Aster
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| Game | Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World |
| Japanese Name | Aster (アステル Asuteru?) |
| Hometown | Sybak |
| Age | 16 (at death) |
| Race | Human |
| Occupation | Summon Spirit Researcher |
| Japanese Voice Actor | Hiro Shimono |
| English Voice Actor | Johnny Yong Bosch |
Aster was a former member of Sybak University in Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, who supposedly looked and acted much like Emil Castagnier. Though he is dead by the time the game begins, he has a large impact on the plot, and is the source of the phrase, "Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality", which becomes a mantra of sort for the rest of the game.
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[edit] Personality
Richter states at the end of the game that Aster was an idealist. It is safe to assume that Aster was a gentle and fair person, as he became friends with a half-elf despite the discrimination toward them during the time Tethe’alla was separated from Sylvarant.
[edit] History
[edit] Past and Death
Most of Aster’s past is unknown, but it is said that he was a prodigy, and entered the Sybak university at age nine. Sometime after this, he began to study in the research laboratories, being partnered with the half-elf Richter Abend. Despite them being of two different races, they became good friends.
Two years pregame, when the worlds of Sylvarant and Tethe'alla merged into one world, Aster's research into Summon Spirits led him to hypothesize that a Summon Spirit controlled the world's flow of mana. He and Richter set out to prove the existence of Ratatosk, the Summon Spirit in question, and hopefully convince him to take back up his duties so that the natural disasters plaguing the newly-joined world will cease.
After discovering the Centurion Aqua, who agrees to help them, they go to meet Ratatosk at the Ginnungagap. Ratatosk agrees to regulate the mana with the help of his Centurions, but also states his desire to purge both humans and half-elves from the world. Aster tries to argue with him, though Ratatosk kills him in rage.
In an explosion of rage over Aster's death, Richter mortally wounds Ratatosk, causing him to revert to core form.
[edit] Present Impact
During these two years, Richter secretly plans to save the world without Ratatosk’s help by using the door to Nifleheim. He also, at the end of the game, states that if he could use the power of a Cruxis Crystal, he would also manage to revert Aster back to life.
During the Blood Purge in Palmacosta six months before the game starts, Ratatosk is regenerated through the Ratatosk's core into a human form that strongly resembles Aster’s. He mimics Aster's form for reasons not fully expanded on in the game, though Emil hypothesizes in his journal that it could be because Aster was the last human he saw before he was reverted into core state.
For a brief period of time, before the truth is discovered, the party believes that Emil may in fact be an amnesiac Aster, as Emil looks exactly like Aster and would be about his age.
[edit] Relationships
[edit] Allies
Richter Abend - Although human, Aster did not carry any prejudice against Richter when they first met, and they were apparently laboratory partners. It is possible that Aster is the reason to why Richter does not hate humans in the present.
[edit] Enemies
Ratatosk - When meeting the former spirit of the World Tree, Aster does not seem to view Ratatosk as an enemy; on the contrary, he wants to ask for Ratatosk’s help to stop the strange climate that has occurred throughout the world. However, Ratatosk hates humans and half-elves alike because of a betrayal occurring prior to the game, which ends with Aster killed.
[edit] Trivia
- Colored scans of Emil shows him with purple eyes instead of green. This has led some fans to believe that while Emil has green eyes and Ratatosk-Mode Emil has red eyes, Aster used to have purple eyes.
