Heroes (Web Novel)

Heroes (勇者) are individuals chosen by Legendary Weapons and Vassal Weapons to wield them in order to protect their world from harm which are commonly the Waves of Destruction of the Guardian Beasts.

Legendary Heroes are individuals chosen by the Legendary Weapons, they are commonly addressed as the Four Holy Heroes in both Raphtalia's and Glass' World.

Vassal Weapon Wielders are individuals chosen by the Vassal Weapons they are commonly addressed as the Seven Star Heroes in Raphtalia's World while commonly addressed as Vassal Heroes in Glass' World.

Summoning and Selection
Since the Legendary Weapons only choose other worlders as their wielders, in order to raise a hero capable of counteracting the waves the natives must realize a ritual to summon a person (typically from a parallel Japan) that the Legendary Weapons chooses as worthy to be a hero. This ritual can only be performed using fragments of holy relics and at designated times, and although shouldn't be the case, can also be performed even when the world is in peace.

In the case of the Vassal Weapons, although can be wielded by both natives of the world and otherworlders, is common for the countries and organization to summon a hero from another world when the weapon doesn't choose a hero from the candidates of its world.

Powers and Restrictions
Each Hero receives one of the corresponding weapons, each of which has its own method of strengthening unique unto itself, each hero has the ability to authorize a Class Up beyond the LV. 100 cap and can acquire the strongest form of magic, Revelation-Class Magic, which is unique unto them. The Enhancement Methods can be shared by the Heroes, making the resulting weapons far stronger, thus the heroes are at their peak when all twelve are working together, however, the weapons from Glass World and Melromarc's are incompatible for whatever reason and cannot share their Enhancement Methods.

Importance
Unknown to many, include heroes, the value of the heroes is not only as protectors of their worlds, since that when a hero is chosen its life is linked to the world that protects and its death during the strikes of the Waves have grievous consequences. When a Holy hero or Vassal hero dies, the power of the waves grows stronger and the lapse of time between these becomes shorter. Moreover, it has been said that if all the holy heroes of a world die, the world that they protect ceased to exist.

Origins
The Four Saint Heroes originally all came from four different worlds which were fused over time by the waves into one world, each one originally had two Vassal Heroes serving under them. Melromarc's World is a fusion of four different worlds together, it is unknown which legendary weapon originally belonged to it, however, it is known that both the Sword and Spear Legendary weapons came about after a fusion of another world that too contained Two Legendary weapons. As in the past, only the Shield and Bow Legendary Hero weapons were known to have existed.