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Faye Cistar is a playable character from TearRing Saga: Berwick Saga. She is a swordfighter from the eastern land of Izmil who fights as a mercenary in order to improve her skill with a sword.

In-Game[]

Recruitment[]

  • Mercenary: Available automatically from the start of Bandit Suppression, then appears in the Mercenary Guild.
  • Permanent: Raise her Level to 10 or higher and her Happiness to 12 or higher (after completing Chapter 10, the Happiness requirement is 6 to unlock a scene with Faramir) to unlock her personal mission Raze Altar; complete it, and she will leave, then reappear and join permanently at the start of the next chapter.

Base Stats[]

Starting Class
Swordfighter
LevelHPStrMndAglDefMov
122411414
SkillsWeaponStarting Items
Adept
Critical Hit
Parry
Iaido
Astra (Class Change)
Blade (Class Change)
BS SwordSword - 4Cutlass
Bag
Vulnerary

Growth rates[]

HP Str Mnd Agl Def Sword
25% 25% 3% 35% 9% 90%

Promotion[]

Promoted Class
Swordmaster
+1 +1 +3 +1 -
Skills
Astra, Blade

Overall[]

Secret Book (Artwork)
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.

Faye is, overall, a mediocre unit. Her one good starting stat is Speed at 12, which allows immediate cut-through to enemy Crossbowmen and Hand Axe Pirates, but other than that her other starting parameters are low. While her Sword Skill growth is 90%, with a base of 4 it will take a while until it gets anywhere and with a 4 Strength and 1 Defense Base, she is left quite vulnerable provided she fails to dodge. For training her, she has her PRF sword, the Cutlass, and she relies on it to get going - so much so that it's worth using a Repair Stone on it once.

Faye's main purpose is being an offensive unit - with Adept and Critical she can put up some good damage and if her sword rank gets high enough, Parry will have a good rate of activation, however it will take a long time for her to reach her full potential. Her Strength growth of 25% isn't bad per se, but with an abysmal base of 4, she'll be relying on it a lot. When she gets to promotion, she learns Astra, which essentially allows her to eliminate an enemy every 7 turns, as well as Blade, allowing her to use blades. However, this is all in the lategame - before that though she'll mostly be a liability when not using her personal sword, as she doesn't really have the survival skills of Kramer, the immense offensive capabilities of Ouro, and her extremely lacking bases don't do her favors.

It is worth noting that if the player does permanently recruit her, she's forced in Endgame where she can obtain the Divine Sword Vritra, which has 16 Might, 8 Precision and +18% Crit, along with negating the effect of Chaos' Divine Sword Vajra. She can, however, still struggle to kill Chaos because of her reliance on her shakey Strength growth - at base Strength plus her promotion gains, she deals 1 damage per hit, 3 with the Giant's Brace equipped. If the player considers this a problem and they don't quite know how to handle Chaos otherwise (Dean with Wrath, Ouro with Deathmatch and Grimhild, etc), it might be worth throwing the Strength Potion her way just so she starts doing significant damage.

Overall, Faye's very mediocre in the early game and good in the lategame (but not outstanding). With a couple of lucky procs/rigging from 5-turn-saves, she might become a good offensive machine but she'll be lacking in durability besides Parry, which will eat through her weapons. She will probably never reach Ouro in usefulness, but she'll be easier and cheaper to recruit. Just like with almost all Berwick Saga units, use Faye if you like her, as at the end of the day there are no truly unusable units in the game.

Trivia[]

  • In Shouzou Kaga's notes, it is shown that in an early draft, the person known as "Chaos" was planned to be Faye's younger twin sister named Fana, who had been bewitched by Pope Urbanus IV into becoming Chaos (see Chaos for more details). Fana is not mentioned or even known to be an existent character in the final version of the game.
    • This story idea would later become the inspiration for Haldyn and Ravinia's subplot in the Vestaria Saga series. In Vestaria Saga II: The Holy Sword of Silvanister, Ravinia's portrait is updated and resembles Faye more than in Vestaria Saga I, a change which has been speculated to be in reference to this early Berwick Saga story draft.
    • These early notes for Berwick Saga also give Faye and Fana's surname as Cistar, and they give Faye the title Swordswoman of Palamir.

Gallery[]

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