Werner

Werner (ヴァルナール) is the representative of the Shusaku race in Siltvelt and also a staunch devotee of the Shield Hero.

Appearance
He was mentioned to be bird type Demi-Human with Red Wings and feathers on his arms and shoulders. He was mentioned to be in his early 20s but it could differ based on the fact that he is Demi-Human.

Personality
As a staunch devotee of the Shield Hero, Werner is frustrated by the fact that not only does the current Shield Hero, Naofumi Iwatani prefer to remain within the borders of their enemy Melromarc, but also the fact that his supposed ally Jaralis is planning against him.

Abilities
As a Shusaku Werner comes from a race considered to have high combat ability, as a politician however Werner has not trained himself to draw out this combat potential.

Background
Werner was part of the group of diplomats sent to try and bring Naofumi to Siltvelt. As he was fresh from Malty S Melromarc's betrayal and in the throngs of his depression he angrily turned the group of diplomats away.

Chronology
When Naofumi and his party consisting of Raphtalia, Atla, Filo, Fohl, Raph-chan, Sadeena, and Rishia Ivyred arrived in Siltvelt as a stopover on their way to Q'ten Lo. Though they wanted to leave immediately Werner was tasked with the thankless process by his people of trying to make Naofumi want to stay in Siltvelt. Unfortunately, though using previous shield heroes as a point of reference, consisting of individuals who actually enjoyed sexual liaisons with numerous inhuman women, his every attempt ends in failure.

However, the lowest point comes when his associate Jaralis attempts to have him and Naofumi's party murdered via a poisoned stew. Naofumi, who detected the poison, cures Werner before bringing him and his associates to Siltvelt's throne room to derive an explanation for their behavior. Atla grows enraged as Jaralis's numerous demands of Naofumi which amounts to little more than abandoning the world to become the exclusive noblemen breeder of Siltvelt, and gives a passionate speech about how and why the country was founded.

Werner watched as the negotiations with Naofumi devolved into a two on two duels between Jaralis and a veteran Minotaur warrior against Atla and Fohl. During the duel, Jaralis confessed to murdering Fohl's father, the Son of Tai Ran Ga Feon the Hakuko leader of Siltvelt, who was attempting to make peace with Melromarc. After Fohl and Atla defeated him and his partner Jaralis made use of a drug based on a skill of a past Shield Hero to attain an enhance beast transformation, as well as using it on several of his subordinates, in an attempted coup on Siltvelt, though the drug did little more than mutate him into a monstrous Chimera.

Naofumi responded by using the actual skill that he unlocked by weapon copying a ceremonial shield he found in his room at the palace to give Fohl an enhanced beast form and together with Atla they defeated Jaralis. No longer hampered by the other diplomats Werner got a merchant vessel filled with Demi-human warriors ready for Naofumi by the next day to infiltrate Q'ten Lo.

Relationships

 * Naofumi Iwatani: The Current Shield Hero is both a source of endless admiration for Werner and a source of endless frustration as well. On the one hand, he is the most respected of the current Four Legendary Heroes having been the one to contribute the most during the three previous Waves of Calamity, the one who defeated the Spirit Tortoise, and was a subject of worship by his people and him personally, to begin with. On the other hand, Werner lives in a country whose deity, Naofumi, refuses to step foot inside and instead remains in the borders of their mortal enemies Melromarc and at best regards their best efforts to please him as a source of ire.
 * Jaralis: Information to be added later on.
 * Atla: Information to be added later on.