Heroes

Heroes are candidates of the Legendary and Vassal Weapons, they have been chosen, sometimes summoned, in order to wield them and protect their world from the Waves of Calamity and the Guardian Beast. Their main objective to defeat the enemy of the spirits of the weapons, the one pulling the string behind the fusion of the worlds and the one who gave malice individuals the ability to steal these weapons.

There are numerous titles bestow upon heroes, these factors strongly depend on the weapon the user wields and the world they were either summoned to or originate from. The users that wield the Legendary Weapons are refereed to as the Legendary Heroes and Holy Heroes (due to numerous religions centering around the weapons) and the users that wield the Vassal Weapons are refereed to the Vassal Weapon Holders or the Vassal Weapon Heroes, in some cases they've been given an alternative name, one such case in Raphtalia's World, they're referred to as the Seven Star Heroes.

Additionally there is one more type of user, they are individuals who weren't candidates chosen by the weapons and forcefully wield the weapons against their will, these users have not been officially given a name yet, so we'll refer to them as Fake Heroes.

Summoning & Selection

 * See also Legendary Weapons and Vassal Weapons

The Legendary and Vassal weapons are entities, they are the spirits of the weapons that comes from another world prior being summoned by the locals of the world via summoning rituals. They decide the candidates to be chosen, the legendary weapons commonly forcefully summoning candidates from another world.

The legendary weapons are not always able to summoned their first choice of hero. In fact, only the Shield Spirit is known for always summoning its first choice of hero. The Sword, Bow, and Spear Spirits often can't summon their first-choice hero in the first place or their hero dies quickly after summoning. If summoning fails, they have to summon backup candidates who have serious character problems. As a reward, these candidates have their deaths corrected.

When a heroes passes on, they will no longer have ownership of the weapons, in normal cases. Legendary Weapons return to their world prior to being summoned in wait to be summoned again with another candidate, while Vassal Weapons will either choose to roam the world or stay in a particular location in search for a new candidate to wield them.

Abilities & Restrictions

 * See also Legendary Weapons and Vassal Weapons

The Legendary and Vassal weapons, the Heroes wield are the most popular weapons in the their world. For every kind of creature, plant, and material in the world, there is a new form for the weapon and small increase in their power. They can, in theory, even copy the powers from lesser weapons made in their image: the Legendary Shield, for instance, can copy the Meteor Shield.

However, this vast power can come at a severe disadvantage: It is impossible for a Legendary and Vassal Weapon user to make use of another weapon in combat under normal conditions. For instance, the Shield Hero cannot pair his Legendary Shield with a mundane sword. The Legendary Weapons has another demerit, where if a Legendary Weapon user is in the same vicinity as another Legendary Weapon user, they won't gain any exp from monsters they defeat.

Summoned Heroes Traits
The current set of summoned heroes present in the story share a few qualities with each other. The first is being of Japanese descent and the second they were all Otakus in their previous worlds. Additionally all the summoned heroes are from parallel worlds, however, no evidence shows that heroes can or cannot originate from the same world prior to being summoned.