Folken Fanel

Folken Fanel is Van Fanel’s older and only brother. Folken abandoned Fanelia after being sent out to retrieve a drag-energist as his right of passage to becoming king. He joined forces with Emperor Dornkirk and the Zaibach Empire in hopes of ending war (through war, ironically). He is torn between his roles as commander and brother, a conflict which is resolved by the end of the series.

For all that for the first few episodes of the series Folken seems like a rather heartless, robotic devote of Zaibach’s regime, he reveals himself to be a profoundly brilliant and compassionate man. He is an engineer, a sorcerer, a chemist, and a strategist of a caliber paralleled only by Dornkirk himself. He is a true archetypal tragic villain; he truly does think that what he is doing is for the greater good. Ultimately, his desires go far beyond merely wanting to eliminate war—he wants to re-create the very laws of “fate” governing a world he sees as otherwise doomed to seep itself in needless tragedy.