revealed to have been the infamous “Dragon freak.” Rita wasn’t too resentful of her anymore; as she understood that Judith was just trying to protect what was important to her in her own way. Seeing as without any blastia to destroy anymore, she wondered what Judith was going to do with her life now that she’d essentially lost what her original purpose for living was. Judith asked Rita the same question, because without any blastia research to do, what could she devote herself to? Rita, while sounding rather nervous and unsure, remarked that she still had a lot of things that she could research. She revealed how much she’d changed over the course of her journey, how she realized that there are things that she can believe in besides blastia, and just how much she’s grown attached to everyone in their group. Judith’s reply is similar, citing how she’ll just travel the world with her friend and Entelexia, Ba’ul. Rita mentions that she should take Estelle with her, as there’s still a lot the princess needs to see in this world. Judith agrees, but mentions how lonely it’ll be without Rita. Flushed and embarrassed, Rita admits that she could probably come along if they really wanted her to. But between then and that, stood one long, crisis of a day.
“…All the different people, different things on this journey….you know?” “Yeah, I do. I never dreamed I’d end up like this. …I don’t want to go back.”
Upon further examination of Tarquaran after they had begun their, ascent, it seemed as though it was yet another stroke of genius by the ancient Gerios civilization that had invented the blastia. Like Zaude, it too seemed to be a weapon, and Duke was sitting atop, ready to eliminate all life on Terca Lumereis. After a long, enduring ascent the group finally came face to face with Duke on the summit of Tarquaran and attempted one last time to sway him to their side of things. Each of them stated their plan and their convictions. They pleaded that the world was evolving and changing for the better, and to just obliterate everything out of fear for what that change might bring was the wrong thing to do. But Duke countered with his own ideals, and it became clear that he was not going to just give up without a fight. He lifted Dein Nomos towards the group and prepared to fight for his vision of the world, as it should be. A world he would risk his life to preserve.
“Young mage…Can you truly stand by while all this world’s blastia are lost…?” “I don’t care. My conviction is what mattered. My faith in blastia… …Actually, it was more like love.” “In the end, though, they were not worth risking your life to save.” “What are you, stupid? It’s not about ‘risking my life.’ Even without blastia, there are plenty of things in this world worth loving.” Abandoning the old for the convenience of the new…Perhaps that would work… But I for one, will risk my life. Though I must endure the scorn of youth. I will risk my life to protect this world!”
Personality: Rita isn’t the kind of character that can be summed up into a single adjective. Her dimensions are numerous and she has a life of pure peculiarity that lends itself to her eccentric existence.
But most obviously, and perhaps, most prominent in Rita is her hot-blooded, brash, say-what’s-on-my-mind attitude. This behavior is a result of her minimal contact with other people in social situations. She never built the kind of social skills that result in caring about what other people think, or being tactful towards other people’s feelings. It isn’t that she speaks without thinking and comes off as harsh, it’s that she is brutally honest regardless of whom it is she’s speaking to. She’s certainly rude with her honestly, and won’t spare several insults if you’re getting on her nerves. Yuri notes her as the type to hold a grudge, and if you cross her in the wrong way, she isn’t going to forget it. Even as close and compassionate as she becomes towards Estelle, she constantly finds herself in moments where she speaks her true feelings a little too loudly and accidentally hurts the girl’s feelings.
Similarly from her life without parents, friends, or a family to support her, Rita gained incredible autonomy, which only served to foster her brilliance. She never had to rely on anyone for anything. She never took handouts and wouldn’t dare take assistance from someone else. She even goes as far as to show disdain for those who rely solely on others, scoffing at the sorry state of the Guilds after the Don was killed. Individuality, thinking for yourself, and not conforming into a blind follower are all traits she values in herself as well as others.
Rita is well aware of how smart she is, and is confident enough to rely on herself and herself only. She became hyper realistic growing up in the way that she did, always peaking towards the logical conclusion rather than the idyllic conclusion. With Rita it always follows the scientific method. Hypothesis, Test, Record! Logic rules all under the lenses of her pink goggles. You can constantly find her talking to herself, carefully examining her environment and analyzing it. In a world where Rita doesn’t know what’s going on or how it works, she’d be distressed to the point of self-harm.
Though her interests remained mostly among blastia, throughout her journey with Yuri and Estelle, she came to find other things she could love and study, and so long as there was a world she could keep learning and keep discovering things. She isn’t afraid of failing or messing up if it means she can make a discovery, if it means that she can grow.
In the wake of her hyper realistic attitude and mindset, things that can’t be explained such as ghosts or curses kind of…cause her to completely wig out. If something can’t be explained, it couldn’t possibly exist! Because…that would be terrifying! This is one of her few true weaknesses when it comes to phobia, and can easily be exploited, though you’ll probably just get punched in the arm.
Rita has always been pretty adamant about hiding any positive feelings towards others. Any time someone suggests that she may be acting warmly or kindly, she’ll quickly dismiss it with a flustered blush and a resounding, “I-It’s not like that! Humph, idiot…” and yet another punch in the arm. If she’s going to be open about her feels and not hide behind the “Humph! Idiot!” barrier, you better bet she swears you to secrecy over it.
A primary mode of frustration with Estelle and many of her friends is that they go off and do things without thinking. And though she’d likely act the same way if a blastia were on the line, she’s still going to accost you for being an idiot and endangering yourself. Again, logic rules over emotion, and emotion isn’t worth a stupid, pointless death.
Rita always saw herself as a bit of an outlier. Whenever she would discover something, she would find the mages in Aspio discussing the same thing two months later. Rita figured that talking to them was just a waste because she’d never get anything stimulating out of them. She was the smartest one of them all, and because she was so smart, she had nobody to relate to her. Rita really was too smart for her own good. It was just one of many things that deprived her of a normal social life.
At the end of the day though, if you’ve earned Rita’s loyalty and her friendship, you better believe she’ll be fighting by your side until the bitter end. As logical as she can get, and as hypocritical as it might make her sometimes, she just couldn’t abandon a friend. The closeness she gained with Estelle and the rest of her group had an extremely profound effect on the young mage, and because of it, she found something worth preserving, regardless of what she had to do to do it.
“I don’t have any family, so I don’t….but…I kinda like, you know, how we are.”
Rita Mordio|Tales of Vesperia|Reserved|Part 2
At the top of Zaude, Alexei activate the weapon, or at least what he thought was a weapon. It was actually a barrier. A barrier protecting them from the ancient catastrophe: The Adephagos. With the Adephagos released, time was running out and it was up to Rita to figure out a formula that could balance the aer in the world and drive back the Adephagos. She constructed a formula that combined the remains of an Entelexia along with an aer krene and Estelle’s power that would convert the aer into a substance known as mana. The formula worked way, way better than expected. It converted the Apatheia (Remains of an Entelexia/An extremely potent Blastia Core) into a corporeal being known as a Spirit. The Spirits were not only able to regulate the flow of aer, but were also a sort of antidote towards the Adephagos and the only way to combat it. They created four great elemental Spirits with the Apatheia, but their power still wasn’t nearly enough to eliminate with the Adephagos. The only feasible solution was to convert every single Blastia in the world into a Spirit in order to combat the Adephagos. Rita constructed a device, aptly named by Karol as “Vesperia No. 1,” that would act as an artificial Dein Nomos (The sword of Duke, who controlled the aer at Keiv Moc) and focus together all of the power from the Spirits to destroy the Adephagos. Rita, with the help of a few other mages from Asipo constructed a network between all of the Blastia in the world. When Vesperia No. 1 would be activated close enough to the Adephagos, all of the Blastia in the world would be converted at once and gather to combat the great catastrophe in the sky.
While Rita and the others were continuing their quest, the mysterious Duke was working towards his own goals. Rather than work with the group towards their solution, he sought to create his own. He saw humans as selfish creatures always inclined to betray each other, he saw them as a taint towards the beauty and splendor of the natural world, along with their wretched blastia. By raising an ancient ruin from the mountains around Aspio known as the Floating Castle of Tarquaran, he sought to destroy the Adephagos with the combined energy of every human life. He would rather exterminate them all than change the world like Yuri and his party intended.
Before setting off towards Tarquaran, Rita snuck out to check on her calculations for the Vesperia No. 1, but ended up speaking with Judith, who was earlier revealed to have been the infamous “Dragon freak.” Rita wasn’t too resentful of her anymore; as she understood that Judith was just trying to protect what was important to her in her own way. Seeing as without any blastia to destroy anymore, she wondered what Judith was going to do with her life now that she’d essentially lost what her original purpose for living was. Judith asked Rita the same question, because without any blastia research to do, what could she devote herself to? Rita, while sounding rather nervous and unsure, remarked that she still had a lot of things that she could research. She revealed how much she’d changed over the course of her journey, how she realized that there are things that she can believe in besides blastia, and just how much she’s grown attached to everyone in their group. Judith’s reply is similar, citing how she’ll just travel the world with her friend and Entelexia, Ba’ul. Rita mentions that she should take Estelle with her, as there’s still a lot the princess needs to see in this world. Judith agrees, but mentions how lonely it’ll be without Rita. Flushed and embarrassed, Rita admits that she could probably come along if they really wanted her to. But between then and that, stood one long, crisis of a day.
“Yeah, I do. I never dreamed I’d end up like this. …I don’t want to go back.”
Upon further examination of Tarquaran after they had begun their, ascent, it seemed as though it was yet another stroke of genius by the ancient Gerios civilization that had invented the blastia. Like Zaude, it too seemed to be a weapon, and Duke was sitting atop, ready to eliminate all life on Terca Lumereis. After a long, enduring ascent the group finally came face to face with Duke on the summit of Tarquaran and attempted one last time to sway him to their side of things. Each of them stated their plan and their convictions. They pleaded that the world was evolving and changing for the better, and to just obliterate everything out of fear for what that change might bring was the wrong thing to do. But Duke countered with his own ideals, and it became clear that he was not going to just give up without a fight. He lifted Dein Nomos towards the group and prepared to fight for his vision of the world, as it should be. A world he would risk his life to preserve.
“I don’t care. My conviction is what mattered. My faith in blastia… …Actually, it was more like love.”
“In the end, though, they were not worth risking your life to save.”
“What are you, stupid? It’s not about ‘risking my life.’ Even without blastia, there are plenty of things in this world worth loving.”
Abandoning the old for the convenience of the new…Perhaps that would work…
But I for one, will risk my life. Though I must endure the scorn of youth. I will risk my life to protect this world!”
Personality: Rita isn’t the kind of character that can be summed up into a single adjective. Her dimensions are numerous and she has a life of pure peculiarity that lends itself to her eccentric existence.
But most obviously, and perhaps, most prominent in Rita is her hot-blooded, brash, say-what’s-on-my-mind attitude. This behavior is a result of her minimal contact with other people in social situations. She never built the kind of social skills that result in caring about what other people think, or being tactful towards other people’s feelings. It isn’t that she speaks without thinking and comes off as harsh, it’s that she is brutally honest regardless of whom it is she’s speaking to. She’s certainly rude with her honestly, and won’t spare several insults if you’re getting on her nerves. Yuri notes her as the type to hold a grudge, and if you cross her in the wrong way, she isn’t going to forget it. Even as close and compassionate as she becomes towards Estelle, she constantly finds herself in moments where she speaks her true feelings a little too loudly and accidentally hurts the girl’s feelings.
Similarly from her life without parents, friends, or a family to support her, Rita gained incredible autonomy, which only served to foster her brilliance. She never had to rely on anyone for anything. She never took handouts and wouldn’t dare take assistance from someone else. She even goes as far as to show disdain for those who rely solely on others, scoffing at the sorry state of the Guilds after the Don was killed. Individuality, thinking for yourself, and not conforming into a blind follower are all traits she values in herself as well as others.
Rita is well aware of how smart she is, and is confident enough to rely on herself and herself only. She became hyper realistic growing up in the way that she did, always peaking towards the logical conclusion rather than the idyllic conclusion. With Rita it always follows the scientific method. Hypothesis, Test, Record! Logic rules all under the lenses of her pink goggles. You can constantly find her talking to herself, carefully examining her environment and analyzing it. In a world where Rita doesn’t know what’s going on or how it works, she’d be distressed to the point of self-harm.
Though her interests remained mostly among blastia, throughout her journey with Yuri and Estelle, she came to find other things she could love and study, and so long as there was a world she could keep learning and keep discovering things. She isn’t afraid of failing or messing up if it means she can make a discovery, if it means that she can grow.
In the wake of her hyper realistic attitude and mindset, things that can’t be explained such as ghosts or curses kind of…cause her to completely wig out. If something can’t be explained, it couldn’t possibly exist! Because…that would be terrifying! This is one of her few true weaknesses when it comes to phobia, and can easily be exploited, though you’ll probably just get punched in the arm.
Rita has always been pretty adamant about hiding any positive feelings towards others. Any time someone suggests that she may be acting warmly or kindly, she’ll quickly dismiss it with a flustered blush and a resounding, “I-It’s not like that! Humph, idiot…” and yet another punch in the arm. If she’s going to be open about her feels and not hide behind the “Humph! Idiot!” barrier, you better bet she swears you to secrecy over it.
A primary mode of frustration with Estelle and many of her friends is that they go off and do things without thinking. And though she’d likely act the same way if a blastia were on the line, she’s still going to accost you for being an idiot and endangering yourself. Again, logic rules over emotion, and emotion isn’t worth a stupid, pointless death.
Rita always saw herself as a bit of an outlier. Whenever she would discover something, she would find the mages in Aspio discussing the same thing two months later. Rita figured that talking to them was just a waste because she’d never get anything stimulating out of them. She was the smartest one of them all, and because she was so smart, she had nobody to relate to her. Rita really was too smart for her own good. It was just one of many things that deprived her of a normal social life.
At the end of the day though, if you’ve earned Rita’s loyalty and her friendship, you better believe she’ll be fighting by your side until the bitter end. As logical as she can get, and as hypocritical as it might make her sometimes, she just couldn’t abandon a friend. The closeness she gained with Estelle and the rest of her group had an extremely profound effect on the young mage, and because of it, she found something worth preserving, regardless of what she had to do to do it.