Frieren ｢フリーレン Furīren?｣ is the main protagonist of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. She was the Mage of the Hero Party and traveled alongside Himmel the Hero, Eisen the Warrior, and Heiter the Priest in a ten-year journey to defeat the Demon King.
After Himmel's death, Frieren began journeying with Fern and Stark to visit Aureole and speak with Himmel once again.
Personality[]
Frieren has an easy-going personality, however, her aloof attitude makes her a mystery to her peers, as humans and elves tend to see things differently.[7] As an elf who has lived for at least a millennium, she has a poor sense of time that manifests in a bad habit of being unable to get up in the morning, along with a deeper inability to comprehend how time passes for humans. This is, in part, a reason for Frieren's aloof attitude, since she sees large lengths of time as too brief for her to form meaningful connections. For instance, she thought of a ten-year journey with her comrades as short and believed she knew nothing about Himmel the Hero, even up until his passing. However, following Himmel's funeral, she made the decision to get to know humans better.
Although she is generally stoic, carefree, and often lacks tact, Frieren also has things she is emotionally sensitive to. She was embarrassed when others discovered her mana detection is interrupted for a fraction of a second when a spell is cast, a common error for apprentice mages that she has yet to overcome. She is sensitive to people calling her old and holds a grudge against Stark for doing so multiple times. When she is upset, she is capable of throwing a tantrum that can result in her crying for upwards of three days, scaring the other members of the Hero Party. In addition, Frieren can experience an extreme temper around once every decade,[8] which lasts only up to 10 minutes.[9] It is also implied that she is somewhat insecure about her body, as she occasionally shows hints of jealousy over Fern's figure.
She also has a playful side as she intends to give Stark a potion that's able to dissolve clothes for his birthday and bluntly tells the latter that she knows he doesn't find her physically attractive.
Appearance[]
Frieren is a petite, female elf with green eyes, thick eyebrows, and long, white hair parted in the middle and tied into two high pigtails. Like all elves, she has large, pointed ears.
Staff[]
When casting spells as a mage, she utilizes a red staff with a gold, crescent-shaped tip that holds a red jewel in its center. Her staff has gold accents and a red ribbon tied at the tip.
Regular Outfit[]
She wears a striped black and white shirt, along with a white jacket tucked into a skirt with a black belt. The sleeves of her jacket end with large, gold cuffs. Both her jacket and skirt have gold trims along the edges. Over her jacket, she wears a short cape that matches the white and gold theme of her jacket and skirt, and the cape includes decorative, gold accents with red jewels on each shoulder and a high collar that is fastened with a red jewel. She also wears black tights, brown boots, and a pair of gold earrings with red, teardrop-shaped jewels hanging from each earring.
Winter Outfit[]
In the colder seasons, Frieren wears a high-collared and long-sleeved white dress with gold accents and buttons down the chest instead of her usual jacket, skirt, and cape. Additionally, she layers a beige coat with a flap collar and buttons over her dress and dons a blue scarf tied on the side.
Other Outfits[]
When she was training under Flamme a thousand years prior, Frieren let her hair down to her waist and wore simple, white dresses and brown sandals. During Frieren's solitary lifestyle after Flamme's death, she tied her hair into her typical pigtails and wore a white dress with a black belt and beige cape.
Suitcase[]
Fern puts a large crate as provision in Frieren's suitcase.
During her travels, Frieren carries a brown suitcase, with metal edges and metal caps on the corners, holding personal belongings. It also functions as a storage space.[10] In the suitcase she has grimoires, most likely such as the history of magic book she gave Fern to read,[11], writings attributed to Flamme fake and real,[12][13] a Holy Scripture,[14] Sein's notes about herbs,[14] Eisen's note how to cook Hamburg steaks,[15], various magic items, such as a Potion that dissolves clothes,[16][15], a crystal ball, ingredients for summoning like horns,[15] and the mirrored-lotus flower motif Ring Himmel gave her, which has in flower-language the meaning of eternal love.[17]
Gallery[]
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Abilities[]
Frieren's unrestrained mana.
- Immense mana output: Frieren's unrestrained mana output is incredibly high. She is shown to have considerably more mana than even Aura, a five-hundred year-old demon and one of the Seven Sages of Destruction. Frieren's overall mana output is noted to be comparable to Serie's restrained output.[18]
- Mana concealment: Trained by her mentor, Flamme, Frieren has mastered the art of concealing her mana, and she uses it as a deception strategy against demons. Her skill in concealment is exceptional, and she has practiced limiting her mana for so long that even experienced mages, such as Aura[19] and Falsch[20], cannot detect instability in her mana. Only a few mages have seen through her restriction, the most notable being the Demon King, who saw through her in an instant. She can even suppress her mana enough to avoid detection by a Stille, but only while staying still.[21] [22]
- Restraint and Hypnosis Magic resistance: Frieren has been shown to be resistant to most conventional binding and hypnosis spells. Methode remarked that her mental defences were attributed to an "old technique" that could possibly be bypassed only by specialists.[23]
- Analytical ability: Frieren is highly adept at analyzing magics and countering them. This applies even to magic used by the Seven Sages of Destruction which are said to defy all intelligence and reason. She has analyzed and countered the magic used by two of the Sages of Destruction: Aura the Guillotine and Macht of the Golden Land. Along with the Hero Party, she was also able to break through the impenetrable barrier of Böse the Immortal.
Spells[]
- Offensive magic: Zoltraak: A simple spell that shoots either a large blast or multiple smaller blasts of concentrated mana. Frieren contributed to the research of this magic, modifying it from Qual's Human Killing Magic to Demon Killing Magic. Due to the novelty of the spell, Frieren is unable to react to it immediately and instinctively and thus has a slightly delayed reaction when defending against it.[24]
- Defensive magic: Like most modern mages, Frieren is capable of casting defensive magic in the form of a hexagonal protective barriers that can defend specific locations or encircle the caster. This defense spell is mainly used against offensive magic like Zoltraak.
Frieren dispels Auserlese on Aura's victims.
- Dispelling magic: Frieren is capable of analyzing an opponent's spell and cancel out the effects of the spell. Her staff glows golden while casting the dispelling magic. It is first seen in use against Aura's undead army, where Frieren frees corpses from Aura's Auserlese.
- Spell to produce a field of flowers: Frieren was taught her mentor's favorite magic, magic to produce a beautiful field of flowers, which holds sentimental value to her. Frieren is able to choose what flowers grow as long as she has seen the flower before. As per Flamme's last wishes, she grows a field of flowers around her master's grave with the spell and avoids using the spell due to it bringing up memories of her.[25]
- Spell that shuts the door of a treasure vault at the risk of your life: A binding spell that is considered top-rated in folk magic, which Frieren's Spiegel clone uses to seal the entrance of the Spiegel's main body and a treasure vault. The seal only breaks upon the caster's death.
- Destructive Lightning: Judradjim: Frieren casts multiple bolts of lightning from her staff directed towards the target. She is first shown using this during the battle against her Spiegel clone.[26][27]
- Hellfire Summoning: Vollzanbel: Frieren creates a large blast of fire in front of herself, enveloping the battlefield and melting certain materials.[28][27]. When a falling column was about to hit them, Frieren and her clone used it at the same time and vaporized all the rock instantly.
- Spell that creates a black hole: A spell used by Frieren's clone that creates a black hole that attracts surrounding objects in, ultimately atomizing them.[29]
- Unnamed spatial shattering spell: A colorful spell that appears to cause fragments of space around the caster to shatter.[29]
Frieren's clone attacks Fern with a spell considered the Height of Magic.
- "The Height of Magic": An offensive attack that Frieren's clone uses as a last resort. Mana cannot be sensed when the attack is used, and targets of the attack are unable to recognize it as a spell.[30] It seems to create a telekinetic effect that repels the target.[29] The attack is so strong that it pins Fern against a wall and destroys her staff on use, however it also leaves the caster's guard completely down.
- Unnamed protective spell: A protective spell that Frieren developed after completing her two-month analysis on Macht's Diagoldze, which was considered a curse. It nullifies it and makes it ineffective.
- Unnamed memory transference magic: An advanced mental magic spell that transfers memories from the user to a target, or from a target to the user. Frieren uses this spell to receive Denken's memories.
- Mana Strike: After being provoked by Solitär into believing that she killed Fern and Stark, a silent but angered Frieren was easily able to cast it against an attacking Solitär and blasts her away, though she is still not yet adept at using it compared to her.
Weaknesses[]
- Mana detection interruption: Frieren lacks certain magical basics, and her mana detection is interrupted the moment she casts a spell. This leaves her open to mages that are particularly good at mana concealment and can attack her while she is occupied with casting spells. However, this is often negligible due to her other talents and is not a vulnerability that can be easily exploitable by any mage.[31]
Manga Appearance[]
| Chapter 1: The Journey's End | Debut |
| Chapter 2: The Priest's Lie | Appears |
| Chapter 3: Blue-Moon Weed | Appears |
| Chapter 4: The Mage's Secret | Appears |
| Chapter 5: Killing Magic | Appears |
| Chapter 6: New Year's Festival | Appears |
| Chapter 7: The Land Where Souls Rest | Appears |
| Chapter 8: One One-Hundredth | Appears |
| Chapter 9: Phantoms of the Dead | Appears |
| Chapter 10: Solar Dragon | Appears |
| Chapter 11: The Hero of the Village | Appears |
| Chapter 12: The Northern Checkpoint | Appears |
| Chapter 13: Liberation Festival | Appears |
| Chapter 14: Monsters That Speak | Appears |
| Chapter 15: Draht | Appears |
| Chapter 16: The Murder of a Guard | Appears |
| Chapter 17: Frieren the Slayer | Appears |
| Chapter 18: The Undead Army | Appears |
| Chapter 19: Raid | Appears |
| Chapter 20: Master's Technique | Absent |
| Chapter 21: Coward | Appears |
| Chapter 22: The Scales of Obedience | Appears |
| Chapter 23: A Victory and a Funeral | Appears |
| Chapter 24: The Elves' Wish | Appears |
| Chapter 25: The Village of the Sword | Appears |
| Chapter 26: A Gift to a Warrior | Appears |
| Chapter 27: A Priest from an Ordinary Village | Appears |
| Chapter 28: The Priest and His Regret | Appears |
| Chapter 29: Ideal Adult | Appears |
| Chapter 30: Mirrored Lotus | Appears |
| Chapter 31: Chaos Flower | Appears |
| Chapter 32: The Orden Family | Appears |
| Chapter 33: Old Man Voll | Appears |
| Chapter 34: The Statues of Heroes | Appears |
| Chapter 35: A Reason to Begin the Journey | Appears |
| Chapter 36: Emotional Support | Appears |
| Chapter 37: The First-Class Exam | Appears |
| Chapter 38: Stille—Meteoric Iron Bird | Appears |
| Chapter 39: Commence Capture Strategy | Appears |
| Chapter 40: A Spell to Capture a Bird | Appears |
| Chapter 41: Time for Resolve | Appears |
| Chapter 42: A Reason to Fight | Appears |
| Chapter 43: Privilege | Appears |
| Chapter 44: Recapture the Stille | Appears |
| Chapter 45: Water-Manipulation Magic | Appears |
| Chapter 46: An Even-Better Flavor | Appears |
| Chapter 47: Fern and Her Baked Sweets | Appears |
| Chapter 48: The Ruin's of the King's Tomb | Appears |
| Chapter 49: Dungeons and Magical Items | Appears Clone |
| Chapter 50: Spiegel—A Water-Mirror Demon | Appears Clone |
| Chapter 51: Dungeon Battle | Appears Clone |
| Chapter 52: Strategy Meeting | Appears Clone |
| Chapter 53: An Era of Humans | Appears Clone |
| Chapter 54: A Spell that Slashes Almost Anything | Appears Clone |
| Chapter 55: The Second Exam Ends | Appears Clone |
| Chapter 56: Fern's Staff | Appears |
| Chapter 57: The Third Exam | Appears |
| Chapter 58: Serie's Intuition | Flashback |
| Chapter 59: With a Little Help | Appears |
| Chapter 60: Departure and Farewell | Appears |
| Chapter 61: Magic-Nullifying Crystal | Appears |
| Chapter 62: Why I Set Out on This Journey | Appears |
| Chapter 63: The Hero of the South | Appears |
| Chapter 64: The Demon with a Sword | Appears |
| Chapter 65: The Secret Hot Spring of the Etwas Mountains | Appears |
| Chapter 66: The Places She Would Like | Appears |
| Chapter 67: Peaceful Time | Appears |
| Chapter 68: Northern Plateau | Appears |
| Chapter 69: Boshaft-The Emperor's Spirit | Appears |
| Chapter 70: The Norm Company | Appears |
| Chapter 71: Subjugation Request | Appears |
| Chapter 72: The General | Appears |
| Chapter 73: Encounter Battle | Appears |
| Chapter 74: Divine Revolte | Absent |
| Chapter 75: Erilfrachte-The Spell to Dispel Fog | Appears |
| Chapter 76: Settling | Appears |
| Chapter 77: A Thunder of Dragons | Appears |
| Chapter 78: Lake Korridor | Appears |
| Chapter 79: The Great Tor Canyon | Appears |
| Chapter 80: Holy Snow Crystals | Appears |
| Chapter 81: The Golden Land | Appears |
| Chapter 82: Diagoldze—The Spell to Transmute All Creation into Gold | Appears |
| Chapter 83: The Stone Bracelet of Servitude | Appears |
| Chapter 84: Daredevil | Chapter Cover |
| Chapter 85: Malice | Appears |
| Chapter 86: Discussions | Appears |
| Chapter 87: Affection | Appears |
| Chapter 88: Solitär | Absent |
| Chapter 89: Guilt | Mentioned |
| Chapter 90: Glück | Absent |
| Chapter 91: Onstage | Absent |
| Chapter 92: The End of Weise | Absent |
| Chapter 93: The Great Barrier | Appears |
| Chapter 94: Analysis | Appears |
| Chapter 95: Nameless Great Demon | Appears |
| Chapter 96: Master and Apprentice | Appears |
| Chapter 97: Observation | Appears |
| Chapter 98: Retribution | Appears |
| Chapter 99: Offense and Defense | Appears |
| Chapter 100: The Fundamentals of Mages | Appears |
| Chapter 101: Breakthrough | Appears |
| Chapter 102: A Tie | Appears |
| Chapter 103: Time for Retribution | Absent |
| Chapter 104: A Visit to Her Grave | Appears |
| Chapter 105: Golem | Appears |
| Chapter 106: Sky-Mountain Dragon | Appears |
| Chapter 107: The Monument of the Goddess | Appears |
| Chapter 108: Reunion | Appears |
| Chapter 109: Zart the Remnant | Appears |
| Chapter 110: The Party of Heroes | Appears |
| Chapter 111: Escort Mission | Appears |
| Chapter 112: Faith | Appears |
| Chapter 113: Abyssal Dragon | Appears |
| Chapter 114: The Sword of the Hero | Appears |
| Chapter 115: Best Friend | Appears |
| Chapter 116: Spell to Return | Appears |
| Chapter 117: Miraculous Illusion | Appears |
| Chapter 118: Vialathor | Appears |
| Chapter 119: Memories | Appears |
| Chapter 120: False Image of a Hero | Appears |
| Chapter 121: Monsters on the Road | Appears |
| Chapter 122: The Titan Fortress Ruins | Appears |
| Chapter 123: Proof of Perseverance | Appears |
| Chapter 124: Shadow Warrior | Appears |
| Chapter 125: Family | Appears |
| Chapter 126: A New Mission | Appears |
| Chapter 127: Retrieval Mission | Appears |
| Chapter 128: Magic Special Forces | Absent |
| Chapter 129: Shadow of the Empire | Appears |
| Chapter 130: Beneath the Water's Surface | Appears |
| Chapter 131: Escape | Absent |
| Chapter 132: Chase | Appears |
| Chapter 133: Silver Coins | Appears |
| Chapter 134: Trace Back | Appears |
| Chapter 135: Prelude | Appears |
| Chapter 136: Reunion | Appears |
| Chapter 137: Repel | Appears |
| Chapter 138: Traitor | Appears |
Anime Appearance[]
| Episode 1: The Journey's End | Debut |
| Episode 2: It Didn't Have to Be Magic... | Appears |
| Episode 3: Killing Magic | Appears |
| Episode 4: The Land Where Souls Rest | Appears |
| Episode 5: Phantoms of the Dead | Appears |
| Episode 6: The Hero of the Village | Appears |
| Episode 7: Like a Fairy Tale | Appears |
| Episode 8: Frieren the Slayer | Appears |
| Episode 9: Aura the Guillotine | Appears |
| Episode 10: A Powerful Mage | Appears |
| Episode 11: Winter in the Northern Lands | Appears |
| Episode 12: A Real Hero | Appears |
| Episode 13: Aversion to One's Own Kind | Appears |
| Episode 14: Privilege of the Young | Appears |
| Episode 15: Smells like Trouble | Appears |
| Episode 16: Long-Lived Friends | Appears |
| Episode 17: Take Care | Appears |
| Episode 18: First-Class Mage Exam | Appears |
| Episode 19: Well-Laid Plans | Appears |
| Episode 20: Necessary Killing | Appears |
| Episode 21: The World of Magic | Appears |
| Episode 22: Future Enemies | Appears |
| Episode 23: Conquering the Labyrinth | Appears |
| Episode 24: Perfect Replicas | Appears |
| Episode 25: A Fatal Vulnerability | Appears |
| Episode 26: The Height of Magic | Appears |
| Episode 27: An Era of Humans | Appears |
| Episode 28: It Would Be Embarrassing When We Met Again | Appears |
Trivia[]
- Frieren means "being cold" or "to be freezing" in German.
- Frieren states that her favorite winter flower is the icicle cherry blossom.[32]
- Frieren hates onions.[33]
- Throughout her lifetime, Frieren has lost eleven times to mages who have less mana than her. Four of those were demons, with Qual and Macht among them; one was an elf, and the remaining six were humans.
- Frieren ranked the following in the official popularity polls:
- 2nd in the first popularity contest with 11,820,565 points.
- 5th in the second popularity contest with 816,279 votes, where multiple votes per character were counted.
- In this same contest, Frieren ranked 1st when counting only unique votes (one vote per character per person).
References[]
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 17 (p. 21).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 11 (p. 15).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 66 (p. 9).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 45 (p. 5).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 60 (p. 7).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 23 (p. 16).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 1 (p. 13).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 132 (p. 13).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 132 (p. 14).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 68 (p. 4).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 5.
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 6.
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 23.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 36 (p. 4f).
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 26 (p. 3f, 18).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 4.
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 30 (p. 3f, 11, 17f).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 57 (p. 4).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 22 (p. 19).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 57 (p. 5).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 40 (p. 14).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Anime: Episode 19.
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 51 (p. 5).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 53 (p. 7).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 81 (p. 16).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 53 (p. 3).
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Anime: Episode 25.
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 53 (p. 4).
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Anime: Episode 26.
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 55 (p. 13).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 52 (pp. 13-14).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 36 (p. 11).
- ↑ Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Manga: Chapter 94 (p. 6).