The ecology depicted in the world of the manga features an environment with many different living organisms. The anime expands this world-building.
In the world of Frieren, species can be categorized into humanoids, monsters, demons, fauna, and flora. Flora and fauna are often utilized as resources by characters.
Environment[]
During the travels of the Hero Party and Frieren's Party, the adventurers traverse various landscapes with different kinds of organisms. The world is set up with climate zones in multiple locations that directly influence a biome. Warmer global weather patterns shape the Central Lands and get colder towards the Northern Lands. There are differentiations between local climates in coastal regions, such as the area around the city of Warm, or regions of high altitude, such as the Schwer Mountains. A variety of ecological systems, including oceans, forests, alpine regions, underground cavities, and snowfields exist as a result.
Biodiversity[]
Biodiversity occupies habitats on the ground, in the water, and in the sky. The various ecology appear to have adapted to the ecological systems they belong to.[1][2]
Some lifeforms utilize mana, but mana can also be infused into nonliving matter, such as the Magic-Nullifying Crystals,[3] and seems to be a property of the world itself. Some species can accumulate mana in their individual mana reserves, and they can train throughout their lives to increase these reserves.[4] Other species fit in niches, such as the Stille birds, which are sensitive to sources of mana while simultaneously possessing very little mana themselves.[5] Some forms of biodiversity also exhibit magical properties, and their parts can be used as ingredients for magic rituals, such as the Shadow Dragon's Horn.[6] Certain environmental substances, such as the Holy Snow Crystals, can be used in commodities like Magic potions.[7]
Humanoids[]
Humanoids, also known under the umbrella term "humanity" or "mankind," refer to not only humans, but also elves and dwarves.
Monsters[]
Monsters are classified as creatures that disintegrate into mana particles upon death. They often utilize mana and may be aggressive or passive. Some are territorial, while others are traverse the continent. They are drawn to sources of mana, such as the monsters attracted to the Sword of the Hero,[8] and Chaos Flowers, which consume the mana of their prey.[9]
Demons[]
- Main article: Demon
Demons are defined as "monsters that use the power of words" by the Great Mage Flamme.[10] They are monsters that have evolved into forms that mimic the voices and appearances of humans, lending them better access to their prey.
Fauna[]
Fauna can be divided into wildlife and domesticated animals. They are used as resources for sustenance and labor.
Flora[]
Flora are the basis of the Frieren ecosystems. They typically grow in the wild or are harvested as domesticated species by humans. Humans are seen using flora for sustenance, medicine, and enrichment.
List of Monsters, Fauna, and Flora[]
Named Monsters[]
| Monsters | |
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| Image | Description |
| Mimic ｢ミミック Mimikku?｣ | |
| A monster that disguises itself as a treasure chest. When opened, its teeth and tongue are revealed. It swallows its prey, but can be defeated from the inside through offensive magic or by externally pushing the trapped victim further into the mimic, which stimulates a gag reflex and stops biting the victim.[11] Chest that appear suspicious can be checked for being a mimic with the spell: Mikheit that has a fail chance of one percent which is why Frieren knowingly gives every chest a try.
Geographic Range: Continent-wide, in dungeons | |
| Shadow Dragon ｢ | |
| Not much is known about the dragon species itself. By the time of Himmel's death, Shadow Dragons had not been seen for twenty to thirty years,[12] and it has been difficult to find them since the Demon King's defeat. The horns of Shadow Dragons are considered valuable, and they exude a dark aura and can be used for summoning. Unlike the horns of other dragon species shown, the Shadow Dragon's horn does not evaporate into mana particles.[13][note 1]
Geographic Range: Unknown | |
| Einsam: Phantom Demon[note 2] ｢ | |
| A monster that exclusively consumes humans. It appears with a naked pale grey upper body, silver-white long strands of hair and a lower body in a dark black clowd. It lures its prey with illusions of the dead. It uses its prey's memories to create illusions of those who are dear to them that can speak. Its illusions can be dispersed with highly concentrated mana, such as offensive spells.
Geographic Range: Wille Region | |
| Solar Dragon ｢ | |
| Large dragons with cat-like body-frame and yellow eyes, large red wings, and tough red scales that can withstand ordinary offense magic without taking any damage.[14] The solar dragon is able to fly and breathe fire. Its claws can cut through buildings like vegetables. They build their nests with objects infused with mana. It is a highly intelligent creature and is cautious with powerful foes.
Geographic Range: Riegel Canyon | |
| Lord of the Mountains ｢ | |
  Frieren's Party faces off against the Lord of the Mountains. |
A wolf-like monster that presides over other monsters attracted to the Hero's Sword. It is a many-eyed creature with a long light blue mane, primarily light-colored fur, and dark legs and arms. It attacks with the sharp claws on its paws. It has been around for less than 80 years.
Geographic Range: Schwer Mountains |
| Chaos Flower ｢ | |
| Chaos flowers curse their prey to sleep and slowly absorb their prey's mana. Subspecies are produced through mating with native plants in the area. The flower attacks with its leaves and vines. The weakness of the chaos flower is its core. The subspecies encountered in the Laub Hills has shiny, mirror-like leaves and petals that reflect magic directed at its core.
Geographic Range: Laub Hills | |
| Geisel ｢ | |
| A light gray colored, bird-like monster with red, pocked eyes and a whip-like tail. It hunts by casting spells on corpses in order to lure in the next targets. The spell allows them to detect when the corpses are moved. The monster attacks its prey with the tail and clenches it afterward with the claws on the feet to pick on it.
Geographic Range: Kühl Region | |
| Gargoyle ｢ガーゴイル Gāgoiru?｣ | |
| A humanoid monster with large spike-tipped wings, two short horns on its forehead and two large horns further back on its head, and long talon-like fingers and claws. It can disguise itself as a statue and is easier to defeat before it starts moving. When attacking it can use physical force but is also capable to fire red magic beams at their prey.
Geographic Range: Ruins of the King's Tomb | |
| Spiegel ｢ | |
| A water-mirror demon[note 3] and the lord of the Ruins of the King's Tomb. A monster from the mythical era that appears in Ewig the Sage's tales. The Spiegel is able to read the memories of those who enter the dungeon and create perfect clones of its targets that replicate the original physical body's strength, mana, and techniques. The clones do not actually possess minds; they simply imitate the actions of the original. Spiegel itself is a diamond with scroll detailing and crystals protruding from it in a circle. It is frail with a diamond-shaped structure encircled by oblong purple crystals and incapable of attacking. Upon its defeat, all its clones are destroyed.
Geographic Range: Ruins of the King's Tomb | |
| Hell Emperor Dragon / Abyssal Dragon ｢ | |
  The Hero Party fights an Abyssal Dragon. |
Thought to be the strongest of the draconic species in the Northern Plateau. It has a light colored body, dark legs, dark wings, and a dark tail. The Abyssal Dragon can fire a powerful beam of energy from its mouth.
Geographic Range: Northern Plateau |
| Venomous Apex Dragon ｢ | |
  The venomous apex dragon chases after Frieren's Party. |
A monster that has made its lair in a cave of magic-nullifying crystal. It is a large amphibious monster with multiple eyes, fins on its head, catfish-like whiskers, and tentacle-like appendages for the lower half of the body.
Geographic Range: Saum Marshes |
| Kraken ｢クラーケン Kurāken?｣ | |
  The kraken of Lake Korridor. |
A giant sea monster with tentacles that dwells in large bodies of water. It resembles a squid and an octopus and has large black eyes. It is large enough to pick up rowboats and humans with its tentacles.
Geographic Range: Lake Korridor |
| Sky-Mountain Dragon ｢ | |
| An enormous dragon that is gentle and dislikes conflict. It resembles a turtle and its slightly arched back stretches as large as an island. It spends its entire life in the sky, usually higher than flight magic is able to reach, and only descends when it dies. Its back is covered with vegetation that often cannot be found on the ground, and it forms unique ecosystems that have been isolated from the world for tens of thousands of years.
Geographic Range: Extremely high altitudes in the sky | |
Unnamed Monsters[]
| Unnamed Monsters | |
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| Geographic Range: Central Lands | |
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A giant dog-like monster encountered by the original Hero Party on the way to see the meteor shower in the Central Lands. |
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A many horned monster that was resistant to fire and attacked the herbalist's village in the Turk Region. Defeated by the Hero Himmel. The appearance is in a flashback of the herbalist. |
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A two-legged monster with 3-fingered hands that end in purple claws. It has 2 horns on its head. It has an impressive mane. The body is gray colored with dark-reddish tribalistic patterns. The appearance is in a flashback of Fern. |
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A monster with two faces in a ghoulish expression, multiple arms, and long white hair. The first monster Fern ever fought. The appearance was in a flashback of Fern.
First Appearance: Episode 6 (anime), Chapter 11 (manga) |
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A cow-like monster,[note 4] with two horns and tusks on the left and right side of the lower jar. The ribcage is on the outside. They were defeated by Frieren and Fern in a flashback.
First Appearance: Episode 9 (anime), Chapter 19 (manga) |
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A large boar-like monster, that has multiple eyes and tusks is defeated by Stoltz in the past near the Warrior Villages of the Klee Region.
First Appearance: Episode 12 (anime), Chapter 26 (manga) |
| Geographic Range: Northern Lands | |
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A earthen colored two-horned flying monster with gargoyle-like appearance featuring two wings and tail. It has claws on all four extremities, which are two arms and two hind legs. It is stopped by a barrier over Graf Granat's town.
First Appearance: Episode 8 |
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A four-legged monster with canid appearances and long, gray manes. They answer to the Lord of the Mountain and are similar in appearance to it. They attack in packs. Found in the Schwer Mountains.
First Appearance: Episode 12 (anime), Chapter 25 (manga) |
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A bird-like monster with lime-green colored feathers and sharp claws. It hunts by slamming its prey against the ground.[15] Frieren's Party was accosted by this creature in the Bande Woods.
First Appearance: Episode 14 (anime), Chapter 30 (manga) |
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A large light brown colored chimera monster with two distinct heads. One head resembles a goat-like appearance with a long face and prominent horns protruding out of it. The other head looks more lion-like, with a mane and sharp teeth visible. It has four sturdy legs with paws. Stark and Sein fight it in the region near the Rohr Road.
First Appearance: Episode 16 (anime), Chapter 34 (manga) |
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A three-headed dragon with angular head and jagged fangs. The sturdy body is covered in spiked armor plates and the tail ends in three overlaying leaf-like plates. Its territory encompasses the route to the secret hot springs. Frieren's Party fight this creature in the Etwas Mountains
First Appearance: Chapter 65 |
| Geographic Range: Northern Plateau | |
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A bipedal reptilian-like creature with claws and a tail. It has three spikey and backward-directed horns with a central larger one on its head. It hunts in groups and surrounds its prey. Encountered in the Nachricht Region.
First Appearance: Chapter 68 |
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A colossal golem-like creature with a bulky humanoid body, long arms covered in bumps that hang down past its knees and two horns protruding out of the head over the ears. Encountered in the Nachricht Region.
First Appearance: Chapter 68 |
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A dragon with large, bat-like wings. It has a large, pointed head with two massive up and inward-bent horns and more spikes at bot sides down to the neck. Encountered in the Nachricht Region.
First Appearance: Chapter 68 |
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An enormous, serpentine monster with multiple eyes, fangs in the mouth and a three-forked tongue. The body has forearm-long protuberance that run along each side. Encountered in the Nachricht Region.
First Appearance: Chapter 68 |
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A muscular, monster of humanoid shape with 2 up and inward-bent horns, hair that reaches the ground, a beard, and reptilian feet. It wears a simple garment that wraps around its waist and a one-sided shoulder pauldron. It wields a sword and has been terrorizing the settlement in the Nachricht Region. Frieren's Party defeats it.
First Appearance: Chapter 68 |
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A dragon-like monster with two straight back-protruding horns, a large body and a pair of wings on the back. The creature appears in a flashback of Frieren who remembers its demise by the Hero Party at the start of the travel through the Northern Plateau.
First Appearance: Chapter 68 |
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Small dragons with sleak bodies, wings, elongated necks and pointy snouts with spiked occiputs. The tail is thin and end in leaf-like shape. They gather in a large thunder. Frieren's Party defeats a thunder of these dragons in the Drachen Region.
First Appearance: Chapter 77 |
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Large bird-like monsters with robust bodies, sharp beaks and long talons. They use their wings to create strong gusts of wind to blow their prey from high places into their doom. The creatures are found in the Great Tor Canyon.
First Appearance: Chapter 79 |
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A large wolf-like monster with a hefty body, long whiskers and a mane at the back which appears to have a grey-dark accent. Its fluffy tail is split in two. The creature prowls in regions with Holy Snow Crystals and can be encountered on the Schmal Snowfield.
First Appearance: Chapter 80 |
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An anthropomorphized canin-like monster. The head is distinctly wolfish, with a pointed snout, erect ears, and a mane of fur encircling the neck. They wear tunics with straps and buckles and utilize human weaponry and tactics. The Hero Party fought packs of them in the Kino Pass.
First Appearance: Chapter 111 |
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Giant, black canine monsters with spiral eyes and white stripes that hunt together in a pack. Encountered by the Hero Party.
First Appearance: Chapter 115 |
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A dragon with two long horns, a slender torso, a spike covered back, four long legs and two bat-like wings. It has the dragon breath and likes to toss its prey through the air. Encountered by the Hero Party.
First Appearance: Chapter 115 |
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A large feline-like monster with dark stripes on the back and markings on the upper legs. It has sharp long claws on the paws. It was slain by Himmel the Hero on his visit to the goddess monument in the Kino Pass.
First Appearance: Chapter 119 |
| Geographic Range: Imperial Territory | |
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A ten-meter long serpent that Himmel originally defeated in Bohne Village. The tale has become more exaggerated over time, with Stark hearing that the serpent was a thousand meters long.
First Appearance: Chapter 120 |
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A pack of large felid monsters that have been causing trouble on the roads in the Farbe Region. A villager gives Frieren's Party a vase that causes nightmares to subjugate the monsters.
First Appearance: Chapter 121 |
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A wolf-like creature with a sharp snout filled with sharp teeth. Its mane around the neck and the fur looks bristly. It has a long sweeping ponytail. Frieren's Party encounters Count Armée wrestling it near the Titan Fortress Ruins.
First Appearance: Chapter 122 |
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A lizard-like creature with a long snout filled with sharp teeth. The head has frill-like protrusions covering a part of the neck. It has long claws on the front paws. Deeming it too dangerous, Frieren's Party and Count Armée run from it in the Titan Fortress Ruins.
First Appearance: Chapter 122 |
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A colossal snake-like creature with incredible mana. The scaled body ends in a head with a single enormous horn. It has a single left eye but six eyes on the right side. Its mouth features two arm-long fangs. Frieren's Party and Count Armée fight it in the Titan Fortress Ruins.
First Appearance: Chapter 122 |
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A huge rodent-like monster with two up and front-bent goat-like horns. In the snout, it has sharp teeth and 2 large upward fangs. The fur on the head is short and coarse with light and dark patches. A weapons master compliments Stark for defeating it in the Hören Region.
First Appearance: Chapter 123 |
| Geographic Range: Unknown | |
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A monster with a reptilian-like appearance, two horns, scaly and rough skin chases the Hero Party in a flashback of Frieren's memory. |
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A bulky monster with two thick downwards curling horns coming out of a canine-like skull. The lower jaw carries four long fangs. The monster wears leather clothing held by a strap over his shoulder. Around both wrists, it wears sleeves with thick spikes. The monster was fought by the Hero Party in the past, where Heiter has a memory of it.
First Appearance: Chapter 2 |
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An imagination by Frieren of Undead as a general term to refer to corpses controlled by magic like Zombies or animated Skeletons to educate Fern about the difference to Ghosts. |
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A quadruped monster with a long, flowing mane and tail and 3 large horns. Fought by the Hero Party in the past, where Eisen readily admitted his fear of it. The appearance was in a flashback of Frieren.
First Appearance: Episode 6 (anime), Chapter 11 (manga) |
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An enormous eagle-like monster, which the young Himmel defeated near his hometown to save a peddler. The peddler rewarded him with a replica of the Sword of the Hero as a token of gratitude.[16][note 5]
First Appearance: Chapter 25 (manga) |
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A grey dragon, with large wings and two big back and upwards bent horns, that is capable of shooting blasts out of the mouth, is a memory of Frieren of the Hero Party escaping in a flashback.
First Appearance: Episode 16 (anime), Chapter 34 (manga) |
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A monster with dark gray skin and a shaggy white pelt. It has two large ox-like horns on its head. Frieren recalls that the Hero Party saved a young girl from this monster.
First Appearance: Episode 22 (anime), Chapter 47 (manga) |
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An amphibious looking monster with crystals on its back. The Hero Party discusses strategies to defeat it in a flashback.
First Appearance: Episode 25 (anime), Chapter 52 (manga) |
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A grey bulky dragon with thick scales and wings imagined by Sense that an ant can't visualize crushing it as a representation of how an ordinary mind would work instead of Übel's mind.
First Appearance: Episode 26 (anime), Chapter 54 (manga) |
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A hyena-like monster with a robust, muscular body and a muzzle with sharp teeth. The fur has a shaggy texture. The creature gathers in packs and scavenges including cemetery graves. It stands as an example Genau gives why human bodies can not just be buried in the north.
First Appearance: Chapter 72 |
Named Fauna[]
| Fauna | |
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| Image | Description |
| Seed Rats ｢シードラット Shīdo ratto?｣ | |
| Vermin that eat seeds. A squirrel-like rodent with uniform muted-grey fur covering the body and the long thick bushy tail. They bury their food in safe places to store it but often forget where they buried it, causing flora to grow in unexpected places. Seed rats are sometimes used as messengers.[17]
Geographic Range: Turk Region, continent-wide (as messengers) | |
| Stille: Meteoric Iron Bird ｢ | |
| A small species of bird made of meteoric iron.[18] The bird has warm, sandy orange colored feathers. The head features a small crest of feathers at the top, a small concal pointed beak and eyes with a prominent yellow ring around them. It is as tough as a dragon defensively and is not affected by offense magic.[14] Stilles can fly faster than the speed of sound and are hyper-sensitive to mana. They possess very little mana themselves, and thus cannot be easily detected.[14]
Geographic Range: Kühl Region | |
| Fresser: Lion-Pig ｢ | |
| A lion-pig. It is also referred to as a lion-bear.[19] The Fresser are very large boar-like creatures that feature dark brown fur and a mane of light brown fur around the neck. The set of teeth is jagged with bigger-than-hand-sized fangs that grow out of the lower jaw. It will sometimes lay waste to fields. Its flesh can be eaten and is described as delicious.[20]
Geographic Range: Kühl Region | |
Unnamed Fauna[]
| Unnamed Fauna | |
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| Geographic Range: Continent-wide | |
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A blue feathered bird with a brown pointy beak. Used to deliver messages and parcels throughout the continent. |
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Giant tortoise-like land-dwelling reptile. Has a vegetation-covered shell. Eats flowers. Found in the Turk Region and Offen Mountain Range. |
| Geographic Range: Northern Lands | |
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A snake-like creature with primarily a deep shade of green or gray as scales. Behind the head, it has larger scales forming a collar. Like most venomous snakes, it has prominent, sharp fangs to inject venom into prey. Its venom causes the brain to melt. It can only be cured by a highly skilled Priest. Found in the Alt Woods.
First Appearance: Episode 13, (anime) Chapter 27) |
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A boar like creature with dusky brown fur and two white tusks curving upwards from its lower jaw. It is part of the wildlife in the Bande Woods.
First Appearance: Episode 14, (anime) Chapter 30 (manga) |
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A large bear-like beast with a muscular body and dark brown fur. It has a long snout and a spiky mane of fur running down its back to the short tail. It was slain bei old man Voll near his village in the Klar Region.
First Appearance: Episode 16, (anime) Chapter 33 (manga) |
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A giant rooster-like bird with white fluffy feathers, distinctive red wattles and comb, an angular beak and feet with sharp talons. Its eggs are cream-colored with multicolored spots. It is found near the Rohr Road.
First Appearance: Episode 16, (anime) Chapter 34 (manga) |
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A massive boar-like beast with a large muscular body that is covered in bristly fur and its mouth is filled with numerous sharp, jagged teeth. Frieren's Party fights it in the Etwas Mountains.
First Appearance: Chapter 65 |
| Geographic Range: Imperial Territory | |
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A raging bull that Stark stops in a town in the Hören Region.
First Appearance: Chapter 123 |
| Geographic Range: Unknown | |
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Solitär investigates the remains of this creature. Most likely an orca.
First Appearance: Chapter 88 |
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Solitär shows Macht a skeleton of this creature. Most likely a shark.
First Appearance: Chapter 88 |
Named Flora[]
| Flora | |
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| Image | Description |
| Blue-Moon Weed ｢ | |
| A blue flower native to Himmel's hometown. Up until several decades ago, it was found in the forests of the Turk Region. A closely related species with medicinal properties also grows in the area.[21] It has five petals with gradation from darker blue at the tips of the petals to lighter blue in the center. The flower has blue anthers and yellow filaments.
Geographic Range: Himmel's Hometown, Turk Region | |
| Flamme's thousand year old tree | |
| A huge tree set up with a protective barrier as a sapling by the Great Mage Flamme. Frieren questions the reliability, but gets assured by Flamme that the tree will be a guardian even in a thousand years.[22] The deciduous tree has grown a protruding tree crown held high above with branches as thick as a person's chest measurement going over into the trunk, which measures dozens of feet in diameter. The roots are sticking partly out of the ground.
Geographic Range: Voll Basin in the Bredt Region | |
| Icicle Cherry Blossom Tree ｢ | |
| A tree with poisonous flowers that blooms in the winter. Smaller tree branches are bent downwards ending in conical rachis growing out heart-shaped leaves with near white to rose color tone. The mushrooms that grow on the roots at the base of the tree have medicinal properties.[23]
Geographic Range: Offen Mountain Range | |
Unnamed Flora[]
| Unnamed Flora | |
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| Geographic Range: Northern Lands | |
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A large, bioluminescent mushroom species is seen growing at the base of a tree in the Klar Region. The mushrooms have umbrella-like caps that glow in a pale green color. The caps have scalloped edges with gills underneath. The stems are thick and sturdy, supporting the sizeable caps. There are small, glowing particles—potentially spores—floating in the air around the mushrooms. These mushrooms are gathered by Frieren's Party in a forest near Voll's village.[24]
First Appearance: Chapter 33 (manga), Episode 16 (anime) |
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A large mushroom species grows at the roots of the Icicle Cherry Blossom tree in the Offen Mountain Range. The mushrooms have light-blue, umbrella-like caps that are ruffled on the edges with delicate, pinkish-purple undersides. At the top of the caps, flower-like ornaments grow, and dotted protrusions are arranged approximately halfway up the caps. The stems are thick and are colored a darker shade of blue. These mushrooms can be used as a medicinal ingredient to treat colds.[25]
First Appearance: Chapter 36 (manga), Episode 17 (anime) |
Themes[]
Behaviorism[]
An influence on the behavior of creatures is their variation in life expectancies and the experiences they make while interacting with species of their own kind and the environment. Species are depicted to form societies, such as humans, or small groups, such as animals that hunt together as a pack. Some species may also be solitary, such as demons, who live their lives solitarily minding only their individual needs.
Convergent Evolution[]
The topic of convergent evolution was brought up by Solitär in the manga during a conversation with Macht. She recalled how the Demon King explained the idea of convergent evolution to her, and she gave the example of how a shark—a fish—and an orca—a mammal evolved from land animals—shared similar appearances and habitats despite their different skeletal structures.
Coexistence[]
While humanoid species are a prominent life form in the biosphere, exhibited through their interactions with the environment, they are antagonized by Demons, which are apex predators that compete with them over territorial influence. As a result, even though humanity has conquered many domains of the world, they must still guard their land. Both sides are engaged in warfare and are capable of utilizing magic for offensive and defensive purposes.
A first exploration of the theme of coexistence is done in Chapter 14, where a naïve man wishes to overcome the prejudice humanity has over demons and takes in a young demon child. However, the demon deceives him and he is killed. In later chapters, it is explained that the Demon King wished for coexistence, yet to achieve this goal, he precipitated the decimation of humanity down to one-third of its original population.[26] The demon Macht also explores his way to coexistence,[27] but the actions he takes are to the detriment of humans.[28]
Environmentalism[]
The exploitation of the environment and the subsequent desire to protect it is a theme of environmentalism explored in Chapter 80, where an adventurer gives Frieren's Party a quest. He requests that they set up a barrier to prevent people from mining a large deposit of Holy Snow Crystals, and he explains that he wanted to preserve the sight of the region he grew up in and was inspired by.
Creationism[]
The world of Frieren is believed to be brought into existence by the Goddess of Creation.
Trivia[]
- Frieren states that the Icicle Cherry Blossom may be her favorite winter flower.[29]
- The monster/dragon that chases the Hero Party in a flashback in both Chapter 1 and Chapter 34 resemble the same dragon, however, it is animated as two different creatures in Episode 1 and Episode 16 in the anime adaptation. It also appears in a flashback in Chapter 61.
- Though the official Viz English translation calls the "Fresser" both a "lion-pig"[30] and a "lion-bear,"[19] the second is likely a mistake and may have been intended to be "lion-boar" instead.
- Wirbel first mentions that the Hero Party fought the "Hell Emperor Dragon" in Chapter 59. The Hero Party actually encounters this dragon in Chapter 113, though it is translated in this chapter as the "Abyssal Dragon" by Viz.
- Mimics ranked the following in the official popularity polls:
- 3rd in the first popularity contest with 8,701,779 points.
- 10th in the second popularity contest with 341,347 votes, where multiple votes per character were counted.
- In this same contest, Mimic ranked 4th when counting only unique votes (one vote per character per person).
Etymology[]
- "Einsam" is German for "lonely/lonesome."
- "Geisel" is German for "hostage," possibly referring to the corpse the monster uses as bait.
- Furthermore, the identically pronounced word "Geißel"/"Geissel" is German for "flagellum/scourge," which might refer to the monster's whip-like tail.
- "Fresser" is German for "devourer/glutton/feeder."
- "Stille" is German for "silence/calmness."
Notes[]
- ↑ After Stark defeats the Solar Dragon in Chapter 11, it disintegrates into mana particles and does not appear to leave its horns behind. In Chapter 113, the Abyssal Dragon defeated by the Hero Party also appears to completely disintegrate into mana particles.
- ↑ While the Einsam are referred to as "Phantom Demons," they are considered monsters and do not fall under the category of the human-like demons evolved from monsters. The kanji of "demon" in "Phantom Demon" is "鬼" (oni), while the kanji for the evolved-from-monsters demons is "
魔 族 " (mazoku). - ↑ While the Spiegel is referred to as a "water-mirror demon," it is considered a monster and does not fall under the category of the human-like demons evolved from monsters. The kanji of "demon" in "water-mirror demon" is "悪魔" (akuma), while the kanji for the evolved-from-monsters demons is "
魔 族 " (mazoku). - ↑ This cow-dog creature is depicted as fauna in the manga, as it does not dissolve into mana particles upon defeat. However, in the anime, the creature is shown to start dissipating into mana, thus it has been classified as a monster.
- ↑ The anime did not adapt the panel showcasing the flashback of Himmel defeating the monster. However, the flashback is extended upon in the non-canonical spin-off: The Adventures of the Hero Himmel.
- ↑ In Episode 14, the anime features an original addition in its adaptation of Chapter 30, where the creature Stark defeats for one of the party's meals has a boar-like appearance and appears to have a lion's tail. This may be the first instance of a Fresser in the anime
References[]
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 3.
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Anime: Episode 11.
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 61.
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 22.
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 39.
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 1.
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 80.
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 25.
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 31.
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 14.
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 49 (p. 7).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 1 (p. 14).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 11 (p. 16).
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 39 (p. 2).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 30 (p. 7).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 25 (p. 3).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 81 (p. 2).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 38 (p. 2).
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 62 (p. 11).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 47 (p. 18).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 3 (p. 21).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 7 (p. 15f).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 36 (p. 10).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 33 (pp. 10, 17).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 36 (pp. 10, 15).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 98.
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 88.
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 94.
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 36 (p. 11).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 47 (p. 11).