Fitoria

""Allow me to introduce myself..... I am Fitoria, the Queen of the Filolials.""

- Fitoria

Fitoria (フィトリア) is the queen of the Filolials, who rules over them all.

She mentioned having survived for at-least sixteen generation and the reason for her longevity was never mentioned.

Personality
Fitoria is serious in her work, though she sometimes expresses typical filolia personality traits such as animal stupidity, forgetfulness, gluttonous behavior, and hatred against dragons. Naofumi sees her as a child who pretends to be an adult. After living for several centuries, she has forgotten many things, but is able still recall important details. She exudes authority and gracefulness.

Fitoria cares for the world's fate, but she's mostly indifferent to its inhabitants. While she interacts with the legendary heroes, Fitoria avoids interacting with the general populace because the latter has repeatedly disappointed her with their petty squabbles. She is disgusted at how most mortals try to selfishly control others. To protect the world, Fitoria is willing to take extreme measures like killing the uncooperating legendary heroes.

Human Appearance
She has silver hair with thin streaks of light blue, cut in a short bob with three tufts of hair standing up vertically from the crown of her head, like cowlicks. Her eyes are red and her face is small and well composed. She's dressed in a red and white gothic lolita-style dress. She's about the same height as Filo.

Filolial Appearance
Fitoria looks like a very large Filolial that befits her status as a Filolial Queen that rules all Filolials. Most of her feathers are pure white with the exception of a few areas like her neck which are shades of blue that gradually changes towards her head, and the tips of five feather on her head that resembles a crown are yellow. She has one very long feather behind her crown-like feathers that stretches down her back. She can also take on the normal Filolial's ostrich-like appearance to disguise herself among her kind.

Transformation
She can transform into human form and various stages of filolial queen growth at will. She can also change her size to be as large as a building, even as high enough to able to look the spirit tortoise in the eye.

She can transform into normal Filolia.

Background
Fitoria was raised by a previous Legendary Hero centuries ago. As he died, he requested that Fitoria prevent future heroes from fighting each, and was tasked with killing future generations of Legendary Heroes that failed to cooperate so the next generation of Legendary Heroes could be summoned.

The Hero also emphasized cooperation among all the world's inhabitants (i.e., humans, demi-humans, monsters, etc.) to stop the threats of the waves. But the people have forgotten this cooperation, and moved onto their selfish desires. Fitoria mentions that there were many fights between the Heroes in the past. According to her, between her own master's generation to Naofoumi's generation, there have been many other summonings as well as much in-fighting amongst those heroes.

Fitoria was tasked with protecting the dwellings of the First Legendary Heroes, which now exist as hidden ruins. Additionally, other inhabited regions fall under her protection. She has survived countless number of difficult battles, patrolling inhabited regions disguised as a normal filolia. Having isolated herself from mortals for so long, she had forgotten about their delicious foods, recalling that her own Hero was a skilled cook.

Volume 3
Once paroling human grounds in her disguise, she came across Melty who was thrilled to see a new variant of Filolia and offered her jerky. Fitoria ignored and ran away. But Melty used her carriage to chase after her. Soon it becomes a game of tag. Fitoria saw her caring nature towards Filolia and was impressed. They ended up in a dragon area, where Melty put herself to save the filolia which pulled her carriage. Fitoria appeared and defeated the dragon and saved Melty and her Filolia.

Fitoria healed Melty and her Filolia. Later, She let Melty play with her herd before sending her with few of her subordinate to the human town where she ends up with Naofumi. Her subordinates spotted Filo and informed Fitoria about the new Filolia queen. Fitoria went to find if the new queen is worthy of the title.

Volume 4
She approached Naofumi's group and saved them from the sealed ancient monster. She questioned Naofoumi about the heroes absence in waves across the globe & his relation with other heroes. She threatened Naofoumi to mend his relationship with other heroes but was refused.

She forced the duel with Filo.by taking Melty as a hostage and also threatened to kill all the heroes if she failed. After the duel, she was satisfied with Filo's ability and chose her as her successor. She also unlocks all of Naofumi's Filolial Shield Series. She pleaded Naofoumi to mend his relationship with the heroes and explained the seriousness of the calamity. She also foretold the extent of the calamity which needed great sacrifice during which the heroes had to choose whether to save the world or the people While most heroes choose the latter, they all failed. She also informed Naofoumi about a number of important details.

Relationships
Legendary Heroes  Due to Naofumi raising a worthy Filolial Queen, she believes that Naofumi can't be a bad person. Through Filo passing the test showed that she could trust Naofumi. Fitoria wanted the heroes to co-operate and feels that Naofumi alone can achieve it. Fitoria sees her previous master in Naofumi while Naofumi sees Filo in her and wonders if Filo may end up like her after he leaves the world.
 * Naofumi Iwatani:

Naofumi sympathies with Fitoria for fighting the waves alone for a long time and being constantly disappointed, let down by the people and heroes. Naofumi suspects that Fitoria might have been worshiped in the past and attempts may have been made to do away with her for humans are a fragile creature who either worship or destroy the unknown power which is beyond their grasp.

Despite all her disappointment and betrayal, She still fought and survived to keep her promise to her master. Realizing all this, Naofumi felt that fulfilling her request is the least he could do for her. It is because of Fitoria's word that Naofumi decided to give another try in mending his relations with the heroes and to stay in Melromarc, as they prefer to stay there

Fitoria understands Naofumi's situation of being discriminated and persecuted by the human supremacist nation for religious reasons. She also senses his sorrow and anger which made him unlocked the curse series. But, still, pressure him to do what is needed and was prepared to dirty her hands if he refuses to do his duty. She discards all of Naofumi's reasons and forces him to comply. While Fitoria can't remember well, Fitoria has also seen similarities between Naofumi and the hero who raised her. Others When Fitoria learns of Filo's existence, she becomes interested in Filo as a candidate to be her successor as the new Queen of Filolials. Upon meeting Filo, they soon got along that they appear to be sisters. When Fitoria sees how well Filo is raised, she immediately trusts Filo as someone worthy to succeed her. It because of Filo, that Fitoria also trusts Filo's comrades. Filo finds Fitoria's power and size to be amazing and wonders (and desires) if she can be like her.
 * Motoyasu Kitamura
 * Filo

However, Filo is willing to fight Fitoria when Fitoria starts to show hostility by imprisoning Melty to have Naofumi comply with her demands and requesting a duel with Filo. When the duel was revealed to be a trial and Filo passes, Fitoria officially appoints Filo as her successor and the two got along again. Through this connection, Filo (along with those near her) can communicate with Fitoria. Before their encounter, Melty knew the legends surrounding Fitoria as the Queen of Filolials. Like with Filo, Melty is both shocked and enthrall when she meets and sees Fitoria's appearance for the first time. While the two were temporarily at odds when Fitoria took Melty as a hostage, they soon made up when Fitoria revealed her true intentions that it was all a trial for Filo who passed.
 * Melty

In the anime, Fitoria goes as far as letting Melty ride her as an apology. Raph chan feels that Fitoria is manipulating Naofumi to do her bidding, Fitoria does accept her method may be flawed but not her motives. Raphchan argues that Naofumi would still help if asked directly rather than twisting her words.
 * Raph Chan

Trivia

 * She can read at-least one human language, Melromarc.